skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine mentioned in a recent newsletter he would be using Threads more than Twitter from now on. He never tweeted that much so it doesn't really matter, but it's an interesting move given how much he talks about Elon.
from a pinned message on their discord: https://s3.amazonaws.com/releases.lmstudio.ai/prerelease/LM+...
TOS that aren't enforceable for the most part because they're not a binding contract. If Google responds to my browser's request for content by sending that content, I'm free to watch it how I like, including not watching it or not watching parts of it. It's really that simple, no matter how much you'd like to obfuscate.
While I'd prefer to use an operating system other than Windows at work, the OS that a company uses isn't a deal breaker for me. Getting the job done, regardless of the software my employer mandates, having work that's is interesting and challenging is what matters most when it comes to the day job.

Currently, I work for a firm that's eyeballs deep in the Windows/Microsoft ecosystem which means I have a company laptop running Windows. I can get the job done and get a pay packet every two weeks.
Update on RSS Brain to Find Related Articles with Machine Learning
Ironically, when I use Chrome and watch YouTube I get a lot of blank page loads quite often and use Firefox to watch YouTube instead.
"like" or "hate" are words for people and petty personal conflicts.

It's counterproductive to take business conflicts personally. PG removed Sam Altman silently without harming his future. There is no reason to be enemies after the issue is solved. There may be deals to be made again.
Is it? Just looks like the service manuals?

I was kinda hoping to see actual drawings for e.g. the panels or the seats or whatever. So if I really did want to build one myself or create replacement parts I could do so.
It depends on what you need to do

If you need actual research and doing something innovative (openai, midjourney) get the academia people.

If you need to train models to deliver value to business, definitely go with the strong engineers. They can learn the ropes, there is plenty of material on the internet and their code will be usable and maintainable.

(I'm working with code written by academics and I won't recommend it)
Fair enough, the video does show what the project is.

That said, I also think it's fair to expect that reading a readme should be enough to learn about something.
If we concede that CEOs deserve their place in society then we can claim that we live in a meritocracy, the world is fair, and we deserve the good things that happen to us. It's a very comfortable thought.
The Linux developers involved use the CDDL. While some of them have patches in Linus’ tree, most of them are described as Linux developers because they develop and use the code on Linux. They have little to do with mainline Linux, partly because certain the mainline Linux developers will actively go out of their way to antagonize them if they even try to contribute to mainline. Certain others will simply ignore their emails. I will not say names, but I have had that happen to me in the past.

That said, I suspect you did not read the replies, since the code in question was written by a FreeBSD developer. Bugs in new code have been introduced by developers on both platforms. Unfortunately, the bugs in this feature were not caught before they reached a stable release. :/
I don't think it's literally impossible to avoid the same mistakes as our predecessors. But I do think that the default position that "oh we modern innovative companies won't end up like those stodgy old companies" is a recipe for repeating history. As they say in AA: the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have it.

Because yes by default you will absolutely repeat history unless you acknowledge that those old timey crazy people were fundamentally no different than you.
Quote:

Active research projects include (1) a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool to safely design complete body alterations, (2) analysis of genetic targets to generate fur, feathers, or scales, and (3) sensor and motor integration for a prospective neuroprosthetic tail. More projects will follow! Additionally, we are writing strategic whitepapers and supporting external research through financial awards.
I'm very concerned that as a solo founder you've put this much effort, money, and time into something that doesn't have PMF. Validating ideas is basically the first step of a business, and if you can't validate demand and secure PMF, then it doesn't really matter how much money or time you put into the project.

Real talk: it's entirely possible that you've wasted $1MM on a product that nobody wants.

But given that you have an app that works, and given that you built the app for yourself first, I think it's fair to assume there are other people out there that are like you and would find this app useful. With that in mind, I think the absolute right thing to do is try and identify your target demographic, market the hell out of it (as cheaply as possible) to specifically those people, and get some recurring revenue to subsidize the costs as you expand from there.

Any work you're doing now is basically unvalidated work. You have no idea if people will pay for it, if people even want it, or if they are turning off users. You don't know what price point makes sense.

You need to get some humans in the mix and find out whether your product is viable and whether people will use it. Once you get that validation, you'll have more of a direction to head that will satisfy actual prospective customers, which you can then hopefully convert into paying users.

