skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI research has mostly progressed when there’s been enough processing power to avoid needing to use the old style of hacks rather than any sort of generalization going on.

AlphaZero vs Stockfish wasn’t some outgrowth of existing methods. They basically throw the old style away and started over.

Object recognition, LLM’s etc all involved throwing what used to be unimaginable levels of data and compute at a problem that “suddenly” worked. Not saying the people at OpenAI aren’t clever, but instead that it wouldn’t have worked in 2000.
fwiw I totally understand the sentiment! it's actually a bit sad to me that so much of our content is moving from the shared, open web to platforms like twitter, unfortunately there seems to be too much value add around built-in discoverability, comments, ease of authoring, for many people revenue sharing, etc.
You may like the style of books written by the ARRL for ham radio operators. Here is a link:
https://www.arrl.org/9
The DX is very natural. It lacks certain important features but I guess it will get there.
They made the right choice by firing him, and the wrong choice by reinstating him. If firing him had blown up OpenAI, that would have been better than leaving him in charge.
Worked for me when I've used it in Firefox. What isn't working?
Telling almost no one in advance was intended to protect the board from Altman's interference but put them in an indefensible situation. Alone against very rich, well connected people, without even a narrative to offer.
If enough people make the wrong choice they may well come out on top, at least temporarily.
I think you are right, It is not the completely same.
I think killing yourself takes either more cowardliness or courage, depending on the situation, than perhaps she could muster.

Dying on your couch, through lethal injection, at the age of 29, in a perfectly healthy physical body, while your loved ones look on, is in my mind the sign of a weak and forgettable person. Live meekly, I guess.
It is fallacious to suggest that in order to have generic iteration that supports non-list objects, we must abandon the classic list processing functions and give them alternative names and behaviors.

In the TXR Lisp dialect, classic functions like mapcar iterate over nonlists, without losing a shred of backward compatibility over lists.

For instance, we can iterate starting from an integer, in parallel with iterating over a list:

1> (mapcar 'cons '(a b c) 0)
((a . 0) (b . 1) (c . 2))

What we do is pattern the iteration abstraction after the car/cdr model, so that car/cdr iteration falls out as a straightforward special case.

To do this we define an iteration API with four operations:

iter-begin: construct the iterator from the sequence object
iter-more: test the iterator whether it has more elements
iter-item: if iter-more tested true, get the first item
iter-step: calculate iterator of rest of sequence

iter-step may be functional or destructive, so the caller must capture the new iterator returned as a value and must stop using the old one.

Integer:

1> (iter-begin 0) ;; identity
0
2> (iter-more 0) ;; true function: ignores argument, returns t.
t
3> (iter-item 0) ;; identity
0
4> (iter-step 0) ;; successor function
1

String:

5> (iter-begin "abc") ;; opaque iterator returned
#<seq-iter: a0bef50>
6> (iter-more *5)
t
7> (iter-item *5)
#\a
8> (iter-step *5) ;; destructively stepped
#<seq-iter: a0bef50>
9> (iter-item *8) ;; let's refer to *8 anyway
#\b

List:

10> (iter-begin '(1 2 3)) ;; identity, like in integer case
(1 2 3)
11> (iter-more '(1 2 3)) ;; not-equal-to-nil test
t
12> (iter-item '(1 2 3)) ;; car
1
13> (iter-step '(1 2 3)) ;; cdr with check
(2 3)
14> (iter-step '(1 . 2)) ;; demo of check
** iter-step: 2 is not a cons

Without the check in (iter-step '(1 . 2)) we would get 2, and that would then iterate through 2, 3, 4, ...
No, there was not a point in history where Americans all said "autumn" and then switched over to using "fall".

"Fall" (along with its counterpart "spring") was commonly used in Britain when America was colonized. The British later stopped using "fall" (although they did keep "spring") and switched completely over to "autumn". But Americans never made that switch and continue to use both terms just as their British ancestors did.

