skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. COVID boosters were given every six months.

2. There are plenty of preventative treatments that differ between men and women.

It is clear from the reporting that there was a concerted government policy to encourage Ethiopian women to have fewer or no children. The women themselves said they didn’t understand what the shots did. But yeah, the reporters calling attention to this horrific policy are the racist ones, got it.
What ! Ilya is one of them?

Isn't he the one who voted to oust Sam?

Wow !
How do you propose making it thread-safe? The real problem here is that `getenv()` was designed around it returning a `char *` into some read-only memory. It's a bad API if the backing data can change because the returned pointer is assumed to exist 'forever'.

`setenv()` has no way to knowing where those pointers are floating around so there's no way to safely change the environment variables. The best you could do would be to leak memory every time you set new environment variables so that the old pointers don't get invalidated, and that just creates a new problem and reason not to use `setenv()` (that's arguably worse).
Hold on... we went from talking about disruptive technologies (where a startup had a chance to create/take a market) to sustaining technologies (where only leaders can push the state-of-the-art). Mobile was disruptive; AI (really, LLMs) is sustaining (just look at the capex spend from the big clouds). This is old school competition with some ideological BS thrown in for good measure --sure, go ahead and accelerate humanity; just need a few dozen datacenters to do so.

I am holding out hope that a breakthrough will create a disruptive LLM/AI tech, but until then...
You use HKD and your banks have HKD.
"RTFM" is not a coherent defense for awful API design and we shouldn't accept it as such.
> local currency in sub $1 amounts only

I've been in favor of abolishing the minting of physical US pennies, but I suppose this is one argument against it: other countries that use the dollar might actually find pennies to be useful.
Compared to the well-worn disaster experiment they've been running for decades with such innovative ideas as rampant money-printing and promising social welfare while delivering poverty and suffering, I'm sure any other direction they go is up, comparatively.
That seems a reasonable takeaway. Plenty of grounds for criticising the board's handling of this, but the tone of the letter is pretty openly "we're going to go and work directly for Microsoft unless you agree to return the company focus to working indirectly for Microsoft"...
Here is my criticism. I have no idea what your product does/is after reading this.
The worst part of OpenAI is their web frontend.

Their development and QA process is either disorganized to the extreme, or non-existent.
Funny, I was under the impression that Mozilla didn't need any help sabotaging Firefox by themselves.

Or maybe it's also the fault of Google if they suddenly broke all the old extensions and never honored their promise to bring their capabilities back. Or when they disabled the extensions on mobile and did not bring it back despite their promise. Or when they break the user's habits by doing a useless UI revamp every 6 month and ignore the community's feedback.
I'd say you need it to learn within each generation as well. Human & animal learning doesn't require evolution, we learn without replacing the whole. Connections within brains change while the organism is still alive, without even individual neurons dying off. The current process is purely iterative; GPT 1 was "done" and GPT2 got made. Then GPT 3, etc. If ChatGPT4 gets corrected about some particular thing by many users it won't learn that for the next user to come along.

Of course learning has an inherent trust issue; if the inputs one is learning from are incorrect then incorrect information will be learned, and incorrect output will result. Microsoft experienced that with Tay, which quickly learned how to respond to people via training from 4chan users. That was predictably disastrous, and what OpenAI are hoping to avoid with the generational learning strategy.
> We all know what is a drug.

"When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: "I know it when I see it." But do we? "
from
https://history.wustl.edu/i-know-it-when-i-see-it-history-ob...
Ha I remember joining that when I was 16, I just wanted the card. They gave a sub to the magazine and it was just people talking about what it was like to be in Mensa.

It felt the same as certain big German supermarket chain that publishes it's own internal magazine with articles from employees, company updates etc
server. and single-core. poor @dang deserves better from lurkers (sign out) and those not ready to comment yet (me until just now, and then again right after!)
Given that it's that time of year when the cable channels show Star Wars in entirety, this thread and your comment reminded me of a thought I had last year when rewatching Ep4 on cable. The amount of content that has come from throwaway one-liners that Lucas probably gave nearly no thought to is insane when you consider it. "I fought with him in the Clone Wars" has given us a whole movie in the saga, which then gave us a whole animated series, when then begat a handful of additional series. And that's just one example from one line. It's crazy to think about.
Here we are..

The scene appears to be completely blurry by now! My head is spinning, and the fan is in 7th gear. I believe only time will apply some sort of sharpness effect to make you realize what's really going on. I feel like I'm watching the Italian job the American way; everything and everyone is suspicious to me at this point! Is it possible that MSFT played some tricks behind the scenes?
JPEG-XL, AVIF and HEIF.

These are the only three that should be compared in terms of next gen Image codec comparison.
They didn’t say anything about the compensation.
The world's GDP is about a hundred trillion dollars. Growing a about 5% per year. If that will continue, it will be 250 trillion in 20 years.

