skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this article perhaps two or three years ago and it's one of the reasons I always had a slightly negative view of Sam Altman because he comes off as just slightly insufferable (that whole Bronze Age sword sequence, for example).

I don't necessarily think that was absolutely without merit: one tires of CEOs and SV types who think too much of themselves and don't attribute enough of their success to simply being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people (not to entirely discount their undeniable talents and abilities, of course).

I wouldn't necessarily say the past few days have radically altered my view but I do find it striking that so many OpenAI employees broke cover to come out in support of him. It's certainly given me pause for further reflection and underscored that you just don't really know someone from simply reading about them, or reading interviews with them. So much of our understanding of individuals comes from spending time with them and from non-verbal cues.

Still, I've known others who have done things similar to the Bronze Age sword thing and, overall, I don't recommend these stunts: you inevitably come off as out of touch and a bit of a tool.
> People will get hurt.

Tech workers have externalized a lot of this kind of hurt.

I have little sympathy for STEM heads who projected “screw you got mine” who then find themselves in a similar position.

It’s just meat based cassette tapes on Earth, engaged in vacuous min/max metric hacks given the physical constraints of reality.

Industry leaders fed on elders memories of war time production norms and educated us such was “normal”, so we normalized it in code for money, regardless of the externalities.

Elder generations need to have their authority over the next generation nerfed hard. Exploitation of youth to prop up some aging out figurehead smacks of old divine mandate memes.
If you only do Facebook you don't need a computer at all?

"Most HNers" mess with things I think.
> and of course management knows that when you're bootstrapping a new project/product, you need to get users fast, and the best way to get users is to do what's best for the user... at least for now

This is pretty explicitly said at a lot of companies, and I think that it's funny that many engineers care so little about business that they stop listening after the "do what's best for user" part and then get surprised when the "at least for now" part kicks in.
This article has some info not reported elsewhere:

"This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders at OpenAI and people around the company’s hectic weekend."

"Sam Altman was in Las Vegas for the biggest party of the weekend, the Formula One race, when he opened the Google Meet link that would set off a whiplash-inducing corporate power struggle"

"The explanation baffles Altman’s defenders, who say they aren’t aware of specific episodes that might warrant such an outcome."

"telling directors that their actions could trigger the company’s collapse. “That would actually be consistent with the mission,” replied board member Helen Toner, a director at a Washington policy research organization who joined the board two years ago."

"Murati and Sutskever led an all-hands meeting at 2 p.m. Employees peppered them with dozens of questions, many of which were some version of: what did Sam do? One employee asked if they would ever find out, to which Sutskever replied, “No.”"
Depends on the degree of freedom the governed have. I'm pretty confident a lot of them would get an offer way above average salary at any of the top 50 AI companies. Hell even the French government told Altman he'd be welcome in France.
Hybrids work differently than start-stop on a gasoline-only car.

The vast majority of hybrids don't have or need starters, because they can start by backfeeding power from the drive motor(s).
Yeah, I feel like PhD committee members often have the opposite problem: you want them to read the thing and suggest improvements, but they're too busy to give more than a skim. A duck would just distract them.
"new login from $device"

That's a security precaution, not spam.
There has been a lot of interest in the Edison hybrid diesel line for this feature in custom work trucks.

Being able to run pumps/electronics without having the main engine running allows for a huge amount of fuel savings. In addition it drops the amount of noise and pollution generated, especially in sensitive areas.
I'm noticing something about Internet people who persistently shit on Musk. The noticing is an interesting process.
On the one hand, Apple is definitely an illegal monopoly.

On the other hand, when it's cryptocurrency nonsense suffering, the world is actually benefiting. Monopolies aren't intrinsically evil, just strongly encouraged to be so.
"Murati and Sutskever led an all-hands meeting at 2 p.m. Employees peppered them with dozens of questions, many of which were some version of: what did Sam do? One employee asked if they would ever find out, to which Sutskever replied, “No.”

After that meeting, the executive team regrouped in a conference room. A member of the executive team told Sutskever that the lack of detail was unacceptable and demanded the rest of the board join a video call to explain, according to people familiar with the matter.

On the call, the leadership team pressed the board over the course of about 40 minutes for specific examples of Altman’s lack of candor, the people said. The board refused, citing legal reasons, the people said.

Some executives said they were getting questions from regulators and law-enforcement entities such as the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan over the charge of Altman’s alleged lack of candor, the people said. The truth was going to come out one way or another, they told the board."

"The board agreed to discuss the matter with their counsel. After a few hours, they returned, still unwilling to provide specifics. They said that Altman wasn’t candid, and often got his way. The board said that Altman had been so deft they couldn’t even give a specific example, according to the people familiar with the executives.

