skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW hackernews had way fewer users back then, than today. So you can't compare it directly just through the count of votes.
Google plans to disable legacy V2 browser extensions next June
You would have said the same thing about airplanes at the turn of the 20th century and dismissed them as fads for rich people. Or about computers. Or the internet. And yet here you are.

> you talk about new eras, but nothing changes.

And yes, it does affect my life. I have dreamed my whole life of this stuff happening. After growing up in a "third world" country, I navigated the byzantine US immigration system, went through a decade+ of training, to finally be here and working at a new-space company right at the beginning of this new space age. The industry that I am working at right now would be in a completely different place (and a lot smaller) without SpaceX. It also wouldn't exist without the advances made for Apollo and the Space Shuttle program.

> What is SpaceX going to use for going to Mars?

Starship probably.

> Are you gonna be the one that’s going

Maybe. There is a non-zero chance now that the system that will achieve it is that much closer to being operational. You are missing the step change in cost that this will enable.

> or are they gonna leave you behind to rot here on this burning planet

It does not have to be one or the other. The "burning planet" will be solved just like we solved every other challenge facing our species.

You are obviously going through some stuff and seem to be in place where you cannot appreciate the good things that are happening in this world. But that does not change the fact that they are.
Sorry Corrected. You knew it was a typo, didn't you? ;-)
I'm totally sure that SpaceX does not care what the rest of the industry (what's left of it) thinks.
It brings a tremendous uncertainity in the direction the OpenAI is heading. They could block out APIs now, or do other kinds of strategic shifts that would affect the users.

So far, from my viewpoint, OpenAI was perfectly as a product - both in terms of features and their deployments. Now anything can be possible.
This appeared in my reddit feed.
It's probably like photography: just do it a lot. Write about your home, your neighborhood. Edit: also read other writers' work, of course.

In novel writing there's very old advice: plan to throw away your first million words. Actually, that's good advice generally, not just for fiction.
Is America's chip blockade working against China? So far, our survey says: No
I completely agree that this is a significant risk of the export controls.

But China was already expected to climb their way into semiconductor manufacturing with significant investment. What, were they not going to do that? ASML was threatened long-term either way.

But I agree it will definitely focus minds in China on the problem and lead to some acceleration of their progress.
I don't mean to be ungrateful but I'd appreciate some competition for Calibre. The UI feels very dated to me and the functionality is pretty slow and awkward. But it's got such market and mindshare for open source e-reader software that there hasn't been much room for other folks to try something different. I guess there's a few epub readers (Sumatra displays ePubs, someone below mentions Thorium Reader) but I don't know of anything that Calibre does with maintaining a library of e-books in various formats.
I guess it depends on the test program priorities. If Elon has promised everyone a succulent ham if they can get Starship to orbit before some deadline, then you're absolutely right. If instead they want to get the most out of every flight test, then they'll take the time to fly a fix for the "bottom half blows up" issue.
The book shareware heroes discusses this at length through the various solutions shareware developers came up with on how to monetize software written and given out for free.
This is a coldly economic take. Does the sole motivation of writing have to be for the consumption of others?
In the meantime, we're already well into ecological collapse (I think we've lost something like 3/4s of the earth's species?) and existential-threat-level climate change which in fifty years or so will be so bad we'll be dealing with near constant humanitarian crises...with no sign of improvement on either front. Decarbonization isn't happening nearly fast enough and industrial pollution is chugging along.

Frankly, I don't see human society surviving long enough - or perhaps better put, maintaining a necessary level of societal development - for us to develop the tech to establish a self-sufficient colony capable of independent growth and to get us to a planet with the resources to make such a thing possible.

It's hard to make rocket parts when everyone is living in shacks made of sticks and mud and leaves.
Of course there’s success in failure. If you need 10 things to work right, and you can't verify all 10 things at once (because they need to happen in sequence), but you make it step by step, then it's a success. If you can verify not one but multiple things in a single test, that'd be a big success. If all 10 things work then it's a total success. And if you can repeat the test 10 times, then you have a home run, especially for something as groundbreaking as Starship.

Why is it so difficult to understand? I'm sure you know the odd of 10 things failing is not 10 times of a single failure, but much higher.
Yes, so energy use per task. I thought that was clear.
It was more surprising than Jobs death. It was known that he was sick.
> It’s not hard to collect information.

Of course it is, they had go fix all the problems with the last launch to get further, and that's already insanely difficult. They succeeded at the hot staging and almost made it to orbit altitude with the Starship. If you think that's a failure, there's no point discussing any more.
Not every Christian is a Zionist and not every Christian is an evangelical. And not every Christian ascribes to the same eschatological belief. It’s a mistake to paint Christians and Christianity with a broad brush.

