skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bid" was hypothesis's word, not mine, so whatever "gotcha" you think you're springing on me, send it elsewhere.

Yes, I know how bids work, at least approximately. It wasn't a bid in the strict sense. It was an offer to buy, which Twitter accepted, and then Musk tried to withdraw the offer (because of too much of the traffic being bots, IIRC). The judge did not allow Musk to withdraw, because there was no such "subject to" in his offer.
True, but I believe (although last explored this question a long time ago) that the majority of the capital is not locked.
Great timing, go for them them just after they've suffered a horrible catastrophe. Still, the economy of California is remains like 8x larger than that of Denmark. Make an offer I guess, it can't hurt.
> The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.

The G4 Cube had an (empty) standard mount and power connector for an optional fan.
You just aren't as special or interesting as you think to them. Think about this, there are many finance focused graduates with several years of experience in that industry (buy-side im presuming from your comment) and being able to code isn't as special as SWE think it is.

This is another case of software devs thinking they can crack finance/trading because they know how to code. The myopia comes from the difference in culture and how risk is treated from tech organizations to finance.

Exception is if you have an advanced math/physics degree that will be useful in the domain of quant shops but I wouldn't recommend someone taking that route just because they want to make money.

There are lot of finance/trading jobs. I wouldn't waste time pursuing that field. Very few end up parachuting with a mid six digit figure salary even inside that industry and these are people with many years of finance specific experience.
Fwiw this is the original usage of llms. The whole context awareness came about for the purpose of translations and the famous ‘attention is all you need’ paper was from the google translation team.

Say what you will about llms being overhyped but this is the original core use case.
Irssi has a command that does what I assume is something similar to this to upgrade in place without disconnecting https://irssi.org/documentation/help/upgrade/
Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI
> Musk clearly will not say anything even slightly negative about the CCP, even though he personally values free speech and other liberal values. So can he really be trusted with control of companies like SpaceX?

He literally posted an AI generated video of Xi in Winnie the Pooh garb.

> How else do you explain Trump delaying enforcement of the TikTok ban

Because he wanted people to watch his inauguration on TikTok. Plus the intention was always that TikTok would be bought by a US company, not to shut it down entirely given the extensive number of people who rely it on both for income and for entertainment. The issue was that the Supreme Court ruled on the takedown being legal just 2 days before the ban deadline, giving no time for an acquisition. Even Joe Biden refused to enforce the ban on TikTok on the last day of his presidency.

> If anything he should be going a lot harder against China

Tariffs on China just kicked in.
I’m sorry, where do you get that communist countries negates genetically science? A quick search shows that Cuba, for example has plenty of geneticists, researchers and healthcare initiatives around hereditary diseases…
And a social credit score.
A mouse zooming into your face isn't parallax
I hate these, but Apple does make some of the nicest, least-offensive examples.
I don't think you guys understand the reach of chatGPT. I live in Brazil and I was in line at a restaurant when I saw an older lady (around 60~70 years old) chatting with chatGPT on her smartphone. That's when I realized that chatGPT burst the bubble and by a lot.

We in the tech bubble know all the competitors and all the other products related to AI, but I guarantee that 98% of the rest of the world just knows chatGPT and some of them use it, even people who struggle to turn the Bluetooth on/off.

It's really hard to replicate this, I'm pretty sure this lady will never have the Claude or DeepSeek app installed on her phone, but she will be using chatGPT in the meantime.
This reads like it was written by The Neuron posing as an insider at OpenAI. Source: I write for the Neuron and did not write this lol.
Dupe (476 points, 5 hours ago, 550 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
Looking at what it costs to put a politician into your back pocket, I would assume that it costs way less than a trillion dollars to buy a country, let alone a state. 10-20 billion should suffice.
>> He's using his enormous amount of wealth and influence as a weapon to bludgeon anyone and anything in his way.

> Using your "enormous amount of wealth" as a weapon means you'll be frittering away that wealth very quickly.

That has not been the case throughout history. To the contrary, using "your 'enormous amount of wealth' as a weapon" has been effectively employed by those possessing same for as long as there has been an agreed upon definition of "wealth."

