skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The documentary "A State of Mind", 2004, covers that years Arirang Games. It's fantastic.
To be fair if this board is good at one thing it is spinning up drama
Possibly also specific to the Pacific NW area, Vancouver and the surrounding islands have the largest ferry fleet in the world, yet practically all of the boats carry up to hundreds of vehicles and hundreds/thousands of passengers. Something like this would replace, optimistically, one passenger ferry (Vancouver to North Vancouver), and perhaps a handful of water taxis.

I think they're super cool (I also love moth hydrofoils), but I'm not sure they're going to replace much given the current infrastructure. Perhaps though new use cases will happen because of them
> A short video of the best runners we discovered is available for viewing using the following link: TODO: youtube video.

How disappointing, I hope they can add it soon.
I did but I want more independent testing than just QA performance by position.
If you're wondering why the comments are a trainwreck, it's because Elon tweeted it: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727096607752282485
Yeah, geez, thanks for pointing that out!

I'm not sure how that error slipped in there. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll fix it. I need an editor for these in-depth analyses. I always end up making at least 1 typo somewhere.
Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals
> Back in the mid 90s to 2010 or so, graphical improvements were hailed as photorealistic

Whenever I saw anybody calling those graphics "photorealistic", I always had to roll my eyes and question if those people were legally blind.

Like, c'mon. Yeah, they could be large leaps ahead of the previous generation, but photorealistic? Get real.

Even today, I'm not sure there's a single game that I would say has photo-realistic graphics.
Yes, that's why I want to disable comments.
TMK he reports to the DOJ that reports to the president. Wray->Garland->Biden
My guess is that this is not a new tension but rather something that hit a boiling point, e.g. Sam hinting very recently about something huge with GPT-5, referring to “we pushed back the veil of ignorance (sic).”

And if he had been downplaying the risks or proximity or otherwise overstating the safety/alignment success in order to push ahead with commercialization, that would obviously be grounds for pretty fast termination.

I think this is also supported by the employees’ open letter which claims leadership later said it would be totally compliant with the mission to completely implode the company. What would qualify for that? What would even bring that severe a statement to mind? Nothing short of fairly imminent danger, IMO.

And ya know, whatever, we can agree or disagree on whether that danger is real, but OAI itself was founded specifically under the belief that it will be eventually (and designed their whole org structure to mitigate it), so obviously they think it’s real.
I might add that Pimlico Vauxhall Road mansions were a miserable sight.
Dunno. I had the same start as you, and I owned a copy of the original SNES game that I bought shortly after it came out.

I was also reading gaming magazines and was already collecting pretty much every Squaresoft RPG at the time, though.
Even Wise's own website says it can take days.

Bitcoin and others can be officially settled in minutes to hours

https://wise.com/help/articles/2977951/why-is-my-transfer-ta...
Oh, I opened it hoping to glean some insight as to what moving to Japan might be like if one can work their US job remotely.
this YouTube short does a good job contrasting the two https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ih12x3hmw2M?app=desktop
It's an open question whether ChatGPT 4 would have handled this any less competently.
If they didn't sign he wouldnt have the leverage to come back in the first place
Car-dependent suburbia was fundamentally impossible 100 years ago because most people didn't have a car. Kids could socialise with their friends outside because everything had to be accessible via waking, cycling or public transit. It was also socially and legally acceptable to have young kids out on their own.

When I grew up in suburbia my friends from school were a half hour drive away. When we met up we usually went outside and socialised. But that always meant organising with parents to drive us around. Looking back I think "left behind" isn't quite strong enough.
Yes, let's keep our implosion drama separate from our product announcements shall we?

Changed from https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727067288740970877 above, plus I degregged the title. I'm sure he won't mind. (submitted title was "ChatGPT Voice for All Free Users Announced (By Greg Brockman)")

Thanks!
I actually recommended Phind internally at my company about 10 minutes ago. It's the only service I've used besides ChatGPT-4 that has helped in coding.

Really impressive site. Takes a lot for me to use any other coding assistant since I think they're mostly grifters or wastes of time, but Phind is legitimately pretty helpful.

Since this reads like a paid comment (it isn't, I still don't even pay for Phind yet), I'll elaborate and say what I used Phind for was CUDA-specific and cv2 debugging and code examples that GPT-4-turbo kept shitting the bed on. I suspect that Phind may have better performance when it comes to lower level software development, but I haven't done enough comparisons to truly say.
When trying to input a larger amount of text I get the error:

The expanded size of the tensor (4293) must match the existing size (512)

Any way to fix this from the IPython notebook examples?
Well it's not quite that, but it's been confirmed that Ilya recanted after an emotional phone call with Greg Brockman's wife. [1]

I bet this kind of interpersonal drama drives a lot more big decisions than most people are aware of.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/anna-brockman-cried-asked-il...
> because the composition of the court isn't going to change. At least not during my lifetime, and probably not yours.

