skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, just to elaborate briefly to give you something to build on.

I see the current loss of complexity and volume of life as dual to the expansion of complexity and volume of human consumption (via its displacing space and energy demand).

Human consumption is happening because of 1. the will to consume and 2. the means to exercise that will.

2. is enabled by technology with its inherent externalities and we're very familiar with it here.

1. is caused by endogenous tendencies to increase comfort and decrease pain (the idea you have yourself that maybe you don't want to starve or freeze in winter or that 50% of your children shouldn't die by mysterious forces) and by exogenous factors such as manufactured demand (the ideas you likely wouldn't have yourself and that are inserted by a third party e.g. for the newest throwaway fashion, cruise trip, avocado sandwich, smartphone refresh, ... this list is endless).

Demand is manufactured in the form of what boils down to (highly effective!) thought intrusion or hijacking of the reward system (ads, influencers, "haptic" marketing) most of which delivered via information systems. It is here that "one could" immediately intervene and get the 'reduce' going in the 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.

Additionally there's this cultural/education issue that we have become nature-blind. Ask any random person and they'll tell you they love nature and animals. And then they'll stone-cold show you that 'beautiful' picture of <dead landscape in tourist location> they shot from their line cruise (speaking from personal experience here). This is where we could use information technology and education again to shape beliefs.

A big problem is how you'd actually implement all this without having society blow up over this mysterious spectre of 'faltering economy' that is going to happen when the economic activity associated with bullshit consumption goes away (20 hour workweek anyone?).

There's obviously much more to write and things get really complex when you factor in all the different interrelated systems that have metastasized to the point they are now.

Plus we're not really aligned on this issue. I'd wager there's a significant chunk that just doesn't care and thinks it's a lame sideshow as long as it doesn't affect them until they die. I'd say it's because they have no idea what they're talking about (nature-blindness again, and forget about the rest).

Oh and what my last sentence meant: I claim if we could get to a state where we mount a giant concerted action by a sufficient number of decision makers that realign our collective activity towards preservation, we could harness the knowledge and technology we have now to execute successfully on that vision.

It's a big claim and a messy (but not implausible to solve) problem, the incalculability of which I encoded in the apostrophes around just ;)
You can edit data in existing tables, but there is not yet a "Create Table" action. In fact, Ultorg does not currently host any data at all; it is all assumed to be existing in an external data source.

So for now I'd recommend doing the actual CREATE TABLE statements manually in e.g. an external PostgreSQL database, but then using Ultorg to edit the data.

Schema editing actions (Create Table, Insert Column etc.) are on the TODO list, though.
Yeah seems extremely unbelievable.
Honestly, I think it does all add up. AGI would be the most profitable product ever developed, by probably multiple orders of magnitude. It’s also a possible existential risk to life on earth.

If you believe both of those things, a whole lot of this makes sense. It makes sense that somebody would start a not for profit to try to mitigate the existential risk. It makes sense that profitable interests would do anything they can to get their hands on it.

It costs a lot to develop, so a not for profit needs to raise many billions of dollars. Billions of dollars don’t come from nowhere. So they tried a structure that is at the very least uncommon, and possibly entirely unheard of.

A not for profit controlling a for-profit entity that might make the first multi-trillion dollar product seems inherently unstable. Of course some of the people who work there are going to want to make some of that wealth. Tension must result.
Cars are a problem but other IoT devices are not adding cellular because it costs a fortune. It's just a HN conspiracy theory.
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Fwiw I've been to Vegas twice this year and it'd still be an eye sore even in that crazy city, imo
Because he is possibly the most desireable AI researcher on planet earth. Full stop.

Also all these cats arn't petty. They are friends. I'm sure Ilya feels terrible. Satya is a pro... Won't be hard feelings.

The guy threw in with the board... He's not from startup land. His last gig was Google. He's way over his head relative to someone like Altman who was in this world the moment out of college diapers.

Poor Ilya... It's awful to build something and then accidentally destroy it. Hopefully it works out for him. I'm fairly certain he and Altman and Brockman have already reconciled during the board negotiations... Obviously Ilya realized in the span of 48hrs that he'd made a huge mistake.
> I've been using them long enough to know, without hesitation, that you don't use a relational database as your job queue.

I'm also very familiar with jobs and I have used the usual tools like Redis and RMQ, but I wouldn't make a blanket statement like that. There are people using RDBS as queues in prod so we have some counter-examples. I wouldn't mind at all to get rid of another system (not just one server but the cluster of RMQ/Redis you need for HA). If there's a big risk in using pg as backend for a task queue, I'm all ears.
You're talking from a pretty biased pov of a bubble.

