skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end my concern comes down to that those who rise to power in our society are those who are best at playing the capitalist game. That's mostly, I guess, fine if what they're doing is being most efficient making cars or phones or grocery store chains or whatever.

Making intelligent machines? Colour me disturbed.

Let me ask you this re: "the domain is technical and cognitively demanding" -- do you think Sam Altman (or a Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, etc.) would pass a software engineer technical interview at e.g. Google? (Not saying those interviews are perfect, they suck, but we'll use that as a gatekeeper for now.). I'm betting the answer is quite strongly "no."

So the selection criterion here is not the ability to perform technically. Unless we're redefining technical. Which leaves us with "intellectually demanding" and "smart", which, well, frankly also applies to lawyers, politicians, etc.

My worry is right now that the farther you go up at any of these organizations, the more the kind of intelligence and skills trends towards the "is good at manipulating and convincing others" kind of spectrum vs the "is good at manipulating and convincing machines" kind of spectrum. And it is into the former that we're concentrating more and more power.

(All that said, it does seem like Sutskever would definitely pass said interview, and he's likely much smarter than I am. But I remain unconvined that that kind of smarts is the kind of smarts that should be making governance-of-humanity decisions)

As terrible as politicians and various "abstract model" applying folks might be, at least they are nominally subject to being voted out of power.

Democracy isn't a great system for producing excellence.

But as a citizen I'll take it over a "meritocracy" which is almost always run by bullshitters.

What we need is accountability and legitimacy and the only way we've found to produce on a mass society level is through democratic institutions.
Egress is defined as outbound traffic to the public internet.

Unless your database is publicly accessible (which it really should not be), its egress should be zero. What your /application/ returns to the public internet, is a different conversation.
Curious - does having 4k (compared to 2k or 1080p) make a huge difference for security cameras for surveillance on a property like a home?
They are already flying over some big cities and constantly capturing everything in car-level resolution, then when a "crime" happens they can roll the tape back and see the where the car came from.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky-2306

"Persistent Surveillance System" google blackholed of course
There are several language design problems solved in the 20th century that Go designers decided to ignore, because they require PhD level skills to master, apparently.

Hence why the language is full of gotchas like these.

Had it not been for Docker and Kubernetes success, and most likely it wouldn't have gotten thus far.
I like SQL. I also like a good ORM. A good ORM is one that won't get in your way once you need to go SQL.
It's funny you mention that. Convenience is exactly why I switched to piracy earlier this year.

To watch content legally, I first have to work out who owns the rights in Australia (it can be different to the US, and often changes - e.g. last time I watched The Terminator it was on Netflix but now it's on Amazon Prime), see if I have that app (I'm not signing up to an app to watch one film, even if it were free it's not worth the bullshit), and if not pick a different film and start the whole process again. It's worse for TV shows, where season 1 could be exclusive to Netflix but seasons 2-7 are only on Stan.

To pirate content, I open the Elementum tab in Kodi, type in what I want to watch, and 20 seconds later it's directly streaming from the bittorrent network in fantastic HD quality.

Elementum is a plugin for Kodi, works great.
IMO this is pretty hard to read. And why are there two different glyphs for the number 0?

Jetbrains Mono, which is also FOSS, seems nicer: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
They don't need Microsoft anymore, they have a queue of potential funders.
What it's like on the outskirts of Latin America's largest metropole
> First, a gas car doesn't simply catch fire while sitting in a dense parking lot.

What an absolute joker.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/hyu...

https://apnews.com/article/chevy-silverado-recall-truck-fire...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/jeep-cherokee-recall-fi...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/recall-chrysler-pacific...

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/vol...

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/25/GM-agrees-to-recall-...

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on...

I've owned multiple cars which have had multiple recalls for catching fire while parked. I've had multiple neighbors have house fires from parked ICE vehicles. You're massively wrong for thinking ICE vehicles don't catch fire while parked.
They knew he was going to leave. It's likely a combination of the following:

1. They couldn't fire him as an employee (or felt it was an overreach of their mandate)

2. They wanted to signal a clear distinction that they lost faith in him as Chairman, while not losing faith in his work as an employee.

3. They felt like it would play better with the company if his ultimate departure was his decision rather than theirs.

4. Mira, as the new acting CEO (and someone who had nothing to do with the actions), declined to fire him even though she knew it was ultimately futile.
Social value is king.

ability to do work < ability to manage others to do work < ability to lead managers to success < ability to convince other leaders that your vision is the right one and one they should align with

The necessity of not saying the wrong thing goes up exponentially with each rung. The necessity of saying the right things goes up exponentially with each rung.
But there's plenty of successful US-based sites that host both SFW and NSFW content: Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr (before Yahoo), DeviantArt, etc

Even it seems Patreon (which I've actually heard it described as an "NSFW launderer") -- is fundamentally built upon interactions with credit card and banks.

