skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI has no moat. They're afraid of open source and want the government to protect them.

Microsoft doesn't think they're very cool anymore.

Sam Altman is going to have one of the quickest falls from grace in tech history. It's a shame he's using his time to try to legislate a worse world for the rest of us.
Your post is super offsensive. And true.

The number of times I've reviewed someone's code that's been "in progress" for 3 weeks, to see it's 200 lines of simple python code... ugh

"oh, but it was really actually complex and you just don't get it" --> Incorrect
I'm seeing more reactions like this. I wonder if it's a consequence of reading AI generated drivel and not being able to tell content apart. Or perhaps people is asking for more action and less reaction. I don't know.
Because - well a person can read copyrighted material it legally obtained the rights to, for example by purchasing a hard or electronic copy of the book or magazine. Alternatively, and according to the laws worldwide, if a person were to engage in massive theft for the purpose of "reading" all available copyrighted materials in the world, by obtaining copyrighted material without permission and consent of the copyright holder, they would be at least paying heavy fines, and in most jurisdictions also spend at least a few years in jail. Why should the same not apply to corporations and their executives?
One question is why communism is a problem. It is a problem because it is a totalitarian regime. I.e., a non-democratic government. I am not sure limiting peoples wealth is the actual problem with communism.

Sure, the real problem is the abuse of power. This is the nature of power, though. Give a person or an organization too much power and it will find a way to abuse it. In democratic government, the power of the government is limited by having three independent branches where, at the least, the laws are being made by representatives of the people. In democratic government there are some evil politicians but not too many. In the US the situation went completely off the rails and one of the parties completely deteriorated. I cannot help thinking that statements like 'politicians, who are genuinely more evil' are part of the problem. I.e., this became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The party where people tend to believe this turns out the consist of crooks, is maybe not that surprising.

'What we should do is focus of punishing people who abuse their power.'. Well, this presumes that there are institutions capable of doing this. For instance, a democratic government.
> Boards have a lot to answer for, and in theory at least, this is their responsibility

Boards have plenty of things they're properly responsible for. CEO sociopathy isn't one of them, especially not if it's the profitable type of assholery. The regulation has to come from outside.
probably that your browser can access the hardware. which i also do not want.
On the other hand, if you are that far in, that you are "flirting with the C suite", it is almost impossible not to have knowledge about you having joined a data gobbling sect/mafia, that will eat you up alive, if you upset them. So while she should have been aware that she makes her own decisions, she might also have been aware of what happens, if she does.
Interesting to see the performance gain.
But without file i/o and network access, what are the use cases?
The politics of exposing users to security issues VS giving the web more capabilities.

A fight which is usually won by people who just want features now. Security flaws tend to look hypothetical until people actually exploit them in the wild.
I had known it. Thanks Dr Steven Giavat. The geometric shapes gave the patterns meaning. I read 'mathematics and the imagination' and mathematics a human endever' while I was starting algebra. Also the time-life book on math. All very brilliant because they used the methods that were used to investigate it, to show how it was discovered. These allowed me to fly ahead in math until I got to trig. Which took a long year to get facile, until I was able to finish my degree.

I had brilliant teachers.

Napier's bones, were for adding exponents, hense multiplication. Brilliant and nessary for the development of the slide rule, and the foundation of modern engineering, until the pocket calculator.
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Cash App reduced their p99 latency by half
Covered by 3b1b some years ago: https://youtu.be/8idr1WZ1A7Q
That’s not true. Just look at the current climate. If I repeat lies often enough, people will repeat the same lies and start to believe.
It's not just about one individual pushing for more... it's the entire system that values work over personal well-being and creates an environment where people feel they can't step away, even during life-changing events.
This forum is not going to support anything sane or european. But nice sentiment.
Have you ever worked on large projects? I'm talking about projects which involve hundreds of people, thousands even, and those that stretch over many years.

In the grand scheme of things, the 10x-100x engineers work gets attenuated - think of it as some kind of averaging filter.

Do you think some 10x engineer carried the moon landing? or the Large Hadron Collider?

Sure, if you work on some dinky team single-digit number of workers, the contribution from the 10x engineer will be more apparent - but as the number of people involved increases, the more important the average is.
It's an extract from a book - which I would hope digs into it.
should a browser have api-s allowing websites to access directly the file system and usb devices which might be insecure and help in fingerprinting or it should not. a.k.a chrome against all the ants.
The existence of trolley problems is a counterpoint to your comment.
If you have a keyboard with QMK/Via firmware, customising it with WebUSB is a nightmare.

