skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone stupid enough to enter into Oracle licensing for ERP and financials in the first place simply moves to it eventually as Microsofties inevitably move to Azure. In the name of "better" native integration, ie it sucks less as at least Oracle knows how bad Oracle is to deal with.

Doesn't make it better, just makes for vasoline to make the shagging less painful.
He's kind of a nonlinear guy, but George Hotz comes to mind.
Ok, that makes sense then. If Altman didn’t expect it to be public then this is all reasonable.
Not a good idea for cleartext even on a network you trust. Maybe one node, but why start bad habits?
The researchers want credit for their work. Google wants to stay ahed of their competitors. Google has three moves:

1) Allow publishing everything including source code => this helps the competitor directly. Bad move.

2) Disallow publishing => the researchers will be tempted to switch jobs for their competitor, since staying at Google will hurt their career. Bad move.

3) Allow publishing, but disallow everything else => this helps the competitors a little, but not too much. The researchers get credit for their work, which removes any incentive they have at switching jobs. Seems like the best compromise.

At least, that's my speculative take on this. Sure, OpenAI & StabilityAI get the credit in the public's eye, but there are also other incentives at play.
It's a research paper, not a product. I don't know why you're against this, but I appreciate researchers that publish papers so knowledge isn't siloed in organizations and contribute to the public good and advancement of technology. Please do more of this!
If you don't have a medium login (like me) you can read the full article archived[1]

A bit tangential to the central thesis, but John Marks' 1979 classic The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, referenced by TFA, is online[2].

Chapter 8, Brainwashing[3], has interesting details about CIA-friendly journalist Edward Hunter's PR campaign to frame "brainwashing" (a term he coined) as a uniquely communist form of political indoctrination via technological means.

> In September 1950, the Miami News published an article by Edward Hunter titled " 'Brain-Washing' Tactics Force Chinese into Ranks of Communist Party." It was the first printed use in any language of the term "brainwashing," which quickly became a stock phrase in Cold War headlines. Hunter, a CIA propaganda operator who worked under cover as a journalist, turned out a steady stream of books and articles on the subject. He made up his coined word from the Chinese hsi-nao—"to cleanse the mind"—which had no political meaning in Chinese.

> American public opinion reacted strongly to Hunter's ideas, no doubt because of the hostility that prevailed toward communist foes, whose ways were perceived as mysterious and alien. Most Americans knew something about the famous trial of the Hungarian Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, at which the Cardinal appeared zombie-like, as though drugged or hypnotized. [...] Americans were familiar with the idea that the communists had ways to control hapless people, and Hunter's new word helped pull together the unsettling evidence into one sharp fear.

Marks then touches on the bioweapon allegation without further examination:

> The brainwashing controversy intensified during the heavy 1952 fighting in Korea, when the Chinese government launched a propaganda offensive that featured recorded statements by captured U.S. pilots, who "confessed" to a variety of war crimes including the use of germ warfare.

1: https://archive.is/8stAi

2: https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm

3: https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks8.htm
> When it comes to value, when my wife interviews for a job (she’s a physician) they fly her out and spend a day taking her to see the sights, so they convince here how great the city is. Then they take her out to a fancy dinner and woo her some more.

Interesting, are these in underserved areas? I just went through interviewing for a new job and despite being in an in-demand subspecialty with desperate employers the most I got was a dinner after the 2nd round interview but no one covered my travel. Do you mind if I ask what kind of physician she is? I clearly picked incorrectly.

> When I interview at a new job as a very senior engineer (and relatively well known I in my area), I get to jump through 7 rounds of interviews where someone asks me the equivalent of medschool exam questions.

> If I’m lucky my connections might let me whittle the interview rounds down to 5.

Why do you think that's the case? Is it a compensation issue or is there age-ism/an assumption that only a 25 y/o engineer can be "10x". I periodically see posts about the challenges facing older developers on HN but I didn't last long enough in tech to understand it.
It seems, you have to contact support and ask them to remove the commit in question. This FAQ was written before the introduction of Activity View. Pull requests always had the problem that force-pushes could not be deleted from the history shown in the PR. That's why I avoided them for my own repositories and simply merged the branches manually.

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
You're talking about integrated GPUs I presume?
It's all open-source and auditable, so any odd application behaviour should be prevented in the first place. Sandboxing is great but cgroups are not a sandbox. I think the post shows also that the main problem is amount of maintenance for many distributions. Maybe better package tooling would help - in the end Flatpaks are just a middleway between completely integrated packages and distributing everything as a self-contained tarball.
How are you powering the server running home assistant and all the smart devices during the brown out? Can you hook up the tablet to the same power source? Or if they are not powered, what do you expect to manage during the
Brownout?
So did any actual RFO come out about this yet? Inquiring minds want to know, also point and laugh.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds

To elevate a stock, a tulip, or a religious belief, to levels that far exceed any reason - that's just a part of being human.
My goal is to get as much performance as possible out of a browser acting as a WebRTC server, the "middle peer" of the other peers.