Why not? The age of the justices in order from oldest to youngest is 75, 73, 69, 68, 63, 58, 56, 53, 51.

Even if you're 60 or older you have a pretty good chance of seeing the composition change.
"Google is protecting your privacy like a wolf would protect sheep -"

LOL.

This "cooling off period" tactic is amusing.

Apparently, Web Environment Integrity will return as Android WebView Media Integrity API in early 2024.
shrug. I was unnecessarily rude in two of the 5 comments, if you were just replying to those i'd understand, but i don't really understand the others (including the previous warning and the one you are replying to now), especially the one you're replying to now. I can try to be more civil but considering there are only two valid complaints out of my entire comment history, if you really want to ban me there's nothing i can do for you.

You should be banning the google employee pretending they have "no financial incentive" to shut down their competition. It's obviously inflammatory and absurd. Every company has financial incentive to impede their competition. He works at google, he knows this and is lying or propagandizing or who knows.
Suburbia + office-only downtowns are largely a post-WWII North American phenomenon. It's very much a recent trend in terms of history.
There is a cost associated with creating those bits (the content creators) and a cost associated with serving you those bits.

So how do you propose people compensate the creators and the servers for the cost they incurred?

Pay directly? Ok, there is a yt premium, or patreon, or nebula, or netflix, hulu, etc.

Pay with ad views? Well then just watch the ads on these services that have them.

Rely on others to pay for you? Not a sustainable model for obvious reasons.

Another method?

I will send you $50,000 if you can name another good monetization method. But you'd be an idiot to tell me since it since the solution would be worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars to the tech industry. But no one knows it since it's about the same as the question of free energy.
I thoroughly agree. Must we see a new HN post every time he tweets?
Weights may or may not be subject to copyright law.

Are they a mere aggregation of facts -- some uncopyrightable, and some from other sources--, or is there a creative component to them?

https://libraries.emory.edu/research/copyright/copyright-dat...
I can't wait to say I told you so :)
Really apologize for the disruption, unrelated to the events of this week and also not related to the voice rollout. The team is working fast on a fix! Hang tight.
ms comic chat for the win
> they become ostracized

I think this is a strong overstatement. It's one thing to be completely out of the loop for any and all media, and another to watch perdiodically.

Sports are still huge, so obviously there's a significant demo of kids who aren't solely watching tv and gaming all the time.

> the kids make fun of him

Some. That can happen whether your kid is glued to screens or not.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm curious about the job data as well. I mentioned this further up in the thread, but when I moved from the Bay to Austin back in 2020, I did some searches for software engineering, UX, and PM roles and what I found was a lot more skewed. IE, Austin had massively fewer roles (if I recall, 5%) compared to the Bay.

But, when I ran this analysis, the differences were much less pronounced. Do you know of any way to correct for this bias? Clearly searching on public job boards doesn't appear to be getting at the reality.
IMO opinion the board is quiet because they owe the media and public nothing as they are not a publicly traded company. The entire frenzy around this is seated with the employees, Microsoft CEO, and outlets looking for clicks. In a week or so when this is over everyone will see how much of a nothing burger this will have turned out to be…IMO.
I was watching a play through of this on youtube, there were so many comments about Geno and how happy everyone was to see him again. I had no idea he was so beloved!
Hey hackers,

I built this NextJs tool that takes the image of any web design and converts them to clean HTML/CSS code using GPT-4 Vision.

All you need is an OpenAI key with GPT vision access.

Let me know if you have any feedback and you find this useful!
You're listing sources of systemic collapse, but perhaps the greater danger is the reverse: Ilya Sutskever's fear that it has "the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships."

We flourish in a middle ground between collapse and stability, and a cheap source of intelligence threatens to shift the ground one way or the other.
I sympathize. As I said my kids school doesn't use screens and has a strict no media/screen policy at home. And yet, some families don't comply and a few kids will bring these convos to the play yard.

Even if it's a minority it's still very disruptive.

Maybe you can find local groups of like minded families for your kids to find friends.
I don't follow trends for electrical lines, but directional drilling/boring is definitely a thing for fiber optic communications cabling, and trenchless pipe bursting is pretty common for sewer replacement projects.

Underground electrical lines are a lot harder to access for maintenance and monitoring though; that expense isn't going to go away if you install without a big trench. It's usually a good idea to ensure access above the underground run, and if you're going to clear the land to ensure access, it's not that big of an additional step to do traditional trenching for installation.
Check out Geoff Marshall's video with a real life Tube moquette designer (Paul Marchant):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJrfL6loC8
If the key instigator flipped, why would a supposedly disinterested third party continue to hold the line to the point where talks break down? Doesn’t hold up.
Related ongoing thread:

ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370252 - Nov 2023 (29 comments)
It is streamed. They also offer this as an API for developers [0].

