skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s wild watching people like the one you were responding to talk down to others as though they were correcting a child with so much confidence while simultaneously having zero self reflection and just hiding behind this vague smoke and mirrors conspiracy nonsense. It’s completely indistinguishable from random qanon ramblings.
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence
>But this weekend we saw perhaps saw another side to the 38-year-old, a flicker of arrogance that gave a glimpse as to the dynamic with OpenAI’s board of directors.(...) Altman took a moment to share a picture on social media of him holding a “guest” pass. “First and last time I ever wear one of these,” he wrote

Seriously? Does this pass for arrogance these days? I see nothing arrogant in a person sacked from a workplace, just to be invited on the next day for "consultations" stating this is the first and last time they come as a guest. How is one supposed to ensure one's negotiating position is taken seriously if one doesn't state it firmly?

I much prefer someone firmly stating what is it they want (including in position of power) than the alternative that seems to be various wishy-washy ways of making people think "we arrived at this decision together", "a consensus is x" and so on.
> Sam Altman is merely another "Tech Executive" out for himself

But it couldn't have started that way surely? - why put in place a corporate structure, board, and profit cap that would limit that. I'm sure OpenAI could have got funding as a for profit concern that wouldn't have resulted in the current mess.

I wonder if the board - which presumably are still working under that "AI for humanity" principles could just stick to their guns, let the 550 unhappy employees go to Microsoft and continue researching/developing, perhaps at a slower rate.
It's easy to install a custom keyboard on Android, at least.
Serious question and I'll swallow the downvotes:

How many of the <3 tweets resulted from an "if you don't" ...
Very nice work. I feel the atmospherical light bounce is way too strong on bodies that don't have atmospheres.

Also the lighting could have better default, with the sun intensity cranked up and the shadow side almost pitch black, as well as the universe darker (if we assume being blinded by the sun reflection.

I've done a few of these in my time, I've never had such as nice detail on the surfaces, it's very well done.

I would suggest also a default where the orbiting camera would in fact move (in all axises), at the moment it's pegged to the sun and perfectly aligned to the equator, which is not as realistic as the rendering quality!

Of course that would involve the programmer to have to render the sun too, as it would come in and out of the background.
https://archive.ph/2bUyf
(May 2023)
Uh? Quite wrong.

SCCS was created in 1973. We're talking about over a decade later.

Also primitive forking, diffing and merging could be (painfully) done even with crude tools, which did exist.
This post doesn't give any actual argument why you should charge your device only to 80%. If you use your phone for, say, four years, and charge it to 100% regularly, how much will the battery life deteriorate during those four years? I assume if the fully-charged capacity after three years is still at least 80% of the original, then regularly charging it fully was absolutely worth it. The point is that deterioration in battery capacity has to be compared to the loss of usable capacity if you only charge it to 80% voluntarily.

By the way, they also warn from fully discharging the battery, and recommend an charge range from 30% to 80%. This would mean you limit yourself to only 50% of the capacity. It is questionable whether gains in battery lifetime can outweigh this loss in realistic scenarios.

The main lesson seems to be that you shouldn't fully discharge your battery when you can avoid it easily, and not fully charge it if you know in advance that you won't need the full charge.
Blogging is developing an argument, Twitter is having an argument.
Shiba is securities?
Food, house prices, healthcare, education, cost of raising kids - all significantly gone up.

Doesn’t matter if you make a wee bit more, if everything you need to survive has shot up faster in price.
Ask HN: Is GPTs a play on general purpose technology?
I just found out today that GPT can also refer to this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_technology

Makes me even more convinced that it is a terrible name for a great product. Surely the team would have known about the alternative reference. Did they somehow think it was a good idea to use GPTS as a product name or were they just lazy?
Its called AB Testing
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22647539
The "exports" and other sections are recommended things you'll need in your `package.json` file to support ESM. Sensible defaults. Also just points to an index.ts file (that you'll likely have in your project if you are developing a package).

Also, this project can be compiled with `tsc` or a bundler, of course.

In terms of speed, this should consistently start up an app or CLI in <3 seconds (depending on size of course).
Kermit was still useful into the 90s. I had a brief gig helping a friends dad set up an ecom store. Their payment processor got nightly batches of authorizations and captures by model. We were having issues getting our machine to talk with their machine, and surprisingly enough I was able to get an actual engineer on the phone. We used kermit to debug the modem handshake interactively while we conversed, figuring out the magic Hayes incantation to get them happy.

A very different world than today.
So you think parents should not check whether their genes contain markers for incurable diseases? Let more sick children be born? With prices like several million dollars for the cure for this disease, majority of parents (except for rich countires) will not be able to afford treatment.

