skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might be time to turn back the clock a bit and revisit some of the things pg said way back when he was pitching Sam Altman to lead YC and the general reaction was "...who?"

2008: "You could parachute [Sam Altman] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.) Not everyone has Sam's deal-making ability. I myself don't. But if you don't, you can let the numbers speak for you." https://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

2014: "Of all the people we’ve met in the 9 years we’ve been working on YC, Jessica and I both feel Sam is the best suited for that task. He’s one of those rare people who manage to be both fearsomely effective and yet fundamentally benevolent..." https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/sam-altman-for-president

Now, this isn't about pg specifically. Maybe he had reservations at the time but still thought he was making the right decision, maybe he's since changed his mind, maybe he hasn't but has pretty well moved on from this scene. Not interesting.

I'm more interested in whether Altman, and Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Ellison, and all the other amoral wealth-hoarders, are finally becoming obvious enough now that people might finally begin to see them as the yucky byproducts of a yucky system.

Maybe a moralistic, basically decent person couldn't get ChatGPT launched and turned in to the household topic of discussion it is today; maybe nice people can't build cheap rockets. Maybe in the future, when making an endorsement for a leadership position in some company, someone might be brazen enough to say aloud, "I believe this person is sufficiently nasty to make us all more successful."

And so then the question is, does society net benefit more from the moralists or more from the capitalists? Do we accept that Sam Altmans are necessary for cool technology? How many Altmans can we have before something goes horribly, irreversibly wrong?
We have mullberry, maple, boxelder, and sometimes oak trees that spring up everywhere and basically need to be weeded before they get too big. Mullberry is particularly "weedy", a common sight at the edge of fences or in hedges.
Have people never heard of Brave?
Specific "bullying" (as opposed to harassment) laws AFAICT only exist for children, and historically were largely limited to events that take place on school grounds, so an extension definitely was needed there.

For adults, I guess there's "hostile work environment"?
The choice of the adjective "forgettable" crosses from plausibly genuine into low-quality territory. Regardless of my opinion on this specific case, the tendency toward petty insults (as opposed to understandable criticisms/emotions) about people who commit suicide is one of the more hideous among people's common faults.
It feels like one press release may have changed the outcome entirely.

Shouldn't the board be capable of agreeing on a press release among themselves?
> In those, the percussion (if any) isn't driving the performance

Wrong, drums (or the bass) most usually is driving the rhythm, and jazz musicians are extremely adept at staying on tempo.

> Because the jazz artists won't stay on beat, and this irritates some perfect-pitch-like "out of tune" feeling in the classical musician?)

Try the exact opposite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbUNDW9bDA

> you'd have to fight the DAW to not.

That's just outright false.
This is a basic action in all commonly used DAWs. eg
https://promixacademy.com/blog/how-to-nudge-tracks-in-logic-...
In this case, they're vaguely gesturing towards the "money being better spent elsewhere", instead of making a cost-benefit analysis including the time value of money.

Do you see how the argument is overly general? You can use it to shoot down anything that's not immediately useful. It's especially silly at the level of nations, which can obtain money much more easily than a random individual. Cash flow is much less of a problem at that level. The way it's phrased exploits people's tendency of thinking about a nation's budget like their own household budget, only bigger.
Yeah, even 24 year-old Nokia 3310 had some form of voice dialling [1].

OS/2 Warp 4.0 (1996) came with speech recognition and dictation software [2]. The CPUs it supported back then weren't much better than a 10-year old phone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310

[2] https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=OS/2_Warp_4:_%...
Consent is a term that doesn't exist in Silicon Valley.
It's remarkable that Apple has maintained such a commanding lead for so long. The 2020 M1 MacBook Air raised the bar for performance and battery life in a fanless laptop, and the rest of the industry is largely still catching up.

The situation will likely continue until the availability of ARM-based ThinkPads, etc.
Streamline Data Analysis with Kotlin DataFrame Tables in Notebooks
Transparent metamaterial for efficient light and temperature regulation
App designed by Indigenous people in W. Australia preserves language, culture
Wow this studio looks amazing, Great work! Keep it up.
Sam is at the top? He is “bad people” by your logic.

Lying is not good. Lying to your manager is always a fireable offense.
Metaphorically, I’ve been calling the guy a crook for a long time, and this historically hasn’t been the path to anything short of the cold shoulder at best from anything YC adjacent. It was heresy as recently as a year ago, maybe less.

Although a couple of the AI meme chats I’m in starting sending around a link that there’s actually a prediction market on whether he lasts in the CEO chair [1]. I’ve been too busy building shit to even look into whether I can trade it, but it’s been spiking north of 20%.

