skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an impressively thorough and quite insightful M&A overview.

However, it is completely one-sided toward the buyer (ie GitLab).

As a seller, I'd be wary of going through even a fraction of the pre-term-sheet diligence and disclosure, without getting to a ballpark on acquisition price (or price methodology) beforehand.

Also, they don't mention, but having escrow set up as an insurance in case the acquirer backs out also seems necessary (ie % of the deal held with third party). Otherwise you are basically giving away all your company secrets and time, and if they back out, you get nothing.

I'd guess YCombinator has something equivalent from the seller side. It would be great if they shared their M&A handbook at some point in the future, although I understand it's probably considered "secret sauce".
What are you talking about? Java doesn't have a hype machine...
Do you mean ChatGPT?
Oh? Where exactly did I do that?
You can finetune with it. If you want a more generic framework you can use hivemind[1] which is what petals uses, but you'll have to create your own community for whatever model you're trying to train.

https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind
CS would not exist without computers. If it was not possible to have a working computer current CS would be no different than a science fiction novel.

Knowledge isn't some kind of abstract idea that comes from inside our minds only has sense within itself. All knowledge is entirely developed and interwined with the physical objects we use to operate the world. The same goes for math. It is only because of our past and future operations in the real world that math has any sense.
Okay but someone has to do the fine tuning. The code has to be updated. Parts of the training have to be redone. All of this has costs. It isn't a "do it once and forget about it" task that it is being touted as in this thread.
What about when it gives the 'best' word choice? Should a student change it arbitrarily?
> doesn't force running a web browser as root, which would be required in your scenario.

It would not in any way shape or form be required in my scenario. Please re-read the basics of file permissions on POSIX.

We are asking the question: "Does this expose additional potential security vulnerabilities not exposed with the cookies existing purely in the normal cookie store?"

Our possible vectors of attack are a compromised root owned service and a compromised user owned service. Both of those vectors would allow the cookie store to be exfiltrated regardless of whether this extension is used.

Ergo, this extension does not create any additional security vulnerabilities in that regard.
Request for Comments Regarding Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship
> or Neil Gaiman was wrong for changing his own book.

I'd argue so. Given enough edits, you've written the Book of Theseus.
Multiplication problems are not language problems. There is no data in the training set where there is a likely probability of the next token in the "86 * 0.0007 =" sentence being correct.

People need to stop treating ChatGPT as a computation engine. It is not wolfram alpha. It is not google. It is fancy autocomplete trained on a large subset of the internet.
The hotel industry has the most egregious fees in my opinion.

You pay online, then you show up and they demand $90 for cleaning and other fees. I hope this goes through and moves us towards a sane direction.
Right? The new works should be accredited to new authors with perhaps a "with thanks to" attribution. It is only because of copyright that this is not done
Antarctica's Doomsday glacier is in trouble
I agree with your argument.

I also think that revising a dead author’s work as was done here is tasteless.
Weird one..
> To quote Max Tegmark:

Correction: that's on Tegmark's website, but it isn't Tegmark's words. It is authored by Eugene Shikhovtsev, edited by Kenneth W. Ford
A modern re-adaptation of a dead author's work I have no issue with; we do that with Shakespeare as others have pointed out. But that's not the same thing as publishing a re-written work under the author's own name, which I do take exception with.
GitHub Copilot quite often delivers comments alongside the code for a prompt.
You are spot on

Another factor here is that you never know which one of your or your teams songs will be a hit…and so many have a agreement to include eachother in their work

Little bit how VC funds work
If you memorize it that's half way to understanding, so fair use
Wow! Good luck staying employed literally anywhere in the US or western world throwing any of those around.

Sometimes it's really a wonder to imagine the world some people here seem to want to live in.
Sure, but I think this is an example of markets working well. Customers don’t want to have to adapt to a new platform every year and are willing to pay for that service. Microsoft recognizes that desire and provides backward compatibility. Microsoft charges a price above what it costs to provide the service but below what their customers are willing to pay. Both parties win. Seems like a good thing.
> I'm requiring my students to use ChatGPT

God save us from this horrible future.
It's a young industry, as these things go. Just about a century, I think? And that's counting generously, not taking into account growing faster in headcount and budget than it can learn (sound familiar?). A lot of the serious "professions", I'm thinking of e.g. accounting, engineering, or medicine, have histories that go back several centuries, with rules written in blood.
Guess all of us outside of CA are going make up the difference via higher hidden fees. :(

I started writing this comment as a joke, but I no longer am sure that it is.
People sell themselves into slavery too.

