skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has just been crazy both to watch and in some small ways interact with up close (I’ve had some very productive and some regrettably heated private discussions advising former colleagues and people I care about to GTFO before the shit really hits the rotary air impeller, and this is going to get so much worse).

This thread is full of comments making statements around this looking like some level of criminal enterprise (ranging from “no way that document holds up” to “everyone knows Sam is a crook”).

The level of stuff ranging from vitriol to overwhelming if maybe circumstantial (but conclusive that my personal satisfaction) evidence of direct reprisal has just been surreal, but it’s surreal in a different way to see people talking about this like it was never even controversial to be skeptical/critical/hostile to thing thing.

I’ve been saying that this looks like the next Enron, minimum, for easily five years, arguably double that.

Is this the last straw where I stop getting messed around over this?

I know better than to expect a ticker tape parade for having both called this and having the guts to stand up to these folks, but I do hold out a little hope for even a grudging acknowledgment.
This feels like the 2022 version of Steve Ballmer's infamous, deeply cringe on-stage freakout at a Microsoft event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WW2JWIv6G8
A show that's being doing purely 2d art can't just integrate the 3d art in their pipeline on a whim. If they can, they probably already have the skills to make the model outright.
>And be rightfully sacked for maliciously burning millions of dollars on a retrain to purposefully poison the model?

Does it really take millions dollars of compute to add additional training data to an existing model?

Plus, we're talking about employees that are leaving / left anyway.

>Not to mention: LLMs aren't oracles. Whatever they say will be dismissed as hallucinations if it isn't corroborated by other sources.

Excellent. That means plausible deniability.

Surely all those horror stories about unethical behavior are just hallucinations, no matter how specific they are.

Absolutely no reason for anyone to take them seriously. Which is why the press will not hesitate to run with that, with appropriate disclaimers, of course.

Seriously, you seem to think that in a world where numbers about death toll in Gaza are taken verbatim from Hamas without being corroborated by other sources, an AI model output will not pass the test of public scrutiny?

Very optimistic of you.
AI or not, if a machine finds an answer so complex that no human can understand it, how useful is it?
If your training process ingests the entire text of the book, and trains with a large context size, you're getting more than just "a handful of word probabilities" from that book.
> Copy and cut and paste is not functional without pressing the option key

Can you go into more detail on this? I use the typical command-c/command-v, or the menu items all the time without touching the option key. What workflow are you using that needs this?
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Need a webshop? WooCommerce plugin.
Need a cheap mailing list? Mailman plugin.
Need a forum? BBPress.
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I needed something fast for my own website https://rpgplayground.com, and took this road. Best decision I ever made. Every time I needed new functionality: ah, there is a plugin for that!
It’s not free speech if the content distribution is purposefully weighted towards showing specific agendas
They will get as many KC stamps/badges they want in a few mere days.

The point is: given the amount of stuff they get from China, will SK afford the resources needed to check, test and reject those gazillion products?
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It's interesting that with direct prompting there's only a 1 point difference between GPT-4o and GPT-4 turbo, but with the AlphaCodium flow it becomes a substantial 6 point difference.

AlphaCodium works by decomposing a competitive programming problem into simple steps and has an automated flow that uses the LLM for each step. It's iterative, so compilation errors and test results are fed back into the model and the model can fix mistakes.

IMO this is a much more useful benchmark than a typical eval because it reflects how LLMs are actually used in the real world. It seems like it also surfaces subtle differences in reasoning abilities that zero-shot evals don't capture.
I'm not reading any deliberate sabotaging in this write-up. You do? They spent way more time and resources getting that offshore team up to speed, but the team still failed to do anything useful.

It wasn't their job to make this work no matter what, it was their job to use this team as a resource. If this team then goes and mucks about for two months instead of asking for the resources it needs (e.g., “We're stuck getting this codebase to work; can you assign someone to walk us through it?”), then the failure lies there.

If your CEO was looking to make this the new way of working, I would be very careful not to commit any hidden resources either.
I don't see what you're talking about, quite the opposite. He spent more time helping them than his normal team. He carried out the assessment fairly by treating them at the same calibre as his current one.
Unfortunately this is how most startup equity agreements are structured. They include terms that let the company cancel options that haven’t been exercised for [various reasons]. Those reasons are very open ended, and maybe they could be challenged in a court, but how can a low level employee afford to do that?
A 2002 postmortem on the tech of Rogue Leader, a Gamecube launch title, already using the term "shaders":

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/shader-integration...
I recently bought a laptop and got to go through this (Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro).

