skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the second link:

> Besides Elizabeth Weil's nymag article (here), there has been virtually zero (mainstream) media coverage of the extremely serious claims that Annie has consistently made many, many times against Sam Altman over the past 4 years.
I mean, if you have the firmware binary and the relevant arguments for the ISP (that is, In-System-Programmer), that's sufficient to make some PCBs do their jobs. Maybe not these, but you don't need source code as such to program a thing.
“Our collective response to this proposal is not a critique of style, rather this is a critique of the unacceptable, inhumane living conditions that will no doubt have a psychological impact on its inhabitants and the community at large,” the letter reads. “This project shows complete disregard to the building’s scale and proportion in relationship to its immediate surroundings and the negative impact it will have to the community in which it’s located.”

[...]

“We are grateful to Architect Dennis McFadden for his service on the University Design Review Committee and for standing up against this project,” the letter says. “AIASB strongly agrees with Mr. McFadden and the many other voices of opposition and urges the University to take immediately action to halt and reconsider this project in its entirety.”

- Open letter from the the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Institute of Architects
Thanks. What also surprises me is that coworkers have little desire to start side-projects or startups. But that's probably because those who do have left already.

By the way, I was developing for Android since its early days (before the first Android phone was released) and mostly switched to iOS development few years ago.

I have to say that the Android SDK (and the UI/UX too) was underwhelming, although it started to get better at some point. It felt like the developers were not top talent and / or were under pressure to ship functionality quickly without having the time to step back and think hard about design and simplicity. The most notable example of this is the activity / fragment lifecycle (also known as the "lolcycle").
If I didn’t know I was on HN I would after a comment like this.
Yes absolutely, we're even faster than lambda with dedicated workers since the design is simpler, while loop jobs from the queue while still keeping all the error handling, observability, and easy deployment.
lol. The one serious and insightful answer made me laugh!
Actually I think Bill would be a pretty good candidate. Smart, mature, good at first principles reasoning, deeply understands both the tech world and the nonprofit world, is a tech person who's not socially networked with the existing SF VCs, and (if the vague unsubstantiated rumors about Sam are correct) is one of the few people left with enough social cachet to knock Sam down a peg or two.
I mean eGPU over Thunderbolt.
Could you explain what you meant?
More instances of companies like Enron, in which someone goes to jail because they did something bad after leaving McKinsey.
These are just the repos that provide the inference code to run the model, it requires the weights which are available via HuggingFace or in Llama 2's case, from here: https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
(Fire) Ant rafts are very cool:

https://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html

("ants as fluids" linked at the top of that page grabbed my attention a few years ago; myrmycology meets physics, rather than "just" the robotics angle - see again a few paragraphs further below)

An article about Nathan Mlot's work, vintage 2011:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/fire-ants...

(Outcomes for the ants are sadly not always great in Hu's lab at GATech, e.g. the ones who died in a CT scanner: <https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15400>).

Some 2021 CU Boulder work:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/03/02/fire-ant-rafts

(and their "Emergent Behavior in Fire Ants", <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrLc-uDv7GU>)

Another recent study of ant raft dynamics from a physics perspective:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.021... (Also, ants are small: "To conduct experiments, we collected 3–10 g of worker ants (or approx. 3000–10 000 ants)")

Another interesting but somewhat sadder behaviour in ants is the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

Also really cool are the structures made by burrowing ants <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony#/media/File:Walter_...>, but the eusocial insects who are the builders most interesting (in a casual sense) to me are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound-building_termites

Their constructions are individually incredible, and there are so many of them. ("... in northeast Brazil ... about 200 million termite mounts spread over an area the size of Great Britain. Some of the mounds are 3m (10 ft) tall and 10 m (33 ft) wide and they are spaced about 20m (66 ft) apart. Underneath the mounds are networks of tunnels ... radioactive dating on 11 mounds ... youngest mound was 690 years old. The oldest was at least 3,820 years and possibly more than twice that").

If we could sensibly communicate, I wonder what they would make of human skyscrapers, and whether they think of themselves as living in arcologies.

Sadly, they have an enemy that makes Godzilla seem tame. Thirty-five thousand "urban" victims a day per giant anteater: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00v0vc4 (this is a great video for seeing a number of ant mounds that are "only" about 150cm tall).
Is there a workaround I'm missing where the URLs are exposed without needing an API key? (Something I'm pretty sure Lambda allows if you configure it properly)
>>which offers up to an EPA-estimated 24 mpg combined fuel economy

I just don't understand why these vehicles aren't diesels, I get that Americans have strong aversion to diesel but modern big SUVs diesels can 50mpg all day long without even trying. Surely the fuel savings are worth it alone. Why isn't there demand from the market for it?
Tesla workers report explosions, concussions and robot injuries at Texas factory
Really enjoy playing with this. As others have noted, would find it more usable if the colors indicated source types (but acknowledge the purposeful intent to keep this instrument less predictable for the sake of playfulness).

