skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that will definitely be a starter condition. Otherwise the rest of the conversation is pointless. Between Ilya and Sam it is going to be plenty of uncomfortable too but that might be repaired, especially with Greg bridging. But the rest of the board isn't going to survive this if Sam goes back to OpenAI.
It's not just web frameworks - it's all MS UI frameworks. On the desktop there WinForms, WPF, UWP, WinUI, Blazor, MAUI... it's really seems like a mess with no clear direction.
The illusion of control. We check all of these boxes yet our data still continues to get sold
Moderators haven't touched this post, as I explained above, and there's no manipulation going on - it's just normal cycle-of-life stuff: some users think this post should be on the front page while others think it should not be. This is also the reason why your comment's score is fluctuating: some users agree with / like it, and others don't.

I know that sinister speculation is more exciting than unglamorous usualness, but the tedious truth is that we don't do any of the things you're talking about. We don't want to, it wouldn't feel good, and luckily for us, none of it is necessary.
I don’t think an unnamed and unspecified group of employees should get to have a loud voice in this conversation.

This isn’t to say it’s not fair to criticize Sam and Greg but none of these sound like issues that would lead to them being fired.
Can't he just have shown screenshots of different sizes of moon lmao.
As a tax paying Marylander I believe this is a reasonable economic choice for the state.

Especially Baltimore City which is receiving ~20k of these. The city does ongoing incremental social damage control, this is a part of it. The bottom 15% of people detract from the economy so thinking about it as service cost reduction rather than netting from it. The allocation rate for Baltimore City is something like 3.5% (!) while the rest of the state is like 2% and under.

It is about getting another couple percent of the people on the internet. Some approximate thread of literacy and ability to type and click is huge. The laptop modality is important to have over touch keys only.

There are many who don't have the wherewithal to get themselves online but it's a life changer for them to just have the basics.

As for vendor, Google is the lesser evil than alternatives by a wide margin. Top concerns are AdWords tricking poor into buying junk which is a part of the greater plan anyways; cyclical chronic marginalization with a slight upward trajectory. Gmail account creation is sorta evil. But where else is their email going to live? Hard to imagine a solution other than adverts and gov. surveillance being the cost center recoup. Google is way good at warehouse scale computing for web services (internally, GCP sucks).

Even crazier is that Maryland is already a top state for personal compute [1].

1. https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/a...

edit: grammar
I guess it's time for `fsync_but_really_actually_sync_it_please(2)` (and the lower level equivalents in SATA, NVMe etc.)?
It sure would, we hope. But we have to keep screaming about WEI and similar proposals until Google stops being an asshole. Pressure must be kept up.

I remember when I was young thinking it would be impossible to out-asshole Microsoft. Ah, the innocent days.
As of right now 3:29pm it's gone from the front page again!!!!!!
The firing itself in an employer-employee sense is fine. But the board has a lot more responsibilities. Firing the CEO for reasons not in the interest of the organisation (e.g. to further some other personal interest) for example is reason for a lawsuit. And the former CEO and boardmember could be to one starting that lawsuit, but so could other parties that suffered damages from this such as shareholders or employees.
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023
basically you can't ask political, medical, or really anything that's deemed "controversial" or "potentially dangerous" by their prompt
Yes, the fall-out from all this is going to be much, much wider than just OpenAI. And if it ends up in front of a judge I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually results in adjustments to the law.
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I'm not sure where this is coming from, maybe it's a generational thing?

In my case, (36M living in Texas) it's totally normal for people to knock or ring the doorbell. Neighbors drop by to talk about what's happening in the neighborhood, friends come to visit, etc.
Did you try ublock origin on Arc? Seems to be just as effective as it is with other browsers.
I'm a little confused by your comment. The line in question isn't saying "Now you have angered our messiah," it's saying "Now you see what we've had to deal with for years; sucks, right?"
how old are 'kids'? very few children under say 13 were obsessed with radio, records, books.. i see kids from age 3 who can't put down their tablets
I started using Safari for everything now the last few months and now won’t look back.

