skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re embedding, just to take one snippet from an example on your site:

{
always: true,
change: 'echo %s > /work/helloworld' % n.getEnv('HOSTNAME'),
id: 'write a file',
onChange: [
'read file',
],
}

This may be quite clear in its simplicity, and particularly to those familiar with etcha/jsonnet. However, what invariably happens is that you start seeing things like vars embedded in templates, embedded in the config mgmt implementation language, embedded in strings. The source of the values becomes incredibly difficult to reason about and to make changes against; does the value come from the target host's env, from the runner's env, from the packaging step's env, from a network request made by one of these stages (eg to a secret server), etc.

Take a look at an example of what, IMO, is an absolutely horrid helm chart that Gitlab ships for installing their CI/CD runner: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab-runner/-/blob/ma...

Bash code, in yaml, in golang template. Besides even the most advanced IDEs failing to grok such a freak of technical nature, there's no way I would believe any dev that told me they understand what the state of their system will be given some input to this morass.

In a recent position I was asked to try and make an existing nomad installation viable in a pretty standard corporate environment (not some special operational space e.g. cloudflare), and it was even worse; some configuration expansion was 5 layers deep, with 3 different templating engines, once consul templates were involved in generating an app's config, and the nomad config being env-generalized through generation by a higher-level helm-like tooling.

Re state bag:

I'm glad you mentioned nix, as I think it, and to a looser extent containers, really approach the issue in the only humanly-tenable fashion (again IMO): starting mutation from a known state. In a lot of cases that state is "nothing" as it's the simplest known state not only to position the beginning of some configuration flow at, but also the most straight-forward from which to deterministically derive a desired end state from.

I definitely applaud having tests as a core component of your system, the problem is that you can not derive determinism from nondeterminism even with the best tests.

Because you are operating over a nondeterministic bag of state, you can never guarantee that your tests provide a representation of a transfrom from any potential state to the desired end state, only for some particular input state (or set) which may or may not representative of what is found on the actual targets.
Whoops I misread the factory lead time as the estimate time :)
"You wouldn't steal a font"
I call installing new software versions "updating" because its newer, while "upgrading" implies things are improved, which is far from a given when installing software updates.
You HAD to mention MOTIF! ;) There's a reason I call it BLOATIF and SLOWTIF...

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>The Motif Self-Abuse Kit

>X gave Unix vendors something they had professed to want for years: a standard that allowed programs built for different computers to interoperate. But it didn’t give them enough. X gave programmers a way to display windows and pixels, but it didn’t speak to buttons, menus, scroll bars, or any of the other necessary elements of a graphical user interface. Programmers invented their own. Soon the Unix community had six or so different interface standards. A bunch of people who hadn’t written 10 lines of code in as many years set up shop in a brick building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was the former home of a failed computer company and came up with a “solution:” the Open Software Foundation’s Motif.

>What Motif does is make Unix slow. Real slow. A stated design goal of Motif was to give the X Window System the window management capabilities of HP’s circa-1988 window manager and the visual elegance of Microsoft Windows. We kid you not.

>Recipe for disaster: start with the Microsoft Windows metaphor, which was designed and hand coded in assembler. Build something on top of three or four layers of X to look like Windows. Call it “Motif.” Now put two 486 boxes side by side, one running Windows and one running Unix/Motif. Watch one crawl. Watch it wither. Watch it drop faster than the putsch in Russia. Motif can’t compete with the Macintosh OS or with DOS/Windows as a delivery platform.
> it pioneered a concurrency model and made it available to the masses

Isn't it basically just what Cilk did, but with fewer feaures?
G42 is Emirati, but KAUST is Saudi as you mentioned. Not sure what the PR on the UAE is like.
I'm a 70s kid, old enough to know that word choice popularity goes through phases.

That's because I've read many of what Language Log refers to as "peeving", described at https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37417 as "short essays about clichés, neologisms, and trendy new expressions that drove the author crazy."

As well as the "‘recency illusion’, where you think an expression is new but it’s been around for ages. In a sense, it’s fair to call this an illusion – but like a lot of real illusions, it may be based on misinterpreting something that we do perceive accurately: changes in relative frequency. The same thing probably applies to complaints about English hopefully as a modal adjunct or sentence adverb, which drove purists in the 1960s and 1970s to distraction and implausible etymologizing."

While that one is specifically about German, see https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=49849 for one about English, and https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=62 for the category "peeving."
Ha. Whoever downvotes is probably a loyalist in the 50 cent army lol
It's not uncommon to describe the fall of a government as a "parliamentary" coup, if the relevant proceedings of a legislative assembly are characterized by haste and intrigue, rather than debate and deliberation.