While there are better setups that could be done, this offers a lot of flexibility, is relatively easy to add new features, and is something that I am passionate about.
Big Tech’s AI: Taking Your Content but Protecting Their Own
Ah, yes. Account created 43 minutes ago.
Good lobbying. They just do everything a bank does without any of the obligations. Honestly I’m surprised some real banks have not tried to become like PayPal to allow more sleaziness.
You mean like A Mind Forever Voyaging?
Reddit, making a blatantly obvious case for why third party apps are necessary on a post about stopping third party apps: https://i.imgur.com/3yEJ4oX.jpg
We're building a AI Budtender Chatbot with a long-term vision and growth capabilities. However, we are seeking an angel investment to launch our marketing campaigns that will be the locomotive on our brand partnerships.

Any suggestions to find cannabis sector tech angels?
"Fixed" and "defined" would be roughly synonyms in this usage, which is why no one understood you.

Defined contribution everyone would have understood to be in opposition of defined benefit.
GPS (2022)
Aaah gotcha. I hope the new “project” goes ok then :)
Kinda weird, considering the whole idea of double opt-in is to only start spamming you once you actively consent via e-mail action
I am wondering why the julia lox interpreter is so slow. Could it be that there is a lot of type unstable code or could it be an issue with julia's garbage collector? (I can relate to the comment that it is quite hard to find usable information from julia's profiler).
I don't think this is ironic. They retracted something they said, this is perfectly legit.

I've deleted things I posted, including here on HN. You probably did too. And I've scraped data from the internet countless times. You probably did too. I don't think I'm an irony because of that. You probably aren't either.
You missed the reference.
Slack Co-Founder Butterfield Sees a Turning Point for Tech
Yeah. Also buying 3dfx wasn't cheap
Does a splitter cable exist?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the a reason it's free is that people will use it. If people had to pay for it then they might not leave it on, or use it as much, and as a result a lot of the mobile apps that harvest location data would be affected.
> Nobody with a dose of common sense about the prevailing attitudes in monotheistic religions would say detection of non-earth based life changes nothing.

I like Camus, and most would categorize my philosophical beliefs as some breed of Nietzschean, but I think it's very important to develop a deep an understanding of other attitudes as possible, and I don't think this is generally true. For example, CS Lewis is widely loved by evangelicals [1] and he literally wrote fiction laying out how he thought aliens would fit within that cosmology[2]. There is really nothing in particular that would change theologically. Of course it may change things culturally.

More interesting to me, and what I was referencing, is that many evangelicals (and others, famously the orthodox Seraphim Rose) interpret UFO activity as spiritual phenomena, and attribute it to demons. Some of these works are certainly thought-provoking, if you can suspend your preconceptions going into them. [3] Certainly if I am to believe in the reality of the underlying incidents and were forced at gunpoint to attribute it to intelligent entities, I actually find the idea of "demons messing with people because they hate us" more persuasive than the absurd utopian idea that aliens are using their magic tech to fly across the galaxy so they can "uplift" us or any of the other nonsensical motivations usually given.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-man-thinking-cs-lewis_b_8...

[2] His space trilogy.

[3] Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future in particular has an interesting chapter or two about this. What I found particularly intriguing is the idea that the actual incidents are not actually new, with descriptions of historical parallels, and we're simply interpreting ancient phenomena in a different way due to cultural changes, and the brief analysis of the psychological impact of UFOs, which is almost uniformly very negative to witnesses.
But they talked about it in a Denny’s once. Who else can say they talked about a thing in a Denny’s???
https://archive.is/dwcoV

Hydrogen fuel cell, coupled potentially with ammonia transportation, and airlines using hydrogen engines, might make it economically as a way to export solar.

Though don't discount finding alternative metals to lithium for batteries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28238-3
I'd join an accelerator as a mentor. I know at least one case where someone did that and then eventually joined the team as a co-founder.

So look for an accelerator in your area (either geographic or domain) and see if you can volunteer for the next cohort.
> I think the CDC continues to quash its credibility by trying to sweep this under the rug, rather than presenting the facts--that there is risk, and there's a cost-benefit analysis.

If true, I don’t blame them. One thing they have learned this pandemic is the modern public doesn’t process nuance - see the usage of masks. If they broadcast this, a huge chunk of the population will think they should not vaccinate, COVID deaths will surge and more people died from COVID than vaccines induced myocarditis. Best to keep their mouths shut until more studies are completed and they have enough data.
Those are some nice sources!
And stops them from yelling obscenities into people's faces.
I agree with this in spirit, but I think it's an area we need to be VERY careful in, given the number of compromised devices out there. And that's if they're not all compromised by a state actor.

