skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. It's kind of the opposite. That is what the coup attempt was about. Ilya saw GPT-4o (which when they started training it was probably going to be called GPT-5) in October or whenever and declared Mission Accomplished.

But that would have basically meant the company was wrapped up and the model was given away or sent to a working group to study in private or something.

Which would not be compatible with making money.

This is also why they did not demonstrate or even mention for one second the text-to-image capabilities of the latest model during the demo. Because it makes it too obvious that the model is truly general purpose and capable.

This is also why Altman made a big deal about it being free (to some degree) and explains the recent "feeling the AGI" photo on X/Twitter.

It also goes into the Morgan Chu lawsuit that is still going forward as far as I know. And you guys will see in the movie that comes out in a couple of years that my explanation was right.

Also, don't be surprised if they get Gal Gadot to play Murati.
Estimation is counting with error bars.

Frankly, most of what you consider counting in your comment needs error bars - ask anyone who operated an all-cash cash-register how frequently end-of-day reconciliation didn't match the actual cash in the drawer (to the nearest dollar.)

The following is a list from my personal experience - of presumably precisely countable things that didn't turn out to be the case: the number of computers owned by an fairly large regional business, the number of (virtual) servers operated by a moderately sized team, the number of batteries sold in a financial year by a battery company.
McConnell opposes bill to ban use of deceptive AI to influence elections
Higher interest rates make building new housing more expensive. Fewer new builds + higher costs = higher rents.
The real world experiences here are a good basis for predicting that the development emphasis on making a robotaxi later this year will be a dumpster fire. It's hard to believe it wasn't taken for self parody when Elon announced it on an earnings call.

Just going from sitting in the driver's seat to sitting in the back seat would require that, by now, FSD would have to be reliably comfortable and the only issue with not using it would be price.

There are safer-than-Uber, but still not flawless, robotaxis in limited areas. We know what it takes to get there. We also know it has to be done with great care and a huge amount of preparation. It isn't cheap or fast.
Yes. Most counties experiencing booms since the 70s, developers swooped in and coopted the county boards to make a guy and his truck weak competition.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena-Pikuta/publicatio...
Gotta get those sweet, sweet clicks babyyyyyy
I wonder if anyone has tried to approach the problem from the other end: start with the hand-tuned network and randomize just some of the weights (or all of the weights a small amount), and see at what point the learning algorithm can no longer get back to the correct formulation of the problem. Map the boundary between almost-solved and failure to converge, instead of starting from a random point trying to get to almost-solved.
SIGQUIT gives you a core dump which you can peruse / scrape at your leisure.

This is funny because normally I consider core dumps to be a barbaric relic of the card deck days. Core dumps are literally a shadow of what was going on so you have to guess.

In the mid 70s I was debugging crashed processes by attaching to them with all network connections, files etc all open so I could frob them and figure out what was going. Then again, ITS used the a debugger as its "shell" so was ultra hacker friendly. This should still be the default, but most POSIX systems can't even support it.
LLaMa 3 vs. Mistral 7B: A Head-to-Head AI Showdown
> There are plenty of locales in the US where this very much isn't the case.

No there arent. Even NYC is full of SFHs
Sure, that was my takeaway too but my disliked half-arsed quip about graphics fidelity would apply to the 16-bit graphics aspect :)

I remember reading about MSX back in the old days, when I was transitioning from a Spectrum to an Amiga, but I genuinely had no idea how far that ecosystem evolved. A shame for it, and the Amiga, that they shared the same timeline as the in-hindsight-unstoppable MS-DOS PC-Compatible juggernaut... .
> Both tables use id field as their primary keys. Managers are also employees, so the two tables share the ids. Since managers have more attributes, their information is stored in a separate table.

> Now we want to find the total income (including the allowance) of each employee (including every manager).

> A JOIN operation is necessary for SQL to do it:

> SELECT employee.id, employee.name, employy.salary+manager.allowance
> FROM employee
> LEFT JOIN manager ON employee.id=manager.id

> But for two tables having a one-to-one relationship, we can treat them like one table:

> SELECT id,name,salary+allowance
> FROM employee

What about employees who aren't managers? I assume they have no entry in the manager table. The SQL would ignore them, because it's a left join, which is not what was asked for. Does the proposed query do the same?

What happens if there is also

salesperson table
id
allowance

? Which table is joined?

This language seems a little half-baked.
Wealthy boomers control politics and wealthy boomers (mostly - a portion but obviously not all - of the first half of their generation years-wise) own housing. Why would they want to allow their rental incomes to decrease or their home values to decline by allowing new housing to be built? They are the me-me-me generation after all.

