skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be really weird if a Silurian civilization randomly pumped out a bunch of radioactive iron and didn't do anything else.

We never know any data before interpreting it through theories. All observations are, as Popper put it, theory-laden, and hence fallible, as all our theories are.

Deutsch, David. The Beginning of Infinity

Probably the best evidence that Fe60 is not "Silurian" in origin is that it still arrives on Earth [0].

0. https://webarchiv.typo3.tum.de/PH/gams/fileadmin/w00bjs/www/...

Addendum:

The Silurian Theory is sometimes an interesting way to explore ideas. I don't think that a large pre-human "civilization" need take the same form as what we think of as human civilization. Even some large human civilizations like that of the Indus River Valley or Harappan culture are less understood because they left less in the way of stuff analogous to current times: "In sharp contrast to this civilisation's contemporaries, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, no large monumental structures were built. There is no conclusive evidence of palaces or temples."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
Sounds like they must have settled a just case.
> it also paints the picture of the board being incompetent and incapable of confrontation

Yes. Nobody involved in this comes out looking very good IMO.
For people who do not want to wait for multiple Twitter spinners and multiple login and cookie popups, the content is:

"
My commitment:

- We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win.

- We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose.
"
Long live the popular thing /s
> On top of that there's a secret in the industry though: there's a lot of maybe not entirely legal code copying going on. Hiring someone who's made a similar game in the past can mean that they come with source code that could be copied to shortcut the time to write code for the new game.

It would be pretty hard to drag code from other engineers with you, without outright bringing the source code along. If that happened, it would very much be illegal.

What's more likely to happen (and something I, and most other engineers, have done) is use their own solutions from previous work experience to develop new features. This has been tested (at least in Federal and California courts) and been found to be completely fine, as long as it's not in the end goal of infringing on protected property (e.g. developing an h264 codec/hardware blob to avoid the license).
Broken link?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/ Seems to just go to a list if Ars stories from last September…
>It also said police reports revealed that Speckman was found to be driving with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.

Driving under the influence, what more is there to say?
I’m not sure about this. Thriller (by Michael Jackson) is one of the biggest pop songs of all time. It was also the fourth track on the A side. Bohemian Rhapsody (another one of the best selling singles of all time) was the fourth track on the B side.

Those are two examples off the top of my head. If you give me a bit of time to put my kid to bed, I’m sure that I’ll find many more.
> Sam lying as she has stated in other articles about how she wants AI she regulated by gov

Hell, Sam wants AI regulated by government...

... after OAI is well-established and locked in, of course. A little ladder-pulling and regulatory capture is something he's entirely aligned upon.
Well I think there are mostly bad people at the top of all these big companies. Lying to bad people is good so I support Sam Altman.

I'm tired of the elite trusting each other and the negative externalities of that so I support elites lying to their hearts' content. Nothing wrong with a little lie here or there. It keeps things interesting.

Anyway, it's not like the currency economic reality is grounded in truth... Is lying actually lying if the underlying social reality itself is built on lies? I think they cancel out.
How hard is this to exploit in practice? Very - this is a silly update in OpenJDK's war against things like Project Lombok.

It _seems_ easy to exploit: Just.. get any jar file containing an annotation processor on the classpath and it will be executed as part of `javac` - and almost every java build tool calls javac under the hood.

However, this is misleading: _if_ somebody with malicious intent manages to either sneak a jar file into the build dependencies somehow, or manages to libxz-style take control of a commonly used dependency, the damage is done. That jar will also be on the classpath when running the app. So now we're running compromised code. Java is not a sandboxed thing, running malicious code inside a JVM is a bit like an XSS web attack: The game is lost. Totally and utterly.

The fact that javac runs annotation processors by default until JDK23 does mean that a compromised build chain now runs _during the build_, whereas starting with JDK23 they'll only run when you run the app.

This doesn't seem impactful to me; I'm having a hard time figuring out scenarios where this is meaningfully less bad. Developers tend to run the app they are writing. The odds a developer will build a source tree and never actually run what they built, seems insufficient to consider this a meaningful contribution to security.

CI servers might be a useful place to look for 'systems that will run the build but will not run the app', except - no. Just about every CI tool will run some tests, thus, running the app, thus, running the malicious code.

Which gets us back to: OpenJDK's backwards-compatibility breaking crusade. The OpenJDK team has also broken reflection (you can no longer access anything in another module that wasn't explicitly exported without command line switches, even though reflection used to be able to do this. Reflection has 'CARE! You are accessing APis that were not designed to be messed with!' written on the tin. It's.. the point of it). - same reasoning. "For security" without being particularly clear about how that update contributes to security. It's not about 'it is impossible to use reflection to cause serious damage' (it is very possible to do that, in fact). It's more about: .... if you are running malicious code inside a JVM, we've got much, much bigger problems.

