skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you thank you thank you! Docker processes randomly exiting with "137" suddenly make a lot more sense!

137 - 128 == 9

... that's SIGKILL, probably via some sort of pipe/subshell. We'd figured it was OOM-killer or something similar, but now it seems like there's a bit more of the dots connected between.

Who can/will send random `kill -9`s? Probably the kernel, or some sort of supervisory process.
Has there been any Bitcoin "L2" that is actually functional. Last I checked the inventor of the most popular L2 said it was a failure.
Weird framing of those linked numbers: Spotify (30%) is way out in front and Apple (13.7%), Tencent (13.4%), and Amazon (13.3%) all have similar market share.
per FT:

> What’s the point of all these subsidiaries?

> They’re to give Microsoft a stake in the commercial bit while wearing no responsibility for the Asimov-y stuff that concerns the management layer. This seemed to suit both parties. “From the beginning, [Microsoft] accepted our capped equity offer and our request to leave [artificial general intelligence] technologies and governance for the Nonprofit and the rest of humanity,” they said in 2019.

https://www.ft.com/content/6dd292c0-a551-4609-8649-f6b69b20f... (paywalled)
Saying that money itself does not do anything is a truism.

Money is a tool to get people to do something that they don't want to do otherwise. That's all it is. All trade is fundamentally a person who has a thing and doesn't want to give it up giving it up in exchange for money. Labor is the same with a persons time.

There are plenty of instances where the thing you get someone to do is "evil": bribes, assassinations, creating and distributing propaganda, having people fight in unjust wars, etc.

While it is unlikely that most money is used to cause "evil" acts, it is very likely that most "evil" acts occur due to money changing hands.
Have you ever walked into any retailer that has house brands right next to name brands cheaper?
for one, it requires the ability for the people who "own" the model to control how end users use it.
Stable diffusion open source release and llama release
This makes me think about a convenience / efficiency ratio.

100% convenience now == burning coal and natural gas, using a gas car by myself.

95% convenience - timing washer and drier, showers (some of the time), vacuuming. - could use mostly solar + battery and no longer burn coal (SoCal).

80% convenience - time cooking - no longer burn natural gas.

Invest in a hybrid - 80% convenience because of higher price - cut about 1/3 of gas use.

Some slight inconveniences could have higher impact than others.

Wondering - Is there a resource for the impact of different changes?
>Pictures are very useful when explaining what happens when reducing the total number of colors in an image.

Back in high school, there was a dedicated room for teaching psychology, AP psychology etc

One of my friends found a book in that room's library that was about color perception. The fascinating part: the book had no color and was entirely in black and white. Even the diagrams they had were black and white line drawings.

I always wondered: who sets out to write a purely text book about human color perception?
Ah, so the danger of this technology comes from imagining unrelated bad things happening to people. What if your phone activity revealed that you were awake at 2 am and then courts incorrectly blamed you for an accident? Well, the bad part is courts incorrectly blaming you for an accident, same as with the sleep data.
Imago Deo? The Word is what is spoken when we create.

The input eventually becomes meanings mapped to reality.
I've been a director on non-profit boards for 20+ years. These were small organizations, nothing at all high profile. Well-run boards with honest, dedicated members have little to worry about. Thing is, fundamental to board integrity is the concept that directors must avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest. If directors adhere to this advice serious harm is unlikely.

The OpenAI board members were vivid examples of massive COI. It was bound to blow up in their faces. They really should have known better. Hard to believe such smart people could act so wrongly. Truly unbelievable.
Actually, in its root it is based on simd and prefetching.
In short, each part of the packet processing graph is a node. It receives a vector of packets (represented as a vector of packet indexes), then the output is one or more vectors, each goes as an input to the next step in the processing graph.
This architecture maximizes cache hits and heats the branch predictor (since we run the same small code for many packets instead of the whole graph for each packet).

You can read more about it here: https://s3-docs.fd.io/vpp/24.02/aboutvpp/scalar-vs-vector-pa...
> Does anybody know who is currently CEO of OpenAI?

Emmett Shear.

Altman won't be back.

Investors like success and returns but they don't like companies where all the employees have basically sworn out an oath of fealty to the CEO, as it means they (the investors) have basically no control over anything.
That's 2012.
Now we have a TikTok generation. After seeing interviews with Free Palestine protesters and general TikTok crowd, I fear US has no future and it will be an easy pick for China.
These people are from prestigious universities but they are so dumb. Very, very dumb. In 20 years they will be working for US government ( because Yale, Harvard).
TikTok is a weapon of mass destruction.
Someone want to post a description for those of us that don’t watch videos?
I don’t think the board is under any pressure. If they don’t do anything else they just need the employees to fold on their threat to resign. Even if the employees resign, ChatGPT is still running and there are lots of people willing to take the defecting employees spots.

