skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so damn sick of "news" articles summarizing social media posts. Worse, the posts are seemingly chosen at random without even going to the effort of contacting the poster, not that such an interview would improve anything.

If I wanted to read what random Twitter users thought about a topic, I'd just read Twitter. I read news articles to learn from experts I wouldn't otherwise have access to, not random Reddit trolls, Instagram moms, and Russian Twitter bots.
It's not "cancel culture" to ask that your leaders address salacious allegations brought against them by their own family. The question of his firing is way less serious from a ethical standpoint, and yet this is what OpenAI employees are willing to stick their necks out for? That is some telling prioritization.
OpenAI is basically in the bag for MSFT. While we enjoyed reading and speculating about the drama this weekend, Microsoft managed to eat the whole thing without anyone complaining. Meanwhile, Google still has nothing. Heck, even Facebook/Meta is ahead of the game.
This was explored at least once by Twitter under Dick Costolo. Pretty quickly abandoned. Turns out media sites don’t want to embed other ads from other platforms on their site.
No, the failures at NeXT weren’t due to a lack of money or personnel. He took the people he wanted to take (and who were willing to come with him).
I menan, it has had a lot of outages and failures. Most of those fired were not core engineers but people who to the most part were hired to make sure twitter keeps the right external interests such as governments and advertisers happy, let users have a good enough experience to where advertisers will continue to pay twitter and most importantly to scale twitter so that it has the potential to make profit (not just break even), and they succeeded by getting Elon to buy the company. Twitter's shareholders profited. It maybe takes like a dozen people to just keep the site online but to keep users, increase revenue and profit that's why everyone else was there. You pay at most 200k times 7000 people which is around 1.4B in salaries at most (likely much less lol) for a company valued at 48B so it can be a 100B company some day. The whole point of investing is you make more money.

Of course a jerkoff like Elon who inherited his way into profiting from paypal and buying the established near market ready Tesla would not understand that, he us used to letting others run things and taking credit for it, I mean people literally credit him for rocket science (spacex!), he drank his own kool-aid.

If you seriously think that those people he fired served no purpose, I'd like to challenge you: would you buy a private twitter share now? I mean you'd have to be pretty bad at investing to do so right?

Elon's whole schtick is that he can't get people to like him even with all his money and he thinks that makes him a victim. He hasn't figured out what most normal adults figure out in roughly their 20's: no one owes you affection, nothing you own or do entitles you to someone else's affection. He sought to remedy this by expelling all who disagree with him and rallying his fans around him.

Truly sad, he could have literally built a city or an island full of his admirers if he wanted. He lost all that money over twitter loudmouths. I think he has the official record of the person who lost the most amount of money in the shortest time in the history of humanity!
Thank you. Corrected this.
So what you're saying is there's gonna be little to no advertising on X? Sounds like a feature to me. Maybe I should join.
Google is constantly running "experiments" in their products so even if you and your friends can't replicate it, doesn't mean that it's not happening.
The list currently only has Steam games, but maybe it shouldn't? Up for discussion right now: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...
Never again compare a startup to a vitamin
Assuming quality is good and the cars are actually safe (excellent crash test ratings, for example), I’m excited to buy one of these cars soon! I’d love an electric SUV/truck, but there’s no reality where I pay $80k. I’m interested in a $20-30k product though!
Embedded youtube videos have, so I can see the xeets having ads.
So RF being questionably rude in a PR comment caused you company to drop apiece of technology?
As a small datapoint, I brought up Roc at work last year and a colleague said “it looked interesting but it’s the guy from Elm isn’t it?” and brought up this.

As a manager, I empathize with the frustration you were feeling. Steering a team or a community towards a vision is very hard. Just when you think you’re getting somewhere, someone does the exact opposite and mixes people up. It’s easy to lose patience. I’ve made similar mistakes on popular projects and was fortunate enough that no one publicized them. I was allowed to learn from my mistakes without being punished for it.

I don’t have any advice on this. It’ll probably turn out fine.
When you can provide a court and a docket number for that lawsuit, we can treat it a real thing that exists rather than empty threat that doesn't because it would have no merit and probably also subject Musk to penalties under the applicable anti-SLAPP laws.
Yes: he's filed suit against the "Center for Countering Digital Hate", also for publicly criticizing the way he runs Twitter.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-e...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41... (plaintiff's complaint)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41... (defendant's anti-SLAPP motion)
> Schenectady

lol! This transcendent AI is really messing with us, milking the drama for all the chaos it can induce.