It's sort of like stating that security is improved by ensuring that it is no longer possible to open the front door from inside the house without a key. Seems nice - but, they're... already inside the house.
please also explicitly teach folks to re-visit settings frequently; apps/webui's love to change settings, and often opt-in to new "features". one thing i feel is underrated is the frequency at which those settings change on users for the company's benifit
> Believe it or not sama actually delivered something believable and actionable to the general masses while being the CEO of OAI

I guess there's no way to know this but how much better than the "Null CEO" did he actually do? What if he happened to preside over a successful company that would've performed as well or better without him?
I think lawyers have a different meaning for hard core. I mean, it sounds absurd to call your lawyers hard core.

Just to do what he is asking you would need a team like oj had but for each simultaneous case. He should start a law firm next.
Sounds like he outsmarted them and they were holding back the organization.
"Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?"

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412687
From my time working on data infrastructure at Facebook, deletion policies are respected (permanently delete user data within X days). This was in 2018, though, so things may have changed.
I think the difference is that annotation processors run arbitrary code at compile time.

An org might have e.g. a CI with a build environment that’s not as well-sandboxed as the test environment for the built app, because a Java compiler isn’t generally expected to (and other than through annotations, usually doesn’t) expose arbitrary code execution abilities to the payload of code being compiled.
An ideal job is different than if you didn’t need money. I have a bit more of a lived experience with this than most. I’m planning to fatFIRE when I have kids going to college.

Currently, I’ve been on a sabbatical for two years. In that time, I’ve spent a good amount traveling and living in other areas. I’m living in NYC mostly rather than SF.

I’m interested in having a family and have been single for a few years. So, that’s why I moved to NYC. I simply couldn’t meet enough single women back in SF. The ratio is really bad in SF. In NYC it’s tolerable. (Check out census data - table b12002)

That’s what I would do because it’s what I’ve done. I’d spend all my free time looksmaxxing and looking for a partner. It’s not a trivial task. I offered my closest friends in SF over $500k if they introduced me to my future wife but no one could even think of a single woman they knew who was single. I wasn’t being facetious - I was 100% willing to offer that matchmaker fee but they knew there was no one. Thus, I had to move and here I am.

It’s better but hard to find someone who is marriage material here. Also, the standards women have here are outlandish given what they bring to the table. I’ve met several women who don’t even make $100k who demand a millionaire husband - lol. That level of delusion is just commonplace.
Yeah, OP's example of Doom had the original sound engine library ripped out of the source code for release: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/README.TXT#L...

Similarly Doom 3's source code release had features ripped out: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/blob/master/README...

And that's a 20 year old game which id made the engine for. A 10 year old game that used Unreal Engine 3 would need permissions for Unreal Engine 3 for the source code to not be useless.
Fair enough. Is it now safe to say that OpenAI could have done with a 8B model + $500 of fine tuning instead of running a (much) larger model on their GPU cluster?
For people who rent it is bad.
High inflation means all the necessities of life are more expensive. High interest rates cause pain but the pain is not evenly distributed.

For people who own it is fine (homes and stocks). They’re not hurting so they keep spending.

There really are two economies. One is doing great and the other one sucks.
> I’d say it’s pretty fair to describe that as not owned.

I'd agree with that. But you also ignored the very next statement.

> even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company

Are you going to claim that a GP of a fund has no financial interest in the fund, too?
Or the tweet was bullshit, and Tesla will do what every company does and determine whether it is better to settle or not based on the financial cost/benefit and not the truth or validity of the claim.
Except that you cant, in a practical sense.

I can sell crypto to anyone, anywhere.

That cannot be used to purchase anything, anywhere.

Its only useful for a very narrow subset.
> that also didn’t hurt anyone

There has been industrial scale copyright infringement.

You can argue it's for the greater good but to say that no one was hurt is a lie.
What is still bizarre is how the board brought him back. I just don't understand that from any angle. It is very clear that he lied and schemed. So why was there any issue? He had no power once fired. If another company wants to hire him, fine. If he wants to make platitudes on Twitter, who cares? Employees threatened to leave? Let them. I imagine many of them wouldn't, and if they did, you could just rehire and find a proper CEO. It's likely that the employees who would have stayed would have been the ones you want to keep anyway.

So why would you rehire him and then resign? Why not leave him fired and resign?

Why did Microsoft care so much about Altman? They didn't have a board seat, so too bad so sad. They should have had no sway. If they want OpenAI, then they can buy it. Why would they even want Altman to come to their company? What possible value could Altman bring to Microsoft?

