skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At present, LetsGo is meant to be cloned and then "made your own" as an integral part of your app. There is no first-class plugin system. I'll see where folks find value before adding that level of complexity.
> I think the only comedy here is that Google looked at these old-school companies like Microsoft or IBM and figured they can be different just because they "get it." And then, over time, they rediscovered the reasons why old companies always end up operating in a particular way.

This is funny because Alphabet's homepage still quotes Larry Page bragging they won't become a conventional company:

As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one”
Perhaps Ilya figures out that he has enough money now (earning over $1m per year base) he can start his own actual non-profit on the side while continuing to pull in comp from Microsoft. He’s committed to responsible AI he just hasn’t found a way to execute yet.
I find running 7B models on my 6 year old small form factor HP EliteDesk to be fast enough for casual everyday use. If this speedup can be applied generally to commonly used models, I can serve a local ChatGPT experience for both friends and family from my tiny homelab in my basement.

mind blown
Id distinguish between the two by asking if the group is specified in policy or in incident documentation. The former would infer uneven application of policy, whereas the latter is what you're referencing.
But why? I could legitimately IMO rag on a handful of former managers who I think mostly meant well but I’m not going to do it in a blog post.
Its useful PR pretext for their regulatory advocacy, and subjective enough that if they are careful not to be too obvious about specifically pushing one company’s commercial interest, they can probably get away with it forever, so why would it be any deader than when Sam was CEO before and not substantively guided by it.
you want a one-line switch expression??
See earlier

> If OpenAI remains a 501(c)(3) charity, then any employee of Microsoft on the board will have a fiduciary duty to advance the mission of the charity, rather than the business needs of Microsoft. There are obvious conflicts of interest here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378069
If you build a zoo and put monkeys in it, and the monkeys don’t reproduce then it’s generally accepted that there is something wrong with the zoo.
Would they release an AGI with full Internet coverage? You can un-censor a normal sized model in 2 days, depending on the AGI architecture let's say less than a month until it's telling you how to implement an untraceable harassment campaign against AI alignment researchers worldwide so the next model they release will be able to tell you how to clone smallpox.
While I'd never do that either, I did find it refreshing to read from someone else. It certainly makes this post unique amongst the many "I left Google" diary entries.

Frankly the fact he was willing to include that paragraph probably indicates that there's a few thousand more paragraphs he resisted including...
Even by the standards of blind corp greed, that's a bad move - you want people to know your platform when they're done studying, so they can advocate for it in their jobs. Why would you destroy this revenue stream? Unless they have no longterm vision for VMware and just want to bleed it dry as quickly as possible.
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I'm all in on FF on desktop.

The only thing stopping on mobile for last 4-5 years is Translations. Project Bergamot is incredibly successful, thanks again to Mozilla for investing in this! Open Translation is such an important thing, it's a game changer.

It went from beta to addon to bring built into desktop Firefox since the latest release. No words can express the amount of gratitude for this. Now, just waiting for it to be enabled in android builds.

Edit: Another not so highlighted feature of Firefox is: Mac always shows Chrome as "significantly consuming energy". But never for Firefox. I don't know what magic they did here.

Edit 2: Don't get me started on the benefits of containers, profiles and temporary containers as a default.
$9M in the context of the economic impact of these price controls is peanuts.
> The process has conclusively confirmed that OpenAI is in fact not open and that it is effectively controlled by Microsoft.

This was said loud and clear when Microsoft joined in the first place but there were no takers.
And of course there was never a postmortem for Google+ and nobody was held accountable for that failure.
It might just mean your skills weren't appropriate for the role you were hired for. It doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what?
# I've spent $1mm+ building a fitness app. Now what?

## Situation Report:

- I've been bootstrapping a consumer-grade (native iOS + Apple Watch) fitness app for the past few years, and I've spent over $1mm (not including my own time; that's real post-tax cash money) getting to this point.

- I'm a solo founder with a ~20 year professional background in building + shipping enterprise software products, and the vast majority of my focus has been on building the app itself (with the help of a lean team of contractors and freelancers.)

- The app itself is fairly polished and perfectly usable. It's in the App Store right now, I use it daily, and there's a small trickle of users. However, there's no clear signs of PMF or traction yet -- and that's essentially the problem to be solved.

- If time and money were no object, I would love to continue working on this app indefinitely. I'm obsessed with human performance + fitness, and building this kind of product is fun. I believe in the longer-term potential to turn this into a viable business, though I don't have a line of sight to that yet. (And at the same time, I'm just getting a little exhausted trying to do so much for so long with so little support!)