The executives requested written examples of the board’s allegations."
My Toyota turns the engine back on as soon as you start releasing the break. By the time I'm pushing down the gas pedal, it is ready to go. It still is annoying when I want A/C to cool things down, but overall I don't find it cause much of start latency issue.
> we wanted to prove it's also the best system to deploy at scale in production

> The queue is implemented in Postgresql itself

Tell me you don't understand system design without telling me you don't understand system design
Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Burp Alternative?
Hi all,

I have been heavily using Burp suite for my security domain research and have come to conclusion that
it's professional version is too cost prohibitive for majority of users (I am aware of Zap and Caido)
as well as that there are some interesting functionality missing from it.

My idea is to develop a Burp suite alternative, probably in Golang as desktop application, to address
some of the issues. The plan would be to have free version that is on par with Burp Pro with paid
version having ability to scale out.

For now, this would look like this:

Free version:

1. Interception of http, http/2, websocket traffic, with support for tcp and udp

2. Lua and/or JS scriptable

3. Linux, Windows, Mac support

4. Out-of-band exploitation support

5. Automation support

Paid version:

1. Mobile proxies on demand

2. Server instances on demand

3. Headless instance with exposed API

Do you think this might be an interesting addition to the market? Are there any functionalities not
present in Burp, Caido or Zap that you would like to see in this new tool? Thanks!
Big Pharma - add Big Doctor, Big Hospital and Big Insure to the frantic lobbyers against health reform.
One would thingk with health costs 50-60% higher than the next lower spending country that all US residents would live 50-60% longer...(LOL, I know it is not linear) but if you measure longevity, the USA ranks near Cuba(which has good health care for a lot less than the USA), 10 away from each other in the top 100.
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
EarthCam – Dealey Plaza Cam
You know it can only be from personal experience. Take it at its face value but it happened.

Friend hadn't told anyone that he had left Apple not on good terms. An interesting and fun conversation had followed when this newly hired friend contacted the old friend and said you wouldn't believe what my Apple offer letter says.
Using NASA Fire Data to Monitor War Zones
I think it's a lot easier for most people to find a new job than to move out of venezuela.
Given the screenshot, it looks like they deactivated the entire Apple ID account. That would include losing access to email, photos, contacts, iCloud documents, calendars, app store purchases, even book highlights. Insane.
the issue is that Google uses its engineering staff as foils to spread their lies instead of putting forward the product managers, who would explain why breaking the web is good for profits. I don't blame the engineers.
Same. I took over a programming conference earlier this year and it uses a .codes domain.
>Like "how the hell aren't those people in jail right now"?

Were you under the impression that things you typed in the search bar of YouTube (or Google or Facebook or...) were not tracked? What about this situation makes you believe someone should go to jail?
I think this captures a lot of what I find so frustrating about all the big tech services today. It seems like so many of them could be a similar model to Signal where they have a minimal team and rely on donations or some small revenue stream. Wikipedia is another example of a highly utilized service that uses the non-profit model.

Is there any reason why most social media sites can't be the same way? Network effects account for a lot of it which is why nobody uses Mastodon even though everybody hates Twitter now.

It's just aggravating that you have tens of thousands of engineers working towards things like ads and tracking when those are actively against most of our interests, and the other side of the scale you have fifty people actually working on things useful to users. How do we fix this?
Depends on how you interpret the mission statement of building ai for all of humanity. It’s questionable that humanity is better off if ai only accrues to one or a few centralised entities?
That's how Jeffrey Epstein made it, starting with Les Wexner.
> Tuples are already fixed size by nature, so adding a redundant "fixed-size" in that description was confusing.

No, you can type variable-length tuples in Python. A variable int tuple, for example, can be typed as Tuple[int, ...].

You can't concatenate two variable-length tuples, which makes sense - where would the cutoff be? But you should absolutely be able to concatenate two fixed-size tuples, and it's very limiting that you can't.
Just the other week had a team meeting that was partly to discuss a possible round 21 of team charter/organization changes. Personally, I basically have bounced around multiple rounds of managers/teams/responsibilities in just the past few years. As the team lead philosophically said, many of you (senior) folks have seen maybe 10x employee growth since you joined and it's just a different company and the old one isn't coming back.
when it's clear

It isn't that clear. People missing ui elements they have to scroll to is one of the most common ways of missing ui elements.
XCP-NG
While it's easy to agree with you, I find that my opinion here has shifted after leaving a large tech company for a seed stage startup. Competing against these giant companies is really challenging, you have to me more than 2x better to get a customer to look at you a second time.
The settings say saving chats can take 2 GB. Why? What states do chat LLMs have? Isn't the only state the chat history text?
Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you
We're dealing with incomprehensible amounts of energy. GRBs are powered by the violent deaths of massive stars. Orbiting planets are inconsequential.

