skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good notation is worth an extra brain, or how does the bastardized Kay quote go...
I don't care much about OpenAI === open-source as long as OpenAI === open the AI pandora's box to everyone.

Compare:

- Google open-sourced many models but sat on the transformers paper for 5 years and never released a product like ChatGPT for the masses.

- OpenAI didn't open-source GPT-4 but made it available to basically everyone.
> Our Constitution, in reality, is much more than the words written in it. It’s morphed due to judicial precedent over the course of 200 or so years. — is supported by anyone with legal expertise.

A majority of current, GOP-appointed Supreme Court justices disagree with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism
> As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).

That is surprisingly greedy & selfish to be boasting about in their own blog.
Don’t forget Californians pay at least a 7.25% sales tax.

And counting only individual FICA taxes is really just an accounting trick.

Merely accounting for employer FICA “contributions”, and $70K in California gets you to a 30% marginal rate.
I paid over $1,000 for one of their “nanodegree” programs. After it ended, they had the nerve to lock all the content, including all my notes and submissions as well as course content like videos and such. I highly recommend anyone avoid them.
Other discussion: [0] (167 points, 9 days ago, 85 comments - confusing title), [1][2] (153 points, 7 days ago, 49 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510756
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529980
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533881
Thanks for clarifying, admittedly I didn't look in the feasibility of my plan, it's more of a daydream :)
That’s worse, IMO.

At least in Physics you can say “the gradient of f,” and I’ve rarely heard people say “nabla” when talking about physics. And you can look up “gradient” just fine.

We don’t need more jargon just for jargon’s sake.
Ransomware becomes a death sentence to the business if this were to apply, which the US has no appetite for. We even let critical infra out from improving their cybersecurity [1] [2] [3], because it is expensive and hard. The asymmetry of cybersecurity makes effective defense challenging for even the most resourced orgs [4]. You have to win every single day, against social, phishing, auth/identity, and vulnerability attacks throughout the stack. They only need to win once.

(head of infosec, holds tabletop exercises with legal counsel on a cadence as part of ransomware insurance requirements)

[1] https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/epa-rescinds-cybersec...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-10/action-me...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-08/2023.08.0...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft...
A bit of a naiive general question, but why are these things not layered on top of existing technology?

You already have Bittorrent for distributing files P2P. We "just" need an extra layer for discovering new updates/patches so that files can dynamically update/grow. These two problems seem fundamentally decoupled. The "git forge" aspect seems to be another fundamentally separate layer on top of that
EFF press announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39609256
I'm surprised they would publish this honestly. Especially considering that they're in a lawsuit.
When I was a kid way, way back in the 1950s, the local children's library had bound copies of a British weekly "boys' own"-style of magazine from 1905. That magazine had story serials that went on for a month or more.

One story covered a future war in 1908 between Britain and Russia that had big metal flying machines that could travel under water.

I often wonder whether copies of that magazine still exist.
The propagation of error in classical geometry constructions (2018)
If Apple can have feature parity between a Mac-ass Mac app and a Web app, why can't Microsoft? Why does Microsoft need to reduce its feature set to the lowest common denominator?

I'm of course talking of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
The strawberry lead-in is interesting, but you don't have to ask your grandparents. They've grown in size, in a very noticeable way even in the last 13 years.

https://www.earth.com/news/super-sized-fruit-strawberries-we...
Agree. At Accenture's training budgets level I'd imagine 5-10% of that money could churn out hundreds of new courses per year.
Not all hippies are left wing and not all left wingers are hippies.

Your ignorance of this simple dichotomy casts doubt over the rest of your comment.
That’s helpful to know. I am surprised that the battery life isn’t higher in that case, but I can’t think of anything I would do differently to improve it, to be honest.
Such a cool game.

As an experiment, I tried to create a simple "Rock, Paper, Scissors" version but I was too stupid to figure out how. (How hard could it possibly be, I thought.)

Perhaps when I have time to study the article/patent I can finally figure it out.
I don’t think the underlying reason has anything to do with the government pressure or local news.

I think this has everything to do with a very powerful media company, let’s call them News Corp, successfully lobbying for a new income stream propping up falling numbers and the lobbying not being to hard to do with open corruption in AU government.

When Google/Facebook had the temporary news publishing ban, a variety of smaller news sources surfaced with a broader spectrum of content and opinions.

When an agreement was made, visiting Google News was a wall of News Corp trash content and the smaller news providers had gone.
It does not refute them in any way. It very openly admits them while (trying to) justify them.
"found with AI" is the new "made in Rust"?
If you were previously talking with someone who thought that AI's can't be creative and now they say it doesn't matter, then some goalposts moved.

