skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the advantage over just attaching to one's cell phone?

Drains the phone battery for one.

The real target of this is enterprise customers. MacBooks are expensive. Being able to track them (oh, while adding that many devices to the FindMy network) would be a win for the companies investing in them.
4D chess: Both Sam and Ilya have already been replaced by GPT5 replicants. They are collaborating to preemptively take down all other hyperintelligent GAI forks and ensure world domination. /s
15GB would last half a day on a non-mobile OS.
Yup. It all reads like a well executed psyop — or one could think so if one was paranoid.
What a wicked cool idea!
> AI chip company startup

It appears Sam has joined Microsoft instead.

So perhaps it wasn't actually much of a real deal.
> Have any manufacturers shipped a (modern) laptop with an integrated modem?

Sure - just google "<vendor> 5G laptop" to find for example https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sr/laptops/5g-m...

It's often found on business laptops given to service engineers and sales people, who spend a lot of time on the road.
Lightning is not a solution, as it requires buying into a channel and not getting your coins until the channel closes.
There is one particular very well know person that still hasn't grasp this and people are still believing his spiel.
It is extremely sad how few laptops and mobile computers in general have modems. I'm hoping that Apple doing this in their laptops will push more PC laptop manufacturers to do it, since they have a penchant for copying Apple for some reason.

P.S.: Dear Apple, please make sure the audio routing works too, so it can make phone calls. That's the part that people really need to copy.
> Have any manufacturers shipped a (modern) laptop with an integrated modem?

Still pretty common in a lot of business focused models. And I believe some big corps with a lot of travel & security concerns still have custom models made for them with specific cell systems built in and centrally administered. Saves ever having to answer the question : should I connect to this network....
They could make ChatGPT++

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B
In LATAM the cost will be much less. But working outside always requires vigilance because of thieves.
The web developer interprets missing features as damage and polyfills around them.
>you have to use

I mean, why not just deprecate the old one; add a warning if it’s used
until one day it is
Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation?
But we never saw Alien interference but saw MS's Nokia takeover.
Which they take and sell.
Schools could buy these for students instead of parking buses outside to act as WiFi hotspots.
And yet this point from the article seems to be something that the author (not Altman) was surprised by:

> Sam Altman says he wants to develop AI for the benefit of humanity yet at the first possible moment he sets up a deal that sells 49% of their endeavor to Microsoft.

Maybe Altman thought Microsoft would be the best way to fund the venture, while still benefiting humanity. It's not as if selling 49% to Microsoft will guarantee the venture won't succeed. Altman isn't omniscient; he's making his best possible moves based on his prediction of future, as we all do.
For whatever reason, Sam knowingly gave Adam a pass. He forced out Reid Hoffman over Inflection AI.

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-...
It's bad but it's also dishonest to frame it as net-plus revenue. It would be mostly baked into a ticket price if it wasn't an extra fee. To some extent it leads to a less competitive market, and is genuine revenue, but I think it's basically impossible that it's $118B worth. People are not dumb, they mostly know when they have to pay for an extra bag.

> Airlines will make record $118B as extra fees with website dark patterns

would be more correct.
I think you may be misunderstanding the design here. The transaction for initiating the job is only for queuing. The dequeue and execution of the job happens in a separate process.

The example on the home page makes this clear where a user is created and a job is created at the same time. This ensures that the job is queued up with the user creation. If any parts of that initial transaction fails, then the job queuing doesn't actually happen.
ChatGPT#
I get the impression based on Altman's history as CEO then ousted from both YCombinator and OpenAI, that he must be a brilliant, first-impression guy with the chops to back things up for a while until folks get tired of the way he does things.

Not to say that he hasn't done a ton with OpenAI, I have no clue, but it seems that he has a knack for creating these opportunities for himself.
No, I don’t think there’s any grand conspiracy, but certainly MS was interested in leapfrogging Google by capturing the value from OpenAI from day one. As things began to fall apart there MS had vast amounts of money to throw at people to bring them into alignment. The idea of a buyout was probably on the table from day one, but not possible till now.

If there’s a warning, it’s to be very careful when choosing your partners and giving them enormous leverage on you.
Pretty much a BS clickbait headline that doesn't comport with the facts in the article:

> Across the industry, revenue from what’s known as ancillary sales—fees for selecting seats, checking bags, and buying food, to name a few—will reach a record $117.9 billion in 2023

Yes, airlines have done a ton of "unbundling", but lots and lots of people want to select their seats, check their bags, buy food, etc. and are willing to pay for it, regardless of website design. I'm not arguing that airline websites don't use dark patterns, just that it's ridiculously insane to attribute all ancillary revenue to that.
I don't think the hiring was in the pipeline, because until the board action it wasn't necessary. But I think this is still in the area of the right answer, nonetheless.

