skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They set out to do some cool stuff. They did. Company is now in the reality of they need to run a business and make revenue/profit which is, honestly, a lot less fun than when you were in “let’s change the world and do cool stuff” phase. AGI is much further away than thought. Was a good run and time to do something else and let others now do the “run a company” phase. Seems like nothing more to it than that and seems fair to me.
I didn't see any rules/explanation of how to play Is that intentional or maybe I'm missing it on mobile?
I was an early adopter of the Galaxy Note which looked outlandishly large and goofy, back when people still spoke in awe of how Jobs made the 3.5" iPhone to fit the human hand naturally and no other form factor could possibly be right.

Fast forward today and nearly every phone looks like a galaxy note. Turns out when the utility is there, people will adapt.
I like Zoo for Zotero on Android. With a bit of customization it gets the job done.
https://github.com/mickstar/Zoo-For-Zotero
Did they explain why they convened a board to research the topic to get to the bottom of this and then disbanded the board before they finished? Seems kind of shady when the government says "We are not sure, we need to do more research before we do this" and then never actually do that research and just kill someone?

Either you trust the government, and agree that they should have waited.

Or you don't trust the government, in which case you really can't trust them to kill someone.

So which is it?
Researchers discover 200-year-old message in a bottle: 'Absolutely magic moment'
What on Earth is going on that they keep losing their best people. Is it a strange work environment?
"Allegory of the cave" comes to mind, when trying to describe the understanding that's missing from diffusion models. I think a super-model with such qualifications would require a number of ControlNets in a non-visual domains to be able to encode understanding of the underlying physics. Diffusion models can render permutations of whatever they've seen fairly well without that, though.
OpenAI is shifting from “we did some really cool stuff” phase into the reality of needing to run a company, getting revenue, etc phase. Not common for folks to want to move on and go find the next cool thing. AGI is not around the corner. Building a company is a very different thing than building cool stuff and OpenAI is now in building a company mode.
I've been using this workflow with hg and it's great, happy to see a git port
He controls approximately 1% of the voting shares of MSFT.
The Innocence Project has been like this for a while. They are not a neutral third party, they are activists. In this particular case, this man was plainly and obviously guilty of a heinous murder. They’re using weasel words and a disingenuous reading of DNA evidence to argue that there’s reasonable doubt when there is not. If their issue is with the death penalty then just argue that issue.
If you put kids in them 8 hours a day, it would be a concern (although I don't think there is substantive evidence either way yet). I think there's a safe middle ground where using something like this for up to couple of hours in a day at most is very unlikely to have any significant effect. It's just not enough fraction of the time to cause a major impact, especially older kids (teens).
That was not the premise, and I see no relation between license and telemetry.

That being said, I used to run ClamAV, and as I understood it, it was far from a complete security suite, only a scanner, and had no reason to communicate with anything.

Also, it never gave me anything but false positives, flagging image files (jpg, png) on my Linux system with obsolete/benign win32 malware. I wasn't running win32. Idiots.
At this point, that seems dubious - your inner ear is going to go all inner ear on you, no matter what. Unless you get to turn that off, VR is not it.
I mean in the full dystopian setting, it’s always doing facial recognition and labeling everyone you see with names, profiles, credit score etc. It could do a little more digging and tell you exactly what a person would respond to while making a sale, what they’re worried about, what they deeply care about etc. Information like that, person to person would change society.

Has anyone made a tool for that yet? Maybe use llama, provide all of a person’s online profiles as context and ask it to determine the persons fears, weaknesses etc.
well put! making sure that the new, memory safe code interoperates with the old code and is equally well supported by tooling takes an incredible amount of work.
My tinnitus was definitely caused by the same nerve damage that caused my hearing loss. I'd be happy with improvement in either.

