skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely fix bugs in my dependencies, but I have found having the source available to be very useful in working around bugs in them. It's frequently the difference between a workaround that appears to work but I don't know why and might just cause different problems and a workaround that I know is correct.
Because readers can figure this kind of thing out. It's not hard.
The escalation is perhaps less surprising given that it happened while Cruise had many (much smaller) traffic issues and CPUC was already significantly limiting Cruise. They were on very thin ice.
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The Inter Typeface Family
It seems reasonable to suspect that Silicon Valley will turn AI into a bubble; just like it did with the Internet, just like it did with Bitcoin. Mystical futuristic technology always has greed hot on its heels.
Here's the process: https://youtu.be/G0Dci5RPe94

I didn't get to watch it to the end yet, but it shows the pressing and firing process halfway through.
> More species means greater potential for adaptation as ecosystems shift

Of course, somewhat paradoxically, these species disappearing is an adaptation to shifting ecosystems.

What's happening now is that ecosystems are globalizing. An ecological niche that was filled by 30 local species before modernity, is now being mixed up and whichever species is "best" may fill that niche everywhere.

So if my local frog species disappears, it's probably replaced by more hardworking immigrant frogs. This can be very disruptive and have negative consequences in many ways. But it doesn't mean animal life disappears. It changes.
The later is a significant real-time safety concern, even if the telco treats it like a mere SLA issue
I thought they are given shares to the private owned for profit branch--not that it will ever IPO?
"People say, It’s just glorified autocomplete ... Now, let’s analyze that. Suppose you want to be really good at predicting the next word. If you want to be really good, you have to understand what’s being said. That’s the only way. So by training something to be really good at predicting the next word, you’re actually forcing it to understand. Yes, it’s ‘autocomplete’ — but you didn’t think through what it means to have a really good autocomplete." - Geoff Hinton
Do they raise money from anybody aside from the gm board?
Apple typically doesn’t do large acquisitions though. It’s not clear they even take AVs seriously as their own in-house development has been so minimal and late.
Obviously Ilya will not be as famous as Sam since Sam is doing world tours and talking to who's who of world politics. But Ilya, Karpathy, gdb all are well respected and know in dev circles.

Even the recent OpenAI profile in one of prominent publications covered Mira, Ilya and gdb in addition to Sam.

But the fundamental question is why would a researcher expect (if they do) that they will be as well known as the CEO who is the face of organisation?
I remember switching from an internal 56k to an external 33.6k because it made my Internet way more solid.
Centrex
Networking people will be shocked, SHOCKED, to hear that the root cause appears to have been a broken BGP push. Taking 14 hours to recover from that is all on Optus though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Optus_outage

And the damage went well beyond spotty emergency calls: for example, if you run a small business that relies on credit card payments, you were fucked if your terminals were on the Optus network. The situation was so bad that prepaid SIM cards for Telstra (the main competitor) were selling out in much of the country.
I think there is a lot to be said for being remembered as the Steve Wozniak. I'd much rather be remembered as Wozniak than as Jobs.
My first thought was that Ford and Stellantis have been given a golden opportunity to catch up. But that's only if they realize that's the case.
It's also DC - arcs won't self extinguish like AC will. Modern charger/inverters are trending towards nominal 1kv voltages for the individual panel strings too which is pretty impressive. 20amps at 1kv is 20kw!
Exactly. The board thought a piece of paper somehow superceded Microsoft's (Satya's, really) soft power.

It doesn't. It never does. Especially when you're not profitable.
Opinion based on few anecdotes, but I'm sure the blame lies with Singtel, especially given that there was initial finger-pointing that was then retracted. Classic "protect the castle, sacrifice the farmhouse (administrator)".

I've heard from multiple sources that Optus in Australia is somewhat of a cash cow for Singtel in slightly undercutting Telstra's exorbitant pricing whilst absolutely minimising support and administrative costs. The 2022 security breach[0] being a potential example of a symptom.

Interestingly the article specificies this as the cause:

On Friday, Optus confirmed the outage was due to a configuration issue with more than 90 Cisco routers, which could not cope with changes to routing information supplied from Singtel Internet Exchange (STiX) after a routine software upgrade.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Optus_data_breach
How is board membership controlled?

For a profit company, you buy shares and elect the board, right? If they turn the company into something nobody wants, the shares lose value, and maybe someone picks up the shares cheap and turns it around. So there's a feedback cycle. The profit motive is almost incidental.

