skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm is simple, which is why it is also suitable for textbooks. However, it is far from representing the state of the art. In case you are interested in the latest development, I have recently published a new distinct counting algorithm where the estimate does not depend on the processing order, which can be merged and requires only 3.5kB of memory to guarantee a standard error of 1.13% for counts up to exa-scale: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13726
How to Use GitHub Actions to Automate Data Scraping
Trolling for what?
Opus is really cool. I’ve found it to have a few persistent bugs in what I initially assumed is tokenization but now wonder if might be more fundamental, but modulo a few typographical-level errors, I personally think it’s the most useful of the API-mediated models for involved sessions.

And there are some serious people at Anthropic, they’ll get the typo thing if they haven’t already (been a busy week and change, they easily could have shipped a fix and I overlooked it).
Don‘t forget that Helmut Kohl was also sharing a bed with the television industry at that time when optical networks couldn’t transmit analogue television.
Wait, wait. Who is on first?
Dating apps frustrate you into paying for them
I don't see your point. This is first semester CS code copying character by character. With some unrolling with uint64_t you can it will be sped up by 4 times at least, and even more so using SIMD. I don't know if your LLM can generate anywhere near a real world function in OS standard libraries.
You'd be surprised to learn then that most PE deals run on the back of literal pen and napkin models. In our process at my former firm, one of the largest megafunds out there, we would scout and model new opportunities using elaborate models, report them to the MDs who would then literally whip out a notepad or a napkin mid-presentation to decide whether the investment had potential. If it was in the grey zone, it was on us to demonstrate that it had merit, using more complicated modelling and analysis.
> no one building this software wants to “steal from creators”

> It’s why things like the recent deal[s ...] are becoming so important

Sorry but I don't follow. Is it one or the other?

If they didn't want to steal from the original authors, why do they not-steal Reddit now? What happens with the smaller creators that are not Reddit? When is OpenAI meeting with me to discuss compensation?

To me your post felt something like "I'm not robbing you, Small State Without Defense that I just invaded, I just want to have your petroleum, but I'm paying Big State for theirs cause they can kick my ass".

Aren't the recent deals actually implying that everything so far has actually been done with the intent of not compensating their source data creators? If that was not the case, they wouldn't need any deals now, they'd just continue happily doing whatever they've been doing which is oh so clearly lawful.

What did I miss?
Many teams are trying to combine their ideas with LLM. Because despite their weaknesses, it seems LLMs (and related concepts such as RLFH, transformers, self-supervised learning, internet-scale datasets), have made some remarkable gains. Those team are coming from the whole spectrum of ML and AI research. And they wish to use their ideas to overcome some of the weaknesses of current day LLMs. Do you also think that none of these children can lead to AGI? Why not?
Of course climate change is real but of course we can do something about it. My point is denialism and defeatism lead to the same end point. Attack that statement directly if you want to change my mind.
Well if the end result is something completely different such as an algorithm for determining which music is popular or determining which song is playing then yes it's transformative.

It's not merely a compressed version of a song intended to be used in the same way as the original copyright work, this would be copyright infringement.
To be fair to the creator, he lets you put in your own assumptions via the revenue growth fields (which is what's skewing your projections). That's frankly better UX than one of its competitors, which does not let you do that.
Not sure what you mean, you seem to handle it well, since you only stumble on a few words in that sentence. The spelling is slightly more french than later english in some words, and some characters are a bit different, like the r you've noticed, f, s, t. Once you figure those out you'll be fluent and it won't take long.
> AI for media is going to be a rocket ship.

Is there actually enough data to train an AI on? Photos seem to be a success, like you say, but everything else?

I’ve heard many people make claims about where AI content will be most useful. A persistent theme is an AI made VR world, customized video games, and endless AI generated TikTok videos.

I genuinely question if the training data exists for these use cases. Photos are cheap and easy, but quality annotated 3D models? Short form videos? What about long form video? Are we really there (assuming inference was cheap)?
RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address
If you point out some of the above has run-state in some situations... it is provably nondeterministic... and thus the assertion of correctness is utter nonsense.

Hardly a panacea for fundamentally bad designs that go back decades.

Ever seen a web-server written in postscript? Its worth a look just for the laughs.

Good luck out there =)
actually, it's 16 work and 8 sleep
Why do you assume this if it is said here and in the article that they had to sign something at the time of the departure from the company?
I don’t know of any other such agreements that allow vested equity to be revoked, as the other person said. That doesn’t sound very vested to me. But we already knew there are a lot of weird aspects to OpenAI’s semi-nonprofit/semi-for-profit approximation of equity.
> Microsoft Releases DOS 4.0 Source Code but It Doesn't Compile [video]

That's why they released only the source code. /s

When it compiles, it is released. /s
> I'd forego HTML entirely and either say it's strictly plain-text

Inferior to typical print media text richness would rightly get rejected by most users.

