skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post this on a thread or something. Unattributed complaints like this are dangerous.
I can't name them, no, but they're the people who built the thing that is being valued 90B. If they migrate (leadership included), so does the potential for future value. My feeling is that the 90B are moving. Sure, IP, existing contracts, licensing, you name it, will have residual value - but if I consider its board a clown car I will refrain from building on top of its API because they might not be around by lunchtime tomorrow. Enough people think like this, it starts spiraling down the drain.
Google used billions of dollars from its online ad dominance to gain a monopoly in a different market via Chrome. Google is now using the latter monopoly to juice profits in the former, to the detriment of users.
On the Thames: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2020/soviet-fleet-on-the...
Are there any self-hosted options or similar?
It's a SFBA startup that is insanely mission focused, of course it's a cult. The difference between successful startups and cults is very small.
That’s 2014 vintage. Is it still true?
Fines always feel meaningless. Who gets the money?
TLS certs without having to buy a domain? Create a GNS domain, set a LEHO record with the necessary Host name, and make your cert based on that? Obviously you'll need a CA that's willing to issue certs for GNS LEHO names, but that way you can use the current TLS CA system to a domain without having to actually spend money on one. Alternatively, have the CA issue wildcard certs for zTLDs and then you can manage your own zTLD without issue.
It seemed obvious to me for a long time, which is what was so scary about it.
And you don't have to simulate it in real time, maybe 1 second here takes years or centuries to simulate outside the simulation. It's not like we'd have any way to tell.
Dude I’m all over this thread because people are responding to me. It’s called conversation. You want me to run and hide because 20 people jumped on me with opposing thoughts?

Oh yeah I think Sam is sleazier than most people seem to think. I also don’t think he’s in the right because the board has been quiet. The whole thing is insular and one sided. Everything they’re doing/saying is to try and control the board. That is off-putting because it’s detrimental to the board’s intent. I’m sure they’re all very nice people and hard workers.
I'd like to hear more about the psychological side of this. Is that happiness momentary/fleeting, or is it a general feeling of well being throughout their lives?
Cloudflare has recently done away with captchas. Now you briefly end up on a page that runs JavaScript before automatically continuing.

And that can be controlled by your site's security level. Highest settings will show the JS page to all vistors, medium only shows it to likely bots.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/
I'm objecting to the comment that the remaining board has little to lose. It's possible for sufficiently motivated investors, former board members, and employees to make their life awfully miserable.
Claude 2.1 refuses to tell you how to kill Python processes:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/180p17f/new_cla...
I really like Arc. Takes some getting used to but worth the adjustment I think.
There is no lack of charging infrastructure between LA and LV.

https://supercharge.info/map

If you were talking about LA to La Paz then there is a real concern about making it, but LA to LV is no problem at all.
Previous discussion that was taken down/flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570
This whole drama is like everyone asked ChatGPT what to do about their predicament and blindly followed it's instructions.
you could also ask why does serious writing often avoid adding big colorful graphics if it looks better.
Lunar Lake MX, first Intel high-performance CPU to use TSMC 3NB node for x86
> Apparently, OpenAI's bylaws do not set a fixed size for the board and allow the board itself to elect and remove members and allows a simple majority to take any action without even requiring a formal meeting.

For their sake I do hope they read the bylaws and that your 'apparently' doesn't come back to haunt them because then they are in even more trouble.

> The path forward has to include not only all 4 of the current board members resigning but a change in bylaws to establish a larger board with a balance of insiders and outsiders and much clearer operating procedures.

Amen to that. It might even end with the removal of the oversight board and the whole non-profit construct.
In almost all cases it wasn’t government cash that got them out. Thus I agree “throw money at the poor people” isn’t the answer. The question is whether “decrease the standards proportional to a reasonable statistical expectation based on underling factors of the particular population at hand” is.
Occultism and cult-like behavior are different things. Occultism is a system for dealing with that which physics cannot explain. Cults can form around anything from supposed divine inspiration from golden plates nobody has seen to pony hypnosis.
Right but the question is if the government knows what those 133k people need better than they do. There's also the administrative cost of such a system and logistics (if the government decides to ship or deliver the devices themselves). You could avoid having to pay government salaries for the people involved in finding qualified people, getting their info, auditing for fraud, etc.
Yeah I like what LibreWolf is doing, but it seems more reasonable to just disable the Firefox features you don't like.
Demo just errors out unfortunately
Are you confusing South Bay with SF? Nothing ever happens in South Bay. Nothing good and nothing bad.
Exactly. This concept is borne of "let them eat cake" wealth privilege gatekeeping/utopian magical thinking. There are homeless people and the elderly who are continually deciding whether to buy medicine or food.