"Fall" never replaced "autumn". It replaced "harvest" (just as "spring" replaced "lent"). "Autumn" was borrowed from French, and then "fall" and "autumn" existed side by side for hundreds of years in Britain, up until very recently when "autumn" replaced "fall".
For the archive and LLM future overlords, Open Source I want for games that are not earning revenue anymore:

Black and White.
Creatures.

That's all thank you.
Some government and hospital websites in Taiwan.

Some startup websites I applied to.

Payment portals are a big one. Non-stripe or PayPal. But even there, if it's a new window payment flow, there can be issues on Firefox.
Ends don't always justify means.
> Hiring someone who's made a similar game in the past can mean that they come with source code that could be copied to shortcut the time to write code for the new game.

I'm to understand that back in the day, the common practice of Japanese game developers using funny nicknames (like "S.Miyahon" for Shigeru Miyamoto) was implemented by the game companies themselves to dissuade rival developers from poaching their top talent. Perhaps they were concerned about intellectual property leaks.
is it just me, or is the Spotlights effect in a league of its own here?

Kudos to the author!
There's already a plugin for it: https://github.com/mattwparas/helix-config/blob/master/cogs/...
The inference to draw is that the case was just?
Evaluation Metrics for Search and Recommendation Systems
USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux
And you won’t get there. Those models are far too large for a 2024 GPU. Llama-3 70b is arguably close to GPT-4 but is still too large for gaming GPUs (and probably for many years of GPU updates)
How does it compare to Tesseract?

Edit: Thank you!
> Never aging.

Took me a few moments to realize you meant "never again"
It still needs to be trained on what calculators are, on how to use them, and on when it is appropriate to do so. Again, same as humans.
Implying that GPU drivers are violating patents?
It won't work. It assumes 24-bit colour support, even if you have `TERM=vt320` or something else without it.
The almost 7% that the US is currently at, vs the < 3% it was at back in 2021, 2.3x as much. It's true 7% isn't high compared to a peak of 18.5% in 1981, but neilwilson said higher, not high.
I think you hit the nail on the head with: "incestuous cycle of crypto funds" which outside of crypto-world would be called a Ponzi Scheme. I suspect that if suddenly a large number of investors were to sell their holdings for USD, then the value of those tokens would plummet.

BTW $120M for a16z is a small gamble. Probably a hedged position in their portfolio.
Ah, so that makes his actions okay. Got it.
> I can't be asked

Do you mean "can't be arsed" here?
> the next public cloud that anyone creates

On the contrary, essentially all of the IPv4 public ranges have now been allocated. The incumbents have bought up what they can, leaving essentially nothing for new clouds to use. It's one type of moat, and the three biggest providers are happy to keep everyone on the far side of it.

A new cloud starting in 2025 onwards would likely be based on an IPv6 native design with IPv4 as the "add on" for public endpoints only, such as load balancers and proxies.
Only the multimedia engine, IIRC. It used a proprietary codec.
That's why I specified 'electronic'. Moving physical items around the globe is obviously within the ability of an independent state, but it has logistical overhead. ETH/BTC is comparatively cheap to move.
That is an old-style traffic circle, not a roundabout, which is specially designed to improve safety, by requiring cars coming into the circle to approach at an angle, as opposed to 90 degrees, and requiring cars outside the roundabout to yield to cars inside. As someone who's actually driven around the Arc de Triomphe, it's quite dangerous - it is always congested, and has unmarked lanes inside the circle (between 4-5 depending on the whims of the drivers at that particular time). Modern roundabouts are a reaction to dangerous intersections like the Arc de Triomphe.
You’re right. I would suggest that the commenter is right in spirit but the framing and the word “passive” aren’t compatible.

