skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also moved out of country, but I kept paying $10/month for the phone number and $20/month for the mailing address, it's worth it.
Or maybe he didn't even want those things, but just said them, to secure fame, power, and access to things like secrets.

He played us like a fiddle.

Remember Mars as a backup plan? The reason why we thought SpaceX was a humanitarian and scientific effort that we could rally behind? Yeah that was bullshit. We just played to your wish to be able to trust someone and to be led to safety so we could gather talent and funding. Oh, your planet is in trouble now, and that was your last hope, and now that time is wasted, because you rallied behind the wrong person? Oh well. At least I'm head of DOGE now. pretends to be neurodivergent in order to get away with betraying and abandoning children the world over

Yep, he's probably a predator, guys, and maybe you all asked for it because you repeatedly wanted to turn over your responsibility to someone else (while consuming all the benefits of this planet in its last days) instead of leading your own species to safety instead, despite the repeated warnings over the past 5 decades of possible planet-scale collapse.
I'm not OP, but just by the way it was worded. It feels vague and grandstand-y. "I have noticed" is such a silly way to word what's happening here and it's hard not to imbue underlying meanings to it.

And then "can we talk about how we can address that." More vague, leading statements.

Speak to the facts. "The team / org had to roll back this release, the team does not think there is a process improvement that would have alleviated this problem, and the team relied on you to properly make this feature. Our exceptions of all team members is [...]"

Make it clear:

1. This is affecting the whole team (equally)

2. The team as a whole shares this perspective (it's not just the manager nitpicking)

3. There are consistent and vibrant standards that the entire team must adhere to

4. You are not meeting those standard(s) or necessary actions for success.

5. Offer what you think will fix the problem (if anything)

6. Make it clear this is their chance to agree/disagree

7. Continue to talk it out.

Honestly OP seems like a person who has struggled in his position as manager to properly speak to people, and instead of understanding why there was a struggle simply switched to more coded language.

Most people will see through it and react negatively.
Exactly, and Goodhart's law drives the nails in the coffin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Wouldn’t the amount of habitable land mass on a tidal locked planet be rather small? Like the bulk of the planet is either hotter than hells freezer or colder than its hot tub. You’ve got only a fixed ring of land that would be usable.

Unless life can survive & thrive in the remainder. Which I’m sure it can and does.
Same. I don't remember how I got out of it the last time, but I came to the conclusion that their login security is dysfunctional. I even had the right phone, authenticator codes, etc., and it kept asking me for something else that woulf lead to an authenticator code being asked for again, restarting the whole loop.

Maybe it's more "secure", but the situation is strikingly similar to a hacker changing your passwords.

So glad I switched to ProtonMail a long time ago and decentralize my data across different services. One's life should not be left in the hands of The Google.
I don’t know anything about calendar pitfalls or Java, but I would have loved to see a better alternative suggested here.
"I was just following orders/incentives" kinda went out of style at Nuremberg.
DSPy seems unnecessarily convoluted, inelegant or am I just stupid?
I'm sorry this happened. This is my digital nightmare scenario!

It is disturbing how much of our digital and physical life (utility accounts, medical insurance, etc. etc.) are tied to email addresses and these email addresses are something we can never ever truly own. If you are locked out of email, you are also locked out of at least half a dozen critical portals that send password resets, OTPs and all kinds of authentication fragments to your email address!

Most email addresses are on somebody else's domain and they can lock you out anytime. Even if you manage to set up your domain name, you are still renting the domain name from someone. One missed payment or you somehow mess up the admin work of your domain name or you lose your domain name for any reason (yes, it happens!), nobody in the world can reach your email address!

How did this happen? Weren't the old days of snailmail better? You could own a house or you could rent a house and get actual physical letters at your home. If you moved houses, you could have the new tenants of the old house forward mail to your new one until everything settled down.

Email addresses seem like good secondary mode of communication but I find it disturbing that all around the world, email addresses have become the primary mode of communcation and sometimes the only mode of communication!

Does anyone else feel extremely uncomfortable that so much of our critical digital and physical lives are tied to email addresses, things that we can never truly own and can be taken away from us anytime?
Seriously, just take the messages at face value. Better headline would have been "Google proactively protected my 10 years of private data after some villains tried to steal it".
> The company prohibited anyone from using its models for “weapons development” or “military and warfare.” ... OpenAI had softened those restrictions, forbidding anyone from using the technology to “harm yourself or others” by developing or using weapons ... AI could “help protect people, deter adversaries, and even prevent future conflict.” ... Today, OpenAI is announcing that its technology will be deployed directly on the battlefield.

