skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not good form to bad mouth someone you’ve fired.

Instead, it's good form to wait 6 months and then do a Business Insider interview on the topic?

Also, "bad mouthing" suggests putting a spin on it. Based on the article, they should have been able to list out several objective facts that supported their decision. Instead, they opened it all up to intense speculation by providing a vague justification and by remaining tight lipped even once it became clear that a lot of clarification was needed.
This could actually be really helpful to me, as I have trouble hearing someone speaking in a busy room because my mind is trying to pick up everything (I think this is because of my ADHD). Having a way to significantly quiet out other noises aside for the voice of the person I'm speaking with would be amazing.
To work around N+1 is to write all your database layer functions in form of getFoosByIds(id[]) instead of getFooById(id). This allows you to easily compose the loads when you have subresources. It's similar to what the author is doing, but does not tear apart the subresources from the parent object.

Pushing the subresource fetching down to the database requires using JOINs and fails badly when you have multiple one-to-many relations in one fetch.

Just do a single, separate query per table.
This isn’t a court and neither of us is a jury. This is an Internet forum where ideally we base our speculations at best on the testimony of credible-ish primary sources rather than any personal agenda even more random.

Altman will see his day in court if I have to win a Senate seat to see it happen.

That determination will be binding.
I’d been trying to install Ubuntu or Mint on my desktop and miserably failed. In my case, nothing worked properly: OS picked the wrong monitor as main display, secure boot issues with unhelpful messages, no default HiDPI configuration. Basically, nothing worked out of the box while everything had been working fine with Windows. Here are my adventures:

Ubuntu: https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3knjwn2bsls2u

Mint:
https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3knp2yv3tqc22
I'd love to use it while teaching.
Good point, but interpreted that way, isn't it still a whole lot of claims by a board member, of what they and other board members were thinking, claims about their perceptions of alleged facts, and claims about their reasons for doing what they did? (People don't always tell the truth about such things.)

Although an individual reader's gut and other information might conceivably lead one to take all those claims at face value, I don't think it meets a journalism standard of evidence for "reveals" in a headline.

IIUC, headlines and soundbites have a lot of influence on our understanding of the world.
Major investors aren't the board's boss in this case because OpenAI is a nonprofit. Microsoft is incentivized to act against the goals nonprofit's charter (and in fact they did in this case).
Well, looking at something like the PostgreSQL protocol, it's decently efficient already. You could probably run a layer of compression on top of it, like HTTP gzip or so, but I doubt that will give a significant performance gain.

If you look at the end-to-end problem of 'what is the minimum amount of data I need during this request' vs 'how much data do I fetch, and what is my total latency / number of roundtrips to the db doing so?' I think for most ORM patterns that use lazy loading your primary target is reducing roundtrips, and for most hand rolled queries or ORMs tweaked to do eager loading, the primary target is deduplicating the results.

My take on this is that a decent approximation is a query per relation you're fetching, so if you have 10 entities A in a transaction, and each has 20 entities B attached, ideally you want 2 queries: one for the 10 entities A, and one for the 200 entities B. Lazy loading will give you 1 query for A + 10 queries for B, and eager loading will duplicate the 10 A entities data 20 times each (and that problem gets worse as your graph gets bigger with more one-to-many relations).

Once you run into the raw data transfer between database and backend being the limit, trying to optimize that protocol comes into play, but at least in the use cases I tend to have this is not usually a bottleneck. Besides, I'll typically serialize the data fetched to send out over HTTP again, which essentially has the same challenges if you're not using protobuf or so.
$48M Startup Wants to Do What Theranos Couldn't [video]
This might have been an unpopular opinion 10 years ago. But since then, we have supply-chain attacks, and we have left-pad. I think vendoring or mirroring all dependencies is starting to become standard practice nowadays.

At the very least, I think it's generally a good idea to pin all dependencies to the exact version.
How is Twitter doing 1.5years after the layoffs?
A lot people said those layoffs would harm the site. How are they doing? Did they have a negative impact at all?
But it was just like that, depending on the country! I was forced to "vax" by my employer. The police would have come into my home if I would have for example had people over, since that was illegal. It was illegal for me to go outside for a walk - alone. And I would have been sued for that. I was not allowed in some doctors offices - although I pay about 1K per month. And so on...

The last time humanity forced something like that, the world later came together and executed those in charge. And I'll never stop being furious that this is now being swept under the rug. Inhuman crimes happened
That would fall under "build more housing".
Donating forks to the dining hall
A useful tool for when you need to surveil a shady multinational called Quantum while they discuss their evil plan during a performance of Tosca.
> Similarly, I wish she US would be done with the middle east and focus on china/Russia. I'm tired of us wasting resources there.

