skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty certain computers weren't created to replace secretaries - it's just one of the ways computers changed the world.

Self driving is not even claiming it would have much of an effect of the world. A few points more efficient, cutting a bit of costs - not changing the human experience at it's core.
Are you talking about Aldi's? Cause if so maybe they got something figured out, their store locations that I've been in the states are great (only exposure to them though). Only check out I've seen where the employees have chairs
How many people were involved in engineering in the Apollo program?
Why would Microsoft take Ilya? He is rumored to have started the coup. I can see Microsoft taking all uninvolved employees.
This could be Satya engaging in succession planning: Sam Altman in line to become the next CEO of Microsoft.
It's been a long time since I've interacted with a software architect. As poor as wikipedia is a source for a layman like myself, I still use it as a first step to explore topics I am not familiar with.

Would software architects be aware of all the various paradigms applicable within a particular language? Much like me trying to pick the right tool to complete a particular project...

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

is there a good reason why Domain-Driven Design is not linked in the article above, or just an oversight?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
> Disk performance and read and write latencies can sometimes be volatile, causing latency spikes on the order of seconds.

See Brendan Gregg (and Bryan Cantrill) shouting at hard drives for Sun Microsystem's Fish Works project (ZFS for data and DTrace for instrumentation):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Retrospectives on the video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPozJFC8g0

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IYzD_NR0W4
From the initial board release, the issue then was not necessarily the fundraising or him being spread too thin, but rather that he was not forthright with the board. Every CEO manages the board to some extent and paints a picture for them, but if significant, material information about strategy and operations is being purposely withheld from the board, they cannot do their job.
Actually they both (and OCaml has a whole lot of almost never used OOP - that's where the O comes from) have _way_ less "syntax" than Python or Java.
I've only been to Japan briefly, but I do remember there being express commuter trains in the Tokyo/Yokohama area.

One little-known fact about the US is that we used to have a widespread streetcar/commuter rail network. Many of these right-of-ways still exist in the form of current roads and bike paths. Some would have to be reestablished, but it's not like the ISHS doesn't habitually eminent domain people's property to build even more and wider roads.

I've also thought for a while now that many communities would benefit from (at least) a corner store. Most housing and apartment developments have space that could be used for this purpose (a vacant ground-floor apartment or two, a section of the parking lot, a house).

In general, Americans need to start getting used to in-fill development and purpose-shift renovation, because we can't afford new and sprawl anymore.
The company is big enough for both of them to be correct.

I have firsthand knowledge that Cloud, for instance, did not test regularly directly on Firefox. Team couldn't justify the cost of setting up and maintaining a FF test suite to satisfy 1 in 50 users, so they didn't (and nobody up-chain pushed back on that). Testing was done regularly on Chrome, Safari, and Edge, as per the usercounts and "top three browser" guidance (at the time, we didn't even test regularly on mobile, since there was a separate mobile client).

But the analytics team? I'm sure they test directly on Firefox. They're just testing an entirely different piece of the elephant and their end-to-ends won't include how, for example, changes they make interoperate with Firefox in the context of Cloud. Or YouTube. Or etc. Not unless they have a specific reason to be concerned enough to.

Google's like any other megacorp in the sense that costs of cross-team coordination are combinatoric.
i love how they used the word advanced. not another regular AI team.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/likely
Fedoras in Space Red Hat Helps with NASA's Artemis Lunar Missions
My thoughts is based on the number of annoying recruiters who ping me (daily) on linkedin starting with "I hope this finds you well... I have a great.. ...at a hourly rate that is previous X-40%"

At the moment it's a ghost town.
I've been on the F# website for 5 minutes now looking through damn near every page and I cannot find a single page that shows me a simple example program or the syntax at all.

Everything is hidden behind some kind of "let's get started!" wizard. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/languages/fsharp-he...
Inversion founder here. We invest by buying artists' work. One of the reasons they work with us is they are tired of relying on grants, which sometimes take weeks to apply for and can provide as little as $1k in funding. They are entrepreneurs running high-earning studios and they are tired of being looked at as charity cases. Given the people on our board, being involved with our company definitely adds to their brand.
What is he supposed to say?
Adam D'Angelo, who is primarily focused on Poe, a competitor to Sam's GPT store. From Adam's point of view, it would likely be hugely favorable for OpenAI to just be a research company providing APIs and for companies like Quora and Poe to focus on launching products based on those APIs.
Why do I want this? I can tether my phone already. Building in a modem just gives cell networks another chance to charge you for another data plan (when I already have unlimited on my phone). Am I missing something?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I concur 100%. Everybody has a smarthone with a SIM card already in it and carries it around all the time. Connecting your Macbook to your iPhone is one click in your menu bar. Why do you need a SIM Card in your Macbook?

