skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This certainly seems to be the consensus about self hosting email, but but I'm now convinced otherwise.

I send a couple newsletters (one tech related, other for marketing for a coffee shop/bakery I own), and it was fairly easy to land on inboxes. Now, I don't know with a 100% certainty that they were delivered, but if DMARC records and bounces are anything to go by, self hosted emails aren't all that hard.

When you buy a VPS, it helps to check if the IP you receive is already blacklisted. After that, it's easy to use some outside service to monitor DMARC responses and blacklist. There are about 40 black list databases. My domains and the IP address are on none of them.
Artificial synapse, not neuron.
On the other hand anecdata, I had a 13ish year old 4Runner with only about 70K miles lose a transmission line on me a couple years back. The dealership shrugged and said maybe it was a chip on the coating from a piece of gravel. Though it may well have been a manufacturing defect. In any case, ended up having to nurse the vehicle home and basically nurse it 2 months until I could get a new Honda.

Which I actually like a lot better. The 4Runner is a very old platform. Other than the infortainment system, a rental I coincidentally had a couple years back was basically identical to the fairly poor handling SUV I had for 10+ years.
I feel this deeply, many of the devs in my company don't know linux, kubernetes or even docker, though the services they developed run on these things, I can understand that they need to focus on business logic and implementations, but it just seems odd for me that they don't even try to understand the underlying infrastructure, they just leave it to devops guys.
IRL drivers and passengers already engage in such activities, at least it wouldn't be indecent exposure at the same time?
Does he not know the definition of blackmail?

Unrelated - he reveals he throttles NYTimes in this interview - what about freedom of speech?

and still throttles to Substack and others.
https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-s...
The reason the CEO could oust the board like that was that after the board fired the CEO, 720 of the 770 employees of the company got together and signed a pledge that they will all leave unless the CEO is reinstated and the board fired. This was the purest example of labor democracy and self-organization in action in the United States I have ever seen, my takeaway is rather the opposite of "they are all expendable". They showed very clearly that what decides the future direction of the company is the combined will of the employees.
Can you share a link to that x/tweet?
If you're going to be productive with LLM coding assistants, the skill you most need to develop is a strong QA process. You need to be really good at running code, trying edge-cases and quickly getting to a point where you have proven to yourself that the code works. Having good habits around automated testing helps with this a lot.

If you're already good at this stuff, you'll find the risk of coding assistants getting things wrong is pretty minimal for you.

If you have bad habits where you frequently write and commit code without first executing it and trying to poke holes in it, you'll find AI assisted coding full of traps.
I feel like it’s possible to vastly overthink these sorts of things. Some of the most successful businesses ever have names that would probably have been ridiculed at the time for their weirdness (Apple, for a computer company…!) and others have incredibly boring names but this seems to be no disadvantage.

Just pick something that isn’t already taken and is reasonably Googlable. And maybe try to avoid being too trendy.
This post should be higher.

This Reddit post from 8-years ago, reads eerily similar to what happened at OpenAI … and Sam is the common denominator at both.
Especially now that its clear they are completely backed by Microsoft, everyone in that company has a job at Microsoft tomorrow if they need it.
> Proprietary, hardware specific APIs never stand the test of time. Ask 3Dfx.

3DFX lost for other reasons. DirectX is doing fine despite having had open competition for decades.
The paper (and graphics inside) refer to 48,000 materials that have been discovered by previous computational methods. Is this what you mean?

Looks like the contribution here is an order of magnitude increase in high probability stable materials.
id be willing to bet all they're doing behind the scenes is cutting computation costs using smaller versions and doing every business' golden rule: price discrimination.

id be willing to bet enshittification is on the horizon. you don't get the shiny 70b model, that's for gold premium customers.

by 2025, it's gonna be tiered enterprise prices.
this is used for treatment of tremors now, fairly successfully.
Hacker News represents hackers, not Boards of Directors. The hackers of OpenAI overwhelmingly demanded Sam back. Everyone here should be happy.
Google Bard and Poe are two other famous options.

Many companies are offering the chat models. Kagi Assistant, for example.

It might be better to check the good models and look for companies that make them available: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Why? If the product is useful (it is to me), then why do you care so much as to the internal politics? If it ceases to be useful or something better comes along, sure. But this strikes me as being serially online and involved in drama
Seeing as he was 100, I doubt they were taken by surprise. These things are usually canned and updated once in a while for people of interest, especially past a certain age (or at least that's my understanding).
He is the master wizard -- no ones knows the tech details and subtle tweaks like him. At least that is what I gather.
If they were good people they wouldn't need an instruction manual on how to be good.
Is this country dependant? I used to drive a civic :)
Why is this on Hacker News? Did Kissinger involve himself in tech in some way I am unfamiliar with?
the only report out is some employee letter to the board about Q*
It's actually interesting this is a universal phase of children.
I think it’ll come. Probably within fifteen minutes or so.

