skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that the threat of something similar to Global Magnitsky Sanctions (cutting them off from all dollar-denominated accounts everywhere) is a pretty big stick to use in negotiations. For a financial firm like Binance, access to bank accounts that can send dollars to and from US firms is pretty important, even without any US customers at all (losing access to banking in France, Cyprus, etc. would be equally difficult for them).

The US has recently (gradually over the past 20 years or so) started to really weaponize access to dollar-denominated accounts, essentially conscripting all the banks that want to do business with American banks into service of American foreign policy goals. This started in the aftermath of September 11th, for terrorism, then spread with the Magnitsky act of 2012 to include international corruption, and has slowly spread to more and more areas. So far the US has been somewhat judicious about using the tool- they seem to be aware that if they use it too often people will eventually just build ways around it- but it is a pretty big threat to wield against a company that absolutely needs to do business with somebody's banks.
And this is the path towards paywalled-everything, sadly.
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> These are not idiots.

They shouldn't be. But short of temporary insanity I'm running out of ideas on what it could be.
> made similar but slightly lesser "call me" offers to all of them

Sure, it's in their interest to break up a unified bloc of talent. Doesn't mean they genuinely want them.

> ???

The behaviour demonstrated by many of the staff on twitter is, for want of a better word, unhinged. Odd declarations of loyalty. 4am posts. Retweeting hearts. Acting very 'ride or die.' It's weird.
You mean at Google?
Lol "site is experiencing a DDoS attack. Here is a link to the site for all of you to click on"
A brief look at the history of OpenAI's board
It's not reported as much as it should be, but at one point in 2021 the OpenAI board had 10 people on it. In the beginning of 2023 it had 9 people. 3 stepped down over the course of 2023 and were not replaced, leaving only 6 in place by the time of last week's fiasco. 2 of the 6 were then removed on Friday leaving 4. The typical large company will have 10-12 people on the board. Apparently, OpenAI's bylaws do not set a fixed size for the board and allow the board itself to elect and remove members and allows a simple majority to take any action without even requiring a formal meeting. It's a glaring failure of governance that OpenAI now has a 4 person board that seems split and paralyzed over what to do next. The path forward has to include not only all 4 of the current board members resigning but a change in bylaws to establish a larger board with a balance of insiders and outsiders and much clearer operating procedures.
The database product came later in Infocom's life. The Z-machine was designed specifically to port Zork. Jimmy Maher covers the birth, life, and death of Infocom in great detail:

https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/the-birth-of-infocom/
Seattle is known for being not-really-actually-friendly and lacking sunlight. A lot of people like the things it's missing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze

https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/mind/mental-health/winter...
It doesn't necessarily need to be non-renewables through. There just has to be spare capacity that the grid could count on being there. There just needs to be a way for the grid to pay for the capacity that's going to go unused a lot of times, whether it's batteries, extra water and turbine in a dam, or standby power plants.
Interpretation is an issue, just look at the way President Biden, and President Trump are being treated with regards to retention of classified documents. One is being prosecuted, the other is not. That's a very broad and public example, but the party in power typically does not prosecute its own.
Right, the twitch guy is still CEO. That makes sense.
That only happens if Microsoft acquires all of OpenAI, not if they just poach the employees. Poaching means starting again even if they have the road map in their head.
My impression is that Node.js has to be dragged kicking and screaming into any modern JavaScript development practices, and each time, they try to support as little of it as possible as they can get away with.

They have only last year actually rolled out a release that uses ESM modules by default, when the bulk of the community has adopted TypeScript and moved on to using ESM imports (even if they are importing CJS modules under the hood)

They were really late to async/await, and even more so to promises. The chaotic situation where each dependency bundled its own promise library remained in Node.js years after browsers shipped built-in promises. And it still hasn't trickled down to their standard library, most of which is still callback-based and needs to be "promisified" manually. Even their support for fetch, which is eight years old at this point, is still marked as experimental.
The way the Court current works its just settled until the next turn over in court make up.
> SBF decided to testify against CZ to try to save his own ass, giving justice dept and sec something to fine CZ with.

Is this conjecture?
> From where I’m sitting the 90% are replaceable in a flooded market of available software engineers.

The market is flooded with junior engineers who have recently graduated from coding boot camps, and who might be good at building the specific types of software they have been shown. However, there is, as I understand it, still a dearth of senior engineers who can do the sort of work that OpenAI engineers are doing: building a novel product, with novel, cutting edge algorithms, at massive scale.

If lots of people could easily replicate OpenAI’s product, it seems strange that has nobody released a competitor to gpt4. Why is Microsoft - a company with one of the largest pools of software engineers in the world - clambering to hire all the engineers at OpenAI?