In 20 years, what part of it will be AI revenue? 10%? 20%? 30%?

At 20% that would be a 50 trillion dollar market.

If Microsoft manages to capture 10% of that, that is $5T in revenue per year.

Of course, Google somehow managed to capture 90% of the search market. If Microsoft manages that, it would be $45T yearly revenue.
https://archive.ph/izfGc
You can't love your country if you choose a non-sovereign currency as your national one

You also can't love your country if you sell your 'gold' (rare earth minerals) mines to foreign entities

It'll become the Congo of South America, what a shame this election was

Relevant piece of information: https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-americas-lithium-triangl...

Seems to correlate with the collapse of lithium and EVs becoming cheaper, the common denominator is pretty obvious at this point
Let's pretend for a moment that it's a certainty that The Google sabotaged Firefox.

Practically speaking, would things have turned out appreciably different from the way things are now?

People today but especially back during the time that Chrome was released had an disproportionately positive view of The Google in terms of trust and delight from "innovation." If you asked any of them what they think of Mozilla, chances are they'd reply asking "Is that like Godzilla?"
Does Roc have any features that a Haskell programmer could consider improvements?
Hi! I helped make this. We're playing around using LLM platforms as an interface to external services. In this case, a managed Postgres database and BaaS platform.

If you don't have ChatGPT Plus you can try out similar functionality on our own web app https://app.backengine.dev/sign-up-ac0eba6d-2cc3-4873-9b76-9...
> Libertarians, like Marxists, are terribly naive about the prevalence and maliciousness of psychopaths and hustlers.

From my experience it’s worse than that. Some are idealists as you mention, but a lot of them plan or hope that they will be doing the hustling.
Ask HN: What did you do or read this weekend that wasn't related to the OpenAI?
Title says it all. I understand OpenAI is a huge company, tons of smart people, super spicy gossip spreading around the tech circles. But honestly just super exhausted with the story (yes I spend to much time on HN).

What did you do or read this weekend that wasn't OpenAI related? For me, I'm reading "Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny" and loving it so far!
Equity has value because it is a share of future profits. If the board comes out and says they never intend to make a profit and will fire any CEO who tries…
So is Adam D'Angelo the true villain who is still insisting on the bad decision? I am confused, to be honest .
I really like that 'fast', 'friendly' and 'functional' all link directly to long, substantive explanations of the goals and decisions related to those qualities.
If Sam Altman runs a for-profit company underneath you, are you ever really "in full control"?

I mean, they were literally able to fire him... and they're still not looking like they have control. Quite the opposite.

I think anyone watching ChatGPT rise over the last year would see where the currents are flowing.
> Not everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him.

Not the OP, but this got me curious. How does one reason about things if you have no axioms (i.e. "body of beliefs")? Are you using some non-axiomatic systems of reasoning or just saying that some people don't reason at all ?
River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres
Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago is miles long if you watch the right Batman movie.
Dude no. Companies literally start wars and have us peasants murdered.

A journalist was car bombed in broad daylight.

If you push the wrong buttons of trillion dollar corporations, they just off you can continue with business as usual.

If Microsoft sees trillions of dollars in ending all of your work, they’ll take it in a heart beat.
Is this your guess or do you have something to back it up?
When is the movie coming out?
I really don't care for your analogy, speeding is a choice that puts others at risk and I think safety rules that protect everyone from each other, are far from infantilism.

But also, we shouldn't let perfect get in the way of good. Blocking 100mph+ may only improve safety on faster roads, but that's still a gross improvement. A few people a year are caught doing 150mph on 60mph single carriageways near me. Far more nationally, far more never caught, and exponentially more on superbikes.

If there's no legal reason to do 100mph on any road, why not just stop it being an option? Remove that temptation. It will save far more lives than it costs.
I don’t think I had any particular job in mind when I was a kid. I was interested in a number of things (for example I’ve always enjoyed studying various times/places in history and liked to teach biology books when I was a kid), but never really had anything solid. Even by the time I got into programming as a hobby, I didn’t want to do it as a job.

But ofc I got stuck with that and now I have a slowly dying career writing shitware.
tangentially, it’s an absolute disgrace that non-profits are allowed to have for-profit divisions in the first place
If the forced contraception is repeatedly administered and done over a long enough period of time that the women can no longer reproduce, there is no functional difference.
You mean the person who just signed the letter saying he’d quit if the board doesn’t fire themselves and bring back Sam? That Ilya?
Does he need to have voted yes? What are the bylaws? Isn't the following possible?

1. To vote out chairman of board only 3 out of remaining 5 need to vote.

2. To vote out CEO, only 3 out of remaining 4 need to vote.
that sentence makes no sense to me, what is a straw here?
> This is what happens when free market capitalism and anti-competitive rules are absent from your system.

