skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got excited when I found the link to https://www.searshouses.com/national-list

But...

> Do we share our national database? We largely keep our database private, for the use of our research team, but will certainly answer questions from homeowners, historical societies, press, or the general public, about specific information we have collected.

I wonder why?

I would very much love to see a map of Sears houses in the SF Bay Area.

Here's a guess: maybe they're worried about people bothering the residents of those homes? It might be that people who talk to their researchers specifically ask them not to share their addresses, and not publishing a list is the best way to get homeowners to voluntarily talk to them.
When I was in college in 2011 and was offered an internship to Justin.TV, Kyle had it rescinded without notifying me, almost leaving me without an internship for my junior year.

After giving me the offer ("We would like to offer an internship position to you. I'll call you today with more details.") the recruiter emailed me that Kyle wanted to talk. Since I'd already been offered the internship, I took it as a sell call to learn more about the company.

But shortly thereafter when I emailed to accept the position, the recruiter responded

> After your conversation with Kyle, we felt that we will need a more experienced intern for the projects we have. So, we are not going to pursue your application any further.

At no point had I been told—until I tried to accept the offer—that it had been rescinded.

Thankfully, I hadn't yet reached out to the other companies who had given me offers and ended up at what turned out to be a much more successful startup. But if I had done it in the other order I would have been screwed.

This was more than 12 years ago, and I still don't know what happened internally. Having worked in many startups since then, I can understand the level of dysfunction that can occur even with well-intentioned leadership.

But in any case, Kyle clearly didn't care what happened to some random college student, and it's left a bad taste in my mouth for all of these years.
Galveston, Texas still has some of these. My friend lived in one for several years before the real estate market (and new job in Houston) forced their hand.
OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits
Really? It's done pretty regularly to limit liability.
> This is really good journalism.

That was exactly my reaction. I’ve been following the news and rumors and speculation closely since Altman’s firing, and this is by far the most substantive account I have read. Kudos to the authors and to The Atlantic for getting it out so quickly.
"Hiro", not "Hero".
You're not really thinking it through. I have friends involved in the VA business, and it's only gotten more competitive as time has progressed - this is partially because it's rare that we need a voice actor that needs to create a crazy Looney Tunes sounding voice, the majority of VA work is surprisingly just close to the natural sounding voice of the VA themselves.

It's rare that you need a talent like Dan Castellaneta, Mel Blanc, etc.

Secondly, yes, VA licensing will become a thing – but that means that jobs that would previously be available to other lesser known voice actors, because the major players simply didn't have enough time to take those gigs, can no longer take them. A TTSVA can do unlimited recordings.

Thirdly, major studios that would require hundreds of voices for video games and other things don't have to license known voices at all, they can just create generate brand new ones and pay zero licensing fees.
Possibly but not certainly. It would have deadlocked the vote if a board member would have been replaced and it would have still passed if Microsoft had had an extra seat (4:2 -> 3:3) vs (4:2 -> 4:3) assuming the Microsoft representative to the board would vote against having Altman removed.

What I'm fairly sure of though is that if the board had been stocked with heavyweights rather than lightweights that this would have been handled in a procedural correct way with a lot more chance that it would stick.
Honestly everything about Cruise seemed awesome until they pushed to start offering driverless rides at the same time as Waymo, when obviously they weren't as far along.

Whose decision was that? I'm really curious if there were internal disagreements.
Love the original catalog index of homes. http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm

You can click on the pictures to see the original home ads in the Sears catalog, with prices (e.g. http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1911_011...) $1062 for the parts to a beautiful American Craftsman style bungalow ($34,394.38 adjusted for inflation)! Some assembly required :)

On a tangential note: Sears killed the mail order catalog in 1993, just as the Internet was starting to take off. They could have been Amazon. Now, even their landmark highrise, the Sears Tower, has been unceremoniously renamed Willis Tower.

