skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
kind of interesting how bell was able to spun off so much while modern companies aren't able to do so
Ask HN: ChatGPT mobile app voice chat custom instructions
Hi all, OpenAI recently rolled out voice input and response in the ChatGPT mobile app to all users. The response from ChatGPT is more human-like in conversation and shorter compared to the normal ChatGPT response.

My question is, does anyone know if there is any way to obtain custom instructions for the voice chat feature or know some prompts that can make it behave in a similar way?
It sounds like the lens doesn't change it's focal length, but the focal length is a function of the light polarization. So you can just rotate a polarizing filter to change the focal length.
https://strongest.app
JFK Assassination Conspiracy Viewed Differently by Gen Z
Did someone test this at all? It takes like 3 clicks to get to a "not found".
One great way to lose the f-you money in your bank account is to get involved in a harassment or slander lawsuit because of some offhand things you said that got pasted all over the interwebs.

I'm not saying that will happen here, but if I were writing this blog post I would have deliberately avoided specifics like this because of that, in part.

It's one thing to legitimately trash Sundar Pichai; another to name some middle-level manager like that.
Before joining a corporation I really thought that this is an exaggeration by people who are unsatisfied by their own fate at the companies to which the consultants come. I was shocked by how true this statement is. A lot of PowerPoint slides and very little value in them.
It's actually pretty typical for coups/mutinies.

Your position is challenged by military brass, so you imprison/execute them. Anyone charismatic enough to take you on is going to have been popular with the soldiers, so now a heavily-armed mob with tanks and artillery is pissed at you. Now you have two problems, with only two solutions-- eat some shit and hope to make peace, or die.

Putin played it safe in flipping the script-- negotiate surrender, appear to resolve the dispute peacefully, then stage an "accident" of the rabblerouser once tensions are lower. Cooler heads always prevail.
Vision-controlled jetting for composite systems and robots
They deserve each other. Two makers of terrible products.
So let's say that you cut off a person's arm. and then you cut off their other one. and their legs too. and then you take out organs that they definitely don't need to live, exactly when do they stop being human? What are they then?

I don't totally disagree with your notion that the body is the mind, but I'm struggling to determine what a MVH (Minimum viable human) is.
It respects the normal RoR toolchain parameter filtering, so anything that you say is sensitive (or everything by default, if you'd like) also doesn't get sent to CallStacking.
Airbus was originally heavily sponsored by French and German governments, long before EU even existed.
more Enron's what? i try not to be pedantic but your comment (and follow-up) seem to deliberately miss the point of the parent post.
I don't have a horse in the race, but maybe before jumping to conclusions people should read the reactions of students themselves? They're very easy to find:

https://www.independent.com/2022/07/27/mixed-reviews-ucsb-mu...

It's no puff piece, and students aren't uniformly positive, but it's a reminder that there are many trade-offs in life, and some are pretty open to it
Giving example of Amazon: their vendor lock-in does not allow to reuse most of AWS code and requires companies to take a "happily-everafter" marriage with their tech, that's why clients, when trying to disable vendor lock-in, spend a lot of money to create facades that would allow to use different cloud providers, but usually they fail (anecdotal evidence only)
Ask HN: Why All That Drama?
It seems like the drama factor in tech has lately increased dramatically. Lots of personality focused stories - and strong opinions on forums like HN. I get the entertainment factor but the noise is irritating.

Is it just me? And if not: why all this drama?
Doesn't matter at all to me honestly. From a developer standpoint most stuff runs everywhere. Dotnet is cross platform, virtualization/container tools, WSL, etc. The OS is almost abstracted away unless you're working on something that directly hooks into OS apis.

But for me for years the OS has not made a difference, just different UIs at this point. As for tooling, I've deliberately avoided anything that's not cross platform for that reason for many years. Obsidian is markdown based and works anywhere, so does Emacs. It's a big reason not to buy into the Apple ecosystem in my opinion because it exactly leads to the lock in you're struggling with.
even simply expanding consultants' liability is bound to help them: they have more capital and more lawyers to fight, while any small shop would be destroyed by the first liability-related lawsuit
I've got 4x18T of RAID5 (~52-odd TB) and hoping there's an upcoming BF sale on 20+T drives (the sweet spot being < $15/TB) as I'm running out of room.
On the surface: not a dealbreaker. I can be flexible.