But, enforcing ownership rights on property is surely part of regular capitalism?
It would be pretty easy to make your own photo gallery in raw html. have photos in a directory you want to link on your server. pick your favorite language, write some code to iterate through that list of files, and generate html pages for each containing the image, a previous hyperlink to go to the page for the last item iterated, and a next hyperlink to go to the next page. Throw in some button graphics and now its as sexy as any other static site generator, and you can now throw the entire codebase on github and put it on your resume and call yourself a webdev. get fancy, make a cron job that looks for new content added to that directory and runs your html generator, now all you do is drag and drop files and the site builds itself.
I think that org might end up quite heavy with Product and HR Managers.
From the article:

The dark side of the drive to prove one's primacy of vision (colloquially better known as "I'LL SHOW YOU FATHER THAT YOU WERE WRONG TO NOT LOVE ME!") is that inefficient and self-indulgent - and more often than not abusive - senior management is endemic to the television industry. As cable, streaming, and Internet services adopt the television production model to generate content, the problem only gets worse.

For me, this was one of the surprises from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple jumping into funding series production. The observations the author makes are anecdotally confirmed by the various "leaks" in the industry (and yes, this biases the view because people often don't complain about a good thing, I know), and yet rarely is the content produced by the studios working for these new entrants much different than the content produced "en masse" so to speak.

When this started, I expected more "Love Death Robots" kinds of things and less "Game of Thrones wannabes" kinds of things. I'm really curious how it went on the team doing "The Peripheral" (a show that I really liked), vs "Carnival Row" which seems to be "Jane Austen + Steampunk + Fairys" and, again for me at least, not particularly compelling.

As a result I've always wondered if studios did "retros" or look backs to understand how the product evolved, and if the people paying them ever tried to evaluate their process as a means of managing their investments.

I doubt I'll ever know, but I will remain curious about these things.
Why not just come up with a new story? It's definitely not Shakespeare's intended story any longer. Call it something new, perhaps with attribution to being inspired by the original story. There's no reason for that, other than it's too hard and therefore not profitable. Hence the bastardization of the past marches on.
I see a ton of people trying to justify their use of Copilot/ChatGPT (or rushing a startup to cash in on LLMs).

Maybe that conflict of interest is why there's very little talk of it being based on plagiarizing and license violation of open source code on which the model was trained.

We just suffered through a couple decades of almost every company in our field selling out users' privacy, one way or another. And years of shamelessly obvious crypto/blockchain scams. So I guess it'd be surprising if our field didn't greedily snap up the next unethical opportunity.
> If they know how much to charge me at the payment step, they know what price to put on the shelf.

On the shelf, yes, but then what's on the shelf wouldn't match what's advertised on the Internet, in the paper, on TV and radio, etc. Because each city can have its own sales tax, and each state can have its own sales tax, if you're, say, McDonald's, you can't say a hamburger is $3.00 in your TV ad because it'll be $3.18 in Michigan, and $3.30 in California, and even within the states, it can vary by city, if I recall correctly from my cash register programming days. It's a stupid system all around, but it does actually make it harder to do what everyone wishes they would do.
That's not different from other rewriting copy right owners do. Disney has written an rewritten Mickey Mouse 10K times. We don't know if the original author would have approved all of those versions. It's up to them to manage the work.

Personally I think the problem is excessive copyright. Without ownership, anyone could rewrite Dahl however they like. And if someone prefers the original version, that's fine too.
If I were a teacher, I'd give written exams for coding, as we used to have back in the 80's when we didn't have enough dedicated computers for everyone in the class, and most of kids didn't have a home computer to work with. So instead, we'd implement simple algorithms on paper for in-class quiz/tests/homeworks. I remember in high school, we had an exam, and one of the question was to write a for loop counting from 1 to 40. It might be harder to grade, but teacher could usually tell if the code looked good or not. On one occassion, I thought I had written the code correctly but teacher didn't, so I had to demonstrate the code on the computer for the code that I had written in the test and show the teacher that the code ran as expected.

It's kinda like whiteboard coding, but it's a lot less stressful since the test is mostly written on paper without the scrutiny of an interviewer. Obviously, we can't create a react web app, but at least students can demonstrate fundamentals, which are what we should be teaching in the first place.

Another solution would be to create a new programming language that doesn't exist yet for the students to write code for their assignments or perhaps use an obscure language that AI/chatgpt isn't aware of... perhaps we can go back to Ada or Modula 3.
It does make it seem like a box of H100s will easily be able to make an interesting open LLM.
Blog posts like this always strike me as…weird.

This seems like “how to build a web app for a very tiny subset of people who don’t want to learn about deploying web apps”.

Maybe I’m in a bubble? It seems like 99% of the people I know actually running profitable companies have an infrastructure that roughly matches to “some Linux server somewhere”, and then upward from there it all just moves to AWS/azure, but it’s still just some Linux machines maybe with a load balancer in front of them.

