skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, there are people who actually use Apple's Office version for work? I've only ever seen MS Office for macos used in actual business settings, and I have used it myself a few times over the years without issues. Despite running a Macbook in some jobs, I haven't touched Apple's suite in years because of some very bad experiences whenever you need availability beyond you own system. The other way around (mostly) just works, but it's still more headache than simply installing MS office for mac.
Yes, there is an error in the Quanta article [at the same time, I must add that writing popular science articles is very hard, so it would be wrong to blame them]

Your fix is indeed correct; we may want to have either while loop instead of "if len(mem) == thresh" as there is very small (but non-zero) probability that length of mem is still thresh after executing:
mem = [m for m in mem if np.random.rand() < 0.5]

["While" was Knuth's idea; and has added benefit of providing unbiased estimator.]
My only problem with all thing plain text is I need cross-platform sync cuz I write on both my phone and laptop. For these I use Simplenote which has served me super well, but still looking for solutions where I can actually write plain text "files" while have convenient syncing.
sure, they were dissatisfied with life, and malt did not work to justify god's ways to them, at best it helped them express their dissatisfaction.
You do, but then you get games like Sunless Sea which are praised by critics but don't sell millions
I meant undo for motions, not edits. I’m pretty sure Neovim does not have that. (There is <c-o>, but only for large motions.)
Since I do not follow OpenAI or Ycombinator I first learned that he was a scammer when he released is crypto currency. But I am surprised that so many did not catch on to it then. It is not like he has really tried to hide that he is a grifter.
I went to primary school (1-4 grade) in the mid 1990s in a small post-communist country. Fossil fuel burning producing emissions bad for your health and harming the planet was something that was a part of the curriculum in like the second or third grade (I remember it vividly because the teacher asked why are trolleybuses better than bused, I was sure it was something to do with the engine, but didn't want to risk embarrassing myself; I was right, and I told myself I should be more confident in myself).

If it managed to get into the curriculum of a small post-communist country in the mid-1990s, "green" organisations should have been aware of the impacts of emissions and CO2. And for what it's worth, Greenpeace up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine made it infeasible, was pushing for closing of actively running and already amortised nuclear power plants and replacing them with gas.

It's hilariously ironic how one of the most iconic green movements actually ended up causing more damage to the planet on the planetary scale than helping. Sucks for us all that have to live with it though, just because a bunch of blind idiots couldn't be bothered to think.
> First, the contradiction thing. It's just.. An error/panic, why? Anyway, fine.

I suspect due to the details of the proof. This condition looks likely to me for very small set cardinality making the algorithm inappropriate for all-weather. See page 3 of the paper where Algorithm 2 is introduced. They show that in the failure condition, the likelihood of the algorithm returning a value outside of the epsilon bounds is higher.

> Then, there's the whole premise of 1..m: I'm still not sure if the size needs to be known upfront or not.

m sizes the threshold, if it is too small, the error bounds guaranteed by the algorithm will be larger than expected, and vice versa if m is too large.

> And btw, I didn't know about the Chernoff bounds and delta/epsilon are not explained at all in the paper, which added to the confusion a lot.

Papers typically do not spend words on basics and those are standard concepts.

> Perhaps there should be a method for estimating the confidence/error rate.

You can't resize the stream easily because p implicitly depends on m via the thresh cardinality condition and if you were to change m then your p updates would not correspond. As a result you may not be able to rely on the error bounds. Note though that stream doesn't mean infinite or very large: take it to mean one item at a time. The point of this algorithm is to bound space complexity to something small. Have a look at thresh and note that log2(1e50) is just 166: if you did have a very large stream of indeterminate length you could also just pick a very large m.
> All of this is highly ironic for a company that initially advertised itself as OpenAI

Well... I know first hand that many well-informed, tech-literate people still think that all products from OpenAI are open-source. Lying works, even in that most egregious of fashion.
> Rent Is Too Damn High

I remember laughing at that meme 10 years ago. I'm not laughing now anymore. This thing spread globally.
Home plug
They are too biased these days though. The FBI selectively persecutes, so the reason this is frowned upon is because of the latent corruption already in the system.

No one would care if they were impartial.
Or an answer so simple: 42.
> but the olden days

I welcome you to the world of printers, specially industrial label printers when using their (fast) bitmap fonts instead of e.g. true type ones.
There are also directly inscentiviced to not talk shit about a company they a lot of stock in.
My layperson understanding is that collision with the singularity (if that even exists) is mathematically inevitable for an object that has crossed the event horizon. I think your scenario of hanging out within the event horizon and safely away from the singularity for indefinite time would require infinite fuel to counteract the gravitational gradient, or for even more fundamental reasons.
In Germany, the government of Helmut Schmidt (social democrats) planned to implement an optical network to every house in west Germany in 1981. In 1982 Helmut Kohl became chancellor, cancelled the 30 year plan and what we got was coax lines for cable TV. Thanks a lot, just imagine where Germany could be today … to be fair, a significant part of households gets their internet connection over the cable tv networks, but still it was a dumb decision.

