skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems fundamentally unfixable with current ORMs. You either have to pick between lazy loading per entity, or eager load and carthesian product everything, which breaks badly if you are dealing with multiple one-to-many relations.

Our solution was to write our own ORM-like system that “remembers” which entities you’ve loaded within the context of the transaction, and then will fetch the relation for all of them. So if you access a1.b then it will also fetch a2.b and cache it if you loaded a2 within that same transaction. The call to a2.b will then resolve instantly. So instead of n queries with n being the number of entities loaded in lazy loading, you’re doing n queries with n being the number of relations touched.

The one bad failure case is if you update entities one-by-one but also accessing their relations in a loop since you invalidate the cache for that entity type on every write.
Could one make it to Earth and impact? The universe is very large, so it's a possibility, but space is very big and very empty, so we'd have to get very very very very unlucky for that to happen. But supernova explosions, pulsars and neutron stars, gamma-Ray bursts, supermassive black holes, and (theoretical) dark matter annihilation could all do it.
If SBF had pleaded out and collaborated with investigators instead of taking the trial option, it's very possible he could have walked away with much less time. An extra 15 years for insisting on his innocence seems reasonable.
At least a sports bet has relatively even odds - I suppose there is some potential near-term upside in meme tokens, but this long tail of cryptos have all odds stacked against you as an investor (insiders, market manipulators, security vulnerabilities, dilution and token unlocks). By gambling on a token like WLD you're betting that it will go up 45X just to breakeven and hoping there's no security incident that drains all the funds in the meantime.
From A Song of Ice and Fire:

```
Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

“So power is a mummer’s trick?”

“A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
```
September-October-November-December: 7-8-9-10

And July used to be Quintilis (5) and August was Sextilis (6), but then Julius Cesar and Emperor Augustus came.. and got their own month names.
This account is quite believable. It follows a pattern of unethical behavior from Altman.

In his latest unethical binge, he illegally used Scarlett Johansson's voice and likeliness for the latest ChatGPT version with speech output. [1] His timed-announcement tweet, "Her", is quite self-incriminating. [2]

Remember: inductive logic is a valuable tool for discovering truth.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johanss...

[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666
I don't understand the paper. It doesn't seem to be written very well. Are they replacing a low-rank adaptation with a banded matrix? And what is the point of the rotations?
New Report Warns of LLM-Enhanced Cyber Threats: Polymorphic Malware, Customer
The general public was harrassed by law enforcement due to the policies based on pseudoscience. Playing my nano violin.
It's very unusual to vote to fire a CEO without all members being present. Doing so made it seem like they were stabbing him in the back
When executives are in broadcast mode, their delivery is tweaked for emotional impact on the listeners. They try to inspire, motivate and get their points across using concepts well understood by their audience.

If a leader’s speech is coming off as too corporate and hand-wavy, they have failed to read their audience and adapt their messaging to its level.
People are attacking the CSIRO, Australia's public science body, over their recent report stating nuclear power in Australia made no economic or evironmental sense .. nothing could come online prior to 2040 and in the meantime there were better things to do with that money in the near term to mitigate costs of energy and climate effects, etc.

Further to the point, attacking all sciences and suggesting research papers are no better than toilet paper churned out from an AI factory serves the ends of all those that have a grievance wrt vaccines, climate, energy, etc.
It would be more interesting and true if they'd chosen to invert the first half of the sentence. Like:

"If you're happy here and now, just remember you won't be in the future."

That's one I could get behind.
That's not how the law works. The threat needs to be imminent or a call to action, it needs to not be a parody, the person making it needs to reasonably be able to carry it out. The USA isn't like countries that have strict controls on speech, such as Germany or China. We have a very high bar to infringing on the right to free expression.
I have witnessed at least one board that was made up of friends of the founder. A doe-eyed rubber stamp brigade. This was enough to fool some serious investors into parking their money there. Of course, they eventually realized what was going on and launched an all out offensive to affect change. (They didn't get anywhere despite owning 15%.) I know this because the investors published a website where they detailed the situation.
Very good data point for the folks wondering if it's detecting the period of wow or scratches -- this likely proves that it's not (unless it can adapt to all common RPMs, but then it would show that).

frequencySkew from ShazamKit, as mentioned elsewhere here, is my guess.
That makes sense. Refinancing is essentially that.
Out of curiosity, what was the trigger for the heart attack? I see you enjoyed your work, so I wonder if the stresses were beyond that? Or was it a diet/lifestyle issue?
Based on your reply here, I think we have different definition of AGI/ASI.

AGI = Can do anything any human can.

ASI = AGI has iterated on itself, creating a version of AI that is better than any humans could do together.

