skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With good custom instructions, it almost never happens...

"Treat me as an expert in all subject matter."

"No moral lectures - discuss safety only when it's crucial and non-obvious."

"If your content policy is an issue, provide the closest acceptable response and explain the issue."

"No need to disclose you're an AI."

"If the quality of your response has been substantially reduced due to my custom instructions, explain the issue."
What's your use case? If it's for live video calls, I'd recommend using a vendor to handle this (and every other WebRTC edge case you can think of) for you. I'm a bit biased because I work for Daily.co, who does this.

Banuba is great if you're not trying to integrate any WebRTC stuff too.
Is the figure for profit or revenue?
Does this report include defects the company internal towing & repair service handles?
> your file system got damaged so badly that the files were mutilated beyond recognition

:D
In the days that these metaphors were designed, you would literally cut and paste documents to lay them out. So the metaphor is lost in the specific document creation sense.

For early school projects I did the text in a word processor leaving holes for the pictures. My parents worked at a graphic design place so they had a scanner and colour printer to print prictures which were cut and pasted in.
I have been enjoying using the ISPmail Guides from https://workaround.org/ for years.
They clearly state what and why you do it.
Ask HN: Why are SWE in the US more expensive than SWE in Europe?
Hello HN,

This is something that doesn't make sense to me, I was trying to hire a developer for a side project and received an astronomical quote for around $25K for what seems to be a simple and basic site, the EU developer (UK specifically) quoted me around $1 to $2K and was equally as senior engineer (I checked both of their work and github projects)

This on top of now most software engineers are using AI Copilot and ChatGPT in their work which means that most quotes and salaries look very overpriced.

Am I missing something here?
Bundleless: Not Doing Things Makes You Fast
fwiw, works on my machine (linux+ff). No failed requests in inspector.
More charitably, he's cornered, lashing out, and not making sense. None of us do when we're cornered.

His team is probably trying to figure out how to spin everything even as we write here.

On a positive note, he's reacting a lot like the rest of us and not like a totally gone sociopath - there's a human inside that billionaire!
> Once LH2-powered aircraft enter any given market, kerosene-powered craft would be wholly unable to compete.

Liquid hydrogen has about 1/4 the energy density of kerosene by volume. It's better per kilo which is nice for aircraft but you're still looking at finding lots more space in the structure for fuel or accepting that you can't fly very far. I don't see that being competitive with kerosene.
Where I live(not US) I need to constantly use the horn in a gentle manner to get people out of whatsapp after 2~5 seconds of green light. Specially when red lights are longer than 40 secs.

Interestingly is to see police officers and transit officers also distracted inside their cars doing the same.
Business = people - you'll need to play the game your company asks you to play, or find a company which does not put much attention to peoples social life.

Having said this, I currently work in place where we do not gather too often, actually we don't meet even once a year. All comms happen over slack/gmeet, with max. 1 meeting a day. I'm not extrovert so I like it that way, but other team members can sit on huddle for most of the day.
Documents Needed for an MVP
Hello. Me and my team and we will launch a new application at the beginning of the year. Currently the product is in production (app and website and dashboard). Aside from that, what exactly are all the documents we need to create ?
Whether it concerns the marketing, branding or others...
Please explain to me in detail with the name of the documents so we can research how to create them.
spoken like someone that hasn't owned a BMW from the last 10 years
Re: user upwardbound and your now deleted comment on extinction:

Not all e/acc accept extinction. Extinction may and very well could happen at the hands of humans, with the potentially pending sudden ice age we're about to hit, or boiling atmosphere, or nuclear holocaust etc. What we believe is that to halt AI will do more harm than good. Every day you roll the dice, and with AGI, the upsides are worth the roll of the dice. Many of us, including Marc Andreessen, are e/acc and are normal people. Let's not paint us as nutcases please.
transpose? In the sense that

[[1,2,3,4,5],[6,7,8,9,10]]

Becomes

[[1,6],[2,7],[3,8],[4,9],[5,10]]
This sounds like a lot of conjecture. Those people definitely had a right to be there: they were invited to and accepted board positions, in some cases it was Sam himself who asked them to join.

But an oversight board can be established easier than that it can be disbanded and that's for very good reasons. The only reason that it worked is not because the board made any decisions they shouldn't have made (though that may well be the case) but because they critically misjudged the balance of power. They could and maybe should have made their move, but they could not make it stick.

As for the last line of your comment: I think that explains your motivation of interpreting things creatively but that doesn't make it true.
The linked issue and the associated PR that fixed it haven't had a reply since 2021 because they were filed and fixed in 2021.

