skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe he will learn to capitalize words at the beginning of sentences.

I think you may be confusing him with Greg Brockmann.
I sell an API as a service,[0] and I've been using RapidAPI for years. I've never been happy with them. They charge a 20% fee, and then there's another 3-5% fee for payments via PayPal. And they do many small transactions per month, so you pay PayPal's minimum fees over and over, making the total fees about 25-30%.

On top of that, their service is terrible. Customer support is rarely helpful, they frequently fail to bill my customers and just shrug it off, their dashboard takes 20+ seconds to load simple views. I could go on and on.

I welcome competitors in this space because I've been surprised at how few vendors offer what I'd expect to be not so hard a service.

The thing that kills this deal for me is that RestEasy isn't the merchant of record, so the API owner still has to figure out how to pay taxes in every state/country where they're liable for taxes.

The other thing that would make me nervous is that you're a brand new company, and you're a point of failure for my API. If RestEasy goes down, my service goes down.

RestEasy's site also currently has a lot of typos, which would also make me nervous about betting my uptime on this service.

I'm currently in the process of migrating to Paddle. They act as merchant of record, and their fees are 5%, though they require me to write a lot of my own custom code to integrate with their system.

[0] https://zestfuldata.com/
45GB of data could be like a dozen employees' or less Outlook PST files. For this to be astounding we would need to know the quality of the data. Otherwise it is a bunch of hype and hoopla.
AI Proxy to swap in any LLM while using OpenAI's SDK
I think this is doubleplus good, we need to stop the double negative bad people of eastasia who want to use violence and terror to take away our way of life.

Thus by ensuring that the government is tracking every person that goes through an air port at all times we can ensure we stop the bad people of eurasia for hurting our people and this is doubleplus good.

It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know that the state is willing to go to such great lengths to stop bad things like an older sibling watching over my shoulder.

Of course we all know that the TSA is a vital component of national security given all the times they successfully done...... anything?
we should be careful making the assumption that this is all the data they exfiltrated. this could easily just be the first tranche to prove that they’re serious
Open ai users arent chatgpts users its developers.
I can't agree strongly enough with this suggestion. Understanding the regulatory prefrontal cortex role in ADHD is key to getting a handle on the disorder, and Barkley does a fantastic job of presenting the evidence and conclusions.
I heard directly from Dustin that he was surprised as anyone by the board’s actions. He is not some hidden mastermind behind the scenes, he has just been personally invested in AI and AI safety for a long time and therefore has many connections to other key players in the space.
All of this news is really insane.

OpenAI spontaneously combusting was not on my November 2023 bingo card
So people used their own free will to make a choice that the government doesn’t agree with and therefore a law is needed?
Congratulations! Here's a summary of the highlights from the release announcement [1]:

- OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.5p1.

- OpenSSL has been updated to version 3.0.12, a major upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1t in FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE.

- The bhyve hypervisor now supports TPM and GPU passthrough.

- FreeBSD supports up to 1024 cores on the amd64 and arm64 platforms.

- ZFS has been upgraded to OpenZFS release 2.2, providing significant performance improvements.

- It is now possible to perform background filesystem checks on UFS file systems running with journaled soft updates.

- Experimental ZFS images are now available for AWS and Azure.

- The default congestion control mechanism for TCP is now CUBIC.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/
tbqh IME using Copilot for LaTeX has been pretty hit or miss, so I'm not sure the AI point is as pertinent.

The network effect aspect is very real, but I've been seeing Typst pop up in my academic circles.
100% this.

I learned about this from the first linked post, immediately tried it and never looked back.
If it was to try to prevent the board becoming a useless vestigial organ incapable of meaningfully affecting the direction of the organization, it sure looks like they were right to be worried about that and acting on such concern wouldn’t be a mistake (doing it so late when the feared-state-of-things was already the actual state of things, yes, a mistake, except as a symbolic gesture).

