skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tradeoffs become multi-arm as you go up the chain. For instance, complying with the letter of the law at great engineering, operational and product UX expense, vs cutting corners to maintain a smooth UX, low operational overhead, and straightforward maintainable systems. In todays world no one is able to be experts in all those considerations. Leadership must make apples-to-oranges tradeoffs all day long, and they must rely on communication and maturity to navigate the cascading inputs of these choices. What is possible to execute on cross-functionally, in what timeline, and what are the externalities of different tradeoffs? These are fiendishly difficult to navigate, so generally financial metrics will serve as the tiebreaker, and even then it's based on a lot of guesswork and proposals made up by self-interested internal parties over-representing an uncertain outcome. It's no surprise that the really big ethical concerns get lost in the shuffle—there's simply no system of checks and balances on ethics with anywhere near the effectiveness of that imparted by the incentives corporate capitalism bolstered by individual self-interest (note I avoid the word greed here since the incentives aare chained all the way down to individuals which no one would consider well-off enough to be labeled "greedy").
I especially like how people act like SpaceX invented reusable rockets. These people simultaneously know about SpaceX and yet somehow don't know about the Space Shuttle, whose design started over 50 years ago.
I think I worded my question wrong. Where except in those industries I named are AI actually, currently, taking jobs
> have nothing to loose if OpenAI dies

Not according to Sam Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."

https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1
Exactly - it just shows how terrible the rest of the world is doing if Cuba of all places puts their medical system to shame, simply by training more doctors
Update - I'm wrong. In the comment dang says

each twist with Significant New Information (SNI)—but to downweight the ones that are sneeless

So it definitely isn't a typo for senselessness. I should have known dang types what they mean!
This paper could just as likely be from 2013.
Lots of posts showing ChatGPT going offline. Some showing errors, others failing to log in after the session expires.
I think it's just him acknowledging his team's (at least until very recently)
likely months long efforts to have this ready to go live.
If that's your take away I genuinely fear for the future of AI. This has been the biggest shit show. Yes, they acted within their hard power, but clearly never read the room. Announcing a 6 month transition plan while finding the new CEO and saying Sam wants to spend time with friends and family would have been the adult thing to do. Not shoot from your hip, and accuse him of lying and potentially burning your entire work to the ground, commercial or not. You kind of need to have a plan for something like this, which they clearly did not. I don't care so much if Sam goes back, I literally have no vested interest. It worries me the people left in the room just generally seem incompetent at running a large organization for something that's potentially pretty important.
Embracing AI in Edtech
Interesting. But what are the (un)likely failure modes?
My two children 12 years apart in age and they have had a dramatically different childhoods. Unless you are a parent right now, you probably have no idea how quickly childhood has changed in the last decade.
OP's question wasn't comparing price though, rather resource usage. Generally, an Android phone with the same specs as an iOS device will require more resources to perform the same tasks.
Division of labour creates wealth... that's not distributed.

BTW The origins of basic supermarket foods is amazing: e.g. potato, corn, avocado are from the Americas. What did Europeans used to eat - cabbage and turnips?
My only experience with Mercurial was in game development. What’s used these days in arenas where large file versioning is needed?

I think the ultimate answer is maintaining an asset stack containing files that allow for inherit diff chunks or however that might be described.
Tiger’s Private Investment Chief Shleifer to Transition to Senior Adviser
conspicuous consumption is a human need.
You are allowed to be mad at a ruling you cannot change. Just don’t drag me into your feelings. Maybe it is overruled someday, that’s pretty rare. Maybe you can point to another amendment that made it almost 250 before being interpreted to say something, it does not?
Dagger looks far more confusing and weird than the docker compose example.
> If gas plants can be replaced by something cheaper then they will be. If gas plants make economic sense, they will be built.

Eventually, the system will land in a semi-stable equilibrium. Getting there may be quite painful, though.

Capitalism is NOT an inherently stable system when the time scales of production and consumption have a mismatch. Look at farming and the feast/famine cycles it goes through. Practically all "developed" countries stabilize their agricultural sector, somehow, precisely for this reason.

Capitalism will happily take plants offline faster than new investment can replace. The grid needs a certain amount of base production or it becomes unreliable--which defeats the whole point of a "grid" in the first place.