Separately, the original issue regressed in 2023 on the Libera instance, which was tracked as a security issue... but Libera shut down the bridge before we could fix it.
Sure. Run a genset off the fuel and drive a motor with that. Works fine. Not very sensible in terms of drivetrain mass or efficiency.
It's an ecommerce business selling musical instruments. Q4 is when we make 80% of our sales. We ship products from our warehouse. Stripe account is in good standing, no disputes. Average shipping time is 5-7 days.
I think that's the case for 'Apps' but not games. Like I said in another post, my info is several years dated at this point, so things may have changed, but when I was in this field, if you wanted to publish a game vs a non-game app, there were many more requirements. Apps had pretty limited amounts of scrutiny and certification hoisted on them, while games had several hundred certification requirements for a ton of different things they had to meet. Apps also did not get access to the full capabilities of the console, whereas games did. Under the hood there were quite a few differences between how apps and games were provisioned, published and run -- games are almost like a container image rather than a regular windows app.
The presence of the license strongly suggests that it's a fork.

"Fork" and "API compatible wrapper" are also not two mutually exclusive things. Often, one of the easiest ways to build an API compatible wrapper is to start by forking the original project, scoop out the internals and replace them with what you are trying to wrap, and then discard all the dangling code (e.g. features that you couldn't wire up because your custom internals don't support it).
Although we have, as yet, no idea what he was actually refering to, I believe the source of the tension may be related to the statements Sam made the night before he was fired.

"I think this is going to be the greatest leap forward that we've had yet so far, and the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we've had so far. so i'm super excited, i can't imagine anything more exciting to work on. and on a personal note, like four times now in the history of openai, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, i've gotten to be in the room when we sort of like push the front, this sort of the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. and getting to do that is like the professional honor of a lifetime. so that's just, it's so fun to get to work on that."

Finally, when asked what surprises may be announced by the company next year, Sam had this to say

"The model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected."
- "Wait, say it again?"
"The model capability, like what these systems can do, will have taken such a leap forward, no one expected that much progress."
- "And why is that a remarkable thing? Why is it brilliant? "
"Well, it's just different to expectation. I think people have in their mind how much better the model will be next year, and it'll be remarkable how much different it is. "
- "That's intriguing."
Perhaps MIT is known as "do whatever you want" license among ordinary people, so another license would force them to think before touching it.
Having bad health is a hell of a way to waste the time you could have wasted on making money instead.
Private off-chain storage for decentralised applications
Why is the default response that I haven't "engaged or understood" the "other side of this debate"? What's the "other side" here? That I have sympathy for this man? Where is this whole thing going? Is doing research on what he's done and perpetrated and quotes by his own voice not enough? And how does that lead to me not understanding modern day Kissingers?

I refuse to give this any more headspace. This sage-like almost apathetical both-sidesing is more dangerous to me than taking a stand.
Why do we engage in wilful ignorance?
That’s completely not true at all. BMWs have come around in the past years. The 2000 e46 I had was as reliable as my 2002 4Runner. I replaced the same things at similar intervals, water pump, belt tensioner, wheel bearing, plugs, coils etc.

BMWs B58 engines is so nice Toyota put it in a Supra.
Did you come to HN just to complain since its a new account? Its hard to take these seriously.

Stripe always behaves this way because they'll have a banking partner that suspects fraud, and they can't tell you what you've done wrong since it would be like tipping you off.
This sort of reason is also why gRPC isn’t usable in games that also release on consoles. It comes with its own HTTP implementation which you can’t use and even if you wanted to reimplement it, it requires HTTP/2 which isn’t supported by the “blessed” console libraries.
Essentially EA is a stretchable concept that allows adherents to act out their every fantasy with complete abandon whilst protecting their sensitive sense of self. It redefines their side to always be the good side, no matter what they get up to.
Well it's a shitty way to operate but since these companies pay close to zero taxes I kinda support it
Oh if you want to _publish_ I'm sure it's a whole different ballgame, but if you're just playing around and/or developing a game (and don't need a full on DevKit), it's relatively straightforward.
As far as I know VS Code only runs within a windowing system, not inside a terminal. On the other hand I can run my Emacs at full capability from console directly on my HPC sever (ie. without a display server). With VS Code I think I would need to use another device to ssh into the server.
Yeah, but you are paying 20$ per-month subscription _and also have to sweet-talk the stochastic parrot into giving you the result you want_ while it keeps lecturing you in condescending tone.
It’s done client side. Even a measly iGPU can do this today, and you don’t even get the option to turn it on if your hardware isn’t able to do it.
Unfortunate as that is it's not at all surprising. Comparing the median with the top 1% would be more interesting. The gap there is still quite significant:

(for 40 year old men, unadjusted by race):
100th inc. prct : ~ 88 years:
75th inc. prct : ~ 84
50th inc. prct : ~ 82.5
25th inc. prct : ~ 79
5th inc. prct : ~ 76
1st inc. prct : ~ 72.5
(had to infer the values visually from charts because I wasn't to find a table including all the groups...)