A bit off-topic, but I might actually find this approach useful for music production, especially if I could just drag and drop a folder of samples into a grid in an M4L plugin.

Very cool - I still find Reich's looping sample experiments inspiring!
Those are a page that mentions rejecting an app but, AFAICT, doesn’t mention account deactivation and a redacted screenshot showing a failed login.

However, I don’t see any argument for a causation chain between the two. I know there may not be much of a paper trail, but they could at least have stated things such as

- whether they received mail from Apple about account deactivation and if so, what it said.

- timeline: when was the app rejected, and when did they discover their account was gone?
For most VPNs, that's a solved problem. Which one are you stuck with?
Insights into the keystone element of the human foot's medial longitudinal arch
There was some LinkedIn profile highlighted recently around this, some guy working at one of these consulting companies highlighted his roles (in ascending order but I'll list them the other way) as....

* Making beautiful looking powerpoint slides really quickly.

* Telling other people to make beautiful looking powerpoint slides really quickly.

* Convincing the client that beautiful looking powerpoint slides quickly answered their problem.
> A reasonable quality new ebike around these parts is about as expensive as a reasonable quality secondhand car.

Sure, but not only are you comparing a new bike to a used car, but the maintenance and per mile fuel costs will be much lower, so after the first ride you will already have saved money.
It's just 34 more yeats until F'57 becomes ambigous ..
Yeah, Jevons Paradox suggests that 10xing efficiency of training and inference would increase demand for GPUs.
Silos are also good for sheltering and nurturing high performing teams, especially when the broader organization is bad.
The PowerPoint making actually gets offshored too.
Saving engineering hours by batch-changing repos at a time
It's incredible that I don't like uninformed knee jerk reactions? Okay, to each their own.

In any case, how much or little I care about it is irrelevant to whether it is an uninformed kneejerk reaction.

But hey, however strong I feel, it must be less than how much pg does, since he wrote an entire essay on middlebrow dismissal
Please do not drag in unrelated, tangential threads, especially flame-bait material like this. Regardless of what you believe about the original topic, dragging this into totally unrelated threads only creates problems and is a disruptive behavior.
Within a few months? I don't think it should be possible to be 95% confident of that without inside info. As you said, many unexpected things have happened already. IMO that should bring the most confident predictions down to the 80-85% level at most.
Cute. But it’s just the breaks. Consulting is good when the economy is good or bad. It’s not good when the economy is uncertain.

but it’s not that bad
Just want to say that I love everything about this. The Playdate itself feels like a beacon of hope in the current world of pessimism. We could all do with more of these type of projects! ♡
Most companies want a standard fleet, which means enforcing some choices. This is the norm, not the exception. That doesn't mean they have the wrong priorities, it just means their priorities are for managing the fleet, not tayloring a solution to individuals.
> We are doing a developer platform for enterprise to build internal software

> for enterprise

I mentioned this product to my enterprise boss and his enterprise answer was "we can't easily get this approved by tech-selection committee for no good reason" (and that would have just been to have an off-to-the-side proof-of-concept instance or two running in our sandbox k8s cluster let alone actually bringing it onboard as a paid service)

How do enterprise users not already have the functionality you are offering covered one way or another and why would they migrate off of what they have to what you are offering? What kind of business today doesn't have something like ActiveBatch, AWS/Azure functionality with massive cloud support contracts, etc. already?
They actually changed the URL structure

This is the old URL, and they indeed mentioned Sam leaving
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316222853/https://blog.ycom...
I'm pretty sure the HN thread hasn't changed, but you're right, the YC post has: https://web.archive.org/web/20190310042303/https://blog.ycom.... One could bisect to find out where. Weird! I've never known these things to change like that, and it's not as if the news wasn't already public.
Why don’t you wrap it with a verification system (eg: web scraper) and auto-regenerate / jailbreak any things you don’t like?
Macrumors says buy now, based on the expected wait time for an update from Apple. But we already know it would be at least a year until the M4 would be released.

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro_16
If you find this cool, you might find some other ant behaviors cool! I tried compiling the best I could find here - https://www.reddit.com/r/anterestingasfuck

I'm also trying to program a digital ant farm: https://ant.care/ (code: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants/)

I really want to figure out how to have ants form bridges/towers to navigate gaps. It's on the roadmap for long-term goals, but there's a lot more to go in the short-term :) Above ground view where the ants leave the nest and collect food using pheromone trails is the next major feature coming up!

If you want to talk shop about ants, or help me tinker with code, discord link is in my profile :)
Im pretty sure they meant it is obvious that a flat random signup for some kid-focused product, without a demo, is a bad indicator for the longevity of the product; not to mention the ethos of the development.

