skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ability to do it was almost certainly already in place

Why? OpenAI is a shitshow. Their legal structure is a mess. Yanking vested equity on the basis of a post-purchase agreement signed under duress sounds closer to securities fraud than anything thought out.
> Looks like they're doing the right thing here

Even if that's true (and I'm not saying it is, or it isn't, I don't think anyone on the outside knows enough to say for sure), is it because they genuinely agree they did something egregiously wrong and they will really change their behavior in the future? Or is it just because they got caught this time so they have to fix this particular mistake, but they'll keep on using similar tactics whenever they think they can get away with it?

The impact of such uncertainty on our confidence in their stewardship of AI is left as an exercise for the reader.
> ”Research has shown that all sloths have a rare genetic condition called ‘rod monochromacy’”

Weird phrasing. All of them having something that is rare means it is not rare at all, right? And if all of them have it, it is not a “condition”, it is their genes, how they are.
i read an article about bauhaus typography in high school and mostly dropped capitalization since then (~2005)

whether i use them or not is basically a function of how much i think there will be consequences for not using them. if i do use them without coercion, it's for Emphasis, or acronyms (like AI), or maybe sPoNgEbOb CaSe

i'm not sure where AI CEOs, or younger generations picked it up. but the "only use capitals when coerced" part seems similar
Nobody is looking to overdose, ask any opiate user and they'd rather be taking pills than random shit from dealers. The issue is that pressed pills are now fentanyl, too, and those who want to dose responsibly end up overdosing anyway.
They plan on releasing it for free, code and all.
The only thing that kept me on Windows on my personal machine was gaming and the Steam Deck has pretty much solved that. I've been running Kubuntu for ~10 months and can't think of anything I really miss.

That's not to say that there aren't issues (I rushed the Nvidia drivers and that resulted in a blank screen), but I'm definitely less annoyed - no more constantly trying to get rid of OneDrive only for it to re-appear, no more removing apps that I never asked for etc
You surely don't actually believe Altman when he says they're doing this? Like Elon Musk, Altman is a known liar and should not be trusted. It's truly unbelievable to me that people take statements like this at face value after having been lied to again and again and again. I think I'm starting to understand how crypto scams work.
It’s got a term - “garden leave” and yeah it was prevalent in finance. I say “was” because I think some states are changing laws wrt/ non-competes and this calling this practice into question.
It is based on a contrarian approach: https://once.com/
I didn’t have a schedule, but probably had 5 or 6 accounts over the years… purging, deleting, and a few weeks later rejoining. The last time I deleted everything was before the API changes, and it was the last straw. I haven’t attempted to create a new account and don’t browse at all. I used to spend hours per day there. Now the only time I end up there is if a search engine directs me there for an answer to a specific question I have.
I mean we ban children from smoking so they don’t stay addicted as adults and die from cancer years later.
Tesla doesn't even have a PR department, you think they're going to pay astroturfers?

The oil lobby on the other hand...
Show HN: LogsQL – opinionated query language for logs
I don't like the existing query languages for Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki, because they are too awkward to use for typical logs' investigation cases. So I designed new query language - LogsQL - and wrote reference implementation for it as a part of VictoriaLogs - an open source database for logs. LogsQL is based on the following principles:

- Simplicity. It is easy to write typical queries over logs in it. For example, a single word `error` is a valid LogsQL query, which returns all the logs with the `error` word. Another example is `_time:5m error`, which returns all the logs with the 'error' word over the last 5 minutes.

- Composable building blocks similar to Unix pipes, which allow powerful filtering, transforming and calculating stats over the selected logs. For example, `_time:5m error | stats count() as rows` returns the number of logs with the `error` word over the last 5 minutes.

- Readability. Typical LogsQL queries must be easy to read and understand even for persons unfamiliar with it.

Take a look at LogsQL docs [1] and try using VictoriaLogs [2] in production. If you like Unix way and KISS design principle, then you'll enjoy LogsQL :)

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/logsql/

[2] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/
Oh I completely agree with that. The fact that they were still paying off their “debt” to France after 150 years for having the nerve to revolt against slavery is itself a crime.
Are there any publicly trade VPNs I can buy shares in?
Who is copying AI art? They are using "AI" to create "art". They are drawing less than primitive shapes, and the AI is turning it into something. The funny thing is, the video is so short and clipped it's farcical. This takes "Draw a circle, draw the rest of the fucking owl" to an entirely different level.
It’s not broken out per donation, but https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/gift-contributions-... has the monthly totals.
I can't tell if you're asking for an argument against this proposal or for it.
Ah yes another sub language made from c++, every author has their own

