skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not fun really. I am critical (of everyone involved). We were asked to migrate under a promise it'll be over soon. "It only needs a little kick", they said, ignoring everyone and vandalizing the loved contributions. Years passed and we:

- still stumble upon it even in fresh projects

- have no esm-only bundle-less projects in practice, because it's still impractical

- learned a bookshelf each about the thing that should just work

- watch entire toolchains decay into a shitton of date-dependent issues

- have no clear troubleshooting paths, even when we have a clue what's wrong

They forcefully promised some bright future, we helplessly agreed.

Where the bright?

Three years later, I lost half an evening to [1] again. My love and politeness reserves are depleted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365983
Agreed that drilling isn't easy, but this does seem more like a budgetary and political issue than an engineering challenge.

Not much (if any) drilling may even be necessary, as there's also the option of running coolant lines directly into the train tunnels. Existing water infrastructure could also be used as coolant — especially if it's otherwise sitting idle for a fire that hopefully never happens!
Hmm. I want to disagree, but I lose arguments enough that I am forced to think about questioning my own assumptions. Wait.. that's what I was arguing FOR! ..
Profiles, there's a couple real simple UI changes Firefox could make that would bring profiles on par with chrome. But won't.

And before someone comes here saying container tabs, it's not the same thing.
"Settled" means that it's never, ever going to change, because the composition of the court isn't going to change. At least not during my lifetime, and probably not yours.

It doesn't matter whether it's "justified". The Constitution means what five people on the Court say it means. And if that comes from talking to James Madison on the ouija board, the rest of us have to live with it.

In that sense, it's "settled". And our daily school shootings are just a fact that we have to accept.
As you obviously have never been to Stockholm, feel free to pay us a visit. Its really nice in the summer! This is the ferry map for the archipelago: https://waxholmsbolaget.se/globalassets/kartor/hela-skargard... Note though that that doesn't include the line the P-12 will be in service on from next year as that is line 89 run by SL: https://sl.se/globalassets/linje-89.pdf
As a paid ChatGPT user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption.
DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models
The reference to [OpenAI's] exact number of employees is interesting in context.
Like how FB and Google just update willy nilly and you're stuck with whatever you get no matter the workflow issues. Should be able to pick a version, even if it's a sliding window.
I'm sorry, I can't make sense of what you wrote, those "side benefits that using a programming language [in CI] actually unlocks". Could you please give a concrete example?

> Need type checking at build time? done.

It's not unlocked by Dagger since every CI can already do this. And it's almost always about launching a (shell) command. How is that line easier in Go/any-language than in yaml?

> Need to import functions from other places? done

You mean "import functions into the CI code"? Why would I need that? It's usually possible through plugin systems, but I've never felt the need to put complex code into CI actions.

> Need a test framework? done.

Is that a test framework to test the CI code from within the CI? I hope I'll never want one! I guess I completely misunderstood...

On the other side of those "benefits", I can smell problems. For instance, when Docker images and Compose systems are built from the Dagger API. If the need for some advanced features comes in, this extra layer could prove costly.
Whatever, it is a free service that is also amazing. If it's down, it's down but I agree, if you are a paying member it should be more reliable.
This is not how I interpret the messages from the OpenAI team members.

They are sending messages of unity, not fealty to Sam Altman.

Working together brought them to the top of the world both in term of research and product. This is a dream come true.

What would surprise me is that they wouldn't do everything they can to avoid breaking their team.
Well, yes, but which were those 2 out of 4 vendors?
Here’s an article: https://coincu.com/110838-he-yi-co-founder-binance/
My parents didn't spend much time out of the house, but they'd kick us out occasionally. We'd bike around, go to parks, or visit friends. Are parents even allowed to say "Go play outside until the street lights turn on" anymore?
Name the offenders please.

I am sure it might be easy to see visually - a lack of substantial capacitor on the board would indicate a high likelihood of data loss.
Thank you for the answers guys!
I think I am going with the API version instead (Sending audio the API). Still, I putting this on hold for the moment.
Thanks!!!
What's wrong with reviewees marking comments resolved? That allows anyone reading to see what issues are "open" or already addressed at a glance.

Code review isn't adversarial, so it's not like the reviewee is closing comments to shove bad code through and they need approvals anyway.
I don't think that the firing of Sam Altman was due to commercialization of GPT-3 and GPT-4, and I don't think there's been any reliable information that confirms that. There's been multiple statements that at least partially contradict that, including:

Emmett Shear: "Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models." [1]

Brad Lightcap: We can say definitively that the board’s decision was not made in response to malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices. This was a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board.” [2]

Also, I believe Adam D'Angelo made some pro-commercialization comments on Twitter earlier this year.