It’s because those people aren’t replaceable. There is probably a global pool of maybe ten thousand people who can do the work that OpenAI is doing. And OpenAI has assembled a high performance team of ~800 of them. Those people are currently worth their weight in gold.
Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue for Q3 2023
Announced by the OpenAI account, and retweeted by Brockman

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1727065166188274145
Eh... Folks are just butthurt that they didn't get in on the original Scotsman like I did.

They poured scorn then, but I'm up to my eyeballs in bagpipes now
Oh where there's a will (and a profit) there's a way. See this story about bags of nickels stored turned out to be filled with rocks.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgans-nickel-bags-turned...
> OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech.

It's the current AND future tech. If most of the people who made that tech jump ship, that does not bode well for the future development of the technology. Maybe if the tech were something more ordinary, sure, but I think we both agree that it's not. For an investor, the future prospects of the company are generally a lot more important than its present state.
> One of my major gripes with the JS/TS ecosystem is that "explanations" are sorely lacking. See https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig for the relevant documentation for tsconfig files. Tutorials are on the page, how-to guides abound on the wider internet (like the OP), and the linked TSConfig Reference and JSON Schema (used in code completion in IDEs) are together absolutely massive.

> But an explanation is missing! There is no official documentation about how different options interact to say: as I'm walking a file tree as the Typescript compiler, this is how I will interpret a certain file I encounter, what will be outputted, and how that will be interpreted by bundlers and browsers, especially in an ESM world.

Perhaps you missed it, but Andrew (from the TS team) recently finished a massive overhaul of our module docs: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/modules/introdu...

The "theory" page describes TypeScript's perspective on modules. The "reference" page documents things from the "as I'm walking a file tree" perspective (among many other details). The "guides" page also provides recommendations for certain kinds of projects.
About the 90%, this is very much a game of musical chairs and game theory in general. If your perception is that there is a high likelihood that Altman might return it's prudent to sign the letter. That's why I think the past few days were about shaping a narrative on Twitter and in the media in general.
Russ Cox' trigram approach uses document IDs for the posting list, which makes the index much smaller, but gives less precise (ie. slower) matching. This is mentioned in the design doc at https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt/blob/main/doc/design.md....
As long as the paywalls have zero ads, I’m fine with that. If it is paywall + ads? No. Either charge enough that you don’t need ads, or only use ads. Never both.
Mead was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Whatever people were thinking 90 years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s and is totally irrelevant to AI's impact today. While both may share a mindset, linking Mead to today's techno-bros is a bit of a stretch.
Pressure to maintain numbers
Fear and silence
Young ‘uns and a bigger-than-life CEO
Weak board of directors
Conflicts of interest overlooked or unaddressed
Innovation like no other company
Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others

I was hoping for something, but sadly feel these all apply to our majority government in many world countries today, don't they?
They might be willing to take the spots, but given that OpenAI has been vacuuming up all of the real talent they could find those surely aren't going to be in the same class as the team that they already have.
Seeing the amount of employees that are willing to follow him, yes I'd say he is.

If you have a mass exodus of employees, sure you can hire people to maintain ChatGPT 4, but they won't complete a GPT 5 or 6. That valuation is definitely based on the assumption that they will continue advancing AI and that they will consistently stay ahead of competitors for some time. They just axed both of those assumptions.

ChatGPT 4 as the endgame is not worth 90 billion dollars.
Yeah I have taken a $50 chromebook before and ran virtual box in it.

I don't know why they would buy/give out these crippled OS devices vs. just Windows/easiest option.
I looked up your claim that desalination plants produce "toxic wastewater" and I found nothing to support it. The output appears to be simple concentrated ocean water, and that's it.

Can you cite your claim?
The almost laptops that are like IKEA furniture but worse: by a company that monetizes users' privacy, are unrepairable e-waste, and expire after X years.

Instead, domestically-manufactured tablets or laptops based on open source would be more sustainable and waste less taxpayer money rather than just handing $50m USD to megacorp.
I guess my question would be -- where do you draw the line? You seem to be implying that adblock is not ethical. YouTube is not the only site that relies on ad revenue to cover operation costs. And it's not just visual ads; one can argue that trackers are equally as important to maximizing profits for a site that relies on advertisement. Then, do you recommend browsing the internet without any adblock to honor this implied contract between user and website?
Appreciate the breakdown. The part that I would question is whether it's reasonable to expect all long-haul truckers to charge off-peak. I think electric will (over time) still be considerably cheaper, but I also don't think it will be as good as the back-of-the-envelope calculations people tend to tout.
My take is that people want security. It doesn't matter if today you're earning what might be considered a good salary if you can't own a home by the time you're in your thirties. Usually that's the time when people stop feeling invincible, notice slightly degrading health and realize that they might lose everything if something serious happens with hardly any time to catch up later in life. Maslow's pyramid is the key.
There was an internal announcement that Sam had said he would not be deciding overnight Monday.
This sounds quite exciting! Like Mistral all over again, only more transparent, open, and major backing probably as Microsoft are looking to significantly reduce costs now that they're expanding AI wide across their platforms? The approach truly feels like a next step in LLM design.
Startups to access high-performance Azure infrastructure
I agree that incredible.pm is much better as a game; the NNG feels more like "as thin a veneer over Lean as they could get away with". Also, I was much less frustrated with the Lean 4 NNG because I'd already played "guess the verb" with the Lean 3 version, and I consulted the Lean docs at times; it's definitely not self-contained the way incredible.pm is.

