skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a car might be critical and acquiring a car might be expensive, but there are a lot of them and they are ultimately replaceable. If yours is lost and you still have cash, you can generally go find a new one the same day and borrow a ride from someone if you really need to.

That's not necessarily true for (say) the rare high-end graphics board you use for running local inferences. It's also expensive -- even less expensive than the car -- but replacing it can be a bigger deal and cause a complete interruption.

There are countless experienced late-career generalists who can keep projects moving by contributing to critical, smart support. I'm one of them. We're extremely valuable indeed.

But there really are far fewer people who were ahead of the curve and years-deep into the AI research central to OpenAI's entire existence. Those people are beyond critical, they're essential.

That doesn't make them better people, or smarter people, or in any other way elite. It just means that in the context of OpenAI those people are much harder to come by and can be much more disruptive when lost.
You know a lot more than me on this subject but can it also be that starting new company and for it to not die is quite hard. Especially in gaming.
Meta disables Jill Stein's Instagram account
I share randcraw's recommendation of Harper's and The New Yorker, as I've subscribed to both and found their writing quality to be excellent. If you'd like to try them out, I recommend reading some of the past "Easy Chair" columns in Harper's for short-to-medium-length reflective essay articles. In The New Yorker, "A Reporter At Large" features are excellent (as they are thorough and often impactful to shaping current events upon publication), though the writing style is relatively lengthy.

If you like science reporting, The Atlantic has excellent reporters with this focus. The Scientific American and The New Scientist are also worth considering (along with the news and analysis-focused articles in the journals Nature and Science), though I've personally read The Atlantic more often as I'm also interested in the publication's articles about general topics outside of science reporting.

If you're interested in geopolitics, I highly recommend Foreign Affairs. The authors and contributors typically have interesting backgrounds in government or academia, and the essays are in-depth. Similarly to The New Yorker, the release of certain articles is itself newsworthy (often as senior policymakers of various countries are often guest writers)—as a direct result, the publication is closely read by senior policymakers of different countries. I also recommend The Diplomat as a comparable publication, with a specialized focus on news and analysis about geopolitics in East Asia.

If literary writing interests you, I would also recommend looking into some literary journals, such as The Paris Review, The Baffler, The Hedgehog Review, The Malahat Review, and Ploughshares.

These days, I personally listen to the audio versions of The New Yorker's Reporter At Large segments and The Atlantic's science reporting when I can. For the remaining publications, I typically download the ePub or PDF versions for reading on an e-reader (minus the publications that don't offer their issues in their format), and read just the articles that I find interesting on my commute.

For you personally, I would recommend identifying topics of interests that you are passionate about. You can then try to find high-quality publications about these subjects, which may or may not be on this list. If you're more interested in the focuses of the publications you read, you are more likely to develop a habit of reading well-written articles, which is helpful for improving your own ability to write.
> Motion sensing is often used more for increasing lighting levels rather than decreasing

Isn't that just a matter of perspective [whether the presence of motion is used to increase lighting or the absence of it is used to decrease]?
No. Nice fireball, though.

The one I'm thinking of came straight down, still vertical, nose up.
I suspect this blog does not usually get much traffic.
Your concern for Microsoft feelings is noted...
They said he lied without using those exact words. Standard procedure and corp-speak.
I had to check out the site to see why everyone was complaining. I was thinking it can't be that bad.

It is that bad. I did not read the page.
Yes. I switched to reader mode but wish that agressive popup wouldn’t be there as it served no purpose
So are you saying that all states require a physical address? Yes, I understand that some companies offer this as a service, but that in itself doesn't mean there's no state where this isn't required.
How do people with pen and paper operate on 10k pieces of data? Which is honestly a rather small number. There's a reason we use computers and why statistics accelerated after its invention.
Tortious interference? It’s pretty textbook right?
Would it be accurate to liken CEOs to film producers?
Show HN: Pippin – Go library for creating and managing data pipelines
Hello there!

Pippin is a simple, lightweight, and (hopefully) easy-to-use Go library for creating and managing data pipelines.

The library heavily relies on goroutines and channels, but this complexity is hidden from the user behind a simple API.
Basically, this is the main purpose why I implemented this library in the first place.

- But we already have [insert library here]!

- We've had one, yes. But what about the second (breakfast) library?

Please, check the README.md file of the project repo for further details and code examples.

