skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Ian pointed out that whereas our culture openly invites us to be aware of birds and historic churches, it places no comparable emphasis on pylons, despite the fact that that they often rival, for ingenuity and beauty, many of the more established objects of our curiosity. He cited as an example Loch Awe in Scotland, a famously picturesque and romantic tourist destination dominated by the ruins of the fourteenth-century Kilchurn Castle, whose grounds are nevertheless crossed by a run of 400-kilowatt pylons linking the hydroelectric power station at Ben Cruachan with the Glasgow suburbs. On postcards of the loch and its castle, however, the electricity lines are almost invariably airbrushed out, so that the scenery pretends to a fictitious innocence, the bare hills and unsullied lake being symptomatic of what Ian (having grown increasingly garrulous under the influence of brandy) condemned as the garden-gnome mentality of sentimental Luddites.”

— The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work: t/c (Vintage International) by Alain De Botton
https://a.co/1CjMq1u
Some fun background on that particular AG:

> He has sued president Joe Biden's administration nearly 50 times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton
Haven't connected.
The major problem here is capitalism.

Car-centrism in urban design wasn't an accident. It was intentional to create indebted workers who now needed to borrow money to buy cars and houses. 30 year mortgage are a relatively new phenomenon.

Likewise, we have people working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. This again is intentional to extract even more surplus labor value from people. This comes at the cost of people spending time outside of work, including with their families.

Destruction of community is a side effect of this and that too is intentional.

A much more minor point that is worth mentioning is that there are a lot of people who have children who don't actually like children. Or they want adult children without going through all the steps to get there. These are people who will intentionally work late to avoid chaos at home or have really time-consuming hobbies (eg distance running) that take them out of the home for significant periods of time.

Some of this I can attribute to the insecurity of not being able to provide for material needs. And that's the part capitalism plays.
I have and I'll be blunt, Linux on the desktop for me is a tinker toy. When I need something to, "just work" it's windows. I also have windows only stuff I need to run and I don't have time to play around with wine.
That's for the holding account, that is, the long term savings.

For the everyday purchases, a Lightning wallet on a smartphone is enough.
Edit: Updated!

https://mega.nz/folder/A1BjnSYQ#NQe5qhYLVBqiRwhWRmcVtg

Article is updating too.
Not gonna save you from my Zerg rush.
I did a whole trip from SF, national parks, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, LA, and back to SF in an electric car (Tesla Model Y). This was ~3 weeks ago.

No issues whatsoever.

https://ibb.co/b6N7bdp
In the last 10 years I personally can't remember a single time I wasn't able to access GitHub. On the other hand, in a single year using ChatGPT as a paid customer I experienced a countless outages.
>xenoestrogens

Yes, I appreciate the risk of plasticisers, and these should be addressed.

However, by the time an item made of plastic has become a "microplastic", these plasticisers have been leached out.
Little is done in psychology or the social sciences to therapeutically resocialize people who have maladaptive traits.

It's all presumed to be one's 'personal responsibility' that they were victims of their own kind.

The onus belongs on society to provide healthy and stable environments for people.
If they think what they're working on is as bad as nuclear weapons, then why are they even working on it?
Yes it’s also been rewritten since acquisition which was when hg support was dropped afaik
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Same - frankly, it's crazy how often the service is interrupted for paying users.
I agree and feel sad for the vanishing of Cybernetics.

Transdisciplinary fields are usually more delicate; they're often the momentary confluences of scientifically-inclined humanists and prominent scientific fields of their time. Before cybernetics there was various ambitious/systematic philosophy/evolution crossovers like Herbert Spencer.

From what I've researched and worked with individuals on the edge of the field, the contemporary debates seems to be going for "Second-order cybernetics"

Possible resources of interest are "IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics" (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?reload=true&...), as well as the work of Hugh Dubberly (Apple II, DNS) from Dubberly Design Office.
More than those others? Yea...
He is seemingly quite critical.

Not from any technical knowledge. Maybe his vision and business acumen, but mostly because at that level the tech-bro ceo founders stick together. Not in any formal conspiracy sense, just they have faith and trust and googly-eyes for each other.

From that perspective, the leaked sms messages from elon Musk prior to Twitter purchase were positively illuminating and will give you fascinating (if cringy) insight how billion dollar funding actually works.
How so? Does he control the tech in some way? Patents?
Yeah, we were playing around with doing some semantic chunking. Works okay for some use cases. We have some ideas to go further on that.

Generally we have found that recursive chunking and character chunking tend to be short sighted.
What a beautiful post it has become nevertheless rivaling the long reads of the New Yorker and the like.

I originally wanted to go to sleep but the writing was too captivating to put down, and every paragraph was motivated, and it wasn’t stretched. It was the length it needed to be.
I really like it so far.