It came with Windows installed, as most non-Mac laptops do. I spent the first 2 hours letting Windows Update and the OEM's proprietary firmware downloader run. The laptop got so hot just installing shit that it began to burn my lap. The whole time, Windows was throwing ads in my face and shit I never asked for like stock tickers, the weather, etc in the taskbar.

So the shitshow comes to an end and I'm up to date on firmware. "Time for the real OS" I think. I install Linux. Installation goes off without a hitch. I boot it up and unfortunately, the laptop speakers and webcam just don't work. I sort of expected this, but it's a shame to see it happen. After researching it, the problems seem to be very close to the hardware and require reverse engineering. The speakers I could maybe do, the camera though? Not a chance.

I use MacOS daily for work, but not because I particularly like it. I started using it 3 years ago because I was curious about Apple silicon, but didn't want to buy one for personal use. My work let me choose one. I was immediately floored by how long the damn thing could go on battery, and it never got hot. I've heard nary a laptop fan for years until this week.

One downside is that I juggle Windows-style and Mac-style keyboard bindings daily and my muscle memory betrays me constantly.

The various laptop OEMs are gradually getting better about it but as a diehard Linux user, I've sadly noticed that there's nearly an inverse relationship between how well something works with Linux, and its aesthetics and build quality. This laptop for example? Nicest looking and feeling non-Apple laptop I've ever used, but has the worst hardware compatibility of any I've used. The common recommendation I see universally is to get a ThinkPad, but I just think they look disgusting. Call me shallow, I guess.
Neither is acceptable
...electric vehicles still have parts. Only 10% of a car is its powerplant. Steering, braking, holding humans, and keeping them comfy and safe, are not going anywhere. They also introduce new and very dangerous parts that demand a high dollar and specialized maintenance.
Is a 6-point difference substantial in a statistical sense? To me it seems small enough to be noise.
> What if email were "pickup only" _from the sender_.

Congrats, you've invented DJB's Internet Mail 2000[1]. Definitely a good proposal for moving the burden of spam back to the spammers but I don't think anyone took the time to seriously consider it.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
Programmers generally use higher level languages to implement original code because the code is easier for humans to read, write and debug. Porting from low level languages (eg CUDA or C++ to F#) is less common.
Sorry, first time posting here... I'll update it!
Why does china need to import fuel? Isn't energy supply a priority for them?
Boeing shareholders approve departing CEO's pay package
You don't even need to go this far.

The word-probabilities are transformative use, a form of fair use and aren't an issue.

The specific output at each point in time is what would be judged to be fair use or copyright infringing.

I'd argue the user would be responsible for ensuring they're not infringing by using the output in a copyright infringing manner i.e. for profit, as they've fed certain inputs into the model which led to the output. In the same way you can't sue Microsoft for someone typing up copyrighted works into Microsoft Word and then distributing for profit.

De minimus is still helpful here, not all infringments are noteworthy.
The use case you described can be achieved with a subset of NLP, and has basically already been possible for years.

Named-Entity Recognition (NER) and Text Classification will allow you to figure out what kind of text you're looking at and extract structured data.

LLMs are not good at this because they're not specialized for it, but you can build a specialized NER model to extract custom entities from unstructured data today.

That said, I don't really think this is some yet untapped potential of AI so much as an area of ML that just hasn't been applied enough.

ETA: also, in general I think AI is going in the direction of basically just having an LLM route tasks to more specialized ML models (for corporate tasks at least). That's what Google's Vertex AI agents sort of do (and I am guessing the GPT 4 agents as well).
How about a combo of laws passed and also laws revoked?

Either way, the world is changing more rapidly than it ever has before and Congress is reacting slower than it ever has before. There's no way to spin that as a good thing. We are entering a new Gilded Age, where corporate and robber barons have no accountability.
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None of that is fact, or inevitable, or meaningful. What are "thinking capabilities", what are they made of? More RAM? A human can have more RAM, by installing it in the human's computer. More parallelism? Maybe, but that's like having more humans. More speed? It's not clear what you'd do with it, since research tends to involve interaction and the outside world has a pace of its own: sitting in a cell on amphetamines does not make you brilliant. More of some unknown component of the yet-to-be-discovered formula for intelligence? Maybe, if it even works that way, which is a massive assumption.

