skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A typical one sided, opinionated view from Vox that has made modern media the wasteland it is. The article seems to be intent on rewriting history. Apparently due to “Microsoft” Sam Altman came back to OpenAI after his ouster. There was also the added fact that the CTO Greg resigned, quickly followed by the leads of GPT-4, quickly followed by an employee petition that most openAI employees signed. Sam has clearly inspired quite a bit of loyalty from his team (or at least from his top lieutenants that inspired loyalty from the entire team).

Apparently OpenAI needs to be regulated more to ensure AI benefits everybody. As opposed to now where AI only benefits those that can pay 20$ a month? OpenAI has repeatedly stated their goal is “intelligence too cheap to meter”, which seems fine to me with respect to the ephemeral goal of “AI benefitting society”. If they make some profits along the way (which they apparently are not right now), that’s fine too. Compare this to NVIDIA, which is blatantly overcharging 30,000$+ for a single data center GPU when it could be 5000$, and I wouldn’t say OpenAI is even among the most greedy companies in the space.
None of those people were in the public sector until the project was created and drew them in.

But I agree, leaving this work up to shit eating PE firms and smarmy VC bros is asking for disaster.
Given how low the pay can be when not working on hot topics, one could argue that most research is in fact done for the fun of it.
Metaphors are also a handy hint that you are being manipulated. They are often used by influencers, salespeople, con artists, and other fraudsters.

When someone starts using metaphors, you know you are getting taken for a ride.
The question is not whether you consider a thing intelligent, but rather whether you can tell meatbag intelligence and electrified sand intelligence apart.

You seem to get Turing test backwards. Turing test does not classify entities into intelligent and non-intelligent, but rather takes preexisting ontological classification of natural and artificial intelligence and tries to correctly label each.
Other commenters are quick to point out that commercial interests always win, which is somewhat true, but misses an important point: OpenAI wasn’t originally a commercial company. This is basically someone stealing a nonprofit organization — structurally not dissimilar to someone robbing the funds a charity for children with cancer.

I don’t get why people shrug, or even celebrate this, instead of demanding jail time.
I agree there is some risk for the East Asian countries. I think China would be hard pressed to stop all that production and trade, but certainly they could impact it and who can say what a 21st century war would look like?

Still, it's a risk, not a deal killer. China could bomb US production too.
Which part do you consider locked down: a "sealed" root volume, or apps purely running in a containerized/sandboxed environment?
If you develop in .Net, User Secrets. Best idea ever.

If you don’t, .env files with a proper .gitignore

Or AWS secrets manager, GitHub secrets, Azure KeyVault and inject them.

If you run on something like Azure, use Managed Identities. Passwords shouldn’t be used period. API keys should be securely injected in a pipeline from a vault.
Write the names of 40 tapes a day, for two months. Take breaks.
PUBLISH the results. I used to collect 45s, until I found an MP3.
Then after 3 ISPs, I no longer needed the 45s.
I NEED THE LIST OF THEM.
Huh. What do you mean by “sake of sport”…? Like, to see who’s the strongest?

Regardless, I think you just misunderstood a bit: the concern here is deceptive practices, which when money is involved becomes fraud. No one cares that WWE is rigged; the difference is that the audience knows it’s rigged, and they don’t have money riding on the outcome with the understanding that it’s a fair match.
I much appreciate you taking time to share your thoughtful comments on the topic.
Isn't this as simple as him just stepping down from the board? He already gutted it and replaced the members with his own supporters, he doesn't actually need to be on it anymore when it stops being useful.
Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard
https://archive.ph/TBKpM
Really, I'm not sure what the point of your posts is. You don't like change, great for you?

> arch, nix, docker, flatpak, snaps etc

Lumping all of these into the same category doesn't even make sense, other from a "they're all things invented after 2000 and I don't wanna learn anything new" perspective.

> The latter will all "win" on their merits at some point and become fat and lazy themselves as they evolve and grow

Can you back up your nihilism?

> those companies prefer reliable, predictable and boring.

They prefer what they're used to, even if it's neither reliable nor predictable due to having too many moving parts (that don't even make sense any more), and are only boring in the sense that you know exactly how wasteful and brittle they're gonna be and how much effort you will waste interacting with them.

And even then, their preferences don't stop most "boring big enterprise" companies from using newer technologies, just look at docker. Your condescending false dichtomy is entirely pointless.
Playdate – a new handheld game system
That’s a good point, you’d really need a massive government project to be started first in order to draw away the talent. Hopefully that becomes possible without a looming war as impetus…
I don’t think anyone disagrees that companies only do what benefits their bottom line, that’s pretty much the consensus here. You’re probably downvoted because you’re comment comes off as very aggressive/lecturing.
FWIW, the US does have problems producing ships. For example, the US military and Congress very much want to increase the rate of submarine production, and haven't been able to do it. If you look at current news, you can see the desperate measures they are pursuing.
Yearly ping and see how things are going thread?
the second one.
Which isn’t relevant to the discussion in the example.
> sell us out

What's the "us" in the sentence?