But here do the current board members just appoint the next board members and grow/shrink the total number?
This is the latest major update to the Inter font. From the designer’s tweet:

“After two years of work on a new version of Inter, I'm so proud that it's finally released. (It's been in beta for the past year)

The changes are vast. Most notably there are six additional "Display" designs for large delicious type”

https://x.com/rsms/status/1726394791427223564?s=61&t=Ei9t8B9...
Alcohol, Narcotics and a Vegan diet can all lower B12 levels so any of those together can cause a serious depletion.
I think it comes down to "college graduate" is not training for a job. New graduates still need to learn whatever job they take. Companies are now less likely to spend the time and money it takes to train a new college graduate versus someone with experience. There are few college majors that will train you enough to get a job right out of college. The only one I can think of is accounting. Even there they won't set you loose on your own.
A new kind of magnetism
Great tool. Nice. Something you want to have.

But.

I'm not a product, market or pricing expert but even I can tell that this is a very very steep (and recurring per user) price especially in 2023 where businesses and individuals alike are tracking and scrutinizing every single dime spent or to be spent.

No kidding but big companies won't mind putting more engineering hours to build their internal data dashboards which would be almost a one time Investment and minor tweaks here and there afterwards whereas most already would have.

Individuals and hobbyists can't do that but most can't afford this either.

Which leaves to pretty much financial industry (PEs, Wall Street folks and such) that have to juggle Excel sheet Attachments from multiple parties and such.

Maybe they or some of them find value at this price point. But I'm not so sure of that either.

EDIT: Typos
Prefabs, of which there are many modern counterparts.
So why not just judge it a conflict of interest if he tries to sell them to them? The board can evaluate the options available to open AI, and agree to allow him to buy from his chip company if and only if it's in OpenAI's interest to. Firing him years before the chip company even exists in the mere anticipation of that possible conflict seems…premature.

Direct and immediate Conflicts of interest can arise if decisions you make for one company could regularly come into conflict with decisions you have to make for the other, example, if he was starting another AI company making rivals to ChatGPT. But in the case of the chip company, nobody has really made a persuasive case of how that would happen here. In terms of interrelatedness, maybe they would build chips customized for openAI. But that would be a potential benefit Open AI, not a conflict!
That's the playbook of any dictator. Hitch your horse to my wagon and we'll go places. But stray from the wagon and I'll have you shot by someone who is loyal to me. And it works. Without their henchmen little creeps wouldn't get out of the gate because they are invariably complete cowards.
Split it out but keep using the same models. Wouldn’t want your entities and semantics to drift apart between your UI and API.

Personally I prefer sticking to the standards. At least that way when you move between projects you know what you’re getting into.

But everyone has their own conventions these days. It’s all fragmenting.
Well unfortunately a lot of the tech sector seem to have adopted this weirdly public style of communicating both with each other and in general, in which things that should be discussed quietly in meetings are instead 'discussed' via twitter, including firings and publicly disparaging former employees, which is just tacky tacky behaviour and when you're then forced to publicly retract your statements/action you just end up looking like a complete moron, which is never a good look for a CEO.

It's all very odd really, grown men acting like children online.

The typing style, too, doesn't give a good impression. The weirdly basic language, limited vocabulary, lack of capitalisation - it really gives off a very odd vibe, very unprofessional.
Nah.

The 1/2 day outage to 000 emergency calls and other life-critical things seems like more of high impact problem than the data loss.

Not saying the data loss is trivial, but the 000 outage definitely wasn't.
Like all "flying cars", not a car, and not a plane, either. Maybe the guys who are obsessed with "building a car" that can "also fly" and "also swim" (that one failed badly, too) should consider to "build a train that people can use", or "build a house that people can afford". Instead what they do is "oh wait, highways are nasty, let's build a future where that nastyness is IN THE FREAKING SKIES ALL AROUND YOU". FU.
Crawford, you magnificent bastard. This article seems to explain a half-dozen features of my company’s phone system that never made sense to me before. I assumed that everything but the extensions would have been swept away in last decade’s conversion to VoIP. But I see now they’re all almost all still vestigial remains of offices and phone systems from decades gone by.
But why editorialize the title to make it less descriptive? I could understand not adding that information if it wasn't there already, but it's in the article title.
Finding co-founders might be a bit harder than it was before.
The name "Domesday" (pronounced like "Doomsday") comes from effort to archive the laserdiscs from the BBC Domesday Project [0], which was a cultural successor to the Domesday Book [1]. The original Domesday Book was a sort of written time capsule of life in 11th century England, and the Domesday project was a digital time capsule of the UK in the mid-1980s. After lapses in archival by the BBC, the Domesday Project is being kept alive by independent volunteer efforts.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project

1: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/
The question is: if you then added all of Usenet before, say, 1992, would the effective intelligence of the trained LLM go up or down?
Builders pumping out 100 identical, low quality, garbage houses in a development.

