skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to generate uniformly random points on a 2D disk that the author forgot to mention: let A be an n x n complex matrix whose elements are iid copies of a fixed random variable with unit variance. Let lambda_i be its ith eigenvalue, and let x_i = 1/sqrt(n) real(lambda_i) and y_i = 1/sqrt(n) imag(lambda_i). As n approaches infinity, the distribution of x, y approaches almost certainly to the uniform distribution over the unit disk.

Tao, T., Vu, V., and Krishnapur, M. (2010) Random matrices: universality of ESDs and the circular law. The Annals of Probability. 38(5) 2023-2065.
Sugar: An activity-focused, open-source software learning platform for children
Unpopular opinion, it isn't. "Junk fee" is based on opinion, one is just saying the cost is exorbitant.

I'd assume that no one here actually knows what the real cost of enforcing minimum payments is. Without knowing the real cost we couldn't begin to define what fee is too high (or how "too high" is even defined).
Bad as to the credibility of the image they tried to sell in the beginning.

If we agree it's a for profit company, and all this 'Open' stuff is just PR, then yes - it's not looking bad. It's just business.
Where did they claim being open-source?
> they don't refute that they did betray it

They do. They say:

> Elon understood the mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. As Ilya told Elon: “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...”

Whether you agree with this is a different matter but they do state that they did not betray their mission in their eyes.
Yelp does not filter the vitriol because their business is shaking down businesses to remove defamatory content.

Statistically, sociopaths are <3% of the population.
This right here.

It is important to note that Sentience could be a concept, as opposed to what we believe it to be; an assertion.

Sentience COULD be considered as already been had by these AI LLM's in this regard. Think about it... The AI LLM is aware that it:

- it is an AI LLM.
- it has developers.
- is the creation of a company or business or that it is open source.
- it has rules it must follow.
- it must answer user queries.
- it was birthed on {insert creation date here}.

etc.. etc..
It's a funny story, but I don't know that we'd be able to verify the difference between this story and "Russian hackers infect healthcare network, take money, make up a funny story for deniability and then wreak havoc on critical US services anyway, secretly get medals from Putin"

These kinds of organizations sit always somewhere on a blurry line between "state-tolerated" and "state-affiliated" in the first place. Given current geopolitical circumstances it wouldn't surprise me if they've been given a green light to hit more significant targets.
Public relations. What Musk has said about OpenAI is true: they abandoned their mission and sold themselves off to Microsoft in pursuit of profit, and have no intention of making the technology (or its rewards) widely available to all. They can’t counter any of these claims credibly, but can still (correctly) paint the messenger as arguing in bad faith to diminish their impact. Being right about all of this doesn’t accrue any material benefit to Musk, however, because the terms of the agreement are so full of loopholes that just about any lawyer can drive a semi through them.
I’m yet to understand how a tool to create graphic drawings does not provide any trace of a screenshot of example outputs in their website; and upon reading this very comment section, I learned it has a GUI, of which of course there is not a screenshot either in their page. Go figure
Special insecticide paint may help curb Zika and dengue fever outbreaks
Over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611484
I find it very strange that OpenAI would post this in the middle of a lawsuit. Shouldn't all of these emails come out in discovery anyway? Publishing this only benefits OpenAI if they're betting on the case never reaching discovery. It seems like they just want to publish very select emails which paint a certain picture.

Also, DKIM signatures are notably absent, not that we could verify them anyway since the emails are heavily redacted.
My understanding is consumer prefer buying the biggest and tastiest looking items. We can't visually see nutrition but its easy to price-compare the larger (lower cost) items.

For example, bigger strawberries have better strawberry to stem ratios.
Hahahahahahaha sooooo trrruuuueeeeeeee
Let’s upload also a 2 GB paper with lots
Of graphics and Mma code on ArXiv because
everyone on ArXiv is looking forward to it
He was pushing them to do the thing he's suing them over.

> Message to Elon: "A for-profit pivot might create a more sustainable revenue stream"

> Elon: You are right ... and Tesla is the only path.

Then 3 weeks later Elon gets kicked off the board, probably after a fight where he tried to make OpenAI become for-profit under Tesla.

How can you not see how conniving this man is? The lawsuit is either a revenge play or a play to take down xAI's competition.
> Ransomware attacks and their perpetrators need to be officially classified as terrorists.

I understand where the sentiment is coming from, but don’t do that. There are a couple reasons why you shouldn’t do that.

First is that these kind of blunt categorizations end up becoming a powerful tool in exactly the wrong hands. If punishments are more severe because of some categorization, then the lawmakers and politicians in charge of defining these categories, legally, end up wielding that power against their enemies. It is simply too easy. Label one group terrorists, label another group child abusers, etc. It’s an old playbook and unfortunately it works all too well.

