skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have an evidence for this? It surprises me and I can't find anything about it.

This should be a crucial piece of information about the tree laws, yet it's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the three laws [1], which is otherwise quite detailed. Reading this, everything makes me think that it was not a parody. I didn't feel like it was parody when reading the Robot series neither. He wanted an alternative to the Frankenstein plot where robots kill their creators and the three laws were part of the answer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Very clear write-up.

You have a talent, please keep doing this and who knows maybe one day you will write a fantastic text book.

I thought "as nice as this is already, what's missing from perfect" and here's what I can say:

- add a few comments on worst-case runtime complexity

- separate section about termination

- I always enjoy pseudo-code being part of an explanation. Your explanation comes from a mathematical point of view, which works very well, and which should be kept, but perhaps after each step in the maths explanation you could add a few lines of pseudocode that "capture" how far you got with the algorithm, e.g. define auxiliary functions like S(•).

But again, these are nitpicky extension proposals to make something already great perfect because I love it, not to criticize it.

PS: I also like your write-up about hidden Open AI models (I always check out what else people did whose output impressed me, and that additional time investment is nearly always worth it).
Sounds like you need SalesForce NPSP https://www.salesforce.org/products/nonprofit-success-pack/ which is free forever if you qualify for their NPO program
How does it mix it up?

The example was a barber. There is no difference between transferring an existing credit to the barber and generating a new credit for the barber. The result is the same - an additional haircut is performed.

In the case of a new credit that is an additional haircut that wouldn't otherwise have been performed because the person wanting it has desire, not demand (desire backed by the ability to pay).

So I disagree. We have a monetary economy. Since the whole point of the game is to 'make money' people will create more output if you offer them money in exchange for doing that.

The 'loan' as you call it drives the new production, as any loan does since all loans are, necessarily, new money.
> Early Android UI was such a clusterfuck. Not surprising really given that it started as a BlackBerry-like UI then pivoted hard when the iPhone was launched.

Don't forget all the early Android phones that launched with physical controls to navigate around the screen, like the trackball on the HTC Dream or the directional pad on the Motorola Droid. It's as if they weren't quite sure touchscreen interfaces were going to take off, so they wanted to hedge their bets.
I feel like people only buy the hummer if they know they're gonna like it
How I got OpenAI attention during the war
No worries. When speaking colloquially, 'white noise' is a perfectly fine term and perfectly understandable.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I think it's unlikely to matter for the adoption of Windows on ARM in the long run.
What happens if proposed MCTSr algorithm is applied to GPT-4? It doesn't seem too hard to run that experiment.
The history of religion contradicts your point. Judaism emerged in the most illiterate area of its time.

I think "immunity for brainwashing" is the wrong term. Back in the simple days people got less exposed to, how ever you would like to call it. The first ever printed western book was the f'ing bible and people in the 2000s thought the internet would spark a new era of education, you know, printing press 2.0 and such.

Ok, enough OT.
In the book/movie Contact, the person who bankrolls the main character's project made all of his wealth from creating inventions that defeated advertisements.
The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning
How do you tell it where to put the Athletic Greens advertisements?
Neat game. I would appreciate if the full tree animation could be turned off, it's not needed for every guess. Maybe just one new sprout could be animated.
Very and pay for them.
As in traditional societies that burn scientists for suggesting earth revolves around the sun? This is why it’s important to learn history instead of just making things up in your head.
Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting
Article title: How I got OpenAI attention during the war

Guidelines: .. please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is the ideal form for Executives:

- Summary
- Conclusion
- Results
- Analysis
- Hypothesis
- Context
- Context

There is the ideal form for Researchers:

- Problem Statement (Abstract)
- Context
- Context
- Hypothesis
- Analysis
- Results
- Conclusion

Almost opposite ordering
Great to see Apple (still) supporting WebXR. I hope support like this will move WebXR forward.
that's the thing though. you're not getting paid "slightly below market," you're taking a ~50% paycut to work at a startup vs FAANG
It sounds quite "gotcha" to me.

Compare these two cases:

> people who use or contribute to lean

And do they get tenure- or funding-able output of it, or is it more of a side-hobby?

> people who use or contribute to lean

Do they get tenure- or funding-able output of it, or is it more of a side-hobby?

The "And" at the begining makes it snarky to me. It's probably just me tho.
The uninformed preliminary answer instead is yes: loaded dice can produce better values.

The article is about using LLMs in an evolutionary framework to design better algorithms for LLM advancement, with particular occasional regard to preference optimization algorithms - and guess what, it seems it worked.
oh, comeon. this is just responsibility laundering.

individual natural persons are implementing every act of these artificial hyperagents, and there is precedent and reason for holding individuals accountable for individual actions.
> Imo early exercise doesn’t make a ton of sense when the company no longer qualifies for qsbs

I strongly disagree, early exercise is always optimal if the cost makes sense to you.

