skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Runbooks or playbooks are often used interchangeably.

I went with Runbooks since a playbook is usually something more abstract.
For e.g

A playbook might say: "restart the ec2 server," but a Runbook will list the exact sequence of commands you can run to restart a server.
Harrassment of scientists is surging – institutions aren't sure how to help
Thank you for your constructive feedback, what you’re saying about v is correct but only for a single observer, since information already exists and can only be realized.

From this, naturally, dv/dt is intuitively how much we think we know changes with time.

And dt/dreality is just the assumption that time progresses smoothly in reality. I think this is something to think about and we may not know currently (but I certainly see how it could use some discussion).

Again, I really appreciate the constructive feedback.
Shkreli is a piece of shit.

This is an example of his character:

A new drug comes before the FDA for approval, and it is opened up for comment. Shkreli lodges an objection to approval of this drug.

Why? Because it's unsafe? No - trials thus far have shown it to be safer than the existing drug options.

Why? Because it's less effective? No - it's also been shown to be more effective than existing drugs.

Perhaps it's more expensive? No - cost of R&D and production, and estimated retail costs are expected to be lower than existing drugs.

Huh, odd. So why in this case would Shkreli oppose this drug getting to the market?

The only reason he lodged an appeal with the FDA had nothing to do with the drug, but was because he and his company had just bought the patent to one of those 'existing drugs' referenced, and this new drug coming to market would crater the demand for his drug, and torpedo the profitability of his investment in buying the patent.

Fuck Martin Shkreli.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate, I'd say that population-weighted for the Netherlands the average is around 2x. If you're in rural areas it can easily be 8x or worse (2 hours for a 15-minute drive.)

Where things really shine is high-frequency, high-speed rail plus bikes. The IC Direct Rotterdam-Amsterdam is fast enough that I used to go from my place to my sister's, door-to-door, in about fifty minutes by bike+train, versus typically around a little over an hour for a car.

If you want a really impressive ratio you have to look to the TGV; in college I did Marseille-Paris, Paris-Lille, Lille-Brussels often and each of those segments are three times faster than the car!
This is burying the other end of the lede: the suit is about someone who died because the car caught fire and their door couldn't be opened.

So it could be seen as an engineering shortcoming, even though the cause was someone driving drunk
> you can also run it multiple times to catch errors.

Does this require a slight offset and/or rotation to the image, or just literal rerun, with seed seed/whatever giving a different result?
I misread the headline as "something something... FuckDB..." and got excited... and quickly disappointed.

I wonder what kind of software/product FuckDB might be (excluding NSFW usecases like IMDB for porn etc)... anyway, my brain should rest.
That wasn't what the case was about. It was about the propensity of the car to catch on fire and faulty door latch design that prevented the passenger who survived the impact from getting out.
That's so cool, I wonder if this can be pulled off on web pages? Non fixed width font would fail all over the places with quirks of css.
The completion level is impressive! I can hardly tell the difference from a human voice, especially with the natural pauses and laughter, which surpasses ChatGPT’s quality. However, there’s a noticeable electric noise at the end of sentences, which feels unnatural. (As a native Chinese speaker, I find the Chinese output even better in comparison.)
This is the attitude of a rebellious child instead of a professional.

Boards serve a vital fiduciary duty to ensure good corporate governance.

They do not exist to hold back the organisation and are not there to be outsmarted.
By this logic, Bernie Madoff has his heart in the right place, too.
Honestly, I never understood why a mortgage would even exist at, say, 3% interest ...

Why would anyone loan out trillions of dollars at 3% (that also includes the risk of default).

The same money in an index fund produces 7% over the long term

Even at a 7% rate mortgages appear to be be less liquid, more risky, and will underperform the market.

Mortgages exist probably only because the govt backs them (aka, taxpayers are on the hook) and allows banks to keep charging bogus paper filing fees on top of it. Banks offer mortgages to charge a 1K "origination" fee ... or whatever it is called.
> The example I had in mind was Westwood who haven't released Red Alert 2 source code. (but the same question applies to any game studio / game).

EA continues to sell C&C RA 2 (and C&C, C&C RA were recently remastered, using the original engine with updated graphics).
Exactly. If he hadn’t been under the influence then the door latch system wouldn’t have had a defective design

>The suit blamed the “propensity of the vehicle to catch fire, as well as the defective design of the door latch system entrapping him in the vehicle.”
100% agree. I don’t care about OpenAI or the members of its board at all, one bit.

What I did see was so much incompetence at the one thing I expect a board to be at least okay at. Hiring and firing.

For that alone, I think the board reshuffle was good. Regardless of who you support in all of this.
Except that I don't think it was for PR reasons that almost the entire company sided with Altman. I'd say it has much more to do with the profitability and the goal of continuing to work on interesting problems with the best resources.
Better at OpenAi then a private team at Microsoft??? I don't know what they were thinking either
Lest anyone thinks this is a recent trend, here's an amazing piece of journalism they published 10 years ago https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-cars-in-facebook-park...
He just digs that number on the screen, man.
The best thing with a return policy.

