skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but you can't. you can't send Bitcoin or Eth around the world for "next to nothing" today. not in a reasonable time frame. and that isn't accounting at all for the massive power wastage in the Bitcoin case.
Colorado first state to pass legislation tackling AI bias in pivotal decisions
Would be cute to integrate this with streaming output, so I could tail a log file and have it appear like this (or stream an LLM output, maybe).
There is an easy path the institutions can take to depoliticise science - spend more time talking about the importance of liberty and letting people make their own choices. I can see how scientists would be getting a lot of abuse at the moment, because they failed to get the message out that they didn't support the upswing of authoritarianism during COVID. I can appreciate the difficulties they faced, the authoritarians were organised and had one of their favourite opportunities - mass fear - in play.

It is still bad to harass scientists. It shows a lack of thoughtfulness about where the problem is coming form.
Is this related to those recently released emails?
I agree but this is an ideal notion. Boards are very often stacked or highly disfunctional either on purpose or by accident. Sometimes the board is just a front for a founder that wittingly or unwittingly serves to help dupe investors or other stakeholders.

The government doesn't hold boards to any standard. It's a free-for-all.

Sometimes they are owners, other times they are the ones being duped into rubber stamping and legitimizing criminals.
They’re on their way up, way higher than 7%. If we’re headed into stagflation, which it looks like we are, they’ll probably be above 17% we had last time because back then we didn’t have $35T in debt, did not pay $1.7T in interest (which is what it’ll be next year) and did not add $2.5T in debt per year.
> She said, "We were very careful, very deliberate about who we told, which was essentially almost no one in advance, other than obviously our legal team and so that's kind of what took us to to November 17."

Did they not at least have a briefing packet or something prepared to give to major investors (ie, Microsoft) day-of if they were so worried about leaks that they couldn't get the major investors (ie, their own bosses) on board ahead of time?
oh sure, crypto is an entirely benevolent effort to feed the starving around the world
Okay, but let's imagine, the board wants to detonate a nuclear bomb. You think it's not a great idea, because it might cause a lot of deaths. You are not seeing a way to convince them in other ways, however you do see a way where you can lie to them, to keep them from that idea and therefore saving many lives and possibly the World from assured mutual destruction. Would that be unethical? Would that be psychopathy?
Thanks! I actually hear similar feedback regularly. Maybe it's about time I should take it more seriously. But I can't agree with the statement that the cannon already exists. The idea behind the site is not to reinvent all knowledge, but to assemble some of it into solving everyday problems. I can relatively easily find answers to some low-level questions which were studied by philosophers, but actually struggle to find similar quality material on higher-level questions, which are the ones I'm facing more often in day-to-day life.

E.g. if you think about the recently-trendy problems of "free speech vs platform moderation", or "privacy vs security vs comfort", or "political correctness vs truth" - I struggle to find comprehensive answers, but if you could point me to such places I'd be grateful. There are of course plenty of interesting reads, Hacker News being an aggregator of lots of them, but it's difficult to find one which takes the arguments and provides some reasoning on where they stem from rather than finishing on something like "obviously privacy is important", "free speech, because of freedom", or "moderation, because hate speech is harmful".

Also, we've tried to spend our youth energy on a few different things already, this is one more experiment, don't worry, we have lives. In fact, I try to follow what is preached in the article and engaging in this project falls into the category of "personal mission".

(But you're right that there is some Polish element to it, mum's the word...)
I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong... there are certain things where a website should just be dead simple. I built a site for my mechanic, in trade for work on my car. It's like three static pages. Just something to backstop a link on Yelp and Google Maps.

I said simple websites are a dead letter, because it's no longer the 1990s. There's no cachet in them. The web is littered with simple sites that don't rank and no one ever visits. Then the owners think 'maybe I should hire SEO' or 'add a blog' and the question is "wait you built me this site, why can't you just do that for $500"? And that's why I just refer clients like that to someone who does Wordpress now. I have no interest in learning the giant pile of PHP sludge that is WP for projects that barely pay. I hardly build websites at all anymore unless they're SPAs, and only if it's functionality that can't be done with off the shelf frameworks.

To the sibling who said I'm doing this to justify being a freelancer - quite the opposite. I'm telling potential clients of a cheaper way to get what they want, and turning away work that I know is a pointless headache.
Now build express BART trains out there to make it more feasible for more people to commute, and build densely at the stops along the way.

Sad to think the obvious solutions can’t happen in the SF Bay Area due to its politics.
Fluid dynamics were mentioned as one of the fields without further elaboration. What is political or inflammatory about that, even from the standards of deranged loons? Or maybe that is a case of a call coming from inside the house, toxic academic politics.
The whole saga is an interesting case study for theoretical versus real power.

