skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He owns no stake in the ChatGPT developer, saying he doesn’t want the seductions of wealth to corrupt the safe development of artificial intelligence, and makes a yearly salary of just $65,000.

> “A growing number of Altman’s startups do business with OpenAI itself, either as customers or major business partners. The arrangement puts Altman on both sides of deals, creating a mounting list of potential conflicts in which he could personally benefit from OpenAI’s work.”

If nothing else this idea that a person that is positioned to lead such a company is willing to do it for just $65k for altruistic reasons, backfired. Clearly the person has many incentives to go find profits somewhere else.

edit: added second quote to clarify
> We don't need free thinkers or leaders, we need obedient slaves, individuals who'll unquestioningly follow orders and work overtime. Their expertise? Irrelevant. We'll train them, we can afford it, our customers will pay for that.

I mean, yes that's actually what most large companies want. "Free thinkers" can often be outright terrible employees because they're just not interested in building whatever boring thing a company needs. They put a small number of these people in a box and make the majority of the company build what seem like the most profitable ideas to come out of the box.
What about TempleOS?

There's practically and not so practical.
There are well-established frameworks in statistics and decision theory for handling this kind of situation, some of them in continuous successful use for over a century. It's not exactly a solved problem, but we aren't fumbling around in the dark either.
You’re applying pretty black and white moral values to a post that, at least to me, didn’t read that way at all. One can like Sam Altman as a person while wishing he was more transparent in some of his business dealings.
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Meanwhile Synapse founder CEO is spending time on twitter telling frustrated depositors:

"I am sorry, I should not have called you an idiot. That wasn't nice. You are a moron."

from the Greek island of Santorini.

https://x.com/sankaet/status/1790563922732544367
It’s quite easy - we have numbers for humanity’s electricity and heat production. We also know how much atmosphere and oceans weigh, which we can multiply by specific heat of air and water. From this you can calculate how much we’ve heaten up the atmosphere/oceans - even ignoring the loss of heat to space/ground our impact is neglible.

Here is chatgpt doing the math - https://chatgpt.com/share/e/5d28257f-f51b-40e7-8742-75d75e2d... - it’s roughly correct.
Looking at a map Seattle is roughly the same latitude as Zurich and Budapest.
These mimetics are peptides, which don't hold their structure very well when they interact with the pepsin your stomach secretes.

That leaves injections or transdermals, and weighing in at over 4000 daltons, good luck with the transdermal route.
The Euronews Aesthetic [video]
The GitHub repo linked from the page is owned by an individual (not any kind of structured NGO that would be eligible for this), and they set the location field on their GitHub profile to "NanJing,China" (suggesting that they are located in China).
My point is that just because Math is useful for both physicists and biologists, that does not mean that for a physicist position you should interview the candidate (a physicist) in Biology. Biology "is a completely different discipline with its own trivia knowledge and tricks".
Wow, "CEO Sankaet Pathak called into the bankruptcy hearing from Santorini island in Greece, and the general counsel Tracey Guerin was in Rome" [1]. Someone at the DoJ is going to make a career out of this guy.

[1] https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-24-judge-appoints-trust...
tip: there is a service menu setting to disable ads. webos is much nicer since i toggled that. the entry point with the standard remote varies between models and os versions, but you can also get service remotes on amazon for cheap
Actual coding has always been like 20% of my job.

The rest is spent co-ordinating, planning, troubleshooting, etc.

If youre going to test me on coding then actually let me code. lol
The cat is out of the bag now, and the Toyota Corolla trick was evented, but I think he could have used it, or a less Miami-esque version of it.

Like the other Sam, his bank account has not been inflating by accident, and him insisting that he is not that much interested by money should be taken, at least, with a reasonably sized pinch of salt.
Even though all of this should be perfectly legal and follows TOS, GitHub really isn’t the place to host anything possibly damaging to or annoying big tech.

You can add push URLs to your origin branch such that `git push` automatically mirrors your code on multiple remotes: `git remote set-url --add --push origin git://another/repo.git`. If you maintain an open source repository, I would encourage you to have mirrors across gitlab, codeberg, and/or a self hosted gitea instance.
People like you is why people burn out from open source. Can't create anything without random nobodies who spend zero effort on anything shouting at you and hurling insults at you. You're being a completely toxic asshole.
Altruism?
Bombs help protect people from countries like Russia
How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing
A whiteboard test asks the question: do I have anxiety about whiteboard tests.

The answer is “yes”.
Altman isn't an Effective Altruist.
I’m struggling to understand what backfired
Severe auto-brewery has been documented on the order of 20 times in the history of the western world. Thats why it is worth publishing a paper about, and why doctors dont suspect it, and might not even know about it.

