skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know nothing about the guy but judging his work and assuming you can guess the type of problems he works on based off his tweets is ludicrous.
I doubt they have the energy to backport bleeding edge tech.
Not really sure what point you are trying to argue. I think I’m missing the crucial importance of the implied consequence of “cryptocurrencies are/aren’t currencies therefore…”

I don’t see any importance of that label beyond arbitrary tax implications. So to me that question seems as important as “Is hot dog a sandwich?”
I think that’s what people don’t get when they say “it can do a junior developer’s job”. No, you have to know what you’re doing and then it can augment your abilities. I always have fun when my non-developer colleagues try to analyze data by asking ChatGPT. The thing is clueless and just outputs code that calls non-existing APIs.
When the boomers die their homes will be bought up by private equity, same is happening to the supply now. Then they'll either sit on them to restrict the supply or charge ridiculous rents. I expect regulatory crackdowns will affect them before market forces do.

There was an article I saw a while back about a "young entrepreneur" who used his natural-born wealth to buy up a couple homes, then used rent collected on them to progressively buy up more. Eventually he owned the entire neighborhood and could charge whatever rent he wanted. It's a micro scale version of what's happening in cities like london and vancouver.
I think if youre at the size of "business units" youre not "bootstrapping" any more
I think you can safely assume the reason they left is related to the firing. The question is,are they following Altman or are they just disgusted by the power struggle.
Great solution if didn’t use a smartphone.
> If you're comparing the suffering of the lower and middle classes to any other time in the past 20,000 years, do you not understand how little that makes sense?

My point went completely over your head. That's why it doesn't make sense to you. The only lense you can see the world through is classes and oppression and inequality.

There are a few other ways to look at the world.
Reports say Microsoft was caught completely off guard. Here's the damage control tweet Satya found it necessary to make shortly after it all went down: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1725656554878492779
United States may ban slave ownership and slave owners not happy.
Agree with first point. I think we can still outsmart it at that point.

"The problem with "smart" AI is that it attempts to advance its goals by the most optimal means possible, even if you don't like those means. It knows you don't like its means, and it does not care." sounds very human :)
> [...] Fully encrypted, peer to peer. [...]

The least two features the average user wants. Most users are happy if sound and video work instantly, always. Maybe some marketing department should focus on that?

(Don't know keet; yes, encryption is still an important festure).
The term for this generally is american exceptionalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

Essentially the US pretends like it's the only country. It's softened in the past 20 years with the rise of the internet but the bubble used to be extremely strong when I was younger.
Any recommendations to learn SPARQL? I've looked into it and decided against it about as often as Nix.
An Indian startup hacked the world
Can you disclose three of the types or products you buy with it without going to jail though?
If you meant the splash screen when it starts up, this can be turned off in the settings.

Otherwise the core app's UI looks fine to me personally, though some of the plugins make some, unusual, choices.
Reverse Outlines: A writer's technique for examining organization (2019)
The post referred to "Jewish communities". The ADL is a major Jewish organization massively supported by and representative of the Jewish community. He clarified his response in subsequent replies down below in the same thread. Geez.
The GP stated that the US has the worst protections.

So a single counterexample suffices.
I love Calibre, and I am very thankful to the people who work on it. It's a shiny example of an open source project that creates a common good.

I just wish it didn't have updates so often. Since you have to do it manually, I feel that every time I start it, this little chore is imposed on me, without any reward. If you really must release updates at this rate for some reason, then I would say that an auto-updater that runs in the background would be a huge huge improvement to the overall experience.
he is on a pedestal because everyone who’s worked with him said he’s amazing and effective.

But it is your right to assume what he works on from reading his tweets and leap from that to how this is an American cultural thing tho.
Yeah, but I find his expression and pause after "bad karma" sentence quite interesting with this new context
I don't think the firing would be this dramatic if it was merely lying to the board; I suspect it's something where:

- he makes misleading statement to board

- board puts this in regulatory filing (e.g. SEC)

- board finds out this is a legally critical statement

- they _have_ to fire him in order to avoid becoming accomplices.

The reverse of the other Sam situation.
punishing "your own kind" and deriving pleasure from the suffering of all, including yourself, because you feel like you all deserve it.

long episodes of constantly recurring pain and an increasing intensity of even small doses of pain acting as a signal that you did wrong and should feel the consequences.
Do you have a source that they just finished GPT-5 pre training or is that just speculation.
Why would they if they are advancing the goals of the non-profit and Altman was endangering that goal?
You well of British carpet horrors runs deep. Carpeted bathrooms were common amongst my grandparents’ generation. A nightclub in Nottingham, Ocean, was infamously carpeted when I studied there, and the subject of many jokes about what manner of substances must be contained in those threads.