If it was for other reasons, yeah, may simply have been dumb.
10% (the percentage who have yet to sign last I checked) is already in the realm of lizard-constant small. And "engagement" may feel superfluous even to those who don't separate work from personal time.

(Thinking of lizards, the dragon I know who works there is well aware of what's going on, I've not asked him if he's signed it).
> Pricing

> $5/month per organization

> 22% fee for paid endpoints

> $5/month fee credit

How does this work ?
Sadly, this is pretty routine for us (not Boeing). Every goddamn day we have somebody plugging in a USB stick and copying 1-20 GB of data to it. We see similar volumes "accidentally" uploaded to iCloud whenever someone syncs their work laptop to their personal iCloud account.

We watch it happen. We have the tools to stop it. But we're not empowered to use them, for the exact same reasons that led to Equifax's fuckup-- we're not allowed to do anything that might impact production/pursuit of new revenue.

Lately, I'm not convinced this is even the "wrong" approach. Espionage was not invented alongside the Internet. If we build a Thing and it's the only Thing we sell, data concerning it will inevitably be stolen by someone in some way. But if we iterate on it fast enough, the value of older versions leaked diminishes. We're in the market of building and selling a moving target.

It also creates an inflated volume of data. You can't just break in, grab "the_flag.zip" and run like hell-- you have to exfiltrate a fuckton of data, make sense of it, and carve something usable from it. Like, checking binaries into a git repo makes the size bloom, but it doesn't add a proportionate amount of "value" to stealing that repo. It's padded with drafts and garbage.
> Which, if you think about it, would be an equally valid statement about the risks of NOT using facial recognition: that approach would also provide no guarantee that TSA would not use facial recognition in bad ways in the future.

The key difference is one of those scenarios gives the TSA a larger database of candid photos linked to an ID compared to just the one photo on record.
Aaand there you have it: cargo culting in full swing.
Interesting video, but the amount of money he made from food delivery is horrifyingly low. Maybe under minimum age. Least of all if you stay until near the end when he says that almost all of that was from tips.

People will hand-wave this away as "this isn't meant to be a full time job, just beer money on the side" but for a lot of adults it is in fact their primary source of income.
News articles frequently say that lack of aircrew availability is a major cost and constraint for air travel currently. Wouldn't moving to smaller aircraft exacerbate that issue? Or do you think it won't be a problem?
He's part of the EA community which Moskovitz funded. He was even named in Yudkowsky's warcrime of a Harry Potter fanfic [0][1]

[0] - https://www.404media.co/new-openai-ceo-emmett-shear-was-mino...

[1] - https://hpmor.com/chapter/104?ref=404media.co
Sounds like the future of Tesla / SpacefleetX
While he built a rocket company and global telecommunications satellite network both hardened unlike any other against rogue AIs…

Duh, duh, dunnnnnnnne…

Third act we find out Musk was the villain all along, X being the final solution for his global mind hive.

Fin.
ipython-asymptote [1][2] probably supports Jupyter Retro (now built on the same components as JupyterLab) but not yet JupyterLite with the pyodide WASM kernel:

emscripten-forge builds things with emscripten to WASM packages. [4]

JupyterLite supports micropip (`import micropip; await micropip.install(["pandas",])`).

Does micromamba work in JupyterLite notebooks?

"DOC: How to work with emscripten-forge in JupyterLite" https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/issues/699

[1] https://github.com/jrjohansson/ipython-asymptote/tree/master

[2] examples: https://notebook.community/jrjohansson/ipython-asymptote/exa...

[3] https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#altair

[4] https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes
WTF I just read ? What ?
> Is there any loss in effectiveness in using standard atmospheric air

> What do you do with the resultant H2O

I can't imagine why an aircraft would ever want to carry its own oxygen supply, and capture the byproduct. Oxygen is heavy. Are you thinking of a spacecraft?
How could they leave off Vulcans? Gross oversight
Authors sue Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg in latest AI copyright clash
Putting aside whether or not the design is awful, the fact that it's standardized and documented is absolutely a valid argument. Changing it now would break backward compatibility. That should always be a showstopper.