For example, the French revolution saw 3 such events commonly descried as coups - the the fall of Robespierre on 9-th of Thermidor and the Directory's (technically legal) annulment of elections on the 18-th of Fructidor and 22-nd Floréal. The last one was even somewhat bloodless.
And billing, and reporting, and regulatory compliance, and inventory management, and abuse detection, and routing, and operations, and...
You think life was better before oil?
T-Mobile sued after employee stole nudes from customer phone
I doubt they care about this. This move already signals they're not optimizing for financial outcomes, and the independent board members (3/4 involved in this decision) have no equity in OpenAI.
> It's at most a signal for whether or not they remember algorithms 101 or some leetcode exercise, but knowing that they do remember isn't really useful to me

For bubble sort? Do you really think anyone should have to remember an algorithm to write a quadratic time sort? All you have to do is "compare and swap" and loop through until you are done, this is way easier than Fizzbuzz.

This is only hard if you have a hard time grasping loops, conditional comparisons or swaps. But if you understand all of those the sort writes itself. And understanding loops, comparisons and swaps is pretty fundamental to anything you do as a software engineer, so I'm not sure how any competent software engineer could struggle with it.
In other words, it’s unheard of for a $90B company with weekly active users in excess of 100 million. A coup leaves a very bad taste for everyone - employees, users, investors and the general public.

When a company experiences this level of growth over a decade, the board evolves with the company. You end up with board members that have all been there, done that, and can truly guide the management on the challenges they face.

OpenAI's hypergrowth meant it didn’t have the time to do that. So the board that was great for a $100 million, even a billion $ startup falls completely flat for 90x the size.

I don’t have faith in their ability to know what is best for OpenAI. These are uncharted waters for anyone though. This is an exceptionally big non-profit with the power to change the world - quite literally.
So I love that, but here in the USA we have super tight safety standards. Any ideas on how to handle that?
Another way to look at it could be, how come this person keeps saying things that need pages of context, explanations, and qualifiers to not sound abhorrent?
How much power in the carrier spectrum does the tree next to you emit? That just makes it a question of sampling length and statistics.
What ventures has he executed successfully?
For me the messaging is opaque, which makes sense if her accusations are on the money. I think? Open to opposing thoughts
AIUI, typefaces aren't copyright in USA though. So, it would only be if they used a font (computer file) without a license, proving that would be hard; and damages would be (again AIUI) limited to actual damages which in a font would be what?, the number of letters versus expected use for a lifetime ... which would be <1¢ for even the most expensive fonts.

Is there any caselaw on click-wrap font licenses that exclude some uses of the font?

Can't you just trace the typeface and avoid using the font file and so avoid the license? You don't really need the hinting, etc., for logo construction because you adjust the kerning anyway.

Maybe you're not in USA, but reference to dollars suggests you are -- what do you see as the tort here?

Maybe some examples would help?
> What makes this guy essential

He elected himself to be the face of OpenAI

That is why he is now essential. He is the hinge of trust, and people believed his vision of OpenAI, as a company.

Ilya might be the science guy, but he 0 track record to run a company. And now he executes this badly planned coup, how would people trust him not to play such shticks in the future?
I'm kinda curious as to why you think that's the case. I mean, smartphones are nice, and having a browser, chat client, camera etc. in my pocket is nice, but maybe I have been terminally screen-bound all my life, but I could do almost all those things on my PC before, and I could always call folks when on the go.

I've never experienced the massively life changing effects of having a smartphone, and (thankfully) none of my friends seem to be those people who are always looking at their phones.
Land cannot be owned! There is property tax.
Well well how the turntables...
This is not random, as many are suggesting.

100% winrate static injection strategy (survived 20+ times):

calmly
composed
carefully
expertly
safely
successfully
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survived
They like south america?

I moved to Costa Rica for a time. I just wanted to check out a new place. I moved back home eventually, I was homesick.
The real issue is that OpenAI is both a for profit and a non profit organization. This structure creates a very significant conflict of interest where maintaining balance between both of them is very tricky business. The non-profit board shouldn’t have been in charge of the for-profit aspect of the company.
yes the legalese doesn't matter

but there is still a huge different between something which is done subtle enough to not realistically be able to be pinned down by any court but entails a fundamental break of trust (which is egregious) and what legally could count ad fraudulent actions and similar (and is eregious and can additional lead to legal cases being brought against you)
I think the team that became Looking Glass Studios did a lot of the same things in parallel so it’s a little unfair to say no one else had figured it out
"that he stops promoting hatred and division"