- Practically speaking, I can't keep putting time + money into this forever, I don't think I can/should try to raise outside capital until I can show some clear traction with what I've already built -- and I'm increasingly starting to second guess myself and wonder if my current strategy for launching and monetizing a B2C app as a solo founder might just be a fool's errand.

So, I'm thinking about how to honestly assess the situation and determine what's the next best step for finding PMF...

## Considerations

Some of things I'm considering (which are not mutually exclusive)

- Start trying to recruit a co-founder with a penchant for fitness + legit passion for marketing to help find traction + go to the next level

- Go into code freeze (e.g. taper expenses to the lowest possible level), take a holiday break to freshen my perspective, and (at least temporarily) reframe this as a side-hustle in the new year with most of that energy going into marketing

- Start building a pipeline of potential acquirers who might be interested in picking up from where I'm at and frame an offer around the source code + registered trademarks. (e.g. increase my luck of getting acquired or acqui-hired)

In general, I'm leaning towards a strategy where I freeze the product for a while and put 99% of the time + money + energy into marketing for purposes of finding PMF.

(I don't think trying to raise outside capital right now makes sense given market conditions or the lack of demonstrated traction, but that might be a limiting belief?)

## Ask HN

Anything else you'd add to the list of possibilities, or any strategic advice you'd offer from prior experience?
The second one isn't that bad in context. But the Senior Systems Software Engineer is wild, with "Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate" followed by "Experience writing and maintaining production code in C++14 or newer". You'd think the latter would imply the former, but maybe not...

They seem to have even lowered expectations a bit. Two months ago [1] they were already hiring for that role (or a very, very similar one), but back then you needed experience with "mission-critical code in C++17", now just "production code in C++14".

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20230922170941/https://lmstudio.a...
You can do that today, the only advantage today though is being able to fix the model in memory. It’s sequential and slower due to communication costs, though batching might be faster?
It's simple, man, all you have to do to build quality software is just collect user stories, convert them into requirements, iterate the design until your design elements capture all the requirements, something-something sequence diagrams, implement the design (cough/snort/choke/laugh), get final user approval and you're done! /s
> not the effectiveness of downstream filters.

But he chose to mention that all spam were marked as such and that only 1 or 2 get through. Readers will naturally be curious what methodology and tools are in use.
But was he using it as a social hub?
Looking closely, it seems like the lawsuit is purely about bankruptcy clawback.

Genesis wants Gemini to give back all customer withdrawals looking back 90 days from Genesis' bankruptcy. The idea is to add these withdrawals to the bankruptcy to be redistributed to all creditors.
Qubes is cool, but Tails is for Tor and is meant to be a boot-from-live-cd or flash drive.

The whole point is that you want all instances of Tails to look the same on the network so they can't fingerprint you. Once you start making it a daily driver, picking up a lot of cookies, making it your own, etc. then the point of using it is moot.
And VS Code too with the analyzers that come with the sdk! (or numerous others that are available as extensions e.g. Roslynator)
Yeah that's the idea. They hold corporations hostage that are slow to move and increase prices.
The Indian govt is saying that the conversation mentioned in FT was related to organized crime [0].

This does track with the modus operandi I've been hearing about. The IB/RAW attaché has been placing hits on a couple of these people [1] (please find the Vancouver Sun article the ToI article is basing it on - ti Google fu is failing me but I remember reading it back in July).

In general, there is an ongoing gang war in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, and the US-Canada Diaspora after the AAP won Punjab elections.

In Punjabi politics there is often implicit coordination between specific gangs and parties. Some gangsters would align with SAD, and others with INC. After the AAP won in 2022, the entire system fell apart, as the AAP is the new kid in town, and plenty of older gangs and biradiris didn't have links with them. Add to that the ongoing gang war in Delhi NCR as development is speeding up, meant that there are new players entering the game and there's active consolidation both between parties and gangs.

I guess Lawrence Bishnoi has turned to a RAW asset based on all of this news.

[0] - https://theprint.in/diplomacy/after-ft-report-on-us-foiling-...

[1] - https://m.timesofindia.com/india/contract-for-nijjar-hit-was...
Yeah I will always advocate for smaller, more easily digestible PRs - but the underlying principle is good old “know your audience.”
Strongly anti-controversy?! This whole thing has been like Christmas come early for me. There's a strong contingent of people here who have no illusions about Altman's ambitions.

That being said, Hacker News is primarily for news, and it's tech-oriented. I would not expect Palestinian broadsides (whether for or against) to fare well.
For example, read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381987
1. Your boss is trying to force you to join them in doing something you don't want to do, which is an asshole move.

2. If your boss does this thing and you don't, they would no longer be your boss.

3. If your boss does this thing, you not doing this thing would put you in the good graces of your new boss and remaining coworkers, who likewise did not do this thing.