See: d.r. Horton
I recently moved my display over to running on USB-C, so I could have one cable to charge my laptop and feed the display. Plugging it in was a very unsatisfying experience. The port seemed misaligned, so I had to be a fair amount of effort into it, and once I got it, it felt like nothing. I was worried when I rotated the monitor back into position, or adjusted the hight, that it would fall out. I haven’t thought about that in years with other ports. It works, and I like that it’s one cable, but the feel is awful.
Did Paul Graham drop him?
For the city builder genre

Urbek City Builder

It has a pretty interesting style of how things sort a 'fit' together. Its kinda almost puzzley at times, but I think it'd fit on that list.
Couldn’t he just partner with Microsoft and start with the Bing corpus?
Ask HN: What's the story behind the archive.* sites
I see them often posted as a way to circumvent soft paywalls at site like the NYT. I also sometimes see comments on how CloudFlare DNS will not resolve them. I also see there are a number of them with somewhat unusual top-level domains (md, ph, is).

I'm out of the loop but curious -- who runs these sites and why? How do the operators pay for hosting? Is it legal to circumvent soft paywalls like this? Is the paywall circumvention intentional or accidental?

Would love any pointers or details about this useful and mysterious service.
>Without an agreement with the OpenAI board on how these conflicts of trade secret information and executive power can be settled (Significant shares in the new company for OpenAI?) no competent board would put up with this.

I would say if they really did anticipate and worry about such an issue, a competent board would work toward forging such an agreement, rather than firing the CEO years before the aforementioned chip company even existed and before telling any of their other stakeholders.
The sad thing about this happening to Optus is that it _could_ have happened to any of the big telcos, this sort of technical cascading fault, but because it happened to Optus on the back of the data breach all the focus is on Optus, not on the wider lessons that ought to be learned.

Would’ve been great to come out of an event like this looking at whether catastrophic fault conditions like this exist elsewhere in our national infra, but it feels like all that’ll happen is Optus gets the shit kicked out of them while other providers count their blessings
OpenAI board attempts to hit "Ctrl-Z" in talks with Altman
I recently recorded an interview with my father, who last year retired from his 50-year career as an electronics engineer.

He told me that the main reason he became interested in electronics as a kid in the 50s/60s was so he could build short wave crystal radios, to listen to radio content from around the world, particularly cricket and BBC programs. He grew up in a country town (now outer suburb) near Melbourne, Australia, so was a bit isolated and yearning to feel connected to the world. That led to a decade working for Australia's major telco (now Telstra, then PMG/Telecom) researching and building wireless networks, then 40 years running his own company that produced all kinds of different products using microprocessors for monitoring and control/automation.

I realised that this very much mirrored my own pathway into my career: I immediately dived into the web as soon as it was available in the mid 90s as a way of finding content and communities I was interested in, and for the thrill of being connected to the world, which then led to learning web development and software development and pursuing a career that's now been going for 25 years, doing all kinds of different things, but all of it on the web/internet (and to bring it full circle, for the past few years I worked with my father to make his devices internet-enabled and turn them into IoT products).
Who cares? They made a coherent argument and cited sources; their identity seems irrelevant.
Termux is amazing, I'm able to run my VAX/VMS 11-780 machine on my phone now, thanks to it and SimH. I always wanted a VAX, now I have one in my pocket. 8)

I really appreciate the keyboard handling they add, so you can do almost everything you'd normally need a real keyboard for, on a magic glass slab.
Seems fine on MacBooks
I'm still waiting for someone to publish a "LoRA in ten steps" document, with working code, aimed at impatient people like me.
I think he might have been caught fundraising for a new venture in AI, but separate from OpenAI. It would be a gray-area in many other companies but as CEO, reporting to a board where he has no seat, it would be cause.
On the HN thread of the day that this happened I had a comment downvoted for suggesting the fault originated with Singtel (my fault for not expanding - it was in response to a rhetorical question that had 'Australia' as the 'obvious answer').

Regardless of the fault origins, this is a justified resignation.

Optus (buck stops with CEO) totally and utterly borked the PR handling of this from the get go.

They had multiple oportunities to get out in front, to shape the story, to make a statement. to answer a few obvious questions, etc.

I've rarely seen a large company like this just ditch the playbook for handling PR in the face of a screwup and sit things out for hours with no comment.

Was it eight hours before any kind of official response of substance?

WTF was going on internally and where the hell was the PR dept.
An interesting thing about the form from sunlight is that it can be stored at high doses safely and get converted into the active form as needed. And yes vitamin d supplements should be combined with vitamin K. D gets calcium into the blood, K gets it into your cells.
Kyle was a fine CTO, and these are the qualities you listed.

