skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn’t really mean anything, especially on a holiday week the wheels move pretty slowly at a company that size. It’s not like Sam is hurting for money and really needs his medical insurance to start today.
And that's how the apocalypse started, at least in the movie.
>Mozilla Firefox, once a dominant player in the Internet browser market with a 30% market share, has witnessed a significant decline in its market share. According to Statcounter, Firefox's global market share has plummeted from 30% in 2009 to a current standing of 2.8%.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mozilla-firefox-internet...

Yes where would Mozi//a be without all that cash?

Let it die so something better can take its place already.
Michael Bazzell's Irish Exit
I created an application where you can save links and share them. Saving a link costs 1 point, and you earn 2 points for sharing. Points are an idea for the future.
To be fair, you can still purchase the ticket at the advertised price without selecting a specific “preferred” seat. They’ll give you a seat assignment at checkin or at the gate (usually one of those “preferred” ones).

That said, the fact that this situation is unsurprising to me is itself probably evidence of the communication problem. Google could do a clearer job of qualifying the “free seat selection” they falsely promise for that fare, and Delta could do a much better job of saying “there are only paid seats left, but if you don’t want to buy one, you’ll still get one at the airport.” I feel like JetBlue used to do a good job with that.
IIRC, you even got the schematics in the manual.
Still not watching ads, Youtube.
at what point do all the employees have a right to sue Adam D'Angelo (the owner of Poe, some wannabe GPT competitor) if he doesn't resign?

if he really plays hardball and burns openAI to the ground as he promised, would we as customers have leverage against them?

Forget about poe, Isn't ChatGPT a potential killer of Quora and stackoverflow and Google ? How On earth did a representative of one of these three make it to the board?
Could this be related to Altman's firing from OpenAI?
I expect these patters from all low-cost airlines, so fly Alaska whenever possible.
explain why I'm doing so.

Just flagging is enough.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
OpenAI Assistant Swarming: A single library to turn your assistants into an army
In a world of AI Agents/Assistants now is the best time to easily experiment with scope-focused agents that do a handful of specific tasks very well instead of one agent doing them all well.

We were working with many assistants and found that the task of delegating work to known agents via a single "head" assistant automatically selecting the best assistant(s) was working really well for us! So we built a library around it with some other convenience functions for assistants for OpenAI.

With parallel function calling you can have a single complex user query be automatically split and delegated to many assistants at once via a single library.

From a developer perspective, it simply extends the OpenAI SDK making a new `swarm` method available so code lift is minimal.

Other helper methods like grabbing all your assistants that are available in a single call with pagination handled exist - checkout the docs on the Github or NPM package.

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mintplex-labs/openai-assistan...
This literally does not happen with first party airline sites (idk about sketchy third party scam sites). Where did this conspiracy theory come from? Which airline did you see doing this?
GPT apps are not apps, but roles
I've been experimenting with a specialized version of ChatGPT, tailored for TensorFlow optimizations, which I've dubbed "Tensor Optimizer". It's essentially a GPT app focused on facilitating TensorFlow model enhancements.

After several hours of productive dialogue, I asked it a straightforward question: "What is the name of the GPT app I am using right now?" Its response was illuminating: "You are currently using 'ChatGPT' developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language model, specifically designed to engage in conversational and interactive text-based tasks."

This led to a bit of confusion on my part, as I had been under the impression that the app was called "Tensor Optimizer". The clarification, however, was insightful. "Tensor Optimizer" isn't the app's name; rather, it's the specific role or specialization assigned for our interaction.
Please repost this as a stand alone comment, I bet it would be voted to the top.

Or maybe dang can extract this comment and orphan it.
Thank you for posting this. It was an excellent, well-paced talk. 40 minutes flew right by.

The part about three levels of estimation was really eye-opening. Even though it's obvious in hindsight, I didn't make the connection until it was spelled out for me.
I don't think the return is possible anymore. What would this return look like? Microsoft will never trust anything associated with OpenAI or Sam Altman for that matter, if he leaves Microsoft deal after it has been announced by the CEO.

Partnerships' success requires good will from both parties. So Microsoft partnership gets sabotaged over time. This will inhibit OpenAI's cash flow and GPU compute. No one will give them another $10bn after this. The scaling will go out the window. Apparently, according to WSJ, Microsoft has rights to all IP, models weights, etc... All they are missing is know-how (which is important!). But that could be acquired through 3 - 5 of high-level engineering hires.
> Why would the price change in that situation.

