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> Aside: I prefer Mercurial myself, and I hope to keep using it for personal projects until I die (:

One of my favorite stories happened three or four jobs ago... at this job I kept a giant whiteboard that I had swiped from a conf room, behind my cubicle. And whenever anybody asked questions we put it up on the board. We were an SVN shop and someone had asked how Git worked and I was like "do you want me to explain Git, which is harder to understand, or Mercurial, which is basically the same but a little easier if you're coming from SVN?" and they said Mercurial. So that is how for a week or two a set of sketched diagrams sat around behind me describing Mercurial.

So while that was happening, I was in the middle of some big commit, this guy Cal comes over. Cal is, we'd classify him as nontechnical but he's essentially the Product Owner for the stuff I'm building, he's the one whose workflows the software needs to enable. And I motion to him that I need 5 minutes and finish my thought and save and commit and whatever else, take off my headphones and ask "what's up, Cal?"

He has been staring at the diagram for those minutes, bored, and this non-technical user says, "okay, so let me see if I got this straight, inside some folder there's another folder named dot-h-g that is a repo..." and goes on to explain everything about Mercurial from a simple diagram, except that he can't figure out what problem it solves. And so I tell him, "you know how on fileserv everybody has to back up every file by appending a timestamp? software developers use these commits instead, so that every commit tells you who changed it and they have to say why they changed it, and that's how you save it," and his eyes kind of go wide and he's like "why don't we have this?!" and I'm like "you could! let me show you TortoiseHg..." and he really liked it, and of course then couldn't convince anybody to actually use it. (There's a problem where you really need to lock, say, an XLSX file.)

Mercurial is always to my mind the version control system that a typical nontechnical office worker could appreciate just from looking at a whiteboard diagram.
>The designers say the issue isn't necessarily one of cost, pointing out that their pylons are made out of the same material as a regular pylon, simply put together in a different way.

I feel compelled to point out that any "artistic" deviation from structural optimality will necessarily use more material to achieve the same sturdiness, and hence cost more. And when you have to put one every few hundred meters across a whole country, that's kind of a big deal.
Would you mind to define 'these'?

In case not, I think by these people you accuse them of putting them all into one basket, because of heritage, ethnicity, race, whatnot. Which isn't the case, IMO. What shouldn't be the case either, is that some people/entities which have an intersecting set with some group should be sacroscant because of said intersection. That doesn't work for me.

Edit: In this context, I think what's happening now, is that someone who is percieved as impertinent arriviste by certain established elements, gives a shit about that sacrosanctness. Which enrages them. Which is good. Because they deserve to whiplashed hard. Like their whiny groupies.

Btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LIKxqSB2I

Aaand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3sKIV6KugA

(giggle)
Quick Question -- The tutorial says:

"The Phind Model is not currently supported in Pair Programmer mode."

... but I'm able to select "Pair Programming" and choose the Phind model at the same time in the user interface. Is the tutorial simply out-of-date?
There's also a lot of ignorance at play. I know an American doctor whose had patients worry about the surgery robot going rogue.
Wayback version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121210833/https://gist.gith...
> Apparently, Web Environment Integrity will return as Android WebView Media Integrity API in early 2024.

This will kill accessing YouTube with (many) 3rd party apps to bypass ads, right? 2024 will be interesting.
I agree. These silly hit pieces about how everything anyone does is terrible are just sad and depressing.

Further, their lack of text transcription options are bad and they should feel bad for them. I don't want to watch a video of what should be a 5 paragraph essay.
Even Vitalik knows that Ethereum is centralised.

> If AWS were shut down, the chain would continue as usual.

Continue laundering money for foreign state actors and narcotics businesses, sounds about right as this is is what crypto is good for.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/united-states-seized-and-...
ChatGPT is at capacity and inaccessible now
'No way to prevent this,' says only nation where this regularly happens.
(Sorry - The drive is to hold stolen model weights. Keen audience members would have figured that out by this point in the film. Cue music.)
Explaining why "mommy and daddy are arguing" to an AI baby super intelligence would be, well, surreal. Also, it'd probably left to an intern. Yikes.
Try using the playground, with a more code specific system prompt, or even put key points/the whole thing into the system prompt. I see better performance, compared to the web.
Copy at IA: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121210833/https://gist.gith...

