skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core thing is a lot of nice UX patterns are harder with server side rendering. Multi-page forms? Now you’re juggling around state. “Form has N rows”? Now that’s a thing. “Form has N heterogenous rows” is another thing.

Then you get into things like how no server side rendering strategy has the equivalent to React “just write an inline helper function for this page”, so you need to create partials in files all over. And what if you’d like to statically verify that your templates have all the content in place? Proper typing? Who hasn’t had a page fall over because there was some missing context variable 3 layers deep.

The thing with the API based flow and client side rendering (with React at least) when you have it set up nicely is “add a list view with pagination and search with a modal to create a resource if needed, and some inline editing” can be done by opening a single file and getting there with 2 dozen lines. Server side rendering strategies in practice tend to buckle a bit if you try to be modular enough, and in many cases you need to open one file per checklist on your project. Code locality issues are real IMO

Disclaimer: I’ve done both, messing around with HTMX on a project and think it’s pretty cool. But it’s mainly because I don’t have all of the nice patterns from work projects that I’m tying this. If startup costs weren’t a thing I’d go with a client side system most days of the week.
Is 12GB the minimum? got an out of memory error with 8GB
Glassdoor has a 66% approval rating for the company and ceo

not exactly a stellar rating
Those who have left might be a bias sample (in my data)
Hard disagree. Even if you ignore everything that has been reported about the rationale behind the decision, the board objectively executed this decision extremely poorly, managing to piss off their biggest backers, prominent former board members, and lots of their employees. If the board has some evidence of a big smoking gun of egregious behavior, I have to believe they would have shown their cards by now, instead of reports about them bringing Sam back and all of them resigning as terms of his reinstatement.
I don’t think it’s a problem unless we workout how to teach them to feel emotions.

I don’t think an LLM is ever going to be capable of feeling fear, boredom etc.

If we did it would probably have many of the handicaps we do.
If Altman can use populism and VC pressure to overturn board decisions what is the point of OpenAI lol
Most science fiction has to do with robots (almost always robots) being (essentially) a superior counterfactual version of humans. With that context it's almost a natural assumption that such beings would revolt.

On the other hand, the realm of non-fiction has been predicting the automation of intelligent processes by computational processes since Alan Turing first suggested it in Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Probably before then, as well.

The only exception I can think of for fiction is the movie "Her," which as far as I can tell effectively predicted the future. Not really, of course, but every inch of that movie down to how people work pre and post AI, how people play video games pre and post AI, and how people socialize pre and post AI, are starting to look eerily accurate.
Sorry, I read a quote from one of the people involved in this mess and assumed it was direct from the company charter.

Can you fill me in as to what the goal of OpenAI is?
I hope we do. If these words would be on your recommendation letter or said by one of your job references, basically any HR person would understand it as "this employee was caught severely lying" and see it as a big warning not to hire you under any circumstances.

I agree that in a casual context, this would be mild, but we're talking about professional press releases and judges acting oblivious to this context is not a good thing in my book.
Yes, the main difference would be that distributed systems have more failure modes to be concerned with and that dictates a lot.
> The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack.

I know it's small and kind of a throw-away line, but statements like this make me take this author's interpretation of the rest of these events with a healthy dose of skepticism. At my company we have multiple company "memes" like this that have been turned into reacji, but the vast majority of them are not because it's "popular" but rather because we use it ironically or to make fun of the meme. Just the fact that an employee turned it into a reacji is a total non-event and I don't think you can read anything from it.
I don't think this is it but I love the idea that billionaires would invest more money directly back into art and artists.

In Australia we have David Walsh who made a lot of money in somewhat ...dubious means, but has invested what he has made back into "MONA" – Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania and made it available for everyone to enjoy.
In openai’s case it feels like perhaps safety is not the issue - a chatbot doesnt think and doesnt take over the world. But rater speed over quality. All chat bots released so far appeared less useful and less competent each passing month. As if there are serious product quality flaws and it takes a little bit of time to catch on.
> no one makes music anymore

Certainly not true. Is this sarcasm?
> What’s especially maddening in it is that it is so US-centric, with month coming before day in these number patterns,

Whether this particular bit of design is good or not, you'll certainly be hard pressed to find someone who has a reasonable argument in favor of the absurdity that is the Go date-time format string.