Unless your buying a Mac, theirs no real reason to go over 1k USD. All laptops share one weakness, you can drop them.

I just ordered a new X86 ( no recall for me) laptop and I'll be putting Debian on it.
The fact that transformers generalize is kinda evident from the fact that they can solve novel puzzles.
Dark Castle?
> a haven for school choice

Oof, the author comes out swinging right out of the gate.

This is a great end-run around "Separate but equal". Poor communities can't afford, and so they opt for homeschooling as public school close or lose so much funding they can't function. Then white affluent communities can have the most well funded schools, given generous public grants, and other bribes they enjoy for being the core support for spread Conservative tyranny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal
If you only get a few guesses on a bank site, then you can inconvenience large numbers of users cheaply.
"Filed a formal complaint" with whom? The board itself is the final authority, empowered to investigate and act. If its members have concerns, they either do something or don't. There's nowhere else to pass the buck.
Elon Musk says: "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. "

And yet Elon Musk filed harassing lawsuits against his critics Media Matters for America and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Musk's SLAPP suits are contrary to his purported love of free speech. They are manifestly unjust.
As in, after the peak in 21 years a service will have only 12.5% of its peak DAUs
Any trust Altman had has been eroded over the last six months. He's very shifty, and just not trustworthy.
What is your definition of what makes an AI system dangerous or safe? How would this be measured or standardized? Not vagueries, not "well superintelligence should be regulated". A company owns a 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. What are you implementing? What physical actions are the people enforcing this policy going to take? Someone, somewhere will be at a computer entering commands, or writing code, or looking at data. What will it be?
Its crazy that you can be fired from that role and make sure everyone covers their tracks so you can go do it again elsewhere.
> Just don’t use it. Why is it so important to disable it?

They explained this in their post. Seems reasonable to me.
> propensity of the vehicle to catch fire, as well as the defective design of the door latch system entrapping him in the vehicle

sounds like theres something that tesla would not like being in news headlines if the case went to trial.
"Sneakers" - 1992

"Hackers" - 1995

Sneakers had them going through the trash, setting up a mark on a fake date, and staking out a building and the security company it used with all sorts of stuff not once looking at a computer screen to "hack" three years earlier.

I like Hackers for the campy side of things, but Sneakers will still take a higher spot on my list.
US judge rejects Amazon's bid to dismiss FTC lawsuit over Prime
It would truly have been elite if you'd have to pull out Kermit and use that.

"line is ~300 baud but only transmitting 7 bit but we need to send this critical file.. which is in EBCDIC!"
It's widely thought but not conclusively found that there are certain constituents that are more toxic than others. As you say, the problem lies in the ability to measure these constituents more widely.

However, there is a hypothesis [1] that maybe there is something about the collective mass as negative association with health effects have been found all over the world where the composition changes drastically. A more recent hypothesis [e.g., 2] is that many health problems from particles stem from persistent reactive oxygen species that cause oxidative stress, and these reactive species form from many different mechanisms so likely scales with the collective mass, which has been serving as a surrogate metric.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00513-6

[2] https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32916
We’ll have to wait and see how far multi modal training takes us. Text only models are extremely limited by the kind of information we can encode as text and the loss of detail e.g. the word “cat” vs an image of a cat vs video of a cat vs direct physical interaction with a cat vs being a mammal that shares a great deal of biology with a cat. You need a table and beans before you can invent a method for counting them
Lying to the board, if true, is radically unethical. If you equate lying with “outsmarting,” that’s rather concerning.
> the spatial and cultural significance of the species is gone.

If it's ecologically competitive, it will spread again in the fullness of time, no?
There is an interesting argument for tearing down all statues of powerful people. There are precious few examples where someone powerful is worth idolising - titles like "the Great" are often short for "the Great Number of Needless Deaths". Any king stands, necessarily, in opposition to a fully democratic process. And I think it goes well beyond the English speaking nations that most people got their land by their ancestors invading and conquering some other people.

I'd be on board with this if we stick to statues of people who made scientific or philosophical contributions. People who gave their lives to governing or deciding who owns what land should get at most grateful obelisks. Their contributions, good or bad, aren't that worthy in the long run and it is usually ugly work papered over by a veneer of motivated reasoning and nationalism.
There are enormous funds such as pension, state, family funds that require some percentage of assets to be held in fixed income. When the government bond returned only 1%, 3% mortgage fixed income seemed glorious.
It's because of Satya.

He offered to move Sam and whoever supported him under the Microsoft wing with an independent for-profit company with the same access to unlimited compute that they needed to train their models.