It's possible to distribute benefits fairly based on limiting a physical device to 1 per person.
They don't have to vent air though, for the same reasons we don't need to vent air for geothermal heat pumps. It doesn't seem all that crazy to drill minimally for some coolant lines and run a mini-split style heat pump system into the hottest stations.

I'm not saying this is easy per se, but far from impossible, or impossibly expensive.
If someone is about to start their project using Haystack would you suggest they instead look at Neumtry?
I don't think an assistant is something you afford, so much as something your job requires.
This is interesting. I was just playing around with a VM that had mirrored ZFS root and I wanted to test if I could boot from either mirror--it requires a bit of hand-holding since /etc/fstab seems to hard-code the gpt label of the boot device making it difficult to boot from the mirror without first changing that reference.

I didn't realize this and went down a rabbit hole of trying to recreate boot partitions which I found interesting.

With that said, I'm curious whether the upgrade procedure updates the bootcode on both drives in the mirror.

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Slight tangent. The reason for playing around on the VM was that when I installed FreeBSD, I selected the zfs root auto-fs feature. It created a zfs partition that spanned the entire disk which I later decided that I didn't want. My goal was to shrink the zroot, and I was able to accomplish that using zfs send / receive and re-creating the partition withe the desired size. Fun exercise.

I need to revisit the installer to see if I'm able to provide any parameters to tune the size of the zroot. I really didn't want to create the filesystems manually from the installer shell.
Nvidia earnings crush Wall Street estimates again, company tempers China outlook
i think its reasonable to hesitate on using something less than 2 years old. it does a lot of things that look good to me, but im happy to wait a few years and see. it still needs to get buy in from people who maintain packages, for example just try using puppeteer with it. and its also not clear to me how its going to make money.
> OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech.

The IP might be worth something (no idea what kind of patents they hold), but the valuation is fundamentally based on the current products they have and promise of future tech the company can create. And the future value stream far outweighs the current product.

And none of the future product is going to happen without people.

Of course, OpenAI without Sam will hire new people. But if they have already hired the best and they already had worthwhile experience, hiring new people has almost zero chance to recreate their ability to create new products at least in short/medium term.

Finding the right people and hiring them is far more difficult than it is assumed. Dropping money on the problem does not solve more than half of it.
200 Celebrities' aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022
This site works exclusively with IE6.
In short: batch processing at the multi-packet level. Increases throughput, at the cost of latency.
Scientists discover new component in best-studied plant
> What billions will he wind up with?

You can pretty trivially check Binance's declared funds here: https://www.binance.com/en/proof-of-reserves

By my calculations they have >$6 billion in excess of customer deposits. Since he owns Binance, he principally owns those profits.
> I feel like visual programming gets a bad rap because of things like this. As an electronic engineer that used to love LabView and life long user of NI Reaktor and Max/MSP, those tools are fantastic if you don’t approach them with an imperative programming mindset.

aha, in the long run I ended up making https://ossia.io which is as VPL as it can get. Yet it still embeds multiple textual languages.
They do that now (forget the name there's a popular one my niece uses to make animated comics, others do similar things in Minecraft etc), and have been doing that since forever - nearly 30 years ago my friends and I were scribbling comic panels into our notebooks and sharing them around class.
>But on Tuesday, Sam Altman, the chief executive of the San Francisco start-up OpenAI, testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft.

That sounds more like regulate all that catch up to us, so we keep the benefit of experience because we were there first.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-...

Same here

>he called for the United States to adopt a licensing and registration regime for AI models “above a crucial threshold of capabilities,” arguing that requiring government approval would help mitigate potential safety concerns.

>The trick, critics say, is where Altman draws that “crucial threshold.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/20/openai-ceo-diplomacy-ar...
Rural and suburban areas are more dangerous than cities because you're in or near cars more often. That's really all that matters.

In particular, NYC is by far the safest place in the country.
There is no comparison between the cadre at Twitter and and the talent pool at OpenAI, I don't think you can replace the bulk of them at all, and nobody worth that kind of compensation is going to touch OpenAI with a 100 foot pole as long as the current board is there.
That comes across like "for more information, please re-read" on a Scarfolk Council poster.
I have plenty of complaints about Firefox but equating this to what Google is doing is absurd. Mozilla running an ocassional annoying ad is thousands of times less bad than permanently crippling all content blockers forever.
I am thinking "A pattern of anti-competitive actions leveraging Google's control in multiple parts of the web ecosystem to limit competition." Will this fly in the US?
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/fintech-...