I mean, there might be some business (niche) use cases, but other than that?
The cruise vehicle (and some of the tesla features) are clearly not ready for the open road. As a bystander to them, I have pictures of those cars making mistakes that my unlicensed 14-year-old would never make. And not only in exceptional circumstances but fairly normal ones. A recent tesla incident I witnessed made me wonder if my robot vacuum cleaner has better pathfinding than the Tesla.

So, the regulators must build a more rigorous testing/scoring system before these systems are allowed on the open road without a human minder. The existing ones designed for humans have many assumptions about human behavior built into them that clearly makes it unsuitable for nonhuman drivers.
I think there's more to the Poe story. Sam forced out Reid Hoffman over Inflection AI, [1] so he clearly gave Adam a pass for whatever reason. Maybe Sam credited Adam for inspiring OpenAI's agents?

[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-...
A theoretical nice thing about Krita and art in these past decades was that you could be an 18 year old with some ok drawing skills, a thinkpad, a secondhand wacom tablet and a version of krita, and the internet, this wonderful innovation, could enable you to make some money as an artist.
If the future expectation is that artists all have 2000 euro graphics cards, I think that will really make art a lot less democratic.
I can install whatever I'd like on Windows. I can run Linux in a VM. Calling a document format a wall is really reaching. If you don't have a document with a bunch of crazy formatting, the open office products and Google docs can use it just fine. If you are writing a book or some kind of technical document that needs special markup, yeah, Word isn't going to cut it, never has and was never supposed to.
If it was traded publicly Blackrock and such would already took over and raised the subscription fee.
That kind of reasoning convinced Cruise's backers to blow a quarter billion dollars a month. At what point do you decide to cut your losses?
You really t'd them up there.
Artist here. It's totally reasonable for artists to be mad about models being trained on their work without informed prior consent.

Anger about using AI is less justifiied.
I'm happy you get something out of it and wish you the best. I do think it's built on theft and I do think it's a cold, lifeless medium. I think art is truth and the farther you get away from a human making something the farther you are away from the artist and feeling. A digital print will never feel as nice to me as a painting or a drawing. A handmade sculpture will always feel better to me than something produced with a mold or a 3D printer.

We're all different and again, it's great if you like making art with AI. The world needs differences, otherwise it would be quite boring.
False dichotomy. You and your children are not the only humans to exist on earth.
In a sane statically typed language, using collections without generics is a second degree sin.
It seems you're not aware of the distinct challenges startups face in Europe. Are you familiar with the GDPR? This regulation alone doubles the complexity of developing a startup. Beyond that, the European Union presents unique hurdles with its diverse languages and varying laws across member countries, adding significant complexity to the entrepreneurial landscape and impacting a founder's journey at multiple levels. Moreover, countries like Germany feature some of the most complicated tax systems in the world, further amplifying the complexity and challenges for entrepreneurs navigating the startup landscape in Europe.
The dark pattern part comes in with how it's impossible to know if or when any of that stuff is actually included in the ticket price, letting airlines like Spirit list 'ultra-low' prices that end up the same or more as other tickets once you actually include the basics like 'having luggage' or 'tall people getting enough legroom to physically fit into the seat'.
> Edit: god damn - even the guy that pushed Sam out announced he wants to resign if Sam isn't brought back what the hell

It reads like an orchestrated coup against the other three members of the board. Convince the board to do something you imagine will get this kind of blowback. Board is forced to resign due to their fiduciary obligations to the non-profit. And now you control the entire board.
He's shown himself to be bad at politics, but he's still one of the world best researchers. Surely, a sensible company would find a position for him where he would be able to bring enormous value without having to play politics.
> a very strong conflict of interest for Adam

Makes it sound like they fired the wrong board-member. But it feels to this complete outsider like that board was totally disfunctional, even before the departure of Altman and Brockman.

I'm an LLM sceptic; I don't think these models are a route to intelligence, artifical or otherwise. I think that means I'm at odds with the four board-members that did the deed. But as far as I can see, there wasn't one member of that board, Altman and Brockman included, that was fit to run a whelk-stall, let alone a big company.
It would certainly make for a good series in a couple years. Gives me modern "Halt and Catch Fire" (2014-2017) vibes.
All I remember how shit phones used to be. My new iphone is much better
Ilya is probably in talks with Altman.
countless people are looking to weaponize his autism
a bit over $30/mo on tmo, real world speeds about 30mbit, 100 on a good day, unlimited data
"Not have been born in Argentina?" perhaps? Or "Have been born in Argentina"?
Buying MacBooks for each student instead of using a separate hotspot? Also, is this a common thing for schools to do these days?
Nothing at all. But writing "Microsoft" as "Micro$oft" is just childish and it taints your otherwise potentially valid message. Do you also refer to Windows as "Winblows" maybe?
You won't like the result of `0/0` either ;)
Also, less risky to start using in house modems on the smaller product segment (laptops with 5g)
> This instability can only mean the industry as a whole will move forward faster.

