skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are to a degree insulated from the consequences of their actions or thinking in general whereas the actual stakeholders (employees who need jobs, the people who deserve+need stabillity, and the State who needs order).

Notice how I left out shareholders/executives/"Chairmen" etc. Anybody who has a guranteed soft landing or golden parachute will never be in my calculus unless the are critical to metric at hand directly speaking.

They are obviously important but they are always taken care of contractually anyway and if they are as robust as they should be and have no excuse not to be (unless thry're literally ALL-IN on the venture), they will be just fine.
One thing we've learned over the past few days is that Toner had remarkably little control over OpenAI's actions. If a non-profit's board can't fire the CEO, they have no way to influence the organization.
I think that level of honesty isn't unusual in Silicon Valley.

Personally, if I were the prospective customer, I'd be angry at being lied to, and my message to my team would probably be that we'd be foolish to depend on this startup after they've shown from the start that they're dishonest.

If I were an established company, I think I'd also have our lawyers look at situation, to make sure the institutional knowledge was captured, and to see whether there's anything else we needed to do.

(For example of something else to do: though I'd treat things as confidential by default, in some future n-ary relationship/deal, is there a situation in which I'm obligated to mention to a third company that we previously had negative vetting info on the other company.)

But in the context of current startup culture, I don't think "fake (fraud) it till make it" is that unusual. And it's been normalized.

But I still don't want to do business with dishonest startup founders -- whether it's because they're naturally lying liars, or because they're surrounded by frequent dishonesty and they're not smart enough to cut through that.
The source isn't really the point. If you normally have 200GW of solar generation but it's cloudy so now you have 10% of that, you don't have surplus generation of any kind. The remaining power plants can't even cover the current load, the batteries are being discharged rather than charged and when they run out, what do you do?
A Game a Day with GenAI
You can define good however you like. That’s not an exception, it’s baked right in.
FOSS developers should probably slap a license on it that says it's free unless you are a company that has a revenue greater than $X million dollars. This is still fair to everyone since for the company the price of using the software would be peanuts. And now at least these companies are paying for the development and maintenance.
Compute credits are more valuable. It is more difficult to get GPUs than real money.
My first experience with the 'live' ISO forced me to find how to get the traditional non-live ISO instead. I was trying to set up a software RAID, and it would just crash no matter how I tried to configure it. Tried the same thing in the non-live version and it worked perfectly first time.
Sadly now the live installer is the only option. I recently set up a machine to run folding@home, and it took me four attempts before the installer didn't crash and I could get a working machine. The trick was to run with all defaults and not change anything. Insanity. How the support forums aren't flooded with complaints is beyond me.
Santa Talks
When people make these comments, do they mean median rent for a 2 bedroom, or price per sq ft of a 4 bedroom home, or median home price, or what? Because any of those can distort the reality quite a bit, depending on what someone is looking for.

Sure the 'average' apartment in NY might be similar to the average apartment in Seattle, but does the latter have a full kitchen in a safer neighborhood while the former is a half kitchen in a rough neighborhood?

Is the average home price both 2M but one of them gets you a 4 bedroom house and the other gets a 2 bedroom condo?

Not to say that there isn't better reasons to live in NYC, but 'CoL' is hard to meaningfully capture by service level stats.
The bottleneck for "easy integration" into games and applications right now is as much the RAM usage as is the slowness. This would probably bring the speed to an acceptable level but you would still have to hold the whole model in RAM.

That would make it a lot more feasible to run models in the cloud (triple digit RAM is a lot more abundant than VRAM), but wouldn't do that much for consumer hardware.
Those are example quotes that a hacking group would theoretically make to justify hacking, say, "Iran" in order to look good. Substitute "any random target" for "Iran" to get the general point.
This is a good reflection, but I do disagree with the view of honest efforts from Google to improve the world being met with unnecessary external criticism.

People outside Google don't have the benefit of thinking of any particular project as being run only by the individuals currently working on it—those particular people may leave the company or change teams or move on to other projects. It's Google that's making it, and Google who will run it in the future, and we have to account for what Google might do with it 5, 10, 20 years from now.

No amount of the original Chrome team being excellent, well-intentioned, skilled, thoughtful makers can stop today's Chrome from cornering the market into an effective monopoly and leveraging that to try and benefit Google's ad products. That's one of the things you have to pay for when working for a large company—the support and knowledge and compensation are great boons but you don't get to just be yourself anymore, you're _Google_, your own work is always at risk of getting co-opted by others, and external people will view and criticize your work accordingly.
>There is certainly an evolutionary advantage in creating an insecticide that also attracts species that helps the plant reproduce or spread...

It is rather a "side effect" that came about later.
And this is why we can't have glittery things. Socket puppets everywhere.
It's not often discussed but there is a cultural gulf between pre-IPO and post-IPO Googlers that still impacts almost 20 years later.