I still like the idea of mail order house parts & plans though. Someone should start a startup to make and build them.
“Interim CEO Mira Murati plans to rehire Sam and Greg, and is in talks with board rep Adam D’Angelo to do so (in what capacity is not yet finalized). However, concurrently, the OpenAI board is looking to hire its own CEO, and has reached out to two candidates that we’ve spoken to, both prominent execs”

https://x.com/emilychangtv/status/1726457543629914389?s=46

I can’t imagine why any CEO would want to take the job and be Sam’s boss. There’s no way that goes well.
I can't speak to intelligence, but the result would be ignorant in a meaningful way.
The strength of the wording is irrelevant if the statement is accurate.
Satisfactory feels like it's absolutely Early Access: Recent Satisfactory patches have changed the tech tree, broken existing production lines due to recipe changes, and even changed the geography of the world (one of my power plants is now inside a mountain, which makes it very difficult to change anything). They're also planning to add a plot involving the alien artifacts you find across the world, although so far nothing further is known.

That seems to be the clear line between "early access" and "Updates past 1.0": are you backwards compatible? Before 1.0, you don't have to worry about that, but I'd be very annoyed to find a new mountain in the middle of my base come 1.1
Thanks. Following the instructions now. BTW mamba is no longer recommended (for those like me who aren't already using it), and the #mambaforge anchor in the link didn't work.
Thanks for the link. Seems like a well built ecosystem. The pixel art pairing with the card/audio is a nice hardware touch.

On one hand, feels like extra work to purchase and duplicate existing Spotify lists.

On the other hand, I’m attempting to keep my kids in “physical” world as much as possible. This is the best solution I’ve seen for audio. Could be worth some ongoing dollars.

Have your kids enjoyed it? Any sense of how often you’ll be buying new cards?
What if Microsoft, et al, signed exclusivity with OpenAI?
DSL and Cable were available at my house in 1999, but I didn't get broadband until 2003. The $49.95/mo was just too expensive. (Compared to the $10/mo for dialup)
Monitorix: A free, open-source, lightweight system monitoring tool
I couldn't even get 33.6k to work on my wiring.

The house wasn't that old but was old enough that the wiring was abysmal. You could easily understand conversations happening on one phone line from the other line. When someone was on the other line, I'd get a re-negotiate and sometimes drop to 21.6k (a reliable minimum just before I had broadband installed).

Those things were returned like crazy when I worked at CompUSA. I had never met a customer who had made one connect at 56K[0] and none of the staff -- all serious computer-nerds who spent much of their income at the store -- could get a 56K connection to anything.

I believe, also, that 33.6K is the speed you will get when you are connecting to another modem (ala a typical BBS). I'm foggy on the details, but my understanding is that to negotiate 56K, the other end of the conversation has to be digital[1].

[0] Admittedly, I quit before I had broadband and 56K was relatively new; maybe it got better, but I stopped paying attention.

[1] I did work in telecom, so I am cringing a little because I know that -- at a minimum -- that's a somewhat ridiculous over-simplification of several different things that I had regular, though casual, exposure to way too long ago to speak intelligently about, now.
You should hand him a chart with "years" on the x axis with it starting from 0AD. :P
If it's done in a country where it's legal, maybe even processed in the same country and all you take out is the weights, I bet it gets a bit muddier.
That phraseology only makes sense if you assume the audience agrees with you about what’s “detrimental.” But here, whether the “side effects” are “detrimental” depends on how much you value individual freedom, which is part of the debate.

It’s like saying “we can’t have universal healthcare” because you personally consider the resulting tax burden unacceptable. You’re obfuscating your message by glossing over an underlying value judgment that’s very much subject to debate.
They cut the video they first showed the DMV of the accident to remove the last error made by the car, which was arguably the worst aspect of the accident as far as Cruise's default behavior failures. The DMV found out about the cut segment from the news.
Well yeah, but I think point being made here is it is shop that feels rewarding customer and not the customer that is socially forced to reward server at coffee shop counter every single time.
Unless they’re voting to block industrialization agendas of African nations by force or diplomacy, there’s nothing your Flanders-based politician can do.
Are there resources or good examples you would recommend?
Nearly 2M of those are insects, plants or fungi, and none of these made it into the list of 21 here. There are under 100k distinct "animals" in the sense we usually think of the word (mammals, reptiles, birds).
> Ilya staying is the only thing that is basically guaranteed.

