skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death panel is kind of a vague phrase.

My recollection is something about in the UK where they won’t spend a million pounds to do a 90 year old can live to 90.001.

If that’s the case, insurance companies are not death panels. They don’t make determinations about the value of life. They refuse to cover ineffective treatments, but they don’t make evaluations based on age or quality of life.

The fact that something like 80% of health care spending occurs in the last six months of life was something being talked about. Still is.

“Death panel” is an inflammatory word, and nobody is going to acknowledge running one. But I really don’t see how insurance companies can pushed into the definition.
Have to imagine that would be blocked by regulators given how big a chunk of the cellphone market Qualcomm services, no? I know they’re struggling on the SoC side but I thought they remained dominant as the modem manufacturer for most of the chips.

Also, I suspect the constant licensing disputes are part of the reason but the other is that Apple thinks they can build one that outperforms Qualcomm the same way their CPUs outmatch other providers. I suspect they also have ambitions for Satellite-based telephony to cut out cell providers & provide Apple-branded cellular service directly to their customers (+ maybe even be more battery efficient because the design only needs to suit Apple’s needs and not also the combined needs of all providers). As such, acquiring QCOM seems unnecessary and expensive and the only reason is if Apple thinks they are unlikely to win a patent war (QCOM is very litigious and also happens to own a lot of foundational patents that make their way into cellular standards). I think Apple is more likely to risk a patent war with QCOM then try to avoid that with a massive acquisition that would likely get blocked, cause all sorts of political problems for them, and even if it went through would pose a massive cultural problem for them to absorb (I’ve seen such major acquisitions first hand and I can’t think of a successful one when it’s this size and complexity).
Who would invest in Ilya, though, when he very publicly tried to oust one of his oldest allies and failed? Trust can’t be built that way
Bauhaus. 1926.

it is inconsistent in language usage to write differently than to speak. we don’t speak big sounds, that’s why we don't write them either. and: doesn’t one say the same thing with one alphabet as with two alphabets? why does one merge two alphabets of completely different characters into one word or sentence and thereby make the written image inharmonic? either large or small. the large alphabet is illegible in the typesetting. therefore the small alphabet. and: if we think of the typewriter, the limitation to lower case characters means great relief and is time saving. and if we think further, it would be simplified by switching off upper case characters.
No worries, I got that. Boolean came before programming for me by way of electronics. Which is what I thought was interesting about this article, to imagine the algorithm but as discrete logic.
Depends how realistic you're looking for, but The Sims 4 has a pretty comprehensive home-building aspect. You can also pick up the original The Sims or The Sims 2 for extremely cheap at thrift shops (since the series is so popular).
€200k is not a normal developer salary in Berlin. In fact, it's more like 3x a normal salary. It doesn't make sense applying Silicon Valley salaries to other places.
The Internet Utters Its First Word (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1twwqt4sw)
Lose all your data through an unauthenticated API endpoint? She’ll be right mate

Ten hour outage? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

The former seems like a much bigger problem in my mind but maybe that’s my bias showing
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

I just noticed that Calibre is referred to as an eBook manager, which is more in line with what I was talking about in some sense. All of that should fall under `eBook Manager`
> More durable than a CD

This irks me. Not that it's not true, but that tapes come with protective packaging intrinsic to the tape itself, whilst CDs are the raw media that you actually touch with your fingers etc.

CDs, way back when, were touted as the future not only because of their increased capacity for sound quality but also, ironically, their durability.

Would CDs be actually more durable if they were also packaged with a small plastic exterior that was insertable into the player, like tapes?

(Tape as raw medium isn't very durable if treated the same way as a CD. Tape needs that plastic exterior to even be viable).
Steve-o begs to differ.
See my previous comment about this point. ElevenLabs are based on Tortoise-TTS which was already pre-trained on millions of hours of data, but this one was only trained on LibriTTS which was 500 hours at best. XTTS was also trained with probably millions of speakers in more than 20 languages.

