skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me offer up a secret from the inside. You dont in any way shape or form have to pay money to journalists. The can are bought and paid for through their currency - information and access.

They dont really even really shill for their patron; they thrive on the relevance of having their name in the byline for the article, or being the person who gets quote / information / propaganda from <CEO|Celebrity|Criminal|Viral Edgelord of the Week>.
Meanwhile Sundar might be the worst. Where was he this weekend? Where was he the past three years while his company got beat to market on products built from its own research? He's asleep at the wheel. I'm surprised every day he remains CEO.
Simulate it and see... The vast majority of journeys become quicker, even though many trains don't stop at many stations.

The optimal strategy is probably to have multiple express routes - ie. Train 1 stops at station A, C, E, and train 2 stops at B, D, and F. A better signalling system becomes necessary for that though - moving block signalling isn't sufficient - you need one that can take into account velocity-acceleration-jerk of both trains to get trains close enough while still ensuring passenger safety. That in turn requires Comms systems not just train presence information.
Mikael at Candela here. Our C-8 can foil in wave heights of around 1.2m, which are pretty big waves for a 27-foot leisure boat. The P-12 is designed for much bigger waves, and can foil in 2 meter high waves, meaning it will be able to cover rough weather in archipelagos and littoral waters. The catamaran hull is also efficient at slower speeds up to 10 knots, if the weather would not permit foiling.
Please be nicer, this was just a litte error probably caused by typing too fast, it doesn't mean that they lack knowledge. Attacking people for such minor mistakes is not what this community is about. Rushing to downvote (your other comment)/critique is overall detrimental. Slow down, think, have a discussion about stuff that matters. I know that's not how the internet is usually, we're trying to be better here
Agree on opinion, not censoring ads of CG pickup trucks used mainly by workers in industry, not your family's SUV...
Note this doesn't speed up training
The Irish have always been the underdogs of history, like the Jews. Is there anything that you could recommend me to read about the Irish situation?
Well done lady. Shooting the messenger is always the easiest. Good luck doing the same for plethora of alternatives as they won't give a damn about your sob story.
Mikael at Candela here. Norway is indeed a target market for us!
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Hiring engineers at 900K salary & pretending to be non-profit does not work. Turns out, 97% of them wanted to make money.

Government should have banned big tech investment in AI companies a year ago. If they want, they can create their own AI but buying one should be off the table.
OpenAI's initial new board counts Larry Summers among its ranks
Win8 (and Win8.1) also had the same reception. People were, of course, more than happy to move to Win10, which contained most of the under-the-hood improvements from Win8 and had a more traditional UI. (Also, with Vista → 7, it didn't hurt that machines had gotten more powerful in the meantime, so the extra RAM usage didn't really matter much anymore.)
Medusa JS announces version 2
most people don’t save their receipts. it is a hassle until you need it.

most interactions aren’t between “the good side” and “the bad side.”

there seems to be a hesitance to entertain the possibility that a bad board pulled a coup on a bad ceo. harder to pick sides.

more likely than a good board pulling a coup on a good ceo, but that’s also possible. everyone got too afraid and now they hug it out.

so, no, not magic. just mass amounts of detail outside the public eye. makes for a lot of possibilities that people will speculate about online. even argue over it.
I can't believe someone that created Worldcoin could not be trustworthy.
No, I just ignored it because it seemed irrelevant to the point I wanted to make.

My intent was to disagree and say that no, EA isn't come sort of of rebranding of a Christian concept for people who dislike religion, but a fundamentally different thing altogether, with different mechanics and motivations.

For that matter, atheists in general don't believe Christianity has any claim on charity, marriage or even Christmas.
Class and status are one hell of a drug
I could buy this theory, but it's worth noting that if it's true, their coup appears to have failed. So that's score one for the naive tech bros, score zero for the conniving natsec sociopaths.
As I understand it, they cancelled him for NSFW content.

Whether it's 5% or 0.05%, if it is in Stripe's terms that you can't, there's nothing he can do, right?

> We understand that your business may be legal, but for now, due to various reasons including requirements that apply to Stripe as a payment processor, requirements from our financial partners, and the potential risk exposure to Stripe, we're currently not able to work with businesses that sell or offer adult content or services. [0]

Doesn't seem like much of a story.

[0]: https://support.stripe.com/questions/restricted-business-lis...
Even coming from Ruby, which uses snake_case, I've come to prefer camelCase over both snake_case or kebab-case. Since camelCase compacts more into a single token (separating it from what comes after), and it better passes the squint test.
It is the passive tense invisibility cloak. A fantastic tool. A related cousin of the "under the carpet" magic broom.
My experience was comparing multople people who started with Mercurial and later learned Git, and had basically all of what people term “Git problems” with Hg because the hard part was thinking about distributed version control.