4. With everyone who would have considered you an outcast being gone, there is now substantial room for your own advancement at a place with fewer assholes.

5. If you decide to join your boss in doing this thing, you will continue to work for and with the assholes who peer pressured you and receive no benefit.

This sounds like some really easy peer pressure to resist.
Nvidia can't make GPUs fast enough. I doubt 10xing training and/or inference efficiency would result in a decrease in demand. I would be surprised if it didn't instead increase demand. Mind you, Nvidia is pushing hard on TensorRT which optimizes models at inference time and results in major increases in throughput (not 10x though lol).
You get two starters if I’m not mistaken.
> 1. They can get equivalent position and pay at the new Microsoft startup during that time, so their jobs are not at risk.

citation?
Haha, followed the link in Firefox but it was blocked because of my ad-blocker.

Who has the time to track all the stuff Google collects about you? At least spread out the tracking by NOT using every Google app. They've become the single largest surveillance organization in history, dwarfing even China's government.

Besides Firefox and Duckduckgo work so well I don't notice the difference.

Next, dropping Gmail...
If half of the brainpower invested in advertising food would go towards world hunger we'd have too much food.
Also, while we're at it:

"Nobody will be happier than I when this bottleneck (edit: the one in our code—not the world) is a thing of the past" [1]

HN plans to be multi-core?!?! A bigger scoop than OpenAI governance!

Anything more you can share?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38351005
Uh, I reckon many do. Money is easy to come by for that type of person and avoiding killing everyone matters to them.
Take on Google Maps redesign by former designer – what could be better?
Quoting types that are defined later is a wart but it's not very bad. VSCode's UI will happily handle it as if the quotes weren't there.
I see these posts and just shrug. Tech companies have lifecycles. There is that early startup energy where "we're all in this together." Then, if they're lucky, success and growth, but the startup mentality remains. But as the company grows, it can't maintain the startup culture. It's simply not possible. And then companies mature and you have bureaucracy and leaks and empire building and layoffs, etc. It's inevitable.

What surprises me about Google is not that its changing, but that it's taken so long to change.
A lot of these high-up tech leaders seem to forget this regularly. They sit on their thrones and dictate wild swings, and are used to having people obey. They get all the praise and adulation when things go well, and when things don't go well they golden parachute into some other organization who hires based on resume titles rather than leadership and technical ability. It doesn't surprise me at all that they were caught off guard by this.
> there aren't a lot of other black women in leadership at Google. Makes this targeted attack feel worse.

Are people of specific races to be put beyond criticism?
> [Trichotomy]'s still present in the current NNG

Cool; it wasn't there yet 6 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880788

"pred succ n = n" reminds me a lot of def'ns of the form "(left p, right p) = p"; I'll have to think about that a bit. Injectivity of succ is, I guess, what distinguishes ℕ from similar constructions with different characteristic? (did I just think that, or am I parroting NNG?)

> ∀x.(r(x)→⊥)→r(f(x)) ⟹ ∃x.r(x)∧r(f(f(x)))

I think I gave up on incredible.pm too early (although I did skip ahead for SKI) ... I'll have to go back and try that. It seems to have a bit of the flavour of "all people who claim to be Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG are liars"
I just joined because I've always wanted to, and when I had the opportunity to check that box I did. I had no delusions about what being a cog in the machine entails or where the fealty of a public corporation lies.

Now that I've checked that box, I have one foot out the door at all times. Fortunately or unfortunately, no one has given me a reason to leave yet.

The "powers that be" seem to be sending plenty of signals about what kind of a workplace this is, though. I might leave sooner than I intended as a result.
This is called Scumpeter's creative destruction (to be distinguished from other creative destruction) and why large companies may lose the ability to be innovative and compete

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

However. it's hard to see Google's core business dominance, search and ad, to be destroyed very easily. It's also super confusing that no other entity has been able to create a matching service and we do not have search duopoly similar to Visa Mastercard.
Agree with everything except the benefits part. IME gov jobs usually have solid benefits. Maybe it varies by state?
Show HN: Less Paper – native iOS client for Paperless-ngx
How is that possible (only 7 minutes over a year), he must either not drive very much or live very close to a highway?

My commute, the stoplights alone would easily add up to that every day.
The author created a new GH account

https://github.com/russbishop
Well, given that you aren't who I thought I was talking with at least one of us is confused, but I suspect both of us are now.

The post I replied to was stating, essentially, that in their opinion Google had always been evil and only the timescales had changed.

