skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long time Dropbox client I can only cry at this level of folly. This company is asking 50x the price of Backblaze for a Linux client that just works, a Windows client that is even more crazy than Windows itself, a sync and a crazy amount of user hostile upselling on the website. I think it’s time I’ll find me a proper replacement.
that's Hanlon's razor

imo "never" ignores cases where malice can be proven, so i don't like it as a saying
Inflationary expiration is not guaranteed though. Deflation is always a possibility.
One conceivable situation in which the board's behavior could be justified is if Ilya presented them with an urgent ultimatum: either Sam goes or I go. If the rift between Sam and Ilya was growing to the point that Ilya would rather leave the company than continue with Sam, it's a rational move for him to propose this. At this point the remainder of the board would be forced to make a decision as to whether Sam or Ilya is more vital to advancing OpenAI's mission. Choosing Ilya over Sam would certainly be a justifiable decision in such a scenario.
super annoying web design from a graphic design company to show a typeface that purports its goal is to "get out of the way" so you can be productive, why not show some calm examples of text as in a terminal at a normal typesize? I had to zoom out to 60% just to tame it, and yet there was still blinking all over the place and nothing that approximated anything other than a phone screen.

does something about this typeface set it apart in a useful way from the zillion other free or default monospaced options? If anything it seemed a little awkward with the flourishes they added toward making it look fauxCR-able. (an artistic flourish I like as "zany graphic fun" but is it helpful for extended use?)

for the people who love it, I've no problem with enjoying flourishes, but it's calling itself serious. I'm serious and it's not taking me seriously.
I think a reasonable translation of this is something like: "He didn't do anything actually illegal, or outside of the realm of what he was empowered to do as CEO, but he was doing things we didn't like," and then either didn't tell the board about those things, or told them in a way that was framed to make them less controversial.

So yeah, to me, really backs up the narrative that the board and sama were in disagreement about some key things.
Since 4g lots of devices talk on the same freq at the same time and they do math to decode separate logic streams of data - so freq in itself is not enough
modern DoA algs like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC_(algorithm) can use a small phase coherent array of antennas to estimate DoA by, in grossly simplified terms, measuring minute phase differences across the array as a signal arrives: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:724272/FULLTEXT0...
Personally - gaming. Never liked vsync
That seems a bit simplistic and 'bad founders' begs for a definition because it can't just be 'answers email slowly'.
DateType: Distinguish aware and native datetimes at the type level
They also did this for CS3, but one had to create an Adobe account and provide their original serial number to get a new offline serial number and new offline installer.
Heuristics used to be AI. Now only chat gpt is ai
> "I assume tracking mobile phones from space would be way harder and more expensive"

I dunno which way I'd bet on that; on one hand any cellphone signal sent upwards is wasted energy, wasted battery - the cell towers are sideways. And cell towers are local so phones will try to use as little power as possible to get to the closest mast also to save battery, 5G picocells can be down to 100 meters. But you can't be sure to radiate sideways when phones are used at all sorts of angles, can you?

On the other hand, signal going upwards has clear line of sight and rapidly thinning atmosphere. A Google result tells me that cellphone base towers can "typically reach up to 25 miles and sometimes up to 45 miles", and this article[1] says cellular macrocells can be up to 100 miles (diameter?). Wikipedia[2] says "Mobile phones are limited to an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) output of 3 watts" and Reddit[3] says you can reach the International Space Station as an amateur with 5-10 Watts and a good aerial.

So ... maybe? a tuned sensitive receiver constantly listening for moments of phones doing a high power ping?

[1] https://www.emnify.com/blog/5g-small-cell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_device_radiation_and_...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/comments/rvzj11/can_i_make...
Good resources here. Thanks guys
Firms have always payed garden leave tho
Perhaps joining Bret Taylor and his friend from Google X? Can’t imagine what those brains might come up with.
This is actually very legible and pleasing to eye. I was mostly using JetBrains Mono until I found Monaspace randomly and it is currently now default.

Can highly recommend, also it is free and has several styles(x5).
This is pretty damning. They clearly went out of their way to withhold the dragging until the dam burst and they admitted to the pullover maneuver in their blogpost [1]. There's no doubt that admitting it up front would have hurt, but this has got to be another case where the cover-up was worse than the crime. I can't say I'm surprised though, as an observer in the AV space it seemed pretty clear that Cruise was moving too fast for their own good. They must've been under intense investor pressure, which is why they tried to sweep it under the rug in the first place.

It does make you wonder about their internal rationalizations though, after all few people think they're the baddie. Probably something like "We're so close, and this was an extremely long-tail incident initiated by human driver. The public/DMV wouldn't judge us fairly, and we'll handle this edge case in an update."