How is that guaranteed? If investors remove him from board of directors, he may get pissed off and quit, no?

> In addition, no one is irreplaceable.

In theory, maybe. In practice, it is not always easy. Nearly a year after ChatGPT came out Google hasn't been able to catch up. If it was easy to replace Ilya after he left Google, they would have caught up by now.
https://archive.is/ZKvDe
Ask HN: How many people on Hacker News live in rural areas?
I know the majority live in urban areas. But when I read a post about something like electric bikes or walkable cities, I can’t find a single comment supporting a rural lifestyle. I’m not complaining, just shocked that there aren’t even a few.
I read your comment—I was agreeing with an aspect of what you wrote. But you said that we shouldn’t see things as left vs right, but then proceeded to equate “socialism” with “authoritarianism” which seemed like exactly the thing you were arguing against. There are many functional, non-authoritarian socialist countries. What do they have in common?
These are the same people who make every link in the emails they send 1kB of tracking parameters?
What a strange society you live in... I don't see how any kind of racial segregation can help the next generation do better than the previous one.

Having to explain to your kid that they can't do X because of their phenotype feels simply wrong.
It was, but still: perception matters and Sam has - contrary to the board - not made many wrong moves since this whole thing started. Note that this is all extremely rapidly developing and it's very hard to do all of this on the fly when you don't expect to even be in this situation and not miss a beat.

The board however has only made things ever more murky with their vague and fig-leaf like defenses. They appear utterly unprepared to deal with the aftermath of their own action, which they and only they knew was coming.
That would still pose a legal problem.
Do you think there is anything wrong within the scientific community, or do you think the diminishing trust is completely caused by outside forces?
As I suspected, the board never intended to resign. They knew what they started.
What could possibly go wrong…
If Bret Taylor manages to weasel his way into this company... it will be the most brilliant staged coup in all of history.
I second what exabrial said. Any corporate person who asks for SMS 2FA as a condition to use a service should be fined $750,000 per violation.
Gotta love that Adam D'Angelo who has a clear conflict of interest with Poe to OpenAI's GPTs release from dev day is still on the board and is now somehow the one tasked with leading this negotiation from the boards side.
I grew up on the South Side and I had zero awareness of this. I can appreciate that they want to protect people's privacy, but now I'm so curious!
>the energy of all of the living members, but all of the ancestors of all of the living members as well that is destroyed

The law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
You'd need to have access to the various legal docs of the OpenAI non-profit to be able to answer that question. But there was a move in the works to expand the board after a recent resignation. This is why - normally - the number of directors on the board is specified in those documents and a quorum of a minimum number of people is required to be able to make certain decisions, especially ones with potentially far reaching consequences.
Python wheels are one use-case I’m excited about.
Very few have said Tesla isn’t good at selling cars and making a profit. They’re very good at that. I don’t think many people said Tesla would go out of business. What people said was that Tesla had made the decision to go vision-only because they wanted to start selling FSD packages 8 years ago when LiDAR was very expensive to tack onto a consumer car. Now LiDAR is much cheaper and getting cheaper by the day, but they insist on doubling down on this strategy.
This is good for plant growth, is it not?
Woof, $109/hour on demand pricing (~$950k/year on demand, ~$590k/1year reserved). Super curious what a similar spec machine would retail.
Could you speak to the unnecessary complexity a little more ? What were the design decisions to didn't agree with ?
I grew up with tapes and have reconnected with them in recent years. I have plenty of vinyl as well, but tapes have a nicer nostalgic feel for me (and don’t require as much careful handling). I particularly like shopping for tapes. In most shops used vinyl is many times picked over and overwhelming. But tape sections are smaller and more efficient to browse. For me, there is a certain feel to the old tapes I want (and certain labels, particularly Moon Glyph, for the new stuff) and finding a fit has a very specific thrill I don’t get elsewhere.
Those navigating with a keyboard.
Possession is one of the best novels I have read - a book about writers and books, the intertwined story lines are in some sense a bit recursive, a mystery and a romance at the same time. It's one of those books that I had to struggle a bit to get through but the more I do the more I love the story.