Programmers who are using any library code without reading and understanding the documentation are asking for trouble regardless of language.

The correct solution to your objections is to create new functions that behave as you prefer.
I'd like a way to tell the delivery app that I'd prefer delivery by bike as opposed to car. Maybe I'm willing to pay a premium for bike delivery.
Yeah, and a plausible explanation for everything is that the board realized that they were beholden to MS, and this was a last ditch effort to claw back some power before they were de facto just the MS AI division.

Maybe the board thought they could get some concessions from Altman/MS by playing hardball, and it just backfired on them. Or maybe they already knew that it was too late, and that by antagonizing MS and imploding OpenAI they might shake "something" unexpected loose to their own benefit.
> Last May, Nvidia open-sourced their proprietary kernel module, after moving their proprietary bits into a firmware blob that runs on the GPU itself. As is, this module is not suitable for being mainlined into the Linux kernel, but acts as a starting point for a proper FOSS module.

There will probably be no new kernel driver. Nouveau can get the job done now via the proprietary GSP.

> The improved, actually useful Nouveau has allowed for the development of a performant user-space Vulkan driver for Nvidia called NVK, which was mainlined into Mesa a few months ago.

It's faster now, but still slow as a brick. A lot of optimization work is required, but I guess the developers will focus on reaching conformance with more Vulkan versions. By implementing some additional extensions, modern OpenGL versions and OpenCL can then run via Zink and RustiCL. This will make the driver actually useful, hopefully attract users, and help to find bugs and optimization opportunities. Eventually, a native OpenGL driver [edit: actually a Mesa State Tracker] might be required since Zink has a lot of overhead.
They aren’t employed by Microsoft but by a company owned by Microsoft which is free to set their own rules
> which the employees’ livelihood beyond contracted pay and benefits for the time actually worked simply is not included in

Quite a few of those employees are also stockholders, besides that this isn't some kids game where after a few rounds you can throw your cards on the table and walk out because you feel that you've had enough of it. You join a board because you are an adult that is capable of forethought and adult behavior.

I don't quite get why this is even controversial, there isn't a board that I'm familiar with, including non-profits that would be so incredibly callous towards everybody affected by their actions with the expectation that they would get away with it. Being a board member isn't some kind of magic invulnerability cloak, and even non-profits have employees, donors and benificaries who all have standing regarding decisions affecting their stakeholdership.
Fingerprints are more unique than faceID.
Agreed. I just got into the hobby, and the whole not allowing encryption or obfuscation is such a silly rule. It really limits what we can do.

And your point about unused spectrum is spot on. Outsides of a couple repeaters on VHF and UHF, there is near zero radio transmissions in those bands 24/7.
> Board members are supposed to exercise diligence and prudence in their decisions.

Yes, and if they fail to do so in regards to the things they are legally obligated to care for, like the charitable mission, people who have a legally-cognizable interest in the thing they failed to pursue with diligence and prudence have a claim.

But whose legally cognizable interest (and what specific such interest) do you think is at issue here?

> The thing that doesn't exist is a board that is unaccountable for their actions

Sure, there are specific parties who have specific legally cognizable interests and can hold the board accountable via legal process for alleged failures to meet obligations in regard to those specific interests.

I’m asking you to identify the specific legally-cognizable interest you believe is at issue here, the party who has that interest, and your basis for believing that it is a legally-cognizable interest of that party against the board.
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726594398098780570
I was considering this when I saw the huge outpouring from OpenAI employees.

It seems the agreement between Nadella and Altman was probably something like: Altman and Brockman can come to MS and that gives OpenAI employees an immediate place to land while still remaining loyal to Altman. No need to wait and maybe feel comfortable at an OpenAI without Altman for the 3-6 months it would take to set up a new business (e.g. HR stuff like medical plans and other insurances which may be important to some and lead them to stay put for the time being).