Things were already looking dire when they canceled the stock buyback program mid-event (leaving people with tax-liabilities for what are probably now worthless RSUs [2]). Monday will be interesting, I expect that this the end of Cruise as we know it.

[1] https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/a-detailed-review-of-th...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/cruise-suspends-employee-s...
Accelerating the Phase Identification of Multiphase Mixtures with Deep Learning
That differs from every credible source I've read for many years. Do you happen to have any credible sources that support that depiction?
The trial (license valid for 7 days) is "Limited to ASCII-128 character set" but also says:

>Swapped: '/' and '\', '*' and '#'

Is that latter a common sort of thing in this scenario? I get the idea—certainly makes coding/terminal/markdown annoying—but I don't think I've seen that done elsewhere.
This is hilarious. In a courthouse!
I don't know what kind of hardware store sells depleted uranium, but I'm not sure that the reason we aren't seeing these sorts of terrorist attacks is that the terrorists don't have a capable manifesto-writer at hand.

I don't know, if the worst thing AGI can do is give bad people accurate, competent information, maybe it's not all that dangerous, you know?
They were flagged, a system where a minority of HN users can moderate away posts they don't like.

Is there any overview which lets us see specifically flagged submissions? I suspect this system has too many false positives to be useful.
Not sure what you mean by blockers or "impractical right now" but at best that's "we haven't built the mines or factories, yet." Which is not in any way a fundamental blocker on our ability to build what we want to build.

There are of course feasible ways of running our entire economy entirely on renewables, saying otherwise means ignoring the massive amount of literature on the topic:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

Every argument I have ever seen attempted to say it is not possible makes simplifying unrealistic assumptions. Such as saying something silly like "here's our known lithium reserves, that's not enough."" Of course, our known reserves of lithium is going up every year, because we keep on looking for more, and the argument is not even sophisticated enough to acknowledge what proven reserves means as a concept.

So if you think you have a solid argument present it, and if I'm convinced let's get it published and overturn all this other literature.
It’s not possible to track ordinary cell phones this way. They’re tracking stuff that is much higher energy afaiu.

Yes, “cell phones” but like, satellite ones.
As a kid I found it impossible. But yes, of course it's better. Joystick to strafe is way better than the yellow buttons to strafe.

(I always made the one thumb stick the aiming, plus invert Y--not sure if everyone else did that)
But it doesn't make sense for the journalist to have hubris about OpenAI.
Again, they didn't state that he lied. They stated that he wasn't candid. A lot of people here have been reading specifics into a generalized term.

It is even possible to not be candid without even using lies of omission. For a CEO this could be as simple as just moving fast and not taking the time to report on major initiatives to the board.
Ask HN: What happened with Cyc now that we have LLMs
Years ago, I enjoyed experimenting with OpenCyc, and followed what Cyc Corp was doing.

To me it seems like their goal of developing common sense reasoning has been at least partly subsumed by the common sense knowledge contained by LLMs like ChatGPT, Llama models, Mistral, Anthropic, etc. The knowledge in LLMs, trained on what I think of as a ‘shadow’ representation of the world, the shadow being text, seems adequate to build some form of representation of the real world.
That's the difference though. I know my world model is fundamentally incomplete. Even more foundationally, I know that there is a world, and when my world model and the world disagree, the world wins. To a neural network there is no distinction. The closest the entire dynamic comes is the very basic annotation of RLHF which itself is done by an external human who is providing the value judgment, but even that is absent once training is over.

Despite not having the bird's sense for electromagnetic waves, I have an understanding that they are there, because humans saw behavior they couldn't describe and investigated, in a back-and-forth with a world that has some capacity to disprove hypotheses.

Additional modalities are really just reducible to more kinds of text. That still doesn't exhaust the world, and unless a machine has some ability to integrate new data in real time alongside a meaningful commitment and accountability to the world as a world, it won't be able to cope with the real world in a way that would constitute genuine intelligence.
camelcamelcamel.com might be a good place to watch for Amazon, specifically.

The other thing to watch out for is the "deals", certainly for TVs, are often Black Friday-specific models. Whether this means goods of lesser quality, I'm unsure, but I'd imagine so given the lower price point.
Learn what compound words are, and learn what etymology is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
Suppose you could encode 0.2 bits per second of watermark in a recording without humans being able to discern it. Suppose the compression algorithm did the same thing to encode additional information which is part of the recording, allowing it to achieve higher quality at the same bitrate or the same quality at a lower bitrate.