"Investigators tracked the money through many layers of bank accounts to Binance and another exchange, U.S.-based Kraken, police said. By the time Binance and Kraken provided account records, the police said the funds had been withdrawn or sent to a "mixer," a service which anonymises crypto transactions by breaking them up and mixing them with other funds. The personal information held by both exchanges on the accounts was often fake or stolen from victims, the officers said.

Kraken told Reuters it has "bank-grade" customer checks and robust tools to prevent fraud. Kraken disputed that customer information provided to Braunschweig police was fake, saying "every indicator we have suggests these accounts were used by legitimate clients.""
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd.
This is very different from the "cultish" nature that startups can have. I think this is an outright cult, with all that implies.
There are not so many and the chances of them working are a coin flip.

Driving through the desert on an open road is not conducive to efficiency. It’s hot, need AC blasting. It’s an open road—drive fast! (Or it’s bumper to bumper for 10 hours).
Batching packets bring several benefits:

- amortizing cache misses are you mentioned

- better use of out-of-order, superscalar processors: by processing multiple independent packets in parallel, the processor can fill more execution units

- enable the use of vector instructions (SSE/AVX, VMX etc): again, processing multiple independent packets in parallel means you can leverage SIMD. SIMD instructions are used pervasively in VPP
>How’s firefox these days?

Surviving but continues to bleed users.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Yep, but they tend to have the title of "therapist".

A life coach is just a therapist who has no credentials. And there is nothing wrong with that if all you need is a guide. But if you have a history of mental health concerns and want to learn how to better interact with people to benefit your career, while helping you figure out what personal changes are needed to enable you to meet your goals... you need someone who has a bit more experience and knowledge.
Like PiHole?
Nit-pick: Did you mean CVS?
It's objectively weird to see staff - almost all of them researchers and head-down types - unite so firmly behind a non-technical CEO.

Those staff usually have their private champions within the company - usually technically focussed project managers who can run interference against the commercial side - but nod along with the CEO who they view as the ugly necessity of having to have a 'business guy.'
The state could administer other tasks it's good at more effectively if it didn't need to spend human resources on such a program.

>jobs program

so is the point to help the poor, or is it to pay government workers to do unnecessary work?
It’s DrRacket not Dr. Racket
You can't, but it doesn't matter
Right, it is somewhat configurable on Samsung phones, which is why I was so surprised when I realized it was less so on Pixel phones.
Most stuff in Firefox is configurable. So unless you're saying you have found no way to opt-out of what you're describing you don't have a point.

You mention "study", in Firefox's settings (about:preferences#privacy) I can see "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" checkbox.

So yeah, I think you do have an option.
I made no comment on how prefilling is or isn't useful for deployed AI applications. I made no statement on which refusal mechanism is best for deployed AI applications.

> Frankly comments like yours are why people are so dismissive of LLMs, since you're banking of precognition of what the user wants to sell it's capabilities.

I'm not banking on anything because I never fucking mentioned deploying any fucking thing nor was that being discussed, good fucking lord are you high?

> you're going full Clever Hans

I'm clearly not but you keep on building whatever straw man suits you best.
That would seem to fall afoul of antitrust regulation.
Maybe because those brilliant people aren't indulging in knee-jerk reactions and are thinking about these issues, researching them, and formulating ideas/arguments?
It is different between JV partners or between vendor and customer . If non solicit agreement were not legal for those , consulting companies either tech or management consulting will not be able to operate at all .
The nigerian prince scam has been running on fiat for decades
I hope this will be found in history books and some students will point the irony that people are relying on gpt4's arguments about reasoning in a thread where it's proclaimed that said model can't reason
I completely agree, which is why Dagger is perfect for medium/large projects.

I think Earthly is better for small projects with a simple build system since it's so much simpler to write and understand. I think Dagger is a worthwhile investment once your Earthfile is >200-400 lines.
That depends very much on the locality. What's legal in one country will get you in serious trouble in many others.

hi there!
> I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos.

How come? That seems highly unlikely to me, especially when you consider that one of their larger competitors (Bitbucket) had Mercurial support for a long time and then removed it.
On the flip side they are largely set and forget for all your devices. They also do things like blocking a Roku device from phoning home.

Oh it also does dns over https which is a nice bonus.
If they need a laptop, they'll buy one. If they need something else, they'll buy that instead
Let's accept that corruption will occur in all situations. What would be the best way to use Mr. A's tax from Mr. B's perspective for Mr. C?
Is This the Highest Grossing Photograph?
I've pretty good ways to know that.

- The puffed-up internal valuation of the company (for employee stock options) is $19 billion.

- There's a $15 valuation is by an independent financial services company (Fidelity).

- Elon saved ~$2 billion by firing a lot of his workforce (and closing one datacenter), but also...

- Lost over $3 billion out of $5 billion ad-revenue a year ago.