I just wish they'd offer more languages as it currently is English only. It can speak German and Spanish, but with a very clear English accent, which makes it kind of funny and makes one think about why the accent sounds so real.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
Why? Since there's no other global key-value store handy in C, environment will continue to be (ab)used. Simple as that. Better than makeshift k-v store with global variables full of pitfalls and buffer overflows, at any rate.

I believe existing software would gladly migrate.
You have a weird/selective perspective.

As someone who has used all of them in different companies since the 90s: RCS was ancient, even in the early 90s. Most widely found in things like UNIX source trees.

CVS came along later (mid/late 90s), and was much more widely used.

SVN came on the scene around the late 90s -- it was a massive improvement on CVS, and spread across open source and most professional shops like wildfire. Major sites like sourceforge were built on SVN, but also supported CVS.

Git only became prevalent starting around 2006-2008, and adoption was actually really slow because of its inherent complexity. When Github appeared, that was really when the shift started in earnest.

There were others along the way: MS SourceSafe, a moment when everyone was toying with Bitkeeper, etc., but these were as marginal as RCS.
Same. gpt-4-1106-preview has been brutally slow, which is a bummer since as of a few days ago, it got a lot faster in our evals.

I'm one of the lucky ones to have Claude API access but it's garbage for almost anything technical, so I don't use it. (Solid for writing and liberal arts stuff though)

This whole nonsense around OpenAI made me sign up for Azure OpenAI access, which takes 10 days to get approved by their team (lol). I emailed my buddy who works at Microsoft Research and told him this was absurd, and in the form I used bunch of curse words and copy/pasted my OpenAI billing statement.

I got approved in 12 hours. As usual, it's who you know in this industry...
Most deeply technical (and not computer-related) topics on Wikipedia have only one or two technical authors. They give you a view of the topic that is not particularly objective or complete.
> It’s not a great product

So presumably none of this affects you because you don't use it?
As a physicist, I am often in danger of doing this:

https://xkcd.com/793/

So: it seems like one of the more obvious faults of pylons is that they are the wrong color. Usually, they are white or grey (etc) which does not really gel with the existing natural landscape. It seems like the first step in fixing the problem would simply be to paint them brown, tan, green or blue, depending on the location -- possibly with a few brightly colored details so that they aren't too subtle. Bonus points for a paint that has inherent color variations, because flat colors are too visually distracting. (Why does pylon design even need a journal, anyway?)
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> Psychedelics are good

This is highly arguable. They're very popular with the tech crowd but I dispute that they're universally good. They seem to utterly destroy some people who come back from the trip as literal empty shells of themselves.
Thanks Logan!
Is there a way to paste text into the mobile app and get the voice to read it? I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. There's no text input shown while in the voice feature despite ChatGPT telling me to "just type what you want me to read"
I'm not an insider in this field....

But is Sam Altman really that critical? Or is it more a case that people follow where he leads (i.e. there are others equally technically competent).
1. Hertz’s Tesla fleet certainly is not used solely for Uber. In some areas they are popular for regular car rentals. I know, because I’ve gotten them when renting cars on trips with Hertz.

2. Hertz’s issue is that they bought (some of) their Teslas and then Tesla dropped the price of new vehicles significantly. So even if Hertz never rented them out and had them in a showroom, they already have lost money on resale value.

https://jalopnik.com/hertz-tesla-rental-fleet-costs-deprecia...
Related ongoing thread:

Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his possible return - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370480 - Nov 2023 (98 comments)
This update will also get rolled out to Brave, since it's also Chromium in the back.

Firefox is the _only_ alternative unless you're on Mac and can use Safari.
> ESbuild has handled “.ts” imports for as long as I’ve used it.

Yes, ESbuild correctly resolves the path, however it doesn't rewrite the import path. Thus, you end with a javascript file that tries to import a typescript file (this leads to a runtime error in the browser and Node).

> TSC recently added a flag that allows “.ts” imports too.

For type-checking only. You cannot emit code when using `ts` extension.
The other rails are the electric supply, 19th century style.
This appears to be coming from the same sources who said Sam had a 5 PM deadline on Saturday, also a 5 PM deadline on Sunday, also 90% of the company about to walk out.

I’m not saying the board looks great here but it’s about time to notice that Altman’s camp is spinning this hard, and stop taking anything that comes from them at face value.
Can someone please do the math and find out whether each could be two “Earth eyeballs” as seen from orbit?
Thank you, we appreciate what you all do.
There are lot less stay-at-home parents around. Both my parents worked and I was called a latchkey kid. Nobody uses that terminology anymore. A while a lot of kids did have both parents that worked there were still a lot of mothers around.
Flush AI – LangChain but for Stable Diffusion Workflows
> Just have individual discussions with each board member

Who has the discussions?