On the flip side, it is likely to last/be available a bit longer without drawing Google's attention, due to the unnecessary friction.
Large buildings cannot be built in America without the sign off of licensed architect. No architect would sign off on the building of it was an unlivable monstrosity.
Unfair, I think. Playdate has been out for over 18 months now, released April 2022, and is still available, selling and shipping. There are over 400 games available, 100 of which are on the official Catalog store. The device and infrastructure has been in development for over a decade at this point.
I think that's right, and this isn't that different from "TV latchkey kids" from the 80s. The difference is a phone in your pocket is even more addictive than a TV in the living room, and the algorithmic apps serve more addictive content than the 5 over the air broadcast channels on TV did.
Built in backups that work are a big reason I ended up on Proxmox at home.
They have actually been pretty open that this is the plan. And all the secondary products and small customers can wither away even faster.
Executives need to observe the whole organization, not just their direct reports. How far from the top was he when he started empire building? You make it sound like it was already very hierarchical, when Google always advertised itself as a relatively flat company.
Siren Worlds And The Perils Of Over-Optimised Search (2014)
New York lawmakers' strategy to help children addicted to TikTok
https://archive.ph/DyqE4
Eleven Labs Speech to Speech [video]
Google has entirely become a corporate capitalist driven by short term profit.

If we could trasport the owners from the past to today, they'd be really confused as to how poor the search results are.
Your average HNer is only here because of the money. Willful blindness and ignorance is incredibly common.
I'm all in on Firefox mobile and desktop except for switching to chrome when some odd site doesn't work. No issues generally and it's been years.
The vac bans got reversed.
Are there any similar cases of this "non-profit board overseeing a (huge) for-profit company" model? I want to like the concept behind it. Was this inevitable due to the leadership structure of OpenAI, or was it totally preventable had the right people been on the board? I wish I had the historical context to answer that question.
I wonder how far you'd get with the very "not technical" https://getjobber.com/

Only because you said "sell service to client", schedule date with client, etc.
Thanks! It was there this morning for me as well. Didn't even have to do an app update.
> but only where it matters.

What does this mean?
Letsencrypt allows to produce TLS certificates for free, under a reasonable, globally trusted CA.

If we wanted to go away from centralization here, that would require a serious breakthrough, the magnitude of Bitcoin.
This is advertised as a tool for production. Seems like it would be useful in development too.
Temporarily permanently banned
While this is probably an accurate interpretation under current anti-trust practices, I would argue that with the way things have become vertically integrated, the importance of people's 'digital life', and the extremely large amount of friction involved in moving platforms, they absolutely deserve the same amount of anti-trust scrutiny as a more traditional monopoly even if they don't fit the traditional definition. The abuse of that position exercised by these platform owners is pretty blatant, and very clearly anti-consumer.

The fact that either of two tech companies are able to effectively gatekeep whether a given mobile app can for all intents and purposes exist in the market is a problem.

The law and practices need to react to the state of the world, and this situation was simply not a practical concern until recent times. Hell, the courts have historically been on consumers' side in adjacent ways, such as enshrining the right to reverse engineer & various provisions explicitly permitting doing so for interoperability, the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, and other decisions that protect consumers from getting screwed by the company they chose to buy a product from regardless of their official status as 'monopoly'.
And when the CEO's other thing is a cryptocurrency?
Poverty of the Stimulus
Oh, are you the same person as oh_sigh? Good to know.
How does this sentiment align with the advent of WebGPU?
A line cook is comparably difficult and impactful a job as a fortune 500 CEO?

Say more.
Disagree with her or her actions without falsely claiming that she has no qualifications or understanding of AI and therefore no business being on the board in the first place? It is not hard at all to do so, and many people did.
That doesn’t say they deactivated a developer account.

It also can mean, and I think that’s the normal way to interpret such a statement, that they rejected their app.

I also don’t see an argument there that being cited in an anti trust case is a factor there.

This claim may well be true, and it may be hard to prove, but they should at least try, and this doesn’t do that for me.
A blog entry on not giving up as a founder (and person doing hard things)
It doesn't show up, I suppose OpenAI kept the custom instruction (SYSTEM role instructions) at the server-side. I was referring to how to obtain the custom instructions to make the response human-like when using ChatGPT mobile app in voice mode.
Wow appreciate it! This really helps.

The SP404mkii sounds like a powerhouse and amazing value in comparison to the EP-133 now lol.

But I'm def not anywhere near being able to take advantage of either to their full capacity.

Thank you again.
Gigabyte Gen5 12000 SSD Review: Fast, Fanless, and Formidable
Not necessarily. For the record I'm in the camp "they didn't just get lucky," but it's totally plausible to argue that they did.

