skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in small town India. Was born and brought up here. Population: ~30k. This is made possible by WFH since Covid-19.

Nearest megacity Kolkata (Calcutta) is ~140 km away. ~3.5h by car or train. We visit the city for any serious enough health issues or big shopping events or to catch flights.

My town is historical and extremely old (mentions in literature go back 600 years or more). It is very walkable. Everything is some minutes away. Fresh organic vegetables, fish, and meat available in the market 5 minutes away. The High School I went to was 15 minutes away (using bicycles).

We have a ~100 cc motorbike (50 kmpl or 117 mi/gallon) and bicycles that we ride. For family, we hire fully electric tuktuks [0]. Very cheap and environment friendly.

Very calm town with non-existent crime. Can get reliable broadband up to 250 MBPS. Amazon does 1 and 2 day deliveries. (I cannot imagine living here without ecommerce and internet)

Big fan of this lifestyle. Can comfortably afford a car but we don't own one because we don't need one.

Lived in Kolkata before. Everything was so far away. Had to spend money to get anywhere. Spent too much time in commute to everywhere. And the amount of money you save by living here adds up. My father also lived in the same house, as did my grandfather.

[0]: https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/02metanup4.jpg
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“The Sequences”? Yes, this doesn’t sound like a quasi-religious cult at all…
His likes give you a pretty good idea of where he stands:

https://twitter.com/karpathy/likes
Looking at Steam statistics, and desktop hardware usage, hardly changed anything, regardless of how messed up some Windows releases have been.
If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to learn how to build and launch successful products, you might want to check out the Academy of Product Management YouTube channel.
Mira isn't on the OpenAI Board.
I always interpreted the overall tone of this one as sarcastic/parody rather than genuine or a literal interpretation of the words. But maybe a sign of good art is that it makes the observer think?
Content negotiation is useful when there are multiple feasible return formats. But when is that the case?

For data, Json is the absolute king. For content, html is king. There is very little to negotiate.

The only case where I needed that feature was when data scientists wanted to download data from my API and needed a bunch of formats (parquet, CSV, TSV). But then they did not really grok content negotiation and asked for a query param. So finally I think this is like a lot of html features: half baked and from a different time. Html would do well to drop it.
Where has this been reported?
Have you read her recent Tweets on the matter? She was definitely editorializing quite subjectively in favor of Altman. That's not exactly unbiased journalism happening.
This. Very accurate. At the end of they day this is a battle between academics and capitalists and what they stand for. We generally know how this typically goes…
The essential problem is that there is no thread-safe way to implement this while maintaining backwards compatibility -- applications can alter the environment block by changing the environ global pointer, applications can also alter the environment block by replacing individual pointers in the environ array, applications can also alter the environment block by altering the strings pointed to by the individual members of the environ array, applications can also alter the environment block by using setenv/putenv/etc.

Inserting a mutex into the setenv/getenv/etc. functions is pointless because applications are explicitly allowed to modify the environ pointer and array directly without any locking.
Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley
Elon Musk has a degree in physics.
Now that you write this I fully expect that they shutdown Keep in the next couple of months
I think the commenter you replied to was saying that Altman doesn't have special or any credentials for AI.
Great so now we're treating getting accepted to a PhD as though you actually completed one.

Virtually every STEM graduate from colleges like Stanford is eligible for a graduate program somewhere, it's not that big of a deal
Cool, ever since that rachelbythebay article [1] I was wondering how different libcs handle the issue! Nice to see that someone else confirming the behavior of apple'c libc. It's not mentioned in the article, but while apple's libc seems to suffer from the use-after-free issue, if I'm reading it right it does seem to have locking for setenv/getenv [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908655
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37952916
[3] https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/master...
And people say there aren't real-world applications to n-ary tree rebalancing.
She tweeted it herself:

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/145969637613300121...

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232...
I live in a small rural town in the UK (Charlbury, Oxfordshire: population 3000). It’s incredibly walkable, we have a direct train to the nearest city (and on to London), and I have an electric bike for longer trips not served by the rail line.

These places do exist - you just have to hunt them out.
That’s not true - an algorithm is a mathematical “entity”, it can and is infinite. The actual implementation on a real machine might not run forever, but there is no such kind of limit with math.
But Altman, the ousted CEO, appears to have been adding to the instability. His firing seems like a step in getting back to a desired stability.
What does "properly aligned" even mean? Democracies even with countries don't have alignment, let alone democracies across the world. They're a complete mess of many conflicting and contradictory stances and opinions.

