skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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But they are also extremely substitutable because they deal in the most fungible commodities ever made (deposits and dollars).
I know, the goal is (in short) a listing of expected undefined behavior, which could improve security if developers follow along.

But isn't putting undefined behavior into the standard an oxymoron, kinda?
The story in question was submitted to HN Dec 28th last year had 6 points and no comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799992
Oops, that's a bit embarrassing! Thanks for the correction.
the close example is Machine translation quality estimation (MTQE)
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- Remote: preferred

- Willing to relocate: no

- Technologies: Swift, iOS, Xcode

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- Github: https://github.com/igorkulman

- Email: igor@kulman.sk

Mobile apps developer for over a decade, half of that developing iOS apps in Swift, sometimes also macOS apps.

Worked as a senior iOS developer or lead iOS developer, also used to do contract work.

I prefer remote work in European Timezones, but can also accommodate US timezones with partial overlap.
Wait, Bernard Arnault is suing them too?
Books, courses (I have a PhD, so some some expertise to create specialized courses), and YouTube tutorials (once you make a good tutorial, they keep returning income).
Right, my bad. I'm just tired of people trying to justify having ridiculously large SUVs or trucks, so I assumed that the idea of "small car" would be the traditional 4-seater hatchback.
If you really don't want to miss out on offers because of this, you could try to negotiate it after a certain amount of time and you've proven your worth at your job.

In one of my first jobs I negotiated less hours instead of a raise whenever I got offered a raise. I went from 40 hours/week to 36 hours/week to 32 hours/week in a few years.
Yeah exactly, looks like it's mostly English that's weird. Translations of "current":

- Danish: aktuel

- Dutch: actueel

- French: actuel

- German: aktuell

- Italian: attuale

- Norwegian: aktuell

- Polish: aktualny

- Portuguese: atual

- Romanian: actual

- Spanish: actual

Even Hungarian has aktuális! So using "actual" to mean "current" is basically just fixing English.
The QphH metric reported for TPC-H[1] is _not_ queries-per-hour, it's a composite metric:

> The performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size), and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries.

so it's not directly comparable to seconds/query reported by Daft.

[1]: https://www.tpc.org/tpch/default5.asp
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Maintaining the initial commitment becomes exceptionally challenging after attaining unforeseen success, a situation akin to a politician struggling to uphold pre-election promises once in office.

EXACTLY, a year ago, an alarm echoed with urgency:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979981
He is saving our bike tires rather, as he seems to ride the shoulder more than the car lanes (and rightly so).

I live in Atlanta, ride both car and bicycle and do not have flat tire more often than average. Perhaps thanks to his help!
weird this is on the second page but has no comments
you're aware of what a threat is, I presume? a threat is not something that is reliably proven; it is a possibility. there are endless possibilities for how AGI could be an existential threat, and many of them of are extremely plausible, not just to me, but to many experts in the field who often literally have something to lose by expressing those opinions.

>no one has shown that they represent steps towards a true AGI.

this is completely irrelevant. there is no solid definition for intelligence or consciousness, never mind artificial intelligence and/or consciousness. there is no way to prove such a thing without actually being that consciousness. all we have are inputs and outputs. as of now, we do not know whether stringing together incredibly complex neural networks to produce information does not in fact produce a form of consciousness, because we do not live in those networks, and we simply do not know what consciousness is.

is it achievable in our lifetimes or not? well, even if it isn't, which I find deeply unlikely, it's very silly to just handwave and say "yeah we should just be barrelling towards this willy nilly because it's probably not a threat and it'll never happen anyway"
Shouldn't we think in terms of the post-pruning ethics? :D
I hope the commissioners write Apple another scary letter.
I didn't read the suit, but they used (and abused?) Twitter's api to siphon data that was used to train an AI which that made them very very rich. That's just unjust enrichment. Elon's money paid for the website and using the API at that scale cost Twitter money while they got nothing out of it.
Once it's complete, make it authoritative. Any mention of undefined behavior should be required to reference the corresponding item in the UB annex.
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I understand the need to fight spam, but this seems like the wrong answer that comes from somebody steeped in the Apple way of doing things. Android has been going down this road for years and unfortunately doesn't seem to be changing. I suspect the incestuous hiring/poaching between SV companies like Google and Apple lead to this sort of monoculture. Unfortunately it's us power users who suffer under this increasingly fashionable computer paternalism.

For years Google has made it harder and harder to root, which has mainly served to punish and damper enthusiasts. At the same time they've made rooting more and more necessary for legitimate people that want device freedom by blocking or locking down things like phone call recordings and other APIs.