Companies exist to make their owners money, by providing goods and services to customers.
“People don’t like what I like so they’re wrong!”

Contrary to you, there’s certain sports I find boring to watch as such (eg, American football) — but enjoy in a condensed version focused on bets (eg, RedZone and dailies on American football). The game of predicting individual performance and ensemble outperformance is more interesting to me than the underlying sport — and much more interesting to discuss than any single game.

You don’t have to gamble, but trying to portray it as some grievous fault people enjoy things differently than you is ridiculous.
My wife has a closed-loop system here in Germany, that is a small pod she changes every 3 days with the insulin loaded into and a wireless monitoring device in the arm that syncs to the phone. She is way into 95% or more in range and she lives a normal life. I think immunodepressants would not be the solution for her.
There are two major problems with this approach. First of all, the intent is implicit, so it won't be clear for a new set of eyes. Second, by peeking behind the curtain you can get some gains, but only as long as everything behind this curtain stays the same. Author written about Guile 3, but is it also true of Guile 2 or 1? Will it hold true for Guile 4? Anybody's guess really.

In contrast to this approach, I'd point at Numpy. It optimises specific cases in Python code, but does so in an explicit way and its interface is even sufficiently high level to match Python well.
I was more like comparing to VPN. My argument was poor. But on high level many do not use VPNs and they have very negative impact for service UX anyway these days, so not a big point.
> The US nationalists might be okay with it because of NAFTA

Why are nationalists ok with NAFTA, which is just like any other international fre trade agreement? Is it because Trump backed it - meaning, of course, that they aren't nationalists but Trumpists.
One could argue reclaiming a company from a multinational corporate conglomerate back into founder hands is hardly “evil”.
OpenAI died when they decided to become ClosedAI, after that point anybody who kept believing it was still working on its advertised grandiose goals was fooling themselves.
Did you read the article? The hubris and avarice required here doesn’t develop overnight.
uMurmur: Minimalistic Mumble Server
Yes. Lotteries always seemed like the thin side of a wedge that made other gambling seem less bad. It's also kind of evil for a government to prey on its own citizens' innumeracy.
Yes, but as long as there’s money to be made people will try and maximize it.
The spin is going to create a new orbit.
> a lot of people in the "weak" camp

Define "a lot"? Most people barely know how to use their email. Even among the minority who do actively use "AI" and excited about it, outside of ML engineers they aren't well-informed or aware what data is used for training, or even what training means and how these models work to begin with.

> People are excited and enthusiastic about AI and are actively reaping the benefits of progress.

Except the terms were already violated in the initial training phase before the services were even public and saw adoption.
That's like pointing at a rape victim who got some form of compensation later, saying:

see how she's "reaping the benefits"

So let's not play the people wanted it card.

By the time some people started raising concerns, OpenAI claimed the cat was already out of the bag and "if we didn't do it, someone else will, so deal with it."

Similar to privacy, just because some people don't care, lack awareness, or don't want the hassle of fighting for it, doesn't justify taking it away from others.
He received a seat on the board, which he surrendered when Tesla started investing in AI.
Advertising improves information for consumers though, as long as you get advertised stuff you actually want but didn’t even know existed. I’m not saying it’s a net positive as it’s currently done, but advertising as a concept doesn’t have to be net negative.
I have a feeling the gap of opportunity has just opened for an alternative to WordPress.

Question: what other OS blogging software would you recommend?

PS. Drupal, don't get your hopes too high.
I had lunch with my dad recently and he mentioned he tried out one of the sports betting apps, because they gave him a free $20 to gamble with. My heart sunk a little. I know he likes a deal, but I didn't think he'd take obvious bait like that. I brought up what they were doing incase he didn't see what was in front of his face, and tried to make sure it wasn't going to become a problem. I'd hate to see him destroy his retirement with gambling, he worked so hard to get there.

His entire working life he was never a sports fan, but in retirement he seems really into it. There have been a lot of changes, and I really hope this doesn't become one of them. I could see him really getting into all the statistics.
So disgusting that you should probably drop `https://` to make it not directly linked. I'm not only talking about "usual" stuffs, but he also overlaps with Terry A. Davis to me in the way that they are technically proficient and have potential to make a great thing but still remain very terrible as a person...
Get the wing to yield exactly how they want it to from aero loads, but somehow lay up the carbon so it doesn't yield unacceptably under FIA static load tests? I think that's probably ingenious.

