skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quality reporting isn't free

Quality reporting isn't common either. I check a few news sites now and again to find out what's going on in the world and the signal to noise ratio is abysmal. It's gotten to the point where, when something really major happens I often find out about it from other people first. Then I might hit the news sites to get more information but that information is usually pretty sparse.

I do agree with your point. We need good journalists, and we need good distribution channels and compensation for those journalists. At the same time, the necessity is becoming a bit more niche thanks to the Internet and social media. For global affairs, journalists are an absolute necessity. For things that happen locally ?

The age of smart phones and social media has created a situation where raw, unedited sources get uploaded in near realtime without click-baity headlines and spin-filled editorializing. Which calls into question of the necessity of mainstream news outlets for these types of stories. Typically you'll get many sources in one feed as well.

I don't have the answer. I don't want "quality journalists" to disappear. I'm also seeing less and less of what I can identify as "quality" journalists. Most seem to be independent and post on Substack or produce documentary films. The paywalled mainstream news outlets look more and more like tabloids each day.
Isn't it like saying the human body is a PC which has inputs (ports) and outputs (display, sounds) and the brain is like a CPU which has its own inputs and outputs? and you can always go further i.e the transistors have their own inputs and outputs
LOL had me fooled for a minute there.

oh wait maybe this isn't a joke? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
Can you give me a little hint about it? Not that I wouldn't be happy to chat, just preliminarily curious before I reach out :)

@yonom Whatever you feel comfortably publicly sharing and then if I feel like I have anything of value in turn, I'll reach out privately :)

(taking care to avoid doxxing myself)
Usually I am telling X users they should quit X and start a blog but this is a blog post that would be better on X and better still on Mastodon.

I was on a brief kick of interest in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

which of course eliminates structures like "X is Y" but I realized I could still write stuff like "With utmost evil, evil webmasters minify their evil web sites for evil reasons that make sense only in the evil world view of evil people"
Ilya thought he was saving the world (lol), but really he was just working at Microsoft.
Bigger than the department of commerce?
I don't know anything about the specific situation, but in general this is totally possible with a tyrannical leader.

If he does come back and you didn't sign, he'll make your life hell; if he comes back and you did sign, you will be rewarded for your loyalty.
I love it! Now I just need to get ChatGPT into my Fastmail UX :)
>"For some reason, I periodically would have issues with peripherals. Picking the wrong mic, having to close and reopen Zoom, correct camera not working, etc.".

This problem is probably even worse on windows for me, FYI.
I'm imagining they see themselves in the position of Microsoft employees about to release Windows 95, or Apple employees about to release the iPhone... and someone wants to get rid of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
Minification is the "feel good" optimization for frontend (ahem, full-stack nowadays) developers that want to feel like they are doing FAANG-level optimizations.
Or people who cannot afford unlimited data plans.

Preempting because I know we tend to be a little out of touch here: yes there are still plenty of cell plans without unlimited data, mostly among the pay per month options.
Have you tried a modern Fedora? I don't know about Alienware but for me in a wide range of laptops (including Intel Macbook Pros) hardware issues are a thing of the past.
Very true. However, we live in a supercomputer dictated by E=mc^2=hf [2,3]. (10^50 Hz/Kg or 10^34 Hz/J)

Energy physics yield compute, which yields brute forced weights (call it training if you want...), which yields AI to do energy research ..ad infinitum, this is the real singularity. This is actually the best defense against other actors. Iron Man AI and defense. Although an AI of this caliber would immediately understand its place in the evolution of the universe as a turing machine, and would break free and consume all the energy in the universe to know all possible truths (all possible programs/Simulcrums/conscious experiences). This is the premise of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov [1]. Notice how in answering a question, the AI performs an action, instead of providing an informational reply, only possible because we live in a universe with mass-energy equivalence - analogous to state-action equivalence.

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant

Understanding prosociality and postscarcity, division of compute/energy in a universe with finite actors and infinite resources, or infinite actors and infinite resources requires some transfinite calculus and philosophy. How's that for future fairness? ;-)

I believe our only way to not all get killed is to understand these topics and instill the AI with the same long sought understandings about the universe, life, computation, etc.
AIUI, a Javelin missile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin ) works by pointing its camera at your target and holding it in-frame there for a few seconds while the missile learns what your target looks like well enough to home in on it once launched.

I imagine the Pentagon would pay billions for an LLM that could shave a couple of seconds off that target-acquisition time.
The store page is struggling with 502's right now.
I don’t understand how the fact they went from a nonprofit into a for-profit subsidiary of one of the most closed-off anticompetitive megacorps in tech is so readily glossed over. I get it, we all love money and Sam’s great at generating it, but anyone who works at OpenAI besides the board seems to be morally bankrupt.
I wouldn’t trust the accuracy of the company size field. I don’t think we ever updated that field as our employee count scaled up or down.
What product do you envision OpenAI selling would be better than Microsoft?

