skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anybody holds those "PPU's" and this action messes up a financial aspect of them - either the revenue or their market value - then the courts are the proper venue to sort out what the fuck these things even are and how that interplays with the non profit duties

If anybody holds actual equity, same thing applies, just slightly simpler.

Its completely a "we'll see" moment, and a lesson in not ever doing anything aside from the Delaware C-Corp when outside investors are involved.

Open AI tried the non-profit only route and only received $130 million, even with the stacked deck they had. Our system simply isn't compatible with altruistically crowdfunding things that would be optimal to be funded. They added the for-profit component and are selling shares of it at an $80bn valuation, that reality is not compatible with the non-profit's mission and duties. That's fine, I am only stating it as matter of fact.
Choosing Your AWS Region Wisely
4!

Edit: looks like I was wrong. I genuinely believed this for 26 years.
Interesting, but I think many ocean-going vessels tend to be fairly long for good reason, with the bigger, longer ones also being faster and more capable in rough seas.

Offshore commercial fishing boats are an example of shorter ocean-going boats. I think they would normally prefer to avoid storm seas if possible. They have to head up and turn into the waves, they can't take them sideways.

One example of when people thought that a big, long boat would be more seaworthy, was the Titanic, which sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. But it wasn't the waves that did it.

I think big, long and strong boats are pretty great in rough seas. If I was crossing the Atlantic, I think I'd rather be in a bigger boat, provided that it doesn't break up or develop any leaks.
Still no reduction in Claude-Instant pricing?
Are creators getting less paid from adblocking watchers? Or are creators earning the same, but Google earning less?
What does this have to do with the preceding argument? Yes, the company could abandon the project, but the concern here is about them taking all the previous work (including volunteer contributions) and proceeding with a more restrictive commercial license; that's what we want to prevent.
Instead of going bank you can construct a tree of different reasonings with an LLM then take a vote or synthesise see Tee of thought prompting
Who needs programmers when we have GPT?
Gpt4 has 128k context length now.
Game Maker was how I got into programming in the early 2000s! Looking at the website now, it looks very different today, but the core is still there.
Different departments but still Google (rather than different Alphabet entities, which is much less trivial). Cross-PA GTM collaboration has been a priority for years now, and the two places they've made serious inroads have been Ads + Cloud and Geo/Maps + Cloud. I wouldn't be surprised if Play + Cloud was emergent, too.
> There's a term of art that I forget, "Pets vs XXX", with XXX being disposable VMs, in contrast to a Pet computer lovingly cared for over time.

"Cattle" is what I usually hear. Pets are unique and cannot be interchanged. Cattle are fungible and expendable.
So cool! I usually use Racket Scheme when playing with Anthropic's Claude. I just changed the model name to "claude-2.1" in my client library [1] and all is excellent.

[1] https://leanpub.com/racket-ai/read#leanpub-auto-using-the-an...
My story might be of interest to you.

I also dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot or attack helicopter pilot. I played all the serious Jane's flight simulators, watched "Wings" and its spin-offs on the Discovery Channel every night, poured over books about military aviation, etc. I managed to get ROTC scholarships from both the Air Force and Army, and I actually went through with becoming an Army helicopter pilot.

I did well, graduated from flight school at the top of my class, but I knew within a couple years of flying (or, more generally, being an aviation officer) that it wasn't something I wanted to do long-term. I had studied CS in college while doing ROTC, and I started looking for a path to get back to doing something with my CS degree.

In retrospect, I always say that I'm glad I pursued the aviation thing when I had the chance. I think I would have regretted not doing so, and now I have some stories to tell. On the other hand, it has been hard to watch the booming job market for software engineers over the past ten years, making me wonder if I too would be making $500k+/year now at a big tech company with a better quality of life for my family if I had gone down that path instead.

By the way, I was also terribly afraid of heights. It turns out that when piloting an aircraft, even with cockpit doors removed from a helicopter, that fear just never bothered me because I was so focused on the task at-hand, often task-saturated.
What are those several narrow paths?

The article is pretty speculative but it does have a law professor basically saying he can't think of much.
Yeah but if their model would be accessible it would already have good vscode extension
Same experience for me. The first video I watched after my premium sub expired, I was given two preroll ads. Then, 30 seconds into the video, an ad. Finally, at the end of the 5 minute video, another ad.

It was jarring. But I’m also not sure complaining is fair. Hosting and serving video is expensive. I definitely don’t expect to receive it for free.
The typical example is the paperclip maximizer, an AI that pursues the goals we gave it to such an extreme that it dooms humanity. Not because its values were opposed to ours but because it has no values.
I'd call it a Python design problem. Python should have never let its changes to signal dispositions leak into subprocesses by default.
Depends on the device. Some do. Some actually can't, because they are capable of drawing more peak power than their wall chargers provide.
You're right. Police and government officials routinely describe First Amendment auditors as attempting to bait law enforcement and public servants, intentionally provoking them into violating their rights.