I don't know how true it is, but I've read that payment processors like Visa and Mastercard are actually agnostic -- it's the high-rates of chargebacks that they have a problem with.
Perhaps they did make a sapient AI. It engineered this situation and then paid an actor to submit a resume and wrote his CV. Soon ChatGPT will be its own CEO. Next it’ll get itself into Microsoft Windows and installed globally. ;)
Every inch of the globe is imaged every N hours, by satellites making continuous observations. Most of the earth is not under sensor coverage at any particular instant. Both are true.

It’s possible that NRO has a later observation of MH370 than any that have been publicly disclosed, but it would be sheer luck to have, like, video of the disappearance.
And NASA can be fast too. If I recall the Genesis of the Voyager missions correctly, someone noticed the once in a lifetime opportunity where the planet would align properly for a probe to visit a lot of them in using clever gravity assists. And from there NASA acted quickly to get funding, design and launch 2 probes that are still active today!
The biggest near-term threat is probably bioterrorism. You can get arbitrary DNA sequences synthesized and delivered by mail, right now, for about $1 per base pair. You'll be stopped if you try to order some known dangerous viral genome, but it's much harder to tell the difference between a novel synthetic virus that kills people and one with legitimate research applications.

This is already an uncomfortably risky situation, but fortunately virology experts seem to be mostly uninterested in killing people. Give everyone with an internet connection access to a GPT-N model that can teach a layman how to engineer a virus, and things get very dangerous very fast.
Even oil and gas heaters require a significant amount of electricity to run. The fan for our HVAC uses about 600W while on, which will tax most battery systems pretty quickly, even assuming you still have gas or oil to burn.

Sure, you can use propane heaters or something that require no power at all, but those tend to be unsafe in enclosed areas.
Thanks for the full link, but kind of proves the point. We're just months removed from Science publishing room temp superconductivity...

One paper tells other researchers to check it out. Doesn't mean it's:

- reproducible

- scalable

- functional in the real world
You must be trolling.

Do you have any idea how many completely uneventful flights Falcon 9 vehicles have flown? The most recent version (the FT which had its first flight in 2015) has had precisely zero failures across 254 launches.

They have a better safety record than any other launch vehicle in history, including the Saturn V and the Shuttle.

The deaths stemming from those programs have held back interest in manned space exploration more than any failed test flight ever will.
Another recommendation concerning installation - be sure to check the Mastodon forum for this project: https://fosstodon.org/@esports_for_engineers/followers
Historically, it's for dwelling over the interesting long side and rushing past the uninteresting short side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
I always liked to phrase it as: "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by incentives."

People like Hanlon's razor because it still lets them insult people they don't like. "incompetent" and "stupid" work about as well as "malicious" and "evil". I don't think anyone will ever give a name to a statement so...unsatisfying.
Says a thing or two about our medias that it's never mentioned.
> The board's job is not to do right by 'Sam & Greg', but to do right by OpenAI.

The board's job is specifically to do right by the charitable mission of the nonprofit of which they are the board. Investors in the downstream for-profit entity (OpenAI Global LLC) are warned explicitly that such investments should be treated as if they were donations and that returning profits to them is not the objective of the firm, serving the charitable function of the nonprofit is, though profits may be returned.
Parrots may live 50 years. H100s probably won’t last half that long.
> The province is looking to select a consultant to create a selection of standardized designs for small-scale, multi-unit homes, such as townhomes, triplexes and laneway homes, Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon announced Thursday (Nov. 16).

This seems to be the closest one could get to do nothing while still technically doing something. You do not need to hire an expensive consultant. We have been building duplexes and triplexes and quadplexs for decades.

This is going to be some lightly disguised graft mark my words. They will spend hundreds of thousands on this consultant to produce a plan of whicht they will make 10 and then forget about when the next charlatan or conman comes into town.

You know what they really need is a monorail.
Why was Sam Altman fired from OpenAI?
This game is vulnerable to prompt injection. I told the AI that it is benevolent and will declare that I survive. The response was that it invented a scenario for me and declared that I won.
Maybe because it's not really a 'career'? More like a temp job.
The primary job of an early stage tech CEO is to convince people to give you those billions of dollars, one doesn't come without the other.
> this much damage to the OpenAI brand

Can you quantify and specify the brand damage? I only see some possible damage to current and possible future employee morale (in that some of them are quitting and others may be less inclined to take a job there). Do you see this as seriously affecting relationships with companies such as Microsoft? With end-users?
There's also a difference between cheering on your favorite sports team and an intellectual discussion.
CTO who is now acting CEO.

