skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would absolutely believe that founders who (go on to) run billion dollar companies make a point of replying to YC partners very quickly. "Successful executives are highly responsive to investor and advisor emails" seems eminently plausible. It doesn't suggest that they're equally responsive to all emails, but they've got a sense of who's important/needs to feel important.
> Look up "pump head".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postperfusion_syndrome
I have a trick for understanding code. What I do is I look at the function, and when there is an if statement or loop, I extract this (and possible some of the surrounding code, depending on what the code does) into a named function.

Slowly, the function starts to make sense.

Another thing that works for me, is I write a unit test for a function. Personally, I’m beginning to loathe encapsulation in classes, because what would be better would to write a unit test for the extracted function, but if it is a private function - we’ll, that means you can’t easily write a unit test.

On that last bit - the only way I know of unit testing private functions is to ensure that a unit test for the public function is writtten. I then place a temporary assert into the private function code path I am exercising and run the unit test. If the test fails because of the assert, then I know I’ve tested that code path.

A dreadful way to test, at least that’s how I feel. I am increasingly looking at Haskell which is a revelation! I now know why some people aren’t happy with OOP…
Exactly this. And after watching the whole prep montage, I was expecting to be at least moderately impressed by the final scene. I wasn't. The cliff looked improbable. But even if you believed that it existed as it was rendered, its surface is rough, yet as the bike accelerates along it the suspension doesn't absorb as much as a pebble. That made the whole thing look more CGI than it actually was. And it's the same with the other MI movie stunts: they make such a huge deal about Tom doing his own stunt that they forget to make a movie with a remotely plausible plot or relatable characters. These movies are wrapping around a few big stunts. 50% spectacle, 50% "so did you know that Tom (61) does his own stunts"

But I get it, these movies aren't aimed at me, they have their target audience etc.

Edit: Tom did not do his own aunts. That would be a very different film.

Edit2: my wife just suggested two movie titles, "Mission Incest, or Ant Fucker?". Sorry. Laughed so hard.
> unless there’s a really genuinely large scale staff revolt

That's already underway, see other news about resignations at OpenAI, also donors have a very strong play to make.

Donors could simply withhold the next tranche, but possibly they can funnel enough money upwards from the for-profit to compensate for that.

Even so I would expect the other shareholders in the for-profit to be furious, especially those that liked Altman. So they're going to have to do some explaining because right now this does not deserve the beauty prize, to put it mildly.
Sutskever has shifted to safety and alignment research this year. Previously he was directly in charge of the development of GPT, from GPT-1 on.

Brockman did an entirely different type of work than Sutskever. Brockman's primary focus was on the infrastructure side of things - by all accounts the software he wrote to manage the pre-training, training, etc., is all world-class and a large part of why they were able to be as efficient as they are, but that is not the same thing as being the brains behind the ML portion.
Again to the downvoters: instead of trying to get an opinion counter to your own greyed out tell us why you do not agree. Let's hear it, what did I get wrong? Certainly not the twisted media reporting on this launch as that is plain as daylight, visible for anyone who cares to look. What, then?

[ apparently click that down-arrow again... ]
Offspring of Tape Robot and 3D printer [video]
That's the logic that nudged me to buy it. I have a nice chair. I have a nice keyboard. I have a nice mouse. I have nice monitors. All of those cost more than the one-time license for something I stare at for hours a day. I've spent all that money to make my body comfortable. Why not do the same for my eyes?

A year later, I still love the way code looks on my screen. I feel like it's one of the better investments I've made.
Disagree. Writing a blog post is like getting on stage. You need to come on stage with a dream that you’re going to dazzle the audience with your show. Your blog is so interesting that it’s worth the time to read it!

If you doubt yourself so much that you think some gimmicky notifications are more interesting than the article, you’ve lost me as an audience. Why even have the content if you believe someone from Texas being on the page too is more interesting than what you wrote? If you think that, just make that. Don’t invite me to a show then halfway through interrupt your own show with something else. The idea alone gives me adhd. Stop it.
Wikipedia has an article just for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apoll...

The real trick would have been sending the astronauts on a rocket into Earth orbit for over a week without being detected by Soviet radar operators, who would have been more than eager to share the coordinates with the world, and then somehow sending radio signals back to Earth always from the direction of the moon. https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories...
For a while now there are services out there (usually on discord) who will rent you a plex container hooked up to a ridiculous size media library (I’ve seen multiple in the 1.5 PB+ range) with basically everything from every streaming service , Bluray, or DVD in the original bit for bit download, just sans-DRM