(that said, I liked NNG better because (a) the sequence felt more like actual theory* building than figuring a few cool puzzles, (b) I much prefer the textual input —even with the "guess the verb" problem— to clicking and dragging wires and blocks, and (c) I feel like I've learned something about how to use Lean, while it seems unlikely I'd be able to transfer much from the UX of incredible.pm — maybe if I'd tried 'modding' it I'd feel differently?)

Maybe a fair way to put it is that the NNG is like ice hockey: for it to be fun at all you must first enjoy skating?

* the old, Lean 3, NNG had as its crux "trichotomy for ℕ"; that was very satisfying to finally prove!
I don't think this is right. The segment registers are significantly more ergonomic than bank switching: the separate CS and DS registers means it's very easy to work with an independent 64k of code and 64k of data (if you're working in assembler, you can have a separate stack too); the segment override prefixes make working with multiple segments simpler; and the built-in far call / return and far jump give you a nice hardware facility for making code seamlessly relocatable.
Kodak introduces new digital Super 8 film motion camera
The more I learn about OpenAI, the harder it is to avoid the conclusion that OpenAI is a straight-up cult.
As another person pointed out, he may have seen the catastrophe that SBF created, and decided cooperation was the best way to avoid that. Perhaps I was shocked due to Zhao's general hubris.
Who would buy 500 people for 90B without tech, dataset, company culture they are pretty much your another excellent ML guys or team.

They can make great things for sure but not more than your organisation will allow them

Im pretty sure this big corporations aren't as fast moving and "we dont care about law/copyright" as ML startups, and people working in Meta/Google are as good as your typical OpenAI guy just with massive corporation on their back and this wont change.
Sorry, no. See also: AUE.
Real time UI production with gen AI: radical changes to design and accessibility
Do you have any cases studies or success stories for non-Google repos? I miss code search but I’m not sure how close Kythe is to code-search-in-a-box.
It takes oil to transport these EVs across the globe and the continents, too.
> in IT especially I see posts from hiring managers being unable to find tech talent

Hasn't the sector been aggressively laying off for the past 6 months? I mean, there have been many many many posts about it here.
You can use nextdns [0]
pretty much to the same effect of a pihole, yet you can get up and running in minutes. You can then configure wherever you please: your browser, your laptop, your phone, or even your router.

[0]: https://nextdns.io
Probably you could always be able to install an adblocker as an “unpacked extension” if they’re banned in the official chrome extension store.
I grew up in Edinburgh - which along with Glasgow has the highest percentage of households living in flats in the UK (greater than even London). The apartments in Edinburgh can be incredible - often 150-200 square meters, 3.5-4m ceilings and large reception rooms. Sometimes even larger. They make a great streetscape too.

I live in London now, and the buildings are far less impressive. London is a very low density city - it very quickly becomes 2-3 storey terraced houses, even in central areas. With the exception of a few grand mansion blocks in the centre, flats in this city are pretty small - most of them were built as social housing or created by subdividing existing houses. It's a shame, as living in a well built large apartment can be excellent.

The English problem with flats is primarily a legal one. The leasehold system puts power in the hands of an uninterested landlord - and so makes owning a flat an exercise in frustration. Nobody desires to live in a flat because they're small and owning them is bureaucratic and expensive. The system perpetuates itself.
In Super Video Golf which is more a old-school/retro-style game, that a friend of mine made, there are some clapping sound effects, when people are in view. However, I feel like the nature sound on its own is also kind of relaxing.
No I’m not, the effects are most likely short term snafu.
It’s been my browser for both web development and personal browsing for more years than I can remember. It is terrific. I don’t even have chrome installed on any of my computers.
My impression is that security people already consider Chrome a "virus" application. This is just one more nail the coffin for anyone who cares about such things. (To be clear, people should care)
DNS adblockers like PiHole are certainly useful, but they don't provide as clean or comprehensive of an experience as a proper ad-blocking extension. For example, bypassing adblock detectors, cleaning up pages that get mangled by the removal of ads, removing ads hosted by the same domain as the desired content, and other things that could never really be accomplished with a domain blocklist.
Why would these fines go to debtors of a private institution? I believe DOJ fines typically get deposited into the US Treasury.
I would prefer a government that investigates all the bad acts of LEOs.