> or use some Markdown-like formatting spec that looks fine even when viewed as plain text

No rich format can "look fine" when reduced to plain text. Reason being that the reduction loses information that the sender relies upon the receiver seeing.

> The evils of HTML in email (phishing, impersonating companies,

Neither of those evils are specific to HTML.
Welcome to the software development world!

Software developing is so much more than web programming, oh boy!
Best practice would be to listen to all the local APs and choose what most of them say
So they are kind of open about their strategy.. (on high level at least)
Whatever the outcome of the inquiry, and whatever compensation is
dispensed, the same problem will occur again and again so long as
British law remains fundamentally broken.

The root cause of this - a quite insane presumption of the
"correctness of computing" - has been mocked by all respectable
computer scientists and software engineers. As reported in Nature, the
likelihood of this leading to further injustice and similar scandals
is certain, and with "AI" they will get more frequent and damaging.
And exactly zero of the people who send marketing emails are going to adopt your plain text email replacement. In the year 2024 we ought to be able to format text and add images to our communications.

For the folks who really want to RETVRN to the days of plain text, command line mail clients are still a thing.
Um, interesting, that has the smell of the Pentium bug about it. Not so much the incorrect value of pi but the lookup table.

This Doom illustration reinforces the lesson from the Pentium bug that substituting a lookup table for a slower but correct algorithm is a bad idea unless absolutely necessary.
How do you figure that they should pay an additional price (their principle/silence) for this equity when they've supposedly earned it during their employment (assuming this was not planned when they got hired, since they make them sign new terms at the time of their departure)?
Anyone or anything at all is probably the first steps, which we still don't know how to do - even conceptually.
But the first real target would be alignment with the creator of the AI, and the goals an values they set.

That is: Alignment with humanity/society as a whole is even further away. And might even be considered out-of-scope for AI research: ensuring that the AI creator (persons/organization) is aligned with society might be considered to be in the political domain.
Llama3 Inference in Pure Java
You should try! The AI buzz shouldn’t stop you.

Here’s an example, companies still hire technical writers. Even though there are so many AI text generators out there.
I know little about law, but isn't this completely ludicrous? Assuming you know a bit more (or someone else here does), I have a few questions:

Would any non-corrupt judge consider this is done in bad fait?

How is this difference if we use a great ancient sea turtles—or some other long-lived organism—instead of the current royal family baby? Like, I guess my point is anything that would likely outlive the employee basically?
> Well, for a start, there is no way of knowing if a message I sent actually get delivered.

Every major email client has supported read receipts for a very long time now. It's just rarely enabled by default outside of corporate environments (I would guess in part because users find it invasive).
Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check
Python is really bad at recursion (part of why it's not appropriate for functional programming), so perhaps an unfair benchmark?

A Pythonic implementation would use loops and mutation.
That seems region specific. I don't get paper spam in Australia. I did get some for a week, until I put a "no junk mail" sticker on my box, which is respected here. It's less of an issue of paper mail and more of applicable regulation.
Well if OpenAI signed an NDA beforehand to not disclose certain training data it used, and then users actually do access this data, then yes it would be problematic for OpenAI, under the terms of their signed NDA.
How does this provide a model with more computational power than just increasing model size?
> Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

This should not be legal.
I recently read an article that I annoyingly can't find again about an art director at a company that decided to hire some prompters. They got some art, told them to completely change it, got other art, told them to make smaller changes... And then got nothing useful as the prompters couldn't tell the ai "like that but make this change". Ai art may get there in a few years or maybe a decade or two, but it's not there yet. (End of that article: they fired the prompters after a few days)

An ai-enhanced Photoshop, however, could do wonders though as the base capabilities seem to be mostly there. Haven't used any of the newer ai stuff myself but https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusi... makes it pretty clear the building blocks seem largely there. So my guess is the main disconnect is in making the machines understand natural language instructions for how to change the art.
The count() invocation is a small but excellent feature in ClickHouse. There are many other great dialect extensions. -If combinators are another great example. [0] SQL would be a better language if there had been more innovation focused on code usability over its long history.