The carpet was eventually torn up, leading to mourning and memorials from the student population https://thetab.com/uk/nottingham/2013/09/13/hoes-carpet-torn..., and the owner has leaned in to the meme and given several framed squares away to patrons.
> Apple's input devices are beautiful, but they totally blow comfort. It's as if their industrial designers are all in their early 20s and have never experienced joint pain.

Riddle me this: My wife loves the hockeypuck mouse. The only thing that remains of her Tangerine iMac is its orange hockeypuck; I bought her a USBA-to-USBC dongle so she can use it with her MacBook Air.

Fortunately, she uses her computer infrequently enough to be relatively unaffected by RSI issues, so that may have something to do with it.
By home, you mean a western-style stick built single-family residence with a garage and a spare bedroom? In many (maybe most?) parts of the world homes, owned or otherwise, are not constructed out of wood. I think the criticism would find a better mount on a land ownership argument. Though, units in multi-family buildings can be owned as well.
I've been wondering about the medium-to-long-term outlook in this respect, and your summation of the numbers is very helpful.
Since the ledgers are public, how difficult is it to black list individual bitcoins?

E.g, have the feds do a public list of blacklisted coin ids and simply say that accepting these coins is against whatever compliance is necessary for a business to operate crypto in the USA and Europe.

Then when some realestate agency is about to sell an apartment in Dubai for bitcoins they’re gonna be “no, not those. We can add them to our coin base” or whatever.

I get that all countries that don’t care about the black list can continue trading, but those coins still have smaller demand and thus smaller value.
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This was 10-15 years ago, so I don't have my notes lying around. However, I do remember that it was based on the calorific efficiency of bread bought at a supermarket. Other foods may vary - for instance if you grow potatoes in your back garden then it's probably going to be a lot more efficient.

I can well believe that there is a 10:1 ratio between energy in and mechanical energy out of a human.

However my point wasn't that cars and humans are about the same. That's probably only true in the "same order of magnitude" sense. My point was that humans are way less efficient at propelling a bicycle than an electric motor is.
It depends very very much on the desihgn of the stove and how they are run. DEFRA in the UK has just upped the required standard of stoves that can be installed in smokeless zones. The best ones have very low emissions.
On a side note, what is the with the ownership structure diagram?

OpenAI non-profit --owns---> Holding Company for Open AI non-profit

That makes no sense. How does a non-profit "own" a holding company, that own the non-profit?
I think the immediate problem with AI is none of the sci-fi stuff (which, by the way, has been in sci-fi for many decades and is nothing revolutionary or new; we always expected to go there, just the timelines seem to have compressed, although not really either; most 60-70s scifi set AGI stuff in the begin 90s and begin 00s); I think it's the entire world changing into a helpdesk experience. Everything you try to do, from making a doctors appointment to calling 911 to ordering at a restaurant will be, rather sooner than later, a kafkaesque loop you cannot get out of with the AI patiently 'helping' you while completely missing the point and you getting more and more distressed without any chance of speaking to a human. This is already the case for many things, but I am willing to bet that even the suicide helpline will be ran by AI within 5-10 years.
Same, I've seen it in practice and the numbers didn't lie, week on week on week. But you know, some people are very uncomfortable with someone else being called smart. Worse yet what if they're called smarter than what they actually are? Like an injustice in the universe, but comes from defensiveness I think.

I don't know this guy in particular so I have no clue though.
BYD stopped selling ICE last year but setting that aside, if we use exclusively your reference, the trends are still showing strong growth for BYD. The ΔX is certainly not favoring Tesla for the #1 spot even by this metric if you play out only the trends documented in this single article.

Christensen formula is still in play.

(For people reading that's not to say it's a good stock buy, btw. Please don't try to divine financial advice from this comment)
>Apple surely doesn’t have a cluster that at all compares with the big cloud giants.

Apple has a lot of cash to throw at it. Question would be if Apple is even interested in it.
In that case they aren't operating it correctly.
I'd add, as soon as you start doing it at some scale, it becomes harder. Because, sad but true, among homeless people you will find an over representation of people using drugs, with mental health problems, aggressive. I'm not painting everyone with the same brush! But as soon as you build a few 10s of those, you will have these issues.

They will then affect other people in the area, both home owners and temporary tenants.

Cambridge, UK is doing an experiment, where they put up little shelters, not totally dissimilar to this, but in homeopathic quantities: 3-4 at a time. It seems to be going well, but (a) that's still tiny number, and (b) I get the impression neighbours still don't like it.
Non-solicits also include not soliciting customers.

Which is particularly relevant at consultancies where the product is a service.

If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

All of these contracts are time limited, FWIW. E.g. non-solicitation doesn't mean you can never work your your colleagues again. It protects against someone leaving and then immediately poaching all employees within 12 months. After 12 months you're welcome to poach as much as you'd like.