On paper the board has the power and it’s their job to monitor and hire/fire the execs. But they’re dependent on the execs for info. Also having one investor own half, plus the founders guiding the roadmap and having sway over key hires leaving is where the real power is…
Did the delta show up on the strobe? Or is issue that the quartz is off and it’s feeding both the motor and the strobe? (Sorry if this is a dumb question. I don’t recall seeing speed calibration in the mk2 manual when I was setting up my secondhand decks)
I think those are called career coaches.

They don't actually do this I believe, but they totally should. Canary various strategies and see which pay off.
Internet threats should be considered as assault, harassment, libel, and defamation just like if the same threat was said in person.

It's time that we quit thinking that just because something is "online" it isn't harmful.

If anything, threats over the internet should be considered more dangerous as the reach is larger and you are more likely to attract people who are genuinely deranged along with the attendant increased risk of violence.
wash trading is rampant https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-12/wash-trad...
WHO Member States agree on way forward to conclude IHR and Pandemic Agreement
I used Temu once. My order had two packages. One package never arrived. Temu support was unwilling to refund and could not tell me where that package was. They said it shipped and would be arriving "soon." Months later, it is still "soon." It's either willful fraud or willful negligence.

re: stickiness -- This is undoubtably because they hyper-gamify the shopping experience with fake "deals" you can "win." It looks like you get a random deal / discount with a wheel-of-fortune like thing. I don't believe this is actually random in any faithful sense of the word. However, it does feel like you're special. I'm not surprised that this gimmick works on a large swath of the population. Particularly, as this report cites, Boomers, who yearn for the yesteryear when they were the special ones.
Hash Collisions: How Large Is a 160 Bit Number?
US dollars are backed by the US economy and military
Yes. In a single comment that wasn't followed up with more explanation going on a tangent about how the Live Tile APIs will probably be around for a long time so go ahead and develop on them. He wasn't the kind of employee to speak as to such massive trends and make official statements of the future development of Windows overall. Everyone taking this as some statement of absolute fact just ran with that without even wondering what that meant or if the one employee might have been misinformed.

There's 300,000 employees at Microsoft. You think they're all on the same page of everything all the time? This employee wasn't there to speak about the future of Windows, just to showcase how to use the new functionality of Live Tiles. It wasn't some big meeting about the future of Windows by any measure.
Are you thinking of the one shown in Jurassic park? The scene in hackers was much more CGI, and while I don't doubt it was inspired by fsn, I'd be very surprised if it actually was fsn.
Same here, so I was scratching my head about the need for this. For the turntables that for some reason didn't have this (one example would be one I built myself) you could get cheap strobe discs which you just put on the turntable, kind of like a tiny record.. start the turntable, and you would immediately see if it was in sync with (in this case) 50Hz.
Do you think that OpenAI is somehow on the same level of importance as "the survival of the entire universe" or "[detonating] a nuclear bomb"? I'm trying to understand why you're comparing this scenario to things of that magnitude. Seems like one hell of a gigantic stretch.
Time to dust off OS-9 (MicroWare, not Apple) and give it a try on this thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9
This is a good question. If we could estimate it, we would compensate managers based on marginal productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_revenue_productivity_...
So in the 40 or so years since 1981, has that blue collar job's output as a percentage of global GDP increased, decreased, or remained the same?

I would argue that the same blue collar job might've been reduced as a percentage of global output, which means the value creation is lower, and thus, the 12x salary for a house might be justified.
People are always pushed out after a failed coup attempt. It signifies the end of a working trust relationship. The fact that they were pushed out afterwards does not provide evidence for whether their reasons were good ones.
Im guessing you are not a fan of this work
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content
I'm not sure what to hope, but all of it does rely on the assumption that AGI/ASI or is possible, so we can still hope it's not a near future thing.
Well Israel has enough merits to back them considering what they're surrounded by. But that has limits.

The Israeli Palestinian problem is complicated going back to WWI as one starting point.

And from time to time I get extremely tired of both sides whining about how they're victims. Similarly, I wish she US would be done with the middle east and focus on china/Russia. I'm tired of us wasting resources there.

At this point we all know what needs to happen. Isreal needs to empty its settlements; then two state solution where both sides mind their own business. Palestine, if they want control will also have commensurate accountability. So whether by action or inaction if hamas/iran/hezbolh screw stuff up, Palestine will be accountable. They're going to have to actually want to run it instead of being a pawn or playing short-termism footsies with terrorists.

