skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an absurd meme perpetuated by the ignorant. I've been through Breezewood countless times, I grew up less than a hour away. If you drive just a minute or two away from Breezewood you'll be in the beautiful rolling hills of Pennsylvnaia. Gorgeous countryside, a great place to raise kids.

This is 3 minutes outside of Breezewood. This is what urban propagandist dudebros would have you believe is suburban hell: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0062641,-78.230818,3a,75y,35...

Breezewood isn't even a suburb, less than two hundred people actually live there. It's essentially a rest stop, a bizarro artifact of some esoteric interaction between I-70 and the turnpike. Any other small town in the area is completely different.
I've used it to find flights and it was actually really nice. I didn't have a destination for my vacation so I asked for flights for cities at least X km away from me and costing at most Y, in the next Z months. It promptly answered.
> AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. Generative AI can be used to generate synthetic content including images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content that appear to be created by humans.

Finally we have a definition for what AI is.
It has built-in ad-block, reading lists and vertical tabs. That's about all I need from a browser.

As for the CEO's donations, I couldn't care less. I don't care who the CEO of Mozilla donates to. I used Firefox for years, even when they (individuals at Mozilla) donated exclusively to democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mozilla-foundation/recipien...

Mozilla (as an organization) has chosen to participate in political activism and pay their executives ridiculous wages. I don't agree with a lot of the decisions they've made, so I don't use their browser. Simple as that.

Perhaps if the browser was just so good, it was impossible to live without, their MAU wouldn't be dropping... but that's not the case.
Contempt was removed from stockfish 12 due to NNUE being patched in. You’ll have to use stockfish 11 or another engine to use contempt.
How long until Replicate has this available?
> not gluten obviously that’s a crock of shit

Celiac disease [1] is a real and potential serious autoimmune disorder. Whether non-celiac gluten intolerance is a real thing is another question, though there's some evidence for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease
Indeed! Of all the influencers/VCs offering up "lessons to take away from the OpenAI debacle," I don't think I've seen, "don't try to partially transition a non-profit into a for-profit 8 years after its founding."
imo hackernews should just automatically replace twitter.com with nitter.net even if just for readability without logging in's sake:

https://nitter.net/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056
Why would the board care about that?
> Greg's use of discriminatory language against a gender-transitioning team member. Despite many promises to address this issue, no meaningful action was taken, except for Greg simply avoiding all communication with the affected individual, effectively creating a hostile work environment. This team member was eventually terminated for alleged under-performance.

High probability this “discriminatory language” is just someone having a hard time switching pronouns. Listing very minor grievances like this give the letter less weight than it otherwise could have.
Along similar lines of interesting memory studies of simpler lifeforms, there is an article titled "These Decapitated Worms Regrow Old Memories Along with New Heads"[0] and study [1] which can alter your assumptions on how and where memories are stored and retrieved.

Also there were claims starting in the 50s where planarians were taught a maze or to respond to certain stimuli and then fed to other planarians and that the trait would sometimes transfer as well. I don't know if any of those studies were reproduced, thus the claims might be dubious, but it would be interesting if they were true.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-decapita...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13881412/
People will switch to brave, not Firefox.
I've noticed that my 'first' brain acts faster and better if my 'second' brain is feeling good.

Probiotic foods, plenty of water and movement have been key factors there.
You really need very long hysterical fear mongering arguments to claim what openai employees are doing is morally questionable.
this is neat but you should probably include the github link somewhere in the Youtube description
In light this fact, the GP comment reads a lot like disinformation.
The relevant passage from the paper co-written by board member Helen Toner:

"OpenAI has also drawn criticism for many other safety and ethics issues related to the launches of ChatGPT and GPT-4, including regarding copyright issues, labor conditions for data annotators, and the susceptibility of their products to "jailbreaks" that allow users to bypass safety controls...

A different approach to signaling in the private sector comes from Anthropic, one of OpenAI's primary competitors. Anthropic's desire to be perceived as a company that values safety shines through across its communications, beginning from its tagline: "an AI safety and research company." A careful look at the company's decision-making reveals that this commitment goes beyond words."

[1] https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/decoding-intentions/
Not surprising to me at all, in approximate order of real, practical importance (and power, if they all band together):

employees
founder/CEO
customers
investors
board
stuff written on pieces of paper

Yes, there are certainly exceptions (a very powerful founder, highly replaceable and disorganised employees, investor or board member who wields unusual power/leverage, etc.) but it does not surprise me at all that the charter should get ignored/twisted/modified when basically everyone but the board wills it.