The primary reason it is so valuable is so that you don't lose everything if you have to change jobs for whatever reason before a liquidity event. If you join a startup and don't early exercise, now you are going to have to work there for however long it takes for liquidity, which could be many many years. Maybe your life changes and you have to change jobs, but you're trapped, or lose everything you worked for.

Always early exercise! If the startup doesn't allow it, find a different startup.

Edit: I should add that by not early exercising you can still lose a lot even if there is a liquidity event while you're still there! I lost a staggering amount of money on my first startup due to not early exercising even though it went through an IPO while I was there. But later I left (lured to another startup) so I had to excercise (same day sell) all the option in the typical 90 day window after quitting. Had I early exercised years before when I joined, I could've held those shares for 15x returns.
They invented containers on Linux kernel.

Containers on UNIX and mainframes predate Google's existence.
my goal isn't that someone who is in that position reads this. as you said, they're a small minority. they already know this. but people who aren't in that position might want to know how the world is shaped for other people
> Unless mathematics is fundamentally more complicated than chess or go

"Fundamentally" carries the weight of the whole solar system here. Everyone knows mathematics is more conceptually and computationally complicated than chess.

But of course every person has different opinions on what makes two things "fundamentally" different so this is a tautology statement.
> It’s important to learn history instead of just making things up in your head.

I agree.

Which traditional societies burnt scientists (plural) for suggesting earth revolves around the sun?
Why Nearly Half of US Online Job Postings Are Fake
I guess they could be saying that. I don't really see the appeal of Replika/Character AI, while I do of VRC, so I'm obviously not in the target audience for the point they're making.
New project: Chromebook from scratch

The Google userland programs are removed but the kernel and drivers are retained.

This frees up lots of storage space to be filled with the owner's choice of open source userland programs.^1 Read-only filesystem, "powerwashing" system recovery, open source bootloader. Chromebook without the Chrome.

Not for commercial use but for recreation and experimentation. For commercial/educational use people can use a Chromebook from Google. I have heard that some people own more than one computer.

What some (not all) computer users want is an inexpensive portable computer that has excellent hardware support in the Linux kernel. These users users are capable of administering their own computer and have no inclination to let a so-called "tech" company remotely install software on their computer at any time ("updates"), use a web browser distributed a so-called "tech" company, store their personal files in "the cloud", i.e., data centers belonging to so-called "tech" companies, remain "logged in" to servers operated by so-called "tech" companies 24/7, and so on.

These users want a "Chromebook from scratch".

Source-based, but Google does not control the source.

1. If an owner wanted to retain some of those Google-authored userland programs, it may be possible for the owner to compile them herself, e.g.,

https://github.com/google/minijail
lol, no but i closely follow VR / MR for other professional and personal reasons.

Am curious what your involvement is? (if you are up for disclosing here)
A lakehouse solution without iceberg support?

(And postgres sql DML writing to iceberg would be even better…)

Poking around, the Postgres/iceberg options recently were articulated here:

https://medium.com/datareply/unlocking-the-power-of-iceberg-...
Hi Brian, thanks for all effort put into LiveView Native.

Quick suggestion, it would be nice if the landing page [1] has more information or links to actual examples of how to use LiveView Native. That page has not been updated in a long time and give the (misleading) impression that the project is on hold.

[1] https://native.live/
This breaks my brain, because I know Google trains it models on TPUs and they're seen as faster, and if they're better at inference, and can train, then why is Nvidia in a unique position? My understanding was always it's as simple as it required esoteric tooling
A little bit of discussion on the source paper was done here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242939

Really nice to see this work continuing -- it seems like a very powerful technique!
There are at least a few idiots buying them to rent out to bigger idiots for $400+/day on Turo.
Cool! But the really cool thing were would be a service that converts the contents of a text RSS/Atom feed to a podcast with a podcast feed. Imagine your favorite blogs being podcasts that you could listen to on the go.
^ 100% the point! Thank you! ffs fracking has nothing to do with it!

Plugged wells are safe for eternity. In fact, nature does this (look up Devils Tower monument) on it's own.

Capped wells are kept around... because they might come in handy for salt water injection. They need to be permanently killed at the end of their lives with high pressure concrete.

It's just dumb this practice is even allowed to take fluids from one formation and put them in another. But hey, as long as "BAN FRACKING" is the headline both the oil burning companies and the regulators will succeed in doing nothing to prevent environmental damage.
Show HN: Morse Code Generator and Maker translate between text and Morse code
That Linux note about why they don't want a stable API is ridiculous. This shows how unfriendly is Linux to out-of-tree software. They want third-party developers to refactor their working and tested drivers every time they decide to change something.