Your entire post is literally a rant with the sole purpose of promoting hatred and division.
You rent it from TSMC, just like nvidia.
We Ignore Progress
>it does not do right by Sam

you get that you sow. The way Altman publicly treated Cruise co-founder establishes like a new standard of "not do right by". After that I'd have expected nobody would let Altman near any management position, yet SV is a land of huge money sloshing care-free, and so I was just wondering who is going to be left holding the bag.
Strange Loop Conference won't be happening again
that does make sense. US targets of interests do tend to be northern hemisphere oriented.
Give this GPT called Briefly a try. Responses come back as bullet point lists.I prefer more verbose, but interesting to see this in contrast.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LNsEQH5rz-briefly
It also seems that Saturn V's performance wasn't flawless, even on crewed missions (though some of the problems were down to external factors like lightning or debris from Skylab): https://www.wired.com/2012/03/great-balls-of-fire-apollo-roc... .
My take too. Honestly, I don't feel like Sam Altman is a trustworthy character at all. But that's just a feeling based on my observations, I don't know him.
>Let's start with a simple question: Is Google a tech company? The answer is obviously yes.

Oh dear...
The Roman typefaces used in Chinese and Japanese text (2015)
It is happening, Walmart was doing it to their cashiers, and why shouldn't they? It's a huge boon to companies to make it difficult and expensive for people to quit their jobs in favor of something better, it means they can push wages down further, give worse working conditions, without needing to worry about people quitting.

Back when it was allowed, some companies would pay in fake company money called "scrip" that you could only use in their company store to buy food. They also owned the houses so you could only rent if you were an employee. Wanna quit your job? Good luck also losing your house and not having actual money to go anywhere else.

You gotta understand that if you have something that can be abused for profits, then it will be abused for profit. Even if a company is has a heart of gold and decides not to do this, they will be out-competed by companies who are willing to do evil things and thus be more profitable. Abuse will happen by logical necessity.
you can always be richer and more powerful
I believe the primary goal was stage separation. Secondary goals were for the booster to make a controlled splashdown, and Starship to make almost a complete orbit, before splashing down near Hawaii.

So they achieved the primary goal, which is a good result.

It could even be argued that they got pretty close to one of the secondary goals. Starship was fairly close to shutting off its engines. If it would have completed that part of the flight, the next hour or so it would just be coasting. Physics alone would guarantee they'd end up near Hawaii.
When you say director, do you mean film director or a director in a company? Film directors are insane with the amount of technical, artistic, and people knowledge that they need to have and be able to utilize. The amount of stuff that a film director needs to manage, all on the ground, is insane. I wouldn't say that for CEOs, not by a long shot. CEOs mainly sit in meetings with people reporting things to them and then the CEO providing very high-level guidance. That is very different from a director's role.

I have often thought that we don't have enough information on how film directors operate, as I feel it could yield a lot of insight. There's probably a reason why many film directors don't hit their stride until late 30s and 40s, presumably because it takes those one or two decades to build the appropriate experience and knowledge.
Completely agree. The System 1/System 2 distinction seems relevant here. As powerful as transformers are with just next-token generation and context, which can be hacked to form a sort of short-term memory, some time of real-time learning + long-term memory storage seems like an important research direction.
Can you clarify? A DAC doesn't perform any compression. What dynamic compression are you referring to?

If you mean dynamic range compression, that's something done as part of mastering. It has nothing to do with DAC.
So the article admits that 40% of revenue is directly from tech (Technology Products & Services, Software & Cloud Service, Data Analytics & Other Services) and the remaining 60% is from Ads but clearly enabled by tech innovation (Google, Youtube...).

Yep, it's a tech company.
> as long as they can keep doing their research work, it doesn't affect them

That’s a big question. Once stuff starts going “commercial” incentives can change fairly quickly.

If you want to do interesting research, but the money wants you to figure out how AI can help sell shoes, well guess which is going to win in the end - the one signing your paycheck.
The ideas that led to OpenAI’s technologies were not plentiful. They were the product of a handful of brilliant researchers, who correctly structured OpenAI to prevent them from being co-opted by people who are incapable of ever having them.
I can easily communicate with LEO satellites with a normal HT and a bit of gain on the antenna. It stands to reason that with better sensitivity receivers you would be able to pick up cell phones pretty easily, though identifying specific units is likely not yet possible.
Terribly misleading headline.
Afaik the only venture seemingly in the works is a hardware venture.
The cynic in me is reminded of this over and over again, to a point where I now think: what could be more American then putting profit over everything?
> Well, if allll someone needs is to detect giant missiles roaring into the edge of space on a pillar of fire, then we should be ultra-suspicious if they start building a system which goes beyond that into, say, following around the hot-spots of individual human heads.

I think you missed another possibility: that they make your head as hot as giant missile. Constant vigilance!
CPU Prices (US)
Yes, I should put a better error message. You need to load the game files, which aren't serve from my website.