Also, I can assure you that my computer is doing all kinds of things on behalf of people, but not really on behalf of me, like submitting my data to ad companies.
It is green.
Couldn't Apollo just have users sign into a webview and then scrape that webview in the background?
It's probably something they don't want people to know exactly how they think.

If they specified what to remove, we would be able to imply fairly how they think.
> This entire genre of tools has been a long time point of interest for me.

Same for me! It turned into a long journey and I am working on a solution that I am very happy about.

Somewhere mid-journey I learned about kaitai struct and lost a bit of steam seeing it was similar. But I think my offering is superior in a more simple template format with less programming required and a nice cli app.

I am yet to announce it publicly, but i been meaning to for so long already.

If you would like to check it out I would be happy!

You can use it to map / view content from a format there is a template for. Alot of common formats is already included and you can extend it using your own templates.

https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng
Muggle here. Ever incorporated Lisp into one of your magic tricks(pick a parenthesis...)?
A Brief History of Dollar Hatred
They really should force US Paypal to become a bank. Clearly that is workable for their European operations.
Interesting details.

It's like restaurant workers deciding to strike, and turning on all the gas stoves and putting food in the fryers before walking out.
Not with that attitude it’s not, anyway.
Body-based units of measure in cultural evolution
Soft power from a public good > picking up pennies
I think a lot of this type of affection for telnet is misplaced. The fact that telnet functions acceptably as an arbitrary TCP client is an unintentional side effect of the design, not its purpose. netcat is not only a more feature complete tool for simple network connections and diagnosis, it gives clearer and more helpful output on the state of the connection when used with the verbose flag.

The telnet client and protocol offer various gotchas that can appear as mysterious problems when you use them for troubleshooting instead of netcat. For example, telnet is not 8-bit clean because of the fact that it was designed specifically as a protocol to carry 7-bit ASCII. RFC 856 seeks to address this and netkit telnet can be told to behave in RFC 856 mode using the -8 option, but there can be variations between clients in this regard, and virtually no one uses the -8 flag anyway. netkit (Linux) telnet without the -8 option will behave oddly whenever non-ASCII characters are encountered, as they will be interpreted as control codes in the telnet protocol.

It is a bit ironic, in this regard, that people using telnet as a TCP client almost always seem to be using it to troubleshoot SMTP - another protocol which is, for historic reasons, not 8-bit clean without extra work!

And that kind of gets at the biggest problem: telnet is not an arbitrary TCP connection utility, it specifically implements the telnet protocol. The telnet protocol is very simple, but it is there, and common telnet clients will send unsolicited (by the user) bytes in various circumstances in order to perform the telnet protocol. This can break the state of other protocols when you use telnet as a TCP client.

If you want a tool for network diagnosis or arbitrary connections, it is netcat. Telnet for this purpose is just a workaround that is becoming quite obsolete as fewer distributions include telnet by default (removing its primary advantage over netcat, that it is "already there"). Even bash's odd built-in TCP functionality is a better choice than telnet in a lot of these situations, as it's simpler and won't try to conform to the telnet protocol.
What do think a ccTLD is, if not a TLD controlled by a country, meaning the government of that country? In what world would it be reasonable for you to have a .ly domain and not trust the Libyan government not to do whatever they like to your domain? Like, you know, everybody already does with every .com and the U.S. government?
Is this any wonder? Lower paid work often has ridiculous rules about being off sick, if it even offers paid sick time.

This is the inevitable conclusion of the race to the bottom in the US over the last 43 years.
Many sites require PayPal for purchases, unfortunately. I'm not sure how many people just love using it otherwise...
> …and [I] wrote the best guide on the internet for discovering a niche you love.

I love superlative wording like this. It’s very “Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer” as goofy marketing fluff.
Living in a small village in France was/and still is different as day and night compared to a small village in Russia/Former Soviet union.
Reliability. You don't want to try using SD cards for main storage for long, they just don't work for long enough to really be a serious option. There's a reason Android stopped using SD card slots, besides making them lose money.
The terms of service are the default contract. Presumably it has a we-can-screw-you-whenever clause, but sometimes the corporate lawyers screw up and you can actually get them for violating their own ToS.
I read the archive and didn't have the same impression. This looks like regular Altman interview.

I guess they didn't want to be held accountable to the non-compete in the future.
IMO, grammatically pleasing AI spew is exploiting the same mental shortcut as the well established "Anything looks credible if it's typeset in LaTeX" or "Printing resumes on nice paper for a subconscious boost" effects.