[1] https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/11/19/sam-altman-was-fundraising-fo...
In that mattress store, those mattresses were more expensive than otherwise equivalent ones lacking the electronics. I have to assume that somebody is buying them even with the added premium.
People say the second amendment was made in the era of muskets so obviously an automatic rifle isn't what the founders were talking about
While the first amendment was made in the era of newspapers, so obviously the right to speech doesn't extend to Telegrams, Radio, TV, or Digital communication
It's hard for me to imagine a worse take. Even if you only assume the best of intentions of the board (which I think is a huge assumption), their actions have been so mind-bogglingly stupid that basically all they may end up doing is transferring all of OpenAI to Microsoft, basically for free, where there will be 0 oversight and MSFT's only duty is to its shareholders.

If you really wanted to create "AGI for the benefit of all humanity", I can't imagine a better way to cut off your nose and then remove your brain to spite your face.
And you can tell. The Victoria line is way more comfortable than the three lines getting an upgrade that are all hellish, all your round.
It has had an incredible amount of mainstream media attention around the world in the last couple of days so it’s hardly surprising. That said, it did cross my mind that dark forces or a disgruntled employee might be at work.
I just don't like Mozilla, as a company, for many reasons.

The main ones being:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...

The pay wouldn't be so egregious if it wasn't a constant pattern of pay raises, despite by their own stats, losing MAU and revenue. They also laid off 250 people (which is much more than $5MM, any way you cut it) but it seems in bad taste to give the CEO a raise in the same year.

And:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/

The fact that they're leaning so much into political activism.

On their homepage they're promoting a journalist involved in some misinformation controversy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220928230910/https://www.washi...

The journalist has blamed all this on "editors" -- so we'll never know _who_ exactly did the stealth edits and lied about contacting for comment. In any case, it is pretty ironic, given the CEO of Mozilla seems to think we need more than de-platforming to combat "misinformation":

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

Not a fan of statements that creep into invasions of privacy from a supposedly privacy focused browser.

So, to sum it up;

Wild executive pay for poor performance and too much political activism (that I tend to not agree with) for a web browser.
Technology that may cause existential risk or risk of systemic collapse are one category including nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, global warming, etc.

Robotics disrupting the workforce and devaluing labor are another category continuing the process of mechanization and automation that started with small electrical motors and the electrification of factories.

Artificial intelligence is in a third category because it threatens the disruption and impending devaluation of broad categories of intellectual work.
Not at all. It may have looked like that in the beginning, but it looks nothing like that now. If that were the reason:

Why would they take this huge decision extremely suddenly?

Why would they announce it without first consulting with the president of the board?

Why would they claim that Sam Altman had been lying to the board in the official announcement?

Why would they announce some very weak reasons for that claim of lying to employees, and nothing to anyone outside the company?

Why would they immediately start negotiations to bring Sam back?

Why would they hire a new CEO that then says he is very much for commercialization, and that commercialization was not the reason for firing Sam?

Why would they start a new round of negotiation to bring Sam back?

Why would one of the four members of the board who took this turn decide to undo it and become an advocate for bringing Sam back?

The whole thing makes no sense at all if the motivation was disagreements over commercialization of their tech - something that has already happened months ago.
The court make-up isn't expected to change for decades. The previous President appointed three young members who will be there for a very long time, adding to three existing members. It will be many, many years before the composition of the court is likely to shift significantly.
I don't see the issue, almost all the high paying jobs nowadays are just staring at screens all day anyway.

I'm being facetious, but maybe not really...
Ilya reminds me of Frank Pentangeli from Godfather II.

1) Frank becomes a witness for the Feds against the Coreleone.

2) Frank recants when his brother shows up at the hearing reminding him of the consequences of breaking the oath of silence.

3) Frank kills himself to ensure his children's safety.

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/59089/why-did-fra...
I feel like he is probably doing it for stock options.

If you are worth a few B, being the CEO of OpenAI presents a reasonable opportunity to grow that by tens of billions if everything goes right.
Same way I'd explain the Russian, Iranian, Turkish ones.
It seems that way, which is baffling to me, as this seems a particularly easy problem to solve. No need to wait for an independent investigator to give a report in 30 days (by which time OpenAI might be toast). Just have individual discussions with each board member and ask them why they voted to fire Sam, and what evidence there was. Then, take appropriate action.

