skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other social media doesn't get a pass. Facebook faced a similar boycott in 2020, and Youtube was hit with two in 2017 and 2019.

I'm sure there are earlier examples, but it gets harder to search as you go back, because the typical advertising-related boycott used to be that consumers would boycott companies who advertised in ways they didn't like. (Which, of course, is why companies have strict brand safety rules in the first place.)
If you have to guess what it "might" mean then nothing has been said.

Her claim is Media Matters "manipulated" Twitter. The reality is they just used it, found neo-nazi content, and saw ads next to that content.

Why would any brand want to advertise on Twitter when that outcome is so easy to achieve?
> So if you break your phone overseas, you either need to live without banking and a range of other services, or book an immediate flight back to your home country just to provision a new eSIM.

I have these services connected to a Google Voice number.
Ok, but the wages were excellent (assuming that the equity panned out, which it seemed very likely it would until last week).
Probably order of magnitude more or perhaps a multiple of that depending on the hardware and design.

In theory an append-only and/or HOT strategy leaning on Postgres just ripping through moderate sized in-mem lists could be incredibly fast. Design would be more complicated and perhaps use case dependent but I bet could be done.
> Eventually they would see Apple ads next to Nazi posts. Right? Anyone that's been online for more than a couple seconds knows these kind of people exist.

Why would they have to show them ads? Sure, platforms won’t catch coded messages, but the examples from media matters weren’t coded and should be easily detected. The request from advertisers isn’t “only show our content next to nazi posts for users who are nazis”. It is “don’t show our content next to nazi posts”. The second isn’t any harder. It is in fact easier to accomplish.
And slashes as well, which is a magic character in both urls and file systems. Means you can't reliably use normal base64 for filenames, for instance. That might seem like a niche use-case, but it's really not, because you can use it for content-based addressing. Git does this, names all the blobs in the .git folder after their hash, but you can't encode the hash with regular base64.
I don’t understand what you’re saying, but there’s really no good reason to paste another person’s fucked up racial delusions. The current brand of antisemitism is absolute bullshit and has no place here or anywhere, even being pasted. It’s not only completely stupid to believe this stuff, but the simple act of spreading it makes it worse. It’s dangerous stupidity.
> Was Marx wrong?

pt. 1: Whether he was right or wrong was pertinent. You can find plenty of eminent contemporaries of Marx who claimed the opposite. My point was that this is an argument made about technological change throughout history which has become a cliché, and in my opinion it remains a cliche regardless of how eminent (in a narrow field) the person making that claim is. Part of GP was from authority, and I question whether it is even a relevant authority given the scope of the claims.

> Was Marx Wrong?

pt. 2: I was once a Marxist and still consider much Marxist thought and writing to be valuable, but yes: he was wrong about a great many things. He made specific predictions about the _inevitable_ development of global capital that have not played out. Over a century later, the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few has not changed, but the quality of life of the average person on the planet has increased immensely - in a world where capitalism is hegemonic.

He was also wrong about the inevitably revolutionary tendencies of the working class. As it turns out, the working class in many countries tend to be either centre right or centre left, like most people, with the proportion varying over time.
> However, you want to overlap computation with network transfers.

Yes, if you run your favourite Microsoft operating system, which has to tell mothership when you open calculator.

This is like saying that the operator on the old punch card computers has to look at the results after every input line processed from the punchcard.
Pretty sure most employees would take the side of whatever seems likely to increases the value of their equity the most. Not sure if it's much of a signal either way on whether he 'did something wrong' or not
What?

It's critical, so let's focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading.

A lot of people over-dramatise the situation, but we should be afraid to use words like "critical" when they make sense.
I don't think so. You need 20V to charge a laptop
Crypto is tulip bulbs! What’s the big deal. Why does the sec care about something so worthless
I agree with progressive taxation, but a tax on moving is stifling and encouraging people to hold onto their property and become landlords when they need to move.

Instead have a property tax to raise the same money.

I am also against stamp duty. I suspect it stop’s people where I live
moving when it might be a years salary in pure tax. So people less likely to move. Renovating/extending homes for profit (increasing the effective
housing supply with infill) happens less.
This sounds good in theory, but in a world where you can open companies by the dozen, international jurisdictions, no compulsory registration of company facilities, no private right of audit it's impossible to keep track of who is doing what. Additionally, tainting the news by flooding review sites and what not doesn't help either.
Make It Simple, Stupid
Impressive use of wasmedge, great to see ML projects getting away from python for efficiency's sake, thanks for sharing!
Interesting. If Ilya already signed the letter and wants to bring Sam back, who else on that board has enough power to resist? And early reports said Ilya was the main force too. So apparently he was played and used as a scapegoat for the real mastermind(s?).

