skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> E.g. there's a type registry, which means you can't ever have the same proto type compiled by two different configs (it'll panic at import time). In a monorepo that's (potentially) fine, but for the rest of the world it means libraries can't embed the generated code that they rely on (if the spec is shared), which means they can't customize it (no perf/size/etc tradeoff possible), can't depend on different versions of codegen or .proto files (despite code clearly needing specific versions, and breaking changes to the generated code are somewhat common), can't have convenience plugins for things that would benefit from it, etc.

I actually forgot about this when writing the article. This is a major pain in the ass both in Go and Python and basically forces you to ensure than no 2 services have the same file called "api/users/service.proto". There have been multiple instances where we literally had to rename a proto file to something like reponame_service.proto to avoid this limitation.
If public ownership means we give one guy a button to end the world, I'm not sure how's that's a meaningful difference.
Our measurements of the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration already include the effects of plants taking CO2 out of the atmosphere.
AGI would definitely be a major historical milestone for humanity ...

... however, I'm on the camp that believes it's not going to be hyper-profitable for only one (or a few) single commercial entities.

AGI will not be a product like the iPhone where one company can "own" it and milk it for as long as they want. AGI feels more like "the internet", which will definitely create massive wealth overall but somehow distributed among millions of actors.

We've seen it with LLMs, they've been revolutionary and yet, one year after a major release, free to use "commodity" LLMs are already in the market. The future will not be Skynet controlling everything, it will be uncountable temu-tier AIs embedded into everything around you. Even @sama stated recently they're working on "intelligence so cheap that measuring its use becomes irrelevant".

/opinion
This isn't unreasonable or unheard of in some contexts, especially anywhere requiring a security clearance.
Many companies have offices outside because of talent pools, costs, and other regional advantages. Though I am sure some of it is due to immigration law, I don't believe that is generally the main factor. Plus the same could be said for most other countries.
It's simply a case of "Do use argv[0] for this, and don't use it for THAT.

Both Windows and Linux provide APIs to get the actual path of the executable. Posix, to the best of my knowledge, does not. Regrettably. And the Linux API is, admittedly, a bit weird. But not that difficult really. Nothing that you can't get Claude to spit out for you in under 45 seconds. ;-P

The contents of argv[0] are yours to use and abuse as you see fit. Operating systems don't know or care if you go trampling recklessly through the contents of argv[0].

And the authors contention that "power --shutdown" and "power --reboot" are viable alternatives to "shutdown" and "reboot" seems.... disingenuous. Is the politest word I can come up with.

And, if you haven't asked yourself, "wait a second, what happens if somebody passes me garbage via execve" before you are halfway through writing the substantial amount of code required to portably normalize argv[0] to an executable path, I don't think you can be trusted to write secure code of any form. Just normalizing the various forms of argv[0] that a Linux shell passes you is a non-trivial effort. So don't use it for THAT.
The first claim is valid. The machine code, however, builds the apparatus which “computes” according to the laws of physics/chemistry etc…

But ultimately DNA is a functional encoding of computational processes.

Whether those computational processes are “natural” is independent of the machine operating in that environment.
We are talking about e-ink without added edge lighting. I found that if I have to crank up the internal lighting of an e-reader to get adequate contrast, then I may as well use a tablet, because it isn’t reflective illumination anymore to the eye.
The A6X2 is great as well, and fits a surprisingly small niche for smaller writing devices.

I would also love a device that is the size of a pocket notepad someday
It's the brand name effect. Ilya's name will get in much more dollars. Hopefully something profitable comes out at the other end.
On the contrary, I think it's a great website. They made it clear from the get go that they're not selling any products any time soon, why would they need a flashy website? They're looking for scientists, techies and the like, and the website reflects their target audience.
My daughters have for years enjoyed dropping their plastic straws into their Jarritos bottle where it sits out of reach until the bubbles magically bring it back up.
Lots of dismissive comments here.

