skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is in a difficult position here.

With Altman gone and the direction of the board being to limit commercial growth, their investment is at risk, and their competitive edge will evaporate, especially if businesses switch to other LLMs as they surely will over time. Altman will also become a competitor.

If instead they are able to pull off a complete transformation of the nonprofit and oust Ilya, they will also lose a core technical leader and risk their investment while being left with the odd dynamic of a parent nonprofit.

Perhaps they could orchestrate some kind of purchase of the remaining portion of the subsidiary. Give Altman the CEO title and move forward while allowing the nonprofit to continue their operations with new funding. This doesn’t solve the Ilya problem but it would be cleaner to spin it off.
You're really undervaluing the fact that MS had a pre-existing relationship with Altman through these deals.
Maybe she is.
The staff calls the shots. The money will go wherever the talent is.
You could try Sarasa Gothic, which is made by the same person who made Iosevka.

Github Link: https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic

Specimen (made by someone else): https://picaq.github.io/sarasa/

There's also mplus 1 code:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/M+PLUS+1+Code

https://mplusfonts.github.io/
And there is already at least one other set of observations reported on arXiv from a September 2023 occultation. It's quite interesting, since the observations are a citizen science effort, with different observers from across Spain and Portugal (in this set) collecting data from multiple observers in multiple locations in order to map out the entire occultation. Part of the motivation was because of the upcoming Betelgeuse occultation and the potential to learn more about Betelgeuse from the observations:

> The stellar occultation by (319) Leona on 13 September 2023 in preparation for the occultation of Betelgeuse

> This represents an extraordinary and unique opportunity to analyze the diameter and brightness distribution of Betelgeuse's photosphere with extreme angular resolution by studying the light curve as the asteroid occults the star from different points on Earth and at different wavelengths. Here we present observations of another occultation by Leona on 13 September 2023 to determine its projected shape and size in preparation for the December 12th event.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12272

(Amazing that it was posted ~8 days after the observations were made!)

The Occultation folks had a presentation on these preparations back this summer:

https://occultations.org/publications/rasc/2023/2023Dec12Leo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7hJ_2DPhM&ab_channel=IOTAA...

It's also worth noting that if you're in a position to observe the occultation of Betelgeuse in December, you can and should participate. You need a DSLR camera in video mode for the light curve and a smartphone (recorded before and after) to accurately mark the time.
Rarely does getting back together with an ex work out. You miss each other in the beginning thinking of only the good things, but very quickly you start to remember why you were exes to begin with.
I've been programming for closing in on 40 years. I got lucky when I was 32 with a position that let me get out of the industry, stay home and raise my daughter while slowly building a libre software project that has been ongoing for almost 24 years, and making a living from that for the last 14 years.

An important reason things have worked out as they have is because I continue to enjoy coding and I don't allow what I work on to be controlled by "business goals".

While your somewhat cynical take may reflect the experience of an overwhelming majority of the people who write software today, it isn't a description of the only pathway along a life as a programmer.
It's nice, but I don't want to be paying for my principal developer font, when there are dozens of free alternatives.

I am also hesitant about working (even free) third-party tools into my workflow. I have had the pleasure of dealing with these tools going belly-up (a couple just did, but they were important -not critical).
Okay, let's do some math. Very rough napkin numbers, but it'll get us close.

A 150Hz blink rate means a period of 1/150s, or ~6.7ms.

The speed of radio signals through air near the surface is a bit lower than c, let's call it 299,250 km/s. [0]

When you multiply those numbers you get ~1500km. That means each 'on' and 'off' signal is 1500km long, moving near c. More specifically, the signals are concentric rings around the transmitter 1500km in width.

Let's look at London. I picked it at random, but it just happens to have a land area around 1500km^2. Assume the transmitter is in the center of the perfectly circular city, that means it takes 3.3ms for each 'on' and 'off' signal to cover the entire city. Each on and off pulse is just about exactly long enough to cover the entire city.

All that together means that at any given moment 50% of the lights in the city are on, and the other 50% are off. That's about as far from synchronized as you can get, really.

Also, light is slightly faster than radio in these conditions[1]. The light reaching the center of the city won't be pulsing in the same phase as the signal you're sending out. It will also be blurred and muddied due to the difference in signal speed. You probably wouldn't see much flicker in the light at all, as 50% of the lights are always on. On average, you receive 50% of the light you would otherwise, but that value will never reach 0. There won't be any periods of total darkness where you can make an observation, as the article suggests.

Moral of the story: light (and radio) is much, much slower than most people realize.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/170108
[1] I couldn't find a confident number in my 16 seconds of searching. Seems like just a few percent faster, but the real number doesn't matter here.

