skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t know their performance at their jobs. You don’t know either if they fulfill family obligations decently. You don’t know how their lifestyle is affecting their health long term.
Sounds like a good thing, as social sciences aren't often, let's say, rigorous, and the conclusions are often dubious (since they aren't falsifiable.

That said, isn't the headline misleading? It's not all support, it's all support - from this particular Marsden Fund.
> ...like saying Microsoft has no moat for spreadsheets

Which would be very inaccurate as network-effects are Excel's (and Word's) moat. Excel being bundled with Office and Windows helped, but it beat Lotus-123 by being a superior product at a time the computing landscape was changing. OpenAI has no such advantage yet: a text-based API is about as commoditized as a technology can get and OpenAI is furiously launching interfaces with lower interoperability (where one can't replace GPT-4o with Claude 3.5 via a drop-down)
I don’t feel anxious about things like that. If I did I would find the large files on my Mac, check if I have multiple identical copies of any of them, then cp -c to make new copies. But disk space is cheap so mainly I wouldn’t worry about it. The -c flag is MacOS specific and I don’t use a Mac.
Why is room temperature important, what if "the world's first superconductor at 0C" was the headline?
I have a younger sister that was hyperlexic. At age 5 we discovered she'd taught herself how to read French literature (it looked interesting) and she'd taught herself how to play piano, and was surprisingly good... She was whisked away to special schools, and I've never gotten to know her. She's as distant as a stranger.
alright, radar at angle, unknown surface but all looks the same, no landmarks to track against, unknow radar properties of surface, how do you translate that into directional speed?
They wanna collect every single bit of data on us, right down to our medications and bodily functions, but don't want to collect any data on what they're doing to the environment and how much harm they're causing people.

It's so transparently lopsided and malicious I dunno how anyone can't see through it
> protesters dropped in on the after-award public talk

I’m going to guess that GP does not consider random protestors to be in Sam Altman’s ‘sphere’

> The product market fit is fantastic.

This is true insomuch that you define “product market fit” as “somebody mentioning it in an Indian restaurant in Berlin”

> every definition of "very smart"

Every definition you say?

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lclo77koj22y
He spent $250m+ on helping get Trump elected.

Of course he is going to try and recoup some of that money back.
I think this trend of using IQ as a primary measuring stick is flawed.

Human minds and AI minds have radically different architectures, and therefore have different strengths and weaknesses. IQ is only one component of what allows a typical worker to do their job.

Even just comparing humans, the fact that one person with, say, a 120 IQ can do a particular job—say they are an excellent doctor—obviously does not mean that any other human with an equal or greater IQ can also do that job effectively.
Why is it inevitable? Is there some physics principle that proves they should exist even they're beyond current scientific knowledge?
do plate tectonics have DNA?
> Depends on how you define "booting".

As mentioned in one of the linked tweets, ME was possible to exploit through early-boot attacks before the HAP bit was even checked. So non-negligible things happen while it "boots".
Tl;dr: Apple’s AI tool that restates headlines for push notifications hallucinated a BBC headline that Luigi shot himself.
Not when Hans or Hikaru are playing.
Anyone who's a whistleblower should compile key docs and put it in a "dead man's switch" service that releases your testimony/docs to multiple news agencies in the event of your untimely demise. The company you're whistle blowing against and their major shareholders should know this exists. Also, regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state.
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yeah... so, you want to two step it. Parse the table into something structured, then answer the question. For a lot of LLM "problems", it's about the same as teaching a kid a multi-step problem in math - if you try to do it in one step, you are going to have a hard time .
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves” -- Matthew 7:15
> If you cannot see the difference you are willfully being obtuse.

Willfully being obtuse seems to be common here on HN.

When it happens, I refuse to accept that people actually believe what they're espousing. I think they're playing Devil's Advocate and thinking they're being thought-provoking and creating discussion as a pseudo-intellectual exercise.

It's so boring, though, and often outright frustrating.
As I've said earlier in some other comments, rule of law tends to bend under the influence of capitalism...Nothing new here
ah, gotcha, that makes a big difference
Absolutely is, one of those exact attacks is being used here to bypass BootGaurd. However all pre-boot attacks I am aware of rely on writing a malicious payload to the system's SPI flash and involve physical access.

While they are genuine vulernabilties, I wouldn't consider this a worse problem than being able to inject rootkits into other parts of the firmware which is also the case here.
While I’m convinced we’re going to screw this planet up, the gap between “as bad as we can make Earth” and “as good as we can make Mars” is pretty huge, right? And not in a way that is optimistic for Mars.
Looks to be the difference between few and a few. A small parse error that wasn't caught later on. I've had that happen to me.
I think this undersells the difficulty of recording a good voice-over, both technically and performatively.
Well, to be frank, the unpopular archs aren't really well supported by other languages.