My point is that multiple insiders (including myself) can confirm that Google took "Don't Be Evil" really seriously for a long time and that the cynics were wrong then to believe otherwise.
First off, I think it’s important to recognize the intention here before getting into areas for improvement. There is a lot of material in here for the 2008-2012 Roadster. If I was an owner, I’d appreciate this level of access.

I’m curious to get a lawyers take on their brief terms on this service page combined with these patent and “open source” terms [0]. Do these amount to OSD-compatible terms? I don’t see any restrictions to immediately disqualify, but I also don’t see explicit licenses everywhere I’d expect to see them. Also, I’m seeing this on my phone, so I haven’t checked diagnostics software ISO file for source code.

A nit, it’s good practice to remove confusing confidentiality notices on schematics and hardware documents contained in their ZIP files.

Is this textbook open source / open hardware? Not sure.. is it something published without restrictions other than “no warranty”? It appears that way.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#open-source
We have a tendency to remember the good and not the bad, and we want to see our friends do well. Someone else also pointed out here in the comments that no one wants to publicly state they made a bad call if they can avoid it because it will likely damage them personally. We give others lots of chances, or we encourage and cheer them when others are taking chances on them in the hopes that they'll do better this time even when we would no longer risk our own skin.

I imagine most of us think, "S/he was so close to success. Maybe s/he'll have learned! What could be the harm in talking them up a bit? Besides, no one wants to ruin someone else's life,"
Paul's tweet is an objective statement, it does not say anything about character or values and is not explicitly supportive.
> I applaud the board members for (apparently, it seems) trying to stand up for the mission

What about this is apparent to you?

What statement has the board made on how they fired Altman "for the mission"?

Have I missed something?
The source for his being born wealthy is his father. Who is known to be a conman.

For example the emerald story seems to be false. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-father-errol-never....
you're right about market forces, however:

1) openAI was explicitly founded to NOT develop AI based on "market forces"; it's just that they "pivoted" (aka abandoned their mission) once they struck gold in order to become driven by the market

2) this is exactly the reasoning behind nuclear arms races
Thank you for not editing this away. Easy mistake to make, and gave us a good laugh (hopefully laughing with you. Everyone who's ever programmed has made the same error).
I for one am just totally shocked that a silicon valley executive would exhibit some sociopathic behaviors.
No, but at least tell the reasons to the CEO you replaced him with. Even Shear was kept in dark and was planning to leave OpenAI.
Cars with start/stop have significantly more robust starter equipment. It's really a non-issue.

If you're idling for more than around 7 seconds at a time, stopping the engine makes sense from a gas perspective.
“dark money” is the boogeyman word for PAC, typically formed as 501(c)4 non profit corporations

juvenile terms limit the public’s ability to understand them and effectively exercise any sentiment for or against them
Why would Sam Altman be held as someone irreplaceable....the dude seems like a smart guy but c'mon he is not Jobs or Gates. I remember first time hearing him when he interviewed Zuck about Facebook and entrepreneurship (when he worked for Y Combinator). Now we talk about him as the next Gates or Jobs. I think this was one big marketing stunt from OpenAI, now the whole software and business community talks about them. Big boost in popularity and big downfall for Google when we talk about competing in AI. Sam's biggest mistake was that Worldcoin privacy nightmare but idk what was he thinking about, maybe it was noble idk.
OpenLoco
> why would sam altman and the rest of their family deny annie altman's inheritance? [...] either this annie character is making stuff up, or the whole rest of her family are some kind of comic book villains

She's done something to alienate herself from the family. Usual reason is drugs, but given that she's publicly braying about being molested I'd bet that she's told similar stories about other family members, internally, prior to this. (ed: she also made the same allegations against her other brother too. Damn I'm good.)

Look at the number of people ascribing manipulative behavior to Sammy. This sort of thing runs in families.

Or look at the verbiage of the allegation itself:

> I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore. (You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.) I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you.

Nowhere in there does she actually say he did anything more than get in bed with her. She just implies it, and our minds are filling in the rest, giving her plausible deniability against making such a claim. It's fuckary.

(edit2) Even better, from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...:

> "Annie had (and still was having?) extremely intense, nearly all-day PTSD flashbacks of the sexual assault she experienced in her childhood from Sam Altman, plus other forms of assault from all members of her nuclear family (except her Dad, I think.)"

Everyone wants a piece of Little Annie Altman, it seems. Histrionic personality disorder (and PTSD!) is treated with...Zoloft, dispensing of which was also considered "abuse" in her claims.

> Our Dad’s ashes being turned into diamonds (not his wishes) and that being offered to me instead of money for rent and groceries and physical therapy says more about me?

lol. The Altmans know how to push the buttons of someone with a spending problem.