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Musk Reportedly Bids $97.4B for Altman's OpenAI
Quantum superposition is indecomposable, measurement is an artifact of the Copenhagen interpretation.

You can view wave function collapse as invalidating your priors and it still works without observation.

The special case of quantum superposition being indecomposable function, or one you can't Curry if you prefer.

QM is actually lucky that there are only two exit basins, n≥3 is where you get the stronger form of indeterminism.

Classic Chaos is deterministic with inf precision, but riddled basins require absolute precision which is stronger, and the wada property is still not deterministic with absolute precision.

Example of the Newton fractal and the wada property.

https://gauss.math.yale.edu/fractals/MandelSet/RealNewton/NM...

Binary black holes and the Wada property

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10741

Think of it as going north from Mexico, crossing the border and finding yourself in Canada.

You can also approach it from KAM and porous sets etc... if that works better for you.
Yeah, that's just unformatted markdown. Ill fix eventually. TY for the comment, feedback of any kind is awesome IMO.
> Still, major airports all want you to arrive quite a long time before your flight's scheduled departure.

I think they still encourage this so that you'll spend $$ at the airport (the longer you're there, the more likely you are to spend), which is a major source of revenue these days.
Dupe (357 points, 3 hours ago, 350 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
With tensorflow and more recently local llm:s, running say ollama pulls in a scary amount of precompiled binaries from god knows where.

Just mentioning these because they are trendy.

Regarding the general issue, it can happen in any language with package management.

Its not reasonable to just yell js sucks because I’ve seen it in bunch of places by now.
That's why I said this:

> this is fundamentally about: stopping or fundamentally changing OpenAI's plans to be spun off.

If OpenAI actually values OpenAI-NP at $40B then they will surely sell it for $97B. The point is the $40B is obviously a dramatic undervaluing and the fact they won't sell it for $97B shows that. This is the wrench.
It's an English term for mocking, teasing, ridiculing. I believe from the link of "piss" being alcohol. "He's on the piss again."
As someone who has worked in the industry: hedge funds are certainly parasites on our society, who make money not from wealthy clients (as is widely thought) but by managing government money through the social security system, union pension funds, college endowments, and sovereign wealth funds. They are a tool to redistribute billions of dollars of ordinary people's money into the pockets of an 'in-group' that then uses the money to buy political influence. I've watched this happen with my own eyes.
People who read don’t want this garbage. If your content must be read, don’t use this garbage.
Claude isn't Copilot, and I wasn't using it as autocomplete. I was using it to do things such as:

- Creating a migration from the old DB to the new DB, no modifications of the generated code necessary

- Refactoring state in a component out into a ViewModel, again no modifications necessary

- Creating all the classes necessary for interacting with a Room database (i.e. the data class, dao, and DI module) given a schema

- Creating the first iteration of a download worker, which I modified

Check out plugins like ClaudeMind for JetBrains! They can even intelligently (automatically) feed information from your current tab or other unopened but relevant-sounding files to the AI. It was an eye-opening experience.
It's referring to an idiom equivalent to: "Do not start a certain type of fight, when the other side fights that way routinely."

In particular, a fight of written words when the opponent does so many written words that they purchase ink in bulk.
Yep, and the status folks want to both board first and be in the front of the plane, which clogs everything up during boarding.
I thought about this for a bit and I'm not sure how you would even counter. A legitimate offer has been tendered. It's pretty much checkmate here. A certainly well played move. This will definitely derail things. For OpenAI to best move would be to actually unconditionally accept, as it's likely this offer isn't serious in the sense that it's the offer they'd prefer to give.
I talk briefly about this in my video on Heuristic Functions (I won't link just to stop shameless plugging), but its a combination of funding, knowledge, and team.

Scheduling problems are a specific type of Optimization problem and many of those problems are NP-hard to exponential in complexity. For example a 25x25 Linear Assignment Problem has 25! potentially configurations, which would take longer than the heat death of the universe to find the global maxima. It doesn't matter what algorithm you use, finding the absolute best solution and proving it is impossible.

I'm not super familiar with Hungarian/Munkres but a quick GPT conversation points out that its O(n^3) isn't really good for those types of large problem sizes. Even if 25! isn't bad, I can always increase my N.

Again, how do you decide if Hungarian is better than Simulated? You find a bunch of problems that both can do and test the algorithms against them. If you get decent enough results, I'm sure there's a science journal out there that would also publish the results.
I believe that you're a doctor because your response is exactly typical for a doctor. Have you considered for a second that all these people are right and that you might be wrong? I am similarly self diagnosed. 30 years of not being able to get a diagnosis despite having hypermobility so severe I can subluxate either shoulder on demand, I also had all of those other issues you mention - it's a cluster for a reason.