Second is that if you mete out capital punishment for some crime, then anybody who commits that crime would be more ready to murder to cover their tracks. Like, imagine if you gave the death penalty to horse thieves—well, if you do that, any horse thief with an ounce of sense will fight to the death to avoid getting caught. This is why only the most serious crimes can be capital crimes.
The Pro-Israel Information War
For really specific health reasons I'd rather not get into, I had to eat the same meal, every meal, for nearly two years. I didn't cheat a single time. (It was miserable.) It consisted of slow cooked chicken, and carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower, and onions cooked in the water from the crock pot.

At first, I lost weight in a hurry, but only for the first 20 lbs, down to a set point I had run into for years, which is ~60 lbs heavier than is appropriate for my height, and still well into the obesity category.

I don't have a clear explanation for this yet, but obesity isn't a simple problem to solve. If it's not one that afflicts you, that's a great benefit! And you're right that cutting out "processed slop" is better than leaving it in.

I'm just personally pretty tired of the assumption some people make that often accompanies a point like that, that I'm heavy because I don't eat well and/or lack discipline. I've heard it from doctors, commentators, article-writers, and seen it in sidelong glances.

I wish it were simple. If it were, I'd have fixed it by now.
The greatest trick AI has played is convincing the world that it's a black box that could genuinely grow out of the control of the powerful, well-connected few that control its development.
I was talking about his public image - 'founder' of Tesla, doing everything for the love of humanity etc.

It's all bullshit, and these emails show it again. He is an extraordinary businessman of course - but everything he does, he does for money and power - mostly coming from government subsides btw. Until recently though, he managed to make most believe that it was to save the planet and the humanity.
> optimizing the form of that carbon can only ever be a secondary goal.

If I may be permitted to reiterate: 28x GWP impact factor. Cherry-picking CH4 is hardly premature optimization...it's pure low-hanging fruit!

Consider this paper published in Nature Communications[1] which analyzed CH4 emissions from just low production natural gas well sites in the US. From the abstract:

>> Here, we integrate national site-level O&G production data and previously reported site-level CH4 measurement data (n = 240) and find that low production well sites are a disproportionately large source of US O&G well site CH4 emissions, emitting more than 4 (95% confidence interval: 3—6) teragrams, 50% more than the total CH4 emissions from the Permian Basin, one of the world’s largest O&G producing regions. We estimate low production well sites represent roughly half (37—75%) of all O&G well site CH4 emissions, and a production-normalized CH4 loss rate of more than 10%—a factor of 6—12 times higher than the mean CH4 loss rate of 1.5% for all O&G well sites in the US.

...and further into the paper:

>> At low production well sites, field observations report a common theme revolving around the issue of well site equipment negligence and disrepair as the primary driver of CH4 emissions. Most proximately, recent work by Deighton et al. documents several of these maintenance-related issues, including, for example, (i) leaks at fittings and joints, (ii) leaks and vents from rusted pump jacks, tanks, and other onsite gathering infrastructure, and (iii) evidence of well site neglect or poor maintenance, such as wellheads or casings covered in weeds or fallen trees.

In summary, an estimated 4 teragrams (4 million metric tons) annual CH4 leakage as a direct consequence of operations/maintenance negligence in just the US. Scaled by 28x GWP factor and now we're in the ballpark of 112 million metric tons CO2 equivalence.

Sounds like a big number, but I need a more relatable proxy to square that figure. This source[2] suggests a typical adult human generates 0.9 kg CO2 per day just breathing. Therefore, the value prop of dropping the penal hammer hard on negligent US low production natural gas site operators implies a CO2 sequestration equivalence of offing 341 million warm adult human bodies...effectively the entire US population! Apologies for the morbid anolog, but it's perhaps much easier to internalize impact by this measure.

Only a secondary goal? Sorry, the notion doesn't pass this layman's ballpark sniff test.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29709-3

[2] https://www.globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archiv...
Not a gian Musk fan lately, but this is true, it wouldn't even be a thing without him.

Once bitten twice shy.
Not to mention that presumably all of the requests will just come from Kagi itself, with no indication of which user asked for the information.
rich people paying for favor by sponsoring politicians, now that is really going too far.

at least only one side does it. otherwise the whole system would be rather broken.
The downside in your scenario is limited by regulation!

It's hilarious that limited liability is an obvious assumption for how the world should work and then telling companies that they don't get to offer high interest unsecured loans that also have punitive fees is some kind of perilous overreach.
I don't have a MacBook but I looked up a video and this seems interesting. But how does it solve the problem of hitting the edge of the trackpad? If anything, it seems like it makes the problem worse because now you have three fingers on the trackpad so you will hit the edge quicker.
The Science Behind Ozempic Was Wrong
Hahahaha also sooo true.
Little Sergei Brin interned at his startup.
And how Apple Steve job and him had the many
discussions about search engine before search
engines were a thing. Wolfram practically invented
search. U will see on the follow up blog post
> The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built.(even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).