As with so many things digital these days, it feels like one step forward, two steps back. Except the enormous size of the tech companies these days makes it seem less and less likely that a competitor can come in and actually offer some consumer choice. I worry that soon we'll be in a situation where you either submit to the lowest-common-denominator or you live in a segregated world where you can't access anything without passing attestation, and pretty much everything will require attestation.
When you are not hungry or in pain it is easy to say you would make that trade.

There are places in the world where you can get away. there are still hunter-gather tribes around, and some of them would welcome outsiders to join. (some will kill you on sight) You can also buy land in middle of nowhere Alaska (or Montana) where effectively there is no civilization in anywhere close. I'm not sure what country you live in, but odds are there are options where you can just disappear for civilization if you really wanted. While you can get to civilization from the above if you want, it wouldn't be hard to avoid it.
I think the missing info here is that Musk gave the non-profit the initial $100 million dollars, which they used to develop the technology purportedly for the benefit of the public, and then turned around and added a for-profit subsidiary where all the work is happening.
He was also a founding donor, so there is that.

If I have a non-profit legally chartered save puppies, you give me a million dollars, then I buy myself cars and houses, I would expect you have some standing.
Hello! I'm interested in this company, do you have an email I can reach out to?
The idea is to have a personal AI, that is trained with my content, my files. My emails, my pictures, projects, notes, etc. How that can be implemented in the best way, is not my expertize, but I believe is subject of heavy research.
I feel like I'm being unnecessarily negative, but I really hate Android and I would not want it involved with my VR headset. A few platforms make good use of it, I think. Peloton, in particular, does impress me with how well it uses Android. Usually, seeing Android on something is akin to seeing Windows CE. I get the idea folks were aiming for, but in practice it simply lacks the stability for something that you want to build on.

And I don't mean "stability" as in, "doesn't crash." That is nice and needed, of course. I more mean it in "doesnt change."
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- Remote: preferred

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- Github: https://github.com/igorkulman

- Email: igor@kulman.sk

Mobile apps developer for over a decade, half of that developing iOS apps in Swift, sometimes also macOS apps.

Worked as a senior iOS developer or lead iOS developer, also used to do contract work.

I prefer remote work in European Timezones, but can also accommodate US timezones with partial overlap.
So, does this mean he’s setting up a third run-in with that same Delaware judge?
Correction: Page 4, right here: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts...

The US Treasury website provides a wealth of information about how the Government collects and spends its revenue.
The census form[1] does ask about ethnicity, sure (item 14; while you’re free to leave the field blank or write “Martian” there if you wish, it’s true that most people won’t). It doesn’t ask for your name, however (and isn’t received or sent by post, either—census takers are supposed to go door to door). Not that it’d be difficult to recover if you intercepted the forms before they were collated (despite assurances of confidentiality printed on them), I’ve just never heard of anyone trying that or even being vaguely interested in it.

The story you’re telling sounds like something out of Kanevsky&Senderov[2]. I’m not denying it might be happening, but I’ve never heard of it and would be interested to hear more—at least a location and a year would be helpful. I’ve never filled in, seen, or heard of such a form in relation to higher education, but then I only have personal experience with Moscow and second-hand one with St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, all large cities without much of a sharp divide between common nationalities of residents (as in Bashkortostan or Chechnya or a number of other places).

(To call Moscow ethnically homogeneous would be a huge stretch, mind you. I can name [former?] Moscow residents in my contact list with Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Jewish, Korean, Mordovian, Roma, and Ukrainian ancestry without even opening it—hell, I could nominate myself for a third of those slots. I can’t even imagine what I’d learn if I actually went around asking my acquaintances about their family history. I suppose most of the results would still count as “white” by US reckoning, but, well, meh to that.

Culturally, though, yeah, things are pretty uniform. I just wanted to warn you away from thinking that that 80% figure reflects the country’s people mostly coming from a single ancestral group as opposed to them being subjected to pressure to have “Russian” written in their ID for like half a century. There’s a reason why optimistic discussions of Russia’s medium-term future usually include the question of the number of states that would exist in its place.)

[1] See link to PDF file at http://government.ru/docs/38324/ for the version used in the botched 2021 census (labelled 2020, this being a document from back before Covid).

[2] https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789812701169_00..., free at https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~shifman/EinsteinBook.pdf
In the publicly traded world, it would be considered securities fraud, an umbrella under which you can pretty much sue a company for anything if you’re a shareholder.

I’m not sure if there’s an equivalent in the private world, but if he gave them money it’s possible he simply has standing for that reason (as a shareholder does).
They also count charities/non-profits as "companies" - it's unclear to me if they also include local government, but it would be helpful to see the results that for-profit organisations achieved broken out separately.
> when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment?