We use secondary/contextual indicators, which are historically proxies for "How much time, expense, and/or expertise was involved in preparing this document" to judge documents. It's not even that different than printing eliminating the quality of the scribe's work as a tell.
No, but it's an interesting idea. There are magicians who specialize in mathematical magic. Arthur Benjamin is the best known:

https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_a_performance_of_m...
>Embodying measurement: Measuring with body parts is a handy and persistent cross-cultural phenomenon

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2352
Sorry but if Eliezer whatever is name-dropped in the first sentence, I pass.
Do not disrespect the Grand Slamwich like that
Misogi Challenge: A Japanese Ritual That Will Change Your Life
Shaping High-Impact Tech Teams: The Critical Art of Puzzle-Piece Placement
Technically the truth
Very misleading comment, none of that section implies the government was selling access. They were limiting it so other militaries couldn't use it.
What is the link between “make sure they sleep on the street” and “prevent them from breaking windows?”

It isn’t a matter of whether or not I’m a tool. The proposed solution is just unrelated to the problem.

As you say, if someone really wants heroin, they’ll get heroin. So, making their life miserable won’t stop them from getting it. What do we gain as a society from making sure they shoot up and sleep in public?
I'd say Mary Shelley or, at the latest, Karel Čapek beat Wiener to the punch there.
For corporate environments sure, for my home lab that seems like overkill
I don't think this would trigger a request to remove it.

It may be the non-compete commitment in Altman's words that triggered. This is a big restriction for the future that he really can't commit.
Full-precision GPS has been open for public use long before location-tracking apps were invented.
More likely to be the non-compete words, I think.
> A 50 year old non-management programmer? Look forward to having 23 year olds asking if you know what an array is for the rest of your work life.

Fuck. That made anxious. I am close to that age.

Also, my middle manager friends are having much harder time finding a job than programmer types. Don't know if its just them or if its a trend.
Perfect health is just the slowest way to die.

I pity the guy that regularly exercises, doesn't smoke, drink alcohol, or carouse with women. Someday he is going to be lying in a hospital bed dying of nothing.
That's a fair point, it might be only a placebo effect. However, the machines i am comparing it with are mainly the dell xps 13 and MSFT surface which are generally in the same price range. Plus i have yet to have bough a macbook for myself, usually those are company issued devices.

> Not all UIs are created equally when it comes to visual appeal.

That's correct. But here i am not comparing the quality ofthe UI element. I am don't particularly like MACOS design language and prefer windows 11 and ubuntu gnome visual esthetics.
I don't even like 4K on larger monitors. Running 2560x1440 on my 32" displays. (I don't game, and I use my 4K TV for any entertainment video)
> see the usage of masks

The modern public doesn't have patience for lies. The messaging around the masks was explicitly untruthful, as we now know. Once the public picked up on that, the CDC etc. lost the benefit of the doubt, and that got us to where we are now. What you're referencing is the effect, not the cause.
Interesting interview with the developer of the most popular 3rd part app about the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypwgu1BpaO0
> The US has been involved in a staggering amount of crime abroad in the last century.

You're not wrong. We've been incredibly shitty domestically and internationally.

> Perhaps more than all other countries combined.

Uhhhh, yeah, not really. The last century or two, humanity's hands have been pretty collectively bathed in blood.

I'd say easily the most bloody are those of the British, whose oppression and exploitation is unmatched in modern history for how pervasive, long-running, and brutal it was. I'd guess figures well into "hundreds of millions", possibly a billion or more across the several centuries. People look at Blackwater and their ilk and think it was some sort of new boundary being crossed. East India Company for two and a half centuries placed large swaths of the world's populace under corporate rule and had its own standing army and navy.

Japan committed so many wartime atrocities during WW2 it's difficult to summarize or account for them all, and estimates go as high as 30M killed.

Stalin's regime is estimated to have killed around 20 million people.

Mao could have been responsible for as many as 40 million.

Then there's all manner of dictators in the Americas and Africa (some propped up by America, of course), the various southeast asian regimes (Indonesia for example) and so on.
I admit to the extent I thought about nvidia I just kind of assumed they would fade away as companies like intel and apple integrated graphics processing into their own SOCs in phones tablets laptops etc.

And I also figured the crypto boom was a temporary unsustainable surge in the market for discrete gpus.

Now LLMs have taken up the crypto slack in terms of gpu demand. (I think? Is this what’s going on?) The question I have is whether there is any reason nvidia won’t be commoditized out of this market. Maybe someone who is smart at hardware can explain.
MBA programs almost exclusively teach short term gains over long term stability.

The business world has been forever changed by the creation of the institutional investor, which was largely created by pensions, 401k's and other such funds where by the actual people putting in the money is several steps removed from the people investing that money.

So now the business world, for public companies, lives and dies on the quartely report.
> Things change daily in both fields-

This is not true ?
Anything that Denny's does Waffle House does better.