Taleb does this exact thought experiment in "Fooled By Randomness." He imagines a pool of investors who are weeded out purely by random luck each iteration of some process. You still end up with people that get some insane track records, purely by chance. In fact, he spends quite a bit of the book talking about barely fictionalized people he knew in the trading world whose strategies made money for long periods of time before blowing up simply because they happened to be in the market at the right time.

I suspect the nuance we need to add to OP's comment was "they were there at the right time AND won the iteration game purely by luck." So they were the tippy top of a cohort in a generally advantaged time where their strategy happened to be optimal. Again I don't personally think that's the case (I believe there's something more fundamentally correct in their approach), but it's a totally reasonable thing to argue even in the absence of other examples.
Your username is genius, BTW. Assume you are a regular on HN but decided to post with a new account?
It seems dubious that there are any companies like Enron in terms of scale and apparent credibility.
>>It makes the vehicle really sluggish, adding seconds to every takeoff.

This is completely 100% solved by modern hybrids and PHEVS where the electric motor is directly on the axle or on the transmssion - the car starts moving instantly when you press the accelerator with zero delay. I strongly encourage trying a model like that for yourself - it literally makes this entire system finally work as it should.
Podcasts make stuff up from thin air all the time. Sometimes even maliciously.
Your points are addressed in the article. It specifically looks at the number of welding jobs in car manufacturing (still done here) over time.
Here are a few more articles talking about actors/actresses' salaries (the second one is mostly reiterating the first):

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/12/sony-email-hack...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/28/george-clooney-...
I'm the one you originally replied to, and yes that's roughly what I'm saying - maybe the individual engineers and designers that built features were trying their best not to be evil, but the company as a whole always had dark motives.

They always funneled user data into ad revenue, always drove people to use their versions of things with overly pushy dark patterns, always collected way more telemetry than necessary.

They bought Android and turned it into a profit center, bought YouTube and have spent basically the whole time making user hostile actions with ad UX and weird algorithms.

Despite individuals' best efforts, I posit that Google the corporation's modus operandi has always been to co-opt good ideas and good people and twist them towards the grey, rarely crossing any defined line but always stretching every one of them to suck more private data, more telemetry, and more ad value.

Just because they invest in an open source programming thing (that gets people to use their platforms and ecosystem for more ad dollars) doesn't make them good.
Can’t imagine it’s a big issue; the SSD on my 7.5 year old Skylake MBP is cheerfully claiming 96% lifetime remaining, and seems to be fine. The days of SSDs self-destructing after a couple of years seems to be largely behind us, at least for consumer applications; even low-end stuff has a decent practical lifetime these days.
I think that's a Boeing 929 Jetfoil. They've been going since 1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_929_Jetfoil
You might find NovelAI interesting. Their homegrown models are intentionally trained to emulate different writing styles [1] and genre standards.

[1]: https://tapwavezodiac.github.io/novelaiUKB/Directing-the-Nar...
"At any rate, after exploring this, I naturally wondered if there wasn’t some easier way to do it; not as statistically valid, maybe, but adequate for the advertiser who just wants to improve his performance. I won’t go into the details here, but let’s just say that everyone wanted a Super Deluxe version even if it did require changing every part of the Ads system. No one wanted something quick-and-dirty that just did the job. This was Google, after all; “quick and dirty” would not get you promoted or get your talk accepted at a conference. It did not make me popular to suggest this."

I had a similar experience at Google--simple improvements such as parameter tuning are looked down on and rejected for being mere tinkering, even if the metrics are good. Meanwhile super complicated deep learning projects keep being added, even if they barely improve metrics. In the short term the complexity looks like hard work and leads to promotions, but long term it makes the system hard to maintain and understand.
That is best case scenario. In a company I worked in, they managed to create reorganization ... without actually talking to anyone who would know what people and departments do.

The two most capable managers looked at new organization they were supposed lead and left. So it was headless for next two months. Remaining people inckuding manageme t spent a lot of time doing nothing for months complaining in the kitchen. We all got used to low productivity as normal. Then I left, not sure what happened after.
Because I pay $20/mo for GPT-4 and don't understand why anybody would run a "less-good" version locally that you can trust less/that has less functionality.

That's why I wanted to try to understand, what am I missing about local-toy LLMs. How are they not just noise/nonsense generators?
My playdate arrived a few weeks ago. Lots of good fun little games. A lot of the catalog games look nice, but most are just outside of the impulse purchase to me.
> But once you achieve market dominance [..]

Here lies the problem. Market dominance should mean anti-trust kicks in to prevent businesses from shifting to this more conservative, rent seeking behavior. You want businesses kept in that sweet spot where company vision is more than a PR checkbox.
Thanks! I agree 100%
Academic computer graphics research is in many places still using OpenGL 4.1.