You may be thinking "What about C?" and the answer is that for those unpopular archs you are almost certainly looking at a hand patched version of GCC (3.2... probably) created by the vendor to support C.

You generally won't see good support for unpopular archs mainlined in compilers.
I agree with you. I just think it is wasted effort to complain about the quality of press releases. I am consigned to their poor quality, and my solution is to read primary sources.
It's not clear that vertical integration is necessarily bad for consumers. For example, Kaiser-Permanente is a huge, vertically-integrated "payvider" which both sells insurance plans and also delivers most of the treatment for plan members. They generally do a pretty good job at a competitive price.

Both the payer and provider sides of the healthcare industry have been consolidating for years. Insurers merged to gain more negotiating power with providers and drive down costs. Providers responded by merging (or selling to private equity funds) to gain more negotiating power with insurers and maintain high rates. Government mandates on back office technology also incentivized provider consolidation due to economies of scale. In some areas now a few major provider organizations effectively control the market and payers are essentially forced to pay high rates in order to maintain sufficient networks. So, the logical next step is for payers to mimic KP by building their own captive health systems. Every major payer is pursuing this strategy to varying levels; it's not just UHC.
Another one that comes in really handy for ssh connections:

hit ->
[return]
~
.

to break a jammed up ssh session. A lot of people don't seem to know that one.
Healthcare? Don't you mean Denycare.
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems
It's the holiday's so maybe Blitzen?
Have you reached out to coffee influencers with review copies?

That might be worth doing; it seems like this is the kind of thing that they would like to cover, and if the feedback is positive than that could drive a lot of sales.
If you actually trace the cashflows, the "people lining their own pockets with the savings" are mainly not the insurers but rather the executives and shareholders for other large companies with self-funded employee health plans. Most insurance companies no longer provide much real insurance but rather primarily administer health plans on behalf of self-funded employers. Due to the minimum medical loss ratio rule, insurers actually make more profit the more claims they approve.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...

If employers wanted it, insurers would be happy to offer health plans that fully paid every claim with zero denials. This would be enormously profitable for the insurers because they could run those health plans with minimal work. But instead, most employers are constantly looking for ways to cut employee health benefit costs. This means incentives aren't aligned.
I think dang was responding to someone in a mid-sized US town, where there are probably more HN users. I think in other parts of the world, there really may be not many.
I wonder who called to ask about his well-being.

The Boeing guy killed himself, this guy apparently killed himself. The pattern of David vs Goliath, where David kills himself, is almost becoming a pattern.
There are about 70 lime bikes that commute to the square by my flat. There's definitely some ebike stuff ongoing.
I agree with your analysis. The nice thing I've realized is that this means I can just stop paying attention to it. The product sucks, and is useless. The people are all idiots with god complexes. All the money are fake funny money they get from their rich friends in silicon valley.

It will literally have no impact on anything. It will be like NFT's however long ago that was. Everybody will talk about how important it is, then they wont. Life will go one as it always have, with people and work, and the slow march of progress. In 30 years nobody is going to remember who "sam altman" was.
E-bikes are everywhere.
I was at the UDel at the early part of Plato. He came a few times to visit. He was a great presenter and interesting to talk to after his talks.
2 months ago Jensen Huang did an interview where he said xAi built the fastest cluster with 100k GPUs.he said "what they achieved is singular, never been done before"
https://youtu.be/bUrCR4jQQg8?si=i0MpcIawMVHmHS2e

Meta said they would expand their infrastructure to include 350k GPUs by the end of this year. But, my guess is they meant a collection of AI clusters not a singular large cluster. In the post where they mentioned this, they shared details on 2 clusters with 24k GPUs each.https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineerin...
otoh, "a graphene device produced a mythical form of superconductivity"

:)
Interesting that the NYT article about him states that OpenAI started developing GPT-4 before the ChatGPT release. They sure were convinced by the early GPT-2/3 results.

>In early 2022, Mr. Balaji began gathering digital data for a new project called GPT-4

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyrig...
Common, VR, NFTs and blockchain were always abysses of void looking for a usecase. Driving cars maybe, but development has been stalling for 15 years.
I'm talking about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...

>Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human cognitive capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

Most (if not all) of the tests listed on the wikipedia page will be passed:

>Several tests meant to confirm human-level AGI have been considered, including:

>The Turing Test (Turing)

This test is of course already passed by all the existing models.

>The Robot College Student Test (Goertzel)

>The Employment Test (Nilsson)

>The Ikea test (Marcus)

>The Coffee Test (Wozniak)

>The Modern Turing Test (Suleyman)
ATX (Advanced Technology Extended)
> The network stack, HECI stack, etc are all gone here.

