skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d say OpenAI branding is a moat. The ChatGPT name is unique sounding and also something that a lot of lay people are familiar with. Similar to how it’s difficult for people to change search engine habits after they come to associate search with Google, I think the average person was starting to associate LLM capabilities with ChatGPT. Even my non technical friends and family have heard of and many have used ChatGPT. Anthropic, Bard, Bing’s AI powered search? Not so much.

Who knows if it would have translated into a long term moat like that of Google search, but it had potential. Yesterday’s events may have weakened it.
I don't mess with coin collecting, just the melt value.
Well, I would debate that NeXT OS was a failure as a product, keeping in mind that it is a foundation of all current in macOS and even iOS versions that we have not. But I agree that it was a failure from a business perspective. Although I see it more like Windows phone — too late to market — failure, rather than an out of talented employers failure.
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/radiant-cooling%0A%0A

https://handbook.ashrae.org/Handbooks/A15/IP/a15_ch54/a15_ch...

https://aircondlounge.com/is-radiant-cooling-efficient/

https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/847/would-putting-a-...

There’s some YouTube videos also. Radiant cooling.
If they limited the vendor's (i.e., employee's) options, how is the being competitive?

And if the market colludes to handcuff vendors (to the benefit of the hiring companies) how is that being competitive?

Employment is already at will, and that is mutual to both parties. Why should one side be allowed to purposely disadvantage the other side? How is that being competitive?
Ask HN: Are retailers raising prices ahead of Black Friday?
Is it possible to gather data at a large scale on whether retailers have been raising prices in advance of Black Friday, so they can have big "sales"?

I just noticed that a tshirt I was looking at on Woot went from $15 to $19. I had been watching the price to see how much it would be discounted next week (typically they can be had for $6 if you order a couple at a time), and was interested to see that the price went up in the last few days.

I realized this is probably happening all over the place and wondered if it is possible to measure the prevalence on a macro level to see which stores/companies/sectors do this the most.
Dependabot auto-triage rules support CVE IDs and GHSA IDs – The GitHub Blog
> Arguably Bin Laden got a great ROI on 9/11

Arguably? If anyone argues against that they're wrong. Bin Laden accomplished his objectives and beyond.

The US objectives weren't to deny Bin Laden his though, they were to kill Bin Laden (and topple Sadam, for some reason). Both of which we also accomplished.

The half hearted nation building was a facade and led to the quagmire and chaos that ensued.
Biases in Performance Reviews and Countering Them
If we extrapolate what Setzer might do "in reality" then yeah, it's hard to argue he wouldn't do that. I don't know we can argue that he definitely would do that, but we can't say he wouldn't.

But in fiction, especially fantastical works like FF6, we can't make claims about the original work (ala "there is rape in FF6") based on those kinds of extrapolations.
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I find the Remarkable is pretty much exactly like pen and paper, but it syncs to the desktop which makes it way handier.
I am using it all: PoE switch, then couple injectors where it is needed for some specific reason and then also PoE splitters (one cable leaving from PoE switch, going to splitter and then to 4 different PoE cameras, powering everything with one PoE output from switch).

I would not use WiFi cameras. Standard RTSP PoE h264 is the way to go.
I didn’t say humans are LLMs; I am saying many humans are hallucinating parrots and dumber than LLMs. And when that is a president, LLMs can take power even though not necessarily related to human intelligence.
Every hypothesis is subject to questions about its validity. Including Moore's law but people still use it.
Good. Considering they’re already getting millions in comp, I’d rather have people working on AGI that aren’t in it solely for the money. And it’s not like Cohere or Sam’s next company won’t be trying to poach researchers anyway, but at least one company (OpenAI) isn’t going for profit for sure now.
You may be right in many cases but if you think that’s true in all cases, you’re a low level pleb that can’t see past his own nose.
They can spin it how they want, but it'll 100% turn out to be a AI doomerist panic reaction. They didn't even inform MSFT about it which is absolutely ridiculous
No insight. The author clearly started with the idea of Altman as some tech bro stereotype and then went in search of quotes to support that assumption, but he didn't find much of interest.
I am certain you are not dumb, but personally I find that there are many things that I learn much faster when taught by other people.
We (Clerky) only support Delaware because that's where practically all startups (as opposed to regular small businesses) form. In case it's helpful, we've put together a pretty extensive explanation of why Delaware has come to be the standard for startups: https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation/where

If you're not forming a startup and are considering Wyoming or Nevada, then I think whether you use an online service (like a registered agent) or an attorney could depend on whether you're just looking to have an entity for the sake of having one or if it's possible the paperwork will be important (e.g. if you have business partners). Unfortunately, there are no major online services similar to Clerky (in terms of legal quality) for Wyoming or Nevada, that I'm aware of, so if you fell in the latter category, I would recommend talking to an attorney. But if not, an online service could be fine.
> Money do expire! There is inflation...