I'm sorry, I'm not buying "superintelligence", outside of sci-fi plots. Even there it's kind of irritating deus ex machina stuff.
How large is a very large PDF?
I had something similar happen to me without realizing it. I was running a 20 people team away from the main office and was having dinner with my boss and we started talking about what was great about the team and the location. My arguments about the affordable engineering and the attraction of the location for hiring made it a nobrainer was just general conversation. One month later i saw him again and he told me that conversation saved the team from the axe as he was able to convince the executives that it made sense to keep the team.
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No, GameCube's TEVs have nothing to do with GLSL. The reference to GX2 implies you're confusing it with Wii U, inexplicably.
Better submitted link switch to this one.

>I couldn't find a link to a repo

Perhaps is one of projects that their code is provided in archive-only format and don't have a (public) repo.
> Gas is hard to replace ad hoc with electricity because you'd have to replace boilers in millions of homes and apartments, a multi-decade infrastructure project

The best time to start a multi-decade infrastructure project was multiple decades ago. The second best time is now.

Boilers need replacing anyways, so this could have been very gracefully over time.
We also experienced similar delays but Yubi was straight up with the expectation that it was going to be 8-12weeks.
No need to perish, current theories explain that the innermost region of a spinning black hole (all real world black holes spin) has a low gravity region where arbitrary navigation is possible. You can't escape, but you also don't have a death date with the singularity.
Plenty of contracts have survivorship clauses. In particular, non-disclosure clauses and IP rights are the ones to most commonly survive termination.
Unless it's a conservative religious service, why would they care? Money is money, and porn isn't a crime.
Copying one person is plagarism. Copying lots of people is research.
Well, Altman did try to get potential investors to shell out $7T for "AI chips".
Indeed, they would just be preparing for industry in that case (guiding the LLM)
NixOS on a Ryzen Framework 13 has given me the least grief of any laptop since my mid 2010s MacBook.

Modern MacBooks are also pretty good.
From the external view you never enter, just get dimmer as you approach the speed of light and the time dilation keeps increasing.

From the viewpoint of the one falling in, you just fall in and cross the horizon without noticing.

Does make you wonder if time dilation gets so extreme, could another black hole wonder by, offset the gravity of the black hole, and let you escape. Even if it takes a billion years.
"I'll pay you a dollar to shut up"

"Deal"
Lol this would be a great performative piece.
Although not so sure it'd stand up to scrutiny.
Openai could probably take them to court on the grounds of disclosure of trade secrets or something like that and force them to reveal its training data and thus potentially revealing its source.
I think the biggest bubble that needs to burst is probably the whole "AGI" thing.

The definition of it isn't clear but from what I gather it's basically an aggregate of emergent capabilities that work together to produce a singularity.

Maybe with enough resources it's possible but I highly doubt it'll be economically feasible given how much has gone into it so far and how far we really are away from something like that with current models.
In some places it is.
For companies unlisted on stock exchanges the options are then worthless.

These were profit sharing units vs options.
> ...your email address is actually a cryptographically generated guid rather than something easily guessed or harvested. If you combine that with a background handshake procedure for introductions, so that all of your contacts get their own guid alias mapped to your canonical one, then you can revoke any of those if they get compromised at any time...

Here, you're kicking the problem further down the road, though, to another known attack vector: Directory Harvest Attack[1].

In this case, though, the directory (presumably) contains the guid mapping (which - by definition - would have to be a different guid than the object) and would have to process parsing these guids against the users. (This already occurs on recipient receive for some SMTP servers [just before BDATA/DATA] via the email address).

What would one bad email to an email guid do? Would it force rotation of the guid[s] throughout the entire forest? If so, how would that be communicated externally? How would you communicate it for just the one address, if you just changed the one guid?

Would you, instead, have to keep a guid history to check against -- or lose all of the email between possible compromise and the sender's database update? Would you just keep it in the Transport Queue, until manual intervention could check out email between the possible compromise of the guid and new mail would be received for the new guid? That wouldn't scale for large enterprises.

Keep in mind that nothing has to be sent for recipient validation to occur. The SMTP Server[s] just respond[s] to the recipient block with the next step -- but the caller doesn't have to complete the SMTP negotiation from this point, they already have validation if the addresses (even these proposed guids) are valid.

Tarpitting is somewhat of a viable option, here, but it isn't foolproof.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Harvest_Attack
> many mail server admins of large organizations don’t even look at these email rejections to take any action

Because, sadly, it's trivial to forge the return address and generate (many!) rejections to places that didn't send the email in the first place.