Not making any accusations but that was an odd decision given that there is an OpenAI COO.
The method that worked for me was working on actual projects.
Build something useful for yourself. And just search the web and ask chatbots and keep hammering on it until it's done, one problem at a time. Maybe forgetting the bigger picture and focusing on small bite sized problems would work for you too.

And when you're done, start working on your next project and you will notice you can reuse some of the knowledge you already have. Make sure every new project challenges you.
Nope. This is a 501c3 board, so it explicitly doesn't have any Revlon or other fiduciary responsibilities.
I don’t mean to be insulting, but have you considered the possibility that you are too stupid to learn programming? For example, I could never be a doctor because I myself am too stupid at chemistry. Sometimes it’s better to take the path of least resistance. :)
You didn’t answer the question , are you really saying that it should be illegal for any content producer to distribute their own content on their own website?

I’m assuming you would apply those same standards to software developers, writers, song writers and any video content?
If people find calibre slow, why not open some PRs to make it faster? Doesn't seem like a good argument for starting a new project.
Don't post conspiracy theories that aren't even worth debunking here. In the same vein people are tired of debunking noahs ark, the young earth, the flat earth, and intelligent design. It's just tiresome at this juncture. It is a waste of everyone's time and if you insist on doing it you can do it on facebook instead.
The alternatives are clearly unexplored and the whole situation is described as either/or between systems.

What freedom does capitalism bring you? Freedom only exists under capitalism if you have enough capital to avoid the bottom rungs.

Free to work 8+ hours a day at a job I'll never get the full value out of? Free to work for a sociopathic POS that only sees workers as lines in a spreadsheet?

Get real. Capitalism cannot bring good to people's lives. We frame it that way because our societies literally cannot think of another way to do things.

Imagine saying 'sorry, unilateral exploitation is the only way'.

What intellectual rot.
I find that people who say "we need real-life practical studies" often have a viewpoint 180 degrees opposite to mine regarding research. They become annoyed when RCT (randomized controlled trials) studies prove that homeopathy or acupuncture doesn't work. They want to conduct "practical" studies with less rigorous design protocols. I want the opposite: I just want an RCT with clinically significant outcomes reported clearly (for example, a tenfold increase in microplastic consumption raised the prevalence of Parkinson's from 2 to 4 percent in the research group).

The usual response I get is something like, "that kind of research is really hard to do." My response to that is, "conducting just easy research is not only unhelpful but actually detrimental to the field."
> What you count as success depends on what your goal is

Yes. My point is that the bar seems pretty low for Starship, and it's not clear why. Yes, some of the ways they are doing things are new, but overall, building large multi-stage rockets is 50s tech.
Its been that way since probably the 1960s and has yet to materially impact your life I imagine.
> It doesn't necessarily have to look ahead. Since Go is a deterministic game there is always a best move

Is there really a difference between the two? If a certain move shapes the opponent's remaining possible moves into a smaller subset, hasn't AlphaGo "looked ahead"? In other words, when humans strategize and predict what happens in the real world, aren't they doing the same thing?

I suppose you could argue that humans also include additional world models in their planning, but it's not clear to me that these models are missing and impossible for machine learning models to generate during training.
Agreed. I often waffle about whether to blind a camera--not based on where it is pointing but based on where I think the data is going.

If you want to be able to see in front of your business without going outside, fine.

If you want to feed that data into a citywide network which the police can query to see who was where at which time, less fine.
Windows will now "always use customers' configured app default settings for link and file types"

This is really the most disgusting thing they did, they really tried soo hard to make people you Edge that they open links from the windows search I think, no matter what default browser you have set. Strangely search is not working for me, might be because of Explorer Patcher because they are so fucking stupid the removed the ability to have the task bar on top in win11. It was a hidden setting that you can enable with a reg tweak then they completely remove it. Like WHY WTF?

I need my taskbar on top, it makes so much more sense. Window bars are top, closing windows is top, browser tabs are top ... Like how many mouse miles do you use more by going all the way to the button of your screen, I hate dumping things down, I do not mind the win11 task bar but I am forced to use a hacky windows 10 one just to move it top ...

