skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have enough experience but not senior level yet and no impressive companies on my resume. My experience so far while being laid off has been not so promising so far with referrals:

No response from Intuit

Rejection from Atlassian

The previous job I had at a decent organization was without a referral. The one before that too, which was a mid size consultancy firm was without a referral.
Yes, the ISPs HAVE ACCEPTED MONEY to set up an affirmative action regime. If they don’t deliver on something they have promised to do in exchange for taxpayer money already received they should be heavily, heavily punished.
First CRISPR therapy approved in UK
This couldn't be a better example of partisan "blindness".

Unironically, I've found some of the most simplistic and emotional (unsolicited) takes on US politics when engaging with people abroad.
> it wouldn't make any sense for a for-profit to own a non-profit due to the no private inurement requirement)?

The most obvious example is the corporate foundation, but if we believe the first result from a search you're right in they are controlled but not owned by the for-profit:

> A for-profit cannot own a nonprofit because a nonprofit has no owners. However, a for-profit can set up a structure in which it effectively has control over the nonprofit, subject to applicable laws, including those regarding private inurement, private benefit, and corporate self-dealing

> https://nonprofitlawblog.com/can-a-nonprofit-own-a-for-profi...
Now that is so rare I've never even heard of someone expressing that view before...

Materialists normally believe in a big bang (which has no life) and religious people normally think a higher being created the first life.

This is pretty fascinating, to you have a link explaining the religion/ideology/worldview you have?
I feel like this is one pivot away from a highly addictive game. The concept of using prompts and AI to mediate gameplay is novel - but in this current form not fluid enough to make it fun. If you could somehow reduce the time from the prompting to the outcome, and introduce some platform elements, that would probably increase playability by 10x.

Still great idea and uncertain if music (and works well on my iPhone)
Why would you need to program anything else?
Aid sent abroad isn't humanitarian, it's to buy political and strategic favours from autocrats.
I think you googled the April launch. Starship was going 24000+kmh, needed 27000, it was like 20-30 seconds away from successfully inserting itself into its target orbit.
It was more successful than the last one. These are experimental rockets that are tested, usually to destruction. It's a success to the extent that it gets them further along in their R&D. To call it a failure would be to ignore the fact that this is progress.

But yeah, landings would have been much bigger successes.
Your comparison to agriculture detracts from your otherwise excellent points. We can survive without AI. Without agriculture - not so much.
They’re not going to say “we’re never ever advertising on Twitter again”. Like, if nothing else, Naughty Old Mr Car may not be running it forever.
Turn off in-app rating request popups
I typically make my body text 18px by default for improved readability
Wish I could switch places.
Thanks for posting!

I think there are in general quite a few party-like games which could incorporate the current generation of AI in fun ways. E.g. I'd love to see a Garticphone[0] game mode where instead of drawing yourself a DALL-E/Midjourney generates images based on you prompt, and subsequent players have to try and reverse-engineer it.

[0]: https://garticphone.com
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It's possible I sit closer to the monitor than necessary to read most websites, but that's just the thing: I'll place the monitor as close as necessary to read the smallest elements in my OS, such as menu bars.

Think of it as a "weakest-link" principle.

Web pages have no reason to use larger font than the user has in the menu bar, since the user is already sitting at the optimal distance for that font!
To be fair, Apollo also had government funding to the tune of approximately 2.5% of GDP. Starship would probably go a bit faster too with an annual budget of half a trillion.
I understand why the other comments would be flagged, but this one is legibly reasoned and I've vouched for it.

It is obvious that historical advancement of technology has caused widespread cultural changes, and a sizable percentage of them are considered negative by a large portion of the population. To state that commercially viable AI could cause such effects as well does not seem necessarily unhinged to me, but in fact worthy of discourse on this forum.
Reposting this because I think it got missed:

"You have said the actual truth" is what elmu said in response to a post railing on jews.

---> What he said after that, about the ADL or whatever, is irrelevant <---, because the only appropriate responses to posts railing on jews is flatly ignoring or condemning them. Agreeing is the literal opposite.

You can't literally agree with nazi shit and then try to walk it back claiming you meant the opposite.
Such a Firing + Press release is basically unheard of. Looks more like two sides are at war with each other. Almost as if this is about their core believes, about what AI/AGI is and when it is or will be reached and what direction "OpenAI Global, LLC" should go. So their is massive room for Conspiration Theories and speculation.
Can you login into https://sp.vmssoftware.com ?

The license and everything else is there.
For the Record: Comments say these are AI generated images.
To me the most annoying thing about magic mouse is the placement of the charging port.
Have you never any science before? Any experiments or tests? Even failure can be exciting because it’s a chance to learn something new.