It's information theory. Either you can encode additional information without impacting the result, in which case the compression algorithm could use it to be more efficient, or you can't. TANSTAAFL.
This is a common retort, but after his run at YC (hand-picked by Paul Graham) and OpenAI (taking on Google at AI is no mean feat, despite the backing), and his ongoing work with Helion Energy and WorldCoin, it is safe to say Sam has more than earned his place, perhaps may be twice over, among SV royalty. And he's not even 40.

http://paulgraham.com/5founders.html
That generations safety obsession lost us space for a generation, in the same way their no-nuke fixation lit our only planet on fire.

These are the sins of my parents.
WHAT. I will catch up with you after the rabbit-hole.

I’ve got massive hopes for things like Bun, but especially Deno’s architecture of message passing, but I’m now humbled by my not knowing that existed in V8.
If land is not owned by anyone the risk is that it's treated poorly since there is no incentive to treat it well. Take the profits that are available during your 70 years lease and run, it's not your problem afterwards.
CeoGPT.
I imagine it is distinct enough if you're coned into a specific place. They are probably not looking at the global as a whole but like a radio telescope pointed back at Earth.
I agree that it's very unlikely for someone to learn Go in a week and start writing flawless code.

But Go's real strength is in its readability, not writability. I think it's very much possible to learn Go in a week, then read clean Go code like the standard library and understand exactly what's going on. At least that's my interpretation of what it means for a new grad to be productive in Go in less than a week. Nobody is expecting someone new to write production-grade libraries with intricate concurrency bits in their first week, but they're already productive if they can read and understand it.

As a rule of thumb we spend 10x more time reading code than we do writing it (code reviews, debugging, refactors). So why not optimise for it?
It's almost like by wrapping someone else's service, you are at their mercy.

So you better be planning an exit strategy in case something changes slowly or quickly.

Nothing new here.
Confusing presentation of the multiple 0 in the same sample box.
Scottish Forestry funds electric timber truck trial in Scotland
Fun for a whole, but frustrating and I made it annoying for everyone else as I'd talked to LLMs so could sweet talk it into letting me live.
A lot of people who beat the “freedom of speech” drum hardest don’t care about freedom of speech at all; they care that their speech is _protected from criticism_.
https://imgur.com/gallery/dzbQCj4

The only thing that changes with experience is the growing faith that whatever state you’re in now, you’ll be in the other shortly.
What? and work with a compressed format? No audio engineer would do that.
Having a rocket explode next to the shuttle might be a bit too much danger though imo.
Every so often I go on a “font bender” and start searching for my “next great coding font”. I’ve been using Hack (https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/) for several years, but after looking at this I might need to give it a try. It looks really nice and the price is right. The font in the OP looks great too, but I can’t bring myself to pay for it. Not when there’s so many great alternatives out there at no cost.
For those not up to date on the developments here in BC, there are a number of interesting solutions being implemented currently:

- Unification of residential zones into a single zone with (marginally) higher density, which could make it easier to further increase density in the future

- BC Ministry of Housing has brought forth legislation to upzone housing in concentric rings of decreasing density around transit stations, with allowable minimums up to 20 stories in the nearest ring, where in many cases single family homes currently stand.

- Senakw development: native land still under control by a local native tribe is not subject to housing bylaws and is now being developed into several large towers (without parking requirements!)

- An even larger development has been proposed using the same land rights on the Jericho lands just west of Senakw, which proposes around 10,000 new homes and a new subway station which would count as another transit station for nearby development of what is currently extremely underutilized land.

- This new BC special, although I’ve heard it may not be automatically applicable to Vancouver because Vancouver has special privileges to enforce its own building code (?)
They have benefactors that are funding their R&D and, reportedly, those benefactors are not happy about how this went down. https://twitter.com/wired/status/1725945700930724124
90 million lines of code to .. call a cab?

Genuinely curious what's so much of business logic is for.
Lots of apps however do the same N kind of queries, but the data under them can change over time without anyone noticing
That sunshade will turn into a big sail in LEO, annoyingly.
> Given the abrupt nature of the announcement and the pointed message in it (essentially accusing Altman of lying), I was sure there must have been some big scandal, not just normal boardroom differences of opinion and game-of-thrones-style maneuvering.

If it was a normal boardroom difference of opinion, how would it have gone down? You think there would have been public along the process?

From an outsiders perspective I think both situations would have looked the same; we have no idea how long the process went on. If the board wanted to get rid of Altman but couldn’t convince him to resign, the announcement was always going to look like this.
https://github.com/dogsheep/hacker-news-to-sqlite
They claim to be able to track FRS ptt radios, which implies a sensitivity to .5w transmissions, and iirc a phone will put out max .2w (on 4g). Lower, yes, but not massively so, so if it really does work on FRS I wouldn't be shocked if it worked on a conventional smartphone. The phone operating in a higher frequency range than ~470mhz frs/gmrs is admittently an additional challenge, but since the thing runs up to 15ghz I wouldn't count on it being unable to track a phone
I've been thinking about this potential link for a while.

