skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having served on boards, the one thing I have not seen that would be really key (and maybe I just have not been lucky in my searches), is something that answers the question of what is the language around releasing information regarding the company to the press or in a research capacity? Typically there are rules that are set up to give the board notice of anything going out to the public, be it an article or research paper, that allows for a heads up or gives time to discuss the implications of such a thing. While whistleblowers are necessary, was there a need to be a sort of whistleblower in this case? Was there adequate board discussion around the subject and the paper before the release? If not, nobody needs a rogue board member like that and it was definitely not in the interest of the company - she is the one at fault here. If that process did happen, she definitely did the right thing and shame on the board for not getting out in front of it.
Should I virtualise my firewalls?
A short post on stuff I've learnt the painful way running bare metal and VM firewalls. Anything obvious I've missed please comment and I'll update with attribution.
Unfortunately, encryption never was quite as robust as the rest of ZFS. That said, things have become much better in the past year, as there have been targetted efforts focused on improving it, which found and fixed multiple bugs.

That said, most of the developers are likely not using it on their own systems, which probably allowed bugs to stick around abnormally long compared to the rest of the code base (although some really ancient bugs were found last year in other areas).
There isn't a requirement to create a Microsoft account, either.
My user ID in Github is username and they just suddenly name it also to usernamex.
Under that logic, why have rules at all? Let's just give the FTC the power to do anything it wants with no oversight and trust that they won't abuse that power in any way. It would certainly make it easier for them to do the things we want them to do, and after all, the FTC has no history of abusing the powers it never previously had.

Law is not code, law is law, and our legal system is based on the idea that by default the government can't do things, we specifically allow things if and only if we want the government to actually be allowed to do those things, and we limit what we allow as narrowly as possible while still enabling the goal to be accomplished. There is a long history of overly broad laws being applied in obviously unintended ways, with countless examples of horrific consequences, which is why we set up our legal system this way. We know that relying on reasonable interpretation is a bad practice that should be avoided as much as possible. It is laughable to dismiss such concerns as being rooted in a lack of understanding of how the law works, indeed I would describe anyone who does not have such concerns as naïve at best.
They are absolutely everywhere in Chicago, running around everywhere unsupervised.
Whenever there's an obvious conflict, assume it's not enforced or difficult to litigate or has relatively irrelevant penalties. Experts/lawyers who have a material stake in getting this right have signed off on it. Many (if not most) people with enough status to be on the board of a fortune 500 company tend to also be on non-profit boards. We can go out on a limb and suppose the mission of the nonprofit is not their top priority, and yet they continue on unscathed.
A lot of glorified companies are completely filled with corrupt, inept management. I hope this recession destroys this management culture and brings back the ethos of innovation in engineering and product.
IL City Decides to Blow Tax Dollars on Storefront for Private Security Camera Co
For my personal machine I have a relatively new ThinkPad running linux that works perfectly well for everything that I do.

Ever since it came out I want to buy a MacBook with these new chips as my personal machine. But I haven't yet bought one because I don't need one.

Or I'll buy it when my ThinkPad dies. (Weird laughter).

And then over here I read about people replacing laptops every other year or so, and I wonder why I am the way I am.
One tidbit: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the target in this question, is claimed to be a CIA asset. Recently, he 'threatened to blast' Air India flights. Same group he associated with bombed Air India Flight 182 in 1995, killing 329 folks--and one Canadian security services agent was involved in this blast, that's why Canada sabotaged the investigation [1][2]. Another reason why Canada didn't help the post-blast investigation: victims are not white, and the key suspect in that blast was sought for extradition, but Trudeau's dad declined that extradition request because 'India only recognized Her Majesty as Head of the Commonwealth, and not as Head of State.'[3]

Even some Indian security official claimed that Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is an American asset in a public forum. That's why he can openly call for bombing Indian flights without any repercussions whatsoever, because he is protected by CIA (therefore by FBI/DOJ). 'It is not for any other reason that Indian intelligence chief told the CIA Director that the only reason they don’t take action against SFJ’s G.S Pannun, who holds dual citizenship of US and Canada, for openly calling for assassinations of Indian diplomats and burning of Indian flag could be because he is actually a CIA agent and batting on behalf of Langley.' [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

[2] https://espionage.substack.com/p/canadian-intelligences-dirt...

[3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/a-tale-of-tw...

[4] https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/view-how-trudeau-s-a...
Backblast is still a problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backblast_area
The difference between Elon and Swift, is the scale to which they are able to use capitalism for their means. I think Elon is scarier for that reason. (Not absolving Swift of that, though).
Insert the meme of me turning to look at this, while the dusty Novation Launchpad sitting on my desk is looking at me with jealous anger.