The movie adoption is a total abomination though and basically lost all the charm of the original novel.
Also that's why single page applications are no longer technically single page.

https://example.com/#!/
https://example.com/#!/about/
https://example.com/#!/users/

Are all the same page as far as the browser concerns, and if you move from `/#!/` to `/#!/users/`, and reload the page, you still load the same page (i.e. `/`).

But that was too ugly for URLs, so modern websites now use browser history APIs just so they can remove 3 characters from the URL and do stuff like:

https://example.com/
https://example.com/about/
https://example.com/users/

Sure, if you load `/` and move to `/about/` you don't load a new page because of browser history APIs; but if you then refresh, now you load a different, uncached page (`/about/`, instead of `/`) even if the HTML in the response is exactly the same as in `/`.

Sure, the difference is not much, but to me it still seems like a waste when the response could have been cached already like in the first example.
It is not impossible. You can call witnesses, refer to emails, source code etc.
The point is that Apple couldn't possibly be requiring some hardware backed signature (i.e. HW attestation that this is a genuine Apple product) for iMessage if Hackintoshes can pull it off. In so far as Hackintoshes can send iMessages without any sketchy middle-end servers, so too could Android devices if someone were able to reverse engineer enough of the stack.
"> Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn.*

Note that this basic idea was previously realized as the 1999 movie "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" starring Carmen Electra and narrated by David Hyde Pierce.
In theory, that's what they are, in effect, they are more than that. Yes they are searching for the most likely next word but there is some randomness to the next word that's picked so that can lead to some very unlikely results. Additionally, they have a huge corpus of words to pick from. The part that people have not emphasized enough is its ability to turn your human request into something that can be used to search the corpus of words. That's the real superpower of these models. People are now able to use their own language without any special training to get very good results. No more need to have a computer programmer translate your thoughts into computer language. It's so good that people are beginning to think that it's sentient. It's not. Also, it's not a path to AGI but it is very useful anyway.
Click on start. Yeah that’s in the bottom left. Yup that one. Then look for settings. No the word settings. Has a little arrow next to it. Yeah hit that. It didn’t do anything? Wait, click with the mouse button on the left. Yeah it brought up a little menu to the right? That’s good. Now look for… ok let’s start over and remember not to click anywhere besides where I tell you to. And keep the mouse where it is. Ok find the start button again. No its in the bottom left of your screen…
Exactly. The board should have been stocked with seasoned professionals not with people who on an idle Friday decide to throw their weight around to see what that feels like without any idea of the possible ramifications of such acts.
It's the second one, so FFWD FFWD, nope looks like it's the 3rd one, FFWD FFWD, crap too far, REWIND REWIND, shit, this is the wrong cassette, EJECT, aagh the tape got stuck and now it's everywhere, I need to find an octagonal pencil so I can spool it back
Detroit should be on this list. I've been trying to find it for years, had it when I was young. It was a car design and car company simulator.
Running Python Parallel Applications with Sub Interpreters
Honestly - CLI apps that need to run on multiple platforms. I once built a version of https://github.com/lovebrew/lovebrew (back when it was written in Nim) using Cosmopolitan 2, and I got back a single binary that ran on all major operating systems.

