skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just cobbling together articles I've read... Once the board failed to fire Altman, this transition was a done-deal, it was just a matter of when. Before the board fired Altman, he had been engaging in a more covert effort to take control - putting together personal attacks on various board members intended to drive them out and hiring people with a similar attitude to and loyalty to himself. When the board fired him, they didn't give any clear reasons and that's most mysterious part of the situation. Apparently they were all concerned about his campaign to take control of the board but they each had slightly different reasons for agreeing. I'd further speculate that the board thought in lawyer-advice terms - say as little as possible to avoid a retaliatory lawsuit.

But the board's lack of communication apparently allowed Altman to demonstrate he was more important to the organization than the formal/legal structure, 90% signed intents to quit and the board backed down. It seemed that Altman simply represented the attitude of the many Silicon Valley tech-people - once you have a chance of money, don't hold back, do everything you can to make it.
I don't think it's ignorant to not invest in something that has a decade long path towards even having a market, much less a large market.
Nah, I think the article has good intentions. And rampant fraud is important to address.

But as others said, addressing smaller shenanigans is also crucial to steer things in the right direction.
I’ve hacked even peer reviews. Nobody wants to really write yours, so offer to do it for them.

Obviously making it mindlessly laudatory.
I'm actually excited about AI. With a dose of realism. But I benefit from LLMs on a daily basis now. There are a lot of challenges with LLMs but they are useful tools and we haven't really seen much yet. It's only been two years since chat gpt was released. And mostly we're still consuming this stuff via chat UIs, which strikes me as sub optimal and is something I hope will change soon.

The increases in context size are helping a lot. The step improvement in reasoning abilities and quality of answers is amazing to watch. I'm currently using chat gpt o1 preview a lot for programming stuff. It's not perfect but I can use a lot of what it generates and this is saving me a lot of time lately. It still gets stuff wrong and there's a lot of stuff it doesn't know.

I also am mildly addicted to perplexity.ai. Just a wonderful tool and I seem to be getting in the habit of asking it about anything that pops into my mind. Sometimes it's even work related.

I get that people are annoyed with all the hyperbolic stuff in the media on this topic. But at the same time, the trends here are pretty amazing. I'm running the 3B parameter llama 3.2 model on a freaking laptop now. A nice two year old M1 with only 16GB. It's not going to replace bigger models for me. But I can see a few use cases for running it locally.

My view is very simple. I'm a software developer. I grew up a few decades ago before there was any internet. I had no clue what a computer even was until I was in high school. Things like Knight Rider, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, Star Wars etc. all featured forms of AIs that are now more or less becoming science fact. C3PO is pretty dumb compared to chat gpt actually. You could build something better and more useful these days. That would mostly an art and crafts project at this point. No special skills required. Just use an LLM to generate the code you need. Nice project for some high school kids.

Which brings me to my main point. We're the old generation. Part of being old is getting replaced by younger people. Young people are growing up with this stuff. They'll use it to their advantage and they are not going to be held back by old fashioned notions about the way the things should work according to us old people. The thing with Luddites is that they exist in any generation. And then they grow tired, old, and then they die off. I have no ambition to become irrelevant like that.

I'm planning to keep up with young people as long as I can. I'll have to give that up at some point but not just yet. And right now that includes being clued in as much as I can about LLMs and all the developer plumbing I need to use them. This stuff is shockingly easy. Just ask your favorite LLM to help you get started.
The wife has crunched the numbers, and seems to think it is sustainable. There's only one way to find out for sure, of course.
You're essentially describing Apple Intelligence :-)

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple... (see Model Adaptation)
> So AI isn't really a tool for creating substance. It's a tool for automating impression management.

I was speaking to a design lecturer the other evening. His fascinating insight was that:

1. The best designers get so much fulfilment out of practicing the craft of design.

2. With the advent of low cost “impression making”, the role has changed to one of “review a lot of mediocre outputs and pick the least crap one”

3. This is robbing people of the pleasure and reward associated with craftsmanship.

I have noted this is applicable so many other crafts, and it’s really sad!