Ilya proved himself as a leader, scientist, and engineer over the past decade with OpenAI for creating break-through after break-through that no one else had.

He’s raised enough to compete at the level of Grok, Claude, et al.

He’s offering investors a pure play AGI investment, possibly one of the only organizations available to do so.

Who else would you give $1B to pursue that?

That’s how investors think. There are macro trends, ambitious possibilities on the through line, and the rare people who might actually deliver.

A $5B valuation is standard dilation, no crazy ZIRP style round here.

If you haven’t seen investing at this scale in person it’s hard to appreciate that capital allocation just happens with a certain number of zeros behind it & some people specialize in making the 9 zero decisions.

Yes, it’s predicated on his company being worth more than $500B at some point 10 years down the line.

If they build AGI, that is a very cheap valuation.

Think how ubiquitous Siri, Alexa, chatGPT are and how terrible/not useful/wrong they’ve been.

There’s not a significant amount of demand or distribution risk here. Building the infrastructure to use smarter AI is the tech world’s obsession globally.

If AGI works, in any capacity or at any level, it will have a lot of big customers.
I can relate to that! "Subscriptions" tab's feed in their mobile app has always been useless for me, pure noise, so eventually I have reduced my subscriptions to a small count to ensure discovering stuff I'd most likely want to watch in the home feed.
Yeah, I've seen some of this happen to a couple of friends. I really, really hope that I never have to have any electronics embedded in me. Being so vulnerable to the whims of these companies is a scary prospect.
There are two possibilities.

1. Either you are correct and the neural networks humans have are exactly the same or very similar to the programs in the LLMs. Then it will be relatively easy to verify this - just scale one LLN to the human brain neuron count and supposedly it will acquire consciousness and start rapidly learning and creating on its own without prompts.

2. Or what we call neural networks in the computer programs is radically different and or insufficient to create AI.

I'm leaning to the second option, just from the very high level and rudimentary reading about current projects. Can be wrong of course. But I have yet to see any paper that refutes option 2, so it means that it is still possible.
Bigger object should reflect more light, making detection more likely.

In very simplified terms, say its roughly spherical, the amount of light grows with the second exponent, so twice bigger object reflect 4 times as much light - but it is also potentially 8 times as heavy (eq. volume grows with third exponent) & thus more dangerous.

Trade-offs. :)
I'm curious, how do you routinely test your backup and restore strategy / scripts?
There's still a lot of current-day Windows software without native ARM builds, not to mention hardware drivers which can't even be used under emulation, and the current crop of Snapdragon ARM laptops don't have robust Linux support yet AFAIK. It's going to be an uphill battle compared to Apples ARM transition where they could force everyone to switch on pretty short notice or else get left behind.
Not a great analogy imho. You’re comparing power output vs useful power input.

TDP is about thermal envelope, which is a factor of the power input but not the useful output.

Perf/watt would be a better point for your analogy. But TDP doesn’t care about perf/watt. It just cares about energy output regardless of how much is useful.
The AI bubble is safe and sound!
I think the OPs point was:

If we are only surveying a portion of the sky at a time and a faster asteroid spends less time traversing that portion, the likelihood of detection is lower.
"Everyone just says scaling hypothesis. Everyone neglects to ask, what are we scaling?" [Sutskever] said.

Any guesses?
Crowded market. Everybody wants to shrink down my world into a tiny mobile app. Nein Danke.
I have a detailed write-up in this thread: https://x.com/vitalypavlenko/status/1771820942680830417

Basically, you can somewhat see chords in sheet music. Like, you can easily see a C major chord in a treble clef.

1) How many milliseconds does it take you to understand that the entire bar you're looking at is just a C major chord arpeggiated in different octaves?

2) What if it's a bass + treble clef? What if it's an orchestral score?

3) How fast can you verify that a treble clef is active now? That it's not a C-sharp major or a C major chord?

4) Do you actually care that it's a C major chord or rather should you care that it's a I chord (a tonic major chord)?

