skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was GitHub (or even X or Threads) that went down, you would never see a comment like this:

"As a paid GitHub user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption."

No user accepts frequent service disruption. Especially GitHub which falls over more times than X or Threads.
Github review is good for either zero or one round of comments. After that you can't tell what the hell is going on. It has clearly been written by people who do not themselves practice code review. Compare and contrast with Gerrit, which remains usable after many rounds of comments, in both directions, and changes. Compare also Phabricator.
Just say exit liquidity. It's faster.
In terms of setting precedent, this is accurate.

> It is an individuals right to keep and bear, not collective, never was.

Prior to 2008 it was. New SCOTUS precedent doesn't magically change the past.

> Next, well regulated never meant lots of regulations. It meant well trained and in good working order. 1800s Oxford dictionary.

The 1766 definition reads:

"Properly controlled, governed, or directed; subject to guidance or regulations."

Textualism/Originalism is just cherry picking things like this to justify the decision the majority was going to make anyways, which is why someone sought out just the right definition from just the right source from decades after the drafting of the 2nd amendment.

It's weird that they had to resort to this, because you could totally make a convincing case for private firearm ownership based on state militias and how they evolved. There's room for guaranteeing the individual ownership right under the Militia act of 1903 - any male aged 17 to 45 is eligible for "unorganized" state militia service unconnected to the various state-level military branches. That apparently is not their desired outcome, so one presumes this is why they did not pursue this avenue.
Let them ban it. That's the perfect test for the technology.
One time is a persistent litigator? A EEOC claim is private BTW.

Tl
People in central London drink outside on the curb, because there is no place to drink inside the pub.

It's so funny.
Sure im just testing how neutral it is as I want my AI as neutral as possible and it's fun to test out using it with friends ... for me personally.

I have made Pi go off the rails (things it said in responses to my out there questions lol) with my tests and it has cracked my friends and I up. Fun!
There are already riots in the street and it doesn't influence presidential decisions.
> Knocking on a friend's door (though he knows a same-age kid two doors away) would be considered out of bounds nowadays.

Yeah, the social dynamics of this kind of thing baffles me. I'm sure it's very neighborhood-dependent, but neighbors don't "check" up on each other either.

I think this is more U.S.-wide: it's not socially acceptable to knock on someone's door or ring their doorbell even if they're waiting for me. You're supposed to text that you're waiting outside. Doorbells are only for deliveries and unknown strangers (like selling something, politics, religious missionaries).

If it's not socially acceptable to knock on a friend's door when they're waiting for you to get there, then it's definitely not gonna be socially acceptable to just knock, see if they're home, say hi, and that's it.
It would literally save my life, as I would actually be able to live mine and do all the things I'm capable of instead of feeling partially locked in.
Writing the article unlocked some traumatic memories of arch.
SingularityNET Joins with Dfinity for AI Models That Run on Smart Contracts
Are CEOs not at-will employees? I can't sue a company just because they fired me unless it violates certain rights.
Maybe it's not defensible.

Or maybe it involves a deal that they're stuck with, and now dependent upon, even if the terms aren't aligned well with the non-profit. Saying that could be awkward.

What I can't guess at explanations for is publicly stating the not-consistently-candid in the initial announcement. I'm not expert on these things, but that sounds to me like either a euphemism for something that they needed to be seen as explicitly distancing the company from ASAP or a blunder that a lawyer or PR person would've advised them not to do, and which they didn't need to do.
Because the article title is terrible. Isn't it clear Shear didn't leave the board but "planning to"
So are the other two.
"[...]If I write well-formed C, it compiles, not protests in distaste. If I write a note, the app doesn't disable typing because my opinion sucks[...]"

There's a rust compiler joke/rant somewhere to be added here for comical effect
It depends what it is! GitHub is basically infrastructure so yes.. but I'll take the tradeoff with chat gpt
Utility? It already works. I've gotten paid for services via monero.

I'd be very happy if Monero somehow turned into the stable coin of crypto. It could just hover around $150-$200 forever.
He doesn't have that kind of money. That's VIP client money and he is going to have a target on his back.
"(was) left in the dark" means "wasn't given information"
Maybe Ilya realized he was acting emotionally and messed up massively by getting rid of Sam and a truthful explanation would make him look like an idiot

Or alternately, he made a well-reasoned and principled decision by getting rid of Sam, but now everyone thinks he's awful for it and he's trying to save face and avoid ruining his own career

Or a secret third thing, of course
Hi, Dagger co-founder here.

Dagger is really just a streamlined implementation of two very common patterns:

1) Keeping your CI configuration as light and "dumb" as possible, by moving as much logic as possible into portable scripts. This minimizes "push and pray", where any pipeline change requires committing, pushing, and waiting for the proprietary CI black box to give you a green or red light. Ideally those scripts use containers for maximum reproduceability.