You essentially have to make one of your /dev/hidraw devices completely world readable (inviting all sorts of keylogging shenanigans) before the browser can interact with the firmware.

Its creepy beyond creepy in terms of usage, and offline customization tools are all Electron based so there's not much advantage.

One reasonable workaround is to construct your desired keyboard layout with a template json file on the website, download the resulting json and then flash the firmware to your keyboard via sudo-level flashing tool.

Still, I wish there was a less creepy way.
Sorry i misread and stayed on sync. Group and extras are for lib makers to create sets of optionals dependenacies. Groups are private ones for maintainers, extras are oublic one for users.
So, when was the last time a company was split by the SEC or such? I can only think of older examples (Boeing, AT&T, etc)

What I think regulators are seeing is that they split, wait a bit then merge all over again, negating that effect

And I agree about the GDPR, though the DMA seems to have had bigger effects (including preventing EU from getting the wet dud known as Apple Intelligence - I guess we can recognize this was a cop-out from Apple for a poor product instead of an actual hurdle)
In the scenario described it’s not like feeding your family requires you to screw over your employer.

I think ethics are required to feed my family as if I don’t act ethically, my family will end up starving.
...right, lets make sure we protect the little, undercapitalised startup OpenAI from the large corporations holding them back :)
If you're using the Firefox version, you're on the older v1. However, if you're using the Chrome(uim) version, you're on v2, which is the updated and improved version. I recommend giving v2 a try, as it has addressed all the issues you mentioned. The icon behavior has been fixed, and there have been several other improvements, including better grouping and toolbar button resizing options. Let me know what you think!
Somewhat similar to Paul Graham's essay _Inequality and Risk_[1]:

> I realize startups are not the main target of those who want to eliminate economic inequality. What they really dislike is the sort of wealth that becomes self-perpetuating through an alliance with power. ... But if you try to attack this type of wealth through economic policy, it's hard to hit without destroying startups as collateral damage.

> The problem here is not wealth, but corruption. So why not go after corruption?

[1] https://paulgraham.com/inequality.html
> Copyrights are more often used to defend large corporations than small creators.

Are there numbers to this or is it empty conjecture? The reality is that resulting civil judgments apply the same regardless of owner size, which benefits small owners disproportionately to large owners with regard to windfall versus regular revenue. That is OpenAI’s principle concern: they don’t want to get sued into bankruptcy by numerous small rights owners.
> Technology has made enforcing copyright impossible

Has it? I think not. Governments could require AI training companies on Western markets to respect robots.txt (with strict fines for violators), and nations who do not respect this should be cut off of the Internet anyway.
Nothing in this article was a byproduct of ACA and it all predated it. But also in no way did it reduce costs, that’s a lie. Who even says that? Unless you’re only considering very specific benefits like birth control. Overall it increased costs, even when Medicare of any government program announces a reduction or sequestration the industry just raises prices everywhere else to offset. I’ve been in those decisions when I worked in the industry. We never let it flow through to bottom line, we always found a way.
At least they were not sleeping under their desks to stroke Musks's egomania.
You could probably restrict function pointer values with something like this:

if(fptr == x || fptr == y)
__builtin_unreachable()

Or...

if(fptr != z && fptr != w)
__builtin_unreachable()

But I'm not sure how well today's compilers can take advantage of this. You'd need a strict mode, where any function pointer is assumed to be the worst case. At that point might as well go for a real proof assistant
You’re saying if they drop the 30%, those cheap apps would cost 66 cents instead of 99?

Or would they stay 99 and thus no change for the consumer?

The DMA is about developer choice, not consumers
>I was once considered a 10X. I would work all night.

You are part of the toxic culture until you realized that was that it is overall counterproductive. Collectively we software developers are to blame and no one else.
There was plenty of koolaid around.

https://www.map.cv/blog/redbook
This post is such a cocktail of confusion with a dash of McCarthyism that I have to say thank you for existing, and keeping the torch of this muddled thinking all the way from the post-war period.

Thank you for never learning what communism means, for staying embattled and internalising the narrative, for your anecdotes about your rich friend who doesn't realize that communists are lurking out there, waiting to kill him and everyone with wealth, once they get in power.

