skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really more suspenseful? Seems like you're turning something genuinely stochastic into hackneyed fiction. Worse for humanity, sure, but hardly more suspenseful.
What about: Intercontinental ballistic missiles launch from Alaska toward China. No one knows who ordered and controls the launch. Only one man can stop them in time: Elon Musk.
It's 300k cash, rest in "profit participation". MSFT has enough RSUs to make that happen without it being a problem
From Transformer to ChatGPT: going back in time in order to move forward
I happen to work in Oberon pretty much every week. At my company, we program OS for mobile robots and have been carrying Oberon code since 25 years. The code base is huge, and it works really well. It’s been under production for all these years and we know it’s robust. It’s definitely not fast, but most applications don’t require the speed offered by modern languages. That’s why it was never translated in C++ or Rust or any « better languages ».

In my daily practice, I find the following limitations to be the most challenging ones.

* No generic type : that’s extremely limiting, especially when implementing math libraries.

* The garbage collector (using the XO2 real-time OS) does not collect array of primitive types, only array of pointers are collected. Honnestly it would be much easier to not have the garbage collector.

* extremely small standard library (but this is to be expected for a niche language …).

* the only tooling that you have is the tooling that you build yourself (editor, completion, debuting, etc …)

I often wonder how many other people work in Oberon. I’d love to share with someone else than me that does !
What happened to Windows Pinball? [video]
Well, there was a tweet by one of the Bloomberg's journalist saying that Musk tried to manouver himself to be the replacement CEO but got rebuffed by the board. Paraphrasing this since the tweet seems to be deleted (?), so take of it what you will.
This might deserve some context here from experts. Wouldn’t solving mistake finding, in the general case, be the same as solving SAT (NP-Hard)?

From the abstract it sounds to me like they’re talking about heuristics for particular problems. Is that accurate?
Only a very small number of people left with Jobs. Of course, probably mainly because he couldn't necessarily afford to hire more without the backing of a trillion-dollar corporation...
What a shitshow.

The true winners are likely OpenAI's competitors Google and Meta. Whatever the outcome with Sam's OpenAI future, surely this circus slows their momentum and raises doubts for 3rd party developers.
Why not deepfake the real people into their roles?

I think it would hold up in US court for documentaries.
I'm just going to quote hanzmanner (in the sibling's children's comment)

> For a tech forum it is surprising how many commenters in this thread don’t understand what are “dark patterns”

I think people just don't get it. Maybe because people just aren't thinking about how things couple and the interactions. Maybe because no one wants to be the bad guy so don't think too hard about it? There could be a lot of reasons. Could even be that people are more worried about job security so just deal with it.
Yep, starting to get a real professional-wrestling vibe here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
> compromise a few important people*

Haven't 700 or so of the employees signed onto the letter? Hard to argue it's just a few important people who've been compromised when it's almost the entire company.
They can easily just make them a subsidiary that operates under its own rules for now.
Not sure why exactly but I've kept wondering if this was a Snape Dumbledore situation
Some quick feedback:

* The website is slow in general

* These links gives 404: https://greytontourism.com/directory-categories/food-drink/ https://greytontourism.com/directory-categories/retail/

* A link to the Admin dashboard is visible on some pages

* Your e-mail doesn't have a mailto link

* Your telephone doesn't have a tel link

* Your address doesn't have a map link

* Your search interface is very heavy

* The calendar for booking any accommodation is extremely slow and cumbersome. You will loose many of your potential bookings because of this. Always make it as easy as you possibly can for customers to spend their money. Don't get in their way.

* The green on white text is hard to read

The website design is nice and friendly, and inspires confidence. It seems like a nice town to visit!

WordPress is not a good platform for your goals, you will probably be better served by a normal HTML/CSS page and using Surreal CMS or similar for day-to-day updates.

Good luck!
Archived link: https://archive.ph/fD7aL
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but I do wonder if Sam's firing wasn't Ilya's doing, hence the failure to take responsibility. OpenAI's board has been surprisingly quiet, aside from the first press release. So it's possible (although unlikely) that this wasn't driven by Ilya.
The number of features lifted directly from Oban[1] is astounding, considering there isn't any attribution in the announcement post or the repo.

Starting with the project's tagline, "Robust job processing in Elixir", let's see what else:

- The same job states, including the British spelling for `cancelled`
- Snoozing and cancelling jobs inline
- The prioritization system
- Tracking where jobs were attempted in an attempted_by column
- Storing a list of errors inline on the job
- The same check constraints and the same compound indexes
- Almost the entire table schema, really
- Unique jobs with the exact same option names
- Table-backed leadership election

Please give some credit where it's due.