Edited afterthought…
Is craftsmanship being replaced by “clickandreviewmanship”?
Google Maps Street view link of the store windows that house the Christmas displays leading up to Dec. 25 every year.

see https://maps.app.goo.gl/ho5aM9sjaPo27bYB6
Rosie appears to be an acknowledgment that we shouldn't try to use a regular language when the problem requires a context free language.
Unfortunately, if this succeeds, you'll need to figure out a way to prevent (or mitigate) spam and other abuse. It's an awful problem, and I'm not sure if there's any way to really deal with it. A PGP-style web-of-trust might work, but that has its own downsides.
That's pretty sick. Super readable with python :)

Is each file getting parsed individually with tree-sitter or how is the codebase object constructed?
> The WP Engine side seems much more reasonable to me.

That seems unwarranted. Both parties can be shitty. One for "snide, petulant" communication, and the other for being a private equity leech.
it looks like Matt is thankfully trying to ensure end customers don’t get unreasonably affected.

No, WordPress' lawyers almost certainly told Matt he was committing tortious interference of contract, and opening up WordPress, Automattic, and himself to tens of millions in damages claims from WP Engine and their affected customers.

Given his behavior in prior such tantrums, it's clear that the decision to be reasonable was not Matt's choice. It was an ultimatum given to him by others.
The level of hubris when comparing something that brings literal physical light to something that is not even public or reproducible.
> Q levels has risen on average because of...

...nobody really knows why
He's done this repeatedly. https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-and-privacy...
>but that improvement is already plateauing

Based on what ? The gap between the release of GPT-3 and 4 is still much bigger than the time that has elapsed since 4 was already released so really, Based on what ?
The point is that drunk driving is illegal even if you are driving perfectly fine.

Hell, being drunk just sitting in a parked, no ignition driver seat is illegal in some places.

Not sure how the second one is reckless in this context.
And I've never used a QNAP, but I'm on my second Synology and their drive carriages all use rubber/silicone grommets to isolate drive vibration from the case. It's not silent - five drives of spinning rust will make some noise regardless - but it sits in a closet under my stairs that backs up to my media cabinet and you have to be within a few feet to hear it even in the closet over background noise in the house.

I don't use any of their "personal cloud" stuff that relies on them. It's just a Linux box with some really good features for drive management and package updates. You can set up and maintain any other services you want without using their manager.

The ease with which I could set it up as a destination for Time Machine backups has absolutely saved my bacon on at least one occasion. My iMac drive fell to some strange data corruption and would not boot. I booted to recovery, pointed it at the Synology, and aside from the restore time, I only lost about thirty minutes' work. The drive checked out fine and is still going strong. Eventually it will die, and when it does I'll buy a new Mac and tell it to restore from the Synology. I have double-disk redundancy, so I can lose any two of five drives with no loss of data so long as I can get new drives to my house and striped in before a third fails. That would take about a week, so while it's possible, it's unlikely.

If I were really paranoid about that, I'd put together a group buy for hard drives from different manufacturers, different runs, different retailers, etc., and then swap them around so none of us were using drives that were all from the same manufacturer, factory, and date. But I'm not that paranoid. If I have a drive go bad, and it's one that I have more than one of the same (exact) model, I'll buy enough to replace them all, immediately replace the known-bad one, and then sell/give away the same-series.
It would have to be on and tuned into the right channel in the first place in order to build a cache.
Coral: a Rust-like Borrow Checker for C [pdf]
RFC9659: Window Sizing for Zstandard Content Encoding on the Web
Archive link: https://archive.is/KVsRP

> In June, researchers published a study that concluded that one-tenth of the academic papers they examined “were processed with LLMs,” calling into question not just those individual papers but whole networks of citation and reference on which scientific knowledge relies.