German article on the matter:

https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...
So, you extend the definition of a religion to "everything a lot of people support" and then declare that it needs to be "brought down". How does it work for you - you plan to ban people from agreeing on anything, and thus enshrine world peace?
I’m not sure where you found your information to somehow form that ludicrous last strawman… Climate change is real, you can’t deny it, you can’t debate it. Simply look at the data. What you can debate is the cause… Again a sort of pointless debate if you look at the science. Not even climate change deniers as you call them are necessary saying that we shouldn’t do anything about it. Even big oil is looking into ways to lessen the CO2 in the atmosphere through various means.

That being said, the GP you’re talking about made no such statement whatsoever.
What's the difference vs compiling down to machine code and linking it with your program?
They could have taken the cheap way of just deleting everything. So someone already wants to use it or at the very least have the option.
Also see

> The Register notes that the FBI appears to be entirely happy depicting its infosec operatives as faceless hoodie-wearers. (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/05/fbi_seizes_stolen_dat...)

Screenshot: https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/04/05/screenshot_genesis_market_...
related ? heh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Saturn
When you have an iPhone, even text files feel like a custom proprietary format that is silo’d in its own world.

My problem is that while vim, markdown to HTML, and headless browser printing to PDF all work great on my desktop Linux machine there isn’t really a way to translate this to iOS and back.

If I could (a) mount my iCloud Drive in my Linux machine and (b) have a markdown centric editor on my phone then it would all work nicely. Unfortunately I feel like the lure of commercial success means Apple won’t allow the former and anyone working on the latter is doing it as a closed, proprietary, commercial system.

I curse myself every day for mixing operating systems!
Almost, another detail is the closer the object gets to the event horizon, the more it's light redshifts - until it's no longer in the visible spectrum at all. You can think of the black hole's gravity as stealing energy from the light, shifting it into a lower energy spectrum.
> * They can prevent you from selling some of your so-called "equity"*

But how much do you need? Sell half, forgo the rest, and you'll be fine.
It looks like they are mostly making statements about what is happening outside the Schwarzschild radius. These are testable statements.
And those vandals are doing this for a while now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_art
Sure. Click on the github link in the post and look at the readme. It's all there. There is even a linked paper.
I signed up with a US number; however, it doesn't seem like they support any language beside Mandarin?
i like the idea of breaktime accumulating based on the time worked. it makes sense. it also means that after an 8 hour work day i deserve to sit down in the evening and relax for an hour or two without feeling guilty.

however i disagree that an interruption at the door, or going out for errands counts as break time. it depends on what exactly happens, but dealing with an interruption, or driving a car, paying attention to catch a bus or train, are not relaxing. personally i try to combine errands with going for a walk, so that partly counts as a break. but dealing with other people can be stressful (especially for introverts) so that's not a valid break.

for a break you need an activity that you enjoy and that allows you to relax.

when i am dealing with people a lot, then hacking on a side project for fun becomes my break.

when i work alone on the computer, socializing with others can be my break.

but after a day of working and socializing i need some alone time to unwind.
Plain text is the hacker's file format.

You can jot down ideas every day in markdown somewhere, maybe in a daily journal that's part of your second brain. Then you can move them into documents in a Git repo. Then you can feed them into an LLM and start producing interesting functions for your personal utility library. Then you can string them into a software solution for one problem or another.

This probably sounds vaguely disturbing if you are wearing a software engineer's hat. But if you're wearing a hacker's hat it's nirvana. At no point do you have to worry about being bound by the limitations of a particular tool, you are just transforming one chunk of text into another and moving those chunks around, really.
That also works great in an ethical way, BTW. My consulting clients get rebates on my SaaS offerings. They know that I own both companies and I think many of them see that as an advantage. Because it means I can offer a level of control over the full stack that's impossible with any public cloud. Plus everyone hates the nameless support automated with ZenDesk...
MS Word does not actively collect and process all texts for all available sources and does not offer them in recombined form. MS Word is passive whereas the whole point of an LLM is to produce output using a model trained on ingested data. It is actively processing vast amounts of texts with intent to make them available for others to use and the T&C state that the user owns the copyright to the outputs based on works of other copyright owners. LLMs give the user a CCL (Collateralised Copyright Liability, a bit like a CDO) without a way of tracing the sources used to train the model.
Please. Elon's track record to take tesla from concept car stage to current mass production levels and building SpaceX from scratch is hardly comparable to Altman's track record.
That's news to me. Wink.
> There is an escape valve in contract law for "nobody would sign this" kinds of clauses

Who would sign a contract to willfully give away their options?
This week in KDE: all about those apps
if I understand correctly

1. "shader" is just a metaphor, the actual code running on the gamecube gpu is a custom pipeline that has a dynamic structure and is updated aggressively throughout the lifetime of the app - there is no static "shader" program to run on the host GPU.