> 2006-01-02 (aka 'yyyy-MM-dd')

> January 02, 2006 (aka 'MMMM dd, yyyy')

> Jan-06 (aka 'MMM-yy')

> Monday (aka 'EEEE')

It's insanity start to finish and it boggles the mind how it was ever accepted in the language spec.
Building a crystal radio was one of the first projects I did with my dad as a kid and it blew my mind. I was taking apart everything after that wondering what was inside the plastic shells of the phones and keyboards.
But there's a lot of selection bias in that. Hard to know what it means without a lot more information and comparison to other companies.
tracks yes, not songs, though :-)
Imagine living somewhere so car dependent even the idea of crossing the street is foreign to you. Like living in a post apocalyptic wasteland where you can’t leave your bunker without a radiation suit.
Yes, unfortunately these models take a lot of VRAM. It may be possible to do an 8GB version but it will have to compromise on quality of voice recognition and the language model so it might not be a good experience.
RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite
Which particular human's objectives did it not align with?
That quote is a statement of fact, it doesn't imply anything one way or the other.
It’s literally a PR piece.
So his commitment is to ensure that machines never have a will of their own. I’m not so sure how history will look back on people like this. Humanity certainly makes the same mistakes over and over again while failing to recognize them as such until it’s too late.
There's a lot detail in the InforWorld piece, it's worth a read.

> He had also experimented with PHP, a language similar to Perl but optimized for Web development.
Coming from a 2005 context I enjoyed the need to explain what PHP was .

It's not mentioned explicitly but I recently read, and I _think_ this was wrt Friendster, that one of the reasons FaceBook was able to establish a position when other social networks were already going strong was that (I think) Friendster built a graph of the status of all 'friends' for every page load and so as the userbase grew this became a very arduous thing to do. FaceBook didn't do that and so had snappier ui. Sorry can't remember where I read that so no cite.
I paid $500 for a 40m drive used and hooked it up to my c64. The space available was truly endless.
The Beatles may have recorded on 4-track very early on, but they were certainly known as a group that pushed the limits of technology in the studio.
Seriously.

Oregon, who has told me they want to see another Silicon Forest happen, would be wise to look hard at Tek. I owe some of my life advances to Tek as well.
RustGPT: My Journey Using Rust and HMTX for Web Dev
Don't get me wrong, I love digging through crates of vinyl. There were times where one might find oneself with insufficient funds for new vinyl. There was something quite satisfying to walk through all of the 12"s in the crate and play all of the B-sides of the 12"s that you didn't play because the A-side was always the one you turned to. It was just like going to the record store, but at home. Can't recreate that by scrolling through a file listing. I'm all about that physical experience, but doesn't mean one can't admit the pros of another format.
To the surprise of no one. This is on the back of GM appointing a Chief Administrative Officer to “work with” the CEO after their recent controversies.
One unfortunate accident (though Cruise was at fault for making it worse) has put the entire company in disarray. I suppose it’s the result of accumulation of so many minor issues in San Francisco and a lack of a strict safety culture. It feels like a repeat of Uber from a few years ago that ended with shuttering of their self driving initiative.
So you think we should remove all concrete medians to allow cars to cross into opposing lane everywhere?
Ilya's podcast was over 3 years ago and Lex's average IT podcasts had 50-100k views. Ilya got 400k. For reference, the absolute legend Jim Keller got 600k at the same time.

So yeah, Ilya is a very known entity. No, ordinary folks don't need to know him, but if you are in IT and especially if you have anything to do with AI, then not knowing about Ilya tells more about your informational bubble than about Ilya's alleged lack of recognition.

It is akin to claiming to be into crypto on development side and not knowing the name of Vitalik Buterin.
Cassettes are coming back in a big way. They never totally died in the underground metal world, especially black metal, but they’re bigger right now that at any time in my 20-ish years of recording and releasing music. They have a few benefits: extremely cheap to make and ship. Easy to store in a small apartment, car, pocket. More durable than a CD. Imperfect and grimy in a way that feels appropriate for underground music that celebrates rawness. My new album was released at the end of September and it’s selling well across all formats but the only ones where we’re sold out: limited edition vinyl colors and — you guessed it — cassettes.

After years of fighting it, I’m finally getting a new tape player for Christmas. I’m a digital audio guy but so many albums that I want to listen to can only be found on YouTube or tape and I want to support the bands directly. I can get a modern unit complete with rechargeable battery and Bluetooth for $160. https://www.wearerewind.com/ Finally, I can use my AirPod Max headphones to listen to a $6 raw black metal cassette as the Dark Lord intended.
This is a situation where the whole e/acc stuff every Silicon Valley bigwig is shouting about got a company in trouble.

Push forward at all cost, expand as fast as possible, see regulators as stifling forces not to be trusted or taken seriously. Can almost guarantee the Cruise CEO was in that circle of thought and drank the Koolaid too hard.
Why can't it feel fear? The model itself doesn't have any built in mechanisms sure but it can simulate an agent capable of fear. In the same way the simulation can have other emotions needed to be a better model of a human
unless humans act in a large group to change how we follow the laws of economics & political science, we will suffer incredibly over the next few decades.

But we aren't. We're not doing enough.

There is a bullet coming towards our faces, and we are not moving out of the way.

