skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only need to look at the pricing of their other competitors which comes nowhere close to the costs of AWS networking (except for Azure and GCP).

Also snarky statements such as the ones you are making do not particularly help your argument.
Machine code monkey patching (2011)
I use readkit + inoreader
Thank you for your words, I'm definitely trying to reframe this way and rekindle some interest in algorithms/design.

And yeah, I haven't obviously made that signal, but I have definitely applied for "lesser" companies that I wouldn't have otherwise.
> They're probably right that without making a profit, it's impossible to afford...

This doesn't begin to make sense to me. Nothing about being a non-profit prevents OpenAI from raising money, including by selling goods and services at a markup. Some sell girl-scout cookies, some hold events, etc.

So, you can't issue equity in the company... offer royalties. Write up a compensation contract with whatever formula the potential employee is happy with.

Contract law is specifically designed to allow parties to accomplish whatever they want. This is an excuse.
From their 2015 introductory blog post: “OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.”

Today’s OpenAI is very much driven by considerations of financial returns, and the goal of “most likely to benefit humanity as a whole” and “positive human impact” doesn’t seem to be the driving
principle anymore.

Their product and business strategy is now governed by financial objectives, and their research therefore not “free from financial obligations” and “unconstrained by a need to generate financial return” anymore.

They are thus severely compromising their alleged mission by what they claim is necessary for continuing it.
Also it immediately makes me wonder what `await` is... Is it a reference to a field of whatever the `print()` method is returning? Is it calling a method? If it's a method call without parentheses, how do I get a reference to a method without calling it?

(These kinds of questions are just unavoidable though; everyone will have these little pet things that they subjectively prefer or dislike.)
De-Redacting Elon's Email with Character-Count Constrained Llama2 Decoding
Nice work. The IRS proposed regulations in 2017 that contributions from DAFs should be treated as if they came directly from an individual donor, but they are still waiting on final regulations.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-17-73.pdf

https://taxnews.ey.com/news/2023-1927-irs-releases-proposed-...
Salesforce aims to blaze new AI trail for developers with Einstein 1 Studio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer
Macros that Work Together (2012) [pdf]
I'm in the US and my neighborhood HOA said they didn't receive my check for $500 and charged me $50 for a late fee plus interest of $4.17.
You're sick in the head. Absolutely abhorrent.
I'm not sure how anyone believed they would open source their proprietary AI, or what that would even mean.

Did OpenAI ever even officially define what open source means in this context? Is the training algorithm open source? Or the data model? Or the interpretation engine that reads the model and spits out content? Or some combination of all three?
10/10 on the name
> Mostly just speculators and gambling, but uses a a couple hundred TWh of electricity worldwide.

Parent asked about ethics of crypto, the technology, in general. This comment isn't about the technology, but the applications, and doesn't answer their question.
> Personally, if I could own Kagi stock, I would.

Google stock would be worthless without its ad empire. Without ads, they would have no need to acquire Youtube and Android.

$10/mo also would not be enough for Wall St. Ask Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, anybody really. Ads will always be just around the corner.
Yes, if you think about it, it's a bit weird that async gets first syntactical class treatment in the language but reference counting does not. A similar approach of adding a syntactical form but not mandating a particular impl could have been taken, I think.

Same for Box, but in fact Rust went the opposite way and turfed the Box ~ sigil.

Which I actually feel was a mistake, but I'm no language designer.
Arent you describing some things which people don't like such as public transport. Public transport works the way you describe with private companies and there are lots of unhappy people with it
> they (say) don't store your history

They don't show your history.

> the ad profile Google builds on you is probably more damaging to your privacy than a photo of the entire contents of your wallet.

I can take measures to prevent Google from linking together a full profile. It sucks that it's necessary, but once you log in it's effectively game over. And your payment info has enough stable identifiers that it's trivial to link you to pretty much anything else you've paid for.

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The core misconception here seems to be the idea that there is such a thing as a honest for-profit corporation.
Imho they are selling their service by making clear what their USP is.

I don’t see anything wrong with that.
> Your device eligibility for alternative app marketplaces is determined using on-device processing with only an indicator of eligibility sent to Apple. To preserve your privacy, Apple does not collect your device's location.

> If you leave the European Union for short-term travel, you'll continue to have access to alternative app marketplaces for a grace period. If you're gone for too long, you'll lose access to some features, including installing new alternative app marketplaces. Apps you installed from alternative app marketplaces will continue to function, but they can't be updated by the marketplace you downloaded it from.
...as if command line is the most intuitive way of doing things, provides all the workflows and solves all the problems, while GUI has no additional benefit. Maybe for you, but not for many (if not most) people.
>I still feel I can not provide the healthy lifestyle for my kids, that she has provided for my father.

