skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you change teams? Even at smaller companies there can be large culture and impact differences between teams.
I do not own this book, but I do own another book published by Bitmap Books, and I can say the product quality is significantly higher than I expected for a $50 book (which was my main worry when I ordered it).
> decision to be reasonable

I'm not sure "We have given you 72 hours (starting on a Friday afternoon) to figure out how to mirror everything you need, and to have completed the mirroring process, and then the block is back. And updates? Sucks to be you." qualifies as "reasonable" in any sense of the word, though.
OIDC is better when using the authorization code flow because it does not only rely on cryptography while validating the token. The relying party needs to talk to the IdP. This is better from a security perspective, because past vulnerabilities have shown, that implementing the cryptography right in every relying party is challenging. You can achieve similar security with SAML when using the artifact binding.
Note: I work professionally with Keycloak and also offer reviews of OIDC and SAML implementations.
Ok I can’t read the full article so apologies if they push back, but this seems like shareholder-directed hopium, to use the technical term.

1. The Search Ads case (trial?) has just entered the “remedy” phase after Google was found liable: https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1367481/dl

2. The Display Ads trial did just start recently and it’s (IMO) more complex, but still, the government seems to have be pushing quite an aggressive line, with language like “they’re maintaining three separate monopolies”: https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1566706/dl

3. TIL they already lost the Android trial, too! As of August the judge was considering remedies: https://apnews.com/article/google-play-store-android-apps-an...

4. On top of all that, Pichai himself was caught absolutely red-handed illegally hiding materials from legal discovery mechanisms, going as far as to ask interlocutors to move sensitive conversations to more ephemeral media. That’s on top of the org-level violations, namely a) setting GoogleChat to 24h auto delete as a sudden unexplained “security precaution”, and b) writing “attorney client privilege” on basically every engineering slide deck and technical memo that might possibly be sensitive, even though there’s no attorneys in sight. It looks like they were found guilty of this in May in one federal court and are being pursued in the other for it, but the punishments haven’t been announced yet. See: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-cha...

5. Somehow, there’s no active federal case regarding Chrome, which kinda blows my mind. But with Mozilla collapsing and Display Ad changes coming down the pipe, this seems inevitable… here’s a hilarious article from 2008 tho where Microsoft promises to crush Chrome with Internet Explorer https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-may-face-antitrust...
The odd thing is that they don't compute timing in RL, but claim that somehow TNS and WNS improved. Does anyone believe this? With five circuits and three wins, the results are a coin toss.
I think we can have addictive things we just have to rules that minimize their impact.

* If the thing you sell is addictive you cannot advertise it.

* The thing must clearly tell buyers it is an addictive product designed to extract money from you for the rest of your life.

* It should be taxed such that society can pay for the costs of the addiction.

* If it's gambling you can only wager low stakes. If it's food we need to draw the line on how much added sugar, salt, or other bullshit can be used to make food more addictive
No it's more like they are trying to predict what some given human might say(#amongst other things).

a pretrained transformer in the limit does not converge on any collective or consensus state in that sense and in fact, pre-training actually punishes this. It learns to predict the words of Feynman as readily as the dumbass across the street.

When i say that GPT does not mimic, i mean that the training objective literally optimizes for beyond that.

Consider <Hash, plaintext> pairs. You can't predict this without cracking the hash algorithm, but you could easily fool a GAN's discriminator(one that has learnt to compute hash functions) just by generating typical instances.

# Consider that some of the text on the Internet isn't humans casually chatting or extemporaneous speech. It's the results section of a science paper. It's news stories that say what happened on a particular day. It's text that people crafted over hours or days.
Japan is genius when it comes to implementing those simple things that kids like. Like putting little shallow water areas in playground, all kind of mechanical things and variety of playgrounds from all types dotted all over the city, some would considered to be "dangerous" in the west. There are ones where kids can even light fires and play with working tools or cook. There are theme parks all based on various playgrounds without any electricity driven rides. You can also stamp a special kids book in train stations and even places where kids can act play in various adult "jobs" like cashier or mechanic or whatever. My kids had so much fun at those places, much more than in Disney, although they enjoyed it too.
Heh, when I see a spelling error in a news article.. I oddly feel like I can trust it more because it came from a human being. It's like a nugget of gold.
Current generative AI is a set of moderately useful/interesting technology that has been artificially blown up into something way bigger.

If you've been paying any attention for the past two decades, you'll have noticed that capitalism has had a series of hype cycles. Post COVID, Western economies are on their knees, productivity is faltering and the numbers aren't checking out anymore. Gen AI is the latest hype cycle, and it has been excellent for generating hype with clueless VCs and extracting money from them, and generating artificial economic activity. I truly think we are in deep shit when this bubble pops, it seems to be the only thing propping up our economies and staving off a wider bear market.