2) Replacing artisanal shell scripts, Makefiles and arcane DSLs with regular code, backed by a modern API. This allows using modern development techniques, a broader ecosystem of tools, and growing the pool of people on the team who can understand and improve the pipelines they use.

To many devops teams, these patterns are just common sense, an everyday reality. For others, they are aspirational: maybe one day, if we find the time... Implementations remain very custom. Our goal at Dagger is to help democratize this way of creating pipelines, and making it a standard, so that an actual software ecosystem can appear, where devops engineers can actually reuse each other's code, the same way application developers can.
I sniff sneakers for a living.
It's bs.
>That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the misconception that it's fine.

That is completely untrue. You may not like it, plenty of Australians don't especially upper class people, but it is nowhere near as offensive here as it is in America. In America it's a full on slur that is never socially acceptable in any context. Here at worst it's a vulgar way to say something unless it's specifically directed at a woman (if it's directed at a woman in anger it is generally treated the same as Americans treat it), and at best it is actually just a normal thing to say to your friends. "Are you cunts ready or not?" is a very normal thing for working class Australians to say to their friends, same as "This cunts not like that, leave him alone" or "Are you serious cunt? You were gonna eat them all?" or "What are you cunts up to?". It can also be said in a non-endearing way even to people who aren't women, it has a pretty similar word distribution to "mate" (not completely identical, "My cunts and me wanna buy a ticket please" makes zero sense). Mate can be a very offensive word to use in context, or a completely benign word. Cunt is similar, it just has more offensive use cases than mate does.
Visa are using it for cross-border settlements between issuer and merchant banks: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.rele...
And when everyone becomes super paranoid and keeps their money from participating in the economy then we will transcend.
This video playlist and its follow-up, Tensor Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJHszsWbB6hpk5h8lSfBk... are extremely pedagogical and well thought out.
I’ve been using gpt-4-1106-preview from the API (mostly to use retrieval) and it’s insanely slow. I can submit something and watch a YouTube it takes so long sometimes. I can’t imagine the issues they’re having trying to scale this, present drama excluded.
This isn't coming, it's already here.
https://github.com/gsgen3d/gsgen
Yes, it's just 3D models for now, but it can do whole scenes generations, it's just not great yet at it.
The tech is there but just need to improve.
Author here. Thank you, I thought this was an interesting point. Researching the book this post is based on, I was really struck by who was actually attending the Macy cybernetic conferences — it was incredibly eclectic. Anthropologists, physiologists, psychiatrists... and, of course, also Claude Shannon and von Neumann.

Carving off computer science as a separate realm with less interdisciplinary input was definitely a fork in the road for the history of science.

By the way, if anyone is interested, you can find the list of cybernetics conference attendees here: https://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacyPeop...

And if anyone is really interested, here's my book, which is coming out in January: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/benjamin-breen/trip...
As you say, tooling can solve the problem. But with ES modules and modulepreload, we can now (contrary to what the post argues) also solve it without the tooling, which is an improvement.

Yes, all but the simplest applications currently use the tooling-based solutions, because there was no other way. But now that we have an alternative solution, perhaps all but the most complex applications will manage just fine without tooling, using just the built-in module support.
Sure, but I think this particular case is would be more clear cut.

If a person can measure the time the page spends loading with a complete break down across a number of different browsers both on the same machine and on identically-specified machines together with a an external running stopwatch, then they would be able to show that which browsers are being slowed down.

There is less hand-waving here with questions like, "Well, does bundling Chrome on Android really affect the browser market?" . We know that slower load times is a worse user experience, and if this claim is true, then YouTube and Google are squarely to blame.
Does anyone understand the multi-gauge track in the picture titled:

"An unusual view from the front of a Piccadilly line train"

it seems pretty fascinating.
Note that in my original comment, I didn't say Python doesn't have version problems. I said my (specifically my) Lambda version migration problems were much worse with Node.js than Python.

Also, I'm vaguely offended that you used a "let me Google that for you" reply as your sole comment. Did you really have nothing more intelligent to add than low-effort snark? Go back to Reddit.
I read the first 5 paragraphs but it didn't mention what Elon did.
This is a hard down. Even the API calls wont go through. I am not getting alerts for their service status either. I've never seen it this bad. I guess this is what happens when your SRE team is in limbo due to company politics.

EDIT: Disregard the comment about status. I did receive those.
Text to software AI – Building the culture of story before code
No way. That interview was a full month and half ago. Moreover, these days everyone and their brother is going on JRE to complain about "woke".
You could give it a monarch kind of assistant who has to sign off on it's choices.

Would it want to get smarter (more science) or go straight for world domination (more marketing)?
Any comments about what it does better than git and mercurial?
There are or should be at least (bound by national security related laws) oversight review committees and stats reporting...

