skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dismissing these problems as "incompetent democratic governance" is missing that in many cases these are manifestations of voters getting what they want. Housing shortages and the existence of an underemployed class are popular with voters because they keep asset prices up and wages down.
Of course.

But the greatest threat to a democracy is not some controversial leader who makes bold or questionable decisions.

It’s when the majority of people get the feeling, the sense, that their desires and needs are not being met.
Or for those on low disk space netbook try invidious:

Here is a list of running instances:

https://api.invidious.io/

YOu can turn off the phone screen while playing sound. Much much more light weight than YOutube
I also notice he conditions it on "any former employee." What about current employees who may be affected by the same legalese?

Either way, I can imagine a subtext of "step forward and get a target on your back."
> June 19, 2024

> When Brian and Ben reached the lab, the computer was running but the tree-robot was folded and motionless. “Robin, activate.” ...

> “There now exists a procedural model for the behavior of a human individual, based on the prototype human described in section 6.001 of the CYC-9 knowledge base. Now customizing parameters on the basis of the example person Brian Delaney described in the employment, health, and security records of Megalobe Corporation.”

> A brief silence ensued. Then the voice continued.

> “The Delaney model is judged as incomplete as compared to those of other persons such as President Abraham Lincoln, who has 3596.6 megabytes of descriptive text, or Commander James Bond, who has 16.9 megabytes.”

Quoted from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug... see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402925 . June 19, 2024 - looks like we're right on schedule, or thereabouts.
There are plenty of web sites where you can (legally) scalp tickets. I don't see how you can argue that Ticketmaster is a monopoly when you can also buy tickets on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and several other sites I don't remember off the top of my head. All of them use the same shady pricing practices as far as I know.

If Ticketmaster is the original seller, you do have to go through them to transfer the digital ticket but many venues still have physical ticket options.
It’s not April 1st. What’s going on here?

Should notepad complete your sentences too?

Maybe file explorer should just make new files for you!
There is, now. Also the margins are thin and the competition is fierce.
It's not the JVM.

It's how much code you load.
>> Or in the words of Why Nations Fail, we remade the economy into an extractive system.

Enshittification of the economy at the bottom and "enrichification" at the top.

We've seen this before many times before throughout history and it did not end well for those at the top.
That's how it's been forever in the iPad app. If you tap on the top comment it opens all the comments on the right and you can scroll/read them while you watch the video.
"We are sorry...that we got caught."

"...and that our PR firm wasn't good enough to squash the story."

They will follow the standard corporate 'disaster recovery' - say something to make it look like they're addressing it, then do nothing and just wait for it to fall out of the news cycle.
I went from very active on multiple subreddits to barely posting once every few months. Instead of answering programming questions or helping people get in shape I'm on other sites doing other things.

Changes like that are hard to measure.
A lot of videos don't require your undivided attention (e.g. podcasts, vlogs, music, video game streams) and people like reading comments while watching.
"Microplastics found in protein bugs"
We don't collectively think things look better than they did 20 years ago...

That's impossible to ascertain as a statistic. Nothing has stayed the same. And if it had, then people don't know what the "worse" or "better" is.

And things that change are rarely changed purely cosmetically.
I saw that, but as you point out, whether it works or not is all a trust thing.
I don't think this is the right place for that, but there are generally a bunch of libraries which will help you get this sorted out. If you tweet at me your tech stack and framework(s), I might be able to help you with more info. My details are in my bio.
I think it would be more likely that they would process it locally and let it extract lots of info at -your- expense and then upload that info,probably would result in 1000x less processing and storage expense. Also a lot of people are overlooking that we in the USA are facing an election in 6 months that could easily be the end of democracy in America and rise of an era of fascism where privacy means absolutely zero. Thus, we failed to think of the consequences of not voting/standing up for liberty and will pay a heavy price.
This looks like proper accountability and righting your wrongs to me. Much respect to Sam. I hope this isn’t just a performance for the public.
meta, but the ironic juxtaposition of this sentiment is incredibly far too unsubtle as to not warrant its authenticity.

I would give a comparable analogy, but I am unable.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and truly subjective, than this is truly an illogical, human sentiment.
who's using a hardware keyboard these days?
The Administration is bound by the Due Care clause, but that's a huge window, so you can just intentionally create a dysfunctional and incompetent group of people and give them the responsibility for enforcing this nations laws.

This Administration, although it would hate to actually admit it out loud, actually put someone competent in charge of the agency with this enforcement responsibility and then.. to everyone's absolute surprise.. let them do their job effectively.
Same. Redditor for 15 years and the API thing was the last straw.