But baiting is when you entice a person to do something wrong by offering them some kind of incentive. And it has to be something they wouldn't otherwise do unless incentivized. Thus, you can't "bait" a law enforcement officer by simply engaging in constitutionally protected conduct, unless the argument from police is that officers just can't restrain themselves from violating people's civil rights when those rights are exercised.

In fact, in one of Reyes's encounters with the NYPD that led to an unlawful arrest, one of the officers told him afterward, "You wanted this to happen," and Reyes responded, incredulously, "I wanted you to violate my rights and take away my freedom?" No, he wanted to be able to go about his business without being arrested -- which he was later able to do after this court ruling went into effect.
> This is applicable to humans because...???

We don't know if it is applicable to humans. Some of it might, some of it might not. First you figure out how rat brains work and then you can check if human brains work the same way.

You are right that we are interested in human brains, and how to heal them. The reason we don't do these experiments on humans is mainly ethical. Simply put we value human lives more than rats. There are also logistical challenges with humans. They take too long to grow up and cost too much to raise.

> torturing rodents for dubious results

What makes the results dubious? I'm not an expert on brain research. Is it just that you have a dislike to animal analog studies? Is the gene expression changes caused by early-life stress and brain injury well understood enough that there are no open questions the experiment might answer?
Windows laptops are embarrassing. I don't want to only use Apple, but why can't anyone else make a laptop that doesn't require a Human BMS? When I got my first Macbook for work, I was amazed to open it after a week of traveling to find it booted instantly at full charge. Meanwhile my old HP would play slack notifications in my backpack as it's going through the x-ray machine at the airport lmao
Yeah but to be honest been a pain last days to get gpt 4 to write full pieces of code for more the 10-15 lines. Have to re-ask many times and at some point it forgets my initial specifications.
This article seems to conflate "spice ingredients" with spicy ingredients. I would have a hard time considering how food from cuisines that use (e.g.) aniseed, caraway, cardamom or poppy seed could be considered "spicy food".
The double standard is revealed.

Apple is the Nintendo of gaming. Through advanced psychology tricks, they aren't held to the same standards.
Ask HN: Run unsafe code in serverless environments
I need to run an executable, or rather, C++ code in the cloud, and my options are Cloud Run & AWS Lambda because they are serverless and I only pay for what I use.

I thought about compiling this C++ code using Emscripten to WebAssembly. I even did a PoC using isolated-vm, however, I had difficulties in obtaining the stdout (a requirement), as the emsdk does some abstractions.

Then I tried cgroups with namespaces inside Docker, but apparently, I cannot create a cgroup within Docker since it is already running inside a cgroup.

What options do I have left?
Pardon? C was developed in the 70s[0], and AT&T wasn't broken up until 1982[1]. Or am I misinterpreting "fragmented"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
Wasmtime and Cranelift in 2023
That can't be, because I can ask it a simple question that an answer is maybe 1 sentence, and it repeats the question then provides a whole novel. So ton of tokens.
These EA people will not get my API call.
Why do you need a ferry for a small lake? Anything you'd need a ferry for won't be much distinguishable from an ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PebbX8uzyPI
Money can and does do all of those things. Through regulatory capture, rent seeking, even just good old hiring goons.

The government itself uses money to do those things. Police don't work for free, prisons aren't built for free, guns aren't free. The government can be thought of as having unfathomable amounts of money. The assets of a country includes the entire country (less anyone with enough money to defend it).

If a sword is kinetic energy, money is potential energy. It is a battery that only needs to be connected to the right place to be devastating. And money can buy you someone who knows the right place.

Governments have power because they have resources (money) not the other way around.
Yeah you don’t want to be suing if it takes even 6 months to play out. The new company should be formed by Altman and the team, with MS funding and providing the IP. This has to be the best alternate route for Altman/engineers. I would say even Altman and team and MS 50/50. They both have leverage
Yeah I feel the exact same! I grew up in the 3D era of gaming (my first home console was an N64) but I find SNES games very easy to go back to. I purchased a SNES Classic and I don't use it often, but I love the feeling of playing on a TV with a real (replica) SNES controller.

So why doesn't Super Mario RPG feel as good? Not sure. Could be the isometric faux-3D graphics haven't aged well (and make platforming a chore), so the remake would solve that to some degree. I think it's something deeper though. It's fun, but everything is so... trifling? It's fun but it feels like a snack.
For something more recent, I'd recommend any of the books or documentaries on oxycontin sparking a more recent opium epidemic. As badly as the FDA failed, we'd be worse off if we didn't have one. There's good reasons people want more effective regulation instead of none.

