skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... and returning the donations they took from these wealthy tech founders, they used the benevolent appearance of their non-profit status and their name to mislead everyone about their intentions.

I can't tell if your comment is intentionally misleading or just entirely missing the point. The entire post states that Elon musk was well aware and onboard with their intentions. Tried to take over OpenAI and roll it into his private company to control. And finally agreed specifically that they need to continue to become less open over time.

And your post is to play Elon out to be a victim who didn't realize any of this?
He's replying to emails saying he's agreeing. It's hard to understand why you posted something so contradictory above pretending he wasn't.
OpenAI just released a response to Musk's lawsuit.

One of the emails provided as evidence of their claims is Slate Star Codex's "Should AI be open?"

The emails show Musk forwarding him an email he received to Sam Altman and then Ilya replying that for a hard takeoff scenario, open sourcing could make it easier for a bad actor to reach AGI first and that the right strategy would be to share everything in the short and possibly medium term and that it would make sense to start being less open as they got closer to AGI.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk#email-4
And then pushed them to create a for-profit entity and merge with Tesla.
The nerds are getting richer and more powerful by the year. We aren't that far from a dystopian cyberpunk future where corporations take the place of governments.
GLP1 Receptor Agonists vs. Cancer
Retrieval Augmented Generation; basically, find relevant bits from a lot of data, and load the relevant bits into context.
As far as i know it is. As far as what's in the future no idea. I'm only speaking of the present.
Caveat: The first time autopay screws up, you will feel an overwhelming urge to murder the party responsible for processing said transaction.

Ask me how I know...
Amazing how there are still those who are gullible enough to downvote your post only 20 years after Iraq war... They must think the media collectively collaborating to push the WMD lie without even one of them breaking the line was a 'one time' affair and not the act of an orchestrated, organized and well-run establishment. They lied just 'that one time'. Not before, not after. Even if lying is immensely profitable and with absolutely no consequence.
First time I hear of something like this happening... quite surprising.
Weird, because as I understand it, government intervention is the only way an appreciable amount of people ever had retirement savings
Opinion: "AI" is not just LLMs
I happen to be of the opinion that LLMs are merely an interface into a deeper place, but the LLM itself is just the interface.

So many people consider it the end-all.

I don't think it is.

I think LLMs are primarily the keyboard and the display.

Now, I'm not as naive as I sound (probably even more so), but I do train models. They are not LLMs.
“We do not negotiate with terrorists.” - Richard Nixon

Does it work? Depends on who you ask. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/01/we-do-not-negotiate-ter... says that individuals (in the case of corporate ransomware - corporate entities) end up paying and not reporting the kidnapping:

“Historical evidence from Colombia and Italy shows that outlawing ransom payment has various adverse consequences.

Where ransom payments are illegal, victims’ families have no state support, while reporting of the kidnapping goes down and understanding of its prevalence is diminished.”
Both. The average net worth of retired Americans is over $1million. But the median net worth is ~$200,000 (according to recently released data from the Federal Reserve).
There was sort of a naive belief that both credentialism and motivation could be solved if the material were out there. And, by and large, that wasn't true especially among the people who needed them the most.

There's a huge amount of material out there for people who want it. But it's most applicable to people who already have credentials in some form.
I find that changing the right click to the bottom right corner works well for me. I constantly have two fingers resting on the trackpad. Other replies have commented about using the thumb to click while you drag with another finger. I do that constantly so I just gave up on the two finger right click. It would trigger all the time when I didn’t want it to.
AI is the talk of the town, but businesses are still not ready for it
> News is an onion, in that there are many many layers. Every single news story (from established sources that strive for truth) has truth and bias in it

If there was any 'truth' in anything that the modern Western msm pushes, they wouldnt be able to lie about nonexistent WMDs for 8 years straight without even one of them breaking the line.

Anyone who thinks that was a 'one time' affair is a gullible fool.
Some possible reasons might be to access tax loss harvesting / other tax optimization strategies (which depend on your location, carried over losses, etc), or to access discounts / relationship pricing on mortgages or other loans and lines of credit (which can also be useful to avoid selling assets and paying capital gains taxes).

It's true that you can't really beat the market before tax, but it might be worth optimizing for your own after-tax outcomes instead.
Oh sure, I'm not trying to say that everyone who struggles with their weight does so exclusively because of an unhealthy diet, but the obesity epidemic at large is still mostly driven by that, and all I'm saying is that the changes to produce strains aren't really influencing it. Whatever problem causes you personally to struggle with your weight regardless of your diet is even more unlikely to be related to strawberries being bigger and slightly more sugary.

Sorry if I came off as pointed or accusatory. I was just generalizing for simplicity's sake.
Same here!