But once I start asking about the product and the dev workflow and start learning about why it's going to be difficult to deviate from the norm... those are questions that are likely to shine a light on practices that I'd rather avoid.
No, you can't failover a datacenter with VirtualBox.
Everything? They released the service manuals and a few circuit board designs.
Turn your email into a PNG. It's absolutely easy to read, and My brother who worked for a scraping company said they haven't cracked that yet (as of 5 years ago). Even today, you would need a neural net to do it which makes it more expensive. They would also need another neural net to figure out whether or not it was an email address! It's just an image after all.
I used to charge a higher rate for working on "some" OSes (within a larger project with other more sensible OSes). I thought it was a decent tradeoff. I don't think that anymore. Life's too short. However when a consulting / contracting client needs it as part of the overall project, it's hard to say no. I understand and respect that they need the work. And yet life's too short. I'd still do it but I don't think simply charging more solves the dilemma.

I never got any push-back on OS-dependent pricing. More hours for the same result, AND more expensive per hour or day but sometimes someone just needs to do it.
How to Talk Minnesotan (2019) [video]
Bvckup 2.
An alpine docker container doesn't have the kernel, so all that hardware support, and the kernel itself are still on top of that ~8MB GUI-less image. Part of it is elf header size vs hulk. Part of it is that no one bothers stripping symbols. But the reason for both of those reasons is simply that memory isn't scarce so we are lazy/efficient.
Oh I did not make it, here is the link to whom I believe to be the creator: https://github.com/copy/

I discovered it while browsing the web and thought it'd be interesting to share it
With a couple of other folks I'm currently working on an Ollama GUI, it's in early stages of development - https://github.com/ai-qol-things/rusty-ollama
All of the smartest security/hacker types I've met have been furries. Not sure how it came to be but it seems to be how it is.
Don't forget that corps also have financial reasons for constant upgrades. Buying new hardware is a great way to reduce taxable profits. There's also the amortization on write offs, and other accounting words I've heard people say but don't pretend to fully grok.

Also, decent way to lessen the beatings to improve moral since who doesn't like getting new hardware?
The FBI is not mentioned in that tweet. We don't need to telephone game anonymous leaks that are already almost certainly self-serving propaganda.
I was quite wrong about this, but I still don't think it's especially relevant that someone else built it. You would never call Zuckerberg an operator? Or when someone else built it does that not mean that you had no role in building it? That would be the exception, but it would be analogous to owner/operator in general business parlance.

I think now, having tried to fill in my missing knowledge, that it comes from the same root as DevOps, which I erroneously thought was related to SpecOps. DevOps comes from IT Operations which comes from Operations Management, which yes, is like a machine operator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_management

Edit: here's a post with "Founder Operators". Which seems like maybe if you just heard "Operator" you would assume they're not a founder, but also that the term can be applied for those running businesses they founded: https://startupceo.com/2023/01/5-things-successful-founder-o...
I've read it a few times. I would recommend reading:

Talk One: Harvard School Commencement Speech (aka Prescription for Guaranteed Misery in life)

Talk Eleven: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement which is the most important talk in the book. Interestingly enough it doesn't have any illustrations or sidebar notes like the other talks.

Then go from there.
Jessica went out of her way to use the slightly awkward phrase 'founding donor', so she's at least trying to imply she isn't just trying to protect an investment. I'm going to take the generous interpretation of that and assume she means what she says there, and isn't just playing politics and share price PR.
In Settings in the app there is a Custom Instructions section.
Why is there a presumed intent to "accomplish" anything? It's a blog post.
This is laughably naive or frustratingly bad faith to think abusive cops are similar to incompatible business partners.
>Languages/OSs are just implementation details to me

But they aren't. Most languages have specific behaviours and performance hits in different systems, and sometimes undefined behaviour may be fine in one environment and catastrophic on another. Even interpreted languages suffer from this.
yup, seen that. great illustration of the issue
Yeah, at this point I’ll only work on a Mac. I don’t have the time nor patience for the cheapskate alternatives.
I had the same thought when it popped up on my radar a year ago. Now that I’ve been using it for a few weeks, it’s difficult to go back to the exact tools you’re naming. I didn’t realize how large of an impediment it is to move back and forth all of them. Windmill is the thing I never knew I needed. It’s changed how I think about delivering data products/solutions.
Now wait a second. Let's compare bank accounts. Let's see Paul Allen's card.
Collective bargaining permanently puts the management and other prospective employees at a disadvantage, with their contract liberty limited by government fiat, as a result of a mandate for the employer to negotiate with the union to the exclusion of all other parties.

