skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many developers don't spend time on hacker news or even any of the similar forums. To be stereotypical, HN readers seem more likely to be young, working for FAANG in Silicon Valley, and not a middle aged sharepoint integration developer living in the Midwest (although obviously they are also on this site).

I've had developers who treated it like a job, did it, went home, and weren't interested in the Mythical Man Month (but intuitively knew some of these principles).
I suspect OP is referring to the presence of newts or bats or greater-crested hedge warblers etc, which can put a stop on building work for literally years in the UK
Western Europe has lost its raison d'etre, and is committing harakiri.
Engineers tend to earn a lot more.
> to porch Sam

is this meant to be poach or my non-native-speakerness is showing? :)
There is also the case of people voluntary killing tree in england too.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/poisoned...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/famous-sycamore-gap-tre...
Chrome was bigger than Firefox by 2012, the accusations that Google intentionally made things worse for Firefox came many years after that.
If Mr. Market was perfectly rational and correct, profit would cease to exist.
Yes but I didn't see this one discussed at all. Did you? Curious to see those threads if you have links. I might have just missed them.
LOL This is more of the Altman based media blitz to drive this in his favor. This is nothing short of an unmitigated DISASTER for Microsoft and they well know it.
HN readers, I'd love to get your opinion on health & fitness programs. There are also options for overcoming burnout and better productivity.
Unless everything is fairly old, that must take some doing. Everything on my desk is USB C. Both keyboards, Logitech mouse, phone, dev kits / boards, both work and personal laptops (PD charging, personal only uses USB C). I’m getting used to the every cable is a double ended USB C life.
> I gotta say I don't deeply understand ActivityPub, but one of the first things I thought when trying to grok it was "how does this improve on RSS?". Like another commenter here I think a big part of it is that it's JSON and not XML, but I think another thing people would say is that you aren't storing things locally, that is you don't have an application pulling things onto your local machine (phone, laptop, whatever).

Both of those honestly sound like a disadvantage. Like yeah , plenty to hate about XML but at least it has defined schema language, and I want to have an application and not be dependent on some shitty website to act as aggregator for me.

All of the "features" ActivityPub has could be pretty easily just added to RSS too
I love the sphere. Who wants to bet there will be one in Dubai eventually?
Yes but a large portion of this investment is in cloud credits, and they have control in some way on how these credits are spent + actual access to all dataset, flows, and source-code necessary to replicate the tech.

This was worth 10B no doubt.
I have a video link to an MIT lecture that disproves your assertion. Cache aware, cache adaptive, and cache oblivious algorithms are definitively analyzed using big O. In fact it is big O notions that provide assurances about these approaches.

Mechanical sympathy has little (if anything) to do with big-O, btw. LMAX, the poster child of mechanical sympathy, is really about minimizing the use of memory coherence machinery and not taking the substantial latency hits.
Adverts cost $450k a day (according to gaming articles on Xbox's advert in October), they also have 18,600 seats inside the LV Sphere for "immersive experiences".
I would need to see a Firefox UA warm cache reload in the same video before I put any stock in this. This aligns to perfectly with the “But Google evil” narrative for me to believe it uncritically. Alas, I don’t trust the internet anymore.
> only to enable GitHub to do greater things, without disrupting user experience?

Excuse you? Greater where? Github was an amazing revolution, unique of its kind. Microsoft didn't kill it but didn't make it even 1% better for the users, just turned it into a cash cow. Linkedin is currently a PoS.
It may be OpenAI's loss and Microsoft's gain, but any support that AI gets is a tragedy for humanity.

Everything is good in moderation, and with AI we are taking our efficiency past that good point. AI not only takes jobs away from creatives such as illustrators and can be used for identity theft, it also is removing the reliance that people have on each other.

Society is held together because people need each other. People meet each other through needing each other, and this is what makes local communities strong. AI takes that away so that the only entities we need are big tech like Microsoft, Google, and other soulless organizations.

