skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame that Gemini is so far behind ChatGPT. Gemini Advanced failed softball questions when I've tried it, but GPT works almost every time even when I push the limits.

Google wants to replace the default voice assistant with Gemini, I hope they can make up the gap and also add natural voice responses too.
Tricky?
Checking if you're bound to TTY is trivial, checking whether you have a parent is trivial, checking whether interactive shell is somewhere in the tree is trivial, having some if's in signal handlers is trivial, etc.

Besides "daemon writers" could just default to foreground, because if it's ran as a daemon it is ran from a script hence nobody cares for extra option typing such as -d --daemon, it's written once in a file, as opposed to doing "program --foreground" every time you want it to run in front of you
Learning about the low levels, for one.
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Microsoft is by far the lowest paying FAANG there is right next to Amazon. You make $150k+ less working at MS than Google, Meta, Apple, Nvidia etc.

Nobody reading HN who works at Microsoft is making killer money.
Off-topic, but what are the <!--[if !supportLists]--> doing there? I gather it's some MSOffice HTML stuff, but did it actually show up in the rendered email, or is it some artifact of the archival process(?) for legal discovery?
It's 100% a reversal. Their previous statement was: "we will remove PWA support". Their new statement: "we won't remove PWA support, we will keep PWAs as they were in 17.3".
It's a very pre-2016 view of the tech industry, for sure.

Back when the public at least somewhat bought the idea that SV was socially progressive and would use its massive accumulation of capital for the good of humanity.
Altman himself said it's nebulous and hates the term.
...to what end? Removal of the feature from iOS in the UK?
The law is the law whether it’s beneficial for anyone or not. Many are objectively not beneficial for anyone yet are still the law.
How does Rust as a language avoid the "UB" traps that are fundamentally just compiler optimizations? For example in the case where you have an array of 8 elements, you access the element at index x, then (in program order) test whether x is less than 8. It seems than an optimizing compiler with a known-bits analysis could conclude that x is always less than 8, and remove that test. I don't know much about languages, so I am interested in how that trap is a consequence of C and avoided by Rust.
Yes. We now use engineering standards to design houses. Looking at 100 year old houses as an engineering is enlightening (you don't even have to be a good engineer, just look and think). Old houses are often way over built in places where there is no stress and so paper would work - but those places are visible. Meanwhile places that do matter are often under built and it is amazing they are still standing at all - but those places tend to be not easily seen. Which is while people say modern houses are built from cardboard - in many ways they are - but those are all places where strength isn't needed so why waste money.

What you won't see in the above is things that are hidden. Modern code requires you to have a firestop in all walls every 10 feet - old houses were often balloon framed which means the inside of the walls becomes a chimney in a fire and will help feed the fire. New houses the inside of walls do not become a chimney because of that fire stop.

Modern houses also are insulated to much better standards. Something else that often isn't seen but makes a big difference. Even when it is seen nobody thinks about it - those old windows the article is singing the praises of are universally single pane windows that should have been scrapped 40 years ago. Sure there frame is still like new, but the standards for new back then are not acceptable.

The bigger lesson to take from the above: don't build to last too long. What people want out of a house changes over time, and you never correctly anticipate what people will want in the next decade. Eventually that old house will have enough things "wrong" that cannot be retrofitted and the best thing to do is tear down and rebuild from scratch to modern standards.
It has been shown that a finite difference implementation of wave propagation can be expressed as a deep neural network (e.g., [1]). These networks can have thousands of layers and yet I don't think they suffer from the exploding/vanishing gradient problem, which I imagine is because in the physical system they model there are conservation laws such as conservation of energy.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07232
you can't really compare the utility of an LLM against libreoffice or similar. There is no comparison. Libreoffice is something that you would definitely use unlike an LLM.
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It’s not insider trading as there is no material non-public information involved. Were the information false, it would likely be actionable market manipulation. But because the information was true, from the perspective of the authorities nothing wrong here.

On the other hand, there may be ethical (but not legal) issues from the perspective of the publisher.
It's missing the "I" part -- it's a token prediction scheme using math.
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Non-profit status is a government granted status and the government is we the people.

Abuse of non-profit status is damaging to all citizens.
This is bogus and doesn't even make sense.

That would mean that any publicly traded company that didn't issue a dividend didn't make a profit which no one believes.

Do you really want to claim that Google has never made any profit?
Show HN: ChillTranslator tool to calm internet comments
The internet gets more busy and has polarised discussion.
I saw a comment here on HN that was more spicy that I think it should have been, and I imagined if it was me on the receiving end, it would have been really painful to read, unnecessarily so, and yet it had some good insights.

I thought `surely I could get a large language model to make a more calm alternate text while honouring the original intent as best as possible?`
Well it works sorta okay, I've got a slow and costly implementation using my own Mistral credits, that I am paying for (free credits are welcome!)