My only gripes:

- Sometimes it can be a bit rough getting it to call my functions with the correct data.

- It sometimes won't try to search my files and makes up it's own answer (even though the correct answer is in the files)

- The outage, of course.

But I've mostly worked around that through creative prompts.
I'm not arguing for "capitalist principles" (if there were such a thing).

The goal with welfare is to do as much good as possible. I contend that by managing administrative bloat, you lose money which could otherwise be given directly to people and do more good. The goal should be to spend money as efficiently as possible, not to spend less money
I wish I could talk to ChatGPT on the website. I end up using Microsoft Word's dictate feature and then copy pasting.
NASA May Pay $1B to Destroy the International Space Station. Here's Why
Pretty great example of Hacker News when the top comment is "They should have done more crime but in a different way."
Why would we keep them secret forever?
Arguably a factor of the personality type that wants to spend a lot of time with a chatbot.

I played with ChatGPT maybe thirty or so times, when I discovered that it would reliably return nonsense and incorrect answers to simple questions I moved on from it.

I think anybody that engages with it at length and tries to have 'serious' conversations with it has... well, I don't want to use the word 'issues' but... issues.
Yeah, functional and/or declarative programming can be surprisingly easy for beginners. They can just describe what they want and then see the magic unfold.
People with this opinion should be legally mandated to work 1 week at a computer repair or IT position.
I grew up in Northern Australia, later returned to raise my kids there, I'm back again with grand children.

I literally cannot parse or make sense of your comment.

Which is one indication of just how fundementally different various parts of the world are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c
And yet workers in those societies tend to end up poorer in the absolute sense. Funny how that works.
What is the privacy policy; how long are recordings retained, are they trained on, etc.?
> Simple ones are moral misalignment.

That doesn't sound simple. Not all humans have the same moral code, so who gets to decide which is the "correct" one?
It can have its own kind of sci-fi esque beauty, I think.
It's my understanding that weathering steels are avoided for structural applications, since while the corrosion behavior is usually pretty good, it can still be variable and unsatisfactory. There are a few high-profile cases of structures made from COR-TEN and similar that failed due to ineffective patination. It's a shame, since I agree that it does look nicer than most painted objects.

Work has continued in improving the alloy chemistry, so that it can be used for e.g. fencing without creating too many rust stains on nearby objects. One day we may be able to recreate the Delhi pillar alloy.
Unsigned binaries is good, update service is good, google safe browsing disabled is mega good, unencrypted dns is comparatively good from what i understand compared to mozilla's imperfect solution. Speed of security patches is not great, but having non-mozilla vetting on security patches is a tradeoff that is worthwhile.
Isn’t it more that it is just extremely difficult if not impossible to do the necessary longitudinal study in humans? You’d need verified quantified early trauma, lack of possible TBI, and early death, and RNAseq processing postmortem which is a recent development.

I think about it evolutionarily: if an animal was subject to significant early trauma (i.e. divergence from expected early environment), the most likely cause is early loss of a parent and no surrogate caretaker.

This suggests a markedly different environment generally, and especially socially, and would warrant a significant behavior shift if it were evolutionarily possible to accomplish.

It doesn’t seem so implausible to me.
I think this is a really silly theory. Poe has about infinity times more to lose from the implosion of OpenAI than it stands to gain from... what exactly? Someone copied their little feature in an era of everyone building the exact same products within weeks of each other back to back? Poe is 100% dependent on the foundational models that back it, and it makes zero sense to detonate your top supplier over something like this. Would the new CEO not be a sufficiently genius product leader to just repeat GPTs, or more generally just to copy every single idea the market comes up with and staple it directly to the real source of value?

I don't know much about Adam, maybe he truly is an earth shattering combination of dumb and petty, but I think the burden of proof would be pretty high on this one.
I completely rewrote the README recently to be more "user friendly"; does it address some of your question? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely interested in if the README is now tantalizing enough to make you interested: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj?tab=readme-ov-file#introduc...

But in short, it has a better UX than Git by a mile while remaining interoperable at the storage level, so you can use GitHub; it has many of the niceties of Mercurial's UX like revsets, no staging area, and a templating language for log output. Conflict resolution and rebasing is clean, easy, and nearly automatic. It has features neither support, like a real undo command and "operation log"[1]. The UX is smaller and conceptually cleaner; fewer "verbs" that operate on less "nouns", so many things are more regular. It is available as an API (Rust crates) so you can extend it naturally to handle your own workflow, without monkey-patching things. You could even use Mercurial itself as a storage backend, or a custom, centralized server like Google does.

Most importantly though, its internal "automatic snapshot model" design is quite elegant and makes the design and internals very clear. And storage system is completely independent and abstracted from this, and many of the other algorithmic details (Git sort of intertwines the data model, the algorithms, and the UX in various ways.) Features like hg changeset evolution, git rerere, and rebase --update-refs are all obsoleted and naturally handled by this design, among other things.