If you have seen millions of voices, there are definitely gonna be some of them that sound like you. It is just a matter of training data, but it is very difficult to have someone collect these large amounts of data and train on it.
If I am correct in my understanding of how it works, Linux versions should work on Android as well.
If the issue is they believe Sam's focus on commercialization is inherently against their charter, Microsoft is key to that - they are the shining example of this shift. Consulting with them would be antithetical to solving the problem.

For a for-profit, the pragmatic approach due to Microsoft also being the majority computer provider (We can set aside the investments for the moment - most are in the form of compute credits and come in tranches. OpenAI is not sitting on $10B in cash in their bank accounts or whatever) would make a lot of sense.

But they're a non-profit that operate in accordance to their pipe-dream charter. You and I might be skeptical of it or just think it's generally dumb, but non-profits are allowed to believe in pipe-dreams and pursue them.

At the very least they still issued a poorly worded statement and have not been able to recover from that, but it is quite possible that their attitude towards the investors in the for-profit is entirely consistent with the charter they are supposed to be following.
Sideloading wouldn't change this situation at all. This is an Android app.
"If they cant align 6 human board members how are they gonna align an AGI"
If Cruise is the amongst the “world leading AV technology”, we are truly f’d.

As a person that had to deal with Cruise vehicles on the streets, they were by far the worst.
Waymo's fine.
It's Swing--same as IntelliJ.
Someone following the news closer please fact-check me, but AFAIK, the chain of events:

- The Optus network (the second largest telco network in Australia) went down

- Optus executives initially couldn't coordinate anything because they were... all on Optus

- The network outage lasted ~14 hours

- The network outage effected triple-zero, the country's emergency number, because Optus was rebooting towers and causing phones to still connect to them so they can't fallback to another carrier to dial 000

- After the network is finally back up, Optus blamed "a 3rd party" that caused the outage

- The "3rd party" was then turned out to be Singtel - Optus' parent company

- Singtel issued a statement to basically say Optus was wrong

- Optus then issued another statement saying the outage was caused by them using default configuration files on some of their Cisco routers

- The Australian senate summoned the Optus CEO for a hearing

- Here we are, the CEO resigned

EDIT:

To add more context, just over a year ago (in Sept 2022), Optus, under the same CEO's leadership, had a massive data breach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Optus_data_breach
To be fair, we're on a geek website. Not many have default settings on any of their devices.

It think the above is consequence of a "I can afford to write all lowercase/do unconventional thing X". And by "afford" I think here more like "I don't have bosses, nor do I have to please anyone doing conventional things".

There was an article or a discussion here a while ago how in a organizational pyramid the people on the botton usually write as normal/nice as possible, while going upwards; people can afford themselves to write however the like, including being super rude if they choose so.
> Millennials are the generation who grew up eating food cooked on plastic and now have unprecedented rates of early onset cancers

I am curious about this. Do you have a source?
Nothing yet. Seems like the meeting hasn't finished.

https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726436311215845862?...
It is a good trick with GitHub though that you can add .patch or .diff to the url to fetch the content without styling
While I was at Google, circa 2015-2016, working on some Ad project, and happened to be on-call our system started doing something wonky, so I think I either called the SRE on the sub-system we were using (spanner? something else - don't remember) to check what's up (as written by our playbook).

They asked me to enable tracing for 30s (we had Chrome extension, that sends some URL common parameter that enables in your web server full tracing (100%) for some short amount of time), and then I did some operations that our internal customers were complaining.

This produced quite a hefty tracing, but only for 30secs - enough for them to trace back where the issue might be coming from. But basically end-to-end from me doing something on the browser, down to our server/backend, downto their systems, etc.

That's how I've learned how important it is - for cases like this, but you can't have 100% ON all the time - not even 1% I think...
I think that could have been done more graciously. And there are other drivers still on the table other than good governance, a good old palace revolution in disguise is definitely not ruled out at this point.
I had ChatGPT give me some proposals for screenplays.