There is also a distinction that should be made between political Zionism and religious Zionism. I am a Christian, I hold a preterist eschatological viewpoint and don’t belong to an “evangelical” church. As such the restoration of Israel in 1948 has ZERO theological meaning to me. However, can I accept the creation of Israel in 1948 a politically valid political event? Sure, the established world authority of the time made it happen and did it for a reason. To me the current conflict is just like many—-over land, money, and power. So I believe that Israel has a right to exist because the world authority gave it that right in 1948. In that sense I am a political Zionist.

That makes me definitely not the same as a Christian who believes the restoration of Israel in 1948 is a sign post pointing to a ton of biblical prophecy culminating in an apocalypse with the current conflict having a supernatural meaning with a theological side that must be taken to scare people into a belief system. Those are religious zionists with a futurism eschatology. We may both believe that Israel should exist, but we don’t believe in the same “why”.
Huh. I think 16px is pretty much perfect on desktop too, and I thought I was leaning towards large desktop font sizes!

I'm not sure why Hacker News uses this masochistic 12px/9pt font size for all these years though. I mean, it makes sense on a 21" 1024x768 display but that was 20 years ago
Who is u/Anxious_Bandicoot126? Is there any reason to think this is actually a person at OpenAI and not some random idiot on the internet? They have no comment history except on this issue. Seems like BS.
Numerically, most change is bad.
> how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs?

You made a very good point.

This whole post reminds me the whole iPhone Jailbreak thing: people devoting an huge amount of time and effort to "fix" something Apple doesn't want to be fixed.

And they're even proud of it! I find it to be utterly pathetic.

Over and over again Apple forces their manipulative decisions over their costumers and the majority just follows along.

And the funniest thing is the standard reaction on HN, a place for Apple fanboys. When Microsoft does the same this place erupts with anger, e.g: all the complaints about adds and telemetry on Windows. If Apple does it they invent excuses and over-complicated workarounds for it.
Maybe you somehow keeping your phone further away from you than the average person? Or have an eyesight condition where the quality decrease quickly with even small distance?
I think answering this may illuminate the division in schools of thought: do you believe life was created by a higher power?
> Also, we can now say that Sentry is a proprietary software

The article explains that Sentry was licensed under a non-OSI license (the BUSL) for the last 4+ years. That license had more onerous terms than what it uses today. So if you believe this news means it has become proprietary today, you're ~4 years behind.

> when you are standing on the shoulders of free software components like Python or somehow python frameworks like Django. Sentry wouldn't even exist without free-riding.

Sentry has donated tens of thousands of dollars - probably over $100k over the years - to the PSF and Django. It is currently an acknowledged active sponsor of both [1,2].

This year alone Sentry gave $500,000 to open source foundations and maintainers [3].

Sentry itself was built as a Django ecosystem project, and anyone can use it according to the license terms (e.g. stand up a server and collect errors for their non-competing projects). And many organizations do that today.

Sentry (the company) additionally contributes many permissive OSS projects, like popular utility libraries and key parts of the Sentry project itself (e.g. getsentry/responses or the SDKs).

The issue is when competing entities take the source, produce purely commercial offerings with no upstream contributions / the source they produce is 100% closed. That’s free-riding.

[1] https://www.python.org/psf/sponsors/

[2] https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/corporate-members/

[3] https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-500-000-dollars-to-open-...
Emacs Lisp is nobody’s favorite lisp, yet it is the most widely used lisp by a wide margin.

Emacs proves that having a free and open source cross platform GUI editor where you can introspect and modify the editor’s state, and where a visual step debugger and lots of documentation are available, far outweigh the niceties that other lisps provide.
Honestly you don't need AI for that at all.

Come to think of it, that's not a terrible idea for a browser extension -- figure out the median text size, figure out the visual apparent size of the font by drawing a few characters to a canvas and measuring them, and then set the page zoom to compensate.

Voilá -- you never have to zoom again!
> Racism against US economic rivals has been the MO for decades on western social media.

Could simple nationalism (or something else) not be the motivator?
There's no source code to games here, or links to source code.
Sam & team to AMD now?
You haven't been around when Web2.0 and the whole modern internet arrived, were you? You know, all the sites that you consider stable and robust now (Google, YT and everything else) shipping with a Beta sign plastered onto them.
That's true. It would be a pretty huge bet to invest billions more dollars in an uncertain startup when they already have an AI provider that is guaranteed to be significantly technologically ahead of whatever Sam can pull together for at least several years in the future.
Yeah, there wasn't really much scope for speculation about Jobs' death (and iirc there were plenty of other threads for people to share their love of Apple products or reminisce over his keynote addresses around the same time)

Altman obviously also has much more of a YC connection
> They could block out APIs now, or do other kinds of strategic shifts that would affect the users.

