MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by procarch2019 | 2025-05-05 21:19:30+00:00
They could just switch their dns back to auto (or statically use google/cloudflare/etc depending on how you configure it), no? Then fix it when you’re back.

You could also set up 2 ssids depending on your WiFi set up. Point one to pi hole and the other to a different DNS provider. Instruction if pi hole breaks is just switch WiFi.
by paulcole | 2025-05-05 21:19:56+00:00
Yes.

> I have a family member who is a multi-millionaire and who owns multiple businesses. He has more money now than I'll have in my lifetime

Why can’t he sell the businesses or hire an operator to run them while he collects checks?

> The difference is that I work far fewer, less stressful hours, and have much more time to myself.

You both have 24 hours to yourself each day.

You choose to spend yours one way, he chooses to spend his in another.
by SCAQTony | 2025-05-05 21:20:12+00:00
Does anyone truly believe Musk had benevolent intentions? But before we even evaluate the substance of that claim, we must ask whether he has standing to make it. In his court filing, Musk uses the word "nonprofit" 111 times, yet fails to explain how reverting OpenAI to a nonprofit structure would save humanity, elevate the public interest, or mitigate AI’s risks. The legal brief offers no humanitarian roadmap, no governance proposal, and no evidence that Musk has the authority to dictate the trajectory of an organization he holds no equity in. It reads like a bait and switch — full of virtue-signaling, devoid of actionable virtue. And he never had a contract or an agreement for with OpenAI to keep it a non-profit.

Musk claimed Fraud, but never asked for his money back in the brief. Could it be his intentions were to limit OpenAI to donations thereby sucking the oxygen out of the venture capital space to fund Xai's Grok?

Musk claimed he donated $100mil, later in a CNBC interview, he said $50-mil. TechCrunch suggests it was way less.

Speakingof humanitarian, how about this 600lbs Oxymoron in the room: A Boston University mathematician has now tracked an estimated 10,000 deaths linked to the Musk's destruction of USAID programs, many of which provided basic health services to vulnerable populations. He may have a death count on his reume in the coming year.

Non profits has regulation than publicly traded companies. Each quarterly filings is like a colonoscopy with Sorbonne Oxley rules etc. Non profits just file a tax statement. Did you know the Chirch of Scientology is a non-profit.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-05 21:21:19+00:00
> Technically it is a refinement, as it distinguishes levels of performance

No, it's bringing something out of scope into the definition. Gluten-free means free of gluten. Gluten-free bagel verus sliced bread is a refinement--both started out under the definition. Glutinous bread, on the other hand, is not gluten free. As a result, "almost gluten free" is bullshit.

> That's my point. Humans are not "autocompleting words" when they speak

Humans are not. LLMs are. It turns out that's incredibly powerful! But it's also limiting in a way that's fundamentally important to the definition of AGI.

LLMs bring us closer to AGI in the way the inventions of writing, computers and the internet probably have. Calling LLMs "emerging AGI" pretends we are on a path to AGI in a way we have zero evidence for.
by steveklabnik | 2025-05-05 21:21:55+00:00
EDIT: wait, I think you're tptacek's parent. I was not talking about your post, I was talking about the post I linked to. I'm leaving my reply here but there's some serious confusion going on.

> theres someone assassinating me as an "anti-LLM person"

Is this not true? That's the vibe the comment gives off. I'm happy to not say that in the future if that's not correct, and if so, additionally, I apologize.

I myself was pretty anti-LLM until the last month or so. My opinions have shifted recently, and I've been trying to sort through my feelings about it. I'm not entirely enthusiastically pro, and have some pretty big reservations myself, but I'm more in the middle than where I was previously, which was firmly anti.

> "very obviously untrue things"

At the time I saw the post, I had just tabbed away from a ChatGPT session where it had relied on searching the web for some info, so the contrast was very stark.

> "kind of hilarious"

I do think that when people say that LLMs occasionally hallucinate things, and are therefore worthless, when others make false claims about them for the purpose of suggesting we shouldn't use them, that it is kind of funny. You didn't directly say this in your post, only handwaved towards it, but I'm talking about the discourse in general, not you specifically.

> And you call yourself "charitable"

I am trying to be charitable. A lot of people reached for some variant of "this person is stupid," and I do not think that's the case, or the good way to understand what people mean when they say things. A mistake is a mistake. I am actively not trying to simply dismiss arguments on either side of here, but take them seriously.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-05-05 21:22:12+00:00
> Mac OS makes it very easy to type the em dash. You just long press the regular -.

Curious, this doesn't work for me. It does work for other characters, such as long-pressing 'n' to get variants such as 'ñ'.

I do use em dashes a lot though. I just use Shift-Option-hyphen.
by scrollop | 2025-05-05 21:22:35+00:00
When you transfer your files to storage, you can use a simple script to rename the files with date taken and into a year -- month -- day folder structure.