I want this. I don't need it at all. But wow, I want it.
I can't speak to New York City, but certainly can to Chicago, where they are ubiquitous.
Most of this information (with the possible exception of the SSNs) is readily available from data brokers. How do you think those auto warranty scam companies know exactly when your (legitimate) auto warranty expires? They bought the information from a data broker or sometimes directly from your state's MVD.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-pri...
After the latest Chatgpt debacles, the poor performance I'm getting from 4 turbo, I'd really like a local version of chatgpt4 or equivalent.
I'd even buy a new pc if I had too.
I genuinely, truly do not understand how Microsoft, let alone any user, can accept the current state of Windows' Bluetooth stack. It's completely broken, core features are simply not implemented. Microsoft themselves provide a better Bluetooth UI in one of their WPF demo repos than the one shipped with Windows.

Maybe I'm biased because my job involves building Bluetooth hardware and software for Windows, but even just trying to use normal devices like headphones or controllers is absolute anguish.

Bluetooth on Linux isn't perfect: I frequently have to unpair and repair my headphones, but at least it's feature complete. Anything that Bluetooth can do is exposed. Linux even comes with some really advanced CLI utilities to manage Bluetooth devices. On windows you're lucky to find a WinRT function for what you want, and it probably doesn't even work.

Windows 7 had a complete Bluetooth implementation, but Microsoft decided to rewrite everything from scratch. I guess the intern they delegated it to had to go back to their job at Starbucks before they finished.
I think you might be confusing cookies and local storage.
I don't know how credible I am (fwiw white British, Christened but agnostic, no particular bias except perhaps 'hey guys can't you resolve this peacefully somehow') and it's difficult for me to understand much, but I think he's not being that direct about it, but kind of alluding to it, talking a bit euphemistically.

In the beginning after saying 'we are urging Sikhs not to fly Air India' in English, which sounds like boycott, he switches to Hindi[0] and says similar with 'on the 19th November' (unnis navambar ko) - why would a boycott be so specific; then he says same date 'Indira Gandhi airport [Delhi international, i.e. North India but not Punjab] will be closed' (band rahega).

Later he says something about 'khalistani airport' which I would guess is his way of referring to Amritsar or Chandigarh (the two international airports in Punjab afaict, perhaps the former because it's cleanly Punjab vs. the latter seems to be the capital city of both Punjab and Haryana states, kind of an interesting quirk) but it's difficult for me to understand much more. Edit: actually it's Chandigarh, I just realised the sentence is 'Shaheed Bhagat Singh [name of Chandigarh airport] will be the khalistani airport' (khalistani airport hoega). Again you could say it's a boycott: take your money to Punjab's airports, not Delhi's - but why's the latter 'closed', why 19 November specifically. As an economic boycott, that being done by the subset of Sikhs who follow him on a single day would have trivial impact, it'd be completely inconsequential.

I realise that's not much, maybe it helps a bit, I was mainly interested for myself as a learning exercise really! (My vocabulary's quite limited, but more than that I struggle just with listening/speaking fast enough, so trying to practice more in ways other than reading.)

[0] or maybe Punjabi, I'd have thought it would be, and they're similar enough spoken that I'd pick bits up anyway, but seems more familiar (i.e. Hindi) word endings/conjugations to me (even where I don't know the actual word) than there would be if it was Punjabi (which I might recognise from '-da's and '-di's for example)
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326318
An alternative is to not actually give them your social security number, but a different number that's not likely to collide with an existing customer's. It's not like they run it past a government database to verify.
I didn't log in, I didn't agree to their terms of service. This is what people mean when they say it is "public"
I don't think there is an equivalent war zone to compare too. Say in Ukraine the front line is 1500 km long vs Gaza is tiny. If majority of journalists were killed from gun fire that would be fairly conclusive if they are killed from shelling or airstrikes it would be less clear.
Curious as to why that's insane? It's on par with / a little less than most streetwear brands. Of course you can buy a hoodie for $25, but you can also buy one for thousands. You're only going to pay what something is worth to you; it's very subjective.
I get a lostredditor vibe way too often here. Oddly more than Reddit.

I think people forget sometimes that comments come with a context. If we are having a conversation about Deep Water Horizon someone will chime in about how safe deep sea oil exploration is and how many failsafes blah blah blah.

“Do you know where you are right now?”
As a current Googler of approximately the same tenure, I can't speak to the comments on Jeanine Banks (never met her), but I agree with every other word of this.

It's frustrating to continue to see both the level of genuinely well-intentioned work that the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of, and also the (at this point) complete absence of concern for the user, the long term, and the company culture at the highest levels of Google.