What we really need is C2

C with constexpr, type traits, and generics… oh wait this exists! Rust, Zig, etc

Sadly tool chains for some platforms are proprietary variants of llvm clang and fail to include rustc
Why aren't concert tickets sold similar to hotel rooms or airline seats? You can buy an airline seat or hotel room through dozens of online marketplaces because they cooperate via a common and fair system.
Hey, it was the 60s.
You don't understand why Rounded Corners are Better? Oh my! It's because they're New and Refreshed! But don't worry, in Windows 12 there will be Square Corners, and they'll be Brand New and Re-Refreshed!
I've been able to pass byte offsets and ranges to S3 requests.
I don't think it's a choice. If you don't believe something, no amount of trying to make yourself believe it is going to make it so. A whole lot of people raised in a religion who are now atheists can attest to the extreme mental turmoil trying to do so during the deconversion process can cause. You either believe, or don't believe in any given brand of supernatural unobservable phenomenon.
I agree here. Bought some well over a decade ago because of their dominance in gpus. Bought some more around 2017 after my company wanted to get access to some gpus on AWS and we couldnt because AWS couldn't get their hands on enough- and the crypto boom was driving demand. Bought some more again about a year ago when I saw companies large and small on the ai train- is not just openai and Goog/fb/apple.

Even if the stock falls 3/4 I've had an incredible return and I just don't see the ai hype dying down soon, though im always trying to feel out that inflection point. I'm not super stoked about the ability of AI to really be monetized that well in its current form, but I'm happy to be invested in the picks and shovel business behind it.
There are many HS students who can't answer "What's half of 20?" or factor the number 15.

Part of me sees that and immediately thinks "That can't possibly be true". Another part of me reminds the other part that I used to feel the same way about the statement "many working programmers can't write FizzBuzz". And then I was on the interview team for my employer a couple of jobs back, and we routinely asked candidates to write FizzBuzz. And many, including folks with 10, 15+ years of documented coding experience, and/or Masters or PhD degrees in C.S., could not do it. And that's even when they were given a laptop with an IDE open, with the skeleton of the program in place, with strategically located comments saying "your code goes here" and suchlike.

I don't know what to think about humanity sometimes. The same race that put people on the moon, helicopters on Mars, Voyagers beyond the edge of the Solar System, invented the Internet, nanotech, lasers, etc. has people who can make it to (and through) high school, and still can't come up with "what's half of 20" or, apparently, write FizzBuzz???
Yup. Somebody is going to write something that hogs cpu without yielding to the loop or queues up an absurd number of tasks waiting to be executed which effectively has a similar effect. All of a sudden latencies are high. Depending on how tracing is done it can appear like certain io operations are the culprit if you just go off of traces.

P99 latency for every route on your web server will be fixed at the max time any individual unit takes to execute before yielding plus loop overhead and its own time. This can drastically increase it for many routes.

Meanwhile some genius insists that our app is “io bound” so the single threaded async runtime must be a perfect fit.

Apart from just being generally faster at least with go I know that when somebody screws up there should be n other threads still executing tasks.
There are real stories to tell in text (prior experience, projects, certifications, tangible skills), and that sets the stage for the real conversations. Then it’s all about technical questions that require technical answers, and will this person thrive in our team.
Sound like the US fear their own government more than foreign ones.

Easy to exploit.

BTW if you fear control by tyrants maybe the US version of capitalism is a bad idea.
No, it has to be explicitly outlined in the employee agreement if you’re not allowed to share some of the information. “Duty of confidentiality” is not a magic thing that just exists.

All of the cases where people have been busted (e.g. the capital one credit card transactions) are because the SEC has an exact quote from the employee agreement that says something like “don’t use this mega database to do trading”.

If your employee agreement doesn’t have something explicitly barring you from noticing racks of incoming inventory and using that information, then it’s not insider trading.
I think the persistent collections are generally worth the cost. IIRC, for HAMT maps/sets for instance, they're about twice as slow for reads and four times as slow for writes. For bulk updates, you can also slip into using transients, and then when you're done, "freeze" it back into a persistent data structure.

I only wish that the transient collections would support more different kinds of writes, like support all operations on java.util.List/Set/Map kind of thing. Forget which ones aren't present but I remember there being a couple...
The cited "40% of college age women report being choked during sex" article is an NYT opinion piece where some of the respondents actually say they _wanted_ to be choked during sex, but the author of the opinion piece thinks they're wrong and choking (even if you want to be choked) is bad.

This isn't about protecting children, it's about prudes who don't like the way that other people enjoy sex.
If it had been prefaced with "By 1850" that would have been a reasonable title.
You forgot the on-site accommodation!
The main component of the HN ranking algorithm is sentiment divided by YC holdings in the company in question. We've all seen it.
It's especially obnoxious because he doesn't own the word, or the concept of a pomodoro timer itself, just has a trademark on the method. There's plenty of other online timers with pomodoro in the name or URL.
Tweet/article from a month ago:

> So far, there is only one confirmed human case. Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment. “There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1,” he said. “By the time we’ve detected 10, it’s probably too late” to contain.