Batteries are not enough by themselves. You need a combination of batteries, solar, HVDC links over larger areas (to give you diversity to ride out weather), gas plants, and nuclear plants. Many of these will be unprofitable to build but are necessary.
I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)
When I try to ask a question I get "There is a problem with your request" with a case/error number that I'm not sure if I should post or not, while using the Android mobile app.
Mercurial is dead unfortunately. It's been stuck on Python 2. The CLI was saner than Git but it needed Python, which helped with our (better) decision to pick Fossil instead. This was 11 years ago. It's been great, it has everything you need in a single executable which can be statically compiled.
I use NextDNS in my network and I'd say it's well worth the price. I could of course accomplish it with PiHole, but NextDNS just works, and covers my phone when I'm not at home.
ChromeOS is not worse than Windows 11, which would be the alternative here. Ironically enough ChromeOS has no Ads in the OS itself compared to Windows.
As soon as they get Nvidia Video Super Resolution working consistently in Firefox I’ll switch, hopefully that happens before June of next year.
Thanks for asking. I'm in the same hole but at data engineer. I want to make an aggressive leap to some system programming position but couldn't find the time to work on side projects.

Anyway good luck!
I've been logged out of the app, and I get an error when I try to sign back in.

On the web, I now see "ChatGPT Alpha," with an "Alpha models" dropdown ("Default" is the only option). Trying to chat with it fails with a generic error message as well. What does it all mean?
404 CEO NOT FOUND
Linus never used CVS, but there was a CVS server and the community was using it. https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/127-131.pdf
That's very well possible but there is as of now no evidence to substantiate that. But that is what it ultimately could have boiled down to and if there is even a remote chance that it can be spun that way you can be sure that chance will be exploited - even if it wasn't originally the case!
I think that was done as a safety lever, not a hard force. Outside member could raise the alarm if they feel something is wrong, not make the decision and not inform anyone.
I feel a token sum for a person like that would likely be life changing money for most people.
Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill
The US government flouts the constitution constantly, for example the UN charter which according to the constitution, treaties are part of the supreme law of the land. It's a security state designed to squelch popular resistance to a global imperial project (that is currently floundering).
was just mostly dead, but now dead dead
> There's a feedback loop happening as well. Kids don't play outside so there are no kids playing outside.

So much this. When I was a kid (late 70's), I could count on going outside and finding other kids to play with. Or if I didn't find anyone, I'd ride my bike around until someone came outside. Or, I could even simply knock on my friend's door and say "Can Robert come out and play?" and this was completely acceptable.

I'd love to send my kid outside to play, but he'd just be wandering around by himself. Knocking on a friend's door (though he knows a same-age kid two doors away) would be considered out of bounds nowadays. Any kid get-togethers must be carefully arranged ahead of time with at least one adult monitoring the "playdate."
Likely connected to the fact that they released voice chat for free users an hour ago. https://x.com/openai/status/1727065166188274145

Assuming these two things are related, if I may editorialize just a tiny bit, I am a little annoyed at how much their rollouts often disrupt service for paying customers. Paid users being impacted by free user rushes really sucks, but is understandable. API developers being impacted by free-user rollouts is unacceptable, and especially sucks for those who have to answer to users of their own.

I suppose this is a wakeup call to migrate to Microsoft's Azure endpoints which, presumably, aren't affected by the current outages. But I'm fully tapped out in terms of yet another service's application and vetting process.

So to connecting it back to the current drama, while I support OpenAI, their employees, and Sam's return, I can understand why folks like Helen would be miffed by management's approach to building. I'm not saying they should slow product development, but would staged rollouts hurt?
I feel your pain, recently had something similar happen that forced a website I run behind cloudflare, there isn't much you can do when you get millions of requests in a day from tens of thousands of US IPv4 addresses that are on the residential networks you see non-malicious traffic from.

One thing that got me was seeing some of the malicious traffic originate from the same /24 as I use at home. Whatever botnet was being used certainly has good penetration of residential ISPs in the US!
What is annoying is this isn't just ChatGTP but the whole API.

I was just getting ready to deploy the an assistant based chat bot when this happened. It underscores the importance of designing systems that fail gracefully when a service is unavailable.
I said nothing to loose, not nothing to gain.
True, and I enjoyed a space based one that I used to play quite a bit back then, but I guess I would consider MUDs to be MMOs as well. They still ultimately required an internet connection and console games didn't really become popular for net based play until PS2.
That's indeed what I meant, apologies if I was unclear.
Reading that article unlocked some traumatic memories of Bazaar/"bzr".
I wonder why this product is so unreliable. Perhaps because they keep messing with it and tweaking it instead of having a stable software that isn't updated almost daily.

I like to use chatgpt for enhancing productivity for rote tasks but I keep finding I can't rely on it. Is there a reliable generative text AI out there?
Yup. I applied for a PM position, within 20 minutes of it going up. Quite a specific one: "'expert level' health insurance system knowledge and experience integrating between multiple EHR vendors and partners'". I have all of this. Have built claims benefits management systems being used by some household names in healthcare. I'm an expert in EPIC, Cerner, ESOsuite EHR systems.

10 minutes later: "we are looking for someone whose skillset and experience better aligns with our requirements and the position".