I don’t know what you mean by healthy, but I would guess what you feel is simply due to you knowing you could be doing better for your kids than your grandmother thought she could do for your father.

You know there’s sophisticated healthcare and medicine available, but you don’t know if you have secured access to it, and you are in the gray area where you could be in position to secure it.

Or you know there are significant advantages to sewing your kids into the right social circles, and with the right movies, you could achieve that.

So you cannot settle knowing that you could have done more (given your desire to give your kids the maximum support).

However, with your monthly income, you could easily limit your kids’ luxuries in many aspects to what your grandmother gave your dad. But you probably will not be happy with that.
You are emphatically, logically, ethically, technically, securely, and in all other ways correct.

Yes and:

> Encrypting data while at rest (in storage) as well as in-transit is the way to go.

All PII must be encrypted at rest at the field level.

Just like how passwords are properly stored. This is not rocket science.

The book Translucent Databases demonstrates this technique for common use cases. Highest recommendation.

https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Databases-Peter-Wayner/dp...
It's telling people to avoid the famously hard meme-road.

Mutexes and reference counting work fine, and are sometimes dramatically simpler than getting absolutely-minimal locks like people seem to always want to do with Rust.
That's an easy one. Lots of ways. Just think about it for a minute.

Here's a quick list I came up with:

First time we've created something artificial we can talk sensibly to and get sensible knowledgeable responses.

Exporting expertise in a way that's trivial to consume and employ for millions of people.

Allow autonomous robotic servants to operate in a chaotic environment such as a home or business.

Replace entire swaths of knowledge-workers in a single generation.

What have you thought of?

Here's some of what ChatGPT lists as reasons:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably one of the most important inventions in human history due to its transformative impact across various fields. Here are some ways in which AI is considered crucial:

And it goes on to list: automation, decision making, healthcare, accessibility, sustainability, creativity, economic growth, space exploration.
It sounds like you're arguing against LLMs as AGI, which we're on the same page about.
I agree that I shouldn't
Don't be so quick to discount DSLs. Sure, you don't want a half-baked DSL when some simple imperative code would do. But if you watch your API evolve into an algebra and then don't formalize it with a DSL you might be leaving powerful tools for understanding on the table.

A poor-fitting language is terrible for abstract thinking, on the other hand an internally-consistent and domain appropriate language can unlock new ways of looking at problems.

I'd highly recommend Martin Fowler's work on DSLs to see how you can apply these techiques to large projects.
What dendritic painting has in common with "tears of wine" phenomenon
> Thus: English may be the lingua franca of programming in North America and some European countries, but clearly not worldwide.

So, you don't have "for" or "while" loops where you live? Not even a "main" function?
You've said "reasonably well" a couple times here.... I think there can be book written between the gap of "reasonably well" and "prosperous". And these things are all relative of course... if "reasonably well" is the best in the world at the time, then great. But when you have another system to compare to at the same time, "reasonably well" falls apart very quickly.

I'm not sure if you lived in a Soviet country during these times, but I think you will get MANY opinions that this was not working well.
@mattboyle: "A Brief Detour into Incident Management" should be formatted as a title, but isn't.
Depends on your limited definition of advance. Chilling in a Matrix-esque wasteland with my fancy-futuristic-gadget isn't my idea of advanced-level-humanity.

May help with technological advancement, but not social or ethical advancement.
You are the one who is not really understanding here. The article again and again wonders why Americans are so aggressively resistant to the EU policies, instead of just trying to optimize within them. This is just a cultural difference and you aren't going to talk Americans out of having an American culture. Once, a long time ago, when I was in Sweden a friend of a friend said that "The government told us we shouldn't have cars so I sold my car" and I laughed very hard, then realized none of the Swedish people were laughing. From an American point of view, saying that could only have been a dry irony, and could never have been meant as a serious statement by anyone, even the people who would most support not owning a car. That level of trust in government is wildly unamerican and could never be expressed in that way by anyone and understood to be a serious statement by other americans. Even a Canadian wouldn't be able to say something like "I did this because the government advised us to do it" without then giving a culturally valid reason and not be considered very odd. In fact, this under states this cultural difference, if I said to basically any American "the government said to do X, so I'm not going to do it" they would immediately recognize and more or less agree with the general sentiment, even if they thought there were other, actually valid reasons to still do X.

