skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use obsidian to just edit files on disk and handle syncing yourself (eg. With Nextcloud, syncthing, Dropbox)
'The Revolutionary Temper' by Robert Darnton Review
No, they were far away and not my problem. It is silly from a rational standpoint, it is probably unjust from a Universal Justice standpoint, but I'm not talking about rationality or justice right now, I'm talking about emotions.
So the discussions are definitely happening it seems: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609
I would argue that it is actually the only thing that works, and the "real" vote is just for shows. You kinda agree with that in your last sentence.
I don't think "real" voting works because it just reflects the aggregate of people's choices on a single variable. But your choices in life are an almost infinite number of variables and they almost always involve money/ressources. It's gotta be a more effective reflection when you consider the aggregate.

But anyway, in this case, I think the outrage is completely blown out of proportion and it probably isn't as bad as they make it out to be.
It reads like a propaganda campaign from some government employed scientist that want funding to research the subject. I mean we should put some funds into it, but they have to give really hard results that it is actually a problem.
So far everything on the subject is rather elusive and surface level. They use a lot of flowery language but not a whole lot of hard data...
I refuse to use bike as daily transportation on the grounds that I'm neither a kid, who's too young to get a drivers license, nor an Asian immigrant working as Uber Eats delivery guy. Riding a bike, other than recreationally, is beneath my dignity.
If Steve can make him stay and remain productive, he's a real business genius
Would be a catastrophic blow to MS too.
This article is gpt-generated rubbish. Better to read the paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.0004...
It would have been interesting to see how you would have predicted the final outcome on friday, but we'll never know.
seems he had a side hustle: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/altman-so...
There is a culture of well-defined interfaces which are checked at compile time. This is something that was emphasized in recent posts and changes such as:

* New trait systems define the allowed inputs into given solvers in order to enforce guarantees https://sciml.ai/news/2022/10/08/error_messages/

* The SciMLOperators.jl interface clarified operators (https://docs.sciml.ai/SciMLOperators/stable/interface/)
* The highest level SciMLBase interface got codified (https://docs.sciml.ai/SciMLBase/stable/) along with the trait systems it requires.

* ArrayInterface.jl (https://docs.sciml.ai/ArrayInterface/stable/) and StaticArrayInterface.jl (https://docs.sciml.ai/StaticArrayInterface/stable/) have dropped fallback definitions and require definition of traits for downstream packages in order for any array types to be allowed into package functions

* SciMLStyle (https://github.com/SciML/SciMLStyle) came into existence and defines a style which avoids any of the behaviors seen in the blog post.

* Julia came out with package extensions in v1.9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiIZlQhFzyk) and with the interface checking, implicit interface support was turned mostly into explicit interface support where packages and types opt-in via defining traits (this is still continuing to evolve but is mostly there).

Given all of these changes, most of the things in the blog post would now error in many standard packages without someone explicitly defining interface trait functions to allow an object in that doesn't satisfy the interface which it's claiming to. Of course, not every person or every package has changed, but what I described here are major interface, style, and cultural changes to some of the most widely used packages since 2020.
Posted just a few moments ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337395
Nothing Chats, an iMessage app for Android, is a privacy nightmare
OK dude, I might agree with that if it didn’t just nail my revisions to a CMake file in one try.
The disconnect is real indeed, and in my experience mostly solved with company get-togethers. After the first get-together, people have a much better idea of other people, vibe better together and thus have a lot more empathy as well.

That said, if a person is unable to conduct themselves professionally whether it is via a video call or not, I think it has nothing to do with remote work and all to do with that particular person being bad to work with.
NIH is using volunteers to review grants and some programs. So same problem applies. I've even seen reviewers stealing the work from grants they reviewed (and noted really badly so it wouldn't get funded) and that same reviewer did it multiple times. Nobody cared at NIH, the program officers said they would look into it and many years later still nothing happened. There is nothing really in place to solve blatant abuse.
Yeah, it looks like Sutskever was too late in realizing how far down the path of “embrace, extend, extinguish” OpenAI had gone and made a last ditch effort to stop it.
I used to set max line length on my projects to 120. However, I now live off-grid and primarily work from my 14” MBP. At this level, 80-100 really is the sweet spot, particularly with side-by-side or just a couple levels of sidebar.
The owing balance of Vector is concerning because the loan's payment, interest or default has to be marked in the books.

People think running a non profit is easier but its much more difficult considering external, anonymous stakeholders.
Is it so hard to find good people to put on the board? Sam was the CEO OF Y COMBINATOR. Shouldn't he know who is best to put on the board? Find them out?

Apparently not?

Please say they are not going to put a board just as bad as before.