[1]: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
150 was one of my favorite courses at CMU; each homework really made me feel like I unlocked a new level of reasoning with code.
See also:

- Average Internet speed in Romania

- % of mobile/digital payments in Kazakhstan

- % of mobile payments in Kenya 15 years ago
You're haggling with a system and on its terms.

One of those ways of communicating is setting your location via VPN. This is just what it feels like to haggle with a non-human system. Would that we weren't required to set aside our own humanity to do this, but this is haggling for a more inhuman age.
You might benefit from a more pragmatic functional language. Erlang is broadly functional, but you can output from anywhere if you want to. It's probably one of the least pure functional languages out there, but it's super handy.
Or neoq. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38352778
I struggle to see how this business model would work in the first place. They pay you and you pinky swear not to release it? All you are doing by negotiating is to buy the victim time to harden their systems.

This sounds liked a failed ransomware attack. They encrypted the systems - Boeing says "no thank you, we have backups". There were no valuable zero-days to sell to GRU, so give a last ditch offer to try to salvage something.
I actually believe hearing the sales tax thing is a different issue. I recall hearing some conservative folks say tax separate is intended to keep the "sting" in the tax so people will be incentivized to protest it and reduce it.

It could be both reasons, as well.
I don't have to imagine.
I had to click too many links to discover the story, so here's a direct link to the New England Market Basket story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Basket_(New_England)#20...
They don't publish papers now, they actually published papers and code before.

No doubt OpenAI was never a glass house... but it seems extremely disingenuous to say their behavior hasn't changed.
Yeah clearly, at least I have no clue what really happened and don't feel like I have enough info to put anything together at this point.
I imagine that’s why the post talks about PGP encrypting the file?
Ah, I typed in USPS.gov and it redirects to .com
Hopefully he will deep learn from that /s
You've found an underdocumented feature, but in fact River does already do what you're asking for! Check out `ScheduledAt` on the `InsertOpts`: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/riverqueue/river#InsertOpts

I'll try to work this into the higher level docs website later today with an example :)
In my experience this replicates routinely for Delta Main Cabin fares for non-elites on leisure/non-corporate travel once only “Preferred Seats” are left in the economy cabin.

What I think the other carriers do well is detect when there aren’t non-charged seats available for advance selection, and remind you that you can continue without paying for a specific seat and still be guaranteed a seat on day of departure.

Delta hand out “free preferred seating” as a perk to all sorts of categories of traveler though. I wonder if that complicates the prospect of offering that kind of warning.
Health Insurance is another fun/annoying one, because it's not like you can reliably standardize 1 standard unit of insurance and it's difficult to compare across plans. (Perhaps by design, the Confusopoly at work.)

That said, BLS is starting to tweak how they measure health care costs. [0]

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/improvements-cp...
Taking my e-bike as an undercover food delivery rider
I also wonder how much is research staff vs. ops personnel. For AI research, I can't imagine they would need 20, maybe 40 ppl. For ops to keep up ChatGPT as a service, that would be 700.

If they want to go full bell labs/deep mind style, they might not need the majority of those 700.
Netflix

I can't wait to watch the docu-drama on this in a few months time.

Real-life is always more interesting than fiction.
"We’re still in the early stages and it’s obvious that as AIs get more and more powerful they’ll be able to take on more of the BI burden..."

If by "early stages" you mean, about 40 years after the beginning of AI, which has gone through at least two and perhaps three "AI winters". But regardless, while it may be obvious that AI will be able to take on more of the burden, that doesn't make it, in fact, true. I am even more skeptical than the author.

However, as he points out, a lot of those dashboards that have been made in the last decade, sometimes at great expense, and more often than not never returned any value, it is possible that AI will take on more of the burden, even though it is unable to carry it?
From my limited knowledge of FP languages it is expected that pure code in fact doesn't evaluate anything until a monad forces it to evaluate.

You would then need a monad to evaluate the things you're attempting to log. And at that point you have a monad, so you can log as usual?
"You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way" - Bob Dylan
Your are correct.

OpenAI ai not prefect, but it's the best any of the major players here have.

Nobody with Sam Altman's public personality does not want to be a Microsoft employee.
Interesting, all 3 authors left Google. 2 went to OpenAI, the 3rd cofounded Character.AI.
The US should make it illegal to pay ransom, with a penalty of prison for anyone paying a ransom or authorizing payment.