Anything they can do to set the future on fire in order to maximize their returns while they live, they will do. Whether that's bail out failing businesses with government-owned debt that future generations (including their grandkids) have to pay back or destroy the planet and environment.

The only solution is to get younger people to vote or to wait for them to die.
> we defeated Germany without nukes

In part by firebombing them indiscriminately. The way we won WWII would later be technically outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.
How the tech industry soured on employee activism
> passionate researchers are ready to go find their next bold research opportunities elsewhere

Not supported by Ilya agreeing with board to fire Sam Altman.

I also think you'll struggle to find a majority of people thinking AI research's "ceiling is proving to be lower than originally hoped", what with 4o, SORA, GPT5 all coming and it's only been 1.5 years since ChatGPT.
This however looks scary so an innocent copy/paste programmer wouldn't touch it.
Not mine, the article mentions subservience.
You mean like how poisoning isn't violence?
two stair egress isn't causing a housing shortage.
https://www.facebook.com/PoetDavidWhyte/posts/ambitionis-a-w...
Somewhere in Arizona
No, clang never had this issue since they bodged it in the front-end. From the post you linked:

> Clang uses the correct alignment only because of a workaround, where the alignment is manually set to 16 bytes before handing the type to LLVM.

Maybe it took long to notice because it was assumed to be working in LLVM since clang worked?
This is really, really cool. This makes me think, "I could probably write a high performance GPU program fairly easily"...a sentence that's never formed in my head.
Congratulations.

I've been saying for years that regulation is written for the wealthy.

Someone who will never be able to afford a home doesn't give a fuck if their wiring has an 0.1% chance of going wrong or if their bedroom has a window or whatever. It's better than a tent or a shitty landlord, and it's how most people lived only a couple of generations ago.
I’d take over regulation every day over unabashed user abuse in the name of free markets.
The kids painting street art have no power to consent or not consent to anything. If they had access to art supplies, a loft, and a gallery, they'd probably use them.
I love having this feature on my blog because it's an unconventional and fun way to add interactivity with readers. The drawing experience is constrained, which invites people quickly produce a sketch and not worry about quality. And there is a text option too.
One factor I’m not seeing mentioned in these replies is the rise of price fixing software meant to maximize profit for landlord companies. Multiple investigations have found the behavior replicated in many cities, with many of these companies being sued.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-introduce-legisl...
Don't think anyone in his position would be too keen on telling since it'd probably spoil the place.
Both of those are at the low end of cooking time * temperature. Mashed potatoes provide essentially zero vitamin C same with many potato soups. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/170699/n...

365 calories of raw potatoes have 155% of your daily vitamin C requirement. A 365 calories serving of French fries has ~9% of your daily vitamin C requirements. Of course the cooking oil is part of that difference, but few cooked foods have much vitamin C. Worse many things like rice, bread, or beer provide none.

So you need some aspect of your diet to be a plentiful supply or take a supplement.
I've been testing OpenAI's new ChatGPT-4o Mac app – this is a game changer
I've seen 'eXcretions' being used, lol
What is the maximum number of videos in a collection that this app can handle?
because the amount of firms who can build timber frame buildings is far far greater than the amount of firms who can build concrete buildings, which leads to more competition and also more housing being constructed.
ego much? if they get hurt, train is delayed, if they don't get hurt, train is delayed. you cannot win.
That's such a common framing.

Green energy sources like wind and solar don't remove emissions. They add less.

> Energy transition aspirations are similar. The goal is powering modernity, not addressing the sixth mass extinction. Sure, it could mitigate the CO2 threat (to modernity), but why does the fox care when its decline ultimately traces primarily to things like deforestation, habitat fragmentation, agricultural runoff, pollution, pesticides, mining, manufacturing, or in short: modernity. Pursuit of a giant energy infrastructure replacement requires tremendous material extraction—directly driving many of these ills—only to then provide the energetic means to keep doing all these same things that abundant evidence warns is a prescription for termination of the community of life.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/03/lets-make-a-deal/
Officially it cannot be called a "geometry" at all if it does not satisfy the other axioms. So it's a "non-Euclidean non-geometry."
It really seems like executives have internally become disillusioned with the AGI fantasy. They’ll keep selling it, of course (although I have noticed quite the drop off in this type of language recently), but they don’t actually believe it any longer.
Ten years ago, I took a course on parallel algorithms (15-210 at CMU). It pitched parallelism as the future of computing as Moore's law would hit inevitable limits. I was sold and I was excited to experiment with it. Unfortunately, there weren't many options for general parallel programming. Even the language we used for class (SML) wasn't parallel (there was a section at the end about using extensions and CUDA but it was limited from what I recall).

