skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep and this is why many modern organizations are going to shit.
Nowadays this behavior is not only heavily shamed but also very often punished. You need to have a lot of power to get away with it.
In my opinion all of this comes from submitting from the feminine way of working. Most women get shit done from men just by asking nicely (even when it's not really in their interest). Then they wrongly assumed that is how everything should work and pushed the "asking nicely" way of working everywhere.

Here is some anecdote. In in youth, I learned/played the french horn. Most of my teachers where nice feminine men, I was making progress but very slowly. But one year I got a guy that was out of the army music, he didn't take bullshit and forced me to work in a way the others never did. This year my progress was orders of magnitude better than any other year. At the time I thought he was a bit of an asshole, but now I know that if I had to choose, I would rather have someone like him. I quit french horn 3 years after, there were many reasons but not having a strong inspiring teacher was one of them for sure.
PG&E is basically California, where it can hit north of $0.50/kWh pretty regularly.

I think it's worth noting in this article too that the author mentions they can now heat and cool parts of their house they weren't previously, so I'm gonna guess their actual usage went up and this is basically surprise for no reason.
It doesn't have to have a use. It's an addictive form of enterntainment.

Some like Twitter better, others like facebook better. It's just different ambience.
> an unsubstantiated claim about widespread misconduct.

I can't prove it, but I heard it from multiple people in the industry. High contamination levels for existing benchmarks, though [1,2]. Whether to believe that it is just as good as we can do, not doing the best possible decontamination, or done on purpose is up to you.

> Yes, validation and test sets serve different purposes - that's precisely why reputable labs maintain strict separations between them.

The verbal agreement promised not to train on the evaluation set. Using it as a validation set would not violate this agreement. Clearly, OpenAI did not plan to use the provided evaluation as a testset, because then they wouldn't need access to it. Also, reporting validation numbers as performance metric is not unheard of.

> This reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of why math capabilities matter. They're not primarily about serving math users - they're a key metric for abstract reasoning and systematic problem-solving abilities.

How good of a proxy is it? There is some correlation, but can you say something quantitative? Do you think you can predict which models perform better on math benchmarks based on interaction with them? Especially for a benchmark you have no access to and can't solve by yourself? If the answer is no, the number is more or less meaningless by itself, which means it would be very hard to catch somebody giving you incorrect numbers.

> someone who has picked up some ML terminology but lacks fundamental understanding of how research evaluation, technical accountability, and institutional incentives actually work in the field

My credentials are in my profile, not that I think they should matter. However, I do have experience specifically in deep learning research and evaluation of LLMs.

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.482/
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15194
The welfare state is horrid. Democracy is largely dead. The judiciary and bank of England are unaccountable and unassailable. The Fabians have won.
> especially if AI predictions play out

Thats a big if. Big tech has enshittified everything its touched for a long time now.
Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends
Getting a visa is incredibly difficult, with the easiest route being working for a US firm in the UK and transfering to their US offices, but at which point you're already one of the lucky few to score a US job in the UK and are probably paid well enought that uprooting your life doesn't seem worth it.
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Yeah, yeah, sorry.
There's much less demand for post-consumer recycled plastic than there is supply, so regardless of how easy or difficult recycling is for a specific plastic resin, diverting more into the recycle bin often has no effect.

Plastic bottles, which usually use PET, are an exception, with plenty of demand for products that use recycled PET.
> I am surprised Yamaha ever created the DX9 given the manufacturing economics.

It was quite common back then to produce the flagship instrument at high price for professionals, studios, etc, then once it became popular creating a demand, follow with a cheaper line. Happened with other brands too: Roland made a fortune with cut down versions of the D50.
Or tired of 63% income tax rates in the middle of the income bands
> You think Blair, Brown, and now Starmer did great things for the country?

No, but apparently you think that I think that. Perhaps you might like to work through that again ...

Leaving the state of the UK as a whole to one side, the NHS was actively kicked like a dog prior to Blair who did at least stop kicking it and attempt to reverse the decline with some, albeit limited, success.

eg: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1871752/
> If anything, this TikTok ban is actually making things more equal, if only by a tiny bit.