If someone put 1 dollar on the bank in 1900, then what would it be worth now, considering both inflation and interest?
I definitely agree on problems not being modeled correctly, although I also frequently see application developers forego indexes. I think this is fundamentally a lack of understanding or inexperience.
Your writing has stayed with me, and I occasionally remember bits of your essays many years later. Pleased to see your articles in recent months in the New Yorker. Congrats on being a dad!
Giagantic AMD APU at SC23 Meet the AMD MI300A and MI300X
Attachment, Marital Satisfaction, Divorce During First 15 Years of Parenthood
I thought about going but wasn't sure if it was actually happening or not. There were almost no updates on the website, Facebook, or Twitch in the time leading up to it and during the weekend. This is actually the first confirmation I'm hearing that it actually happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal
Brought this up in another thread and was downvoted. But yes the 900k compensation package was probably more than 600k PPU equity which is worth who knows what now.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html

Only a few days ago there was a post here about them poaching researchers with “10M” equity compensation packages..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38258406
You can easily set a hard limit in your account to avoid that risk.

The pre-purchased credits approach burdens a lot more people than it helps, which is why it's an approach so extremely rarely used.
It feels like they’ve had plenty of time to reset the direction of the company if they thought it was going wrong.

Allowing it to go so far off course feels like they’ve really dropped the ball.
All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer
Alors là pas de soucis: serendipity, abate, etc...
https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/list
Bite who?
Monero is the common example, since it solves the pseudo-privacy issues that Bitcoin has while otherwise being very similar.
Is there a guest account to try the demo? Seems odd to lock a demo behind registration
An interactive Monkey Island inspired text and image adventure in ChatGPT
With generics, can you not make a NonNil<T> struct in Go, where the contents of the struct are only a *T that has been checked at construction time to not be nil, and doesn't expose its inner pointer mutably to the public? I would think that would get the job done, but I also haven't really done much Go since prior to generics being introduced

Otherwise, since pointers are frequently used to represent optional parameters, generics + sum types would get the job done; for that use case, it's one of two steps to solve the problem. I don't foresee Go adding sum types, though.
Yeah, why not a mix of carbon and silicon ?
I hear Cyberdyne is hiring if that's your attitude about creating AGI.
It astounded me that that company was either unwilling or unable to cash in on work from home during covid.

That has to be among history's biggest missed opportunities for a tech company.

Anyone here associated with them? Why didn't they step up?
Sacrificing the needs of the few for the greater good of the many is fundamentally flawed as we have seen many times in the past. The fact that EA still sells this idea and naive people fall into its trap show how foolish even smart people can be.

Sam Altman is very smart. The few times I interacted with him, he would always go above and beyond. But even very smart people can be very very dumb / simply not have the mental stamina to deal with multiple hard questions.

It is actually a flaw in our society where material success makes people be put on a pedestal and given importance and then tears them down harshly when inevitably they crack in some manner / appear human.
The US didn't bomb Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbor, but to accomplish a military objective. Also, past errors, to the extent there were any, are not valid reasons for current ones - otherwise we'd quickly have no laws or morality at all.

The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), which is taken very seriously by militaries, requires distinguishing between military and civilian people and assets, only pursuing military targets and objectives, and when civilians will be harmed, requires that it be in proportion to the military benefit.

Here are a couple of links. The first is the authoritative International Committee of the Red Cross's very usable LOAC page, and the second is the application of it to the Gaza war by leading experts:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1

https://www.justsecurity.org/89489/expert-guidance-law-of-ar...
This is a pretty weak character assassination. Maybe they should have waited for the actual facts, which in fact we still don’t know.
I think it was a good thing that, in hindsight, the leading AI research company had a strong enough safety focus that it could do something like this. But that’s only the case as long as OpenAI remains the leading AI research company going forward, and after yesterday’s events I think that’s unlikely. Pushing for more incremental changes at OpenAI, possibly by getting the board to enact stronger safety governance, would have been a better outcome for everyone.
There's been a number of successful supersonic ejections of military pilots over the years. It's extremely dangerous and very likely to fail, but it's better than the alternative. The basic idea is a drogue chute stabilizes and slows the pilot.

Whether the same idea could be adapted to a whole plane I don't know, but I would be skeptical of just on the basis that you probably wouldn't trigger such a thing unless the plane has had a substantial failure such that it could overpower any drogue chute.
And on top of all of that, there’s a laundry list of firsts that are being achieved here: first flightworthy full-flow staged combustion engine, largest vehicle launched, largest number of engines working in concert, first vehicle built with full reusability factored into its design from day one.