> I don't even think anyone has proven that an LLM can make one unsupervised.

Is unrelated because current LLMs are not AGI or ASI.

> Unlikely to infeasible; if you've spent enough time on Shodan it becomes quickly apparent there is not much meaningfully powerful unsecured compute. I would only concede that meaningful compute can be bought.

Depends on what you mean by "meaningful". Initially just one box would be enough for escaping. The idea would be to get away from the initial, original box, to perform suspicious actions unnoticed. It should be possible to get at least some compute even without hacking a box, but just using some random SaaS providers that will allow a trial user for whatever reason to execute arbitrary code in a sandbox environment (but still connected to the Internet).

> which I have never seen AI create

Because currently there's no AGI/ASI.

If you have to imagine ASI, it would be you take a group of 1,000 most performant people in various categories in the World. Then you add the ability to take their mental capacity, but make it 100x faster. E.g. what it would take one person to solve 100h, it would take 1h for the AI. Then in addition to that you make all of it clonable. So if we have the 1000 geniuses, you will be able to make them 10,000,000 where each is dealing with different things. That's ASI.

I don't have more time right now to write the full response, but the main thing is, we need to align on definition of AGI and ASI.
aka poorly thought-through dog's dinner of a language now presents all kinds of issues when trying to add modern features.
I think the correspondent takes issue with the 4th paragraph in your post describing alpha and beta decay; specifically your calling U-234 "much more stable" than U-238. I don't know if "more stable"/"less radioactive" denotes a slower rate of decay, less energy released, or is based on some other metric, but the perceived error seems to hinge on the half-life of U-234 precluding it from being considered "more stable" than the much longer-lived U-238.

As I don't know if that's what a degree of stability in an isotope would refer to I don't take a position, but simply offer a hopefully less confused reading of the exchange y'all are having. I enjoyed reading your posts and found them very approachable.
The method of loci is pretty good. Check out the book Moonwalking with Einstein if you want to learn more about the various tricks top memory champions use.
You clearly never had a stalker. Someone sending a stalker or ten to your doorstep is worse.
I can't afford to have an H100 at home.
Taking relaxed, full (as in makes your entire ribcage expand) breaths is super relaxing, activating the parasympathetic nervous system. But previously whenever I tried to take a relaxed breath, either all the air would fill the bottom of my lungs making only my belly expand, or I'd use my intercostal muscles to expand my mid and upper ribcage, but that wasn't super relaxing.

If you breathe first allowing the lower lobes of your lungs to fill so your belly expands a bit, but then draw the transverse abdominis below the navel back to the spine, you can continue to inhale but the breath will cause the ribcage to expand from bottom to top as well (and the abdomen above the navel will expand too).

Since you're not using the intercostal muscles it's very relaxing. It also allows the breath to expand in all directions, including at the back. The diaphragm then applies a gentle pressure to the adrenals.

I recommend reading the book for more info. It makes breathing so pleasurable you just want to keep doing it.
> I'm worried that somebody will see my code

But you're not worried that HN folks might run the app through a decompiler and find something approximately as revealing as your source code would be? The results might not be ideal depending on how much obfuscation you use, but I think it would be enough for someone to get the gist of how to replicate.
Hey, the medium is the message.
No, there's a group that truly believes that AI progress will inevitably end up creating an omnipotent God. And that if we're not careful enough, that newly created God will be evil.
Also, while not explicit in the article (which is mostly focused on hard biology), lumping all hardnesses of "scientist" together is a problem in general. Additionally, many claims that appear "hard" are actually pretty weak (sample size, etc.), even without outright fraud.

To pick a uncontroversial example: scientists have made all sorts of false claims about food/diet in the last 50 years, and their retracted imperatives have taught people to reject listening to them. Since "scientist" (and "doctor", "professor") are the major terms that people think of, that distrust then spreads across to other fields.
Because property taxes are one step removed from builder incentives. Better to directly adjust builder housing price choices, at least for intents of building less luxury housing.
Bash Script to monitor live file changes in a directory in color
Savvy – Create, Share and Run Runbooks from Your Terminal
Well, considering everything outside/before whisper would be less than a 40% accurate on my voice (don’t know the reason and now whisper is close to 100% even with tech stuff/abbreviations). Things like Siri, Google, Alexa, Dragon etc all never understand (I stopped trying, so it might have improved, but I did try not long ago) anything I say. When I ask for the weather, something like Siri looks on Google what the border is etc. I am not native english, however I am fluent (work in English fulltime) and humans never have any issues; also, in my own language, none of them work either, except whisper, even locally running (which, like said, might’ve improved recently).