This drama is incredible. If someone had written a fiction like this, I would have called it a very imaginative but cliched and unrealistic story. Nobody that high on the "smart" hierarchy would do something this dumb. But now it is reality... I don't know if I should be sad or amused.
Your point being?

It's close to 20C here when it should be 10.
Not every service will let you use VoIP. Capital One for example.
Leading to features like "Karmic Dice" in the recent Baldur's Gate 3
+1 Vote.

The spanish people similar bug in our language. We have "accent symbol" optional (with a complex rules) for the words.

When I was a child, I thought it is more easy if the "accent symbol" is mandatory for the words. But the RAE (it is a public institution watcher spanish language rules) said no.
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It’s the price money you get for being the first to bring the cure to patients.

The research and the approval are extremely expensive and risky. Without a boatload of cash at the end of the tunnel, nobody would do it.

Patents will expire and in a generation, this will become cheap.
what does that have to do with anything
Capital One is one of the services that I have connected to my Google Voice number.
it didn't really. There were no fundamental flaws that I could see.

Perhaps the only salient critique was the textual representation of the problem, but I think it was presented in a way where the model was given all the help it could get.

You forget the result of the paper was actually improving the model's performance and still failing to get anywhere near decent results.
There has been debate for centuries regarding determinism and free will in humans.
Seeing a few of these types of accounts. Something tells me more is going to come out about the why. I still think it’s a mistake to assume rational people would act completely irrationally
I'm amazed youtube hasn't figured out a way to detect and avoid these loops, it seems like a solvable problem. Even a naive solution like having the client remember the last n played tracks, and not auto-play any of them (picking the next one down) would be a big improvement.
The spacecrafts not full of people have the same problem. I don't know how you can look at something like the JWST, which was awarded to TRW as an $824 million 7-year development project and became a $9.7 billion 20-year project and not think someone should be in prison.
Honestly, I don't think I really agreed with the article.

The whole premise, while an interesting hook, is kind of pointless when looked at factually - the reason why people speak to LLMs "like a human" isn't because of a complex relationship on how we treat others, but because the LLM was trained on human writing, and performs best with appropriately human-like inputs.

I wanted to see more insight into the tech itself, but a large part of the article just talks about what bad things "Silicon Valley" (a single, monolithic entity) has done in the past. It ignores both that generative AI is a new frontier that has completely different challenges (including companies being unable to "steer" outputs as much as a recommendation algorithm), as well as the sheer existence of any free and open AI software.
So a XY person with androgen insensitivity syndrome is a man, even though they completely lack all male features (except a pair of testes hidden inside the lower abdomen) and have breasts and, in some cases, a uterus? And such a person can live their entire life as an (infertile) woman, never knowing about their genetic abnormality, they are a man?

And then we have X, XXX, XXY, XYY, XXXX, and XXYY people walking around, living and breathing, some of them fertile and presenting no recognizable signs.

It's crazy to me that someone would use knowledge of genetics to argue that there are only two "biological" sexes and nothing else exists. Biology is messy and full of edge cases that defy easy and clear definitions. To take a convenient rule of thumb (XX <=> female, XY <=> male) and declare it a universal rule is either ignorance or motivated reasoning.
Probably not, seeing as that's not enough power to charge it up.
If it’s anything like the states, the IT staff responsible for running the infra is woefully underpaid. If that’s the case you get what you pay for.
Just the other day I saw a local company get investment to be cybersecurity for LLMs. It's here already.
Without padding, how would you encode, for example, a message with just a single zero? To be more precise, how do you distinguish it from two zeroes and three zeroes?
> avalanched by sneelessness

sp.: senselessness (I guess since it appears to be a Googlewhack).

But I'll be honest I think the word sneelessness covers this whole FUBAR better!
I didn’t know that was a BrE/AmE distinction. It’s a very bizarre one.
I think this attitude is the reason that Elon is going to get away with agreeing with the statement in public. Most stories tiptoe around how extreme the statement is, and as a result he is now successfully deflecting on the issue.

The quoted tweet remains endorsed by the wealthiest and most powerful person on the planet. Hard to read? Disturbing? Yes, of course it is.
How the hell does that work? Why can't she use a VPN and not use her real identity like the rest of us? Does she insist on assuming her rightful place as an Altman?

Edit: she seriously said that re:Pornhub?! What is her association with porn and why would she bring that up?