I think that at least open source community should move to "never break things" concept. So that you can write and test code once and never touch it anymore. Refactoring your code because kernel/library has changed its interface is just a waste of time which gives nothing in return, often time of unpaid volunteers who could do something useful instead.

This should apply to libraries, applications, programming languages, browser extensions. Take upgrading your Python 2 code to Python 3 as an example. You need to put a lot of efforts while gaining nothing. This is not how software should work. You should write a code once and it should work forever without any maintainance.
It won't be the endgame if you accept that AI agents can mitigate this.

The agent will download a copy, detect the ads, and clip them out.
Google most certainly uses TPUs for training.
Not only does ART compile to native code, its performance is much better than V8, running the whole ChromeOS userspace, or the VM for Crostini.
Maybe that says more about the military capabilities of the people that America fought vs that of the people Russia is fighting?
Tesla paid for Musk's Boring Company to dig a tunnel under Giga Texas, but why?
Interesting points again. But still, the end result was that management executed so poorly, in ways they enumerated, that they had to fire a third of their staff. That’s very often the death knell of a company. Of the remaining 70%, how many want to stick around to see if their turn is next? A lot of the most experienced staff are likely to look for more stable roles, as that’s typically how such things play out. And who’d blame them? Are there other systemic problems that are going to bite the remaining staff in the rear, and will anyone know before it’s too late?

Outside severe outside happenings, layoffs are ultimately failures of leadership. I don’t know how many times we let those leaders make the same life-affecting mistakes.
100%. You also buy Salesforce because your salespeople demand you too. It's something users are familiar with and excel in. Dislodging an incumbent is a lot more than just the technical product itself.

Twenty would be better served not marketing itself as an alternative as it isn't really an alternative. Instead, focus on their strengths and hone it on a niche audience. Useful guide by April Dunford, who's a guru at positioning (and coincidentally had repositioned a CRM tool previously!): https://www.aprildunford.com/post/a-quickstart-guide-to-posi....
So it does seem to work. That's not clickbait then?
> Can LLMs invent anything

Can they propose a working novelty:

-- after deep thought about idea soundness, probably not at this stage

-- through cycles of trials, not knowing exactly why - probably yes

After all, your hammer needs not intelligence.
Many cars like the cybertruck are limited by the production capacity of the company. If you order one now, you’ll probably get it in a few months or even a few years. A used cybertruck is available right now, so people are willing to pay more for it. It is a pretty common phenomenon in cars. Used Corvettes in canada frequently sell for more than new. Same for other products like a Rolex watch.
Why are America's elite universities so afraid of this scholar's paper?
Extreme risk is driving truck in Iraq or smuggling drugs to Singapore. Working in air conditioned office for double median US salary is not extreme risk by any means.

With that I agree with you that upside is often lower than people expect.
As a consultant, it's been extremely useful for rapid prototyping for POC projects.
Your Windows Defender argument seems like apples and oranges. It doesn't fully prevent adware infection anyway, but regardless, the discussion is about whether a hardware maker (or platform owner if you're going to try to extend this to OSes) should be allowed to prevent 3rd-party software selected by the user from running on their platform.

Defender doesn't do this: it's an optional security application by MS that's included with Windows. Users are free to disable it if they wish. Nothing is preventing Windows users from running whatever software on top of Windows that they like. Defender will prevent some malware from running, and many users like this for obvious reasons, and the fact that it's included for free unlike competing anti-malware software, but it's not so baked into Windows that you can't turn it off. An antitrust argument could possibly be made, along the lines of Windows including IE and putting competing software out of business, but that's a different issue than what we're discussing.

So you're right about this being really an OS vendor issue, but Microsoft doesn't force anyone to use Defender, and doesn't prevent anyone from using competing products. Google also allows using competing app stores (or even side-loading .apk files), though only a tiny fraction of users take advantage of this. Apple is really the problem here because it doesn't allow these things at all.
Although ironically, the biggest complaints I hear about the current crop of assistants is the lack of consistency. People are fine learning a command their assistant can do "turn on the living room lights", and then about 20% of the time, the assistant refuses to perform the action with the exact same command as yesterday and needs some slightly different variant ("turn on the light in the living room"), just that one time. The assistants would actually be BETTER if there was a documented, precise, syntax you could learn.
Does the efficiency come from the raft implementation of distributed transactions or something else?
I try to find a difference for too long. Event did Cmd+F to make sure im not crazy :)
> Judaism emerged in the most illiterate area of its time.

I'm pretty sure Australia was way more illerate at that time - plenty of cave and rock art going on for some 70K years prior, sure, but no written language at all even by 1788.
What are inventions other than combinations of existing patterns?