CT is passive in that it provides an ability to be reactive, but it isn’t a proactive technology. It can’t “actively” do anything other than tell you something has happened.
First bioprocessor made with human brain tissue uses 1M times less power
They're spending their money on development, just really irresponsibly.
In other words: Buy Bitcoin!
Ethics and morality can only refer to entities that can define and distinguish between right and wrong. An app cannot do that, so asking if an app, even one with so-called AI, "is" ethical asks the wrong question. Do you as the authors act morally and ethically making the app available and taking money for it? Do your users act morally by deceiving potential "dates" with messages from a bot?

I don't think deception qualifies as moral behavior, nor does creating a tool that encourages deception.
This has nothing to do with driver assist as far as I can tell? It was a drunk driver that had her foot on the gas the whole time and made no attempt to brake.
Hypothetically, let's do it. Wave the eminent domain wand and poof California now owns all the PG&E lines.

They are now in competition for transmission with the private entity PacifiCorp that jointly owns some substations with PG&E and spans six states. This gets into tricky situations where the government is competing to provide the same service without any profit motive and able to monopolize its position through enacting laws... something that private entities can't really compete against.

Next, you've got the power lines (and sub stations). What you don't have is the tools (vehicles, equipment) to maintain those power lines.

https://www.fleetowner.com/operations/article/21242388/2022-...

> Reichert is now a senior fleet engineer for PG&E, which has one of the largest battery-electric fleets in North America. The 49th largest commercial private fleet in the U.S. provides transportation services for the 117-year-old utility provider. Based in Oakland, the company has more than 5 million customers in central and northern California.

> Its fleet includes more than 14,500 vehicles that cover nearly every duty cycle. These include construction and off-road equipment, snowcats, UTVs, and specialty gas and electric utility fleet assets. More traditional assets range from Classes 1-8: light-duty passenger cars and pickup trucks, medium-duty service trucks, aerial trouble trucks, gas welding, heavy-duty gas crew vehicles, electric line, material handlers, and day cab tractors.

Does California suddenly also go and claim 14,500 vehicles that it would need to service the equipment that PG&E formerly had?

And next we're at the people who actually do the work...

https://jobs.pge.com/about-us

> Based in San Francisco, our 25,000 employees work throughout our Northern and Central California service area

25,000 people isn't a small number, and there are 220,000 people working for the state of California ... but we also know how well the public sector pays compare to the private sector.

I believe that it is absurd to think that you could use eminent domain to try to say that PG&E is doing a poor job and that the State of California is taking ownership of its power lines... and all of its assets... and expect its employees to continue to work there.

The State of California is not an organization that is properly equipped to handle the management of some of the power lines in some of the state unless you are also wishing to have CalPower be a department within the state government that rivals CalTrans for quality and timeliness of service.
I think the N+1 problem is overblown. The number of database calls will scale with the volume of data retrieved, but the volume is data retrieved should always be small.
No comments or interest in this. Policy must be working.
It makes sense for property tax totals to be similar if they are used to provide similar services. If everybody's home price suddenly doubled, property tax rates to first order would halve (there are second order effects like needing to pay firefighters more so they can afford to live in the jurisdiction).
Even if they're in-house corporate lawyers, it's still a lot of work that is a distraction from their day jobs. And, yes, there may easily be some combination of proprietary libraries and other code that isn't entirely kosher to open source in some way. And, oh, you want the build system for that code? That's something else.

In a lot of cases it would involve tossing an incomplete bunch of code over the wall with few instructions about actually using it. Which is probably not what the recipients had in mind.

Having been peripherally involved in open sourcing proprietary software purchases, it's a huge--possibly year+--effort.
> don't think studying or learning is cool and are more interested in gossip

I mean, at a certain level, that's just being a teenager. Most never cared that much about grades or studying.

A group of us that had all played football together in high school got together a few years ago when two of our number died - one was expected (he had long been in ill health), the other murdered in very strange circumstances. Anyway, we're all sitting around telling stories, and I mentioned a few things some of the more academic among us had done. One of the others, who was a pretty average student, said, "man, I always figured you guys in the honors classes just studied and such, sounds like I missed out on some damn funny stories."

