skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lessons from OpenAI Drama
I think that if you had a specific and defensible point about immigration policy you would have put it here. What you actually put takes great care to be so indirect that you cannot even be identified as having a specific position, let alone one that can be discussed in a rational way. Given the number of words you spent on it I'd guess that means it's either unserious or unsavory, and don't really care to parse which is which.
Fall is the new summer: Warming threatens Japan's cultural calendar
Please keep these Reddit meme responses on Reddit.
Almost none do. Internal software never does. External-facing software only does if the intended user base is "the world".
Epic logic fail. You're affirming the consequent.

Just because A -> B, and we have B, doesn't mean we can conclude A.

Sure,

Idealogy -> a manner of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture

But

A manner of thinking characteristic of an individual -> idealogy

Doesn't follow from that!
Many are speculating that Sam Altman could just move on and create another OpenAI 2.0 because he could easily attract talent and investors.

What this misses is all the regulatory capture that he’s been campaigning for. All the platforms have now closed their gardens. Authors and artists are much more vigilant about copyright etc. So it’s now a totally different game compared to 3 years ago because the data is not just there up for grabs anymore.
I hadn't looked in a while. Sad that it ran out of steam
I dont understand why Sam dont start another company.
From their about page (https://www.inversionart.com):

Who Is Eligible?

artists who consistently earn at least $50,000 in income from their practice but on average $100,000 or more

promising early-career artists who are gaining institutional recognition and commercial traction

mid-career artists who are looking to make changes in their practice or professional situations

artists who want to scale their studio (or post-studio) operation but don't yet have the capital or know-how to do so

artists who understand the importance of defining goals and planning to achieve them

artists of ambition, generosity, and intelligence

artists who want to define their own success and have leverage over their own careers
That's kinda weasel-y in itself.

If a model is not safe, the access should be limited in general.

Or, from a business model perspective; a 'sane' nonprofit doing what OpenAI should, at least in my mind, be able to do the following harmoniously:

1. Release new models that do the same thing they make others allow access do to via their 'products' with reasonable instructions on how to run them on-prem (i.e. I'm not saying what they do has to be fully runnable on a single local box, but it should be reproducible as a nonprofit purportedly geared towards research.)

2. Provide on-line access to models with a cost model that lets others use while furthering the foundation.

3. Provides enough overall value in what they do that outside parties invest regardless of whether they are guaranteed a specific individual return.

4. Not allow potentially unsafe models to be available via less than both research branches.

Perhaps, however, I am too idealistic.

On the other hand, Point 4 is important, because we can never know under the current model, whether a previous unsafe model has been truly 'patched' for all variations of a model.

OTOH, if a given model would violate Point 4, I do not trust the current org to properly disclose the found gaps; better to quietly patch the UI and intermediate layers than ask whether a fix can be worked around with different wording.
To be fair it is a very subjective term, god-like. You could make a claim for many different technical advancements to represent god-like capabilities. I'd claim that many examples exist to day, but many of them are not readily available to most people for inherent or regulatory reasons.

Now, I feel even just "OK" agential AI would represent god-like abilities. Being able to spawn digital homunculi that do your bidding for relatively cheap and with limited knowledge and skill required on the part of the conjuror.

Again, this is very subjective. You might feel that god-like means an entity that can build Dyson Spheres and bend reality to it's will. That is certainly god-like, but just a much higher threshold than what I'd use.
Lately only
I don’t disagree, but considering HN is mostly tech-focused for the purposes of this discussion it’s can be a distinction without a difference. Note how the original thrust of this sub-thread is about tech-heavy IP being grounds for preventing employment with a competitor. Also elsewhere I’ve mentioned how some jurisdictions provide caveats, like refusing to enforce NCAs when an employee earns less than a certain threshold (eg $75k). That covers most of your McDonalds employees while still holding true to the intent of NCAs as it comes to IP heavy industries. Well-crafted laws don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
Code is here: https://github.com/emilk/ram_bench/blob/master/list_traversa...

The author makes 2 allocations:

Node* memory = (Node*)malloc(N * sizeof(Node));
Node** nodes = (Node**)malloc(N * sizeof(Node*));

Of those, only the first one (memory) is actually used during measurement, The seconds one (nodes) is just there to help shuffle the linked list, and is freeded before the actual test:

free(nodes); // Free up unused memory before meassuring:

// Do the actual measurements:

Int start = clock();

...

Since the linked list is shuffeled, the nodes will be linked in a random order. However, since the total memory is contigous, that is the only factor (instead of having every node be a separate allocation, which could allow the system to put every node on a separate page)
Rails Exception Notifier – Alternative to rollbar.com or sentry.com
In my experience, this tool is particularly useful for developers who need to keep track of errors and exceptions in their Rails applications when working on side projects. In contrast to more comprehensive services like Rollbar or Sentry
Glad you like it.