How many people have have gone to the doctor and lied about their alcohol use? 6 nines is 1 a million patients. There are probably more nines than that.
But you have to explain the insecure connections?
By all means. It will be the day many people simply erase this garbage app from their phones. I used to use IG to promote my photography, now I barely use it simply because the mental defectives inside Meta decided that by no means should I be shown even my own friends posts or they mine unless we fork money over. There goes the personal hobby promotion. Now they're going to "make me" watch their paid algorithmic garbage too? Enshittification is real, but you'd think some of these brainless clowns would actually be able to pull their heads out of their asses long enough to see that it might be a good idea to give it some limits against at least some usability.
That sounds like unintended consequences to me.
A real life example of this is Kyle Simpson, the You Don't Know JS author. He's recently been public with his issues finding employment.
We spend about 3.5% of GDP on defense [1], and coincidentally about 3.5% on R&D [2]. People tend to wildly overestimate how large the modern US defense budget is. It's only around 13% of federal spending [3]!

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS?locat...
[3] https://federalbudgetinpictures.com/where-does-all-the-money...
I suspect China is building a big navy so they can start "asserting navigational rights and freedoms" in waters close to the US, Australia, etc.
If you’re going to make it illegal for anyone to use the data broker information to make decisions, you should just ban the data brokers from existing.
Ask HN: What are the 'classical' papers worth reading?
Good evening folks,

I've recently grown an interest in classical literature and read some rather old books (like the works of Dostoyevsky for example.)

I found these so great that I figured it might also be worth it to look at some classical papers. Having read Shannon's 'A mathematical theory of communication', which I found very accessible, I've grown to wonder what other 'classical', and perhaps influential papers I haven't read yet. I just never got around to do it as older works often feel 'stale' to me.

So I'm wondering, what papers can you guys recommend as a 'must-read' for the curious mind? I'm not even just asking about computer science in particular, anything that seems interesting might qualify.

I'd love to get some recommendations.

I'm also open to book recommendations.
So... not entirely joking: at what point do we declare that "OpenAI" the non-profit was basically a scam? It's clear it isn't now what it originally presented itself to be, and it's increasingly looking like it was never meant to be. The public-face of an open non-profit was, what, just a recruiting tool to be able to hire folks who otherwise wouldn't want to leave academia?
Because four years later you’re still mad someone made minimally invasive and common sense rules to statistically limit the spread of a new virus.
If Gnome doesn't work for everyone, what they had to do was make it work. There has to be a way. The vast majority of the market is using Windows and Mac, and somehow both have avoided the need for multiple separate DEs.
Yes, I don't do leetcode and refuse to anytime I'm asked to do it. I won't practice that just to please people that probably never shipped a profitable piece of software by themselves
Falun Gong most definitely isn't a Christian denomination.
If you read the WSJ article, his second investment was $15,000 for 2% of Stripe
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Which foreign systems? If US would’ve withdrew from cold war, half of Europe would be learning cyrylic now, and there would be few countries to import tech from. Not to mention engineers from the eastern block working for the opposite side.
Space minerals are cheap by the bulk if you use them in space. But that's alao true for fruit of industrialization. Railway and steel mills make more steel mills and railway.
People are angry about the "Open"AI debacle and he's been publicly in favor of being very paternalistic and controlling (likely for his material benefit as much as safety). It's fair that he's taken some flak for those things, he's trying to control the direction of society at large and people want a say. I don't think he's evil, but I can see why people would perceive him as paternalistic or even a bit patronizing.
The thing I don't understand is how, with SOOO much leaking of nearly everyone's personal data who is a US citizen, can KYC requirements (that is, what is required to own a bank account in someone's name online) still be so low. In many (most?) cases all you need is full name, address, date of birth, social security number, possibly also phone and/or email. If those pieces of content correlate with each other, and there is no other suspicious information about the account opening request, the account is likely to be opened.

All that information is essentially semi-public these days for nearly all US citizens. How is this still allowed for KYC purposes?
HN is full of people who like to be the "well actually" guy, and they're all getting well actually'd by this article. Of course they're annoyed. It must be just awful.
Do you have any sources you recommend?
.ai domain registrations generated 20% of Anguilla's government annual revenue
At some point the test stopped being fizz buzz and started being "reproduce Brent's cycle detection algorithm from memory or from first principles if you have forgotten what it is", which isn't testing your ability to program in any meaningful way.
Capitalism and real open markets for capital and labour were essential requirements for industrial revolution to take off. Roman Empire had some capitalist features, but most of the economy was run either by the state or oligarchs, and a large proportion as emperor himself. So, even if some invention offered real productivity gains, the stakeholders who had the power were much interested in conserving and increasing their share of the pie instead of growing the pie for everybody.
People don't divide cleanly into "good" and "evil" buckets, and CEOs in general tend to be ruthless deal -makers. But it's worth noting that much of Sam Altman's presentation is just a mask (one he puts a ton of effort into and is good at maintaining), even if he's still less evil than the Sacklers or a mob boss.
Yes and interviews are about who interviews the best. Not the best fit or smartest
I obviously can't speak toward your experiences, but on the flip side I've never been surprised to find out someone can't code their way out of a paper bag after having a technical conversation with them.