Bonus: you can synchronize the streetlights exactly, but it's much more expensive and complex than a single radio transmitter. You need to have every single light contain a receiver with an accurate clock that synchronizes with a geosynchronous satellite with an atomic reference clock. Search for "GPS disciplined oscillator" if you're curious.
Poe forms a layer of indirection and customization above the models. They feed data through the api and record those interactions, siphoning off what would have been OpenAI customer data.

You could have maybe argued it either way until the most recent OpenAI updates, depending on what you thought OpenAI’s strategy would be, but since the release last week of ChatGPTs with roles they are now clearly in direct competition.
Every software is messy and has skeletons
How does the LED know its own position? At that point you might as well abandon FM and use GPS.
>> A competent board should have asked for legal and professional advice...

I will bite. How do you know they didn't?
I suspect that you’re right, but my concern is more about unknown unknowns here: new tech like this often has failure modes we can’t imagine until the tech itself becomes commonplace.
Aren't you taking sides in a fight without knowing which side was "right"? Or do you believe that loyalty trumps all other values?

At this point I'm in danger of triggering Godwin's Law so I had better stop.
It's funny to me that you still think it's a typo. There's still time to retract this
Thanks — the history of board participation you sleuthed is interesting for sure:

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
Would you also “force” software makers to distribute their content - including GPL software?

Also who determines the terms for which licensing agreements have to be made? Does that apply to all video producers?
I can tell you from my experience. Since I started using frigate+, I’ve had very minimal false positives. I go days without one! Even my lpr camera picks up vehicles at night. It only sees tail/head lights and the license plate, everything else is pitch black. I still get bounding boxes. Would definitely recommend it, plus it’s only going to get better
I don't mind the Verge, I don't agree with everything they've written but I generally like their coverage. My criticism is specific to this situation and the cult of personality in tech media around Sam Altman.
Which one? Temporally Recurrent Optimal Learning [0] [1] [2] is the only one i know about, but it wasn't that famous afaik.

[0] https://www.ruder.io/highlights-nips-2016/
[1] https://medium.com/the-mission/rocket-ai-2016s-most-notoriou...
[2] https://securelist.com/rocket-ai-and-the-next-generation-of-...
The founders and funders.
What about dogs? Any presenting as dogs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
I guess the stupid HN title rule limited the characters
Planet Without Laughter (1980)
I don't use Instagram so I can't tell. But it wouldn't surprise me. Zionist lobbying has put tremendous pressure on the social media giants to censor pro-Palestinian speech they deem antisemitic. So thought crimes such as comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, calling for the decolonization of Palestine, describing the war as a genocide (as I did, because I think Israel is committing genocide) or even writing "from the river to the sea" might have the poster banned. Zionists have lost the ideological battle so their new strategy is to ban as much pro-Palestinian speech as possible by claiming it is antisemitic. Not unlike Israel, who is killing Palestinian journalist to prevent their narrative from reaching Westerners ears.
Which is why investors that signed on got a giant warning saying that the Board could choose to be unprofitable if they wanted and that the mission came first, so they should view their investment as a donation.
Don't take in that direction. In your opinion he may be making a baseless accusation, but just because that accusation is against a female doesn't make it sexist.
I forgot to add, when I walked in there was just two phlebotomists and no one else. And when the old guy walked in there was just the four of us. So it was obvious quest had a rule that customers were supposed to use the kiosk no exceptions. The whole experience smells of management desperation.
Wow. I have always been tempted two give it a go with an Odissey.

Question: how tough is it to integrate a roboflow dataset in the custom model section?

https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/objects
One answer would be to provide something like a GetPointer() method which, if the inner pointer is nil, creates a new struct of type T and returns a pointer to it.
Seems unusual for a nonprofit not to have a written investigative report or performance review conducted by a law firm or auditor. Similar to what happened with Stanford's ousted president but more expedited if matters are more pressing.
I dont think it has a fixed definition. It is an ambiguous idea that AI will not do or lead to bad things.
That'd be awesome, thank you! Would love to read it when it's done! :)

Reach out any time!
got reminded of this video while reading through your blog: https://youtu.be/bkogwxzjwfI?si=9LmyTtB4zWXNLZQK.
"To be replaced soon by the monster they created."

Niiice.
In one case, it couldn’t tell that a slice couldn’t go out of bounds because I was iterating through it backwards instead of forwards. In another case, I had a helper method on a type to deal with initializing a named map type, but it couldn’t see that and thought the map was going to explode from being nil. Those are two false positives I remember off the top of my head. I can look it up again later.
Since some undisclosed time period before he was even sacked according to an article in The Guardian, but it offers little else in addition to the Reuters article.
Strange accusation. I don’t see such comments that lived with the trial version.

Can you back up your astroturfing claim with explicit links to each comment that fits your description?

