skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup - totally hear you - hopefully we'll have a good solution for that in a few months :)
When I need to refactor a large C codebase the first thing I do is recompile it with C++ - and then fix the missing prototypes and other grit that gets in the way. The cost to do this is minimal but I then have more options (via macros, automatic assignment, etc) to start shoring it up like a retaining wall that's about to fail. At the end of the day, a POD C++ structure with const inline accessors is way easier to reason about and costs nothing once compiled. It probably helps that I started with CFront, so C++ is just C (and C is just assembler with macros.)
How noisy are the Mellanox and Arista switches you're using?

Asking because I'm looking for something suitable for a homelab (using Mellanox 40GbE cards) that's in the same room I tend to occupy during the day.

When I used very early Mellanox switches (years ago), they were only suitable only for datacenters. aka permanent super noisy jet engine mode

Their 1U 10Gb/s Infiniband switch is still the noisiest piece of equipment I ever made the mistake of buying! (!!!)
If so someone needs to correct https://stratechery.com/2024/windows-returns/ article that reports: "That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”".
Ex-Googler designed a heat pump you'll want in your home
>or they don't trust the government/people/everyone. Which is fine and understandable, it just isn't related to privacy.

You can't possibly believe that. What am I missing here? Can you explain why this doesn't have everything to do with privacy? In order for it to not be relevant to my privacy, I have to trust the software spying on me and that Microsoft and the government won't use it against you if it benefits them in some way. I do not trust that, even though I also live a charmed life relative to most people in the world, I think. That doesn't mean I haven't read how, historically, government and other people of power are not to be trusted any more than absolutely necessary.
There is Mobius, which works pretty well. Not as well as on Android, but better than nothing.
Yuck. I don't know if you're serious, but it's not an either-or Hobson's choice.

There are plenty of alternatives.
I really want bsky to succeed. They have a promising product. Users and Content are all that matters now.
Yes, that "very little leverage" is why engineers & researchers near the bottom of OpenAI's career ladder are getting paid 900k/year (2/3rds funny money, admittedly, though in practice many people _have_ cashed out at very large multiples).
Knowing everything about an unspecified someone is different than knowing who that is
Employees are replaceable, sure, but that doesn't mean that you can't squander your good will with competent employees and end up only being able to hire sub-par employees.
Or maybe the explanation is a lot simpler.

Liberal democracies turned into oligarchies in much of the West in the 80s and 90s. While most of the benefits of growth used to go to people, now increasingly wealth is concentrated in a few hands.

Or in the words of Why Nations Fail, we remade the economy into an extractive system.

Lacking options and seeing that life for their children is getting increasingly more difficult and bleak people are slowly being more radicalized. They're losing faith in the traditional generators of growth like science and turning on one another.

Liberal democracy can win. But we need to undo the disastrous policies that got us here.
I can't remember ever once reading a youtube comment and being glad I did. They are certainly not valuable enough to take away video real estate.
Are they doing away with those annoying floating video recs that cover the end of every video?
Thank you for your input. I agree wholeheartedly.
For some people, the comments are the worst part of YouTube. I could see them being pretty vocal about not liking the design that makes them more visible.
Mmm I wish I could find a Psion 5mx or modern clone for a reasonable price. What a cool piece of hardware, especially the keyboard.
You'd also get that information by showing start and end values.
Murex: A shell that passes type annotations through Posix pipes
I urge executives to stop losing their minds with the FOMO need to insert "AI" into everything.
Ok, since it has real use, it deserves respect.
Comp clawbacks in exit agreements, that weren't part of the employment agreement?

I've seen equity clawbacks in employment agreements. Specifically, some of the contracts I've signed have said that if I'm fired for cause (and were a bit more specific, like financial fraud or something) then I'd lose my vested equity. That isn't uncommon, but its not typically used to silence people and is part of the agreement they review and approve of before becoming an employee. It's not a surprise that they learn about as they try to leave.
Yes, I have the misfortune of being on web meetings and telephone all day, every day. Even the comparatively very simple projects I work on move forward the most during our on-site meetings - and I don't mean the technological side, that's what we do after the on-site, it's exactly the parts where Musk would have most input that feel stuck online and everyone feels like we unblocked our minds and collaboration on-site.
One huge downside of your suggested approach is that adding a single entry requires rebuilding the entire hash.
This really is OpenAI's Downing Street Christmas Party week isn't it.
In Firefox it's easy to see the details of the HTTPS certificate by clicking on the small padlock in the navigation bar.
This is true, I don't even really know what this fuss is about or even what this "DRM" thing is except it's something the .nfo file says has been removed
They don't seem to have considered domestic abuse situations where this makes everything visible to the abusive partner.
Nice! appreciate you sharing it - would love to see the code at some point but looks like it's confidential.