There are no checks and balances. Should Open AI employees be allowed to veto a board decision vote if they have 50% or 67% of the vote? Should Open AI employees be allowed to vote for at least some members to be allowed on the board? Like the Senate voting to confirm a Supreme Court Justice?

No matter how good the next board will be, the power rules still apply as before, and the same thing could happen again if no other changes are put in place...
He could possibly stay in a pure Chief Scientist role while abdicating his board seat. But if I were a CEO, I'd have a hard time trusting a C-level role to someone whose vision is diametrically opposed to my own.
>Which to me was kind of the whole point of TDD in the first place; to let the ease and/or difficulty of testing become feedback that informs the design overall

Yes and that is precisely what I was arguing against throughout this thread.

For me, (integration) test driven development development is about creating:

* A signal to let me know if my feature is working and easy access to debugging information if it is not.

* A body of high quality tests.

It is 0% about design, except insofar as the tests give me a safety harness for refactoring or experimenting with design changes.
In Japan, where I grew up, it's common to see everyone play video games, especially women but sometimes the elderly.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/783433/japan-participati....
That's the choice isn't it. Either reinstall Sam Altman and sack the board, or move the funding to whatever entity he goes and sets up next.
without altman who would want to come in and fund the folks who made this decision ? Fire youre CEO on friday, hire him back on Saturday ??

esp if Altman takes the majority of the folks from money making side
Altman is more powerful than I thought.
I’m pretty sure I’m plagiarizing from somewhere, but there’s a certain distinct sadness in being the last songbird of your species: singing a mating call that no other creature will heed, no matter how skillfully it is sung. When it dies, the world has a little less joy than before.
You can configure Windows to boot into a custom shell: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
Read the first link why Termux cannot do Android 10 and later.

Later editions have more restrictions in place, after the safe systems programming effort has started.
can't those people just relax? You aren't running some computer club in high school and debate if you should run freebsd or linux

Just give him some seat or what he wants, stop acting like some series like Suits
Also its likely that a large number of the news stories coming out right now are PR "plants" by one side or the other to make the firing seem justified or the return a fait accompli. In a coup one of the first tasks is to get public opinion on your side and build momentum for the outcome you want to see.

I'm curious where the rank & file OpenAI employees stand on this, as it seems to me like they will be the ultimate kingmakers. The Reddit thread on Friday made it seem like they supported Ilya - but for all we know, the anonymous Reddit poster might have been Ilya himself.
People need to understand the historical significance of why these things came into being.

Especially since we are on the verge of WWIII on multiple fronts. History should not repeat itself if we find ourselfs in a world war again

WWII price controls are directly responsible for Employer Benefit plans, it was illegal to raise wages, but it was not illegal to offer employee's health care, at the time this was direct health care, companies were employing nurses, doctors, etc that would not only see the employee but their entire family often free or very low rates.

This morphed over time into the employer insurance model we have today.
Too early.
Can you imagine having a guest pass at the company you founded?
> That is now is 7 PM and want it to run tomorrow at 7 AM. Like if simply print times you get

is this English? also I am still not seeing a problem:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"time"
)

func main() {
t1 := time.Now()
t2 := t1.Add(12 * time.Hour)
fmt.Println(t1) // 2023-11-19 15:14:16
fmt.Println(t2) // 2023-11-20 03:14:16
}
Command+F "mosquito"

sigh

It's wild how this news is basically a non-story, people don't care about "oops we accidentally did a bunch of extinctions"

...but people will riot if you launch a project to intentionally wipe out the single most deadly insect species in the history of humanity (and one that's not even a keystone species!).
To this date I still haven't found a product that is pro-consumer.

I WANT one of these smaller devices, they're efficient, they're cheap. I don't want to use x86 for my networking stack.

But I want them without an OS layer from anybody. I don't want to have to configure them through a website which distills dnsmasq's 8 options into 3 checkboxes on a website, none of which actually do what I want.

Ubiquity is nice, nice devices, and their UI is actually really nice. But what isn't in there just isn't possible.

You can't for example redirect DNS traffic to another IP.

You can't disable DHCPv6 (i.e. only use SLAAC) when doing IPv6-PD.

You can't disable broadcasting an IPv6 DNS when doing DHCPv6.

Synology:

When using SLAAC (Stateless) they still distribute the DNS via DHCPv6, but don't set the right tags. iOS picks up on the address, Windows does not.

But worse, you can't SET the DNS address, so it broadcasts the router's DNS, which isn't what you want when you have AdGuard / PiHole somewhere else.

Setting domains per network doesn't work. Last one wins.

Stateless does not require rDNS, nor DHCPv6. I have not found any router that supports this.

And neither Synology or Ubiquity support DD-WRT / OpenWRT.