The only surprise is that anyone thought this approach and structure would be helpful in somehow securing AI safety.
Cory Doctrow’s enshitification proves itself again…
Like the parent said, you typically let the "automatic working copy commit" take the place of the staging area. Really, the staging area still exists in some sense, but it's not a distinct "thing" in the UX; rather than being represented by a unique name in the tool's lexicon (the "index"), it's just represented by another commit. So, you slice and dice that commit, as you see fit.

Similarly, there is no concept of stash. The working-copy-commit model removes the need for a distinct "stash" verb, just like it removes the need for the "index" noun.

(In Git, stashes and the staging area are of course trees of blobs, just like ordinary commits. It's just that the UI surfaces them as distinct nouns.)

> This sounds reasonable but I'd like to somehow distinguish these work-on-progress commits. Is there an equivalent of mercurial commit phases?

There isn't any current notion of phases right now, but we've thought of adding them. At the moment, the main distinction added recently is between "immutable" commits and mutable ones, which is determined by a revset, and that revset by default is something like "Anything published on or an ancestor of a head in the remote." Immutable commits cannot be rewritten to a new commit ID.

Frankly I just tag all of my work-in-progress commits with 'wip:', and I use a revset to select and look through every change authored by me that isn't located in the remote main branch.

We are also thinking about improving the color and iconography of the default output to make immutable vs mutable more distinct. So we're not sure if we even need phases yet, I think...
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire to free 50 hostages
It's not necessarily about the units of code, it's about the bigger picture.

Let's give a hypothetical situation where you split up a PR by the backend and frontend components, but you have some extra fields and endpoints that are not used in your final product. They accidentally get left in because you miss them.

I believe the chance that it would be caught in review is significantly higher in a unified PR review instead of artificially splitting front and back into separate PRs.

And if you need to have the 2 PRs open side by side, then why split it up in the first place?
What was the breakthrough and what have we learned? I'm interested in reading more about this
> I'm much more interested in how Helen managed to get on this board at all.

My gut says that she is the central figure in how this all went down. She and D'Angelo are the central figures, if my gut is right.

It looks like Helen Toner was OK with destroying the company to make a point.

FTA:

> 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 could be consistent with its mission
In most countries copyright laws only protect work that was created by a human being; e.g. the US Copyright Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work. It doesn't matter if an LLM or a simple program or calculation generated the music; in both cases the creator was no human being. There were cases in the press recently where this rule was confirmed for DNN generated works. Also note that copyright law protects "expression of ideas" (i.e. works), not the ideas itself (nor compilations of ideas), and that the work must possess "at least some minimal degree of creativity." It is also debatable whether a single, short melody can be considered a work or a mere idea. Unfortunately, in the last twenty years, the courts (and in some cases also the law) have begun to soften the concept of a work even further and to allow even trivialities to be considered protected works (a similarly decadent development could be observed years earlier in the patent system). Although this pleases some corporations and publishers, it has not exactly helped to improve legal certainty (nor innovation).
Looks like this is basically for the paperwork they need to compel parties to disclose things like business practices if there is a credible complaint against them. Probably until now they have had to go through another department or section even though they've stood up an AI-specific division. So this just makes it easier for the AI team to, say, compel a company making allegedly fraudulent AI claims to justify those claims, or face the same consequences another company might for making, say, fraudulent product effectiveness claims. Same capabilities, just directed at bad actors in this corner of the industry.
"It's like Idefix thinking he's leading Obelix around on a leash."

I don't think I have seen Idefix being on a leash ever .. he just runs around free. And there are indeed many dogs on a leash, who lead their "masters" who just follow behind.
The whole thing is like a bad episode of Silicon Valley
I subscribed for 1 month and it was so bad compared to GPT4 I canceled the very next month. Also getting access to their API is too difficult.
> Kids back then had fucking nothing.

Yep, Gen X is the last generation to have played with literal rocks and sticks.
Just checked out Bard for the first time because of the OpenAI outage. It sucks. It feels worse than GPT-3.5 with worse reasoning and instruction following. This is embarrassing for Google.