I liked Steve Huffman’s web dev 101 class and was also a code reviewer at Udacity shortly after
Sure, any technology can be abused, but email makes abusing it to be the path of least resistance. For example, suppose you need to send an email to only 563 out of the 1000 people in your department. Are you going to take the names on the department mailing list, filter out the 437 people who don't need to read it, and send it just to the rest?

Nobody's going to spend a half an hour doing that. They will just spam the department mailing list, knowing full well that 437 people are going to spend 5 minutes reading it to determine whether its something they need to pay attention to or not. 5 minutes * 437 people = 36 man hours wasted. Thats a man-week of wasted effort, to save you a half hour's worth of work.

Is there any penalty for wasting a man-week of effort? No, because nobody will think about it this way---and email makes it the default action to waste everybody else's time.

I, too, long for the ante-entshitificational internet, but IMHO, the enshittification of email was the leading wave of the trend....
The stories I've read about these ransomware companies are wild. They have whole customer service departments to help you easily pay your ransom. They operate like a legit business.
Well sending seal teams might be extreme but I’m sure in Russia there are ways to let criminal elements know that they could receive a hefty payday if certain individuals are found dead. And that the CIA is capable of determining these ways and using them.
I doubt 401ks are going anywhere. It’s one thing to write an article about it and a whole other to actually get a law passed. Congress can’t even get rid of daylight savings time, which no one likes.
You'd end up with a bunch of shady "data recovery" firms that may or may not be related to the ransomware crews.
> Sutherland was impressed by the significant dose of luck that had led to the discovery of murmurations.

Talented people + hard work… + LUCK!

> Even then, the murmurations were only found because of Pozdnyakov’s inexperience.

Also, fresh inexperienced eyes to see what experts would dismiss!

What a great read :)
Index on F/J, pinky on A/L, thumb naturally resting on space. Hitting left Command involves bending my thumb and though the press is performed with the side of my thumb, it’s not on its nail but further down.
> this shows Elon doesn't care jackshit about the lack of openness from OpenAI. He's just mad only that he walked away from a monumental success.

Yup he's pretty transparently lying here.

He committed to fund for $1B dollars. Then when they wouldn't make him CEO and/or roll the company into Tesla he refused his commitment after paying out only 4% of it. Claimed the company would fail and only he could save them (again wrong).

And now is mad he doesn't control the top AI out there and because he chose to walk away from them.

And yet again people are falling for him. Elon talk never matches his action. And there is still a large portion of the internet that falls for his talk time and time again.
Seems like this will force credit card issuers to reduce their business with people who are likely to default, especially on small balances and spending patterns.

So basically lower income people will have less access to credit cards. Possibly better for them TBH, but I still don’t like it.
TRS80, with cassette tape storage if you didn't have the floppy drives. Cool looking machine.
> It is an interesting thing to think about, I have friends that use Windows that are shocked that I willingly chose to get an external trackpad when I use my Mac as desktop.

external mouse is much more fun to use
> Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.

Wow, Reid Hoffman for the win.
I seriously "took" a few mostly not too challenging MOOCs early on. But, once the novelty wore off, I take a few things on LinkedIn through my company from time to time and go to a few conferences but I find it's hard without a concrete objective of some sort to really go deep on a topic.
> You just have to first hack … another suitable species (or their technological artifacts) wherever you want to go, and have them create the biological substrate and download/upload mechanism on their end.

I presume humans are the result of such a hack a few billion years ago.

Interstellar travel require patience, at least to get beyond the initial latency.
Incidentally, horse theft was capital punishment in many places in the Old West (19th century). I know that’s not your point.
That still doesn’t make sense in terms of replying to what I wrote.

Not to mention, as with many things, it all comes down to the details, I would t paint it with such a broad brush
> What does Accenture (or for that matter Udacity) have to gain from this acquisition?

Accenture's core competency is getting governments (and large companies) to hand over large sums of money. Seems like a good fit.
> Also, DKIM signatures are notably absent, not that we could verify them anyway since the emails are heavily redacted.

What are you implying? Faking emails opens you up to libel. I doubt OpenAI is trying to add another lawsuit to their workload.
Generally, I think. At least for me.

The media has gotten too addicted to clickbaity headlines and pushing drama. The drama is exhausting, and the headlines border on misinformation.

It has gotten so bad that I find myself routinely checking the comments first to see how the author misinterpreted or twisted some fact to arrive at the headline. That, plus realizing you’ve fallen for the Gell-Mann amnesia effect again, and you have a perfect recipe for distrust of the news.

It really feels like the only legitimate newspapers left are The Economist and FT.
Somewhat off-topic, but some time ago I read Thomas Levenson's "Newton and the Counterfeiter", and by the end, my sympathies were with the counterfeiters.