Also in my experience the least humble people are the ones lecturing others about their lack of humility.
Probably needs prompt #1, to rewrite the users input to remove any implied outcome of the users action. Then pass this string into the original prompt.
It would be significant if one believed OpenAI was responsible for keeping the cat partially in the bag, and now the bag has holes. In which case, the weakening of OpenAI (or simply a change of trajectory) could be very significant to this historical trajectory. More control vs less control is a very important knob to turn, and it's just been turned if power shifts from OpenAI's closed model approach to players pushing open models. It's up to each person to decide if this is good or bad *shrug*

I personally am unsure, but I worry Sam's departure is bad news for our trajectory. (Though I also feared his influence, as I fear anyone with heavy influence.)
And is nearly illegible for people with poor vision, not to mention the smaller sizes used for other parts of the UI. (To say nothing of the poor contrast of several items.) Target WCAG 2 AA.

I love HN but the CSS is outdated. Working on a fix ;)
The benefit to society is the same as patents or copyright. Companies will be more likely to invest in developing new technology if they are confident their competitors won't be able to use the result.
Why are you confident?
> It’s quite a civilized system and I think the law ought to leave it alone, (..)

Or codify it. Imho the better alternative. One should never assume that companies won't try to change the system to the detriment of the employee if they see a chance.
Startup is: www.caspa.ai
Sam Altman Is Out at OpenAI After Board Skirmish
Maybe have a look at Kavita or Ubooquity (possibly Komga, but that's more for comics)

https://www.kavitareader.com/

https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/

https://komga.org/
I said that I benefited from anti-aging cure, but the LLM said that no, the researchers did not listened to me.
Short flight time.
Calibre can be a real pain in the ass to set up the first time. Everything from special extensions for certain devices to very specific configurations (which you definitely won’t figure out on your own without a guide) make the experience quite unpleasant. Once it’s up and running it’s… fine. I have a huge library and also long for a better alternative. Of course, this is free, and I try to be grateful for what we have.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Humbert Wolfe
It is a big deal because he is known to us all. When something happens to a person you know, you care. When a person is known to a large community, us, our shared amazement adds up.

ps, The overthinking is most of this conversation is amazing and almost all wrong. The closest to a 'non-community gasp' idea that is correct is that it appears that this powerful and respected person has been lying to his board of directors and he will probably still be around to do, uh, more lying. Still, that's not a big deal at all. He's just a guy.
> Honestly, I'm pretty picky about the food at buy at the store

Forever chemicals, like PFAs can end up in food, but it is not made to be in food. The nature of this pollution means that trying to prevent environmental pollution to end up in your food is a fool's errand. The solution is to avoid releasing more of the substance in the environment.

For instance, PFAs see a lot of use in water-repellent clothing and material. As these products take rain, some of the repellent is shed in the environment, and contaminate stuff we consume. Awareness about it in the population and people looking to buy something else can lead manufacturers to look for alternatives and develop new lines of clothing.
> They didn’t give any more shits about safety than OpenAI did

Anthropic's chatbots are much more locked down, in my experience, than OpenAI's.

It's a lot easier to jailbreak ChatGPT, for example, than to do the same on Claude, and Claude has tighter content filters where it'll outright refuse to do/say certain things while ChatGPT will plow on ahead.
i use nextdns.io. ~~$20 per year. Set up home router's dns to above. And devices' dns-es too.

set up some ad-blocking list. Turn off tik-tok, youtube, etc (quite a few of those, with all their side domains)

And if home router has time-bracket filtering, use it. The UI is probably wooden and terrible. But it's done once. Mine stops i'net to all unlisted devices from 23:00 till 6:00.

All else is too much hassle. Or worse, that AND wrong results.
Probably related to the tons of rocks and dirt thrown up during excavation of the surprise flame trench during the first test.
> If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

Yes, of course. Neither the employees nor the clients are the property of the consultancy. Maybe next time they provide a better service so employees and/or customers don't see a reason to go to a competitor.
People weren’t paying attention. Like, everyone should’ve realised with that Thailand thing, if not before. But with the Twitter stuff, he’s _so_ noisy with his stupid, distasteful opinions that it’s increasingly difficult to ignore.
You are right, he said:

>Gizmodo put their video on the web people were touching x marks the spot here and they were seeing a large drop in bars

> doesn't seem like a good idea if you can touch your phone one particularly grip your phone in a certain way and the bars go way down

and the fix was adding hysteresis to Cellular signal meter so it wont immediately react, no bars going down on screen = fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSLZ1jqhFQ
Ask HN: AGI and Day-to-Day Consequences
Within all the frenzy chat around OpenAI in the last day we can pick up some rumours of AGI being here already. I have a hard time framing and visualizing what that would mean for people day-to-day.