The BBC usually takes its time (sometimes to the point of absurdity — more than any other news outlet I can think of).
You should still investigate it. I've used it since the fork from Owncloud and used to curse how slow and buggy it was, turns out I just needed to admin properly. Its a DB heavy PHP application stack, you need to adjust and tune things appropriately. As to complaints about updates breaking things, you need to have a way to test updates prior to deploying to production, just like any other server based application.
Yes. ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode does exactly this - it writes code, runs it through a Python interpreter, then if there are any errors it rewrites the code and runs it until it works.

... and you can use it to run a C compiler too, if you know what you are doing! https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/17/open-questions/#open-q...
I hope you find a competitor as good as chatgpt. We desperately need competition in this space. google/fb tossing billions still hasn't created anything close is starting to worry me.
Beginner's mind. I wonder if McKinsey's done any work on that...

Also, one of the simplest algorithms to get to the bottom of anything.
> Because for any nontrivial case you would expect python+compiled library and associated marshaling of data to be slower than that library in its native implementation without any inyerop/marshaling required.

> When you see an interpreted language faster than a compiled one, it's worth looking at why, because most the time it's because there's some hidden issue causing the other to be slow (which could just be a different and much worse implementation).

On the contrary, the compiled languages tend to only be faster in trivial benchmarks. In real-world systems the Python-based systems tends to be faster because they haven't had to spend so long twiddling which integers they're using and debugging crashes and memory leaks, and got to spend more time on the problem.
The one I recall trained on wifi and video at the same time, then did inference on only the wifi, with good reports. It was one of those research papers that all the media covered
just cause it won't write white wing propaganda don't mean they're doing something special.
Yes exactly, so why doesn't the BBC have more than 3 lines on Kissinger?
Oddly enough, then:

> There are interesting insights with the reliability of electrified models this year. Overall, hybrids have 26 percent fewer problems than cars powered by internal combustion engines (ICE). Some standouts include the Lexus UX and NX Hybrid and the Toyota Camry Hybrid, Highlander Hybrid, and RAV4 Hybrid.

> Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are more of a mixed bag. As a category, they have 146 percent more problems than ICE vehicles. Several PHEVs are even less reliable than their conventional counterparts, such as the below-average Audi Q5 and Chrysler Pacifica. The latter has the lowest score in our survey, at 14.

> Electric cars and electric SUVs don’t fare much better, with average reliability scores of 44 and 43, respectively. At the bottom of our vehicle-type rankings are electric pickup trucks, with an average score of 30.
> The author criticises a historian for jumping to conclusions from a very small sample and then does exactly the same thing himself.

Are they? They're responding to a paper that seems flawed based on the evidence presented. Even if the paper is ultimately correct in its assertion, I see no problem calling out false reasoning and shoddy logic in what is ultimately an academic endeavor. Being right for the wrong reasons can sometimes be much more harmful than not making the assertion in the first place. We're much less likely to build upon faulty foundations when we don't allow poor foundations to persist in the first place.
My pet theory is that Altman found out about Q* and planned to start a hardware company to make chips accelerating it, all without telling the board. Which is both dangerous to humanity and self-serving. It’s also almost baseless speculation; I’m interpolating on very, very few scraps of information.
> Work to limit the scope and reach of US intellectual property law?

Very cool. I don't doubt that it's impactful work.

I still think you're way off base with your views on EA :)
He was a very influential political operator. It’s true what they say though, at least in this case. Only the good die young.
Well, for starters, we all know that while realistically it's not unusual for a company to have a mission-critical person, it is very undesirable. So much so everybody must pretend that this is just unacceptable and surely isn't about their company. Here, we kinda saw the opposite being manifested. More convincingly than I've ever seen.

Second, I simply don't understand what just fucking happened. This whole story doesn't make sense to me. If I was an OpenAI employee, after receiving this nonsense "excited about the future" statement, I would feel just exhausted, and while maybe not resigning on the spot, it surely wouldn't make me more excited about continuing working there. But based on the whole "500 OpenAI employees" thing I must assume that the average sentiment in the company must be somewhat different at the moment. Maybe they even truly feel re-united. Sort of.

Obviously, I don't mean anything good be all that. What happens if Altman is hit by a bus tomorrow? Will OpenAI survive that? I don't even know what makes him special, but it seems we've just seen a most clear demonstration possible, that it wouldn't. This isn't a healthy company.