Maybe a similar challenge in some respects to how structural engineers had to use very clever composite design to make the X-29A's forward-swept wing's leading edge curl down when the wing flexed up, lest an increase in angle of attack become self-reinforcing to the point of a stall or catastrophic wing failure.[0] These kinds of designs are frequently asymmetric and unbalanced (meaning different numbers of +/-45 plies) which can create internal stresses during curing, sometimes making them difficult to produce and extract from a mold without breaking the part or the mold and still getting the shape you want in the end.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/sweeping-forward-developing...
What specifically is the problem you are looking to solve?
Well, it used to be non-profit which should not have goal like that. And changing that was "selling us out".
Convos: IRC client that runs in browser
I don't know if this exists or not, but I'd like to try something like a fuse filesystem which can transparently copy a file to a fast scratch SSD when it is first accessed.

I have a somewhat large zfs array and it makes consistent noise as I stream videos from it. The streaming is basically a steady trickle compared to what the array is capable of. I'd rather incur all the noise up front, as fast as possible, then continue the stream from a silent SSD.
That's not because of the GPL. The GPL has little to do with barring access to a platform on which code is published. Arguably, if a copy existed elsewhere, say GitHub, then WPEngine is free to use that code according to the GPL.

In other words: once code is published with the GPL and someone has a copy, the original creators can do little to nothing to stop them from using said code however they see fit. That's what drives forking.

In the same vain, original creators always have, and will have, the freedom as rights holders over creative works, to change the license on new versions published. Of course, the caveat being holding the rights over contributions made by third parties (hence the existence of contested contributor agreements).

The real issue here is a for-profit entity driving the governance of a non-profit entity. There's not just the ethical but also legality at play here. And this has little to do with copyright.
Their datadump strategy is questionable. You end up needing perhaps 1 book for each shard. I guess they are made by sorting the ISBN or some other numerical field and then grouped until they reach a certain size. It is a bit annoying to put the shard of interest to download in your torrent client, pause it, figure out which book is the one you are after by looking at the ids, instruct your torrent client to only download that book.
Like the parent comment that you've replied to said:

> For people who buy clothing frequently, this might be unimaginable

I too have not bought any clothes in the last 3 or 4 years. I have no need to. My current clothes fit me perfectly fine and my shoes are not in a bad state.
> it ruins the sports

If that were true, people would stop paying attention of it. What other criterion would you have for the quality of sports?

But the worst is how easily you brush aside that it "ruins lives". Not that that's your fault. It seems that almost nobody cares about it. It has been known for a long time that gambling is detrimental, to individuals and to society, yet a bunch of Wolf-of-Wall-Street-style financiers use it to get richer without the need for as much as a good idea. There's less ingenuity and skill involved in betting than in drugs. It's bottom of the barrel amorality, bribing and corrupting its way into politics.

And nobody cares.
That link supports your parent, not you.

> Day trading, as defined by FINRA’s margin rule, refers to a trading strategy where an individual buys and sells (or sells and buys) the same security in a margin account on the same day in an attempt to profit from small movements in the price of the security.

(emphasis original)

There are no restrictions on trading with your own money, whether you can afford it or not.
Many people like to think they're on the same team as winners, even if those winners couldn't care less or even have contempt for them. Acknowledging the naked truth of power is too depressing for them.

See also: Sports, politics.
You are correct that non-profits have different purposes.

Is "us" the 8 billion people on earth, I assume?
Just enabling the firewall is not enough. The Ubuntu distros explicitly wanted to allow the vector for this vulnerability: the whole purpose of having cups-browsed installed is to allow LAN printers to advertise themselves to your system.
Probably not. I am just not in favour for putting them in hospitals. You won’t “fix” a Taoist or murderer.

Put them in prison for life, make them work for food and housing.
> they never have an answer to what do you do when China controls every supply chain and then decides to bulldoze Taiwan and we then go to war with them? All the market advantages and globalism in the world goes out the window and you can't do much more than capitulate to a bully.

That was a complaint many years go, but things have changed dramatically: The US now is 'decoupling' its economy from China, and moving production to friendlier countries, and the US encourages and arranges for allies to do the same. The US and its Pacific allies are also intensely preparing for possible warfare with China.

Just because China is not a reliable partner doesn't mean the US should throw out all other partners. Should the US not buy icebreakers from Canada and Finland because of China? That would be greatly hamstrining the US. China's government would love it, I think.
Wow, thank you! This made my morning. Thanks for taking the time to write here :) Wish you all the best!
Interesting that the stem reprogramming technique was invented 20 years ago. I wonder if all who contributed to this over the years will get their due rewards. I feel they won’t, which makes me sad. Amazing results and huge potential for diabetes but also other conditions.
Gambling is generally against the law in South Korea, but any esports players or personnel who get caught fixing matches (this doesn't necessarily mean throwing a game, bets get placed on all kinds of things that aren't just the outcome of the game), they get a lifetime ban from the government from participating in esports in any way.