The hype surrounding OpenAI and the black hole of credibility it created was a problem, it's only positive that it's taken down several notches. Better now than when they have even more (undeserved) influence.
I'm pretty sure the families of the 38k people who died in car crashes last year (US alone) would disagree with this not changing the human experience at it's core.
Much more likely that he was trying to read the tealeaves and be on the majority side in order to keep a leadership position at a company doing important work. He probably assumed the company would fall in line after the board decision and when they didn’t, regretted his decision.

In the end he might have gotten caught in the middle of a board misaligned with the desires of the employees.
They had a reasonable expectation that the large increase in public expressions of Nazism would be juxtaposed with ads from companies who do not want to be associated with such content. So, they tested their hypothesis, and found evidence in its favor. They didn't hack, they didn't fabricate, they observed.

And then, they exercised their free speech and free association, and showed this evidence to the companies in question (who clearly didn't like what they saw). What's wrong with that?
Signing a petition is not the same as quitting, but that is something (and I hadn't seen it).
E.g. Henry Ford tried to make an ethical decision for the company to cut some dividends to benefit workers and make the products cheaper. It was ruled illegal. His mistake actually was to say that the benefits would about more than profit; arguing the investment on shareholder profit grounds could well have passed.

Probably safe to say Henry Ford had considerable power in Ford Motor Co compared most executives today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Where did he do that? Genuine question.
Do economists share any culpability here? I thought their job was to apply their sharp minds and apply "systems" to achieve certain goals (not limited to addressing poverty). What if we compare it to other sciences?

Say we didn't understand flight as well as we do, and we have this problem where planes keep crashing, maybe 2-3 a year (like it was in the 1980s-1990s) and instead of getting to the bottom of it and fixing the underlying problem, aerospace engineers and expert pilots just shrugged their shoulders, "whelp, that sucks.." and kept up the status quo?

What if in the late '70s this new virus started spreading among gay men, and doctors just shrugged and said "well we can treat the symptoms and make our best guess how to avoid it, but damned if I know what's going on..."? How long would we keep awarding academic medals, increasing professors' salaries (and of course tuition), and lauding these doctors as heroes if they never advanced the state of their art?

Why are economists shielded from a similar failure in their chosen profession?
Another thing is that everyone is a lot younger than stereotypical corporate operators who are often >50 years old.

After living for a few more decades you get a lot better at power plays.
Calling it a delusion seems too provocative. Another way to say it is that principles take agreement and trust to follow. The board seems to have been so enamored with its principles that it completely lost sight of the trust required to uphold them.
Yes and now basically all mainstream scifi is cyberpunk and depressing. It’d be nice to go back to the mainstream being optimistic or at least neutral
I mean, it's still happening to them, one whole year later. To be completely honest, are you unable to recognize that from their perspective, you are shit, because they're having serious issues with your product, and you stopped helping them because... they tried to tell their users that getting dropped from the chatroom is Matrix's fault, not theirs? Can you not see how completely unacceptable it is for thousands of people to be randomly dropped from rooms?

Fixing fundamental basic functionality of your app should not be classified as having "burnt a bunch of time investigating this".
Must have been a problem with the particular laptop/country you are in. Traditionally, laptops have much more robust cellular than phones.

You say the press of a button, but having cellular in the laptop is zero interactions, which is great for casual users.
> And all that's not even going into things like the pandemic business loans that were handed out like fucking candy, many to businesses that barely even existed at the time, to the tune of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars, most of which were entirely forgiven after the fact.

It was a terrible system with malaligned incentives, but it was the government's attempt to not violate 5A. Had those loans not been handed out like candy, the gov would have violated 5A. You cannot seize private property for public good without just compensation. As it stands, I think many folks should sue the federal and state governments for 5A violations, especially if they did not receive true just compensation for the shutdowns.
People work in Alaska. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An employer that wields that carrot also wields that stick, and can exploit the difference to incredible social harm.

It is especially cruel that in the US, so many benefits are tied to employment. It means employers have this huge power over workers and also makes sure that it is almost impossible for some workers to invest the time and money in themselves required to gain the skills needed for better employment opportunities.
Thanks for this comment. Personally, I appreciate how human and humble your response is, and Roc looks great.
Setting aside the technical point you're making, the pull-based architecture is the main disadvantage from the content-producer side. Suppose there is a hierarchy of customer acquisition:

1. You have the customer's billing information, ideally with a subscription revenue agreement.

2. Your app is installed on the customer's phone, ideally with notification permissions.

3. You have the customer's email address, and ideally you're not marked as a spammy sender.

4. Your SEO is good enough to get sufficient organic traffic.

5. Someone aggregates your content and puts it in front of enough customers for you to be profitable.

6. You publish an RSS feed, or any other fully opt-in technology where the customer normally pulls content from you, but might disappear at any point, and you have no way to re-establish contact with them.