Though it's getting repetitive and nonsensical - as GPT4 will, if you let it go on!
Folks in Silicon Valley don’t travel without their laptop
TIL: Although Boeing still has manufacturing facilities in the Seattle area, they moved their HQ from Seattle to Chicago in 1997.
Twitter is de facto non-profit.
why are you defending the shitty airline tactics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
And so the scramble for the carcass begins. MSFT will need to move quickly to avoid having their new division poached.
Likely trending on home page since this is directly relevant to LLM costs, i.e., questions like "how much would it cost to rebuild ChatGPT from scratch".
Makes sense. Another potentially interesting factor is that the max takeoff weight of a plane can be much higher than the max landing weight. If the plane is powered by conventional jet fuel, it can take on this extra fuel, fly father, and land much lighter than it took off.

Will the relatively constant weight of a hydrogen cell become a significant range limitation? Battery-powered aircraft have this problem as well. Very curious to hear your thoughts.
What good are the reviews? “5 stars, didn’t leak data after ransom paid”
Yeah there will be some slot constrained routes that will certainly need to stick to the larger aircraft sizes, but many that can benefit from the flexibility of a smaller aircraft size if the operating cost was low enough. There are second city airport and regional routes that would benefit from the smaller plane size, as well as the market that is currently served by these types of planes - Asia pacific is one example of a growing turboprop market.
wouldn't this effectively be using a "model" twice the size?

Would it be better to just double the size of one of the models rather than house both?

Genuine question
FPGAs are hardware, you generally program them with hardware description languages like Verilog.

If you don’t want to buy hardware (reasonable, IMO, since HDL is kind of niche and the boards can be pricey), you could try out the language with something like Verilator. This will let you write Verilog, and then compile it to generate C++ classes which simulate your design.
I do think the imperative to maintain their lead over the competition in product quality will be stronger than ever after this–the whole thing has been messy and dramatic in a way that no business really wants their major vendors to be.
Nope. Crypto has no value and I've consistently avoided it
>It's completely obvious that the site is absolutely loaded with Nazis and trolls.

Twitter feed is fitted to the consumer. Mine is mostly filled with pro Israel stuff and crypto bros turned AI evangelists. The only antisemitism I have seen is retweeted by couple of Jewish intellectuals I follow. And majority of the antisemitism since Oct 7 is of Muslim or left wing accounts. The ones from the proper Nazis is order of magnitude lower.
From the fine document:

Micro-typography is the art of enhancing the appearance and readability
of a document while exhibiting a minimum degree of visual obtrusion. It is
concerned with what happens between or at the margins of characters, words
or lines. Whereas the macro-typographical aspects of a document (i.e., its
layout) are clearly visible even to the untrained eye, micro-typographical
refinements should ideally not even be recognisable.

However, there don't seem to be any major changes to the package since 2021. (Which is not surprising, since it was first released in 2004.)
Mmm... I guess for me pursuit of power as a choice of language carries a certain negative connotation.

In semantic terms I agree.

The negative connotation is the baggage I bring. I recind my implied critism. Pursuit of power is not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps I need to think on this.
In this situation increasing unanimity now approaching 90% sounds more like groupthink than honest opinion.

Talk about “alignment”!

Indeed, that is what "alignment" has become in the minds of most: Groupthink.

Possibly the only guy in a position to matter who had a prayer of de-conflating empirical bias (IS) from values bias (OUGHT) in OpenAI was Ilya. If they lose him, or demote him to irrelevance, they're likely a lot more screwed than losing all 700 of the grunts modulo job security through obscurity in running the infrastructure. Indeed, Microsoft is in a position to replicate OpenAI's "IP" just on the strength of its ability to throw its inhouse personnel and its own capital equipment at open literature understanding of LLMs.
Computational complexity isn’t really related here. Complexity has to do with formal languages and asymptotics, this is about natural language and fixed size data sets.
Thank you! I added ComPressure. Polybridge is already on there, under -- waddya know -- Bridge-Building :)

FYI, there is a discussion about whether we should expand the list inclusion criteria: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...
It's an open secret that FSB et all work with ransomware gangs. As long as they don't target Russian companies they don't care what they do otherwise. So it's not so much they're a front as they're in a sort of quasi officially sanctioned middle ground.
I don't see embedded Tweets as my browser asks to accept their Cookie to view it.

It might now show ads (yet) but the act of embedding allows tracking of the user which is of value to advertisers.
I did the Deep Learning Specialization on MLOps which is available on Coursera (https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/machine-learning-enginee...), however, I found it too "Tensorflow-oriented" and it did not match the current development stack of the team that I was working on.

Most of the knowledge I was able to glue together came from webinars/lives/tutorials/books I found that already solved the same problems I was looking for.

