skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So. that isn't "money", that's "debt"; and, in fact, the article covers this...

> Money could be deposited in a bank, whereby it would retain its value because the bank would be responsible for the stamps. To avoid paying for the stamps, the bank would be incentivized to loan the money, passing on the holding expense to others. In Gesell’s vision, banks would loan so freely that their interest rates would eventually fall to zero, and they would collect only a small risk premium and an administration fee.
A $10 MIO investment seems like nothing in that area.
I was a kindle user and recently switched to Pocketbook. I’ve been buying new ebooks from ebooks.com which are often already drm free. For me, there haven’t been any downsides.
Ah, but do they use cellular networks, which I presume is the standard, or some other technology?
> Suppose you want to be really good at predicting the next word. If you want to be really good, you have to understand what’s being said. That’s the only way. So by training something to be really good at predicting the next word, you’re actually forcing it to understand.

Ok, so in this framing you'll just get stuck below the "really good" level because the training isn't based on understanding
This only goes back to 1913, but says $1 in 1913 is worth $30.65 today. That's pretty rough. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
They have something in writing. OpenAI created a for-profit joint venture company with microsoft, and gave it license to its technology.
A literal brain in a vat.
Becoming a good coder is like mastering anything, it takes deliberate practice, discipline and time.

“I tried to do a 12 week course in 4 weeks” … and failed, fell into a flurry chaos of self doubt and gave up.

You are not going to shortcut it, you’re running in circles because you cut too many corners.

Take a big breath, focus yourself, divide your tasks into smaller chunks until you can actually solve them, and keep going. There IS NO QUICK FIX.
In a non-profit the role of a board is oversight, not appeasement of "investors" or stakeholders/donors. Why would going to them be required to determine if an executive had lied to the board?
Wherever it is, I'll wager that the apple tart is not as good ...
The same reason you can't get map keys without a library or looping yourself. "Simplicity" (for go maintainers).
dope yea that's awesome!
In fields like software or quant finance, I imagine a lot? Investopedia says that 200 salary and 500+ total is "not uncommon" for a quant, and that even entry level is 120-150. At 120k, 1/3 pay puts you at the median personal income in the US, which I'd say is a pretty sweet deal. At 200, you're close to median household at 1/3.

People in this thread are saying you "only" get your base. If they really do get full base pay of 200k, that puts them in the 94th percentile to take a forced vacation.
There are more than two economic systems, and none of them are natural or aligned with humanity's nature. That's something capitalists tell themselves to feel better about the level of exploitation needed to create a 1% class.

So, is exploitation and lying and theft part of our nature? Capitalism only rewards sociopathic behavior. It cannot be prosocial.
> "operate under the assumption that co-founders and investors are not going to screw you"

Think this is good advice for day-to-day interactions for everyone but it will always run into limitations. Especially for an edge case like OpenAI

I'm unbiased and not super familiar with this situation either but the quote above makes me think of "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I bought it. I love it. I wonder when the next version will come out.
I recently discovered Monaspace [0] and was fairly impressed by its texture healing feature, besides generally looking nice. And it's free.

[0] https://monaspace.githubnext.com/
> No it isn't, and yes it does. By definition, the more features I add to something, the more complex it becomes. So yes, Go achieves it's simplicity precisely by leaving out features.

More complex for whom? Not having generics made the compiler simple, but having to copy and paste and maintain identical implementations of a function (or use interface) adds more complexity for users.

Similarly, adding a better default HTTP client arguably makes Go more complex, but the "simple" approach results in lots of complexity and frustration for users.

> All of these are behavior and operators that are documented in the language spec. So how is any of these a "footgun"?

Perhaps I could have been clearer. I didn't mean that the entire list was of footguns, just that there are lots of confusing and unintuitive things beginners need to learn.

Some actual footguns off the top of my head:

- using Defer in a loop

- having to redeclare variables in a loop

- having to manually close the body of a http response even if you don't need it
Nice try SkyNet
> That the board took this action without consultation with key investors is madness.

It's a non-profit board, yea?
Honestly at this point the theory that makes most sense to me is that OpenAI got a new internal result which was notable enough that there was a major disagreement at the board level about how to respond to it.

Which feels like complete science fiction, but it comes closest to explaining why the non-profit board would move so quickly and disruptively.
I read alot. Saw many rumors. I'm aware of the various 'insider scoops'. I still maintain we really don't know what happened, more or less.

I'm certain of this though... when Greg Brockman walked out the door, they lost a major piece of talent.

That guy was a true believer. His enthusiasm was infectious. It traveled across the video link... You could feel how passionate he was about the future of artificial intelligence and it's capacity to change humanity for the better.

