skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“the entire company has vouched for” is inconsistent with what we see now. Low/mid ranking employees were obviously tweeting in alignment with their management and by request.
I really like vrcpy. I used it a lot with pytest in my previous job. httpdbg isn’t exactly the same; the idea is more about seeing HTTP requests in real-time and being able to easily study them.
Some male cross-country skiers at higher risk for bradycardia and pacemakers
If they were aiming to please web developers, they took a wrong approach. Their syntax highlighter by design is incompatible in its approach to parsing CSS to be able to syntax highlight it correctly, and this was pointed out to them early on and they just hacked something broken together. It didn't appear to be a serious attempt to support web languages.
HiDPI displays combined with subpixel renderings for the total win. Unfortunately, that's dead for MacOS today, and for a time, unachievable with Wayland on Linux.
Yet another good reason to run Linux in the cloud.
WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites
I just made a (IMHO) cool test with OpenAI/Linux/TCL-TK:

"write a TCL/tk script file that is a "frontend" to the ls command: It should provide checkboxes and dropdowns for the different options available in bash ls and a button "RUN" to run the configured ls command. The output of the ls command should be displayed in a Text box inside the interface. The script must be runnable using tclsh"

It didn't get it right the first time (for some reason wants to put a `mainloop` instruction) but after several corrections I got an ugly but pretty functional UI.

Imagine a Linux Distro that uses some kind of LLM generated interfaces to make its power more accessible. Maybe even "self healing".

LLMs don't stop amazing me personally.
OpenAI is betting on scaling, which means using more compute per request. More users times more compute is a lot more compute needed. We don't need to assume specifically what techniques will be used.
Could I ask you to clarify why avoiding safemode is so important? In a non satellite system safemode means everything is driven to a safe state which is fine during testing in the lab.

Also do you not run these tests in an even more simulated environment where there is only the flight computer and no real hardware at all?
TIL Math Olympiad problems are simple grammar exercises.
https://x.com/miramurati/status/1726542556203483392
I feel like this is stating the obvious - but i guess not to many - but a probabilistic syllable generator is not intelligence, it does not understand us, it cannot reason, it can only generate the next syllable

It makes us feel understood in the same ways John Edward used to in daytime tv, its all about how language makes us feel

true AGI...unfortunately we're not even close
I actually turned my "ball that can accelerate with keyboard input" into a physics puzzle platformer with minimal additional code (platform collision).

I rebranded the ball to a box and made it so it plays a rocket animation in each (opposite) direction when you press the arrow keys. (In Flash, this was trivial!)

Made it so you had a certain amount of fuel and had to land to refuel.

I remember all of this taking a day or so, but I might be misremembering.

I had it mostly working but then I changed something, broke it, and didn't know how to fix it. (Box kept sinking through the floor)

These days I'd probably just use Box2D hahah
Yes, for the CEO role, but she has been with the company for more than six years, two and a half as a CTO.
"Structured token models don't work as well when you mess with the structural order of tokens" - News at 11
What top executives write in these farewell letters often has little to do with their actual reasons for leaving.
Right, but this is not illegal, nor is the AI act any sort of criminal law. At Unsurprisingly all they want is to avoid insane fines due to vague EU regulations.
Have you checked out https://haxe.org/
It supports Action script, and is the spiritual successor to Flash
Does Microsoft also provide you the tools to build it? I assume there are many Microsoft internal tools, libraries, etc required to compile anything of note. Presumably it has been dog fooded for so long it would be impossible to bootstrap without some number of binary artifacts in hand.
One of my favorite projects was a bouncing ball sim synced over the network. So you could mess with the balls in one window and it would update in the other too. I never added ball-on-ball action though...
FWIW, all those posts are coming from IP addresses that map to the EU. I think many (most?) are by the same person.

About 50% of HN users were in the US, last time I looked at this, but it was years ago.
How Power Grids Work
She might just be stressed out. Happens all the time. She's in a very demanding position.