CEO is a different role, and without any checks in pace he’s pushed the organization so hard it is where it is today. Even the incident aside, just look at the handling and drip drip of news since going from bad to worse.
They may not want it for reasons all their own such as to avoid being seen as conflicted or privy to information that they aren't supposed to have just in case they end up competing with OpenAI. Microsoft legal is in the driving seat for things like this not tech or finance.
This is why i like apple tv. Atleast they try to finish the show no matter how shitty it is ala Invasion.
And they have some amazing shows.
I'm not proposing any logic. I'm just trying to figure out who if anyone at open AI actually pioneered the development of this technology, rather than simply worked toward its implementation at scale.

The reason it matters is because if they are just building all this stuff based on ideas taken from other outside researchers' papers and throwing money toward making it happen, OpenAI's moat is smaller, and it's easier for a bright group of competitors with lots of funding to catch up.
> I have to believe they would have shown their cards by now

Why? Also their 'cards' are probably quite strictly confidential information. They gain nothing by going to the 'court of public opinion'. They might share their reasoning with some of their largest investors in private, but their lawyers will absolutely be telling them not to reveal anything to the public.

> reports about them bringing Sam back

There are no reports about _them_ bringing him back. There are reports floating about which seem to suggest they will all snap quit and then he will return, but these seem to have no basis and none of them are emanating from the direction of the company. They seem highly speculative, and seem, to me, very much like wishful thinking from the SV 'in-crowd' that all back each other up no matter what.

I do not believe that Sam will return to OpenAI in any role whatsoever, and I believe that the board will hold their position.

I see the board here acting like adults - releasing a professionally written press release then falling silent - while the other side weirdly play to the crowd, not realising that the crowd don't matter, this isn't a reality TV show, the audience doesn't get a vote.
"Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI’s board of directors, or as a board observer without voting power, one of the people said.

The discussions are part of an effort by OpenAI’s big backers and senior leadership to reinstate Altman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been personally assisting OpenAI’s interim CEO Mira Murati in the discussions over Altman’s return, the people said. If Altman is unable to return to OpenAI, Microsoft would consider investing in Altman’s new venture, one of the people said."
In theory it's the same if your model allows for the scheduler to preempt a thread and never schedule it again.
Help me understand, what was gained by removing "co-founder and CEO"? The fact that readers can figure it out is not actually a statement of a benefit, it's merely an argument that the loss is bounded.
He is probably right to some extent, but he didn't solve self driving. He left his own company claiming that the problem is solved and only the boring part was left.

He also claimed that he can fix the search in Twitter, but he left after 2 months and now he is working on something else.
All your questions seem to revolve around “how does sharding even work?”
I don’t recall the details but as I understand it there was a bit going around about how modern phones actually have a built in FM radio but none of them had them enabled or accessible through the software.

There was buzz of making that access mandatory but I haven’t heard anything about it for some time.

My understanding is that terrestrial radio is struggling against the streaming and satellite providers. Some of the large AM stations at one point had special civil defense status. KFI 640 in LA is one of those in that it’s very high power and no other station shares its frequency. I don’t know what the civil defense status of station are now.
This is one of the reasons why Unix epoch time soldiers on, even though it is totally indecipherable to humans. It can be easily mapped to a timezone-aware type, but performing arithmetic on it is trivial.
There's a fork of the same software decoder (to be covered in video part 2) that does VHS tape signal instead https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
I second to this too!

People paid for hundred upon hundreds of dollars just to access a course, but not willing to give for an article that provided the same stuff to you, for your own time and pace, while charging only a tiny fraction of the course?
Beats me...
Corruption. 7 guys in a room may think they genuinely think one way. But change that picture to 7 guys in a room, alongside $10 billion dollars, and some, if not most, are suddenly going to start thinking in an entirely different way - even without needing to be 'persuaded.' Sums up politics and many other issues in society as well. People themselves don't even know who they are, until they have the freedom and resources to be whatever they want to be.
A while ago i had a heated discussion on HN with someone who claimed that any graph where 0 is not the minimum value of all the axes is misleading.

We were talking about a graph that shows global temperature rise due to climate change. They claimed the graph was misleading because the Y axis (temperature) didn't start from 0 (fahrenheit? celsius? fucking kelvin?).

This person also quipped, "maybe if you can't see if with 0 at the bottom, it's not such a significant change?". That put a dent in my faith in humanity for a while. I'm just glad to see us operating at a higher level. I guess 2016-2020 was a different time.
CD caddies existed for a brief time. I think early drives were much more sensitive to dust and scratches.

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/842/retr...
Why would they step down? Why have the fiction of a board then if the CEO can handle everything on his own?