[1] https://kalshi.com/markets/openaiceochange/openai-hires-anot...
How nice it must be, when the schools around you have to compete in an actual "market". My kids are reaching school age soon, and I'm weighing the public/private school tradeoffs. Unlike in Florida, here in the Seattle area the public schools still more or less enjoy a monopoly for parents who can't afford private school. And they are more than happy to abuse it, with their relentless assault on gifted programs and insistence on busing in disruptive kids from other areas. I'm fortunate to have a dual tech income household so I can buy my way out of the public school problems, but I hope that my neighbors take notice and vote accordingly. Society is better off when kids who want to learn are given the opportunity to.
In my opinion, your confidence is unwarranted.
It isn't theft.

Nothing was removed from anyone to train the model.

If I do a Christopher Walken impression, what have I taken away from the actor?

Nothing.

I stg it's so silly the contortions you anti-ai ppl go thru.
I'd assume that being the board of an empty company somehow looked worse than being kicked off the board.
It's asking for a lot of detailed attention in a lot of different places.

With right hand driving, I need to look left to consider if that traffic will be exiting or continuing. I need to look right to consider if that traffic has slowed and I need to slow. I also need to look hard left and hard right for pedestrians, who likely want to cross near the intersection (where it's most convenient) regardless of where traffic engineers are encouraging them to cross. Oh, and I better keep an eye on my mirrors, because I may need to take evasive action if the guy behind me isn't looking and I need to stop for traffic.

It's pretty hard to look at five different places at once.
Not sure if this is what you might be looking for but I've built a service for this purpose would love to hear your comments if you do give it a try!

https://maskthis.email
You may want to disable path resolution as well.

http://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions/../bar responds with error messages about http://api.openai.com/v1/chat/bar which might suggest some path traversal vulnerability that could be exploited.

Generally an API client is not going to need .. to be resolved in a path. It should return 400 - Bad Request (deceptive routing).
How is this not more upvoted? HTTP Code 426 sounds like the best code to send?
You wrote "fired".

I tried to Google for a concrete, high quality source, but I cannot find anything. The best I could find:

> Altman was allegedly fired from his role as the President of YCombinator for putting his own interests first.

Note the term "allegedly".

Is there a YC press release or an insider's account of his termination? Else, this is just a rumor.

To be clear: I don't write this post as a shill for Altman, nor YC.
It’s not realistic. I can trust the many other object storage providers.
In 2013, I made Common Lisp macros that provide something that looks like labels but is guaranteed tail recursive.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/lisp-snippets/tree/tail-recursi...

No docs or test suite, sorry. Just block comments.

A trampoline based thing, deftail, is provided for global tail calls.

In the paradigm implemented in this file, calls to tail functions are always tail calls, even if not in a tail context. If it looks like the return value of a tail call is used, too bad; that will never be reached.
Wouldn't this open the door to revoking random API keys sent maliciously ?
This would be more fun if you could share what that item is.
I guess no one listened to the podcast the BI article is written about.

Helen toner talks about this, and essentially the employees thought it was bring sama back or the company dissolves and they lose their jobs.

This was right near a tender offer, so employees had real money on the line in the short term.
Have you chanced upon Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics?

He argues that true happiness comes from being-at-work in accordance with virtue. And that virtue can be cultivated through habit. So in his scheme, you can work towards sustained happiness.

Three of the important virtues he devotes separate chapters to are: courage, temperance and practical judgment ('phronesis', sometimes translated as 'prudence').

Of course, everyone develops their own map on how to understand and go about their lives. Just thought I'd share a pointer to the one in this work.
The fact that a password could be cracked at all means it was very weak. Strong passwords can't be cracked with any realistic amount of resources or motivation.
It's really a shame War of Numbers isn't better known, even among scholars. I think the lack of attention is because it was published after most of the generation who really cared had passed on. My cohorts in the 1980s talked a good deal about Frank Snepp's Decent Interval (1977) and its revelations about intelligence work. Sam Adams' book would have been a bombshell.
And that lack of trust will likely make science worse.

The number one issue in the academia is the lack of (public) funding. There are far more people trying to make a career in academic research than funding to enable that. When there is a lot of competition for scarce resources, people who are good at politics and gaming the metrics have an advantage. And if the resources become even scarcer due to the lack of public trust, the advantage will grow larger.
When the board fires you for wrongdoing it is like being deported from a foreign country for breaking that country’s laws. You can’t just go against that decision. It would be like telling the government that no, in fact they are the ones who are wrong and no, I didn’t break the law it is in fact their laws which are broken.

When you have irreconcilable differences with the board you could theoretically jump ship and start a rival company. Usually, in practice, that’s impossibly hard and yet Microsoft announced that they intended to do exactly that with funding and stock matching. For some reason that was turned down in favor of staging the equivalent of an in-country coup.