She's a pro. Lots to learn from watching how she operates.
Then she hasn't ((read or watched) and (found plausible)) any of the speculative fiction about how that's not enough to keep you safe.
Show HN: My Blazor App Shares Code for Web, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android
Is it feasible to do wireless transmission of video at extremely low latency?

Wireless microphones are not a good comparison because they are probably analog, but even if they are digital a few dozen milliseconds of delay is going to be imperceptible for audio in a way that video is not.
Thanks, sounds like a possibly nice upgrade path in the future! :)
This voice mode can understand emotions, something the AI act regulates as "very risky"
The promise of capitalism is to improve people's circumstances and thus make them happy.

The promise of buddhism is to make people happy regardless of circumstances.
Bad?

I just tried Gemini and it was useless.
Yes. Markets pursue the interest of wealth-weighted humans, not evenly-weighted humans. Disguising "wealth weighted value" under the concept of "value" (which, colloquially, has a more even weight) is the propaganda coup of the century.
Sorry what are they doing in the social media space? As far as I can tell they are THE cookie cutter by which all other platforms cut themselves.
Clara (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Growth
Seems quite nutty to think you’d find yourself flying to Hawaii twice per year even if the housing was free
It’s so weird that the person behind Loopt has now come fully in charge of this company and perverted its initial goals so completely. I’m still not clear on what Sam has accomplished or why he was put in charge of YC or OpenAI. Also apparently chairman of Helion Energy (fusion startup). Masterclass in failing up.
Thank you for checking it out!

I have an algorithm for it, but I also usually edit them manually as well. I usually select other words that match the part of speech (nouns to nouns & adjectives to adjectives), so that they would often make sense.

Some do end up being easy, but even if some are easy, the challenge is still to get 100% of them correct, which is certainly a challenge.

So it's not a very scientific approach, more intuitive based on practice and what feels right while testing.
Depends a lot on the implementation. If you're dynamically linking to system objects and you're assuming the presence of X, you're chilling.

If you're using Rust and you have to compile in the whole world, probably not gonna be that small.
It gave me a headache / nausea (and most people I knew who tried it), so not sure about "few".
Artificial General Intelligence requires a bit more than parsing and predicting text I reckon.
'It was not long before the flaw in my “cats should associate with other cats” argument, became apparent. We soon found that the cats themselves considered it unnatural—or at least highly undesirable—to have a lot of other cats around. Only our constant vigilance could keep the group from being broken up and dispersed.'

Ah. I was wondering.
There's a series of database moocs from Stanford that look good [0]. I'd start off by learning about the relational model as a foundation and after that exploring non relational DB's like TimescaleDB.

[0] https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases0005-datab...
FMail2 – macOS app for Fastmail users
Step 1: Read and understand the article
Every time Walter posts it reminds me my dream language would simply be C with https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html and probably go lang style interfaces. Maybe a little less UB and some extensions for memory safety proofs.
I had not thought of that. That is probably very likely. They can keep their public mantra of "privacy" to keep people coming to them but without the burden of tech development. Higher ups like that equation.

It is probably inevitable, I mean if even Microsoft couldnt fight off Googles browser dominance, what hope does Mozilla have long term.
Yeah! Much later I found fsv which was a Linux 3D filesystem viewer that was similar,

And also gr_osview which was the resource monitor we saw running on one of Dennis Nerdrys monitors in one of the close-ups
Seconding the vxWorks and bare metal. Never seen Windows or Linux on a satellite bus. Haven't really touched payloads but I've seen some wonky things shipped to orbit by universities and not all them have been cubesat student projects.
Yes, exactly. Coroutines are one possible implementation of green threads. Once they are scheduled/loaded on an OS thread, they behave just like regular functions with their own call stack. This means they can indeed call blocking operations at the OS level. A possible approach to handle such operations would be to wrap the blocking call, suspend the coroutine, and then resume it once the operation is complete, perhaps by polling(checking for completion).
The "game design" link above offers insight into the rules and nuances of the game. Eg:

The King resorts to violence only when he is cornered and has nowhere else to go. It's below him to kill commoners otherwise.