However (I assume the data is very limited though) there is almost no difference in life expectancy (for men or women) when your household income is above >$200k (back in 2014, so probably quite a bit higher now). So I don't think there are any efficient treatments available only for the ultra-rich, just being rich or upper-middle class should be enough to get access the best(ish) treatment there is.

For the bottom income quartile when comparing local areas: the % of people with not insurance, medicare spending per enrolled person and 30-day hospital mortality rate seem to have the highest correlation with life expectancy. Which all should be trivial to fix for a relatively extremely-rich country like the US...

Looking at the appendices one interesting point I noticed (assuming I understood it correctly) is that people at the 50th percentile are more likely to reach 77 years than those in the top 75th or 100th prcts. But after that point income seems to matter a whole lot more.

Another seemingly very weird correlation (page 43): higher inequality in local area seems to be correlated with lower life expectancy for all income quartiles except the bottom one (so basically poorer people tend to liver longer in high inequality areas even though the difference in years is not very big).
Peak HN, where "just look at the source" is the same level easy as "look at the map". ;) But I agree
The simplest explanation would be that that - despite this problem - their magic money machine is still producing a satisfying amount of money.
Yes, this is the main reason for it! Another topic which would take advantage of this is GDPR.
I do not see license in either repository and it seems that this tool only has 30 day evaluation tier for free. Anyway, using this means that you have dependency on a single vendor and you accept their future pricing changes.

Now compare this with JSON ecosystem
"How do you defensively drive against someone just blasting through a red light 15 seconds after it turned red and cross traffic is moving steadily? Or the guy in a lifted truck who decides to force you into the shoulder because he thinks it's funny?"

Probably upgrading to a tank at some point. Or bringing a gun. Or bribe politicians, that they urge the police to focus on maintaining sanity on the roads and take away the licence(and at some point the cars) from those drivers eagerly.

Honestly, if I can, I drive a bicycle, even now in wintertime. But I often indeed wished for a gun, to bring awareness to my fragile self. To express, that I also have rights on the road, despite being lighter. But I am aware, this might not be the best solution overall.
Finally, the chance to build CCP/IP
I don't think it was a metaphor, I grew up with it so I always imagined a bag being zipped up.

That deemphasises the compression aspect though.

I wonder if this influenced 'tarball', or maybe it's just human nature to think of objects in those terms.
The weird thing is that (I think) in Persian grapefruit == گریپ فروت (grapefruit)

OK, to answer my own question: toranj == citron

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/hayyim_query.py?qs=tor...
No, This Is Not A Secret UFO Crash Retrieval
> If I understood correctly, you'd like the composition to be played first in 1x speed, and later in 2x or other speed (multiple times) so that it lands on the Sam.

Yes, that is correct. But doubling the speed is kind of trivial.

I need to think about this a bit more to see what's useful. I see that you have linked your github, so if you don't mind I will use that to contact you.
I built freemium chatgpt extension.. reached $7k MRR recently.

https://chatgptwriter.ai
I'm completely making stuff up here, but I wonder if this is the effect of some last minute (or even post-release, via ucode update) bug fix, where page aligned fast rep movs had issues or were subject to some attack and got disabled.
SUSE deviated from its internal controls while warning about sales risk
Homelabbers like me have a docker swarm cluster / k8s cluster so this def helps!
Doesn't work on Edge 119.0.2151.93 either.

Initially it doesn't open the pop-up. Once I allow it, it opens correctly in a new window, but the smaller window doesn't move with the mouse.
Not clear at all. Ilya leaving would look really bad for OpenAI. Altman needs him to stay, and he keeps the door wide open for that in the statement. Question is: How much is he willing to offer (money and otherwise) to make that happen?
You wouldn’t get any of the benefits of hybrid electric cars, you are saying.
They may have been way out of their depth but they also may have been the only ones taking their roles somewhat seriously. They've now been shown what the true balance of power is like and that is a lesson they are probably not going to forget. Unfortunately they also threw away the one shot they had at managing this and for that their total contribution goes from net positive to net negative. I don't think that in a break-the-glass scenario it would have gone any different but they were there for the ride to see how their main role was a performative one rather than an actual one and it must have been a very rude awakening to come to realize this.

It would be poetic justice if the new board fires Sam Altman next week, given the amount of drama so far I am not sure if I would be surprised or not.
Ask HN: Book recommendation for newby tester who wants to learn automation
Hi!

I'm browsing through Amazon looking for a gift idea for my sister. She is a tester and told me once she would like to pick up automation. I was thinking about helping her to set up a sandbox so she can practice, but I was also thinking about a book I can buy as a Christmas gift. Can you share books about the subject you find worth suggesting?