More likely, though, you're just reading commentary by someone else who has different goalposts in mind. Unlike football, there is no standard for goalposts in AI.
> We realized building AGI will require far more resources than we’d initially imagined

So the AGI existential threat to humanity has diminished?
Well, they didn't addressed extent of Microsoft's control over OpenAI.
Anti-tracking has gone mainstream enough among America’s elite that I’ve seen executives who are otherwise not tech savvy find themselves unable to load a page (or follow through a tracked link in an email), figure it’s because it’s infested and—on that basis—move on from that vendor.
where were the repos hosted? github?
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I am “GI” without the A last time I checked, and I don’t require much compute at all!
It's not the same op though. One is a check, the other creates an in-context copy that's unwrapped from the optional. The compiler of course optimizes this out but it's not the same.
At least many rural small towns in the USA have public libraries. If you have learned to read, that opens a big chunk of the world to you.
Just like Google's "Do no evil"

*only applicable to certain definitions of evil
> Elon said we should announce an initial $1B funding commitment to OpenAI. In total, the non-profit has raised less than $45M from Elon and more than $90M from other donors.

This is not reflected in their 990's. They claim $20 million in public support and $70 million in "other income" which is missing the required explanation.

Also, why are none of the current board members of OpenAI included as authors here? Is there a problem in the governance structure?

Elon could not legally contribute more than he did without turning OpenAI into a private foundation. Private foundations are required to give away 5% of their total assets annually and are not permitted to own substantial stakes in for-profit businesses.

Showing old emails from people who clearly don't understand what they are getting into is not very helpful to their case. Maybe if they had talked to a lawyer who understood non-profit law, or even just googled it.

If the $70 million was in fact a donation instead of income, they fail the public support test and are de facto a private foundation.
Sugar content grows, though => obesity is much more widespread.
Isn't food nutrition mostly still in control of the farmer?

I've grown a lot of stuff and my most "intense" time was when I set up hydroponics and my plants were mainlining an extremely consistent amount of (admittedly artificial) nutrients and boy... we're talking extremely flavorful and massive bushes of basil (and other flora...) popping up in like a week. Had pesto for dayssss

Even my soil strawberries are like candy if I pump them with nutrients (and love).
https://archive.is/s4uXd

The idea that the drugs that work don't meed the cost-benefit threshold is quite the detached analysis.

That said, price needs to go down and availability needs to go up. Countries like china, india, and others getting into the GLP1 RA game will do that before long.
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I wonder if this is a cultural line of defense against server security...
// my gut says that the solution that was chosen was a poor one and a better alternative should have been searched for //

Well, like anything which gets through a democratically-elected legislative body, its a compromise, which is to say, it makes everybody equally uncomfortable. I'm sure that many alternatives were proposed and debated.

Since nobody seems to have a better suggestion, we can view this as an experiment. Perhaps looking at the various consequences of this will suggest better ways.
>You live in the same crumbling leaking house that half your extended family has lived in for over a century, marry who you are told to marry, learn only what the local preacher tells you to learn-- and nothing else.

My grandparents were what you would call peasants too. They liked that simple life, and they could fix the leaks in the house, and they loved each others deeply. They learned a lot of practical stuff during their lives, and in many days they travelled more than 7 kilometers by foot, later when bicycles became common the travel possibilities were enormous, life generally happened in a circle with diameter of about 50 kilometers. It's hard to imagine how their lives would have been actually better if someone taught them quantum physics and there would have been infinite consumable content and endless doomscrolling available at all times.

The experiences differ wildly, and life could definitely suck back then, especially if you were a peasant, but it could be just fine, even excellent. And that's exactly how it is these days for the modern day peasants too. I would say that the quality of life of your average amazon-worker is no better than those old time peasants. Modern medicin is the only real perk that comes to my mind, anything other is on similar level or even worse. People back then were not idiots at all.
That's really interesting -- I wonder what your body is reacting to in there...
Is the long text purely for SEO or because a longer page gives more opportunities for ad impressions and higher engagement metrics?
I really don't know how to phrase it empathetically, and I know its an unpopular opinion when spoken, but if someone chooses to take on debt they can't afford then they have to deal with the consequences. What absolutely should be done, though, is to make sure that companies are kept 100% on the hook for their actions. Governments shouldn't bail out banks when they get caught holding an bag full of nothing but bad debt. Student debt for example, shouldn't be treated ant differently from other debt in bankruptcy proceedings. Companies should be legally liable for advertising that misrepresents their products.