That's a great question! The reason many of us are upset. Because it shouldn't, but it does. Not always, but it does. Now this is black box probing so may be another factor, but the prices do swing quickly.
K-shaped recovery applies to individuals. The media hypes their insular bubble near wealth and power while the reality is inflation is impoverishing the lower classes. The reality is the very rich are doing phenomenally well while dollar store clerks and Amazon delivery drivers make chickenfeed.
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I don’t understand what argument that is.

On my iPhone I have:

- Kraken Pro app, where I can buy and sell bitcoins

- Ledger Live app, which I use with my hardware Ledger device for my self custody Bitcoin

Using these two apps, I can buy Bitcoin, sell Bitcoin, and transfer Bitcoin to anyone using my iPhone.

What is it that Apple is preventing these people from doing?

If I want to send Bitcoins to you, we don’t need that Apple allows Venmo or other “peer to peer” payment apps to use cryptocurrency. Those kind of companies are irrelevant for that goal anyways.

All we need is that you either have an account on an exchange, or a self-custody wallet, and I can send Bitcoin to you. All of this is possible using an iPhone.
It's an experimental model that is trained on a small set of data. It's been out there for months. It wasn't popular because it's pretty much useless.
I don’t believe that is entirely accurate, but even if it was — the bedrock port has been extremely successful for Microsoft.
Not youtube specifically, but I wanted to watch the wheel of time series on my ipad and:

#1 You cannot stream in a browser on iPadOS anymore. Amazon won't let you, you must use their app.

#2 They don't seem to give a fuck about making sure you're getting a quality stream in their app. Full of artifiacts and horrible compression way more often than is warranted on my symmetric gigabit connection.

So I added it to my Sonarr instance (pirated it legally) and watched it in a browser from there with perfect quality and no pre-stream ads.

Once again: A paid service so bad that it couldn't compete with the pirate experience even if it was free.

Which once again confirms Gabe Newell's statement to be true: "piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue"
Microsoft is intimately connected to the global surveillance infrastructure currently propping up US imperialism. Parts of the company basically operate as a defense contractor, not much different from Raytheon or Northrup Grumman.

For what it's worth, Google has said it's not letting any military play with any of their AI research. Microsoft apparently has no such qualms. Remember when the NSA offered a bounty for eavesdropping on Skype, then Microsoft bought Skype and removed all the encryption?

https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

Giving early access to emerging AGI to an org like Microsoft makes me more than a bit nervous.

Recall from this slide in the Snowden leak : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#/media/File:Prism_slide_...

that PRISM was originally just a Microsoft thing, very likely built by Microsoft to funnel data to the NSA. Other companies were added later, but we know from the MUSCULAR leak etc, that some companies like Google were added involuntarily, by tapping fiber connections between data centers.
If they're going to publish the data publicly, what do you need decryption keys for? Seems like it's basically an all-or-nothing deal to me.
Feels like they want to be where Altman is.
The 3 board members should be asked to leave in exchange for 10 years of free therapy.
This could easily also just be “I deeply regret my actions being the losing side”
you don't have the nvlink, how would this work then
It's amazing to read through all the comments. I think of you all as more intelligent than "normal people" (Non HN readers, lol), but the amount of unabashed, unfettered bias in the replies is fascinating. The number of replies without a disclaimer like "this is just my own experience, but here's what I think..." is just amazing.

That's my main takeaway from this discussion. All the other points became secondary.
There are two kinds of players in the market: a large consumer class, and a small collection of oligopolistic producers. The game-theoretic equilibrium is in the actions of the producers.

Customers have many different criteria by which they judge phones: price, performance, available apps, social desirability, repairability etc. I would say that repairability is of lower importance than other criteria.

Producers know that selling unrepairable phones produce more profits long term. Obviously repairable phones are also a few perfect more expensive. So from the 00s when phones were largely repairable, to today, producers have sequentially produced phones that are less repairable but a bit cheaper. Ad campaigns have been used to make thinner monolithic phones as more socially desirable [1]. This also changes how customers rate the importance of different criteria.

Any new producer who creates a repairable phone not only has to produce a more expensive phone, but also has to create a niche of customers, against the competitor ad campaigns, that value that repairability. Hence, that new producer is not profitable. This is the equilibrium which explains that lack of mainstream repairable phones in the market.

But of course, consumers want repairable phones, but only if everyone else gets them as well - so they aren't uncool. Which is why different consumer groups have advocated to lawmakers, and now we are getting a law that forces everyone to change in tandem.

[1] Not much different from the cigarette ads of the yesteryears.
It’s the same story everywhere, sadly. Thank God that matriarchies all crash & burn in 40 years, tops
Lire on iOS will spider the source and pull the content locally, https://lireapp.com

It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
You can't run the abstract infinite entity.