If there's no unobstructed path for the King, he will take the highest-value piece in his vicinity. However if you might lose due to the board being full, then the King won't help you by clearing the board; he'll just skip his turn.

Also, free tip: The King's value is 1024 if you want to contemplate regicide.
The original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
And the promise of communism is to make everyone equally miserable. I was born in USSR and still remember 5-hour queues for rotting cabbage, thanks.
Huh? I didn't say it was legit. Actually...

You missed the obvious sarcasm.

You missed the bit about the mindless media repeating it and not asking how legit is.

The point about the banks, etc is that ALL those "experts" have incentives to get people to buy more than they can afford.

Come on man, the math was all there... just take a moment to add it up.
Quite interesting that this comment is downvoted when the content is factually correct and pertinent.

It's a very relevant fact that Greg Brockman recently left on his own volition.

Greg was aligned with Sam during the coup. So, the fact that Greg left lends more credence to the idea that Murati is leaving on her own volition.
Kobito of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1yYDzvFtQ) is one of my favorite Touhou songs.
Is that a 3D printed Lego gear at 12'40" in the video?
yes same!
All website users and business owners that host their websites on WP Engine, should start suing Matt for the damage caused by him...this is UNACCEPTABLE!
It's important to note that "push through" here actually means:

Stop when you feel discomfort. Do other things for at least a few hours. Come back and play some more. Repeat this process, and you can play longer and longer sessions without discomfort.

If you try to force yourself to keep playing, it'll actually make the symptoms worse and you won't adapt to it.
ZSH plugin:

_click_preexec() {
_click_start_seconds=${_click_start_seconds:-$SECONDS}
}

_click_precmd() {
[[ $+_click_start_seconds ]] || return

if (( SECONDS - _click_start_seconds >= 20 )); then
pw-play 'mouse_click.wav' &!
fi

unset _click_start_seconds
}

preexec_functions+=(_click_preexec)
precmd_functions+=(_click_precmd)

Mouse click sound: https://freesound.org/s/223445
Step 2: install vxworks
Yes current generation can only do pass through, the app cannot see the cameras to do any sort of computer vision on your environment. Think running a real-time style GAN on your external cameras - can’t do it with pass through. All you can do is overlay stuff in the world, with extremely limited information on what you are overlaying it on.
The right way to think about this is that every persona on that team has a billion-dollar size blank check from VCs in front of them.

OpenAI made them good money, yes; but if at some point there's a new endeavor in the horizon with another guaranteed billion-dollar payout, they'll just take it. Exhibit A: Ilya.

New razor: never attribute to AGI that which is adequately explained by greed.
If they are "The most trusted WordPress platform", that implies there is more than one platform. That implies that none of them are first party WordPress. So I don't buy that.
(Regarding their plans, I think they would be safer to put the word 'Plan' at the end of their plan names.)
These are techniques for modulating audio onto a radio signal, I think the article didn't make that very clear.
If you consider responding to this:

"oi i need lik a scrip or somfing 2 take pic of me screen evry sec for min, mac"

with an actual (and usually functional) script to be "glorified grammar corrector", then sure.
There's a Watch Now button that just brings me to a Facebook page with nothing to watch. Can't watch any of the posted videos without logging into Facebook. I guess they're not trying to win any new converts at this point.
It's exactly for "old broken apps".

What I generally do on my Gnome systems running 4k screens is to use 125% or 150% scaling, and then set larger default fonts for the system. Fractional scaling helps keep old apps legible even if imperfect, but updated apps which respect system font size render great (Gtk+ widgets auto-scale to fit the text).

Unfortunately, this approach ain't gonna work with Wayland as well.
> Since then, OpenAI's board has been refreshed with more tech executives, chaired by Bret Taylor, former Salesforce co-CEO who now runs his own AI startup. Any corporate changes need approval from its nine-person non-profit board.