We have less leverage on hamas, and more on Isreal. But Isreal doesn't want a two state solution now. That's also a problem.
Sorry about that, there is no excuse, we only need a bit more time to make it properly static. In the meantime I'm happy to PM you the text if you're interested.
If your fiduciary duty is to "humanity" or whatever this board's is/was, then it could make sense to conclude that duty is better fulfilled by keeping Altman under your watch, even with your powers much diminished, than by letting him go to Microsoft.
Although I'm skeptical of a watershed moment of agi going avry, I think a more realistic and dangerous scenario would be that AI impacts society similar to how smartphones did in its negative ways.

Many AI models slowly eroding society, worsening people's behavior, very indirectly without anyone taking notice.

Or maybe this is just me thinking about how, when I get older, I'll tell people that the old times were better. :-)
If everyone still wanted a Tesla how does that explain the price cuts recently? That goes against typical market dynamics.
> I don't know why Microsoft and others made a huge kerfuffle over it.

Microsoft needs the sold-out version of OpenAI so they can make as much money as possible without anyone making pesky noises about ethics and safety.
What is the main difference between this and an abstraction wrapper around an S3 library?
It usually eventually gets ownership transferred to some big company and they just stuff the IP in a drawer and forget about it.

I was at a game company that got acquired, there were various game IPs that were part of that. The acquirer was interested in only a few of them, but they would get all as part of the deal. I inquired as to whether they would be interested in letting me buy one of the IPs that they didn't care about, and was told unless I made a 6 figure offer it wasn't even worth it for them to get the lawyers involved to consider it. Needless to say I didn't do that and the IP involved (and the related source code) is now locked away forever, not even sure who owns it now.
About 10 years ago, I used a basic flip phone, vendor locked to a $15/month Verizon plan.

The Wal Mart page for a similar device is still up at

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Verizon-Wireless-Samsung-Gusto-3-...

Among other things, it had limited speech recognition -- you could say "Call" followed by a name, and it would match that against the address book on device.

We live in strange times.
> But the subtler truth seems to be that finances, family, and social fitness are three prongs in a happiness trinity. They rise together and fall together.

I don't think all three necessarily rise and fall together. You can be filthy rich and have a terrible family or social life.

I think the 'subtler truth' is that financial stress harms family and social life and you could argue financial stress is the biggest thief when it comes to happiness. Assuming 'finances, family and social fitness' are the three prongs of happiness trinity.
I love this. The terminal performance though is a bit rough...
“This is a very powerful adversarial force that is seeking to undermine science, and now it’s not only going after the science. It’s going after the scientists,” he says.

It's not appropriate to use the word "science" here.

People aren't attacking Geologists nor is there is an uprising against Quantum Physicists. It's the ones who lied to the public and pushed for mandates and heavy-handed lockdowns that negatively impacted the economy and caused a great deal of harm. Those scientists will need to work a bit harder if they expect to regain the public trust.
This view is straight up outdated. Online harassment is no longer just contained to nerds sending each other death threats on forums. It's _just_ harassment, and ought to be treated exactly the same as harassing someone in person with attached legal consequences.
"Be specific" sounds like a high-stakes interview, so I'd better answer. :)

* SITUATION: Factory reports MVP factory stations for pilot customer "not turning on" for the day, reason unknown.

* TASK: Get stations up in time for production line, so startup doesn't go out of business.

* ACTION: Determined cause was unexplained networking problem outside our control, and that was triggering some startup time checks. But that the stations were resilient enough that I could carefully edit the code on the stations to relax some timeouts, and enough packets were getting through that we might be able to operate anyway. After that worked for one station, carefully changed the remaining ones.

* RESULT: Factory stations worked for that production day, and our startup was therefore still in business. We were later advised of the submarine cable failure, and the factory acknowledged connectivity problems. Our internal post mortem discussions included why the newer boot code hadn't been installed, and revisiting backup connectivity options. From there, thanks to various early-startup engineering magic, and an exciting mix of good and bad luck, we eventually finished a year contract in a high-quality brand's factory production line successfully.

No technical wizardry in the immediate story, but a lot of various smart things we'd done proactively (including triaging what we did and didn't spend precious overextended time on), plus some luck (and of course the fact that some Internet infrastructure heroes' work had them routing any packets at all)... all came together... and got us through a freak failure of a submarine cable we'd never heard of, which could've ended our startup right there.