It is a descent into feudalism, where everyone will pay big tech for basic living necessities (first option, later a necessity, like the smartphone).

If a man or woman wants to live independently of big tech, it will be harder and harder now, and we are losing are sense of what it means to be human through the immoral actions of these companies.
If you are in Miami, you can get unlimited data plan for $5/month.

https://blog.hellohelium.com/hi5unlimited/
Major mental gymnastics.

If you want to use their products, either be served ads, pay to go ad free. Nothing special.
> So I suppose your need to create AI diversions is more important than the need of others to feel a sense of purpose through their work through their actual talent that you don't have?

Not so. Sense of purpose is important.

Your sense of purpose conflicts with the opportunity of everyone else to express themselves as they wish.

How familiar are you with utilitarian ethics, and the "mere addition paradox" criticism of it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox

> Good thing you have a full-time job....

For now. The LLMs will come/are coming for mine, just as diffusion models and GANs eat at the jobs of graphical artists.

> Fully automated luxury communism is a rather bleak future, and it will take us away from being stewards of the environment, and instead consume as many resources as possible.

It's (currently) pure Utopianism, taking on whatever hopes the proponents want it to have no matter how unrealistic. I therefore think you're arguing on the basis of which team it's associated with, without understanding the details of what it is you hate.

> Finally, even if you are doing something relatively harmless with Stable Diffisuion, many other people will use AI for malicious purposes.

Oh absolutely. Whole can of worms there.

Can say the same about basically every tech way back to the wheel, fire, and pointy stick, though unlike most using this analogy I am well aware of the problem of induction (in particular the turkey and the farmer), and don't claim that it will all work out just because it has so far.

AI in general could make us immortal, with lives of leisure and free from all suffering… or it could turn us all into paperclips to maximise shareholder value.
I can’t believe people are cheerleading this move

* Tigris is DOA - If because it would piss off the MSFT board but mostly because the SEC would arrest Sam assuming he’s an officer at MSFT. He could maybe be a passive investor, but that’s it

* People really think many Open Ai employees will give up their equity to get whatever mediocre stock grant their level at Microsoft has? And 1% raises, no bonus some years, and the board forced headcount reductions?

* Sam has even less power with the board, and the board in a 3 trillion dollar corporation would be even more risk averse than the OpenAI one

* there was a ton of fan fiction yesterday online about Satya forcing a move on the board. This was never really a thing. He made one of the worst investments in the history of SV in terms of keeping power to make sure your money is used correctly. $10B for 0 votes or any power to change votes
I said this elsewhere, but think the timeline is longer than that. Either Sam and Satya will butt heads and Altman will be sidelined, or it will be a good partnership, and he'll be on the shortlist as a successor when Nadella's run naturally comes to a close. But that second path is longer than a couple years.
I like more the 1.3 colours, easier for my darn eyes :-}
Ha! Remember when Facebook had this motto on its login page: "It's free and always will be"?

Of course, you either pay with money or with your data. But still it's a bit ironic.
I've always had a little bit of a gripe with how the "communications complexity" is presented here. As if the only way to communicate on a team is to have everyone stand in a circle and yell at everyone else.

In reality, there is very often opportunity to take 1 project with ~3 engineers, and break it into 2 smaller projects each with ~3 engineers and run them mostly in parallel. Do your best to isolate those projects, but have a point of contact (EM, PM, tech lead) between the two teams to coordinate whatever dependencies are unavoidable, etc.

You'll notice, that this is just a smaller microcosm of how every company is actually structured anyway. There's still diminishing returns, but most people on the team never need to communicate directly with people outside of their project.
I don't think one of biggest tech giants in control of the "best" AI company out there is beneficial to customers...
Intresting, normally with ceramic moulds the mould is very porous and sucks moisture from the ceramic slip which makes it solidify enough to be removed from the mould and fired. Wonder what the process was here.
I think it makes more sense to take him at the spirit of what he said under oath to Congress (think of how bad it would look for him/OpenAI if he said he had no equity and only made enough for health insurance but actually was getting profit sharing) over some guy suggesting something on the internet with no evidence.
Yup. The world we are headed into, accelerated by huge leaps in technology like AI, will be a sorry, pathetic, unforgiving world, that amplifies suffering and nullifies humanity.