> “I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans,” Speer wrote.

> Derek Sullivan, a cataloguer at a public-library system in Pennsylvania, told me that AI-generated books had begun to cross his desk regularly. Though he first noticed the problem thanks to a recipe book by a nonexistent author that featured “a meal plan that told you to eat straight marinara sauce for lunch,” the slop books he sees often cover highly consequential subjects like living with fibromyalgia or raising children with ADHD.
There isn't much to learn if you have proper (or at least bilaterally symmetric) range of motion in your muscles and joints. If, instead, you have long-term injuries, tissue damage, etc., that have led to patterns of movement that are causing degeneration and inefficient patterns of movement, then you basically need to learn how to fix those problems, then relearn to walk. There are complex sequences of neuromuscular cues that healthy people possess but don't think about consciously, just like the ability to recognize objects. I needed to learn a LOT about walking and running in every sense of the word, in addition to slowly gaining foot strength. It would not have happened if I had taken a passive approach. It was more like programming a computer to recognize objects from scratch in R or C (whichever you believe to be the pirate's favorite programming language...).
All he wants is to find ways to keep propping up the unsustainable and insatiable beast he’s bullied into existence. The promise of AGI is one-half threat and one-half desperate hope, because there’s no other way to keep the bubble growing without government resources.
Your claims aren't strengthened by that article.

Till today starlink doesn't work there in Crimea unless you use equipment bought by the Pentagon.

The Crimea sanctions aren't gone. And at that time the US refused to allow Ukraine use it's weapons in Crimea

And I feel I'm arguing with someone who doesn't know how Satellite Internet works, what spot beams are or how starlink dishes are bought in Ukraine.

I'll give you a clue. If you buy a dish at a supermarket in any country starlink operates, sign up for a roaming plan and enter Ukraine it will work. Just like any other global satellite Internet provider.

A stronger clue? No one involved has talked about it. And we don't even know if it's real.

Nothing from Ukraine, the State Department, the Pentagon, or SpaceX. Not one word.
Is it time for periodic AI-driven audits of papers. Some types of audits may be easy—Western blots for example. But many edge cases will require lots of sleuthing or preferably open access to all files and data. Obviously paying for your own audit sets up the incentives the wrong way.

Alzheimer’s research has been a mess for 30 years as Karl Herrup argues persuasively in How Not to Study a Disease:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546010/how-not-to-study-a-di...
Premise of article is wrong. Kids do get excited about the same things as adults; novel and intriguing things within reach. These things just aren't exciting any more to adults. That's the only difference. An adult that's never been on a train, but never could, or was never allowed, will find it exciting too.
A joke I saw:

"Why did the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager?"

"Because he left the Hamas pager at home."
Weschler makes essentially the same point: if you dont have the time or desire to spend 24x7x365 thinking about money, index funds are for you. sed s/money/life problems/g.

I think that people forget that these homely-sounding guys like Buffett and Weschler have serious, serious time and mental investments in thinking about money. Theyre not serious like you or I, maybe, who watch a few hours of Bloomberg each week. They eat, sleep, and dream about investing. Theyre basically money monks. Theyre also (and I think they would admit it too) lucky. You can make some of your own luck in investing, by studying businesses like these guys do, but you still need to be lucky. I observe that many of their investments eschew fashionable sectors like tech. I wonder if that is, again, making their own luck. I think Buffett would have choice words to say about investing in Nvidia for example.
We do advanced static analysis to provide programmatic access to the type system, etc., based on tree-sitter and in-house tech.

This enables APIs such as `function.call_sites`, `symbol.usages`, `class.parent_classes`, and more!
>The person pushing the button had no visibility into who was holding the device and who would be injured in the blast radius.

You sound like someone who is amazed and flabbergasted by the Iranian ambassador having (and being injured by) one of those pagers.

A joke I saw:

"Why did the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager?"