The article you linked mentions a potential treatment using neurotrophins (drugs) to regenerate the auditory nerve, but you mentioned some sort of surgery. Is that a different surgical approach being developed in tandem?
Assuming they're 40, how far do you think $250k will go 20-30-40 years from now? It's not a stretch to think dollars could be devalued by 90%, possibly even worthless, within 30 years.
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Because you're thinking of the possibilities from a very narrow angle (communication, passive media consumption, and productivity).

The educational potential for AR is absolutely incredible. Imagine being able to look down at a breadboard, and have it overlay explanations, diagrams, current flows, etc.

Imagine putting a person in front of you who is juggling (mills mess, box pattern, etc) and slowing it down to exactly see how to learn it.

Imagine being able to practice drawing by putting a model of any human in the center of your room, and walk around it as you sketch on actual canvas.

Imagine being able to head to the nearest open soccer field, and throw down a bunch of ninjas throwing ninja stars at you, and you have to physically duck and weave while running full tilt down the field.

These took me 10 seconds to think of a bunch of things that I would personally want assuming the AR glasses can eventually overcome bright light, good battery life, etc.
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People are generally assuming Apple is also developing these internally. They just don't show off their tech until it is ready. But I would love to know where they are in comparison with respect to weight, size and field of view. I know it is not obvious unless you are very in the scene, but 70 degrees field of view here in this form factor is a massive breakthrough. Most similar glasses are struggling to do 45 degrees.
FWIW, I've been using this alias for the past couple years for fixup commits, and I've been happy with it:

> gfx='git commit --fixup $(git log $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD --oneline| fzf| cut -d" " -f1)'

It shows you the commits on the current branch and lets you select one via fzf. It then creates the fixup commit based on the commit you selected.
it can actually solve problems though, its not just an illusion of intelligence if it does the stuff we considered mere years ago sufficient to be intelligent. But you and others keep moving the goalposts as benchmarks saturate, perhaps due to a misplaced pride in the specialness of human intelligence.

I understand the fear, but the knee jerk response “its just predicting the next token thus could never be intelligent” makes you look more like a stochastic parrot than these models are.
someone should revive it as a GUI debugger. doing so would narrow the scope which should cut down on complexity. let people use their own editors and IDEs for making code changes. the focus should be on inspecting state, seeing live updates, allowing you to smoothly change inputs and immediately see the output, plus the usual debugger features like stepping through the program.
That perfect handwriting made me think if there were some kind of type writers in that time period.

Handwriting is a lost art, especially in USA, I think? Don't know if it's more common to study handwriting in European schools.
While it's true that fast compilation was probably the primary asperation of golang's design, it wasn't the only concern, and there is nothing about eliminating nullability that would have compromised compile time. So I'm left to imagine that they just didn't know.
One of my favorite Sapling commands at Meta
Are we sure it’s safe to suggest plans like this for the AI /s
Oh crap... the Scanlock Mark VB receiver shown on that picture is really similar to the Autolock 7 receiver I snatched at a flea market for a song many years ago, and after finding absolutely nothing about it online sold it on Ebay for like 3 songs. Had I known it was a bug finding device I could have donated it to the Cryptomuseum.
You have no customers whose subscriptions to manage yet. Thinking about this at this stage is a distraction.

You're getting feedback; what's the market saying? What are your potential customers doing? What are you learning? Are you making sure you're not being tossed around by frivolous feature requests tied to a hint of a hypothetical purchase if implemented?
I only know the western US. And my experience is consistant with your own -- specialized applications.

They would love to reconductor the other circuits. In the US, the utilities make a guaranteed rate of return on investments in the transmission system. So, anything they regulators will let them do, they'll do -- not necessarily because it has technical benefits, but because it has economic benefits.

This is one reason why reconductoring isn't that popular with utilities -- it allows the utility to get more capacity with less spend, so less profit.
How this not in the front page of HN is really beyond me.

I asked ChatGPT this simple question and the responses are really commendable and a bit hilarious:

Prompt: Since OpenAI the owner of the ChatGPT has removed non-profit control of OpenAI and gave Sam Altman equity what is the more appropriate alternative name to OpenAI now?