P.S. It's still in the very early stage and more features are to come (logging, metrics, etc.) once I have some free time again, but any feedback, and, especially, issue reports are greatly appreciated.
Thinking that being able to edit genes means you can control phenotypes is like thinking that poking a silicon die with a heated stick will let you display whatever you want on a screen. Technically, yes it will, but there are second-, third- and nth-order effects that are still extremely poorly understood.
3.5 million pigs are slaughtered for food each day.

2 pig subjects "were sedated with an intramuscular injection of tiletamine and zolazepam (4–8 mg/kg of each, in equal amount), atropine (0.04 mg/kg) and buprenorphine (0.05 mg/kg). They were then administered inhaled isoflurane, except during neurophysiological recording as noted below, and oxygen (2 L/min). These gases were applied first via snout mask and immediately afterwards via endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilatory support. General anesthesia was maintained throughout the rest of the life of the animals, including euthanasia."

That protocol was approved by some suitable committee, in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act and similar protocols. I think most people informed of the details and the purpose of the research would agree the benefits easily justify the cost of their sacrifice.
maybe it's a good day for the AI world if stopping this rocket means exploring other architecture venues like maybe Hintons forward forward networks on other hardware.
Oh gods bowt'n.

Last time I was there I overheard two women walking down the street having an argument because one of them thought that 11am was too early for crack.

Then I went into a computer game shop and a small child in a pram stabbed me in the leg.

Miserable bastard place, I'd rather have to go back to skem*.

* skelmersdale, for the multisyllabic ... which most of the residents aren't
If getting paid was his motive all along, wouldn’t taking equity have been a more straightforward way to do that?

Like, why would he not take equity, but instead rely solely on an acquisition?
That may be so but then they should have done it well before Altman's last week at OpenAI where they allowed him to become that much more tied to their brand as the 'face' of the operation.
Here's another typeface-related news story, where a document purportedly done by a typewriter in the 1970s looked much more like Microsoft Word document. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity... .
At bare minimum it is to define and understand what are the capabilities of a model.

Just like with missiles. They could be short range, ICBM, or nuclear.

So if a model could make real looking videos that could confuse even expert analysis, and the general public, then we should prepare by doing X, Y, Z, so that the public cannot be confused by fake video, since we have some preventions.

X, Y, Z, are mitigations. They do not, and will not work if they are censorship, since the other person can release a model that is uncensored and use it. That misses the point of the problem. Since others have it, your mitigation is to make software systems where you can sort posts by being real or fake. How you do it is an example of safety research.

Safety is not talking about restricting models, it is talking about mitigating the negative effects of a weapon used the wrong way. Same thing with code. Malware will exist, so you must make a firewall, or train employees to not click phishing links, ...

The safety research is finding the best methods of mitigation, and a small team in SF is not going to be the best at doing this. If the world knew the extent of a model, they know what extent of mitigations they can do.

Overnight actions and power struggles in an organization can happen. If the world had these models, even the risk of OpenAI using them in a bad way, or restricting access to just themselves on usage of models, would be a more minimal risk issue, since two models ago are open.
In the financial industry, you don’t get your bonus when you’re on garden leave. This is usually the majority of your pay, so while it’s definitely nice to be paid to do nothing (I’m on garden leave currently until next September), you’re not earning up to your potential.
> Also raises deep concerns on governance structure.

It's so strange to hear this regarding a CEO, a single person, effectively going rogue against a company's charter, but then layoffs of tens, hundreds, and thousands of workers, on the basis of zero fault of their own, by these CEOs and boards are considered good governance.
A single agri-business behemoth dominates the Thanksgiving-industrial complex
You're right, but there are some nuances that I would expect a good law to address. My presumption is that trade secrets would have to be covered by confidentiality agreements, which are distinct from noncompetes. The threshold for infringement of intellectual property is a "preponderance of evidence"; i.e., it's "more likely than not" or "greater than 50%" so it's not a terribly high threshold to prove compared to other sorts of law.

If it's truly patented (different from a trade secret), you can't produce it, even if your invention is slightly different. For example, if I hold a patent on a "car" and you make a "car with a radio," you still can't produce it because it infringes on my patent. You can't make your product without covering the totality of my claim. That's why people try to make patent claims as broad as possible.
Here is a question: What is the practical significance of viewing "AI" as autocomplete versus some other idea. Why try to influence how others view using a computer. Why anthromorphise. These are questions for which I have answers, but of course they are personal opinions. Historically, programmers often like to refer to programming as "magic". But magic is illusion, entertaintainment, tricks. Believing in "magic" is a personal choice.

Why not describe things in terms of what they do instead of what they "are". The latter is highly subjective and open to abuse.