Chrome in a sandbox with devtools is the only thing i miss and need occasionally but they have really shifted from the original Chromium branch.
Directional boring exists but it’s even more expensive than trenching and backfilling. It’s typically only used when disturbing the concrete/asphalt/subsurface utilities and then restoring them is more expensive than directional boring.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_boring
They seem to make very strange business decisions. All the safety stuff is clearly irritating devs and the inability for randoms to casually sign up suppresses interest & experimentation.
it's london charm
Refuses to work for me all day.
I'm actually playing with this idea: I've created a model from scratch and have it running occasionally on my Discord. https://ftp.bytebreeze.dev is where I throw up models and code. I'll be releasing more soon.
Another good option is Firefox for work and Librewolf for personal, or vice versa
Not sure that I follow... From what I have understood, a lot of corporations have these kind of set ups in place to avoid downloading malicious software, limit the possible impact of malware, monitor employees and so on. And it is clear that no development team can change policy for whole organization — so why shouldn't developers choose the kind of tooling which allows them to deliver within the constraints of the organization?
If only Facebook wasn’t involved I might be interested. Everything Facebook touches is contaminated, unfortunately.
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How to Work from Home and Not Go Crazy
Unfortunately, the documentation site is down. Is there a mirror of https://docs.blender.org/ anywhere?
> The series portrays a fictional past, present and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three sun-like stars orbiting one another, in an example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.

I'm intrigued.
Don't you find it dangerous to just run the code w/o any sanitizing?

Why not capture a few strategies that the LLM returns as code that can be properly audited (and ran locally improving the overall performance)?
this is hilarious!
Everybody talking about the Netflix version -- given how absurd this whole thing has been, I hope Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually ends up cast as one of the characters and brings it brutally full-circle lol
Wait till you find out how Reddit works!
To me the issue is even simpler, not even about effectful code or monads, it's about the "issues" of lazy evaluation.

It doesn't really matter if you made a horrible uncomputable mistake deep inside a pure function, if you either discard or never use that mistake you would never notice it happened.

For example, nixpkgs (in nixlang) for sure isn't "strict pure FP" - you can do effects whenever you want - but will often have uncomputable evaluations in it. And you will only notice they're uncomputable evaluations when you try to use them. There's even a warning left for future wanderers for that:

### Evaluating the entire Nixpkgs naively will fail, make failure fast
AAAAAASomeThingsFailToEvaluate = throw ''
Please be informed that this pseudo-package is not the only part of
Nixpkgs that fails to evaluate. You should not evaluate entire Nixpkgs
without some special measures to handle failing packages, like those taken
by Hydra.
'';

I see that I formulated my thesis badly, conflating strict evaluation with monads, when as you pointed out they're not strictly related.
The inevitable error messages can be explained by an LLM?
Why do you take it that way? I took saying "not American" to mean his perspective is from outside looking in, which is useful context.
I want just one person to give an objective, clear, mathematically-coherent non-behaviorist definition of AGI.

Heck, I'd like someone to provide a non-behaviorist definition of "natural" intelligence.

Until we can do that, please stop talking about AGI
Yeah I have a few friends who are totally fussing over graphs and optimisations. I just have zero interest in this. Also, my power bill is 60 bucks per month and gas is 15 including fixed charges. So really there isn't much to be gained (and I have several 24/7 servers running, all pretty power-efficient NUCs though).
Yeah. 1980s. Try watching reruns of love boat for 1 hour with interruptions of dandruff shampoo commercials. Give it a shot as an adult, then imagine being 10. You will tear your eyes out. Sure, flip one of 10 channels to Golden Girls, you will try to hang yourself. Books? lol. Your school hands you the the book Jane Eyre. As a 12 year old boy, you might not relate to 19th century English countryside drama. Kids back then had fucking nothing. They went outside. Youtube is a god damn game changer - I wouldn't go out either.
It's usually up. No way this unrelated.
The fact that it is an anonymous re-posting that advertises the github users soundclound might be one
night vision is not IR
PL/.NET – .NET as a loadable procedural language in PostgreSQL
Kids from my neighbourhood consistently come and knock on our door to play with our kids outside (and vice-versa) - not from the States, Canada. Even if there are no other kids to play with I send mine outside to play in the yard, that's how they met most of the kids in the neighbourhood to begin with.
Now it's completely gone. I just searched with control-F through pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 which is the last page and it's not in any of the 20 pages. It's literally not in the top 584 results (20 pages worth).

If you look at page 20 https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=20 , you will see that even stories marked [dupe] are still retained, at around that page. Yet this story is not.

I have screenshots of every page from this quick test.

This does seem like it could be plausibly explained as an attempt to control the narrative -- market manipulation by YC -- and that that would be the type of thing you’d expect Sam to force YC to do if the allegations in this suppressed letter of Sam’s bullying are true.

If anyone YC-affiliated is using their user account (not their mod privileges, their ordinary personal user account) to flag this to suppress the story for financial gain, that could get the person behind bars. If you're reading this and you've been doing that, I suggest you unflag the post and please move on.
A percentage-based fee on services like this is criminal.

Spotify's value, and the actual stuff people pay for, is music streaming from Spotify towards consumers. Apple nor the app store plays any part in this. Apple faces exactly zero costs to enable the actual streaming of value itself, yet just grabs 30% of it.