I didn’t post about not engaging with or using the platform anymore. Nor did I delete my account, since it still holds some value to me. But I slinked away into the darkness and now HN is my social media tool.
I think that’s an overly Marxist and myopic point of view, considering the amount of social problems coming out of taxation and other policies that aren’t so popular with the wealthy. This isn’t Victorian England.

My point is, it’s a two-way street.
> don't see how you can argue that Ticketmaster is a monopoly

The monopoly is on the supply side. "Obama’s Justice Department reviewed the [Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger] and allowed it to move forward as part of a settlement in which the company promised it wouldn’t retaliate against concert venues that opted against using Ticketmaster."

Most (all?) large venues in the country are exclusively contracted to use Live Nation, which means performers are locked into using Live Nation, which means fans are obligated to pay its fees, directly or indirectly.
Likewise with Blockbuster. They started a DVD mail-order service and streaming service to compete with Netflix, but it was too little too late.
Thanks; I appreciate yours as well. I certainly don't pretend to know all the answers here.
no. thinking takes time. the reason a computer is faster at this is because a computer doesn't think.
C++ has only one paradigm that is functional and object-oriented.
I wonder why nobody is asking where do the images used to produce output come from? Have their creators been asked for permission to use them? I'm guessing they come from the Bing data lake of images scraped off the internet. Better add Bing robot to your robots.txt.
Oh, well, if that's all it does...

Is the whole being obtuse deliberate, or do you really not see how these two things are different?
Stock buybacks didn't used to be allowed either, but trillions of dollars have been pulled out of companies to pump stocks in the last several years.
Using <algorithm> makes your code faster, simpler, and safer. Using <format> makes your code faster, simpler, and safer.

I’m so sick of people beating up on C++. The C++ community is in a moral panic to explain why it’s not as safe as rust and coming up with a ten step plan to fix all of the things wrong with it, but the reality is that it’s users like this that give it a bad rep. The same program in idiomatic modern C++ is on average slightly faster than C, significantly safer than C, and usually shorter than C. C++ does not need to apologize for its sins. C++ exceptions are not the end of the world. Templates since C++20 with concepts are ergonomically nicer to use than Java generics (and using them generously can make your code safer), and above all else, it’s a universal language that’s worth investing time in. Mastering C++, or at least attempting to in earnest, will make you a better programmer no matter what language you use for work.

/rant from a C developer that misses C++ every day
Because you can just use actual C++ lol...
>4k video of the innards of the engineering model still present in the lab at JPL (I think they have one of those, right?)

They don't, this is why the recent fix took so long and was so risky, they were testing in production. They didn't make engineering models for that mission, the Voyagers were their own prototypes, which makes them more amazing.
I'm one of the few (it seems) that are with you.

When I switched from an iPhone 3GS to Android, it seemed that the trade-off was between control and freedom. These days, the trade-off is between control + ok privacy and not-much-freedom + no privacy.

I also ran custom ROMS for years. It got to be such a pain that I switch back to vanilla Android with throw-away google accounts, and now have come full circle and gone back to an iPhone.

It's a similar story on the desktop - I can't abide where Windows has gone with ads and AI. I have run linux for years (and still do on servers), but need to use software that won't easily run on Linux. So, I have ended up with a MBP.

Apple might be far from perfect, but for me at least, right now they're they best balance between not being actively user-hostile, and not taking a ton of effort to get working.
One feature that I definitely miss is the lack of a strongly consistent putIfAbsent API. A lot of big data table formats like Delta.io would benefit so much from it, right now you need to work around it by connecting to DynamoDB :/
But there are still bubbles within layers, no?
They don't need clawback. They can just dilute the f out of you. Which is what happens most of the time anyways
the only place where such a thing leads is authoritarianism.
Exactly this. The first few days in office, a new POTUS will typically use executive orders specifically to reverse policies the previous administration put in place.
does anyone know which A/B teat flag i have to switch to get the redesign?
Ah shouldn't be an issue that agents have internet access... What could possibly go wrong?
I use GitHub, I don't use its copilot.

I use web search, I don't use LLM websites.

I use MacOS, I don't use Siri.

I use Windows, I don't use Cortana/Copilot.

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I don't want LLMs to parrot back code from other projects without understanding what that code does and what my code does. I don't want it to parrot back irrelevant slop.

And I especially don't want it to parrot:

rm -rf $BUILDDIR/ && ./build-project.sh

and just hallucinate the assumption that $BUILDDIR is already defined.
Liberal democracy never won in China, not sure how it can be lost. The central piece of the blog seems to be this:

"China hasn’t yet proven the superiority of its system, but its successes raise the uncomfortable question: Can this be what wins? Can universal surveillance, speech control, suppression of religion and minorities, and economic command and control really be the keys to national power and stability in the 21st century? How could that be true, when those same things failed so comprehensively in the 20th?. . . it’s useful and to think about how and why totalitarianism might be well-adapted to the world of the 21st century. In fact, I have a theory of how this might be true. This theory is only a conjecture — *it’s something I don’t believe in*, but also something I can’t yet convince myself is wrong."