I do t use tiktok and have no skin in the game as an EU resident, but setting a precedent for this kind of behaviour to permit clthe government to simply block anything it wants is basically following in CCPs footsteps, that's certainly not a good thing in my eyes.
If a government can be removed easily with "mis"information then maybe it does not deserve to be in power in the first place. Maybe if politicians weren't habitual liars selling their votes to the highest bidder instead of acting in the interest of the people they are supposed to represent then those people would have some trust in them.
No, the humans in direction has the responsible per actions that inhumane made, if you think because you can not change the current corp rule and agree with did a imoral thing well sorry but you is the problem, if you do not want made anything imoral, ilegal or anything you need resigned immediately and think what you want, corporation have accountability in person if you remove this you remove the responsibility and the consequences well the world need understand consequences of choice
>because they created a shadow court (FISC or “FISA Court” in the 70s) to push through surveillance warrants on their own terms [see 9]. There’s zero requirement to publicly report any surveillance (or its outcome) authorized under a FISA-granted warrant.

When you start excusing the lack of evidence for conspiracy with more conspiracy, you are too far lost in the sauce.

Note how you automatically assume that just because its a shadow court, it MUST be corrupt. Or that the US citizens being targeted have done nothing wrong, and are being targeted solely because some c-suit wants them to be.

Consider that all of your ideas have this inherent bias of government being bad. If you are capable, eliminate this bias, and think through logically on why you may want to have a FISA court, and why you may want the power to target US citizens.

>American citizens are supposed to just blindly trust entities that not only have unlimited access to our information if they want it, but also have a court with judges that will push through surveillance warrants (see stats on the number of approved warrants vs. those rejected or requiring amendment)?

Yes. Governments are not perfect, but they are absolutely required for societies to function. When the government is created, citizens give it rights that surpass individual rights, so that it can rule in various ways, including through force or surveillance, to keep society in order. Your life today, thats arguably better in US than for people in other countries, is a direct result of this system in work.
Both when it comes to wealth and politics, I'd be on the side of those with the pitchforks anyway.

The key thing that today's oligarchs and elite-rich forgot to learn from history: at least some time in a year, the rain falling down on the plebs shouldn't be shit but gold. When the population feels like their personal / family wealth/status cannot be influenced by whatever they do or not do, bad things can happen - some gang up for a revolution, others disconnect from the system entirely and become some form of hermit or completely rely on government aid, with zero motivation to contribute to society.
Something not talked about - you probably won't be able to lease suitable property if you are doing anything other than apps.

Doing soldering of prototypes? Good luck finding a landlord that would let you do it. The moment they hear "fumes" is a nope, fire hazard, safety risk and won't let you...
Looks like Native Instruments is pushing a subscription too:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/subscription/...
I don't know the details or if it's true, but someone who was in the firmware beta claimed there was //commented-out code about different subscription tears. Maybe just a test, maybe for print farms .. maybe it was all a lie.
Because I mixed them up, as Plato is the one who wrote down Socrates' teachings and his story...
Not used in model training probably means it was used in model validation.
“we now know how to build AGI” --Sam Altman.

which should really be “we now know how to improve associative reasoning but we still need to cheat when it comes to math because the bottom line is that the models can only capture logic associatively, not synthesize deductively, which is what’s needed for math beyond recipe-based reasoning"
Wasn't the encryption on Matrix cracked and a bunch of criminals were caught?
I've been interested in this problem space for a couple of years, have tried a whole bunch of products but settled on using cedar policy engine[1] wrapped in some custom code and using the application database and static files to generate policies that can be concatenates to make decisions. A useful property is that they can be indexed based on the "subject verb object" triplet used to represent authorisation queries (e.g. Can "John" download "File 1"?)

Have tried a whole bunch of other FGA providers with their own storage and retrieval services, I think that fundamentally all the DSLs are just variants on prolog and can be quite easily transformed into one another. Another thing to consider is that authorisation is in the critical path of everything, so if you need to call out to an external service it's going to add latency and becomes a single point of failure. Not to mention that it creates an explosion of complexity by distributing the system more widely, so if you can leverage your existing database and file storage to manage policies it's probably easier to build and mange long-term.

Overall I think it's worthwhile using an FGA solution to separate authorisation from business logic, I expect this will become industry standard in the years to come.

[1] https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en
Thank you for the advice. But right now, I don't even know what to do, so to speak, no ideas. Maybe I'm in a bit of a depression, haha.
> "I can't prove it, but I heard it from multiple people in the industry"

The cited papers demonstrate that benchmark contamination exists as a general technical challenge, but are being misappropriated to support a much stronger claim about intentional misconduct by a specific actor. This is a textbook example of expanding evidence far, far, beyond its scope.