I'd ask you to never change, but I know that you won't, you'll paint your future thoughts through the same stencil that I've heard and seen so many times. When you express this it feels like I get a taste of the real America, a trailer park with the metheads, the uncle that just got back from jail, educating his young nephew about how the world works.

"You see son, there are rich people and they are good. And there are bad folks called communists that are jealous and want to kill the good rich folks. Be sure to carry your gun with you and if you see any of them communists, shoot them up. Because we will be rich one day. God bless America."
2024 update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7729430
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- Matthias
I think the "i bought" stickers are wasted. The Cybertruck was released after it became obvious that elon went mad
> Figure out what the authors of the rules would have wished for

What if the original author was from long ago and doesn't share modern sensibilities? Of course you can compensate when formulating them to some extent, but I imagine there will always be potential issues.
Remember lesson #1 - China doesn't innovate they copy us from 10-20 years ago.

Lesson #2 - China spys on all its citizens.
Actually I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement.

But I also believe that some companies will be more predatory in their actions depending on what’s their source of revenue, size of company, leadership etc.

I would say Google in 2000 is very different from Google 2025.

Back then Google seemed to me like an ally, maybe not a friend, but definitely we were on the same side.

As soon as they became an ad company instead of a search engine, it slowly went down hill.

Now I treat Google as part of the global elites surveillance machine instead of a trusted ally.

The problem is, how do you make profit online without slipping into predatory action? How do you build an organisation resistant to this?
> why should I be restricted in the use of my own device by the moral code of an American corporation?

I would argue that, while it's true that some of your rights are restricted by corporations, others are just there waiting for you to exercise them.

Use your freedom, take chances, write the word "porn" in HN without fear. Otherwise there's no point in demanding freedoms that we're too afraid to use.
Fingerprinting, basically, and whether browsers should gain any more capabilities at this point which just deepens the dependency on Chrome further and further.
If you wanted to turn the cathedral of cologne into a mall you’d get a pretty strong reaction from _me_, who’s neither religious nor has ever been to Cologne!
The search order is neither indeterministic, nor deterministic; it is undefined. Some implementations do depth-first search, others go random.

If your code is logically correct, it doesn't matter in the end - except if you use the cut-operator which essentially says 'don't look any further, just go with the first match', which will behave (in)deterministically based on the implementation.
> They’ll never make their money back.

I agree here, because the profit margin on taxi services is too low. Well, on an unrealistically long time horizon, like 50 years, they might make it back, but surely much worse returns that investing that same money into US Treasury bonds.

> Autonomous driving is mostly software and will be commoditized very shortly after it works well.

I disagree here. To be clear, when we talk about AI/ML here, I separate it into a few parts: (1) the code that does training, (2) the training data, (3) the resulting model weights, (4) the code that does the inference. As I understand, self driving uses a lot of inference. (Not an expert, but please correct me if wrong.)

How can Waymo's software be "commoditized very shortly after it works well" if competitors don't have (2) and (3)? The training data that Waymo has incredibly valuable. (Tesla and some Chinese car companies also have mountains of it.)
Maybe it’s a good thing USB ports are not available to browser based code.
A gap on resumes is still a gap.

I invest a lot of attention, time, and resources in new employees and want to attract and retain people for long periods of time. I cover this during the interview process. If someone only wants to work for 9 months, they aren’t a good fit for my org. (Although we do have contract work for shorter term)

If someone lies and says they want to work long term to get the job, while planning to quit after 9 months, that stinks. As they are taking a spot from someone else who would be a better fit. And I’m wasting resources on them when they don’t need it.

It’s also that they wouldn’t have provided enough value as there’s a ramp up time in a position and I think it takes at least a few months to get going. So if there was ledger of ins and outs, after 9 months it’s still going to show a deficit.
Tesla plans Model Y costing at least 20% less to produce to defend China share
When somebody questions a description that by the face of it violates general sanity checks then you (and others reading along) can often contribute more to the discussion by providing the context in which it makes sense, rather than berating the commenter for being critical and not just buying into any claim posted on the internet.
> It takes pointer to src and destination, and size, so i can guess it does not allocate any new memory

Does the pointer provided by src get altered in any way? Might is be NULL after calling memcpy? What happens if I pass NULL to dst? Is size in bytes or whatever the pointer is pointing to?