If you get caught breaking the law on vacation abroad and your response to being arrested is to take control of the country in retaliation then you are a very powerful, persuasive, or threatening person indeed.
This is very cool. I wonder if the query-param-based state management will become hairy to manage, but maybe it'll just inspire discipline in crafting the state props.
I thought it wasn't "released" initially in a manner that was meant to be a product.

I seem to recall that the release in late November 2022 was only intended to be a way for volunteers on the Internet to experiment with it and provide feedback.
The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka
Not really. I think the wasm file is only translated once and most time is spent on executing it.
One billionaire and one millionaire arguing over whether or not creating a news cycle with both of their names in it somehow constitutes theft or damages.

Literally couldn't care less.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-alt...

There are other sources.
But the release of chatgpt was not a matter of survival of the entire universe. So why are you asking the question?

The ad-extremo argument is a fallacy that doesn't ad anything to the discussion. It's simply a way of pushing a certain view, because you can always find some hypothetical that might justify an action.

Fortunately we are dealing with a concrete situation so we don't need to talk in hypotheticals.
> Sam may have been fired from YC but it does look like they believed in him.

Being character like that, unfortunately, leads often success in life. You are not limited by ethics or morals like most people do.
You need to be convincing that you care, while in reality you are only objective about financial success.

And if you are into money, you will invest these kinds of people.
If a malicious party has access to the API key, it should be revoked regardless
Start a new zen philosophy but with blackjack and hookers
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
> INR is tiny, with fewer than 500 employees total.

Maybe that's why they are always right.
It's an issue, it's a real issue.

That said, the AI generated papers are obvious bullshit and aren't taken seriously by "real" scientists at the cutting edge of various fields, they represent more of an issue in the long tail of the "publishing mills" and the puffed up prestige part of the lesser acedemic life.

As an issue it's one that gets push back, recent articles highlight how variou groups have written bullshit detectors for bogo papers and forced the publishing companies to reject those papers and close some of the paper mills.

That's a positive.

The negative circles back to this posts assertion, that there's a growth in bad mouthing scientists and good science .. and articles | blog posts that have used recent reporting of bogus papers being discovered to justify why they have low trust in science .. and so should you.

Ponder that, if it was not for the people in the field complaining about BS papers edging in and working to detect and eradicate them .. nobody would know, not least the trash talking blog authors who don't much read science papers in any case.
Congratulations on your new Ai journey!
Loved the website, keep developing best if luck!
Tesseract's true value is being one apt-get command away (i.e. opensource). Does Debian host more modern OCR systems in their repos?
This free article preview is missing the entire section on the semi-managed model, which is a shame, as it sounds very interesting.
There's also another class of game, ones that can be fully decompiled. Such as most Unity games.
Many people would lose their jobs if they refused by "opting out", and many people did. Kissing your job goodbye, in a pandemic, where the government forcefully shuttered many business, was not some free choice to make.

Top google search, but I suggest you look into this more, since your perspective is far disconnected from reality: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1047947268/covid-vaccine-work...
> Shall we destroy or take down Michelangelo’s David, then? A statue of a king who waged religious wars against the natives of Palestine, conquering Zion to make his capital city. Seems like a cause du jour, right?

Yes. For the reasons you outline.
Max news impact? At this point, any talk of OpenAI is good marketing.
I Googled with this phrase to find multiple reputable sources:

> salame ftx forfeit over $1.5 billion
4o is completely trash, it literally won't listen, cant reason, talks non stop like an idiot gushing you with usless info you didnt ask for. Its like that one kid that over explains and thinks hes smart. Its not even that much faster, quality sacrifice is not usable.
Paul Graham is British. That was actually an insult.
> I'm not aware of the machine learning researchers responsible for the core technology threatening to leave. Who were they?

Ilya Sutskever, Alec Radford, Wojciech Zaremba, Nick Ryder, Mark Chen, ... how many names do you want? >90% of the company threatened to leave.
I own a Framework :)

The build quality is pretty good - particularly given I can tear it apart. The speakers are okay. The webcam and microphone are poor. The battery life is acceptable, but I trust that's at least in part Linux' fault. The fans ramp up more often than I'd like... it's certainly good for a Windows laptop, and I like the ethos, but it's not at all MacBook territory.

For context, the last MacBook I owned was a 2017 model, the one with the awful keyboard. Ironic, I know.
We disagree on Taiwan’s independence [1].

I genuinely don’t care about where you’re from or your thoughts about me. Like, sure, I’m a sentient cheetah with an igloo on Antarctica.

But I am curious about your thoughts. If you’re open to engaging on that level, I’m actually curious.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40443429
Thank you for checking our website.
Fixed it just now!
What is purpose of DNSCrypt?

Prevent ISP from intercepting DNS queries? ISP cannot see the contents of the DNSCrypt encrypted DNS queries.