Every launch where more is nominal for longer is new territory and an achievement.
This is of course sometimes true, we take shortcuts to minimize cognitive effort. However, when the situation warrants it we think more carefully about which words to use to achieve goals, or to reach correspondence with the situation at hand. Or we move more precisely and carefully to do something we haven't done before. I've no doubt that an LLM can approximate whatever model of language a person has from their life experience, but I don't think this type of model is capable of active coping, making judgments, or of having accountability to the world it's meant to operate in.
Fr0gger/Awesome-GPT-Agents: A curated list of GPT agents for cybersecurity
The sad reality is that most top executives get there because of connections or simply being in the right place at the right time.

Funnily enough I also worked for a CEO that hit the lottery with timing and became a millionaire. He then drank his own kool-aid and thought he was some sort of Steve Jobs. Of course he never managed to build anything afterwards. But he kept making a shit ton of money, without a doubt.

After they get one position in that echelon, they can keep failing upwards ad nauseam.

I don't get the cult part though. It's so easy to see they're not even close to the geniuses they pretend to be. Just look at the recent SBF debacle. It's pathetic how folks fall for this.
That already exists. BMW sells you the modules for any of their EV batteries.
The issue with giving everyone open access to uncontrolled everything is obvious, it does have merit indeed. The terrible example of unrestricted social media as "information superconductor" is alive and breathing, supposedly it led to at least one actual physical genocide within the last decade. The question that is less obvious to some is: do these safety concerns ultimately lead us into the future controlled by a few, who will then inevitably exploit everyone to a much worse effect? That it's already more or less the status quo is not an excuse; it needs to be discussed and not dismissed blindly.

It's a very political question, and HN somewhat despises politics. But OpenAI is not an apolitical company either, they are ideologically driven and have the AGI (defined as "capable of replacing humans in economically important jobs) as their stated target. Your distant ancestors (assuming they were from Europe) were able to escape the totalitarianism and feudalism, starting from the Middle Ages, when the margins were mile-wide compared to what we have now. AI controlled by a few is way more efficient and optimized; will you even have a chance before your entire way of thinking is turned to the desired direction?

I'm from a country that lives in your possible future (Russia), I've seen a remarkably similar process from the inside, so this question seems very natural to me.
Me too posts are frowned upon on HN, but vote counts are hidden so I'll say for others: me too. I developed RSI as a teen from spending too much time at a desk with bad posture and have dealt with flare-ups into my adulthood. They were miserable and some days I had to take off work. Once I started bouldering, it went away within months. It's probably the forced blood flow in the area, but whatever it was helped tremendously. I can still hurt my wrist if I type in a terrible position, but it only hurts a bit and doesn't turn into the sustained RSI I had.
so, not private nor efficient nor solution to homomorphic data.

basically a polynomial factor hash of the index keys... basically you will need the entire db plus the larger hashed keys. doesn't help at all implementing any of the outlandish claims.

guess the merit is in proving the poly fact they build on as secure. but that is not a game changer as there are better alternatives and nobody solved the claimed problems with them.
And now Sam is free to start another company which is incentivized by profit, giving him the ability to easily gobble up the part of the talent at OpenAI that was hoping for that.
I wonder if anyone is saving statistics on torrent traffic. It was huge in the 00s, then dropped as streaming became a thing.

Now that the companies are back to rent-chasing (it's abhorrent that some of them still show ads even when you pay), it would be interesting to see what the numbers look like. Could be cool to compare to music, because Spotify and Pandora have been relatively not scummy.
Yeah all the escapes and prompt hacking not even needed.
As a teenager of the 80s, we were conscious of apartheid in South Africa and the boycotts thereof, and of the starvation in Ethiopia ("We Are The World").

I remember reading the newspaper about the Shining Path in Peru, and about the Iran-Iraq War.

The Falkland Islands War was a big one. The school librarian had a map open showing where the British Navy was on their way down.

Right! Glasnot, and perestroika in Russia, and the Solidarity movement in Poland. And the German teen who flew into Moscow and landed on Red Square.

Ferdinand Marcos going into exile, and his wife's bajillion shoes.

Tienanmen Square.

Oh, and of course the fall of the Berlin Wall back in 1989.

Israel has had a larger prominence in the US mind because of it being the Holy Land. I know people who went there to see where Jesus lived, for example. We also had some teens from a kibbutz visit our high school and talk about their life.

In addition to the newspaper, and the TV news shows, my family subscribed to National Geographic, and well remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl , a refugee from the Soviet-Afghan war.

How much more global do you need?
After I started using Zotero, I found that I stopped using Calibre. Especially with Zotero's recent improvements, it serves as a decent replacement.
Stand with X to protect free speech
How did the company end up fairing?
Okay, and then the program will get an event, that propagates down to the correct component, which reacts some way, everything that changes due to that are damaged, and every damaged component is re-rendered with synchronization from the framework itself. It has to be specifically coded (e.g. text editor directly writing to the same buffer the rendered character) to actually make efficient use of tearing, it will literally just tear otherwise with zero benefits.
It feels like there's a "Congratulations, you just re-invented the inheritance tax!" joke in here.