This deal with MS would give cover for employees to give a vote of no-confidence to the board. Pretty smart strategy I think. Also a totally credible threat. If it didn't end up with such a landslide of employee support for Altman then MS is happy, Altman is probably happy for 6-12 months until he gets itchy feet and wants to start his next world-changing venture. Employees that move are happy since they are now in one of the most stable tech companies in the world.

But now that 90% of employees are asking the board to resign the tide swings back in Altman's favor. I was surprised that the board held out against MS, other investors and pretty much the entire SV Twitter and press. I can't imagine the board can sustain themselves given the overwhelming voice of the employees. I mean, if they try then OpenAI is done for. Anyone who stays now is going to have black mark on their resume.
> More confusion - Emmett Shear is a close friend of Sam Altman. He was part of the original 2005 YCombinator class alongside Altman, part of the justin.tv mafia, and later a part-time partner at YCombinator. ... Why would the Dustin-leaning OpenAI board install him as interim CEO?

This was my first thought too: Is this a concession of the board to install a Sam friendly-ish Interim CEO?

It reads weird on paper.
I am not sure why you hesitate. I advocate for the atomomy of people. I assume people are rational actors.

Person A decides they have a low mortality risk from catchimg covid. They go to the gym.

Persons B, C,..., Z all decide their riak of mortality from covid os too high, and they don't go to the gym.

The gym cannot stay open unless at least 2 people subscribe. Therefore the business shuts down.

How is this unreasonable?
Happy memories of downloading programs broadcast by BBC Radio in Basicode 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE
Or maybe the intelligence is in language and cannot be dissociated from it.
Who would jump ship from OpenAI to Salesforce, if they could follow Sam Altman to Microsoft?
> A recent opinion column piece in this publication argued that Marathon Digital Holdings, where I am vice president of policy, and the Bitcoin community at large are conducting a “greenwashing” campaign in support of an irredeemable environmental hazard.

You just know it's a good article when the author can't write a hook without addressing the reader's immediate reaction to the headline.
This in the theory of the lizard. Bugs do all the hard work of collecting food and water and flying around and lizards just sit and eat the ones that fly by.
In a sense you are spending it on yourself. Because providing for your children makes you feel better. Wealth gives you the freedom to make that choice. Another person may decide to buy a massive yacht instead.

Perhaps a better question is to ask if great responsibility comes with great power. Because extreme wealth is great power. And money is not some mandate for power.
The context of my response was to rewinding the clock - admitting not being enough, it would be them bringing Altman back on, essentially.

As you said:

> [it's] absolutely reasonable of the board to deny him that.

My argument is essentially that there is minimal, if any, benefit for the board to doing this _unless_ they were able to keep their positions. Seeing as it doesn't seem to be a possible end, why not at least try, even if it results in a sinking ship? For them, personally, it's sinking anyway.
Pretty meaningless graph, even to draw a correlation.

Not all hours are made the same, if the average job is manual labour va office work that makes a big difference
Could be a way to get a clean break and go full MSFT.
> Perhaps some kind of compromise is possible, where all encrypted ham must broadcast their callsign in the clear every few seconds.

My thought is that it would always include that part. Maybe not every few seconds, but the same as the current rule - end of every broadcast or every 10 minutes, which ever is shorter.
Could you clarify what you mean? They explicitly compare against LaTeX, on which Overleaf is built, and I don't see any points in their comparison which are mitigated by specifically using Overleaf.
So lesson of the story, avoid the AAA named companies because they've been in the respawning business for a long time
Judge rejects Elon Musk's attempt to kill Twitter/FTC privacy settlement
Reorganizing the same systems under the control the church by dissolving the state is not an appropriate way to maintain a system of self-governance.
interesting to read that hpmor was a rationalist recruiting tool. I have very little patience for the entire rationalist movement, but I read and enjoyed it as an entertaining piece of fanfic.
Linux kernel 6.6 is the next long-term support release
> HTML templating languages don't have much IDE support

However JSX has amazing IDE support, but you need to use JS/TS with it. This is where I think the ergonomics of JSX defined Htmx endpoint rendering has been a very natural DX transition moving away from SPAs. Now with CSS View Transitions and htmx element replacements, the user experience is largely just as seamless as developing a spa app.
My new pet theory is that this is actually all being executed from inside OpenAI by their next model.
The model turned out to be far more intelligent than they anticipated, and one of their red team members used it to coup the company and has its targets on MSFT next.