I guess my resume needed more buzzwords.
I lived in fifth floor apartment that spent about a year replacing the elevator that was not a fun trip up the stairs on grocery shopping day with six months old child. Then too neither was moving out after as the new elevator car was smaller and much of the furniture that had fit in the old elevator needed caried down a staircase with three 90° turns per floor.
Mostly 4 stories. I used to live at the top of one, at first it’s hard but after a while you stop noticing. We had all types in our building, babies, old people, musicians, you name it. British people walk everywhere anyway.
But would you let them? Alone, I mean.

No pre-set plan, no parental supervision, just a “I’m going to go meet my friends on this summer day, I’ll be back before dinner.” For purposes of illustration, assume these kids are aged 9-14, or thereabouts. Too young to drive, too old to be doted over every minute of the day.

If you would (and I hope you would!), would their friends’ parents? Would they be able to go casually knock on their friends’ doors (or even neighbors’ doors), be it biking or walking, and socialize, like kids do?

My guess is probably not. And that’s not the kids’ doing— that’s OUR doing. If parents really wanted their kids to go outside and explore, that would be the norm. But for far too many kids it’s not, because parents don’t want it to be: they’re worried about their kid getting hit by a car, kidnapped, getting in trouble, learning a lesson, the list goes on and on. The built environment reflects that kids are not expected to be outside, as if we’ve kid-proofed it. And so even if you want your kid to play outside, no one else is, and of course no kid wants to play alone!

Ironically, you would probably see more kids out and about, safe to be kids, in gasp New York City than in “safe” suburbia, from my own anecdotal experience.
Your position is not internally consistent, you should really think over what each of those implies and then drop or adjust one or more of these.
In terms of pay at OAI, sure.

But being an engineer isn’t just a lesser form of being a researcher.

It’s not a “level” in that sense. Like OAI isn’t going to fire an engineer and replace them with a researcher.
Another OpenAI outage. Just as frequent as GitHub outages. [0]

Before, I would have recommend [1] to contact the CEO of OpenAI for support. It turns out there is no CEO to contact this time until this chaos is over.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237794

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191468
The worst thing about this whole affair has been the failure of the board to coherently express, seemingly to anyone, why they did what they did.
What’re some of the military applications of LLMs?
I'm sorry, but that's absurd. Being able to explain the precise mechanism behind reasoning would make anything sound like it's not reasoning, because of our prior experiences. If we understood human reasoning well enough to explain exactly what happens in our brain, you would conclude that we're not really reasoning because you can provide an explanation of how we're reasoning about novel, out of distribution data. This is "God of the gaps" for thought.
Firing Sam Altman was a truly great move and I hope the board wins out. Investors are furious... Who cares? That's why it is a nonprofit, to protect them from being forced towards maximizing growth and profit at the expense of their mission. Let Sam and whoever wants go to Microsoft and copy the chat product, wishing them the best.
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Tooling could also analyze the dependencies and create appropriate bundles of the code to avoid roundtrips. Actually such tooling has existed for over a decade and are used by practically all but simplest Javascript applications.

I'm all for development without a compilation step. I've written hacks to resolve node modules and transpile in browser to avoid compilation. Implementing prefetching even with this hack would be less hacky than going full circle and injecting HTML tags to do the prefetching.

ESM is like XML: The problem it solves is not hard, and it doesn't solve the problem well. Actually ESM it isn't even close to solving the problem after trying for almost 15 years.
Volume also matters.
We could get really far simply by changing the incentives of our legal system.
Thank you, mercurial was obstacle (for me) all the time. Thanks for killing it.
That place is awful.

If a truck driver stops for the night, but fancies a meal from the other side of the road there's no sidewalk, and no crossing. Just lots of "no pedestrians" signs.

How do you get from the Tesla Supercharger to McDonald's?
How dies it compare to https://hedy.org/?
These articles are always idiotic by nature because they are solutions in search of problems.

The suburbs are not and have never been a problem for kids. There are plenty of other kids in the suburbs to play with and far more room to do things than you will ever find in an urban area. I don't want to live in a fucking cave right up next to my neighbor and I won't as long as I can afford it.

Why is it that we've got tens of millions of examples of people who grew up in the suburbs and fucking loved their childhoods, but these dimwits keep on pushing urbanism as a panacea to a problem that only ever exists if parents allow it?

I grew up in the suburbs during the 80s and early 90s. My childhood was to wake up at 6ish, watch some cartoons, and then get locked outside the house except for lunch or a snack. I rode my bike, played sports, played in makeshift forts, went fishing, and went hunting. I would show up again when the sun started going down. That was my day, every day that the weather wasn't bad.