I spent a lot of time building tokenization solutions at a previous startup so we'll definitely support tokenization at some point. There is a good use-case for it as well!
Since the beginning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight#Frictions
"Ticketmaster and Stubhub Caught Colluding With Scalpers"
https://kslnewsradio.com/1891544/opinion-ticketmaster-isnt-c...

"Ticketmaster Has Secretly Been Cheating You With Its Own Scalpers"
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/ticketmaster-cheating-...
Solution? : make your desktop background a screenshot from a NetFlix movie
I would like to fund the justice department’s GoFundMe
You're right that in general Sam Altman isn't countersigning every OpenAI employee contract.

However, at some point a lawyer sat down and worked with people to write the form-contract, and someone said "you sure? you want them to sign an NDA on exit? with a clause that lets you claw back equity? (implicit: because that's not normal)"
I'm guessing the ones who actually left Reddit did what I did - they disengaged from the site and then deleted all their content and accounts. It's pointless to complain without any actual power.

The relevant stakeholders here are the potential future employees, who are seeing in public exactly how OpenAI treats its employees.
I am slightly disappointed that the solution was not to run a VAX emulator. :)
Jeez, How did Govt take this long to break up Live Nation. How?
Unskippable a/b test that ruins the last 10 seconds of every video. Suck. I hope they do away with it but they won’t.
it's because the stupidphone's stupid keyboard capitalizes for you in the wrong places, and you have to take extra effort to fix it when they get it wrong, or you turn it off, and then get lazy about fixing it when you do need the capitalization.
Can you find any specific examples? I've only seen that apply to severance agreements where you're being paid some additional sum for that non-disparagement clause.

Never seen anything that says money or equity you've already earned could be clawed back.
They could have been cool. They could have been 2001 Google. They could have been the number one place any new PhD wanted to work.

But no. The MBAs saw dollar signs, and everything went out the window. They fumbled the early mover advantage, and will be hollowed out by the competition and commodified by the PaaS giants. What a shame.
Splitting them up would demonstrably slow progress and leave us with less useful computers.
Did DOJ make a shout-out to Pearl Jam?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taki... (1995)
US DOJ to seek breakup of LiveNation/Ticketmaster
We already do eat grass. Corn, barley, wheat, oats, etc…
Miaphysite C++.
AMD and Intel powered "Copilot+" PCs are coming in the near future, it is only ARM specific for a little while.
Is this like openrouter ai?
What theory is this from, some sort of administrative state theory? This has never been the case in any executive branch that I'm aware of.
> we should still discuss whether putting these technologies out, and using them, is a good move - particularly if we care about rewarding creators and supporting the podcasting industry

Note that a lot of people believe that it is not only a good move, but the actually ethical one. I fail to see how the ads would benefit the users directly, and I will go out of my way to not support advertising. So far I've installed tools like uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block for tens of friends/acquaintances now, and I firmly believe they are getting a better experience.
I think you are correct. It's a status symbol at this point. It's the digital version of "inconspicuous consumption" [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/inconsp...
> We invented the concept of right and wrong, for a reason. Or true and false, same thing.

Ah morally that's correct. But in general, such thinking is giving up too much.

Capital T Truth exists irrespective of humans, no? For instance, Quantum Mechanics was True before it was discovered, and would have remained True whether or not there were ever any humans to investigate it. The same for whatever base reality is.

> The experience of my own existence - and the assumed irrefutability of it - is based on features beyond my control. How do I make my heart beat?

The way we experience it, sure. The fact that we experience something, be it a true reality or an illusion in a matrix, is irrefutable. That's exactly "what cogito, ergo sum" [0] is talking about. In fact, thinking along these lines is what led Descartes to come up with this principle. In a world of uncertainty where we cannot even trust our own senses, how can we arrive at any Truth? And he realized: everything else we think and experience could be false, but the fact that I am something that is able to think and exist is itself a truth that no one can take away! It's history is pretty interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito%2C_ergo_sum
He's against junk fees, malarkey, and airing Matlock later than 7pm so he has my vote.
Many famous scientists, engineers or industrialists who moved the world forward in the past were racist or total Nazis. Today, many otherwise extremely smart people exhibit the same behavior as Musk, you just see it publicly in his case. I see it a lot in high level academia circles. The antivax and other conspiracies during Covid got a lot of help from very intelligent people, in my state the leader of the highest rated university got involved in that, for example.