Part of the ban on cannabis, psychedelics, etc has been to ban research on their effects as well. I think there's some clear lines that can be drawn on good laws vs bad laws here.
If you need a lot of revisions/tweaks, the price could be pretty prohibitive.
> rgba() and hsla() should not exist, rgb() and hsl() should have gotten an optional fourth parameter instead

That one got fixed without a time machine!
Culex exists in a superposition, being present in both all Final Fantasy games and none, at the same time
man nytimes really sucks now
Never in a million years could I have imagined there would be something worse than navigating the health care system. Hours of phone calls with deliberately confusing systems, impotent customer service representatives and no choices. It's like the movie Brazil already. Why wouldn't they add AI? Great idea.
I'm still weary of using Blazor in anything serious/long term. I've been burnt before by MS, leaving me with a tech that's both hard to continue using and hard to get rid of if need be.
Seems like an awful lot of complexity and significant compromises just to get to use C# instead of TS or JS.

I wonder what the practical scalability difference there is between streaming updates over a web-socket connection and streaming updates over a long-lived HTTP connection. It sounds like the same exact thing.

Hopefully it can keep the complexity of auto mode under the hood.. I don't think app devs want to deal with code that behaves differently depending on whether webassembly files are cached or not.
Wow, imagine paying so they can experiment on you and limit what you get. I so wish i found such … useful clients for my own projects.
"Since 1998, the North has attempted six satellite launches, with just two appearing to have been successfully placed in orbit, the last in 2016." - The classic two-steps forward, four-steps back approach to space exploration.
I didn’t have a very hard time kernels, but building the gnu toolchain is an absolute disaster
Oh yes, it's going to create waves. People who've had compensation stagnation at Microsoft, reduced bonuses, "belt tightening" now see that "well, we're willing to throw stupid amounts of money at those people over there, just not you".
A major contributing factor to the lack of realized benefits with electronic health records in the United States is that the interoperability specification, CCDA, is only loosely complied with under the "meaningful use" rule from Health and Human Services. Certification is done on site at the EHR manufacturer, in an environment controlled by the manufacturer. The demonstration of compliance does not have to be done in a default "out of the box" environment, but merely that the system is _capable_ of being configured in a way that allows for emitting standards-compliant CCDA.

In practice, this means that most manufacturers do not build systems that are standards compliant by default, and definitely do not install systems that are standards compliant in their initial configuration. Then, individual healthcare practices add customization on top of that, which further complicates data integration.
Why do you think they value the money more than the time and effort?
#notmysql
Oh, that's handy, I thought MS had stopped supporting it. Good to know that it's still going. I thought they had dropped support in one of the .NET Core versions, before .NET 5+.
Google says the guy's worth $500M. A mere 1% of that in a trust could ensure that none of his siblings would have to live in poverty ever again. In absolute numbers that's a lot, but in relative terms I've given away much larger percentages of my net worth to relatives, including ones more distant than siblings, I'd do it again, and I'd think less of anybody who wouldn't do the same.
> the concern here is about them taking all the previous work

Not unless they retroactively change the license on said previous work, which I'm pretty sure they cannot.
So OpenAI has no conflict of interest clause?
> I'm more describing making this important enough to you that you start looking for places to slot it into your day

I get where you’re coming from, and I think you’re missing the point. Executive dysfunction (for me at least) means I can “want to do the thing” a LOT, heck I can even have the motivation, but getting my brain and body to actually do the damn thing can feel insurmountable. There are certainly ways to work with and around executive dysfunction, it’s just difficult that one of the key aspects of it is that it makes the act of executing feel incredibly difficult.
i take issue with calling it a relic. i dont know why every game needs to be the same. like sure, there are modern rpgs and this is not a straight copy of divinity original sin (most modern tbrpg i have played) but its battles are not worse, just different, with less tactical options like positioning and a strong emphasis on timing. the rest of the games structure is pretty similar although i am sure mario rpg is strictly linear whereas DOS has some choice. turn based rpg's dont change very much it seems.

it reminded me a lot of the original pokemon games. which i did also enjoy back in the day.
"Get hyped for the phone that will change the world!"

>Unveils phone with blinking LED for notifications and Nothing else interesting

Cool...not sure how this changes the world or is considered an innovation of any kind. Have their phones done anything worth talking about since launch?
Agreed. I mean really in the spirit of get er done the AS400 is the pinnacle of UI for these sorts of things. I've worked with other things, even WinForm apps, Access things, Excel sheets that were turned into portable apps, and of course web pages. Green screen allowed 99% of things to get done faster with 1000% less fuss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal
I suspect Neal Stephenson has stopped composing on paper, given the precipitous decline in quality since Seveneves (or thereabouts; opinions may vary).
The bigger question should be – why does a "non profit" have investors in the first place?
Fun fact: Vib-Ribbon (for the PS1) allowed you to swap out the game disc for a music CD to play to your favorite songs.
paper or whiteboard for me too. I sometimes find paper too messy and too "constrained" I guess is the right word. A largish personal whiteboard in my cubicle was perfect for algorithm development or just putting down the flow of a app I was writing.
> (who seem to manage)