I haven't gone through any of the maths in detail. I do however have a semi-classical electrodynamics computer simulation that I occasionally work on, so why do the maths when you can just run a simulation :)

When I get back to it maybe I will try and simulate Compton scattering or the photoelectric effect.
Too late. It has escaped.
Enshittiception
Nitter link: https://nitter.net/JustineTunney/status/1726141024597324189
This is a really good video, I didn't initially catch what was going on in the grid of rocket indicator icons.
I don't care. I'll keep saying it anyway. You can't actually refute it.

Are you going to claim people's minds aren't sacred ground? That they're the corporation's market battle ground where they compete for brand awareness? That they're the government's blank slate to fill with propaganda at will? Ridiculous.
https://archive.li/ctQGN
> 3. Friends Don't Let Friends Use Bidirectional Color Scales for Unidirectional Data

why use colors at all in those examples?
That's pretty unsurprising for him to demand that, since the statement they put out really threw him under the bus. I would've thought that if he'd done something actually bad they would've come out and said it already, so as to prevent this whole power struggle.
I assume it hit the same way my last stay in Vegas worked. I booked and prepaid through a travel site. The travel site made very clear that the hotel would be charging me a resort fee separately. The travel site was unable to collect this fee at my time of payment. When I checked in, they charged me the separate fee.

I knew about it and expected it because Vegas but it still felt slimy.
How exactly do you specify weighted preferences for several possible types, in the url, in a way that is standardised?
it's possible to tax luxury stuff more, etc.
*decentralized finance
> the peripheral route seems particularly prevalent among Americans as opposed to say, continental Europeans, which are much more independent thinkers

As a dual US/EU citizen, I can assure you that neither side of the North Atlantic has a monopoly on groupthink or status-worship. I think the means are similar, though perhaps US has larger variance.
The sad part is that nearly 100% of investment and resources will follow the big-profit group leaving the altruistic-mission guys in the dust with no resources and no money.
Ultorg founder here.

Traditional BI tools work like an Excel pivot table: Put some fields on the X axis, some fields on the Y axis, and get an aggregation or visualization in the middle. The input is always a single table (or, if you have multiple tables, a flat join across all of them).

Ultorg is better at working with databases that have multiple tables in them, across arbitrary one-to-many relationships (not just warehouse-style star schemas), and where you want to look at actual raw data rather than colorful aggregations. There are specialized automatic table styles that visualize e.g. how one table relates to others through nested or parallel joins. The data displays you see in Ultorg are also editable--you can commit changes back to the database if desired.
'I was addicted to social media – now I'm suing Big Tech'
Its certainly a start.

People like to hate on the permission dialog boxes on MacOS - but each app only needs to ask you once for permission. I don't think I've seen one of these dialog boxes for months. And they add a remarkably large amount of security to the overall system given how little they inconvenience users in the steady state of system execution.

But they're a very coarse brush. Once an application has permission to access some folder, it can do anything it wants there. And only certain folders and permissions are protected. (I think any app can read / write any data in ~/Library).

I think the desktop security environment would work extremely differently if it were designed today. I'd love to see more people experimenting with ideas.
When people started saying it to oppose re-introducing systemic racism, such as Harvard being racist to Asian students.
A few years back I was telling a guy I payed $300 for like a 250MB drive and thought I will never need another drive again, I'll never run out of room again.

The guy then told me that he payed $800 for a 2400 baud modem.....
> This very thread is saying it ad nauseam - their issues being that (i) an 8gb computer shouldn't be labelled "pro", and (ii) that the 8gb models are irrelevant for serious work.

First of all, there are exactly zero comments under the root comment of this thread that discuss the "pro" naming convention. There are comments discussing this in an adjacent thread but they account for only 10% of the total comments on this post.

Nor are there many comments regarding "8gb models are irrelevant for serious work". They exist, but make up only a small percentage of the comments on this post.

HN is really not as harsh on Apple as you think.

> While 8 is clearly not 16, Apple are obviously aware that the two numbers are not equal. Instead, what we have here in HN today is a disturbing number of disingenuous commenters who want to take that most absurd position on the statement.

Honestly, these people frustrate me too, but luckily as mentioned previously, they are really not all that common.

> The claim is evidently about how the user would perceive the performance and memory usage of the newer 8gb M-series macs versus apple's earlier 16gb intel models. It's not an unfair comparison and the article made numerous direct quotes about how apple make this claim; those points are being discussed by exactly zero people in this thread. It's also trivial to prove such a claim, so I doubt the majority of the commenters submitting their thoughts even clicked the article.