7. Late-night infomercials, classified ads, etc.

I've probably missed a few categories, and maybe the ranking isn't perfect, but you get the idea. Why would a merchant or content producer bet on RSS when its main selling point is that the customer retains full control over the ongoing relationship?

Much as I personally love RSS, I don't see why today's internet would embrace it. Even the little guys dream of making it big, and that's why at a minimum everyone will spam you with a pop-up ad asking for your email address before they place a bet on a pull-based technology like RSS.
> Employment can offer you a better life

Better in material terms, but worse in other metrics. Full time employment means you barely have any time or energy for your life outside of work. I really doubt a lot of people would chose to be subjected to that, just to have a bigger house or to be able to go for expensive vacation. I'm guessing much more people would be willing to go part-time, but that is a not very efficient in many industries.
My favorite, certainly because of personal connections, is when the car chase leaves Long Beach, CA to go to San Pedro on the Vincent Thomas Bridge. There's often a big dramatic thing with the toll booth, but the toll booth was on the Long Beach side, so you'd have to jump over it (or whatever) before you went over the bridge.

I believe the toll booths are gone now, the bridge has been toll free in both directions since 2000.
Hydra – Model of Experts
Looks cool but I am somewhat weary of languages that are so wholly dependent on whitespace for significance. I say this as a Python user... but my favorite part of Lisp is the homoiconicity. Things become very intuitive ... whereas the syntax of a language like this takes much longer to grok.
“Microsoft Chat 365”

Although it would be beautiful if they name it Clippy and finally make Clippy into the all-powerful AGI it was destined to be.
Agreed. Shortwave [1] is built completely on this, but with the added layer of having a leasing system that is per user on top of the tasks. So you only need to `SKIP LOCKED` to grab a lease, then you can grab as many tasks as you want and process them in bulk. It allows higher throughput of tasks, and also was required for the use case as the leases where tied to a user and tasks for a single user must be processed in order.

[1]: https://www.shortwave.com/
Looks cool and thanks for sharing. Founder of windmill.dev, an open-source, extremely fast workflow engine to run jobs in ts,py,gosh whose most important piece, the queue, is also just rust + postgresql (and mostly the FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED).

I'd be curious to compare performances once you guys are comfortable with that, we do them openly and everyday on: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/tree/benchmarks

I wasn't aware of the skip B-tree splits and the REINDEX CONCURRENTLY tricks. But curious what do you index in your jobs that use those. We mostly rely on the tag/queue_name (which has a small cardinality), scheduled_for, and running boolean which don't seem good fit for b-trees.
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Emmett Shear (born 1983) is the interim CEO of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, having been named by the board on November 19, 2023 following the ousting of former CEO Sam Altman two days earlier.[1]

Previously, Shear was the chief executive officer of Twitch, a position he served in until March 2023 since it was originally founded as a live video platform Justin.tv. Shear served as a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator.[2][3]

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Wikipedia sure is fast. "Currently, the next guy to run the drama factory. Previously, much lesser known positions, such as the CEO of Twitch and a guy at some thing called Y Combinator."
That’s the thing, besides the hardware, there would need to be a lot of work in the OS (and maybe apps to some extent).

The assumption of unlimited data transfer is pervasive on non-mobile (we need a better name for that, something that encompasses desktop and laptop. PC?)
According to Google's latest IO conference, corporate jobs and emails are getting automated too.
You might not want this but businesses might. Rather than have to reimburse an employee's phone or provide a phone they can provide a cellular equipped device for users that regularly work outside the office but still need internet support.
OpenAI Investors Still Have Hope Altman Will Return If Board Resigns
So all these upset programmers over the lost mission of OpenAI turn to the dark side?

That's a bold level of hypocrisy.
Reminds me A Ticket to Tranai by Robert Sheckley where they deliberately asked to slow down robots in order for people to be angry and destroy them.
Why does this article single out airlines? A majority of web devs in FAANG are complicit
Wait till you find out about Linux
This is what happens when you're a key person and a very good engineer as such, and at the same time the board/company fires you :-)

When are we going to realize that it's people taking bad decisions and not the "company". It's not OpenAI, Google, Apple or whoever, its real people, with names, and positions of power that take such shitty decisions. We should blame them and not something vague as the "company".
If he could do that he would have fought Zuckerberg.
Why does a shell need its current environment to be visible in /proc/$pid/env (as opposed to just its initial environment)?