This sounds, to me, like the company leadership want the ability to do some sort of picking of winners and losers, bypassing the electorate.
Well, back in the day firefox had a rss reader integrated and would detect feeds and put a nice rss icon in the location bar. That kind of addressed the first two points.

As for discovery, I think much like Twitter and other social media, the best discovery is one person you follow just plainly links to some other.
She's an access journalist. She'll shill for the biggest voice who'll talk to her.
The Era of Total U.S. Submarine Dominance over China Is Ending
I think trump and elon sort of made it ok to showcase the shit online. Like how YC got involved with fighting other VCs on twitter. I have huge respect for YC and never thought they would do that, but here we are.

Again a stark reminder that all of these guys from Ray Dalio to the run of the mill SF VC are all just normal, twisted people who don't know much better about anything and merely had a run of good luck. Stop paying attention to them.
Base64 is very bizarre in general. Why did they use such a weird pattern of symbols instead of a contiguous section, or at least segments ordered from low->high (on that note, ASCII is also quite strange, I'm guessing due to some backwards compatibility idiocy that seemed like it made sense at some point (or maybe changing case was super important to a lot of workloads or something, making a compelling reason to fuck over the future in favor of optimisation now))?
Migrated a smallish project from Next to Remix
Literally all of these problems (were) solved.

Its called browser integration.
"That's great, Emmett. What do the Chinese think?"
In Germany is quite easy, however it hardly changed anything on how well GNU/Linux might actually fully support all the hardware one paid for.

With luck there is a kind of sponsored distribution, but better stay on that one forever, or risk having some long weekends fun getting everything to work as much as possible.

The only way to get my Asus 1215B to actually use the network without issues, is to plug it via LAN cable, after all these years I have given up having a stable WLAN conection, where everything else (Windows/Android/WebOS/macOS) just works.
I am not sure why. As far as I can tell, the board doesn't need to answer to anyone.
> how to make it easier for users to start using feed readers

On mobile, RSS readers like NetNewsWire and Lire are available in app stores. Lire can spider images+text for offline reading.

Podcast app users probably don't even know they are using RSS.

> how to make it easier to subscribe to feeds

On iOS, Lire adds a "Subscribe in lire" option to the Safari share menu. Podcast directories seem to work for podcast apps.

> how to help users discover new content

With the demise of search engines, perhaps directories will resurface?
There have been a few stories which sound like he may have had the opportunity to come back but that negotiations over board control etc (which is pretty unsurprising) broke down[1].

Even setting that aside for a second, that doesn't change my essential point that the board doesn't necessarily have all the autonomy it thinks it has. There are for sure repercussions to this - they may have to make concessions. Some of the seemingly committed funding may be unpaid and the donors may have the ability to invoke MAC clauses and similar to pull it. Even if that turns out not to be the case, the way this has played out will certainly affect decisions about future donations etc.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/20/sam-altma...
Seems like the board wants to slow down progress which pretty much means sitting there waiting for alignment instead of putting out the work you came for. Sam will let them work to progress I guess, plus a mountain of cash/equity for them.
https://archive.ph/eYZoK
In the "grand scheme of things", no, it's probably not a big deal. I think in the short term, I think it has the potential to set back the space a few months, as a lot of the ecosystem is still oriented around OpenAI (as they are the best at productivizing). I think that even extends to many community/open source models, which are commonly trained against GPT-4.

If they are able to retain enough people to properly release a GPT-5 with significant performance increases in a few months, I would assume that the effect is less pronounced.
Was wondering what the hell a Tartan Rose was until I went to check the article and "rose" is just a verb - it was a piece of tartan lifted from a peat bog. The title got butchered along the way somehow.

Pretty great article, though, I'm amazed that it apparently leads back to the Roman Era. I guess I just never thought about it but these two cultures co-existing blew my mind a bit.
I look at the arguments in this post and see echoes of Y2K:

- It's a clever hack based on an assumption that dismisses the fact that this assumption can change (that the time zone will never be changed, or that everyone will follow the same rules once it does).

- The argument for doing it is: It "uses less space" and "takes less time"

These are similar to the reasons why we used 2-digit years for so long.

Timestamps without time zone data are BUGS (and I mean REAL time zones, not time offsets like CET and PST). They are landmines just waiting to go off once the assumptions they're based upon change. They require your host system to be configured just-so, making your software brittle. They push the ugly details of handling many time issues that could be handled centrally into the user-space (and even worse, they make it OPTIONAL). The Python maintainers are right to remove this, and really they should have removed naive datetime when they released Python 3.

Time is one of the most notoriously difficult things to get right. I've yet to see software using time calculations (or anything more complex than recording timestamps of past events - the only thing for which UTC is useful) that is bug-free.