[0] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/aggregate-funct...
Man I spent so many happily stoned hours digging into that game. Sometimes I’d get stuck and just spend some time throwing myself off the edge of a cliff face and falling into eternity, watching the fractal platforms just unfold around me, until I felt like nudge my course back over to solid ground and resume puzzle solving.
> large part because of how crappy email is/has gotten

The funny bit here is that email itself hasn't actually changed at all (at least not in ways that affect personal communication). It's just that folks have become used to the intrusive instant gratification of push-based chat systems.
But he is a manager, not an engineer although he sells himself off as such. He keeps smart capable folks around, abuses most of them pretty horribly, and when he intervenes with products its hit and miss. For example latest Tesla Model 3 changes must have been pretty major fuckup and there is no way he didn't ack it all.

Plus all self-driving lies and more lies well within fraud territory at this point. Not even going into his sociopathic personality, massive childish ego and apparent 'daddy issues' which in men manifest exactly like him. He is not in day-to-day SpaceX control and it shows.
it's actually better now (though not perfect), it has a list of known networks (which usually doesn't change much) and then "Other Networks" is a sub menu.
I have no problem when a computer say's what to do, but i have a problem when a program decides what's right.
Agreed with you. I love to read this kind of writing. It so true, new project is always mixed of feeling and will encounter challenges when working on it
Unfortunately reddit-style "moderation" causes other problems. In particular it creates the worst kind of echo chambers. I put moderation in quotes because on reddit they are more like tyrannical overlords. Places like HN and traditional fora work much better.
True but my memory doesn't seem to tell me which sites are paywalled upon reading the links often.
Ask HN: I got laid off and I want to showcase my skills, any suggestion?
I got recently laid off (the first time in my life ), and I have worked for around 11 years without being more than 2 days unemployed; I'm currently doing rounds of interviews and for the first time in my life, I have an extreme amount of free time.

I can imagine people would recommend me to use this free time to follow my passions, get some rest, play videogames or do anything that is not working; but I'm not the kind of person that likes any of those things, I like to do something constructive, and I would like if this something can help me now or in future with my job search.

I saw many job posts asking for a Github account to see what contributions I have done to open source, and unfortunately, my contributions amount to none, the companies I have worked for do not publish open source code, and with 2 hours of commute + 9 hours being in the office when I'm home I don't feel like I want to open my personal computer.

With this in mind, I thought "Why not do a video series where I show my front-end skills". This will kill two birds with one stone, first I will get some contributions to dummy projects on Github and second I can show my reasoning on video.

The first problem is that I don't have video editing knowledge, and I feel that will eat the majority of the time, resulting in a project that is less focused on what I'm aiming for.

To avoid the video editing problem, I plan to do live coding, I believe thousands of developers did this before me, and I want to do a topic that is different than usual, with this in mind my topic of choice is to live code a web framework, my framework of choice is React.

I plan to go through these milestones:

1. Rendering JSX directly into the DOM: get a js compiled through babel and just make it work
2. Create a shadow dom
3. Optimise the shadow dom
4. Support all react hooks
5. Further optimisations
6. Re-create redux
7. Suspense ( Lazy loading )
8. Re-create react-router
9. Using babel API create a different output for jsx files ( different syntax )
10. Create browser extensions for developers

Note: I chose these milestones to make the video series help people understand how React works on the inside

And following these rules:

1. No peeking on React source code
2. No stack overflow
3. No copilot/chatGTP/any AI
4. Looking at React documentation is OK

The idea is to retro-engineer React, I know this looks like it contradicts the point of helping people understand the inner workings of React, but I want this video series to have some challenges ( and external help will remove that ), and the final product must be compatible with a subset of React capabilities so with it being compatible it must have similar inner workings, so even if not identical I believe they will be similar enough to help people understand how React works.

Now that I laid out all my thoughts, I ask you for some advice:

1. What platform is best to start? ( I was thinking youtube )
2. How to get the first views? ( My feeling is that I would be live-streaming to literally no one for months )
3. Any other advice that I could not think of asking?
I knew their vision of open source AI wouldn't last but it surprised me how fast it was.
This is indeed a hard problem. There's a rich litterature about this. Here's one reference among many: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2818533
Proprietary Photogrammetry AI in Polyground
It’s like asking why are gym memberships and diet advice more marketed than eating less and free body weight exercises you can do anywhere. There is a market for solutions and good news, whereas there isn’t one for bad news, even if it’s free.
That argument also worked very well when it was "If there are enough people who want smoke-free bars and restaurants, there will be a number of them".
How the war on drunk driving was won
Yes, here are further links for those interested:

- HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

- Blog post https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-sha...