I’m not saying Git is perfect but simply that it’s hard to separate the difficulties from learning new concepts and working styles from the tool.
Apparently he has a massive role in VC, and since this community, tech twitter, etc. all circle around that, he is unconditionally praised.

Further, the current tech wave is all about AI, where there's a massive community of basically "OpenAI wrapper" grifters trying to ride the wave.

The shorter answer is: money.
> Never realised that Omegle had become a platform for the creeps.

Everything can and potentially will be. Facebook, Discord, Ome.tv, Matrix rooms, Roblox, whatever.
>You can barely get 3 people to agree on a restaurant for lunch.

I was about to state that a single human is enough to see disagreements raise, but this doesn’t reach full consensus in my mind.
> One of those people whose career Altman helped propel was Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist and board member at OpenAI — the person who ultimately fired him.

Ilya was plenty successful before OpenAI and would've been just fine without Altman helping to "propel" his career.
I'll send it to you for $300 to my PayPal! jk jk :) it's not mine I swear
Based on the article and the loyalty shown by openai employees, he appears to be the "difficult to manage" type, rather than the "difficult to work for" type.

That's not necessarily a bad thing in employees. I was once told that it is easier to round off the corners of a cube than to develop corners on a sphere.
Mikael at Candela, the hydrofoil maker, here. Our P-12 uses submerged hydrofoils and emplys a digital Flight controller, which stabilizes the craft by adjusting the angle of attack of the foils 100 times per second. So the pitching and heaving you found nauseating in the old Soviet Raketa and Kometa hydrofoils don't exist in P-12 - it's smooth sailing even in. chippy weather. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIp9OkMzZkM
Nikki Haley Reinvigorates the GOP's Breathless TikTok Hysteria for the Children
That's the main idea of Blazor really - to start imagining what building the web without javascript really means.

Hard to imagine web development without Javascript now, but with work of projects like this, maybe it will be easy to imagine web development without Javascript in 10 years time.
> Pu-238 is a byproduct of the process used to make nuclear weapons.

So we are making nuclear weapons again?
Bravo! Was there anyone used the 'Briefcase' back in the day? I'd forgotten about that.

In fact I got so in the zone that I pressed ALT-F4 to close Win98 notepad and shut down my whole web browser instead!
Maybe... but not exactly what I meant in my case. I was commenting being able to get access at all, not my ability to pay. If Anthropic didn't have such a crazy application process I'd happily pay to use the API so I could learn more about it.
I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust
Maybe they feel really insecure when the "News Writing Themselves AI" company got unstable...
> "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."

Ahhh now I get that, all humanity, exclude noone :D

> pointed to Altman’s aggressive fundraising efforts for a chips venture with autocratic regimes in the Middle East, which raised concerns about the use of AI to facilitate state surveillance and human rights abuses.
One fundamental difference is that if you are building a React or Vue static app, you're going to need a backend anyways. If you're building a React or Vue SSR app (Next.js, Nuxt.js), you'll probably want a separate backend anyways.

If you're going to have a separate backend, .NET has some advantages compared to Node that's worth considering. It's higher throughput than Node for the same compute resources, it's multi-threaded and you can run background workers in-process, it has some nice built-ins for concurrent processing (Task Parallel Library, System.Threading.Channels), the nuget ecosystem is less prone to security risks compared to NPM [0], EF Core is a really mature ORM and possibly one of the best ones out there for productivity, it has serviceable hot reload for productivity, and modern C# is really, really close to JS and TS in syntax [1].

One often overlooked advantage for high security contexts is that .NET has a large standard library that's maintained by Microsoft for really core things like encryption, hashing, database drivers, network code, etc. You get the benefit of having an army of professional engineers maintaining that core code and patching it when security issues arise versus the Node/NPM ecosystem's strong dependency on the community.

C# and .NET are the backend runtime that most teams probably want when they think of moving on from Node to Elixir, Go, or Rust because of how close it is to TypeScript now.

And if you're going to use .NET on the backend, then why not consider Blazor for SSR and static HTML?

(Disclaimer, I'm not a big fan of Blazor, but I can see why teams would choose it).

[0] GitHub State of the Octoverse 2020: https://octoverse.github.com/2020/static/github-octoverse-20...

[1] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp
If they run at all, that is. The latest update to League of Legends seems to have broken it for all Linux users.
Ruteri is a patented strain that secretes a protein which helps other good bacteria colonies your gut. That plus a more complete probiotic plus another product Candex can really help your gut biome. Candex is enzymes that dissolve yeasts, which have become a big gut health issue over the last 80 years. Two major brands of probiotics are primadophilus, who have ones with Reuteri and another Jarro-dophilus, which is a collection claimed to reduce putrative bacteria. Finally the ancient Japanese super food Miso prepared at temperatures which keep it alive help colonize with a biome that digests all vegetable protein nearly fully.