Ultimately companies advertising debt products or making it easy to sign up isn't forcing anyone's hand. We all make our own decisions, and if that includes signing contracts that we didn't read or understand then I'm not sure what else can be done.

With that said, financial literacy and our education system in general are absolutely terrible IMO. I could care less if someone learns integrals in school, or practices dissecting a baby pig in biology class, if they don't learn the basics of how the society we've built works. Kids should learn finances, contracts, and politics above all else. Learn how money works, learn how how our laws and political system works, then if you have time read Shakespeare or play the trumpet.

I know I sound arrogant or crass, but these skills are extremely important and seemingly entirely ignored in school. We force most kids to be in school for over a dozen years. It doesn't take nearly that long to learn the few topics I called out. There will be time for biology, the arts, mathematics, history, etc. I'm not saying throw those out, just reprioritize them with an eye towards the world people will actually be in after graduation.
> The problem is, he clearly doesn't care whether anyone thinks he's an asshole or not.

It's a natural consequence of a progressivist assumption that all ultra-rich people are assholes. Given that, you can't fault an ultra-rich person from concluding that being called an asshole is noise to be disregarded. IMHO the real problem is too many people are consumed with having an opinion about whether he's an asshole or not. What I see is a bunch of highly online people who utterly exude delight in saying anything mean about Elon, which is a sad state for them to be in — regardless of Elon's inherent virtues or iniquity.

In the past couple of years he's fallen much too far down the right-wing rabbit hole for my tastes, but I don't blame him given how the political left are constantly berating him for not adhering to the Correct Opinion™ on the full suite of progressive issues. The left have forgotten how to win arguments on their merits, or how to tolerate a diversity of views. The left have rejected him, but the right still want to talk to him, and people wonder why his views are being increasingly shaped by right-wing perspectives.

Regardless, who cares what Elon thinks anyway? I don't form my political opinions by agreeing with whatever any ultra-rich person says, and I don't know anyone who does.
Treasury Sanctions Members of the Intellexa Commercial Spyware Consortium
$118k is close to poverty class in the bay area if you have a family.

For someone fresh out of college who can live in half a bedroom in a moldy group house, bike everywhere, and never see a doctor even in emergency, it's barely okay, but that income isn't sustainable.

Median income is $175k in SF and $181k in SJ, by the way.
> How would you condition the money, specifically? Or if you remove the money, what else can be done to encourage a free market which values the truth?

It is hard to fight an uphill battle against incentives. Truth doesn't sell anymore if the customer base has devolved into an angry, scared, self righteous, polarized, social media addicted mess. Funding non-profits like Wikipedia and public orgs like PBS, and taxing and regulating social media, could be a start. But funding Murdoch unconditionally so he can further contribute to the problem we're trying to solve, doesn't seem like a good path forward.
Aime
Happy Kagi user here.

Random aside: this blog is the first time I've seen a monospace font used for prose that doesn't look absolutely terrible; in fact, it's very readable for me. Inspecting with Firefox, I see the font is Menlo--and looking it up, it even seems like it's a web-safe font. Pretty interesting.
It's probably there just to prevent malware or company proxy from intercepting user messages... etc easily. Anything other is a happy accident.
The reason it's not that impressive is a lot of us are not as easily fooled as we might have been back in 2022!

As someone who also went to UWaterloo for quantum computing (MMath, not PhD, and I don't work in the field), let's look at the tweet in detail:

- in the first image, Claude's output is almost all useless LLM mush! Points #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, and #7 are uselessly vague and at best tangentially related to the problem. Only #2 has anything of interest, and even then it's just "come up with a quantum version of a classical algorithm," which is hardly insightful. Claude's output here just straight-up sucks!

- in the second image, "Initialization" is useless, "Quantum State Measurement" is useless, "Momentum Refreshment" is useless (and might be wrong in this context), "Iterations" is useless and misleading, and "Sample Collection" is useless.

- There is some real meat in the "Quantum Leapfrog Integration" section, but the entire last bullet point (starting with "The quantum leapfrog integrator consists of") is a completely useless statement which applies to every quantum algorithm.