EDIT: Just to be clear: I want it to be good. It's unfortunate that it's underwhelming.
Unusable.
yes, and what about my needs, huh?
There's a third case:

It's #1 to some, and #2 to others.
I always wanted to say the same thing. I don't understand why chatgpt doesn't have the "regulatory issue" at all.
Because it did? Firefox usage climbed quite a bit during that period.
Indeed. I wrote an article a while back showing this in action with a Gamecube game running in an emulator: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2021/01/17/hacking-super-monk...
Some domestic 'first class', actually business class, provides glass. It breaks when dropped.
Surprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it would be really cool if we could get a Bard extension for Google Colab, maybe some integration with the Colab Pro would be really interesting analogous to the Data Analysis Plugin
Deciphering clues in a news article to understand how it was reported
Soviet Russia had no oligarchs
I mean, if you're worried about what these higher minded people are worried about, the number of employees at OpenAI is dwarfed by the number of other, more vulnerable employees threatened by this in the economy as a whole.

That's one of the issues with both this and effective altruism as a concept - it's a series of just-so stories with a veneer of math.
Maybe it doesn't know how to speak Canadian yet?
Where I work it takes several hours to get a PR past all the merge gates. If I have 5 small PRs that all build one on top of the other, it can take me the better part of 2 weeks to get them all merged, counting all the context-switching, tweaking based on comments and relaunching of the merge checks, etc.

The only way developers are able to make any kind of velocity in their work is to babysit their PRs morning, evening, and night. "Time for bed. Let me crack open my laptop and check to see if my PR made it past the merge checks. Oops, $RANDOM_CHECK failed because the server that runs it was borked. Let me kick that off again and hope it works overnight so first thing in the morning before I leave for the office I can check again to see if there's some other random failure I can fix and then re-kick off the merge checks so they can run while I'm commuting into the office."

In spite of having it broken into 12 neat commits, a reviewer demanded that I break one of my PRs into multiple PRs. I don't work outside of standard business hours, so I've been iterating on it for the past 4 weeks now in between meetings, design reviews, interviews, etc. Meanwhile a team of about 4 people have been blocked waiting for the full patchset to fully go in.

If instead it were one big PR with multiple commits as I originally had it, I can have gotten it merged in a few days.
Just set to ignore whitespace in the review diff.
Can we now ban companies from marketing products as “AI” when in fact there is none?
Not to mention all the commercials, which if nothing else the commercial break was sometimes enough to dislodge us and get us to think about doing something else. Now with streaming, kids can just go from one show to the next without any interruptions.

On those occasions when we let them watch more than they should I'm sometimes amazed that they even remember to go to the bathroom. Good grief the devices today are addicting.
There's no evidence that Microsoft removed this. It's much more likely that the Gist author, Xe, deleted it.
Real rates in the US are at the highest level since before the GFC, they’ve basically gone from negative to >2%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
Didn't think of that case!

But if you had a full algebra/constraints/logic programming system, you could set a solver rule where the first column items had width X, with fairly high priority.

And other rules(like fit-content) on that same property, to specify what the width should be.

The solver would figure out what X should be, and everything in the first column would have that width unless something even more important changed it.

You could even give rules a "layer" in addition to the solver cost, and properties would only take rules from the highest active layer, so you could still do overriding, just explicitly instead of with specificity.

To avoid confusion with different CSS files, layer could be a hierarchal tuple, and you could manually specify the layer of an imported file, forcing all its layers to become sub layers of the one you specified, so you could override a file, or merge two files in one layer, etc.
If it is harmful, why does lacking veteran status or other criteria make it less harmful and thus less infringing?
Do you really use Htmx in production ? Do you have examples to show ?
I totally agree its important, so I hope it doesn't go the way of Netscape. If they focused only on privacy, that would be fine (since its advertised as such). It really wasn't one issue or another that caused me to abandon it, rather just reading post after post from the org about how they're tackling issue X, Y or Z.

I also don't care about the CEO's comp either _unless_ the business is just... sucking... for lack of a better word. When they let go of 250 people and then bump the CEO's salary by nearly 50%, it just looks a little self-serving.

If Brave or Safari end up sucking enough I look into trying another browser again, I'll give FF a shot. I used it from about 2008 to 2020.
--help is special, but there's also programs which don't distinguish between that and a syntax error. --help should go to stdout, --no-such-flag should go to stderr, even if they are identical messages.
Celiac is real, but very rare. I think GP was referring to gluten intolerance where there’s not much evidence to support it.
You mean worst but successful 'cause of harsh marketing?
https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/3428af84caea0c21...
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1. Pressure to maintain numbers

2. Fear and silence

3. Young ‘uns and a bigger-than-life CEO

4. Weak board of directors

5. Conflicts of interest overlooked or unaddressed

6. Innovation like no other company

7. Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others
No way in hell I’m jumping through all those hoops to use a mediocre LLM. I was up and running with the OAI API in like 15 minutes.
> AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.