Why would the non-profit board approve a change to a for-profit company? Wouldn't this be against the nature of the non-profit entity that was founded and which they are supposed to govern?
Many hours of interviews.

Organizational performance metrics.

Frequency of scientific breakthroughs.

Frequency and quality of product updates.

History of consistently setting the state of the art in artificial intelligence.

Demonstrated ability to attract world class talent.

Released the fastest growing software product in the history of humanity.
> Banning single-family homes in a vast majority of places is unnecessary.

> Banning single-family housing in most places in the US is not necessary

Why do you qualify those statements with "most" and "a vast majority of"? Are there places where you do want to only allow high-density housing and totally ban single-family homes?
Loving this classic HackerNews-type discussion!!!
I have no idea who this person is, but I loved reading this article. The author is clearly a better writer than me and managed cleanly assemble the reasons most of us do this.

I also run a blog and have since 1997. Didn't start seriously contributing until 2008 or so. It's a labor of love and I do it for many of the reasons stated here. Love to write, love to push myself to make things more "usable" for folks other than me. And it helps me check myself on certain topics (do I understand this enough to teach it to someone else?)

I have been hassled by some younger folks who say "blogging is dead" (can't argue with that) and it's a waste of time because it will never make me viral, rich, or famous (I knew that before I started). But I do it for me, and I still recommend other people do it as well. It's good for the soul.
at 5% rate that's a cushy 500k a year.
> "Chojkiewicz and her colleagues at Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and Goldman School of Public Policy studied the use of advanced conductors that wrap more aluminum around a smaller, stronger composite core. These Aluminum Conductor Composite Cores (ACCCs) are more conductive and can operate at higher temperatures, resulting in roughly a doubling of capacity for an equivalent diameter wire."

It isn't clear from the text, but the wires might not actually be any heavier, given that they replace the steel core with a composite.

Aluminum is about 2.7 g/cm^3, whereas steel is around 7.85.

I'd imagine they can switch to a slightly smaller cable size if they have to keep to the original weight and a new cable happens to be a little heavier at the same diameter.

I'm kind of surprised they don't lose the advantages of stranded cable when switching to something that looks more like a solid cable. As I understand it, for AC wiring you usually want a lot of strands because most of the current tends to travel on the surface. Maybe that's less of a thing for high voltage. Or maybe the seams between the strands are enough to cause the skin effect even if they're tight-fitting.
https://www.charlesproxy.com/ ?
> I don't usually ask for citations on comment threads

No - please do!!! It'll ensure we have robust discussions on this great site!
Altman was not there at the start. He came in later, as he did with YC.
That is textbook fraud. Courts consider intent, you cant just rules lawyer them with an argument that "it didnt technically say my public charger had to be accessible to the public".
I'm not saying you're wrong but you could use this reductive rhetorical strategy to dismiss any AI algorithm. "It's just X" is frankly shallow criticism.
At this stage though, he has no more place to fail up to!
1 you use 1

2 (or even 3) you use "a couple"

A few is almost always > 3 and one could argue that upper limit 15

So, 10 years to 50 years
> I would presume Google still has all this data. ...

Maybe - I guess that they must have served that "cached" content from DB-records that had it all saved directly (URL X has contents Y => basically a "mirror" of the terms that they indexed) => not having to store that "mirror" (only the search index) might save quite a lot of storage space (and I/O and CPU to decompress it, as users won't be requesting it anymore) => all in all that might save quite a lot of infrastructure costs $$$.

> Could this be an advantage that Google can use to train their models on but others won't have access?

Maybe (if they decided to just get rid of the I/O related to the user requests), but on the other hand I don't know if previously any "Google-consumer" was ever able to perform mass-downloads of Google's "cached" data - could that be done without being banned by Google's webpage (or API)?
Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains (2021)
UTM: Securely run operating systems on your Mac
Maybe you are working with an application or library that you didn't write, and want to see the raw requests and responses it generates without reading the entirety of the source code.