Hear me out, what if hEDS was 1/50 and not 1/50K or 1/15K or 1/5K or 1/500 or whatever the current literature has it at - which as a data science person is some rather large order of magnitude error bars for a figure. The 1/50 would include those diagnosed with generalized joint hypermobility, this would allow for the more common TNXB SNPs to be causal for hEDS.

And yeah, I've been told by many doctors that it's not worth even testing for because there is no treatment. Also consider the second order effects of not testing - how would you validate the original % numbers if people keep being talked out of getting tested, would subsequent surveys of population include those being talked out of the test? It's a good thing I don't rely on people who can't detect a condition to treat the condition. It is indeed very treatable - the dysautonomia aspect especially so.
I think Musk (probably using his Saudi admirers yet again) wants to buy OpenAI because he needs a working chatbot right now. For example, he is gutting the General Services Administration and wants to install a GSAi chatbot to replace the workers:

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-chatbot-ai-first-agenda/

Perhaps "big balls" and the other geniuses he hired haven't managed to come up with a working solution.

Musk needs chatbots for his technocracy movement because they are great for faking progress in efficiency without understanding any of the systems they replace and destroy.

He may also need them for online bot campaigns to convince MAGA voters that layoffs, deregulation, H1Bs and supporting billionaires are really in their best interest.

That said, considering he overpaid for Twitter, perhaps OpenAI should consider his offer.
Ignoring the galactic algorithm bit, as it's in the quote but I think you get why it would cause a divide here, just because you could try to do something in a field does not mean that's what is actually being done in a field. This is what I mean by probing the edges of mathematics vs practical construction, using the same toolset to probe isn't enough to unite those two approaches alone.

Look at this paper as an example. Does its worst case Big O analysis attempt to model memory hierarchies for constructable systems or does it further diverge from any hardware considerations in favor of asymptotic behaviors towards infinities for a generic construction?
facts! except did not disrupt the market in a way like Tesla did. I am not sure this really counts as distruption - not sure 8.1% of the market qualifies as distruption… perhaps it does if the trend continues like it did outside of the US
It's been interesting to see the largest constitutional crisis the US has seen in 50+ years intersecting with massive social media operations. Turns out, all Richard Nixon had to do was call the constitution "woke".
If I ever do get another phone or switch providers I will seriously consider a cash purchase under an assumed name.

I'm cutting my tech usage now as it is, buying things locally instead of making online purchases, paying by check or cash instead of credit card, leaving my phone home when I go anywhere, editing old posts on forums that I have used, etc. If I continue to use a cell phone when my current phone obsoletes or dies it will definitely be a minimal feature phone for calls and texts only.

I'm a bit tired of all this data hoovering and though it is certainly too late for a lot of things there is never a better time to do something different than right now.
Musk didn't found Tesla.

Presumably the two impressive companies are SpaceX and OpenAI? Or maybe the Boring Company?
military helicopter training flights over a very busy commercial airport has got to be one of the stupidest ideas ever
So do they give it to a homeless shelter or the school system or prisons or something? That's over 50lb/day. I get that there's quality control concerns but still, it's Korea, not the west.
Any advice to reform things? As individuals or as a collective?
It is true that human consciousness is continuous over time, but maybe some animals have very little of that?

Or, to look at it like Black Mirror, if you upload your consciousness into a machine, are you not conscious if it pauses the simulation for a moment? Perhaps you would have no memory of that time (like in Severance), but you could still be conscious at other times.

I do agree that a model at rest, just sitting on a hard drive, doesn't seem capable of consciousness. I also agree x^2 is not conscious. But the problem, philosophically, is actually separating those cases from things we know are conscious. The point of Searle's Chinese Room theorem is that he thinks no machine - not x^2, not a super-AI that passes the Turing Test - truly "thinks" (experiences, understands, feels, is conscious). But that position seems really hard to defend, even if it gives the "right" answer for x^2.
no, rather, GP tryptophan doesn't know much about {him|her|it}self.
He would probably also be happy to get OpenAI-NP for $97B! However, I don't think he believes this is likely at all. His goal is to force OpenAI's hand and stop the comical; undervaluing of OpenAI-NP by forcing OpenAI to value OpenAI-NP at >$97B.

I probably haven't explained this clearly enough in my original post which I wrote too quickly.
According to RPS the quote is that he had "barley played any roguelikelike deckbuilders" not that he was not aware of them.

There are a lot of great deck builders that are not roguelike. Has he played Dominion, Magic the Gathering, Hearthstone?
Do not check out Kanye West on x unless you want to see what no censorship means (spoiler alert: a guy with 33m followers posting porn and glorifying nazism).
That actually sounds like it'd be really helpful.
To me it seems that python is the current BASIC.
> anyone with any actually bad intentions and money will try to pay it.

Except it's not gated by the tiny fee, but with the background check. Only those who are statistically very low risk will be approved (which indeed is most people -- by design).