Have a fun paper!

Stars Bisected by Relativistic Blades

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15347
Two dead in attempted terror attack on Rainbow Bridge
https://archive.ph/oZA2d
That is quite a wild conclusion to jump to. What evidence or clues lead you to that.
Secret Apple agent here. We found you and we are going to make you serve tea to Tim Cook from tomorrow until the rest of your days >:) All praise to our Lord Cook
The industry has a lot of problems, but I remember when Google was just starting, and it was obviously a place to go, and for years after that it was obviously the place to go. Hopefully there are some other obviously the place to go companies now?
Um, let's not forget your basic city cop is crawling around the city and doing stop-and-go all day. The regenerative braking and all-electric modes will bypass huge amounts of "city driving" mpg losses.

City cops are the big reason we need PHEVs with 50 mile all-electric ranges. They would probably do 90% of their shift on all-electric, and the gas motor will recharge what they don't need.

In a parallel universe, Gore won the 2000 election, and got legislation through that forced PHEV technology to virtually all consumer segments within a decade. By now we would have electrified 70-80% of daily driving miles, cut emissions, and probably had cheaper cars in the process, and bankrupted the Saudis and Russians.

There also were various patents around inside-out rotaries and other compact higher-output engines about 10 years ago that would have made perfect recharger/range extenders for a PHEV.
“Apparently”, according to this “X post”.

There’s a link to a class action complaint (https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdpxrbjyrpx/...)

That’s 58 pages of legalese, though, so a link to where that’s claimed would be useful.
Thanks for the reference. Several of the examples given could benefit from loop versioning and/or iteration space partitioning, i.e. the compiler splitting a loop that it cannot prove is always in-bounds to an in-bounds part and a possibly-out-of-bounds part. The HotSpot C2 compiler does this under some circumstances.

E.g. the simplest case:

for (i = 0; i < some_expr; i++) {
a[i] = other_expr; // cannot prove is in bounds
}

Becomes:

var t = some_expr;
if (t <= a.length) {
for (i = 0; i < t; i++) {
a[i] = other_expr; // no bounds check necessary
}
} else {
for (i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
a[i] = other_expr; // no bounds check necessary
}
throw OutOfBoundsError; // throw exception at first OOB iteration
}

This approach will have exactly the same behavior as the original program and run without bounds checks in either case. It will even throw at the right time. The cost is having two copies of the loop and a check up-front. This specific case could be done with one version, and other cases can be done with a different partitioning of the loops.

I feel people are lacking imagination on what an awesome buffet of compiler transforms are available when it is both absolutely required to do bounds checks and absolutely necessary to try to eliminate them everywhere. In practice, many many loops are trivially in bounds, many other loops are cold enough or big enough that the cost of a bounds check isn't much. You don't need to unroll and version every loop in the program. And like I said, for the loops outside of this set, where iterations are not affine or the indexes are irregular, you either live with bounds checks or you go deeper on allowing static assertions to prove accesses are in bounds. That's exactly the cases where you probably want checks anyway.
"There are lots of alternatives!"

all their links are about one manufacturer

You're not wrong about EVs and hybrids being ideal for fleets like police, but acting like the market is flush with choices for police departments is absurd.

Not to mention, Teslas are an idiotic choice for a group of users who tend to need bodywork pretty often, given how a lot of minor collisions total Teslas, or the body shops are booked out months or longer.
Wow. This has pretty terrifying implications if people are using GitHub to sign into other services.
One of the many things that's wrong with the US.
Ah, yes that is a nice solution.

My only issue with Firefox is the lack of easy access multiple profiles.

I can live with that, although I wish I could pay to get that fixed.
>They're bad, actually.

"Measuring stuff is bad"?
"The negotiations stretched late into the night, as multiple rounds of takeout were delivered to the Mission District offices and reporters from multiple news outlets staked out the scene like a papal conclave. Inside, employees gathered, some openly sobbing.

When the white smoke came, it wasn’t Altman. Emmett Shear, the co-founder of video-streaming service Twitch and a vocal proponent of a slower approach to developing AI, had been named CEO by the board.