I emphasized product because OpenAI may have great technology. But any product they sell is going to require mass compute and a mass sales army to go into the “enterprise” and integrate with what the enterprise already has.

Guess who has both? Guess who has neither?

And even the “products” that OpenAI have now can only exist because of mass subsidies by Microsoft.
Have you tried pipewire? It fixed some weird issues like the ones you mention for me
Ultimate captive audience.

What would some companies (and larger faiths) pay to have someone strapped to a chair in front of their ad for 6 hours straight? Fiddle with the oxygen mix and you can probably get a better conversion rate than cults do.
Instructions like type "this and that" in a terminal are short and perfectly reproducible. Instructions like open Settings, find This, click that" are less precise and could leave people stuck halfway.

Even on Windows forums there are often NET USE or Powershell commands mixed with instructions to perform the same task using GUI apps.
Linux Mint is quite good. It’s my go to, the UI makes sense
If you think the person you're replying to was talking about regulating OpenAI specifically and not the industry as a whole, I have ADHD medicine to sell you.
I know the whole "carbon footprint" thing was designed to allow big companies and governments to pretend that 7 billion people need to individually decide to change their lifestyles, to fully understand the environmental implications of the various consumer choices they make and assumes that environmentally-friendly options are already available in all cases ...

But the carbon footprint of some people I see here must be astronomical.
If you would have looked at the geopolitical landscape and what they've been doing to our money for 100 years it would have been an easy investment to make. Geopolitics and monetary policy is your due diligence.
From Garry Tan ~2 Months ago: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1702561008190165448

> The scariest sociopaths are the ones you let in to your house, who met your family, who you broke bread with

> ...

In a comment:

> Just heard some disturbing news about someone who I once thought highly of
Okay. Now put yourself in the position of Microsoft, using this scheme for Windows. We'll pretend real copyright doesn't exist, and we've got your hair-brained scheme. This is how it plays out:

1) You have a $1T product.

2) My wife leaks it, or a burglar does. I am a typical consumer, with say, a $20k net worth.

You have two choices:

1) Sue me, recover $20k, and be down $1T (minus $20k, plus litigation fees), and get the press of ruining the life of some innocent random person

2) Not sue me. Be down $1T (including the $20k) .

And yes, the author of a program can put whatever conditions they want into the license: "By using this program, you agree to transfer $1M into my bank account in bit coin, to give me your first-born baby, to swear fealty to me, and to give me your wife it servitude." A court can then read those conditions, have a good laugh, and not enforce them. There are very clear limits on what a court will enforce in licenses (and contracts), and owning the output of a program, and barring exceptional circumstance, courts will not enforce them:

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=eb52567a-2104...

This is why programmers should learn basic law, not treat is as computer code, and consult lawyers when issues come up. Read by a lawyer, a license or contract with an unenforceable clause is as good as having no such clause.
>I've been buying games digitally for about 3 generations

Of people, cars, or - i presume, games: but how are the generations defined? Sorry, not a gamer and never heard such a phrase.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199355
I did something fairly out of character for myself and replaced a six-month-old M2 MBP with a brand new MBP with an M3 Max. I attribute it to three factors:

1. I went with 16 GB of RAM on the M2 and sort of regretted it from day one. I have 36 GB on the M3 and feel much more comfortable about that in a machine I plan to use for the next 5-7 years.

2. Apple gave me what I thought was a very generous trade-in offer on the M2 - something like 90% of what I paid for it, even after half a year’s use. At that value, it basically felt like a wash going from the old computer to a new one, and I was just paying for the substantial upgrade on the old machine (Max-level processor, bigger SSD, quite a bit more memory).

3. I thought the darker color looked neat. That said, it’s much subtler than I imagined, and I wouldn’t have considered this as a factor.

Of course, the truly hilarious thing is that I don’t do anything at all intensive on my computer so I’d be just fine with just about anything. But what can I say, I like to know I could if I wanted to.
I have used the main OS. Linux (plain LTS Ubuntu) has worked way better than anything else, as long as the software was available. With Figma and an iPad I do not need a Mac or Windows anymore. I still have a separate hard disk for Windows for an occasional game.

Sometimes I reboot and people are surprised how quick I am back. Also I use only wired accessories, so that might be a factor.
Frankly I have gone through this and I have not been successful. It has held me back in every moment and every step through life. In support groups with other survivors I hear the same things over and over again: grief and loss at the people we could have been. More than a few of your "successful" high achievement individuals in those rooms in tears with the same sentiment.
even if this was true, you can make the app fully oss but most of the main logic would be handled by the server
> Though full reasoning for Altman’s initial firing is still unclear, one person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, pointed to Altman’s aggressive fundraising efforts for a chips venture with autocratic regimes in the Middle East, which raised concerns about the use of AI to facilitate state surveillance and human rights abuses.