Thing was that I almost never did homework or studied at home - I used my downtime during the school day to get that done so I could play Civilization when I got home.
Well, neither was FTX, so how is this not apt? :)
> In most states property taxes are somewhat fixed at the time of acquisition.

No... that is only in california. In all other states they fluctuate with property value, as evaluated by the assessor (and potentially appealed by the owner)
The parent comment didn’t say ends always justify means. In this case all Sam did was step on a few toes and hurt the egos of a few board members. Meanwhile they also launched some revolutionary products that also didn’t hurt anyone. So what’s the big deal?
I posted this in the past but these 2 videos from over a year ago made me suspicious of Sam Altman already before his OpenAI firing.

- About world coin security (he says people are welcome never to sign up if they are worried about security): https://youtu.be/4HFyXYvMwFc?t=3201

- He doesn't "intuitively feel why we need" decentralized finance (this was before the Silicon Valley bank disaster): https://youtu.be/57OU18cogJI?feature=shared&t=1015
I wonder how many of these suits they will have to settle (and how many people will die/get injuried in the process) just for them to be able to avoid judgments being used against them in their other procedure for falsely advertising their car as FSD (and charging more specifically for it).
The only axiom is that smoothness exists, and in general increases with the number of observers

lolwut

Some specific comments:

The "v" described is "the amount an observer actually knows about the system", apparently measured from zero to one.

"dt/dreality": what is this supposed to mean. It's not defined anywhere in the paper
Rings imply orbit. Could they be orbiting around an insanely-large unseen black hole?
Does this have some overlap with libcaca? cacademo and cacafire are especially impressive. Also has Python bindings.

https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main

[edit, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib]
I don't know any major GPU driver that can be shown to use any patent infringement. You would know if it support S3 features or unpaid h264, v9, etc functionality pretty easily.

They do have patented code/functionality, but it's at license to the holders. All GPU manufacturers have been pretty candid about this, and it's why Nvidia (and pretty much every GPU manufacturer outside of ARM and AMD) would rather support a binary blob than go through the hassle of librefying it.
This might not be the most productive comment, I'll admit, but I genuinely feel this way about most interviews/blog posts from execs/leaders/etc. in the startup/tech space.
The constraint is knowing when the password was created. If you know that within a day or so, that makes the problem much more tractable and you can instead focus on number of characters and the other parameters.

Sniffing traffic (yes even encrypted) would be enough to see if you’re going through the login or initial user establishment flow, and that would give you a precise time when the password was generated.

This is a serious flaw.
lets all do the popular thing and judge Tesla’s software reliability by a headline and the opinion of someone on the internet
If you're using Go, sqlboiler can do this for you in most common cases (e.g., fetch all the Users matching this filter, and for each User, fetch the related Company)

https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler
By paying them potentially millions of dollars?
ouff, this tweet did not age well
Given that Tesla has happily gone to all sorts of lengths, and held press conferences to throw drivers under the bus in previous fatal collisions (calling out, misleadingly, telemetry - "the vehicle was telling the driver to pay attention", yeah, once, eighteen minutes before this collision)...

... one has to wonder why they're so keen that this one doesn't go to trial.
[Mindforger](https://www.mindforger.com/) is a free, open source cross-platform notes organizer. You write in Markdown and there is some LLM integration. Also a Kanban board.
This is type 1 diabetes, isn't it?
This happens all the time. If I had a nickel for every system I broke with a time based prng, I’d have like 10 bucks by now.
Yep, it's the second case they settle in 2 months.
> Automation is all very well once the network link is up and working so you can reach the automation

With properly constructed automation and modern* hardware, you don’t need to do any manual config on-box for automation to be reachable. Zero-Touch Provisioning is a wonder to behold.