I care about my team and believe in their skills and intents. But the Google I joined in early 2006, as a whole, is fractured, reeling, and has been pushed to the brink of extinction by the importing of "business focus" and the "bottom line" (read: short term share price) to Google's management structure wholesale.
I think the EA community is very open about the uncertainties around the risks of AGI and the difficulty in addressing them. The point is that if there is even a 0.01% chance that AGI could threaten the existence of humanity then it's worth spending time and thought addressing it.

NASA has the Sentry program to look out for asteroids, with a budget of around $35 million, and the odds of a "big one" hitting in our life time is less than 1 in 10,000.

That said, the majority of EA spending is on global health and development to address immediate issues, on programs like Against Malaria.
Me too. Reading the article, there seems to be no attempt to replace the two remaining "if" statements, and so, avoid branches. It doesn't even need to be CMOV: possibly introducing tmppar1 and tmppar2 = tmppar & (an operation that is either 0 or -1). And then always rp12 ^= tmppar1; rp14 ^= tmppar2; -- it might not be faster, but that's what I would try at least.
GPT 4 is older than Palm 2. It's weird that big companies are basically only competing for fourth best(after GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and Claude full) and GPT-4 is just a gold standard even now that there are many unicorns and big companies putting all of their resources into it.
> Lastly if 30 percent is "unfair" developers would not use the platform. But they do. Same for consumers.

My PS3 was my last console for this reason. Developers pay the publishing charge and make up the loss with micro-transactions or shallow GOTY editions. In cases where they don't add tedious amounts of "grind" mechanics to extend gameplay time, they'll just make them multiplayer-centric.

The whole thing has become a racket.
Show HN: A free invoice generator with payments, built for freelancers
If true, it does sound terrible. Though, I would focus not so much on one named person. The culture is allowing it, leaders above and around her, whatever feedback systems Google has, and so on.
And why on earth would you do that on a laptop to start with?

I'm sure apple not having decent desktops for a decade leaves a mark. I guess I'm surprised people put up with it.
That makes sense. ChatGPT generates pleasing, nice-looking text. Doctors have to be honest even when it means they're unsure about a diagnosis or things are looking grim.

You can keep your ChatGPT, I'll be leaving the medical advice to my general practitioner.
AI for SEO content creation: 5 real-world examples
https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functiona...

https://github.com/tommythorn/Reduceron

also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_reduction_machine
I definitely feel the large file support in Mercurial is less bolted-on.
My personal favourite mercurial gui features that I hope make it into git or a mercurial using a git data store are:

phases
revsets (query language for revisions, they also have filesets for the files)
hg grep --diff
hg fa --deleted
hg absorb
I’m shocked no one has tried to write a php interpreter in Perl.
Around 2016 at Google, my entire reporting chain, from manager to CEO, changed. Literally not a single person was left. Laszlo, both Erics, Patrick and the rest of the L team all left in quick succession. I think the old Google of < 2015 and the current Google are two companies that have almost nothing in common.
There is the Linux Programming Environment book, which covers most of the library.
I feel like you could make a strong argument that open source actually aids tech monopolies. Consider some business that needs <foo> to work. They can use OSS, buy, or build. If they buy, they share their profits with some other company, and they have to do that for the duration of their use of <foo>. If they build <foo> as proprietary software then they are stuck with keeping expertise in that software. If <foo> is instead OSS, then they can either directly use that component, or make some initial investment in that component, and then use it with minimal further overheads.

If you are building, then it better be your core competence. If you buy, then as you become larger and more successful, buying will be more and more expensive. Its hard to make your suppliers exclusive, and competition will be somewhat maintained.

The Linux Kernel is a great example. There used to be a ton of kernels to choose from maintained and developed by small businesses, but over time Linux was chosen as a good free option. Companies would then put relatively minor investments into customizing or maintaining Linux, avoiding needing a proprietary kernel. After 20 or so years of this, there is almost no money to be made as a small operating systems vendor.
> “Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google.”

Ouch.

I know a lot of outsiders believe that, but to have someone who spent 2-decades at Google saying it publicly is rough.
Your understanding of web technology is incredible. You should run for congress.
Your Hyundai has the same features as Autopilot. Why should we have to share the road with it? Because regulators allow it.
How does it compare with something like FastChat? https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

Feature set seems like a decent amount of overlap. One limitation of FastChat, as far as I can tell, is that one is limited to the models that FastChat supports (though I think it would be minor to modify it to support arbitrary models?)
Socketioxide is the socket.io server written in Rust. Try it out and consider starring the project!!
On the other hand once something works on linux it may do so for a long time without being dependent on the vendor to release a new version for each new major windows version.
For me it's a cheap old flatbed scanner where the last windows drivers are for XP but it still works on an rolling release distro.
So far nobody has proven that this bug exists on FreeBSD, though. :)
Sorry - I wasn't clear. I mean what have you tried that leads you to know this:

> It is very hard to convince people that are legitimately working hard for their personal well being that they should also give thoughts to those that come next
Even dual booting is less of an option these days. If you aren't careful, windows will clobber your boot records and force itself to be the default and only boot option.