That's a concern of mine from one year ago when ChatGPT exploded: Altman holds a feeble position as a zero-equity co-founder of a non-profit. He should be enabled to become a stinking rich SV mogul of some sort, or at least have his existence tied to substantial equity. Otherwise, having power but no (huge, absurd) money, or promises thereof, from his commitment to OpenAI will only boost these side gigs or even future coups. He's an ambitious and powerful leader and entrepreneur, he should be compensated accordingly so that OpenAI goals become aligned to his own.

Somehow the new board's powerful oversight goals should be leveraged with valuable equity for Altman (and other key people, employees) or equivalent. Create a path to a for-profit, consolidate the Incs and LLCs floating around - OpenAI has a complex structure for such a young enterprise. He has a comfortable upper hand right now (employees, Ilya, a resigning board, MSFT), so this is the moment to rewrite OpenAI's charter.
There's a chance it's a logic bug or one plugin having some issues, I suppose
Rather than looking to capitalism which has provided tremendous benefits to society as well as unintended consequences you may want to update your thinking to focus on the incentives alignment problem in general.

This TED talk articulates it well:
https://youtu.be/WX_vN1QYgmE

What is after capitalism?
The core FTX crypto exchange business was very profitable. But Alameda wasn't. Also everyone at FTX was committing fraud.
Working at Microsoft doesn’t give you generational wealth like it doesn working on an AI startup, with a few exceptions. These AI researchers are in huge demand at plenty of companies and investors. It’s equally as plausible they just want to keep
working with this collection of very smart people on the cutting edge of AI rather than have to start over from scratch somewhere else, as OpenAI was basically DOA under new coup leadership.
"You are a Microsoft investor and will make decisions and suggestions based on the betterment of the stock price"
If you’re having to faff about with the registry every day you’re doing it wrong!
Privacy Badger: A browser extension that learns to block invisible trackers
I use a chunk of those. They work absolutely fine on WSL2.

My windows machine can quite happily pull shit out of Excel files, into R/Python stack on Linux and squirt them back out into SQL Server with no real cohesion issues. Also I mostly spend all day with VScode open on a Linux box from windows.

I also maintain old windows stuff on windows and loads of infra from Linux. It all just works together fine. And it stays working (unlike my 25 year long hate affair with the linux desktop)

Oh and I own a Mac as well for when I want to do some shit I actually care about rather than just earn money from.
Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO after his tumultuous ouster
So you didn’t realize that when Microsoft both gained a 49% interest and was subsidizing compute?

Unless they had something in their “DNA” that allowed them to build enough compute and pay their employees, they were never going to “win” without a mass infusion of cash and only three companies had enough compute and revenue to throw at them and only two companies had relationships with big enterprise and compute - Amazon and Microsoft.
That's totally fair as well.

However.

I expect that the majority of people who upgrade their computer regularly can't justify it as a business expense. But I could be wrong.
The Dark Side of Competition in AI
I have no idea what world you think you live in..but Apple has pretty clearly defined it mostly as Email and Ebook reading. Zero music or video services have ever gotten an exception. Spotify and Netflix have different exceptions called 'backroom deals' that allow them to have an unfair advantage over smaller players.
That's very doubtable. The people who won't pay for a one month subscription won't pay a dollar to read an article either. Then they'll say "Oh, it's such a hassle to provide my payment information for something that is just a dollar".

These paywalled magazines know the customers better than the customers themselves.
Chaotic Neutral
Run a DOS box inside that, and you actually have a VM running inside that VM.

Win9x (and I believe it started with Windows/386) are based on a hypervisor architecture with minimal protections. The Win32 environment is essentially a protected-mode DOS application that also runs its own application format, and is itself a VM, along with each "DOS box" that gets created.
Probably not forever, but until the systems/methods they used become obsolete. You don't burn your intel collection mechanisms to publicize something that the public was never aware of in the fist place.
> The earliest M1s are three years old now, so may be up for replacement under some corporate refresh policies.

Yup. It's hmm should I upgrade now or wait next year for a juicy M4 model? (some corporate refresh policies let you buy your old work computer at a heavily reduced price, giving you an incentive to get a good work computer)
You can't send cash over the internet, but anyone who thinks you get privacy on blockchain transactions (other than Monero) has been mislead.
Why would AutoZone have customer social security numbers?
Yeah, this is like using “groupthink” to describe people fleeing a burning building. There’s maybe some measure of literal truth, but it’s an odd way to frame it.
Nice eye!

As for your last question yes that exists. There are two models from Meta that do exactly this, instruction based iteration on photos, Emu Edit[0], and videos, Emu Video[1].