Is that image of a child being assaulted by terrorists real or fake? To the victims, its real, to political powers it fake, to mega corporations, its money.
Beyond the fact that it is a total scam, it also creates a lot of animosity among employees. Because there is no set limit, heck there are rarely guidelines, people often feel it's used unfairly in their teams and org.
How to make it more appealing for computer researchers to implement their papers
Looking at github, when a space is reserved for the code that implements a paper, quickly entitled and demanding comments appear, that try to push publication as in "there has been a day without code are you sleeping"

There are better ways:

1. Talk about what you will do with the code

2. Try to implement the code yourself and link to it in the comments
> The threshold for companies that can take advantage of German ESOP plans will be raised so that firms with up to 1,000 employees and a maximum of 100 million euros ($108.7 million) of annual revenue can distribute shares to staff.

Why is there any limit at all here? Is there such a limit in the US?
7-11 not 24/7
"As far as I know there's a sizeable number of devs who don't intend to ever rely on copilot"

Is that really a thing?

I mean, I also don't want to rely on Microsoft and therefore also not on Copilot, but not using AI tools in general out of principle is probably a very rare minority. I simply would prefer my own local LLM.

But in the thread linked above I read "AI never had and never will have it’s place in art." And this stance would be very weird for me for devs.
Pay me tickets to watch my ads. I want a business like that.
Wait, so this is about the delay loading, but not why FF mobile has really poor frameretes at the start of most (non-ad) videos?
Not using Facebook is free and protects your privacy. What Meta claims it does and does not do with it's users data is unproveable.
They’ve been running ads for Chrome on the one in Vegas. It’s gross and annoying, IMO.

I love video systems and LEDs, and some of the art they were playing on the outside of it the first few months was cool, but now it’s just a giant annoying billboard.
It really depends what actually happens, on paper OpenAI business leadership is now at MSFT. Research leadership seems to be at OpenAI. What does OpenAI need to pursue its goal? One may argue that hiring developed under ex-OpenAI leadership was to facilitate the productization of the models. Does someone know the actual engineering/product/research makeup of the OpenAI that can provide substance?
Omg that's huge!
Electricity Is Changing Around the World
Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility
A. Identical houses that aren't directly next to each other are far less obvious, and generally look better for the simple fact they look unique in their setting.

B. The fact the houses are identical is less the issue than sub-par materials and most importantly, as you'll find in all of the DR Horton lawsuits, sub-par construction. They're not just pumping out 100 houses, they're doing it as fast as humanly possible with crews of questionable experience.

I'd MUCH rather have a mail-order Sears house put together by a crew that actually cares about what they're doing than a company that just hires any crew they can find to pump out houses as fast as possible so they can move on to the next development.
This pessimism may play out but I continue to fall on the optimist side.

AI tooling seems to be allowing for more time on creativity and less on rote work.

If that continues to play out creativity inevitably drives more collaboration as creativity cannot thrive only in a silo.
This seems like a pretty clear-cut antitrust case. The EU Commission better go after it.
I dont expect a new PL to replace a library anytime soon.
No, he does not. Listen to the interview with Tucker Carlson. It is there. It is well exposed. He does not shout in that interview.

With all his defects and given the argentinian situation, I honestly think he was the right choice. I say this from a confidence point of view. We have to see what he really ends up doing and only time will tell. At that time we will know.

I am a supporter of Bukele as well. He is not supposed to be anywhere near the right. But... he had good results so far. That is what I wish to countries: peace, progress, results.