I have of course met candidates who don't know even the most basic constructs in a language they're supposedly expert in. But none of them were able to "talk the talk", especially when probed directly about problems they've run into and how they've solved them.

I want to be clear I'm not discounting your experiences and I'm also not trying to say you suck at interviewing or anything like that. What I am trying to say is that my own experience tells me there must exist questions that reliably expose this kind of candidate.
> With the laser + galvo setup it was clear, but now that it's also LCD is the print quality better? Speed better? Reliability? Build quality?

1) Resin stability and reliability

Sure, you don't care if you're printing miniatures. If you're printing a dental appliance, suddenly you care a lot.

2) Convenience features

Heating the tank, refilling the tank automatically, etc. Sure, you can do these manually, but they're a pain in the ass to do manually

3) Repeatability

The mountings on my Chinese resin printers need to be reset all the time. I have to flatten replacement plates all the time. I can't count on the fact that the plate removes and remounts accurately.

4) General engineering quality

FormLabs probably did real engineering, measurement and design on everything with the explicit purpose of characterization and repeatability (light uniformity, release tension, etc.) At $500 a unit, that just isn't happening on the Chinese ones. After the hobbyists poke at them a year or two fixing the issues, the fixes sometimes make their way back into the Chinese units (generally creating other problems along the way).

Nominally, this should all mean way less grief printing things.

And maybe the main LCD is no better, but I would suspect it probably is. As far as I can tell, there is exactly one supplier for the LCD panels in all the Chinese resin printers. It would be really nice if FormLabs actually spent the NRE to create a better LCD with a second source as it would give a competitive kick to the space.

For a hacker hobbyist, the Chinese printers are WAY better value. For someone whose time equates to money, the FormLabs may be worth coughing up as $5K really isn't worth thinking about.
Neat! Thanks for the details :)
Show HN: PuePy – Reactive, component-based Python frontend framework
Obviously it's not the first Python-based web framework posted here. What's different:

- It's based on PyScript, which puts Python in your browser via WebAssembly. There's no transpiling, no JavaScript layer, no build step.

- You choose from MicroPython or full CPython/Pyodide. MicroPython is tiny, while Pyodide will get you a full Python environment. One of the examples actually shows BeautifulSoup running in your browser.

- PuePy is heavily influenced by my mostly positive developer experience using VueJS (hence the name, Pue). You get reactivity, components, props, and events.

- Web Components are really easy to integrate. Some examples show laying out user interfaces with Shoelace.

- There's an optional router, that can work with hash urls or HTML5 history mode.

Overall, I was trying to create something similar to Vue or React, but in pure Python. Since it's "real" Python, there's also no build step, no translation layer, etc.

I've been tinkering with this on and off for about six months, but decided to post it and solicit any feedback.
Split up the company: defence, civil air and civil space. Restructure and re-capitalise each and let them focus on what they're good at.
It isn't if the problem is FizzBuzz or a slightly more challenging and realistic problem. When its 1-2 leetcode hards in 45 minutes that can only be solved by having done hundreds of those problems, it does seem the purpose is more to just gauge how many such problems you've spent time grinding on before even though they have very little relevance to programming.
It doesn’t really seem like an important one in US culture anymore, thankfully, so much as one of the few remaining fronts on which it is oddly socially acceptable to pester people.
Yes and no. The reality seems to be that GTK is a lot more desktop-agnostic, but in a way that means non-GNOME app developers (or non-GNOME desktop environment developers[0]) have to build a lot of functionality themselves that was removed from GTK4 (and/or has been deprecated and will be removed in GTK5).

To make matters worse, GTK4 "tightens up" some interfaces, making it harder to extend. So, for example, you can no longer "wrap" a native window handle on X11 with a GdkWindow (an interface that also no longer exists, in favor of a Wayland-centric GdkSurface interface) in order to integrate something "foreign" into the toolkit. They've also removed things like GtkSocket & GtkPlug, so you can't do cross-process embedding anymore[1].

