skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that Altman uses his influence to manipulate public opinion, which he always does.
How’s this compare to ffmpeg?
Using argparse in my Python programs encourages me to add options to them
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm or lacking self-awareness.
Think this is contradictory: "not a UX Designer, he had good taste"

I think you are equating coding with 'design'.
Just because Jobs didn't code up the UX, doesn't mean he wasn't 'designing' when he told the coders what would look better.
that's because it was never supposed to be a Corporate. It was a non-profit dedicated to AI research in the benefit of All. This is also why all this happened, they trying to stay true to the mission and not turn into a corporate.
Not a fan of Stross at all, plus I'm looking for short stories. Thanks a lot for your second link.
The concept may have been a thing, but I was baffled by the notion it was a popular term and hot topic "in the parent community". If it was you'd expect there to be a lot of articles and discussion.
It's too convenient to blame the Tories for everything.

Many local authorities have very badly managed their finances. We've seen it in the recent bankruptcies of Slough and Birmingham (both Labour-led by the way) where incompetence and possibly corruption was rife.
Funny, in my dreams people don't even have a a manifestation, it's really weird. It's like the whole visual part of my brain is skipped and it goes right to the part where my brain interprets that someone says xyz. That's the part where the dream takes place. Though environments can be visual, people are not.

I didn't know it wasn't like this for everyone.
Changing to subdirectories under Apple DOS 3.3? Wha...?
I genuinely believe they were protecting themselves from another PR nightmare like the early lack of privacy settings by creating these teams, the teams became to onerous saying no to everything and got axed. I don't think it was theater as much as them shooting themselves in the foot.
Regarding the @inbounds problem. If removing @inbounds leads to out of bounds memory access, doesn't that mean it was masking a bug? Shouldn't it crash with a message like an assert?
Yes, having a good backing by a huge entity is a bonus.

But it's not a guarantee for success either. Google+ anyone?
It is easier to use *BSD for something like that. It is smaller, more consistent, you are not forced to release your changes...
Note that one of the projects on this list - Element - recently changed their license to one intended to make it impractical to deploy the open source version and make users buy commercial proprietary licences instead for the specific reason that governments were buying support for their software from companies other than them and they wanted to stop that. Which I think shows a pretty big practical limitation of this approach.
Being able to tweak the levels/gamma,channels live and see the output feels like it would be useful here for dialling in the best output.
> While OpenAI leads currently, there are so many competitors that are within striking distance without the drama.

It's hard to put into words, that do not seem contradictory: GPT-4 is barely good enough to provide tremendous value. For what I need, no other model is passing that bar, which makes them not slightly worse but entirely unusable. But again, it's not that GPT-4 is great, and I would most certainly go to whatever is better at the current price metrics in a heartbeat.
Xa: Open-source 6502 cross assembler
There's nothing quite like being forced to continuously pay someone money to solve a problem they're causing you. Well, there is something a bit like that, and it's called "racketeering". Paying youtube to solve the problem of youtube's obnoxious ads may not rise to the same level, but it's close enough that I find it extremely distasteful.

Don't reward companies for creating artificial problems just so that they can bill you for getting out of your way. Save your money for companies that offer solutions to problems they didn't invent.
I'm shocked by how long it's taken for these steps to be made.

Very little has changed since I first came to Vancouver 20 years ago - limited geography (mountains north, ocean west, US border south); desirable location (most moderate climate in the country, stunning natural beauty, closest to Asia); lots of international press as "most livable city"; low density zoning right next to downtown; etc. The issue was not /as/ bad back then, but the "Crack Shack or Mansion?" online quiz, wherein you had to guess if a house was a drug den or a $1,000,000+ property was 13 years ago. Affordability has been an issue for decades.

Governments have gone through the steps of limiting foreign ownership of housing and AirBnB, but changing zoning is new. Probably because of NIMBYs and established homeowners not wanting to lose their newfound real estate wealth. However the cost-of-living increases in food prices and interest rates post-pandemic are making affordability the top concern in the country, and the federal government's polling numbers are in the toilet.

The provincial BC NDP are very, very popular and have been in power for several years, so I think this is really a sign that the tides are turning IRT polling and popular opinion. Maybe boomer and gen-X homeowners are starting to realize that an extra $500,000 in home value isn't worth your kids staying in the basement into their 30s, an insurmountable gap between wages and housing, or homelessness (there's also the substance debate, which is beyond this news.)

There's a brilliant YouTube channel called "About Here" which I highly recommend for those interested in the socioeconomic challenges facing Vancouver.