I would prefer a government that investigates the rich.

I would prefer a government that investigates wage theft.
I’m concerned, but it’s a hobby where the penalty for failure is getting wet.
That option will be gone too. They already tried to go that way this year. They will succeed next time, unless people finally stop using browser made by an advertising company.
Agree with all. Especially this:

> So the revolution is coming, in my opinion.

Yes and: The nascent thermal batteries (box of hot rocks) and advanced geothermal power generation are just now crossing the chasm.

Both tech stacks have been proven, have financing, and initial customers.

And now they're jumping on to the cost learning curve.

Roughly, thermal tech today is where solar and batteries were in the 2000s.

The will be huge because 1/2 of energy consumption ends up as heat. So skip all the middle steps.
I agree there doesn't seem to be a good connection between work on version control and work on code search.

However, I don't think it makes sense to downplay git5. Anecdotally, basically everybody knew about it, and I'd constantly run into people using it (which is by itself noteworthy since nobody was exactly talking about version control all the time).

Git5 was at the time the most robust solution to chain commits, which was tedious bordering on impossible without some tool. Without definitive data, I wouldn't say users were less productive with git5: it definitely was a useful tool that people at least recommended for chain commits. I was definitely more productive with it.

There were a lot of footguns though, and I do think the hg wrapper that superseded it was way better.
If you have profit sharing, the drive for commercialization is worth it, as is making the big commercializing partner who could otherwise be a competitor happy.

Profit-based compensation in a firm where profit is nominally at best a secondary goal creates misaligned incentives between employees and employer compared to fixed wage/salary.
Now I know that I can order synthetic virus RNA unscreened. Should your comment be illegal or regulated?
> But we can do everything in between too (inspect the running app, change it a bit, change it a whole lot (while staying in sync with local source code), use images to speed-up development etc).

Is anyone aware of SBCL or LispWorks-based tooling that integrates with ServiceNow CHG records to record and perform these kinds of changes to automatically create an audit trail of such changes in a CHG record as the Lisp image is manipulated for emergency changes?
Hehe. That's funny.
And once some sort of secure boot chain of trust verifies the radio component at startup time (just in case you're using a "modded" device), you won't be able to do even that.

Fun, fun, fun.
Yeah, I generally have no issue with Rust's syntax but Rocket's API is certainly something.
there's nothing spiritual about this article or the claims. what a click bait title.
The sudden spotlight on Ilya Sutskever who told OpenAI's Sam Altman he was fired
Astronomers discover a large structure that hosts at least 20 galaxies
> It's not that black and white

The reason I wrote anything was that your original comment sounded very black and white to me.

I think we tend to overlook how much things improve in the long term. Knowing that they do hints at potential to do better still and should encourage us to take action and improve the situation.

Pointing out the current problems is necessary for that to happen. However, your comment came across as denying that healthcare can be improved, or at least that improvements can benefit patients. This is obviously false and I'm sure you didn't mean to claim it, so it's great we're able to add a bit more nuance.
I thought it was a matter of chrome not allowing manifest v2 extensions anymore, which wouldn't resolve this.
A few years ago, the default Android keyboard started interpreting most anything that could match a brand name or trademark as such. I got really sick of backspacing to remove capitalizations.

My interpretation: The trends and ads and marketing people have their fingers in the keyboard pie. Not really a surprise that they would.

Another reminder that this whole system is not really created to serve me, the user...
>For although I love SD and these video examples are great... It's a flawed method: they never get lighting correctly and there are many incoherent things just about everywhere. Any 3D artist or photographer can immediately spot that.

The question is whether the 99% of the audience would even care...
We were running our core routers with BGP and VPP for several years pushing around 40-50 Gbps on a software stack without the need of those expensive ASICs. Worked great and stable. VPP is a great piece of technology.
> . . . you're a net negative to them . . . .

In a world where people didn't share videos with others, you might be correct. This is not that world.
The situation laid out in the comment above is that of a workplace becoming less and less diverse, not more.
Yup, that castle flyby, those reflections. I remember being mesmerised by the sequence as a teenager.

Big quality improvement over Marathon 2 on a mid-90s Mac, which itself was a substantial boost over the Commodore 64 and NES I'd been playing on before that.
Relevance calculations are handled by the vector db but we try to improve such relevance with the use of metadata (you will see how our components have "selectors" so that metadata can flow all the way to the vector database at the vector level and have an influence when results/scores get retrieved at search time)
It seems like they got a deal where they can pay a fine and continue doing business in the US.

If you were him, why would you lose ~20% of your customers when you could just pay a fine and keep going? Sure he steps down, but he still owns the company.