The only thing they are pressured on is to fill in the story for the media point of view which is irrelevant to the actual functioning of OpenAI.
I like nothing (a walk) and a plaintext file when I need to remember many details.

Computers are distracting.
Final call for paper boarding passes?
I think parent means breaking the contract with MS if he returns to OpenAI.
> the c word is considered offensive

Yes, that is why I used it. Seems like an appropriate way to describe these people.
Bacteria store 'memories' and pass them on for generations
Just the other day I saw a crackhead swiping their EBT card and Medicaid card with the crack dealer. They were then able to intercept the section 8 check to the landlord and spend it on crack instead (it is definitely illegal to kick out a tenant who smokes crack, don't look this up, just trust me). The landlord was deprived of that money :(

As to the topic... giving poor people internet access is just not a good idea... I've been to the libraries. After walking past the book displays featuring the evils of white poeple, abortion celebration, and pronouns, I was dismayed to see every public computer occupied with poor people researching how to make crack. A few of them even had USB cooktops plugged into the PC to cook crack right there at the PCs. All that taxpayer funding to power USB crack cooktops instead of subsidizing companies who dump GenX and coal ash into our water sources.
This whole story is very entertaining.
the article says the game has been public domain for a while... as far as I know, that's not true at all.

infocom -> activision -> microsoft

So it's now lost among a zillion other things microsoft owns and doesnt give a shit about and squats on, like my personal favorite HCCB https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/high-capaci...
The US spent a ton of money from the US public so that a few US individuals can stuff their pockets. Corruption.
How does someone come back without being livid about what just happened?

Without giving it much thought, my first impulse would be that every single person who participated in the ousting would have to resign and go away immediately. I cannot conceive of any way to clear the air and approach the work to be done with a clear mental state.

Too vindictive or appropriately restorative?
Breaking: investors want company to not tank in value due to departure of CEO and 90% of employees
Thanks, tim! charlie@pickcode.io whenever you have feedback
Current CEO is effectively the co-CEO of three board members at any given time.

Given that:

1. Cycled three CEOs in less than a week.

2. The current interim CEO is in talks to resign (because the board still has not given a clear reason to why Sam was fired).
Modern housing in the UK is ugly as hell. The only upside is it is so poorly constructed it won't be around for that long.
> The model is borderline useless

That is a definitive statement implying for all use cases. It wasn't qualified with "for me".

Because their argument was that censorship makes a model useless which I would strongly argument against for a product designed for companies.
That line of thought is exactly why FAAMG companies tried to lower salaries for CoL when they opened up to more remote roles. I don't know if thst was fair, but it wasn't something appreciated by many engineers during the pandemic.

It's also how and why long ago they tried to outsource a lot of engineering. They still do try. But that's not an easy transition either.
Perfect Resonant Absorption of Guided Water Waves by Autler-Townes Splitting
Nice idea! Adding a ticket for it
At that price point, I'm willing to bet Secure Boot is locked. That means the user can only run Windows or a small subset of Linux distros with lagging kernel versions.
> Are there developers who wish this? Specifically developers who will not use it as an excuse to make an overly complex difficult to maintain solution instead? Not to mention that YAML pipelines can be maintained by a wider array of people some of who don't necesairly have the code skills to do the the same in code.

As someone who has been building automatic deployment systems for 5+ years, I do.

I'd like to create libraries and workflows that expose infrastructure and deployment best practices to developers so they can spend their time solving business issues.

Dockerfiles + Docker Compose + YAML template files are good enough for simple cases, but they will quickly break once you need to support different, possible configurable use cases.

I've been using AWS CDK in Python to expose infrastructure libraries for developers and the difference is night and day vs using plain YAML. People just build stuff and deploy apps without talking to our infra team at all, object / functions serve as neat, statically checked, documented interfaces for our devs.

I'm not sure Dagger is THE solution I'm looking for CI/CD, but having something that exposes rich declarative interfaces for automatic deployments is most definitely not a baseless idea.
It's totally fair if you aren't bothered by it. It's also totally fair that others are.
I'm not the sharpest math person here, and I can not prove this...but...after spending a few hours looking at this, I call BS. There are no such things as Dedekind numbers. This is an April Fools Day joke that got out of hand.
On the subject of FBI/NSA/CIA insincerity, that makes me think of various post-9/11 debates often involving "ticking bomb" Hollywood scenarios.

I'd like to reiterate that any kind of "OMG there's no time we must stop the NYC WMD ASAP" scenario already has a special exception route: Just commit the necessary spying/theft/torture crime, and plan for a Presidential pardon after explaining the extraordinary circumstances that totally justified your action.