With this looming over their heads the employees/shareholders ultimately had to choose between (a) staying at OpenAI without Sam, having the company lose their deal with Microsoft and likely folding, (b) moving to Microsoft with Sam or (c) allowing Sam to come back.
I basically agree, but I would phrase it slightly differently: it isn't about "good news" vs "bad news" it's "what the dominant politicians want to hear" vs "what they don't."
> In a lot of cases it would involve tossing an incomplete bunch of code over
> the wall with few instructions about actually using it. Which is
> probably not what the recipients had in mind.

Minecraft modders deobfuscate and decompile the game every time Mojang publishes a new release so that mods have the symbols to link against. There are way more people out there who want to play old games and have the skills necessary to modernize a game's codebase than there are making those engines, and they have more time and better-aligned incentives. Essentially every game I know of that's been open-sourced has had someone put in the time to get it building again, even things that barely anyone played. Heck, popular frequently have full-blown from-scratch remakes, c.f. the Spring Engine, OpenTTD, OpenRCT2, StepMania.
I just use my whiteboard honestly.

You mentioned you write tutorials so its probably better to just do it yourself.

If I misunderstood please excuse me. I also find it impossible to get right results with gpt. Only for really simple stuff, mostly manual, it works.
Serious lack of screenshots here.
Definitely can’t do it with Grok. I’ve been disappointed with how weak it is.
That is a bachelor’s thesis - someone should hire that student

Clear writing and ideas
Courtesy of the only reddit I still lurk, beyond seattle and one piece

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1cvdx2n...
Random though from non-vinyl-aficionado here: Is there an easy way to temporarily leave a mark (and thus a sound) on the surface of the record, so that you can easily measure the time of each revolution without damaging the record or the needle?

At first I thought of a small square of scotch-tape, although I expect that might "catch" and damage the stylus. Perhaps blu-tack? A big water droplet?
The null CEO has a lot of value. If you could guarantee someone would be the null CEO, they'd be an instant hire for many enterprises. What you have to avoid is someone worse than the null CEO holding the position.

I think Altman is worse than the null CEO; others may draw their own conclusions, but the bar for CEO quality isn't "much better than the null CEO".
The problem, if you embed an ALU like that, is how to train it to use them properly. And then it's not clear if they actually need to be able to do that in the middle of a pass that, at the end, is going to produce a single token anyway.

Controlling that stuff via output tokens actually kinda makes sense by analogy, since that is how we use calculators etc. But I do agree that specialized tokens that are used specifically to activate tools like that might be a better idea than just using plain text to signal in-band. And production of such specialized tokens can be easily trained.
for 3, you could write a stored proc to handle the various situations, and call that stored proc appropriately, letting the DB engine optimize appending "(disabled)".

however, I do wish Go had a map function ala python map() as opposed to just verbosely writing more for loops or a complicated thread-safe goroutine. Seems almost strange that Google, who popularized the mapreduce model, doesn't want it in Go.
>a Microsoft employee

So it was a Microsoft employee speaking in a conference being quoted by the press?
I would not mindlessly think you know how everything went down just by a few articles.
Recommend you visit a casino someday.

The game you’re thinking of is roulette. Blackjack doesn’t have colors to bet on.

Putting it all on black is only theft if you lose. FedEx’s founder famously bet half his employee payroll on black and won.

FTX eventually lost.
Sam Altman made openAI possible. A true CEO like Satya knows without Sam, the rate of progress at OpenAI will be determined by decels like Helen/Jan aka ZERO. It's a disaster for product development, especially when you have openly invited Google to dance.

I know HN leans engineering/safety/reliability/labor/pedantic (like chasing the absolute truth), but at the end of the day, company scales from the likes of Jobs/Musk/Sam/Zuck even it involves deceit or reality distortion field.

Sometimes people just can't handle the truth or don't believe in the vision of visionaries. So, they have to fib a little to the decels and normies. Even Larry / Sergey 'lied' to Eric during Google's growth phase. It's only when they bought normie Sundar that Google became risk averse. And look where it got Google to.

If I have to bet my last $, I'd bet on Elon/Sam/Zuck/Jobs than Helen/Jan/Sundar.
And where does this leave the current board? The CEO gave no mea culpa, and even if he did, actively thwarting board oversight is a clear no-no. How in the world do they expect to perform their duties with a CEO who demonstrated himself to refuse to even provide them the information they need to discharge their duties? As long as they keep this CEO in a position to block their access to information, the board has no credibility.
When it comes to business google is not not an also ran, it has the relationships to monetize the product, vs openAI which has none and a massive trust issue.
Some of us just aren't smart enough for sql. I'm perpetually running into the situation where I want to join one table with another that has multiple rows. Like a blog post with tags. Exactly like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8201462/join-with-anothe...