I'm sure he'll throw himself at something very cool for the next run.
Customary International Humanitarian Law: Laws of Warfare
I'm not a lawyer but their original announcement seemed very close to libel and I would think Sam has some legal options should he choose to pursue them.
Indeed, material from logging can end up in a plant to be burned for electrical power. But: that's after the lumber industry has had its way with the logs and by that time you have sawdust and odds and bits, these are pulped and compressed into pellets, those are then burned.
I thought of this exact comment and I couldn't find it. Good call.
Yes because cross platform frameworks like Electron and before that Java Spring were the bees knees
Ok, here's a (hopefully) better worded puzzle, again made up by myself right now.

There are 12 frogs. Five are green, 3 red, and 4 yellow. Two donkeys are counting the frogs. One of the donkeys is yellow, the other green. Each donkey is unable to see frogs that are the same color as itself, also each donkey was careless and missed a frog when counting. How many frogs does the green donkey count?

GPT4 answers 6 every time for me.

My point is that GPT is capable of a certain amount of "reasoning" about puzzles that most certainly don't exist in it's training data. Playing with it, it's clear that in this current generation the reasoning ability doesn't go very deep - just change the above puzzle a little to make it even slightly more complicated and it breaks. The amazing thing isn't how good at reasoning it is, but that a computer can reason at all.
it's definitely not an art project without a generous stretch.
The disagreement seems to be exactly about whether OpenAI’s recent trajectory is beneficial to society at large.
Well... that'll teach them pesky nav-bots to threaten populated areas.
They are a net negative in the sense that you have some of the brightest minds in the country working on derivatives instead of being in STEM labs
You can’t run Plex well on just about anything if you need to support transcoding
Thank you for your response and for sharing your personal perspective. I think tackling the long-tail of companies that need low-level tech work is a good track to consider, especially if it leave me some mental freedom to pursue passion projects on the side.

I've spent (probably too much) time in a 'soul-searching' place; I'd love to do some creative work and have some affinity for music, and maybe there's an intersection where my love of music and my love of code has enough economic value to make a living off of.
There's a new project, Inshellisense[1], that provides fig's completion directly in the shell. Also check out zsh-autocomplete[2], and if you use iTerm2, the built-in autocomplete functionality[3].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167363

[2]: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53848666/
I'm not even sure how I feel about the executive management part.

Yeah, for direct/important enough competitors, I can see it. Senior enough management can't help but have knowledge of a lot of things that neither the public nor most rank-and-file employees don't--and act on it at a new place even if they're not sending confidential board meeting presentations around. On the other hand, execution ability and culture matter for a lot too.
Oh, I missed that GP said "of your answer" instead "of my question", as in: "What is the third word of this sentence?"

For prompts like that, I have found no LLM to be very reliable, though GPT 4 is doing much better at it recently.

> you literally do not understand how LLMs work

Hey, how about you take it down a notch, you don't need to blow your blood pressure in the first few days of joining HN.
So what did Sam actually do besides a social media startup that was more or less a flop into being gifted a high position at ycombinator where he then had a few good investments during literally the easiest time to invest in tech history? I’m sure there’s something I’m missing, but there’s not much public info.
I don’t see this as an eye for an eye bullshit so not sure what “justification” you are talking about. There was calm then there was an incursion that targeted civilians followed by military operation to root out Hamas.

Non Hamas Palestinians are obviously caught in the crossfire
Microsoft didnt give money to a non-profit. They created a for profit company, and microsoft gave that company 11B, and Open AI gave it the technology.

OpenAI shares ownership of that for-profit company with Microsoft and Early investors like Sam, Greg, Musk, Theil, Bezos, the employees of that company.
Why has this post been flagged?

It's at 129 points so it seems a lot of people are curious.

I wish HN had a "vouch" button for flagged submissions, the way there is for flagged comments.

I don't think this is the most interesting post I've ever seen, but nothing about it seems flag-worthy as far as I can see.
I would very much doubt it. This would likely require work on Xorg itself (a new protocol extension, maybe; I don't believe X11 supports anything but RGB, [+A, with XRender] for windows, and you'd probably need YUV support for this to be useful), which no one seems to care to do. And the GTK developers seem to see their X11 windowing backend as legacy code that they want to remove as soon as they can do so without getting too many complaints.
sold to another company four years later, about a year after I left
Diesels running constant RPM will increase throttle with increasing load to keep their RPM. That's a matter of injecting more fuel. It's how every diesel based generator works.