> "The verbal agreement promised not to train on the evaluation set. Using it as a validation set would not violate this agreement."

This argument reveals a concerning misunderstanding of research ethics. Attempting to justify potential misconduct through semantic technicalities ("well, validation isn't technically training") suggests a framework where anything not explicitly forbidden is acceptable. This directly contradicts established principles of scientific integrity where the spirit of agreements matters as much as their letter.

> "How good of a proxy is it? [...] If the answer is no, the number is more or less meaningless by itself"

This represents a stark logical reversal. The initial argument assumed benchmark manipulation would be meaningful enough to influence investors and industry perception. Now, when challenged, the same metrics are suddenly "meaningless." This is fundamentally inconsistent - either the metrics matter (in which case manipulation would be serious misconduct) or they don't (in which case there's no incentive to manipulate them).

> "My credentials are in my profile, not that I think they should matter."

The attempted simultaneous appeal to and dismissal of credentials is an interesting mirror of the claims as a whole: at this point, the argument OpenAI did something rests on unfalsifiable claims about the industry as a whole, claiming insider knowledge, while avoiding any verifiable evidence.

When challenged, it retreats to increasingly abstract hypotheticals about what "could" happen rather than what evidence shows did happen.

This demonstrates how seemingly technical arguments can fail basic principles of evidence and logic, while maintaining surface-level plausibility through domain-specific terminology. This kind of reasoning would not pass basic scrutiny in any rigorous research context.
you are mostly right. but seeing almost perfectly reconstructed images from training set it's obvious model -can- memorize samples. in this case it would reproduce the answers too close to the original to be just 'accidental'. should be easy to test.

My guess samples could be used to find good enough stopping point for o1, o3 models. which is hardcoded.
Was your copy of Paperclip 64 pirated?
Sorry for the Socrates/Plato mix-up.

TikTok has the opportunity to divest. They chose not to.
Unity games have plenty of GC related stutter issues and working around the Unity GC to prevent those issues is basically its own field of engineering.

As for UE, I wonder if they would go down the same route today, or whether they just can't rip out their GC because it would mean a complete rewrite of the engine.

Games don't need lifetime management at object granularity.
Too many calves are born. We dispose of them like garbage
The next volcanic eruption will cause chaos we are not prepared for
Exactly. It's not merely the Fabian state, being ruled by lawyers, by socialist agitators, it is the vast swathes of proles who cheer every time they crush success or do wealth appropriations. It feels like you are always just two steps away from being rounded up in a pogrom for merely having savings.

The PM himself defines working class as people with no savings. It's horrid.
Im pretty sure there is no ban per se. They just say: "either put your servers in our jurisdiction or gtfo of here", to which Meta and co. voluntarily decide to not enter the market. CCP still advertises as open to foreign companies though
Here's a source that confirms: https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban...
> Founders: Stop fleeing to the US. London can be the hardware capital of the world. We have the talent. We have the creativity. What we need is your audacity.

Easier said than done, Europe doesn't have the money for that (partially because all the exit money circulates in American VCs).
It's a thing because people want to control other people. This is what it all boils down to, sadly.
I’d prefer if there wasn’t any dominant powers. But that goes against human nature it seems.
> Bambu is patching a security issue. Personally I don't want any device or application to send any old G-code to my printer. Like say command the printer to basically destroy itself.

Why not implement some kind of open authentication? One that other slicers can implement.
That is a better graph, but the conclusion I would draw is much the same.

The EU gets a boost from the inclusion of Eastern European economies that have been fast growing from a lower base.

If you compare the US and the UK to the four biggest EU economies, the US is doing best by far, and the UK is doing better than three and worse than one:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
https://archive.ph/1qWyE
The way I see it, at least in France, it's not really a question of religion. "The rich" are thought to have acquired their wealth doing dubious things, mostly by "exploiting the poor".

There's also a very strongly egalitarian way of thinking, as in pretty much everybody is interchangeable. So, if someone does better than somebody else, it's likely because of something "unfair" (or luck) and not thanks to being more competent.
There are worse mixups ... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/aug/19/plutos-repub...
The other problem is the welfare state or just the state. So much graft and just living off printed money. It pushes out success. What percent of the UK is effectively civil servants or people receiving benefits? What percent are net takers? A lot
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As someone who recently bought a bambu printer, I have to agree: I am not surprised. Still disappointed, but in no way surprised.
The "apple experience" is why I went for a bambu device (along with the price, and some excellent recommendations from friends). I was even surpised that the "LAN Mode" actually works somewhat good.
Should have got a prusa...
Try slowsocial.us or something then?
The other week I saw a submission titled “The Myth of Meritocracy,” linked to a Wikipedia article of the same name, start doing phenomenally well very quickly, before getting flagged and removed. I reposted it and it didn’t get as many votes, but it stayed up.