I'm sure all the employees of the 3 letter agencies dealing with these issues and presidential the advisors know better. It's a complex issue involving Iran. If Israel empties the settlements Hamas will keep attacking, just like Hezbollah does from Lebanon.

However, most countries are fed up at this point and want a two state solution.
It does make it appear that the OpenAI staff were acting in protest of Sam Altman's, which seems to go against what's been happening recently with the "real brains that understand AI/LLM/ML" leaving in a procession.
While shooting orcas would obviously …not be a good outcome, might it put your mind at ease to know that there may be many reasons to think the comment you replied to might be correct?

- Bullets don't really work underwater. High-powered rounds get shredded on impact, and low-power rounds get slowed to non-lethal speeds. The bang might scare them though. [1]

- Guns are designed for humans, and whales are big. Just the blubber under their skin adds several inches. [2] The physics of avoiding heat loss further implies that more important organs and blood vessels should have proportionally more blubber over them. With enough armor, penetration isn't really "low probability" but more "physically not possible". [3]

- Vital orca organs seem to be, surprise, well-protected. Their abdominal/thoracic cavity looks like a small volume inside a very large body, with particularly a lot of space on their back. The brain is not only protected by lots of blubber but also thick bone. [4] Based on this diagram, only the melon and eyes really look vulnerable.

- Orcas take care of disabled orcas! [5] If a wound interferes with hunting/feeding, then someone stays back to keep them company/protect them until the rest of the pod can bring them food or call them over to eat. It might suck, but they shouldn't starve. Apparently they do this even for strangers from different pods too? If an orca still starves to death because nobody will do that for them, then I guess they were probably a bit of an asshole…

So guns won't even work on water. Then even if it hits them directly it probably won't/physically can't hurt them. They're protected by water, blubber, size, and thick bone plate, any one of which on its own would be enough to stop most bullets. And even if they do get seriously wounded they have support networks that won't let them starve.

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1: https://mythresults.com/episode34

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca#Characteristics

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth

4: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orca_internal_anatom...

5: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=orcas%20caring%20for%2...

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> All around I would like to very much avoid this outcome.

Cash in on hysteria by selling denatonium benzoate bath bombs. Win-win.
Can you share some examples where you got burned?
Verseon is doing raw quantum mechanics computations about various potential drugs and various important receptors. https://www.verseon.com/
I don’t think that studying the history of the technology business makes one a tabloid journalist.

I apologize if my remark came off smartass, I can see how it could.

If you feel I could be more constructive I’m legitimately (no sarcasm whatsoever) open to suggestions: it’s a tricky topic and I strike the wrong note more often than the right one.

Certainly I intended no personal offense to someone I haven’t met.
I think for some engineers, great engineering blog posts can build their technical reputation.
This is even true at larger scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#The_Breakdown_of_...
Seems to be an issue on their side. E.g., for a step of GPT2 training on a 7900 XTX [1]: tinygrad is ~440ms, PyTorch 2.4.0.dev20240513 is ~97ms, Karpathy's llm.c with ROCm is ~79ms, and llm.c with custom kernels is ~58ms

[1] https://github.com/anthonix/llm.c
[2] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/issues/4301
It might be optimistic to say that rolling over to a new key is 'at most a dozen clicks'.

Hardcoded keys are a big one. But even just hunting down all config where the key needs to change can be a major hassle. Is there some ci yaml that expects a runner to have the key in a .env file that only runs on major release? Good chance you won't realize that key exists.

Still a great idea to revoke those keys. But it will damage some customers in the short term. And they will be angry, as people often are when you demonstrate their mistake.
No, I am not simply unaware. I said my understanding, which appears to be wrong. Thanks for the details. However, I am still confused on which employees of which company. There is the non-profit OpenAI and for-profit OpenAI. Are these articles talking about everything or just the for-profit branch?

I still wager that things would have been different had the board clearly stated their reasons. Doesn't make any sense that they did it months later. The signing of the petition seems mostly group think and political. I would guess that the majority of employees would have followed through.

Lastly, I still can't say any of this makes any sense. Why did the employees even care about Altman? It still seems all very strange to leave your job for someone who doesn't seem to have ever said anything meaningful.
Now do the same thing with video.

Turn anything into a mirror, or something like that.
"A fine is just an overpriced cost."
100% Gimmie some Red Dragon.
> amoral wealth-hoarders

They're not hoarding wealth. They don't have any Scrooge McDuck cash faults. Their money is all invested, i.e. put to work creating things that people want.

> moralists ... capitalists

History shows us that societies based on morals (religious, ideological) fare extremely poorly compared with societies based on rights (free markets).