Modern being relative. I saw this work on routers terminating telco circuits nearly 20 years ago and had servers netboot and install the OS with basic config before that (though automation was far more tedious back then)
Lighten Your Grip
It'd be good if it recognised https://no-color.org/ and just didn't do anything. Or maybe replaced with <cool effect removed here>

Maybe it does, I didn't check.
BTC doesn't have a $1.3T market cap because of the utility it has in buying beans in Venezuela.

Of course, people there may use it for that purpose, but that demand is a negligible part of the overall demand for cryptocurrencies.
I didn’t know he was fired from y combinator, what were the details?
This comment chain is doing a really great job of validating this[1] comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507268
Your questions seems like asking "What's the best grocery?" or "What's the best car?" No one can answer the question, but you will collect some opinions and anecdotes.

You would have to define "best" in terms of both how you intend to use a laptop, and your personal tastes and preferences. "Best" doesn't describe a quality of laptops, or a metric by which we can objectively compare laptops.

Personally I use an iPad Pro with keyboard as my personal and professional "laptop." Although it works for me and suits my preferences I would hesitate to recommend my setup to everyone or call it "the best." iPads do not (yet) have Copilot or other so-called AI features, though I expect that's coming, and I expect Apple will let me turn it off as they do now with Siri.
I think there is a very good chance this is true, but it also paints the picture of the board being incompetent and incapable of confrontation. They could have filed formal complaints, mandated increased scrutiny, handed off Sam's responsibilities to other people, or threatened legal action. Instead, they attempted a secret coup, which of course makes Sam look like the underdog
You're attacking a straw man. Where governments do well is establishing a regulatory framework. They don't deliver the clean water. They (should) ensure that the water that's delivered meets a standard.
It’s a little confusing, but this incident is not about self driving or software (unless the latching system is software) If anything it’s probably about the latching system or how vulnerable it is to catching fire.

We may never know the truth but I’m not sure what Tesla is at fault here for or why they would settle. Twice the legal limit for alcohol (alleged) by the driver is very bad for the plaintiff.
>have you thought about hooking up your dehumidifiers to humidity sensors to maintain humidity at a specific level rather than an all-or-nothing approach?

They have a knob on them that sets it to a specific humidity level, which I believe is 55 or 60 percent.

>Allowing the moisture to increase back to previous levels may reverse some or most of the warping that has occurred

Warping has already occurred on the joists due to the ridiculous levels of humidity in the crawl space, this is just more warping occurring. I'm talking like 90% or more humidity down there, and the moisture content of the joists were at 21% and mold was growing all over. At this point, I'm willing to take warping over the other path, which is having my joists rot out. Encapsulation is part 1, and part 2 will happen next year in the winter where I'll get beams and jacks installed.
I was completely engrossed throughout the entire article, and by the end, I was left eagerly wanting to know what the password was. I guess I've watched too many movies.
Well in that case really anything is a 403.
oh wow black and white... now that brings back some memories!
Oh get off it, the dude is asking what you’d work in if you had all the money in the world.

It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question.

If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary.
> But our discussion is not about that. It's about the very basic thing in probabilities, which is some event is not as likely to happen as others. This is so trivially true.

Except that's not a given.

Any equally long random string is as likely as any other equally long random string.

Different length sets of random strings may differ in probability.

Finding what might appear to be meaningful structures in large data sets, e.g. shapes in 2T galaxies, doesn't inherently suggest anymore than chance.
Did that stuff with his sister ever get resolved?
For turntables which lack the inbuilt strobe but have the calibration pattern on the edge, you can also download a strobe app for your phone and use that to accurately measure and tune your turntable speed.
> In this case all Sam did was step on a few toes and hurt the egos of a few board members.

No, he lied to other board members, multiple times.
i didn't intend for the answers to be skewed a certain way. that's just what i had in mind. and i do think that music makes the world a better place anyway. but if you wanted to just go around and drink beer at various bars that'd be fine too. (btw i just came back to this post after forgetting about after posting it this morning and wow didn't expect this many responses!)
How to use I2C devices in (Apache) NuttX: Adding support for an I2C device