What is the human mind if not a computer?

What is the universe if not repeated regurgitations of the four fundamental forces and 12 particles?
I had the same thought reading the title, but then remembered Crostini is a container running in a VM (Goddammit), so they can keep it intact, at least if they want so.
I'm really surprised no one has mentioned flycut as an option which has almost every feature mentioned, and is open source https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut.
It should be addressed, but it is not addressed.

Even though this is a serious issue that intimately, negatively affects nearly every American citizen at some point in their life, there is still not enough pressure on the government to enact a real change. Insurance companies simply have more political power than voters do.

This change will mean creditor companies have skin in the game, too, and so hopefully they will now lobby the government to fix the medical problem. It's not fair — it's not their fault that the insurance lobby is out of control — but fairness isn't working.

The way I see it, corporations are manmade tools, not human beings with innate desires and rights. Corporations cannot exist unless a society chooses to legally define incorporation, and societies only do this because corporations are very useful for advanced economies. Thus corporations ultimately exist in service to the society that creates them and grants them the means to participate in said society.

If some corporation get out of control, society should have the right to rope its other corporations into reigning the rogue corporation back in if necessary — because all corporations are ultimately tools that society creates, uses, and dissolves.
I found devastating that in The Talos Principle 2 they had dropped their own engine and used Unreal Engine instead.
That's fine. I sure hope nobody is asking for apps to be able to ignore the user's intent. Currently, there is no way for a user to grant applications these permissions, only Apple can bless apps with them.
> I don't see the "footgun".

a / b

"Never" means "integer division" in regular math, so programming languages overloading it to sometimes mean integer division is a common suprise to newbies - especially when it's based on the types of `a` and `b`, which might not be determinable merely from reading the current file. Also, it's not equivalent to:

a\b ≡ ⌊a/b⌋

As you might expect ( https://mathworld.wolfram.com/IntegerDivision.html ), but instead some round-to-zero nonsense that makes most uses of it on signed integers a bug IME. Some languages give integer division it's own syntax... others overload `a / b` to also mean path concatination.

And while it's not on my top 100 list of C or C++ footguns, it is one of those things that occasionally helps lead to a facepalm-inducing moment when even professionals have a brain fart and fail to consider it's overloaded behavior... or misremember the type of `a` or `b`... or change the type of `a` or `b`.

> That's just not understanding the language.

Learning the footguns and how to avoid them is an important part of understanding any language. That doesn't mean they aren't footguns, just that they can be (partially) ameliorated.
Multiple types of TPUs.

(I work for Google, but the above is public information.)
Personally, I prefer iex over irb, iex feels more intuitive. Recently, some improvements were made into iex, the most relevant to me is the ability to use Ctrl+l to clean the output. Now, iex is getting closer to ipython.
It's more than you would hope.
I agree the term parody is absolutely inappropriate but it’s also not the case that they’re portrayed as entirely positive and complete. They’re ultimately flawed, resulting in many unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas. To that extent it is a refutation of the idea there are perfectly constructed maxims, and should serve as a real warning to people pursuing safety and alignment in AI. I know a fair number of them personally and they are often very young, generally inexperienced, highly intelligent, but with a hefty dose of hubris. This is a pretty dangerous combination IMO, but I also recognize their goals are generally unattainable in the broad sense, are useful in a narrow practical sense for people and enterprises who want a generally on guard rails solution, and they’re developing the technical techniques we might be able to use once some time has passed, we understand the domain better, and the companies hire a few grown ups.
It's specifically the camera feed that cannot be used while doing split view or other multitasking modes on the iPad, unless the app has Apple's special blessing. This very clearly puts any new or small video chatting apps at a disadvantage compared to incumbents.
The epsilon of tail-chasing beats the delta of (phallic) symbol pushing!

Re: uni- Cantabrigian?

Yes, for "better" seduction technik, you should restrict your search to uni culture.
Being a guitar player by itself does not qualify you to draft anti-trust legislation for the music industry.

However, someone who's deaf and doesn't know anything at all about music or the music industry would probably also be a poor choice. At least Slash has decades of experience working with major players in the industry and could probably advise on it to some lawyers who know about anti-trust regulation and at least understand the basics about the industry.
Reminds me of https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/. There they were adding a control vector, w' = cvec + w, here they are "ablating" it,
w' = w - dot(w,cvec)*cvec. There is an interesting field of learning how to "brain chip" LLMs into doing what you want.
Well if the llm change, why not assume the index system doesn't change too?

And yeah I guess if you control the seed an llm would be deterministic.
Android is already using crosvm in the latest release. Launching a crostini VM is probably not a large lift.
TF2 is a decades old game. They don't have a responsibility to anyone to keep maintaining it.