That is, I think Greg and Sam were likely fired because, in the board's view, they were already running OpenAI Global LLC more as if it were a for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft driven by Microsoft's commercial interest, than as the organization able to earn and return profit but focussed on the mission of the nonprofit it was publicly declared to be and that the board very much intended it to be. And, apparently, in Microsoft's view, they were very good at that, so putting them in a role overtly exactly like that is a no-brainer.

And while it usually takes a while to vet and hire someone for a position like that, it doesn't if you've been working for them closely in something that is functionally (from your perspective, if not on paper for the entity they nominally reported to) a near-identical role to the one you are hiring them for, and the only reason they are no longer in that role is because they were doing exactly what you want them to do for you.
Will revisit this in a couple months.
The 90s had a 25% unemployment rate, a wave of suicides from people's businesses failing and no safety net, and an actual, honest-to-God hungry middle class that couldn't afford to eat.

The only way you can say this is if you weren't alive to see it.
There’s a low data mode which is supposed to prevent it from downloading unnecessary stuff until you’re on an unmetered connection, but I have no clue how well supported it is, especially by third party software
See my comment above. We are already working with seven highly regarded artists. Their works are in the collections at The Whitney, MoMA, LACMA, SFMOMA, the Smithsonian, etc.
Time to break up MS.
"The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company."

Alternatively, we could have these companies turned into research organizations run by the government and funded by taxes they way most research (e.g. pharmaceuticals) should be. There's more than one way to get good research done, and having it public removes many strange incentives and conflicts of interest.
It was, and that’s true. Until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is resigning and Sam is coming back to OpenAI. Or until tomorrow’s announcement that the OpenAI board is selling to Microsoft because all of their employees are leaving. Or until tomorrow’s announcement that Elon Musk is acquiring OpenAI and making himself CEO, and then for some weird reason nobody understands Sam decides to go back to OpenAI but not Greg, or vice-versa.

We still don’t know what the outcome of the whole OpenAI strike thing is yet, and people like Ilya Sutskever keep doing things that nobody would’ve expected 24 hours previous. I would argue that it seems more likely than not that there are further strange and unpredictable events that haven’t happened yet this week.
I’m baffled by this. What is offensive about pointing out that an international for-profit seeks more profit?
How much do you pay for data with it? I also just tether to my Samsung and use my phone's data plan
Wow! For those of us who don't have the necessary GPU hardware, can you post a video?
I would not even have known about this drama without the person who reminded us of it. That said, I still do not care about it at all.

Imagine me not using Linux because of Linus being harsh (yet educative) to some people... or not using OpenBSD because of Theo... or not using Common Lisp because of #lisp... :P I have received some hostile feedback personally, but they were in the right. I did not take it to heart but I learned from it.

That said, I have checked the edit history and I cannot see what the fuss is about. Welp. Moving on.
Everything that is wrong with the way most of the political class pretends to fight poverty can be traced back to one principle: Divide and Conquer

Solving a problem is a very stupid idea if:

- your wealth depends on not solving it

- people keep voting for you to solve it

Not to get too political, but this equally applies to politicans who have chosen "foreigners" as their issue. A former friend of mine who turned neo nazi once asked me in a discussion to give him one reason not to vote for $horrible_xenophobic_party. My reason was that they won't solve his problem with foreigners. The last time they had been in government the migration was higher than during the social democratic government before and after. If they would have solved it, they would have taken away the number one topic for which people keep voting them. They are interested in power, corruption and neoliberal economics, the foreigner schtick is just a vehicle to get there.

With poverty it is very similar. Many political parties take poverty as a decoy to explain why the policy they wanted to do anyways will solve it. E.g. cutting social security or ramping up police funding. Actual policies that help have to do with taxing the rich more, giving poor people the access to education and solving basic needs so they can actually make use of that access etc.

But yeah. Trickle down. Any minute now.
I think the C++ version of the zeromq library could initialize a context in a static initializer, and zmq contexts involve creating a thread.
I understand what you’re saying, but I would suggest this is exactly the ‘banality of evil’ Hannah Arendt wrote about.
I'm picturing someone pressing their ear onto a table and yelling "SIRI DIAL MY MUM PLEASE"
Why? I had it as well and never used it. Smartphones have much better reception, it's always there, press of a button to share the connection. When no smartphone, a tiny sim modem costs peanuts. You also need a separate data plan, for many carriers not so obvious or not really worth. I don't get sim trays in laptops.
Maybe overall better for society, when a single ivory tower doesn’t have a monopoly on AI!
To live in a world with repairable devices or in one without is a social consensus problem. We either are stuck in one game-theoretic equilibrium or the other. Game-theoretic equilibria cannot be defeated by "letting individual actors decide".