The article was specifically talking about putting algorithms onto real machines and the speed consequences. This creates a new version of the algorithm with certain limits. And because of these limits, there is a maximum runtime for any halting code, and it is a constant number.
Does anyone think the abuse allegations leveled against Sam might be related to his firing? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
A board that basically accused Altman, publicly, of wrongdoing of some kind which appears to be false. To bring Altman back, or issue an explanation, would require retracting that; which brings in serious questions about legal liability for the directors.

Think about it. If you are the director of the company, fire the CEO, admit you were wrong even though nothing materially changed 3 days later, and severely damaged the company and your investors - are you getting away without a lawsuit? Whether it be from investors, or from Altman seeking to formally clear his name, or both? That's a level of incompetence that potentially runs the risk of piercing into personal liability (aka "you're losing your house").

So, you can't admit that you were wrong (at least, that's getting risky). You also can't elaborate on what he did wrong, because then you're in deep trouble if he actually didn't do anything wrong [1]. Your hands are tied for saying anything regarding what just happened, and it's your own fault. All you can do is let the company implode.

[1] A board that was smarter would've just said that "Altman was a fantastic CEO, but we believe the company needs to go a different direction." The vague accusations of wrongdoing were/are a catastrophic move; both from a legal perspective in tightening what they can say, and also for uniting the company around Altman.
The never ending cost of low quality outsourced digital transformation. Pathetic how many large corps have been hit. And tax payer has to foot the ever growing bill to investigate and defend these useless orgs.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewable energy for six days
Why would you be surprised that they'd implement this? It's their job to implement things.
That definition ought to be reserved for ASI (S meaning super) not AGI (G meaning general).

That said I agree "human like" is unlikely, although LLMs and diffusion models are much closer than I was expecting.
> GitHub has been significantly less reliable since Microsoft bought it and Actions has been a disaster of an experience.

Not unreliable enough to be a problem though, and Actions seems to be a decent experience for plenty of people.

The simple fact with GitHub is that it is _the_ primary place to go looking for, or post your, open source code, and it is the go-to platform for the majority of companies looking for a solution to source code hosting.

Your comment about LinkedIn is true, but where is the nearest competition in its' space?
Yeah idk anything about him in particular. I just mean that, on paper, someone who goes straight from bachelor's to teaching is someone who doesn't really have any experience. I notice that a lot of the people who extol the virtues of FP to me are a lot of people straight out of college and have little real-world reference for why FP is useful in a prod environment
chatgpt was under provisioned relative to demand, but demand was unprecedented, so it's not really fair to criticize much on that.

(It would have been a much bigger blunder to, say, build out 10x the capacity before launch, without knowing there was a level of demand is known to support it.)

Also, chatgpt's capabilities are what drove the huge demand, so I'm not sure how you can argue it is "shoddy".
the other half of that rumor/conspiracy theory was that the Chinese government found out about it, told the Biden administration, who told Satya Nadella, who then instigated the firing of Altman.

seeing as Nadella is willing to hire Altman to work at MS, I think the very, very little credibility this rumor had is officially gone.
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Ilya Sutskever is one of most distinguished ML researchers of his generation. This was the case before anything to do with Open AI.
Could also be an indictment of the new CEO, who is no Sam Altman.
Maybe whisper?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_...
I could hear a newscasters voice in my head reading that and it actually gave me a little shiver
You're right, and I was going to say that but I couldn't figure out how to write that sentence and make it sound right. :)

Either way, it was envisioned from the beginning that digital computers could replace human computers along with a lot of other office disciplines. There once was a big "computers are going to make office jobs disappear" scare.
Whisper v3, just a couple weeks ago https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
I think that's why you ransom the decryption key first. If I understood correctly.
AFAICT, the tweets in context are anti ADL, not anti-semitic.
atomic ordering is very easy if you don't care about performance. So on the other hand we could ask why get/put/setenv have such a terrible need for performance that we can't afford to put a simple lock around them.
Glad you understood it instantly. Now maybe work on your social skills
ah ha, thank you!
All the major airlines I’ve used show the prices including mandatory fees and taxes up front. The only things not included are optional add ons like extra bags.
> I’d like to see Democrats ask their wealthy donors to give that up.

What about Republican's wealthy donors, or Green's wealthy donors? Or are you suggesting this is just a problem with the others?
Urgency is one of the key motivators for using dark patterns. Wouldn't be surprised if Delta defaults to "1 seat available at this price" for all busy flights within X take off time regardless of the availability.
It can also "correct" proper reasoning. :)

~"When told where it's wrong, LLM can correct itself to improve accuracy."

Similar to cheating in chess- a master only needs to be told the value of a few positions to have an advantage.
Whisper maybe?
Please link the actual tweets, not just to an article that doesn't even quote them:

https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1724932619203420203
The shared class cache was the thing I was thinking of, I think.