I've heard some say that this is all just the beginning and AGI is 2 years away because... Moore's law and that somehow applies to LLM benchmarks. Putting aside that this completely nonsensical idea, LLM performance is quite clearly not on any kind of exponential curve by now.
it definitely helps if you design it to be easy for people before you start writing the code, that’s the primary goal of the project architecture design imo
Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that has a lot of detailed allegations of fraud [2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/27/google_ai_chip_pa...

[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/26/satrajit_vs_google.pdf
And "simple and actually works" allows for smaller teams and fewer developers...
I love the Internet Archive and deeply respect Brewster Kahle, but I think it is time for someone with money to fork it: with the Archive's permission, to make a copy of the Wayback Machine and its data as well as the older books and other resources that aren't vulnerable to copyright claims. The new organization should have a more robust governance structure, too, to ensure its long-term survival.

Does anybody here have a few hundred million dollars to donate to such a project?
> But modern systems all do OIDC

Factually incorrect
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanomeline/trospium_chloride

It’s interesting to me that this is a combination medicine because the atypical antipsychotics (say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetiapine) are “polypharmacy in a single molecule” in that they bind to both dopamine and serotonin receptors which cancel out terrible side effects such as tardive dyskinesia caused by earlier antipsychotics that work on the dopamine receptors (though most of those bind to histamine receptors causing strong sedation as well.)
> I agree 100% with this sentiment, but, it also is a decent description of individual humans.

But you can understand individual humans and learn which are trustworthy for what. If I want a specific piece of information, I have people in my life that I know I can consult to get an answer that will most likely be correct and that person will be able to give me an accurate assessment of their certainty and they know how to accurately confirm their knowledge and they’ll let me know later if it turns out they were wrong or the information changed and…

None of that is true with LLMs. I never know if I can trust the output, unless I’m already an expert on the subject. Which kind of defeats the purpose. Which isn’t to say they’re never helpful, but in my experience they waste my time more often than they save it, and at an environmental/energy cost I don’t personally find acceptable.
Trello is enough for remote notecards... IMO.
I don't think artifact binding really addresses many of the issues people are talking about when they suggest OIDC is categorically more secure than SAML.
I think it's awesome personally
Runpod.io rents the next-gen MI300X's for $4/hr, although since they also rent H100's for $3/hr (that are easier to work with/faster for training) it might be more of a novelty.
My hot take is Gen Z workers are simply not compliant like older cohorts and managers don’t know how to handle that. This will continue as millions of Boomers continue to leave the workforce each year, and Gen Z workers are the only option: you can only offshore and outsource so much.

Edit: From a comment in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41675831

> The problem is, in the last ~20 years we went from ~7% of the population being retired to ~20%. Over the next 10 years, it's going to get close to ~30%. —- u/onlyrealcuzzo
Apparently it was "Bart". I had to look it up because I was curious as well.
o1-engineer
Oh and it's continued to improve in the 8 years since then. I am only aware of tinnitus when someone reminds me now (like reading this thread). This improvement is normal and called habituation, but I feel like you normally need to reach a critical point of acceptance before this happens. If you're primed to be distressed by your tinnitus (e.g. anxiety, depression) you are held back from habituation. I think the treatment was the turning point for me.
Early instance of userspace breakage hidden in plain sight
That story reminds me of this gem: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
That's true art, I love people like you. Technology can do a lot of things but it cannot give people or society principles, and without principles society fails.
I miss Digital Unix, too (I don't really miss the "Tru64" rebrand...)
As does the Swedish one: https://www.svt.se/text-tv/

Classic 40+ years old pixels (I think) on the weather forecast page 401: https://www.svt.se/text-tv/401
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word
OpenAI's big promise is that it will allegedly yield some society-changing technological development someday. As most, Internet Archive promises to not lose what we already have.
SOE training manual, from the UK national archives, converted to PDF with some introductory text:

https://ironwolf008.wordpress.com/espionage/
Geewhiz, how do i know im addicted to it until im hopelessly addicted to it?

<<The game industry lobby BURSTS through the wall like the kool-aid man to the parent post>>
You were not forced into anything. You chose to take these actions.

Furthermore, you stealthily edited your trademark policy to make it appear as if the name "WP Engine" was violating it, when in fact you specifically called out (with no caveats) that the "WP" initials were okay to use for a decade. This demonstrates bad faith on your part.