Nobody is discussing this because as you mentioned, the claim is trivial to prove. There is nothing to discuss, we all know the M1/2/3 is amazing!

> A common speed test for smartphones is to simply run many 3rd party apps and multitask between them. These tests aim to demonstrate the real world performance of the device. Now despite having less ram that comparable flagships iPhones perform fluidly and outpace their Android counterparts, often significantly so.
>
> What this underlines is that the performance of a device is not a mere sum of its basic parts. One can't look at a ram figure across different architectures and have an idea about the memory management of the device, or even its performance. A generation of computer users have grown up in a PC-monopoly and fail to grasp that different architectures lend to different efficiencies.

This is all very true, but it still doesn't mean 8GB == 16GB. Look, if you want to say "my device performs better than the other device even though it has less RAM", just say that, because it's true!
I agree with the underlying point being made here: a separate API (REST/JSON) that serves data should be kept separate from the endpoints that serve an application, in this case, HTML-based.

It seems like building your application around a single API that is also used to provide data externally saves you time, but you end up polluting that API with presentation concerns needed to drive the application's reports/grids/views. It's not worth the mental energy to consider how changes you need to make for presentation might affect the 'purity' of your public API. Returning hypermedia from the 'internal' API just forces that separation: there's no expectation that this 'data' is being returned for consumption by anything except the app that uses it.
Yep, same here. Now I think my actual API is better and less cumbersome because I'm not trying to fit my own UI needs into a general purpose JSON API meant to be consumed by 3rd party clients who want to do things on my app.
I hadn't even thought of an audiobook. But, to your point with HBO, they have dabbled in creating companion podcasts, and did a wind-down with Rome, so a companion podcast could at least be something.
Never bothered, though I've found several similar projects that are running on less hardware.
As a tangent away from LLMs, is there an integration available to be used in Android as TTS Engine?. The TTS voice that I have now (RHVoice) for OSMAnd is really driving me crazy and almost makes me want to go back to Google Maps.
That post is the release link on GitHub, while this is the announcement by @jart on X and a showing of performance gains in GitHub Actions CI

I found the performance gain to be significant enough to be interesting and so I posted.
I have ordered dog treats through my Echo. “Alexa, reorder Charlie Bears” but you have to audibly enter a PIN, if I recall correctly. Eh, I might do it again, but it never occurs to me.

But you’re spot on about learning commands instead of it understanding randomly phrased requests.
As far as I know, there's only one group of pure-bred bison. All of the other bison in the U.S. are effectively genetic hybrids between bison and cattle.
Ironically, I was about ten examples in before I even noticed the tiny good/bad labels.
The system favouring certain sectors and millions building their career for these sectors is not the same as being employed by political means and being unproductive.

All the Russian engineers who become unemployed with the collapse of USSR were not leeches, they build some of the greatest machine mankind ever build and the scientists made huge contributions only to become taxi drivers. Those who can suck up the system will be able to suck it. No matter how libertarian, they will find out that infrastructure doesn't spontaneously occur in nature and there will be huge government spendings and the leeches will leech those.

I've been through this twice, I don't have faith in revolutions. If they actually manage to the things they say will do and govern properly and have sane government, it will take decades before it stabilises for the society. This is because people live around 80 years and they have different abilities and different capacities to adapt at different ages. It's very fundamental to human nature.
This was attempted well over a decade ago by the makers of Pioneer One[0] which, hardly a surprise, failed to make enough money to continue. The quality of the episodes that were made was also subpar compared to traditional television of the time, though considering how low-budget some of today’s streaming shows feel, this may no longer be as noticeable for audiences today as it was then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_One
It is a complete departure from past stated means without clear justification.
Mom's asking advice on which cheese sticks they should put in their 22 year old son's dorm fridge, is unironically hilarious
True, but are they obliged to provide all details to the public?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/colorblind...

https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article-abstract/66/4/503/52...

I quoted MLK (as above) at someone in 2020 and was quite surprised when it uncorked a rant about how that must mean i was a racist and didn't care for the struggles of the oppressed and so on.
I plan to change the audio input to use WebRTC, then I get echo cancellation and network transparency for free. Although dealing with WebRTC is a headache harder than doing the AI parts.
Thank you for supporting creators.
This really doesn’t make any sense. Like Trump was so scary to world leaders..
From my time working on search related problems at Google, this might be a bit of a winner take most market. If you have the users, your system can more effectively learn how to do a better job for the users. The interaction data generated is excludable gold, merely knowing how 100s of millions use chat bots is incredibly powerful, and if the company keeps being the clear and well known best, it's easy to stay the best, because the learning system has more high quality things to learn from.

While google did do a good job milking knowledge and improving from its queries and interaction data, openai surely knows how to get information from high quality textual data even better.