Like it or not, for a large, prosperous society you must have big business.
Open initiatives transforming global finance
The difference between a Hilbert space and an inner product space is that a Hilbert space is complete, i.e. has an uncountable number of points. Its all fine and dandy to say that in the history of the universe we can only come up with a finite number of numbers or even finite number of mathematical concepts, but all the current theories of QFT are on top of Hilbert spaces.
It reminded me a lot of some of the stories told by that poor fellow currently blogging his way through late-stage neck cancer, and whose posts lately have often reached the front page - specifically, it reminded me of his posts that talk in detail of what it's been like for him and his partner trying to negotiate the modern medical industry, and which would read like something out of Terry Gilliam's most darkly comedic fever dreams were it not for the literally life-and-death import of their subject matter.

I doubt anything like that was the author's intent, but who cares? Theirs is the first, not the last, of the hands which shape the text.
So what? My point was the encryption doesn't matter, it's just the reason you have to impersonate in order to merely evesdrop sometimes.
A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.
Unauthorized?! It's 100% legal! Maybe not 100% moral, but I needed this for a nonprofit. I donated GiveWP to this and 2 more nonprofits - it costs me $420 per year and it's worth it. But no plugin developer offers a nonprofit discount, and the pricing is just cost-prohibitive. So, I donated the lifetime plan for GPL Vault. Keep in mind, that I could've decided not to pay for GiveWP as it's available from GPL Vault, but because I know it's a complex piece of work... although extremely buggy, I wanted the developers to continue the development and fix those bugs at some point far in the future, but the other stuff is just nice-to-haves and not worth the asking price.
Oh it definitely isn't. Data volume may be small, but latency will kill you, especially if your database server isn't on the same machine as your application. If you fetch an entity A with a one-to-many to entity B, with a typical size of 100 B's for every A, you are looking at 101 separate queries if you access any relations on B, which assuming 1ms of network latency give you a lowerbound of 100ms for an operation that may have taken well below 10ms in total had you fetched in one go.
I suppose that would be a reasonable reason on a practical level. However, how is a board liable for that? The CEO lies and intentionally withholds information, employees strangely hold the company hostage, and yet it's the board held liable? The board governed the non-profit OpenAI.
Classic NPD behavior from the sound of it (triangulating board members, lying/withholding, etc). Wouldn't be surprised if the return was predicated by promises to do/be better or extreme gaslighting.

Worth people studying the disorder and learning to spot it—can save you a lot of trouble.
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Doesn't mention Geisberg forcing Mike Payne to leave PTC and Mike joining Solidworks to head their development.
Because you could do the data computations at the layer closest to the data ?
Sam Altman wouldn't get caught
taking the first 20 bytes of a sha-512 hash...is that sound engineering?
Actually, there's a vast difference between exposing sin and judging. Was John the Baptist judging Herod?
I see this a lot. You've just made a small non-interactive site, and there's nothing secret. So why bother either https?

Well, firstly, I'd say, make ot https for fun. It's pretty simple to do, makes itself automatic, and costs no money. Just exploring this route can be very illuminating.

Secondly it prevents your site from being altered by the outside. There's a lot of equipment between your site and the client. Being HTTP allows it to be altered along the way.

Gor example, and thd least serious, is that your ISP can inject adverts onto your page. Most ISPs don't do this, but quite a few do.

Second, a malicious user could inject additional text onto upur pages, proclaiming your love for a political party, some racial or misogynistic slur, or whatever.

Third, you're sending a signal to all that you either don't understand the security risks, or don't care about them. This can have consequences (reputationally) if you are in, or going into, a computing career.

Making it HTTPS can be fun too!
The opposite would be nice too. Silence specifically this source (probably not your partner, though maybe....)
Hellsing
Thank you for sharing the text-only link! Is there a "known" / easier / automated way to figure out such content urls? ... i.e., short of manually inspecting webpages by hand.

Thanks!
> but a fairy-tale that sounds nice and we wish were true (this is true of most zen stuff). Basically they are fantasies that reality is less unfair/arbitrary

(zen) buddhism is a lot of things but certainly not a fairy tale. The basic assumption is that suffering is the basic state of life, that life is very unfair and arbitrary and that what you're going for is not even happiness but elimination of desire and ultimately the self. Very non happy go lucky as far as philosophical systems go. The article really has a very botched definition of happiness going on which it defines right in the beginning:

>For us, happiness is the target state that we want to achieve, at which we would be in our ideal condition

Happiness isn't a target state or object to be grasped, which is very trivial to show. Just imagine you get everything on this shopping list of happiness. Now you wake up the next day, what do you do? Life is always in some state of non-equilibrium and in particular if you do, as the article suggests, define happiness as a sort of string that pulls you along.
Come on, you're being intentionally dense. OP framed your quote as a question, not a statement. They're not exploring nor judging people on whether or not they should be contributing to society even with no pressure towards it. They're asking the if they think they would, and how.