This greatly reduces the time GitHub actions would need to run, as you just build and release for one OS. As others have mentioned, this does not really work for native GUI apps, that isn't supported by Cosmopolitan as far as I know. But for small CLI tools it works great!
The exchange has raised margin requirements for several tokens.
dYdX would also no longer permit highly profitable trading strategies.
dYdX, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, burned up $9 million of its insurance fund on November 17 to cover customer losses, prompting the exchange to announce additional procedures to reduce trading-related risks.

The exchange has raised margin requirements for several tokens trading in “less liquid markets,” according to a post on Twitter. On November 17th, a lucrative transaction targeting long holdings on the YFI token led to the liquidation of positions worth roughly $38 million, triggering dYdX’s insurance fund to reimburse users’ trading losses.
Another risk is anaerobic bacteria inside the tires if you don't bleed and refill them. Sounds like the pure Nitrogen is a setup for that to happen on occasion. So main tip is skip the extras and bleed and refill your tires twice a year.
Easy solution: just plot the delta in °C since some fixed date. (Or for any graph, just subtract y(x_0) from every point. Tada!)
> certain metal objects

If I remember correctly it isn't the metal object itself that receives the AM radio, there has to be a diode.

In practical terms, dissimilar material junctions - where one is a semiconductor and the other a conductor - form a crude diode.

Mercury-amalgam fillings in teeth (with the tooth being the semiconductor) are the apocryphal 'accidental AM radio receiver.'
So the board fired the CEO and appointed a new one. The new CEO now wants to hire the old CEO back but now the board doesn’t want either of them to be CEO and is trying to find a totally new CEO. What a friggin’ mess.
Probably never even has said so.
Current board wants to drive the non-profit version and safer future for AI. Leaving the board means full commercial route ahead, most likely.
91 declared out of 700. Which is actually surprisingly high and which, given that these people are actively speaking out against their employer indicates that that faction is probably a lot larger than those 91, but those may have good reasons to play it safe for now rather than to risk backing the losing side.
Never understood the hate for pie charts when stacked bar charts have a similar problem (hard to compare groups when they're in different positions). If a pie chart isn't good enough, probably switch to a paired bar chart or some other pair-wise comparison.
Festivals, shows, fairs, farmer markets, etc.

There are a tons of these throughout the US, depending on weather and time of year.

Some examples: https://www.artfaircalendar.com/art_fair/west-coast-art-fair...

Top-of-line, you can make quite of bit from these + commissions that come from them. Though turning a significant profit is a lot harder.

> I suspect you are advocating that artists become performers, entertainers or sales people in addition to the 'making art' bit.

Yes on the sales part. Making art without selling it won't get you much revenue.

Yes, there are galleries or co-ops that in theory can do your distribution...but in practice that's very fickle.
Complete clown show by Ilya, Helen, Adam, and Tasha.
What annoys me isn't so much that they had this outage.

It's that they took so long to restore. Carrier systems are supposed to be multiply fault tolerant.

Even if you have to put warm bodies physically in front of them, you should have enough of those people around to get the core networks up and going again within an hour or so by rolling back to a known-good configuration.

Even if they've somehow managed to brick the systems, they should have enough hot/cold spares, and the ability to call $VENDOR to hand-deliver new ones if need be.
I see literally no reason for Sam to stay without a full board resignation and return to CEO. All other options are just downsides when he can walk, start Newco, and take everyone with him. He'd lose the restrictive governance model and gain full-control.

I think Murati is actually on team Altman, but that just makes me think that he should walk even more. Take Murati and start Newco with the exact same org chart.
this is by far the craziest timeline
She is interim CEO, meaning that her job is to hire new CEO.
And she is not hiring the old CEO into CEO role.

Edit: Not to choose the CEO but do the practical things
>I don’t want my bank to replace customer support with LLM agent, that has access to internal APIs

If it weren't for the mentality you are rallying against we wouldn't have ChatGPT. Google, Meta, everyone had these LLMs sitting around. OpenAI was the only company with the balls to release it to the public.