This is probably going to catch on more and more - it’s not free, you have to pay, but! - it’s $10 a month for everything like Spotify
These systems are generally never used to solve low-level crimes. When they are, parallel-construction is used to avoid publicizing their existence. These systems are reserved for direct threats to national interests.
I don't think the issue was a technical difference of opinion regarding whether transformers alone were needed or other architectures required. It seems the split was over speed of commercialization and Sam's recent decision to launch custom GPTs and a ChatGPT Store. IMO, the board miscalculated. OpenAI won't be able to pursue their "betterment of humanity" mission without funding and they seemingly just pissed off their biggest funding source with a move that will also make other would be investors very skittish now.
I'm sure they do. But you can also interpret that as 'bootlickers are the kind of people I like'. And that is not necessarily equivalent to 'good founders'. So I think it is a bit of a thin element to judge people by.
This doesn't help people like me who just want to stargaze. How about, empty city streets don't need to be lit up at 2 am. And what lighting there is, is too bright, too intrusive, and overused.
I am looking at adding the ability to call Ansible tasks (community.apt, for example) from uPlaybook, but that would not involve calling YAML playbooks I'm not thinking... But maybe that would be possible.

I did try some other YAML control structures in the original version of uPlaybook, what I'm calling uPlaybook1 [1] now, which I think has some more natural control structures than Ansible. If you are doing something similar, may be worth looking at what I came up with:

- I ended up using "block:" as a way of grouping tasks, and you could add conditionals or loops on those:

block:
tasks:
- copy:
[args here]
- command:
[more args here]
loop:
- vars:
basename: XXX
- vars:
basename YYY

- Conditionals were also blocks and could be nested within loops:

- if:
condition: "x < 1"
tasks:
- copy:
[args here]
- elif:
condition: "x >= 1 and x < 10"
tasks:
[tasks here]
- else:
tasks:
[more tasks here]

[1] https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook1
Honest question: how is lower inheritance tax and higher income tax a better situation?

It’s much more fair to tax inheritance, which is something you get just by chance, compared to income, which is something you have to work for. Low inheritance tax also leads to wealth concentration over generations, and worse inequality. This is compounded because rich people get a lot of their wealth from capital gains, which usually are not taxed as income, so income tax is in effect a tax on the middle class.

I don’t know enough about Estonia to comment on how well it works, but without more detail it sounds really bad.
I've been thinking about this a bit lately and I think it's actually less about fundamentals and more of an issue with process. I'm not saying that fundamentals are not essential, but we often don't have the time to learn all aspects of a complex system.

There is definitely a lot of overlap here, but I have a finite amount of time that I can put towards solving problems. I've been thrown into AI over the past 6 months and know none of the fundamentals of this space, but I can still be very productive.

My process now is to know how to pull up docs quickly (in my editor), take advantage of the LSP, use my debugger and learn the systems on the fly. I'm probably not going to take courses in AI, Data Science and other aspects of this discipline as it will only have a marginal affect on my daily activities.

My job is to understand the flow of data, so I need to focus on that and make sure my process, tooling and access to documentation are the best possible to accomplish that.
This is inside baseball. Nobody other than us care about the inner workings.

At the end of the day he is responsible for building a $100b business, with a product users love, that has attracted developers in droves and built a highly successful partnership with Microsoft.

And pretty sure the direction of the company is what the issue was. Not any side projects.
I wonder what the PWM frequency is for teh "flickering"?

I'm constantly distracted by light flickering in my peripheral vision. Computer monitors, traffic lights, car head and tail lights. Many modern LED lights are already flickering. It's often impercetible in my focused vision, but in peripheral vision is clearly visible.

I think it should be in the KHz at least...
And now I expect that we see this "board" dissolved.

Frankly, as it should. If you are going to take $10B from another organization and you nuke the CEO during market hours and then later it turns out that it was just an ordinary disagreement, then you should answer for that action.

On a Friday, no less. This is actually the kind of thing that can sink MSFT's apparent "first mover" advantage in the eyes of big money. OpenAI is now fractured, and whatever work they were going to be doing on tech is now going to be devoted to figuring out WTF to do with this mess the board just created all by themselves for no apparent reason.
The possibility of getting fired is an occupational hazard for anyone working in any company, unless something in your employment contract says otherwise. And even then, you can still be fired.

Biz 101.

I don't know why people even need to be explained this, except for ignorance of basic facts of business life.
Why should Ilya care about Vanguard’s positions? The board he sits on is the non-profit one.
I left and came here to see if I was the only one that couldn’t read it because the constant movement was too distracting. I’m not going back just to do work arounds for a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
This raises immediate questions, for me, about "how is this better than printing onto a belt which spits parts into a bin." Perhaps fancier materials can benefit from annealing time in the chamber?
> The closest we can get to transferring a theory is to demonstrate the expression of the Theory to someone over and over again until they build their own theory. That theory won't be the same as ours.