If your company is harmed from these actions, then the blame will be squarely on your shoulders, and I hope your board of directors does the right thing and fires you.

Edit: To be crystal clear, and to address the rest of your comment directly, the only way I would consider Wordpress for anything of my own or recommend it to my clients at any point in the future is if you issued an unconditional apology and resigned from your position.
The Goddess answers: "What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?"

Malaclypse: "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!"

Goddess: "Oh. Well, then stop."

-- https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Sam's flailing. He's desperate for more money, because OAI is running out. And Sam will say anything and everything to get more money. He's making whatever noise makes the audience feel good, truth be damned.

And it's kind of funny to see how well MS has played that particular instrument. A partnership with Sam got them 49% ownership and got rid of the doomer faction. The 75% profit share makes any future investors look long and hard at investing into what looks to be a capital-intensive low-revenue business right now.

Which makes it likely that OAI will run out of money, and oops, let's see if there aren't suddenly more than 49% ownership. And MS has a technology where they were long behind. (My bet is that the majority ownership will happen this funding round, because Sam is desperate)

The only way that doesn't happen is if Sam manages a massive investment round and finds a path to profit before the money's burned up. And the beauty of it is that the early 49% ownership means they only need to make a comparatively tiny investment this round to still be a majority owner in the company, with a 75% revenue share until their money is fully recouped. And the other investors get to bear the majority of the risk for the much larger funding round.

This are all utterly logical plays if you are willing to accept Sam is somebody who can make things move, loves gambling, and is a narcissist.

I really do think he's being played by a virtuoso, and it gives me great joy to watch that unfold.
I call them open weights or just freeware like when we got only the EXE’s on Windows.
Were their papers peer reviewed? How does something like this happen.
Were the papers peer reviewed? How does something like this happen
I've been in one which had tvs over the orinals, in sweden.
The incentive structures in science has been relatively stable since I entered the field in 1980 (neuroscience, developmental biology, genetics). Quality and quantity of science is extraordinary, but peer review is worse than bad. There are almost no incentives to review the work of your colleagues properly. It does not pay bills and you can make enemies easily.

But there was no golden era of science to look back on. It has always been a wonderful productive mess—much like the rest of life. As least it moves forward—and now exceedingly rapidly.

Almost unbelievably, there are far worse crimes than fraud that we completely ignore.

There are crimes associated with social convention in science of the type discussed by Karl Herrup with respect to 20 years of misguided focus on APP and abeta fragments in Alzheimer’s disease:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-di...

This could be called the “misdemeanors of scientific social inertia”. Or the “old boys network”.

There is also an invisible but insidious crime of data evaporation. Almost no funders will fund data preservation. Even genomics struggles but is way ahead in biomedical research. Neuroscience is pathetic in this regard (and I chaired the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroinformatics Committee).

I have a talk on this socio-political crime of data evaporation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZhnXU8gV44&embeds_referring...
OpenAI had a noticeable head start with GPT-2 in 2019. They capitalized on that head start with ChatGPT in late 2022, and relatively speaking they plateaued from that point onwards. They lost that head start 2.5 months later with the announcement of Google Bard, and since then they've been only slightly ahead of the curve.
> They're really good at some things, terrible at others, and prone to doing something totally wrong some fraction of the time. (…) They can't safely be in charge of anything important.

Agreed. If everyone understood that and operated under that assumption, it wouldn’t be that much of an issue. Alas, these guessing machines are marketed as all-knowing oracles that can already solve half of humanity’s problems and a significant number of people treat them as being right every time, even in instances where they’re provably wrong.
In the movie "The Martian" Matt Damon grew potatoes on Mars. Lived off of them and ketchup for a long time, and the ketchup ran out.
MI250s definitely aren’t a common card to rent so only can find Runpod at $2.10 per hour each. This results in a training cost of $4838 + fine tuning of $3225. However this doesn’t include the 11TB of storage or time taken to get the setup actually running the tasks. So likely you wouldn’t see much change from $10k usd if any.

- https://www.runpod.io/gpu/mi250
Focus on your startup not the marketing graphics and copies
Wikipedia have admin sexual harassment scandals
I think you've hit on an important point. Science isn't about finding absolute truth, but rather about generating testable hypotheses that can be validated through experimentation and observation. This is why it's so crucial for scientists to follow the scientific method - they need to be willing to revise their theories based on new evidence. Your comparison between science and engineering is a good one. Engineering is often more focused on practical application, whereas science is more about understanding the underlying mechanisms that govern our world.
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> As part of funding, the non-profit would grant exclusive, irrevocable rights of it's IP to that for-profit venture.