Any real world examples what that would mean for an average person?
Ah my bad, sometimes hard for me to see that.
I remember being told in school that LSD mimics psychosis.

I’m glad they teased it apart forty years later.
How to Keep Your Bank from Closing All Your Accounts
Article subtitle: "Banks have suddenly shut down the accounts of scores of customers. Here’s how you can avoid becoming one of them."
LUCK?! Tha were lucky!
> It seems less of a lift

I’ve seen this expression a lot recently and it baffles me.

The word you are looking for is “effort,” or if you prefer adjectives, maybe something like “difficult.”
I wonder when AI will be used to improve NPC dialog and imrpove mission generation on side-missions. If I were Rockstar that would be my main goal for GTA6.
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That's an overly broad generalization, Leo Szilard certainly had insight into the implications:

> "With an enduring passion for the preservation of human life and political freedom, Szilard hoped that the US government would not use nuclear weapons, but that the mere threat of such weapons would force Germany and Japan to surrender. He also worried about the long-term implications of nuclear weapons, predicting that their use by the United States would start a nuclear arms race with the USSR. He drafted the Szilárd petition advocating that the atomic bomb be demonstrated to the enemy, and used only if the enemy did not then surrender. The Interim Committee instead chose to use atomic bombs against cities over the protests of Szilard and other scientists. Afterwards, he lobbied for amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 that placed nuclear energy under civilian control."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard
Then I still have the local backups that I make every time I clear out my phone.

Now, if I get banned from Google the same day my house burns down, that could be a problem.
This time around they’ve actually come up with a real productizable piece of tech, though. I don’t care what it’s called, but I enjoy better automation to automate as much of the boring shit away. And chip in in coding when it’s bloody obvious from the context what the few lines of code will be.

So not an ”AI”, but closer to ”universal adaptor” or ”smart automation”.

Pretty nice in any case. And if true AI is possible, the automations enabled by this will probably be part of the narrative how we reach it (just like mundane things like standardized screws were part of the narrative of Apollo mission).
And frankly even if they did produce something the board deemed to be AGI, I don't imagine the integration of LLMs and generative art into Microsoft products beforehand wouldn't have been worth the investment
If the company is making something of actual value, it will be hard to replicate. Just as you can't recreate that McDonald's taste just because you worked there, most businesses have some sort of intrinsic IP that you can't steal. There will always be some risk that a team could leave and fail to recreate the thing elsewhere. In my line of business this happens all the time (quant trading). People think they know why their strat works and when they transplant it, it mysteriously doesn't work.

The solution to this is to compensate people so that they don't take the chance and leave. "I'm already making X here, why would I want to risk that?". This naturally distributes wealth a bit more evenly between the workers and the owners.

You also need to think about your scenario. If the employees are able to make the same thing at half the price to the customer, that is a HUGE gain for the customer. If another breakout crew does the same, that's half the gain again. The customer wins, but it can't go on forever, at some point it's not worth the breakout risk.
Maybe when I can eat and survive on the output from an AI…
The details of how they stream all the data down in real-time reliably must be really interesting
No, nothing like this exists in X11. Xorg still doesn't really have support for non-RGB surfaces. DRI3 gets you part of the way there for attaching GPU buffers but the way surfaces work would have to be overhauled to work more like Wayland, where they can be any format supported by the GPU. There isn't any incentive to implement this in X11 either because X11 is supposed to work over the network and none of this stuff would.

Yes, you're technically right that this would have been possible years ago but it wasn't actually ever done, because X11 never had the ability to do it at the same time as using compositing.
Its a terrible system.

If we assume that the financial sector is good for society, then a productive element of it is idling causing inefficiencies leading to higher fees.

If the assumption is incorrect, then the financial sector is not a productive part of the economy. In this case the worker's vacation is irrelevant since it's just a manifestation of the parasitical nature of it.

Either way normal people are paying for this civilized system's largesse.

The truth is somewhere in between. The role of the financial sector is to match capital with projects needing capital needs. Since the 80s (?) this is an insignificantly small portion of modern finance - most of it is parasitical sloshing of funds around to either gather fees or launder money.
Too few people are investigating how to determine whether or not Gen AI provides good answers which improve efficiency. Many people are giving examples of where GenAI is fast, but requires more time and effort to investigate the "rabbit holes" and misleading solutions. So, the net result is not efficiency or cost-savings, but failure demand shifting costs elsewhere.
Surely the final Starship carrying passengers will not have auto flight termination?
Do not set a font size on the root element (<html>). This often overrides a user's choice to increase the base font size on their browser.
Since it's a private non-profit corp it might be whatever they want the rules to be.