Probiotics are fiber or long sugars which yeasts can't digest. The big issue nowadays is yeasts and leaky gut. The herbicide Roundup is suspected as a cause of leaky gut syndrome. Avoiding non organic wheat and non organic oats can help while you heal. Going to spelt bread or at least organic can help the gut heal. Using other grains like rice and others can help. Unless diagnosed as gluten intolerant or actually having Celiac disease skip the gluten free breads just avoid non organic wheat & non organic oats while you heal. Once your gut heals you can slowly relax those restrictions.
One of the reasons -- or maybe even the very reason -- for college not to be free in the US as it is in the EU because it's the chief recruiting tool. Read Lauren Hough on more, she is much more eloquent on this.
GP has a point in that a laptop is much less likely to experience unplanned power loss because of the built in battery. However that does not help desktops which also use NVME SSDs.

The other problem is that this doesn't only cause problems resulting from power loss. At least some files systems guarantee consistency of data on the drive by flushing at critical points. ZFS on Linux does this. If the flush doesn't happen as promised, subsequent writes could result in corrupted files should something else like a crash interrupt operation.
It's worth mentioning that individuals could legally (and some did) own cannons and warships back then as well - it wasn't limited to muskets. The reference in the Constitution to "letters of marque and reprisal" refer to government licenses to attack and capture ships, ie a government license to be a pirate.

> And regarding 2A, it'd also be reasonable to expect that same person from the 1700s didn't actually think every random person should have a musket, but that only people who are a part of a "well-regulated militia" should have access to one.

It would not be reasonable to expect that. It's hard for most modern people to understand to what extent a gun was considered a necessary tool for non-urban people, which was a much larger proportion of the population.

The real problem we've run into is cultural. Americans used to run around with actual TOMMY GUNS without mass shootings. It's absolutely insane to think about how easily these people - many of them involved in criminal rings - could have killed hundreds of people if they had woke up one day and decided to. But they didn't.

Now we live in a broken and depraved culture and limiting gun access is about the only obvious tool we have to reduce the problem, or at least that symptom of it.
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
ASIC roundup of open source RISC-V CPU cores (2022)
Really? It's well documented and even admitted that Apple has a set of Apple-friendly media partners.
"how everyone in HN just assumed he was "innocent"."

My impression was rather a overwhelmingly "wtf is going on?"

edit: I still don't know enough, to judge anyone involved
That sounds like a cult more than a business. I work at a small company (~100 people), and we are more or less aligned with what we're doing you are not going to get close to that consensus on anything. Same for our sister company, about the same size as OpenAI.
Newsflash. I didn't claim he was.
> > Do we disagree

I think yes, because Netflix you pay out of pocket, whereas Facebook is a free service

I believe Facebook vs Hulu or regular TV is more of a competition in the attention economy because when the commercial break comes up then you start scrolling your social media on your phone and every 10 posts or whatever you stumble into the ads placed on there so Facebook ads are seen and convert whereas regular tv and hulu aren’t seen and dont convert
Sony facing $7.9B mass lawsuit over Playstation Store prices
While I am certain there were people on both sides of that camp, I never saw a overwhelming outpour of people framing him as a victim. Most of what I read was people confused as heck, including myself.

What I did see is lots of people wondering how he lied to the board. Almost a week later and we still don't know how he lied to the board. We can all speculate away but there has been zero evidence of wrong doing, what else are we supposed to do? I guess we can just call him a sleaze-bag like you do.
> concatenate the data to the ELF and add a PT_LOAD segment for it so that Linux loads it onto memory automatically

I was reading Justine's Github profile, and there was a mention of POSIX systems natively supporting shebang programs made of binary + appended data out of the box. I don't remember the specifics, might be worth investigating how that works exactly.
Sorry I'm not much help here, I wouldn't know how to price it either. I'll keep it bookmarked though, in case you offer pricing that is accessible to indie devs. I'm not a big corp, but I'd love to have this kind of monitoring in my toy web projects and wouldn't mind paying for it if it is reasonably priced. Best of luck.
which is why I "need" Linux.