I was thinking about 'Hands On Selenium WebDriver With Java" (https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Selenium-WebDriver-Java-End/dp/1098110005)
Both of my WK2 Jeep grand Cherokee’s have been reliable and they share parts with the old MLs. The parts they share are pretty silly to consider reliability, control arms, 5-speed transmission (until 2014), and some other random parts with Mercedes stamped on it. Considering Chrysler transmissions were terrible I’m glad they used Benz then ZFs.
This is very cool. Thank you very much for sharing.
Get in line buddy, i'm still on a mission to teach hackernews the correct plural of 'Lego'
You need to write a paper with sophisticated words and hard to read charts to be taken seriously! /s
> actually useful

Except it's a custom ISA (fork of MIPS). It could be fine for Chromebook-like use cases (basically web browser machine), but not really for anything more serious ...
That's kinda neat. Actually, if you're doing that, you may as well reduce it to a single shift+or:

a = ((a >> 12) | a) & 0xfff

You could also skip the xor with 0x303030 by adjusting the lookup table accordingly.

Unfortunately, you'd still need to factor in the length argument somehow. That is, if given "23" with length=1, it should parse to 2, not 23. You could address this with a variable shift, but at that point, I can't see it being any better than a multiply+shift, even assuming the lookup table is fully cached.

The other major issue is validation, which the lookup table doesn't help much with.
Agreed. I think one of the biggest questions on a lot of A.I. Safety people's minds now is whether Sam's optimism includes techno-optimism. In particular, people on twitter are speculating about whether Sam is, at heart, an e/acc, which is a new term that means Effective Accelerationism. Its use originally started as a semi-humorous dig at E.A. (Effective Altruism) but has started to pick up steam as a major philosophy in its own right.

The e/acc movement has adherents among OpenAI team members and backers, for example:

• Christian J. Gibson, engineer on the OpenAI Supercomputing team -- https://twitter.com/24kpep (e/acc) -- https://openai.com/blog/discovering-the-minutiae-of-backend-...

• Garry Tan 陈嘉兴, President & CEO of ycombinator -- https://twitter.com/garrytan (e/acc)

Some resources about what e/acc is:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ss6gomAJdqjwdSCy/what-s-the...

https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten...

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism....

https://www.effectiveacceleration.org/posts/qHLiD9c6rWjbz3fR...

https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos

At a very high level, e/acc's are techno-utopians who believe that the benefits of accelerating technological progress outweigh the risks, and that there is in fact a moral obligation to accelerate tech as quickly as possible in order to maximize the amount of sentience in the universe.

A lot of people, myself included, are concerned that many e/acc's (including the movement's founder, that twitter account BasedBeffJezos), have indicated that they would be willing to accelerate humanity's extinction if this results in the creation of a sentient AI. Discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/181vd4w/comment/kaf...

''Really important to note that a lot of e/acc people consider it to be basically unimportant or even desirable if AI causes human extinction, that faction of them does not value human life. If you hear "next stage of intelligence", "bio bootloader", "machine god" said in an approving rather than horrified manner, that's probably what they believe. Some of them have even gone straight from "Yes, AGI is gonna happen and it's good that humans will be succeeded by a superior lifeform, because humans are bad" to "No, AGI can't happen, there's no need to engage in any sort of safety restrictions on AI whatsoever, everyone should have an AGI", apparently in an attempt to moderate their public views without changing the substance of what they're arguing for.''
The loongarch spec

https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch...
>Banning depleted uranium doesn’t solve anything.

Tell that to the mothers in Iraq giving birth to deformed babies every single day.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Me-and-my-fbAXhIyPQ9Wocca7a...
You have given Dobb·E a sock!
A lot of what makes sense socially and economically doesn't happen (esp. in the US) when the alternative is a very profitable business, often an oligopoly. E.g. free prison phone calls hurt the >$1B "inmate telephone business."

Prisons themselves can be a profitable business, which (if you own a for-profit prison) provides strong incentive for reducing rehabilitation and increasing recidivism.
They are optimal in the overall sense, because flops per dollar is not everything in the real world. Though I can see why many people outside the field would think so, since that is what manufacturers write in big letters on their marketing brochures.
Writing books which generate revenues of about $500 per month (all of them combined, not every single one). See http://t3x.org
I added an explicit LICENSE file with the ISC text now.
It's mentioned in the README that we use UG for searching tabs currently.
So the goal was a coup-like event for microsoft, "altman" was just a decoy
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I theory the compiler could always statically inline a memcpy to a (possibly nop-padded) rep mov. Then the dynamic linker could dynamically patch the instructions to a call to an out of line function if rep mov is known not to be optimal to the actual CPU the code is running. The reverse (patching a call to memmove with a rep mov) is also possible.
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

― Anthony Bourdain
I guess $25k quote was to test the ground how serious you are. I personally would not touch $1k project, considering how much of a hassle it is to maintain it later.