Time data ALWAYS REQUIRES time zone data. The only "exception" is timestamps of past events, but only because we always assume them to be UTC (and so there's an implied time zone so long as nobody bucks the trend).
Reminds me of the very ending of the show Silicon Valley. Crazy twist and great last two episodes of the show.
Oh well then i guess it doesnt matter we destroy the earth. Fire up those coal plants and slap some more meat on the barbecue, nothing matters after all because things have happened in the past!
Sounds like good news to all the others in the field.
for reference: several pages of posts on desalination https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
pro tip: if you don't identify as belonging to human civilization's future, it won't hurt when someone drives a stake through the heart of human civilization's future.
It's different. People spend YEARS building their social media presence, following, and algorithmic advantage.

Jumping to a different platform is a huge sacrifice for power users - those who create content and value.

None of this is a factor here. ChatGPT is just a tool, like an online image resizer.
There is absolutely no AGI risk. These are mere marketing ploys to sell a chatbot / feel super important. A fancy chatbot, but a chatbot none the less.
A CEO typically builds up a network of his people within the org and if he falls hard they are next on the chopping block. Same deal as with dictators.

"Dozens" sounds like about right amount for a large org.
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971198
I'll be probably downvoted to hell, but, I think what is happening is healthy to the ecosystem.

Pine forests are known to grow by fires. Fires scatter the seeds around, the area which is unsustainable is reset, new forests are seeded, life goes on.

This is what we're seeing, too. A very dense forest has burned, seeds are scattered, new, smaller forests will start growing.

Things will slow down a bit, bit accelerate again in a more healthy manner. We'll see competition, and different approaches to training and sharing models.

Life will go on...
I can't believe Meta is now the leader in generative AI because of an own goal.
In the west such devices would largely be a niche in the outdoors recreation industry. Plus you generally have to go out of your way to be informed about Africa enough to know what’s really happening locally. (Not a dig on Africa, and western media could stand to be more…”inclusive.”)

So until proven otherwise, it’s possible many technologies have traction in water treatment in Africa and we just dont know.

Really though Africans are a widely disparate group. It’s worth approaching with humility.
For coding, at least, nothing out there is even close to as good as GPT-4. Not Claude, not Grok, and certainly not llama.
The described problem (thread safety) for a global configuration seems mostly a misunderstanding by the author.

The usual case for modifying a global state is: modify once, then proceed (e.g. start new threads). Even if all the calls become thread safe, the behavior would be inconsistent, still.
From Wikipedia:

Causes: A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing problem played a role in the outage. Public data from CloudFlare showed a spike in BGP route announcements from the Optus network around the time the outage occurred — over 940,000 announcements in an hour from a node that normally makes less than 3,000 announcements per hour — indicative of a BGP routing problem.
[snip] committee describes the outage as a gradual event triggered by loss of connectivity between neighbouring computer networks. The report suggests that approximately 90 edge provider routers disconnected as an automated protective measure against routing update overload. The failures occurred following a software upgrade at a North American Singtel exchange that caused one of the routers to disconnect. This, in turn, triggered Optus's routers to rapidly update its own routing tables which triggered the shutdown due to the pre-configured default threshold limits set by Cisco Systems being exceeded. The tabled report and Singtel stressed that the software upgrade was not the cause of the fault
They only signed that to pull the ladder up after they have a mass adopted model to lower competition. Nothing about that is about concern for humanity, it's about lowering competition to strengthen their moat.

Now that sam is out and his new ai startup if he makes one will be a new entrant in the ai space, he probably should have waited a couple weeks before recommending all the ai regulations.

As an aside, i would support a system like the patent system where if new ai models are going to be heavily regulated, then the uncensored/pre-gated weights of the already launched model should be released to the public in much the same way your patent idea is protected but you have to release the design in the application.
The right thing is not to modify a global state once you have started all the threads. If you need to do that, use your own data structures. The case of getaddrinfo - would need a copy of the entire env. in a thread safe manner, then return the result. That would pretty much apply to anything that uses env
The person who fixed this would be incredibly sexy in my book. Though, that probably tells you more about my own sexiness than it invalidates your comment.
Better get a degree in flipping burgers and stacking up brick walls then I guess
Looks like they have about 700 employees. A handful quitting doesn’t seem like a mutiny.
Interactive Common Lisp Development
You want me to trust M$ in all this? Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Fellow nerds, you really need to go into work on Monday and have a hard chat with your C levels and legal (Because IANAL). The question is: Who owns the output of LLM/AI/ML tooling?