The cruel irony is that a place so commonly lauded as "most livable" has so many issues that make living here difficult.
Interesting that Sam is also an investor in Quora: https://blog.samaltman.com/quora

It’s convulated
> On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

This is from the eyes of an investor. Does OpenAI really need a shareholder focused CEO more than a product focused one?
I think Schrems I and Schrems II have shown us that contracts aren’t always sufficient for privacy protection if national laws prevent that.
PyPy exists, just not in the box.
> That would fly in the face of feudalism, mercantilism, socialism and communism. All of those are economic systems based on who owns the means of production.

That's definitional for communism, but mercantilism? I understand mercantilism to be a policy focused on ensuring that national imports of gold exceed national gold exports, and feudalism to be mostly distinguished by the inability to sell land.

(Alternatively, feudalism might be characterized by a very weak central state that has delegated the authority to rule (or that just never possessed such authority). But that's more of a view of the political structure than the economic structure.)
Build a council swimming pool, don't maintain it correctly for 30+ years, conclude it's beyond repairs and tear it down (But in fairness those 60s buildings were crap).

At least where I am they are building a replacement. But they have "awarded" management to a private company for some reason.
You don't have to take the first output you get. It's as if you can play with it before you make it production. No one is suggesting putting "make the thing in a way" in a pipeline. Stop fighting strawmen.
The idea that any of those countries would care at all about license terms is laughable though. China in particular had such a large pirated Windows install base, that Microsoft realized they needed to keep releasing updates lest they want an endless botnet on their hands (might also do substantial damage to manufacturing infrastructure).
Lethal force is only to be used in self defense, when your life is truly threatened and you truly have no other way of stopping them.
Why are weapons factories regulated and their exports very limited then?
As a practicing musician so far I think he is right; music is a surprisingly difficult subject; in some areas (e.g. Bach chorales) there was astonishing progress in the last 20 years, in others none at all.
Charliecloud: Lightweight and Fully Unprivileged Container for HPC
No, thank you for moderating!
PS: No Halloween in Switzerland so I cannot tell(;

It works well with other costumes like Trail Running and Hiking gear. It also works in the dark (IR camera) and in crazy hard tests like just peeking around the corner with only part of the face visible.
that is what the press release says. they didn't go into specifics but it is clear that the conflict is in Comercialisation vs original purpose
AI is a tool, a bazooka is not. You can use AI to create and research just as you can use it for harm, you can only the bazooka to destroy. It's a bad comparison, especially because the idea that creators of something have no responsibility about how it works is just not practical in real world. Facebook constantly has legal issues due to how people use their platform, this is them trying to prevent AI form bringing more lawsuits upon them.
I wonder if this is going to be like the SVB situation where a bunch of people are putting out fires behind the scenes over the weekend and then somehow on Monday we go back to business as usual (whatever that would mean for this specific case).
You'd be more likely to get a straight answer from the chief scientist rather than the chief executive officer. At least in this case.
I got burnout from weeks of doing nothing during the pandemic. Think about it. What exactly do you put in your timesheet when you haven't written a single line of code or email or responded to a ticket?
It's funny, I hang out in a community with so many misfits now and it's really common. People often ask me "hey what was her name again?" or remind me how bad they are with names. It's either a lot more common than people think, or it's that people with this issue have more chance being a misfit :)
Inside lights, to warn you not to go out? Or outside lights, to warn the bear that you switched to "war mode"? :D
> The problem with "smart" AI is that it attempts to advance its goals by the most optimal means possible,

This is a fantasy.

A real AGI when asked to do a complex math problem very well could answer "I am bored with math, here's a poem instead". You people drunk on AI kool-aid need to think very hard on where are now (hint: not on a path to AGI) and what it means to replicate human intelligence.
Wow OP, this is one of the best things I've read on HN. The last thing to capture my interest this much was the actual release of ChatGPT last year. I'm also learning a lot about company boards.

> They all resigned within a few months of one another despite OpenAI looking like the rocketship of the century? Something feels a little odd about that.

Exactly what I was thinking when reading through the timeline.
A lot of very smart people believe some very stupid things throughout history. Doesn’t make them right.
Goroutines blocking is normal procedure in a a Go program. It also isn't a problem, unless my code is broken and allows all Goroutines to block simultaneously...in which case the runtime automatically terminates the program with a Deadlock-Panic.

The behavior of nil-channels always blocking is on purpose, and tremendously useful in functions where we receive from multiple channels via `select`. It allows the function to easily manipulate it's own receive behavior simply by setting the local reference to the channel to `nil`.