Answers: Given the shift in OpenAI's structure from a non-profit to a more profit-oriented model, a name like "AltmanAI" could be seen as more reflective of its current leadership and business model. Alternatively, something like "ProfitAI" or "EquityAI" could highlight the focus on profitability and equity distribution, though these might come across as blunt or satirical.

However, if the goal is to preserve a sense of innovation and artificial intelligence leadership while reflecting the new profit-driven focus, names like "InnovativeAI" or "EnterpriseAI" could also work. These names could better align with the organization's current direction while maintaining a forward-thinking brand identity.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643700 ?
Maybe it was exterminated?
Yeah, the practical situation there would seem pretty clear. I'm just wondering what theory Mullenweg is trying to express here in support of this action.
I can't tell if this a serious comment or not, but they need an OS with realtime guarantees. They have claimed to use linux in a rtos configuration, also probably have a redundancy and voting-based failover system.
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Yeah, it singlehandedly turned me on to Mercurial when I was there, and has massively shaped the way I use git ever since.
Exactly, Sam Altman wants group think, no opposition, no diversity of thought. That's what petty dictators demand. This spells the end of OpenAI IMO. Huge amount of money will keep it going until it doesn't
> what if older code isn't being looked at as hard and therefore vulnerabilities aren't being discovered?

It wasn’t being look at as hard before either. I don’t think that’s changed.

They don’t give a theory for why older code has fewer bugs, but I’ve got one: they’ve been found.

If we assumed that any piece of code has a fixed amount of unknown bugs per 1000 lines, it stands to reason that overtime the sheer number of times the code is run with different inputs in prod makes it more and more likely they will be discovered. Between fixing them and the code reviews while fixing them the hope would be that on average things are being made better.

So overtime, there are fewer bugs per thousand lines in existing code. It’s been battle tested.

As the post says, if you continue introducing new bugs at the same rate you’re not going to make progress. But if using a memory safe language means you’re introducing fewer bugs in new features then overtime the total number of bugs should be going down.
And I would argue his "soft power" is greatly diminished as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641864
Curious what Google Cloud is doing that's equivalent?
"The End of Telecoms History"
Democrats would need a super majority to pass abortion and the last time that happened was 09.
Just a minor correction. Most of the proteins encoded by the human genome are NOT enzymes. Only about 17% of the ~20,000 human proteins have known enzyme activities. Many proteins (probably the majority of protein mass in the cell) are structural, and others do signaling and metabolite transport.
Except that AR glasses that require a controller are totally impractical when using them in everyday life.
The "Texas two-step" has been used by plenty of companies and is structured around exactly those sort of shenanigans. https://www.investopedia.com/texas-two-step-bankruptcy-defin...
Nice! I use git revise[^1] a lot which does a similar thing but without the fixup commit. I I’ll try using fzf to make it interactive though. Thanks!

[^1]: https://github.com/mystor/git-revise
Wasn't he at OpenAI when transformers and Google's pretrained transformer BERT came out?
I just want two to four text lines of 80-characters wide, literally in monochrome if you have to I don't care, and the ability to use it to scroll thru help with speaking in a foreign language / subtitling what I am hearing around me, in a glasses form factor that people don't notice aren't my normal reading glasses.

That is it. I have wanted just this, for decades.

I have lived a lot of my life in places where I don't speak the local language. I have Auditory Processing Disorder and a speech impediment that, if I don't have a good 'script' to go along with, makes it very difficult for me to get by in public often. I currently live in a country where my anxiety is amplified by the fact that any mis-spoken words by me often results in straight up being berated at a faster speed than I can understand, instead of being helped. I feel like am absolute idiot every time I have to just go get something at the pharmacy or ask for something new at the bakery. I've tried for years, taking courses, to learn to listen closer and work on my grammar and vocab, but I'm aging and have just gotten worse and worse.