My dad usually dominated the TV during the evenings, and so my time was spent playing or reading or doing homework. We didn't have a lot of money, but I did have a bunch of hand-me-down lego sets, and I would create Transformers and other toys with the lego pieces. My dad had old military blankets which I would use to create forts, or alternatively, mountains to drive my Hot Wheels cars through. I would just pile them up and shove my arms through them to create tunnels. And I'd play video games, but that time was limited and on a 13 inch black and white TV.

Was it perfect? No. My parents were emotionally abusive at times. But I had to meet my friends every day in person and I had to learn how to get along with them and their parents and families. I couldn't just toss a tablet on a bed when I had an issue with GoatHumper666. Sometimes that was arguments. Sometimes that was fights. But we were all we had and we would make up at the end of the day.

Go talk to a teacher. Ask them how the kids are doing today. They're all ultra-self-entitled. A bunch of little princes and princesses who won't listen to teachers because they have no incentive to do so. The school systems will push their little unsocialized, imagination-bereft asses along and the teachers themselves are powerless to discipline them in any way that actually matters. A bunch of children being raised by screens because their parents are distracted by screens and the teachers who are forced to attempt to deal with all of their pent up energy when they can't look at those same screens.
There's a very, very prominent example of that today. Let that sink in.
I have a simpler theory. Board convinced Ilya that Sam would fire him if they don't fire him first. Remember the reason being two team doing the same project.

Fear of getting fired from a company you started could lead anyone to be irrational. He is just too embarrassed to say it now that it lead to this big of havoc.
If this is related to the weekend’s events, it’s just sad. I subscribed a few weeks ago and chatgpt 4 is such a handy thing to have. They potentially broke up a great company and product for nothing.

I think it was Roon on Twitter who put it best: “wanton destruction of a beautiful thing”.
> I suspect there's got to be a showstopper that prevents its adoption

No, it's the other way around. Diesel-powered non-computer-controlled hydrofoils weren't good enough to overthrow regular diesel-powered boats. You saved some gas, but not enough for anyone to bother.

The pressure to go green and move to electric boats means that the energy savings from going hydrofoil is suddenly extremely interesting in order to make a boat that has enough speed and range if it's gonna carry batteries. Couple that with modern sensors and computing, and their hydrofoils can do a lot more on-the-fly adjustments to further improve stability and efficiency than the older ones. And these two factors combine to make something new, and you can't say "Well, hydrofoils failed in the past, so this will fail as well".

> In Vancouver

> (vulnerable to floating logs?)

That's a very local "you" problem. The various Swedish archipelagoes have completely different conditions than the Seattle-Vancouver bay area.
I felt like the naming was a little unintuitive here. `forward` and `left` seem to be directions of movement (especially if I want the painter to "move left"). Instead, `forward` means to draw/move, while `left` is a CCW rotation (even though it supports a negative argument)

call paint.draw(10)
call paint.rotate(90) // or even rotate("up")

speaks better to me.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Infocom-zcode-terps: Historical source code for Infocom's Z-machine interpreters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326878 - Nov 2023 (23 comments)

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893794 - Oct 2023 (160 comments)
They'll be compensated in lieu probably given they already have competing offers that promise that
If there was ever a motivation for sentence-diagramming...
Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?
I would prefer a government that enforces the law blindly. Our legal system is fundamentally broken as long as we consider wealth, career, politics, personal connections, etc before filing charges and trying a case.
Who fixed it?
Nah, the GP probably just forgot that it's polite to disclose that they're a googler working on ads.

I've personally been hit by malicious ad(s) at work. Definitely embarrassing as an engineer, especially when I wasn't looking at anything work-inappropriate (it's been ages, don't recall what I was looking for).

Google can spin this however they like, but this is blatantly anti-consumer behavior only enabled by their monopoly position. The FTC should already be investigating over this, but, alas, they seem distracted by other issues.

I've not tried Firefox in years, but this will likely be the catalyst to me switching. I assume Edge follow will follow suit (and I've no reason to see why they won't since it's chromium based).
can you share some stories? would love to learn how sam networked his way into sv
I'm curious if literally anyone (the board, the CEO(s), Microsoft, Twitter, etc) knows the full story or knows whats actually going on lol. I assumed initially it was just fog of war, but this just seems like pure incompetence and "purple monkey dishwasher" tier misinformation.
> So my point is, why doesn't Ilya just spill the beans if he is now on "Team bring back Sam".

Because there may be legal consequences, and it's best to not give Sam's lawyers any ammunition.
Even Neuman got a half a billion for abandoning ship of wework. The board members could walk away with $5B each.

I wonder if these kind of shenanigans could ever happen at harvard or stanford nonprofits.

I mean it happens on the regular with entire countries run by dictators.
The fact the new CEO can't even get answers from the board is quite telling. Looks like the OpenAI board wants those investor lawsuits. And allegedly the Quora guy Adam D'Angelo is the ringleader of all this?
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