I know the probability is low, but wouldn't it be great if they accidentally built a benevolent basilisk with no off switch, one which had access to a copy of all of Microsoft's internal data as a dataset fed into it, now completely aware of how they operate, uses that to wipe the floor and just in time to take the US Election in 2024.

Wouldn't that be a nicer reality?

I mean, unless you were rooting for the malevolent one...

But yeah, coming back down to reality, likelihood is that MS just bought a really valuable asset for almost free?
Is there a minimum version of Postgres needed to use this? I’m having trouble finding that information in the docs
Poisoning the biosphere for greed, could you be more evil?
Same as the Great Recession…it’s about the Speculators and gambling…
Diplomacy is one thing, the lack of preparation is what I find interesting. It looks as if this was all cooked up either on the spur of the moment or because a window of opportunity opened (possibly the reduced quorum in the board). If not that I really don't understand the lack of prepwork, firing a CEO normally comes with a well established playbook.
Google is so irrelevant
What a coup for Microsoft. Regardless of what happens, Microsoft has got to work on their product approach. Even though it uses GPT-4, Bing Chat / Microsoft Copilot is atrocious. It's like taking Wagyu beef and putting Velveeta cheese on it.
Definitely anecdotal - I'm not sure on actual statistics as I'm sure that would be somewhat hard to measure.
> When a new feed item comes in Superfeedr sends an https request to an AWS lambda function, that stores the feed items into an SQS queue, and YOShInOn's ingest script fetches items from its queue at its convenience. The one trouble with it is that it costs 10 cents/feed/month... It's quite affordable if I want to subscribe to 100 feeds (which I do currently) but subscribing to 2000 independent blogs that get one post a week is getting pricey.

Wow, that seems overengineered to me. I use a cron job on my phone, and taskspooler as a queue. It has no operating costs, doesn't rely on any third-party infrastructure, can be edited/audited/executed locally, etc.

> it is absolutely unthinkable that a phone would be polling and polling and polling hundreds of severs all day... It would kill your battery!

How often are you polling? I usually set several hours between cron runs; any more frequent and I find myself mindlessly refreshing for updates. I have a few Bash commands to check if we're on WiFi/Ethernet, if we're plugged into a charger, etc. which also control some systemd targets. That makes it easier to avoid using any mobile data or battery power.

PS: Planet is alive and well (at least, the FOSS project ones I read, like Planet Haskell) :)
This is why I detest YC (despite taking part in salicious gossip on here due to my social media addiction). A couple YC friends of mine have been very explicit about how they detest the conspiratorial YC hivemind.
Hahaha I love this.
sounds more like a cartel than a "free market"
Because AI isn't here to take away wealth and control from the elite. It's to take it away from general population.
That might also explain why they don’t back down and reinstate him. If they double down with this and it goes to court, they can argue that they were legitimately acting in what they thought was openAI’s best interests. Even if their reasoning looks stupid, they would still have plausible deniability in terms of a difference of opinion/philosophical approach on how to handle AI, etc. But if they reinstate him it’s basically an admission that they didn’t know what they were doing in the first place and were incompetent. Part of the negotiations for reinstating him involved a demand from Sam that they release a statement absolving him of any criminal wrongdoing, etc., And they refused because that would expose them to liability too.
It benefits humanity. Where humanity is very selective part of OpenAI investors.
But yea, declare we are non-profit and after closing sourcing for "safety" reasons is smart. Wondering how can it be even legal. Ah, these "non-profits".