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1783222233717932397
That stuff is mostly bullshit. For most products “Made in the USA” means TAA compliant, which means they are substantially transformed in the US.

Translation: they attach the laptop display and hard drive in Texas, and charge 50% more.
No mention of being better than existing heat pumps beyond heavy central emphasis on the aesthetics.
A large percentage of people in my area eat venison regularly for at least part of the year. We already have controls on place for CWD so I have to hope that would catch any similar cases before someone eats the meat.
The only leg the SEC had to stand on in this complaint is a very specific clause from the employee agreement that says not to use this information for trading.
What does the n, nc, and 2c mean?
We're interested in aiding the job seeker only – gain a fresh place to start with minimal effort. I can't say this enables or inhibits any sort of noise; other than intending to amplify genuine job seekers; again we try to be consistent in our prompts.

In other engagements I'm involved in, not through this product, we are seeking to enable employers. I do believe AI will help reduce noise; my argument is humans have been far worse in creating it than AI could be, and far less productive in filtering it than AI will be.
https://www.popsci.com/deadly-splinter-antibiotic-resistance...
Do you have a source that says people actually prefer modern design rather than tolerate it? Like what percentage of people prefer Google's modern "ads blend in with search results" redesign compared to older Google designs where ads were visually distinct and clearly marked?
They should make it illegal for large venues to have exclusivity requirements for these companies. Big stadiums and venues usually had some public assistance, either directly or the public paying for e.g. a train station at the venue - there should be requirements as conditions to that
It really works.

Unlike the OP who used insider knowledge (for being a customer of Nvidia) I went against the HN crowd more than twice with buying META at $89 [0] and GOOG at an average of down to $93 [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35620810

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713073
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-apple...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...

It's been nonstop for the whole duration of the admin.
Apparently career staffers don’t like Khan. You know; the career staffers that, checks notes, have been at a largely ineffectual FTC for decades. Oh well, at least she’s trying.
Dell 5400 series devices are made in Vietnam. You too can own a mediocre corporate laptop.
> Nvidia has been around for along time.

So has Cisco: how has their stock price been doing since the late 1990s?

It's not like the Internet has stopped being a thing, and people are still buying Cisco gear, and yet people aren't excited about it anymore.

It's possible for AI/ML to be a thing, for Nvidia to sell gear, and for the stock to go down. There are numerous examples throughout history:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...
Tesla has released new Autopilot safety data, showing record safety
Thank you for this info! I didn't know that, and am glad to have learned.
Liberal democracy will never win so long as we have an economic system that creates a power imbalance. Capitalism naturally captures markets and institutions. Corruption is inevitable.
You want google to search exactly for the keywords in the query without any "helpful" reinterpretation, but at the same time to accept flexible human language requests. How do you expect these 2 contradictory requirements to coexist?
Can you say <Ctrl><Esc>? I didn't think so.
People who ask this kind of question have a very narrow fixation on math specifically, I think. One learns to do these things to understand mathematical thinking, how to approach and solve math problems, etc.

When, as an adult, have you used the knowledge contained in the book Frankenstein? But nobody says "why do I have to read Frankenstein?" because they understand that it's not the specific book that matters.
YOUR JOB ADVERTISEMENT SPECIFIED VERY MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE STOP

HOW DO I WORK THIS DIFFERENCE ENGINE STOP
Emacs is essentially a Lisp-machine. Yes, I understand that this deviates from the traditional notion of a "Lisp-machine" since it's not hardware-based; nonetheless, it still fits the bill.

If you're eager to learn Lisp (not just Common Lisp, but any dialect), why not take advantage of a Lisp machine for that purpose? When you say, "I don't want to learn Emacs," you're basically saying, "I don't want to learn Lisp." You need to know Lisp to grok Emacs, you need to write it, you need to embrace it; otherwise, you're not using Emacs, you're just a passenger.
Challenge accepted! Now just have to find a terminal that works with a 6 GHz serial line…
The NASA post a month ago described it [0] (780 points, 206 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
As I've mentioned multiple times before on HN, this is because of Barroness Kidron's lobbying campaign [0]

It's her recommendations that became the UK law and multiple state level laws.

I'm actually kinda impressed, because she doesn't have a high net worth nor is she nobility (she was given the Barronness title for her directorial work in 2012).