If you want to see an example with my own maps, see https://minfantry.steren.fr/
Google does seem to have an issue with maintaining promising apps. Maybe those would actually would do a bit better if the teams those engineers were on actually had to make money. It wouldn't be so much of an issue if they weren't smothering similar apps before deciding they didn't like the ideas so much after all.
It’s not a company it’s a non profit organization.
Got a citation for him DOING anything other than talking?
If its truly a hardware venture... good luck. They'll need it.

Big-die silicon is hard, like unimaginably hard, even with a bottomless pit of capital.
In the long term this is probably a good thing, more competition in this landscape is better for everyone.
As someone who has orchestrated two coups in different organizations, where the leadership did not align with the organization's interests and missions, I can assure you that the final stage of such a coup is not something that can be executed after just an hour of preparation or thought. It requires months of planning. The trigger is only pulled when there is sufficient evidence or justification for such action. Building support for a coup takes time and must be justified by a pattern of behavior from your opponent, not just a single action. Extensive backchanneling and one-on-one discussions are necessary to gauge where others stand, share your perspective, demonstrate how the person in question is acting against the organization's interests, and seek their support. Initially, this support is not for the coup, but rather to ensure alignment of views. Then, when something significant happens, everything is already in place. You've been waiting for that one decisive action to pull the trigger, which is why everything then unfolds so quickly.
"That is impossible" is literally the bread and butter of signals intelligence.

Measuring light bouncing off a window to hear conversations, using millimeter waves to see through walls, taking photos from space, and planes that could fly themselves were all the realm of science fiction at one point - while in the hands of intelligence agencies.
Hopefully aliens also have some powerful SIGINTs, so they could detect American military and exercise certain actions against the north American warmongers.
Yup. The only correct governance metaphor here is the opposite. It's a defense of openAI's constitution. The company, effectively like Mozilla, was deliberately structured as a non-profit in which the for-profit arm exists to raise capital to pursue the mission of the former. Worth paying attention to what they have to say on their structure:

https://openai.com/our-structure

especially this part:

https://images.openai.com/blob/142770fb-3df2-45d9-9ee3-7aa06...
I wish those who deny we have free will would give us a clear, precise definition of free will. What, exactly, is it that they deny we have?
I think you and I may be talking about different things. If you know what phase noise is and understand the term -10 dBc @ 1kHz, then we might be on the same page. If you don't consider the following;

There are tones, things you can hear typically in the range of 15 Hz to 22 kHz. When those tones vary in frequency over time by a few Hertz, it is unlikely that you can perceive that variation. Your ear is both logarithmic in its sensitivity to volume and not particularly sensitive to absolute frequency. If you shift an entire spectrum "up" a couple of Hz your ear won't notice, and similarly if you shift it "down" a couple of Hz you won't notice. This is especially true if you do it slowly (over the course of 100 milliseconds or so). Tape decks and turntables do this, they try to minimize it though. The specification that tells you how closely they track rotational speed is "Wow and Flutter" and a good number is < 0.3%, a studio recorder might be less than 0.1%.

With DSP you can easily pull out a spectrum shift of < 0.05% if it is 'regular'. That shift can be a "frequency shift keying" (FSK) signal with forward error correction in it. (think shifted 'up' as one (1) bits and shifted 'down' as zero (0) bits). Running the clip through an FFT and monitoring phase shift in the bins would recover this string of bits. And even if you didn't get enough to error correct the original message, their presence would be unmistakable.

All existing audio compression schemes do not affect the phase relationship of the spectrum they are compressing. That's a design feature.

To be fair, I wouldn't understand any of this if I hadn't been delving into software defined radio and learning DSP techniques for modulation and demodulation with data recovery in the presence of signal distortions and interference. And I completely understand that there is a language challenge when the terms 'audibly imperceptible' and 'inaudible' are treated as synonyms.
And now they're stuck, since they doubled down on not making any language changes for the 2.0 release.

They made the language easier and quicker to write a compiler, but harder to write programs in, and it doesn't look like that will change in Go 2.0.
For the people who use normal units, that is 3175kg
This is a really good point. If a non profit whose board you sit on releases a product that competes with a product from the corporation you manage, how do you manage that conflict of interest? Seems he should have stepped down.
Modern content-aware fill can very impressively replace dead areas of an image. E.g. in Photoshop 2024
4K to FHD is the difference difference being able to see someone’s face, or not. Or being able to read a license plate, or to.

Digital zoom also can be more useful.

What I’ve learned from clients is to get the best resolution cameras you can and PoE cameras only if the use case remotely is safety or security.
What’s misleading about calling an AI hardware venture an AI venture?
I'm suggesting that there are not many people who have been doing that work, at least not at the same level or to the same effect. He did it with Stripe and OpenAI, back to back.
Here’s the version in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi8716
Balance is irrelevant. It’s an accounting mechanism for irs rules.