Not that we needed confirmation by now, but OpenAI is really just another one of those tech companies that say they are building for the benefit of mankind, but it's just a bunch of BS. Either they are lying all along, or they change their colors as soon as the big bucks appear. Disgraceful.
The real enemy here is the regulatory capture of the health industry preventing competition.

$3,000 a night for a hospital bed, $350,000 a year on average for a doctor, and double profits being made by pharma and medical devices companies. Abolish the patent system, allow unlimited new doctors to train instead of a specific number of annual seats, and reduce the regulations on building and operating hospitals and prices will fall.

Currently we give 27% of US GDP to doctors and hospitals.
Your suggestion that voters can take information into account is precisely what is happening here:

Prior to the election, the information was illegally kept secret, so voters couldn't take it into account.

Now, in a new election, if this candidate stops illegally hiding the information, voters will be able to take the information into account.
Because "educating you better than most things" and "unavoidably generating bullshit" are not mutually exclusive. It's entirely possible that AI is better than human conversation on the spectrum of "adhering perfectly to truth" but it's far-and-away less credible than an encyclopedia or even a peer-reviewed paper.

Publishers know they cannot publish false information without spoiling their reputation. ChatGPT lies like it's life depends on it. Therefore, me and many others identify ChatGPT by it's willingness to create tangents of pure and unadulterated bullshit.
I grew up in the US with parents that had a suburban kingdom, large back yard, swimming pool, garage for three SUVs, and workshop: I walked to, waited for, and rode the bus to kindergarten.

"This is what they get" is false causation, these things have been present for decades. Helicopter parenting, liability for walking around alone, special snowflake treatment are all newly-introduced ideas.
This seems to be a common belief on Hacker News but why? I don't claim to be an expert on these matters, but I've lived in downtown Dallas for about a decade now and spend a lot of time on the street, encountering many unsheltered, chronic homeless. I've also known a fair number of people with drug problems. My first wife was addicted to opioid pills. My brother-in-law has had serious heroin problems, OD'd twice, spent time in prison. My two best friends from high school include one guy who was addicted to speed and did a lot of ecstasy and hallucinogens on top of that, the other was a bad enough alcoholic that it killed her at 36. My wife is an alcoholic who has been hospitalized twice with acute liver failure and vitamin deficiencies.

Not a single one of these people was ever homeless. My wife is a 20+ year engineer with a top secret clearance.

The homeless people I meet, on the other hand, completely run the gamut. I met married couple in their early 20s a few weeks back that stopped to talk to me about skateboarding and showed me pictures of their dogs. I showed them pictures of my cats. They lost their jobs, had no family support, and didn't want to go to a shelter because they've have to give up the dogs, so they lived in a tent down by the cargo rail. Another guy I met the week before that was obviously completely insane. He emptied a bottle of hot sauce on me and threatened to stab me for making noise on a public bridge at 8 AM an hour past sunrise and waking him up. I had at least 8 inches and 80 pounds on him and he was trying to fight me anyway.

I don't think the reasons boil down to something as simple as they're all drug addicts and drug addiction is a guaranteed path to homelessness. Even for the openly crazy, antisocial people that are obviously who the San Francisco tech crowd are actually bothered by, I don't understand what the proposed solutions from the anti-housing crowd are. If we don't house them and don't treat them, are we throwing them all in prison for life? Executing them? If we don't do either of these things, they're living animals that have to eat, sleep, and shit somewhere. You might prefer it be somewhere you'll never see it, but where? What is a solution that isn't just making it someone else's problem?
How I taught myself how to code
What frustrates me the most about OpenAI is that as recently as this summer they were talking non-stop about how gigantic $100 billion models are all you need for AGI and that it’s just a matter of time until we reach this scale. And if you didn’t see this you’re a simpleton who doesn’t understand how exponential curves work.

And then all of the sudden o1 comes out and the narrative from them has shifted entirely. “Obviously massive models aren’t enough to get to AGI, but all we have to do is scale up inference time compute and we’ll get there!” And if you don’t see this you’re just a simpleton.

I wish that OpenAI was called out for this shift more often. Because I haven’t heard even one of their employees acknowledge this. At some point you have to just ignore them until they start actually publishing science that supports their beliefs, but that won’t happen because it doesn’t generate revenue.
Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash
> And you are lucky to not see an org where everything is a microservice that uses some unusual database

I've been unlucky to see an org where everything is a monolith (not horizontally scalabe due to a plethora of design choices along the way) that uses Oracle, including plenty of stored procedures and DB links along the way.

Honestly, I'm starting to think that you can't win with these things and that there will be projects that suck to work with regardless of the tech stack or regardless of how much you try to make them not suck.