The software that I need, will run on Windows, but hardly and always with great effort and abysmal stability. And sometimes not at all.

ruby/rbenv, nvm/node, rust/cargo, docker, nvim, ripgrep, git, rsync, ssh. All of which I sometimes, somehow managed to get running at some point when helping co-workers with their Windows machines. But the amount of fiddling, trial-and-errorring and such is terrible. For example PuTTY is a fantastic beast, but it's nowhere near as well integrated and easy to setup and use as SSH on Mac or Linux. If only because the latter already have it. Most was before WSL, though. I presume with WSL it will be much easier. But that's because its running on Linux...
The U-2, being subsonic, was not expected to last long according to one of the books I read, don't ask me which. In addition to being vulnerable to high altitude interceptors, it was difficult to fly as the stall speed was just knots away from Vne. And landing it was an adventure all its own. That said, the airplane found its niche and outlived expectations.
I never knew this existed before and can't help thinking it's absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing!
Latency of what? Starting the OS is definitely faster. Launching software is also orders of magnitude faster. HDD don't requires hours of defragmentation to avoid slowing down to a halt. I was only a teenager in the windows 98 era but I remember I was just always waiting for the computer. This is not something I have experienced in a long time now.
This endorsement of Sam from 2011 is actually pretty damning, though it is so long ago if it were the only thing it wouldn't be a huge red flag:

>I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

> "We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944

I think the article mentions what may be this same incident, without saying how it was done:

> Rabois noted that Altman, as a Stanford dropout, persuaded a major telecommunications company to do business with his start-up Loopt — the same quality, he said, that enabled Altman to persuade Microsoft to invest in OpenAI.

From the earlier comment, it seems he persuaded the telecom essentially through fraud though maybe not legally so.
One of these (react) does not belong. React brought a new, better, API and kept the old one in. Migrating between react versions is actually a very simple affair, nobody was forcing React hooks.
Link to previous paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14711

An attempt at a summary: They use a sigmoid function to make differentiable "soft" branches, and stack them to construct a binary tree, with the goal of only taking one branch at inference time (but training the whole tree) leading to log(W) instead of W inference cost. They gradually harden the branches so they become hard branches at the end of training.

A branch is computed as branch(input, N), with a neural network N computing a scalar c=N(input), then using a sigmoid to do a soft branch by returning the weighted sum of the recursive call s(c)*branch(input, N_left) + (1-s(c)) * branch(input, N_right) (the two weights s(c) and 1-s(c) sum to 1). They only do "proper processing" using the leaf nodes.

Then they add a new loss term that encourages hard decisions by minimising the entropy of the Bernoulli distribution, making the 2 weights converge to 0 and 1, at which point only one branch needs to be taken at inference. They also state that this hardening often happens automatically though.

It's a simple idea but the loss formulation is nice, you usually want your loss terms to be a measure of information.
Why ask us? A better question to ask yourself is whether you feel OK knowingly paying for a faulty product.
You mean some games built for Windows run better on Linux (and I'd be curious to know which ones actually run better). Some games barely run on Linux, some just don't work, some get broken by new versions, etc.

And computers aren't just for gaming. Some people actually work with their computers. Let me know when photoshop or autocad run smoothly on Linux.
Considering that no matter what we do we will go to 2C, I'm not exactly understanding this article?

The UN currently warns that we will go to 3C at the current rate: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/world-fa...

Is this some kind of lobbyist think-tank article that 1.5C is still achievable? Citing IPCC reports is not funny anymore.
I saw a tequila ad the other day where a guy carelessly drives a motorboat into a swimming pool and other shenanigans. Alcohol is involved in 80% of all violet crimes. Are you for censoring beer and liquor ads on Youtube or other places? Are you for alcohol prohibition? Probably not in all likelihood.
I hope the community really gets behind Snap or Flatpak or one of the other systems for bringing a modern permissions and privileges system to the Linux desktop. It would help me be a lot more comfortable recommending Linux to non-technical people.

What distro would you recommend to somebody like me who wants to be asked before an application gets access to my location, microphone, camera, network, etc...?
>Especially to the level of sacrifice they were willing to take for the cause.

We have no idea that they were sacrificing anything personally. The packages Microsoft offered for people who separated may have been much more generous than what they were currently sitting on. Sure, Altman is a good leader, but Microsoft also has deep pockets. When you see some of the top brass at the company already make the move and you know they're willing to pay to bring you over as well, we're not talking about a huge risk here. If anything, staying with what at the time looked like a sinking ship might have been a much larger sacrifice.
Please stop. No employee is loyal to any CEO based on some higher order matter.
They just want to get their big pay day and will follow whoever makes that possible.
Thank you for describing this from your side, it means a lot to me. I will leave here a link [1] to a my look at V from the technical side, but at the end there is also something about the community and this situation.

[1]: https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/
> The belief that training these models will produce something valuable

Exactly. The growth in the next decade is going to be unimaginable because now governments and MNCs believe that there realistically be progress made in this field.