I think there is a misunderstanding. Intel ME is a hardware feature. Yes there is some flash memory which contains more code and an operating system, but what is stored in flash memory is only part of Intel ME.

Peter Stuge from Coreboot noted during his 30C3 talk that even if you completely zero out the flash, it is possible for Intel ME to send a network packet out of the ethernet interface. The cutoff point when this started happening is the 965 chipset around 2006.

https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5529_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312271... (relevant part starts at 17:19)
I think I worded it poorly. In a real world program, a lot of optimizations rely on assumptions of not triggering UB.

Rephrased:

In a real world program removing all opportunities for UB is in some cases impossible without adding new breaking features to the C language.

This has nothing to do with whether you can or can't write a program without invoking UB. I am talking about a hypothetical large program which does not exhibit undefined behaviour but where if you modified it then you could trigger UB in many ways. The idea I am positing is that to make it such that you could not modify such a program in any way which could trigger UB, would be impossible without adding new breaking features to the C language (e.g. you would need to figure out some way of preventing pointers from being used outside of the lifetime of the object they point to).
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I would greatly appreciate if you engaged with what I wrote and not what you think I wrote if you're going to make the bold claim that I'm not engaging in good faith.

Absolutely nowhere did I equate writing a book to grooming. I equated selling the book in the greater context that "providing children with potentially harmful/dangerous information should be illegal because it grooms them to commit harmful actions to themselves or others" and this context would carry the implications that by "selling" I am referring particularly to "selling it to children" since "providing children with potentially harmful/dangerous information should be illegal because it grooms them to commit harmful actions to themselves or others". With my argument being would it be criminal for an AI but not for a human?

So to clarify the argument: Writing the book is fine. Selling the book to adults is fine. Adults reading the book is fine. But if providing dangerous information to children should be made illegal - how would selling such a book to a child not be considered illegal? Because it was written by a human and not an AI?
Beam built a zero-egress storage layer for their GPU cloud
72 hours have passed now, no change.
Data driven analytics is more or less useless if you're ideologically driven.

At the end of the day all of our economists are raging capitalists, so they will always approach any data gathered from a capitalist perspective. They will purposefully ignore any other possibilities because they are literally incapable of thinking about them. It's not something they've ever considered or digested.

It's a lot like being car-brained. It's why very smart people keep proposing trains with extra steps but never calling them trains - they can't. Their minds lack the ability to view transportation outside of a car-centric perspective.

Similarly, these economists lack the part of their brain where they can examine economics in a non-capitalist perspective. This is despite the fact that there are zero capitalist countries on Earth. In the US alone, 40% of our GDP comes from government spending. Shh, don't tell the economists!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
You assume he revealed everything he knew, he was most likely under NDA, the ongoing lawsuit cited him as a source. Which presumably he didn't yet testify for and now he never will be able to. His (most likely ruled suicide inb4) death should also give pause to the other 11 on that list:

> He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.
Only if they dramatically change to a glasses based design like Meta. Otherwise I'd replace "iPad" with "Google Explorer glasses".
According to stty(1), ”cbreak” is a negative alias of “icanon”, which simply enables the special functions of the ‘erase’ (backspace), ‘kill’ (Ctrl-U), ‘werase’ (Ctrl-W), and ‘rprnt’ (Ctrl-R) keybindings. “cooked” mode includes “icanon”.

So no, I do not think that what you wrote is correct. From what I can tell, the line-by-line mode is “extproc”.
I found all the discussions about Dota pretty amusing. I had no idea it was such a big thing for them early on.
I’m sure soon enough we won’t have to worry about NHTSA keeping that sort of data private (because that agency will simply be found inefficient and eliminated).
Not So Fast, ChatGPT: How the Swarm Unlocks Our Superintelligence. Go Humans
Ironically, in the match that Gukesh won and that made him world champion, he lost rating points, inceasing his distance to Magnus.
> I guess it's not news but it is pretty wild to see the level of millenarianism espoused by all of these guys.

Unprecedented change has already happened with LLMs. So this is expected.