A flat fee to cover the cost of running an app store? Fine, and fair. Robbing businesses of enormous segments of their revenue: criminal.
Hardcore nerd spends whole life obsessing over matrix multiplication at the expense of: social skills, human relationships, and anything involving the organic world. Color me surprised.
The same way you assure chromebooks aren’t ebayed.

Basically a percentage will be wasted.

But you give the money to parents who need a computer and trust them to get a computer.

Not everyone will do the right thing, but I think it’s more efficient, and less wastage, to just hand out money than to hand out chromebooks.
Oh I didn’t realize. Internally we use `hg` commands for everything so I guess it’s just the internal version that supports mercurial
It's criminal to leave people in underdeveloped countries at the whims of criminals.
I think it was pretty standard, even used for testing.

God mode for example, that allows to fly through the map, is the OG of fast travel.

Nowadays computers are so powerful you can have full blown editor doing essentially all the cheat codes, but back in the day, you'd want to be testing the construction of X, something you don't have money for, so you'd press a few keys to change hex values and you'd have (maxvalue - current cash) instantly, so you could test more effectively.

Cheat codes would be hidden enough that regular players wouldn't find them but not impossible that players could use them.

I think the logic is, you've paid for the game, you should be able to access all the content.

Nowadays, since games are such big business, it's all too serious.
Furthermore "If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China."

https://cybersecurityventures.com/hackerpocalypse-cybercrime...
This field moves so fast. Blink an eye and there is another new paper. This is really cool and the learning speed of us humans is insane! Really excited on using it for downstream tasks! I wonder how easy it is to integrate animatediff with this model?

Also, can someone benchmark it on m3 devices? It would be cool to see if it is worth getting on to run these diffusion inferences and development. If m3 pro can allow finetuning it would be amazing to use it on downstream tasks!
The reality is that JavaScript has become an ungovernable language; Python's dependency problems are nowhere near the current horror of JavaScript, where people keep using all these tools made by startups creating problems bigger than the problems such tools were supposed to solve, and those new problems are solved by a wave of new tools from more -or even the same- startups, and this in an endless loop, because people adopt it again.
Where is this available? I have the app installed but I don't see a headphones button, just one that seems to record my voice and then attempts to transcribe it for submission (and fails every time). I'm on Android, App icon is the black ChatGPT logo on a white background. Thanks!
as a paid customer I wonder if openai still has staff to reboot the servers, I had to switch to Bard now
Everyone involved in this needs to go.

Employees quitting in protest is a point in Sam's favor. The employee letter is a point in Sam's favor. The lack of a compelling narrative as to why this action was undertaken is a huge point in Sam's favor. The board just looks terrible and incompetent here.

Again: not looping Microsoft in on this, even if you don't technically have to, speaks to the board's incompetence.

I can't speak to the merits of the firing. Not much is known publicly. This was an execution and communications debacle however and that's sufficient to get rid of the entire board AFAIC.

The revolving door of interim CEOs and the rumors of Sam's possible return just make this whole thing into even more of a clown show.

As for Ilya's regret for their part in this, I'm not sure I buy it. That may well be just a response to how much negative publicity this has gotten. This whole thing feels like an internal power struggle to me. If so, Ilya may well have hoped to benefit from the new regime.

The longer this goes on, the worse the OpenAI board looks.
I think this tool can be extremely valuable for companies that value privacy and data integrity. I see how much data is collected by Github Copilot, so a self-hosted solution is a must-have.
There was a paper published by Microsoft that seemed to leak this detail. I'm on mobile right now and don't have a link but it should be searchable
What the heck is Rickrolling? (2016)
I would pay money to watch a livestream of what’s going on in the OpenAI offices
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 – From jetbrains
You say this. Where's the proof? I have screenshots and am friends with an FBI agent who just happens to be in a cybercrimes unit. I'll wait a few hours to see if the story continues to be absent from HN and after that I'm submitting a tip.
> I'm sure there are some significant practical limitations I am ignorant of.

Yes, the steel framing or reinforced concrete panels that would be needed to hold up the precast concrete sidewalk would be very expensive. You don’t need the entire conductor accessible anyways, that’s what tuggers and mule tape are for, pulling wire.

Also, all of the pipes would need to be supported from the underground concrete/steel structure and you would also need a lot of (expensive) expansion joints. Laying pipes in the ground and burying them lets the earth support them instead of pipe hangers.

There are some colleges/institutions to do use tunnels to run steam pipes through a campus, and they tend to build purpose-built tunnels for those. I’m not a pipefitter, so I’m unsure why steam pipes get their own tunnels, perhaps a MechE or pipefitter can weigh in!

Underground electrical feeder conduits (on customer premises, I only deal in the electrical world beyond the utility transformer secondary) are typically run in concrete encased ‘duct bank’, with manholes every so often. Electrical vaults/manholes are available as precast pieces that you simply lower into place.