If you have a solid Python foundation and already have some experience in Machine Learning in general, I would recommend the Practical MLOps book( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-mlops/9781098...), or even Introducing MLOps (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/introducing-mlops/97814...) as starting points.

EDIT: Also, nothing beats a good project end-to-end, where you take a toy problem, and try to build an entire stack around it, from the training of simple ML models, tracking the models' versions, creating APIs to serve these models, monitoring, and so on.
Someone mentioned the plight of people with conditional work visas. I'm not sure how they could handle that.
This is yesterday's news.
Because it's an isolated demand for rigor and gives away the real game which is "take out the target".

If flipping the partisan lens helps, consider the Hillary Clinton 2016 emails thing. Did anyone really care about the emails? Did we have immaculate email security from 2017-2020?
It’s a logical fallacy called “whataboutism”.
Yeah, especially with the PPU compensation scheme, all of those employees were heavily invested in turning OpenAI into the next tech giant, which won't happen if Altman leaves and takes everything to Microsoft
I'm more curious why failing to secure it doesn't count as a ITAR violation.
I meant it was the Boomers who voted him in. I suppose I should've made that more obvious as many readers where quite young at the time of Reagan or weren't even born then at all.

And to be clear I was referring to Boomers voted for Clinton. My bad.
Burden of evidence for accusations is always on the accuser, the accused could flat out ignore and take them to a court of law and that would be perfectly reasonable.

I have no idea nor do I care about what Altman's sister accuses him of, but until it's conclusively proven in a court of law it's not something that should be used as a basis for anything of consequence.

Remember: Innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Related:

> Self-confidence is one factor that causes people to fall for scams. People of any age who believe they are too smart or well-informed to be tricked are very likely to become victims, especially today when technology is used in many scams.

> Well-educated people with their cognitive abilities intact frequently are victims of scams, partly because they were confident they didn’t fit the profile of fraud victims and couldn’t fall for one. That made them less careful.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcarlson/2022/07/25/why-sophi...

Also, the rest of them are very smart too.
You’d think smart people at OpenAI would know how to prevent a race condition
But Twitter did serve those ads adjacent to the offensive content. No one seems to be claiming that Media Matters photoshopped the ads. The question boils down to how often it happens. Is Apple OK with half their ads being next to racist crap? A quarter? 10%? 1%? 0.1%?

Media Matters demonstrated that it does happen more than 0%. Looks like it's up to Twitter's advertisers to try the experiment for themselves and see if it breaks their own comfort threshold.
> suck wealth from the poor and Smaug the money away like

What does that even mean? They buy up factories and let them sit idle?
On a digital-detox trip to Patagonia. Return to this in 5 days
Ah yes the Xanatos Gambit
I would love to see the stats on hacker news activity the last few days
Em... I mean the American coal towns of just over 100 years ago paint a very different story.

That's when you have government give exclusive power to use resources to individuals and provide firepower to them. Remove all limitations of contractual terms and all labor protections.
just make driving chill. let that be enough.
It all started to go downhill once airlines stopped having a free 10kg suitcase and a backpack that you could take onboard

On a return flight between Luton and Budapest, sometimes budget airline will ask for £40 EACH WAY for that small 10kg bag, which I find absurd

I understand supply demand etc, just noticing that what you get seems to be smaller and smaller each year
It was reported elsewhere in the news that MS needed an answer to the dilemma before the market opened this morning. I think that's what we got.
His sister is clearly mentally ill. Allegations are impossible to prove or deny. They should simply be ignored like the unhinged rantings of mentally ill people in general.
That video still holds up so well. Maybe needs a redo as a saas landing page instead of boxed hardware.
There isn't one. Truth is a defense to defamation in the USA. Media Matters can call Musk an anti-Semite and say Twitter pays Nazis to write propaganda and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them, because both of those things are true.
So far the list only includes Steam games, but there have been many requests for older games, browser games, mobile games, etc.

There is a discussion about it here: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...

Maybe there could be a sibling list that compiles all the non-Steam ones?
What are the runway requirements?

Can you comment on why not go down e.g., to a 10-passenger like the Pilatus (that lands on a 3000' runway)? It seems like the smaller planes straddle the private/commercial line, while a 50-passenger plane commits you to airline buyers. (i.e., even if not optimal for hydrogen electric, would a smaller-capacity target market be more commercially viable and diversify the risk of long-term development?)
No, SML is actually quite verbose ang generally ugly, compared to say OCaml or F#, or even Scheme or Closure. This is why it is dead.
Agreed 100%: see also Checkov's Gun and Keith Johnstone's "Impro".
What is manufactured? That advertised don't want their ads next to hate speech, the hate speech itself, or the fact that ads are appearing next to the hate speech?
Why earning less money? Isn’t openai comp huge while MS is famous for peanuts?
Anybody remember when all the worst people on twitter were so excited to be able to say the N word after Musk bought it, so much so that people were asking if they could yet?