Because I found none.
883, I wonder if it is just by chance a prime number?
Ask HN: Bad Metaphors You Encounter When Defending Your Design Decisions
Hi HN! As a senior software engineer, I have to defend my design decisions from time to time. While discussing design, I'm fairly comfortable addressing specific technical questions or critiques. But sometimes I find that I get de-railed by a metaphor and don't realize the right response to that metaphor until hours after the meeting.

I think that part of the problem is that metaphors can imply a lot without bringing enough specifics explicitly to the surface of the conversation for me to really address. Often the metaphor doesn't apply very well to the situation at hand or even make any concrete point, but if I'm not able to address the comment it seems to onlookers as if it must contain valid criticism.

And so I'm wondering if you can share some poorly applied metaphors that you've encountered while defending your software design decisions, or from any other similar situation, along with a discussion of the weak points of that metaphor or other ways to address it. Bonus points if you can provide advice for how to productively address the underlying concern. :)

My hope is that by reviewing this list, I'll be better prepared to quickly address these metaphors when I encounter them in the wild.

I'll start with an easy one! "Let's not re-invent the wheel." The suggestion is that the proposed design unnecessarily re-does a lot of work that's already done by some other solution. I tend to encounter this either when someone isn't really familiar with the problem domain I'm trying to solve and assumes that it can be solved with some existing solution, or when they're not familiar with the tech stack I've chosen and assume it must be exotic or novel. The metaphor tends to break down in that there are lots of different kinds of wheels in the world, and making a new software product is more like making a new kind of wheel than re-inventing wheels entirely. And it's possible to move the conversation forward by focusing on the specific relative costs or benefits of any proposed alternatives.

Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm honestly not familiar with audio compression. But if its very low amplitude reference tone, isn't that the sort of thing that would get removed during compression? and if its large amplitude wouldn't it become a matter of "AI music always has a [low|high pitch] hum in the background?
Syndicated from NYT, original URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twit...
I think coding can be easy and pleasurable.

But...

You have to start the project yourself. You have to start it with your tools, your language preference, and your ideas.

It gets harder when you have to adapt to someone else's environment, practices, requirements.

It is harder the further you stray from your ideal choices.
OK, I don't think it is, but I obviously won't research who the author of this book is (I highly doubt she/he is a CT academic, as those are pretty rare anyway outside of Germany), so I guess the conclusion is that when you take a sightly complex theory outside of academia, it becomes a huge mess because people are too dumb to read by themselves (That makes CT a bit like particle physics, which, yeah, fair, you might be right).

So I checked, Cultural Marxism is the modern version of Cultural Bolchevism (those idiots couldn't even really create a new name, not really surprising tbh). It's allegedly supported by those pesky 'communist jews' and you might want to read around that and learn about who you learned that word combination from, before any further reading (I'll still advise you to read Baudrillard, but I fear it might only be interesting to standard conservatives).

I'm sadly not interested in reading Evola, but I know a bit about Gentile through a postfascist friend, and unless you read as much as he does, I want to advise you on that: neo-fascism/neocon is mostly whiny paranoia. One reason I did like the intersectionnal movement is its whininess, but god at least they don't whine as much as neofascists. Their 'thinkers' don't have any new idea since the late 60s, through Evola (and since the 30s if you want ideas that aren't just dumb), and their big 'new' idea from Renaud Camus was born in 1906, and is basically protofascism, before it integrated Nietzsch's philosophy and collectivism through the military. The Cultural Marxism seems to be the exact parallel to Cultural Bolchevism in Germany, so I guess they did read a little? Gosh I can't believe I didn't made the link the first time :/. But yeah, you should check that.
> Musk appears to think Jews hate white people

I'd amend that to thinks there are Jews who hate. Obviously not every Jew hates whites, or is even the sort of leftist who typically spouts anti-white rhetoric and promotes destructive policies in Europe and the US.

But finding examples is not hard - at least until a few years ago, the ADL advocated for ethnonationalism for Israel and mass immigration for the US and Europe. Curious, no? The head of I think the SPLC keeps a tracker on his wall for when whites become a minority in the US.

There's also fun people like Noel Ignatiev who campaigned to "abolish the white race". Susan Sontag also had "amusing" opinions about the topic, if memory serves.

These people and organizations are obviously only some Jewish people, but they are prominent and organizations like the ADL do use their ethnic status as a shield from criticism.

That they exist is not up for dispute, a few searches will find all kinds of unsavoury stuff.
What we're seeing is that (predictably) the investors have decided that they don't care that they agreed with it and they don't want to lose out on their investment.

What remains to be seen is just how closely the board holds the charter to their hearts and whether the governance structure that was built is strong enough to withstand this.
I have never heard any medical expert say that contagious patients should be kept in nursing homes.