Public wifi is definetly not ubiquous everywhere in every country, and even when it is you need to have the right credentials or it has annoying dark patterns requiring you to click through various steps before you can get online (if it works reliably in the first place), and there's a niche of people for whom such friction or issues are unacceptable from a business standpoint and their company is more than happy to pay a second SIM to ensure their laptop is always connected the moment the lid is opened to save time and friction.

I get it it's not for you, but it's definetly for other people who values it.

For example on the train network in my country, there's free wifi but it's so overloaded that using LTE tethering is much faster and reliable, and having that built in the laptop is even better for work, and that's why many business people get this feature on laptops.

Imagine you are late or miss your important online call/meeting/presentation because you were faffing about with flaky public wifi instead of having built-in LTE connectivity.

YES, hot-spot from your phone is a thing, but that's an extra annoying friction: Do I have enough battery on my phone to use it for the next hours? Did my hotpsot turn off automatically before and I need to restart it?
That's what happened to the German program though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program
https://sentry.io/pricing/

You've taken me from: Nice competitor to New Relic, and open-source.

To: Nice competitor to New Relic, and open-source, but with an ego problem, doesn't want me as a customer, and likely a bit incompetent.

Every public interaction is about building brand and sales. I'm offering transparency on impact. That's a gift. It's hard to get frank customer feedback. You're treating it as an insult.
I recall that promotion was for the Mir reentry (unless they did that twice)?
Safer for whom? Pedestrian fatality rates have exploded upward in recent years in the united states, at the highest rates in 41 years. up 77% since 2010.

Cars are inherently unsafe but we refuse to disengage from this failed model despite the solutions (ie. public transit) being right there for decades and decades.

Self driving public transport in contrast is a solved problem. Vancouver's driverless Skytrain has been serving customers since the early 1980s (as you say, requiring a driver only in the rare exception of some emergency or technical malfunction).
80 columns were pretty much a requirement for CP/M though, which was basically the MS-DOS of the 8-bit era (for instance the Amstrad CPC had an 80 column mode and supported CP/M as optional operating system, and the Commodore 128 also added 80 column support because the whole point of the additional Z80 CPU in the C128 was proper CP/M support).
Why do you say mandatory? You can buy an iPad with a modem and it doesn't have a mandatory cellular plan.
> There is no doubt that that these companies were lying to me.

They're not lying to you, the 'number of seats left' refers to the number of seats available at that price - in the lowest available fare bucket. Not on the plane itself.

What you ran into are called point of sale restrictions. Lower fares are made available to people buying in different markets.

They don't really work on auctions, they charge everyone what they think they'll pay.
And Google Flights shows extra notices that this or that is not allowed or included - for each specific flight.
Laypeople use "exponential" to mean "superlinear". It's fine, probably.
My experience is that this is a gross oversimplification. Once you know a person on an individual level - people always have their own stew of beliefs
Naw, I'm just a freelancer. It's simply that convenient that it's worth $30/mo, I often find myself using it in places where there's WiFi because it provides a much more consistent experience than public internet, especially what's available on transit. I don't use it for any business reason, I just like the UX of a computer way more than a phone, and I find the internet useful, especially when accessed through a real computer and not the abomination that is a mobile OS in 2023 (or any previous year).

Wild takes coming out against this, like bruh, I made this choice and I am posting about how much it's useful. You're not going to facts and logic your way into me being wrong about my subjective experience of a product.
There's millions of iPads deployed at businesses, for instance, that do just that.
Since the board was never clear what Altman did, you could make flip the parties and your breach of contract argument holds about as much water. Plus MS can resort to the playground "they started it" argument.
700 out of 770 OpenAI employees (+Ilya) threaten to leave unless board resigns
Yes and no. So on one hand you'd have to trust the vendor to allow you to control the connectivity (this is likely going to be the same model as iOS and watchOS devices -- unless you add a subscription it doesn't connect). On the other hand, you'd have to trust the vendor anyway, unless you diffuse and package your own silicon and write your own bring-up code and bootloader and OS, there are a rather lage amount of manufacturers you have to at least trust a little bit to get a functional experience.

I think the big difference here is that with a Car, you're primarily buying a device for driving yourself from one place to another, and everything else is extra. With a computer, you buy a device to compute, and with that is practically always some internet-connected requirement. Buying a Car without internet, or radio, or infotainment is fine (if you can find one) because the primary reason you want the thing is still intact. A computer without computing and without internet isn't very useful.
At least you're certain no kid will hit the touchscreen of the entertainment system in your headrest. Although the moment the person in front unfolds their backrest it's what the nightmares are made of.
AMP pages load way, way faster IME
So? Surely not all poor people have a "desire" to be poor (nobody wants to but I get the point of your post is maybe some people want to take actions that make them poor), and should we not help them? Furthermore, don't you think that the behaviours of the people who "want" to be poor are such because they can't afford nice things and turn to cheaper and more destructive forms of escapism, such as drugs?