> The answer is probably racism. Not everyone is allowed a pre-approval

Is it racist to know the fact that say, zero schoolteachers from Iowa with no history of travel to the Middle East have ever hijacked a plane, but quite a few people from Saudi Arabia and Iran, or who have contacts there, have? And to allow the teacher to bypass the whole mess? I'd say that's efficient.

The fee is quite obviously not material to anyone who can afford air travel anyway. It would be a more serious critique if the fee were say, $1,500 a year. But for a hundred bucks every few years, this is neither extortion, nor a burden. It's just paying the admin costs of the program, which means not using general fund money (everyone's taxes) to pay for background checks for rich business travelers. That's progressive.

And the alternative to this type of program would be the silliness where some random grandma or child gets invasively searched because "we have to be random."
I would assume Monty Hall was paid the same amount either way.
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"Just killing passengers" isn't meaningfully worse/different than your average mall shooting... It sucks, but it's not quite as severe as turning the giant flying tube of jet fuel into an improvised ballistic missile (the 9/11 problem).
Tesla and the Chinese manufacturers are not playing in anything near the same league. Making cheap EV's is in no way "outcompeting" Tesla. Rather, Tesla has shown that it can handily outcompete traditional luxury auto companies, beating them at their own game.
Yeah sure washing your hands kills 99.99% of bacteria, but not 100%.

Why obsess over that 0.01% when surrounded by dark age skiddies who haven't discovered germ theory yet, focus the message: "wash your hands!"
The core guidelines aren't as subjective as other guidelines but they are still subjective. There is plenty of completely sound code out there that violates the core guidelines. Not only are they subjective, but many of them require someone to think about the best way to write the code and whether the unpopular way to write it is actually better.

I know compiler front ends can be and are used to create tooling. The point is, you shouldn't be required to implement some kinds of checking in the course of implementing a compiler. If you use a compiler, you should not be required to do all this analysis every single time you compile (unless it is enforcing an objectively necessary standard, and the cost of running it is negligible).
The top hedge funds that can realistically promise [0] excellent returns are basically all capacity constrained AFAICT

Either that or they've switched business model to mostly making money on the management fee. It's easier to grow the assets than the returns.

[0] If you can get money into one of the top multi-managers, in peacetime you are basically looking at somewhere between a nice and very good return every year. Where peacetime could well include a big bear market in stocks e.g. Millennium made 35% in 2022 despite a big draw down in the SP500.

This of course isn't magic, illiquidity, big spikes in (say) funding costs, or just foolishness can still kill them.
Is someone aware of a GitHub repo with an implementation of this?
Yeah, I was about to post that it looked like some hybrid of a voronoi diagram and a treemap. More about those diagram types that can be combined in this manner:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
I don't believe people who say they demand transparency from the government. If they're not genuinely outraged at Musk's lack of accountability then I don't believe they're genuinely outraged at the Pentagon or Treasury either.

Musk is working for the government and sets an example with his own behavior. If he can't commit to his own standard of transparency then I (and no rational person) would trust him to hold the rest of the government accountable either.
Looks interesting but I do wonder what the use cases and advantages are here. What's better about providing a stringified python interface instead of the current UI implementation?
> too young to remember 9/11? :)

Too lazy to read the many GAO reports that all demonstrate TSA accuracy at finding dangerous items never topping 5%?
It's taking quite a journey on and off the frontpage: https://hnrankings.info/43004889/

I'm surprised too, as this is extremely pertinent to Y-Combinator and the community at-large. Seems like something that would be stuck #1 spot for a few hours but that's up to the community to decide. Maybe we're all moving on from the OpenAI hype thing.
Let's look at an actual CRM for a moment. Salesforce has an suite of sales forecasts for projecting sales. A major feature of that is letting people make "adjustments" to the data. Every layer of your sales org can tweak the numbers that the layer below generates: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.forecasts...

I'm sure some of those adjustments are reasonable, but I'm also sure this gets used to create a stack of lies to please upper management.

There's some obvious issues with some sort of AI in such an environment. Do you train the AI to tell the right sorts of lies?
I know this is bait, but I’ll bite.

> We do not believe that our value as human beings is intrinsically tied to our value as knowledge workers. Our professions do not define us; we are more than the work we do.

I agree, with the caveat that at work, your value is in fact intrinsically tied to your abilities. If you’re the world’s nicest person but you are utterly useless at your job, then you are taking headcount that could be better used.

This is my core disagreement with the anti-meritocracy movements. Is the term overused, and often a transparent effort to not seek diversity in hiring? Of course. And yet, the idea that you should be good at your job is not anathema to that belief.

> We can be successful while leading rich, full lives. Our success and value is not dependent on exerting all of our energy on contributing to software.