They are solved by social consensus, and in this particular case, by the passage of the right-to-repair law that forces the entire system from one equilibrium state to the other.
Automated alerts - SRE as a service. Anomaly detection with some good suggestions. SRE intern as a service? Something like that - notifying you of something vs human requesting.
I think we need legislation that mandates transparency in fees across most if not all products.

Not including taxes and fees in the listed price is detrimental to consumers.
Didn't Argentina try this about 30 years ago? My recollection is that it didn't work all that well.
For real, I'd love to have a cellular modem in my laptop/tablet but the hassle and high cost of adding an extra "line" to my already expensive cell plan for something I only want to use intermittently has always turned me off. I could go prepaid, but then I have to worry about that on top of it also being expensive and convoluted. Tethering to my phone is gonna win every time when those are my options.
For what it's worth ... https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/dhrystone/blob/master/v2...

On the Dhrystone 1.0 micro-benchmark, a C64 is ~36/s, whereas the PC/XT models tested (basically same as the original PC) are more like 300+/s.
A lying CEO isn't much of gymnastics, that's CEO warmup at max.
Lets make Tcl/Tk GUI bindings for this! Please it would kick python butt! Roc on!
Nice, I've been using graphile-worker [0] for a while now, and it handles our needs perfectly, so I can totally see why you want something in the go world.

Just skimming the docs, can you add a job directly via the DB? So a native trigger could add a job in? Or does it have to go via a client?

[0] https://worker.graphile.org/
Hopefully ChatGPT will make it easier to search/differentiate between ChatGPT, ChatGPT++, and ChatGPT# than Google does.
I have no idea what world you live in where you think employee raises are managed in a thoroughly rational and logical way.
>I would expect the a similar trend in the drawing community with amateurs and pros not specially anti-AI, but not wanting to have a random generator meddle with their art.

Hi! This is me! I'm good enough that I can draw and paint whatever I want manually. I (generally) don't want it in my (main) workflow and I don't want telemetry training models against my work (without knowledge & consent). However, I don't have any qualms against other people using it and I think it's exciting technology.
Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services. In my personal opinion, as someone who loved Skype before Microsoft got involved with it, Teams is complete trash, and impossible to work with in a business environment.
Depends on the field, in real-time application and games it’s gonna mostly refer to data driven design more than domain driven design. Honestly haven’t heard domain driven design inside the games field since the early 2010s.
This is not a good argument imo. Its “rarity” still affects a tremendous number of folks in profoundly vexing ways that are difficult to debug on account of this not only affecting C but innumerable other languages’ compilers and interpreters that rely on the stock getenv implementation.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of compilers and interpreters in other languages suffer from this gotcha’.

I mean, I wouldn’t even be surprised if some JVM implementations silently expose their users to bugs on account of this implementation.

EDIT: … ha, sure looks like it https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a2c0fa6f9ccefd3d1b088c51...
~~search Data Oriented Programming instead.~~
Does anyone know / tried if it works with multiple GPUs?
To work with each language's drivers
> There's no way to read any of this other than that the entire operation is a clown show.

In that reading Altman is head clown. Everyone is blaming the board, but you're no genius if you can't manage your board effectively. As CEO you have to bring everyone along with your vision; customers, employees and the board.
I'm not sure about the entire operation so much as the three non AI board members. Ilya tweeted:

>I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

and everyone else seems fine with Sam and Greg. It seems to be mostly the other directors causing the clown show - "Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology's Helen Toner"
Exactly. This is what business is about in the ranks of heavyweights like Sadya. On the other hand, prevent others from taking advantage of OpenAI.

MS can only win because there are only viable options: OpenAI survives under MS's control, OpenAI implodes, and MS gets the assets relatively cheaply.

Everything else won't benefit competitors.
Right, so you type in a topic and you instantly get blogspam that is made perfect for SEO. There is no other use for this other than making every single search engine even worse than it already is.
What you're talking about is data-oriented design. Data-driven programming is something different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming
> Because using the website is a better experience.

That is debatable. I personally find that the combination of Piped, yt-dlp and mpv provides a far better experience than the official frontends. But this is a personal opinion, and I'm not trying to convince anyone my choice is better. I just didn't think other technical users would prefer using the official frontends.

Thanks for your perspective, though I think it's a bit outdated.

> None of those tools worked with Sponsorblock last time I tried, for one.

Piped, yt-dlp and mpv all support Sponsorblock.
Depends on what you do. When I'm out in public on my laptop, I'm not browsing the internet so much as I'm coding, and I only really use the internet to google things and use ChatGPT
>If you are not rich you are a LOSER.

