skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh, almost nothing can survive without money to pay for it. Either through donations, some type of business model, etc.

My day to day "job" is something for the public good and I do it without getting paid for it. But it still has to make money to survive even with that.
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Yes. Germany's "Sovereign Tech Fund" to support open source tech has made 11.5million Euros available for 2023: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/faq
True. I just think it’s messed up that she is equally qualified for this specific board (given the unusual fiduciary duty definition defined in the OpenAI charter I linked above) as e.g. Adam D’Angelo, and I don’t see a bunch of creepy people [note: I edited this part because fsckboy made a good point] hating on him despite him also being part of this same exact power struggle. What does founding Quora have to do with developing safe, beneficial AGI? If anything, Adam seems like more of a token board member than Helen, in that Adam is “token rich dude from early days at Google or Facebook”.
Redlining is nothing to do with acceleration. The article has the right definition:

Redlining: drive with (a car engine) at or above its rated maximum rpm.
No, their role is to prevent a data breach from happening in the first place.
Might not work here, we are not on the inside so can't see.
Given the drama on the board, seems like it would be best to reset it.
The board members that voted Sam out had conflicts of interest. With the board not being fully staffed, it seems like a few that were left suddenly had too much power, too much conflicting interest, and really shouldn't have been allowed to make such sweeping changes.

Like their should have been some board rules on filling positions before allowing firing a CEO or some other guard rails.

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330158
> I very often open videos in private tabs so it doesn't destroy my recommendations

+1, I thought you were talking about me :)
I hate that argument too because it very callously disregards the assymetry of intention and information when in fact you almost can't responsibly assume its anything other than life or death. Its so very easy for the barristers perched up in their High Courts to dictate homilies while after the fact of someone trying to kill you and they don't want to put them back in prison or get the press hounding them due to statistical irrelevancies although that should not be totally ignored in other more appropriate forums for such civil discussion
>This is only hard if you have a hard time grasping loops, conditional comparisons or swaps

Or because you don't know the algorithm in question... The problem isn't bubble sort but any generic algorithms test. The examiner wants you to write code but not tell you the specification because it would be shockingly similar to telling you the solution.

When I read a post on HN about inverting a tree I was wondering how exactly you are supposed to invert the child and parent relationship so that children point to parents instead of parents pointing to children. I.e. leaf nodes are now at the root and the root node is where the leaf nodes are supposed to be. Then someone said "He meant reversing the tree" and I'm like "That is not what he said."
Eating meat for breakfast and animal testing involves suffering or killing.
i most definitely have seen more broken A ports in my life than I’ve seen broken C ports. I still remember being mystified by my elementary school janitor bending one back into shape(-ish) back when i was 6 or something lol
The big TDD misunderstanding (2022)
Sounds more like a religion than a well-defined business objective.
ODROID-M1S is a $49 single-board PC with RK3566, 64GB eMMC and an M.2 2280 slot
You rarely get greenfield projects
Because it's not the same thing like the beach, sweating on plastic fabric can cause injuries to the skin and it's disgusting (even at the beach imo).
Shouldn’t it be called an inverse outline? These outlines are certainly not in reverse.
the next all-lowercase tweet with minimal punctuation i have to read is going to make me lose it
Deca-unicorns don't come along every day. How would Sam Altman build another one? (I'll be impressed if he does.)
keep a balanced life - family, exercise, study and work.
You are not your job; but you are to a large extent, your career. There is a difference.
Meta? What about Snap? What about Tinder? Youtube?

Do you have a bone to pick with Meta, the whole internet, or the fact that you wish people would teach their kids how to behave and how long to spend online?
They probably just asked a couple of guys.
Its weirdly almost on the level of a fetish for some of them in the sense they crave and fantasize about coming out guns a'blazing. You can hear it in their voice, see it in their eyes, and their body language completely radiates their contempt for any world where they are not the main character killing "bad guys"
Haha. This. I had to swallow that $30 a month cost. Because by going through the family sharing, I am saving so much heaxh and time wastage for my family who use YouTube for learning (school, college…), parents who watch videos, listen to music etc. well worth it for me.
New mobos still have PS/2, especially the higher-end ones.

Edit: don't believe me? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-AORUS-TACHYON-rev-...

1 x PS/2 keyboard port
1 x PS/2 mouse port
I say it is more moral to stop animal testing; our moral systems are different.
For an example of one very interesting and relevant recent work in the field of religious topics that you decry, may I recommend Jason Josephson-Storm's excellent "the myth of disenchantment"? It starts with Marie Currie's frequent visit to Medium Séances, continues onto the amazing statistics about belief in the American public, and gets better from there.
There are areas where you must wear clothes (zB the central saltwater pool), areas where you are forbidden from wearing clothes (saunas), and areas where it's up to you (hot tubs, cold tubs, usw.).
Science allowed itself to be politicized. On the one hand, we are told to trust the science, but on the other hand, we are told to believe things that are absolutely contradictory to science, and common sense. It's no wonder people have lost faith.
Sadly, disinformation is here to stay I think. And AI generated crap will probably worsen this rather than help.

