skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does Ladybird have to do with Haiku?
The Haiku port of Ladybird is pretty out of date, although there is talk on the Haiku forums of reviving it.
Yes, they do: https://developer.apple.com/design/.
I'm fairly certain Marjorie Taylor Greene receives money from Russia (probably through indirect sources).
> Portrays this as a matter of opinion, when if any single opinion should be considered it should be Paul Graham's since he was the person performing the act.

Opinion is one thing. But PG's story of "we asked him to choose and he chose OAI" doesn't gel with the -actual evidence- that Altman proposed making himself the Chairman of YC, then went ahead and actually announced it on YC, and then it was hastily deleted and he "chose" OAI.
Interesting stuff, particularly the estimation that 140 TW of solar radiation are captured by photosynthesis. In arguments about the efficacy of tree-planting as a climate control effort, I've heard about the effect on albedo radiation and of course on the sinking of CO2, but I've never heard it pointed out that photosynthesis itself captures solar radiation that would otherwise be reflected heat.
Not accurate. He bought a bunch of calls and then started posting as reported by wsj. https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/e-trade-considers-kic...
Too bad Linux still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable.

Well, yes it can. But the choice of Desktop whether that be Linux, MacOS or Windows is just a matter of familiarisation.

I have the exact opposite view to you: "Too bad Windows still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable." but that is because I have been using a Linux Desktop for over 20 years. I've been using the LinuxMint MATE Desktop for about 10-11 years.

If you feel happy with Windows, stick with it. It's your machine, and your choice.
> are AI safety folks building models of this pattern?

First you need to ask if AI "safety folks" actually understand the technology, and if they are thinking about it objectively. If they believe that we're a few years away from accidentally creating Skynet, they need to put down the crack pipe and go work in another field.
1995. It was NIST.
https://www.nist.gov/nist-and-nobel/eric-cornell/nobel-momen...
I think you overestimate people’s ability to sniff out bad data on the internet.

Also are you suggesting people fact check an AI by asking it if it is correct? That seems absurd.
grokking doesn't and will not have practical uses, imo - it is just an experiment that revealed cool things that we mostly already suspected about implicit regularization

however, techniques we learn from grokking about implicit regularization might be helpful for the training regimes we actually use
That's how it is with everything. Running a government involves taxing, and directing funds from one place to another; something is always going to be subsidized at the expense of something else (or debt). America's voters prefer to subsidize roads and highways for their personal cars.
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Yes, meant 1.19.
This reminds me of the Grothendieck quote about his approach to solving problems (in contrast with Erdős, who I suppose in this analogy would look for a big hammer with which to smash the nut open quickly!):

“I can illustrate the ... approach with the ... image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise, you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months — when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado! A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marble, resisting penetration ... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it ... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.”
No, if anything that’s a pretty fake controversy too.

Ricardo Montalban had a great quote about the life stages of an actor, enumerating them as follows:

1. Who is Ricardo Montalban?

2. Get me Ricardo Montalban.

3. Get me a Ricardo Montalban type.

4. Get me a young Ricardo Montalban.

5. Who is Ricardo Montalban?

As far as I can tell, Johansson’s complaint is that when OpenAI reached out to her for voice acting and she turned them down, that they instead got a Scarlett Johansson type, and that OpenAI should be categorically prohibited from hiring any voice actor who sounds like her at all. Which is not how acting has ever worked, but for some reason the topic of artificial intelligence gets a lot of people worked up to the point of artificial stupidity.
> If someone asks me to walk in a straight line unassisted by navigational aids, I'd probably end up walking in a medium-sized circle of (optimistically) a few kilometers' diameter.

Why? If you just put one foot in front of the other, you will naturally walk along a geodesic--a great circle.
>For example, cooking with a fireplace is an all-day affair as it requires constant monitoring and a constant supply of wood.

That's a modern urban misunderstanding. Tons of recipes they used to do (and we still do) just need a wood stove and the ocassional adding of woods every half hour or so (less if it's bigger). You put all the ingredients and let it cook (stews, potatoes and veggies, soups, the ocassional meat, eggs, greens, etc). And others just take a couple of hours. There's nothing about cooking with a wood stove (or a fireplace) that makes it a "full day affair" (huh?).