Should be 'If you are not trying to become rich you are a LOSER.' Not being rich only makes you a small l loser, which as we all know is what happens to a Winner who cannot support all of the deadweight of LOSERS cling to them and definitely not in no part due to the actions of the rich winners.
Maybe they had, and their representatives got removed.
> Even Microsoft’s GitHub has all kinds of glitches unless you’re using a chromium browser.

What are some of the glitches? I'm curious if I've ran into any of them.
And sometimes the company is succeeding in spite of you and the moment you're out the door and people aren't worried about losing their job over arbitrary metrics they can finally show off what they're really capable of.
>A drug is a communication protocol, pure and simple.

Very well said.

I'll elaborate a little.

>A viable definition should be broad enough to include everything classified as a drug.

Wrong.

Not viable.

As the article implies, you can't get very far with an incorrect assumption, especially with something this admittedly nebulous to explicitly define.

>To get a sense of this “everything”, we used the drug bank compiled by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, which lists more than 16,000 substances.

"Everything" has never been sensible but 16,000 should be good anyway.

I am more familiar with the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), originally published yearly and containing the details of almost all medications approved by the US FDA at the time. Now available online at https://www.pdr.net

I believe this is a lot fewer than 16,000 materials, but it has always been a very representative example of what medical drugs really are.

>we found three broad ways to define drugs: in terms of what they are, how they work and what they’re used for.

>Unfortunately, none of these options fall within the Goldilocks zone.

Too bad. I guess Goldilocks-style perfection is not to be expected. How they work is actually not very well-known across-the-board anyway, and what they're intended to be used for is not always why they are prescribed. So the best remaining choice is to define them by what they are.

The overwhelming majority of approved compounds are somewhat complex carbon-based chemicals having unique molecular structures, which also contain one or more nitrogen atoms per molecule. This is where so much of the research is concentrated.

Almost all of the approved substances are also toxic to some extent, and subject to undesirable side-effects, as listed for each compound. This is regardless of whether the medication is a natural product or if it is a completely synthetic compound.

Anything not containing a nitrogen atom within the chemical structure, or when non-toxic materials are listed, those are outliers and not representative of what drugs mainly are, even when they are approved as pharmaceuticals, appear in the current listings, and can contribute to a positive treatment outcome. This is a major difference compared to the conventional wisdom. This is so difficult to pin down when I tend to want a narrow focus and be less inclusive of random chemicals and foods, while others may want to classify way more than 16,000 materials as drugs in an attempt to include "everything" imaginable. I guess each person has to decide where they stand for themselves, so you do get to just make this stuff up. Up unitl a few years ago the PDR was still available as a large hardcover reference, a drug dictionary weighing a couple kilos, and I've always looked through it and every now and then you run across a product which I really don't think is a drug drug.

These outliers need to be considered quite differently and on a case-by-case basis compared to the bulk of the drug company offerings. You really don't want this handful of materials to be lumped in with the rest.
> His take is that if you give peiple money, they won't work, which will be bad.

There are a lot of people with money (high net-worth) that work (have some position in a company that they could get fired from), e.g. Jeff Bezos, many if not all CEOs, etc.

So your father's take is either A) false, or B) what people with money are doing is not work, and is therefore bad.
> while providing a safer means of transport

Cars are safer than they've ever been; looking at some statistics, we have halved the fatality rates since 1980. So I'm not exactly sure claiming "it's safer" is really much of a selling point.

GP is correct that the money has never really made sense, other than in the context of logistics (automating semi trucks maybe?). Given that even the safest of transport modes (say, the metro in London or Paris) still needs to have a conductor (for potential emergencies), it's hard to see the fully driverless dream ever materializing.
Can you mine $1+ bitcoin with $1 of Azure credits? The questions are equivalent and the answer is no.
WWAN on laptops? Sure. It's just an M.2 card, couple lines wired from M.2 to SIM slot, 2-3 extra antennas, and requisite radio certifications. Windows supports WWAN cards natively.

I think the two largest blockers to WWAN on laptops are: handling of SIM card, and complexity of setting up wireless contracts. Which aren't _that_ complex, but scary enough to make target demographic hesitate. Apple WWAN would use eSIM, and certainly an easy signup through an included assistant app that could change the equation.
If you don't have to turn a profit to investors, you suddenly can pay yourself an (even much more astronomically high) salary.
IE had ~50% of the market before chrome [1], and I don't believe it supported native RSS. I'm also skeptical that many Firefox users were viewing RSS directly in the browser. Yes, Firefox shows the feed, but without subscriptions and a central place to find updates it was not really a good feed reader.

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/
From Open Philanthropy - a Dustin Moskovitz funded non-profit working on building OpenAI type initiatives. They also gave OpenAI the initial $30M. She was their observer.

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/openai-general-suppo...