I've just set it up to collect data for fine-tuning a translator (encoder-decoder) model later, I've also identified some datasets I could use, as well as collecting from people using the Space. I have a roadmap on the GitHub page.

I tried using Mixtral with llama.cpp's Python interface on RunPod Severless and HuggingFace (with JSON grammars enforced), but it wasn't reliable enough so I am just using the Mistral API.

Wouldn't it be great to have rose tinted glasses that show a calmer internet? Or in the moment offer people better alternatives instead of posting something inflammatory?

ChillTranslator is a tool aiming to transform toxic online comments into more constructive dialogues.

It's MIT licensed Python code with a Gradio frontend and module that might be reused elsewhere.
Ideally people could just pip install it and have it just work right away but I fear there will be rate limits and moderation limits hit easily, so I figure a small translator model is a good solution.
Currently I know it's going to be biased in the way that LLM's usually are, and it might not work very well, and it's buggy, but it's a start!
There is a demo here: https://huggingface.co/lukestanley/ChillTranslator

What do you think?
They didn't actually fire the board of the non-profit. They just said they'd all quit in protest because of an action of the board they all felt was egregious. The board could have stayed and been a non-profit that did nothing ever again. They decided it was better to step down.
The reality was that nobody could have predicted the A.I breakthroughs when OpenAI first got started. It was a moonshot. Thats why Musk gave $50m dollars without even asking for a seat at the board.

OpenAI had to start as a non profit because there was no clear path forward. It was research. Kind of like doing research with the goal of curing cancer.

The unexpected breakthroughs came a bit quicker than anticipated and everybody was seeing the dollar signs.

I believe OpenAIs intial intention at the beginning was benign. But they just couldn't let go of the dollars.
Adding to what another person said

Can you not use google forms? I dont post my resume out on the wild internet, so no link to give the form, and it wont allow uploads, so i cant put my resume on it.

Find a better way to pull in applications and ill definitely apply
... until the cause is really and truly a non-deterministic build. Trust me, been there.

For a long-ago example: I worked on a project that had an optimizer that used time-bounded simulated annealing to optimize. No two builds ever the same. It was "great".
Regarding Mistral recent announcements, I'm not so sure anymore.
If steam was technically less horrible, more distros would be able to run games way more easily and mechanically more elf/linux users would play games. Because fullfilling all the nasty tantrums of steam is really a pain. Most native games have lesser requirements than steam.
They're all buddies. It's a industry/regional oligarchy. Part of the system is you cut the rest of "the club" in on deals. If you don't, you get what's happening here: lawsuits.
No part of their communication up until now had indicated that PWA removal was a temporary thing.
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Might be more accurate to change “accidentally” to “intentionally”.

Or “I found a bad dump in MAME and corrected it”
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>You’d need to control for… you get the point.

Exactly. And most companies and factories in the west have already optimized for all these factors to get maximum output on a 5 day work week. Moving to a 4 day workweek would be an automatic production loss and therefore a loss on economic competitiveness compared top those still on 5.

What you're talking about, companies who can lower working hours without loosing productivity and competitiveness are very few and far between, usually world champions who have a captive market to themselves like Nvidia, ASML, Airbus, high end service jobs, etc, but that's only a microscopic share of the total amount of players on the market. The rest are firing on all cylinders trying to overtake or catch up to those established market players, and if you ever worked at a startup, it usually means longer hours, not fewer.

>This is a BS way to think about an economic model.

What's the better way? If all companies could get the same levels of productivity form 4 days a weeks from 5 why haven't they done that already?
>> there's enough nature for everyone.

Climbing is different. It is about very rarified and somewhat delicate places. Climbing is also always about balancing safety with ability. Anyone can hammer in ladders and assent a cliff. That isn't climbing. Make a route too "accessible" to the masses, make it easy, and the masses will loose respect. They will destroy it. Have a look at Everest base camp. It is effectively a landfill of garbage and human waste.
This is the most likely theory.

The notion that Apple was purposefully trying to kill PWAs never made sense in light of their significant investment in supporting PWAs over the last four years, down to recruiting industry rockstars such as Jen Simmons.

Nobody who was screaming bloody murder ever tried to reconcile that incongruence, much less succeeded.

What’s more likely is that Apple’s lawyers went with the most careful interpretation of the DMA, concluded that they’d have to facilitate Home Screen install for other browsers as well, figured it wasn’t worth the engineering effort, especially on short notice, and instead just deactivated it for Safari as well.

Then, after all the bloody murder that was being screamed about, the EU started to inquire[0] both with Apple as well as developers about the consequences for PWAs. Apple was told that their interpretation was too strict (or that they will be given more time to implement it for other browsers, but less likely because such decisions are typically made public) and that they’re fine (for now) with PWAs running in WebKit.