2. The architectures of the gamecube and modern GPUs are so distinct as to require an intricate translation layer in order to map gamecube rendering operations to first class shader operations on a modern GPU. This very process causes the stuttering that starts the issue.
Clever, but the law is not a machine or an algorithm. Intent matters.

Training an LLM with the intent of contravening an NDA is just plain <intent to contravene an NDA>. Everyone would still get sued anyway.
John Milton must have been extremely wealthy. He was writing on the margins of that book, printed in 1587.

My understanding is that writing notes in the margin has always been a very normal thing to do going back to the middle ages.
> I think the mutable Date object in javascript was a mistake.

I'm not much of a JS guy, but isn't mutable objects the norm, not the exception? Over in Java land we have the mutable ArrayList and the mutable HashSet etc.

> Maybe I'll see the light when I manage to comprehend what a monad is.

That's not going to happen.

First you need to see a problem (e.g. a mutable object being a mistake.)

Then you need to see a range of solutions.

Then the best solution needs to be a particular Thing.

Then that Thing needs to resemble other different Things which solve other problems.

If those different solutions resemble one another enough, you can put them under a common interface Monad.

But if there is no problem with a mutable AST object or a mutable Date object, then you won't even consider the solutions. A monad won't solve the problem you don't have.
The authors of the paper disagree with me, the authors of the article don't (they use both approximate and estimate, but the paper does say estimate).
How much of it is actually going to be profitable and/or useful over the long term? 1%, 0.1%, 0.01%?

There's definitely going to be a bust. AI hype is far beyond anything crypto has ever seen while the vast majority of it provides very little value.
Isn't this how the movie "the matrix" started?
It's not a head poll, it's who has influence. One NYT columnist has more influence on the politics of the society than 1000 people in rural Appalachia. Influence is not distributed equally, it's very heavily skewed.
Who would accept shares as valuable if the contract said they can be repurchased from you at a price of 0$? This can't be it.
A Film Called 'Megalopolis' Is Apt to Get a Big, Messy Reaction
If you are KDE Plasma user, <Alt-Space> 120cm [to in]

'100 usd to eur' also working.
xz can compress the text of Harry Potter by a factor of 30:1. Does that mean I can also distribute compressed copies of copyrighted works and that's okay?
The xz hack that almost broke the internet
Doesn’t seem to be everyone - https://x.com/officiallogank/status/1791652970670747909
Meanwhile in Germany they cut 200km² of old forrest to build wind farms, locals are angry.

Ministry of environment said:
“Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and to the preservation of nature. This is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.” You cannot make this up.

https://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/politik-inland/kaum-n...
This is not much worse than "forced arbitration". In US you can literally lose your rights by clicking on "Agree" button.
Robots rights protests coming our way.
One of the security issues is the open headers. Would be nice to have a mail solution that handles headers like gossip.
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen answering questions on the current state of AI
Many easily fooled rubes believe that veneer, so I guess it's working for him.
I don't see that as being an important objection, because from the point of view of any single human… that's already true for the expertise found only in other humans.

I don't know the chemistry necessary to turn crude oil into any plastic, I don't know how to use a Lagrangian, I tried and failed to learn group theory (I've only got the basics, and I'm not confident about them), and I've still only got a toy model of special relativity (which is supposed to be the easier one) — and yet, not only are those all still useful, the four colour theorem is useful even though it's a non-surveyable proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof
When I was in college, I took notes digitally whenever I could. When in a trip, traveling, or at home, I didn't need to carry another notebook which made my bag heavier. I would be carrying my tablet anyway. I also didn’t need to be mindful about carrying a specific notebook.

Morever, digital notes sync. A note taken in tablet can be viewed in laptop or desktop or phone whenever the opportunity presented itself.
>we also thought sampling in music was de minimus

I would think if I can recognize exactly what song it comes from - not de minimus.
How is that relevant? If some LLM were able to regurgitate a 60k word novel verbatim on demand, sure, the copyright situation would be different. But last I checked they can’t, not 60k, 6k, or even 600 words. Perhaps they can do 60 words of some well-known passages from the Bible or other similar ubiquitous copyright-free works.
Tips on creating your first YouTube Video?
I found a playlist of how to make these kind of animation, taught by the author.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et-3Ho9RTR8&list=PLQFc-Dxlf4...
Plagiarism is not illegal, it is merely frowned on, and only in certain fields at that.
This is in EU. You have three months to find a new job, which I found here after your comment made me think [1].