I think the behavior of Americans confuses you because you have grown up in a European monoculture (yes you have seen lots of different costumes and heard lots of languages, but western europe is largely all the same in this respect) and lack perspective on actual differences in how different cultures around the world relate to authority.
Whether it is hindsight or foresight depends on the perspective. From the zeitgeist perspective mired in crypto scams yea it may seem like a surprise benefit, but from the original design intention this is just the intended use case.
> You would have to either add the features to git itself,

That is exactly what I'm suggesting.
I'm not clear what you mean by "better pressurised"? If you mean the cabin altitude, one of the advantages of Concorde was that the cabin had a lower cabin altitude than other airliners, then or now.

Concorde cruising supersonic on dry power was apparently due to the variable intake ramps (https://www.heritageconcorde.com/air-in-take-system), which presented compressed subsonic air to the compressors at supersonic speeds, bypassing excess air. This reduced the work that the compressors had to do, avoiding the surge issues with the J-58 which the A-12 family of aircraft ran in to. There is probably a bit of stretch there, as Concorde was limited by airframe temperature, but the temperature of the compressed intake would probably be the next limitation. As far as I know, Concorde was the only supersonic-native aircraft, with best range being achieved at M1.4.
Building the New Hardware for AI Model Inference
YDNS – simple and free DNS hosting alternative to FreeDNS
Similar boat. I'm looking in other industries.
People tend to forget Austria-Hungary, myself included. Well, not forget, but kind of ignore them. Which doesn't do justice to anyone.

And yes, Austria-Hungary was done, earlier than summer 1918 in fact. As I said earlier, there is the risk of viewing WW1 in terms of WW2, whixhbis dangerous and wrong. It leads to ignore the Ottoman theatre of war, the fact Austria-Hungary was major power until the end of WW1 and that Italy was on the side of the Entente. And that France was never defeated in that war (man, I hate the memes of French warfare so, so much..., different topic so).

Another fun fact: Spain was one of the big arms and ammunitions suppliers in WW1.
I try not to nitpick and let people on HN story tell a bit, it's fun reading. However, if I were to join you on the nitpicking, I'd further: Who is to measure "important" - oil and coal related products (automotive/electricity) may end up being the most important because they are our undoing! =)
They don't _work_ either :P
We regret to inform you but we have run out of pure good things. (Also pure bad things too, so yeey?)

It's a step, but precedent is (was) already established (US export controls on crypto), and regulations can take two steps at once. (It's not a nice discrete process.) And yes, of course, it's a trade off. Mandating strong encryption and sane security (no preset password in IoT/other devices), and the usual nice things (security updates) for things sold in the EU definitely puts these things in the regulated sphere. (Also, a hypothetical "right of the people to keep and bear Cryptography" law is also regulation, it's just a trivial one. And then folks start talking about what is and what is not Cryptography. And we're back to square whatever.)
Ugh, Java. I'll wait for something like i2pd does for I2P, something called yacyd either in c, c++ or golang.
But geoengineering is bad. Killing millions with a humid heatwave is a far safer option.

/s, and I dearly hope that doesn’t happen, but these days it feels like it’s just a matter of time.
I suspect the GP was merely suggesting a less-costly alternative. Perhaps building a complete standalone compiler or interpreter is hard, but we're all designing APIs in our programming languange of choice day in and day out.

Both strategies are very hard, but one of then is "build a prototype in a weekend" hard and one of them is "build a prototype is a month" hard.
Ironically, C originally used 0 as a sentinel address precisely because it could not hold a real value, because that's where the interrupt table was.
You Might Not Need a CRDT: Document Sync in the Wild [video]
About time !
> The company now has to apply for Dutch export licenses for its most advanced DUV and EUV gear, plus US government licenses for some systems destined for China. The latter market accounted for over a quarter of its net sales last year. ®

ASML is still Dutch, as far as I understand, but I guess they already have offices in the US or something? Why would a US government license be required for a Dutch company to sell to Chinese customers?
Delete API calls are free, listing the objects in a bucket to know what to delete is not.
That would require policy makers admitting they were wrong, and having to take some initiative on the subject of climate engineering. I don’t see either happening any time soon.
> A computer system employed statistics to exploit (but not comprehend) a pattern in a high-dimensional dataset.

Nitpick: I don't like this phrasing because there are degrees of comprehension, and understanding that two or more things are correlated in specific ways is a form of comprehension. "Exploit but not explain" is a better phrasing IMO.
Please see my sibling comment about Translucent Databases.

Additionally, proper protection of medical records will require globally unique identifiers (aka PID, MRN).