It is generally associated with less performant companies, which is not in the interests of those employed in a rapidly growing company.
I do appreciate you found a webpage containing the actual term "open source," unlike <https://service.tesla.com/roadster#:~:text=Disclosed%20Resea...>, which is linked to from the readme, but its actual content appears to be closer to "gl;hf" than any licensing terms. Also, furthermore the open source link you found doesn't contain the word Roadster, so it's further unclear whether the roadster has any such upstream repos to link to
It definitely works well for scooters where you don't need much real estate to put in a swap station.

https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/
Like most things with the government they've been heavily slashed since 2008.
Absolutely. There are a lot of failure modes. This is why true IC leadership with teeth is needed. The whole point of staff+ engineer roles (outside of specialist research) is to navigate the right technical decisions that span across teams.
storing what?
Altman is a household name because AI has captured the public imagination. People naturally love drama. This story happens to have a wide ranging audience, high stakes, and most importantly lots of posts on X.
Cool devices, I have one, but sadly they're not capable of playing Playdate games.
What's the mood in the room when-

"I have a change to propose to the http standard that doesn't consider the 20 year history of UDP amplification attacks and breaks all existing servers and browsers!"

or

"I think some websites like Pinterest should dominate all of the google image search results instead of any other website in the world!"

or

"Autoplaying audio is hostile to users except for the few sites we (Google) run and the list of people we think are okay?"

Honestly. Have you been involved in these types of short-sighted and blatently evil decisions? That's why I said I don't blame the engineers. The banality of the day-to-day with a room-full-of-juniors likely doesn't even consider any consequences beyond "xyz is yelling at me".
Your prime isn't as prime as theirs? Some are just more prime than others. It's the natural way
Chrome is often criticized for overusing RAM. Personally I stopped using it a couple years ago, but when I stopped, it was very far from light; I remember it freezing for a few seconds for lack of RAM in a way other browsers (Firefox with multiprocessing, Edge before it got rebuilt over Chromium) didn't.

The original Chrome just felt like a barebones window to the Internet. Though I agree that Firefox et al. became much less sluggish over time. (Is that only their performance improvements or did hardware get better faster than they grew?)

Also maybe "light" and "fast" shouldn't be lumped together. Chrome can definitely be fast when it has enough resources. That and sandboxing seem to make it much _heavier_ in RAM.
Why? Covid-19 was a natural spillover, not a "synthetic virus". If he does feel vindicated he's a straight up loony conspiracy theorist.
Why, what’s wrong with being like that?
It's fun to think that BASIC is a pretty low-level language - all variables are of 3-4 primitive types, all are global, and there is barely anything that departs too much from the underlying metal.
Every time Munger is mentioned here, this comes up.

If it's so obvious to every random joe with exactly zero experience designing buildings, why did Charlie ignore it?

Have you actually considered his design, or is this just a kneejerk reaction?
Yes, if they require me to use a specific os, or install software to observe me, I won't take the job. Do you want me to build you awesome software? You need to let me use the tools of my choice. Full stop.
Indeed, the company behind TikTok (called ByteDance) didn't even have an IPO yet. It is unclear how much money they are earning from TikTok. It's conceivable that TikTok itself makes no money and is subsidized by the company's other products like Toutiao.

If Google were to try this early, it is uncertain that Google will discover a monetization strategy before the product joins the Google graveyard.

Let's not even talk about short form video, just YouTube. How many years did Google subsidize YouTube with Search money before it really turned up advertising on YouTube? Do we know how much effort Google expended in experimenting with monetization strategies for YouTube?
It really wasn't.
"Pople at the bottom would be starved for work, while people in the middle were _way_ overworked because they were chasing L+1 and holding on to too much while not understanding any of it"

Sounds like every org I worked in at Google, though it got worse as time went on. I started there end of 2011, and left end of 2021. This kind of bullshit is endemic to the tech culture at Google, but was the worst inside smaller sites or in teams with "sexy" products.

And might have been arguably worse when they had explicit "up or out" policies around L4s.
I recently created a new company domain with email on it and I'm amazed at how quickly I'm getting spam on it.

To be fair, most of it is directly from LinkedIn, but still...
Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler
Sway is factor of domestic politics. US has sway not to over react precisely because it was a failed attempt. They can and would rather sweep dead brown American under rug than to undermine budding strategic condominium with India. Certainly they couldn't care less over dead brown Canadian. If India actually assassinated an American, on American soil no less, the US domestic politics would lose their shit at current US military tech transfers to India (like GE engines to HAL).

I think US has the leverage to at least compel Modi to pretend to cooperate, or at least offer up fall guys like they did MBS over Khashoggi, if they were to put full weight behind Canada. Which they haven't, except to affirm Canadian findings, which they pretty much have to unless they want to blow up US/CAN relations. Current rhetorical support is meaningless.
I can't think of ANY airplane ticket that costs 5000 EUR, not to mention 8500.
Dealbreaker? No, but strong negative signal. I have my own preferences and ways-of-working, and having to adjust these on top of all the other new things that come with a new company or team is a significant downside.