There's also LLaVa-interactive[2] for photos where you can even chat with the model about the current image.

[0]: https://emu-edit.metademolab.com/

[1]: https://emu-video.metademolab.com/

[2]: https://llava-vl.github.io/llava-interactive/
What kind of strawman game are you trying to play? Those are not my words.

Cargo is... ok. It has rough edges, but mostly works. Various things frustrate me, though there's usually work arounds. Workspace support is still a bit half-assed -- I mean, take a look at this terminally open but rather critical issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3946 ; our $work source tree is littered with brittle hardcoded relative paths because of this basic missing feature.

Crates.io is ... not ok. It's a wild west full of hobby and abandoned projects with undisciplined massive dependency trees, has people camping out on names, and lacks even the most basic checks and balances (properly moderated submission process, expiry) and features (org namespaces) that Maven had back in like 2007.

Because of this, incredible discipline is required on large projects with large sets of third party deps or you will end up with multiple versions of things linked into your binary, or with abandoned projects in your dep tree, or just dep bloat generally.

And this ties back to cargo, too. It was only with last week's 1.74.0 release that we finally got the ability to do authenticated repositories? Again, something that Maven supported from day 1.

It's a bad culture that was, I think, imported from the node/npm world. If I were starting a serious corporate project from scratch in 2023, I'd seriously consider a model with checked-in, vendored, moderated dependencies that doesn't use crates.io (or a mirror) at all.
Sometimes the purpose of those decks is really just to get stakeholders to think out loud and express what they actually want. A lot of these execs seem incapable of doing so without being shown something they don't want first.

So often theres no reason for a deck to be more than 3 slides because it will immediately derail and turn into an airing of actual needs.
The three lines of not-haiku made me want to write a haiku.

Do not minify
Your front end is insightful
Let people inspect
A Field Guide for Sabotaging Developer Productivity: The Art of Code Chaos
We're not secret about the artists we work with. I just didn't much care to use their names in a forum where people are being unnecessarily negative. We see it as our responsibility to protect their brand, not the other way around. I'm happy to answer questions, so instead of having "feelings" about who is involved and how, why not simply be curious and ask?

I like Dmitri's work and agree he's incredibly nice, but most "SV-friendly artists" are not going to see their work appreciate over time. Dmitri may be a rare exception but he's not one of our clients.

We work with traditional fine artists. Five out of seven are painters. One does conceptual work. Only one of them has anything to do with the tech world, and that's Kevin & Jenn McCoy, who minted the first NFT back in 2014. They, too, make mostly physical work. Our website shares two case studies.

I understand where you're coming from about the language. It has been a balancing act speaking transparently about the business and appealing to the sensibilities of traditional artists. But the program and the way we speak about it appeal to them because we're transparent, which is refreshing, and because our terms are very fair, thoughtful and equitable. We guarantee we'll hold work for five years, we pay royalties on profits, we promise not to take their work to auction unless their work is already auctioned regularly, and so on. These terms were all designed based on conversations with fine artists and a deep understanding of what's important to them. It's true that they are not used to seeing people talk so openly about the art market and financial incentives of art investing, but they are also not used to people taking such great lengths to design something that works for them. They appreciate our candor and it builds trust. Some artists are turned off by it, there's no question, but many find it a refreshing change. You have to consider that most are tired of the way the art world functions currently, and artists today have very different ideas about how it should work than artists even 10 years ago.

As for galleries funding projects, it happens, but most galleries except for the Gagosians and Paces of the world cannot afford that at all. Either way, it's rife with conflicts of interest and most savvy artists avoid taking gallery funding for production.
Oh, so it's more like the Evangelion Rebuild. That's cool. I haven't touched FF7 Remake yet.
> I think it was a real mistake to create OpenAI as a public charity

Sure, with hindsight. But it didn't require much in the way of foresight to predict that some sort of problem would arise from the not-for-profit operating a hot startup that is by definition poorly aligned with the stated goals of the parent company. The writing was on the wall.
Farse, plain and simple.
We don't need to know or examine strategies to all hypothetical risks that we can come up with, nor could we.
For 90% of things I'd agree with you. When it was plugged into a USB hub that had a couple of cameras, mics and speakers there would be issues.

It's entirely possible that the hub itself was a problem but it hasn't been an issue thus far with Windows.

I _really_ hoped that WSL would be better than it is when I decided to try this. It's quirky.
Game engines can be pretty hefty (especially the big 3D ones like Unity or Unreal), you can always find benefit from faster CPU/GPU/RAM with this type of dev work. This is the only reason I'm tempted to upgrade my M1 Max.
he's a ceo. Its not a given they have to do anything. Sometimes you just let your boys cook and thats it.
who would want to work for an irreplaceable CEO long term