Edit: unless the words came from her mouth, I wouldn't blow it up any further
They are aiming to be the propulsion system supplier for future aircraft but crucially the are also targeting developing systems for a family of aircraft starting small and are working towards aircraft upwards of 200 seats. Our premise is to not look past 50 seats. If we were to design a 200 seat aircraft its CASM would not be much cheaper than the 50 seat if we aim to do a single aircraft type from the start, then we can aim for much higher volumes than aircraft programs traditionally achieve and ultimately bring our unit costs right down and undercut anyone else working on a family of aircraft.
Apple's know-how in battery management is always a couple of generations ahead of its closest competitor.

My 2008 MacBook Pro was able to detect battery problems one year before they started to manifest physically. They did it by adding another controller and an independent firmware to the battery itself, but there was no better tech at that time.

M powered MacBooks added auto hold-off (discharge to 80%, keep it there) or postpone charge (because the battery is used too rarely), to the list of tricks they know, and these are just the visible ones to the user.
The more precious the sunken cargo, the less likely it can be clandestinely salvaged without having captive smelting ability.
This is how hells are usually described. The general populace lives in a world of retribution: a gray, hopeless place surrounded by demons. Those even less lucky end up in the inner citadels, that are actual hells where demons harvest fear. The entire mini-world is managed by a small arch-demon. Escape is possible, but needs help from the outside.
I mean, they have no equity, they didn't create it. They don't really lose anything if OpenAI disappears. Just fewer meetings they have to go to.
I’m not sure Ilya was anticipating this to more or less break OpenAI as a company. Ilya is all about the work they do, and might not have anticipated that this would turn the entire company against him and the rest of the board. And so, he is in support of Sam coming back, if that means that they can get back to the work at hand.
Why not use a Mac for my ZFS-based NAS? Is that your question?
Tbh even that is ethically very questionable, if the engineers knew that the outcome would be a delay specific to Firefox.
iPhone 15 occasionally charges to 100% when 80% is set for this reason.

Many, many confused and complaining posts are to be found on Reddit and elsewhere about this even if it’s explained in the docs and I think next to the setting itself. It should show a notification when it goes to 100%.
TIL.

And Python uses RFC 4648
No. Apparently they had to give 48 hours notice for calling special teleconference meetings, and only Mira was notified (not a board member) and Greg was not even invited.

> at least four days before any such meeting if given by first-class mail or forty-eight hours before any such meeting if given personally, [] or by electronic transmission.

But the bylaws also state that a board member may be fired (or resign) at any time, not necessarily during a special meeting. So, technically (not a lawyer): Board gets majority to fire Sam and executes this decision, notifying Mira in advance of calling the special meeting. During the special meeting, Sam is merely informed that he has been let go already (is not a board member since yesterday). All board members were informed timely, since Sam was not a board member during the meeting.
Sounds like an easy way to get off of social media!
Back in the 90s, when portable CD players were still a thing, I had one.

It had a toggle for random play. It indeed apparently played the tracks at random.

By random I mean random, not shuffle. It would play the same track multiple times during a listening session. For example tracks in order like 2, 2, 7, 8, 7, ...

I actually liked that.

If memory serves, it would stop playing after it had played each track at least once. If there were a lot of tracks it would not finish, at least not before the batteries ran out.
As does a peer to peer taxi company.
Which is much better for the environment. (Y) Kudos
There is a separate article on the front page from Bloomberg claiming employees were told that Altman had (1) given the same project task to two different teams, and (2) gave opposing feedback to different board members about the same person. I have no idea how either of these was supposed to justify the ousting.
Lithium is not a limited resource in the same way that Iron or Coal or Silicon are not limited. There is so much of it that we really cannot run out.

Cobalt, Neodynium and the other rare earth metals, though, those are highly valuable; and the processes to manufacture them are usually toxic. So do it for the rare earth elements, but don't do it for Lithium.
This does seem plausible, but I then wonder how the thought analogy plays out considering Sutskever's subsequent statement of regret for trying out the reset button in this case.
As a non-battery engineer end user, I suppose all I care about is 100% usefulness. If the phone lasts more than a day under normal operation for a few years & doesn’t get too slow, I’m happy enough.
You're missing the point. It's not about individual incidents.

It's about you having a process in place that companies, regulators etc can trust.

And for many reasons all of the trust in X has gone. e.g. pulling out of audits:

https://digiday.com/marketing/brand-safety-concerns-mount-as...
With their history of selling and leaking people's DNA, 23andme doesn't seem like such a great deal at any price.
Others have mentioned having the same problem with this issue. One post I particularly like about the subject is this one on function colouring (how lagnuages with async/await syntax have a similar "infection"; this is a response to the original post on function colouring and not the original post).
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/11/13/function-coloring.html
Tangentially, I had never seen the term “ouster” before this week. To someone used to British English it grates horribly. I saw an explanation somewhere that it is because it’s of French origin, but it doesn’t make it stick out any less.
No, Samsung and others spread a bunch of FUD that Apple was crippling their phones to force people to upgrade, and Reddit and HN apple-haters ate it up.