0: https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/26/apple-blocking-web-apps/
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Great idea.

I did that and found a paper I would rank highly: Hoare’s “An axiomatic basis for computer programming”[1].

I clicked through and saw that it was included in their 25th anniversary issue and that particular issue seems like an excellent place to start.[2]

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/357980.358001

[2]: https://dl.acm.org/toc/cacm/1983/26/1
To be fair, this is the time for NVIDIA to leverage their stock and buy up shit to diversify because their stock is going to correct eventually lol. So why not buy out a oil producer ahaha.
Absolutely. Some nonprofits are scams but those are just the ones that have armies of collectors on the streets showing pictures of starving kids and asking for your bank details. But they stay obscure and out of the limelight (eg advertising) because being obscure is what makes them from being taken down.

I think the big NGOs are no longer effective because they are run as the same corporations they fight and are influenced by the same perverse incentives. Like eg Greenpeace.

But in general I think non profits are great and a lot more honorable than for profit orgs. I donate to many.
Is it? I know of one case where someone cleaned some graffiti - but they didn't realize that there was priceless art under that graffiti and their cleaning also destroyed the priceless art. If experts had been called in they could found and used the proper solvent and saved the art. (often this means work a couple square cm at a time)
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Cory can't believe that Amazon's non-AWS units combined have such low profit margins.

But he never explains how, exactly, decomposing the non-AWS income statement into separate income statements for each non-AWS activity would somehow uncover hidden income.

How could it not show that some activities were profitable, others lost money, and the sum matches the aggregate reported in the 10-K?
No, he wasn't forced to buy Twitter, but he didn't want to pay the $1bn deal failure fee, so instead he spent $44bn to buy Twitter and drive it directly into the ground. But he COULD have just paid $1bn and walked away.
Right - but OpenAI's nonprofit purpose is extremely broad;

"OpenAIs mission is to build general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) that safely benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. OpenAI believes that artificial intelligence technology has the potential to have a profound, positive impact on the world, so our goal is to develop and responsibly deploy safe AI technology, ensuring that its benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible."

So as long as the Musk bucks were used for that purpose, the org is within their rights to do any manner of other activities including setting up competing orgs and for-profit entities with non-Musk bucks - or even with Musk bucks if they make the case that it serves the purpose.

The IRS has almost no teeth here, these types of "you didn't use my unrestricted money for the right purpose" complaints are very, very rarely enforced.
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Isn't OpenAI a less subtle scam in that case?
My friend I know you just discovered nix but "don't have processes we don't need using cpu cycles" is low hanging fruit. If you really care then you'd use a bare linux kernel.

Of course mining is done on ASICs. If you care about latency you implement the network interface into the ASIC, and don't even use a CPU.

Parent's answer wasn't anti-crypto.
The research is an inconsequential percentage of the development cost, essentially a rounding error. Those commercial development organizations foot almost the entire bill and take all of the risk.
Musk is posturing as a savior.

For a promise to be enforceable in contract, it has to be definitive. There's nothing definitive here.

For a representation to be fraudulent, it has to be false or misleading and relied upon as material. Courts don't treat a later change of heart as making earlier statement false, and since Altman arguably knew less than Musk at the time, it's unlikely to be material.

More generally, investors lose all the time, and early minority investors know they can be re-structured out. These investments are effectively not enforced by law but by reputation: if you screw an investor, you'll lose access to other investors (unless your investor tribe is, well, tribal).

The detail and delay that evolved in law for the sake of truth and legitimacy is now being deployed for the sake of capturing attention and establishing reputation.

Musk's investment in twitter has been a catastrophe from an investment and business standpoint, but has amplified his icon status with king-maker aspects through control of attention in our attention-based economy and politics. If he can lead the charge against AI, he can capture a new fear and resentment franchise that will last for generations.

Hence: posturing.

We burrowing mammals can hope the dinosaurs fighting might make life quieter for us, but that's just hope.
What matters isn't the money, but the knowledge of what to do with it. And that is not easily obtained by the common citizen at all.
PWA’s can run a ServiceWorker in the background too, I can imagine Apple does not want anyone to be able to run code they don’t control as a background task as this may negatively affect overall performance and battery life.
Not many people seem to understand this. Here's an example from a previous rabbit hole.

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation (which manages the post-humous funds of the guy who made Fairchild Semiconductor) pays its president $500k+ and chairman about the same. https://beta.candid.org/profile/6906786?keyword=Sherman+fair... (Click Form 990 and select a form)

I do love IRS Form 990 in this way. It sheds a lot of light into this.
So Musk's arguing that they had duty to protect his investment in OpenAI from being used for profiteering, and they didn't do that.

How's that going to float in an industry whose philosophy is that profit is a very useful abstraction for social benefit?