PID loop is AI by this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...
The fact remains that plenty of people prefer the name brand, and there's a type of 'fairness' baked in to this scenario as the house brands are very often packaged in a way that looks, simply, cheap; the stores are often paid by the brand name marketers for shelf space so they have a vested interest in not competing too hard with their house brand, so they package in a way which makes it look a bit second rate.
I think minor grievance gets upgraded to major grievance when it’s a leader of the company no longer engaging with you, effectively turning you into a pariah and unable to do your work leading to termination.
The cafe culture is real in The Balkans. In Albania there would be five cafes side by side and they were all packed. Similar feeling in Serbia although I am sure there are some big differences I'm ignoring. I loved it.
Is there any evidence suggesting MS removed the gist? Last I checked the comments were being spammed after Musk posted about it, and the poster asked on HN how to disable comments on a gist. Seems like ample reason for the poster to remove it themself.

Edit: here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371729#38371837
From my experience…very high.
I assume they are referring to the text messages of Elon's that came out during the Twitter purchase lawsuit. They are an interesting read, to see how Elon and his hangers-on communicate day to day. I will say that my own impression was less than impressed, to put it very mildly.
> I’ve been advocating for a solid LiDAR camera on the iPhone

What do you mean by “advocating”? The iPhone has had a LiDAR camera since 2020.
Yet OpenAI is supported in canada
"OpenAI had the right idea. Keep the source closed if you must, and invest heavily on safety, but make the benefits available to all."

Well, you see the result. Apart from this drama, lots of debate and speculation whether we are already in AGI territory, because it is all just a black box and no one knows what exactly was in the training data to be able to judge the quality of the output.

That is way too much AI priesthood for me, just open it for real, if you don't want concentration of power.
It’s cheesy af, you don’t have to wonder why it’s still in beta
Feel like this is complicated by the fact that a lot of the orgs I worked followed Agile and had cards w/ the work divided up in weird ways. A lot of times I was doing shit just b/c the card said so, if I had more autonomy I would of been doing a totally different subsection of work.
I remember doing this with the built-in tool of some emulator. They would let you filter by exact match and you could filter it down again after changing the value (losing a life).

But for stuff where exact matching wasn't practical like say a more or less continous health-bar, you could instead filter by searching for values that decreased / increased / didn't change.

Of course you would also have to guess at the data type but there weren't that many likely choices.
It’s illegal when you provide it as a financial service and don’t follow KYC.
Thanks, though I'm not sure I have a lot of hope. Even most adults (myself included) can't seem to exercise enough self control over all the screens in our lives.
Nobody intended Breezewood to be the way it is, it's the result of a bureaucratic jam between the state and the federal government decades ago. It hasn't been fixed since then because it's profitable the way it is. Virtually nobody actually lives there so there's no local pressure to change it. It is in no way representative of other communities in the region.
But not that insane if they (the board) think the other side of the scale is "AGI that will destroy humanity"
This is how I was raised. Running around and forced to come up with games to entertain myself all day. As soon as I moved out for college I finally got to spend as much of my time on the computer as I wanted. It was great, and I still enjoy programming and video games way more than hiking or sports. I basically consider all that time outside as a waste; I could have been having more fun and learning more but my parents decided that I should enjoy the outdoors. That's not to say that I resisted and moped rather than engaging (most of the time), I tried to make the best of it. But I was constantly aware that I could be doing something I'd enjoy much more. I wouldn't say I resent my parents for raising me like that; they were doing what they thought best. I just think they were wrong.
I’m mostly a curious dev but OpenAI hasn’t stopped me from learning and growing on their platform.
> And if you need to have the 2 PRs open side by side, then why split it up in the first place?

I agree however I think PR's should be split up. Just not into separate PRs. The solution is to actually start reviewing PRs by commit (you can do this in the PR web interface). Everything is split up and can be reviewed separately but you can still see the final diff and while each discrete unit is reviewable, the greater feature is also still one discrete reviewable item.
https://archive.is/nbwGi

for completeness
More procedures to operate will limit competition
That's true. We don't have evidence that Microsoft has done it.

But this is the risk when there is conflict of interest with big corporations.
The posting is from Feb 2022, nearly 2 years ago.
How is this suddenly trending on Hacker News?
He lives in Dubai. What's the point of having money if you cannot escape that giant mall?
> the poster asked on HN how to disable comments on a gist

id love a link for that if you could plz
I've been trying git-town for PR stacking for the past couple of weeks and it's pretty nice.