skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are under the impression that OpenAI "just failing to scale efficient mining of that gold", but it was one of the fastest growing B2C companies ever, failing to scale to paid demand, not failing to scale to monetization.

I admire the execution and operationalization, where you see a failure. What am I missing?
I was surprised when I first saw a Jacarandá in Auckland, New Zealand. I was not aware that there were so many Jacarandás so far away from South America, nor that the name was the same in other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda:

>The name is of South American (more specifically Tupi-Guarani) origin, meaning fragrant.

There are other Tupi-Guarani words that made it to other languages, like Açaí, Piranha, Capybara, ...
If you want to monitor custom app metrics and server resource usage, you can also try Monibot. It's not comparable to catalyst, though.
I don't know any of these people, just came across this stuff in the last couple of days and wanted to flag the possible troll, but here you go: https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/170997828542437802...
You may consider "product owner" a term, but I take these two words at face value.

Product owner is the person who can make decisions on product features and the development priorities.

Whether they actually arrange the backlog or fire orders or participate in aparté meetings with analysts who then pass the outcomes into the backlog is not essential.
This. ALmost nobody knows/uses that feature.

FTR, there are also many people who use LaTeX in a similar way...
Large cities couldn't exist without rural areas and their food production.
This was one of the stupidest things PG had said/written. Sam Altman's first company "Loopt" was a YCombinator startup and hence i suspect PG was building him up for business reasons.

The rest is "Halo Effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
No estimates – Allen Holib on software estimation
Some context. I grew up in Germany, have Jewish friends and have visited Nazi concentration camps. I see why you feel that posting such hate speech is hurtful and gives hateful people a platform. At the same time closing the eyes in front of terrible things, makes these terrible things a lot more likely to keep existing. Here in Germany we show our schoolchildren age 16 or so, documentations about Nazi concentration camps and even make them visit them. It's not meant as a platform to spread Nazi ideology, but rather meant to face the reality of what happens when you let fascism dominate politics. In this situation we have Elon Musk endorsing unquestionably antisemitic content. By hiding what he endorsed, it makes it a lot easier to ignore the gravity of the situation and moving the topic away from it, as done here. I personally believe in this situation the importance of precisely characterizing the kind of hate speech Elon Musk endorses outweighs the risk of spreading Nazi ideology. So I commend OP for posting it here verbatim.
most of the world does not do SMS 2fa. Most of the world does SMS 1fa. Your phone number is the only authentication. The password doesn't even matter, because it will be reset by anyone with the phone number. It's insanely stupid.
Definite Guide to Building a Machine Learning Platform
Motorola: how much is one plus one

Pentium: three

Motorola: that's incorrect!

Pentium: yeah but it's fast
It's probably better to switch to suitable language-specific models. GPTs sound translated in non-native languages, and also has difficulty separating CJK due to that Unicode quirk.
Nice piece
for anybody who is wondering, the typst web app is a smoother user experience, having had to use overleaf for some smaller projects only, ive found it slightly janky, sometimes, probably owed to how slow and strange latex compilation can be. I'm sure the typist web app lacks some cool project management features that overleaf may offer, since it's a more mature platform, but with how much nicer typst is compared to latex, I think any shortcomings the web app may have are offset by that. but for sufficiently technical people collaborating via git is imo nicer than any web app.
According to your rationalizations, does private property exist? Do individuals own themselves?
If we are to go in such technicalities, Ecuador is closer.

The distance - far/close matters when it comes to the trading partners more than anything. The US and Brazil being the biggest ones[0], and the trade is in USD.

[0] https://www.indec.gob.ar/uploads/informesdeprensa/i_argent_0...
> It's all political IMO. The real value in crypto is having a currency that isn't subjected to the whims of governments and the people that control monetary policy alongside the massive payment networks like Visa and MasterCard. Controlling the flow of money allows pseudo bans on things the people that control those systems don't like.

What a surprise that the government isn't about to make it convenient to evade its authority.

> Once that's done crypto currency doesn't have much value to anyone.

It already doesn't. The lofty early promises have long fallen flat and all that is left is a game of hot potato. It's not utility, it's just a lottery, which economically speaking is negative utility.
I seldom mention gcj, it was half baked, only supported Red-Hat's case of AOT compiling Eclipse and little else, it was abandoned in 2009.

What I quote are production quality compilers for embeeded space like ExcelsiorJET (also creators of Modula-2 and Oberon compilers, now out of business), PTC, Aonix (acquired by PTC), Aicas, WebSphere Real Time (AOT technology nowadays lives on OpenJ9), and microEJ.

As for the differences they aren't, that is the point, we should open our minds to use managed systems programming languages, like Xerox PARC, ETHZ and Microsoft Research did.