But I'm fairly confident that Darwin's "survival of the fittest" still applies.

Where "fittest" means those (groups of) people which are better informed than their science-denying peers. And as a result, better equipped to deal with the many challenges of life.

Here on HN, it shouldn't need explaining what effect even small differences in "fitness" can have over a # of generations.
At least I could keep all Z80 opcodes on my head...
Recent product improvements have also made this process really easy.
I think there are a bunch of problems in the timeline, not least the ongoing mismatch between statements and filings, and the lack of anything in 2022.

It does look like governance very much played second fiddle, and the unsurprising outcome of that was that governance hasn't worked very well. I don't know who can rightfully take the blame for that, though, other than the Chair and maybe CEO. If the board wasn't fit, it was their job to fix it.
If youtube can't make it work, I hope they go bust so that something better can take their place.
VGA connectors were incredibly irritating to deal with, especially since so many of them were equipped with smooth screwing bolts with very little area to spin them with your fingers. I for one don't miss this.
For that headline, the content is pretty weak sauce. "it was claimed" that he was working on a new venture. That's the content.
First of all YT and other companies hooked people on free stuff and after years are doing bait and switch - it is totally on them - not on the people wanting free stuff. They should not offer free stuff in the first place to be fair.

Which is also now they are abusing their market position built by cutting all other companies that could do the same but simply could not get past dumping price of free by VC fueled "startups". Which I believe some government org should look into.

Second of all they benefit by externalizing all negative effects of their platforms where they don't handle moderation of offensive comments towards creators which causes lots of psychological damage. There is whole load of evidence they even set it up in ways to specifically get people dependent on dopamine from watching just one more video.

Lastly - cable TV in US was paid with no ads and when they found out they can earn more money they still put in ads.

For me it is noble act of civil disobedience.
there’s no reason bootleggers would attempt to deliberately kill customers, at most you can argue about potential carelessness but in contrast there was indeed one party deliberately introducing methanol into the booze supply.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972336/#:~:tex....
Some people are just freeloaders. They'll dress up their refusal to pay in any number of ways but what it comes down to is they just want stuff for free and aren't honest enough to just say that.
Sure , supporting the evil megacorp suppressing any real alternative products seems like the ethical thing to do.
> It was designed, specifically, as per Rob Pike, for _bad_ developers.

Mind showing us the source for that?

Go wasn't made for incompetent developers. I'm fairly certain that people who land a job as devs at Google are pretty competent.

Go was made to facilitate rapid onboarding, easy digestion of large codebases, and working efficiently in large teams where people are guaranteed to have widely different educational backgrounds, experiences and ideas about programming.

That's why the language has to be simple, obvious, and be focused on readability. That's also why Go is strongly opinionated.
I agree that the immediate risk of death would probably influence it a bit. On the other hand, it's pretty clear that there is not a strong negative correlation between "risk of death" and "crime rate" in the world, just think about south America (high death risk and high crime) and the Nordic countries (low death risk low crime).

I also strongly disagree with the statement "It's the fact that a jail/prison sentence is meaningless to most criminals (if they're even sent there), that we have such rampant crime.". Again, compare prison sentences in the USA with e.g Norway, then compare their recidivism rates. There are many many factors that play into crime rate (poverty, education, and recidivism being important ones), reducing it to 'our prisons are too nice' is way too simple.
In our fucked-up society, yes. We eat sugar and corn, because that's whats subsidized and marketed.

Food forests were very much a thing, for a very, very long time. Thousands of years.
There are many times I've tried to insert USB-A wrong since it's rectangular but only has one correct way and sometimes the fit is tight and sometimes it's hard to see the socket (behind a PC, under a monitor, etc...)

USB-C doesn't have this issue. Much better
That is such a cheap argument.
I think the general “problem” is a bit exaggerated in the media - as a frequent visitor of the Berlin Freibäder I have not experienced any problems myself. However, the violence in my small home town city came mostly from German males with German ancestors.
Toxic masculinity (and social injustice) seem to be a major driving the problematic behavior - not immigration. The majority of violence also here in Berlin comes from males. Also, my impression is that is if there is violent behavior coming from males (also in other situations) their background foremost is a rather low social status and not dependent on their passport or their ancestors’ origin. A well educated rich woman is less likely to show violent behavior than the poor uneducated man.
I don’t know the difference of this between the German and the “Arab” (which is the group most people here blame rn) male of equal social status but id be very surprise to see a big difference if any significant at all..
Probably because it's a job anyone can do.
Eating is a basic necessity for life, scientific experiments are not; you can eat plants instead, too.
What they are doing is working great... not sure why you would say that. They are the most popular platform, fantastic services and adding more, and easy to pay to remove ads for a reasonable amount of money. Their model is working great from a business and service perspective.