"Because he left the Hamas pager at home."
I have seen at least one experiment running a language model or other neural network on (small scale) memory-based computing substrates. That suggests less than 1-2 years to apply them immediately to existing tasks once they are scaled up in terms of compute capacity.
I didn't have that particular kind of idyllic childhood, that fairytale cherished time of having engaged, caring parents whose primary goal was to spend quality time with me. But with that came a different kind of freedom, different experiences.

For example, on one occasion my mother and stepfather wanted a week together, and obtained it by taking the three of us for a full week stay at a big amusement park during a school holidays... and oh you better believe that I have an extremely joyous set of memories of spending all day every day unsupervised in a happy dream of endless roller coasters and water slides!
Totally dig this, especially the doorbell chime cover & music box!
This position rests pretty heavily on the idea that Wordpress.com is subsidizing wordpress.org, which is a charitable foundation that accepts donations. Do you have any specific reason to believe this is true? I don’t recall seeing that complaint directly here but maybe I missed it.
Neural networks are not a model of the working of the human brain. They are based on an extremely simplified approximation of how neurons connect and function (which while conceptually similar is a terrible predictive model for biological neurons) and are connected together in ways that have absolutely zero resemblance to how complex nervous systems look in real animals. The burden of proof here is absolutely on showing how LLMs can model the human brain.
Show me a computer that can reason in a generalized way at least as well as a chimpanzee (or whatever). And no, LLMs don't count. They are not generalized in any meaningful way.
A Stanford dropout? He must be hot stuff, like Elizabeth Holmes... oops, wrong example.
And worse than that, he sexually molested his sister.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311509

Pure evil.
Orders of magnitude seems a bit ambitious. The implementation from the DeepMind paper achieved a 2-2.5X https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.01318 and most of the tests I've seen [1][2] have been similar, but there are different variations (Medusa, Ouroboros, etc) that can do better/be combined. Recently Together.ai published SpecExec, a SD variant which did claim to get a 10-18X speedups: https://www.together.ai/blog/specexec

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17h4rqz/specula...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01528v3
> They won’t touch American housing problems with a 10ft pole.

Why do you keep insisting on the USA? It’s not the only country in the world.

> Go to Berkeley

I will not. I’m not American.

> It’s a hard pill to swallow but the best thing billionaires can do is let us tax them

Maybe it’s a hard pill to swallow for the billionaire, but I personally agree and think you’re right. However, this conversation started with someone asking “what do you do with a a lot of money past a point” and offering only a private space agency as an alternative to working on AGI. My point was there are many other problems worth pursuing.
Way back when I remember cnnmoney.com was a separate company to cnn owned by the same people who owned forbes
> not the WordPress foundation (the .org). Blurring the lines

Hmm. Matt (and at least one employee of Automattic) says "wp.org has nothing to do with the foundation, it's run benevolently by Matt"...

wp.org does live on the Foundation's IP space, though...

Also, why does he feel that WP Engine should pay licensing fees to Automattic?

Matt seems like he's far too comfortable with just picking and choosing whether he's acting on behalf of the Foundation, the .org site, Automattic (and the .com) completely interchangably depending on what his needs or messaging is to be (not to mention the fuzzy accounting that could easily be seen to be happening).
I wouldn't attribute malice to Hanlon's razor, but yes, even dogs and small children know how to play dumb and the children just keep getting better at it.
Look at digital signage monitors. Even with that classification they have HDMI and some have WiFi.
I've moved beyond not doing things on the moon. That's so passé. I'm already not doing things above ground (or below ground on Mars) and have no plans for the moons of Venus after that.
> Preventing people from working if they didn't get a covid vaccine was a bit heavy handed.

Nobody did that. They prevented you from working with me

Nobody here or there was forced to get a vaccine. But if you refused it was right to shun you

Freedom is about more than the individual. We as a group should be free from the consequences of individual actions
Yodkowsky shouldn’t be taken seriously. Especially after him saying that any person or country working on banned AI research should have their data centers destroyed via an airstrike.
I think you're misunderstanding what's happening here.