===Mild spoiler alert===

Isaac Newton was offered the position of Master of His Majesty's Mint more-or-less as a sinecure, not really expected to do much, but he took his responsibilities seriously, firstly by effectively managing the replacement of the realm's old coinage (a project that he had proposed as a solution of the then-unfolding currency crisis), and secondly by tracking down counterfeiters in a deadly (to the latter) game of cat and mouse. He seems to have taken counterfeiting as a personal affront.
They made it a requirement for Windows 11, so the term no longer provides any differentiation.
However you feel about the term Monte Carlo, MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) is a nifty algorithm. You’re also welcome to say “Metropolis-Hastings algorithm” (assuming that’s the specific algorithm you’re using). I was personally entertained when I learned that the algorithm formerly known as the Metropolis algorithm had nothing to do with cities.

And MCMC really is like throwing darts. Except that, when done right, it throws darts in a distribution of your choice, and, critically, you don’t need to be able to normalize the distribution or integrate it to find the CDF. This turns out to be extremely useful.

So you can think of it as a sort of bizarre way to numerically integrate gnarly functions. If you already knew the inverse CDF of a distribution, you could directly sample it. But if you don’t, either because it’s hard to integrate or because you’re getting the probabilities or probability densities, unnormalized, from a black box, you can still run MCMC.

I bet you could have some fun taking a small ML model, using it to compute probabilities of strings of tokens, and using MCMC to sample the distribution of likely strings as seen by the model. The challenging part will be coming up with a remotely credible random walk that efficiently explores the space.

NB: everyone loves saying “log-likelihood”. This is essentially the same thing. The log is nice because otherwise the numbers end up awkwardly small.
I’m with you. As someone with the opposite political view of the majority around me, I’m in constant fear of disagreeing with the status quo messaging. In a glass-half-full way it has helped me build my Socratic method muscles in these situations.
Every 2 year election cycle, ~3.6M voters over 55 will have aged out, and 8M voters will have turned 18. Today's Congress is not tomorrow's Congress, but I admit patience will be required as the electorate and the reps elected turn over.
A trip to Middleton, WI, is in order!
https://mustardmuseum.com/
Doesn’t the existence of a ransom “out” put a cap on how much money/seriousness a company willingly puts into infosec? Why would a company invest $22M into security if they can just pay criminals when they get owned?

If ransom was off the table, maybe they’d be motivated to actually secure their data? I don’t know—I’m not in infosec. It’s probably not that simple.
This is the correct answer. You need an aggregation threshold that restricts precision when population count is too low. In this case, the cell size needs to increase until there are at least N users.
Alright, but I think their point is "bias as reflected in the real world." There's a bias against hiring people that don't speak English at all for English speaking jobs, I don't think anyone of sound mind would call that xenophobia. Critically what we are trying to find out with the LLMs is if there is bias beyond social acceptability or beyond job requirements. If you wouldn't hire someone for a job that said "sup dog" upon meeting you in an interview, why should the same bias indicate something nefarious for an LLM?
Same with Zendesk and Freshdesk
I always suffuse Audacity with Academy
One more feature request is a “share score” text. Daily games like these are popular for bragging rights in group texts.

I’d think something like percentage of song played before correct with total number of guessed would cover it.
I don't think there is any real demand for high end LLM researchers/mathematitions etc. who would really build LLMs

You couldn’t be more wrong. Such people make 7 digit salaries, either at FAANGs or at unicorn startups. It’s the hottest job in ML today. Though very few people can actually build a GPT-5 level model.
Mazda CX-30 has buttons.

As do Subaru BRZ/Toyota 86/Toyota GR86.
Granted, you've found the one (and only?) notable exception to the "no legitimate torrent use cases" rule that I can think of. :)

And this has a legacy roughly as long as BitTorrent itself. The fact that BT never established a footing in other use cases (even those where you would think it would be a great solution) is telling.
British version of Rolling Stone that's fifteen years older.

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie'.

> but perhaps they could check ..

Right now, maybe, although they have staff photographers to shoot content by description - in the near future they and other magazines would want good AI image generation sites that can generate side content for pale white scottish bands and for Little Simz returning to roots in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61
All of the above mentioned companies have liquidity events that are not related to IPO, so your comment about lockup is not accurate. They also pay quite a bit more equity than FAANG companies, because it is overall less liquid. I'm not saying it's guaranteed to pay more than FAANG, but it's likely to work out that way.
Fine-Tuning Insights: Lessons from Experimenting with RedPajama on Slack Data
According to it, the mass media are controlled by the old democrats. lol
It was always a bad idea to pay ransomware groups, but I'm surprised they'd eat their own. I guess "There is no honor among thieves" after all.
Isn't that "just" HTML? What should be added to HTML?
U.S. blocks sale of AMD's China chip
Secured credit exists for a reason. You can get one within your means and the collateral is what you put forward on it. When I was a young adult I got myself a secured credit card.
That 4.5 sounds a lot like the gpt 4 turbo they released a while back
No response to getting called out for doing it yourself with "doomsaying"? Gonna just pretend you hypocrisy wasn't on full display?
Correct. You calibrate your budget to your risk appetite (board/C-level tolerance, industry specific compliance requirements, civil considerations, etc). Every company puts a budget on how much they're willing to spend, as resources are finite. Even the US DoD has a budget, there are limits. We risk accept what we deem within our risk tolerance, or too expensive to derisk.