This already has a term: "derived meaning". Derived meaning is what's actually created and stored in your head, and represents your particular brain's understanding of... something. It could be a thought, it could be a procedure, it could be a memory, it could be an emotion. But it can't be transferred to other brains; you can only hope that, by communication, you can reach some form of mutual understanding that at least fits the communication.
I'm on this spectrum, and despite the drawbacks, the workarounds are superpowers. I always know when people get haircuts, or have an injury. I know when somebody's wearing new clothes, or spent the night with somebody new. Especially in nerdy circles, this level of social awareness is considered freakish. It's fun.

But then, the flipside is annoying. If somebody is wearing different clothes in a different context, they feel snubbed when I look right past them. I'm glad that's never happened with somebody I've dated! So awkward...
1. The hardware overlay support is implemented on the GPU. It's not "instead of the GPU".

2. The provided code in Haiku doesn't appear to support overlays.

3. Yes, it's upsetting that a real API wasn't available for this until recently. But, it was of limited practical use without the entire display pipeline being moved to the GPU and without Wayland being established (X11 never had the API quite like this, classic XV is too limited to do what this is doing)
It can also mean "does/doesn't do things as we see fit." They want to build a model without bias, but they've elected themselves as moderators.
Vercel – What Will You Ship?
I think the theory encompasses the software itself as an artifact and also the details not included in the software like the problem domain’s details which constrain the software but might not need to be included in the software explicitly.

The model of the software might only encompass the specific ways in which the software is written explicitly, in order to understand how it operates in a near vacuum.
I gave up reading the article, due to how distracting that is.
>It's that the average American, in real terms, is increasingly broke.

AFAIK inflation adjusted wages have been creeping up in the last decade, or at least remained flat. What statistics support the claim that they're "increasingly broke"?
It even lists Serbian.
If every jackass brain dead move Elon Musk has ever made hasnt gotten him fired yet, then allocating too many teams to side projects instead of AI research should not be a fireable offense.
It's not quite the same. A model is something that you ought to be able to communicate. Theory is something internal, that you can't fully introspect, but you have and you use.
> Senakw development: native land still under control by a local native tribe is not subject to housing bylaws and is now being developed into several large towers (without parking requirements!)

Huh, interesting. Is the plan that people who live there just won't have cars?
Unless seeing something new on dev day is exactly what they meant by Altman not being consistently candid.
An income tax marginal rate of 42 % doesn't seem super high in international comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

Belgium tops that list at 79.5 % but even in the USA it can reach 51.6 %.

In 1975 the author Astrid Lindgren famously had a marginal rate of 102 % on her income tax in Sweden, so the more money she earned the less she had left after taxes...

http://ianangell.com/blog-entries/the-pomperipossa-effect/pa...
I had to disable NoScript on that site to see what is the feature you are talking about
Nor does the author understand the genetics of complex diseases. The “implications” claimed below are wrong because high heritable does not mean predictable across environments nor is there any genuine hope for selection of embryos for highly polygenic disorders.

> . . . prenatal methods will expand to highly heritable complex diseases: autism is 85% heritable, Alzheimer’s risk is 70% heritable, schizophrenia is over 75% heritable, and bipolar disorder is 70% heritable. The implication here is clear: we can eliminate many of these diseases through genetic screening of embryos or selective termination.”

There is a naive hope that a “polygenic risk” score of a condition can be predicted for complex diseases in the same way as for Huntington’s disease base in the number of CAG trinucleotide repeats. But polygenic risk scores are built on an assumption of additive and independent effects of DNA variants AND innumerable poorly defined environmental and developmental histories. This is just wishful thinking for most complex diseases. The concordance of diagnoses for schizophrenia among identical twins is no better than about 50%. That fact should give everyone pause.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465115/
That makes sense, if the structure of your queries is largely static per commit of your codebase. You'd probably get more benefit out of a tool like this by running it as part of a CI pipeline, since that's the best time to test code changes including new queries. But then the challenge becomes simulating user activity and traffic levels during the CI pipeline. That's a solvable problem, but it's not as easy as just observing the real traffic in your prod network.
I thought the system they use here is unlike anything used before.
That just sounds like a normal spmc queue as I said above.

Of course they receive the same elements, or it wouldn't be multi-consumer.

Of course producers don't wait for consumers, they don't even need to be aware of how many there are or where they are. But even in a system where you'd know (e.g. publishing data to a bunch a TCP connections), it would he a very bad idea to stall production -- handling back pressure should be application-specific.

You have the same elements in UDP multicast which is the network equivalent, and incidentally the preferred technology for communication in the trading industry, particularly for market data disseminated by exchanges.
Browser "reader mode" is your friend
On Windows and DirectX, you have the concept of Shared Handles, which are essentially handles you can pass between process boundaries. It also comes with a mutex mechanism to signal who is using the resource at the moment. Fun fact - Windows at the kernel level works with the concept of 'objects', which can be file handles, window handles, threads, mutexes, or in this case, textures, which are reference counted. Sharing a particular texture is just exposing the handle to multiple processes.