Musk has the right to hold whatever views he wants. He has the right to enforce said views via whatever mechanisms in Twitter, because it's his. Advertisers in turn have the right to leave if they don't want to be associated with Twitter anymore because of that.

He can sue whoever he wants, his cases will be dead on arrival.

A stated reason for his buying it in the first place was he felt there was a liberal bent to it's moderation and he wanted to change that, and what he failed to recognize or refused to comprehend is that the views of bigots are in fact often filtered from social media not because of a liberal bias in the programmers, moderators, or even leadership, but because bigotry is fucking disgusting and all social media besides Mastadon is beholden to advertisers for the lions share of it's revenue, and advertisers (usually) don't want to be associated with bigotry. And just like any product, when you want to make a social media site that's like other social media but conservative (read: bigoted and unmoderated) you can still get advertisers, but it's InfoWars-type adverts: the gun nut coffee people, dick pills, mobile games and financial scams like reverse mortgages, which are worth significantly less money.
The amount of advertising you see will stay the same or potentially even increase (if the big companies are leaving then the amount they make from advertising probably drops, so they have to run more to make up for it), the quality and variety of the companies is what will go down. And if they run out completely the platform just has to shut down altogether.
It's going to be interesting when we have AI with human level performance in making AIs. We just need to hope it doesn't realise the paradox that even if you could make an AI even better at making AIs, there would be no need to.
Depending on the “conditionals,” I’d imagine Microsoft is particularly well-equipped to handle working through that.
You know what, now you mention it, I haven't got my daily "your resume says C# so here's a full stack java job for $3/day" email in a long time
My idea about AI safety is that the biggest unsafety of AI comes from it being monopolized by a small elite, rather than the general public, or at least multiple competing entities having access to it.
> So in this context following Sam to Microsoft actually turns out to be the more attractive and sensible option.

Maybe. Microsoft is a particular sort of working environment, though, and not all developers will be happy in it. For them, the question would be how much are they willing to sacrifice in service to Altman?
That’s the point — any person sitting on massive wealth is definitionally Smaug-like, because that’s exactly what Smaug did.
they released whisperv3 to public recently...

not as valuable as gpt4/5 but still has some value...
>credibility of the ransomware group

Hilarious.
Ofc his job is to maximize shareholder value.

The broader point is that considering short term personal financial gain is beneath an exec at Satya's level.

He has a responsibility to do more than just maximize value though. Corporate values are a real thing and msft has pretty clearly integrated them in various ways for a long time.

They pledged to carbon capture all carbon going back to their founding... For example. What does that have to do with profit? Nada... Outside of making folkes feel less climate guilt when they buy a share. Now that... Very clever for profit.
Gatekeeping science. You must feel very smart.
I don't think these approaches are necessarily mutually exclusive. There are some great things that can be layered on top of the foundation we've built, including workflows. The best part about doing this is that you can maintain full transactionality within a single primary data store and not introduce another 3rd party or external service into your availability equation.
> How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-north-koreas-hacker-army-st...
> I work with arguably some of “smartest” people on the planet, and even they struggle with basic concepts from time to time, as does everyone. There is simply too much information for any single human to know it all, and learn new things instantly.

This. Many programmers, for some reason, act like skill is a complete order; you are either more skilled or less skilled than someone else. In practice you are just familiar with different things, so if somebody doesn't know something that feels trivial to you, it just means he didn't encounter it in the same way.
It usually is as long as you don't do anything recursive (and a few select polymorphic instances), I can see people getting bitten by it.

Having written inferring compilers and used C++ extensively I appreciate the workings, but I can also see people getting stuck with it.
I thought it was some kind of venue inside the dome, and that the outside was sort of promos for the events and/or general adverts
>but one of the first things I thought when trying to grok it was "how does this improve on RSS?".

there's a lot of discussion that doesn't answer this question so let me do it quickly:

a homeserver can POST updates to other homeservers that have followers on them, instead of relying those remote servers polling the one that originates the content.

This is the main thing that ActivityPub brings over RSS, making it a different type of protocol entirely: updates can be pushed between servers
oh, now I finally see OpenAI is 501(c).

This I call the "true" taxes optimisation lol.
For the general good, lol.

Like separate the core company, which would code for you closed source stuff (but for greater good, without paying taxes though), which you can use in the second for-profit company.