This is what happens when free market capitalism is your economic system.

<meme with fork and electric outlet and "everybody else did it the wrong way">
User agent strings are still used for this stuff. Today's Youtube delay is an example which I've verified myself.
The guy's Wikipedia page[1] is a wild ride. Let's see: He's a cosplayer. He's telepathic. He speaks to dogs, both dead and alive ones. He speaks to dead people, too, including Ayn Rand. He has seen the resurrection of Christ three times, but he can't talk about it. He met a lion, as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum 2,000 years ago.

Good luck, Argentines.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei
Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)
British Library Cyber incident update
Mozilla has lots of problems and your complains are valid. But that does not excuse Google's behavior and it doesn't change the fact that Mozilla is the only viable alternative to Chrome and Chromium browsers for most people.
As an employee of a company, I trade my time and effort for some amount of rewards. I enter deals with the expectation of stability from the other party.

My unfounded Internet opinion:
OpenAI just removed or reduced a large source of reward and have shown fundamental instability. OpenAIs success is very much tied to Employees and Compute.
The most unbelievable element, from the vantage point of 44 years later, is getting a passport expedited in under 72 hours.
Reminder again, again that 'Google' here amounts to two individual human beings, Page and Brin, who largely have full liberty to do as they wish with the company. It would be unfair to particularly blame them for some of the undesirable things that happen at Google: for example, problems that are somewhat inevitably the result of Google's somewhat intractably broken corporate culture, or problems that are genuinely too small to be likely to ever reach the ear of the Tzar. But this is another place where those excuses don't seem to apply.
I think the probably is really that there are 2 times where you should be setting env vars 99% of the time.

1. Right after program startup before any threads are spawned.

2. After a fork before an exec.

In both cases it can be known that no threads are running. (Ok, for 1 it can actually be non-trivial if you have code before main or if you call functions that spawn helper threads, but let's assume that you can know this).

However no languages actually have ways to enforce this. So the APIs can be called at any time and are huge footguns.

I think that the proposed improvement of `getenv_s` is great. It is cheap and easy to use, then software can slowly migrate off of the less safe stuff. You can imagine that if libc stopped using `getenv` internally most of this problem would be solved.
I think you may be missing my point. How does one user serving malicious content from githubusercontent.com not result in the takedown/blacklisting of all users' content on githubusercontent.com?

Sure, I understand how github.com is protected here, but I'm also unaware of github pages being totally blacklisted by Google even though I'm certain there have been malicious pages hosted there.

You can only limit the blast radius so much if the product itself is "hosting user content."
What's coming next for fusion research
I guess this explains why some people say they use Chrome because "Firefox is slow", I've been using Firefox my entire life, and after Quantum it has been on par with Chrome in terms of speed if not faster from what I can tell. I do wish Firefox didn't stop with their Oxidation efforts, I would have loved to see it as a way to grow Rust, since as FF was developed in Rust, the language grew and evolved as a result. One key area I wish Firefox would grow in is the development tools. I ONLY use Chrome for the dev tools.

I wish Mozilla would invest way more into Firefox itself. I think Mozilla could and absolutely should consider suing Google if they're artificially slowing down Firefox.
The board had 3 positions empty, people who left this year, leaving it as a 6-member board. Both Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were on the board; Ilya Sutskever's vote (which he now states he regrets) gave them the votes to remove both, and bring it down to a 4 member board controlled by 3 members that started the year as a small minority.
This was my first thought too…

They didn’t even make Firefox, someone else did and they took it over, they had no foresight. They ignored people’s complaints about memory issues for years. They didnt keep one tab from crashing the whole thing for years, followed chrome to fix. Frankly Mozilla really is a dinosaur and seems to lack any real practical innovation.
Argentina has different exchange rates for locals and foreigners. There is also a black market rate. Locals who have access to the black market want tourists to pay in dollars as it is the best deal.

If Argentina actually had honest exchange rates they would have about the right reserves. However they are using a false rate for most and so switching will force them to use the real rates which would devalue specific things. (They have export restrictions on many products because they can't control the exchange rate)
If Microsoft emerges as the "winner" from all of them then I think we are all the "losers". Not that I think OpenAI was perfect or "good" just that MS taking the cake is not good for the rest of us. It already feels crazy that people are just fine with them owning what they do and how important it is to our development ecosystem (talking about things like GitHub/VSCode), I don't like the idea of them also owning the biggest AI initiative.
Lightning doesn't require waiting. Block time is not relevant unless you're sending a very large amount of money.
Those are some mighty speculative shares of GDP
What are the bylaws? Isn't the following possible?