See any reasonable definition of power.
6 months back, you guys rejected me in a day, with no feedback.
https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/availability-heuristic

You've remembered two examples of this (arguably) happening, so you attempt to draw a conclusion based on the ease with which you came up with those examples. But in reality, this method of inference is prone to error, as it doesn't consider the denominator, or how many attempts were made to achieve the results you're able to remember.
We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
saves an average of 6-12 euro per month
This is an astonishing allegation. Can you substantiate any of it?
It's not the same language policing that got the left in trouble until you're worried about being fired from your job for calling it the Gulf of Mexico.
Yes it was in the original! I left it in because I thought it was weird and interesting.
Honestly, this would be the funniest possible outcome.
How Likely Are You to Overcome a Failed Launch?
My favorite version:

x = 0.999...
x - x/10 = 0.9
x = 1
> My objection is to the claim that "most people get it wrong", if most people are being fed the underspecified problem. I think the gut reaction is not to switch, because in most comparable situations across human experience it would be a mistake (imagine a similar situation at a sketchy-looking carnival game rather than a TV show

This may have a role to play. However there is a long history of people who aren't "going off their gut", including statisticians, getting this wrong with a very high level of confidence. It seems pretty clear that there is more than just an "underspecificity" problem. If you properly specify the problem, you will get similar error levels.
Until he's pardoned by the president.
They are both fine. Your real question is whether or not you can better leverage LBNL or SLAC (ALS vs LCLS/SSRL). I think LBNL would be a bit better for optics specifically. If you need more compute access LBNL/Berkeley might be a bit better because of NERSC but it’s not a huge deal because you’d probably use NERSC anyway. Of course, it’s quite likely you could be be working with PIs from either university as well.

Stanford students are generally happier than Berkeley students (talking about PhD/Postdocs in particular)
> doing shit on airplanes causes country-wide (and beyond) issues.

Like what?

In the absolute worst case it grounds flights nation wide and 100 people die. In the grand scheme of things that's a minor hiccup and not a likely outcome. We saw a bigger impact from the polar vortex.

The security simply doesn't match the value.

I'll remind you that 70 people died from an airplane accident. Tragic, but we were hardly impacted by it. When you talk about 2.7 million flyers, the impact of a few hundred dying a year still makes it one of the safest forms of travel.

Airplanes aren't special and shouldn't have the annoying special security treatment they do today.
> How much of it is tied up to a criminally overvalued Tesla stock though?

I don't know that, but I can say that he has an absurd amount liquidated.

- Dec 15 2022: Sells 22m shares for $3.6bn
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/investing/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale/index.html
- Nov 4-8 2022: Sells 19.5m shares for $4bn
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-climate-and-environment-9ab47198753931c7bea91f6e678f1d17
- Feb 2022: Elon has $11bn tax bill from a $23bn taxable income. Article discusses 2 sells
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/investing/elon-musk-tesla-zero-tax-bill/index.html
- This article says notes $1.52 billion between 2014-2018
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/elon-musk-says-he-will-pay-over-11-billion-in-taxes-this-year.html

So I would assume he has north of $30bn outside Tesla. Which that alone would make him near top 60 on Forbes's Billionaire list.

I believe we can agree that this sum of money falls into the category of "never will be poor." Where it is nearly (if not entirely) impossible to spend such sums of money. Remember, we're talking about a sum of money where you could easily line up $100 bills all the way across California, from top to bottom[0].

[0] A bill is 155.956mm x 66.294mm (0.155956m x 0.066294m) and CA's dimensions are 400km x 1220km. So 1220000 / 0.066294 = 18.403e6. You need ~$18.4m to do this with singles, $368.01 with $20's, and $1.84bn with $100's. So $30bn is 16 rows (2.5 meters wide) and $391bn (current Forbes value) is 212.5 rows, or 33 meters wide. A bill is 0.11mm thick if you want to calculate height. Maybe someone can come up with another fun visualization, because this one is well beyond imaginable already.
Gulf of Mexico is what it has been called so it makes no sense to rename it. Names often dont make sense plus spain and later mexico used to control more territory along the Gulf coatline. Unless you want to piss of one of our most important allies for no reason
Considering the GDP of California is 10x that of Denmark's, it will have to be a reverse takeover.
If you haven't tried it yet, both Firefox and Chrome offer different profiles[1][2], which comes with separate cookie stores and different installed extensions. The Firefox ones have a "this one goes to 11" level stupid UX (it's about:profiles, then click on Launch in New Profile) but to make up for it they offer Containers[3] which regrettably shares the same extensions as the host browser but awesomely hard sequesters the cookie and localStorage from other containers, and from the non-container default. Many people use it for all things QA since it's painless to log in to a website (AWS, Azure, etc) using totally different credentials

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

2: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824

3: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Correct, though my perception is that it's a distant Nth-place player behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.
They've seen humans whaling, actually helped out in some places, notably at Eden south east Australia, perhaps they know we're pretty smart and don't want to FAFO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_Sou...
Yes, they are - if you count wings, which are the main point of a plane.
I have bad news for you if you think Apple is not going to fall in line.
... TIL.
No need for past tense! The most active MUD today (AFAIK, 250 logged in at most times) uses a version of this to automatically reboot every 2 days.
Which is why it is great that Governments are adopting design systems that discourage anything that is superfluous to the content people are looking for. There is a very high emphasis on accessibility and consistency because it makes sense.

https://designsystem.digital.gov/

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
If you mean "connect to VS code inside that container remotely," then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979467 is worth your read
It is not trivial to publish to CLOUD. 3/4 of papers get rejected.