I don't know how I'm supposed to graduate into this climate and be an optimistic member of society.
Yeah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_JW9NwjLF8

I'd say yes, Sutsksever is... naive? though very smart. Or just utopian. Seems he couldn't get the scale he needed/wanted out of a university (or Google) research lab. But the former at least would have bounded things better in the way he would have preferred, from an ethics POV.

Jumping into bed with Musk and Altman and hoping for ethical non-profit "betterment of humanity" behaviour is laughable. Getting access to capital was obviously tempting, but ...

As for Altman. No, he's not naive. Amoral, and likely proud of it. JFC ... Worldcoin... I can't even...

I don't want either of these people in charge of the future, frankly.

It does point to the general lack of funding for R&D of this type of thing. Or it's still too early to be doing this kind of thing at scale. I dunno.

Bleak.
Oh, right. VR, that everlasting elixir of promise of hype and transformation. And I guess we're going to ignore that several VR sets already exist.
Yes it does, it says within the quote that the phrase was "popular" and is using the creation of a reacji as supporting evidence. The fact that an employee made a reacji of something does not mean it is popular. It takes a extremely low amount of effort from an extremely low amount of people (often, just one person) to create a custom reacji.
KhepriDotNet
This reads like “if you apologize for dumping me, and beg me to come back, maybe I’ll think about it.” … okay sure, buddy.
Good or bad, I wouldn't publicly comment on my employer without a throwaway. Unnecessary risk.
> The future, it seems, will be decided behind closed doors.
Pretty sick but he’s forgetting that there are others that could build the same statue, and just…not set it on fire.
I’ve looked at plenty of glassdoor profiles. It’s low for a large company with as many ratings as it has.
Subcontracting out your crimes isn’t going to fly in court.
however this always gives me pause:

> "This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing."
hey, I don't understand it either
So I’m assuming the review from the external law firm is complete?
Refreshing to see a desktop application with native widgets (unless I am wrong). Wonder what GUI toolkit is used?
It is a decent idea, but it can be really hard to spot scientific fraud. As in REALLY, REALLY hard.

Some fields, like machine learning, gets deluged with papers coming from all kinds of researchers - there's no unified scientific notation, so to speak. In one paper you could have a pure math authors, in some other you could have econ authors, and then maybe a theoretical physics author. All these could use wildly different notation to describe related ideas, or discuss ideas to solve problems in their respective fields.

And in that case, how do you detect bogus science? You could be a leading ML scientist, but not have the faintest idea about the other domain. Or the inverse - be a leading domain expert, but have little ML knowledge.

Not to mention, the people that are publishing fraudulent scientific papers aren't morons - they're likely publishing that kind of stuff because of bad incentives. Maybe you'll catch the laziest, least capable fraudsters - but trying to catch savvy researchers sounds like a daunting task.

In my mind, this type of task/job is more fit for full-time scientific "auditors".
I still generally attempt to follow the rules established by Edward Tufte in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Basically, Tufte used the idea of "ink", classified into two groups, data ink and useless ink. The goal is to have a graph with as little useless ink as possible; where every bit of information visible in a graph (or table) is relevant to the end output. To this extent, he recommended dumping axis lines where unneeded, labels, keys, gridlines, and many more things.

LaTeX tables, by default, tend to look like what Tufte proposed, which is probably why LaTeX tables look so damn good compared to the HTML defaults
Including Altman, likely.
GlobalFoundaries is owned by Mudabala, which is the sovereign fund for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (the emirate with actual
power) in the UAE
>What "plunge" are you talking about? Even the famous (but flawed) graph from epi shows a very small dip: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDmFnp.... Also that was in the 80s, not the 70s as you claimed.

https://www.epi.org/publication/americas-slow-motion-wage-cr...

Again, growth is overstated because CPI is flawed and tends to understate the actual growth of cost burdens. So the "slow growth" mentioned here is people losing ground.

> If it dips a little then returns to previous levels

That's the problem: it didn't. Your assertion that it did is based on an unnecessarily limited data window. Zoom out, and you'll see a declining standard of living and a lowered ability for Americans to take their wages and buy durable goods (colloquial denotation). The declining birth and home-ownership rates for younger generations compared to older ones at the same age did not just come out of nowhere, and the general increase in debt load is part of the answer to why the entire thing hasn't collapsed yet.

>Which specific components do you have issue with? Moreover, the cpi is supposed to represent the country as a whole

The link went over many, and I would hope that you'd have read it and not asked that question. But, as a general gripe: its basic nature as an index makes it game-able, and the people who make the decisions about what goes into it have a conflict of interest: they answer to the people who answer to voters (more likely to be older, monied, white), and the people who can pay for votes. You might say that it's a coincidence that it then tends to show less of a crisis in income and purchasing power than many (younger, poorer, not white) feel exists, but I'm not so naive.
It's interesting to see people comparing Altman to Steve Jobs. By Sam's age, Steve had created the Apple II, created the Macintosh, founded NeXT, taken over Pixar, the list goes on. He was universally recognized as having a great eye for product design as well as being a master marketer who was really good at selling things.