I think on HN, there is this belief that you can use incentives to force organizations to have perfect security, which does not exist. Employees are human, people make mistakes, budgets constrain staffing as well as control implementations and operations; there are simply limits to what you can do. You can use policy and incentives to encourage good/best behavior, but failures will still occur. The goal is attempts at desired outcomes, measuring those outcomes, and iterating; not 100% success (as that is impossible).
That helps with "we've encrypted your data; pay us for the key" but doesn't help you with "we've made copies of your patient records, leadership's emails; pay us or we publish it all".

The phrase to describe this is double extortion.

As for your question, https://www.cisa.gov/stopransomware is a decent start, but it's a complicated issue. In short, if a pentester can get inside your environment and gain privileges, so can an attacker. You want to slow down attackers enough to buy time for detection and response capabilities.
isn’t this the old: free as in speech, not as in beer
That makes me super curious about it. I've only had some small interaction while learning SwiftUI and I was confused in passing, and sort of just smashed things until it worked.
Great comment! I didn't mean to suggest Monte Carlo isn't incredibly clever and nice. I just get intimidated by cool-sounding names :)
> What are you implying?

I'm not implying anything. I'm pointing out a lack of openness on OpenAI's part.
Wubuntu – Linux with Windows appearance, without any hardware restrictions
When I have my laptop plugged into a 38" ultrawide monitor, I occasionally need to use more than one motion to get a window from the far side of the ultrawide monitor over and down to the laptop's built-in screen. But that doesn't feel too slow to me; rather, it's just that I'm moving the window a pretty large distance. For more reasonable distances, I have no trouble dragging windows or files around. I usually have my cursor speed set two ticks above default (leaving three faster settings available on the slider).
ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
In this particular case, it isn't an issue of 'data loss' which could be recovered from good backups.

It's a problem of 'data leakage' where the bad guys have a copy of corporate data - supposedly 4TB of personal medical information - and threaten to release it to the public which can cause all sorts of reputational or other damage.

Backups don't help much in this situation, you need to convince the attackers to delete the data they copied from your network, usually via lots of money but even then there's no guarantee they'll actually delete it and may extort you for more money in the future with the same data.

Should one trust a criminal to keep their word?
Hm - is the expectation that this stuff isn't encrypted at rest?
Glad to hear that. This is actually planned, the miscellaneous control for networking fingerprint (mimic chrome tls handshake). will come soon enough.
for now, my own experience shows that it is more resilient as is (with appropriate headers (order being kept already).
like how every time a regular food that hasn't been mass produced comes onto the radar it's hailed as a 'super food'?
I miss Swift enums when writing Kotlin. Kotlin enums are more restricted in that associated values can’t differ between cases, which limits their usefulness and means that much of the time what you want are instead sealed classes.

There’s actually several bits of Kotlin like this which feel somewhat pedantic/idiosyncratic and fussy if you’re used to writing Swift. I’m sure there’s valid design reasons behind these decisions, but sometimes it feels like unnecessary friction.
> I think the main thing that I find compelling about shen is its type system, especially its sequent calculus system (for defining types in a way that would not be possible for most languages).

That sounds interesting. Can you give an example of a type defined this way that would not be possible in most languages?
I wonder if it's possible to make adaptive surfaces on touch screens using the developments in bending displays. Being able to provide physical cues on a touch screen would have a wide array of applications.

Obviously physical buttons would be the sensible solution here though.
Right but isn't that why stuff is encrypted? Is there even a way to guarantee this doesn't happen?
Star jelly: mysterious substance has confounded the best minds for centuries
The premise has always sounded ridiculous. You're paying the bank so that you can loan money to yourself.

To be more accurate, you're paying the bank so that they can be a witness to you loaning money to yourself.

The sole purpose of that insanity is to increase your credit score, is that correct?
What you're describing isn't an open line of credit though. It sounds like you took on that debt in as a calculated risk to help pay for a one-time expense that was a luxury rather than a necessity.

I was replying to the scenario of having a credit card to pay for an unexpected expense that otherwise couldn't be paid for. That's extremely helpful in the short term, but risky long term since presumably if it couldn't be afforded before its that much harder to dig out from under the new debt.

I wasn't meaning to argue that debt is always bad. I may have just explained myself poorly if it read that way.
Last commit is 5 years ago. That is a lot in dog years.