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/j-class-sharing-openj9/

Looks like maybe there is similar for OpenJDK & Oracle Java as of version 12 (I think it is?)

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/specs/man/jav...
I just mean in terms of experience. If you deviate from textbook accuracy and go into providing practical advice for real-life scenarios, someone with only a bachelor's and no work history is someone who can only give you canned anecdotes from others. Looking at his resume, it looks like he's had some internships so he has a bit of experience, and that's probably worth something
I was thinking we needed new seasons to cover the crypto crash, layoffs, and gen AI craze. This makes up for so much of it.
yeah, I've been trying to get this mindset as well - even though sometimes I feel that I'm "cheating" :)
> strongmen, religious leaders, little feudal lords to impose their views on the less powerful

Can you explain how this is different than a government?
If we assume bad faith on D'Angelo's part (which we don't know for sure), it would obviously be unethical, but is it illegal? It seems like it would be impossible to prove what his motivations were even if it looks obvious to everyone in the peanut gallery. Seems like there's very little recourse against a corrupt board in a situation like this as long as a majority of them are sticking together.
Any Wire Harness Making Tutorials?
I have been scouring the internet for some Hacker Newsletter quality guide of making wire harnesses to no avail. Information like what raw materials I should get, how to find connectors, how to utilize pin-out diagrams for your wires, how to splice, etc.

Any help?
It has come to the point that hearing the expression "Effective Altruism" sends shivers down my spline.
Musk doesn't like the ADL. Media are spinning this as "anti-semitic," hoping the emotions around the issues will prevent most people from reading carefully.
Browser plugins like PageZipper might help you in regards to the multi-page clicking
I made https://vector-graph.com/ a while back and documented it pretty thoroughly. While I never "finished" it, it's working pretty fine and as long as you fix it to a specific version, you won't have to worry about changes if/when I continue working on it.

Feedback would be greatly welcome! It's made specifically for the usecase you mention, blog-like website with Katex to add pretty graphics. Example usage:

<!-- Draw a triangle with labels on the sides and angles -->
<vector-graph x="3" y="3" axis="false">
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</vector-graph>

<!-- a + b = c, but in vector form (with lots of labels) -->
<vector-graph x="4.9" y="4.9">
<vector label="b" color="blue" from="3,4" to="4,2" axis></vector>
<vector label="a" color="red" from="0,0" to="3,4" axis></vector>
<vector label="c" from="0,0" to="4,2"></vector>
</vector-graph>

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Basically every large, traditional business is relying on some offshore gig for certain key technical responsibilities. They probably don't consider it the real key as they are cost centers, but hey ransomewares are reminding them.

It's not even just offshore. Some onshore consultancies are really of agasp quality.
Perspective as CEO of a backup and disaster recovery company...

A lot of folks now have ransomware protected backups for critical data so they aren't paying for decryption keys.

This has escalated to hack and release, the attackers are now exfiltrating data and threatening to make it public in addition to encrypting it on the host system.
Dark website patterns are the internet's embodiment of the sleazy salesperson.

You want the product, the sales guy wants to upsell you and increase his profit margin (corresponding to sales commission). Nobody likes to be sold at like this, but many companies are perfectly happy being represented by such sleazebag salesmanship.
> And seat selection... don't bother with it is fine if you're traveling alone. But if you're going on a family trip, this kind of detail is actually important.

IIRC, Southwest boards families early enough that they can get seats together, so it's another seat win for them.
This sounds like a great proposal, and those 50-seat aircraft are the backbone of the mountain communities I grew up around in the PNW. Is there any loss in effectiveness in using standard atmospheric air (thanks to N2 and other non-oxygen components of air)? What do you do with the resultant H2O when the reaction is complete?
too fat to survice apocalypse
You and Adam Curtis need to spend some time together I’d suggest watching “Can’t get
You out of my head”

Why does capital win? Because we have no other narrative. And it killed all our old ones and absorbs all our new ones.
Can anyone ELI5 this for me?

Does this mean NVidia GPUs don't need the proprietary driver anymore? Does this put NVidia on par with Radeon via amdgpu/RADV regarding OSS Linux support?
It might, or it might not go down in response to a lack of sales. Some airlines continue to segment their customers by elastic vs. inelastic demand. As departure date approaches their customer mix changes, and it might make sense to raise prices instead of lower them even if it leads to unsold inventory. After all there's a secondary market for unsold inventory - frequent flyer mile redemptions.

Its not as cut and dried as you're making it out to be.

It is accurate at the time presented. You can buy N seats for $X each, before the next seat is more expensive. That's all you can really ask.
It also reminds me of, Don't Be Evil