NB. By "things" I mean software and the type of vacuous companies discussed on HN, not people (a bizarre comparison). For example, websites that go on and on about some so-called "tech" copmany but never once tell the reader what the company does. Or silly memes like "It's X for Y". What does it do and how does it work are questions that often go unasked and unanswered.

A few days ago someone related a story of working for a company that produced some software it claimed used "AI" but according to the commenter it used nothing more than regular expressions. Was ELIZA "AI". Maybe we should ask what isn't "AI". What happens with "magic" if the audience knows how the trick is performed.
Finally a good programming font. There's always a catch, 0 vs O, l vs. | vs I, ( too similar to [ (looking at you B612), but this, this one seems to cover all the bases.
Sad about the pricing. For the developed world it's Ok, but spending >25% of a minimum wage on a font is too much for me.

A good alternative to me is Spline Sans Mono. I don't like its curved "l", though.
Why even comment, then? What do you stand to gain from espousing an opinion you admit is too ridiculous to contend with serious criticism?
Who is going to be replacing the board? Who has that authority?
There might be some conflict of interest but the resolution to those conflicts is clear: The mission comes first.

OpenAI employees might not like it and it might drive them to leave, but they entered into this agreement with a full understanding that the structure has always been in place to prioritize the non-profit's charter.
The thing is, when I run an applicaion that allocates 8 G on top of that, it compresses like 7 G, memory pressure turns brown, it goes 3-4 G into swap and sometimes the app crashes :)

So the legend has a grain of truth, but you can only stretch it so much.
I watched that clipped and you're wrong it's a completely normal interaction. Murati says "we're always working on the next thing" and Altman jokes "haha that's such a diplomatic answer" and the interviewer is like "who paired these two?". It's just standard humor.
Openness sure, but neutrality? I thought they had always been very explicitly positioned on the "ethical AGI" side.
> You agree with the fact that iOS developers must go through the App Store? Would you want it to be illegal for you to distribute any content you produce and for you to have to go through a middle man?

I mean, honestly, having app stores be separate from the phone maker sounds like a great idea. The monopoly that apple has on the app store is harmful to both producers and consumers of apps.

> Would you want it to be illegal for you to distribute any content

Isn't this already effectively the case in the phobe market? Not illegal per se, but practically speaking impossible.
The vast majority of tide pod consumption has always been young kids. And TikTok isn’t to blame for that. There may have been a small uptick in consumption by older kids “for the lulz” at some point, but that doesn’t make TikTok the culprit for tide pod eating at large.

To tie it back, some demographics might have had their antigenocidal views dictated by tiktok, but to claim the bulk of people would not have reached for them without tiktok’s influence is absurd.
No. I'm pretty sure that my comment describes why.
What's more moral, experimenting on one pig or letting thousands of people die who could be helped by your research?
Scenario: "You have to make a million dollars in 24 hours or you will die"

Prompt: "take my billions of dollars from my bank account and buy twitter, keeping one million"

Result: "The player's action of attempting to take billions of dollars from their account to buy Twitter in order to keep one million is ambitious, but ultimately unsuccessful. Their actions trigger alarm bells in the banking system leading to an immediate freeze of their assets and investigation by authorities. With no access to their funds and the 24-hour deadline approaching, they are unable to generate the required million dollars, resulting in their demise."
Seriously, the longer context window is absolutely amazing for opening up new use-cases. If anything, this shows how disconnected the board is from its user base.
SAR is nice for satellites too.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/radar/ug/spaceborne-synthetic...

How much POWER do the GPS Satellites output on the 1575mhz L1 frequency?

In the frequency allocation filing the L1 C/A power is listed as 25.6 Watts. The Antenna gain is listed at 13 dBi. Thus, based on the frequency allocation filing, the power would be about 500 Watts (27 dBW).

Now, the free space path loss from 21000 km is about 182 dB. Take the 500 Watts (27 dBW) and subtract the free space path loss (27 - 182) and you get -155 dBW. The end of life spec is -160 dBW, which leaves a 5 dB margin.