Arms-length neutrality on a board in silicon valley might still work like the rest as other comments have stated. Maybe someone can shed some light on it
That was also my first reaction. I worry those who are being disrupted found a way to take drastic action to interrupt the progress.

Sadly that has me hoping personal or professional misconduct is behind it, he does give me a bad vibe, but that could be easily internal bias and bad stereotyping on my part.

If it is revealed to be from an interference or slow down the progress the only silver lining is perhaps this gives open source projects some space to try and catch up.
Yet another background daemon. No thanks. Update when you need to, it's not like it's mandatory.
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The company can choose not to enforce the noncompete and thus be off the hook.

I see this as an "all or nothing" type thing. When the employee quits, the company decides to enforce or not. If they enforce, they're on the hook for the entire noncompete period. No deciding after a month not to continue enforcement.
But OpenAI believe that they will develop AGI, maybe they will, and may they won’t, and also highly unlikely if they don’t close the next round, but that misses the point.

They believe that they will and therefore we need to ask is their governance structure fit for purpose if they achieve their goals?
Where is my iPhone 14 mini, then?
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I feel sorry that you were convinced by Common Sense Sceptic [sic]. You should know that he's an anti-trans bigot. (Watch this video after the one in the second half of this comment.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh2vE5hsZhw

Secondly, and honestly more importantly, most of the information he relies in his videos is actually incorrect and outright lies. This is a really good long video that goes through CSS's "facts" and points out how his information is completely faulty and comes from a lack of understanding of rockets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsyd4MmQCU
It's something to think about. Even if Sam is 97% aligned and Ilya is 98.5% aligned towards the ideal mentality to have wrt AI safety, that 1.5% could be worth millions of lives in averaged risk
I think I read that some companies are working on using LLMs to improve/generate dialogue from side characters.
The instantaneous nature of the explosion would certainly be consistent with a self destruct.
The second big success was all 33 engines working reliably all the way up! There were so many nay-sayers saying if the soviets could build those amazing engines but couldn't solve their flameout problem on their N-1 rocket that Superheavy was never going to work
That's why browsers support zoom levels.

So you can scale the size of the entire page to be bigger (to suit your needs).

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96810

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207209

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-incr...
Rock and a hard place. Being unreasonable is a great negotiating position, and has worked for children as well as terrorists.
As expected, you came up with nothing.

Try really hard to remember the components of your claim:

–>schools<– were –>teaching<– –>kids<– that –>white people<– are, and again, I'm quoting you here: –>"inherently evil"<–. Instead you link to a tweet with an image of a book that says no such thing. Your "evidence" proves literally none of the components of your claim, and you needed all 4 to not be wrong. Your post shows no schools, no teaching, no kids, and nothing you claim is being taught. That's a quadruple failure.

Making up such nonsense claims to prove your point is shameful, and not really in the spirit of this site. Perhaps twitter better suits your conspiracy theories? Maybe you can get elmu to retweet you.
There's a certain amount of belly-button gazing going on. It's not that big of deal outside of the corporate CEO-worshipping world. For example, if OpenAI were to open-source their code and their models, that would be a much bigger deal IMO.
I suspect Starship would also go a lot faster with the weight of the President directly behind it, helping to remove those pesky regulatory issues :)
A lot of want OpenAI to fail, for many reasons. A lot of people think it's been faking things all along - things like capacity, data privacy & safety, exponentially growing intelligence, enshittification, sustainability, or whether GPT is some dudes in a trenchcoat.

A firing with the odd reasoning of being dishonest is just a perfect storm.

Also many things are shared because they confirm what someone wants to believe, sometimes even being just a headline with no content.
Starship didn't do re-entry though right? They lost signal, and what happened after that was not explained. It was at the target height and >24,000km/h when it lost signal. Some coverage suggested SECO happened, they they lost signal.
If someone asks me if they should do something I do, I always lay out the pros and cons of doing what I do, and try to give them the questions whose answers they need to know in order to decide if they are the type of person who should. Why are there so many articles by writers telling other people they should be writing instead of telling them why they might or might not? I would never presume that any of my hobbies or habits is so universally beneficial.
How do you know AGI is hard?
Does YC publish active users count?

In its absence one can use public metrics like active commenters count.
I think the only one who was surprised by that outcome was Elon.
Group threads in one manufacturer-provided chat program get annoying.
Venturing outside the defaults by using Signal or WhatsApp (or Threema or Messenger or...) would mitigate this. I suspect the root of the problem is folks accepting defaults unquestioningly, resulting in de facto manufacturer lock-in.
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