Digest mirror: https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0...
I assume because it's still extremely early.
It looks like 90%+ of the company is ready to join him and other senior members at Microsoft under a new banner and with the backing of Microsoft which is the major cost center for OpenAI, and also own 49% of OpenAI. It's got to be a furiously grand couple of 10x'ers for the remaining 10% that stay behind to compete with Sam, so while some other CEO might sit in the same seat as him now and might have similar competences, I'd say that in light of this history he is critical, at least right now. We might ask if Steve Jobs was critical at Apple, it sure did seem so when he came back in 1997. History suggest so, but people will of cause have differing opinions on the matter.
contrary to what many people believe, there’s nothing special about digital currency that makes things less illegal than they are with traditional US currency
I didn't look just once, what I have is essentially a time lapse, with screenshots which I took every 15 seconds, roughly. If it turns out that someone at YC used even the flagging feature of their regular (non-mod) user account to manipulate this YC-owned forum for financial gain, then that could certainly be in Cybercrimes' jurisdiction, with the caveat being that it has to be inter-state to be in Federal jurisdiction. So this would only apply if one of the people conducting manipulation was located outside of California. .... Unless it can be argued that since OpenAI is legally in Delaware, that even a person based in California would meet the interstate criteria via the California-Delaware distinction.

Here's an example FBI case from their website that shares some similar overall features to what the crime would be, if there turns out to have been a crime. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-new-yorkers-plead-g...
I can't get past the captcha. Is there a non user-hostile link?
Not doubling down, this is just the original article that started the controversy.
Generalised Treebrained Pranformer.
I didn't know Vermeij was posting these, thanks for sending this link. All posts seem recent
How can I use this without a computer like Alexa for conversations?

Like an Android device with a smart speaker? I think there is an OpenAI app.

Serious question.
Yes, this, but you've made a very long and amazing and intricate description of something that basically amounts to an essential workflow thing that those of us who worked at e.g. Google or on Chromium just found intuitive and normal: the comments I make are on the specific code/diff at the point in time that the comment was made and when I see you've resolved or updated it, I as a reviewer can see exactly what changed.

GitHub's PR tool sucks for this. It's also clunky, wastes boatloads of screen real estate, and lacks keyboard shortcuts.

These days I work in GitLab's MR system, and it's meh, but slightly better. But I still miss Gerritt. So much better, even if takes a while to get used to.
The mental gymnastics people are making to somehow kowtow to Elon really amaze me. “Who cares if my ad runs over Nazi twitter!” Really? That’s what you’re going with?
I don't know why that typo bothers me so much. It just feels like when someone with no technical background tries to explain something to me, and they don't even know what the technology they're talking about is called.
Twitter Elon or SpaceX Elon?
It fails to transcribe due to an API outage at the moment but I imagine that's the correct button.
I don’t see the relation between racially segregated activities in a US school, and a UK non-profit that helps minorities and migrants facing domestic violence. (One that, looking at the Wikipedia page, seems kinda racist insofar as it focuses on domestic violence among Asians specifically, as if there isn’t plenty of domestic violence among white Britons.)

And I disagree that people in the UK wouldn’t take exception to segregating students by race and declaring half south asian people to be 1/4 of a black person for purposes of such activities: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/23/right-is-winning...
I'm no adtech expert but I suspect that potential customers would form mental associations between two things that often show up together, like pro-Nazi content and the ads I'm sponsoring, and I wouldn't want that.
If it didn’t apply then you could buy Monopoly money from a third party called let’s say Mether, mix it in a jar, and sell Monopoly money back to Mether.

If a law is defeated by something as simple as that, what’s the point of having the law? It’s like saying if you commit crimes wearing gloves you get to walk because there are no fingerprints.
Seeing a lot of comments here already that don't know what "brand safety" is.

We've lived in a time where many media platforms were burning VC money and that brand safety wasn't as important. Now we're seeing everything converge back to middle-of-the-road, inoffensive content due to the reliance on advertising.
The kind of pressure microsoft is able to exert here is mind blowing. The hero worshipping they were able to cultivate, with so much media pressure, they truly control our lives
I don’t see anything particularly corrupt about mediamatters. Just the normal baseline level of corruption one sees in US politics where corruption has been legalized.

It’s just a blatantly partisan operation mostly dedicated to criticism of conservative media with close ties to the Democratic Party and the Clintons.

If anything I’m more critical of the SLAPP free speech advocate Elon issued against Media Matters, and Ken Paxton using his power to direct government resources towards a partisan investigation of Media Matters in response to this drama. These BOTH strike me as more corrupt than Media Matters pointing out what posts are appearing by what ads to put pressure on advertisers to cut their ties with Twitter. If anything Musk and Paxton are helping media matters look squeaky clean by contrast.
Ah good catch, we do need to update the tutorial. Thanks!
Falsehoods programmers believe about laws and courts usually boil down to incorrectly thinking that it's impossible to prove intent.
Well.

One person retained said documents, bragged about having them, disclosed their contents to random, non-cleared people, lied about having declassified them, and then when the government asked them back, lied again and claimed he didn't have them, instructed his underlings to hide or destroy them, and obstructed the subsequent investigation.