Isn't that fraud/stealing from all the donors? I mean how is that different than just giving money to another business not owned by the non profit?
thanks, missed that!
This can't be said often enough. We have two right wing parties in the US. That's it.
Everyone is moaning about people not paying taxes.

I pay a metric shit ton of taxes to fund the exotic lifestyles of federally elected officials and to fund wars overseas. And before you go “oh who is paying for the fire department” that is less than .02% of my taxes, a reasonable amount.

I applaud people that found a way around the utter bullshit. I’m working for free, under threat of arrest, for 3-4 months every year. Unbelievable.
The gameplan is simple:

* Capture the market (like Uber), by doing whatever it takes to be successful (e.g. offer your services at 1/3rd of what it costs) -- flush the equivalent of several countries' GDP down the toilet, if necessary.

* Wait for everyone to use only your service (because it's like water??)

* Raise rates (hopefully, everyone is "locked-in" at this point)

* Profit!
Principles:

1) Asset allocation: Basically, how much you want in stocks, how much in bonds. Those are the two major asset classes. Go way heavier on stocks early in life and maybe trend toward 50-50 later in life when you have less time to ride out dips.

2) Diversification: What specific entities you invest in. Suggestion: Total US stock market index, total world non-US stock market index, total US bond market index. This way you don't have to pick winners. You just buy everything. Let the bad stuff drop off along the way, and let the good stuff do its thing.

3) Rebalancing: Like once a year, or every time your chosen asset allocation gets at least 5% off. Whatever feels good, but keep your asset allocation under your own conscious control.

As a note, Ric Edelman, when he had a radio show, went over the IRA to Roth conversion. Several times. According to him, it's a wash. Pay tax before you invest or when you withdraw, but either way the net effect is almost identical.

I like silexia's comment. There is a lot of information not included in the story, and, if you think about it, this whole story is one data point. One guy did some things/had some things happen at a particular time in history. Don't expect to cut and paste into your own life and get rich by next week.

Important points:

1) Start as early as you can.

2) Be religious about regular investing without fail.

3) Never break into the piggy bank to buy a house or a fancy car, or for any other reason short of a dire medical emergency.

4) Take advantage of every break you can find, and any employer matches.

5) Wait.

There is a huge amount of information at Bogleheads Investing Advice and Info ( https://www.bogleheads.org/ )
I'm still excited about flying on a plane even though I've done it dozens of times.
They have, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5 is superior to GPT-4o in every way, it's even better then their new o1 model at most things (coding, writing, etc.).

OpenAI went from GPT-4, which was mind blowing, to 4o, which was okay, to o1 which was basically built in chain-of-thought.

No new Whisper models (granted, advanced voice chat is pretty cool). No new Dalle models. And nobody is sure what happened to Sora.
We agreed to make the threadsafeness more explicit in the documentation of the 'unique' package: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69637
> We are at the point where AI writes code for us and we can blindly accept it.

I’m waiting for the day we’ll get the first major breach because someone did exactly that. This is not a case of “if”, it is very much a “when”. I’ve seen enough buggy LLM-generated code and enough people blindly accepting it to be confident in that assertion.

I do hope it doesn’t happen, but I think it will.
Lua is another language that lets you do this!
Also, get as many 20,000/1 profit ratio private insider secret deals as you possibly can under your belt and let other people work their lives away to enrich you.
Is that something that the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) could change (in Europe)?
These posts are tiresome. They all boil down to "my view should be the middle".

You could just as well claim the Democrats are far left and the republicans center left.
OIDC is newer and many of the issues with SAML were addressed in the architecture. However I’m curious to hear which attack vectors you are thinking about.
> The only solution to this is skin in the game.

Another solution is the opposite, no skin in the game

Remove cocrete incentives and pay salaries
How would they be allowed to switch to BTC (or another decentralized cryptocurrency) at a greater rate than they're currently allowed to switch to USD? I'd imagine it wouldn't be much harder to crack down on one than the other, given that the USD is also predominantly a digital currency.
I know and at my company we actually cannot disable the AI suggestions :(

It's like dealing with a pathological liar who produces very convincing looking code for me to review, but actually there is a bug in it 50% of the time. It's like it's trying to trick me into committing bugs.
Why does pretraining or not matter in the ISPD 2023 paper? The circuit_training repo, as noted in the rebuttal of the rebuttal by the ISPD 2023 paper authors, claims training from scratch is "comparable or better" than fine-tuning the pre-trained model. So no matter your opinion on the importance of the pretraining step, this result isn't replicable, at which point the ball is in Google's court to release code/checkpoints to show otherwise.