If you’re writing software and don’t seem covered by this blog post, don’t feel like you’re out of the loop on something. I think this author is just writing about the subset of the ways that he knows about.

I mean honestly “HUGO static sites”…how about a directory of html files hosted by nginx or Apache?
^^^ this is great advice.

For some of us (not all) taking a long break makes stuff worse because we are so identified with the whole work/money axis. If you’re like this, find ways to stay busy and make some income, even just a little, like driving Uber or cooking in a restaurant or whatever you might have up your sleeve. Remember that simple jobs can still be super satisfying when done well.

The advice about serving others is especially good. Acts of service have pulled me out of all kinds of dark places over the years, and surrounded me with people that remind me of how much real goodness there is in our otherwise cynical world.
Mickey Mouse has changed several times over since the death of Walt Disney. Books and plays are adapted to film, often without the input of the author, and a film adaptations almost always require significant changes. Sometimes the changes aren’t even necessary— they’re purely stylistic in order to modernize the story.

In fact, most of Walt Disney’s films were books adapted and changed and “modernized” without the consent of the original author. Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is disgustingly racist and imperialist. Disney modernized the story significantly by removing many of those themes (although adding a few “modern” racist tropes of their own).

No one calls those adaptations “cultural vandalism” though.
I can’t wait to see the unintended effects of this bill on healthcare. If we’re lucky, this bill might actually accomplish something!
Knowing how to produce an essay is exactly the same as "analytical thinking, research, and argument skills" with the added challenge of making it legible to a reader — which is what makes those skills useful.
I'm on the $95/2 year plan, with about 30GB stoage, and have several domains attached, all set up for catchalls.

Trying to explain to a business why their name is in the email address you just filled out on a form is fun sometimes, though, but the only complete rejection I've gotten for it though is the guy who runs the main groups.io for one of my amateur radio transceivers and can't wrap his head around my address not being some attempt at fraud.
I don’t think kids care about authentic. They would rather have something over just not having the books at all.

That said, I struggle to see how these edits will ever be essential. Phrases like “brothers and sisters” is hopefully never as offensive as racial slurs.
Ask HN: Taking bets for who announces layoffs this week?
Tone deaf I know.

But if we all have to worry about our jobs maybe we can make light of it with some pseudo gambling
Comparatively tiny built in USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_(hydrofoil)

There is also the Boeing 929 Jetfoil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_929
The entire point of AI currently is to NOT remunerate.
ChatGPT wouldn't sanitize it.

> I apologize, but I cannot comply with your request to remove offensive content from the provided text. The original text contains offensive language and derogatory statements towards women, among other things. It is not appropriate to promote or perpetuate such harmful content. It is important to be mindful of the impact our words can have on others and to strive to promote kindness, respect, and empathy towards all individuals.
The only group lurid enough to vandalize the story are the woke zombie cry-bullies. Their campaign is to burn down western culture and replace it with something that closely resembles intellectual gonorrhea.
So a conservative organization is not for you!

Perhaps you could join the local Democratic party? Participate in the process and help candidates campaign!

Or if that is not for you, you could volunteer as a poll worker. While not strictly a club, it is generally the same people very time and the goal is very noble.

Some gyms are great for meeting people. I would say independent bookstores as well!

Good luck!
A lot of people are looking at this wrong. A $350 3060Ti has 12GB RAM. If there's a way to run models locally, it opens up the door to:

1) Privacy-sensitive applications

2) Tinkering

3) Ignoring filters

4) Prototyping

5) Eventually, a bit of extra training

The upside isn't so much cost / performance, as local control over a cloud-based solution.
You could have a plain Reddit clone web server for governance, and whatever compensation the group deems fair, to account for the work done by each member.
Rarely have I seen "both parties win" used in describing dealing with Microsoft.

There is tons of documented history of their anti-competitive behavior and deceptive practices. It is not very often that a CEO of a company in a market that is "working well" is called to testify in front of Congress.
Too late - market dead - even if you are an individual contributor of some type and willing to work for less - imo.

i usually advise a double-approach - look for a new gig (i.e. feed the stomach) - but also try to start/join a union and look at other employee empowerment ideas, like allowing H1b holders to freely transfer between employers without the drama, etc.
use the browser local storage for it like any other web game. done.
Been there when I lost my first company, 200 job applications and 6 months of misery, happy to chat if time zones work - email in my bio.

You will get through this.
The emergence of this problem is exactly why I don’t like giving people programming exercises that are overly explicit.