By the end of it I don't really get what this article is trying say. The first 2/3rds is about all the shiny things China has and people like it because they don't see the dumpster fire in the alley that made it all happen.

If one was concerned about the direction of liberal democracies outside of the West, India would be a more interesting place to look.
This does seem to put the video description where I remember it once was many years ago; on the right side of the video
Less of a prediction and more of a descriptor of its current state
SpaceX launches first satellites for new US spy constellation
> This particular administration only has a guaranteed relevance of about 7 months.

That is a deeply cynical view on the nature of politics.

> So, why bring it now?

Why help anyone else if you can't score political points off the back of it? Possibly because it's the right thing to do and ideologically motivated people actually do successfully exist in government.
This is a great point. With models becoming more intelligent, they're seeming to become less brittle to the subtleties in the prompts, which might mean decoupling will occur naturally anyway. With regards to customers wanting to stick with "one model", we more often find that they want to stick with "one cloud environment". This is not a problem, the router can be deployed inside custom cloud environments easily. Interesting to see how much auto-prompting such as DSPy generalizes across models though, when you really start to see intermediate prompts as latent variables. Not sure how much these learned prompts might behave differently with different LLMs. I guess you might need to jointly learn the prompts and the routing decisions together for it to work really well. One step at a time though!
End to end encryption isn't hard.
End to end encryption for non technical users who might forget their password, is hard.

The trouble isn't the encryption. It's, how do you make it feel seamless without having access to the private keys, and without asking the end user for their private key.
One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin has been to turn off the comments and recommended videos on YouTube. I'll probably have to recreate my filters after this, but other than that it won't affect me much.

I highly recommend it! Even if you don't use any ad lists at all, being able to eliminate distracting elements of frequently used sites is a huge QoL improvement.
Interesting. I need a 15k-18k BTU mini split (20+ SEER) right now to climate-control an exterior building, but they're far cheaper at $1-2k plus another $1.5k for installation. Considering adding solar too to offset ongoing electrical costs.

Edit: Also considering a 42 SEER Carrier model that will be more expensive initially but cheaper to run.
Thanks for your thoughts.

Just seems odd to me that he would make that whole story up.

I know it's the internet but there doesn't seem to be a compelling motivation for someone to do that.

I think it's reasonable to expect a more detailed explanation from Apple, when it's closed source software from a company that claims to value privacy, yet exhibiting a confidence-eroding problem like this.
Also an explicit action. Look, most people don’t know anything about computers. If it says use recommended settings, they will go for it. Even an explanatory first-install screen with “consent” is just jumbo jumbo to regular folks. It’s not comparable to installing custom software or enabling a feature from the settings. It’s incredibly irresponsible.

Even so, such invasive features need to renew consent and/or periodically alert users. The risks with someone else enabling them to spy are too high.
I have never seen it in quite a few equity agreements I've looked at. What is common is a very short post-termination exercise window that in practice acts as a clawback unless you are financially able and willing to pay the cost/taxes of exercising within (often) 90 days.

And a bunch of not-well-informed employees who didn't understand the consequences of this clause when they originally signed
> Presumably Sam Altman has 20 IQ points on me.

I've read your posts for years on HN, don't undersell yourself.

Many CEOs don't know what is their company's contracts, nor do they think about it. While it is laudable that you paid such close attention, the fact is I've met many leaders who have no clue what is in their company's employment paperwork.
As someone who predominately works in music and has for two and half decades… Please and hurry up and do it too totality!

I’ve watched the rise, domination and effects first hand as to what live nation has done. Hell, I’ve lived it! It’s an utter disaster hell scape. Only lessoned because its “entertainment.” Regardless if it was a more strategically important industry it would have already been broken up standard oil style.

Once upon a time payolla was a crime. Live nation is worse than payolla ever was and I don’t say that lightly. At least with payolla it was a simple quid pro quo pay to play. Live nation has the radio stations, it has the venues, it has the ticketing, it has the booking agents, it has the labels, it has the artists, and it has the vast majority of the personal. When theyre in a city they region lock it , which is to say if you’re not live nation you’re priced out or just playing black listed. Think the opposite of net-neutrality only physical and literally every facet of the industry up and down.

The ticket prices may be what triggered the doj because it effects the public, behind the scenes its even worse.
THIS IS WHY I PREFER TO COMMUNICATE ONLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS. IT REMOVES ANY AMBIGUITY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT I’M ANGRY SINCE THE READER CAN ASSUME I’M ALWAYS SCREAMING IN THEIR FACE.