This may be a reasonable gamble, as many companies do probably not expect such a rochade, and do not have detective measures in place. And if that doesn't work, you still have 3 months time to find another job in an environment that favored job seekers at this time.

[1] https://expatrist.com/losing-a-job-in-germany-with-eu-blue-c...
Nextcloud Notes is what I use.
> I guess if you have a tendency to automate yourself out of a job, it's inevitable that you'll end up somewhere so dysfunctional that it's impossible to do so.

think of a handyman that works so efficiently that he effectively has no margin.
> LLMs not being copyright laundromats

This a brilliant phrase. You might as well put that into an Emacs paste macro now. It won't be the last time you will need it. And the OP is classic HN folly where programmer thinks laws and courts can be hacked with "this one weird trick".
> they definitely aren't going to use this improved electric one.

The (major) manufacturer they demonstrated it to seems to have adopted it.

Maybe they'll expand the concept out over time to the two stroke ones as well. :)
Wikipedia is on your side:

"In mathematics, approximation describes the process of finding estimates in the form of upper or lower bounds for a quantity that cannot readily be evaluated precisely"

This process doesn't use upper and lower bounds.

However, it still seems more like approximation than estimation to me because of this:

“Of course,” Variyam said, “if the [memory] is so big that it fits all the words, then we can get 100% accuracy.

It seems that in estimation the answer should be unknowable without additional information, whereas in this case it's just a matter of resolution or granularity because of the memory size.

Anyhoo ...

EDIT: also the paper says "estimate" and the article says both "approximate" and "estimate" at different times so it seems everyone except me thinks it's either an estimation or that estimation and approximation are interchangeable.
Many poorly written scrapers feeding threat intel feeds probably blew up when this happened.
It can. There are many ways to make the number go to zero.
This is just Propoganda 101. Call yourself anti-fascist on TV for decade enough times and then you can go indiscriminately kill everyone you call fascist.

Unfortunately Orwellian propoganda works.
I agree with what I think you're saying, so I'm not sure I've understood you.

I think this is all still compatible with saying that ingesting an entire book is still:

> If you're taking a handful of word probabilities from every book ever written, then the portion taken from each work is very, very low

(Though I wouldn't want to make a bet either way on "so courts aren't likely to care" that follows on from that quote: my not-legally-trained interpretation of the rules leads to me being confused about how traditional search engines aren't a copyright violation).
They gonna be insulted if you whip out this crap after. At a certain point you are just better turning the drink down.
> He continued: "I was like, 'AI's going to be really important, OpenAI's going to be a really important company.' I didn't think I would not be able to go out to dinner in my own city."

He styled himself as a celebrity CEO! Altman directed and starred in his own PR drama about how AI was going to kill us all, please somebody stop him; used the hype to raise billions of dollars; and only hit the brakes when governments actually listened and began drafting rules.

Is this genuine bewilderment at the predictable outcomes of his actions? Lying to get attention?

I’m reminded of South Park parodying Harry & Meghan for complaining about their publicity…on a publicity tour [1]. Altman is literally complaining about his media profile…to the media. This is either bafflingly stupid or a slightly less-stupid lie.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worldwide_Privacy_Tour
My experience with these noob-friendly proxys is that many apps just don't work behind a proxy and need complex configurations.

You end up pasting a confusing snippet found in the internet to make it work.
The company that develops real AGI will become a trillion dollar company over night (and destroy all the competition). They are massively live-or-die incentivised.
Aaaah, remove and the re-add (maybe) makes a bit more sense..

So if it is not in the list you just add it, right? Actually is that right? Won’t the list fill up to the max again at some point like this?

So if so, I add Bernardo. Now the very next word is Bernardo so I remove the last Bernardo and maybe re-add it based on a 50% chance.
A kids traffic mat in Elm
Naive question: do you expect the linear scaling to hold with those optimisations to single core performance, or would performance diverge from linear there pending further research advancements?
I'm implying that intelligence doesn't have quantifiable levels, so I disagree with "peak" and "better" as concepts. I know we can become better at solving problems in a domain, often with the assistance of tools. But I think the bogeyman of "superintelligence" is just a human with better tools. Perhaps including a synthetic brain. I expect its smarts to be cultural, made of ideas, mediated by technology, as usual, and domain-dependent, as usual, and not frighteningly "super" for the culture it exists in. I anticipate AGI as a development of us.

OK, so, maybe there are paradigm shifts to be reached that way, and maybe technology (familiarity with tools) will be crucial for these paradigm shifts which are the only way to understand certain new things intuitively. But, maybe this has been going on already, even before there were computers.
It is similar to the plot of "The Second Renaissance", which is an animated prequel to The Matrix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#The_Second_Renai...
Surprisingly, a lot of issues with the icons that are packaged in the AppX. I pretty much had to get comfortable with the manifest to get it working