Rust is interesting in being the language that brought affine types into mainstream, although with a productivity cost.

As shown by Haskell, OCaml, Swift, Chapel, D, Roc, Hylo (nee Val) efforts, the best is being able to combine automatic memory management with linear/affine types for a low level language subset, with the benefit of not having to type ".clone()" all over the place.

As for Go versus Rust, definitly Rust, only because I am not a big fan of Go's language design, and love ML derived languages since Caml Light, nevertheless better Go than C.
It’s not new in Apple devices, either…
While I approve of UBI and environmental protection, I don't think it's going to help either cause to mix them together like that.
Two possibilities when it comes to Ilya:

1. He’s the actual ringleader behind the coup. He got everyone on board, provided reassurances and personally orchestrated and executed the firing. Most likely possibly and the one that’s most consistent with all the reporting and evidence so far (including this article).

2. Others on the board (e.g. Adam) masterminded the coup and saw Ilya as a fellow traveler useful idiot that could be deceived into voting against Sam and destroy the company he and his 700 colleagues spent so hard to build. He then also puppeteer Ilya to do the actual firing over Google Meet.
So it’s "just" providing the vim advantage to typing speed? As a vim user myself, I’d like to point to the tired argument that typing takes up the least amount of time yadda yadda
My solution is to create another folder like “~/Documents/Projects” (because I have no free-standing documents really) and use it as “my” dir. All other paths are known to apps and will be abused.
> I don't think it's likely that a presentation about Zig is stealth marketing for Go

It’s obviously not coming from the presenter, but it is waay too common to see Rust and Go in the same sentence, when it is just dumb in most contexts.
> money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators

Was this for OpenAI or independent venture. If OpenAI than a red flag but an independent venture than seems like a non-issue. There is a demand for AI accelerators, and he wants to enter that business. Unless he is using OpenAI money to buy inferior products or OpenAI wants to work on something competing there is no conflict of interest and OpenAI board shouldn't care.
Yeah, I was referring to this past move of EU as being particularly effective one to combat plastic pollution. EDIT: But you are right, banning single-use plastic bags is a first step. Let's keep walking.
Wow, I have nothing to say, other than that’s some major BS!
You just do the update with skip locked and finish the job until time runs out or update the job "liveness". (can be autocommit on & off)
Both only within in limits, as most jurisdictions and also history shows (just take the draft, for example).

With maybe an exemption if you manage to be totally isolated (but then at least private property is a weird concept anyway).
well, this seems detrimental to a discussion because as far as I know the term "product owner" was coined by SCRUM and has therefore a defined meaning other than say Product Manager...
If I were to ask ChatGPT to write a vague content marketing piece about MLOps for SEO purposes, this is exactly what I'd get.
I guess big in-person investors were told as much, but if it's about that big purple banner on their site, that seems to be an image with no alt-text. I wonder if an investor with impaired vision may be able to sue them for failing to communicate that part.
The quality of their software has declined significantly in the past 15 years. That said, it's still pretty good and this is probably down to reducing scope.

Apple's software only runs on their hardware, they regularly exclude recent and capable devices from running the latest versions and they deprecate and ignore insustry standards liberally (OpenGL, Vulkan, Nvidia GPUs). This makes their software much simpler to write. Compare that to Android, which runs on anything, or Windows, which I hear can do crazy stuff like run apps from the 3.X days.
Mind blown. Sounds almost too good to be true except the human brain runs on 20W and this brings us to the same ballpark. This was hard scifi a year ago!

Can an approach like this be integrated into stuff like llama.cpp so I could have a 200B model hashed down to 7B to run on civilian hardware or even a CPU?
UK here, 1 hour later and neither "ouster" nor "ousting". I see: "OpenAI’s future hangs in balance amid standoff between staff and board"
Ok, I get excited by seeing the numbers, but can someone please explain in a single sentence where this can be used and how big the overall impact would be?
Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline
Interestingly: this was recently retweeted by OpenAI insider Dr. Boris Power, their head of applied research.
He may have no choice but to try to play this card at this point? The stakes are pretty high I suppose. You don't just give up such level of potential control over this tech.
> There has to be a bigger story to this.

On assumption that board is making a sound decision, it could be simply that board acted stupid and egoistic. Unless they can give better reasons that is a logical inference.
A book I found helpful for general insight into human interactions, was “Games People Play” by Eric Berne. Some of the stuff in this book isn’t really specific for work interactions, but it is a pretty interesting read. I read it in a day because I enjoyed it so much.

But other books I’ve read recently that are specific to work which may help were:

Organisational Behaviour. 6th Edition, by McShane, Olekalns, Newman, & Martin.

Group Dynamics for teams. 5th edition. By Daniel Levi.