... but of course it depends on the standard for what 'prevented' means. De-radicalized a potential terrorist, does that mean a terror attack was stopped/prevented.

It's quite complicated in practice, alas.
Ok first thing first - allow me to vent my existential frustration with few off the cuff (mostly rhetorical) questions ...

You call decade a substantial longevity?

Is this some kind of a joke?

Is your ability to assess being held hostage by js ecosystem expererience?

But seriously - I expect a bit more from platform that could potentially waste my life and my venture. I am still happily supporting some Java (and JSF) code that I have written for clients 15 years ago (don't you just love that sweet support fees that you get mostly for being alive and breathing ?). Meanwhile my friend that build whole company around product written in silverlight almost went bankrupt. Now after few years working in AI (going into it a bit too soon) he is trying to create same product in ... yes you guessed it, Blazor.

Maybe some people do not learn from their mistakes :)?
Yes my understanding is that this is why it's such a common training set - it's interesting, large(ish) and free and legal with no licence requirements. I think it's public domain? But I'm not from the US, so don't quote me.
This appears to be a cultural thing, not a basic human thing. There have been many cultures where conspicuous consumption has not been a thing.
Good point. And it's easy to pivot to crepes.
Am I the only one who doesn't like these specific voices? The quality is incredible, but they feel too cheery/enthusiastic/casual and it just gets annoying after a while.

I made an iOS shortcut a while ago that uses Siri with the ChatGPT app (it has iOS shortcut bindings) and despite Siri being a useless pile of junk compared to this, I actually prefer Siri's voice to this in some ways, because it doesn't feel so over the top.

Maybe this is partly because of different cultural expectations between the USA and Europe? Or maybe I'm just being too cynical and ChatGPT really is that happy talking with me!...
“Left in the dark” is a common idiom for having information withheld. This particular use also uses a construction I think of as “implicit pass voice” where the “to be” part (is/has been/etc) of a passive voice construct is elided, it's more fully “OpenAI CEO Shear ![has been] left in the dark [about the reasons and supporting evidence for Altman’s firing], ... ”
> chatbots encouraging the humans to spend more money ... LLMs absolutely need some restrictions on their use.

No, I can honestly say that I do not lose any sleep over this, and I think it's pretty weird that you do. Humans have been fending off human advertisers and scammers since the dawn of the species. We're better at it than you account for.
Joining the party, that was a trip down memory lane!
I was fully expecting cost or safety being an issue, but I did not expect this: (Specifically for the "Land of Giants" project.)

> A proposal in Norway faltered after a local mayor - spotting the visitor attraction potential of the structures - agreed they could be built in his town, as long as they weren't built anywhere else in the country.

Quite sad that alternative shaped (?) Pylons do exist, and some of them are really neat; yet are hampered by politics.
>"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!" employees reportedly chanted, per The Atlantic, a refrain that was led by Sutskever himself.

>The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

I can kind of see what they mean, getting people invested in something through high energy group activities chanting slogans and burning effigies that represent the "bad, humanity killing AI" are tactics used to make sure everyone is thinking the same way and aligning with the "correct" goals. Feels similar to various cult-like crypto conferences and political rallies that mostly just stroke the egos of the people attending for being on the correct side/smart enough to invest.
Is an AGI breakthrough the cause of the OpenAI drama?
> if the second system is so reliable why bother with the first.

Hmm. That's a difficult one to unpack.

Sometimes services need to be reliable in different dimensions. And that first service just might not be able to scale high enough to do some more esoteric operation on the data. Though I could see someone arguing that from the user's perspective the first and second system are trying to pretend to be the same thing.

I think the services I have the hardest time shooting are the ones that exist to prevent priority inversion. I maintain a batch processing system I have a hard time justifying in some ways. I get more value out of it as a guineapig for new tools and techniques we may want to apply more broadly, than I get from the actual task it performs, but I certainly don't want the core system trying to handle it either. It'd be a lot more noise. So I want to kill it, and I want to keep it.

Some tasks have escalating priority over time, and trying to mix them with tasks that don't can be problematic.
I took a look; Betteridge's Law holds up here.

The most important thing is to make them all the same as much as possible so that people who have to maintain them don't have to deal with annoying variations.
Text, audio, and bitmapped images are data. Numbers and tokens.

A 3D scene is vastly more complex, and the way you consume it is tangential to the rendering of it we use to interpret. It is a collection of arbitrary data structures.

We’ll need a new approach for this kind of problem
You're absolutely right. That's one thing that I didn't follow up on, I only briefly looked at the csv in the kaggle page and didn't see anything that looked like images.
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I'm not sure it is baffling.

They thought that this would be easy. Many things in their lives have been easy, blame someone of something, the person scurries away and they win.