Since `selects` can also have `default`, the resulting functions don't have to block either.
That's a fair and good point.
As I understand you mean that author used word "theory" instead of "intention"?

Why, why they used word "theory" in the first place?
The figure was published at https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro..., and of course they didn't provide a link to the study :(

The figure may be taken from the Large Cars section of table 2 in this study (though the average weight difference given in the table is actually 433kg): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353150136_Comparati...
They do and not just in this case but in others as well and that's why a lot of people decided to homeschool their children
It will all work out fine, cause good intentions and idealism just force reality into pleasant shapes.. but then again, it is those who want it to work out fine, who constantly highlight group differences, preventing the melting pot from working. Its good that these places exist, merging the people into one meta-group identity (Menschen in Deutschland), its bad that people like you try to with the best intentions sabotage things by sweeping problems under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
Dude is morally bankrupt, abusing poverty gap to harvest biometric data via his cryptoscam

I’m disheartened by the “Open”AI employees backing him and pretty surprised at how many hn’ers think so highly of him (especially considering the anti-crypto bent this place has)
The monetization currently is bringing revenue less than one percent of their ad revenue. With no signs of improvement.

That’s like having to go to work 100 miles away, intentionally crashing your car and going like “well, looks like putting on my running shoes this morning turned out right all along!”
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But ChatGPT said so, so it must be true!
Microsoft is the one keeping the lights on and the GPUs running at OpenAI. Microsoft could utterly destroy OpenAI tomorrow if they wanted, shutting down access to their entire hosting infrastructure and most of their product lines.

The OpenAI board should have known not to piss off Satya.
I imagine a lot of people will be very happy with whatever they can get, so long as it's affordable. Lots of places have very compact apartments (Tokyo, NYC, London) and people adapt.
UX Design has lot to do with 'craft', the physical aspect of making (designing) something. Edit: Exploring, multiple concepts, feedbacks, iterations etc.. before it even gets spec'ed and going to an engineer for coding.

Also, having a good taste indicates that the person who has that, is not a creator herself, once something is created then only the person can evaluate whether it is good or bad. Equivalent of movie critics or art curator etc.
> Building a type checker on global inference is the kind of thing that sounds romantic in academia - "no type definitions and yet get type checking!" - but ends up being a nightmare to use in practice.

Hi! I use global type inference and I love it.
Sorry to ask, but where do you get your "facts" ????

China developed, organized and promotes Kylin (Linux based) with a high degree of desktop penetration with the express purpose of replacing Windows and Apple desktops (laptops, etc.).

Russia funds, promotes and standardized Astra Linux. Same express purpose.

India promotes BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) with the same intentions. BOSS also has a standardized server configuration.

You can read more about national Linux/OSS endeavors all over the Web.
If "putting out fires" means "descended upon by a crack team of Microsoft assassin lawyers," then yes.

You don't mess with power's money...
You don't want to make inconveniencing you profitable for companies.
You're correct that I don't know how to run YouTube, the company, but I absolutely know what it takes to serve video. I'd like to see more people who aren't YouTube operating in the same sector.
As someone who uses ublock and gives £50/month away on Patreon: no
Capturing a privileged view of lockdown life
Connectors which have consistently shifting pressure applied, especially from side to side, are going to fail faster regardless of the design. It just so happens that the side that's most likely to be in this state is the side connected to the phone you're holding, the headphones you're wearing, etc. I have seen USB and Lightning ports fail on tons of different devices where the user is actively using the device while it is plugged in, even when they treat it gingerly and even without any identified sharp tugs or the like.

I've taken to using Volta plugs for all my USB devices at the device side to prolong the life of their ports, and it's great for unifying micro USB, Lightning, and USB-C onto one cable. Highly recommend them!

That said I agree USB-C connectors on desktop motherboards are particularly poorly made, and indeed make an unsatisfying connection.
American? :)

In the manual-driving world, you can easily redline a car even below 100km, by just not switching to a higher gear in time (to get faster accelleration)
Here's the flight on FlightRadar24: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ln-fnc#32d90c2c
Contract can be international and are enforceable! It would be a huge problem for possible future exports, if there was liability with GPLv2 violations!
You ought to be talking about both.

A friendly and helpful AI assistant that doesn't have any safety guardrails will give you detailed instructions for how to build and operate a bioweapon lab in the same style it will give you a cake recipe; and it will walk you though the process of writing code to search for dangerous nerve agents with the same apparent eagerness as when you ask for an implementation of Pong written in PostScript.