I've recently switched from daily-driving a mac to daily driving Linux on a Thinkpad, because for my startup I'm working on some Rust code that ends up being too much of a hassle to cross-compile, and the story for using GUI Linux in a VM on [edit: ARM64] macOS is not quite there yet. After 3 months I'm a lot more proficient than when I started, but I still feel so much less productive than I would be on a mac that I'm working on adding better abstractions to be able to mock out the stuff that doesn't build on macOS easily.
You're re-inventing IBIS[1]. See also Marshall 1989[2] but be conscious of Marshall 1999[3].

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_mapping>.

2. <https://doi.org/10.1145/74014.74031>

3. <https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008716330212>
Lol, nope.
I expected more from humans at this stage.

We should be better than that.

I guess the lesson is clear - the most populist wins, be it right-wing or left-wing. Time to update the activism playbook.
Exactly. It’s not about asking if Python is the best tool. It’s about looking at the alternatives. Python comes out ahead of all alternatives, save for 1-3 others. And those others might not be feasible for a host of other reasons. That’s how you end up with Python. And it’s fine!
Adding to what other commenters said, ESLint also works like this.

However in an IDE setting it's not exactly "auto"; you have to click the light bulb and accept the fix (idk about VSCode, but in Neovim you can even get a preview of the diff [1]). This is what I'm working on a Fixit PR for right now.

[1] https://github.com/aznhe21/actions-preview.nvim
Maybe you could make it a part of the difficulty setting. I mean, sometimes you just want to roll over everything in your path and feel badass for a bit, and sometimes you want an actual challenge.
GitHub's transition to React has broken back and forward browser navigation
Those are generally LG, not Apple.
I guess we stick together. Out of six people with kids in my office, three of us have three kids. (Nothing like my wife’s office, where three kids was table stakes, 4-5 was typical, and one guy had 10.) On my street there’s about a dozen houses, and one other family has three kids, and another has two but would have a third if they could swing it financially. Until last year, there was a third family on our block with three. Out of families at our church with young kids, probably half have three (we’re not Catholic). One of my law school friends has three, though most did stop at two.
Thanks Ruben - looking forward to the Dagster comparison post in the coming days.
The biblical God isn't restricted to just passive and communication powers, is it? Godlike powers include active abilities way beyond human capability. What is often brought up in the context of AGI is the ability to persuade anyone of anything, ability to solve biological or physical problems beyond our ability or comprehension, entering any system undetected - not even sure a precise definition is needed as it usually boils down to what looks like magic to us.
People who never had the misfortune to work with a truly toxic manager or co-worker are often oblivious to the damage they can cause. I'm speaking of psychological damage, burn out, anxiety, stress, depression, health problems. Naming their abuser can be helpful to people who had to endure such a thing.
10 platters isn't anything too extreme.

I remember some 5.25-inch full-height[1] SCSI drives from the 1990s had lots of platters. The Seagate ST410800 had 14 platters and 27 heads[2].

According to Wikipedia[3], the IBM 350 was the first disk drive, and it had 52 platters!

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[1] i.e. twice the height of a "regular" 5.25-inch drive bay in a PC case, which is actually half height.

[2] See p. 14 of the spec sheet (https://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/iguides/scs...) and a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhneJ2u8WQ) which says 13 in the description but shows 14 in the video.

[3] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_d... . But if you follow their link to IBM's info (https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350...), IBM says 50, not 52. I guess it's hard to count hard disk platters?
You dying in a car accident is super speculative too, yet we have thousands of different actions and regulations that are put into place to reduce that from occurring.

If I had to make a bet I would say the airbag in your car is never going to go off. And yet we engineer these safety devices to ensure the most likely bad outcomes don't kill you. This is the point of studying AI safety, so we understand the actual risks of these systems simply because some low probability but existential outcomes are possible.

>It could also be that everyone agrees to put some failsafe in the form of EMP weapons in place to destroy a rogue AI

So we would commit suicide? Are we talking about EMPs in data centers that could run AI? Ooops, there goes the economy. And that doesn't address miniaturization of AI in much smaller formats in the future. Trying to build it safe in the first place is much better bet then picking what remains from ashes because we were not cautious.
Sometime you can accelerate depreciation, so you would have to amend in that case.
I think he realized it painted him in a bad light which is why he blamed it on the reporter to me but I really just should have responded with the Edward Teller quote from the 1983 AUR article: 'I liked Rickover better as a captain than as an admiral."
nice job, greg. i'm a sample mangler so this is very cool :)

what's the source material, youtube vids?
To save others the bother of finding the relevant link: https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs/301 is the Tesla Roadster but if one drills into (e.g.) "10.15 - Door Shells and Beams
- Door Shells and Beams - 1" <https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs/301/categories/22077/su...> then it does seem to enumerate the parts but does not provide any details other than an internal part number and conceptually the assembly order of them