Growing up in rural Europe we cooked with a woodstove primarily (this kind: https://stock.adobe.com/gr_en/search?k=old+wood+stove&asset_... though less fancy) and it was never a problem for leisure time. We had a gas stove too, but the wood stove is what we cooked on 80% of the time.

>Next, making cloth and sewing it was a major time sink.*

You don't have to make clothes all the time. They didn't care for "fast fashion" trends back then. And you can sew while socializing even.

>Third, children were put to work in the fields as soon as they could walk.

That's because they were organically integrated into the family life and work. Everybody did some part. Doesn't mean they worked particulary hard, and even that was mostly not a thing in the 20th century, as rural kids still went to school just fine.

>Fourth, there was the daily feeding and maintenance of the animals

Which doesn't take that much, unless it's a larger for-profit business, which for the rural people it weren't - it was for their personal eggs, milk, and meat, and the ocassional exchange and gift. So small henhouses and such, takes next to no time.

>Fifth, have you ever tried sawing a plank with a handsaw? Building a house and a barn had to be a massive amount of hand work.

Luckily they didn't do it that often. Once per family was enough, and they could build it in a month or so (usually bringing in some people doing construction work too for the more advanced ones). They also added rooms piecemeal if they needed more. And in our parts, those rural village houses were made with bricks and stones, and many still stand, even centuries later (heck, many are still used).

>Bone evidence from American colonist farmers is that they worked physically very hard, and did not live to be old. Getting enough food was a constant problem. They didn't grow very tall.

Sucks to be them.
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Let me know what you think
From what I understand a lot could be classified as R&D. More than one would think.
Yes, it did:

"Then start traveling forward, in a straight line along the Earth’s surface."
Interesting! I had the same experience with anodization, the quality between manufacturers varied a lot.

So it sounds like you use different companies for machining and anodizing? It certainly seems like you'd get better results from someone that specializes in each...
> That the aircraft was tracked online during its sortie proves they wanted to be seen.

B52s are many things but stealthy and subtle is not among them
F = ma leads to calculus was my point, and that is the starting point if you want to think about pressure etc. Once you have F = ma the rest of physics happened pretty fast, getting to F = ma took millennia, getting from there to exploring most of classical physics took a century.

I got a degree in engineering physics, I have a fairly good idea what kind of physics and math is used for machines and structures. Without the concept of force that Newton invented basically all useful calculations are beyond you, so all machines before then were made via rules of thumb as the math wasn't useful. But when you have the concept of force many of the easy things like how to calculate structural integrity or treating pressure as a field of force isn't that far away.

Then you can start designing machines where you know the components will hold without testing, since you have done the calculations. That is what enables complex machines with many parts.
Thanks for your reply! Couple things:

> Which clearly carries the implication that this was an inarguable firing for misdeeds. In this context, it does not matter if being asked to make a choice is technically firing. The main point is that this is a rebuttal of the narrative put forth by Helen Toner.

I actually agree with Paul Graham's post — totally reasonable thing to ask someone to do, and I didn't agree with the replies to his post. I tried to point out what happened — he posted the image and people didn't believe him — rather than how I felt about that specific topic. Arguably could've done better, however.

> The Gist of the critique is that there are deals between OpenAI and enterprises that Sam Altman has an investment in. It is not uncommon for individuals to be in decision making roles in one company while it does dealings with another in which they have a financial interest.

> It is not enough to establish that this connection exists for it to be a story. There needs to be some suggestion and evidence that there were decisions that were improperly influenced by the person with the conflict of interest.

> If you are alleging that Sam Altman improperly influenced the negotiation with Reddit for data

I highly recommend you use archive.today, or whatever means to read the WSJ articles (even a paper copy, if it's in there), because the assertions about impropriety or influence of deals originally stems from those two articles. I didn't just claim that with no evidence, I was highlighting statements and assertions already made.
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No, I agree: a boy scout dingy should not cost $40 to put in the water. A more serious boat, however, I can understand needing higher fees to pay for whatever services are used there.
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Sure, if you also assume people follow whatever advice so given. They won't, even before the covert influence effort becomes popular knowledge, as it inevitably will. This destroys consumer trust in your product after you have successfully made that product indispensable, thus opening up a previously impossible vacuum in epistemology and thus access to power.
I am very disappointed.