Just none of it makes any sense. In fact, the most clear thing is Altman's negative behavior and mode of operation. I remember his very loud, awshucks pronouncements of having no shares in OpenAI. Yea, right. A career VC setup a new company structure or structures where he wouldn't benefit at all financially.

In another timeline, OpenAI firing him, naming an interim CEO, ignoring all else, and then hiring a new CEO would have all gone just fine. I don't know why Microsoft and others made a huge kerfuffle over it. And I also don't know why the board released such a cryptic press release when they could have provided details.

I just can't wrap my head around any of it, even letting in conspiracy theory lines. Lol. It just makes no sense and gives me a feeling that no one involved has any clue about anything, including Satya Nadella.
How did you determine 7 cents was the correct amount?
Reminds me of the studies they’ve done on cognitive dissonance/lying.

Basically if you believe lies you tell yourself, they tend to turn into truths in your mind over time. Even if you were doing it “ironically.”
> We may never know the truth

That's the point. They're trying to hide something.
Rarely does anyone in situations like this have no fault. It's all degrees of wrong really
I've seen the "coup" framing a lot I just don't see how that's justified. They're the board of directors! Hiring and firing the CEO is core to the job (as is maintaining mission alignment, in the nonprofit world).
Did you not read the article? They included info about an old case for background but this was about the Apple engineer who in 2018 was killed when his Tesla drove itself off the edge of a freeway and into a barrier at 71 mph.
By being small the INR is less impacted by the politics of the day.

In history messengers of bad news were shot. In modern times bringing bad news is a career limiting (if not, destructing) move. So the chiefs of the intel agencies will only bring palatable info to Washington.
Or, that his commitment is at odds with his fiduciary duty.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-laptops/
> That jar will also be on the classpath when running the app.

No. In many maven config, runtime classpath is not the same as compile time
404 would also work, since the resource does not exist at the http: address.
I’ve done a lot of OCR work and tesseract is nearly a decade out of date at this point. It is not a serious technology for anything requiring good accuracy or minor complexity. From what I’ve seen, GPT-4V completely smokes tesseract, but then again, most modern OCR systems do. If you want fast and pretty powerful OCR, check out paddle. If you want slower but higher accuracy, check out transformer based models such as TrOCR.
> constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company

That sounds criminal.
Since I mainly use Postgresql, I mix 1, 2 and 3: I create CTE's in code which are then reused in queries

sqrl.Select("id", "cte1.*", "cte2.*").From("mytable").Join(CTE1{}).Join(CTE2{}).Where(etc)
Starting to sound like the "iPhone Killer" we've all heard about... for the past 15+ years
I did read this article, which is what I was commenting on. “This incident” . The article was not about the previous case even though it was referenced.
The sentencing guidelines + enhancements are all in months - so the eventual sentence is reported in months as well. Months are granular enough to discern between 7 months and 17 months which would both be "1 year" but are much different sentences.

https://www.thehardylawfirm.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018...
have you heard of precious plastics?
It's straight out of Sneakers (1992).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3npSv8iuM

Anyone want to shut down the Federal Reserve?
PostgREST for instance avoids the alleged problem by generating a single SQL statement. So does Hasura, PostGraphile, and probably Prisma for that matter.
Elon Musk dominates space launch. Rivals are calling foul
I am kind of proxying everything through an old iphone running with fake camera streams & fake requests to all kind of trendy NSFW sites & GPT generated conversations pretending to be SMS, Whatsapp & mails.

So yeah, this makes the phone slow, but have fun finding truth in all this BS data, NSO!
> It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question.

Agreed. That's why I answered as I did.

> If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary.

You proved it was necessary. Might want to look into why you are getting so defensive. Seems like I touched a nerve.
I'm not saying that Go or Kotlin is better than Java in all of those aspects. I'm just saying that Kotlin, GraalVM exists because Java, JVM have certain issues or limitation. For Golang, I'm just saying that the developer experience in Go is better. It's not just my personal experience, you can find the same result in any developer survey.
Nobody except governments (plural) has the authority to regulate things. If you think regulation is required, there is no choice except governments to do it. Industries can only regulate themselves if given the power to do so by a government. Otherwise it is just a cartel agreeing to not push to hard under threat of actual regulation (and when one party thinks they can push harder, it falls apart).

As a real example, fully autonomous weapons will be developed and used. And if you don't want them to exist outside of black markets and pariah states, governments need to agree that development, manufacture and sale of them is a crime, like chemical weapons and land mines. Yes, I didn't say it would work well, but it is still the best tool we have.
Yeah.
The insert statement fails when dealing with larger datasets, and the parser incurs significant overhead.
The most efficient method is to use the COPY INTO command like in Databend[1] or Snowflake[2] for bulk data loading.