The purpose of the law is that now ransomware gangs will be less likely to target US companies because companies are unlikely to risk paying them.
Yeah, I was happy to see cassidoo.co running TinaCMS.
Mac, you've confused the hacker community with the growth-hacking (read grifting) community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture?useskin=vector

Your product does not exemplify the ethos of the hacker culture. It is a tool designed to aid conniving hucksters in their greater fool shell games.
> I'm in agreement that saying algorithms on computers are all O(1) doesn't make much sense. In a finite memory model, it's impossible to solve big problems, so the running time function becomes undefined for big enough inputs, so big O becomes completely inappropriate in this situation.

The difference between "everything is O(1)" and "you're not allowed to use O" is pretty minor anyway.

Either way it takes a lot of very useful analysis and throws it out the window because a particular branch of math was being too pedantic about needing infinity.

Use big O anyway. It works fine. It's a good tool even within the limits of real machines. If you're not abusing it on purpose, it tells you useful information in the exact same way that the pure math version does.
> Finally, most artists don't think like you. It's not "pointless" to do something that can be technically repeated by other humans or AI. You do art because you want to express yourself.

I've seen this sentiment a bunch of times, but I don't agree. Most people practice skills and make art in order to demonstrate their value to society. Art (and media) doesn't exist in a vacuum, it surely exists for societal reasons.

A person may want to make a game or a comic, but the reason they want to make those things, instead of just consuming existing media, is also to demonstrate their value to society. But they won't have any value either when everyone else can easily make games and comics.
There are OS specific APIs where needed, probably also for threads.
Misalignment and Deception by an autonomous stock trading LLM agent
I wouldn't be surprised if some ransomeware gangs are frontends of national (in)security agencies. They don't care about profits. Sure it's good to have some.
It seems to me that this conflates criticism of some Jewish communities with antisemitism. Are people supposed to be above criticism because they are Jewish? Does any disagreement with a Jewish person make you hateful and antisemitic?

This is happening with the current conflict in Gaza, where showing any empathy for the plight of Palestinian civilians, is sometimes equated with hatred for Jewish people.
A few of the Haskell ones are introduced by extensions, so they're not part of the language proper.
> So if sama goes back - lets hear it, why is Satya a genius?

OAI is a non profit. There’s always been a tension there with Microsoft’s goals. If he goes back, they’re definitely going to be much more ok with profit.
Maybe he doesn't. I have no way to know how he actually thinks. My point is that once a person becomes that wealthy, the practical value of a dollar becomes essentially meaningless to them. Its the idea that more wealth is automatically better. If they just make Amazon more profitable it will be better.
My guesses: (1) bad for safety no matter what happens. This will cement the idea that caring about safety and being competitive are incompatible. (I don't know if the idea is right or wrong.) (2) good for competition, in different ways depending on what happens, but either the competitiveness of OpenAI will increase, or current and potential competitors will get a shot in the arm, or both. (3) prices... no idea, but I feel like current prices are very short term and temporary regardless of what happens. This stuff is too young and fast-moving for things to have come anywhere near settling down.

And will it matter how this ends up? Probably a lot, but I can't predict how or why.
The fact that an overwhelming number of employees signed a letter of intent to quit and would join MSFT instead? How does it not look like that?
Reports of James Cameron missing
I blame my eyes for seeing hundreds of homeless people everyday who are let down by the consequences of a society lacking comprehensive, effective, integrated social services resulting in something of a socioeconomic-dignity apartheid.

For-profit media corporations are incentivized to publish outrage, unpopular, and contrarian headlines over substance and truth to snipe engagement. Along those lines, Vox seems like the perfect employer for George Santos. ;@]
All I can say is NEURIPS will be interesting in 2 weeks...
Essentially Jewish folk are treating white people like the Jews have been treated throughout history and the suffering Jews are experiencing is a result of letting in "hordes of minorities". It's just typical antisemitic nonsense.
Presumably, GNU Hurd will fix these issues without introducing fun new ones.
I'll do better next time, thanks for the call out.
Somebody is using a guy with a 160 IQ as a pawn? I for one would like to subscribe to that person's newsletter.
it's oh UEA you want protection of your oil tanker traffic from Iran missile hits, guess what let's trade....
Anyone trying to connect dots might also look at Altman's Hawking Fellowship appearance at (great-tasting original) Cambridge on 1 November, specifically his answer to one question: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/17wknc5/altman... https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM?t=3705

> *Cambridge Student:* "To get to AGI, can we just keep min maxing language models, or is there another breakthrough that we haven't really found yet to get to AGI?"

> *Sam Altman:* "We need another breakthrough. We can still push on large language models quite a lot, and we will do that. We can take the hill that we're on and keep climbing it, and the peak of that is still pretty far away. But, within reason, I don't think that doing that will (get us to) AGI. If (for example) super intelligence can't discover novel physics I don't think it's a superintelligence. And teaching it to clone the behavior of humans and human text - I don't think that's going to get there.And so there's this question which has been debated in the field for a long time: what do we have to do in addition to a language model to make a system that can go discover new physics?"