Or dumping everything into one folder would work with metadata, though I've found different programs get confused with created date Vs modified date Vs other metadata used, so best to rename.

In the future this will likely be less of an issue with ai reading everything, easy organisation and searching and, I hope, an ai that can read 2 tb of videos and create a 20 min vacation edit or best of birthdays in the last 10 years etc
by Funes- | 2025-05-05 21:23:06+00:00
This bothered me a lot in the past. I want to be in full control of any information that is on the Internet concerning myself. Some of the people I know will add an appeasing comment before taking a picture: "don't worry, I won't upload it anywhere!", but most people will just post it willy-nilly all the same.

By the way, during last Monday's blackout in Spain, I had a sense of this kind of burden being lifted from the atmosphere... the idea of nobody having the ability to record and publish anything anymore (for the duration of the blackout, at least), was quite interesting... relieving, even.
by quantadev | 2025-05-05 21:23:07+00:00
To me the shocking thing about the USA Gov't is that they manage to lose trillions in the defense dept that they can't account for, but somehow are unable to develop their own communications apps? What? Signing messages with a crypto key takes like 4 lines of code. It's not rocket science. Yet they use some corporate app?

My only theory is that they're pretending to have only 'Signal' so that when they want to they can allow hackers to "see" stuff they WANT to be seen. Like a disinformation honey pot designed to misdirect America's enemies. While they actually have a totally separate secret app that is secure and is developed by the NSA.
by leontrolski | 2025-05-05 21:23:13+00:00
I plan on using it for semi throw away UIs for things where I don't want the user to have to spin up a Web server. Right now there's no canvas support, but there is that kind of thing in the Tk/Tcl docs (linked in the project). I probably need to add a way to reference a specific Widget so you can access the raw name and run taw Tcl against it.
by cmurf | 2025-05-05 21:23:26+00:00
It's a long term problem.

Other failures:

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/faa-knew-of-potent...

The gambit to solve the staffing issues by moving Newark's sector [1] from New York TRACON to Philadelphia TRACON:

https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...

[1] TRACON approach and departure near to a specific airport, ~30-50 miles around an airport, excludes tower, excludes ARTCC a.k.a. "center" or en-route control. Tower controllers look out the window, and TRACON controllers are in a dark room with radar screens.
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 21:23:51+00:00
No, because the entire argument hinges on the fact that LLMs learn, which is like humans learning, so it's transformative. That only works if you consider learning or transformation to be something that does not rely on the human spirit. Which, actually, most people do not believe. And it's pretty difficult to argue - we don't even know how learning works for people.

A lot of people just jump to LLMs learning like it's a foregone conclusion. Mm... no. You need to convince people of that. You'll find if you talk to non-tech people, they're not just going to believe you when you say that.

Why isn't an LLM more akin to a database or a compression algorithm? Why is it closer to human learning? After all, humans are humans and we have the exclusive right and power to determine what is human and what isn't. And database and compression algorithms are computer programs, of the same kind as an LLM.
by tripleseven | 2025-05-05 21:25:13+00:00
I understand your point and I definitely agree that products should be as easy to use and set up as possible. However, I don't really see a way to make this any easier than it is now, or easier to set up than any other selfhosted project you can find on github.

I'm not targeting high school students (specifically) and it's outside the scope of the project to give a background course in DevOps.

I would argue the software is definitely usable by anyone who has some basic experience with Linux and Docker.

If you have specific ideas on how to make selfhosting this easier, I'm certainly curious.
by sigilis | 2025-05-05 21:25:19+00:00
These are all activities he is engaging in to generate money through the company he has a stake in. None of those activities have a purpose other than selling the work of his company and presenting it as a good investment which is how he gets money.

Maybe he wants to use the money in some nebulous future way, subjugating all people in a way that deals with his childhood trauma or whatever. That’s also something rich people do when they need a hobby aside from gathering more money. It’s not their main goal, except when they run into setbacks.

People are not complicated when they are money hoarders. They might have had hidden depths once, but they are thin furrows in the ground next to the giant piles of money that define them now.
by voidspark | 2025-05-05 21:26:38+00:00
> Gluten-free means free of gluten.

Bad analogy. That's a binary classification. AGI systems can have degrees of performance and capability.

> Humans are not. LLMs are.

My point is that if you oversimplify LLMs to "word autocompletion" then you can make the same argument for humans. It's such an oversimplification of the transformer / deep learning architecture that it becomes meaningless.
by timeinput | 2025-05-05 21:26:42+00:00
Do you ever have trouble falling into past decisions, and over analyzing them, and doubling down on your anxiety?