If I had to guess, there will be one person who pushed for Sam's firing with vague reasons, and the others went along with it for their own vague reasons. In which case, the solution would be to fire those members (including Ilya) from the board, but let Ilya continue as chief scientist.
I will be very sad, when they day comes and AGI is controlled by the money making company, especially if it is because of the actions of OpenAI and not some other entity.

It is the end of the humanity as we know it, and the owner has ultimate power over the world, as the gains are exponential once you acquire it.

Ultimate reason why someone was clever enough to make OpenAI governance as it is, and why this drama is happening. And why Microsoft is involved so deeply.
> We have a forest in our backyard with a 2 story fully enclosed treehouse (including electricity), sports fields within a 5 minute walk, tons of hiking trails, etc.

Humans are social beings. We are motivated to do things through our peers doing things. What you describe is probably really nice for people who enjoy exercise and spending time in nature. But for social beings, what you are describing is absolute isolation from society.

I would posit that a big part of what glues the kids to the screen is that the screen is a window to the real world. When they look into the screen, they have an endless stream of other people, expressing opinions, doing things, existing in society. When they look outside, there's no society, there's no people. It's just trees.
Maybe, but homelessness/poverty and education quality not, for example. These would be important for people who plan to have a family.

I guess the social side can be deduced easily from the fact that these places are single-party cryptodictatorships, though.
ControlMat: Controlled Generative Approach to Material Capture
Probably because the system is new and they are still working through the bugs. When, for example, is the last time you noticed a Gmail outage? Nowadays almost never, but 10 year ago it happened multiple times a year. Similarly, GitHub outages are also becoming less long and less frequent.
Or Dustin Moskovitz, it seems many of the board members may be linked to him
They should probably try asking a Magic Eight Ball for a second opinion at this point. If you feed GPT-4 the reporting around this situation since Friday (literally just copy and paste in whatever reports you want) and ask a pointed question or two about OpenAI’s future, even GPT-4 isn’t liking OpenAI’s chances here.

(Yes, I understand ChatGPT isn’t an AGI, shouldn’t be used for strategic decisions, blah blah blah, I tried it because it was funny.)
> My children have a 2 acre backyard with woods and a treehouse.

Very, very few people have this. Sounds like you have your own "third place" that the neighborhood kids can leverage, and which provides a compelling alternative to screens.
Well, I called it a hack rather than an emulation layer, and I am open to it being more formal than a patch every time the OS is upgraded. As you noted “I do not track” such things.

My HyperCard withdrawal has been alleviated in a way by an MacOS9 emulator that runs on the latest (as of Ventura) hardware and software, and which runs HyperCard. I just found it to be a great prototyping tool for GUI apps that passed messages between objects, quite different from straight procedural programming.

Sure, some business probably wouldn’t want to run a legacy app in an emulator of an earlier version of windows. So much legacy software out there.
Agreed. At the end of the day there is no one tool that will fend off all of it. However, NextDNS/Pihole + uBlock Origin gets you most of the way there. uBlock Origin is particularly helpful for blocking first-party ads.
if you're using reddit logic, the user needs to present the wrong answer first, before getting the right answer

anyway, LLMs aren't thinking. they're pattern matching and it's not doing recursion it seems.

I'd say the only way you're getting error correction is taking multiple LLMS And running them through chains and parallel construction.
Something weird happens when you keep squeezing [video]
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I don't use Chrome. I just don't agree with the political activism and business decisions of Mozilla.
the outcome of this for-profit subsidiary is already showing in real-time, they just want to take everything from openai into for-profit for their own benefit, that is a fraud by definition, which means taking something is not theirs. one good example is Flash mob in LA, yours belongs to me, same culture, same behavior. to your "Ideally world", its very simple, Microsoft could simply just donate $10b to openai, they can share the open-sourced model.
Why would I jump ship for some lesser tech when OpenAI has everything I love working on?
Well, I tried to design languages years ago (10+ years ago). They never amounted to anything or even got further than writing a lexer. C3 wouldn't have happened if I didn't have the design of C2 (and of course the C language) to lean on.
I’m not sure which definition of rent-seeking you’re using here, but I encourage you to revisit it. Rent-seeking doesn’t just mean “charging an expensive subscription fee”.
I knew some buildings that had elevators that worked that way: one for even floors, one for uneven ones. I always wondered if this really paid off. I guess in a building you almost always are either going to or coming from the ground floor, and you never need to switch elevator. But on a train line you might want to get off at any stop so ~50% of people will need to switch.
Because one is rooted in sensorial life and the other is purely abstract?
I'm working on making it possible to feed LLMs live data from websites.
It is challenging because injecting webpages into LLM prompts directly has a mixed result, especially if there's a smidge of ambiguity or complexity in the webpage HTML, so part of my work is on automatic methods to economically prune, format and feed web data to LLM RAG pipelines.