Edit: Furthermore, non-solicits don't ban your colleagues from quitting with you, as long as you're not directly asking them to quit. If they make the decision independently without being lobbied by a former employee, it's not in violation of non-solicit.
With a bit of fiddling, it can be quite elegant:

- dark theme and switch the icon theme to monstre

- remove toolbar buttons you don't use like help/donate/news etc. so that it's quite minimal and streamlined

- edit the ebook reader css to add some padding / line-spacing to fit your taste and use a font like Libre Baskerville

- no splash-screen

The preference pages remain a bit of a headache to navigate but it's not like you are fiddling with those too often and importantly, it does have plentiful configuration to do what you want.

And if you run into a problem, you'll probably get a response from Kovid faster than any company. Overall, thank you Kovid for years of hard work!
Building strength seems to help with all sorts of pain issues. I once banged up my arm pretty good in a fall; what helped was going to the gym and doing curls and extensions with whatever the arm could support: five pounds, ten pounds, whatever.
By that logic, we'd have a lot more folks working on the less mature 3DS and WiiU emulation scene. That's where we've got aging irreplaceable hardware starting to fail, and many popular games still not playable without hacks or patches.
> This is possible the biggest software development blunder in history, [...]

I would think Volkswagen's CARIOT is possibly a contender in that space too, soon.

Caveat: I know a bunch of people who are or were in various roles, vertically well enough spread across that org, to form this opinion over the last years.
The ADL is a major Jewish organization that is widely supported by the American Jewish community. It's not some tiny irrelevant fringe group within their community. He explained further in the same thread.
His MIT page on the other hand. https://madry.mit.edu/
Because the loopt guy got fired?
Unbiased? That's such a ridiculous thing to type. You think someone intimately involved and leaking information to the press is going to be unbiased? Crazy.

Swisher is reporting what her sources say - not writing an encyclopedia article. Sam would've been a good source - even if a biased one. Looks like it was true by the way, even if Sam was her source.

Still very confused as to how you could think "unbiased" would even be a possible qualification for a source here much less a necessary one. Just curious - do you think news articles are unbiased too?
Why does it make sense. Pay employees for their work and they’ll stick around.
Melodrama has no place in the AI utopia.
Not commenting about the ppl who are subject of this thread but talking in general.
I have been lucky enough to have seen some of these 10x engineers but what is much more common is a 1x engineer feeling and treated like a 10x engineer because they are surrounded by 0.1x engineers.
Oh what a shame. Did you write other languages / dialects since ?
Note that everything below is speculation. I am merely trying to suggest an hypothesis which would answer the question of how the Annie Altman allegations could have led to this outcome. FWIW I think it's better speculation than some of the 'he did a side deal with MS' stuff above.

It seems basically impossible for OpenAI to have proved the validity of Annie Altman's claims about childhood sexual abuse. But they might have to take them seriously, especially once they were presented coherently on LessWrong.

If Sam had lied or misled the board about some aspect of his relationship with his sister, that would be a sacking offence. Eg he says "Annie's claims are completely untrue - I never abused her [maybe true or not, almost certainly unprovable], I never got her shadow banned from Instagram [by hypothesis true] and I never told her I could get her banned [untrue]." The board then engage a law firm or PI to check out the claims and they come up with a text message clearly establishing that he threatened to pull strings and get her banned. He lied to the board regarding an investigation into his good character so he's gone. And the board have the external investigator's stamp on the fact that he lied so they can cover their own ass.

Why would he tell a lie like this? Because whatever the truth of the allegations, he's arrogant and didn't take them as seriously as he should have. He mistakenly thought he could be dismissive and it wouldn't come back to bite him.

This seems consistent with the way things played out. (Note again: I'm just trying to come up with something consistent. I have no idea if this is at all accurate or the whole affair is about something completely different.) They don't have to worry about keeping him on as an advisor to cover up scandal. They can clearly state that he lied in an important matter. But they don't say what it's about - because they still have no idea whether the original allegations are true or not. They are not going to put themselves in a situation of saying "and he probably molested his sister". They wouldn't even say "it is related to abuse allegations made by a family member", which implies there might be evidence to the original allegations, and is probably defamatory. And he comes out saying that something unfair has happened, without giving any context, because he knows that even mentioning the allegations is going to lead to "but didn't he molest his sister" type comments, for the rest of time.

It's also consistent with the timing. They aren't just going to hear the Annie allegations and sack him. It takes time to look into these things. But within 6 weeks of it becoming an issue, they might be able to identify that he's either lied previously to the board about the gravity of this issue, lied during the current investigation, or something he's said publicly is clearly dishonest.
MacOS treats unused memory as wasted memory. It does its best to keep memory filled. So a lot of that 12Gb is likely to be 'just in case' stuff. What does the memory pressure graph look like in Activity Monitor?
Reheating spinach is safe
Humans crave familiarity a lot more when times are difficult and uncertain but at other times they crave novelty. We'll always have some of both.
Most Thinking Machines CM-1/CM-2 were sold to just sit there and blink away.
This is very true everywhere I've looked.