You make it seem like we shouldn't give painkillers to people in pain because some people do stupid things that cause them pain. But the fact of the matter is that giving the money currently spent on poverty (because we do in fact spend a _lot_ of money on poverty) to the poor people directly is more efficient. They, again and again, make more out of a dollar than that dollar would have made if it were spent on, say, food banks. If the case for empathy doesn't work for you (and clearly it doesn't) then surely the case for efficiency of government spending should?
I don't see the problem here. I don't see why you need setenv. Please tell me why it's used in conjunction with pthreads. I think whoever is doing this is designing their software under wrong assumptions.

Can you read/write to same fd socket across threads? No? So what's the issue then?
Exactly, I don't know the exact terms of the deal but I am guessing that's at LIST/high markup on cost of those services.

Couldthe 13b could be considerably less cost
I just did some quick math. If you count all the keywords and operators for F# in microsoft's documentation, you come to 150 symbols. This doesn't include the nullary operators (of which there are 14)

Counting all the java operators and keywords, you get 84. This doesn't include assignment operators like "+=" or "-=" (11 such operators).

ChatGPT tells me that python has 36 keywords and 28 operators (not including the 13 assignment operators). This seems low and may be missing some syntactical sugar operators, but even then 64 is a far lower number than F#'s 150. Much debate could be had about which of these operators are fair to count or not, but it seems preliminarily that the data supports the position that functional programming languages (or at least F#) tend to go heavy on special keywords and operators
Previous HN thread, 8 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858
Svelte does a pretty good job too.

https://svelte.dev/
Theory – Microsoft bankrupted by ChatGPT copyright lawsuites (made up)
(not real, fake, made up)

When will it be, a year from now, two? There will be a headline somewhere, then it will get posted to Hacker News. Microsoft, in an attempt to placate thousands of ChatGPT related copyright lawsuits from around the world, files for bankruptcy.
Their service doesn't support 5G on any Apple devices. My kids only have LTE on their iPads despite the modem having the capability.

I will say that tethering on my phone works in a situation where LTE doesn't work well. However the convenience of not having to worry about connectivity is worth the extra cost for the cellular iPad. I never wanted to be that parent, but it is the path of least friction since my oldest has a lot of acronym mental health issues.
Hotspotting absolutely devours your battery life.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SWnabqe1PviVE3K7KIZsN4IA...
Another good solution that requires zero R&D.

It's frustrating to see traffic fatalities trotted out as a "the ends justify the means" justification for self-driving R&D budgets and practices as if there are no other solutions to the problem.
software design approaches are frequently closely tied to programming paradigms, and DDD (while, like Object Oriented Analysis and Design, it can be used with any paradigm) is closely associated with OOP, and at least the early writing on it (if there is any newer that this isn't true of, I haven't seen it) is very tightly coupled with OOP.
I can only imagine this chief scientist guy's horror when he realized that none of the people accepting multi-million equity compensation packages for a job to pursue AGI ethically were more concerned about the ethics they emphasized in the interview than the millions of dollars in equity backed by Altman's prolific dealmaking.

In some ways it is tragic because his mistake seems like it came as a result of thinking that the rules were actually the rules (in that the board controlled the non-profit, and that their decisions would be seen as legitimate,) and also that he wasn't surrounded by people who were only going along with his philosophy because of the money that his move seriously threatened.
Does every random blog post with OpenAI in the title and no new info need to be upvoted to the top?
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OpenAI is done.

This is the biggest Silicon Valley power play I can recall in the last 3 decades.
I wonder why I have not encountered any; it has been well over five years since I last used Chrome at all!
Does rust also add an pthread_atfork handler? Otherwise, it seems likely still unsafe for rust to claim to support calling fork (for execv) or posix_spawn, as most libc call realloc on the `environ` contents, but do not appear to take any care to ensure that (v)fork/posix_spawn doesn't happen concurrently with that. Worse yet, the `posix_spawnp` API takes an `envp` parameter and expects you to pass it the global pointer `environ`, which is completely unsynchronized across that fork call. It is not obvious to me that this is a security gap, but certainly it seems to me that this would violate rust's safety claim, if it is not taking added precautions there.

The Apple Libc appears to just unconditionally drops the environ lock in the child (https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Libc/blob/c5a3293...), while glibc doesn't appear to even bother with that (https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/6ae7b5f43d4b13f24606d71...)
He probably didn't consider that the board would make such an incredibly stupid decision. Some actions are so inexplicable that no one can reasonable foresee them.
Everyone was getting seats allocated at checkin, which was at a checkin desk at the airport. If you were lucky, you'd get asked if you wanted a window or an aisle.