In traditional journalism using wire stories (or "curated content partners"), the publisher (Forbes, CNN, etc.) pays for the content.

In the case of CNN Underscore, the "content partners" are paying CNN to use their good name to peddle advertorial content. Like if I want to run a cryptocurrency scam, I can pay CNN or Forbes to run a story on their website touting the benefits of my fake product. To a non-observant reader, it will appear to actually be coming from CNN or Forbes.

This is a long way from CNN running something from the Associated Press or Reuters.
Can you get through https api the data on the spreadsheet ?
This is a twisted and ironic example of VC thinking taken to the extreme: we just need it to growth it more for it to really show its potential.

What happens if giving to
everyone and their mothers ends up in low usage? Are they going to blame scale again and ask for a Dyson Sphere?
I took a train to work for a few years, and a ferry to work for about a year later. Even if it's regular it's still magical.

A couple of times I took the bus to the ferry, walked to the light rail, took that to the airport, flew, then picked up a rental car and drove in to work. Maybe the airport train too. Pretty much all the modes but a bike.
I also do PCBs for art.

Both of which aren't the most common.
Stock market up, what else matters?
Surely there someone in Automattics other 1,881 employees (Wikipedia) willing to point out how self childish this looks for Wordpress.
I once interviewed one of the guys who built the embedded software that decoded Teletext on the TV sets.

It was written in LISP.

The guy was absolutely facilitating. I wish I could have chatted to him in a less formal context.
What's outlandish about this situation is that Matt blocked WP Engine customers, not WPEngine itself.

It would be one thing if WPEngine had an API key so that customers on its servers could access wordpress.org. Even then, it would be a slimy move to cut off access by surprise as part of this dispute rather than offering 30 days to migrate away.

But Matt is offering this free service to the world to encourage growth of WordPress, and now that he's in this dispute with WPE, he's acting as if WPE is a client who's not paying.

Meanwhile, Matt designed WordPress so that it takes a hard dependency on wordpress.org and doesn't make plugin servers configurable. If it's such a burden on Matt to serve traffic to WPE customers, why is there zero support for mirroring the repository or pointing WordPress instances at third-party mirrors?
Not to pour cold water on anyone but consumers will be just as confused by "get access", because they'll expect that they'll have access indefinitely (which us not guaranteed and this doesn't change that).
What's her first word?
Indeed, and SoftBank flushed a ton down the toilet named WeWork because of Adam Neumann's charisma.

I don't think anyone doubts Sam's ability to charm people and tell a good story. The graver concern is "should we trust him"? My gut says NO.
Journals are incentivized to publish fantastic results. Organizing raw data in a way that the uninitiated can understand presents serious friction in getting results out the door.

The organizations who fund the research are (finally) beginning to require it [0][1], and some journals encourage it, but a massive cultural shift is required and there will be growing pains.

You could also try emailing the corresponding authors. Any good-faith scientist should be happy to share what they have, assuming it's well organized/legible.

[0] https://new.nsf.gov/public-access
[1] https://sharing.nih.gov/
Sounds like you have an explanation of how painful documentation is.. But how do these axes work?
This is not at all the same thing. The New Yorker pays its freelancers. In the example in the article, the money is flowing from the content producer to the publisher, meaning it's an ad.
Very informative write up, thanks for sharing!
Doctor Asimov*.
Hopefully this aides WordPress’s slow but definite walk toward irrelevance. Maybe what we end up with will have proper governance instead of what can only be described as a deranged child at the helm.
If 30% is climate levy then that's some rather cheap electricity, because the climate levy is less than 1p/kWh.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/climate-change-levy-rates

This is what happens when people treat the Telegraph as news rather than a source of disinformation used by wealthy vested interests to manipulate public opinion.