I wish you the best of luck and I'll be looking out for your app, as I'm also a bit obsessed with fitness. Good luck!
That discussion is what prompted me to go back and write the original
This actually is a conjecture/opinion piece, which is what teachers are usually trying to shape into other forms, and I found it very well written AFA clarity for casual reading, almost like it was written in another latin language with less brown book syphilis. Maybe not a (monolingual) native speaker, but probably not similar to an AI's training set.
Once I got inside Google it wasn’t long until I had the “Aha moment” and understood why Google’s new products are in turmoil.
Uh, lol, no. Software development has nothing to do with business plans. Don't like monopolies? That's economic policy, not software. You can't code your way out of politics. But mandating legislation of open source is a great way to kill it if that's your goal.
Thanks, interesting perspective there that I'm not very familiar with. Will have to check out the USNI essay.
Kara Swisher was also posting to Twitter, but more to the point, all of the major players and commentators were on Twitter. Greg Brockman's resignation letter was on Twitter. The employees who protested Sam's firing were on Twitter. The (second) interim CEO posted his hiring and resignation on Twitter. Etc.
That’s fair but I’d like to believe (and I know I’m speaking from emotion here and not any rationality) that the jury is still out on this one, and that improvement is not sustainable over the next few decades (in other words, this was a bubble). The alternative is just too hard to accept - it means we should just elect a dictator for life who knows best how to run a centrally planned economy for a low low price of not making fun of them too much and not asking inconvenient questions.
OpenShift Virt is not RHEV with K8s add, it is a completely different thing, and running Traditional VM workloads on it is troublesome.

I have no use for kubernetes, I will never use kubernetes, I do not want kubernetes anywhere near me.

Most vmware customers I suspect have the same feelings
This seems like a native advertising piece. The article's own screenshots of popular Threads posts on the OpenAI story have less than 1% of the engagement of similar posts on Twitter/X, so it's a bit meaningless to point to these as evidence that Threads is "up for the task" of handling a major news event.
The reality is there is no general use case for open source models, such as there is gpt-4.

The decent chat ones are based on gpt data and they’re basically shitty distilled models.

The best use case is a narrow one that you decide and can create adequate fine-tuning data around. Plenty of real production ability here.
Do not export a function called then() from a module
Didn't know about this little JS "WTF"
I don't know if this counts as selling, though.

Selling is making you want to buy the car, agreeing on a price and filling in the paperwork.

Trying to extract more money from you after you have agreed on a price is... extorsion? Fraud? But not just "selling".
> [0] Or at least, it stopped being illegal after the neoliberals rewrote history with the "consumer welfare" argument.

What are you referring to? I'm not familiar with what you mean, nor have specific enough keywords to self-discover.
Faith-Love-Hope are essentials, read more
It may have to do with part availability during the pandemic, perhaps?
So much worse is just how unserious they are taken. People consider them jokes instead of somber reflections on harms done by assholes and negligence.
Afaik on ff original you'll still not have full list of extensions, just a more extended list
These types of profiling gems usually kill performance
> Loopt, Inc. was an American company ... which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people.

Yea, impressive stuff. I'm sure that gave him a lot of experience that led to being one of the few "professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft".
Red Hat built it in RHEV (or rather, bought it from Qumranet and rebuilt the .net in JBoss), but struggled in the market. They had an arguably better product than VMware, and better pricing, but VMware customers were hard to move, and Microsoft priced Hyper-V for Windows guests at cheaper than free.
I was surprised to see him savage Jeanine Banks by name like that, but if this bit is true I can at least understand the impulse: "She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set."

as another longish-term google employee, the one thing I absolutely depend on among all the org and culture changes is the ability to have a fair bit of choice and input when it comes to the specific projects I am working on, where the company can trust me to pick something that will work with my skills and interests and also align with the team and department objectives. losing that would likely impact me more than any of the other changes over the last 12 or so years I've been here.
"Almost certainly"? Here's a fun exercise. Over the course of, say, a year, keep track of all your predictions along these lines, and how certain you are of each. Almost certainly, expressed as a percentage, would be maybe 95%? Then see how often the predicted events occur, compared to how sure you are.

Personally I'm nowhere near 95% confident that will happen. I'd say I'm about 75% confident it won't. So I wouldn't be utterly shocked, but I would be quite surprised.
I don't accept those TOS and yet Google still sends me the content I request via my browser. TOS are not a binding contract.
First, VirtualBox is an Oracle product, so I'm not sure which side you're advocating :)

More to the point, I think VirtualBox is the equivalent, broadly, of VMWare Workstation/VMWare Player; which is a specific individual product that runs on desktop as type 2 hypervisor and a teeny tiny bit of the broader VMWare ecosystem (probably neglible part of their revenue).

I don't know if VirtualBox has any product or share in server/datacentre space? Whereas, VMware is absolutely positively huge. The core ESXi product, sure; but again the ecosystem around it, from vSPhere/vCenter to vRealize and Orchestrator and nsx and vSan and everything else, the management and automation flows are pretty well integrated (externally; I'm sure it's a acquired/developed mess internally as every other IT product ever:).