And when you contact Synology with these bugs the first thing they do is ask access to your box to ... tinker around? WTF?
About binary thinking....
You seem to be suggesting that by creating purpose-built mass-tourism destinations, tourists wouldn't continue to congregate in real places, where people live, shop and work.

I live in the centre of an attractive, old university town. We have druggies and dossers; typically, they don't have local accents (druggies and dossers seem to have their own accent, so perhaps that doesn't mean they're non-local).

But the streets around here are increasingly impassable, because of people taking photos (of anything) and blocking pedestrians, and columns of foreign language students 100-strong. These people don't come here because it's "properly built" for tourists; they come here because it's old and pretty.

To be fair, most of the tourists are daytrippers; they don't stay here overnight, and they don't spend much. Maybe they're only here because it's on the tour company list, and maybe it's because they want a selfie in front of $MONUMENT for their instagram feed.

IMO they'd get more out of their visit if they'd actually look at $MONUMENT in real life.
Very impressive. It would take me a long time to even guess that some of these are text to speech.
The “fiduciary duty“ of a nonprofit, such as it is, is just securing operating funds so that it can Fulfil its mission. Altman has been spectacularly successful at achieving that goal by obtaining $10 billion in funding. Better, cheaper, or more power efficient chips, whatever the source, would absolutely help through the mission too. and that of course is assuming they actually buy or use them at all in the first place. Firing him on the grounds that it could potentially be a bad deal that “lines his pockets“ sometime in the future seems premature.

I think it’s a real stretch to say this chip company would be a violation of his “fiduciary duty“ to open AI. The best argument you could make is that he has a conflict of interest with a competitor. But again, open AI is a nonprofit. It doesn’t have “competitors“. Either it has the funding it needs and is fulfilling its mission or it isn’t.
Hard to see how embrace, extend, extinguish fits here. There's no standards-based app ecosystem that depends on some community standard for interplay that they can break by getting market-wide adoption of their proprietary standard. ChatGPT's IO is natural language text prompts/answers. Can MS really create a proprietary extension to natural language, that the world recognizes?
Microsoft is going to walk away from the most strategic deal they’ve made in a decade to save the Loopt guy’s ego?

I feel like everyone should be forced to watch a few Game of Thrones episodes before commenting. Organizations act in their own self interest. Leaders are convinced they’re irreplaceable all the way to the gallows steps.

If Sam can sabotage OpenAI or if the remaining people can’t capably run the organization then sure people will walk away. But if they keep things from falling apart nobody is going to give a fuck.
I remember when people loathed him on here. Worldcoin etc?

He seems slimy as hell and I’m giving Ilya the benefit of the doubt.
You are very inexperienced I can tell and it is obvious from your immaturity, cockiness and arrogance
At least he's making light of the situation. It could be a lot more tense than this.
The server-side Matrix code developed by Element is no longer going to be released under the Apache 2 license. It's going to be dual-licensed AGPL/proprietary from now on and released from Element's own GitHub repositories with a CLA requiring copyright assignment to Element so they can use it in the proprietary version, and the foundation is dropping all development on the Apache 2 version since they're not interested in competing with Element. This was specifically to obstruct other companies from providing Matrix-based enterprise offerings. There was an announcement about it which made it onto HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162275
The NYT won't let me see TFA, so I hope it mentions that cassettes, via samizdat, also shook things up on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
As a heavy smoker, I rather like that excuse.
Same, I don't feel unsafe.
This is more entertaining than most Marvel movies.
Is there a mobile app version of this list? Someone should create it?

Mobile apps , I'm tired of playing bridge builder.
YouTube has infinite time and energy for this. Adblock developers do not. Some are already burning out. The biggest risk to YouTube's strategy isn't that they can't win technically, it's that the bitching from their employees internally grinds them down.
Suggestion: Hydroneer
Why would an adversarial network be bound to the average?

From an economic point of view your ideas where a few people make a trillion dollars and the rest struggle to find a means to eat are not valuable, unless you're selling the implements of war and strife. You just end up with a crapsack planet where the rich tell the poor the socialism is bad.
Purely outside perspective, but people’ve been complaining for quite a while that OpenAI seems to have bailed on their original mission. Sure looks like Altman was capitalism’ing the whole thing—maybe not on purpose, but because it’s just the only way he knows to operate—and had kinda half-sold it to Microsoft, which sure is corroborated by folks posting on here expecting MS to now be in a position to forcibly override the nonprofit board’s decisions, and by rumors that in fact that’s what’s going on.