I don't think he could call it harassment if he were still buying the new issues.
Or at least not available to the common citizen who does not have the $50 incorporation fee
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I think this sort of thing is much harder to do in the modern digital world.

It’s one thing when it’s one-way, magazine -> audience, and the current edition is off of newsstands in a month or two. Once you throw in forums and social media then the public gets to shape the narrative.
Isn't that part of what it means to be vestigial? It used to serve a function, but it doesn't now.
No, because UB is not avoidable in principle unless you create a walled garden/sandbox that must be enforced at non-zero runtime cost.
Truly the only reason they failed at keeping their original mission is when they stopped paying employees in cash.
Oh, I foolishly thought this might mean actually protecting data, not just "you can invade everyone's privacy as long as you don't [directly] sell it to china"
Man is that a big juicy meatball if you're a judge, though. Who would not love to hear that case.
Have you never bought a snack at an airport or a theme park?
For me and I think in the past leisure did not mean mindlesly doing something like nothing, it meant time after misery is gone. I see it as working necessary time at work that you likely do not want to do, like at a factory assembly line or farm, hospital, etc. After that, you can stay at work, but do something else, like engineering at that factory or what else there is you would like to do. This mean less working hours, more people could get a job, it is something like work sharing. It would allow older people to work too, since work day will be lower, it is not like old people can't work at all, they can't work as intensivelly. In the end, those who do not work at the moment, still connsume, they just do not produce what they consume. With smaller work day, they will be able to produce. By work here I mean work and firms that produce things related to "misery gone", not all there is. So if someone would like to work himself 16 h/day, ok, but not in those firms.
JPEG XL can be converted to/from JPEG without any loss of quality. See another commenter where shows a example where doing JPEG -> JPEG XL -> JPEG generates a binary exact copy of the original JPEG.

Yeah, this not means what usually we call backwards compatibility, but allows usage like storing the images as JPEG XL and, on the fly, send a JPEG to clients that can't use it, without any loss of information. WebP can't do that.
It's almost like the guy behind an obvious grift like Worldcoin doesn't always work in good faith.

What gives me even less sympathy for Altman is that he took OpenAI, whose mission was open AI, and turned it not only closed but then immediately started a world tour trying to weaponize fear-mongering to convince governments to effectively outlaw actually open AI.
> GPT-4 is an AGI algorithm

That claim is audacious.
Didn't Visa start as a non proftit?
> Did you remove Wirecard from your LinkedIn?

[Not the person you replied to.]

Did the person you replied to work for LinkedIn? What's the context for this question?
The sad thing is there’s no good reason not to have 100 year wood readily available.

Suppose you have 100 acres. Every year you harvest one, replant it, and move on to the next. In a century you’ll have an annual harvest of excellent wood. But what will happen instead is whoever ends up with the land will clear cut it, take the big payday, and plant fast growing junk if they replant at all.
Unless you have a lot of wear on your tires, or you're driving an AWD, it's unusual to need to replace more than 2 tires.

The argument on AWD is that it might cause more expensive increased wear on the AWD system in off-road conditions. If you're only driving on roads this probably isn't such a big deal, and some sports cars don't even have the same size tires front/back.

Most nails and screws (1/8" or 3mm) in the middle of the tire can be patched (if you're not driving >100mph), but that was one BIG nail! Side walls really can't be safely patched, and most places won't patch anything even close.
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Thanks, that's very helpful, I had not seen the diagram on OpenAI's website before.

It explains at least three of the entities, but I do wonder about the purpose of some of the other entities. For example, a limited partnership is quite odd to have hanging around, I'm wondering what part it plays here.
For those of us that have never touched lisp - can you explain why?
I agree, but if the bar for cynicism is “not taking a billionaire at their word”, then we’re at peak gullibility. Especially if said actor has a track record of deception for economic, social or political gain.

This requires less cynicism than seeing through that Putin invaded to denazify Ukraine, or that your corporate employer rewarded you with pizza because they care about you.
Dual license open source software, taking new versions of open source projects off open source licenses, and open source projects with related for-profit systems management software that makes it more likely enterprise customers will pay, are common practice. How would you distinguish what OpenAI has done?
"AGI"
I think this is downvoted because (and I could be wrong) he could have paid a breakup fee instead of buying the business. So he wasn't compelled to actually own and operate the business.
Most frequently "The CEO gets paid $X! Doesn't sound like a non-profit to me!"

I hear this all the time. As if the people working there shouldn't be paid.