You shouldn't mistake his Twitter feed for straight and full approval... He often trolls or merely thinks there might be some basis of truth in something, and sometimes he blurts out in anger. Again, in his case you just see it publicly.

Not defending him, it's weird and terrible and took a sharp decline after his breakup. But it's not so unusual.
Thanks, this is a fair explanation.
For sure a healthy dose of privilege enabled that. I was surprised to learn my father even owned NVDA shares from even further back for some reason.

The most valuable thing he taught me though was not buying individual shares, but low fee index funds. Ie. the Boglehead approach.
While disappointing, I agree based on what's currently possible.

The problem of hyperindividualism is getting only more pronounced in the US, and it's possible there will be a hard shift right to deregulation, strip-mining of social welfare, destruction of community commonwealth, austerity, and tax cuts for the rich.
Oh no, yes, please send a stack trace (although if it is in colab I should be able to repro)
California could require age verification to visit porn sites
The legalese to handle that is one of the standard boilerplate clauses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability
Why would I want to read the comments while watching the video? That happens always when it's finished, the comments are a second class citizen.
Stop spamming and just cease using the site. If you have an issue use email instead of throwing a public tantrum.
Following convention and using standard capitalization rules makes things easier on the reader.

Going to all-lowercase is harder on the reader, and thus is disrespectful of the reader. I will die on this hill.
A human brain consumes approximately 12 Watts. If 10^15 operations per second took 12 watts, 10^80 operations per second would take 10^39 W, which is several orders of magnitude beyond what all the stars in the visible universe combined produce.

Using all of the Sun's power at brain level energy efficiency would be equivalent to 10^40 operations per second. Still a quintillion times the combined brainpower of all humans currently alive.
We elect people who are incentivized to continue these policies lest their own investment portfolios lose value.

I have very little hope that we can redirect our civilization in time to save it.
I'll make a prediction here: OpenAI will in the coming years turn out just as ruthless and socially damaging as Facebook did.
I remember when DVDs started asking your language... so they could threaten you in that language. What a (profit-driven) world...
This sounded good until you said no RTTI or exceptions. Sorry, that's a bridge too far.
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I think it could also end up addressed by legislation. If not direct legislation as in the EU, then just opening some avenues to litigation.
The OG East Coast vs (Mid)West Coast battle.
I think if the average person was made aware of the hidden costs in free services, and alternatives to them, that far less people would pick the free services. Imagine browsers were forced to present multiple default search engine options with a list of what data they collect and their price point. It might look something like this:

Google

------

Data collected: All of it.

Uses it for: Whatever they want. Advertising, sells to your insurance company, sells to the government, trains AI models.

Price: Free

Kagi

----

Data collected: Your signup email

Uses it for: Giving it to the government if legally mandated

Price: $10/mo

I think a large double digit percentage of average people (in countries where $10/mo is cheap at least) would not choose Google. Maybe I'm being too optimistic though.
I actually think the movie "Her" showed us the opposite - people feel comfortable with their computer sounding like a human. Almost every character in the film finds it near natural.
It's part of the Setup screen, where it can be enabled or disabled. Apparently the checkbox is checked by default, but I think most users would find it useful and would find the "security concerns" trivial
“disparagement" is whatever is defined in the agreement, which reportedly (from one of the people who declined to sign it) includes discussing the existence of the agreement.
>> Why on earth would you want to read the comments?

I do.

I really only use YouTube for specific stuff these days. Mainly tutorials from people in the sports/activities I am active in - rock climbing, hockey, hiking, rucking, mountain biking and snowboarding. I also really only use it for product reviews for stuff like backpacks, snowboards, technology reviews, etc.

I read the comments while I'm watching the videos to see what other people are saying about say, a certain pack I'm interested in. Most of the people commenting have either bought or have had said product and their two cents (good or bad) is generally reliable. Its not people sucking up to the creators, its just more opinions I can use to determine if this product or service is worth it. I do this frequently with hi-fi equipment since there are some really good YT reviewers out there for beginners just getting into hi-fi. Or like myself, getting back into it.

If nothing else, the comments give me a more well rounded view of whatever it is I'm looking at.
So privacy is (was?) the highest priority, but when there's a massive privacy failure, the legal and comms departments will say anything that denies liability, regardless of the veracity or facts of the matter.