It goes to show that if you are organized and can hustle and network enough, you can make massive change.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/14/british-baroness-on...
Hah just saw this. No, I meant "clay."
That's the thinking. I don't eat red meat or pork, so, for the average restaurant, my option set generally trends towards 20% to 25%. But, I generally have to browse the burger section to ensure they didn't bury a turkey burger in it.
Surely Bruce Springsteen can simply build dozens of venues around the United States if he wants an alternative to Live Nation.
I'd say it's interesting, how generative AI empowers people to create more BS. Obviously, this is especially true for those, that are already in the business of creating BS.
Good, long video covering the whole GameStop stock phenomenon (among other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA
Ask HN: How Did You Overcome the Steep Learning Curve of 3D Design Tools?
About the difficulty of learning 3D design tools, for those of you who managed to master tools like Blender or other 3D design tools, what tips or resources helped you the most? Any shortcuts or techniques to make the process easier?
Not quite. All the had to do was tell themselves in discoverable email that they were going to seek out someone who sounded like ScarJo, or emails to the recruiter saying they wanted someone to mimic the Her voice.
Some salty downvotes going on in here!
When it comes to the tech industry, assume malice unless proven otherwise - open source code, maximum transparency, proven history of ethical conduct. We're way past the point where anyone who achieves any level of fame in tech deserves the benefit of the doubt. They've optimized for maximum abuse of public trust.
Sustainable paper coating material could reduce microplastic pollution
I'm not saying it was thought out, I'm saying it was in place. My understanding is that the shareholders agreement had something which enabled the canceling of the shares (not sure if it was all shares, shares granted to employees, or what). I have not seen the document, so you may be right, but that's my understanding.
How is success tied to a budget or complexity? Success doesn't care how hard/easy it was. It just means it was able to do the thing it was made for. If the task was to be able to write in space, a pencil would be just as successful as a newly developed pen that writes in 0g.
I've never completely understood why most American universities insist on a broad range of subjects (by comparison, in the UK it's common to begin to specialise aged 16, after which you might never need to academically write an essay/solve a maths problem - this isn't perfect either).

While I believe everyone should love mathematics and keep learning it as long as possible, forcing adults to study it is counter-productive. Lack of inclination to study maths also shouldn't stop people from attending university - something like creative writing really doesn't depend on it, although I sometimes wish there more stringent requirements for mathematical qualifications of journalists.
Doesn't matter if the voice was natural or not if there are emails at OAI saying "find us someone who sounds just like ScarJo." I suspect there are and that's why SamA turned pussy and ran.
Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility Twitter content
Analysis of the paper is also on the ABC:

"Misinformation posted to Twitter comes from 'superspreader' accounts, say researchers, amid warnings for future of content moderation on X"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/twitter-misinformatio...
Not Europe’s fault there, just determined adversarial web design.
Not going to live music, at least in the US.
There are millions of people on opioids like Suboxone, Tramadol, hydrocodone, etc that aren't "rotting to death". Opioids, in general, don't have many deleterious effects on the body the way that things like alcohol, cigarettes or amphetamines do.
wish I had more dumb money so I can short tesla
Not this specifically, but for thier recall feature they are going to constantly take screenshots of what a user is doing, then then AI will analyze it and keep track of it all.

They say it’s all local. Maybe that’s true. Maybe for now. Will it be forever? Is the recall local, but insights are collected? Time will tell. I certainly won’t be signing up to be part of the experiment.
Sneaky drivers bypass toll booths and cost millions
So common in academia! The student writes a detailed, error-checked, well-edited long email only to receive an answer like

'yes plaese

Sent from my iPhone'

Definitely a 'I'm very busy look at me' powermove
I think the objection is the timing. If the administration truly cared about such things, they'd do them in non-election years. But they seem to save up these things for election years so people feel listened to.
Yeah, I like to experiment too sometimes, and the option to browse could still be available. It's pretty easy to pull off and is the standard now.

But even with that, your experimentation could be guided. And, man, most times I find myself just needing to eat something versus embarking on some great culinary quest. So, more often than not, it's just one more thing to solve.
If one party's election-year pandering is legalizing marijuana and enforcing antitrust law, I'll take it.
Because two different special interest groups: conservatives on the one hand who are doing the typical conservative thing, also a certain fringe group of feminists who are against sex positivity and overlap with the TERF movement
If the company is in such a bad state that the only thing keeping it alive is a monopolistic control of the market and much hated business practices, do we really want it running a significant chunk of the economy? Or is it better to watch it burn to allow better companies to emerge?

Personally, I think that if a company can’t survive with competition, it shouldn’t survive. That is a fundamental and necessary tenant of capitalism. It may cause pain in the short term, but it will eventually lead to a healthier market.

As was often repeated back in the Great Recession, if a company is too big to fail, then maybe it’s too big to exist.
hmm, i'd think getting it to access a new row every 100 ns would be enough... but i don't really understand rowhammer
Thats the beauty of a carbon tax. It doesnt care, you emit, you pay. Done right it makes no judgements, it just makes emitting cost more and then lets people decide if they still want to emit or not.