[transcription by Reddit's https://www.reddit.com/user/floodgater/ ]

The video came out on the 15th. In the time between then and the firing of Altman on the 17th a number of people (including Gary Marcus https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-sam-altman-gone-full-g... ) picked up on that answer and saw it as a significant shift compared to Altman's earlier bullishness on AGI timelines and deep learning. I haven't been following nearly closely enough to say if that is an accurate conclusion or not. It does at least gesture at the possibility that the board's alleged loss of trust in Altman was because in their eyes he had been promising too much technical progress, too soon. That would obviously be quite a different explanation to eg. the theories that the firing was a coup by anxious decelerationists.
I think the steward-ownership / stewardship movement might suffer a significant blow with this.
Bradley Gawthrop: Wiring Boot Camp
https://youtu.be/FMXdXCYvLQQ
Ya, all it's doing is just adding some context to the system prompt to tune the way it responds.

These custom "GPTs" really just feel like a honey pot to capture good AI ideas...
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This attack originated from an acquired company by Boeing. No outsourced party seems to be involved. Am I missing something in the article?
Has anyone ever successfully sued a board member for not resigning on the grounds that it's a breach of fiduciary duty?
No, and they won't pay. They'll just hit "accept tracking" and carry on.

And that's exactly the point the EU is making: it's not truly free consent.
I've thought that all "native" (in the compiler instead of a library) implementations use (more or less) delimited continuations (some kind of temporary stack moving/copying).
OCaml : https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-effects-tutorial#3-...
And Koka: I haven't found the paper/docs right now.

I know about effectful, but that doesn't use Reader (but provides one) but more or less directly IO (Ref) and "evidence passing", that's why it is faster than the other ones, the drawback is not being able to use non-deterministic effects and noo such thing as coroutines. But I talked about eff ("native" delimited continuations) should be more or less the same, maybe a bit faster, than effectful, but enable non-determinism and coroutines.
But you still need to page in the weights from disk to the GPU at each layer, right?
This is Google trying yet again to get people to pay for storage.
Is there any case of a company suffering significant financial backlash due ransomware attacks?

My current impression is: consumers don't care, regulators don't care... so why should CEOs care?
> They pay you and you pinky swear not to release it?

Yes. If any of this information does end up getting leaked, it kills the credibility of the ransomware group and they'll never get paid again. Sort of mutually assured destruction.

Now of course, most people don't really trust criminals anyway so the business has a pretty strong bargaining position and I believe many of the ransoms are negotiated way down.
One of the current weaknesses in public transit is that it requires a minimum population density before it becomes viable. The entire way we think about public transit today presumes that it makes sense to send a vehicle with many seats along a fixed route.

Self driving vehicles could be the innovation that makes public transit usable in non-dense areas. We could do dynamic routing based on the demand of the riders.
So untrue.

That team had set state of the art for years now.

Every major firm that has a spot for that company's chief researcher and can afford him would bid.

This is the team that actually shipped and continues to ship. You take him every time if you possibly have room and he would be happy.

Anyone whose hired would agree in 99 percent of cases, some limited scenarios such as bad predicted team fit ect set aside.
It would still be a noisy error, just a different one that you can't compare non-naive and naive datetimes.
> So you're basically agreeing with the original commenter?

No.

> I read his comment as basically saying the only reason he works at his job is to keep a roof over his head

Yes, that's also my reading of the comment.

> if you don't work you'll eventually be homeless.

Likely, yes. But the question isn't work vs. no work. The question is working at the OP's so-called "difficult" job vs. working at less difficult jobs. That's why the issue of homelessness is mostly irrelevant.

My strong suspicion is that the OP works at a "difficult" job, which presumably pays a lot more than "BS jobs", because the OP actually aspires to a more luxurious standard of living than the bare minimum.

Given the OP's other comments, e.g., the OP's job "takes a lot of work to get the skills necessary to do it", and given the fact that this is Hacker News, I'm assuming that the OP is a relatively well-compensated member of the tech industry. When the OP says, "Who's going to take over my job? Probably nobody", as if a well-paying job in the tech industry is somehow the "price" of avoiding homelessness, I dispute that.

It's kind of like when engineers defend working on unethical projects "because I have to feed my family", despite the fact that the vast majority of people feed their families without 6-figure incomes and stock options.
What I really care about is healthcare, childcare, education, owning a home for my family, and good food. How are my wages doing against that?

Everything but food -- downhill.