I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A NICE DAY.
But monopolies are not illegal.

Violating antitrust law is illegal.

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You don't violate federal law just by being the only company to sell canine banana hammocks.
Treasury Direct is for stuff like savings bonds. If you want to donate, it's https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h..., but they're not directed donations.
Dear heavens, being a corporate employee is paranoia and depression-inducing. It's literally like walking into a legal minefield.
I wonder if this HN post will get torpedoed as fast as the one from yesterday[0].

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435440
No.

First off, it’s a HW/SW solution and things like CUDA/NCCL/etc make a HUGE difference.

Second, the token/watt ratio of every other option is nearly an order of magnitude difference in real world tests. When you add in custom silicon like moronic Grok/Dojo and you see that there aren’t really any close competitors when using custom spins. That is money down the drain IMO. Best bet for most enterprises is to buy 25% AMD and 75% H100 if they can get it.

I think Blackwell is potentially a long term generational problem due to power limitations in most data centers for now.
I can understand banning it. It’s important to understand std::string is more of a string builder implementation, which is rarely what you want, but people treat it as the default way to handle strings in C++.

Too often I have to fix code that makes liberal use of std::string, making copies and allocations everywhere for no apparent reason, when string_view or better const char* would do.
> I'd expect legality to be handled for me, inherited from the parent company.

That sounds like a really bad idea for many many reasons. Lawyers are cheap compared to losing control, or even your stake, to legal shenanigans.
This is a question about survival, not productivity.
There are those of us who care about our spouses/children/family/friends and what this means for them, even it doesn't directly affect our daily lives. There is nothing wrong with our being concerned about that, and it doesn't make our opinions on the matter invalid.
DOJ agrees to settle suit in exchange for Live Nation no longer referring to Merrick Garland as 'daughter'.
Strain of cholera defends itself against forces of change, scientists find
by astounding coincidence, in California Gov Newsom wrote as follows:

( new targets and requested actions outlined in the letter)

Clean and Healthy Buildings: Creating a goal of 3 million climate-ready and climate-friendly homes by 2030 and 7 million by 2035, supplemented by 6 million heat pumps by 2030, and directing 50 percent of investments to low-income and disadvantaged communities.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/07.22.2022...
The form-contract is changing frequently at a company going through a lot of corporate changes and with a lot of freakishly talented employees who probably negotiate hard on contracts.

To be clear, he may well have known. But it isn't a given and in the grand scheme of things on a CEO brain, it would have been way down the list of capturing mind share.
The vast majority of cases aren’t dropped when you move from one administration to another. However, there’s a great deal of correlation between cases people care about and politics so you’re more likely to hear about the kinds of cases that get dropped.
Or a surge of competition from open source operating systems (to which I, for my part, have permanently migrated -- years before this new stride toward dystopia). :D

Does an open source OS have an AI watchman? You can check! If yes, you can fork and remove it.

All that's happening here is the lack of control over your hardware and software is being emphasized a little further. Put another way, you already live in totalitarianism. Microsoft or Apple have de facto totalitarian control over your computer. They always did.
Hold up... Do you really think that a C-suite including career venture-capitalists who happen to be leading+owning stock in a private startup which has hit an estimated billion+ valuation are too naive/distracted to be involved in how that stock is used to retain employees?

In other words, I'm pretty sure the Ed Dillingers are already in charge, not Walter Gibbs garage-tinkerers. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmQjQjoZCQ
Add the sponsorblock flag in there too and its perfect
How long until JD green lights the re-re-merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster?
Protip: you can’t negotiate terms after you agree to them.
There might be some confusion of the term 'protection from predators' going on here.
This must be the fastest legal team in the industry
PDF:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24679729/aestas_reduc...
But every big tech compoany is handing nvdia billions a year now. Its not just amd working on amd's software anymore. Now theyve got armies of open source developers from around the industry ready to save their company a boatload if they can get the software working.
California and most of the US will ban the sale of ICE vehicles in just over 10 years.
The number of companies that wish they were a SW company rather than a HW company is very long, and despite all their efforts once they get to a certain size the die is cast.
Great! Another "innovative" heat pump that will be available somewhere around 2035, if it ever reaches the market...

It's a sleeker, stylier, VC oriented heat pump!

As an ex-goggler, I'm sure Paul will make millions in the first round and have a great story to tell on the golf course...

The only substantial thing I could find was that the company has it's own installers and fixed, disclosed pricing. Both of these are a plus, unlike the double sided sticky tape veneer add-ons...
Let me rephrase.

Sticky lips ARE eliciting impure thoughts.
MI250 is also quite potent. Certainly sufficient for a good chunk of inference use cases