but why would that not have been the case regardless of whether sam was fired or not? Just because they are a non-profit, doesn't really mean they have anyone's interest at heart (except the controllers of said non-profit).
Btw, another Pole Wojciech Zaremba (not mentioned in the article though) is a co-founder of OpenAI (and an AI researcher too)
> This is because you will not have to care in return for it

This is specifically what I'm disputing — I aver that A ⊢ B, where A is "you show kindness and courtesy" and B is "the AI produces better results", and by converse ¬A ⊢ ¬B

You don't have to be nice to animals, but it helps when interacting with them, and I believe the same is true for AI agents.
What I was meaning to say in my comment was that the rumors and accusations relating to his sister, even if entirely true, are not monumental enough of a personal scandal to explain how the board behaved while firing him.

They'd probably still fire him, but would have done so in a very different way.
Sorry, no idea if what you’re looking for exists. For now, I was looking at integrating with OpenAI and productising some th ing but this situation is making me nervous.
"Reverse this sequence of numbers: 473936482738338373926"

"The reversed sequence of the numbers 473936482738338373926 is 629373833837284639374."

It works like this by using Python. Even when I told it to write a JS function internally to do it and only share the answer, it overruled that. When I asked it to repeat the sequence back in the same order, but starting from the last digit and working backwards, it failed a little bit. It seems like using the language model to pivot to the correct "model" or "logic" to decide to use code is impressive.
A few things:

1. It came completely out of left field, at a time when OpenAI has had an astonishingly successful year.

2. It was much more harshly worded than most corporate press releases letting their CEO go, basically accusing Sam Altman of serious wrongdoing.

3. It occurred during market hours and blindsided their investors and partners.

4. It revealed a schism inside the company that the public had little awareness of.

5. It has deep implications for the trajectory of a technology that many see as heralding a revolution at least as significant as — if not more than — agriculture or industry, with truly existential implications for humanity.

6. The revealed schism appears to go right to the heart of heated debates over those existential risks and the right course to navigate through them.
Yeah, the legal and financials parts of ChatGPT are very questionable. I don't think Google would launch a service that would open them up to so many lawsuits unless it was very profitable, and I doubt ChatGPT is very profitable currently.

Bard was likely not trained on copyrightable data, that makes it safe from lawsuits but also removes most of the usecases people want ChatGPT for.

And it isn't just about lawsuits, since Google need to keep advertisers happy or they would leave like they leave Elon Musk they can't afford to jeapordise that with questionable launches.
It's a well-established technique for learning a similarity function: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet_loss
I know. I was quoting the article piece.
Existing applications seem to be for JVM languages only, but this might be interesting for other languages, too.
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My apologies, won't blink again.
I don't think it has to be either-or. We can work on saving Earth while also trying to travel to other planets.
Unfortunately, web designers will find ways around that as they have an inborn drive to show us things the way they want us to see things regardless of our preferences.

Therefore, I think the only true solution is to work from rendered pixels, and from there transform into whatever the user wants (font size, style, no advertisements, etc.)
That was a beautiful launch. Would love if someone filmed in HDR to see the brightness and hue of the exhaust more accurately.
Yes, ColBERT is fast because you can pre-compute most embeddings. It's important to compute documents embeddings only once. neural-cherche do not compute embeddings on the fly and the retrieve method ask for queries and documents embeddings rather than queries and documents texts.

Documents and queries embeddings can be obtained using .encode_documents and .encode_queries methods

I save most of my embeddings (python dictionnary with documents id as key and embeddings as values) using joblib in a Bucket in the cloud. I don't really know if it's a good pratice but it does scale fine to few millions documents for offline (no real-time) applications.
I would disagree.

The people who are organising the terrorist activities have political goals. The people carrying out the terrorist activities have emotional goals.

If I had to guess school shooting have increased due to:

a. increased information flows due to social media. i.e. people are inspired by the actions of others. Social media is saturated with news.

b. increased mental health issues caused by social isolation in the modern world.

It sounds odd but some people when growing up mistake attention for love. So any solicitation of attention can be thought of as a underlying desire to be loved.
Yes, this is called triplet loss and has made embeddings much better.
It’s drama and we love drama and the Elon Musk well has been rather predictable, if not altogether dry lately. (We = humans)

The way the statement was phrased is practically unheard of at the board/executive level. The board essentially accused Sam Altman of lying to them, which would normally be a permanent black mark against someone. On top of that OpenAI’s corporate structure makes the outcome of this exercise particularly unpredictable with a bunch of board members that - frankly - probably have no idea what they’re doing.