Precast electrical vaults: https://www.ecbabbert.com/utility/electric-structures/electr...
Devin failed and the cow goes on.
This is surprising.

But it might not be as pro-crypto as crypto-boosters think. Crypto was supposed to replace orgs like Visa. Now Visa is co-opting crypto.
They just rolled out ChatGPT Voice, likely overloaded due to this.
Mozilla should be working on doing none of this stuff, not resting on doing less. I expect that from Google, they're a for-profit company offering a closed-source for-profit browser. Yes, I hold Mozilla to a higher standard.
Oh for sure. We're in the golden age of LLMs before the enshittification commences and we don't appreciate that enough
It started mid day Friday, it's been 4 days not 2.
na, both of these is where intel & communication becomes public, there's a whole iceberg of private stuff underneath.

Basically you took the wrong conclusion from your observation.

This reminds me of the following story:

> "There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician.

> And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).

> And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.'
Its outage shows me how much I now rely on ChatGPT during novel programming. I've been smashing that refresh button like a lab rat with a pellet lever.
JFC it’s like a full time job to keep up with this story. Now we have to distinguish this reopening of negotiations to bring back Altman from the one that happened Saturday. What’s the endgame here?
Beyond the Easy Mythology of "Florida Man" in the Heart of the Everglades
I wasn't expecting this explanation. I always thought it was just a silly "shoot the moon" gag.
Yes, I need to complete my OpenAI Assistants integration and this is not working :(
Well, it replaces it for now, at this scale.

When there's a billion displaced humans level, well, there will be blood.

The two big dangers of global warming aren't direct weather effects like fire, hurricane, or even heat waves.

It will be starvation from disrupted food supply chains, and war.
Conjecture from the outside: The employees are likely mad their PPUs are not worth what they were last week moreso than the Altman cult. Bringing Altman back may get their money recouped. If the board had waited a month, this likely wouldn’t have blown up so bad after the Thrive Capital purchase.
Fairly good choices from what I understand (although I'm not sure I would consider Safari is a good alternative for someone with complaints about corporate pay and structure, even if that was a concern of yours I suspect you don't have much of a choice on the device you're using it on).

For me, one of the most important reasons to use Firefox is to support one of the few remaining alternate browser implementations. Sure, Chrome and Safari and Edge have all likely diverged to a degree since their shared ancestry (which really wasn't that long ago), but I suspect they're far more similar underneath than different. I would prefer they not be political (but I can see how they get mixed up, as leaning in heavy on privacy is necessarily political in some ways, such as when it involves opinions of nations that disagree, and then there are probably some at he org that want to push in what they see as a similar direction on other topics), but I don't really care about the pay of the CEO in comparison to the vital importance I think heterogeneity in the actual engines browsers use is for many reasons.
Yeah but it's often not real billing. It's just to put a price on it so internal departments don't waste a ton of company resources because it's 'free'.

I work for a very large enterprise also and we've been instructed to stop internal billing for everyhing less than 10k, and everything above 100k must be compensated in other ways, like shifting of responsibilities or personnel between teams. This was done because various departmental interests were basically trying to 'make money' at the expense of other internal departments and creating a complex mesh of internal contracts that was only wasting a huge amount of overhead :)

The problem with this thing is that it can become a goal of its own and some departments think they are making a ton of money even though they're only shifting internal funds and causing huge expenses in finance.
My most charitable interpretation:

The board has bylaws governing how it works. One of them says that it has to have 48 hours notice before a special online meeting (to, e.g. agenda, minutes, resolutions, actions). I think a board member cannot speak officially on behalf of them before that. Perhaps they have already had a meeting to get legal advice before a further announcement? We might be due an announcement soon.

Basically all boards work slow and we want instant responses which causes conflict.

However it's still mind boggling to me that a) they didn't foresee the response of their decisions and b) they haven't produced anything on paper explaining things to the company afterwards. I would have expected the CEO to say something like "they are meeting at this date according to their by laws" but perhaps a CEO cannot reveal such information legally?
For many HR departments? Absolutely.
Does it not seem odd to you that they all just retweet heart emojis and copy/pasted statements, instead of composing their own separately written statements of support?

These are meant to be top-tier researchers, you'd think they'd put their thoughts in their own words. That too would avoid uncertainty and make their position easier to understand.

Just retweeting a heart emoji because their dear leader (lol) did it is... odd, to me. Unless it's specifically intended to send the message that they'll literally do whatever he tells them to do. Which is about a thousand times weirder.
The fear has nothing to do with "stranger danger". The fear is that kids will get run over by drivers, which happens all the time.