For better or worse, reviewers expect a specific structure in a paper. From the comments, it seems that you did not follow the typical structure of a research publication. Unfortunately, there are no clear guidelines; it just becomes natural with reading and writing papers. A mentor with academic experience would be a valuable resource in your case; you are probably 80% there.
> Berkeley is, at the end of the day, a public school, and so it’s lumped together with other top public schools like UT Austin or U Mich. Stanford, on the other hand, is a globally recognized private university and more often compared to MIT

Some data: Last I knew, Times Higher Education surveyed published tenured professors worldwide about the best schools in their field. I think it's probably the best and mabye only good data.

Every year, six schools have been head and shoulders above the rest overall (in random order): Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and Berkeley.
That's just the headline of the article.

The researchers put the vast majority of this value to tracking cookies, and this revenue happens whether or not a manual challenge is completed.
I didn't say anyone forced him to make the original offer.
Thank you for sharing specific details. I find this fascinating. How does one acquire this knowledge?
Just searched Google Maps for Mt. Denali, Alaska only for it to return results for Mount McKinley immediately. Note I'm not really sure if that's anything to do with an executive order or that it was Alaskans wanting it called Denali while many elsewhere in the country incl at the Federal level called it McKinley.

Related:

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007052
This is exactly right. Before 9/11, hijackings weren't unheard of, but they were almost universally political stunts with some "hostage situation" to taste [1]. As a passenger, if you just played along, your odds of getting hurt were quite low.

Nowadays, any would-be hijacker is going to get immediately dogpiled and beat within an inch of their lives before they ever reach first class.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326472/hijacking-airplanes-e...
They ship millions of janky cars.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-repor...

> Consumer Reports‘ annual reliability rankings have been released, and with data from 24 brands and over 300,000 vehicles, Tesla fell near the bottom (19/24) along with Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Volkswagen, GMC, and Chevrolet. Electric vehicles overall also placed poorly, being the second least reliable category of vehicles. Hybrids/plugin hybrids, especially those from Toyota, were found to be the most reliable.

Also the idea of the “best selling car” is meaningless. That’s like when Apple has “the best selling phone” when other manufacturers like Samsung sell a dozen types of phones.
Related:

Just searched Google Maps for Mt. Denali, Alaska only for it to return results for Mount McKinley immediately. Note I'm not really sure if that's anything to do with an executive order or that it was Alaskans wanting it called Denali while many elsewhere in the country incl at the Federal level called it McKinley.
I really enjoyed the "joke" the other day where some standup guy said that we have the tech now to make everyone happy: just show this part on Google Maps as China to this set of people and Taiwan to this other set of people etc etc
And the master of moving the Overton Window has struck again. Here we are discussing the proper apportionment of Canada's new representatives.
Does this mean we will get discount ozempic?
> The question as stated does not permit such a choice by the host since if it were a choice, it had already been made.

Whether the choice was already made by the host makes no difference, what matters is what information about the hidden state can be derived from that choice.

Let's say the rules of the game are modified to sat that the host never offers a re-selection when you already have selected a door with a goat. Then if the host has offered you a re-selection you should definitely not take it because you already have the good prize. You know this because the re-selection offer provides information about what is behind the door you selected.

In fact, any time your choice of door has amyy statistical effect on whether a re-selection is offered, then a re-selection offer (or lack) provides a small amount of information that modifies the expected value of choosing a new door.

> This is like being presented with a nearly completed game of chess, asked if the loser can lose in 1 move and then arguing that the answer is more nuanced because there might have been other moves taken that produced a different end games

It is absolutely nothing like that. That is not a question about statistics or probability.
I'd settle for "not worse" these days.
The idea of nuclear in Australia is mostly just a con to keep coal going longer by the conservative side of politics. They are not currently in power and even if they do get elected this year market forces will basically scupper the plan in the medium term anyway.

It's 100% about their connections to the resources (coal) and oil & gas political donors, nothing to do with actual policy. At worst a few billions will go to politically connected people to keep some coal plants running a few more years, but I doubt any nuclear plants will actually pass any kind of business case because they will cost too much and take too long to build (we would have needed to start 25 years ago for them to be economically viable, so they could have replaced the coal plants while the renewables were being built out).
That's no longer true and hasn't been for a long time. While the name comes from that concept, the "hedge fund" is now just any fund marketed to accredited investors.
> And yet there aren't huge news articles about how we're investigating and going to fix it...

Of course we ain't. How else could Tesla be so efficient?
> This you?

> > They can either have $40B in OpenAI equity or $97B.