This time, the person/people they blamed had a great reputation, a lot of influential friends, and had engendered a lot of loyalty. This caused pushback and they have never had to deal with that in their lives.

It's a theory.
GA judge declines to jail defendant over social media posts about co-defendants
> architect and theorist Adolph Loos, in a 1908 essay called “Ornament and Crime,” dramatically declared that a lack of ornamentation was a “sign of spiritual strength.”

> Architects are terrified of producing so much as a fluted column, because they believe their peers will think they are stupid, nostalgic, and unsophisticated.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...
OK, but that's not relevant to the scenario that I described.
> If this was GitHub

But it isn't.
ChatGPT - yet another mechanism to mine data from you.
parts of the community, if I recall correctly, and to be clear to everyone else since I'm sure you know this:

1. linus didn't use version control at all, he just got patches emailed to him, then every now and then he'd publish a tarball and incremental patches (e.g. a 2.4.11-rc2 patch on top of 2.4.11-rc1) - the world had no visibility into his tree's development aside from the tarballs and inter-version patches he sent out

2. and because of that, no one else used version control for submitting changes, they just sent patches to lkml

3. there was some use of CVS for some ports / subsystems, but again, it was used to generate patches to email to linus

4. people built lots of tools around this work flow, like `patchwork` and horrible shell scripts
Most people don’t rely on ChatGPT for production work flows like they do for GitHub. Of course users are going to have different expectations for different services.
Still seems near-sighted. If someone started a new mercurial project what would they choose to host it on? BitBucket basically automatically wins new users by being the only player in the game
`gpt-4-0314` gives me

"openai.InternalServerError: Error code: 500 - {'error': {'message': 'The server had an error processing your request. Sorry about that! You can retry your request, or contact us through our help center at help.openai.com if you keep seeing this error. (Please include the request ID ----- in your email.)', 'type': 'server_error', 'param': None, 'code': None}}"
There's currently a strike in Portland, and I've appreciated seeing kids out and about being little adults, taking the bus, etc, makes me really glad to live in city even with all the cars and noise.
Are you saying that statement is untrue?
Yeah the articles premise is already speculation, but phrased as a fact.

> Most people seem to view electricity pylons as a blight - ugly landmarks towering over the landscape.

I don't view them as ugly either. There is some beauty in truly functional design imo.
GitHub PRs are both bad process (no stacking or per-commit review, incentivizes large changes, ...) and bad tool (no inter-diffs, noisy diffs, comments disappear through rebases, slow, ...).
The only way this story could get any more stupider is if we find out that the conflict between Sam and Ilya or D'Angelo started because of something related to personal romantic relationships between them and some other involved individuals.
Is this available in the stability API any time soon?
https://phind.com is up and running for those looking for an alternative.

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder.
Maybe you would see these comments if github actually innovated fast. They could make a search that finds what you are looking for, for instance.
Influence ops, propaganda, etc
I feel AI lit up after crypto for people with more money than they can do anything with.
He just accepted the position. He knew the company is in the "hard week's night". How come he's leaving? Is it professional?..
the grammar on a language isn't abstract too?

anyway, heheh, Scratch aims to teach basics concepts of programming to children older than 6 y/o; who knows if Python is easier?

edit: typo... coding =/ programming
I love this idea. Look at The Sejourne Viaduct for a strong case of beauty in infrastructure. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/K6YGA0/france-pyrenees-orientales-...

People decry the loss of views in suburbs when a train might run next to the freeway. They hear train tracks and think ugly. But we can build sightly infrastructure that does not detract from the world’s most beautiful places.
Can anyone comment on QuestDB vs Clickhouse vs TimescaleDB? Real world experience around ergonomics, ops, etc.

Currently using BigQuery for a lot of this (ingesting ~5-10TB monthly) but would like to begin exploring in-house tooling.

On the flip side, we still use PSQL/RDS a lot and I enjoy it for the low operations burden - but we're doing some time series stuff with it now that is starting to fall over. TimescaleDB is nice because it is postgres, but afaik cannot work inside RDS. Clickhouse is next on my list for a test deployment, but QuestDB looks pretty neat too.
Sleep is paramount. Without it, everything else turns to shit. So it makes sense to spend money and time and effort on making it the best it can be. That companies are around to monetize that is just capitalism. There are alternate systems out there but we decided against them.
This feels like programming an 8088 like it's a 6502. The 8088 has a lot more general purpose registers than the 6502, so variables would tend to be kept in registers while they were being worked on. The encoding for

ROR reg, 1

is only 2 bytes - so 4 cycles for instruction fetch, then another 2 cycles to execute.
Hydrofoils were in fashion during the 70s. Many were built 7n Norway and sold to South East Asia. As seen on James Bond. I wonder why they disappeared