As for high octane kicking diesel's butts: yes, but that fuel is far more expensive so it tends to be diesel that wins that particular contest in the economy department.
What happens in your country when you go the hospital and they figure out you have cancer. Does the state pay for the treatment or you go from millionaire to dead family weight overnight? :-)

Money is nice but passed a certain point, the real problems are rarely solved with more money.
I think that was not intended, it's just that the control of the rocket was lost. The plan was just a normal stage seperation, just like on the Falcon.
Sounds like they were the perfect fit in the pre GPT-3, ChatGPT, DALL-E world

Honestly I don’t understand the drama around 2 executives who have not done any transformer research or whatever will come after transformers

The GenAI world will be fine without the ceo of cryptoballs or whatever his other company is
Don't forget the massive domestic government spending on defense projects and general war materiel. Wars are expensive, and the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, etc. made BANK off of it.
That's what the `func foo() (*T, error)` pattern is for. It's actually better than syntactic sugar for optional values because now you also have a descriptive reason for why the value is nil.

But if you really cannot afford to return more than one bit of information, do `func foo() (*T, bool)`.
You highlight a more general problem: the social/economic function of finance is to be a service industry to ensure there is liquidity available (that other people can use for their purposes).

What bugs me is that somehow society lionizes people in the money industries over those doing equivalent service jobs like gardening, lawyering, much less more important ones like garbage collection.
Will* Starship? Yes.
And doing so is an order of magnitude more complex than Saturn V.
Thanks for sharing your response. I like the idea of having a specialty in specific membranes like migrations or accentuating my requirements gathering work and soft skills, and building a reputation as a team lead or designer. I dread the thought of EM but that might be a relatively safe bet once I tighten up my resume and pitch.
> Lockheed is now tracking phones

I get that the satellite can track the radio emissions from phones, but can they differentiate between different phones? - pick up the signal and track device by SIM IMEA/ICCID etc
> That the board took this action without consultation with key investors is madness.

Are you expecting them to reach out to Microsoft and ask "we're thinking of firing our CEO. How does that grab you?"

I don't think this is the type of thing you can really do by consulting outside groups.
> most cancer is still diagnosed and treated in a "classical" manner.

This is half-true at best.

As someone who's helped build FDA-approved genomic tests for cancer treatment, a huge proportion of cancers (in the US) are treated by sequencing and informing treatment based on sequence results. Especially among stages 3 and 4.

Diagnosis of early-stage (1 & 2) cancer via genomics is a difficult problem, because when the cancer is small, so is the amount of DNA it gives off. Liquid biopsy tests have a lot of trouble reliably distinguishing that small signal from noise, and it's not really cost-effective to test every single person for stage 3+ cancer via blood tests on a regular basis. Treatment of some early-stage cancers can suffer from the same problem, where it can be difficult to obtain a sufficient sample of cancer genetic material.

But the treatment landscape for late-stage cancers looks utterly different than it did 20 years ago. The idea that most stage 4 cancer is still treated in a "classical" manner in the US is patently false.
Yes, market conditions and competitor landscape are a big factor too.
So instead of just paying a few bucks a month I’m going to go through the trouble of trawling the internet to find a good torrent and then set up my own Plex server (been those done that) - alternative I can just open an app and not think about it.
i bought and have been using Berkeley Mono exclusively. it's well worth the cost
This is awesome, I'll try it out when I get back to the office. Very nice find
You see unraveling, I see a highly performant R&D organization being steered back on the right direction. GPT store? Give me a break.
X Corp will be filing a 'thermonuclear' lawsuit against Media Matters
That sounds spectacularly unhealthy
In any board, the board's role is not strictly oversight but also working to preserve the health of the organization and to meet meet organizational goals.

Pissing off all your stakeholders with a snap decision isn't great governance. Particularly egregious circumstances might make it necessary.

Finding something wrong might require action, but a board's responsibility is also to make the corrective action in a responsible manner that is in the organization's interests.
Right. I believe you, of course. But since it wasn't just any court, but the "Supreme Administrative Court," we would expect the security to be a bit more tight. Makes you wonder what is happening in local courthouses.
I don’t see a world where MSFT invests more money into OpenAI with the current governance structure after this. The fact that MSFT didn’t have a board seat was unusual before this. Now it just makes MSFT look like fools.
Isn’t FHE by definition not INDCCA? Weak objection imo
That was never a real thing to begin with?
Interesting thanks.
It may not be representative of a majority but it seems pretty widespread, and it is representative of a type of problem led lights are prone to, at least right now.

I’ve had issues with household LEDs that needed replacing well before expected lifespan.

I also saw this article some time back discussing issues with LEDs.
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investi...

I’m not against LEDs, but the usage and implementation in a lot of cases to date could be better.
Pretty efficient! E.g. a recent paper describes a system to do fully private search over the common crawl (360 million web pages) with an end to end latency of 2.7 seconds: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600006.3613134
Hmm, you must be from a newer generation than mine.

'Pause' in this context was seldom used until recently. The use of 'pause' has exploded over the last decade or so when, before, 'suspend' was used.
The problem with a perovskite solar cell is the fragility and life span of the solar cell. If they can stablize the material to last 20+ years it would be entirely worth the cost and development of the solar cells. But right now it is expensive.