Most coding tests just tell people what to write and then have them write it. Real world problems are more complicated. Instead, tell your candidates what your problem is and then ask them for a solution. Let them write their own requirements. It’s a lot harder for language models (and developers with poor problem solving skills) to solve these kinds of questions as well.
The summary includes a dangerous thought: For example: why does north Korea develop a nuclear bomb is not important, just that they do.
But only they why makes it problematic.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22308071/what-is-the-dif...

The difference between let and const is that once you bind a value/object to a variable using const, you can't reassign to that variable. In other words Example:

const something = {};
something = 1; // Error.

let somethingElse = {};
somethingElse = 100; // This is ok
The cloud has been cheaper to train large models on for a couple years now. Compare buying 8xA100 server vs renting one on Lambda Labs. At least 3 years to break even - if you are using it non-stop 24/7. Longer if not.
Google Case Heads to Supreme Court with Powerful Internet Shield Law at Stake
Ask HN: What's the path to an engineer who works on LLMs?
>>The entire point is to make the customer do enough work before you show them the actual price, that they just give up and deal with it.

I think a big part of the point is to compete on search (aggregate search like travel sites especially) with the company's competitors. The first company to start, say, charging for a carry-on realizes that they are forcing everyone to copy that, but for a while they'll have an advantage and make more profit. Any business leader doing this first is trying to dishonestly game the system. The others are just doing what they now have to do to keep the playing field level.

On aggregating vacation rental sites, the owners that choose not to do this (at least on sites like VRBO) can add "no service or management costs" to their listings, or maybe "no hidden costs", but it is not very effective because if you are charging $225 and the customer is searching in the range $100 - $200, you loose and the person advertising a $199.00/night charge (with management fee added later) wins.
But shouldn't we allow the rights holders to change things that they consider haven't aged well to allow broader appeal? Should they be required to publish the same version that they disagree with in perpetuity?
With compression, was able to get 30b to run on 3090 with '100 0'! Let me see if I can tweak the prompt a bit and make it come alive...
> he was removed after 9 months BUT for some bizarre reason they kept him on the payroll for 3 more months so he could hit his cliff.

Possibly negotiated in the contract in advance. Interesting idea
Your vendor didn't provide you with free updates to match changes in the larger OS ecosystem. Then you get mad at the larger OS for not supporting the niche software of your vendor.
BTW neither the vendor nor the OS maker is the problem. You are. Your entitlement that the world should grind to a halt to wait for you is.
As you rightly point out, creators don't operate in total isolation: you're constantly taking in the world around you, even in solitude. However, as you've surmised at the end of your comment, there's a difference between sparking an idea and following through on its creation (though they often work in concert).
I don't think it's exactly about letting people order Veblen Goods, but I do agree that it is about signaling class.

The .99 pricing thing is associated with "trying to make it look cheaper", so a restaurant that puts round prices is trying to send the opposite message: we're not cheap, you're not cheap, we won't try to fool you.
I'm not saying he should have taken the full 7 tons out of the ground without telling anybody. The least he could have done is excavate a small portion of the gold to prove any of it exists at all. Don't go to the feds until you have proof of at least that much. You don't need to extract all the gold to prove you found any gold.

> He suspects the agency conducted a clandestine, overnight dig between the first and second days of the court-authorized excavation, found the gold, and spirited it away.

If his claim is true and it took the government only one day and one night to extract 7 tons of gold, then it couldn't have been very deep. He should have dug some of it up. As it stands, this guy has no proof that any gold ever existed at all. He never even laid eyes on the supposed gold.
Perhaps the share of fat consumers who do not want to hear that they are fat has reached the level at which the private sector starts being sycophantic to them.

It is, IMHO, very visible in lingerie marketing.
Also Danny Elfman has joked that it turned out financially very important that he sang the words The Simpsons in the theme song.
NAT requires kernel connection tracking. NPT explicitly does not. There's a lot of useful implications to this.
Why should anyone care?

If someone wants to coast they will and it will be reflected later on when they cant get or hold a job since they are just as shit as ChatGPT or copilot

And if they can get and hold an job then isnt that just better?
So basically the stereotype of business degrees trying to wave hands and leave the details for others to figure out after 80% of the budget has been eaten up by $5-700/hr management consultants that can do neither.
Test of the dupe system, please don't flag
So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead.

The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?"

For posterity: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...
Amazon hamstrings free app that makes Fire TV remotes reprogrammable
>Be angry at copyright...

Yes---while it's tempting to think of a particularly popular and beloved work of art or literature as part of some shared communal heritage, the reality of our legal system is that such works are private property unless they pass into the public domain.

In real property, there is the idea of legally declaring property as a historical site as a way to limit the private owner's rights when there is a strong community interest in the property. No such concept exists in copyright law.