There was a lot of cross-communication during the early days as politicians made statements that contradicted the CDC and other organizations, or were based on expensive interventions not available to the regular patient (such as the intra-bronchial tube UV light treatment promoted early on by Trump).

And yes, sometimes those organizational figureheads said stupid things (e.g. no evidence that masks are a good idea for healthy people, back in the era of the mask shortage, instead of legally mandating that masks be reserved for medical personnel) that were rightfully contradicted by other experts.

Social distancing and masking were both good ideas from the start, based on prior scientific knowledge.
If Sam’s back we should all get free OpenAI usage credits for this mess.
I think everyone is overvaluing what Altman brings to the table in terms of staying power. I don’t think MS is willing to simply throw in the towel on OpenAI because Altman isn’t there there anymore.

They’d be fools to do that if there is a path forward here. Short of them announcing on Monday that they are no longer selling their offerings, I don’t see how there won’t be a path.

Business is business, as all the VCs love to say, there is no room for emotion in this right?
A giant warning doesn’t make it better. Non profit or for profit—-pick one and stick to it.
Was just reading a long winded comment on here explaining how these coups take months of planning and that Altman's firing was in no way a knee-jerk decision.
From molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body
I meant not trying to learn a language. Plenty of people use Duolingo as a game or puzzle to pass the time without ever going beyond it. I don't see what's wrong with calling a spade a spade.
So microsoft got in at round 1, and then round 2 for some nebulous multiple which may or may not be less than than.

These weasel words are not proof of anything
Therefore highly difficult to set up a controlled study.
It's not because the accusation is against a female, it's because referring to someone solely as the spouse of someone else is a frequent tactic used to dismiss women.

That might not have been the intent, but when you accidentally use a dogwhistle, the dogs still perk up their ears.
Well, 500 years at least.

The painting is from ~1280, and it's currently 2023, which is less than 800 years later, so Italy by definition can't have been founded 1100 years after the painting. (Can't have been... couldn't have been... can't wouldn't have been? What is the past-in-the-future perfect tense?)
I suspect the confusion is indeed yours. From the fed link:

> Strictly speaking, inflation refers only to a drop in the purchasing power of money that results when a central bank creates more money than its public wants to hold. Inflation manifests itself as a rise in all prices and wages—not just some subset of prices.

When you debase the purchasing power of the currency, you get demand bubbles for goods as people get out of depleted/inflated cash. This causes the staple goods price increases that cause desperation. Fuel taxes to pay down the debt the state accrues also causes a similar desperation via price inflation today. What kind of chaff argument is trying to confuse the issue with the rate of change and the net change? If you want to lie to people and tell them that inflation and MMT will be good for them so they do nothing while their society is demolished, this makes sense, but otherwise, it's dishonest. The Wiemar era humiliated a generation of Germans who became cruel and gravitated to NSDAP (and its precursors) as the result. A decade is a short time in culture. People in 2023 remember 2013 very clearly, as those in 1933 did of 1923.
I enjoy coding, too. But since there are so many fun things to code, I choose among the fun things things that are useful to others as well as myself.
This is actually a great article even though the popups are terrible and I found the first sentence very off-putting.
I don't get this narrative taken to the extreme.

If you can answer every mail in minutes from important people, then how can you meaningfully do other stuff?

It's perfectly fine to spend a day without answering to the head of YC if you've had the entire day full at hiring, talking to investors, etc. You can't do that effectively and be distracted by your phone all time.

This is about the nature of emails themselves, if they conveyed a more urgent information then a phone call would've been better.
I wish scholars ran for office instead of celebrities. I really don't want another celebrity from Hollywood.
For what it’s worth (nothing!) I don’t believe that a rehire offer is really happening.

On the tech side, I think work will split on two tracks: 1) building great applications with small and medium fine tuned models like Mistral, etc. Within a year or two great models will run on the edge because of continuous technical improvements. 2) some players will go for the long game of real AGI and maybe they will get there in much less than a decade.

On the business side, I have no idea how the current situation is going to shake out.
I'm okay with you calling it a dumb take. Try "unsophisticated" to pacify the sensitive, or "mentally underdeveloped," if it gets you grief.
If it can invade privacy that badly, then detecting missile launches was definitely not the guiding design goal.
Zaphod would be quite happy.
Yeah I agree with that for sure. It’s so strange how the majority of the research folks appear to be on this ‘new shiny’ mentality at the expense of fundamentals. Especially for how new this field is, relatively. It’s not exactly like we’re all tapped out. Probably not even of low hanging fruit.
go2rtc is a really great addition. Local 2way audio through a doorbell is awesome.
I haven't burned out yet, and have been writing code for nearly 50 years.