To put it crudely, one dwindling set of idealistic millionaires vs a growing set of capitalist thousandaires, each set with very different motivations to login to their computer each morning.
infrastructure is a non-zero cost _and_ knowing that it's "authentic" is non-zero cost also.
M3 has AV1 hardware decoding built in, it should increase battery life in theory. Check the codec used by YT using stats for nerds.
Yes, but not by directly asking it.
Looks interesting, wish this had been around when I started my company.
I think I'm out of the loop on tweet protocol...What's the significance of all lowercase?
usually video game servers, need a like-for-like copy of the engine for sync purposes and to make sure the clients aren't lying about physics calculations. up until recently there hasn't been an incentive for game developers to use/work on linux support - so game servers use good old windows.
Reminder that this group primarily does things “for the lulz” and considers themselves more blackhat than anything else (including hacktivist).
This is close enough:

https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/23/23-007r1.pdf
Might want to add an intro paragraph. I initially thought that "Email Obfuscation" meant something different, like trying to trick a mail client.
Hell is other people – Why individualism shrinks the next generation
The Wörgl Freigeld Experiment
Does it actually prevent regulators going after them?
> So far I haven't found anything near the quality of GPT-4

GPT-4 has an estimated 1.8 trillion parameters. Orders of magnitude beyond open source models and ~10x GPT-3.5 which has 175 billion parameters.

https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-architecture-datasets-costs-an...
> If this succeeds that will kill that business model and who benefits from that?

Everyone. They shouldn't be allowed to price dump computer components so they can charge fat margins by enforcing DRM. They shouldn't even be allowed to own the platform at all. The EU should hit these video game companies with the same laws they're going to hit Google and Apple with. Gotta put an end to their little digital fiefdoms.
Forget dystopian scenarios: AI is pervasive today and the risks are often hidden
I laughed at that request at least
I have a 2015 MBP with Linux that I miss every single day while using the work M1 Pro with its crappy keyboard and short key travel. The M1 is faster but doesn't impact my work much, and I find macOS really frustrating to use.
Re:Edit the point is still the same if the cause is gun shot it's fairly conclusive if the cause is airstrike or shelling than it's more likely to be collateral damage.
Really depends on the kind of music you wanna make. Since this is a sampler though, you can probably fire up something like reaper (free) or fl studio (less free) and start chopping up your favorite songs to make something new. Teenage engineering makes some really unique hardware though. I own their OP-1 and it’s a hell of a learning curve to get efficient with it but it’s so cool.
Right, so getting Sam fired was retaliation for that.
US doesn’t want to run the world and control other countries? This is an incredibly immature understanding of geopolitics. Do you understand what NATO is? Do you understand how many military bases the US has. Do you understand the involvement of the US in wars outside its own country. Do you understand the political and military powerhouse the US is. Do you not understand these goals have been accomplished with only Russia and China pushing back? US has formed a strategic alliance with every powerhouse except Russia. What US wants occurs. It has nothing to do with money. It has to do with spheres of influence. I can’t believe I am downvoted for voicing my opinion by uneducated techies who do not understand global politics. This website becomes more like Reddit every week. Why am I downvoted for providing my opinion?
Firefox extensions on mobile are already a game changer. I switched a few months ago.

The only downside so far: the way you manage/view downloads isn't so great/intuitive.
I believe it's quoting a survey where you had to pick from "frameworks". Meaning "use the native tools" wasn't a choice on the list. Choices were things like Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Ionic, Xamarin, etc.
I’m also curious what he meant by that statement. By leading does he mean most used?
NASA's Psyche spacecraft just fired a laser 10M miles away in deep space
Original Press release:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-deep-space-optical-comm-...
> the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of

Is it unfair, though? I went from being a huge fan of Google to being a huge Google critic because of real changes in what Google did. I think it's reasonable to question their motives.

This isn't the same as questioning the motives of the engineers, though. I have no doubt that there are a lot of good people who work there. However, their presence doesn't change the reality of the company's behavior as a whole.
(2008) (Note the reference to gcc 4.2.)
Common blocks for the win.
> How can the work both be "genuinely well-intentioned" and at the same time have "complete absence of concern for the user"?