That said, all that would worry me much more, if I was an investor. In fact, I'd consider this a show-stopper. As a customer? It doesn't make me more reassured, but even if Altman is irreplaceable, I don't feel like OpenAI is irreplaceable, so as long as it doesn't just suddenly shut down — sure, why not. Well, not more comfortable, of course, but whatever.
Absolutely. And every time someone talks about what biological systems do, the word 'involved' comes into play.

The morphology of neurons is involved in information processing, I don't doubt that at all. It's also involved in staying alive, and staying healthy, and 'being part of the organism', and a great many other things.

It is not at all clear which specific aspects of the morphology are 'for' processing information we care about in the context of intelligence (because again, even info processing can be 'for' things like making sure you breathe reliably).
> were they taken by surprise someone could die of old age as young as 100...?

I doubt it. The economy of Henry Kissinger Grim Reaper claw machine memes has been going strong for the last four years at least.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468326
This is such a big issue using chatgpt for coding. Hope its a bug and not intended.
And security
I have nearly 12 months of personal experience now that having LLMs produce code for me - even when I only use ~20% of the code they generate - is still a huge personal productivity boost.

Unreliable help is still useful if you know that it's unreliable - you learn to keep a critical eye on what it's doing and correct when necessary. Still saves a ton of time, and I'm not guessing that, I'm saying that from my own experience.
The Covid kids starting school unable to speak
Someone found it intellectually interesting. You are, of course, free to disagree.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
They were either scared of being sued for defamation or unwilling to divulge existential company secrets. Or both.
I can't be the only one who wants to see the training data on a per response basis, IMO it should be a feature.
Have you considered you might just not be the target audience for books?

E-readers being a better interface for people who dont have time to read is not exactly a steller endorsement.
Control over the domain is 100% my biggest anxiety with mail.

I use Outlook with a family account, and they used to allow custom domain aliases. All of my email is addressed to addresses on my domain. It's actually a pretty good value for 4 people.

If they ever decide suddenly I'm out or they're out, I'll spin up a mail server somewhere else while I figure out my next move
There's a good argument to make that you should never use your application code for running tasks better handled by infrastructure. Eventually you will want an operations team of some kind and they will absolutely hate you for doing this.

It doesn't scale, organizationally speaking. Logic? write it in app code sure. How it's triggered or runs? Probably don't go near that. Use your job scheduler (CRON) or cloud infra to do it. Your operations team can port it, scale it, and cost optimize it without breaking a sweat.

If more sysadmin / DevOps are hired to help they are going to roast your development team if they can't actually help you. Elixir may be able to glide by some of this given how flexible its process model is - but it's not good general advice.
Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts
The oldest Teslas sold are now about 10 years old, and this epidemic of no-longer-holding-charge cars heading to battery replacement or scrapyards you speak of hasn't happened yet. From most accounts I've seen, the cars have 80-90% of their original capacity at 150-200k miles.
Azure offers a mostly at parity offering.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/w...

Edit: I misunderstood the ask, my apologies.
> I don't think you understand where those comments are coming from.

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I don't care where those comments are coming from. He's a 50-something year old man, he can grow the fuck up and take responsibility for what he says.
Looking at what pay cut you get moving to each place, it mostly correlates with cost of living like you said, but not exactly.
Monty Python tribute to Henry Kissinger:

https://youtu.be/ABeGhyAD_DM?si=6eAeatEaB7U_znd7
Here's a better obituary:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-ki...

"Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100."
As opposed to the left wing propoganda it currently writes?
This is rude, but I'd like to reply a comment you deleted in a separate thread.

"why didn't they have a hot-spare" They do! Flight spares are complete, flight-rated copies of spacecraft built for exactly this contingency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_spare After launch the flight spares are used for terrain testing and troubleshooting. (The "mars yard" has flight spares for Curiosity and Perseverance https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/how-we-do-it/facilities/ma... which were used to test some wheels to destruction after Curiosity started showing some wear https://www.planetary.org/articles/08190630-curiosity-wheel-... )

The blog post lays it on a bit thick with the $500 million number and the "launch only two weeks away" given that the article itself is illustrated with a photo of the Sojourner flight spare. Spirit had the SSTB1 test rover. If he had actually blown out the entire electrical system, they could have launched it instead. Swapping out the entire vehicle right before launch would have been an awful job, but it's not flat out impossible.
Either it’s a world changing paradigm shift or it isn’t. You can’t have it both ways.
I wonder how they’ll compare to Ampere’s chips. I hope Ampere holds on, it is nice to have chip designer that primarily, like, designs and sells chips as a business model.
Mine too! When Matt first showed us a draft I was amazed - never thought it would look so smooth.
This is where I landed. CLI for power user mode.
The board should have called their bluff and let them walk.
> This is the consequence of you asking them to get rid of combustion.