Maybe you are generating HTTP requests through an API and need to see which headers it sets by default, or which headers are or are not getting set due to a misconfiguration or bug.

There are probably loads more use cases, and if I actually did programming for a living, I could probably list a lot more.
Linux(with realtime patch) is used very heavily in spacecraft by Spacex. So both in terms of high visibility/important/danger (dragon 2) and high count (starlink) it is very widely used.

citation https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_s...
Some pricing info on https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197903/hetzner-launches-ob...

> When creating a bucket, it says “We charge a base price of €0.0096/hour for every hour of Object Storage runtime, up to a maximum of €5.95/month. You receive 1 TB of storage and 1.5 GB of traffic included per hour of Object Storage runtime. If the included quotas are exceeded, additional storage is charged at €0.0096 per TB hour and additional traffic at €1.19 per TB.”.
This is with 19% vat in Germany

Unlike some Users on LET I am very happy with this pricing condition.
Well, depends on speed, reliability, connectivity... and the limitations.

The thread mentions the first of November as end of beta.
We will see.
All the interesting bones are hidden in the Smithsonian.
We use something similar for our event based databases. We project millions of events into an in-memory object (usually a dictionary), and periodically persist that state as json in S3. It's guaranteed to be consistent across all service instances because the persisted state contains the event stream positions to catchup from. The only drawback of course is that it can use up to several GB of memory depending on how big the state is, but it's extremely fast and doing in-memory operations is trivial compared to using SQL or a library with api calls.
Gnome has another set of hidden settings to set default system font sizes: for UI elements and "document" font. Some non-GNOME apps used to respect that too (like Firefox and LibreOffice), but others were not-scaled.

Still, if you mostly relied on Gtk+ apps, where Gtk+ widgets scale to fit the text they are showing, this produced pretty good results even if some spacing was a bit inconsistent (i.e. spacing was too small compared to widget and text sizes).

Unfortunately, this approach seems to work less and less well as Gnome devs are following Apple's lead.
Back in the olden days, when you booted up a computer, you got dumped into what was essentially a BASIC shell. If your input didn’t start with a line number it was interpreted immediately. Having only experienced that sort of environment, I didn’t understand how programming languages like Pascal that didn’t have line numbers worked.
Roy Clay, a Silicon Valley pioneer who knocked down racial barriers, dies at 95
i'm just saying that the "enemy for life" is pretty short sighted.
But that is somewhat missing the point. This locks in people that are currently doing on-prem servers so that they are cost prohibitive to move to a cloud that isn't MS.

Again, you can almost argue that clouds do this with expensive exfiltration costs. At least that corresponds to work you are asking them to do, though. This is purely a licensing trap to keep people from choosing an option.
Lots of speculation in the comments. Who knows, but if it was me, I wouldn't be keeping all my eggs in the OpenAI basket, 6 years and well vested with a long run of AI companies you could go to? I'd start buying a few more lottery tickets personally (especially at 35).
This reeks of conflicts of interests
I appreciate your insightful thoughts here :)
Maybe it is but it's not the only company that is
I can't imagine investor pouring money on her. She has zero credibility both hardcore STEM like Ilya or a visionary like Jobs/Musk
I can't speak for the original author, but crafting a great blog post is fun. And, there are thousands of people a day who read my blog, but even if it were zero it would be the same.

The "polish" and working on it is part of craft, it's no different than carving something out of wood and not showing it to anyone. You still had fun creating the product and shaping it how you wanted.
Sure didn't.

Neither did she though... To my knowledge.

Can you provide any evidence that she tried to do that? I would ask that it be non-speculative in nature please.
These cables can run much hotter and so have better capacity. BUT there is a big downside. Because they run so hot (you can grill a burger on them with ease), there will be a lot more resistance resulting in net losses.
Also fun, because they can run so hot when rain hits it literally sizzles and cooks resulting in extra noise.
People still believe that a company that has only delivered GenAI models is anywhere close to AGI?

Success in not around any corner. It's pure insanity to even believe that AGI is possible, let alone close.