Most interactions would go smooth if I could just have a few key moments translated for me. I feel like this is a no brainer of tech now that we have super reliable speech-to-text in multiple languages and pretty damn good audio filtering to pickout the main converstation from background noise. I'd even let the model run on a laptop in my backpack to keep the glasses down in size to something that, again, doesn't make me look like some VR dweeb. And no cameras in the glasses staring at people making them question my motives or draining the battery. Just the essentials.

Please. I've been seeing promises of this for literally 20 years. I just need those few lines of text in ~640x200 pixels in front of me to help me get by. Fuck it, give me a 9600 bps serial-over-bluetooth to the display and make it 'dumb' and I'll write the software myself..
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1. Ignore the benchmarks. I've been A/Bing 11B today with Molmo 72B [1], which itself has an ELO neck-and-neck with GPT4o, and it's even. Because everyone in open source tends to train on validation benchmarks, you really can not trust them.

2. The method of tokenization/adapter is novel and uses many fewer tokens than all comparable CLIP/SigLIP-adapter models, making it _much_ faster. Attention is O(n^2) on memory/compute per sequence length.

[1] https://molmo.allenai.org/blog
It’s a severe problem in mpls. Are you sure we’re talking about the same city and rail system? Never heard it called “the metro”. I was born and raised in DC where that’s what folks call the subway… only ever heard it called the light rail…
They don't, they're playing "hide the #s" a bit. Llama 3.2 3B is definitively worse than Phi-3 from May, both on any given metric and in an hour of playing with the 2, trying to justify moving to Llama 3.2 at 3B, given I'm adding Llama 3.2 at 1B.
The justice system wasn't presented with any new evidence. Some DNA from the prosecution's office ended up on the weapon sometime in the preceding 17 years, big whoop. This isn't exculpatory and doesn't contradict a single claim made by the prosecution, and there was plenty of strong evidence that he did it, such as possessing all the victim's stuff and pawning her laptop and bragging about how he did it in words that included nonpublic details about the crime.

This is the Innocence Project's standard beat. They attempt to free a lot of convicts with arguments that the media automatically takes as trustworthy because they have the word 'DNA' in them, whose conviction was based on very strong evidence and whose defense offered zero plausible explanations of the evidence, and the DNA-based argument doesn't actually contradict anything at all.
And yet people who try it instantly want it. The Meta Ray Bans are a hit, they couldn't make enough for a long time.

Sometimes upfront demand isn't the only indicator that matters.
I think the standard assumption would be that you need to start replacing older code with memory safe code to see improvements.

Instead they’ve shown that only using memory safe languages for new code is enough for the total bug count to drop.
I wish enum was never part of TypeScript. It’s this one odd thing unlike the rest.

Am I forgetting any or is it the only feature that actually generates code rather than just being extra annotation?
Below are exerts from the article you link. I'd suggest a more careful read through. Unless out of hand, you give zero credibility to first hand accounts given to the NYT by both Mirati and Sustkever...

This piece is built on conjecture from a source whose identify is withheld. The sources version of events is openly refuted by the parties in question. Offering it as evidence that Mirati intentionally made political moves in order to get Altman ousted is an indefensible position.

'Mr. Sutskever’s lawyer, Alex Weingarten, said claims that he had approached the board were “categorically false.”'

'Marc H. Axelbaum, a lawyer for Ms. Murati, said in a statement: “The claims that she approached the board in an effort to get Mr. Altman fired last year or supported the board’s actions are flat wrong. She was perplexed at the board’s decision then, but is not surprised that some former board members are now attempting to shift the blame to her.”
In a message to OpenAI employees after publication of this article, Ms. Murati said she and Mr. Altman “have a strong and productive partnership and I have not been shy about sharing feedback with him directly.”

She added that she did not reach out to the board but “when individual board members reached out directly to me for feedback about Sam, I provided it — all feedback Sam already knew,” and that did not mean she was “responsible for or supported the old board’s actions.”'