5) If you care about relative chords (Roman numerals), does it mean you should learn 7 to 12 times visual cues of what's going on now?

These are just the beginning questions, where the end questions that I care about are:

101) What are the backbone structures making a list of midi pitches played suddenly a tango? A ragtime? A malaguena? A Bulgarian horo?

102) What are differences between styles (languages) of specific composers? How do I rapidly see what's different between Nobuo Uematsu and Koji Kondo? Between Chopin and Schumann? Between (tonal) Copland and (tonal) Debussy?

103) How do I imitate any of those or any fusion of those? How do I make sure that I don't miss any structural feature when I analyze and decompose their style and their pieces?

Literature: https://github.com/vpavlenko/study-music
> - Your language has #ifdef or equivalent syntax which does conditional compilation making syntactic tools incomplete.

LSP-based tools are fine with this, generally. A syntactic understanding is an incomplete solution. I suspect GP meant LSP. (as long as compile_commands.json or equivalent is avilable).

Many of those other caveats are non-issues once LSPs are widespread. Even Github has lsp-like go-to-def/go-to-ref, though it's not perfect.
Western countries don't always progress do they? One of them went full in reverse last century. Similarly with everywhere else. When westerners were painting their faces and living in mud huts the Chinese were far more civilised. If you keep on thinking that you're superior you won't take the actions to stop your decline.
That's controversial to say the least. Especially if there's something like reinforcement learning involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...
They make the point that there will be SaaS but it's likely to be more mom & pop SaaS and not significantly large players because the cost of producing software has been lowered significantly. The SaaS to emerge will live in their own specific niches.
ReMarkable2 is running on Gentoo iirc.
I would replace "use" with "vaguely look like".
How does cloud storage work without the internet?
Cost of living is extremely high in Tel Aviv, but the rest is true.
Use the pen that comes with it, magnet side facing the screen and sweep across the areas that are misaligned or the whole screen.

This fixes things for me.
Yeah you are right, my little "hack" is really something that makes it less terrible, but it does not make it as nice as traditional S3 sleep. The fact that this sleep mess is still so buggy and annoyance prone beggars belief.

This might be an urban myth so read with a pinch of salt, but there was a line of Dells at some point that warned to not close the lid without a proper shutdown, because it'll literally cook the LCD and cause permanent damage. Dell decided this was the right course of action for this problem.
> In modern culture branding is on everything

Truth.

I've had a habit of removing all branding I can from the things I buy (particularly clothing) for most of my life. That got me to tune into it, and when you tune into it, you can't help but notice it's literally everywhere.
I would have your friend stream to Broadcast Box. You can run it on the Raspberry Pi!

Then I would pull that source into your OBS. You have two options

* Pull Broadcast Box as a browser source

* Use my PR that adds WHEP Sources https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/10353

For now I would do Browser Source (is easier/no custom builds). In the future when WHEP is merged that is the way to go. If you get stuck jump in the Discord and happy to help debug! https://discord.gg/An5jjhNUE3
In Phoenix, it’s regularly over 100f until past midnight. I expect my AC is running 24x7, but maybe with just a lower duty cycle at night.
I don't see how this argument makes any sense. Imagine that you have a sentient super intelligent computer, but it's completely airgapped and cut off from the rest of the world. As long as it stays that way it's both safe and super intelligent, no?
no, there's really no comparing barely nonlinear algrebra that makes up transformers and the tangled mess that is human neurons. the name is an artifact and a useful bit of salesmanship.
We're not sure. WebGPU seemed too early to us. But as I got deeper into WebGL, the ability to do more arbitrary computation sounded more and more appealing. I wouldn't be surprised if migrated down the road.
I considered getting a ReMarkable a couple of years ago. My primary needs were note taking and PDF reading for studies. The ReMarkable's low powered hardware and limited app ecosystem put me off. Also, I didn't want multiple devices i.e. a tablet and a seperate note taking device.