I also have a heap of really interesting readings on dark triad personality traits in the workplace...

Hogan, J., Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R. B. (2011). Management derailment. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (vol. 3, pp. 555–575). American Psychological Association.

Tourish, D. (2018). Dysfunctional leadership in corporations. In P. Garrard (Ed.), The Leadership hubris epidemic: Biological roots and strategies for prevention (pp. 137–162). Palgrave Macmillan.

Tourish, D. (2013). The dark side of transformational leadership: A critical perspective. Routledge.

Chapter 3: Coercive persuasion, power and corporate cults
Alvesson, M., & Blom, M. (2019). Beyond leadership and followership: Working with a variety of modes of organizing. Organizational Dynamics, 48(1), 28–37.
We agree here on everything, I just find it dishonest to put Go next to Rust all the time, and not all the millions of managed languages that compile AOT, like you list quite a few. Go is not any lower level than they are, it is just catering to the kind of people that will believe it is somehow a “modern C”.
Yeah I didn't say this was a good example (I'm not OP, was just adding info), but you're moving the goalposts from "you pointed its error" to "that is in its training data" (which is fair, just not what I was replying to, I was addressing your specific point).

Could you provide an actual example that you can't Google verbatim and would test this properly?
What I mean is the number isn’t critical. 1.9 degrees or 2.1 degrees aren’t substantially different, 2.0 degrees is an arbitrary milestone not a critical threshold. There is nothing particularly special about 2 with regards to outcomes.
GrapheneOS is moving off Matrix
You "feel" the SEC will lose against Kraken. Is that correct.
> Say goodbye to fidgety formula editors and antiquated syntax.
> lim_(x->oo) 1/x = 0

how is -> and 00 modern when → and ∞ exist?
> You certainly can have a python datetime with its timezone set to UTC and the naming of utcnow() strongly suggests that's what it returns.

No. You can have a datetime with timezone +00:00. UTC IS NOT A TIMEZONE. And utcnow() definitely suggests that you get an UTC.

And this is right in a very practical sense. If it trips people up, they should be taught the right thing.
To really discover what interactive, image-based CL development is about, my pointers:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBS4FeY7XM (5min) my demo to show how to resume execution of a long running program, from the stack frame right before the bug, after having fixed and recompiled the function, without quitting the debugger hence without stopping the program, thus without restarting everything from zero.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsKx40ab9SY (20min)showing what saving and restoring an image does, differences between SBCL and LispWorks.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aboMZkNDCY developing a 3D graphics software.

- https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

- debugging CL tools: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/debugging.html

- and no: while we could deploy a ball of mud to production, we can also not and use traditional tools and techniques: build an executable from scratch, restart the app, reload state. 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).
He didn't not become a villain just because he died early.

He'd have stayed a hero, even later - like many who continue to be heroes in older age. He was already very different in disposition and willingness to do stuff for good compared to his Reddit peers.

In the real world the quote mostly applies to people who were already merely superificially good younger. Some corrupt politician which once was participating in the student movement (when it was fashionable and advantageous for them), some billionaire founder that paid lip service to "don't be evil" when their company was just growing and needed good PR, etc.

People who were geniunely good, and not just doing token "good gestures", tend to stay good.
Nothing to do with the EUR/USD rate, of course. I very much doubt the 'new' president would even hear anything left leaning, he is considered rather radical.
Hmm, I see where you're going here but not that I can see. It looks like it's basically id + date. Spec FWIW: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Here's a blunt truth: No one can be an expert at everything.

The parent comment asked:

> However, if both would take some time to pick up a few hints here and there, would they not turn into proficient full-stack developers?

...and the answer depends on what 'proficient' means to you.

Are you a small scale startup, prototyping, indie -> everyone does everything, when it fails, its not big deal. Then probably yes, that level of proficiency is ok.

However, at a larger scale, where failure has a tangible cost, is it ok if a 'fullstack' developer (ie. javascript dev) breaks the database and people can't buy things any more? What about if a DBA with a smattering of js makes it so that mobile safari doesn't work anymore and people can't login?

It's probably not OK.

If you want reliable output, you have to partition responsibility to people who know what they're doing.

That means specialization.

Of course, learning a smattering of other tools / technologies and ways of working is great for personal development, but at some point, someone has to be responsible for making sure that things don't explode.

...and, if you're prepared to be the guy responsible on paper for making sure no security incidents ever happen, that's cool if you have those skills; but it's fair to say that expecting a designer who spent 1/2 a day reading the OWASP website is maybe not the best choice for that role.

They are simply not an expert in that field.

It's not a matter of opinion; it's a matter of risk management. It is fundamentally risky not to partition responsibility to domain experts. Every company has to decide how to manage that risk... but it does exist; and companies that don't acknowledge it usually seem to suddenly be much more interested in it after they have an incident.