- And added $1 billion of interest payments (per annum) on a $13 billion loan.

- Twitter was roughly break-even prior.

5B - 5B + 2B - 3B - 1B = -2B / annum

The monetization (Premium etc.) are not even making up for 1% of that. Do you need the math on that too?

There's nothing controversial in what I'm saying. This is pretty much the actual situation.
Voice control over lights is pretty neat! As is being able to change light color (manually, or automatically as the sun goes down to shift to less blue light)

Moisture sensors by my water heater are really nice things to have, and a garage door sensor that I can check from bed to know if the door is open or closed.

I also like smart plugs that have power consumption reporting built in.
Think about what that means as to a practical limit, today. How many cars per day can make that trip assuming they have to recharge once along the way? It’s far from a solved problem even on that route.

I love electric cars. I’ve been drawing pictures of them thinking about them and waiting for them for a long time. And, I am very grateful for those that made them a reality. That said, I’m also pragmatic. Where we are today versus where we need to be to make them practical for a large portion of the population is sublime.
Also cointelegraph (lol) is not a reliable source of ... anything. Apart from hype, maybe.
It's not a negative either. Large parts of humanity sleep as a family and I'm not aware that it causes any problems.
I had to search UBOL and it is "uBlock Origin Lite" [0] from the same author of uBlock Origin.

uBO Lite (uBOL) is a *permission-less* MV3-based content blocker.
The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset:
- uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists
- EasyList
- EasyPrivacy
- Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
"In England, housing is often characterized by closely situated semi-detached or terraced structures built under flexible zoning regulations. This environment allows small businesses to coexist harmoniously with residential areas, in contrast to the rigid industrial zoning common in the United States."

I'm American and live in Oz. Australia does this well imo. Small cafes and shops are sprinkled throughout neighborhoods. For any large grocery runs, I need to take my car but day to day basics (and more importantly...coffee) are within only a few minutes walking distance.
How does the improve upon retrieval compared to just using any vector db and semantic search?
Yeah exactly, on top of the library, I buy old used books online, and they're dirt cheap, and dense with knowledge

No ads lol!

It's honestly sad to me when I see people scrolling through terrible web pages with tiny morsels of information, which are often "interested" or wrong.
> Pickcode provides a much clearer transition path for students to Python/JS/Java. Our target market is middle/early high school kids, and that’s who we’ve tested the product with during development

there's any paper backing this claim?
But afterwards, companies like "adrecover" will surely exploit these MV3 limitations for profit.
I worked on Scratch for 6 years, in charge of the online community. We often encountered adult programmers who were surprised by what was possible in terms of complex projects with Scratch. There was usually a great deal of concern about how the transition to "real" (text based) programming languages would go. It always seemed strange to me, this attachment to text based programming as the only "true" "real" etc. programming. At any rate, I saw quite a few kids make that transition without any problems. I've still never seen any systematic evidence that moving from tiles to text presents significant difficulty, and yet so much energy is devoted to "solving" this problem.
The Krita plugin + some AI animation of some anime pushed some artists communities over the edge.
You probably won't see it on the public Internet but discord, twitter, art subreddits, etc
This is the type of thing Microsoft should known about before investing, billions in the company.

They are crying foul now and it might work out ok. But they were asking for it.
Your coins aren't stored on a computer but on a distributed ledger around the globe, secured with strong crypto, Merkle trees and proofs of work. Your (hopefully cold) wallet only stores your private key.

Gold is hard to transport, easy to confiscate and hard to divide, thus difficult to use as a currency. None of those apply to Bitcoin. Well, unless someone is dumb enough to leave his money on an exchange.
Kara Swisher: Promising talks ongoing at OpenAI led by tech leaders & board reps
The lithium bottleneck idea comes from people who go "looking at the current lithium supply we would run short if we instantly started producing 10x as many batteries as we do today", completely ignoring how markets work.

It's great if we can get a chemistry that avoids the need for lithium, but it won't be a showstopper if we don't.
Great suggestion. Have just done this now too.

For Windows users, YogaDNS is a great little app for managing DNS configuration. Can set up DNS rules depending on domain name etc.

I actually use PiHole and added Local DNS entries for the archive.* domains in my PiHole config to fix the issue across my local network.
May I ask whats is your use for ChatGPT Plus ?

ChatGPT is no doubt amazing but so far I havent found a use case for paying Premium.
> I don’t think these people are irreplaceable, that would be silly.

Maybe go and spend some time to bone up on who exactly works for OpenAI, what their track record is (education, publications and so on) and then tell me where you are going to find another 700 people that talented who will want to work for a company this damaged.
It would have failed eventually. FTX was fundamentally unstable.