My favorite was Rainbow MosAIc, a Rashomon style film taking place mainly from Friday to Monday. It played with all the different potential motivations and theories. It did a half decent metaphor with representing the different points of view via the different video conferencing cameras.
You could build a whole website in Flash too. Many did.
In terms of gaining success. Artists are chosen by galleries, media reporters based on their story, ie their brand, and how the could be represented to clients, readers. Is there anything interesting to be said or are they just another mfa graduate?

That's why you see the crazy antics of ie a urinal as an artwork, taping a banana to the wall, and the insane art writing that come with an artwork.

A piece of art is not bought for its craftsmanship or what it looks like. It is bought because of the story of the artist, the fact that other people know the artists story, so hanging it on your wall means something. It is part of culture. A Picasso is worth a lot because of its part of art history.
This is totally wrong, GPT-4 knows what it knows and doesn't know to a good degree of precision. Look at the calibration graphs on this page: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
I knew Kyle in college. He was extremely smart, kind, patient, and friendly. (He was a few years ahead of me; I was a random Irish freshman who had just shown up.) Looking back, he's one of the people who inspired me to get into startups. While we never ended up working together, it wasn't for lack of trying on my side -- everyone said he was phenomenal, and I tried hard to persuade him to join Stripe in the early days.
According to the Bard technical paper (page 14), their model beats GPT-4 in several reasoning benchmarks: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf
Indeed, that experience of hearing sounds suddenly materialise "from thin air" with no apparent power source is unforgettable.
What’s the article? Sounds interesting
I’m biased and collect and restore 4-track machines. I’m currently working on a restoration of an RCA SRT-301 mono reel-to-reel. And I absolutely do record on them.

I use digital DAWs and often “finish” songs in Ableton, but I mostly write, record and mix on a 424.
Timely as there’s a Steam sales starting on the 21st :)
> something like 2023.x as pip does

Not sure what you mean by that. The version of pip currently installed on my laptop is 23.3.1. Did you mean some other package, such as pytz?
Then they pay taxes on the luxury but not their spaghetti.
> Note that if you are using Python 3.11 or newer, you can replace datetime.timezone.utc with a shorter datetime.UTC
Pretty sure I did that!
More than US$268 billion has been gambled legally on sports betting between June 2018 and November 2023.

Revenue in all U.S. gaming sectors has increased significantly, with sports betting growing the fastest, at an estimated 75% annually.

It has generated about $3.9 billion in tax revenue to date.

Here's your problem areas - it's pretty easy to defend their freedoms to bet and screw the little people over when there are wheelbarrow loads of cash to dump on any problems like senators with ethics up for a bid, news corps that need a side to take, etc.

The questions I'd be interested in seeing ansers to are:

* Who are the sports betting companies, what are their ownerships? (Is this the Australians, is it the Saudi's, surely it's not the post millennial Mafia out of Vegas still)

* Who are they lobbying?

* Where are they incorporated (Delaware?)

* Where are they really based (not on paper).
Nope. You could have said the same when Elon Musk got ejected and briefly tried to take over OpenAI.

The magic is in Hinton students, who took Deep Learning first to its AlexNet moment and then to its ChatGPT moment.

Sam Altman had exactly nothing to do with the AlexNet revolution. And only was in the “same room” with the people who made the second one happen.

The reason he got ejected was clearly a failure to disclose something very important and somewhat critical to being able to perform a role of OpenAI CEO and be aligned with the OpenAI nonprofit charter. SamChip or WofldCoin crisis maybe. Hard to tell what was it.
> Campaigns should be paid for with tax money with a strict limit for every candidate and harsh penalties for any under the table bullshit.

> Corporations that would nominally donate can just not.