Martin, the lead developer, also had a talk at Git Merge 2022 that covers many of the fundamentals. They're all still the same but we're evolving many things rapidly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LGilOuE4

[1] Yes I know about the reflog, no it is not equivalent! It only tracks changes made to visible references ("ref" "log") while jj's oplog actually tracks commands invoked, and lets you completely undo individual things in the blink of an eye, or rewind if you wish.
Think of him as Elon but low-key
It turned out he potentially zeroed a bunch of peoples' stock so the knives came out.
Other than Firefox and Safari, there are a few but they're all maintained by small teams and you can expect them to have trouble with some modern sites.

You can look at the Wikipedia list of web browsers, any that aren't listed under Chromium (Blink-Based) will be fine, but notable browsers that WILL be affected:

Chromium:

Amazon Silk
Arc
Avast Secure Browser
Blisk
Brave
Cốc Cốc
Comodo Dragon[28]
Epic
Google Chrome (based on Blink since Chrome v. 28)
JioPages
Microsoft Edge[29]
NAVER Whale
Opera[30]
Opera GX
Puffin Browser
qutebrowser (Blink backend mostly stable)
Redcore
RockMelt
Sleipnir
SRWare Iron
Torch
Ungoogled-chromium (lol)
Vivaldi
Yandex Browser
ChatGPT ain't that. GPT-4 isn't that either, or GPT-5, or 6, or 7, or any of them. LLMs are a fun gimmick, but regurgitated text from comment sections and blogs isn't even one tenth of one percent of what's needed for "Godlike AI". Consider the self driving taxis in San Fransisco that are defeated by a humble traffic cone. Sam Altman's hype machine is hurting AI research, not helping it, by leading people down flights of fancy and easy dollar signs (like his plan of building a "GPT App Store") instead of the real methodological research that's needed to create AGI.
I'd be curious how well it actually correlates. It would be hard to make the most performant system that's always consistent with flushed data but there are probably a lot of firmwares out there with untested performance ideas, etc.
Cádiz has fascinating ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylons_of_C%C3%A1diz
I was being facetious. The only thing amazing is how few tech people understand how close the industry is to the people involved becoming pariahs.
Marketing to VCs and for lack of a better word, nerd influencers
Anything to push their Games division to success. Sounds about right for Amazon; it's their business model. Make a deal with 3rd party, learn about them through legal and illegal means, then kill them.

Isn't Amazon being sued by SEC for this exact thing?
That would put 'dogfooding' on a whole new level.
I believe we're all deformed (sometimes disfigured) victims of our own struggle. I'd listen to the kid instead and asked what's wrong with me, looking at the imposed complexity I deal with, with no one among healthy people to understand the matter, dare I to complain.
I don't believe it. I've been scolded so many times, including by users here, that the FBI would never. There must be some misunderstanding!
I didn't cherry pick anything. I'm just saying that no suburb I've ever seen fits the strawman description. And I've looked at plenty of them up and down the Northeast corridor.
Well I think it’s a bit harder to parse out for most people. Effective altruism is easily seen as garbage when you learn the definition.

AI Safety is a bit more nuanced. I think there’s a lot of issues that are nonsense like having an “aligned AGI.” Aligned with whom? I could ostensibly envision you aligning it with a single person but aligning it with “humanity” is infeasible because humans are unaligned with each other. However there is an actual technical problem worth solving in alignment, which is basically matching the output of the AI with what the human intends not what the human asks.

Moreover, AI has been improperly used already in ways that are plausibly avoidable. A classic example is algorithmically approving bank loans leading to members of ethnic groups getting denied at a higher rate due to their zip code, which is likely irrelevant to the loan. The designers of the algorithm weren’t explicitly trying to be racist (that would have massive legal ramifications on top of just being plainly unethical, but maybe they did it intentionally and I forgot), they screwed up and didn’t realize they produced an algorithm unaligned with their intentions. Figuring out how to avoid scenarios like that through either methodology or algorithmically is an interesting and much more tractable research problem than making an “AI that benefits all of humanity.”
Ironically the only way Wise would be faster to withdraw money to my (foreign) account is via crypto, for which they quote three digits (yikes!)
We've got an issue right now with Ionic components (for React) which are Web Components under the hood.

Seems like each component has its own shadow DOM that gets fired up. This would be fine under normal circumstances, but we use a tool called Cohere (now Cardina after the Ramp acquisition) which listens to the DOMContentLoaded [1] event.

Looking at flame graphs, this event, when fired, seems to cause Cohere to traverse the DOM. This becomes very expensive when you are loading something like an Ionic grid, with lots of rows and columns. Unfortunately this Cohere code lives within a dynamic JS module that they load at runtime, which is proprietary, so there isn't a way to submit a PR to change the behavior.