So, I settled on getting a Samsung Tablet with a S-Pen and using the "Flexcil Notes & PDF Reader" app. The tablet was not cheaper than ReMarkable but I had access to all the apps in the Android ecosystem. The note taking app was not free and its premium features make it cost between £4.59 - £10.49 if billed through Google Play store. The app was well worth it and you can search for reviews of it on Youtube.

If you are planning on getting a ReMarkable for studying, I'd suggest to instead consider using an iPad or Android tablet with pen support instead.

- https://www.flexcil.com/
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexcil.fl...
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexcil-note-good-pdf-reader/i...
- https://www.youtube.com/@flexcil5010/videos
The devices seem nice, but their piracy makes me hesitant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Boox#GPL_compliance
Funny how the "Open" in OpenAI disappeared pretty quickly. I bet the "Safe" in "Safe Superintelligence" will follow a similar path
Mozilla Is Interested in a Rust JPEG-XL Decoder for Firefox
I worked at company that required all paper notebooks to be handed in and destroyed. There are entire companies based on destroying sensitive paper documents.
IMO This has the same problems inherent to WebRTC itself, which is that a large percentage of users in the world are behind symmetric or CG NAT and so TURN relay servers are needed, but never actually defined by the application, because there are no good free ones. Personally I've never been able to use any WebRTC-enabled service for this reason, nor anyone else I know.
"mystery solved". Ho ho. These people gobble a nice story like mommy's pancakes.
More likely it costs the building cleaners time & money. No economic benefit for them so they don't bother even if overall there might be a benefit. Incentives need to align.
side note: if anyone has Notion alternatives they're excited about please please let me know your experience + the tradeoffs of the platform. i'm really getting angsty
In the old Palm Pilot days the way the OCR worked is you had to do the strokes in a special software approved manner, your natural stroke motion wasn't acceptable, you were expected to learn to write in a special shorthand system called Graffiti.

I'd imagine going by stroke order would be a bit tricky since a lot of people don't write the way their teachers taught them to write. (Think anybody with bad handwriting).
Cdr of Navy warship relieved of duty months after backward rifle scope photo
Thank you, really insightful. Will listen to those episodes, thanks.

You really honed in on the crux of my questions actually - Your original comment immediately made me think of shamans and prophets from an evolutionary biology and anthropology sense (and the arguments that it is a beneficial trait for a subset of a human group to have) and what that all might mean to you.
> Cows older than 4yo are an exception because we slaughter most of them before

Huh? A heifer generally won't have her first calf before two years of age. If you are only getting two productive years out of your typical cow, you're doing something horribly wrong.
But, afaik, they keep an index and some extra files in their own format to track them [0], so you can't "just" upload the files. You need a tool to do that additional work.

I use RCU [1] for that.

0: https://remarkable.jms1.info/info/filesystem.html
1: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Nice. The first edition is still a great book. Some of the specific technologies are a little outdated, but the book focuses on the big picture concepts that are timeless.
What a memory unlocker this comment is - loved that show as a kid
Foundthemode
Sweden's Volvo Cars scraps plan to only sell electric vehicles by 2030
depends on the project and whether it needs the speed vs the cost & power savings, same as buying an old pc
We made a playground for HN if you want to try it without an account. It's linked in the post. https://app.repaint.com/playground
There are algorithms that should work, they're just galactic[0] or are otherwise expected to use far too much space and time to be practical.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm
> There's some boundary

But there's nothing that says that boundary has to be birth. It would depend on when you think a person exists. Some people would say that happens at conception. Others would say it doesn't happen until well after birth (indeed some philosophers have said it doesn't fully happen until adulthood).
Framer does the same thing regarding responsive layouts: desktop > tablet > mobile.
Part of it may also be a way to mitigate potential regulatory risk. Israel thus far does not have an equivalent to something like SB1047 (the closest they've come is participation in the Council of Europe AI treaty negotiations), and SSI will be well-positioned to lobby against intrusive regulation domestically in Israel.
> "Everyone just says scaling hypothesis. Everyone neglects to ask, what are we scaling?" he said.