In Brazil campaigns are funded with taxpayer money, there are very strict rules for donations to election campaigns and donations from corporations aren't allowed. This is the theory but for real nobody gives a damn about the rules, corporations donate outrageous amounts behind the scenes and politicians do whatever they want. It is a clown show.
> Fwiw, gets() was actually removed in C11 because of it's inherit security problems. :)

It always exists, it's just that the import gets controlled by a macro. Which, hints at a way Python could have solved this same problem without requiring auditing and rewriting code.
Yes, for some months now: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>

It comes and goes, though seems to be an issue more often than it isn't. At the moment I can get through, that's not been the case for the past week or so generally....

This has a marked impact on HN discussion which already suffers from failure-to-read TFM at the best of times, as I've mentioned multiple times to dang both in comments and via email.

I've also written both A.T. and C.F. concerning this, as the problem appears to be an interaction between the two, neither of whom appear to have much interest is solving what's clearly a problem.
It would take a rocket scientist to trust Elon Musk
That you are describing is called MiniDisc.
They're not the only person that read it like that. I did too.
Simple answer: implement a privacy law with teeth. It doesn't even need to be framed from scratch - the GDPR does a fantastic job at preempting most of the flaws that lobbyists would love to slip in.
That model is far more applicable. Buy an artists works or set up a foundation and give grants. In the process it provides exposure that builds the artist's brand.
Axum has regular breaking changes. I have much love for them but to pretend it's a stable platform to develop from is not realistic.

Maybe shiny new thing people enjoy fixing that stuff but I personally like stability in my frameworks.
Oh, then my apologies, it's unclear to me what you're arguing; That the disaster they find themselves in wasn't foreseeable?

That would imply they couldn’t have considered that Altman was beloved by vital and devoted employees? That big investors would be livid and take action? That the world would be shocked by a successful CEO being unceremoniously sacked during unprecedented success, with (unsubstantiated) allegations of wrongdoing, and leap on the story. Generally those are the kinds of things that would have come up on a "Fire Sam Pro and Cons" list. Or any kind "what's the best way to get what we want and avoid disaster" planning session. They made the way it was done the story, and if they had a good reason, it's been obscured and undermined by attempting to reinstate him.
The problem with Vary is that it massively expands footprints and reduces cache efficiency when overused. In a CDN this can create noisy neighbor like issues.
Are quartz watches really simpler? They require significant technological advancement to create.
I'm really impressed by how timeless these homes look even today.

Why are kit homes not a thing today ? What replaced them ?
What has been crawled stays crawled and there are plenty of copies of sets of tokens that can be used to retrain a model. For a bit of money you can probably get any set that you really want (bit: billions, but pocket change for anything that is going to go head to head with OpenAI).
Thanks, I hate it: https://vintagetek.org/knobless-2445-oscilloscope/
It looked different.
These are all questions that managers (in my org) are typically expected to ask. They aren't one-offs, but are critical information to share information between people.
This seems like it was driven by Singtel in an effort to just make everyone forget about the recent issues. Namely, a massive leak of customer PII, and a 14 hour outage of their core networks.

Optus's issues are long running. My understanding is that they're largely driven by Singtel's desire to keep cutting everything to the bone.

I've got no idea about Rosmarin's effectiveness as a CEO.

Sure, it didn't help that she was a no-show for most of the outage, and when she did do interviews the responses were weak or not exactly confidence building that they knew what the problem was or how to fix it.

Even still, I don't see throwing a new CEO at it is going to result in any meaningful change while Singtel are still the owners, and there's no legislative changes to protect consumers and critical infrastructure.

Large parts of the business are driven entirely on short-term metrics which can be fiddled with to hide problems. The use of contracting firms (both onshore and off) to manage/build/maintain what should, for a Telco, be their core strengths only seems to make this worse.
Depends, but traditionally in the USA white-collar jobs are 9-5 with time for lunch.
99% Invisible had a good podcast on Sears Homes: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...
This sounds like celebrity worship. I don’t see Altman brings that much value to OpenAI given the core researchers stay.
Why would it be relevant, who I am?