It would be interesting to see what relationship exists with allergies here as well, which are also becoming more prevalent for reasons we don't yet understand.
The media matters thing wasn’t even about Naughty Old Mr Car’s tweets, it was about Twitter displaying ads for major brands around Nazi (like, literally pro-Hitler) tweets.
There were huge research efforts and, of course, some people were in charge of those.
Yeah, but that’s 1 request using 100% capacity of a 45 machine cluster. Relatively efficient but cost prohibitive.
OpenAI is privately held so there would be no reason for the board to announce this publicly before consulting with / informing the shareholders. Short of an impending media crisis that they needed to get ahead of this was mishandled. That doesn't mean it was mishandled, just that I don't see any evidence just yet of a valid reason to do this, they've done absolutely enormous damage to the OpenAI brand by doing this in this hamfisted way, you'd hope they at least had a good reason.

Note that the non-profit doesn't have shareholders, but the effect is much the same because the two are linked closely together and you can't affect the non-profit in such a drastic way without also affecting the for-profit arm. So they just pointed the double barrelled shotgun at their feet and pulled the trigger, twice. It will take a massive effort to restore trust in the brand, both on the commercial side and on the side of the people working there.
The opposite for me, except that I'm in the 'larger than normal hands' camp. Ergo-optimized devices for the masses don't fit my hands, but they're close enough that I've adapted.
Parametric 3d-printable ergonomic desk stuffs on my to-do list for a few years now.
I have a lot of respect for self learners. Don't think I would have learned to code if I didn't feel the financial and academic pressure from learning it in University. I still remember my intro course being so mind numbingly difficult coming from an arts background. Simple if else code block assignment that I could complete in 1 minute now took me a whole weekend to initially do 10 years ago.
But the board accused Sam of not being "consistently candid". Alignment issues could stand on their own ground for cause and would have been better PR too. Instead of the mess they have now.
I haven't done this, but am considering 3 months in Uruguay in the first half of next year (keeping the career).

Interested in any replies people might have.
I'm curious at this perspective. Even from the Slashdot days (my age limit) techie types have hated Jobs, and showered Woz as the true genius. Tech culture has claimed this for a long time. Is your argument that tech people need more broad acclaim? And if so, does this come from a sense of being put down?

I used to broadly believe that Jobs-types were over-fluffed charismatic magnets myself by hanging out in these places until I started working and found out how useful they were at doing things I couldn't or didn't want to do. I don't think they deserve more praise than the underlying technical folks, but that they deserve equal praise. Sort of like how in a two-parent households, different parents often end up shouldering different responsibilities but that doesn't make one parent with certain responsibilities the true parent.
$75 license. I assume they want people to be wow'ed by the unrealistic zoom shots, and pay money before realizing that it's little different from JetBrains Mono or Roboto Mono in a real-world editor or terminal.
Big daddy sundar
Since this is a thread about pedantry (rocketry pedantry), I'll allow myself to be pedantic about words.

"A wiki" is a type of software. But when you use "Wiki" as a proper noun, referring to one specific instance, that's the name of Ward's Wiki, the original wiki, also known as wikiwikiweb, available at wiki.c2.com .

I'm guessing that you were not citing Ward's Wiki, but were rather citing some other site, in particular the site that contains this advice on citing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_abbreviate_%...!
My feeling is the the commercial side of the OpenAI brand is gone. How could OpenAI customers depend on the company, when the non-profit board goes against their interests (by slowing down the development and giving them inferior product)?

On the other hand, the AGI side of the OpenAI brand is just fine. They will continue the responsible AGI development, spearheaded by Ilya Sutskever. My best wishes for them to succeed.

I suspect Microsoft will be filing a few lawsuits and sabotaging OpenAI internally. It's an almost $3Tn company and they have an army of lawyers. They can do a lot of damage, especially when there may not be much sympathy for OpenAI in Silicon Valley's VC circles.
i agree with this. What about the GPTs Store. Are they planning on killing that? Just concerning they'll kill the platform unit AGI comes out.
My point is, why isn't really a question that makes sense.

There isn't a "why" the speed of light is constant and isotropic. The answers you typically see for that question is just different ways of saying the same thing; there is no causal relationship.

In the end, it just is. There are things that must be true if this is the case, and things that can't be true if this is the case.