> So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return

...because it's expensive to build what they're building.
>745 of 700 employees responded on a weekend to call for his return, threatened mass resignations if the board did not resign

I would think final count doesn’t really matter. Self serving cowards, like me, would sign it once they see the way the wind was blowing. How many signed it before Satya at Microsoft indicated support for Altman?
But then what do you have to whistleblow?
Can you list four or five monographs published in the past two years that you've read?
Physician time is valuable. There is essentially a fixed supply and other bottlenecks in the healthcare system make adding more doctors a very slow process. That's why forward-thinking health systems employ medical scribes to offload data entry.

https://www.scribeamerica.com/what-is-a-medical-scribe/

The TDS Health Care System had some unique advantages but unfortunately it was tied to obsolete technology and ultimately a dead end. Web UIs aren't necessarily a problem. Some of the most popular EHRs such as Epic use native thick client applications. The fundamental issue is that healthcare is inherently more complex than almost any other business domain, with every medical specialty needing a different workflow plus beyond the clinical stuff there are extensive documentation requirements imposed by payers and government regulators. Sometimes clinicians and administrators insist on certain functionality even when it makes no sense due to ego or ignorance. EHRs can be improved but I know from painful experience how expensive and time consuming it is to get everything right.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/89482.89511
> Review who realy are your friends

*really
Reminds me of the https://www.brachiograph.art/ . I tried to replicate this, but found the position drifted and jittery.... Probably due to poor glueing technique...
That is to say, our enemies will master it first and we will be caught with our pants down.
I thought one of that devices explicit experimental purposes was to intentionally use relatively commodity hardware, still NASA-fied but not nearly as much as usual, and see how far you can actually get with something relatively cheap and almost off-the-shelf. That's why it runs linux for instance.
So an ordinary phone camera (relatively, relative to other nasa hardware) would be expected and deliberate.

So it never had a goal to last as long as possible, it had a goal to see how long it lasts when you don't sink 100 million into every screw.

I thought anyway.
When I was still in school I scored over 900 on a reading speed test. For those skeptical how this is possible, I don't read linearly my eyes make saccades and groups of words come piling into my brain like someone dumped a bucket of Scrabble tiles. There seems to be a long "pipeline" wherein the words from different lines and different order in the sentences get reassembled into meaning. After reading something very quickly if I look away the information is sort of still "digesting" for some time.

(I seem to have a good size memory buffer for this which no doubt has to do with enabling the speed reading. I remember in typing class classmates were amazed that the way I transcribed assigned text was to read a half a page or more and type it all out verbatim before going back for another chunk. Until they pointed it out I didn't think that was anything special.)

I will admit that at 900 WPM I wasn't getting 100% of the material (albeit enough to get 90% on the comprehension test - which is less than 90% of the source material, just enough source material to reconstruct 90% of the gist). I was really trying to see how fast I could go, since it was computer graded and I could gamify it. (I did get a different text to read and questions to answer about it each time; I wasn't re-reading the same text.) Through this same exercise I learned my comfortable reading speed was 200 - 300 WPM and speed reading without loss of comprehension (just requiring effortful concentration and/or impatience) was around 500.

As an adult I'm certain my reading speed is NOT that fast anymore, and I often find myself re-reading text I just read.
Stop arguing sense. They will find out in due time. All technological advance eventually come down to modifying human behavior, individually or collectively. When we de-priortize ways to study and better understand human behavior collectively, we are stealing from our long-run selves.

All developed countries are struggling with fertility declines. If all you have are economists, they will suggest economic solutions (i.e. offer incentives, lower costs of parenthood). A sociologist will tell you that alone won't work, you need to create a culture where child-raising is the social norm and is cool. Ally that with economic incentives and maybe we stand a chance.

But don't worry. Let's get rid of social sciences. My people have a saying "a person who is not knowledgeable about why a fence exists, should be wary of removing the fence"

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The Closely Guarded Secrets of Manhattan Doormen
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Absolutely, I think you used the word perfectly.

Have you read Stranger In A Strange Land? The alien word "grok" from that book has a similar way of being useful, and that one actually managed to make it into general speech somehow - at least by hacker types. In the book it's an alien word that literally means "to drink", though it really means something like "attain a real understanding of."
Discussions

(39 points, 3 days ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379078

(88 points, 3 days ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380054
Commercial MRI quenching doesn't result in explosions and there's 7T research MRIs so I assume the issue with how to bleed off energy is solved in a safe enough manner already
How did you come to that conclusion? Vision Pro sales seem to be quite poor and there's very little developer buy-in. The biggest use case for VR today is gaming, and Apple essentially decided to opt out of that market with their flagship VR product.
My daily driver, a flatbed Panasonic microwave, does a good enough job, but yeah actually boiling the water in a microwave is a recipe for a way too hot cup, and half the water boiling over.

220ml, regular ceramic mug, one minute forty, does what I need, but I’m not tea or coffee connoisseur, just a prole with a box of Twinings loose leaf.

Thanks for the kettle reference, I have been meaning to find a temperature controlled unit.

I recently picked up an inexpensive Thomson branded electric frypan with digital temperature and time controls, well impressed.
If I’m replaced by a DOTA bot I'm going to be pissed. At least it could be a bot for a good game, like StarCraft or something.