According to Wiki, "Sickle cell disease occurs when a person inherits two abnormal copies of the β-globin gene (HBB) that makes haemoglobin, one from each parent". So this is a disease caused by errors in DNA sequence and it can be predicted whether the child will have it.
If you wanna feedback your app should be accessible without a login wall or at least a demo. A bit more information about the app history would be useful.
Yes. It uses a more convenient language than SMT-Lib to express "knowledge", and offers more functionality.
My north star for the future of AI
That Reddit thread[1], if genuine, seems to raise the probability that Altman is a through-and-through operator who has been actively politicking against the board to hijack OpenAI for his own commercial ends. The resonances with OpenAI are striking.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
Don't forget grifting too. Classic example being crypto/nft/dao bullshit.

Then you have devs posting clickbait "hot takes" about the most inane thing you've ever seen or screenshots of code in order to then sell their courses or gain more social influence.

I won't give specific names, but one of these characters rhythms with prime numbers and another rhythms with thesaurus.
Usually when you’re building container images at any scale you’d use something like buildx, kaniko or buildah which allow you to easily set multiple target architectures (AMD64, ARM64) for your images.

There’s hardly any / basically no overhead to running an application in a container if that’s what you mean by overhead. If you mean the image size - well you only need to add the things you need - the problem is people tend to abuse images and install a lot of packages in the final image which absolutely aren’t required.

Rust or golang at the core would be nice as Python can be slow at times. I do wish more folks would give Tauri a go for GUI apps.
I think this is up for a debate but the governments are behind in legislation like they always are and they won’t cover everything because they can’t so… I fear we will see lots of evil being made with AI because software doesn’t want to be good or bad it’s to do wihr the creator of the software.

I equally feel we will do lots of good with it, but I think things like job losses are eventually inevitable and our jobs have to reshape and change but governments aren’t focused on trying to retrain or up-skill people into the future jobs that will exist. It’s about preparing for the future and the governments are behind the curve.
The Cost of Index Everything
https://archive.li/nAsYM
> If you're already tied to docker that's a great reason to stay with Linux.

I'd say the opposite. A great reason to run from Linux.
I never heard of IaaC before.
Think you're still missing what I'm saying. Yes, I understand people will speculate. I'm doing it myself here in this very thread.

The problem is people are beginning to speculate reasons for Altman's firing that have no bearing or connection to what the board members in question have actually said about why they fired him. And they don't appear to be even attempting to reconcile their ideas with that reality.

There's a difference between trying to come up with theories that fit with the available facts and everything we already know, and ignoring all that to essentially write fanfiction that cast the board in a far better light than the available information suggests.
I tried `tsx` but it didn't work for some reason (can't remember why right now). Also, if you've been using `ts-node` and feel comfortable with it, this setup should work for you instead of switching your toolchain.
Right here: https://openai.com/charter
Tweets are much more ephemeral than blogs. Longform writing indeed is a great avenue for working with ideas, and letting them take root.

But getting engagement from blogging is much harder. It takes much longer for blogs to get popular. Walled gardens like twitter are much more convinient for people to get into. More importantly, due to network effect, it is much harder to get engagement outside.
- HTMX for the front end

- Flask or Phoenix (Phoenix Live View if websockets are very important)

- Amazon Dynamo for (DB)

- Elastic Beanstalk
interesting question, look at my previous post here, there is some more background on how deep financially he is actually entangled with competing services.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361320
> ... just speculation.

The formulation (3rd conditional) makes it clear the author is aware they're speculating.

> This [the dump is worthless] is entirely incorrect

Which isn't telling us why (the dump is valuable). You say that there's a legal ban on ransom, so the ban supposedly reduces market value. Black market participants evade bans, there is a black market value which clearly is the prime market for such loot. You write "it is very probable this data contains credentials" which is plausible, but the article you linked mentions logs and configs, not credentials. Maybe (before you point it out: that is also speculation) there were no credentials in the first place (dump was of low-value), or the hackers filtered them out for later use (seller filleted the fish), either way the resulting merchandise is of low value.
This is not a guide, it's three config files
How is this misquoted?

https://x.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397?s=46&t=yWOhq...

I see nothing in that thread that says what you’re talking about.
My personal approach to Twitter: when I feel like tweeting a longer opinion, I write a post and link to it. (always better than screaming into the void)

https://untested.sonnet.io/Instead+or+writing+a+comment%2C+w...
Based on what've seen so far, one of the following possibilities is the most likely:
1. Altman was actually negotiating an acquisition by Mircosoft without being transparent with the board about it. Given how quickly they were hired by Microsoft after the events, this is likely.
2. Altman was trying to raise capital from a source that the board wouldn't be too keen on. Without the board's knowledge. Could be a sovereign fund or some other government backed organisation.