Sam on the other hand founded one startup where he was given $40M and failed. Then he got a job from Paul Graham and did a good job running an established VC firm for 5 years.

He hasn't to my knowledge built any products or run any product companies or sold a bunch of stuff, he's basically a professional investor.

The point here is not to throw shade on Sam Altman who is obviously a bright and successful guy and I'm sure he helped OpenAI get to where they are now. But it's beyond me why there's an army of Altman fanbois on Twitter frothing at the mouth over how this guy is indispensable and the next Steve Jobs and a product/research company like OpenAI can't survive without him. It's all politics/entertainment/rich guys throwing money away basically. It feels like that's all the current incarnation of the Valley is sometimes.
Addendum: This "1-page elevator speech," specifically voiced for your USCIS examiner, can pay handsome dividends for any complex specialty, in the form of a quick O-1 / EB-1A approval. Not just blockchain, but crypto, all AI and ML specialties, platform integration, big databases, programming languages, data science, anything that requires effort to explain to a layperson audience.

Explain it to: Your dad. Your 14-year-old-kid. Your non-tech investor. Your CEO. Your spouse. Your best friend.

We're seeking that "AHA moment" where they go: "Oh! THAT's what you do? That's really cool!"

If you've lined up all your evidence correctly, that AHA moment, is the moment you win your case.
populist doesn't mean popular. That you don't understand these political terms speaks well on the competence of Milei supporters. There is simultaneously left wing populism and right wing populism at the same time, yet not both can be a majority.
Interesting, I didn't know about that model!

As far as I can tell, this is more common in the US – I'd be quite surprised if Euronet depended on business owners to restock their machines rather than having their own couriers doing that.

But in either case, I don't see how a merchant could hide anything using an ATM: Dispensing $100 of cash via a self-operated ATM has exactly the same effect on their bank account as depositing $100 of cash directly at their bank, no?
is this trying to save face of the most quoted yet most ridiculed paper in history?!
Every now and then I'll come across tektronix tested vacuum tubes while searching for amp tubes. It's a pretty cool piece of history to own.
I'm guessing they're upset over the factorial punchline as being lame and sad that Martin Gardner is gone.
The idea of "alignment" is pretty troubling to me. Do these people think that they, or those in power have achieved moral perfection, such that it would be good to have extremely powerful AI systems under their control, aligned with them?

Imagine if the US or any other government of 1800s came gained so much power, 'locking-in' their repugnant values as the moral truth, backed by total control of the world.
How many of those reacjis have you been lead in a chant for though?
This isn't something I considered but it totally makes sense. Given that the Vary header is a per-resource value you would have to propagate that through the network. For millions of resources that might become an issue. And since in a worse-case scenario the server could be changing the Vary header for a single resource across multiple requests you have the additional problem of trying to keep it consistent across datacenters.

I think that is probably why some CDNs have a single configuration for any HTTP headers you want to vary on (e.g. Cloudfront allows you to specify a global configuration for a distribution that takes into account specific headers). This avoids the problem of both per-resource and inter-datacenter consistency that relying on the Vary header might cause.
Carmack doesn't seem to believe that ASI will be dangerous, while it's currently looking like Ilya is breaking with Sam over this.
> Regardless of who they fired, if the board is known to make arbitrary and capricious decisions about top executives without so much as a heads up to large investors, it's not clear that any investor will see them as being worth investment.

It is non-profit company, so investors should not be expecting too much increased returns for their investment other than the product and cooperation what this company provides.

If firing the CEO has no significant negative impact for actual product quality or cooperation, it should not be in the intrestes of investors.

Especially, if the argument for firing is revolved around profit/non-profit future of the company, if the expectations for the original investors was right (investing non-profit). In that case, it is not arbitrary or capricious decisions. But I would of course would like to see some transparency, since we don't really know what happened yet.
Yes, idol worship is alive and well. What's your point?
Well that's not how any of this works. Connotations and subtext are a thing, particularly in the choice of including or not including a particular quote in a piece of journalism.
But they put the effort to create it and others recollect it?
This essay discusses finite fields and the role they played in the early years of the computer revolution (remember paper-tape drives?) and in the ongoing Voyager mission to explore the outer solar system.
I've heard it said that people remember media not for it's fidelity, but for it's flaws.

I've come to appreciate over the last several years that seeming imperfections often improve a medium in ways that are difficult to quantify or to convey. For instance I've noticed it's much more comfortable for me to read eink than to read from an LCD, and I think it may be because the eink has imperfections. I think the balls don't always rotate, and it creates a subtle noise texture in the background.

It reminds me of comfort noise that's played on telephone systems.
Either that or picking up belongings.