I think we need something like that for all sports here in the US. If you get caught fixing games or coordinating to fix bets in any way, you should be liable, fined, and banned from sports and anything sports related for life. If the entire team was in on it, the entire team gets banned for life. No second chances, no exceptions.

Or we could just make sports betting illegal again.
> There really aren't any lodpi apps on a modern X system only Wayland has issues scaling X apps correctly.

The problem starts at XWayland, not Wayland. And XWayland is just your typical X server with all its X intricacies.

Only if we can somehow communicate our intended scale to the X clients through XWayland... oh, we can't!

> Its very odd for folks to argue that my mixed DPI system using only basic boring old xorg.conf somehow doesn't exist.

You keep on confusing per-window and per-output DPI. I can only assume you are feigning ignorance at this point. Good luck with attitude.

I still have a couple GTK2 apps installed that doesn't support HiDPI, those are best used upscaled but... they can't. Those apps are unable to communicate to the server they are rendered at 1x (rather, the server doesn't have the notion of per-window scales at all).
I've always disliked how on Debian, usually being rather conservative, cups-browsed gets pulled in by default if you install cups. I think "no install recommends" fixes that, but iirc some add-ons like that hplip driver pull it in again. In my home setup I just disabled the service, but it's rather annoying how more and more software spirals out of scope and makes components that could be optional a requirement. Very related is avahi-daemon. Take a desktop Debian/Ubuntu and try to uninstall it; there's a good chance it's going to remove a couple other software where you wonder why avahi would be a hard dependency.
Croner has a table for the syntax supported by it and saffron [1], you can compare it with the one cronexpr supported.

[1] https://github.com/hexagon/croner-rust?tab=readme-ov-file#wh...

As supported in [2],

> There are several good candidates like croner and saffron, but they are not suitable for my use case. Both of them do not support defining timezone in the expression which is essential to my use case. Although croner support specific timezone later when matching, the user experience is quite different. Also, the syntax that croner or saffron supports is subtly different from my demand.
>
> Other libraries are unmaintained or immature to use.
>
> Last, most candidates using chrono to processing datetime, while I’d prefer to extend the jiff ecosystem.

[2] https://docs.rs/cronexpr/latest/cronexpr/#why-do-you-create-...
It's not just the bookmakers either - there are syndicates, much like hedge funds, whose entire 9-5 job is trying to make money out of this stuff too, which forces the bookies into line and makes the prices on markets like Betfair fairly efficient.

Basically, as a guy on the street, you don't have a clue and you're up against MIT-tier brains trying to beat you.

It's interesting to me that more people don't realise this is intuitively obvious, though. No-one would look at the Olympics and think, oh yeah, I can run faster than Usain Bolt.
Ownership always had a meaning. Selling things for purchase and then treating it as a limited license is fraud. Even under existing law. How about we hold all these companies accountable for the rug pull?
Any alternatives that come with face tracking? That is what the standout feature was to me
To me it seems more rational to be ready for a wide range of outcomes than to assume the next 90 years will be similar to the previous 90 years.
Hm... Once in a while, I buy things that I previously downloaded.

Not specialized scientific literature, I will never contribute to Springer's bottom line. But many books and films.

Sharing is marketing. Microsoft executed this beautifully under Gates, this is the reason №1 they are so dominant now.

Reviling sharing by relabelling it as pirating while still profiting from it on a different level is a good old strategy.
> I agree with punishing gamblers that cause harm.

The first people gamblers harm is their own family - long before any formal crime has been committed.
A good place to start with kids that age is Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
The visual programming style may turn off experienced programmers, but it's a full game engine, there is a big community of other kids out there, and at this stage, programming is about basic concepts like variables, conditions, loops and functions, which are all represented here. And of course, game development is about more than code: Scratch also lets you add sound and graphics, and has an easy to use actor model.

There's also a neat voxel-based RPG engine called RPG in a Box (https://rpginabox.com/).

For Python, there's pygame, which requires a lot more code, but let's you make sprite-based games in a "real" programming language, if that's more your speed. Python also has classic turtle graphics, but that doesn't usually get you very far for making games.

Finally: I've used all of these (and other) tools with kids in that age group, as a mentor at events like Hack The Future (https://hackthefuture.org/) and Hour of Code (https://hourofcode.com/). Look for an event like this in your area, they are really fun to attend!
I'm not disputing that cushioning "feels" comfortable. So does Vicodin.

But if cushioned shoes work well for you, I wouldn't expect you to change anything. Invest in HOKA.

My audience is all the runners who have problems, and keep turning up the dial on cushioning, orthotics, etc. ... before finally giving up on running by their forties. Or they run on NSAIDs and trash their kidneys.