What else do you want?

You want it to be free for you where you don't have to pay anything to use it? Seems like you don't have a realistic view of what it costs to run / build / maintain this.
The responsibility of AI should lie in the hands of users, but right now , no company is even close to giving AI users the power to shape their product in responsible ways. The legal system already covers for these externalities, and all attempts at covering their ass have resulted to stupider and less useful systems.

They are literally leaking more and more users to the open source models because of it. So, in retrospect, maybe it would be better if they didn't disband it.
Hold up. I figured there was some kind of scandal behind his departure, but this sounds a bit far-fetched
Nothing, the question is whether it is important enough to be included in the language.

Just because person A thinks this is hugely important, doesn't mean person B has to agree, or that B is a bad developer.
Loyalty is not earned, it is more like 'snared' or 'captured'.

Local guy had all the loyalty of his employees, almost a hero to them.

Got bought out. He took all the money for himself, left the employees with nothing. Many got laid off.

Result? Still loyal. Still talk of him as a hero. Even though he obviously screwed them, cared nothing for them, betrayed them.

Loyalty is strange. Born of charisma and empty talk that's all emotion and no substance. Gathering it is more the skill of a salesman than a leader.
The reason is hygiene. You sweat into your sheet leaving very little behind on benches. Then you shower and bath and do it again.

With swimming clothes you soak everything then bring it back to the chilling pool and back to sauna.

Also imho nudity in sauna seems wierd first time but you quickly realize you can be covered all the time (with sheet) and that its not sexual at all because you are focusing on your body as does everybody else (heat stress).

Imho after few saunas everybody seems to shed this fear and even gain confidence and casuality about the nakedness part.

I think nudist pools are a lot wierder.
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On your first point, why would you expect a sceptic to cease being sceptical just for this one particular belief system?
> We're talking about this right now on a web service given to us as an act of charity (modulo the occasional sponsored job listing)

I think your modulo is missing some aspects. How many VCs are as famous as YC among tech workers? How many of them have as much credibility in the tech scene as YC? How much of that comes from this site?

I don't know how much it costs to run it, but I assume it's peanuts compared with what YC gets out of it. I wouldn't confuse altruistic charity (e.g. donating anonymously to a cause you don't personally benefit from) with what boils down to sponsorship and getting the goodwill that comes with it.
Sure, but even shareholders also have limited responsibility. Should they also honour the debts and losses for something they own?
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You can start by learning JVM bytecodes [0], and play around with Jasmine[1].

Even today many cool performance tricks require understanding the bytecodes of the underlying language runtimes.

[0] - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

[1] - https://jasmin.sourceforge.net/
It's time for a new, new start. Let's rename it DramaAI
I usually just cover myself with a sheet, say a hail mary and get back to sleep.

I ain't no Captain Ahab baby.
Yeah USB-C is horrendous.

Broke my light macbook air from being so tightly connect it dropped, macbook also had very short charger cables for a while.

While being so tight it often refuse to charge because of it being so good in collecting dust and having a long neck that makes a small hit bend it so it doesn't work.
I've served terabytes worth of video content from my home internet connection, for free.
That would be amazing. Complete unpredictability, but also an entirely new industry of influence and manipulation.
To be fair, I haven't seen a USB C power port available in public once so far myself, and while it would be nifty for them to become the norm over USB-A, I really think it's a bad idea to subject users to unknown USB charging ports in public. A wall outlet can't pretend to be a keyboard, for instance.
Hah! Yeah ok fair. I think along with the 90/95 thing I'd like to see us think more in terms of incentives, trajectories, and underlying causes. People are practically entirely the products of systems and cultures, and whenever we're try interventions at the exit of the function they're uniformly despised.
EEVDF: Earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling
You should already be aware of the secret sauce of ChatGPT by now: MoE + RLHF. Making MoE profitable is a different story. But, of course, that is not the only part. OpenAI does very obvious things to make GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo better than other models, and this is hidden in the training data. Some of these obvious things have already been discovered, but some of them we just can't see yet. However, if you see how close Phind V7 34B is to the quality of GPT-4, you'll understand that the gap is not wide enough to eliminate the competition.
not entirely sure what you refer to, but here's a possibly flawed and possibly unrelated analogy: while our nervous systems depend on low intensity electric fields to function, subjecting them to artificial fields orders of magnitude more intense is well documented to cause intense pain, and as the intensity increases, eventually to death by electrocution. i submit that, sadly, we are going to observe the same phenomenon with intelligence as the parameter.
Are you logged in to Youtube? People are saying that the YouTube anti-blocking measures are kicking in for logged-in users, but not for anonymous users.
They are quickly losing that monopoly to TikTok. It's only a matter of time. TicTok has added 10 minute videos. When they add 1hr videos it will mostly be the end of YouTube's monopoly