But person operating DNSCrypt cache where the queries are sent _can_ see the contents of the DNS queries.

DNSCrypt receives encrypted queries but then it sends these queries _unencrypted_ across the internet.

Morever the DNSCrypt cache receives _unencrypted_ DNS responses.

Anyone eavesdropping on the network can read and tamper with the contents of these packets, and impersonate packet senders.

What if ISP sets up a DNSCrypt cache somewhere on the internet? How would a DNSCrypt user know?

What makes it safe to share the contents of DNS queries with operator of DNSCrypt cache but not operator of ISP DNS cache?

What if the computer could send encrypted DNS queries to the authoritative nameserver for a domain name _directly_ instead of sending the queries to a DNSCrypt cache operator? What if the computer user could avoid using a third party intermediary: a DNSCrypt cache operator, an ISP, etc.?

As it happens someone designed a method for doing so, including the underlying cryptography.

That method expects that computer users run their _own_ caches instead of using one operated by third parties, such as an ISPs, DNSCrypt cache operators, OpenDNS, Cloudflare, Google DNS, Quad9, etc.

The creators of DNSCrypt copied that person's work to "invent" DNSCrypt.

Instead of using a local DNS cache bound to the computer owner's loopback that sends and recieves encrypted DNS packets directly to authoritative nameservers, they chose to require computer users to send DNS queries to _third party_ DNSCrypt cache operators as above.

If all packets carrying DNS data on the internet are to be encrypted it will require cooperation from authoritative nameservers.

I have run experiments on home network where I serve an entire zone from an authoritative nameserver fronted by a DNSCurve forwarder.

Others are running authoritative nameservers fronted by DNSCurve forwarder on the internet. AFAIK none of them have had any problems.

There is also a third party DNS service that runs DNSCurve forwarders in front of its nameservers.

Imagine a non-ICANN DNS registry that uses DNSCurve forwarders and only allows encrypted DNS.
Looks like it is yet another xtts fork
Didn't this get everyone talking of how OpenAI basically replicated Her's Samantha? Well worth a lawsuit, right?
I hope it's not just a prototype press release, will help people with hearing loss..
sounds very niche and very useful.

+1000 coo pints from me that you don't even try to monetize via BS.

I hope that you have an option for happy customers to buy you a beer or make a donation!
> Do we accept that Sam Altmans are necessary for cool technology?

Zooming out a bit, do we accept "cool technology" as a virtue? Should it factor into my evaluation of a person at all?
It assumes nothing like that. It provides you and your team with a safe opportunity to learn and grow.

Revoking a key like this is a problem that's solution is at worst a dozen clicks away fix. The alternative, leaking keys can be much worse.

So go and reset those creds for the guy who made a mistake happily and be grateful. He had an opportunity to learn.
> Some of us just aren't smart enough for sql.

I've heard this all my career. And I went through several phases with SQL including the banging rocks phase.

No, some of us just haven't had time to improve. I wrote my first sql in the early 2000s. I wasn't aware of window functions and lateral joins until 10 years later. Took me another couple of years to start using CTEs.

I don't even write SQL that much. I know enough SQL to make ORMs just do what I want.
No I havent read that but probably have read very similar things.

Its very easy to say these things so I never put much weight to them. I am just going off my own experiences.

What you might consider virtuous like helping others may lead down to lonliness and feelings of uselesness when circumstances change and theres no one around. If you work on being independent you may one day find you have a longing to connect. When being carefree seems to make you happy, one day it may lead to making terrible decisions.

The human brain, and all of life seems to be built on opposites, I don't believe eternal happiness can exist, at least not for everyone.
September all over again.
I'm very glad that TCP is so robust.

I'd take a solid 300 baud connection over a spotty cellular connection during most emergencies.

Having worked and played on flaky high-latency and low-throughput networks much of my life, I mostly visualize things in my head—as you likely mean by 'command-line-and-editor-when-you-feel-every-byte-transmitted'. Open a connection and queue your commands; wait for output. It works if you don't make any typos.

Preferably, when the connection is too slow or flaky (bad cellular), I make a local script and echo the script to be executed remotely to a file on the remote server, and then execute it with nohup - with the input to create the script and execute it coming from a pre-made file on my local machine redirected to SSH.

Bad cellular often works in bursts, in my experience. Also, redirect output to a file if needed.

This works nicely in situations where your connection may drop frequently for periods exceeding timeouts. On that note, keep ssh timeouts high. With really spotty cellular you might have the network drop for 5-15 minutes between reliable transmissions. SSH connections can stay alive nearly indefinitely if the timeouts allow for it and IP address don't change.
Rust is a total gamechanger, and it's probably the thing that excites me the most about the future of kernel development.
Where is the demo that can be used?
Put some of the reflectors for lane lines that are white when you're going the proper way, and red when you're going the wrong way.