Got it.
> Comp clawbacks are quite common in finance, at least contractually

Never negotiated on exit.
Would the Adobe + Figma merge failure count?
Here is their site - treasurydirect.gov
Equity grants are usually signed by the board, although a lot of companies treat this as a meaningless formality and present it as though the document your manager signs is the real one. If you take a look at equity grants you've gotten in offer letters in the past, I bet they have "effective on board approval" in there somewhere.
They have no viable competitors at the moment, and there's still a gold rush for AI.
Democracy worked, for a while. And at least when it fails, there are mechanisms in place for restitution. Not so much for autocracies, which aren't competent just by being. The current ones somewhat work, but who knows down the line?
From Sam Altman:

> this is on me and one of the few times i've been genuinely embarrassed running openai; i did not know this was happening and i should have.

Bullshit. Presumably Sam Altman has 20 IQ points on me. He obviously knows better. I was a CEO for 25 years and no contract was issued without my knowing every element in it. In fact, I had them all written by lawyers in plain English, resorting to all caps and legal boilerplate only when it was deemed necessary.

For every house, business, or other major asset I sold if there were 1 or more legal documents associated with the transaction I read them all, every time. When I go to the doctor and they have a privacy or HIPAA form, I read those too. Everything the kids' schools sent to me for signing--read those as well.

He lies. And if he doesn't... then he is being libeled right and left by his sister.

https://twitter.com/anniealtman108
I wrote: Every legal clause that affects company ownership is accepted by the CEO and the board.

I did not write: Every legal clause is accepted by the CEO and the board.
>OpenAI will in the coming years turn out just as ruthless and socially damaging as Facebook did.

They wish. Napster is a more apt analogy.
It must have been part of the original employment document package, that the equity was cancellable. In the details of the equity grant, or similar, somewhere.
We shouldn't be writing résumés. We should be writing academic- or engineering-style six pagers where the target audience consists of your peers (and not anyone under the org's HR umbrella).

This is why I think cover letters are maligned. They just shouldn't be mandatory. The best résumé is just a supercharged cover letter written by someone who actually gives a shit about what they're writing.
> Are Voyager 1 & 2 the greatdst scientific achievement of the human race? I think it's an easy argument to make.

I can't really agree. Voyager 1 & 2 have been extraordinarily successful machines but that's aided by the simplicity of their mission and their design. The core scientific purpose of the missions (visit and survey the outer planets) has been repeated many times over by other craft (Galileo, Ulysses, Cassini–Huygens, New Horizons, Juno) with greatly improved instruments.

Compare Voyager to the Large Hadron Collider, the Manhattan Project, sequencing the genome, or even the Opportunity rover. All of these projects were successful despite being massively more complex undertakings.

It's comforting to know that the human race will leave a trace beyond the gravity well of our own star, but hurling a chunk of metal away from the sun is not an inherently great achievement.
> it creates the realistic work on its own. It did it, not you.

It recombined other people's images based on analysis of your drawing. That's all it does.
The best part about C++ is that it has every other programming language inside of it.

The worst part about C++ is that you need to know every other programming language to understand it.
Cow (field) corn is nasty shit, but CAFOs still feed it to cows and use antibiotics to keep them from dying from it. Google Image Search "muddy feedlot".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_animal_feeding_op...
In the article, they mention both the Trump and Biden administrations initiating investigations. Only since Obama, has this been “approved”.

What leads you to believe it would most likely be dropped?
One challenge with importing Japanese laptops is not being able to order them with a US keyboard layout, many ship exclusively with a JIS keyboard layout.
Very plausible. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of purchasers have only a dim notion of what RAM beyond more==better is, let alone "Copilot". Especially if it is marketed as a feature, which it is.
> The text in the letter must be approved

Employment agreements don't even need to be approved by the CEO, let alone the Board. Delegating this responsibility is fairly common.

That said, Sam chose to sign. The buck stops with him, and he has--once again--been caught in a clear and public lie.
The quality of the comments reflects the quality of the content. Insightful and thoughtful videos tend to have insightful and thoughtful comments. Low brow videos have low brow comments. Ragebait videos have rageful comments.

If all you see is shitty comments, I'm afraid that says a lot about what you watch.
Well, there was arguably a point to be had in the 90s for relaxing standards.

The web was new.

It was allowing over the top and disruption of a lot of legacy businesses.

It wasn't clear what constituted a market in those times.

However, by 2009, standards should have been reimposed. That largely didn't happen. Regulators simply got used to letting things go through, and so they kept doing that.