Which, FWIW, they got there by being the only player. It's interesting that no one else has really tried until TikTok
The joke is that the tackle box isn't used for fishing, isn't it? The father doesn't go fishing to catch fish, he goes fishing to relax, having baits and the such isn't a requirement for the latter.
Youtube isn't worth the "few dollars" for me (it's actually very expensive). However, I'm using an ad blocker instead. They still work and give you a seamless experience.
Congrats?
> Steve Jobs who was actually a UX designer.

Steve Jobs was not an UX Designer, he had good taste and used to back good design and talent when he found them.

I don't know what Sam Altman is like outside the what media is saying, but he can be like Steve Jobs very easily.
I found calling USB-A ports “legacy” a bit funny. “Less modern” perhaps.
If you log in to YouTube it does.
Isn't that what religion in general, and becoming a Doctor of Theology in particular, is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Theology
Ask HN: Are you happy you chose FastAPI over Flask/Django/Sanic/etc.?
Biggest difference to Germany is that German saunas are usually mixed. Including mixed showers and changing rooms (in saunas, not in public swimming pools).
At least for the EU, i can understand. Managing infrastructure is not somethign the brusselo-cracy does, like not at all. They do regulation well, and lobbying management, so they are solely focusing on that.

I see no reason why we don't have EU-wide public email, mastodon, documents, and now AI. That is not such a huge project and it would give the EU huge creds for actually creating european infrastructure.
Could you elaborate? Did the training help you in any way to prevent burnout? Do you have sources that show (ex)military have lower incidence rates of burnout or psychological distress?
This just means that Youtube isn't worth the ad watching time for them that Youtube feels entitled to. I personally, for example, will continue watching Youtube with an ad blocker but I'm also perfectly fine if Youtube closes entirely or becomes subscription-only.
> We're suggesting that people should just use Rust (or Haskell, or F#, or any other robust functional programming language) instead.

And how well did that work out for Haskell?

https://gist.github.com/graninas/22ab535d2913311e47a742c70f1...

Just because one person thinks Functional Programming is the right way to do it, doesn't mean another person has to agree. The same goes for every paradigm, and language feature under the sun. Different people want different things, different projects have different needs.

No single language gets everything right, no single paradigm solves every problem, no feature is a "must have" in every language. A functional approach might be great or a productivity killer depending on the use case. A GC may be the best thing in the world or a performance nightmare. OOP may be a really good idea or a path to unmaintainable crap depending on the implementation.

There are no silver bullets.

The only thing that is ABSOLUTELY certain: When people get told "Our way is better, you should use our way", despite the fact that there are no silver bullets, people will resist. And that resistance can lead to languages vanishing into obscurity.
In case the marriage between OpenAI and Microsoft ends, I'm pretty sure that Google, IBM, Facebook and any over big corp will try to step in to replace Microsoft.
They tested a premium lite that only included removing ads, at about half the price of normal premium, sadly they discontinued it this month
Whoever actually buys into these pitiful showcase of morale for marketing purposes cant be helped. American companies are only looking for the profit, doesn't matter the cost.
How should YouTube be funded? How is it coersion?
Funny, I actually go frequently to one or two of these, since I live in Berlin. I pay 42% taxes and still these government pools are not only a bit pricy (no discount if you want to go regularly) but they have terrible, irregular opening times. They will spontaneously close down for a month, without notice on their site or google maps, only putting a sheet of paper on the door. They will rotate opening times randomly. Even worse, they are not open (only charlottenburg, which is small) for around 6 months in the summer. This is because youre supposed to go to the outdoor pools but I want to go at 6pm after work when they close and even if they are open they are too cold. On hot days they might be fun but then they are notoriously overrun but low education bracket people that get into fist fights so vehemently it was a big topic in berlin this summer. As a response there where then a bunch of police people hanging out at the pool and now you need to show your id before entering.
You probably don't know how valuable motivation is. I learned that lesson only three years ago. It is so easy to simply do nothing both when you are motivated and not motivated. You don't need to know how write lua if you can inspire your son to build things with it. In the last three years, I have probably had more ideas of things that I want to do than in the two decades before that.

When I was 16, I had software skills but was clueless about what to actually build. Now I know what to do and don't have enough time to do it. The idea of grinding two hours a week just doesn't work for me. I want to do things in bursts. Like working 10 hours on it and then weeks of nothing.
The vision of Worldcoin dude to get rich quick? Very inspiring.