Greetings!
He is explaining the situation using the length of bars. He doesn't recommend using both at the same time.
It's not AI at all. It just has preset border conditions in terms of flight corridor and probably, predicted/calculated impact point if engines go out at that moment, and blows rocket up if they are violated. It's hard logic, comparison of some variables with set thresholds, not some "thinking".
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Microsoft can offer more if it wishes, no?
what is the toolset that works best ?

axolotl is generally recommended...but unsure if that is what is genuinely the best for production scale finetuning.
Online versions of all German printed media do exactly the same, I wonder how it's going to be different. And $10 a month is not that much of an unreasonable fee compared to EU price level.
Have you heard of e.g. East India companies? Or United Fruit?

Most of stock is not owned by individual persons (not that there aren't individuals that don't give a shit about enslaving people), but other companies and institutions that by charter prioritize profit. E.g. Microsoft's institutional ownership is around 70%.
> I will maintain that functional and integration tests are more effective than low-level unit tests in most cases

Right, that's pretty much the only advice I've seen that makes sense. The only possible issue is that these tests may have a broader state space so you may not be able to exhaustively test all cases.
I don't like the sphere but to be fair to them, I think it's haptic-heavy movies from what I remember reading! Sort of like a giant IMAX I guess.
> Two years later, and the commitment to “openly share our plans and capabilities along the way” was gone; three years after that and the goal of “advanc[ing] digital intelligence” was replaced by “build[ing] general-purpose artificial intelligence”.

Be no evil, for example. Billions and billions were made when that phrase was erased.
Kalman Filter for Time Series Forecasting in Python
The Chinese list has more Chinese billionaires than the American list has of American billionaires.

I guess it depends on which facts are truthier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm just saying the spec indicates that environment variables can change during runtime.

The spec is the problem in my opinion, you can't implement it in a way that doesn't introduce footguns.
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Quite bad news, imagine a CEO trying to slow down his own company instead of pushing it forward :|
Driving the narrative doesn't mean driving reality. It is clear that Sam and friends are great at manipulating the media. But this is a disaster for Microsoft and the CEO damn well knows it. It is also a personal disaster for Altman and probably not a great move for those who choose to join him.

Time will tell if the OpenAI non-profit vision of creating safe AGI for the benefit of humanity can be revitalized, but it really does look like all involved are basically acknowledging that at best they were fooling themselves into believing they were doing something on behalf of humanity. Egos and profit seeking took over and right now the ethos which they championed looks to be dying.
Even if p = 1 people would have moral dilemmas with it because it hasn’t happened yet (think of Minority Report)
Not using Instagram or WhatsApp in 2023 comes with significant social costs.
UTC does not have a timezone, so it is not a 'naive' timestamp. It just coincidentally has the same format as naive timestamps. Deprecating the utcnow(), because some folk does not think enough, instead of teaching them the correct way, is plain stupid.

Timezones are jurisdictional. Their exact definition may change (in the future). So store datetimes as UTC, depending on your requirements either as Unix epoch or ISO8601 string.
Yes, this! Readwise Reader is fantastic! I use it for reading web pages stripped of ads and other cruft -- and for collecting highlights and notes (eg kindle highlights, captured while reading, trivial to "tag" with eg .vocab or .quote) -- and routing all this great content into Obsidian (my PKM / tool for thought / second brain)....
> And how much you value human rights.

There is no such thing as “human rights.” If you autopsy someone you won’t find any human rights in there. It’s just a party trick that allows Europeans to insist that their cultural emphasis on individualism is superior to other cultural values.

> And how much you value people not being tortured for this. The way muslim countries do it rely on systematic excessive cruelty

For the most part, it’s aunties chiding you, which is only figurative rather than literal torture.
And g-code is still in use till this day
The author is simply stating the facts, not putting the blame on anyone! It has historically been extremly hard to motivate people with anything other than money, at least at a coporate level. Even ideals such as religion where money and power are not the focus have been eventually used as a mean to gain money and power!
That is them, yes. On the "About" page under "Legal Details".
Genuinely curious.