1. To vote out chairman of board only 3 out of remaining 5 need to vote.

2. To vote out CEO, only 3 out of remaining 4 need to vote.
I'm confused by this.
I've never written Clojure or Lisp.
I'm a run-of-the-mill C#, .NET developer.
But even I am used to treating LINQ expressions as both code and data.
I can take a LINQ expression, modify it if I want, compile it, and execute it against a given runtime context.
I would have expected this duality between code and data to be intrinsic to Clojure.
Hence my confusion.
In major cities in the US.
Argentina has been here before, in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility_plan

It lasted about 10 years and was eventually abandoned. TLDR: "Simply put, the dollar peg overvalued the peso in the rest of the world, especially against a weak euro and the Brazilian real, reducing Argentina's competitiveness and compounding the account deficit."
The Z80 and 8088 are CPUs from when I was a kid. I clearly remember how 8088 was considered a much more advanced one back then. Nice to see this comparison. Thanks a lot for sharing.
So why not implement it yourself, instead of polluting the standard runtime with functionality that nobody needs?
Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials
There is nothing related to pyramids in bitcoin. It's just an implementation of a novel, trustless electronic money, also it's free software.
they weren't organ "harvesting" in the context of selling organs or implaning them into other people.

These were pathologists who basically felt their medical knowledge gained via autopsy was more important than not desecrating the bodies of reasonably long dead people (i.e. peoples whose organs are not able to be transplanted). They were equal opportunity offenders in terms of jews and non jews (and in practice, many more jews were impacted by it).

It was a huge out cry within Israel due to the desecration of dead bodies.

The use of the term "organ harvesting" is generally referring to organ trafficking. Using the term for unauthorized autopsies is very close to a blood libel.

i.e. to quote wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_procurement

Organ procurement (also called organ harvesting) is a surgical procedure that removes organs or tissues for reuse, typically for organ transplantation.

If one doesn't have any evidence that these organs were reused in a manner consistent with that (and it wouldn't make sense for a forensic institute to get anything but long dead people, which would make it difficult) the use of such language is very problematic.
When a situation becomes so absurd and complex that it defies understanding or logical explanation, you should...get more popcorn...
You're right, of course, there are suitable alternatives that work well. There are some things that will just be easier to manage such as Parental controls, backups, and Family features. Additionally, I've lost basic tech support skills on iOS. Part of my motivation for originally switching to android was to gain familiarity with the ecosystem, but now I've fallen behind on the iOS world and can barely use my kid's ipad.
I'd retitle this as "OpenAI's blunder and Microsoft's excellent damage control"

I don't think Microsoft is necessarily in a better position than it was on Thursday. If we're tallying up points:

+ More control over the full AI stack
+ Effectively they will own what was once OpenAI, but is now really OpenAI 2.0
- OpenAI 2.0 is probably a worse business than OpenAI 1.0, which was, prior to the coup, a well-oiled machine
+ Control over OpenAI 2.0 operations, which can lead to better execution in the long term
- Higher wage costs
- Business disruption at OpenAI, delaying projects
- Potential OpenAI departures to competitors like Google, Meta, Anthropic, Amazon, Apple (?)
- Risk that OpenAI 1.0 (what's left of it) either sells to any of those competitors
- Risk that OpenAI 1.0 actually goes open source and releases GPT-4 weights
> Slowly but surely, Google is becoming the new Microsoft, and Chrome is slowly turning into the new IE

Honestly, Microsoft is becoming the new Microsoft.
At least I don't have a sesame score.
> any chance of governing this properly got blown up by incompetence

No one knows why the board did this. No one is talking about that part. Yet every one is on twitter talking shit about the situation.

I have worked with a lot of PhD's and some of them can be, "disconnected" from anything that isn't their research.

This looks a lot like that, disconnected from what average people would do, almost childlike (not ish, like).

Maybe this isn't the group of people who should be responsible for "alignment".
I would say Chapel was created less to replace MPI and more to provide a higher-level alternative to it that is amenable to compiler optimization.
The reality in Argentina shows that exchange houses prefer Tether over Tron. This is not an endorsement to USDT, just the reality. They will look at cryptocurrencies with high liquidity and low fees.
Amazing how you don't see this as a complete win for workers because the workers chose profit over non-profit. This is the ultimate collective bargaining win. Labor chose Microsoft over the bullshit unaccountable ethics major and the movie star's girlfriend.
Time to buy MS stocks.
If they get 20% of key OpenAI employees and then get acquired by Amazon, I don't think that's necessarily a bad scenario for them given the current lay of the land
> No it will have a cost. And that is likely to disproportionally impact the cheapest phones and the poorest households.

I'd actually argue the opposite.

Historically the poor have been the ones who repair their property rather than throwing it out and replacing it. It's far cheaper to repair than it is to replace.

Assuming the poor repair and the rich replace, as is tradition, then I would argue a modest price increase would represent the rich subsidizing the poor.
I've been seeing this issue with Vivaldi as well
Eric Berger is a highly respected journalist. There was no editorial control from Elon/SpaceX.