They last about 5 years if you're lucky. Although there has been improvements since I last ready, but grain of salt.
That makes sense. It would be like being able to attribute deaths due to christianity on the bible because there is a geneology of ideas?
I already live in a world where money can expire in 60 to 120 days.

It's called a check, and hardly anybody accepts them anymore.
> I cannot think of a single facet of their day-to-day operations, product roadmap, competitive position, etc. that would be improved by this decision.

This is a genuine question, can anyone explain to me what the actual value of San Altman is?

I don’t know anything about the guy except the core public outline of his career but I find his timeline confusing.

He founded Loopt which by all accounts was unremarkable.

Then he ran YC during a period where at best you can say it didn’t get wrecked, though it seems to have lost focus and influence. He left YC in a situation that seems similarly abrupt minus the PR drama which was kept completely under wraps.

Then OpenAI which is a genuinely impressive organization but by now he’s been in personal conflict with basically everyone involved and doesn’t seem to have been a driver of the actual technology.

Other than that there’s world coin which is a total grift at best and dystopian at worst. And stuff like Bohemian Grove or whatever.

With all that said I don’t have a personal opinion just observing the broad strokes and trying to figure out how exactly he ended up some kind of kingpin.
> The notion of "hard money" is a joke.

Why? I don't even think modern Keynesians would argue against commodities this confidently, maybe MMT's would?
But that is Ockham's opinion. Doesn't mean it is some unassailable universal truth. The keyword here is "should"; it is a prescriptive opinion, nothing more
So what color was the frog supposed to be in the original question?
They definitely weren't. Not by judging the look on her face off camera. Fun final fact: they never used that bit in the ad that aired. Just her hand holding the cookie :) At first I thought it was a different ad but it wasn't they just changed it.
It is legacy and started to be retired.

Not to mention GL is a massive and gigantic kludge/bloat compared to vulkan (mostly due to the glsl compiler). So this is good to let it go.
https://github.com/ankane/dexter
Wow, really displaying your ignorance here lol

The SpaceX flights are way more efficient and reproducible than the Apollo missions ever were. The only reason they aren't regularly going to the moon is that there isn't a strong incentive to do so.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.md/1PcIx

There’s an interesting detail in here about Sam trying to spin up a chip company with Middle Eastern money. That’s potentially a double point of contention: one for trying to start a company which would be a supplier for OpenAI, and one for taking Middle Eastern money. The latter of course depends on your degree of idealism.
The board of the non-profit doesn't answer to Microsoft etc. The investors own stakes in the for-profit subsidiary.
In such complicated things there's nobody "in charge". Some policy documents etc may be signed by some person in some capacity but this doesn't mean that person dictated the thing in a vacuum.

There were many different voices from many different walks of life of course.
I never said otherwise. My point is that Go is far harder to learn than they're implying. It certainly can't be learned over the weekend — well, maybe it can be, but the code you end up writing will Inevitably be full of resources leaks, panics, nil pointer issues, improperly handled errors, etc. You may be able to put together some basic logic, but you are far from understanding the language.

I don't think it's honest to parade Go as a language that's the paragon of simplicity that's easy to learn when that's simply not true. I also don't think it's honest for people to argue that addressing any of Go's countless warts would somehow make the language more complex or harder to learn.
That was, at heart, a disclosure issue.

The Post Office knew that their prosecution was unsafe but went ahead with it anyway - they had a duty to disclose to the defence any material in their possession that undermined the prosecution case or advanced the defence case.

This is a statutory duty and a police investigation is ongoing into the prosecution.
In a 6 year period, the blog post author has only worked as a software engineer as part of a team for _one year_. That likely explains why he still finds it hard.
This “calm” “ceasefire” of your imagination was in fact a period where hundreds of Palestinians were being killed by Israelis each year, the real horror is that this was indeed less than before. You seem to think that’s below the threshold of importance?
Do do the same for painting acquired for 24 millions
In addition to that, the "system 2" abilities might already be there with "epi" strategies like chain-of-thought prompting. Talking / writing to yourself might not be the most efficient way to think but at least I do it often enough when pondering a problem.
Apropos of this thread, and related to the recent HN post about a new Calibre version release, I googled Calibre and its creator, Kovid Goyal, casually, and was interested to see this older HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32052669

Which does go to show both kinds of opposing viewpoints about this whole "entitled" attitude of some OSS users vs. the maintainers, w.r.t. to the specific case of Calibre and Kovid. Based on that thread alone, it shows that is easy to get prejudiced by one negative comment about a maintainer, whether true or false, and not know about or ignore all the other positive work and behavior by him/her.