I will give you a hint, it's not you.

Do you need to copyright what a CS agent says, no, you want them on script as much as possible. An LLM parroting your training data is a good thing (assuming a human wrote it). Do you want an LLM writing code, or copy for your product, or a song for your next corporate sing along (Where did you go old IBM)? No you dont, because it's likely going straight to the public domain. Depending on what your doing with the tool and how your using it, it might not matter that this is the case (its an internal thing) but M$, or openAI, or whoever your vendor is, having a copy that they are free to use might be very bad...
They likely knew if this was not a surprise, they would have been blocked from doing it by political maneuvering.
I wish there was a list of non-unity sim games. I hate hitting the performance wall so soon on most of these games
> If anything it's even better these days because they have their receiver with them at all times instead of in the living room or in the garage or in the car as used to be before smartphones.

It is not the receiver. It is only the transmiter.
This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime.

There's also no guarantee that Altman will really start a new company, or be able to collect funding to hire everyone quickly. I wonder if these people are just very loyal to Sam.
Was thinking how I got past this problem. Then remembered I did IT, SysAdmin, and QA work for several years after school. Believe that really paid off in rounding out my knowledge.

Some of these jobs are not popular so there are usually openings somewhere.
Yup. It's a bad, broken, and unfixable API.

The world really needs a new C standard library that doesn't suck.
OpenAI Hires Emmett Shear–Formerly of Twitch–As New CEO
I would switch, but not because of Altman backing or not. I would switch if their strategy were to be to progress at pace. I’m not big on AI safety as it is parroted these days, I just want more AI, faster.
What Is a Unit Test?
Nice.

But I'd add getting rid of heatmaps on large datasets. They are information dense and pretty, but I can't see how anyone interprets them.
Better to do clustering and plot the data for each relevant cluster in a more meaningful way.

Just a thought
Architecture Patterns: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
Exclusive use up until pre-AGI tech.
None of the open source stuff even comes close to GPT4, I’ve tried them repeatedly.
OpenAI hires Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO
Many of OpenAIs most talented people left to start Anthropic. They have billions in funding and have not yet got particularly close to GPT-4.

I think that illustrates it will be a be a big uphill battle for any new entrant no matter how well funded or resourced.
The capitalists run it into the ground while the academics stand around confused asking each other what happened?
Perhaps. Anthropic was started by a bunch of people who left OpenAI b/c it wasn't focused enough on safety.
I think the diagram I saw showed they don't actually answer to MS, VCs, or employee investors? And not even that they're out-voted, they don't answer to them at all.
But LLMs only have the capability to statistically associate strings of words. That's all they are. There is no other capability possible there.

And you admit that they cannot be expected to keep secrets. So what is the point of trying to have a "security" team hammer secret keeping into them? It doesn't make sense.

I bring up chat control since I've noticed most "AI Safety" advocates are also vehemently opposed to government censorship of other communication technology. Which is fundamentally incoherent.
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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker
There are several alternatives. Most of them, including mailcatcher, seem to be unmaintained.

Mailpit is an alternative that has regular updates: https://mailpit.axllent.org/
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No mention of the sky lab mutiny, which of course never was a mutiny, because in space everyone goes full star trek.
They already do that by eliminating the middle step and accepting in USD, EUR etc.

So why would you want to have a volatile currency to make small payments to people who don't accept it?
In most cases they do not. We haven’t had unfiltered media for a very long time now. Your voice is blocked from a large audience by many many barriers if you mention any forbidden keywords together.
The sexy part is more like having an extremely brushed/retouched image in a magazine - it's not real.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and nobody says "Chicagoland" in conversation. It's only used by newscasters, and car dealers in their commercials.

Even dumber is "Chicagoland area."

My copyediting professor (who worked at the Chicago Tribune) loved to mock this dumb term, pointing out that nobody says "Detroitland" or "New Yorkland" or "Indianapolisland."
The board fired Altman for shipping too fast compared to their safety-ist doom preferences. The new interim CEO has said that he wants to slow AI development down 80-90%. Why on earth would you stay, if you joined to build + ship technology?

Of course, some employees may agree with the doom/safety board ideology, and will no doubt stay. But I highly doubt everyone will, especially the researchers who were working on new, powerful models — many of them view this as their life's work. Sam offers them the ability to continue.

If you think this is about "the big bucks" or "fame," I think you don't understand the people on the other side of this argument at all.
Also, you might be given someone else’s proprietary IP, setting yourself up for a lawsuit.
Yep, and a nuclear holocaust would be very good for small mammals too

Now what's your point ?