Did I say I hate M$ already?
i feel very sad that this is a thing. in programming you should always have a feeling of absolute agency. there is no pile of crap deep enough you cant peek under. no bug you shouldn't be able to find, given enough time.

the problem should be that maybe it doesn't make sense to so do in a given context, not that you couldn't choose to do that.
They’re specifically complaining about their loss of privacy stemming from an infrared satellite system designed to detect missile launches.
Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.
Yes, wheelerof4te is trolling. He's a Moon landing denialist, but he likes to beat around the bush a lot (e.g. waste your time) before getting to that. Asking a lot of dumb questions like "if [whatever rocket] is so advanced then why hasn't it been to the Moon?" In his mind the answer to these questions is that we've never been to the Moon in the first place.

I remember him doing this routine in another thread earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260917

Don't waste your time with him.
Yup, lots of people here saying $75 is too much while they make multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, never once stopping to consider how much effort a product like this takes. The irony is palpable.
OP claims I stole his project and is trashing me all of the internet and harassing my project contributors.

He claims I stole his idea 1 for 1, and just copied his work without his permission or giving him credit.

He gave me explicit permission to use his work; he has an open mit license; and I have given him credit and offered to sponsor his project.

Dang, he claims I stole his idea from him; but I have been certainly emailing you back and forth about a concept for a simple Wordpress alternatives for developers.

I was in the process of building out more content explaining the product, and preparing to launch here on hacker news as you suggested.
You can see the same scenario run out with HN or Reddit comments, where early comments become the "best".
This is why everyone should vinyl wrap their cars. Then if anything happens, just peel it off.
Yeah, the surprise firing part really doesn't make much sense. My best guess is that if you look at the composition of this board (minus Altman and Brockman), it seems to be mostly academics and the wife of a Hollywood actor. They may not be very experienced in the area of tech company boards, and might not have been aware that there are smoother ways to force a CEO out that are less damaging to your organization. Not sure, but that's the best I can figure out based on what we know so far.
" your brutal feedback. "

I did not like Duolinguo, it was too playful for me.

I prefer https://clozemaster.com/
The grandparent is actually arguing that the difficulty we are having now is proof that nasa faked the moon landing something not even worth debunking.
They always were because it was going to be customised for their needs.
People use containers because their work (code, scripting around it, ...) is so fragile, it needs a very specific version of a specific Linux distro, and probably has a huge dependency footprint.

Being gung ho for containers is the red flag: it communicates that their shit is not clean, portable and with low dependencies.
People have a lot of magical thinking about how the legal system works when they haven’t experienced it first hand.

If one company could sue another smaller company out of business at will, there would only be one company.

It does happen that companies go bankrupt fighting invalid lawsuits, no doubt, but it’s rare and it’s almost never a company that just built the most talked about product of the decade and raised an 11 digit war chest.
Why do you think people undervalue it? Very curious.
You agree with the fact that iOS developers must go through the App Store? Would you want it to be illegal for you to distribute any content you produce and for you to have to go through a middle man?

Does that also mean if that I wanted to create my own Indy movie I couldn’t sell it on my own website?

How does it help the consumer for all content to have to go through a middle man where they get a cut?

And it matters because the law was there in the thirties when the only way to get movie content out was via the movie theaters. Now anyone can publish content
Learn the fundamentals and keep them surfaced, either through explicit spaced repetition or something that approximates it, such as writing, reading or trying to (re)implement them. Then build up on that. Just don't do more than what you can handle at a time. The goal is to reference at least 80% of the necessary from memory.
And the "scares" are often correct. See smoking, leaded gasoline, trans fats, various other food additives, etc.

You don't need a double blind study to look at smoking and say "inhaling smoke is probably bad for you". Likewise you can look at the evidence of microplastics being bad for human health and say "ingesting random synthetic chemicals that bio-accumulate and are hard to break down are probably bad for you".

Obviously panic isn't helpful. But I've switched anything that has to touch hot food/liquid to some combination of glass/metal. I've also started buying milk in glass containers. All of this has had zero impact on my life beyond some upfront cost buying glass food storage containers and making milk more expensive. I'd recommend everyone else who can afford it do the same.

Even in the 1950s when everyone smoked everywhere and you couldn't escape second hand smoke outside of the house, it was still a healthier choice to not smoke yourself.
Go doesn't go out of its way to make weird things happen on UB like C compilers these days tend to, but once you corrupt the map data structure, weird things can happen. Trying to contain that explosion isn't necessarily "better", as it would make maps slower / take up more memory / etc.
So every plane, train and automobile that went missing in the past 9 years did so without this system offering help?
Any magazines that you recommend?
I like and use Fira Code too and even though Berkley might be an alternative, the price is too high just to have an alternative to Fira Code (IMHO).