Then you could check-in by telephone. Then you could check-in online. Then airlines started exposing the ability to select seats prior to check-in. Finally, someone realized this could be a revenue stream and started charging for it.

At this point, British Airways will make you pay to reserve a specific seat before check-in even if you're flying in intercontinental business class unless you have an expensive flexible fare or are a frequent flyer.
They also just announced that they are using AMD MI300x chips as well.
Couldn’t it be the case that a universal basic income that gives low-wage workers more choice would increase competition among their employers, resulting in low-wage work becoming more enticing?
Ironically by invoking "thought-terminating cliché", you are partaking in the very offense you accuse the parent of. Is it fair to redistribute wealth from people who are working, to give it to people who don't? There's plausible arguments for both sides, but rather than trying to argue for why we should, you drop a link to some fallacy on wikipedia and call it a day.
The whole point of OpenAI is to prevent AGI from becoming open source so no.
And according to this link that one that you're referencing is fake news: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/lnmas/javier-milei-no-estoy-de-a...
Despite porting it from Java to C++, Bedrock (Microsoft's rewrite of Minecraft) somehow has worse performance and bugs than vanilla Minecraft. (Also, a bunch of it is somehow in JavaScript?)
Or Sutskever is just clueless, didn't think through his previous actions, and now super regrets it...
Yeah these Copilot type tools shouldn’t help much if a language is well-designed, or a project is structured in a fashion that doesn’t require a ton of boilerplate. If we’re doing things well, we’ll only have to tell the computer something once, right?

If it is possible to guess what we’re going to write, then we aren’t transmitting much information to the computer.

Copilot seems to be very popular though.
No, the data in DDD is part of the program logic, not data that is being managed by the program, as in your quote.
Oh man, I'm not looking forward to Microsoft AGI.
That part is somewhat poorly explained. That is a motivating example of why having your job queue system be separate from your system of record can be bad.

e.g.,

1. Application starts transaction
2. Application updates DB state (business details)
3. Application enqueues job in Redis
4. Redis jobworkers pick up job
5. Redis jobworkers error out
6. Application commits transaction

This motivates placing the jobworker state in the same transaction whereas non-DB based job queues have issues like this.
The closest house to these stations is ~10 minute walk. There are massive parking garages, but basically no accommodations for bikes (paths upon arrival or parking). All ugly concrete slabs with no covering from the sun or elements (outside the station, for connecting transit).
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The AI safety people seem to generally be of the opinion that open source == less safe.

Ironically, it's almost like what you'd hear from MS in the 90s/2000s
They crashed because it’s known that Peronist governments play dirty when they receive bad news. Now that peronists are out of the way there is hope
Upwards, I said. And I was responding to a post.

I don't see a trajectory to "head of Microsoft Research".
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So true.

MSFT looks classy af.

Satya is no saint... But evidence seems to me he's negotiating in good faith. Recall that openai could date anyone when they went to the dance on that cap raise.

They picked msft because of the value system the leadership exhibited and willingness to work with their unusual must haves surrounding governance.

The big players at openai have made all that clear in interviews. Also Altman has huge respect for Satya and team. He more or less stated on podcasts that he's the best ceo he's ever interacted with. That says a lot.
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I will unveil your insinuation.

They currently get a pass on the “trust us, everything is end-to-end encrypted” without providing open access/verifiable toolchains. They are large and high profile enough that the public can trust that there are enough experts and nerds keeping an eye on them to hold them to their promises.

Adding a data exfiltration radio has some of the same verifiability, in that you could put an antenna next to the device and verify that it does/does not send signals. However it is only a matter of time before the radio cannot be fully disabled for some reason or another (oh we just turn on the radio to get guaranteed network time as part of our Trusted Cloud Experience that we secure you with!). Once that ship sails the devices will no longer be owned by the users and cannot be trusted.
I think their influence was deserved. They have by far the best model available, and despite constant promises from the rest of the industry no one else has come close.
It's possible, but that would have to be some pretty sloppy bylaw writing. Normally there are specifications about board size, minimum required for a quorum and timing as well as notification and legal review. Of course if you stock your board with amateurs then how well your bylaws are written doesn't really matter any more.
The poor are poor because they don't have money. If you give them money, they will no longer be poor, QED.

I say that somewhat jokingly, but I think it's basically true. AFAIK welfare/basic income studies have shown that giving people money directly tends to work really well for increasing their life quality long-term, even long after the payments end. I don't know on what basis you think the vast majority of poor people are poor because of a poverty mindset/being financially irresponsible.
Explain then why the open source community is moving so much faster:

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
I think the specifics on an individual level once the smoke clears matter a lot.
I think it's possible to have an always on connection similar to Amazon and Kindles.