As you know, today, medical record PII must be stored as plaintext to allow record linking across heterogenous orgs. This is bad.
I learned SML/NJ and OCaml a bit over 20 years ago and liked them, but when I tried my hand at Haskell my eyes glossed over. I get its power. But I do not like its syntax, it's hard to read. And yes, the obsession with purity.
A good observation, I'd forgotten NonZeroU8 is a standard library type. I suspect (but haven't verified) Windows likewise requires [NonZeroU16]
> On a side note, I would encourage you to not lower your pay or communicate you will accept lower pay, because its a signal to employers that you're desperate, no one wants you, and they too should be cautious to hire you. As one of my old favorite managers once told me, "when I gave you that offer, I wanted you to walk in on your first day smiling"

While this is often true: (1) some employers really do want the cheapest labour — they're not people you want to work for for other reasons, but they will hire you, and if you're short of money, some is better than one

(2) It's unclear what the market rates are. I'm also job hunting*, and I've seen people confidently claim the "going rate" for my experience level is anywhere from €75k to €114k. My experience with pay has always been getting huge rises followed by people shocked by how small the number is.

* If anyone's interested in hiring me: iOS senior, Berlin, been doing iOS since the first iPod with retina display came out
Beef Wellington Marches on Shanghai, but at a Cost
Oo, thank you, I didn't know that!
It is really counterproductive policy to keep highly qualified immigrant workers from coming into the country. And sadly common everywhere.
Not to the point of rain in February. I grew up there, but the last decade-and-a-half the winters have gone completely to hell.
I've been running into chatbots that are confined to doling out information from their knowledgebase with no ability to help edge case/niche scenarios, and yet they've replaced all the mechanisms to receive customer support.

Essentially businesses have (knowingly or otherwise) dropped their ability to provide meaningful customer support.
> That way, you get some of your self-esteem back, you'll have less stress.

Seriously this is something you have to start figuring out. Nobody can get refused hundreds of times and not get into self-doubt. Once out of a few referrals, I actually take the time to write back to whoever refused, even if it's a dead mailbox, just so I can tell to myself hey buddy, look at how I can do this job. I take their offer line by line and tell them why I am the best to do it. Come to think of it, I should do that for cover letters.
> the Industrial Revolution started because Great Britain had an over abundance of coal, so another point for the geographical theory?

One thing that bothers me is, before that Netherlands had an abundance of windmills. So why was the industrial english and coal powered and not dutch and wind powered?
Code to Care: Designing Viral Privacy Policies in Healthcare
Hey HN,

I've been thinking alot about the properties of viral open-source licenses and how this could be applied to other legal documents - like privacy policies.

As it becomes possible to share our medical records with caregivers and practitioners using apps, we have to trust that these apps are managing our data and respecting our privacy as we intend. But it's not only the app developers we need to care about, its also the third party services that they use (and share our data with), and the third party services that they then use.. its turtles all the way down.

What if we could create standardized "viral" privacy policy clauses, similar to the viral nature of open-source notice & attribution clauses.. which would "follow" Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI).. ensuring it's used as we intend, no matter the degrees of separation?
An interesting point, but I would have to see some very serious performance benchmarks focused specifically on, say, RC Rust vs. GC Golang in order to entertain the notion that an RC PL might be slower than a GC PL. Swift isn't, AFAIK, a good yardstick of... anything in particular, really ;) J/K. Overall PL performance is not only dependent on its memory management, but also on the quality of its standard library and its larger ecosystem, etc.
BYD isn’t legacy.
Red Hat made off alright. Genuine questions: If OpenAI can pull off something like Red Hat, would people be more, or less, ok with it?
> Does Conway’s law imply that an organization of size 1 produces a system with components that are optimally integrated?

It’s creative work, like anything else. 1 is not necessarily always the right size, but 100 certainly isn’t. If you look at musical bands usually a sweet spot is between 1-6. You can add more in eg an orchestra or choir but everyone’s not involved in the creative work.

Then it depends on how well you vibe with people. If you have extremely unique ideas and thoughts, you may be better off alone. If you find peers with similar values, preferences and experiences, you might be fine with 5 people.
They seem to be suggesting the market would alongside government regulation to fill any gaps (like the cartels that you seem to be suggesting).
Because it uses some American tech or patents, and there is leverage and pressure point over these.
Yeah, GP's point is naive at best, and dishonest at worst, because from an engineering perspective, of course you can optimize for one variable at the expense of all the others - but everyone knows that that's always a bad decision, and that if you follow the same curve on the Pareto frontier, you'll never be able to achieve that extreme value with a reasonable engineering trade-space point.

Communist states, being authoritarian states, sometimes happen to choose an optimization trade-off that does one or two things better than a free-market state - but then uniformly do everything else worse (such as human rights).

It's not that free market systems are perfect - it's just that they at least have the ability to occupy the best spots of the Pareto frontier. Communism doesn't, and saying that we can "take things from it" is incorrect.
>The calculation used for “ice free” means less than 1m sq km, in which case the Arctic would be mostly water.

A million square kilometers of ice is not “ice-free.” Stop misusing words.