> In other words: the big number trumps the small number - QED.

Yes those are words I used to describe a factual choice they have. Following that are a lot more words that dive deeper into that discussion. Here's how I summarized my initial point in the TL;DR on my ultimate parent post:

"Musk is trying to force OpenAI to value OpenAI-NP's stake in OpenAI-P at a reasonable level which is far greater than the current $40B which will help Musk by potentially derailing OpenAI-P's goal to be spun off.

For people with smooth brains like me, I'll helpfully point out how this doesn't present Elon's offer as "an instant checkmate." The first word to note is "trying." This suggests it is an attempt to do something that is not guaranteed to result in a win (ie a "checkmate"). The second word is "potentially" which again reinforces the case that this does not guarantee Elon achieves the stated goal (ie is not "checkmate").

> Why do you believe OpenAI-NP wouldn't care about all the issues I raised?

My prior post raised all sorts of reasons and you seem to have decided to ignore them to build strawmen.
> Writing on a blog is a very inexpensive way to establish your credibility about different subjects. This pays off later down the line when you can link people to things you've written in the past.

Unfortunately, these days writing a publicly-available blog is also a great way to train AI to replace you at the very job you're establishing credibility in.

Alas, that ship has sailed. So keep writing blogs.
But very very few had any casualties - which is why we didn’t collectively freak it about it and establish the TSA. Also the vast majority were outside the US.
If we lose $100 curing all diseases should we stop doing it? It’s just an odd argument for government - the purpose wasn’t profit and the argument that it was will put entitlements on the chopping blocks with the same excuse.
Why would he offer a swindler and a scam almost $100B?
Wrestling with WebRTC
YouTube playlist won't auto-play if it includes more than 244 entries
There are other factors, like the quality of your peers, facilities and colloquia, security of funding, teaching load, culture, etc.

And a high reputation school will help in grant applications and so on, where you don't get to include your advisers name.
> Now you need ID even for a Greyhound or Amtrak.

I've taken Amtrak quite a bit in the last few years (Emeryville & Truckee in California, and NYC, Philly, BWI, and DC in the east), and I've never been asked for ID to board a train. (In other words, trivially easy for someone to do something nefarious if they wanted to.)

No security checkpoints, no ticket checking before getting on the train, just someone checking tickets on the train itself 10-20 minutes after it gets moving.

You also don't actually need an ID to fly, though if you try that, give yourself plenty of time to get through "extra security".
It's also possible that they don't actually know the difference, or was even asked to change it by an editor to make it sound more trendy. Skepticism of even good journalism is healthy. Gell-Mann amnesia and all.
The language of rationalizing fascism.
Australia will throw in the state of Victoria.
> and if they used circles of different sizes, it would be easy to mistake the radii as the measured quantity instead of the area

No, if the measured quantity is represented as the radius, everyone will assume it's the area, and you've designed a very bad graph. If the measured quantity is represented as the area, everyone will assume it's the area, and you're fine. The area is what you can see.
Domain knowledge is valuable as you can wield it as opportunities arise to great effect. This lets you leap frog problems by applying known solutions. There's risk of being blind to novel approaches that require innovation.

Being capable of tackling problems from first principles is invaluable because we frequently encounter problems that are novel in some dimension, even if that dimension is the combination of dimensions. This lets you leap frog large problems by decomposition, possibly going against the grain and innovating by, hopefully, simplifying. However there is risk in falling into traps that countless others have already learned the hard way.

This may come as a surprise to some but, believe it or not, you can have both. In fact, you should.
OpenAI gonna prove P=NP is what you are alluding to?
A huge number of DEC kernel engineers also ended up working on the Linux kernel as Red Hat employees in Westford, MA.

I dotted lined into Tom West for a time at Data General and, later, had a >decade stint at Red Hat where I got hired on by a senior ex-DEC person.
> He literally posted an AI generated video of Xi in Winnie the Pooh garb.

I missed that one, do you have a link?
We're supposed to be a country of equals. Not one where the well-heeled can buy better public service.
I'm just going to quote myself from the thread above:

> You can serialize object graphs without concern for cycles. The contract is simple (it serializes fields, as opposed to dealing with weird bean naming conventions). It handles types and structures automatically. `transient` is built into the language. Polymorphism just works.

I like Jackson more than most. And there are many contexts in which JSON is the better answer. But there are also many contexts in which Java serialization is a better answer. Even with the security considerations.
Reminds me of the study that showed that the increase in US car fatalities in the 2 years after 9/11 because everyone was scared of flying was comparable to the number of people who died in 9/11. Right 9/11 was arguably the safest time to fly.
You have probably seen these already, but just in case: I think you would really enjoy p-adic numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number
GDP is 4 trillion. It's going to take at least that to convince Musk to sell it. He's not in it to lose money.