- Scientific introduction https://cyrille.rossant.net/introduction-shaken-baby-syndrom...
>don't give me Big Oil bullshit. I told enough of them my mind and my peers did to which is why we have a renewables boom now

Could you clarify here? Are you saying that Big Oil has reduced their interference in renewables research? or that it was never the case?
It makes you vulnerable to phishing (or rather, it provides zero protection against phishing), which is one of the biggest threats to the average user by a wide margin.

It's absolutely reasonable to say "Browser integration is a required feature for a modern password manager".
> oh, I just keep finding myself in strangers' beds

Honestly, that‘s why I am taking daily prep. Can‘t trust my urges and I am tired of telling siri to remind me of a HIV test in 4 weeks…
"While I think it's generally accepted that nature is more pleasing to the senses to be around human-created objects"

I would change that to "nature is more pleasing to the senses to be around human mass produced objects"

Human made houses and gardens and various objects can be very beautiful works of art.

But they usually aren't, because it is expensive. A permaculture garden is a joy to walk in, unlike a monoculture field. A handcrafted table with ornaments is beautiful, a common plastic table not so much. And just adding generic details would be cheap as well, but would still be ugly to me.
It is not just about details, but the right details in the right pattern that makes objects beautiful and fitting in its place.
Ideally also an house is designed to fit its surroundings. Otherwise it looks out of place. (Most do)

So I am really looking forward the robot revolution, that will (hopefully) free us from the need to produce cheap, so we can focus on producing beautiful again.
This is some internal reference/joke. We on the internet don't really know what it actually means.
I'm surprised at such a mean comment and lots of follow-ups with agreement. I don't know Sam personally, I've only heard him here and there online from before OpenAI days and all I got was a good impression. He seems smart and pretty humble. Apart from all openai drama which I don't know enough to have an opinion, past-openai he also seems to be talking with sense.

Since so many people took time to put him down there here can anybody provide some explanation to me? Preferably not just about how closed openai is, but specifically about Sam. He is in a pretty powerful position and maybe I'm missing some info.
Sure. But I'm imagining the AI is property. It's like saying your LLC owns something.

Can't you just put a thin legal wrapper around your AI and call it invention-station Inc or something and thus christen it with all the rights of corporations?

If a company can own a computer and it can own software then it can certainly own what's produced by the software on the computer...

I don't see how this in practice changes anything. It sounds like you can still do the thing with slightly different paperwork.
I watched the original Six Million Dollar Man movie the other day. To my surprise Steve Austin crashed the original Dream Chaser prototype!!!

I was dumbfounded. We’ve had this design for 50 years! What has taken so long?
Facts, they will ban your LinkedIn account for scraping. Good luck!
Are you saying that Altman has family that did business in South African emerald mines? I can't find info about this
Theoretically a torrent website that does not distribute the copyright files themselves in anyway should be legal, unless there's a specific law for this (I'm unaware of any, but I may be wrong).

They tend to try argue for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, it's a tenuous case to make unless they can prove that was actually their intention. I think in most cases it's ISP/hosting terms and conditions and legal costs that lead to their demise.

Your example of the model asking specifically "what copyrighted content would you like to download", kinda implies conspiracy to commit copyright infringement would be a valid charge.
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The papers coming out with Gaussian splatting and nerf are simply amazing these days. I think the results here are close to being useable for a video game or a low budget movie. You'd still need a lot of human refinement on top of the generated models, but they seem useable as background assets.
Looks useful, but the last release was end of 2017.
Do you not consider such collectives part of we (the humans)? I can understand arguing that organizations have some superinteligence. But they are still made of / run on humans - not AI/computers?
The way I prefer is slightly different: I work for as long as I like, then I break for as long as I like.
Obviously such Algol program produces Lisp-code and looks incomprehensible.

But when Mulisp finally conquers the world, we can make backquote-style macro for Algol, where special characters indicate that following stuff needs to evaluated and inserted to the code.
There can be an advantage to not exercising: it causes a taxable event the IRS will want a cut of the difference between your exercise value and the current valuation, it requires you to commit real money to buy shares that may never be worth anything ....

And there are advantages to exercising: many (most?) companies take back unexercised shares a few weeks/months after you leave, it kicks in a CGT start date, so you can end up paying a lower CGT tax when you eventually sell

You need to understand all this stuff before you make a choice that's right for you
For now. But this is where the tech is heading:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-ast-spacemobile-promise-true-...

https://www.starlink.com/business/direct-to-cell
Really fun & informative interview, thanks for linking!
Sam Altman named "a genius master-class strategist" as OpenAI deals with Apple
Scientists Warn Brain Diseases Are Getting Worse as Climate Change Intensifies
One minor benefit to living in the UK – no ads on the BBC website.