That said, in general, you could probably do worse than PostgreSQL or even MariaDB (because at least with that one you can still run it in a container locally, much like MySQL, instead of running into Oracle XE or Oracle free version, whatever they called the latest one, limitations where you can't even bring the shared environment schema over to local containers).
I don’t think that’s true of RV culture at all. I currently live on the road with my partner, and while we don’t yet have kids, we’ve met dozens of families and many more dozens of kids. All were more than capable of socializing and making friends, both with adults and other kids, and could often be found running around whatever campground or forest we were parked at.
Certainly you can live a very isolated life on the road, but just like when living in a house if you put yourself out there there is a welcoming community that will respond.
Last time I went to France, Apple locked my iCloud for the duration until I could get back and login from a USA IP address. They even cancelled my Apple Card. And France is not exactly a suspicious destination, and I go there 4 times every year. I don't think Apple account abuse systems work better than Google's.
I think to most people, AGI means KITT or at least Data. AI via word probability matrices is super cool and well worth $20/mo, but it’s not AGI.
Gift. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/health/elderly-cash-elect...
It was a slow aggregation over a few years from various resources but I recently came across https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ and now that is the source for most of the company data
I hear this fairly often and I'm genuinely curious how often you have shell but _not_ a c compiler or the ability to install a c compiler via the shell. Once you have a c compiler, you can break out of shell and either write c programs that the shell script composes or install a better scripting language like lua. At this point in time, it feels quite niche to me that one would _need_ to exclusively use shell.
While you dont own a domain name, you have legals means to get it back.

Thats not the cast with a GAFAM email account.
It depends on the framework. Here's a LlamaSharp example: https://github.com/SciSharp/LLamaSharp/blob/master/LLama.Exa...
In the immortal words of Robin Williams: "If you're going to fight, CLASH!"
> Or maybe he didn't even want those things, but just said them, to secure fame, power, and access to things like secrets.

As much as I enjoy ripping him apart, that last bit ascribes to him a level of forethought and planning that I sincerely think is above him. I think the first one has it. The power is probably nice, especially if it gets him closer to being cool? But honestly when you dig into his history, he is just the cringiest edgelord imaginable who has spent his entire life wanting to be cool, and he just can't. He is an immense child of privilege who could have anything and everything he ever wanted, and the only thing he has ever wanted is for people to think he is cool, and it's the only thing he has never had, and it haunts him.

Truthfully I think this is why he has the following he does. It's just other people who grew up in the nerdy/edgelord spaces, who were bullied in school, who dreamt all day of being so rich that they could finally prove to the cool kids who was really cool. They see themselves in him, and his success is theirs, in a way. That's why there's just cavalcades of weird people online who will absolutely throw themselves on live subway rails to defend him.

It's honestly fucking sad, because he would sell every one of them for an ounce of attention from anyone who isn't them in a fucking heartbeat. They genuinely deserve better.
And preference for deferring to historical authority which I find so laughable in this forum.

Everything said here has been said the same about the internet and Wikipedia but now those are the authorities.
We have AGI, in it's original definition, now - it's just human level rather than superhuman.

ChatGPT, without being specifically programmed to, can summarize a text, write a program, play chess, explain a joke, translate, explain or create a poem, and just handle arbitrary inputs in text. On some measures ChatGPT is better than human, on some measures, like ARC, it's worse - but even there it's not worse than the worst human.

ChatGPT is artificial, certainly, general, in the sense that it handles a wide range of inputs, and intelligent in the sense that it can solve problems and make predictions.

The intelligence of LLMs is likely to increase in the near term future - better hardware, better training, distilling to smaller models, architecture improvements, better augmentations (like RAG), better use of test time computer etc.
On one hand, that’s what it always was, by definition - a company is looking for the best candidates it can get with a given budget, and the best-case scenario for the company is there’s a large pool of candidates to choose from.

On the other hand, from my perspective and experience on both sides of the interview table, to me it seems like the perception that this is adversarial is coming primarily from young candidates whinging on the internet in large numbers about interviews being unfair or “broken” or doing it the wrong way. Every time this comes up on HN, there are hordes of comments demanding we stop whiteboarding in interviews, or claiming anything not exactly in the job description is out of bounds, or decrying the abuse that coding live inflicts. There are blog posts every week about how to fix the problem, where the problem is usually the interviewee’s comfort, and not the company’s efficiency or effectiveness.

The truth is that companies need people, and the employees there do want new colleagues. If you truly understand that, and also that the selection process is unavoidable and working as designed, then it will help you navigate the selection process and appeal to the company, it will help you get the job.