> Then, take appropriate action.

Who takes action?

The board is at the top. Unlike for-profit corporations, there are no shareholders behind them. Ultimately, any and all action is taken by the board. They're not accountable to anyone else. They don't have to discuss anything with anybody, and there's no action anyone else can take.

Unless you're suing the board and get the government to step in, but it's not clear there's any grounds for that.
I miss the days when they just chanted about Developers.
Also relevant for context on that.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/elon-musk-texas-lawsuit-...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38367488, which was posted earlier.
Conjecture from an outsider. I’ll bet Ilya was pressured from D’Angelo who was trying to halt the rollout of custom GPTs so he could grow Poe. Ilya was caught up in his idealism and D’Angelo saw an opportunity to strike fast. D’Angelo perhaps leaning into the lack of candidness about DevDay announcement as a sign that Altman can’t be trusted.

This conflict of interest explains D’Angelo’s silence and Ilya’s immediate flip when he realized that Altman would move faster towards AGI outside of OAI and all his friends couldn’t cash out next month.

Edit: combined with bad blood from Ms. Toner for criticizing OpenAI in her research. They couldn’t find anyone to add to the board. Now was time. https://archive.li/eN5PY#selection-321.0-324.0

It probably suited D’Angelo’s interests to see Altman out with slower OAI commercialization when the Effective Altruism narrative reached a fever pitch.
So don't watch.
ESbuild correctly resolves the path, however it doesn't rewrite the import path. Thus, you end with a javascript file that tries to import a typescript file (this leads to a runtime error in the browser and Node).
Sam's criticality has nothing to do with the technical capabilities of OAI, but everything to do with the commercialization of OAI.
That’s hard to believe but I’m open to the possibility.

Cam you share a few examples that might demonstrate this?
"End of all value" is pretty clearly referring to the extinction of the human species, not mere "AI alignment failure". The context is talking about x-risk.
Yeah, this was completely my bad. Any chance you'd like to proof future posts for stupid mistakes like this? :P I joke, but I'm writing 2-4k words per week, and the sheer number of simple arithmetic calculations makes it tough to catch even big mistakes.

Seriously, though, if you know of a way to proof posts (services, forums, etc), I'd be interested. What I need is an editor as a service. The blog is just a hobby, so I can't afford a real professional editor.
I recommend `egglog` which is Datalog + Equality Saturation. It has python bindings and has allowed me to optimize programs in a custom programming language.

https://egg-smol-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Not sure what do you mean by aggressive compiler checks. Do you prefer bugs?
Not that level talent though.

If you know where to find a hundred or so people of the caliber that OpenAI has managed to attract so far you should get into the recruiting business pronto because you could make a few million easily.
Why paid users like me should suffer because OpenAI decided to give voice services to millions of people, without having resources for that? This is shameless:

We're experiencing exceptionally high demand. Please hang tight as we work on scaling our systems.
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369570
To make a serious comment, not to be snarky, I don't think people realize that as climate change constrains resources economics has replaced war. Specifically the technology and organizational reach of private corporations and their capability to change/cripple/impede/boost actors was previously only available to governments.

In most sectors there is no "market" just vaguely aligned or unaligned corporations, and a huge number of people like on this site are tied up in a worldview that no longer reflects reality. In markets where there is still competition, you're looking at an endangered species.

I don't know how this gets fixed, as I don't think we ready to even accept that we will be in a hundred little wars all our lives, and definitely not ready to fight them.
This is amazing!
I wanted to get into 3d graphics programming for web for never really committed to it.
Any tips on where to get started?
I thought we were done when I demonstrated GPT 4 can continue a completion contrary to your belief, but here you are throwing a tantrum several comments later.
I noticed this sort of thing as a child when my family moved to a slightly more dense suburb. We’d do more things on our own with our peers once there were spaces that accommodated this within walking distance (parks, shops, libraries, etc.).

In the earlier, more spacious location, there were nice spaces for grownups to decompress after a workday, but we had to be driven around if we wanted to play with our friends. Television (and learning how to pirate Game Boy ROMs) was novel and interesting when a peer group wasn’t available.
Please tell me he is quoting something for effect....
True, but Node.js is far worse when it comes to dependencies and _their_ dependencies.
Here's Geoff Marshall's take on the new trains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlP9cJOHEEc
Instead of just "stop using it" (pay isn't actually an option here, people who are paying are still getting the delay), let's force them to comply with reasonable antitrust regulation under threat of fines. Or preferably, break them up, youtube shouldn't be part of google and neither should chrome.
At a certain point it seems like there'd be enough stored energy to justify some heat pumps for nearby building heating.
Even Silicon Valley (the show) couldn’t make this kind of shit up