It's a bit like... I don't know, "what does Window Explorer have that File Commander doesn't"? It's a valid question that has a rational answer which is useful for limited use cases, but it misses the very very big forest (Windows and Office and Azure etc) for very minor trees inside of it

Hope that helps a bit?
It says "original Roadster".

This is like when MS released the source of MS-DOS 1.0 and crying "this is bullshit" because they didn't include the code for Windows server 2022.
> Simple example: a function has a parameter whose type is "variable-length tuple of int". You can pass any tuple in that is known to have 0..n elements, all of type int.

And n is fixed at the calling site, right? I wonder if something like "TypeVar, but for a list of type arguments" could solve your problem.

What's funny is that this is already kind of implemented in `typing.Concatenate`, but only for function parameters [1], not for type hint parameters.

Anyway, I would have written "a well-typed function that concatenates two arbitrary tuples whose size is statically known at the call site". Can't really remove "at the call site" or "statically known" without being ambiguous.

Edit: just found out about `TypeVarTuple`. So really we're only missing `concatenate`.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Concate...
I’m late to the game about this. So I’ll ask a stupid question.

As a contrived example, what happens if you feed the LoTR books, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and whatever else is germane, into an LLM?

Is there a base, empty, “ignorant” LLM that is used as a seed?

Do you end up with a Middle Earth savant?

Just how does all this work?
You can probably carbon date the rubber in the tires:

https://meridian.allenpress.com/rct/article-abstract/50/4/81...
Yes, I agree. They should have fought it tooth and nail when it was proposed, and held out as long as possible.

But if sites were willing to do it anyway, despite losing substantial numbers of users...

I would have liked to have seen that theory tested, but it may or may not have worked.
> I've worked with that I did not, at the time, appreciate but grew to appreciate later on.

Exactly right. People are complicated and liking or disliking them is adjacent to whether or not they are 'good' at their job.

I've known people who sucked at their job, but doing the same job in a different environment were stars. That experience led me to disassociate what people do as part of their job from the person themselves. And I can respect someone for doing a good job, even when I find their personal attitude or motivations distasteful.

Complicated.
> this is the classic problem of too small overall budget. too few launches, not enough money, everything has to be perfect, because everyone wants their pet science/dream project to succeed. so overall efficiency is abysmal. but the data gained for/through the scientific mission is nice.

You've got it 100% correct.

Satellite constellations are much cheaper on a per unit basis than are the bespoke single unit buy. Now, I get above are much harder when NASA is doing a research satellite (low volume or volume of 1), but it is definitely possible for Operational satellites (e.g. what NOAA flies for operational weather requirements and they need to keep running to feed the US meteorological capability).

Delinking satellite sensors from the specific satellite so you always have an excess of sensors you can use, and integrate as needed would also be a huge win for cost avoidance.
The important thing is to be part of the rich ones BEFORE we get to the post world money - so they'll be the elite with assets in the futuristic city with robot waiters and we'll be the savages living in the woods.
> due to lack of training sometimes they miss things that an MD would have caught.

It goes the other way as well. My aunt is an RN and she loves to tell the story about the time that a doctor was in such a rush one time she had to call his attention to the fact that his patient was dead.
Discussed extensively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858

And the response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374166
Maybe it's the eye strain I'm experiencing today, but there's no indication of whether the poster bought the drive from Amazon (the company) or from an Amazon Seller. If it was the latter, then I'm not surprised something like this happened. I've heard from friends, and read about, some dodgy sellers doing some dodgy things.
On paper, Google's throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks strategy (that has lead to a substantial Google Graveyard) seems like it was intended to allow for some parts of the company to innovate while keeping the core products stable and boring. In practice, many of those innovations (Google Inbox, anyone?) were not deemed profitable enough to keep around. Others were never given the resources to grow beyond an experiment. And even with a long leash, a big company project is never going to innovate as quickly as a startup.

This year, however, with the extremely deep cuts to Google's internal incubator (Area 120), it seems pretty clear that they've given up on this strategy, at least for anything that isn't somehow AI-related.
Literally everything was happening on Twitter.

From spaces to “OpenAI is nothing without its people” to heart emojis.

Sam and Greg posted their statement there.

This is a huge win for Twitter.
Many people have talked about this...

People do know that oracle has ALOT more software then their DB right?

I mean their DB is the least vendor lockin thing they sell.....
Show HN: A Simple UI to schedule and run tasks on AWS EC2 instances
Hey HN,

I'm a first-time founder & system engineer by day for a company fully in AWS.

I noticed AWS services growing in complexity over the years. This is when I came up with the idea to have an easy-to-use UI that makes it easy for AWS users to schedule & run tasks on their EC2 instances.