(I've only got a tiny email server and I largely stopped caring about bounce messages a decade ago for this very reason. I can't imagine the volume Gmail or Hotmail get.)

e.g. https://www.altospam.com/en/news/bounce-the-mail-bounce-atta...
It could work like academia or finance: poisonous environment (it is said), but ambitious enough people still go in to try their luck.
Where did pharmaceuticals and gore come into this?
Russians and companies interested in perpetuating the dependency on fossil fuels.

E.g. Greenpeace Germany had weirdly close links to Gazprom, and was even at one point selling natural gas as "green" and "renewable". Greenpeace Belgium was lobbying for the closing of nuclear power plants and replacing them with gas ones. I find it hard to believe that even Greenpeace could be that blind without external help.
There are valid social reasons for rejecting the cheap manipulation of people using addictive visual patterns that have nothing to do with religion but do relate to ethics. Even if no humans are hurt in the creation of the content, humans can be harmed by its addictive consumption.
Obviously if your job requires blue-collar style manual labor, no it's likely not going to be replaced anytime soon.

But if your job is mostly sitting at a computer, I would be a bit worried.
IP protection as an idea came about because creators had no way to financially exploit their creations. It is not a bad idea at its core. Creators have a choice of making their works available freely or under certain conditions. I am always in favour of the creator deciding how their work is shared, not those who want to use it. Scarcity creates value. Plagiarism is a not silly. Plagiarising other people's work is used as a shortcut to obtain employment, access, academic recognition, etc. on the basis of somebody else's work which is pure lying and deceit. That can land you in court. In the field of IT and software development in particular we had long and expensive court battles over a few lines of code. LLMs recombine code found on the internet without any care or attention paid to the licensing terms. The copyright to the output is magnanimously assigned to you and you are left holding the bag when litigation time comes. Based on past experience BSD are right to reject code generated with the help of LLMs, because there is no way of telling where the code came from and what future legal issues it may cause.
Wait til you try Oracle eBusiness Suite
The problem that blowers solve is moving a huge amount of light yard waste that would not be practical with a rake. Naturally, most people cannot do that with a rake and broom, without dedicating multiple days to the job.
When you fly into some countries you have to fill out a form confirming that you haven’t committed genocide. A lot of people laugh at it without thinking about why the affirmation is there.

This is about setting a public position and expectation around contributions. If you want to violate it then so be it - maybe you’ll get away with it, but you are now violating the policy.
But you also have to remember that the pursuit of AGI is a vital story behind things like fundraising, hiring, influencing politicians, being able to leave and raise large amounts of money for your next endeavor, etc.

If you've been working on AI, you've seen everything go up and to the right for a while - who really benefits from pointing out that a slowdown is occurring? Who is incentivized to talk about how the benefits from scaling are slowing down or the publicly available internet-scale corpuses are running out? Not anyone who trains models and needs compute, I can tell you that much. And not anyone who has a financial interest in these companies either.
No. They'll filter a products based on HS Code.

If you bought a doll (and a doll does not have a HS Code for "Adults") then a doll should have a KC certificate because it cannot be considered "only for adults"
If you've trained a 16-bit ten billion parameter model on ten trillion tokens, then the mean training token changes 2/125 of a bit, and a 60k word novel (~75k tokens) contributes 1200 bits.

It's up to you if that counts as "a handful" or not.
+ Tankless water heater mounted inside a garage so it doesn't freeze (and the type with an anode rod to last longer, and check it)

Also:

+ Short and insulated outdoor faucets

+ Whole house filter* ahead of all indoor water

+ Regenerative water softener applied to all indoor hot and cold lines except for the kitchen main sink

+ RO filter + permeate pump** + UV under kitchen sink applied to tap and refrigerator

+ Water hammer arrestors where needed

+ Recirculating hot water loop (3 pipes) to begin with

+ If you're feeling extra spendy and don't want even the possibility of nasty shit from tap water in your plants, a carbon block filter just after the water meter

* 3 big 20" filters in series with a pair of bypass valves and a bypass line

** Critical to reducing waste during production
Coal isn't as safe as nuclear. More people have died in coal power generation incidents that nuclear power ones; add in the deaths due to the air pollution from coal and it's not even close to being comparable.

> Gas has no good alternative all grids need some gas right now

Batteries are good peaked plant replacements.
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Can AI turn us all into Warren Buffet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1f47SC_A8

They were greedy at times of peace and out of control during war.
Well, I've eyeballed the capacity of the storage in the system from the graph at around 25 to 30GWh. The CAISO website does allow downloading per-day CSV files of the 5-minute power on a per-day basis. There is also the question of behind-the-meter batteries which presumably do not show up (neither generated solar nor evening peak consumption saved).