To me this sounds like maybe they won't be doing transformers. But perhaps they just mean "we will have safety in mind as we scale, unlike everyone else."
I heard this on a reddit thread a while back but rings very true here.

> If you are seeking capital for a startup with a product, you have to sell the startup on realities (ie how much revenue you are making). If you are seeking capital for a startup with no product, you can sell the startup on dreams, which is much much easier but also way riskier for investors.

Since these guys don't have a product yet, they 100% sold it on big dreams combined with Ilya's track record at OpenAI.
At what point can we start agreeing that all these obscene investments and ridiculous valuations on something that's little more than a powerpoint deck at this stage is nothing more than degenerate gambling by the ultra rich?
Filler and paint can fix that up.
I don't think the political will to do this exists. From the perspective of the state we care way more about drugs than we do about plastics, but people have been ordering asthma drugs, psychedelics, stimulants, steroids, and retinoids from Indian pharmacies successfully for at least a decade now, which makes me think that it's a hard problem to solve at scale.
Your argument implies that we are supposed to ask the same level of autocracy from Brazil, as from Turkey, China or Russia.

If that’s the argument being made, then fine. Let’s just accept that Brazil shouldn’t be treated like a democracy anymore and that Musk should be coherent and accept Brazil’s autocratic whims the same way he accepts Russia’s, China’s and Turkey’s ones.
Why are they still referred to as "large"? They are just language models. AFAIK, the large word is because comp sci people struggled for many years to handle the size. The large word is also unscientific and arbitrary.

Please change it to just lms.txt.
Yes, they are often useful for that. Not in this case.
BSaaS?
They also offer a Linux version https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/sd-memory-card-formatter-fo...
> It feels wrong to me that a streaming service is able to modify video however it pleases.

This would significantly complicate services such as Twitch and YT Live going to server-side ad insertion if the source video were E2E. I think server-side ad insertion is likely the only method available for providers that isn't able to be circumvented by ad-block or DNS blocking plugins.
There's no reason it's intelligence should care about your goals though. the worry is creating a sociopathic (or weirder/worse) intelligence. Morality isn't derivable from first principles, it's a consequence of values.
This should have very little effect on llms training, that's not how it works.
Probably not the final blow, but Twitter will lose a bit more ad revenue in the same week CBS reported that The World Bank called BS on Elon's claims about content moderation and a few other ad buyers followed them out, and Twitter's MAUs will probably take a measurable hit. Elon suing Media Matters makes leaving that much more front of mind. Better to leave while Elon is distracted.
It's imperfect information because both players don't know the same information.

Perfect information = Chess
Imperfect information = Poker

This fits into the latter category - if player 2 knew everything that player 1 knows, they would behave differently.
Unsupervised explainable activity prediction in competitive Nordic Walking
Wait is this an official method?
As a former consultant, you explained it very well.

My job was essentially this "talk to the junior underlings, collect their complaints, and then present it to their manager so they can have an acceptable source for the same advice."

Although to even start that job, I had to build a connection with them, so they would tell me their complaints. Because they thought I was there to waste their time, instead of actually just presenting their advice.
Adding to this, another great option is getting a Wacom One for your laptop. They're available for 30$ and you can use desktop note taking apps like OneNote or Xournal++ if you're more comfortable with them + you have the multitasking features of a laptop OS.
Totally agree about fiction. Hadley Wickham's textbooks were influential in my path to become a data scientist. The writing is so good. I follow him on Goodreads and he is a voracious fiction reader.
When was the first time?
I might be misunderstanding the ruling, but I believe if your play involves an infinite loop that cannot resolve, you tie the game. Combine that with the fact the game is Turing complete, and this makes it such that you could force a game state where you must solve the halting problem in order to determine if you draw or not.
Read the rest of my post again. It's not just the parent I'm discussing.