Altman also ran YC at one point but at the end of the day ChatGPT is all the hype nowadays and we just abso-fucking-lutely love drama.
Yea it's not about new eras. Hold on a sec "Hey Siri, navigate to the nearest Costco". Yea nothing has changed for the average person as a result of first space launch
Steve Jobs died a long long time ago. The amt of global internet users has 2.5x’ed (2B to 5B). Even for the US alone, internet users has gone from ~220M to ~310M+ in that time span.

YC has grown a a lot in that time too.

Lots of changes. No comparison.
These are likely just money laundering within government officials and military complex. None of it has been tested in real life war/battle. If you have seen how American-built decimated in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, you would take this write up just some grain of salt. I recalled in 80s we had some cool star war laser defense. It even made it into Sid Meier Civ game as irrelevant near end game SDI. Today we largely know that was just fake news cooked by Reagan. Nearly 1T usd spend every year got stalemate by Putin's full of corruptions 60B budget. Meanwhile Russia and China demonstrated their satellite killer programs recently. Even their hypersonic missiles scared American pacific carriers to park a few thousand miles away from Chinese shores. Ah, and that B21 raider...
> The rest of the world

Can you define that a bit more before I ask further questions?
A green glow in the Martian night
What is feared as lost given the leadership change? That seems to be main driver behind speculation and discussion.
Yes, and American papers are much more likely to cite American papers. Science is more international than the vast majority of professions, but there are absolutely still state cultures that are just more likely to have read research in their language, published by someone who's a friend or a friend of a friend, or have national institutions which concentrate scientific talent that make scientists be colleagues. Nowhere near as strong of an effect as other jobs, but it's still there.
You certainly would, but you wouldn't suffer criminal penalties. I was talking about the idea that it's illegal, not saying that there wouldn't be some sort of consequence.
Sam Altman was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. Y Combinator is the company behind Hacker News.

It's a small world, the one where money pours round.
if this is the test you're going to then you literally do not understand how LLMs work. it's like asking your keyboard to tell you what colour the nth pixel on the top row of your computer monitor is.
It was probably self destructed by the range safety officer if things were going south.
A strategic shift becomes more likely when leadership is pushed out, especially when that occurrs because of a difference of opinion over strategy.
Android has horrific UI latency despite heavily employing hardware acceleration.

Enlightenments EFL was exclusively software for a long time, but is buttery smooth despite largely using redraw most of the time.

Hardware acceleration does not compensate for the lack of hard computer science knowledge about efficient memory operations, caching, and such
The media lies about Elon and his companies all the time and here is the proof.

https://youtu.be/u9l_2E4LPgY?si=_RjZjWTDsG8jb5Ol
It's not the most ideal possible outcome, but overall the launch was a pretty huge success for SpaceX (and for space fans by extension).

The fact they made it so much further than the first launch, seemingly having corrected all the notable things that went wrong there, is very good news - the flight test process serves to root out unknowns and today's launch shows they've done so (and now found some more to work on for the next launch).

So to answer your question, I don't think it should really be interpreted as a negative, as the primary goals were met and the controlled nature of the launch seems promising for SpaceX getting cleared to keep trying.
Sam Altman has failed upward for a while. Doubt the black mark works the same way for guys like him.
Suddenly firing the CEO suggests there might be sudden changes coming, obviously.
http://www.reddit.com/u/anxious_bandicoot126
Websites' default font and size for readable text content can be set under the css for body and then not overridden in more specific tags or classes, so the UA can easily override that without breaking all other areas that need custom fonts and sizes like navigation.

Users not knowing how to change their font or font size is not an excuse for website designers to choose fonts and font sizes whimsically, since they rarely base their decisions on good quality readability data. Browsers and other UAs need to step up and provide meaningful interfaces to choose those defaults at install time, and make it easy (and easily discoverable) to adjust.
Optimizing energy use per task at will be a waste of time at this point of time, this will come later. The metric used by OpenAI seems to be more useful right now.
MeridianLink confirms cyberattack after ransomware gang report company to SEC
I sympathize with your financial situation that is making you feel that way, but don't you see the irony in claiming that while expressing a clearly self-serving opinion?

It'd be like me, as a PhD student, trying to claim that this money was stolen funding from PhD students.
Ah, the much-sought-after 1.1X return that VCs really salivate over.
Keeps saying "undefined.undefined.undefined.undefined" Lol
Google is not a tech company
Is Google a tech company or a company that uses tech?
All AI and all humanity hallucinates, and AI that doesn't hallucinate will functionally obsolete human intelligence. Be careful what you wish for, as humans are biologically incapable of not "hallucinating".
It's on its way to being a Chinese-owned brand.

Just like MG, which is now a brand owned by Shanghai Automotive Industrial Co. Or Jaguar Land Rover, owned by Tata Industries.

It's only a reductionist view in the very short term.
Portal on the Nintendo 64 is incredible [video]
"The impossible Port" :-)