So it would be interesting to hear how articulated you would need to speak and have different people with accents and such.
The cypherpunk ideal of "you can't stop us in the digital world, so don't even bother trying" which runs up hard against the hard problem of yanks power cable.
Interesting! It’s always good to see more pathways for CO2 consumption being made feasible. I’m generally skeptical of carbon capture and storage’s short term utility in mitigating anthropogenic climate change due to the present challenge of finding viable sequestering pathways - but every publication like this at least potentially opens up one more such route.

For context, post-combustion capture at a point source (eg a natural gas power plant) is actually quite effective (80% of the emissions being captured is comfortably within our technological capabilities) but what you do with the carbon afterwards is the tricky question. Some of the main options are using it for enhanced oil and gas recovery (yuck), injecting it deep underground to then mineralize (which sounds great but requires fairly specific geological formations), or consuming it as part of a variety of chemical processes for creating value added products (as discussed in the linked post).

One of the main challenges with the electrochemical synthesis of value-added products is that… well, they require electricity! So depending on the energy conversion efficiency of the process and how clean the source grid is, you may actually end up with even more emissions! Ethylene has a much larger global market than other targets (formic acid, ethanol, CO), but is much harder to actually end up with net negative emissions due to the higher energy requirements. See De Luna et al., Science 364, 350 (2019) for more info. Still, if we can get ethylene synthesis from CO2 more efficient, it becomes a much more promising sequestering pathway, so this is a cool post!

Even if we reach sufficient carbon-free grid capacity to meet all demand and can then start turning to direct air capture to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere using incredibly energy intensive direct air capture, we will still need somewhere to put that CO2!
Ask HN: What are the best ways to increase tech capability over time?
How do you go about pushing the edge of a company or organization's abilities further - especially when the next jump is a big one and failure is expensive?
How do you consolidate organizational capabilities so they don't disappear the minute a particular engineer moves on to his next job?

How do you raise the waterline of what your people are capable of?
Silicon Beach software was pretty much the premier Mac game company.

But I think the comment is about the game “Black and White,” which is, if I recall, one of the popular god-games of the era.
It's a shame that this article decided to focus so heavily on Peter Hotez. While I would never advocate for, or defend the people who are threatening the man, Hotez' actions both before and during the pandemic were questionable, at best.

For those who do not know, Peter Hotez has been a staunch defender the EcoHealth Alliance, which recently had its funding pulled by congress in a bi-partisan response to ongoing revelations about mismanagement and lack of oversight of grants related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology [1]. Hotez has been on many threads (for example [2]) in recent releases of emails related to EcoHealth, where government officials were caught attempting to dodge FOIA [3, 4].

Again, I don't support threats or violence, but Hotez is not above the fray. He is not merely an innocent, naïve scientist, targeted unfairly for his research. He was intimately involved in an emerging scientific / political scandal related to the Covid-19 pandemic at the highest levels of the US government.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-officials-su...

[2] https://x.com/emilyakopp/status/1788283704432844926

[3] https://x.com/COVIDSelect/status/1794811284652753280

[4] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nih-foia-covid-ori...
I, for one, don’t trust it one bit.
Long development cycles at Airtable, Figma and Notion (2-3 years to launch)
It took each of the companies mentioned 2-3 years to publicly launch. This seems a little bit contrarian vs. the "lean startup", "ship an MVP you're embarrassed about", etc mantra.

However, I'm curious if anyone has more insight into this. Perhaps each of the companies were working closely with early customers in private beta and thus had ample feedback and still able to iterate quickly based on actual user feedback, or something of that nature?
Hey, the customer is always right.....
Comparing Heights
So you can use it to conduct illegal cross border money transfers... of course most cryptos aren't anonymous and even those are you still need to transfer it to a local currency etc. for that functionality to be useful.
First glance at that website https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ and I find this:

"September 2014
They will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the wheel] in a six-year time frame"

Which you can mostly write off with this data https://electrek.co/2024/05/22/tesla-finally-releases-autopi...

So maybe FSD isn't complete, but Tesla Autopilot has made a measurable improvement to fatalities and injuries on roads. The data shows this clearly.
Deeeeaaath.
Not talking about OpenAI, but in general. I wouldn't know what is happening in the OpenAI's case, I just don't have the information.

I just don't like the idea of some group of people having superior power of not being questioned about their ethics (the board in this case). Just sounds a bit cultish to imagine boards to always wield these kind intentions.
Did you read the article which points out specifically that he is financially incentivized?
My brother, have you heard of HBAR?

Hedera is the way.
Just to tap the brakes for anyone wanting to take your analogy too far: a lot of objections about GMO in general are about the accelerated rate at which the changes can be made, relative to traditional methods (such as breeding). The worry is that we might be introducing altered genomes at a rate faster than we can observe and understand the downstream impacts.