I've even heard of Windows erasing grub during normal updates.

I just erased windows from my personal machines. I've been exclusively on Linux for 5 years or more
- bioinformatics
> well not anymore, as they cannot function as a nonprofit.

There's been a lot of news lately, but unless I've missed something, even with the tentative agreement of a new board for the charity nonprofit, they are and plan to remain a charity nonprofit with the same nominal mission.

> also infamously they fundraised as a nonprofit, but retracted to admit they needed a for profit structure to thrive

No, they admitted they needed to sell products rather than merely take donations to survive, and needed to be able to return profits from doing that to investors to scale up enough to do that, so they formed a for-profit subsidiary with its own for-profit subsidiary, both controlled by another subsidiary, all subordinated to the charity nonprofit, to do that.
The context of the comment thread you're replying to was a response to a comment suggesting the IRS will get involved in the question of whether MS have too much influence over OpenAI, it was not the subject of general industry regulation.

But hey, at least you fitted in a snarky line about ADHD in the comment you wrote while not having paid attention to the 3 comments above it.
Yep. It usually is a ship leaking from the top. I have seen it (not from Google).
> There are very clear limits on what a court will enforce in licenses (and contracts), and owning the output of a program, and barring exceptional circumstance, courts will not enforce them:

It seems to me that the cases in the article you linked involved the author of the program arguing that their copyright automatically extended to the output without any extra contractual provisions concerning copyright assignment, so I don't think they can be used as precedent regarding the enforceability of such clauses.
Yeah, sounds like GitHub doesn't let people squat usernames.

The author says GitHub can 'modify his repos at will', but earlier he says he doesn't even have any repos besides a few forks (which were likely not modified)
I've actually had a (great) username completely blackholed by github. I'm still a bit salty about it.

I had received an email several years ago informing me that it was going to be removed. They gave me the equivalent to a coupon for a free year of the github personal plan as compensation.

To this day it'll tell you that the username is "unavailable" if you try to sign up with it, and the page just 404s.
DSL. Now there's a name I have not heard in a very long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/openais-...
It's funny, but I adopted a similar approach, and it's amazing how the tides turn in your favor when your name is on everyone's lips. I'm nothing special, but I have an eye for quality people and a great reputation (thanks to it), so I'm the one who keeps getting the calls.

Also, some people would rather be shot than talk in front of a crowd or get up in front an audience. I used to have panic attacks during introductions in small meetings, and now I'm the one who spots the nervous professionals and helps them feel that they belong.

Anyway, that's all to say there's value in it. I don't personally enrich myself off of it, but if I could offer a correction to your dim view of the imperfect, the world isn't actually run by intimidatingly charismatic, beautiful geniuses, and I have found that helping people that have the simple capacity for success connect and communicate isn't a worthless skill.
Yet another "famous" Googler whom I didn't know. He joined one month before I did. I did know Chris DiBona, at least. Didn't know this Jeanine person.

I wrote a number of articles about working there in the early (or earlier) days. Chronologically:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-enterp...

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-ads

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-ads-co...

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-maps

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/working-at-google-maps-c...

As well as three others about the best part: the non-work activities.
I mean, you’re right if it’s something that they plan on maintaining for 10+ years and want to use a language specifically designed for the Web with a stable and mature ecosystem and plenty of developer support.

If it’s a small little hobby project then sure, use whatever little Web framework you want for Rust, Go, Zig, or whatever else the flavor of the day is.
Agree. But the meaningful part of NATO isn’t the paper, it’s the deployments. Same for the ‘54 pact with Pakistan. If someone attacked Pakistani military installations, there was a good chance of taking out an American. That’s the deterrence.

The Soviets didn’t put boots on the ground, so a similar risk wasn’t present. But one, that wasn’t knowable at the time. And two, there absolutely would have been Russian assets in the vicinity while everyone was learning how to do their jobs.
Yeah, but they also didn't elaborate in the slightest about how they were serving the charter with their actions.

If they were super-duper worried about how Sam was going to cause a global extinction event with AI, or even just that he was driving the company in too commercial of a direction, they should have said that to everyone!

The idea that they could fire the CEO with a super vague, one-paragraph statement, and then expect 800 employees who respect that CEO to just... be totally fine with that is absolutely fucking insane, regardless of the board's fiduciary responsibilities. They're board members, not gods.
Where do you think cookies get stored?
hehe there's gotta be an already bundled "desktop" i can buy?