Something a bit nefarious might be going on on the moderation side. If there is an effort to control our discussions, I hope the community will come together to put an end to it.
Trump is famous to pre-teens in the same way Andrew Tate is, from what I can tell.
Yes, but in the end this just automates the bindings generation, runtime overhead for marshalling will be the same.
Hmm I'm no neurologist but I would place solid money on the fact that it really doesn't activate the same neurological circuits. Saying this because I had issues there and reading really change my brain patterns tangibly.
Things are tough all over. I’m based in Sheffield, and we have an Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and obviously a rich history of manufacturing and engineering across the city that pioneered chrome steel. But the process for new enterprises always seems the same, you get some small, timid spinout from one of the universities, that spends years iterating through various crumbs of grant money, and maybe finds a corporate partner to commercialise some tech. Everyone’s excited about Northern Gritstone, the new regional VC which has raised £300m and deployed about £40m so far, but even that is itself basically a university spinout.

I was at an event recently where everyone was excited about a programme to create thousands of new apprenticeships in the steel industry in the region, and sat at the one table of tech people I couldn’t help feel they’d probably do better if you just taught them to code, even in this job market. Or alternatively if we actually want a steel industry to challenge China let’s do that. But no half measures.

The UK has vanishingly little risk capital compared to the US. It has very few exits and almost no secondary, so what angel money exists is often tied up long term. The British Business Bank are trying to convince more pension funds to expose their assets to the risk/return of VC funds but that’s a long and controversial battle. Startup investing is largely driven by income tax breaks rather than dreams of outsized returns. And of course property is such a reliable investment in the UK that it sucks up most of the free money anyway.

A lot of this is (the lack of) network effects and we get grumpy if you say it’s a cultural thing. But just once I’d love to hear someone saying they’re investing in their local ecosystem, or creating an accelerator, or whatever, because they want to make loads of money. That isn’t something you can comfortably say out loud at most startup events in the UK. Lots of talk of Impact Investing, an endless merry-go-round of gobshites wanting to give advice and mentoring, or “do you have any “SEIS left?” Lots of tech agencies working on making other people’s ideas go big, selling reliable hours instead of unreliable equity. And a good enough quality of life that all this is fine!

But it can be really hard to find somewhere to plug into and get the energy from. Kudos to those that are making/have made the slog here.
:-) It is like you're trying to tell active drug addict with drugs next to her/him - "You can choose not to take them" :-)

If TikTok is addictive on large scale I think it is as good argument as all other arguments and should be taken, as well as all other arguments, into consideration.
The problem is the institutions are unaccountable and can't be easily made controllable by the electorate again. Bank of England, the judiciary etc. These control the country not the MPs. Blair onward
Sadly, it doesn't work that way for OpenAI. OpenAI exists because it promised to be THE AI Company not just another LLM company. Its valuation reflects that. The promises made by the company reflects that. I think OpenAI is basically the guinea pig of this whole LLM experiment. Anything that OpenAI achieves, their competitors achieve in less time, with less resources and investment. And when the day comes that OpenAI falls, the money lost will be much greater than that of the other LLM companies
> This is just not true. There are objective facts eg. the earth is round.

The earth isn't round in many ways. It's vaguely spheroid but not a sphere and it has a rough shaped surface.

> We can all agree on this, and any information to the contrary should be banned.

If we can all agree then there is no need to ban anything. By definition, bans for information are means to suppress those who don't agree.

> The majority of us agree that racism is bad for society.

On the contrary, the majority seems to be very happy with racism. They just don't agree who you can be racist towards.

> Racist content should be banned.

I'd rather not have you or anyone else decide what is too racist to say. Especially when existing inforcement shows that "racism" often includes factual but inconvenient information. I do not support banning facts.

> Yes there are always going to be humans who think the earth is flat or has a core of cheese, but these people can be relegated to the fringes of society.

There are many more people that have much more reasonable (and often provably true) views but are going to be targetted with the speech policing your kind wants.
Humans definitely have control over how a corp behaves. The argument that they don’t is just a convenient way to absolve a small minority of greedy people from blame for the harm they created as the direct result of their greed.