At work, it is. Again, this makes no sense. Jobs are not social clubs. I might have coworkers who are also friends, but if they were also terrible at their job, there would be constant tension.

In short, I view this movement as people attempting to placate their feelings of inferiority by saying that it’s everyone else who is in the wrong.

If you do a job, do it well. If you can’t, better yourself. There’s no shame in not knowing how something works. There should be shame in making someone else work harder because you don’t care enough to try.
And while you may want to use Rust in some of these situations, you won’t be able to without that level of qualification and certification.

This probably does mean there will be room in the market for a commercially-supported qualified and certified Rust toolchain.
> by managing government money through the social security system, union pension funds, college endowments, and sovereign wealth funds

Why don't you target that anger and contempt to the organizations willfully giving money to these organizations?

"Social security system is a parasite on society, who steals taxpayers money and throws it away in inefficient vehicles evidence over decades that tells us that their investments aren't outperfoming index funds"
I don't think I am really "anticipating" an audience. Or it might be my greatest grandkids after I am long dead that I are my audience. It doesn't really matter to me. It's more of a mindset.
I don't think "people" are going to have a say in this at all. Their privacy is now between Apple and the UK government, two entities with less-than-favorable track records protecting their constituents.

The UK could have followed the EU's lead in forcing Apple to diversify their service offerings. They could have written their own consumer protection laws or leveled lawsuits about Apple's dubious privacy considerations whenever they wanted. But instead they waited until it was too late, because everyone thought; it would never happen to me, right?

I know people will call this a fatalist reaction, but Apple has fought hard to control their fate. Now you have to trust that Apple will do the right thing, while Tim Cook stands shoulder-to-shoulder with America's most radical leader in half a century. If this matters to Britons, they should vote with their wallets and ditch Apple themselves.
It's nice to see that hedge funds are still around. I thought all the bros had switched to tech.
How about:

- hypocrite: free speech only for topics I approve of

- bully: and a school yard style bully at that. Calling people crude names etc. Remember "pedo guy"?

- liar: "full self driving early next year" for how many years in a row?

- reckless: doesn't seem to really care about all the tesla crashes while on auto pilot, giant safety (for others) hazard that is the cybertruck

And this is all before the current political drama.
Yeah places like PIMCO are basically stealing from pension funds through a bunch of complicated financial engineering. Some of the assets they trade arent liquid, theres no consensus on fair price. And so a bunch of funny business goes on
His companies are supporting each other in weird ways like xAi intercepting Tesla's GPUs, xAi being separate from X which is where it's used, Boring building one of its few tunnels in a Tesla factory for ???, the employees from one working at another, etc. there's probably a lot of shenanigans going on to make each company look OK at the right times.

The one that has to be somewhat transparent is looking pretty shaky
Here's the crux of why AI is not yet useful for more than simple projects: they cannot actually know when something is correct or wrong. As a result there is no guarantee that something is implemented properly. To clarify, a human junior engineer might not have knowledge but they KNOW they don't have the knowledge, AND they know when they have the right answer. A junior engineer can check their results and verify with near 100% certainty that something works or it doesn't.

With Cursor I keep running into suggestions that create bugs. Even a junior dev knows how to check their solution to see if it actually works or not. The article says to build a "stdlib" of things that go wrong so it stops, but I would think that will exceed the max tokens very quickly and make things exceedingly harder to troubleshoot. My guess is that once inference is practically free (in computation) and we can throw 1000 agents at a single application in order to get the proper level of agency such that it is obvious to check your answer and be as reliable as a human.
So you'd rather that the taxes everyone pays, including the poor, goes to pay the costs of doing the background checks on the business travelers and other upper-class people who fly frequently? There is a cost to administer the program, and the program is useful in that adding a fast lane speeds up the lines for everyone, as the fast lane inherently has more capacity per hour. And it also means fewer people to be screened by the primary lanes, which means more attention can be put toward a group statistically more likely to contain a bad actor (because they have had no background checks).

The fee is tiny compared to the costs of a plane ticket. It's $100 for multiple years of validity.
It helps you see "what is crap" in your own mind. Sometimes you need the mindset that you are speaking in public to confront those things.
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Apologies not needed! Agreed it is a tricky topic. And there are almost certainly nefarious reasons to push arguments similar to what I'm asking.
We had a guy who found a direct connection to the grid and it was noticed, reading the article the setup was in the 2-5kW range. How many goes unnoticed is another issue.
Oh I do believe they are possible. It is just high time that the units fighting against organised crime heavily expanded their scope to illicit online activities that actually cause financial harm by entities to entities smaller than the movie/music/publishing industries.
The weak Aussie dollar and the low cost of BYD cars is what did that.

Also, Tesla stopped selling the Model S here.
I haven't paid a lot of attention to them recently, but Cisco Systems used to be quite successful at acquisitions.