What also happens is regular developers (like me) want the same treatment as if they could end-to-end deliver "if they only let me", but many times can't, and actually need the structure and processes of a team. I've seen this freedom not working at all.
Honestly the most charitable interpretation for Musk here is that he didn’t even really read what he was responding to, and just interpreted it as a more vague commentary about liberals in general.

It’s…not a good look. The guy really needs to ease off the social media.
The abruptness of the firing and the fact that they give his lying to the board as the reason is why I don't believe that this is over a general disagreement on direction.
No it doesn't. Statistics is robust to outliers compared to logic, and GP was making a statistical claim.
Galileo improved on Copernicus in the sense that he found evidence against the Ptolemaic model. But the Geocentric position had moved on by then.
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Hey HN,

I built Tretta to be a simpler CRM solution to the current alternatives while retaining the core essentials most agents need to manage their businesses effectively.

I bootstrapped the project to production after a recent round of tech layoffs since I’d been working on it nights and weekends for a while. I’m currently just trying to get enough feedback to start tweaking the MVP.

I hope this can provide some value to the community, J.
In general software seems to be really hard for hardware companies. This was the main reason for the downfall IMO. The things that make you succeed in hardware do not suffice, and are partly wrong in software.

The N9 etc demonstrated there was enough talent for a plausible pivot. Was it business wise obvious this would have been the only and right choice?
If by “junior dev”, you mean “a dev at a level so low they will be let go if not promoted”, then I agree.

I’ve watched my coworkers try to make use of LLMs at work, and it has convinced me the LLM’s contributions are well below the bar where their output is a net benefit to the team.
If you run it from the terminal you can see the error. For me on 22.04 it was missing a dependency:

sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0
Microsoft Azure is famous for its insanely bad security: https://karl-voit.at/cloud/
This is one of the benefits of the Wayland protocol over X, being able to do this kind of thing relatively straightforwardly.

Once support for hardware planes becomes more common in Wayland compositors, this can be tied to ultimately allow no-copy rendering to the display for non-fullscreen applications, which for video playback (incl. likes of Youtube) equals to reduced CPU & GPU usage and less power draw, as well as reduced latency.
Nope, it is yet another step making Gtk only relevant for Linux development.
Keep in mind that despite Tycho's model having the consensus, there were still Ptolemaic Astronomers.
Uh, sorry, what? You think serving Microsoft would be opposed to building a monopoly?
Yann LeCun disagrees with you, and I take his word on it
Y-combinator has still a stake in Open Ai.
Peer to peer makes it as fast as possible because it's not having to pass through a 3rd party's servers (which, for cost reasons, normally limit the bandwidth of the communication channel they are serving).

This is just like when you pull down a torrent. You can do it as fast as your bandwidth and the bandwidth of the peers who are seeding it to you allow. Which can be blazingly fast.
macOS supports similar things in its own native stack, but GTK doesn't make use of it.
If they aren't voluntarily, they wouldn't be enforceable in court.

What you're trying to say is there's limited alternatives. (The most obvious alternative is to not take the job)
Reminds me of the healthcare bots in Idiocracy.
To your point, it's ironic that firms who push a free market ethos don't actually want to compete. Instead, they want a thumb on the scale that tilts the advantages in their direction.

Welcome to Crony Capitalism (which should not be confused with traditional capitalism).
I find GPT-3.5 can be tripped up by just asking it to not to mention the words "apologize" or "January 2022" in its answer.

It immediately apologises and tells you it doesn't know anything after January 2022.

Compared to GPT-4 GPT-3.5 is just a random bullshit generator.
Package managers are the way to go for this kind of software. Brew, scoop, snap...
That's a nice looking app! I have a similar mindset about duolingo. My interest is language learning and I've developed my own duolingo clone, but perhaps not as fully featured as yours https://codinginthecold.alwaysdata.net/kuku/

I've also just finished an early version of an app that facilitates creating "parallel texts".
Since it's got completely the wrong end of the stick about distributed computing I'm not sure it can be trusted on names of things in general.

That being said, I know the article mentions Folding@Home and the It Project. I know I ran a distributed protein folding thing back in about 2002. I'm not sure it was "Folding@Home" though. That's not something the article can help me with.
Anyone who follows the gaming industry knows that Microsoft ruins nearly everything it touches.
As a doomer: yeah right, as if for-profit OpenAI wasn't an accelerationist hijack to begin with.
It's not a problem for me. It's good that I can detect chatGPT by this sign.
They're not. They don't have board seats. The mission-driven founders of Open AI were very serious about ensuring this.