Still to this day people on HN repeat it like it's fact, and when you correct them, shift the goalposts to "well they didn't TELL people."
It's possible he was played. But fact of the matter is that now after the 'coup', the board has been reduced to 4 from the prior 6.

All 4 were against Sam, now Ilya has switched allegiance. So it's still 3-1. 2 more board members would have to turn to bring Sam back.

At this point, I think it's safe to say that all 3 remaining members are still against bringing back Sam - or at least 2 of them staunchly are.
Several but not many, as a board member. None of the boards I was on had frequent meetings. But also I was always on the "working" side of the board.

My impression of the external side is somewhat similar to the view I'm presenting above. It's not that they are completely unqualified to comment on the company, they actually had tangentially relevant experience. But what did they really add, other than making our webpage look better? And if things went wrong, what would they really lose? They are just curious folks who are excited to be around business, and can introduce us to interested parties.

The other thing the board is supposed to do is pull the emergency break if stuff goes wrong. It's hard to know how closely they monitored that sort of thing, given it doesn't happen that much. Also if things get bad, do they jump ship or act like what a bystander might in a car accident, ie try to call emergency services but not stick their head in the fire? Because the rest of us have our heads in the fire.
The regional difference in the title is an interesting application of geolocation imo.

"Don't change the title" is an interesting rule anyway for a site that has an automatic title changer that you can't escape, and where you can regularily watch posted titles change like 5 times until they have nothing to do with the original title (but the correct spin for the sensitive HN crowd).
AccA is awesome! I used it to repurpose my decade old Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime as a custom wall clock and alarm.

I couldn't figure out how to power it without a battery, and If I had plugged it in all time I was risking an exploded battery.

Enter AccA, it remains between 50-55% all the time, along with prioritizing battery-idle mode (which means the device tries to draw power directly from the external power source).
I think that’s a mistaken assumption. Altman has been immediately held in high regard as the injured party and everyone has dogpiled on the board for being stupid. Lower level employees likely are not privy to the details at this point and are just subscribing to group think, a completely rational behavior.

But the longer this goes on with radio silence from the board in the face of massive pressure, the more likely I believe it is that something detrimental to Altman’s character is going to come out that’s going to make the decision seem like the obvious one and suddenly Nadella won’t look like such a genius.

In the age of Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, SBF and Trevor Milton I’m surprised there aren’t more people just a tad distrusting.
Well, you need to be able to simulate what happens in the problem domain in order to arrive at a conclusion.

There isn't really any other feasible option.

This is what humans do, we visualize and predict the outcome of actions within a system. And if our imagination is not enough, we can outsource the reasoning to the outside world, by doing experiments or using tools like geometry etc. (drawing in the sand, drawing on paper).

It is impossible to arrive at a conclusion without "doing the work", unless you've seen the result before and can recite it.

Therefore, you need to be able to model the problem domain in order to solve the problem.
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Ask HN: Extracting insights from personal knowledge database?
I've built up a solid personal knowledge database using Obsidian. It has book/articles summaries, phrases that resonated with me (at reading time), tons of links to interesting websites, new project ideas... I have a folder hierarchy, tags, and also use visualization tools from time to time.

It's mentally gratifying to see all this well-organized, but I'm struggling to extract meaningful insights from this.

How do you synthetize all the knowledge in these databases? What useful meaning/insight/actionable items do you extract from them?

Can LLMs help here?
Fast fashion and fashion industry in general is useless to society. But rich jobless people need a place to hangout so they create an activity to justify.
Pi-hole is not able to block ads on YouTube entirely. They are not DNS based.
Azure still offers them,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/lin...

Once I opened a ticket to complain that it is listed under "Linux custom images", however the documentation team decided my complaint was withouth reasoning(!).
For me, it is like saying that Apple doesn't want me to open a tab of my browser on their homepage and another on nazi content while using a Macbook. It might be a problem if someone takes a screenshot and circulates it under the caption "Apple allows nazi content to appear on their laptops and alongside their homepage" but it's a fake problem- Apple has really nothing to do with it.

My feeling is that the issue has been shifted from the legitimate worry that "ads might appear alongside content that offends the viewer" to the made up one "ads might appear alongside content that offends us but that absolutely no one will see except those who are fine with it".
Its relevant, some attitudes need to go the way of DOS
I replace my devices when the battery wears out because I can get a new phone in 5 minutes and the battery takes a week to replace in this forsaken country.
Assuming people to act rationally can really bite you hard. Life experience has taught that people are mostly irrational beings with occasional rational episodes.