Since then, I was able to make some experiments with multithreading (thanks Rust) and getting very creative with shaders (thanks Shadertoy). But a general parallel language on the GPU? I'm super excited to play with this!
This is going to have long-term economic and sociopolitical ramifications, and it's mainly due to the fact that we put the value of equities above all else.

The next generation isn't being born, because their would-be parents are saying "I cannot afford to give my children as good or better of a life than I had". The equities that labor's value is stored in are beyond their reach.

There's really only two ways to deal with this:

1) Get the older generation - the Baby Boomers - to work longer and rely on their stock-based savings less. Given that we've structured our entire society around them getting to retire to Florida for golf and wife-swapping until the dementia sets in, I don't see them being willing to stick around the office longer to produce value for the economy.

2) Import labor through immigration. Given that one candidate for President right now is running on a platform of severely curtailing certain types of immigration, and is doing so successfully, I don't see this being a viable option.
Well, the expanded payload could be signed again, just not with the same key.
24000 Students - 27 Schools (K-12) in my school district.

District hardly approves any apartments/duplex/fourplex/multi-family.

All new builds are 3500-4500 sqft single family home netting $12-15k in property taxes.

State decided to fund charter/private/religious school.
8:30 Pi = 3

9:30 Pi = e

10:30 Pi = Pi/2

11:15 Pi = 0.00001

12:00 Truth table of compiled and playable values
Yes. We moved to a very low COL area to make the most of our resources.

We wouldn’t be nearly as comfortable, but it’s doable.
Imagine a game of Musical Chairs, but...

- at the end of each round, "who gets a chair" is determined by a "rent auction"

- after each round, 2 players and 1 chair are added

- auction losers are sent to the local homeless shelter, freeway overpass, or whatever
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All of the above.

- Prices are determined by comparables. When home owners sell, and can push prices higher, it pushes all possible future prices for all properties nearby higher simultaneously.

- Corporate interests are buying up real estate, and especially rentals. (public and private equity purchases are 6x higher than they were a decade ago here). Higher rental prices encourage people to leave rentals faster, making people more desperate to buy, increasing their willingness to take on more debt.

- (in a few areas) construction is limited and not keeping up with growth. In most of Midwest US, construction outpaces growth, but since prices are determined by comparables, new construction in an area can be priced at top of the market, resetting those comparables higher too. Paradoxically, even though we do need new housing construction to have housing, our financial system is setup such that new housing construction generally raises all prices for all housing on average -- the "more supply" benefits don't really take effect for about 30 years, when they become normal mid-market units.

- In some areas, new Hotels entrants are escaping basic regulation by lying about who they are. (see AirBnB, Vrbo and similar hotel chains). This removes housing supply, and can't be market corrected by other competitive hotels (since they would have to follow basic hotel regulation, but AirBnB and Vrbo are allowed to break the law)

- Unlike in 2008, corporate interests are willing to just eat massive losses to prevent property prices from falling. And the federal government is willing to extend massive amount of lending to them to allow them to do this almost indefinitely. So even in places where there's a massive supply of empty units, those units aren't making it to the market at any reduced prices because it's too affordable to simply sit on them instead and hope they're eventually able to rent out again at ultra-high pricing. I suspect we'll never see a gentle market reset back to real-world-based numbers like we saw in 2008 for that reason.

Any one of those problems would raise property prices for everyone. But we're dealing with all of them, simultaneously.

Something like this https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/01/05/hedge-fund-... would be a gentle start to attempt to address the above problems, but it remains to be seen if they actually get this through.
"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded
Do you really think the fact you found this solution to work means it would work just as well if everyone did it?

A self selecting group of people willing to build their own places taking on their own risks is not a good model for ‘what would happen if we got rid of building and fire codes?’

People who aren’t willing or able to figure out how to build their own house to an adequate safety standard are going to need to rely on being able to do things like buying a house someone else built. Inspection codes protect those people.

And when you factor in people wanting to live in denser groupings like in a town or city… well, how many times did San Francisco burn down before they figured out fire codes?
I would argue that most of the $3-$10 apps in the iOS app store meet this criteria.
That's the main idea!
It was also used for Farsight's tunnelled SIE called NMSG. I wrote a pure python protobuf dissector implementation for use with Scapy (https://scapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html) for dissecting / tasting random protobuf traffic. I packaged it with an NMSG definition (https://github.com/m3047/tahoma_nmsg).

I re-used the dissector for my Dnstap fu, which has since been refactored to a simple composable agent (https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo/tree/master/agents) based on what was originally a demo program (https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo/blob/master/examples/dnst...) because "the people have spoken".

Notice that the demo program (and by extension dnstap_agent) convert protobuf to JSON: the demo program is "dnstap2json". It's puzzlingly shortsighted to me that the BIND implementation is not network aware it only outputs to files or unix sockets.