I would love to get rid of my smart phone, but the problems I dwell on are very rarely present or future decisions, and realistically what is top of my mind anxiety be damned is useless energy, it's like running a wind turbine off the grid, and forcing it to spin as if it were a big fan instead of running the grid off wind turbines. The thoughts are more like did I disappoint that friend last weekend, or did I dissapoint that coworker at the Christmas party 6 months ago, or did I do <x> that definitely didn't create <y>, but did I do <x> that made <y> happen?

I use chess apps on my phone to at least put my brain off those thoughts entirely because I have a different problem to solve, and that is magnificent, and if If I didn't have that I don't know what I would do. I know there's something probably not quite right, but I'm wondering how much time you end up spending on problems that "can't be solved," and how much is time spent actually solving problems in your life. If that makes any sense.
by arh68 | 2025-05-05 21:27:35+00:00
> LLMs specifically, have been shown to have the capacity to make such copies

Exactly. I asked my Gemma how long of a quote it could give me of a given book, if I were the author & gave express permission, and I was a bit surprised it readily admitted it could

> Without Permission (Current Limit): Single sentence.

> With Broad Permission (Full Reproduction Allowed): I could theoretically quote the entire book.

Eye-opening (for me, at least).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-05 21:27:54+00:00
> OpenAI has been on a winning streak that makes ChatGPT the default chatbot for most of the planet

OpenAI has like 10 to 20% market share [1][2]. They're also an American company whose CEO got on stage with an increasingly-hated world leader. There is no universe in which they keep equal access to the world's largest economies.

[1] https://iot-analytics.com/leading-generative-ai-companies/

[2] https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/stats/openai-statistics....
by mrandish | 2025-05-05 21:28:38+00:00
I agree that this is simply Altman extending his ability to control, shape and benefit from OpenAI. Yes, this is clearly (further) subverting the original intent under which the org was created - and that's unfortunate. But in terms of impact on the world, or even just AI safety, I'm not sure the governance of OpenAI matters all that much anymore. The "governance" wasn't that great after the first couple years and OpenAI hasn't been "open" since long before the board spat.

More crucially, since OpenAI's founding and especially over the past 18 months, it's grown increasingly clear that AI leadership probably won't be dominated by one company, progress of "frontier models" is stalling while costs are spiraling, and 'Foom' AGI scenarios are highly unlikely anytime soon. It looks like this is going to be a much longer, slower slog than some hoped and others feared.
by thirdtrigger | 2025-05-05 21:28:40+00:00
Might be interesting to add an optional embedded Weaviate [1] with a flat-index [2] to the project. It wouldn't use external services and is fully disk-based. Would allow you to search the whole filesystem (about 1.5kb per file (384 dimensions) which would be added to the metadata as well).

1. https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/installation/embedde... 2. https://weaviate.io/developers/academy/py/vector_index/flat
by lstodd | 2025-05-05 21:29:11+00:00
four people answered strictly correctly as to what magic(5) is, but not a single one realized that storing some aux data as xattr in linux FS is not in any way different from just storing the exact same data as a file header. which is how magic(5) works.

how come?

(besides good luck not forgetting to rsync those xattrs)
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-05-05 21:29:14+00:00
Or, you can have a decent website made by a single person. It's not that hard to learn basic HTML5, enough ARIA semantics to know not to use ARIA, a programming language with decent synchronisation primitives that supports CGI, an SQL dialect and the principles of relational database design, enough JavaScript to use MDN, enough CSS to use MDN, the basics of server maintenance, TLS certificate provision, and DNS.

If you want to do your own networking, or run email, that's a whole 'nother specialism; but just running a website is easy enough for one person to do.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-05 21:29:24+00:00
> Market share of OpenAI is like 90%+

Source? I've seen 10 to 20% [1][2].

[1] https://iot-analytics.com/leading-generative-ai-companies/

[2] https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/stats/openai-statistics....
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 21:29:49+00:00
Have you done any research into it? Or, because it makes you uncomfortable, you just write it off as a religion and ignore it?

A lot of people work backwards. They don't like the conclusions drawn by CRT and social studies so they work backwards and conclude that it's based on things that aren't real. But these areas of studies work forwards. Meaning, they identify obvious, real, and undeniable racial systems, such as redlining, and then study the long-term effects of that.

If you think something like, say, preventing black Americans from owning property, has no long-term effects on the demographic then you've probably just never thought about it. This isn't a TV show, this isn't a picture perfect depiction of a country. Our institutions are old, and things don't just - poof - get fixed. Integration was messy, and it took decades. Reconstruction wasn't linear, it progressed and then regressed. Segregation never disappeared - to this day, most cities are segregated. To just conclude "well that doesn't matter", based on zero research or understanding, is intellectually lazy.