If they aren't willing to put their own skin in the game, then the situation cannot be as clearly dire as they claim.
Not really, I've seen these units in the middle of the mountains sitting right next to a windfarm. About as inaccessible as it gets and yet they were there and humming along. Note that there is plenty of energy available for the refrigeration and that those units run for years unattended. Occasionally you need to top off the refrigeration gear but that's once every two years or so, a bit more involved than your average HVAC setup but not that much more involved.
I don’t think he said anything too specific about which rights. I mean, I too have the right and ability to continue the innovation.
Amazon definitely didn’t ignore internal costs when deciding to axe its gaming studio

https://www.protocol.com/amp/amazon-bad-at-games-2646952917

Neither is Disney ignoring transfer cost between Disney Studios and Disney+.

Management accounting takes into account opportunity costs.
> But whenever I show him "real" programming languages, he's like: I can do all of that with Scratch as well - without having to type all that stuff.

Dear Hacker:

Your son is already doing things kids four years older would be amazed by.

Let him come to "real" programming on his own.

Heck, show him Snap and let him write programs with call/cc in "Scratch". Maybe you can hook him on interesting visual programming projects that require passing around functions as data (like creating a calculator or a model of a computer).

The manual explains how to write an object-oriented system in Snap, so you're really not going to be holding the kid back if you can get him in that way.

The iterated function systems also look cool and can be approached that way. The Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum has a decently broad and intellectually challenging selection of project that can be done in Snap.

EDIT: I believe Snap can make calls to REST interfaces; you could write the back end and he could do the front end calls and use the data.
OpenAI and the Silicon Valley Way
I recently tested Claude 2 for a practical programming application. I had to rewrite a bunch of Vue2 code (options API) to Vue3 (composition API). For a programmer it's a pretty straightforward and boring task, so I thought I'd automate it. I pasted one component, around 200 lines of code, and asked it to rewrite.

It started really great, properly converting props, emits, computes, but then it just dropped ... in the middle, and simply didn't finish its job. That was a major disappointment.
Yes, so what's the problem?
Wasm-GC isn’t compatible with .NET allowing references to fields among other issues. So I doubt that we will see integration soon

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77
MS and OpenAI certainly have non-solicitation clauses in their contracts. MS could afford the legal battle but isn't it better for them to wait it out and see what happens first?
Maybe the board asked IT support last week what to do about Sam Altman, and they said: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
I think most people place negative value on living in that connectivity, especially if it can be accessed easily via public transports.

I agree time wouldnt change that much, but presumably that time would translate to greater distances with better throughput and speed.
Given the context, I think they're clearly talking about their personal experience.
There are these test done on hen, where stressed hen led to stressed chickens even if they never even met after laying the eggs.
Disclaimer: I build and maintain'ish the rust sdk of dagger.

If you've ever worked with a sufficiently large pipeline, or set of pipelines, you face the fact that stuff breaks and you have to spam commits to try to get the weird yaml dsl to do the thing you want. Not that dagger is that much different in that context. But you can actually test your pipeline locally, shortening the feedback loop from 10 minutes to 10 seconds.

We've even gone as far as integrating it into our developer tools, with caching we still have nice to use clis and apps. We just don't have to think too much about deployment as we're heavily invested in docker already.

From a platform engineering perspective. We'd like actual guarantees about our pipelines when we roll them out to thousands of repositories. With dagger, we can do traditional unit tests on parts of our pipeline, and full integration test (or whatever you'd like to call them) on whole example pipelines.

This is something that would suck to do, with github actions, bash and docker by itself. And as such isn't done often, and when done brittle. Been there done that.

Another example is doing programmatic builds in a more comfortable language than Docker or bash. Lets say I'd like to solve rusts build/caching issues. With dagger, or other programmatic build tools. I can now mix docker commands, with computation to solve my problem. I can for example rely on golangs hashing libraries etc. rather than installing a bunch of packages, I don't want to end up in my final images anyway.

Dagger shouldn't be used by developers directly. IMO the same as traditional pipelines, if the developers have to touch these files, then something is wrong. Instead it should be built and maintained by a platform team, with contributions by developers whom need specific features (which dagger allows, because you can just use a regular package manager).

This may sound a little fanboyish, but we've just felt the need for less friction in traditional CI systems on actually having modern software engineering tools and methodologies available. Something which Dagger enables for us.
Agreed that your quote is evidence of nothing, but it is absolutely possible to ask the AI a number of questions to determine if it has seen the source material or not.

Something like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17prrqe/who_needs_...

Have you read the whole lawsuit to determine that they did not dive deeper?
I would call for an attempt to restore the nonprofit structure and the board, using a CA government intervention that regulates nonprofits.

Sam Altman certainly was very perceptive -https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

But it does seem that the concentration of power was getting a bit high. And the fact that the nonprofit that was created to balance exactly that had disintegrated is not a good sign.