I think it's fair to say, though that GTK4+libadwaita is "the GNOME toolkit", and GTK4 alone is just a much less capable, less extensible, less "batteries included" toolkit than GTK3, and GTK5 will drive even further in that direction, if GTK4's deprecation list is any indication.

[0] Full disclosure: I'm an Xfce developer, and have been disappointed with the direction GTK has been taking for some time. I don't begrudge them their prerogative to do what they need/want to achieve their own goals with the toolkit they've built and maintain. But it really is making life more difficult for me.

[1] Part of the argument is that Wayland doesn't natively support things like cross-process embedding, so a cross-platform toolkit shouldn't have these types of widgets (the classic problem of only being able to support the lowest common denominator). But a) you can absolutely build something like that for Wayland (something I've been working on, though it requires tens of thousands of lines of code to do), and b) with other changes, it's incredibly difficult and possibly impossible to even implement the XEMBED protocol on GTK4, for people who do only care about X11.
Dumb question: How is it possible to stop people from sharing links if links are text. For example, what will prevent someone from sharing a link in a form that might not be "clicklable" but still communicates the location of the linked resource.
The article does a decent job of explaining of how Chinese characters work, but it falls short of explaining why.

The reason why Chinese continues to use a logographic writing system is due to both tradition and practicality. English has grossly grouped together Chinese as one unified language, when in actuality it is not. In fact, many "dialects" are mutually unintelligible--one speaker cannot understand another speaker. If all of China switched to using a phoenetic writing system, everyone would write everything differently. It'd be very difficult--impossible at some points--to read and write materials from other "dialects". However, with a logographic approach, everyone can understand that the character 工 means "work" even if I pronounce it like [wirk] and someone else pronounces it like [wak], for example. It's one of the reasons why subtitles are so prevalent in Chinese media. Obviously, this problem can be eliminated by eliminating individual "dialects", which is sort of promoted through the adoption of Mandarin Chinese. Many Chinese media is also dubbed in the standard dialect so that actors with regional dialects can be understood.

As for Chinese characters in other languages, Japanese becomes a lot easier to read with the addition of Chinese characters. Kanji allows sentences to be shorter, less ambiguious, and easier to parse. Unlike Chinese, each character is not just a single syllable, and there are many homonyms in Japanese because there's a smaller set of sounds.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/46658/did-china-...
I think you are hung up on the word listen, and I am saying there are a lot of things that happen after they hear what a patient says.

patients aren't saying "I have auto brewery and would like you to confirm it".

Patients are instead reporting symptoms which the doctor then has to interpret and find a likely cause. Even if they 100% believe the patients, the diagnosis may not be obvious. IF they dont 100% trust the patient, or think they may be confused, then it is even harder. Patients ARE very unreliable.
My Verizon FIOS router came with the ridiculous default domain "mynetworksettings.com". I haven't changed it yet, because I wasn't sure about .local vs .home and whether changing it would break something. As an OG ARPANET user, I rather like the idea of having a home "arpanet" so I think I'll give home.arpa a try!
Yeah, Russia is at war, though it is limited. In WW2, for an example of total war, about 1.5 billion shells were used on the western front alone, which is nearly 700,000 per day for 6 years straight. By comparrison 40-60k shells per day is nothing. Russia is ramping up production, they report that their current rate is 2.5X what they were producing a year ago, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to if they were on a wartime economy.

The US, again being at peace, is even less motivated to ramp up its production. While the exact numbers aren't currently known, in 1994 the US had 20.4 million artillery rounds stockpiled. It has sent about 2 million of the oldest ones to Ukraine (equivalent to about 6 months of Russian production), and it is also selling large numbers to Israel. The army wants to boost artillery shell production because they always do, but the fact is the US does not currently need to match Russia's production rate, as it is not using shells at nearly the same rate. It's also worth noting that many other nations are likewise producing artillery shells to send to Ukraine. The limitation on western aide to Ukraine has been political will, not insufficient materiel.
> albeit one I think they can fix

Money, a little image coaching, and have Aaron Sorkin write a movie.

(We've seen a similar situation before.)
Perhaps the hobbits enjoy a bit of work. Perhaps a society need not be perfect to count as a utopia. Perhaps I used the wrong word. Hopefully my meaning was clear enough regardless.
That's an unrealistic fix. Even if Doritos, Big Macs, and french fries were expensive, most people would still eat them for their hyperpalatability.

The only "fix" is to ban these foods, perform public executions of food company executives, institute mandatory kcal rationing, and bring back relentless fat shaming and discrimination.

Personally, I prefer not living in a totalitarian dictatorship, so GLP-1 agonists seem like a slightly more humane option to me.
Same goes for [unpaid] take-homes and leetcode grind.