Any dominant species in a local ecosystem faces three problem categories that could destabilize the population.

3. Selective factors, internal and external, like diseases or lethal competition (war), etc.

2. Waste products that slowly poison the population or degrade the ecosystem.

1. Resources or food supply overshoot.

Can you name a man made large scale problem that does not fall in one of these categories?

This is how i like to think about our long term future. The article talks about

> Each week, a guest expert gave a lecture and fielded questions about a topic related to existential risk: nuclear annihilation, climate catastrophe, biothreats, misinformation, A.I.

and rambles on students discussions and classes.

CO2 is just one of our many waste products which means climate change is just a sub set of our actual problem. Sustainability ultimately means solving category 1 and 2 and yet, the public discourse is far off anything related.

75% of our phosphate, to produce fertilizer comes from marokko, where it is mined, spread all over the globe and then ends up in local ecosystems/aquifers. Closing that vital circle to approach global food production sustainability requires huge investments in our urban waste water treatment but unfortunately, we will adress this problem when its already too late yet again.

We are doomed unless we understand the problems we face. Dont read this worthless article.
> I've spent just enough time studying that language in the last few months that I am calling it "Zhongwen" in my head and find it hard to write "Chinese" instead of 中文.

I'm rather curious about this actually - do other bilinguals experience this? I first acquired French as a child and spent several years taking formal French lessons, and yet I simply call it French when I think, speak or write in English. A learner finding it hard to write "French" instead of "Le français" in an English sentence would come off as more than a little overzealous to me.
We were already swimming in a world of bullshit prior to the wide availability of these. I'm not sure what the future holds, but I think intelligent people are going to become very skeptical of virtually all information sources.

I would imagine there's also a raft of people who will use it as a reason to give up on any search for truth.

I still do hold a lot of hope for their eventual capabilities, but I'm also pretty pessimistic on what the direct and Nth order social effects will be.
> Automate government-driven compliance standards - enable small businesses to sell into large companies/government entities, automatic certification when using pre-approved cloud solutions.

This is something the market can solve. You can't lobby it into existence.
>why should other desktop environments work on a different 'design language' library?

The responsive widgets are only a small part of libadwaita. Part of the reason those widgets are still there is because they're still being iterated on -- once a widget gets into GTK it has to be maintained for a long time and GTK developers got burned before by adding a lot of random widgets without iterating first. So the bar is understandably a lot higher for adding new GTK widgets than it is for adding widgets into one of these "design language" libraries.

I could see some responsive widgets getting merged into GTK but only if they become stable enough and everybody (not just GNOME) likes the API wants them in GTK.

>reintroducing proper theming support to libadwaita

It does have proper theming support if you're using it as an app developer. If you mean allowing users to add arbitrary themes to arbitrary applications, that isn't going to happen. It can't be done without breaking applications, and arbitrary theming ruins the whole purpose of it anyway which is to enable all GNOME apps to have a consistent UX and theme.
I think the idea is more that the potential profit or the need for energy to prevent limiting this profitable venture will drive more capital into fusion projects. It's not clear that they will hit the man-month problem since it seems like there's dozens of fusion startups trying slightly different variants. Of course that doesn't mean it will solve the problem faster.
I wasn't trying to imply that they were, only adding to the discussion.
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It's extremely rare that any modern journalling filesystem (Windows, Linux, MacOS) can't recover from an unscheduled shutdown these days.
I'd love for Altman to explain why they decided to start Worldcoin in Africa, and by offering bigger and bigger signup incentives for their whole retinal scanning thing, to the point where at times it could be two month's wages for some people...
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That hasn't worked for me.
That was my first reaction too, but I have to admit that the book quotes he was able pull out to support his argument took me by surprise.
Andreas is probably the most positive person I can think of. I'm happy to read such an article where for once "forking" isn't associated with a negative event.