Looks like they were right to boot him, but may have done it way too late, having already de facto lost control due to the direction he’d guided the organization. If he comes out on top, it’ll mean the original OpenAI and its mission is dead, looks like to me, and the board was already cut out months ago but didn’t realize it yet.
It's not Altman per se, it's the hypercapitalism interests that he represents and serves.
around here the police tend to go in restaurants I like (atlanta)
It looks like you still need to subscribe for a premium account if you self host to unlock even checklists unless I'm wrong? $40 a year to self host seems a bit steep.
I wanted to say that this "obviously" means "5 hours median" i.e. 50%, but I just realised my managers and clients would almost always understand this as "I swear on everything I hold dear this will take 5 hours and not a single minute more" (which is why I avoid sharing my estimates publicly). Funny how it works. Great observation, thanks.
I think the argument is rather to make Windows simpler (because it’s supposedly too complicated for many non-geeky users), but to retain an “expert mode” for the more “advanced” functions, or a slider as described.
> There were reports that the H100 (latest and fastest known AI chip from NVIDIA) costs only 3000$ to make

These sorts of comparisons are silly. If it was only $300, then everyone would have made them. It would be made and sold at the local BestBuy. The reality is that it costs a lot more than that. R&D, Fab, etc... plus the chassis it goes into...
> Yeah they also have literally the most valuable and in demand new tech product in a generation.

> What if they feel like they shouldn’t be focused on selling a product?

Investor interest stems from focus on product. Having most valuable and in demand product in a generation doesn't matter if you bury it into the ground.

> The idea that Microsoft is somehow the one with the leverage here is fucking delusional yet I see it in every thread over this weekend.

If you think that anyone will give billions of dollars to organization that fucks their investors and is that much unstable, you are the one delusional.
Unexpected episode of Undercover Boss...
Not hard these days.
I'm not sure how this would work with their funding / ownership structure but a delaware c corp with such a high valuation and so much money raised would have to take a huge down round if it lost half the team and pissed off their largest partners (microsoft). It would usually be a bloodbath that would wipe out common shareholders and early investors, which would then lead to most early employees leaving.
>Have you used gpt4? it's reasoning capabilities match human ability.

I use it every day, and I have to often guide it like a 5 year old to come to the conclusion to help me the way I want it to.

>GPT 4 can reason through any mental exercise as well as a human.

So can my alcoholic neighbor. That should not be a benchmark of anything.
Yes, and if they escalate to banning Google accounts entirely due to ad-blocking then people would be forced to choose between the data they have there and their adblockers.
No one is going to leave Microsoft because of some amateur hour non profit board fuckery that had Microsoft stepping in as the adult. You don’t tell your partner investing billions of dollars of value you’re about to fire a CEO over perspective differences in a very public way, coloring it as malfeasance or dishonesty, and you think someone is ever going to take you seriously again?

Anyone with even a basic level of business sense isn’t going to hold Microsoft responsible in a negative light for prudent reactions to volatile partner behaviors. These are not just startup cloud credits being given to OpenAI.
That's not even remotely the same thing.

Interactivity changes things. A lower frame rate can also make input feel less snappy, which is obviously something you don't run into in film. The frame rate in a film is constant, so there are no variations or drops as there are in rendered games. Those drops and variations can be more noticeable at lower frame rates, even if they don't affect playability in a simulation game the same way they would in a fast-paced shooter.

Films also naturally have motion blur which makes fast movement look softer and less jerky even at relatively low frame rates.

With that said, frame rates being around 30 probably shouldn't really be that big an issue in a simulation game. People who are used to faster frame rates will notice the difference -- again, games are different than film -- but it shouldn't be that big a thing.

But it's worth noting that if those are the figures people get with new high-end systems, that probably means reasonable but less high-end or slightly older systems will have to settle for even less, to a point where performance could actually be an issue.
not sure why you're downvoted, that would be absolutely miserable
This is slavery, regardless of whether or not this is slavery? Ok.
Partly, yes, but it's more than just that. Let's use abortion as that was mentioned: the SCOTUS deciding that abortion should always be legal, with very few restrictions, using a rather tortured and tenuous reading of the constitution (IMHO). Whatever you may think of the outcome, it's certainly not "consensus-building" in any meaningful way, and I fail to see how proportional representation would change anything here.

If you compare this to European countries then "legalizing abortion" often meant passing a lot more nuanced legislation with a lot more compromise and process, which sometimes also took a lot longer. The result is that in most European countries there is no significant "repeal abortion legislation" movement, that even many Christian parties are not advocating for this (although some are), and that repealing this would be unthinkable in the foreseeable future.

So I say the problems are deeper than just the electoral system, although that is part of it. Even some carefully nuanced compromise legislation widely supported by a majority of the population from both sides can be struck down by the SCOTUS as long as a small activist group takes an interest.

Turns out you can't bully people in to agreeing with you, you can only bully them in to shutting up and resenting you. Who would have expected eh?