For which the answer is oh, just use GROUP_CONCAT, which isn't even SQL. And I've still got to fix it up by running split when I get it back. Nor does it work particularly well if you're joining against something that isn't a single string column.

So I just bang the rocks together like a caveman and write a second query to go back and fetch all the tags, then loop around assign them to the matching posts.
There is a distinction. Humans with the use of an unbounded scratchpad can emulate a general-purpose Turing machine and perform general computation given unbounded time. A LLM is still restricted to its context window which is a comparatively extreme limitation of memory. In comparison, our general-purpose computers have so much memory this isn't something we care about for most practical instances of hard problems that we solve with a classical CS algorithm. You can obviously modify LLMs to perform unbounded computation per token (and furnish it with a scratchpad) but afaict commercial LLMs today don't offer that.
They lost it.
Vince Mcmahon literally owns WWE but the board fired him. Of course he voted in a new board at the next election but I dont think it's unheard of boards to vote against their founders. Sam is a founder of openAI even if he never controlled the board, and they tried to take control from him.
and aligning ai is even harder...
hell yeah i agree with that
Is there a compilation of all the games that were open sourced?
Mounting legal troubles, slowly bleeding market share, inferior “asd”, layoffs at all levels.

This company is a joke
Remember to do the right thing and take the bullet for the massive corporation.
Must have been just cases then...
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/I_have_a_bridge_to_sell_you
ls -latr | tte pour --pour-direction up

I have not implemented gravity, haha. I have actually worked on a custom terminal game engine in the past and realized with TTE I am very small amount of scope creep away from landing in that territory again. I promised myself I will not implement physics or collision. Keeping it simple. That being said, as with the example pour syntax above, all of the effects have a ton of config options to allow for most obvious variations.
Mental gymnastics? You mean the mental exercises I use to remain cognitively neutral and not succumb to emotion?

Dunno. Probably just think with my brain and not my heart in most situations I can? This is a fairly simple situation where logic wins over extreme emotions.

No sarcasm here. Just the truth my friend. If it's pedantic to be right rather than be wrong and emotional then sure, I am being pedantic.
Posted when?
I'm dying for a menu system like this that lets me select items old school BBS "light bar" style.
Also ironic people jumping to attack Altman from every negative article about him without knowing all the details and the contexts
Or that the man posts stuff whether it's true or not. Based on the history, maybe it's safer to ignore this and just judge the actions.
This is how Larry got replaced as ceo of google and Steve Jobs got kicked out of apple.

How could you say this with a straight face.
It clearly wasn't good; the Altman-control system failed, and was replaced with not even the pretense of an Altman-control system.

Sure, the rectification of names is an improvement in a sense; what is actually needed is a working Altman-control system.
And let's not forget the OpenAI investors include YC itself as well as Paul Graham's wife, Jessica Livingston.

Sam may have been fired from YC but it does look like they believed in him.
If we magic in twice as many housing units there would be calamity and chaos, because a bunch of building magically appeared, in violation of the understood laws of physics. I doubt money would be as much of an important concern in the ensuing chaos. So sure, if we look at a supply and demand graph, and double the supply, the intersection of the two moves, meaning the price goes down.

However, we don't live in a world of perfectly spherical cows and because we don't live in a world where we can double housing units overnight, realistically the reasons we're in this problem is because we can't build enough housing units. Given than, we're not going to be able to double the number of housing units, so realistically we can't build enough to lower rents.

The reasons we can't build enough housing aren't going away overnight, so even pretending they did, it would still take many months, if not years, before new housing units were being sold. Given the time it would take to double housing supply, the natural increase in demand over time because the population is increasing means it would rise to meet supply to keep rents at the current level. Lets say demand increases by 9% each year and it takes 10 years for double the housing stock to come online. Demand is basically doubled by the end of 10 years if that 9% remains constant.

With those problems not disappearing, new housing units are going to be slow to come online, so realistically, again, realistically, because we're not going to double the housing supply, so the best (and my bias is that of being in the SF Bay Area) we can hope for is for rents to increase at a slower rate. (Aka the derivative of rents goes down.)

I just don't seeing the rents themselves decreasing, relative to inflation of money, as well as inflation of the population.
That makes sense and seems like a justified concern. Sorry for what you experienced with Boop. And thanks for the reply and direction to the comment, I overlooked it.
FaceTime deals with this by changing your eyeballs realtime
Book: "The Linux Memory Manager"
Dev here: You are correct. It's using 24-bit color ANSI escape codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#24-bit
the defective design of the door latch system entrapping him in the vehicle

This was discussed furiously in the HN articles of the time; the latch apparently has a manual actuator, but how to use it is not obvious at all, especially in an emergency.

I also noticed the subtitle is "Settlement Comes After Automaker in April Struck Confidential Accord". That had to be deliberate.
Apart from the compulsory K&R's, I would also suggest Robert Seacord's Effective C.