So in those arguments (which are the majority, in GMO debates I've encountered), it's not about the knife being too dull, but being too sharp.
Hard to argue against this.
Do this for every capitalist organization you depend on. Fork the organization's entire operation into a free automated software library. This transforms the org's capital investment into a zero cost production multiplier, delivering value while eliminating the need for capital and intellectual property.
I think they are all part of a PR plot to create the biggest soap drama in tech
Being skeptical about various possibly biased stories from involved parties would mean not accepting any as true. Where is the conclusion? The burden of proof is usually on the person who brings a claim in a dispute. In contrast, the assumption of guilt based on the statement of an ex-board member is a conclusion.
She got her PhD in 1999, shortly after the birth of the kid who just finished his first year of grad school.

Sure, you're working, I totally get that. But you're also sometimes reading about stuff relevant to your eventual academic interests, if only articles you see on HNN or whatever. Sometimes you'll have a thought in the car. Develop the habit of journaling them when they come, in some place you won't lose over the intervening years.

You will be astonished at what you both do and don't retain over those years. It's mostly still down in there somewhere, but if you've got a few clues to unravel the threads, it'll help more than you think now.
Yes, it was the same with FTX and in both cases it turns out it was probably the CEO being in bed with regulators.
The inference that an out of court settlement instead of trial by jury means an unjust outcome is an oversimplification at best.
There’s a word for being adept at “hacking” people and institutions, and it’s called being manipulative. It’s a dark triad sociopathic trait.
What has happened to people that even on HN a good number of the comments here are sympathetic towards harassing academics because they say something you don't agree with?

Even in cases where scientists might be making a controversial (to some) statement with a bit too much assuredness (scientists are not beyond the occasional hubris now and then), my experience, having worked with many of them, is that the are rarely if ever acting in bad faith.

There's comments here actively accusing these people of non-nonchalantly and intentionally lying to the public. I'm sorry but this is simply paranoid thinking no matter your view point. There are plenty of academics and scientists whose beliefs I loath, but I have never seriously entertained the thought that these opinions originating from a position of malice.

I only comment about this because it's a bit concerning to me how wide spread this type of irrational paranoia has become. And, to be clear, I'm not attacking people's beliefs to be too "far out there". History has shown enough that strange beliefs can often turn out more correct then not. It's the rage towards people who have dedicated their lives to studying a subject holding a different view that I find concerning.
It really is relevant when the claim was >They have the best self driving of any company in the world.
I didn't downvote, only replied.

CogAgent is also CogVLM modified to handle documents and larger images. CogVLM is better for VQA.
Or they didn’t understand the game they were playing… sounds like a perfectly mixed metaphor to me.
My apologies. I swear I saw Elon Musk give a talk where he said it was possible. Maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else.
Not all "harassment" is death threats though - much of it is not a crime (just emotionally draining) even if taken at face value. In fact, it is very common for "I disagree" to be treated as harassment these days.

I do think that actual death threats should always be treated as legitimate threats, though.
I love how you quote that, but not other lines like:

"We first document that 90% of
transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful
activities".

How much of the actually meaningful use is legal? E.g. buying good and services, not evading laws, regulations, sales taxes etc.
> Almost the entire company was threatening to quit.

This is the part that perplexes me. A CEO being fired is not an unusual occurrence. What about Sam Altman led such a huge number of employees to threaten to follow him out the door? Was it that the board's actions were viewed as internally unjust? Was it Altman's power of persuasion? Was/is Altman viewed by the staff as bringing something irreplaceable to the table in terms of talent, skill or ability?
> the problem for a feed reader is that it can't know when the author publishes new posts.

It can certainly guess, based on that retry-after header, that she doesn't post more than once a day, and should respect that.
What's stopping the MITM just copying that header?
It looks like he made a bunch of people dance, not just Google...
I think what happened is OpenAI was probably going to easily defend themselves from this suit until Altman tweeted about it. It seems like the company didn't really do anything wrong (in this case) but that tweet is actually going to give ScarJo the legal standing she needs to move forward and even win.

It feels like leadership class in the valley is totally clueless sometimes.
Any time you use the word someone will say you used it wrong. It's no win.
Thanks, exactly I was looking for. I knew there had to be some kind of community around it, but didn't know where to find it.
> But you will end up with different divisions trying to solve the same problems in ways that either confound each other or the customer.

That's the tradeoff.

You either allow teams to work independently and lose some efficiency through work duplication. Or, you centralize the work and you lose efficiency through centralized bottlenecks.

For small to medium orgs the centralized approach works better. But as the org grows, the bottlenecks become worse and you're forced to switch to the independent approach which is more scalable.