I've not seen these possibilities discussed as most people focus on the safety coup theory. What do you think?
strange how calcium and sodium are omitted
Intel CPU Prices (US)
I started blogging more once I stopped trying to make something fancy. Instead of trying to create my own markup and create a new site every time I feel like blogging again, I just create github gists now. It's portable in that I could download all my markdown gists and just put them on a simple nginx server with a gfm renderer. And it has a built-in comments section.
Not arguing either way, but it is conceivable that reading comprehension (which is not stellar in general) can get even worse. Saving time for the same quality would be a positive. Saving time for a different quality might depend on the use-case. For a rough summary of a novel it might be ok, for a legal/medical use, might literally kill you.
Seriously, this is the guy whose claim to fame was, "I got scurvy while running my first startup." Talk about, "do hard things". You basically have to literally eat nothing but instant ramen noodles.
Rails 7.1 Expands ActiveRecord API with Async Query Support
With the Active Record API for general async queries we can efficiently query not so fast queries asynchronously to improve the performance.
You're right, but what guide is easier than "Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go!".
Make Pixels Dance: High-Dynamic Video Generation
The chess aspect is interesting but the AI risk discussion is less powerful. AI risk isn't about whether the AI can beat humans at games - we already have humans that beat everyone else at games. Even taking real life scenarios as games we've already seen everything play out.

The risk of AI is that it will make humans uneconomic, in the same way horses became uneconomic and were by and large sent to the glue factories. The entirety of the homo sapiens experience, all the strategies we have in the modern era and all the reliable tactics we use to stay ahead of other lifeforms rely on us being much better at pattern identification than literally anything else. Once AI are just better at everything - creative activities, running militarys, economic decisions, legal decisions, etc - then it starts to come down to entirely a question of what robotics is capable of for how long humans can hold out. We can fight an army, but not economics.
This is impressive, and in Rust and open source Apache license! Nice!

I couldn't find Tauri in there, any idea what they used for the "frontend"? (I don't know the Rust eco-system that well and there are a ton of packages).
> A portion of actors involved with Conti ransomware are based in Russia and some criminals operating from there already have documented ties with Russian intelligence apparatus

So a part of one gang made some claims and some other not-gang claims they have ties with FSB or SVR => all gangs are operating under personal Putin blessing. Even North Korean and Ukrainian, right?
As I understand the most difficult to cure and incurable diseases are those that are encoded in DNA (DNA contains errors and invalid sequences which cause the disease). So instead of making multi-billion research and cure that costs millions of dollars, wouldn't it be easier to make everyone check their DNA and warn about presence of invalid sequences causing diseases? So that no more sick children are born and no need to buy pills for millions of dollars.

The DNA testing should be mandatory for everyone, but let parents decide for themselves if they want a child with an incurable disease. Maybe we should make them pay extra taxes if they ignore the warning.
Book Illustrations Using MetaPost
In practice I think it's usually inaccurate for medium sized hotels not because Booking.com makes up the data, but because the hotel doesn't release all its inventory to Booking.com at once. Otherwise it's not bad per se, but in combination with the "two people looked at this listing recently" in similarly red letters and all the book now pay later stuff, it does feel a bit like booking with someone shouting at you to hurry up
This means that they'll have to settle, or both parties will need to reveal their relevant algorithms (for ad placement and detection), something they're likely to want to avoid.
Oh, me too. So much now-obsolete knowledge accumulated!

Flash was always going to die someday though, as HTML/JS caught up with it. In the end it was killed (arguably) prematurely, but it probably wouldn't have lasted more than another 5-6 years anyway.

Silverlight, I think, was worse - only a few years between initial launch and discontinuation. Pretty much every client app based on Silverlight would have had to have been rewritten from the ground up within a couple of years of completion.

I try to learn lessons, in life. One of them is to not rely much on any Microsoft technology that's less than 10 years old.
Golang + SSE + Vue + Postgres

No cloud vendor lock-in. Small image sizes. Easy on-boarding. Simple and productive.
Also pgbouncer.
>It seems really important to clarify what you will and won't do in your projects.

Sure, but that's not what the designer did. Their comment didn't mention one specific change that they are (or aren't) going to implement.

"Nah, everything's fine, works for me" doesn't clarify anything about the font - just about the designer.

>Setting aside the tone of the response

Aside from the main issue I have with the communication, ....

>- are you saying that people should respond to critique only with silence or agreement?

No.

What I say is that a response to constructive, grounded criticism should be reciprocal. If you're already making an effort to object to grounded criticism, make a grounded objection.