I am interested in the future of Matrix as an open, decentralized protocol. I increasingly see a risk in the behavior of New Vector as the VC-funded effective owner of the Matrix protocol. To me, the Matrix.org Foundation was supposed to be the organization that saves the community from the interests of VCs.

Over recent years I got the feeling the foundation became mostly a fake nonprofit organization to attract donations from the community while the for-profit company attracts VC money. The foundation did not manage to properly include the community in any of its official positions (Board, Spec Team) in 5 years, clearly showing that this is not in its interest.

For Matrix to be a success, we need to design it such that there can be contributions from others than New Vector. This is not happening and because of that, it's very likely that as soon as New Vector is running out of money, Matrix is going to collapse. Having at least a bunch of money in the foundation would reduce that risk, but New Vector seems to even be siphoning off that.
For the sake of your wallet, I hope you don't put money on that. Google certainly spends an order of magnitude more than OpenAI because they have been around longer than them, ship their own hardware and maintain their own inferencing library. The amount they spend on training their LLMs is the minority, full-stop.

I despise both of these companies, but Google's advantage here is so blatantly obvious that I struggle to see how you can even defend OpenAI like this.
2 prominent Google competitors really hurting from self inflicted wounds this week. OpenAI has good tech, but surprisingly disorganized management. Cruise was considered a Waymo competitor (despite having far inferior tech) may undergo some radical changes. Could Apple possibly acquire Cruise assets? Would Apple even want them? Reputational risk to Apple is huge.
The core decision to be made is: Ilya or Sam ?
This is as good of an endorsement as you'll ever see.

Also I am happy to be your next choice after Kyle. I'll join Stripe, Patrick!
Other salient points:

- The CEO told the senate hearing that she now carried Telstra and Vodaphone SIM cards (maybe practical, terrible optics)

- Transport for NSW is heavily reliant on Optus so public transport was heavily impacted (not entirely Optus' fault, but public outrage means someone had to be the scapegoat)
This is a pretty wild comment. That's a very safe assumption and no low level employee will do Sams bidding in an illegal enterprise. And keeping it a secret isn't going to work either and whether or not AGI is 'born' (who will bear it) is an open question to which I hope the answer is 'not for a while'. Because we haven't even figured out how to get humans to cooperate which I think should be a prerequisite.
Why was the submission title changed from the much more descriptive actual article headline? I have no idea who Kyle Vogt is without the context of 'co-founder and CEO'.
Musk left in 2018 after disagreements over the future of the company. In 2019 OpenAI started their 'OpenAI LP' for-profit entity. It seems entirely reasonable that the profit vs mission motive that seems to be driving this issue, is also what drove Musk to leave.
Because of the comma and ellipsis "need so much adjustment" very much looks like it only applies to "...and EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India."
Memory access can still be O(1) if you pipeline everything, instead of making everything wait for all of the RAM at the same time.

Lots of things get wickedly faster, if you can ditch the Von Neuman model of computation.
There will always be people who seek it out. When I look at Apple’s App Store, ESPN Bets is the #2 free app. #1 is Temu, which feeds a different kind of addiction to get people to throw their money away.

It’s one thing for it to exist. It’s another for it to be legally above board, front and center where people go to find stuff to do, advertised non-stop, and living in people’s pockets.

These new sites and apps, that can now advertise and operating openly, have thrown gasoline on the fire.
Having worked with Singaporean telcos in a past life, I can attest that the standard action item for guiltful postmortems is identifying a scapegoat and firing them.
Which is kind of bizarre actually - Australia has tons of land with good insolation, utility scale PV should be an easy sell?
https://archive.is/fPVlY
That's a great video.

This hardware is incredible. It's somewhat like the difference between RAW and JPG. We can properly rip LDs now.