Don't be one of those companies.
The user's input didn't seem to have any relationship with the text output? Obviously there's no simple one to one mapping but it would have been much more fun to use the actual letters from the phone with some kind of software to guess the intended word.
Africa can skip a lot of our mistakes.

PV is cheap, and for places that don't yet have a reliable grid connection, batteries may be cheaper than building a grid (or stabilising it if they have one that's unstable).
I thought it does need to be trained (via self-play) to recognize patterns bc the game space is too large to exhaustively visit

Looks like it used to be brute force, as you say, but has since incorporated an NN after ita loss to AlphaZero

https://www.chess.com/terms/stockfish-chess-engine
> AI capabilities increase year after year and month after month and the AI will simply be able to bide its time to start the game. To use the chess metaphor the table is set where humanity has all the pieces and AI only its king - but every hour AI adds another piece. If we never make a move we will face it at full strength.

This is an excellent analogy and you’re right that it’s imperative we nip this in the bud.
I think a lot of laptops do this because their cooling system is too weak for the CPU.

The Lenovo Thinkpad t480s comes to my mind: with factory settings, the CPU was unable to reach its advertised boost frequency nor maintain its max non-boost frequency for more than a few minutes. After 5 to 10 minutes, the machine was usually running at 300/400mhz under its advertised clock speed.

Undervolting helped a lot but could not fix the issue completely, under clocking was the only solution to maintain a consistent clock speed.
It depends entirely on how the votes are structured, the issue at hand and what the articles of the company say about the particular type of issue.

On the board that I was on we had normal matters which required a simple majority except that some members had 2 votes and some got 1. Then there were "Supermajority matters" which had a different threshold and "special supermajority matters" which had a third threshold.

Generally unless the articles say otherwise I think a quorum means a majority of votes are present[1], so 4 out of 6 would count if the articles didn't say you needed say 5 out of 6 for some reason.

It's a little different if some people have to recuse themselves for an issue. So say the issue is "Should we fire CEO Sam Altman", the people trying to fire Sam would likely try to say he should recuse himself and therefore wouldn't get a vote so his vote wouldn't also count in deciding whether or not there's a quorum. That's obviously all BS but it is the sort of tactic someone might pull. It wouldn't make any difference if the vote was a simple majority matter and they already had a majority without him though.

[1] There are often other requirements to make the meeting valid though eg notice requirements so you can't just pull a fast one with your buddies, hold the meeting without telling some of the members and then claim it was quorate so everyone else just have to suck it up. This would depend on the articles of the company and the not for profit though.
Golang Workspaces, at Last
So the decels basically owned the board, and drove a 100B value destruction because they disagreed with letting people use GPT-4 in ChatGPT. Some colleagues that is.

Is this decel movement just an extension of the wokeism that has been a problem in SV? Employees more focused on social issues than actually working.
Short runways still need to be sited in cities. In a lot of areas airports are already so close together that the airspace is congested with all the conflicting paths and holding patterns; I think the worst example is NYC where Teterboro, JFK, LaGuardia and Newark make the airspace very suboptimal.
Quite the opposite. The doom attitude demotivates many people who don’t believe it. It’s easy to disprove or disbelieve exaggeration and emotional appeals and as a result the things which do need to be believed are thrown out with the exaggerations.

The primary thing exaggeration does is convince a small number of people that they also need to loudly exaggerate adding more noise drowning out the folks who aren’t exaggerating and need to be heard.
My main browser on MacOS since Chrome is reserved for work. This way I can track it as a distraction in Qbserve.
> That I use Big O to analyze time and not operations is important.

This is why we have benchmarks and big-O for different things. If we care about cache level sizes and the constant factors, use benchmarks with increasing orders of magnitde.

Or if preferring to remain abstract, model N as the bits of memory so that the access cost goes up with increasing N. To represent specific cache level sizes and latencies use benchmarks everyone will understand.
They are only securities in the eyes of SEC. There is no legally binding court decision that cryptocurrencies would be securities, and, for example, are not commodities.
People keep talking about an inexperienced board, but this sounds like this D'Angelo might be a bit too experienced, especially in this kind of boardroom maneuvering.
Thanks, this post led to me finally getting around to limiting my Thinkpad's charging thresholds and discovering TLP (Linux power-tuning utility) in the process :)
Haha, Funny, I live in the Falklands and plastic bags along with plastic straws have been banned. But you can walk along the coast line and most of the time, the pollution there is all plastic coming from the fishing industry... Yet, no one is saying nothing about that, since the economy is driven by the fishing industry...

Not long ago I had a few scientist friends working for an "NGO", and it was so crazy to see mugs and other swag from oil companies over at their HQ...