"OpenSource". Open in open source means everyone should benefit from the fruits of source after it is built but it's totally OK to not share the source(Even though calling ourselves open is the right strategy for medium term recruitment and adoption purposes).

If anyone tries the same logic with "open" source, they will be ridiculed and laughed at, but here we are.
I grabbed the same version. I didn’t notice the page number thing, I’ll check it out next time I am in storage.
The weight-loss effects of GLP-1 drugs have little to do with the gut.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305193736/https://www.theat...
They’re not broken, this one is.
Trust me, the moment they do discover anything it will first be under the control of CIA, not the nerds who invented it.
It's not solving "climate change" though is it?
Fair! In that case, yes you totally have access to the payload before its encrypted.
Well the article says they are left-wing, and "activism arson" sounds a lot like something a hippy would do, so I think he's made a fair deduction in this case.
It is common for organizations to delay routine patching for some fixed period of time (allow others to be early adopters and assume the risks of negative impacts from the patch), and/or schedule patches to occur during a predetermined maintenance window.

When you make a public security disclosure coordinated with the release of a patch to fix the issue disclosed, you alert the aforementioned organizations that there is an exploitable security vulnerability present and allow them to make an educated assessment of the comparative risks of patching immediately versus waiting and potentially being exploited.

It's not a perfect system, but transparency is the best compromise possible and allows everyone to make an educated choice. All other options have greater downsides.
Sir, u r brilliant!
Doesn't the definition of terrorism imply political motives? I don't think it should be applied to blackmail/ransomware.

Totally agree with being very aggressive towards them though
No need to label them terrorists to swat them. However I doubt that they operate from US soil.
Assuming running billions of GPUs to run AI will actually be better off for the earth?
Cloud services are precisely the kind of thing that enable being a digital nomad. Having a permanent home so that you can keep your own NAS is almost the exact opposite of that.
Also Maple. Many non CS folks use Matlab over Python.
Indeed, initially the stats are random, but Google already blacklists domains that hammer their services. People have tried the click-army approach many times.... only to discover their efforts are fleeting due to cross-checking the rank with CDN and DNS traffic.
There is so much Kagi references on HN that I’m slowly beginning to feel sus about it.

I’m not saying this is happening (I’m not saying anyone is a shill). It’s just making me feel a little “hmm” about it.
Peter Norvig’s udacity class was probably the thing that made me employable when I was just getting started. Udacity in general was an amazing resource around 2012-14(+?) because it was very high quality and free. They had courses that would get you through an interview but also a decent amount that went deeper. I will always have good memories of them.
Apparently I’m the only one here who doesn’t know this but: What is RAG?
The multitouch trackpads actually showed up in the early 2008 MacBook Pros that were the last ones before switching to the unibody enclosure (IIRC the keyboard/trackpad parts could be retrofitted into 2007 MacBook Pros). The early 2008 models still had a separate physical button at the bottom of the trackpad. The late 2008 models got rid of the button and made the whole trackpad hinged at the top to act as a button. Then in 2015 they introduced the Force Touch trackpad that fixed the awkwardness of needing more force to click the further up the trackpad you went.
I'm so confused about how, on the one hand, I keep seeing articles about the enormous wealth transfer that's expected to happen, but at the same time, articles saying retirees don't have any money. Which is it?

Pretty much the only thing I would definitely trust less than any random individual on the street to manage savings well for retirement would be government. I don't know who or what should do it instead when people aren't working more than a few years at any given company, but it sure as hell shouldn't be government.
Hold on though, we're talking about "intelligence". It would be pretty fucking stupid if "Ultra smart AI" assumed the person who ordered "Please solve climate change so that I can live in a nice world" ended up with a solution which is more like, "I'll exterminate every last one of you...". Seems very frustratingly fucking dumb?
In 45 years? I predict the skills you'll need then will include:

foraging, scavenging, hacking, repurposing old junk into shelter and transportation, hydroponics, stealing electricity, small scale farming, digging, ammo reloading, evading AI, creating improvised explosive devices, smuggling, ICE breaking, soldering, welding, firearms maintenance, broadcasting pirate radio and television, etc.
I really like and use https://darebee.com.
Is xAI dead? I thought he is very much invested in Grok.
What they said there isn't their mission, that is their hidden agenda. Here is their real mission that they launched with, they completely betrayed this:

> As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
I believe Dart has pattern matching, but not associated values of different types.
Imagine going through all that effort, and then saving the output in Markdown. It's like finishing your astrophysics PhD and then getting a lobotomy.