Microsoft was given no heads-up about the decision, but when it dropped Nadella had a plan at the ready: Altman and Brockman would go to Microsoft to start a new AI unit, one person said."
Good observations, a bit of a stretch,

regarding scandal and not scandal, real life doesnt follow rigid ideas of “the power dynamics are too extreme for this relationship to exist”

that’s just tabloid drama

people can be objective mature partners that met on the job where one was an executive and the other doing something menial
i imagine that the current setup drives more ad views than what this tweet proposes : (

it's a sad thing i notice in so many sites and apps that the tiny chance of getting some money out of the small % of people who click the pop up ad or choose to sign up for the email list or whatever incentivizes the company to provide a worse user experience for the rest of the users

edit: i guess context matters though. if i'm driving with my phone on the dash, having a one click "gas station" button is pretty nice. in an ideal world, the phone would determine when im driving and only show the button then
vCenter is a huge target. VMware docs differ from the the Crowdstrike recommendations, with security vendors saying basically to lock it down to the 9th degree or suffer the consequences.
In my experience, POs are a glorified middle man with an unclear role that acts like a mini CEO and just stands in between developers and the outside world.

In their most useful, the best they can do is stay away and not bother the devs and learn as much about the product and how it works so they can appear useful in sessions with outside stakeholders. In their least useful they are a broken phone and nothing more than a ticket pusher and micromanager.

I believe how this job was created, was that some business types wanted to have full control and overview over what the devs are doing, so they created a position where they can embed one of their own, to give them a piece of mind that one of them is in control of what devs are doing. The job requires lots of talking, status reports, and ticket creation. It's basically a receptionist but with made up significance and influence disproportionate to experience or reason.

The PO is basically inversion of control: let's select the guy with the least hand on experience of building something, least hands on experience in the problems of the product, and make them call all the shots on what gets built and when, ignoring the devs, cause how they can possibly know, they are code monkeys.
Exactly. If only I could tell Windows Defender to ignore every node_modules directory I have in my computer. Literally millions of files.
> However, there was an embrace of laissez-faire economic philosophy that coincided with their "assuming the mantle".

I dispute that Boomers ever assumed the mantle, as it were. They're a subset of the population. No generation has the mantle. Like I said, Boomers don't control the world.

Bill Clinton was the first Boomer President, so you might argue that they assumed the mantle then, but 1993 does not coincide with the embrace of laissez-faire economic philosophy. This occurred much earlier.

> Many of them bought into Milton Friedman (Chicago school) economics

Milton Friedman was born in 1912, a year after Reagan, and was an advisor to Reagan and to Margaret Thatcher, so I think it's quite a stretch to attribute this to Boomers. Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom" was published in 1962, when the youngest Boomers weren't even born yet.
It seems that there are a lot of people who are loyal to Sam because they are scared of crossing him. If this is really the pattern here, then this is probably not the timeline we want to be on.
I looked at Ollama before, but couldn't quite figure something out from the docs [1]

It looks like a lot of the tooling is heavily engineered for a set of modern popular LLM-esque models. And looks like llama.cpp also supports LoRA models, so I'd assume there is a way to engineer a pipeline from LoRA to llama.cpp deployments, which probably covers quite a broad set of possibilities.

Beyond llama.cpp, can someone point me to what the broader community uses for general PyTorch model deployments?

I haven't quite ever self-hosted models, and am really keen to do one. Ideally, I am looking for something that stays close to the PyTorch core, and therefore allows me the flexibility to take any nn.Module to production.

[1]: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/blob/main/docs/import.md.
We have a 2021 Subaru Outback.

We had to take it in to the dealer for servicing because the car battery died and wouldn't hold a charge.

Turns out it was a known problem covered under manufacturer warranty, that the battery was specced too small for Outbacks equipped with idle stop and couldn't handle drawing so much power so often.

Incidentally, the properly specced battery and associated parts that would need to be replaced would have cost around $400 if it wasn't covered under warranty.
American, but I read PG's tweets as someone who absolutely does not want to piss off Sam but is willing to come close to the edge of plausible deniability in damning him, e.g.:

> The most alarming thing I've read about AI in recent memory. And if Sam thinks this, it's probably true, because he's an expert in both AI and persuasion.

There certainly isn't the paternal warmth you might expect from a proud mentor.
> Which only proves my comment that git is not designed for bigcorp view of monorepos. Kernel is monorepo and works fine.

Not really; it just means you misunderstood what I meant by "large projects". The Linux kernel is not nearly as large as most company codebases.

> The reason people like monorepos is that they are lazy to properly organize development process. If you update library in one repo but test it in another, I'd say you need to reconsider your pipeline.

Sounds like you just don't have any experience of this sort of thing so don't appreciate the problems. You update the library in one repo and test it in another because that other repo is using the library. You want to make sure your library update doesn't break it.

If you don't test all of the dependants of your library then you're massively increasing the risk of breakage (plus all the other downsides) just so you can use separate repos. That isn't worth it.
Huh the things I heard about Altman a long time before was that he was a couch surfer at YCombinator.
is this why I've noticed an uptick in drivers that seem to take a last minute left turn in front of me? I wind up braking as hard as possible to avoid an accident.