Except in the shovelware games industry and the instagram ad scam industry where is AI actually, currently, threatening to take away jobs?
What do people get fired for?

Making the boss and/or the company look bad.

Soon enough, Altman is going to make Microsoft look bad. When? We can wait.
corporate startups are an oxymoron
Mm.

I'm 50-50 split on thinking I regard that kind of art as a vehicle for tax evasion, vs. thinking the "difficulty" is the money wasted on it (which is still Veblen "look at me I'm rich I can waste money on something pointless").
They often do. That doesn't make them right. There's probably going to be a massive AI bubble similar to what we've seen with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and after that bubble pops, AI will probably end up discredited for a decade before it picks up again. It's happened before.
Food is a drug. Hunger is hangover.
Ask HN: Will compute power be limited by regulation due to AI threat?
Recent events got me thinking that future regulations may limit access to compute power if AI growth proves dangerous. Much as access to advanced weaponry is restricted. Thoughts?
I want Facebook to die. It is a terrible stain on humanity.
> I really don't understand the argument here, why are Altman and Brockman the most formidable AI team?

Recruiting. At the end of the day, that's the most important job a CEO has. If they can recruit the best AI people, they're the most formidable AI team.

> Are they going to pay then >$1M salaries?

I would wager very heavily that they are. My guess is Satya more or less promised Sam that he'd match comp for anybody who wants to leave OpenAI.
The presence of unethical people does not imply that all people are unethical, only that people are different. And that's my point. Reducing a company to "they will always maximize shareholder value" is incorrect - for many, many companies that is simply not true.
I'm a bit confused. Does MSFT have a perpetual license to the original OpenAI LLC's IP *or* the capped company OpenAI "Global" LLC that was specifically created for MSFT's stake? Because, if the latter, it seems like the new/abandoned/forsaken OpenAI could just fork any new IP back into its original non-microsoft-stained LLC and not be mere tools of Microsoft moving forward.
I remember when Facebook first came out. Someone told me, "join this cool social network".

I was curious and took a look...at their privacy policy. After one reading, I closed the browser and never joined to this day.

What a horrible company. May they burn.
Every other pro Sam worker posted a heart emoji as a retweet to the same tweet within the same time
The narrator explained in the video. Damp ceramic powder was used, and was placed under tons of force while in the mold. The ceramic powder then stayed in-tact when removed from the mold for firing.
Is it though? Veryone I know in the art community is quite pissed at copyright violations.
Update:

Satya got what he wanted, @sama joins MS to create pretty much a spin-off startup there, OpenAI on suicide watch with employees leaving, absolutely no new funding ever and a just-appointed CEO that wants to "pause" the company, lol.

Right all along!
Just a tip for OpenAI employees that plan on leaving: this is probably one of the best opportunities you’ll ever get to start your own thing. If you’re joining a new startup make sure you’re a founder and have a good chunk of the equity. For the next few months there will be a line of investors waiting at your door to give you money at a wild valuation, take it and do what you always wanted and know that if it doesn’t work out there will be plenty of large companies ready to acquire you for much more than they’d ever be willing to pay you.
Indeed. The headline has overeager use of the present tense clearly!
If he was, he signed up to HN at 2!

I do think it's funny how the Blockchain Consultants have become AI Consultants though.
https://qz.com/138458/apple-is-either-terrible-at-designing-...

among others.
There is no objective ethic considerations, furthermore the events unfolding now have absolutely 0 evidence that "ALL" ethic considerations are being thrown overboard.

Godwin's Law.
TLDR:

Open AI structured its organization such that there's no boss. And even if there is one, it's not about the money.

Reality hits Open AI: There is always a boss and it's always about money.
OAI employees have no equity. They have a profit sharing right. The board is clearly not interested in profit.

MS is risk adverse in every way except for one, which is to blow up Google. They will set the world on fire to do that.