I'd love if someone knew more about that event in the context of the shadow DOM in particular. Perhaps there is a way to limit its invocation through the Web Component API.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/DO...
Google anointed Mercurial before Git. Google Code was Mercurial and Subversion only until near the end of its days.
I am reading the abrupt announcement as an absence of trust they have in Sam. They must have felt that Sam would jeopardize the control of the board if he felt threatened or severely undermined the mission of the non profit, for example by selling/transferring IP out of OAI to prepare his departure.

Because their motivation was the fear Sam inspired them, they acted the way they did. Then, it's hard to justify actions based on suspicious.
They clearly don't know how promises work.
Surprised the comments here are mostly negative. I think the land of the giants ones are very cool. It'd be too much if they were like that everywhere, but I definitely appreciate the concept, and could see the argument for calling them "beautiful".
> Could you have really predicted this aftermath?

Yes, literally anyone with sufficient professional corporate experience would have. This was instantly front-page news everywhere.

> I mean, it could have just been that Sam is gone, a new CEO joins, and things move on.

This isn't about replacing a CEO. This is about 4 members secretly getting rid of 2 other board members, including the chair and CEO, in a secret board meeting, with zero transparency and zero public justification backed by evidence. None of that is business as normal, things move on. This is as disruptive and shocking as things get.

> I find it very likely they just didn't expect that to happen at all.

Which is precisely what's so troubling -- it shows their extreme incompetence. This isn't a toy $1M company for amateurs to play with, it's an ~$80B company. This is the big leagues. The board is expected to be able to understand the consequences of its actions.
Hehe, as a Dutchman I wonder how many people pick up on that joke, but yes, chance missed. Too busy. On a less busy day I would have seen my chance and jumped for it. But don't worry, you're not off the hook yet.
Having worked in software for a while, I realise now the answer to questions like these is almost always "there were more important things to worry about"
I have issues with language like ”…As you have now witnessed what happens when you dare stand up to Sam Altman.”

This is worded like they are following a messiah and anything said after that is now tainted with worship speak. I get that they have concerns but this isn’t the way.
Coca-cola has the contract for the United terminal at LAX (and maybe the rest?), so all water sold at all retailers in the terminal need to be Dasani, Smart Water, or Evian.

But as part of a good works initiative, they also successfully lobbied to ban selling plastic water bottles at LAX to (ostensibly) reduce plastic waste. So while soda bottles are excluded from the ban and are still sold in plastic, you can only buy water there in glass bottles that raise the perceived value of the water and are less offensive when overpriced.

As a result of their efforts:

1. It's cheaper to buy coffee, tea, or soda at LAX than it is to buy water itself.

2. Customers have the luxury of choosing the brand of water that best represents their class image: $5 Dasani, $7 Smart Water, or $9 Evian
This voice is so horrible. Sounds nothing like a real human voice. This kind a voice generator would be OK for 2008, but not for 2023...
Not sure what the relevance of the above is. As I already said, people who say either of those are making a bad disingenuous argument.

I'm not saying either of those though, and didn't in my comment you responded to. I said that people who say a "well regulated militia" is not the same as "random individual who likes guns" are making an argument exactly in the intended spirit of the constitution.

Nothing to do with a disingenuous argument about "gun technology then vs now" or "press means just printing presses or newspapers".

So, yeah, if those rednecks form a actual state-run or even citizen-run militia they could have their guns, nice modern guns, in the context of that militia and for the purposes of that militia (and with the proper precautions and rules like police or army has for its guns).

I don't see where the constitutional's expression, as written, allows them to just have whetever guns they like as private individuals, even less so guns for fun and entertainment.

I'd go one better: what some document from 4 centuries ago says, should have no absolute hold to what the law is in a country 4 centuries later. It was what they came up with at the time, to respond to the problems of the time, as they saw them in the viewpoints of the time. All of them are dead now, and the demographics and issues are absolutely not even close to being them same.
I imagine the concerns are more around defamation.
Related:

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891435 - Jan 2021 (68 comments)

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297757 - Oct 2018 (150 comments)

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453850 - Oct 2015 (106 comments)

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7665667 - April 2014 (1 comment)
That leaves you to figure which part of the board to give the benefit to. Their website still has:

>OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

It's now the non-employee board members vs the employee ones.
If you want to see what this looks like in action, you can see it in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcd6jEEKQU
95+% of the company disagrees as made obvious by publicly signing with their own real names documents saying that they'll quit unless Sam returns. I don't see much evidence this "OpenAI" message actually represents the views of people at OpenAI; it may not have even been written by employees.
And Google has been putting much of their investment behind jj.

One other interesting thing I've noticed, mercurial has stopped building windows standalone releases. It's been that way for around 9 months.