I think the author is distinguishing between (1) well-intentioned work from workers in the trenches and (2) indifference to the user from upper management. It's institutional misalignment.
Well, if ye really want ol' me to put me noggin to it... I reckon ye could start with addin' a proper gaming corner! Ye know, some sturdy tables 'n' comfy chairs where the lads 'n' lasses can gather 'round for some good ol' dice chuckin' or card playin'. Next up, a big ol' fire pit! Not just any fire, mind ye, but one where we can roast our snacks 'n' share tales of our adventures. And lastly, a grand stash of provisions—plenty o' snacks 'n' drinks to keep the energy high for when we're plannin' our next raid or just takin' a breather. How's that for some improvements, eh?
I mean, fair play. If you squat on a username and don't do anything with it for years, having it yoinked seems reasonable. It's not like you paid for it.
Southeast asia has had US military presence for longer than communist or even democratic china has existed. Japan and the Philippines for example are still pretty much American possessions from a military, economic, and foreign policy perspective, despite the guise of self determination for the populace.
That's a good site. Unfortunately, they do not ship to Canada. Will need to look at them later when I visit the US. I have a service that provides a US address but no immediate trips planned.
Actually, you’re flat out wrong. I have an incurable genetic condition. Unless it is BANG AFTER THIS NO MORE SYMPTOMS then no, it’s just another treatment.

Cure means gone. That’s why Cancer people talk about remission. I’m old enough to remember the talk around curing cancer and then it came back and killed people the medical community walked it back.
Let me rephrase:
> just don't make a unnecessarily complex web app, so it will be fast

Lots of apps include features that were never really asked for by the customer, but are included because it was easier for the developer.
Just a early access form, has features already developed but I would like to test it on a small group of founding users.
I also sometimes use it to then open the gem source code and insert a `binding.pry` to debug but that's... uh... not something I'd really endorse.
I don't agree with the author's complaint about the culture changing, it's just that the leadership is weak and directionless, which was also mentioned.
I don't know the details of what kinds of actions this group actually undertakes, so maybe I'm wrong with this assumption, but by publicly exposing sloppy security without actively endangering people or demanding ransom payments, they are probably tempering security of their targets in the long term by exposing sloppy security practices. Free pen-testing.
"Windows is a service and updates are part of that service. So if you could reboot to apply updates, say, now, that would be terrific."
I'm mainly reflecting on friends and family that are heavily anti tax. Probably most easily seen by places that have a hard time justifying the funding of a school district.
Despite all the complaining about OpenAI not being open, I've been able to do amazing things with their broad API access.

I feel fortunate to have access to it at all, knowing how much it has cost to build out and what it's capable of (whether we're talking about GPT 3.5, Dalle3, GPT 4, Whisper, GPTs etc).

I've been waiting for GPT 4 to catch up in time so I can talk to it about Godot 4's latest capabilities. Thanks to GPTs I've just gone ahead and started building my own GPT for that purpose. It's pretty wonderful what OpenAI has made accessible and possible thus far.
DRAM Choices Are Suddenly Much More Complicated
Yes, 95% agreement in any company is unprecedented but:

1. They can get equivalent position and pay at the new Microsoft startup during that time, so their jobs are not at risk.

2. Sam approved each hire in the first place.

3. OpenAI is selecting for the type of people who want to work at a non-profit with a goal in mind instead of another company that could offer higher compensation. Mission driven vs profit driven.

Either way on how they got to that conclusion of banding together to quit, it was a good idea, and it worked. And it is a check on power for a bad board of directors, when otherwise a board of directors cannot be challenged. "OpenAI is nothing without its people".
> How can the work both be "genuinely well-intentioned" and at the same time have "complete absence of concern for the user"?

Only the first was a description of the work, the other was a description of the culture to which those doing the work are subjected to from above.
And, as the article postulates, that sort of bean counting goes directly against what used to excite Google's employees, and is leading to their continued disillusionment.
There's very little to be gained by making a post like that focus on an individual. I do think there are often changes in companies over time as they age and grow--but it really isn't so much about some specific individual much of the time. To some degree, it's inevitable.
Most large tech companies grew by >30% during the covid lockdowns, so I don't think company culture is much of a priority for them.
>but have worked with many like her in my career

Haven't we all? Unfortunately, in most corporate jobs, your main job is looking good in front of your boss, and making your boss look good in front of his boss, who further perpetuates this theatrical shit-show. Your actual work comes a distant second.

I burned myself once or twice by keeping my head down just focused on doing quality work and helping others, but without taking care that it also had the right upward visibility to my boss and the right people above him, and ended up getting laid off, while people who were experts at pretending to work and glorifying every little achievement kept getting the laurels and promotions.

Such is the case in very large orgs with rotten culture and lack of transparency, and you need to withstand the heat if you're gonna be working in the kitchen.
This was my experience too as well as some of my college friends who work at MSFT and GOOG. Microsoft engineers aren't stupid (of course they weren't) but there tends to be more dumb people and fewer very very smart people.

This could also be incentives at the companies. I have a buddy who went to Microsoft, worked 30hr weeks, and was bored. Dude is brilliant and level headed. The team was lazy AF. Worked there for 5 years and went to Facebook and is thriving, going from Senior to Staff rather quickly.
Even in this event Mars would have been a safe haven. Unlike Earth, the atmosphere on Mars is completely toxic with the planet exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation. Not exactly what one would call benefits, but in this case they would be, because human settlement on Mars would already entail the sort of lifestyle and technology that would render this sort of catastrophe relatively harmless.
morons would be the correct term IMAO
Why would gay furry hackers even be interested in catgirls?