Of course, if you do start to do research into it, congratulations, you have re-discovered the discipline of CRT. Because that's all it is. So, you have no choice but to stay ignorant, because otherwise you threaten your entire belief system. And we can't have that, can we?
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-05 21:30:54+00:00
The explanation was pretty clear and coherent: The CEO was no longer adhering to the mission of the non-profit (which the board was upholding).

But they found themselves alone in that it turns out the employees (who were employed by the for-profit company) and investors (MSFT in particular) didn't care about the mission and wanted to follow the money instead.

So the board had no choice but to capitulate and leave.
by Yizahi | 2025-05-05 21:31:32+00:00
It seems a defining feature of nearly every single extremely rich person is their belief that they somehow are smarter than filthy peasants, and so he decides to "educate" them of the sacred knowledge. This may take vastly different forms - genocide, war, trying to create via bribes a better government, create a city from scratch, create a new corporate "culture", do public proselytizing of their "do better" faith, write books, classes etc.

St. Altman plans to create a corporate god for us dumb schmucks, and he will be it's prophet.
by steveklabnik | 2025-05-05 21:31:56+00:00
> ChatGPT search was only released in November last year

It is entirely possible that I simply got involved at a particular moment that was crazy lucky: it's only been a couple of weeks. I don't closely keep up with when things are released, I had just asked ChatGPT something where it did a web search, and then immediately read a "it cannot do search" claim right after.

> An LLM, on its own, is not a search engine and can not scan the web for information.

In a narrow sense, this is true, but that's not the claim: the claim is "You cannot use it as a search engine, or as a substitute for searching." That is pretty demonstrably incorrect, given that many people use it as such.

> Trusting an offline LLM with an informational search is sometimes a really bad idea ("who are all the presidents that did X").

I fully agree with this, but it's also the case with search engines. They also do not always "encompass the fully body of the published human thought" either, or always provide answers that are comprehensible.

I recently was looking for examples of accomplishing things with a certain software architecture. I did a bunch of searches, which led me to a bunch of StackOverflow and blog posts. Virtually all of those posts gave vague examples which did not really answer my question with anything other than platitudes. I decided to ask ChatGPT about it instead. It was able to not only answer my question in depth, but provide specific examples, tailored to my questions, which the previous hours of reading search results had not afforded me. I was further able to interrogate it about various tradeoffs. It was legitimately more useful than a search engine.

Of course, sometimes it is not that good, and a web search wins. That's fine too. But suggesting that it's never useful for a task is just contrary to my actual experience.

> The fact that they're incorrect when they say that LLM's can't trigger search doesn't seem that "hilarious" to me, at least.

It's not them, it's the overall state of the discourse. I find it ironic that the fallibility of LLMs is used to suggest they're worthless compared to a human, when humans are also fallible. OP did not directly say this, but others often do, and it's the combination that's amusing to me.

It's also frustrating to me, because it feels impossible to have reasonable discussions about this topic. It's full of enthusiastic cheerleaders that misrepresent what these things can do, and enthusiastic haters that misrepresent what these things can do. My own feelings are all over the map here, but it feels impossible to have reasonable discussions about it due to the polarization, and I find that frustrating.
by fvdessen | 2025-05-05 21:32:07+00:00
This 'courthouse' is not just any courthouse, it's the biggest courthouse in the world, it is so big that it was the biggest building in the world until NASA made the VAB to build Saturn V. Bigger than St-Peter's Cathedral, it is a demented place erected at the top of Belgium then industrial might, costing then more than half the entire state budget for public construction during the 20 years it took build. The architect was given unlimited budget and complete freedom. It was supposed to be even bigger with a ziggurat styled tower to top it off but the architect died before the completion of the building. A more reasonable golden dome was constructed instead. Still to this day nobody understands how this was allowed to be made, and it is way too expensive to maintain, and has thus fell in disrepair, but it is also too big and too incredible to demolish

There are renovation works ongoing, I jumped a fence and took a sneak peak, and I think it's going to be great.

Here is a website with some pictures: - https://tchorski.fr/12/palais-01.htm - https://tchorski.fr/12/palais-10.htm
by solardev | 2025-05-05 21:32:48+00:00
Mozilla was started by Netscape a few years before Chrome came out. So presumably they had a few years of Netscape money rather than Google's. But I believe they were always dependent on corporate money from one source or another (like many nonprofits are). Except in their case, there was a very clear conflict of interest that the board did nothing about for decades...
by techpineapple | 2025-05-05 21:32:56+00:00
True, but part of believing in yourself is believing that your ideologies are directionally correct. Like I think Musk is much more ideological than Trump, he believes in things, like Mars, but his belief is limited by how in love with himself he is. But I really do think that Musk wants to get to Mars. I really do think he hates Woke.

Trump I think is much less ideological. I think he sort of has this hard on for tarrifs he's always had from his time in business, but I don't know that Trump actually wants to "Make America Great Again". MAGA is just a way for Trump to get people to love him and stay in power.