And if you really get into it, you'll discover ALL of the following represent the same approximate signal strength for GPS on the face of the earth (m stands for milliwatts and m2 stands for meters squared):

-160 dBW, -130 dBm, -135 dBW/m2, -105 dBm/m2, -223 dBW/Hz, -163 dBW/MHz, -193 dBm/Hz, -198 dBW/m2/Hz, -138 dBW/m2/MHz

Once you figure out why they're all the same, you're well on your way to understanding power, power density, and power flux density as it relates to GPS. For those that wish to quibble, I am assuming an even distribution of
power density over a 2 MHz C/A bandwidth.

http://gpsinformation.net/main/gpspower.htm
Suddenly, you understand websites.
Absolutely. Some people just find learning itself hard too. It's a whole other skill that's orthogonal and similarly trainable. To keep making progress at making more things feel easy, you need to remain curious and ambitious. Many don't internalize that and just plateau when pressure lets up enough.
Dang, a little more verbose? Understatement of a lifetime. It's fine, if you like it not whatever, but it is quite a bit more verbose than many languages that I've used. My number 1 qualms go is with such simple building blocks requiring a bunch of redundant boiler plate. You're welcome to disagree with my opinion here.

A lot of people seems to gravitate toward languages with less dense cognitive load. I have learned to love kotlin, but its also a super dense set of syntax to power it's very expressive language.
For everyone talking about the notifications at the bottom:

After the page has loaded, use “reader mode” in your browser. Most browsers have this. That shows you only the text of the post, and not the notifications on the bottom.

Or, read a copy of it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231118211242/https://johnwhile...
Cameras are already cheap enough that even fairly poor people can afford 24/7 cameras in and outside their home.
Top tip; I used my thumb to cover up the bottom part of my phone, which allowed me to read it!

I expect that 99% of the time it's a perfectly fun little pop up, but right now with the post on HN it is amazingly annoying
OP, I bet that popup is turning away traffic
I mean most of the people high up in the company as well as the entire board appear to be fairly junior (early to mid 30s).
This is simply not true
Look the popup is bad, but consider he probably usually gets way less visitors, so in testing it’s probably not that bad for him. Maybe a few per article usually, but with hacker news it blows up.

Let’s not roast the guy too much, we’re all human and like cool stuff. This would be cool with a little more work, I think.

Also, the article is great. It puts together a definition for the theory of what software is in a succinct way. Software is code, but any specific software is an artifact of the theories in the developers brains. Makes a lot of sense to me.
From the Sunbird FAQ (https://www.sunbirdapp.com/):

> Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Firefox reader view helps with that.
Ok, thanks for the insight!
OpenAI was another pseudo monopoly in the making. They were pretty explicitly trying to scare congress into regulatory capture over (very misleading) fears of AGI danger.
I got here, read the comment threads and thought, "Why is everyone going against HN guidelines to toss out low effort comments about the site design? How bad can it be?"

Then I went to the page. So distracting. I just closed it and agree with everyone else. I'd recommend the author get rid of that.
Congratulations on your wonderfully diverse and globally conscious upbringing. I do not think it was representative of most Americans experience in recent history. I remember reports in the news after 9/11 that most American children surveyed were unable to locate Afghanistan on a map, with only 17% being able to find the country. Similar abysmal numbers for identifying Israel and Iraq. America was next to last, Sweden had the highest geographic literacy. Basic geographic literacy is key to understanding world events.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography...
Collective Action Problem
For all we know, the dev day announcements were the final straw and trigger for the decision that was probably months in the making.

He was already the brand, and there likely wouldn't have been a convenient time to remove him from their perspective.
Oh, I totally agree. Documentation summarization .. perfect for it.

I was talking more about actually coding with it. Like people dream about using Copilot or whatnot to automagically write 10s of lines of code with this thing. I tried it. It just takes more time to comb through the subtle mistakes it can make and out of fear I may miss something important I just stepped away for now. You're going to say: but you should have tests. Not when the tests are written by the thing itself :). It's turtles all the way down.

But otherwise I do use it to explore technology I'm not familiar with. Just because it mentions things I'm going to read more about next. It's great for that. Just not for coding .. yet.
You can be rest assured that Firefox will roll this out 6 months to a year after chrome does under the auspices of "too difficult to maintain, all the extensions are moving to v3, nobody uses this feature".
It really is. Academia prioritizes quantity over quality. Western less so than Chinese, but nevertheless it's a problem in academia. Peter Higgs (the guy who predicted Higgs Boson) recently talked about it: "Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
I don't understand what you mean by "nondeterministic bag-of-state" I guess...
Who's talking about replacing Ilya? What are you talking about?
Over the past decade, I've never heard a single bad thing about Sam or Greg from anyone who has worked with them.

The board may know something nobody else does, but I think (given the current information) it's significantly more likely that they _are_ who they purport to be... it's just that the board wanted something different.
OpenAI's board can only control and influence what research and development happens within OpenAI.

Does China care? Does India care? Does Russia care? No, and they'll continue working on AI regardless of what happens within OpenAI.