This is why I built fastbatch.io so AWS users don't need to deal with config tools or figuring out how to setup their jobs to run on cron or windows task scheduler.

I hope this tool will be helpful and would love to get some feedback.

Adel
he's retiring to work on the same project he was before. what's next, pay to volunteer?
How could you think I didn't read what you wrote when I disagreed so specifically with it? EA is something new -- not as a goal, clearly (Bentham had already gotten there) but as a method. And it is more than the people who identify with it, just like mathematics can be distinguished from mathematicians.
I used to publish a TLDR at the top of some of my blog posts because I’m so verbose!
I always wanted to be a computer engineer but now I have 1 more year to graduate, I think I want to do Physics instead.
Doesn't Proxmox have a builtin backup? You could also use Hyper-V with Veeam.
The instrumentation has a performance overhead.

You enable the instrumentation with a prepend_before_action,

e.g.

prepend_around_action :callstacking_setup, if: -> { params[:debug] == '1' }

When the request is completed, the instrumented methods are removed (thus removing the overhead).

You have to enable it judiciously. But for a problematic request, it will give the entire team a holistic view as to what is really happening for a given request. What methods are called, their calling parameters, and return values, all are given visibility.

You no longer have to reconstruct production scenarios piecemeal via the rails console.
Happened to me also. I had registered my username in the first year Github started. Around 10 years later i discovered that someone else assumed my username through reaching out to their support. I was using Github still actively but hadn’t committed for quite some time in public. I was very pissed when i discovered. Support refused to change my name back instead giving me a coupon i never asked for. Whoever thought at Github this to be a good idea didn’t think through. It’s like the most retarded solution to a problem every social platform faces i’ve seen so far in how it is checked through.
It may be a conflict of interest but it will be hidden by layers. OAI has deal with gpu producer and there is little conflict as they don't interact, but MS that owns Azure and resell of hardware creates that conflict. Maybe I have bad view, but I think many such conflicts that come from interdependent parties exist and especially in datacenter/cloud world.
I found amusing that IP address in one screenshot has following field in whois:

Address: 1800 Bishops Gate Blvd

Isn't gate common way to suffix scandals in USA?
I’ve never really understood the difference between a gift economy with the expectation of reciprocity and a regular non-gift economy
A real time traveler would know that opening a rift just to get the latest Hacker News was banned in 2052
> If you don’t own a Playdate, well, what are you waiting for?

Waiting for them to start shipping to my country, actually :( They're shipping to three neighboring countries though.
Interesting~ Last time I spoke to somebody from CF we were too big for the regular plans and too small for the “call us on the phone and we’ll discuss a custom contract” plan, but it has been a couple of years so maybe worth looking at the newer services :)
but the point is not to be self-sustained, in the past it was colonialism, now its financial dominance. Immigration is a way to outsource childrearing
If you study further you will find out that socialist countries are and have been far more democratic than capitalist ones.

Of course, the ruling class of capitalist countries are incentivised to use their considerable power to lie about any socialist project and portray it as evil.
A protocol cannot stop a monopoly.
Looks like all the naysayers from the original “were making a for-profit but it won’t change us” post ended up correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359928
Show HN: GJP-4-GPT, a Gradual JSON Parser for GPT's
Often it's easiest to have an LLM output the results you need in JSON form, but streaming those outputs into an actual viewport is nontrivial. Thus I made this package, a streaming JSON parser that handles all the work of decoding your JSON so you can focus on displaying your UIs.
Ilya is just naive, imho. Bright but just too idealistic and hypothesizing about AGI, and not seeing that this is now ONLY about making money from LLMs, and nothing more. All the AGI stuff is just a facade for that.
> described what US has been doing for the past 7 decades

Well, yes, it's a double standard. But even we didn't try assassinations within the Russian SSR. Again, not because we're righteous. But because we aren't stupid. If we got caught, it would create blowback for us and sympathy for the Soviets. (Also, we weren't courting alliance, investment and trade with the Soviets?)

Like what we're seeing now. Incompetently-executed covert actions. Plenty of blowback. International awareness and with it, sympathy, for a group that previously had neither. (Going out on a limb and guessing this story is being milked for fundraising in the Gulf.)

Where we commonly see extrajudicial activity is in places generally considered lawless and/or powerless. And in most of those cases, I would argue it served to undermine American interests in the long run.
It's puzzling how many distributed key value stores Amazon seems to have created.
A Subway Named Mobius
I've never in my life applied a bios update. It's really not on any list of things I'd care about.
>>>but VMware customers were hard to move

were being the key phrase. Timing is everything, they Announced they were shutting down RHEV. AFTER broadcom announced they were buying vmware, seems like a terrible move in that light given that many vmware customers will be looking for a replacement in the next couple of renewal cycles.