Best of luck on the new Ladybird adventure, and thanks for all your positivity and contributions!
The analogy to numerals is great to get a western-language speaker to grok the basic mechanism by which a symbol can be unrelated to a sound, reused across completely different languages, and even have different ‘readings’ in different contexts (2, 2nd, 12, 1/2…)
> I rarely trust code it generates (at least for the language I mainly work in) as i’ve seen it make some serious mistakes (eg: using keywords in the language that don’t exist)

It's only a mistake from your perspective. The model just generates text based the probabilities it learned during training. In that respect, there is no such thing as "incorrect" output because the model doesn't operate at that level of abstraction.
I find it strange that people keep attacking him on this.

He’s allowed to make money. Musk bezo etc all did and nobody whined

There is plenty to attack him on legitimately…yet people seem obsessed with this angle
Pigeon towers seem to be making a comeback in India (and apparently they were found in ancient Persia too).

I was visiting India last year and came across a colorful tower, about 60 feet tall and teeming with pigeons. There the aim is to provide housing and support for pigeons, and not to use them as a source of food. Many people believe feeding birds is "good karma" and having a pigeon tower allows one to have a ready supply of birds to feed.
The great tiangolo (creator of FastAPI) has a library just for this which makes it easy:

https://github.com/tiangolo/typer
Well, interviews are mostly noise, whether they're conversations or coding. I wouldn't put much faith in them either way. Interviews are just a tiny snapshot and unlike real work in many important ways.

IMO the key is really to investigate the candidates as much as possible before they even walk in the door. Nowadays, many candidates have a large public footprint.

(I also think employers interview way too many people. That's mostly a waste of time, better spent focusing on a relatively small number of the top candidates.)
I would argue that, in practice, they are not completely separate. Too much abstraction makes it hard to tell what the underlying algorithm is. And even if you can figure that out, makes it hard to optimize.
People constantly misevaluate their own limits though. Why should AI not be allowed to do that?
i've worked in this field for 6 years and have never heard of the 'shallow basin hypothesis', care to explain more? is it just the idea that there are many good solutions that can be reached in very different parts of parameter space?

all that grokking really means is that the 'correct', generalizable solution is often simpler than the overfit 'memorize all the datapoints' solution, so if you apply some sort of regularization to a model that you overfit, the regularization will make the memorized solution unstable and you will eventually tunnel over to the 'correct' solution

actual DNNs nowadays are usually not obviously overfit because they are trained on only one epoch
I think it was a classic bait and switch for the academics working there. You were able to publish everything, which is what academics want, until they came up with the safety nonsense and closed everything up.
> There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface)

and that tangent is the straight line, at least it is within the R^3 spatial universe I live within.

There's confusion here as the article presumes humans to be bound to an S^2 manifold and to consider a Great Circle to be a "straight line" which it certainly is not unless one lives within an S^2 Flatland.
More often than not, it ends well. FONOPS are a pretty common occurrence and usually end (at worst) with a friendly interception and escort out of the contested airspace. Usually even that doesn't happen.
There is a subtle aspect of LLM AIs that is lost to most people: they are trained on the entirety of the Internet. That means whatever topic you ask these LLM AIs, there are multiple instances of that same information with different levels of seriousness and accuracy in their treatment of the subject.

For example: if one asks a question using street slang, the answer generated will be generated from training data about your subject, but from online sources that used street slang in their conversation about that issue. Likewise, if you use ordinary language for your question, the generated response will be from ordinary language conversations of your topic. However, if your question concerns any type of formalized knowledge, by asking your question using the formal language of experts in that topic, then the generated AI answer will come from training data that used this same formal expert terms, and are most likely to be correct, because they come from discussions of that subject’s matter experts.

Plus, don't use LLMs for fact retrieval, use them as strategy guides. They really excel as strategy advisors.
Linux just doesn't have proper image viewers, except for QIMGV, which kicks ass. It reminded me of the very early Acdsee (3.x?) image viewer. It's fast, reliable and doesn't hinder your work. The absolute best. Sad thing is, there are a lot of smaller issues piled up, bc the author doesn't have time to maintain it bc of the ukr vs rus war.

I'm thinking about getting to know c++, to maintain this project, until the og dev comes back...