A different AI, one which can be used to create lip-synced translations of videos, can also be used to create realistic fakes that say anything at all, and that can be combined with an LLM to make a much more convincing simulacra — even just giving them cloned voices of real people makes them seem more real and this has already been used for novel fraud.
He should call it LibreAI
Fullscreen direct scanout doesn't require (probably tricky) coordination to blend the graphical outputs of multiple processes. How that coordination works is the interesting technical question.
Have you seen how big the contact pads are on type A, and how small they are on type C? I don't think anyone is "bodging together" a type C connector or soldering anything on its contact pads.
> How should YouTube be funded?

Maybe they can do something with their trillions of dollars, or since we're already paying for youtube with our data, maybe they can do something with that and all the other highly personal and intimate details of our lives they've collected primarily without our consent (and at times through violations of the law). Seems like they ought to have some kind of way to make money with that... Maybe they can let people pay them to get to the top of search results or something. Maybe they could sell locked down data collecting laptops or do something with cell phones? They seem pretty smart, I'm sure they'll figure it out.
Asynchronous Python lib to work with Amazon SQS
I found an issue while developing a Python project that existing Botocore cannot work in asynchronous mode:

1) app starts to consume a lot of RAM

2) coroutines actually stop working (something blocking inside), so your app just can't be asynchronous.

There is lib called "aiobotocore", but in reality it's not "aio"!

Related issues:

https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1670

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiobotocore/issues/940

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiobotocore/issues/970

So I decided to do small investigation and try to implement my own library. Good news - Amazon SQS API is well documented, so no extra reverse engineering is needed. I just took aiohttp and implemented it "as is". It does not support all SQS methods for now, just core one: auth by keys, get_queue_url, send_message, receive_message, delete_message.

P.S. I use it in my internal project related to crypto-trading: services communicate using SQS and there is an asynchronous worker to perform trade operations.
Yes, FastAPI is great for APIs. Django is still more feature rich for actual websites. I don't see a reason to pick Flask for a new project in 2023.
> The board is closer to a friendship circle than a group of experienced business folks.

Isn't this true for most of S.V.?
Are you referring to their Affero GPL relicensing? That only makes it impractical to deploy versions with proprietary alterations, no?
You're appealing to your own prominence to assert that Helen Toner is extremely qualified. Looking at her career history, she is not.
Yes, it’s worth it to exercise my right to choose what runs in my computer.

A web browser is a client application and I get to choose how it renders the content the server sends to me.
It's up to them to figure out. But if their only solution is inconvenience users to the point they start bleeding money then screw them.
I have the same experience. The USB-C on my phone is dyin. Charging the phone has become a challenge. Yet on my 12 years old computer, the front USB A ports are a bit loose, but still working properly.
If you want to talk about politics... In two-party system anything that does not align with chosen party is wrong. And one must defend the party at all cost, otherwise other would win.

Scientists, like everyone are not without errors. But there is active anti-science push in some media. There are several reasons for that. For example topic of climate change is in contrast with profits of some companies. Another example are vaccines. Exploiting believes and fears that can not be proven is easy way to obtain support.
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Both uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock still works no problem on Youtube on the Firefox browser
That's because it was intended to show the music industry it wouldn't canibalise Spotify subs so Google could get cheaper music licensing, and it showed the opposite. So now ad free YouTube wil never be cheaper than Spotify/Apple Music et al. YouTube Music is bundled because it's free.
But most cars are not filled with 4 people: quite often it's only one or two

And many don't drive a Honda civic: they are driving the biggest, heaviest car they can get their hands on
>> don't repeat the null reference mistake

> "Go doesn't have references"

That's the least generous interpretation/reply I've seen in a while.
It's nothing about higher stature. It's about the level of controversy.
Early stage “technology ethics teams” are about optics and not reality.

In the early stages of a new technology the core ethics lies in the hands of very small teams or often individuals.

If those handling the core direction decide to unleash irresponsibly, it’s done. Significant harm can be done by one person dealing with weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, digital intelligence, etc.

It’s not wrong to have these teams, but the truth is that anyone working with the technology needs to be treated like they are on an ethics team, not build an “ethical group” who’s supposed to proxy the responsibility for doing it the “right way.”

Self-directed or self-aware AI also complicate this situation immeasurably, as having an ethics team presents a perfect target for a rogue AI or bad actor. You’re creating a “trusted group” with special authority for something/someone to corrupt. Not wise to create privileged attack surfaces when working with digital intelligences.