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error9348on Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

Would make interaction easier for ai agents on the web.

error9348on Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

Wow, thanks for the correction. Didn't know this existed - to be fair, I only found a preview last year I tried, and paid up.

error9348on Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

It would be great if all NeurIPS talks were accessible for free like this one. I understand they generate some revenue from online ticket sales, but it would be a great resource. Maybe some big org could sponsor it.

error9348on OpenAI and Other AI Companies Pay $2 an Hour for Kenyan Jobs

> Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

Let me guess. SAMA had the classic sku/$/hr saas pricing.

error9348on Trump wins presidency for second time

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

error9348on A 9.9 CVE has been announced for Linux

Original source seems to be https://archive.is/wwoQZ

error9348on OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought

will these (or have these) notifications been paused while the decision is being reconsidered?

error9348on CSS Can Get You in Jail – Browser renderers, now deemed criminals

> by using CSS for displaying the numbers, you put the validity of the documents in the hands of the rendering engine.

Any automation tool could result in a regression which may generate invalid numbering. At any rate, I doubt a court would ignore mens rea.

error9348on CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks

The interface looks very Apple as well. Looks like you create a config file, and you already have a model in mind with the hyperparameters and it provides a simple interface. How useful is this to researchers trying to hack the model architecture?

One example: https://github.com/apple/corenet/tree/main/projects/clip#tra...

error9348on Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets

Jax trends on papers with code:

https://paperswithcode.com/trends

error9348on OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights

Q3-7 & Q3-5d get to the workability. I don't think OpenAI responds to that part of the RFC. Meta's comment on that issue seems to be fairly clear, they oppose the proposed rules on KYC for IaaS and are "not aware of technical capabilities that could not be overcome by determined, well-resourced, and capable actors".

https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/open_m...

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NTIA-RFC-Met...

error9348on MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster

Could be. Could also be that LLM is to OpenAI what information retrieval is to Google. A lot is publicly known in the information retrieval space, but google still dominates.

error9348on OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

Looks like they draw a line at generative AI. CLIP / Whisper / Gym are open; Jukebox / GPT / DallE are not.

error9348on How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

The question the blog asks on election procedure is easy to get right, why does ChatGPT refuse to answer? I'd bet the answer it would otherwise produce is reasonable. Perplexity gives a fine answer. The collateral damage from fixing hallucinations seems to hurt accessibility.

error9348on Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run

Should be fine, you can even compile and run a C file using a shebang

error9348on US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes

There are all kinds of externalities, including safety, which are ignored. US tax policy which allows write offs only for large vehicles which are more likely to cause deaths. Tire emissions. Congestion pricing -- common in Europe -- needs years or reviews and lawsuits. NHTSA doesn't require bicycle test devices.

error9348on CLI user experience case study

Terseness is the point. Man pages can be discoverable too if your shell supports autocomplete

error9348on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple

Thanks. That explains why I never notice the difference.

error9348on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple

This may be ignorant, but why does green/blue bubble matter for US folks? Almost all cell providers have free SMS/MMS. Would people even notice it if the color was always blue?

error9348on Audio2Photoreal

Easy to beat my mind's eye

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

error9348on Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

Would have never guessed mobile percentage is this high.

error9348on Implementation of Mamba in one file of PyTorch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522428

https://openreview.net/forum?id=AL1fq05o7H

error9348on EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1733481002234679685

> The EU AI Act negotiations ended. One contentious issue was the regulation of foundation models, particularly open source ones.

> Kudos to the French, German, and Italian governments for not giving up on open source models.

> Juicy part: "The legislation ultimately included restrictions for foundation models but gave broad exemptions to “open-source models,” which are developed using code that’s freely available for developers to alter for their own products and tools. The move could benefit open-source AI companies in Europe that lobbied against the law, including France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, as well as Meta, which released the open-source model LLaMA."

error9348on Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity

> No one knows how it works. Researchers simulate a weird type of pseudo-neural-tissue, “reward” it a little every time it becomes a little more like the AI they want, and eventually it becomes the AI they want.

There is a distinction to be made in "knowing how it works" on architecture vs weights themselves.

error9348on Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

Arguendo, assume Facebook lobbied for it. If only one market player doesn't follow an industry standard on public interest (consensus which prevents industry regulation), of course other players should lobby to get the player out.

error9348on Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

Letter in question

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...

error9348on Why isn't dotnet core popular among startups?

This is my problem with C#. Too many ways to do one thing.

error9348on Fish – A friendly interactive shell

Been using it for years. Accidentally found out a few months ago, shift+tab allows you to search for completions.

error9348on AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users

the word "clicking" to me suggests a change in behavior/new bug. ".. to silently click .." would remove that suggestion.

error9348on Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption

I won't repeat fact that this number is low.

But the bigger problem with the article IMO is the fact that this is degrowth. Why is the electricity consumption important? Carbon is the real metric. Big server operators (meta, aws, azure, gcp) already either are 100% zero-carbon powered or on track to be.

Regardless, if grid needs to add capacity for EVs, heat pumps, other electrification goals, why are servers (probably low impact) important?