The other person didn't realize he had them, returned them promptly when they were found, and cooperated with the ensuing investigation.

If you really think these two things are the same, I'm not sure you're going to have a productive conversation with anyone who wants to argue in good faith.

Also note that it's not just Biden who fell into that second category; Pence did as well. Funny how you didn't see the need to mention Pence. And good on him for also cooperating and returning what he had.
You're lucky - it's the same man ;) https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-trouble...
China has just built some of the largest military field hospitals across from Taiwan. The same goes for massive new air raid shelters across the straits.

Their official policy is also to take back Taiwan.

cool to witness intro scenes of war movies 70 years from now.
How's Linux 2.6 going?
I remember back in the day a memory editor for DOS.

It was a TSR (terminate and stay resident, esentially a background process) that you'd load before firing up the game.

Once in the game, at any time you could press a hot key (F12, I think) and it would freeze the game and open a TUI with a hex editor where you could search for values (money, number of lives, whatever else you could think of), change them and go back to the game.

Fun days!
>Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that mission would be fulfilled.

Now we know where that came from
Original link, but may have a paywall if you aren’t a subscriber so may be “hostile” for some people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...
Just pure speculation since I haven’t followed board closely.

But what if the thinking about the non-profit company goal was shrinking over time (because of money)? The guys who are left, are the few idealists.

They fear taking new members, because finding idealists is hard. If you are not idealist, money and power will corrupt.
Articles like this is how you get things like YouTube where even a single swear word in the middle of your video gets it demonitized. I wish brands would be less conservative about potential edge cases of where they show up and I wish journalists would stop painting these edge cases as being what is happening 100% of the time.
Programmers also thing the law is code and the judge a compiler, and if you find a bug you win.
I think the complaint is worth reading, not because everything in it has already been proven true, but it's important to understand the claims being made:
https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/3428af84caea0c21...

It's also useful to understand the origin of Media Matters and know a little about its founder, David Brock. He's a lifetime "dirty tricks" political agent who by his own admission in his 2002 memoir has knowingly and repeatedly put not just misleading statements but outright lies in print before.

Elon Musk also has a record making misleading statements and in some cases outright lies, but what's under discussion is the observable behavior of the platform which leaves behind a wealth of empirical evidence; logs, humans in the loop, third party caching and scraping, etc.

If the outcome of this case becomes available to a prediction market, I would bet 10:1 against Media Matters prevailing absent a full retraction and apology which leads to the suit being dropped.
> Using RE2::FullMatch() with leading or trailing .* is an antipattern. Instead, change it to RE2::PartialMatch() and remove the .*.

This is something the compiler should do for me.
I hate how reasonable this statement is.... 2 years ago you would be dismissed as an idiot.
I wonder if 1 of the board would love it if customers switched to Poe.
Yes, that is what I meant. They remain on public property and lawfully refuse to leave if/when asked.

I called it out as different because they’re lawfully filming a private area which is visible from a public area (and also from above) rather than simply filming public areas. Apologies if I was unclear.
I don't know which can pay more, Apple iPhone vs Nvidia DGX. Perhaps even if Nvidia can pay more than Apple, their chip is so big so not suitable for first bleeding edge chip.
As a paying customer, how much downtime until they have to refund me?
You're exactly right - tainted, because the contract killer's money becomes clean (laundered) at the expense of the rest of the money.

Now, as to whether everyone who had money in that pool will be found guilty by "Big Bad Government", which I think is what distresses you - the answer is no. There are additional criteria, as the article mentions.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practise to deceive!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmion_(poem)
Yep, he started just under two weeks ago! https://twitter.com/ObbeVermeij/status/1723424031808839801
The state also brings civil actions that are not about damages or being made whole. See the ongoing business fraud case in NY against Trump.
Why not use Stanford Stanza?
Tell that to the judge I say
Same. It’s insane how fast reliance builds up
Mistral is a big step up from llama2 in my experience, really impressive to see a 7B model that can do so much. I haven't noticed a considerable improvement from the 13b version, and by using 7b I can keep my context size very large.
I still can't believe there's a computer program with more logic and restraint that the majority of humanity and even worse it can call the right shots a non-negligible percent of the time.
Yes, this is my personal workflow though. Academic/school.

My backup is much more manual/slow, and I can't always keep pace with live lectures w/o my GPT setup for note-taking, etc.
I'd assume because it's faster to move the index finger immediately up a row to the T when typing quickly than it is to move the ring finger up and over to the P. So chorded together, you end up hitting the T before the P to make GTP. Maybe it's a novel enough key chord that we can't rely on muscle memory to execute it well.