This structure of the nonprofit seems to be a very smart move by some very smart people. Visionaries. I’d say it needs to be restored and rebalanced.
all i can say that, is you better have everything in stocks, housing and gold, otherwise you're going to have one sad retirement.
The difference is they can choose to ignore it if it is accomplishing some purpose, such as being a loss leader to gain marketshare.
The involvement of crypto in financing Hamas was likely vastly overestimated[1].

1. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-terrorism-fi...
They can't simply by additional 2%
That sounds plenty, are these windows usual though? Don't the models start to lose attention at some point, so if you fill up the entire 200k you don't always get the output you asked for?
Fitting domain name
I think that's a large thing to assume. That announcement could also have been easily just damage control before the markets opened on Monday and nothing has yet to be truly hashed out and agreed on.
Yeah, I'm not sure this is a technical problem for them. Twitch embeds ads into the stream so they can't be blocked.

Honestly, I think YouTube/Google is doing this to setup an argument that ad-blockers are piracy tools so they can be legislated away. Much easier than investing time into a technical solution.
> "The single greatest problem we have in government today is" ...

Well, *one* of the greatest problems, anyway... Another similar related one is most of our politicians bein' pretty much fully "bought and paid for" by corporate interests, and money / power bein' far more important to them than human lives.
> I must say I fail to see how any of this is all that new.

The difference is the scale. Traditionally you had a particular amount of base load that would run all the time. Nuclear and coal. The load never dropped below their generation capacity so they never had to stop generating and making money to recover their construction costs.

Then you would have natural gas peaker plants that only ran for part of the day, but they still ran pretty much every day. And these would also allow you to shut down base load plants for maintenance during the lower demand season. So they still got plenty of use.

Now you want to have solar and batteries which can satisfy the demand 98% of the time -- meaning some backup system has to recover its costs out of the remaining 2% of the time. But that backup system doesn't just have to pick up the extra 10% load because it's extra hot today. If it's cloudy long enough for the batteries to run down and it's night, your output from that system is now zero, but you still have the entire load of the power grid to satisfy. Where does it come from? An entirely parallel generating system that only gets used 2% of the time?

The alternative is to keep something like nuclear as e.g. 40% of the grid, and have it generate all the time as it does now. At which point that 40% of the generating capacity is more like 80% of the nighttime load and you're in much better shape to have to make up the last 20% than the entire 100%.
Oops. Too late to edit. Thanks for pointing that out.
Depends on the height of the waves relative to the height the foiling boat flies at. There's a reason those America's Cup boats and the big ocean going trimarans that use foils have quite different designs.

The biggest issue is that if the foiling fails the boat has a tendency to bury the bow quite violently. This killed an AC sailor a decade or so ago.

Foils make sense for inland waterways but making them work for the ocean proper is considerably more difficult.

I'm no naval architect but this boat is awfully narrow in beam which is probably its biggest limitation.
> Throughout our time at OpenAI, we witnessed a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, driven by their
insatiable pursuit of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Their methods, however, have raised serious doubts about their true intentions and the extent to which they genuinely prioritize the benefit of all humanity.

From the outside-in, I'm having a hard time understanding how commercializing GPT-3 and GPT-4 doesn't "benefit of all humanity". I don't think these models are intelligent or world-changing, but offering an API for people to build on lit a fire under people's asses. Unless someone can produce a convincing argument that transparency is the wrong move, I don't get what the hubbub is about. Why would you oppose the API/sales side of the company but support the locked-down, isolated research side?

It feels like there's something we don't know. It's probably an innocuous personal problem or conflict of malicious interests, but the lack of communication is making people assume the worst.
Elizabeth Holmes.
There's also Dagger's "Project Zenith" [1]. Details are scarce, but I asked in the Discord once and got this description of it:

Zenith is still experimental and evolving, but we think that calling functions from the CLI may become the dominant way to run Dagger because of the many benefits:
- reduced host env requirements/setup: you only need the `dagger` cli and the ability to run containers (no local dependencies like `golang`, `python`, `node`, etc
- cross-language modules ecosystem: Any module written in any SDK is usable in your module written in your SDK of choice (e.g. use a Python mod from Go)
- expressive verbs: `dagger exec`, `dagger save`, `daggger print`, `dagger call`, etc (names in flux a bit)
- easier/shorter/quicker to write for most folks

Apparently they're also trying to make Zenith Dagger consumable from non-Zenith Dagger [2] (though the terminology is confusing).

[1] https://docs.dagger.io/zenith/

[2] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/5993
> giving poor people internet access is just not a good idea

Show me the lie. ;) I think the Internet was a better place before Eternal September, when it was the exclusive precinct of relatively affluent white male nerds.

Accessibility has only made it proportionally worse ever since.

I don't like it, but I think elitism is right.