I’m well aware of the fears young candidates have, since I was one. Getting a job can be hard, and it might even be getting harder over time. But to me it’s also funny that software engineers looking for 6-figure salary jobs complain about interviews and competition and having to demo their skills for an hour or two. Don’t forget to look around at other industries and ask whether it’s really better over there. People in music and films and advertising and art have to grind for years, suffer low-wage or historically unpaid internships. Doctors have to do residency, grad school, and get licensed. Most people make less money, many people have to do labor. Most jobs have much bigger downsides than what we have to do in our interviews as software engineers.

We have opportunity and privilege and with the right practice and attitude and with reasonable expectations, it’s really not that hard to do well in interviews and land a good job. Many kids are hearing stories of FAANG and million dollar salaries and expecting to somehow land their first job out of school in one of the top 5 most coveted and competitive companies. I know this because I just spent a day at a university career fair a few weeks ago talking to hundreds of graduating seniors, most of whom are all expecting to shoot the moon for the same 3 jobs, and most of whom are not very eager to consider the idea of starting at a smaller company and working their way up for a few years. FAANG feels adversarial only because it’s actually legitimately super competitive, but as a candidate, figuring out how to have a non-adversarial approach is the key to getting the job. Tools like this are the opposite of what they need.
You’re the common protagonist in every scene of your personal story.

If everyone prefers not do deal with you, perhaps they are all toxic, terrible people. Or… there is a common element.

There’s a difference between defining yourself based on the expectations of others and being such an individual that nobody can relate.
Did he try to get a job at all? Being from Canada and technical, I will say OP isn't trying enough.

https://digitalcareers.infosys.com/infosys/global-careers?lo...

https://ibegin.tcs.com/iBegin/jobs/search

https://www.epam.com/careers/job-listings?recruitingUrl=%2Fc...
That’s a weird stat. If I spend all my $10k/month so that I end up with $0, I’d be included in that stat, which is clearly insane.
> If he could beat SpaceX, why hasn't he?

Because Elon lied to humanity about their mission, in order to secure his position. Bezos didn't.

Can't you find any other examples of this in history? Yeah, there are a lot of them, and it's probably why humanity are effectively still slaves and stuck on this planet, years behind where we should be.

Time to wake up. Humanity can't blame anyone else anymore.

As an aside... the argument that space is less hospitable than Earth doesn't work anymore when "smart people" only say that only to avoid doing the prep work they'd need to avoid an Earth that can and will become imminently inhospitable due to up to ten different scenarios.

But by all means, guys, keep ignoring reality because you think you know better.

How quickly humans forget, and how amazingly deep their ignorance is of what only recently transpired.
It isn’t for every application, but I’ve used it for tasks like extraction, summarization and generating commands where you have specific constraints you’re trying to meet.

Most important to me is that I can write evaluations based on feedback from the team and build them into the pipeline using suggestions and track them with LLM as a judge (and other) metrics. With some of the optimizers, you can use stronger models to help propose and test new instructions for your student model to follow, as well as optimize the N shot examples to use in the prompt (MIPROv2 optimizer).

It’s not that a lot of that can’t be done other ways, but as a framework it provides a non-trivial amount of value to me when I’m trying to keep track of requirements that grow over time instead of playing the whack a mole game in the prompt.
I think what people are missing here is that this is for o1, and you are supplying questions & answers, but not the entire solution-solving transcript (as you almost never have such a thing). The whole point of o1 is that you don't simply train on the supervised pairs that the users will be supplying here, because it's so hard to simply leap straight from a question to a correct answer, without doing additional work in between. (OA already offers a finetuning service like that, note.)

So DPO vs RLHF is missing the point: the interesting thing here is how they are (presumably) generating the inner-monologue to fill in the gap between the Q and the A that you provide them, and then training on that augmented dataset of Q->solving->A datapoints.

Whether they are using simple finetuning on that dataset, or DPO, or RLHF, or something else, seems less interesting than the broader questions of, "does that work? and are there many important or economically datasets where o1 can 'fill in the gaps', creating a better annotated dataset, and bootstrap itself to be much more intelligent on that dataset?"
Mandatory spending isn't stable either. In my 20s I had low income, but at the end of the month I'd have a bit of money left over. Then the next month my car I needed to get to work would break down or I'd need to get a new shirt to look nice enough for the dress code rules or something. So over time I went slowly into debt.

By this definition I was not living paycheque to paycheque, but my situation was definitely not good, compared up someone who made better money but spent it each month on nonessential.
> The thought of permanently losing access to this account is terrifying.

Complete non-sequitur here, but that is one of the two inevitable things, according to Ben Franklin.

Yes, I’m talking about death.

So we should all make plans if there is actually worth anything preserving in posterity, plans that go beyond “just log in to my account” (which as OP shows is a huge PITA).
Most working people in the US are on private healthcare. What you are saying makes no sense. Most everyone agrees our current system isn’t working and needs fixing.