But all snark aside, I think this is part in parcel with the general observation that money as a stored good has mostly negative impacts beyond some amount amount proportional to single digit multipliers of median annual income.
An AGI that can't even play a game of chess, a game that children learn to play, without making an invalid move doesn't really sound like an AGI.
This is monumentally a bad idea. Do you really want to ban all producers from being able to distribute their own goods and depend on middlemen?

Whether you know it or not, since the 1930s things have changed, TVs are popular, there is this thing called the internet and websites.

Do you also want to ban software developers and song writers from being able to publish their own work on websites?
Yeah, I thought about not requiring login but I'd have to add some specific logic to it. I figured it wouldn't be worth for now.

But I'm not requiring email confirmation to use the demo. Feel free to just use any random email to try it out (e.g. whatever42@blabla.com).
I've been pretty frustrated with the slow adoption of EV and PHEVs for large trucks.

EV drivetrains are so much better suited to heavy trucks for everything but range (thus... the hybrid). The insane torque they can deliver, the energy recovery in braking, simply is a revolution for them. The Tesla demo showed that being barely able to go up a mountain is a thing of the past with an EV drivetrain.

I had to drive an RV with a friend over the Appalachans, and then the constant undulating foothills of the eastern midwest. What is especially annoying is the automatic transmission can't handle the climbs without careful metering of torque by the driver, otherwise it does a loud and jerky downshift. EV drivetrains would have none of that.

The range? Put a generator onboard. For RVs they already have one in most cases.

The stability of the entire system would be enhanced with floor batteries. interior and storage space would improve. You have a huge room for solar cells, and for RVs, the roll-out sunshade could be further solar cell real estate.

The weight issue will improve with density. Sulfur, solid state, and semi-solid state are in the wings. But again, a hybrid drivetrain would reduce the amount of batteries needed and improve range.

We should have mandated the development of hybrid drivetrains in all wheeled transport two decades ago, which is five years after the Insight and Prius hit the market.
The following are a part of my "custom instructions" to chatGPT -

"Please include a timestamp with current date and time at the end of each response.

After generating each answer, check it for internal consistency and accuracy. Revise your answer if it is inconsistent or inaccurate, and do this repeatedly till you have an accurate and consistent answer."

It manages to follow them very inconsistently, but it has gone into something approaching an infinite loop (for infinity ~= 10) on a few occasions - rechecking the last timestamp against current time, finding a mismatch, generating a new timestamp, and so on until (I think) it finally exits the loop by failing to follow instructions.
> Coordinated Omission

Now I have something new to worry about.

Or at least a new name for a nameless terror.

Humans are impatient and hate bad news, which adds to these things. I filed a PR recently against a small benchmarking library because I discovered when I cranked up the number of iterations that it was running out of memory.

They were going for simplicity, and doing too much processing along the way complicates things like our friend cache locality, but also branch prediction and thermal throttling.

But they weren’t consolidating between runs either and the sequence diagram for callbacks prevented you from manual cleanup.

Code is hard if you really think about it. Hard as you want it to be (or often, harder).

For injecting complexity, there have been times where I add a for loop to an inner scope to multiply the number of calls and see if the profiling data follows the expected curve. Plenty of surprises to find there.
Pardon, what is a space raft?
Serious wrongdoing with smoking gun would have been the only justification for the board acting the way they did. This reflects very poorly on the OpenAI board. And makes it more likely that this affair is far for complete.
> I'm sorry but nearly all of them are along the lines of "I came from language X and in X we did it this way, but Go's syntax is different". That's not a footgun.

You're right, I meant to link that in reference to how Go can be difficult to learn despite how it simple it seems. Not sure how I a sentence.

The overview of that site explains its purpose/necessity quite well. Some things are footguns, many are just confusing time-wasters. Nevertheless, they are frustrating and hamper the learning process.
> the major media is in the tank for Israeli war crimes

I don't see that, or not the major media that I see. Which sources? The NYT, for example, has covered all aspects and its opinion page has been critical and skeptical of Israel.
Can anyone explain how this works? Are these satellites in a similar orbit to GPS satellites? Do signals from cell phones etc include timestamps? Or is there a high resolution way of detecting the direction of a signal?
Thanks for the comment and for your work!
Cultural shock: Chinese tech people come to US to avoid guanxi, only to find equal amount of guanxi is needed in big tech
If I understand correctly those are just somewhat cheaper per unit and some of them do run on lines that are not electrified. So it happens that a diesel train runs entirely (or often partially) on electrified lines like in the photo I gave.

I said "diesel" as a mental shortcut for diesel and diesel-electric, but certainly not for electro-diesel.