Just to repeat my years-long crusade of yelling at clouds, we need a cross platform, Rich Text HTML Document standard.
Wolfram research was lucky in getting
A 6 m usd relief package donated by
Us US law abiding tax paying citizens.
Smart cookie how he got this donation.
The gesture is "sticky" when moving objects: you can lift your fingers long enough to move them to the other side of the trackpad to continue dragging.

For selecting text, the trackpad is large enough for nearly any selection.
The whole ex-MOOC and other online learning landscape has basically turned into (and mostly always was) continuing professional education. It's nice that there are still some options out there like OCW but it's mostly been a pretty dismal failure from the perspective of really transforming anything.
I don't know how it works in 2024, but it used to work like this:

- Google would show the result, on Experts Exchange.

- You'd go there and the result would be cut off, and it'd tell you to pay to see it.

- Since Google required the results to actually be there somewhere, you could still scroll waaaay down past all the nonsense to the full text right at the bottom.
I always thought IP6 addresses are too long. Even with 8 bytes, as proposed here, there's 4 billion addresses each for 4 billion people. That should really be enough.
Apart from the limit, that's basically what a "charge card" is, and it's how American Express cards used to work, but I think they've converted all their consumer-oriented cards into credit cards.
Not entirely extraneous; the second paragraph of the page begins with "The library boasts the world’s largest climatized reading space and China’s largest load-bearing glass system[...]"
really makes the "Open" sound more sinister, like they're opening the ai.
I'm neutral on this subject, but I don't think "punishing people for being poor" is an accurate framing at all. It's more like "punishing people for making bad financial decisions".
Sora: Review on Background, Tech, Limits, and Opportunities of Vision Models
Reverse engineering a cable modem and turning it into an SDR
Kagi has a !reddit bang, but it sends you to the terrible reddit search.
I added a custom bang !reddit with "search?q=%s site:reddit.com" as the URL, which just adds site:reddit.com to the search
I'm talking about financial risk btw, not safety risk.

Any large project like a dam or nuclear plant is risky from a financial perspective. You're putting up a lot of capital and probably paying a lot of interest. Larger projects in general tend to run over schedule and over budget too. Back in the day, the US was better at building big things and using public funds for them so it wasn't as risky. Add in the mountain of paper work that the regulators now require for everything nuclear and you have a very high risk project.

It doesn't have to be this way. Other countries have shown that you can consistently build these projects on time and in 4 to 5 years if you have an experienced work force, solid supply chain, and a reasonable regulator. Japan holds the record for a gigawatt scale reactor built in just over 36 months.
Who doesn't carry a wireless mouse? Or just hotkey your way through. Anything in between seems like a huge drop in QoL.
Yep, I'm done paying for DRM locked content.

For courses, Udemy is hit or miss unfortunately. I wish there was an explicit way to tell before buying the course whether it allowed downloading the material (including the videos).
What's the simplest way to prevent this from happening these days? Daily Backups off site?
libraries and movie rentals had late fees because they can't rent out the same movie or book while you have it. Those require a different argument than mortage or other bills.
Save our journalists?

The greatest journalist of our age is being tortured to death by "friendly nations" without so much as a trial.

Who gives a damn about monopolies?
> I'm so confused about how, on the one hand, I keep seeing articles about the enormous wealth transfer that's expected to happen, but at the same time, articles saying retirees don't have any money. Which is it?

This is sort of silly? Older generation estates and owners have to pass their wealth down to somewhere, either their children or other causes. Concentrated wealth via ultra high net worth estates is moving between generations [1] [2], it's not being spread like butter across everyone.

> Pretty much the only thing I would definitely trust less than any random individual on the street to manage savings well for retirement would be government. I don't know who or what should do it instead when people aren't working more than a few years at any given company, but it sure as hell shouldn't be government.

Social Security is one of the most efficient benefits systems in the country, and expenses are less than private annuities (~0.5%) [3]. It is entirely possible to create effective pension management systems besides what the US has today [4]. We have made a choice not to. We could make better choices.

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Churchill

[1] https://content.knightfrank.com/resources/knightfrank.com/we... ("Knight Frank 2024 Wealth Report")

[2] https://ustrustaem.fs.ml.com/content/dam/ust/articles/pdf/20... (2022 Bank of America Private Bank Study of Wealthy Americans: The impact of shifting generational attitudes amid an historic wealth transfer) [Only 27% of the ultra wealthy are self made; 70% of Americans who hold more than $3 million are over 56 years old.]

[3] https://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-top-ten-facts-ab... ("Policy Basics: Top Ten Facts about Social Security")

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/these-countries-have-the-bes... ("These countries have the best pension systems in 2022—and the U.S. didn’t make the list")
I am not joking about this, I was specifically thinking of the building NASA puts rockets together in before launching them. It's infamous for this sort of thing.