What I asked for was trains and protected bike lanes actually.
> why do you care so much as to the internal politics?

agree and why did they go from internal politics -> external politics (large scale external politics)
As were most if not all the other steamships of that era; compound steam engines were already over a century old by then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_steam_engine
At the point at which (1) you are doing something that takes a written contract, and (2) you identify that it is beyond your confidence of what you can deal with on your own, why would you trust an AI agent that can't, for example (based on my testing), consistently remember which party to a contract it is advising, or which on the same contract will refer to the same provision, on different runs, as both admirably clear as a positive or dangerously vague as a negative?

At the point at which you need a second eye on a contract, you probably want to have some confidence that it is better than a magic 8-ball.
If you enjoy videos, Proper People did a fantastic video about a 115 year old steam engine that still works that used to pump water for a city in Massachusetts.

Great watch full of info and some beautiful shots.

https://youtu.be/nBImv1mlcMg?si=XUyME3AmDB30sKaj
I can understand why people despise Kissinger, but he’s a pretty interesting figure on the whole. Not the best diplomat or Secretary of State we’ve had, but certainly a seminal figure in American foreign policy.
Depends on the coworker. I would say that I trust ChatGPT code much less than the average coworker, because coworkers usually don't do something like use imaginary variables or check-in code that doesn't compile.
>Born in Germany in 1973, Kissinger first came to the US in 1938

He had a time machine ? :) I think there was a typo in the article, they many 1923 I would say.

Anyway, may he Rest in Peace.

EDIT: the date is now fixed
https://twitter.com/owencm/status/1729778194947973195

It's such a strange thing apparently they can tune gpt4 turbo cleverness up and down on the fly depending current load.
Hey, very useful. Thanks! Similar to ic() for python, but with the nice ability to be used inline.

https://github.com/gruns/icecream
First thing that came to mind.
Are we sure? I was beginning to wonder if the afterlife was going to be holding out on this one.

Poor taste jokes aside - is there anyone else as directly responsible for as much modern day suffering, who has "gotten away with it" more cleanly in the eyes of the public? I've always found the disconnect between history and legacy to be rather... jarring.
U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated
Care to link to the chat in question? Would be interesting to see.
This makes me like Sam more, ngl.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-ki...

"Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100."
If OpenAI decides to change their business model, it might be bad for companies that use them, depending on how they change things. If they are looking unstable, might as well look around.
Even if -- and that's a big if -- it really was just a dispute over alignment (nonprofit vs for-profit, safety, etc.), the board executed it really poorly and completely misjudged their employees' response. They saw the limits of their power / persuasiveness compared to [Altman/the allure of profit/the simple stability and clarity of day-to-day work without a secretive activist board/etc]

Or maybe they already knew the employees weren't on their side, saw no other way to do it, and hoped a sudden and dramatic ouster of the CEO would make the others fall in line? Who knows.

I'd be pretty concerned too if my CEO was doing what I considered a great job and he was suddenly removed for no clear reason. If the board had explained its rationale and provided evidence, maybe some of the employees would've listened. But they didn't... to this day we have no idea what the actual accusation was.

It looks like a failed coup from the outside, and we have no explanations from the people who tried to instigate it.
So then it's just a case of the right being mistaken and thinking they compromised when they didn't.
BF2 BF3 BF4
My 2001 BMW with electronic throttle and fuel injection is doing just fine, the weakest point is plastic in the engine bay gets brittle and starts rotting (especially around coolant system).
> Kissinger saw combat with the [84th Infantry Division] and volunteered for hazardous intelligence duties during the Battle of the Bulge.

Thank you for your military service Mr. Secretary. Fighting real Nazis earns my gratitude.
Speaking of consists, I was impressed a few months ago when I saw a mid-train locomotive for the first time, then last week I saw a BNSF train that was a mile long¹ with a single locomotive at the front and a second at the back which I’ve never seen before.

⸻

1. Assuming average car length of 40'
Hmm, I don't think Savery's engine would have required that - it's just a copper vessel, and the pipes were often even made of wood. I've often seen the cannon theory applied to piston-using engines, but that was the next stage with Papin and Newcomen and beyond (hopefully our chapter II)
Google recently cut down the safety team[1]

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/26372287-6fb3-457b-9e9c-f722027f3...
He was veteran of WWII. Not too many left. Very sad his generation is passing on. They did so much.
I’m really surprised to see such a glaring typo, I don’t think I ever seen one before from the BBC:

> Born in Germany in 1973,