At least on my US qwerty keyboard, I notice this class of typo myself often enough.

We all have our quirks when it comes to common typos based on keystrokes. Not gonna speculate on spelling mistakes. Glass houses, stones, and all that.
or maybe the load of audio inbound/outbound from opening voice to all users
Truly sad to hear, I'm confused why they didn't think about its descent when it was first raised though? I understand that more things are possible now, but there should have been some thought on the matter back then. Making it crash into the Earth doesn't seem like a great plan.

Also, maybe I missed it but what would be the expected date of its eventual descent / destruction?
Sort of. If one person has been paid in crypto for a contract killing and other participants either know that they are facilitating the laundering of illegally-obtained money or suspect as such, then they are culpable.

I haven't really been paying much attention to the mixer thing and I'm not an expert, but the gist is that if you build a big cash blender with the explicit purpose of masking the origin of money, then you are very clearly and willfully facilitating money laundering. If you participate in this money blender, then you are probably assisting in money laundering. The whole thing is shady by nature.
It's speculated that pressure is being put on OpenAI employees to sign the letter requesting his return: https://nitter.net/benlandautaylor/status/172700004961869463... If that's true, I imagine other kinds of pressure could be applied too.

Sam seems like the kind of guy you don't want to cross. Paul Graham says he's "extremely good at becoming powerful": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

I linked that New Yorker article from another thread, and dang said my comment was downweighted, but he wouldn't say how, just that it wasn't done by a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357062 (I know people don't like it when you complain about the moderation, but it seems topical in this case, since it gives insight into other machinations which could be happening)
Haven't you seen 'Yes, Minister'?

But in all seriousness I can't imagine all the layers of un-elected, unaccountable bureaucratic petty power centres a mere elected official would have to navigate to get anything done in London.

It's the same in all westminster democracies - I'm from New Zealand and it's projected to take 10 years to make a 3.5km/2.2mi underground rail tunnel in our largest city. Let's be optimistic and say it's only 4 years late - that'd be a bit over half a yard/metre of tunnel per day.
Is there anyone else left?
CNN is not relevant for anything
I don't get the analogy.

If I have $100 from an unknown source, and then I put it into the jar and get $100 back out, I still have $100 from an unknown source. I can't say, "well, I got the $100 from the jar." The rules of the jar are you have to put $100 in to get $100 out. So, where did the initial $100 come from? Still unknown!
5. Be part of a new team.
Software rot
With Joseph Gordon-levitt.
I wish GPT was up to create an image of this
Why didn't these companies care when their ads were placed next to pro-Nazi and other unsavory content a few years ago?
This worked for me: https://archive.is/eN5PY
The only specific accusation made in the article is that Sam criticized Helen Toner for writing a paper: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/decoding-intentions/

That says Anthropic has a better approach to AI safety than OpenAI.

Sam apparently said she should have come to him directly if she had concerns about the company's approach and pointed out that as a board member her words have weight at a time when he was trying to navigate a tricky relationship with the FTC. She apparently told him to kick rocks and he started to look for ways to get her off the board.

All of that ... seems completely reasonable?

Like I've heard a lot of vague accusations thrown at Sam over the last few days and yet based on this account I think he reacted the exact same way any CEO would.

I'm much more interested in how Helen managed to get on this board at all.
That's a bit naive, to put it mildly. It presumes that nobody else would be able to replicate the effort and that the parties that are able to replicate it would also destroy theirs after proving that it could be done. Fat chance.
> humans are [not] particularly “special.”

Insertion mine, to keep the gist of the quoted sentence. Humans are special, though, depending on how much you value the ability to be concerned about the fundamental nature of the universe and its related truths, and the capability to extract such findings (though we may be frequently wrong...but thankfully can recognize that and course correct).
Article is about cells in the gut that we barely knew anything about, due to stomach acid and bile making it hard to identify their genetic material. Some researchers are making progress in this area and it's amazing.
I assume it's a lot like most outages. A few teams are all in some Slack channel while a primary incident handler is doling out work to a few other on-call engineers to get things up and running again.

I doubt it's any more interesting than an outage at another company.
Discussed earlier (99 votes) and flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570

Comments suggest there's no way to know if it's authentic (probably why flagged), nor does it seem particularly relevant (standard tech company politics).
The endless captcha is a result of using Cloudflare DNS. Using another DNS provider will make archive.is work
> GPT 4 can continue a completion contrary to your belief

When did I say that? I said they work differently. Claude has nothing in between the prefill and the result, OpenAI has tokens between the last assistant message and the result, this makes it different. You cannot prefill in OpenAI, Claude's prefill is powerful as it effectively allows you to use it as general completion model, not a chat model. OpenAI does not let you do this with GPT.