Shouldn't it be catboys?
Unrecord looks amazing, I forgot about that one.

IMO, though, the lighting in the indoor scenes is just not quite right. There's something uncanny valley about it to me. When the flashlight shines, it's clearly still a computer render to my eyes.

The outdoor shots, though, definitely look flawless.
But being at OpenAI, they now probably have the reputation of belonging to the top.
Or at least check that it works on Wine. I find these days that when Windows programs work on Wine they work very, very well.
It's still Llama 2.
There is no universal truth in consulting. Consultants still write COBOL.
This is hard to change because its a policy that affects finance, legal, infosec, and it.

Finance has been depreciating those laptops as capital assets and if youre going to buy one from the company that means its not depreciated, and they need to amend their taxes.

Legal and security are concerned about the data and dont know how to prove the encryption really worked and the keys are gone, but the recycling company has insurance and certifications “proving” they dispose of things properly.
From 1M to Graham's Number (2014)
Wow, AndroidPolice has fallen so much since the acquisition.
Ian's post is pretty incisive, although I've read so many of these over the past 15 years or so. And the prescription is always to go back in time.

I don't really think that's possible. When you're a newcomer, a disruptor, the whole point is to be different. You're bold, you have a clarity of purpose, you say things like "we're building a new kind of a company" or "the user comes first."

But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift. It's no longer "why wouldn't you try this" or "let's do the right thing." It's "why would you rock the boat and risk the nice thing we have?" It's not just about profit. Careers and incomes are at stake. People will get hurt.

Risk tolerance aside, your organizational structure ossifies too. When you have people who have been running processes or departments in a particular way for fifteen or twenty years, they have little desire to start over from scratch. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, because what's the alternative? A cutthroat corporate environment where you're never sure about the future of your job?

I think the only comedy here is that Google looked at these old-school companies like Microsoft or IBM and figured they can be different just because they "get it." And then, over time, they rediscovered the reasons why old companies always end up operating in a particular way.
The Spectrum of Openness
Tkey-sign-CLI has been released
Elon Musk Wants to Destroy the Media
Analytics are good and useful in a broader context.

They often are a valuable signal which combined with a broader environment (news cycle, activity by marketing dept, socio economic factors, etc) can yield meaningful insights.

Nothing exists in a vacuum.

How do I know? Our customers use Wide Angle Analytics and are doing just that. Their feedback indicates that yes, analytics are good.
What stops Amazon from establishing a separate company called Totally Not Amazon, which employs 1 person, and hosts your software for the rest of Amazon, and has revenue much less than 1M$ so they can use it for free?

If they need more capacity than 1M would plausibly buy them from themselves, just establish however many more identical companies are necessary, none of which exceed 1M$.
More collateral damage to journalists than the sum total of what happened across an entire year across the entire globe. That doesn't raise an eyebrow?
Are you sure Ilya was the root of this.

He backed it and then signed the pledge to quit if it wasn't undone.

What's the evidence he was behind it and not D'Angelo?
Now overlay all of the bases, airfields, and other assets throughout the Pacific. There are several islands that are effectively stationary aircraft carriers.

In the event of any Pacific war with the Americans you would be staring down 8-10 super-carrier groups, another 8 smaller carriers and a dozen or so islands each equivalent to a super-carrier’s power.

Most nations would struggle to defeat a single carrier group. Imagine fighting twenty.
I predict his character arch will be similar to Adam Neumann and Travis Kalanick - first the media gushes over him and praises him as a genius. Then the media starts to question him. Then they start to fully dig in and dig up a ton of dirt.

With no mainstream outlet pushing forth the allegations his sister is claiming on social, I imagine right now they are looking under every rock on that end.

I respect his hustle but there is something about him in watching him speak live and in person that comes off as incredibly manipulative. He knows how to speak and pause in a way that gets the audience to laugh and gives soundbites. I am long OpenAI but I don’t trust Sam.

He could follow the character arch of his friend Thiel where the media come after him but he’s too resilient.

Or Zuckerberg where the media hated him for years and then moved on.

What do you think?
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Lots of folks outing themselves as never adding comments with remarks like "compression works nearly as well as minification".

In some of my more logically involved code, the bulk of the bytes are in comments - and they barely compress at all.

Just minify. Nobody cares about your source code; if they do and you want them to, publishing on GitHub is far better as it allows for viewing the TS/ESNext version and separate files too (don't tell me you aren't bundling!!); and working with minified code is not hard, especially now that dev tools have built-in maxifiers.