Openai made an interface where you can just speak your natural language, it didn't make you learn it's own pool of keyword jargon bastardized quasi command language. It's way more natural.
A wisened old web developer named Rik told me that in a wiki he wrote long ago he performed his own cache-busting form of content negotiation by having urls ends with a file type —

E.g.

/fred.html - returns html
/fred.md - returns markdown
/fred.json - returns json

(I’m guessing that also —

/fred - defaults to html

)

Though he was a strict fundamentalist restafarian in other ways he held that this had the benefits of

1. Working

2. Being readily understood

I’ve seen worse ideas. Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.
Included in most of the tech mod packs but deserving of a special mention is ComputerCraft, which allows you to program computers and robots in Lua that can interact with the Minecraft world!
Seems MSFT will be going on sale for no apparent reason tomorrow, so that sounds good to me.
I've always viewed it as more of a hacker's hangout with the unfortunate side-effect of being YC-sponsored being that you sometimes have to put up with some dumb corporate news here and there, but it seems to be going in a slightly different direction for a while now (or more likely I was just always wrong on this one :P).
FYI:

Shadow and Bone

Agent Elvis

Captain Fall

Glamorous

Farzar

The article doesn't even contain a list, you have to read it all. This goes against all ways of correctly and efficiently disseminating information.

Oh, and the link on 'Netflix' doesn't go to www.netflix.com. It goes to the Independent. Same with 'Shadow and Bone', you'd expect it to go to Netflix' page of this show, but no, to the Independent.

I hate modern journalism.
A LOT of people have put a ton of energy in to OpenAI, and a lot have put A LOT of money into it. If it was as petty as credit, then screw them all as they just don’t get it. It’s all on the shoulders of others too….
I don't use Noah's Ark to make blanket judgements of human behavior.
Apparently, by running it on windows of audio very often:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38340938
The entire range of places you listed differ by slightly more than one percent in tax rate.

If you’re that price sensitive, you can probably save a lot more money by just visiting five to ten stores to comparison shop for every item since you can likely save far more than one percent that way.

Or just fork over the extra penny per dollar when you visit Santa Fe the city
Exactly. Add to that the personal smearing of one person and it seems like a very unnecessarily negative maneuver.
The board's silence is normal, you're just too used to this weird 'everything in public on twitter all the time' type of behaviour that emanates from this particular sector.

Do you see the boards of GM and IBM slapfighting on twitter? No. It's a thing some people have taken to doing, and - in my opinion - it's not a good thing. It's incredibly immature.

This 'I'm in the office lol' behaviour is also pretty weird. It's more the sort of thing you'd expect to see on the pro-wrestling circuit than the type of behaviour you'd expect from a CEO.
It was a fun read.
Right. When I was at IBM they had a 3-day, in-person, course where you learned and practiced facilitation skills. It was a great experience and equipped me with a set of skills I've used and continue to hone to this day.

One of those tools being that you capture/summarize the discussion in a public display that everyone can see. You check in with the group with something like "Does this accurately capture what was just discussed/decided?" Everyone has a chance to refine it to meet their understanding and/or we discover that we're not aligned, which engenders more discussion until we are.
It's already been shared in the comments, but look into Human Resource Machine. It's a fun little game that tricks you into learning to solve problems in assembly.
I've never considered this angle, but god it'd be hilarious if this ended up being the case, the dude ruining everything because of his own greed ultimately fucking himself over because of it.

Here's to hoping there's still some poetic irony left to dish out in the world.
Watch mechanics are fascinating. If only software was developed with such care and accuracy..
I'm very curious what a hobbyist could use this for!

I've noticed that SQLite itself seems to already have all the functionality needed for an AirTable clone besides the UI, everything needed to generate a pretty decent end user forms interface is basically already in a database schema. sqlite-web is really close, just missing foreign key browsing.
Still, every one of those stores knows exactly, down to the penny, what to charge me when I checkout. This isn't rocket science. Stores just won't do it unless forced to because if I put taxes in my prices, the store down the street won't and will "look" cheaper.
I fine tuned LLama-2 on code/comment generation (in python) for around $2 and was able to run it natively on an m1 macbook air. I can totally see smaller fine tuned LLM's being used locally on consumer devices in the future. I think people underestimate how cheap and efficient this stuff is.

I've actually built a service which lets you fine tune LLama-2/other llms by uploading a JSON dataset. I'm looking for feedback, the link is https://useftn.com.
Why’d they smear Sam? Couldn’t they have released a statement saying they just don’t see eye to eye anymore?
Are you certain that it is actually not supported? I suspect the CDN cache was not configured to vary cached responses via the Vary header. That header will usually at minimum look like:

Vary: Cookie, Authorization, Accept, Accept-Language