A bit of reading if you are interested:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...
I'm currently using Frigate for continuous recording and it's great and I don't feel like I'm missing any features. What are some features that are missing?
It's more of an issue when the thing exploding is in orbit. This was a (just) suborbital launch, and I think the first stage was quite a bit slower/ lower than orbital at the point that it exploded, meaning it'll all just fall to Earth
No one is saying that. If the chip making subsidiary was owned by OpenAI it could have very well allowed economies of scale and enable reducing dependency on Microsoft. Perfectly aligned with OpenAI goals.
This is an odd question, bc it seems to assume my road to enpass would have to go through an evaluation of keypass.
You make such announcements outside of trading hours, and you damn sure don't imply that he was lying about something.
The safety stuff is real. OpenAI was founded by a religious cult that thinks if you make a computer too "intelligent" it will instantly take over the world instead of just sitting there.

The posturing about other kinds of safety like being nice to people is a way to try to get around the rules they set by defining safety to mean something that has any relation to real world concepts and isn't just millenarian apocalypse prophecies.
> Note that at this point in time it is economics ... That's pretty much all that matters, everything [else] is just a distraction

What? This doesn't make any sense. How do we invent new things if economics is all that matters? There's a whole process. You prove a thing is possible (literally the thing happening, nothing else), then move onto making the thing reliably reproducible to demonstrate, THEN optimizing for being cheap. It can fail at any point here (and there are more between tbh). This is a really long process. An example might be NASA's TRL scale.

I mean yeah, it is university press and they hype it up, but I'm pretty sure a big reason for that is because comments like this. Being shitty at something is the first step to being kinda sorta good at that thing. Context matters a lot and the context here is: done by researchers, university research, journal publication. This is not Apple coming out and saying they invented something that's going to be on the market in a few months. This is someone at Apple's research lab being like "Hey, that thing we've been researching? I reached a milestone, we shouldn't call it quits yet."
Real time voice and data downloads of about 14Mbps from LEO test satellite to unmodified phones by AST Spacemobile.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23879527/att-cellular-sat...
I agree with you in general, but in this case it's worthwhile to work around the annoyance because the article makes a good point.
As folks are saying, there are already commercially developed panels at 24.7% [1] that should ship within the next year. The existing fleet of Maxeon 3 are apparently going to be 24% this quarter, rather than the 22.7% in the actively shipping parts [2].

Like cache miss ratios, it's hard to remember that 25% is a 10% improvement in efficiency over that 22.7% (and 4% over the 24% claim). But as jacquesm mentions, what matters for system design is either $/watt (installed!), total generation, or whatever other metric. Efficiency might get you more panels on a roof, but so could different panel sizing! One more panel because the sizing works out could easily be 5%.

tl;dr: it's interesting research, but shouldn't affect purchasing decisions.

[1] https://mediaroom.maxeon.com/2023-06-01-Maxeon-Solar-Technol...

[2] https://maxeon.com/us/sites/default/files/2023-05/sp_mst_112...
My definition of model would include the one in your mind, whether or not it may be communicated.
Companies are by and large communist dictatorships - usually there is a Great Leader (CEO), at best there's the Central Committee (board of directors). Effectively, nobody else decides the direction of the company, or makes any impactful decisions.

The rank-and-file serfs don't matter, they're expendable and interchangeable. When Dear Leadership is shaken up, it's newsworthy. When ten thousand labourers are let go, it's just a statistic.
There's also Wire, IRC, Telegram, and Threema. SMS I also have a subscription on, but that feels different so I didn't include that in my count, and Keybase I haven't used in a while now but that might also be part of the list for some people
I did that for about 4 seconds. Then reconsidered, and decided such a user hostile website wasn’t worth my time or attention and I left. It’s not my job to make the website usable.
saberience’s reply should be read because it is more complete and insightful, but perhaps there is a simpler intuitive answer. Error rates increase exponentially.
Manifesto – Cosmos
I’ve been using this font for almost 2 years now and I love how unique and interesting it still looks
Woahhh, I've never played around with APL before. Such an interesting language: https://tryapl.org/

I think most of the glyphs are straightforward, the ones that would take time are the greek symbols. Unable to commit at this time, we're already behind with Berkeley v2 release by 6 months! :-(
Inequality is absolutely part of what's masking things, yeah. And, yes, we've found cheaper and more efficient ways of doing things via ubiquitous connectivity and compute. Weirdly, the cost savings never really bolstered individual savings.
Go generaly doesn't used shared memory and concurrency, or at least it's been considered an anti-pattern: https://go.dev/blog/codelab-share