There is almost nothing actionable for a quantum computing researcher here, except maybe as a brainstorming aid. And of course the giant pile of LLM mush is evidence that Claude doesn’t know what a “quantum computer” is or what an “algorithm” is, it’s just a fancy chatbot. I am not at all impressed by any of this.
I guess Mozilla as well then.
> autopay should generally be opt-out rather than opt-in

I’d much rather be late on a payment than unexpectedly drain my cash.
Ah, BROOM is correct! Did you hit ENTER on the bottom left of the keyboard? It may not be obvious that this is required. Let me know, and thanks!
Why even have the firewall? Wouldn't a true airgap be preferable? At the same time, having say steering and brakes on the same bus adds a single point of failure to both steering and brakes, which is not ideal.
AFAIK that's the default monospace font for apple devices as well.
If Musk is a has-been, he's the most-successful has-been in history by a factor of 100.
What's with the redactions? Would that information change any of the context? I understand redacting an email address, but hmmm. This doesn't scream transparency, or open, by any means.
You can start a little mom-and-pop store and get plenty of politics. No surprise a billion(s)-dollar company has politics. It's everywhere. I'm not going to claim that it's their openness that is allowing us to see it here, but in some companies it spills out in the open, in others it stays within the family, but there's always politics!
To get credit for fixing a problem that never happened, usually you need to make things a lot worse.
This looks bad for OpenAI (although it's been pretty obvious that they are far from open for a long time).

But it looks 10x worse for Elon. At least for the public image, he desperately try to maintain.

> As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control.
> In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity. Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding,
Maybe they should have been in user-space to begin with?
Micro-service kernel, here we come.
How about we as governments/society try to hit two birds with one stone, and pour funding into making energy cheap and trend -> ~$0 with nuclear, more efficient solar, better storage.

Then use that near free energy to desalinate whatever we need. Hell, we could regreen the Sahara and Gobi desert while we're at it too.
Millionaires and billionaires everywhere, and their groupies, are clutching their pearls right now!
Astronomers discover new Saturn-sized exoplanet
Generating Music from a Lava Lamp
I don't think that's a good example. While Apache devs are volunteers and Microsoft devs are employees, they were nevertheless criticized for their slow response time and perceived lack of urgency until it was far too late.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...
This is a deep rabbit hole you're digging towards.

I'd argue that if you can't afford to repair your car you can't afford the car. And if we've built a society where personal ownership of a car is a necessity we have failed on a fundamental level.

Having an open line of credit is helpful for sure, but you shouldn't depend on it. Having to dip into debt to cover an expense means you've fallen behind, and if you couldn't afford it before you are less likely to afford to dig out of the hole now. Not having a credit line means you may run out of money, but it also means you can't go into debt.
The parent post said if “Musk” cared, not Twitter. He also doesn’t have anything in the way of public shareholders to appease at Twitter anymore.

Whether or not it’s a reasonable expectation is up for debate. But it is at least a congruent argument.
> Where is the empirical evidence?

You’re asking for evidence that late fees are fees that are charged when one is late? It’s in every cardholder agreement. You don’t get charged a late fee if you aren’t late.
Yeah, they are basically saying that they called themselves OpenAI as a recruitment strategy but they never planned to be open after the initial hires.
why respond?
Something about not caring about sick people getting hurt sets me off too. Same response for scammers targeting old people.
It’s the meat
People make mistakes and "workflows" typically involve people, so both the LLM and human output often needs review. Which is complicated and involves a lot of UI. More engineering work!
To both questions above, just simple averaging of the logits (classification) or raw outputs (regressions) usually works well. If I had to guess why people don't use this approach often in kaggle competitions is the relative difficulty of training an ensemble of NNs. Also, NNs are a bit more sensitive to the type of features used and their distribution relative to decision trees (DTs).

Ensemble models work well because they reduce both bias & variance errors. Like DTs, NNs have low bias errors and high variance errors when used individually. The variance error drops as you use more learners (DTs/NNs) in the ensemble. Also, the more diverse the learners, the lower the overall error.

Simple ways to promote the diversity of the NNs in the ensemble is to start their weights from different random seeds and train each one of them on a random sample from the overall training set (say 70-80% w/o replacement).
Writing has proven to be surprisingly resistant to Ai. Or re-writing people's AI-generated papers to sound more human or readable. AI-generated writing has a certain unmistakable clunkiness that tends to give it away.
If you ask for a thousand novel theories, and all the answers look good but only five can possibly work, you haven't done much better than talking to physics cranks.
It was his money to give, he's not obligated to giving it out without some form of control. But yes that does seem pretty excessive, he basically wanted to pull a Tesla there.
Evaluating Claude 3 for Converting Screenshots to Code
I would like to know this too. From what I understand, it is XGBoost that rules Kaggle.