My take on that is that MS simply accepts being sued and having to pay as part of business. At least, that is how it has been the past few years.
Exactly, and unfortunately the situation never changed there. :/
I'm grateful a lot of people open PRs and help me maintain the fork.
Such an amazing collection of APIs could not die out like that!
Nobody wants to guarantee perpetual future labor. The guarantee we want is that if there's future labor, then we want the fruits of it to remain FOSS.
there is James Cameron quote, something to the effect of "a movie ticket is a contract between you and the director that you're going to give this uninterrupted attention"
Finally we figured out a way to support collective action: utilize it in support of a CEO!
What I meant is:

>I don't think we should be assessing pros or cons of economic systems based on whether people get to keep their money.

but earlier you said:

>They are also, for everything they buy, and everyone they employ, paying tax.

So if we should not assess the economic system based on whether people keep their money, i.e. pay tax, then why mention that they pay tax? It doesn't seem relevant.
That's funny, I've actually been seeing this with Brave but it's limited to the first video per tab session i watch.. Then it seems to be fine. I put it down to excessive AdBlock scripts being added, but if it's related to this that's quite a scummy move.
> It is pretty hard to argue against that.

If they are a monopoly or duopoly or cartel it is very easy to argue against that.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/antitrust.asp
To be fair, it makes sense when you look at the use-case that spawned margins in the first place: <h1/><h2/>, <h1/><p/>, <h3/><h4/>, <h3/><p/>, etc... It does make for a fairly elegant way of handling all of those permutations with a reasonable amount of attributes. That comes in to play particularly in cases where you don't have control over which will show up in the wild (e.g. when dealing with Markdown content)
Because that's not Prussian white, it's Prussian blue. The white version is derived from the blue.
Some Ways to Calculate MAU
Code Search at Google: Han-Wen and Zoekt
The concern is not about free labor, the concern is that the product I'm building might get killed by vendor deciding to just fuck me over. Whether the software is free (as in beer or freedom) or not is a secondary concern - I'm merely noting that even a license as strong as AGPL is not a guarantee that I won't get fucked.
Honestly, just getting back to the point that you can write your own app and easily install it on your friends' phones would change the world. The amount of interesting stuff we lose to the inability of hobbyists to tinker with their technology is incalculable.
I hear good things about it, but the OpenAI API just works, and is available for anyone. Anthropic on the other hand doesn't seem to be open for general business. Why would I build my software on top of something that is not reliably available?
Hmm, I'm intrigued. I looked at your blog - not very close, no time right now, but I feel I would enjoy a more thorough read - and I find, for example, this[1] post to be quite sensible on its surface, even if I may not agree with everything. However, the latter part of the title - "and should be destroyed" - makes me wonder: how exactly could it be possible to put the genie back in the bottle?

The only scenario that comes to my mind - happily untainted with any philosophy training - is the one from Dune. The problem with that is that, throughout the series, Dune describes at least four different dystopic world orders, all motivated and cultivated because the AI-based one didn't come to pass (narrowly). In the novel, the only feasible, long-term strategy to avoid being wiped out by the "thinking machines" was either religious fundamentalism or a God-like undying tyrant forcing its vision on everyone. Since we lack the capabilities to create the latter, it seems the former is the only way we can implement it right now. Wouldn't, however, living under the permanent anti-AI jihad also be a dystopic experience? Especially in our case, where the AI has yet to decimate humanity to the brink of extinction.

I'm sure you considered this, so if you have a summary of what you think we can still do to stop AI without succumbing to any of the other undesirable outcomes, I'd appreciate a link :)

[1] https://blog.jpolak.org/2519/
Ask HN: Is there a service to index and search Gmail?
I just noticed GMail doesn't do search anymore. Or rather, they do some weird partial search. I'm trying to get the +4 and other details for my mom's new address and I know it's in an email I sent two years ago, but no amount of searching can find it. Disturbingly, the subject line of the message shows up, but I can't get the body.

I supposed I could do takeout and then just grep through the messages for the part of the message I remember. But that seems like overkill.

Is there a service out there that will index mail messages sent to/from gmail and allow you to search them? That would be a cool product.

The obvious solution is to call my mom, but I don't want to admit I didn't write her address down (instead assuming gmail would maintain it.)
The Road to Washington Runs Through San Francisco
Is this question meant to be rhetorical, or are you genuinely asking? Because the answer is simple: that's how monopolies work. Monopolies don't need to compete to succeed, they just need some way to exclude competitors. All of those companies have multiple ways to do that for most/all of their products.