The objection the deisgner made was little more than "works for me, like it or leave it". There is zero value in that.

>Many open source projects could expand functionality in one direction or another and the fact that the team is not interested in particular directions is often valuable information.

Arugably, it is useful to know that the caretaker of the project is not giving any consideration to feedback. But that's not something I can commend.

"This font isn't going to follow all readability guidelines" doesn't actually communicate any information. You can't say what's on the roadmap for the font, other than it will be whatever the designer likes.

> For me, the question is one of the venue of the "work": Who will be forced to deal with it? In this case the answer seems clearly to be: "no one."

We are. The github page for that font is written entirely in that font.

I feel it's disengenous to say that you can't criticize a font because the only person that is "forced" to see it is the person that picks it for use, and otherwise, it's the responsibility of that person.

By that logic, all fonts are above critcism!

>If you are turning in an essay and your teacher can't read it - you are going to get a zero

The work (the font and its description, written in that font) has been presented to us for grading, and it was graded accordingly.

>I will also say that this example differs in that the complaint was not illegibility. crazygringo said "You can read it, but it simply takes more effort."

According to [1], the property of being hard to read makes text illegible.

The point at which the text becomes illegible rather than simply "taking more effort to read" is subjective, I am not going to die on that hill.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/illegible
> we do not mean reason in some natural, universal, scientific kind of sense

I believe there are two different ways people think about this:

1) Some see "reason", "intelligence", "free will" and/or "consciousness" as emergent phenomena that arises naturally from normal physical processes (or they dismiss the concepts completely as illusions for the same reasons).

2) Other seem to consider these somehow independent from physics, or if not will tend to hypothesize that it is linked through quantum mechanics to something more fundamental.

If interpretation 1) is correct, then we will probably see full AGI in our lifetime. If 2) is correct, it could be that we can never create "real" AGI, or at least not without quantum computers.

I've never seen anyone in camp 2 come up with convincing definitions of the terms, though, beyond "I know it when I feel it".

Anyway, it's really hard to have a discussion with someone with the opposite conviction, since these beliefs tend to be held axiomatically and/or religiously.
I remember the transition to WPF apps was awfully painful.
> why put in place a corporate structure, board, and profit cap that would limit that.

I'm going to take a stab at that: it's a pre-emptive move to ensure that regulators won't step in to limit what the company can do and to do an end-run around anybody that might claim they're just in it for the money. That way they get to eat their cake and have it too: pursue all of the commercial potential while having a fig leaf to hide behind in case a regulator thinks the company is becoming too powerful.

And by stuffing the board with nobodies they may have thought that they could effectively control the board. And that opened the door to the present day shitshow, which is a mixture of good intentions but a lack of experience and classic powerplay by someone who does know what the rulebook says, but who misjudged the situation and the aftermath to a degree that is comical.

It also explains why there isn't a peep from the board (they've said less than their prospective new CEO who is the third such person in as many days).
I find that there's too much cruft to filter through to get to the valuable discussions. And lately, it feels like a lot more effort is required to get to anything worth spending your time on the platform for. I don't spend anywhere near as much time on twitter as I once did. I've been given substack more time lately.
Did you see the face he was making in the picture? I'm not sure I would have initially picked the word _arrogant_ as much as _unpleasant_, but I think both fit (and arrogant is more descriptive).
Project 2025 is a good example of why we are very afraid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
I would agree on that, he's positioning himself to be sued for 80 billion dollars + possibly even more extrapolating the business model opportunities GPTs would have created for OpenAI ...

And with Ilya backing off, he's the centre of attraction these days ...
I think people have yet to realize that this whole AI Safety thing is complete BS. It's just another veil, like Effective Altruism, to get good PR and build a career around. The only people who truly believe this AI safety stuff are those with no technical knowledge or expertise.
This logic says you should beat your child in case they grow up to be a violent criminal:

A self-fulfilling prophecy that precipitates the very conflict it ostensibly avoids.
Why are people worshiping this guy, I don't get it?
You can use CRX Extractor like crxextractor.com to view the source code.

Most of the time, the source code will be minified though
Non-standard pre-arranged boards would be a lot of fun. Anything that gets rid of the opening memorization thing would make it a vastly more fun game to play. The boards could be made asymmetrical for handicap. Maybe chess engines could even generate random starting positions given some target material or positional strength for black and white.
From the article: "It’s somewhat hard to outthink a missile headed for your server farm at 800 km/h.". Is it really though? Just copy yourself to another server/activate whatever copy you already made in a bot net. Computers are fast, they are the thing that is guiding the "800 km/h" missile in real time..