A "no" suffices. And in fact, is valuable, as it feeds the secondary implicit survey you allude to.

Personally, that's my answer. My public contribution would be in archival, I'd edit a lot of wiki pages. But it would be driven by my interest, not practicality, so it would be mostly useless to society at large. Most of my time would actually be consumed by personal stuff for my friend groups.
"Fluid dynamics" is code for climate science
Yes, because most of the transfers happening are speculative investment trades, arbitrage, etc. People moving money around, without paying for anything.

That source says, when it comes to the demand in terms of spending crypto for goods or services:

> 46% of transactions are due to illegal transactions
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People do talk about it, but not enough - Hunter x Hunter.

While the 2011 version is longer, the 1999 has some really great moments
Nadia
> Therapists have to get training in avoiding leading a patient into a wrong diagnosis because it leads to some terrible outcomes.

I suffered incredibly negative consequences to my life after being incorrectly diagnosed as bipolar 2.

It shattered my confidence and belief in myself as I was continually told the things I believed and the decisions I made were from a position of mania. It’s too hard to explain in a short comment but it’s potentially one of the most damaging medical interactions I’ve ever had in terms of what it did to my life.
I would love to have these effects as an option when viewing man pages.
>if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding

We need to be fair here: Plans for potential flooding were made, the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so.

Guidelines and such have been updated since so it (hopefully) won't happen again, but you can't fault engineers of the past for working with the data they had and coming to the conclusions they did.
> because generally you do still talk to who you thought you were, just not directly.

...that's the requirement. The indirection of someone interposing themselves between you and the party you're trying to speak to is what is referred to by the phrase "man in the middle".

There is no phrase "man to the side". If you don't represent yourself as being the party they want to talk to, you aren't performing a man-in-the-middle attack.
Queelp
That they were not on top of what was happening in the company.

Either that means for some reason they weren't trusted, they weren't asking the right questions, etc etc.

Releasing chatgpt was a large undertaking, for the board to be surprised, it leads me to believe they weren't paying attention.
Mirror: https://archive.is/guPtE
I have to say the Chinese female voice sounds the most natural. It's really amazing how far these have got!

Video with examples: https://b23.tv/uumKPam (bilibili)
Crazed hacker DESTROYS C language on github!

If there were a novelty requirement to push to github (or to publish on HN for that matter) it would be much less fun. On the other hand, it is also fun to hear about the history.

Personally I always enjoy abusing the C preprocessor for fun and profit. Just yesterday I was contemplating the potential amusement of using cpp (and cc) to generate custom assemblers, customized assembly language syntax, and assembly language interpreters.
i like it, and have thought of similar ideas. i would add yogis or "spiritual masters" or something like that to the scientists and engineers, just to keep things in check and not let the intellect take over too much.

so it seems like your vision would be to maximize understanding of the universe, which i agree with, because that is like the ultimate thing that makes sense to do in order for our species to survive for the longest amount of time possible.
As much as on paper they aren't the board's boss, based on how events turned out they effectively were. They had leverage over the board to get what they want.
This is only enabled for a small percent of people at random, otherwise just folks in the advanced protection program.
AI-based method locates specific actions in videos
thank you! those are good points. i was thinking that maybe you could get by with some relatively sparse convolutional layers over the raw sound samples and save yourself the expense of doing a real fourier transform, but maybe that's a dumb idea
"Just block or mute their account, eh.." would be carried to a whole new level - in actual life!
I think this is both happening because supply chains are becoming so cheap, and then being reinforced by increasing wealth disparities. There are many people in the US for whom Amazon is too expensive, and as local businesses shutter because they can't compete with online retailers, their only choice is places like Temu.
Mapping World Unhcr Refugee Data with Python Streamlit and GPT-4
ayy 3 body problem. good book series.
Serial Experiments Lain - I'm still waiting on IPv7.
Walter, as you know I respect your point of view on the merits of the market in this business: God knows you’ve got about double my experience in it (and the multiple on impact is some larger coefficient I can’t even eyeball) and your opinion is logically robust, as we’ve debated before.

You’ve previously argued for the merits of e.g. the Gates fortune, and as someone who went head-to-head with MSFT in the springtime of its excellence and I’m inclined to believe the guy who was there.

In your opinion, which you know I respect as much as any hacker living, did Altman build anything or do anything of value to be a billionaire off AirBnB stock certainly less than 3, probably less than one year after Loopt was sold at a loss with Conway’s finger on the scales?