(Details on Action, IIRC: Assumed command of the incident, and activated Astronaut Mode manner. Attempted to remote access, and found network very poor. Alerted factory of network problem in their connectivity to AWS Singapore, but they initially thought there was no problem. Could tell there was some very spotty connectivity problems (probably including using `mtr-tiny`), so focused troubleshooting stations on that assumption. Realized how the station would behave in this situation, and that the boot-ish checks for various network connectivity were probably timing out. Or, less likely, there could be a bug in handling the exceptional situation. Investigating, very slowly due to poor Internet, found that the stations didn't have the current version of the boot code, which would've reported diagnostics better on the station display, so factory personnel might see it and tell us. Using `vi`, made careful, minimal changes to the timeouts directly on one station, in the old version of the the code on there (in either Python or Bash; I forget). Restarted station, and it worked. Carefully did the same to the other stations. Everything worked, and other parts of the station software had been done smart enough that they could cope with the production day's demands. Despite the poor connectivity, and the need to do network requests for each production item that passed through the station, before it could move on.)
Positional- vs relational power, to be more accurate.
Yeah, Java did win but c/c++ didn’t die and I just liked them better. And seemed you could’ve made a good sandwich for the past 25 years with CL as well. But yeah, the path I chose was probably the best for the time. Allowing me to retire before 30 (but didn’t).

COM I missed completely: we drank the Windows hatred koolaid popular in some circles back then too (Borg Gates etc), management I did for a bit thinking I would like it; I didn’t.
So this is a piece of software that spams women's accounts on instagram? How is this not just automated harassment?

Also, this is such obvious bullshit, come on. You can't guarantee that.

> We guarantee you that your account will not be banned for using the bot as the AI mimics human behavior to a tee.
Heat is a fluid, the atmosphere is a gas, which is fluid.

Might sound odd but from the PoV of the primary equations it checks out.

Can you think of any reasons there might be parties intent on discrediting or harrassing scientists that work in numeric fluid dynamic models of heat in the atmosphere?
This doesn't make any sense, it's attempting to carve out imaginary middle ground where there is none. Who reviews the "formal complaints" a director files about a CEO? Where have you ever worked that HR takes "formal complaints" about vaguely unethical behavior seriously? You want to pretend it was some huge surprise delivered to Sam without warning, for power's sake, because then there is middle ground. That wasn't the case.
You know most of the time, squatters don't hurt anyone, don't make noise as its often an industrial building that's squatted, and are pretty nice communities to live in (there is an alcohol and unprotected sex issue though). Medium to large communities (often once you have children) can be problematic but it isn't the majority in western countries.
If I had a nickel for every outrageous "matches/beats GPT-x" claim, I'd have more money than the capital these projects raise from VC.

This absolutely is not the first Llama3 vision model. They even quote it's performance compared to Llava. Hard to take anything they say seriously with such obviously false claims
Out of curiosity, what do you use to generate PDF invoices? I run into this problem occasionally and I'm still using a really ancient encoder.
About 35 years ago, I did some embedded development on a 68k platform running OS-9 (ported to 68k from 6809). I was really impressed with the POSIX-like environment, but thoroughly disgusted with the very poor documentation. I found that I had to write a lot of stub code to fully determine and understand the behavior of the system calls.

This was after I had purchased and fully digested the only documentation I could find: "OS-9 Insights"

https://www.amazon.com/OS-9-insights-advanced-programmers-gu...
> “Decel” is used as a dismissive term for tech doomsayers by those who see themselves as members of the burgeoning E/Acc community. [... Who have] the belief that in our current technological age, the powers of innovation and capitalism should be exploited to their extremes to drive radical social change - even at the cost of today’s social order.

I'm sure that--in practice--there will be extremely strong correlation to social-order changes that leave the C-suite richer than before. :p
Quite a damning interview for Altman. It would have really helped their position if this was all stated in writing for the initial reason for dismissal instead of the ambiguous verbiage they decided to use at the time.
It was both, like it usually is. All that investigating and reverse engineering would have been for nought if the program didn't have the problems in the first place. Hard work is often how you capitalize on luck. Sometimes the work is enough by itself, and sometimes it's not and the luck is integral.
They just folded. They were not the right people for the task. They would have prevailed with a bit more persistence and better PR.
Good point. So maybe the answer is some sort of quid pro quo. You're forcing me to give up driving myself? I'm forcing you, the government (through voting; cue laughter from the cynical gallery), to restrict what you're able to do to self-driving cars (need a warrant to force-stop, no en-masse disabling, etc.). I say that with a US-centric viewpoint, of course, because there's zero chance countless countries around the world be sensitive to their citizens' objections (questionable in the US as well of course, but not out of the question).
If you open up salesforce you have all these resource types and pages, but it's all fully customizable. There's a built-in programming language with many affordances to work in a dynamic environment (stuff like handling API changes), and you're basically able to point at a thing and get a breakdown of what it's like.

On top of this third party developers can build in stuff that is more or less first class to the system, and it can run on the third party systems but you can get away with using Salesforce's "compute". So you're shipping software for the Salesforce VM, so to speak.

I would recommend playing around with the system to see what's going on.
They should have called their bluff.
> It is why OpenAI is worth ~80 billion dollars.

Worth to who?
Yes. It's super common for SaaS companies that are <1% the size of Google to have infrastructure in multiple regions.