[1] Databend: https://docs.databend.com/guides/load-data/load-semistructur...

[2] Snowflake: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/copy-into-ta...

[3] Data Ingestion Benchmark: https://docs.databend.com/guides/benchmark/data-ingest
Let's all just dismiss any criticism of Tesla's products and services by framing it as being specious because internet points.
Yes. I scanned the OP link for any mention of nutrition, the gut or microbiome and there was nothing. Such a disappointing oversight for a supposed expert on depression.
Yeah sorry I don’t buy it. I’m absolutely certain if the JPL got funding to build a museum, it would be exactly like this only way better.

Instead, we make sure we have billionaires.
Not fundamentally, but extremely costly to keep track of everything. Still deterministic though.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runbook
Agreed. The N+1 problem is not as big as people make it out to be.
In every single city I've ever lived in or paid attention to, the water system has been directly operated by employees of the municipal government, not private companies and not even contractors. And the regional projects they buy from tend to be pure government, too.

Oh, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization#Prevalence

But, hey, never let facts interfere with your deeply held religious beliefs, eh?
Just an idea: The use of ground rent in new developments is one way to reduce cost to home buyers in higher mortgage rate environments. In this way, the homeowner can still develop equity in the property while the ownership and expense of the land by the developer or investor can covered over time by the ground rent eventually resulting in a ROI for the developer or investor. There could be fair ways to allow homeowners to purchase the land at some point, similar to a car lease, when their financial situation allows. Another way to think of this is fractional ownership: land + dwelling.
Financial rewards. Money.

Investors could not take the risk of disturbing the value of their investment.

It is that simple
There's no incentive to do so.
It takes time and money to ensure you're not releasing proprietary code you don't own. It likely stops you from ever re-releasing it, even if that's very unlikely.
I see two mentions of the clipboard on that page and they both indicate full support in Safari. They don’t indicate that for all other browsers. What are you trying to say here?
He’s not a very defensible person blindly ambitious about power.

Kind of weird to be cheering for Elon to knock off Microsoft/OpenAI effort.

Also funny to think of Google as an also ran offering for AI.
Sounds like that could be potentially true. Hopefully it has been fixed as that was an older version of the car.
This sounds like:

Time travel debugging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging

Includes a list of debuggers that implement it for various languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging#Time_tra...
Explicit details were never released because for some reason people seem to like watching Altman fall his way up the ladder.
I enjoy looking out windows and really like the in-flight views that many airlines have put into seat-back entertainment, but they're all just rendering aerial/satellite photos, not actually showing you. I'd love it if there were actual cameras on the planes that showed you exactly what was out the window (with some map overlay).

If you know your approximate position and have a good feeling for geography, you can see a lot. Coming back from Europe during daylight, I was able to see Lac Manicougan, the St Lawrence River, and eventually Lake Champlain (since it was a clear day, I actually saw more of it on that flight than I did when I drove across it a few years later, when it was foggy). I've identified highways from cruising altitude and used that to identify the larger towns/smaller cities we were passing. Flying to Europe at night, I've had a full view from Ireland to Amsterdam as we approached landfall.

All of those would be even better if I could have looked ahead and to both sides with actual cameras. I wouldn't want to spend a whole flight in a VR headset, but an hour or two would be great, especially since 1-2-1 has become the default seating in business class - I'm traveling with my wife and so we have to sit in the middle of the plane to be able to sit next to one another.
What would be the point of having him as CEO if they mistrusted him so much that they would have to put a metaphorical straightjacket on him to make sure he behaved well?

Not to mention that if he was vengeful, it would be much easier to do damage from within and from a position of power.
"culture", aka reasonable response to external coercive forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish
Will learn from attempt to
From the rest of the comments here it's the Musk was ultimately at fault regardless of anything else.
Lying is not "outsmarting", it's lying.

As for "holding back the organization", if we're talking about existential risk, I want them to be held back. These people have no business being stewards of any technology that might be an existential risk.
> "telling us they had no belief that he could or would change, no point in giving him feedback"

This is awful behavior. Never ever stop talking. Never ever stop giving feedback.

When someone says something along the lines of "the other person wasn't listening so I had to take action against them", they are almost always lying. (They are probably lying to themselves most of all).

The other person usually is listening, it's just that they aren't snapping to right away (often for very valid reasons). I don't know what the word is for this type of behavior ("snakish?"), but I would be wary of those executives.
That having impaired drivers does not absolve you of liability for unintended acceleration.
self dealing isnt criminal its just super suspect. Good question though - actively telling the board a bald faced lie, is that criminal? Certainly justifies getting fired.