The moment I start thinking about network traffic / messaging the first question in my mind is "network or application", or "datagram or stream"? DNS data is emblematic of this in the sense that the protocol itself supports both datagrams and streams, recognizing that there are different use cases for distributed key-value store. JSON seems punctuation and metadata-heavy for very large amounts of streaming data, but a lot of use cases for DNS data only need a few fields of the DNS request or response so in practice cherry picking fields to pack into a JSON datagram works for a lot of classes of problems. In my experience protobuf suffers from a lack of "living off the land" options for casual consumption, especially in networked situations.
It's not 90dB, I have one.
What you're seeing are not extraordinarily high interest rates.
He didn't invent his own definition. A drop-in replacement does the exact same thing, as what it would replace in the exact same way.

You however don't seem to understand _why_ backwards compatibility is important, and i would absolutely hate to interface with whatever mess of a software you write.
Completely agree. I think the AGI fantasy that took the world by storm a year and a half ago has died out.

Of course, there are still true believers in these companies. They were true believers years and decades ago. But everyone who was suddenly introduced to the concept is no longer interested as the frictions of real world progress become apparent.
Related previous comment subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134131
Creative writing can be better accomplished with a typewriter. Imagine yourself in a cabin in a forest, with no electricity. That's extreme, but you get the idea.

Also, having a physical copy of your work >feels< safer.
Wikipaedia lists 24 countries amongst the allies. And the war in Europe was mostly piloted from the UK.
Well, you won't hear this from me. Right now, NixOS is probably not worth the time for the vast majority of people. It's hard to quantify because while the benefits of Nix are immensely clear once you have things working, the amount of effort it takes and the complexity you have to deal with to get there is downright insane. It's not that I think other people are simply incapable of understanding it, not at all; I think people are but I'm not sure if everyone who does will be pleased with how they spent their time.

However... There are people among us who don't care about whether something is "worth it" or not. We want a complete, 100% solution to some of our problems. Not a half-measure, not a hack over the top, a from scratch, 100%, complete solution. What NixOS and GuixSD do solve, they solve very, very completely. The problem is that doing it is very hard, and in my experience Nix sometimes makes things much harder and more complex than it necessarily needs to be. Of course, making things as simple as they possibly can be is hard work, and so I don't blame anyone.

A good example of a system where people are clearly unhappy is kernels, the way kernels are built in NixOS is pretty unsatisfying, and the knock-on effects of it can be pretty confusing to new users who wonder why changing which kernel they use makes it so that none of their kernel options are applied anymore. (Silently! No error, just, your kconfig options stop working!)

This is on top of the fact that the community is split on things like flakes, leaving Nix in a bit of a precarious position, where there are multiple solutions to a problem and yes, people don't agree on which one.

And also, it's built on top of functional programming paradigms, which I contend makes a lot of sense when everything clicks, but that's an additional hurdle for the vast majority of people, even programmers.

Even if Nix was as simple as it could be, what it tries to solve is a very wide problem space that is complex by its nature, and it is harder to hide that complexity the way that many Linux systems try to. So, I don't suspect it will be worth it for most people to bother learning Nix. I think that the people who know they want Nix are probably going to figure out it's what they want eventually. There's a type of person who will invest in solar panels happily without caring much about the break-even; I feel like Nix is a bit like that.

So why do people evangelize NixOS so much, when surely they know it's vastly complicated? I can't say for sure, but I can tell you one thing: when NixOS first started to "click" for me, it felt like I was experiencing a future of operating system design that is still years off. Whether Nix is the future, remains to be seen.
I got trolled by that too, I didn't see it was posted by a bot
Doesn’t vs code keep tons of snapshots? There’s a history panel in the lover left corner, which contains both git commits and VS codes own snapshots.
C itself is not that hard to parse. The "lexer hack" thing is a theoretical impurity but it just means you have to add types to a type table -- and probably open and close scopes -- while parsing. The preprocessor though seems to be pretty annoying.

C++ must be comparatively a lot harder to parse -- C++ syntax is a huge amount of complexity added to a system that wasn't designed with that in mind.

That you link "Dangling else" is curious. The wikipedia page talks about "ambiguity" but in my mind it's no different than the ambiguity in "a + b * c", does it mean "(a + b) * c" or "a + (b * c)"? Well, make a choice and write it down.
Scientists may have solved mystery behind Egypt's pyramids
This is concerning to me if Schulmann is in charge of safety now.

He was on the Dwarkesh podcast the other day and Dwarkesh asked him a lot of safety questions. He had very short timelines for superintelligence, and no real answers for any of the safety questions Dwarkesh asked.