You can follow my progress on twitter if you're interested (I tweet about other things, don't expect LLM/Data stuff only :)

https://twitter.com/omarkamali

https://twitter.com/themonitoro
> Your position is not internally consistent

I'm throwing out suggestions as to why various differing parties here may be doing what they're doing. There's no need for internal consistency because it's not a unified top-down scenario, it's multipolar game theorizing.

'If A does B, then why would C do D, that isn't consistent' well the answer is that A and C are competing, not cooperating.
"Subdivisions" is a song about a nerdy kid finding it hard to fit in, and the similarity of the houses in large developments is treated as a metaphor for the limited range of identities kids could adopt if they didn’t want to be socially excluded. The song says nothing about kids finding it hard to play together, because in lyricist Neil Peart’s childhood all the way to the 1990s, children were finding things to do together in those suburbs regardless. Moreover, the perspective of the song is a high-school one (“…in the basement bars, in the backs of cars…”, plus see the music video), not younger children.
Sapling can use Mononoke, but it can also use Git repositories as the underlying storage layer with no server at all, and it does so by default in the OSS build. You can use it just fine with GitHub today, but there are rough edges.

My understanding is that the work to support OSS builds of Mononoke+EdenFS is happening, but there's no exact timeline right now because (from what I can tell) they basically have to abstract out and write new production storage components for the metadata/object layer, as they can't use their internal ones, obviously.
New Zealand has a scheme (soon to expire with the change in government) for this.

Low efficiency vehicles are taxed on import, and the money raised is returned as rebates on high efficiency vehicles.

A Ford Ranger might attract the full fee, a new t Nissan leaf would get the full credit.
A small ICE car attracts a smaller fee. Hybrids are given a smaller credit.

The exact amount of credit varied over time as the fees gathered changed.
Yes and a semi regular steam of articles that seem like extreme cases but nonetheless repay children taken from parents for free ranging. Further back the articles were about stranger danger and kids being kids.

It's as though we've been captured by the worst cases and the illusion of a guarantee of harm avoidance without noticing the embodied harm.
Adobe was corporate-level sponsor for .. wild guess, around one year maybe?
As long as this is reasonably communicated to all who pay, I’m generally of the same mind.

It just takes a “this is a beta, there may be the occasional outage” banner.
I'd love if the only reply was "Resistance is futile" in case of any error.
I think he should just standby what he did. Plain and simple.
With enough fusion generator, water, lighting, robots, building materials, and seeds, you can grow all of that stuff pretty easily anywhere. Maybe you'd even be able to download and print the seeds.
Mercurial runs on Python 3 just fine and has been for a while. In fact, starting with Mercurial 6.2 (from July 2022), Python 2 is no longer supported [1].

[1] https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/Release6.2
Excellent point.

Perhaps a more computationally expensive but better looking method will be to pull all objects in the scene from a 3D model library, then programmatically set the scene and render it.
I'm not sure if lawsuits against the non-profit will be possible, as the investors didn't invest in it. More likely, making public the facts behind who was responsible for the shenanigans and what evidence they had (if any), combined with pressure from employees, will force their hand.
His original vote matter a lot. His name should be mentioned along with the others
I can't imagine a group of collaborators that would make me distrust their product more.
Me too.

Not to say a study can’t often be found for most viewpoints.
Laws are about statistics. Statistically you can't trust even adults with stuff like gambling or smoking. Statistically they will make bad decisions that will wreck the lives of a big percentage of adults. Not a majority, but maybe 20%.

Accepting that fact is hard, but it's reality.
I loved living in Edinburgh's New Town because of the tenement blocks. The huge windows were a life saver in the winter because they let in so much light. (Not so sure about the energy efficiency of single-glazed sash windows though). As you say, it makes for a handsome streescape.

My experience of flats in London was almost exclusively badly-converted victorian terraces, where rooms could have really odd shapes because of the way they needed to be divided, and terrible noise insulation.