This part of NYT piece is supported by evidence:

'Ms. Murati wrote a private memo to Mr. Altman raising questions about his management and also shared her concerns with the board. That move helped to propel the board’s decision to force him out.'

INTENT matters. Mirati says the board asked for her concerns about Altmans. She provided it and had already brought it to Altmans attention... in writing. Her actions demonstrate transparency and professionalism.
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI Quits
A task type with an entry is effectively a generator.
I'm a little confused about when I'd use this, if I'm quickly iterating on code as I develop it, probably I also want to know whether it type checks, right?
Most code is grounded in real-world concepts somehow. Imagine an engineer at Domino's asking it to write an ordering app. Now your model needs to know what goes in to a pizza.
Would a cross apply accomplish the same result without the risk of multiple rows?

Cross apply (select top 1 ... ) x
What was he selling?
More like "more DRMed internet with Cloudflare".
Nah, it doesn't really say why they didn't just use TypeScript.
> goldmansachs-investment[.]com

I wonder whether they use a domain name monitoring firm now.
Whatever your body plan, I suspect higher order intelligence is a sort of snowball effect from having dexterous appendages you can use while walking and making noises at the same time.

Without that trio it may just be too difficult to keep going up the ladder to tool user and sentience.

That doesn’t eliminate crab people. It may not eliminate cephalopods. It may eliminate sea mammals without external help (David Brin gives dolphins prosthetic arms via human assistance).

It may also be that we need combustion to advance, or that may be only a problem on planets with our parameters.
When did Altman learn how to use uppercase characters?
Correction: it is in fact hearsay but it is admissible under one of numerous exceptions to the rule that hearsay is not admissible.

Laws are generally clearer if you write them as general definitions and general rules and if those cover too much carve out exceptions in the rules rather than the definitions. It would work to make the exceptions to the definitions instead, or to both the definitions and rules, but that is usually going to be more complicated and less clear.

For hearsay the general definition is "an out of court statement offered to prove the truth of what the statement asserts" and the general rule is "hearsay is not admissible", and that is narrowed by a bunch of exceptions to the "hearsay is not admissible" rule. As far as I remember pretty much everyone has left the definition untouched.
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From quizzing it a bit it has good knowledge but limited reasoning. For example it will tell you all about the life and death of Ho Chi Minh (and as far as I can verify factual and with more detail than what's in English Wikipedia), but when quizzed whether 2kg of feathers are heavier than 1kg of lead it will get it wrong.

Though I wouldn't treat it as a domain expert on anything. For example when I asked about the safety advantages of Rust over Python it oversold Rust a bit and claimed Python had issues it doesn't actually have
I don't get this.

I could write paragraphs...

Why the rain clouds?
Is it?

If you add up all the JavaScript, C#, Java, Python, and PHP being written every year, that’s a lot of code.

Are we sure that all that combined isn’t more than C/C++? Or at least somewhat close?
Or the Dell Streak with its "huge" 5 inch screen in 2010. A "phablet". Today it would be considered on the smaller side.
"Consistent with this..." I read as "this cause has significant part in justification that...". ISS obviously is on orbit not because it's easier to build in space than on the surface of a natural satellite - if Earth would have a Deimos orbiting it at height of 1000 km, I see it quite possible that ISS would be on the surface of such satellite, with all ifs and buts - but because ISS is roughly in the closest location to Earth which is still "space" and doesn't require continuous re-launching (like New Shepard).

Coming back to the topic, I'd like to see the reasons why both approaches could be beneficial. I see, for example, that for space-based constructions we don't - mostly - have interference from the surface of anything, while for surface-based constructions we have support and resources. Do we have a full analysis which would allow us to say "surface always sux, in-space forewa" or "only l00mers build in space, real men are firmly grounded"? Or, talking about a finer point, deployment only - do we have full justification?