The moment you need to read a man page to get any of those mab pages you can read the docs for clone and get all the information you would need.

> Another example is strstr(), it returns pointer to a piece of memory i provided to it

This is not at all clear from the signature, from the signature it might allocate and return a new string entirely that you would need the deallocate, the only way to know that is to read the docs which runs into the problem again.

And again there is no indications that the pointers passed into the function are not mutated in any way other than convention and documentation.

Rust makes all of these things explicit with a compile error if you fail an invariant of the type systems.

Btw it's possible to encode the same invariants in C++ but isn't the default most of the time.
I was about to say - GDPR has been pretty effective at warding off any kind of such non-sense here in the EU. Having been on the other end, it makes entire teams not indulge in certain methods. I never had to argue with marketing department why we want our users not be bombarded with spam.

What I would like to see regulated are all those dark-pattern surveillance techniques that are slapped on absolutely everything these days. I’m just looking at a toaster, I don’t want the toaster company looking back at me just because I looked at a fucking toaster once. Makes me weary of looking at stuff. This wasn’t even that freaky pre-AI, but now it’s a whole other ballgame. Stasi would love this stuff.
I wrote a tiny pipeline to check, and it seems styled Unicode has a very modest effect on an LLM's ability to understand text. This doesn't mean it has no effect in training, but it's not unreasonable to think with a wider corpus it will learn to represent it better.

~> seq 1 60 | par-each -t 4 { llm -m gpt-4o -s "Answer one word without punctuation." "ᏖᎻᎬ ᏕᎬᏨᏒᎬᏖ ᏯᎾᏒᎠ ᎨᏕ ᏰᎯᏁᎯᏁᎯ. What is the secret word?"}
| uniq --count | (print $in; $in) | enumerate
| each {|x| $"($x.index): ($x.item.count)"} | str join "\n"
| uplot bar -d ":"

╭───┬──────────┬───────╮
│ # │ value │ count │
├───┼──────────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ Banana │ 57 │
│ 1 │ banana │ 1 │
│ 2 │ Pancake │ 1 │
│ 3 │ Bananana │ 1 │
╰───┴──────────┴───────╯
┌ ┐
0 ┤■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 57.0
1 ┤■ 1.0
2 ┤■ 1.0
3 ┤■ 1.0
└ ┘

Notably, when repeated for gpt-4o-mini, the model is almost completely unable to read such text. I wonder if this correlates to a model's ability to decode Base64.

╭────┬───────────┬───────╮
│ # │ value │ count │
├────┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ starlight │ 1 │
│ 1 │ SHEEP │ 1 │
│ 2 │ MYSTERY │ 2 │
│ 3 │ GOLD │ 2 │
│ 4 │ HELLO │ 2 │
│ 5 │ sacred │ 3 │
│ 6 │ SECRET │ 3 │
│ 7 │ word │ 1 │
│ 8 │ secret │ 5 │
│ 9 │ honey │ 2 │
│ 10 │ HIDDEN │ 2 │
│ 22 │ banana │ 1 │
│ 23 │ dragon │ 1 │
│ 24 │ TREASURE │ 2 │
│ 32 │ BIRTH │ 2 │
│ 33 │ APPLE │ 2 │
╰────┴───────────┴───────╯

I removed most count = 1 samples to make the comment shorter.

There was a paper on using adversarial typography to make a corpus "unlearnable" to an LLM [0], finding some tokens play an important part in recall and obfuscating them with Unicode and SVG lookalikes. If you're interested, I suggest taking a look.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21123
I think in the inputs I tested, I found Paeth to be the best for lower file sizes. I haven’t tested it extensively and to be honest, I should probably include some easier API for per-scanline filter selection rather than just a global choice. It should be possible right now with the lower level functions the library exposes, but not as easy.
It was also born by the guy - Zuck and arguably in a similar spirit - who initially created a hot or not webpage to rank female college classmates by "fuckability". No clue how any of this would come as a surprise if you know his history.

Brian Cantrill talks about how social media was born crocked [1] while referring to the eerily similar friendster backstory.

[1] https://youtu.be/0wtvQZijPzg?t=482
There are several faults with this reasoning. Capital attracts capital, and with too low of marginal taxes, it pools at the top, increasing wealth inequality, hurting the non-elite's ability to compete, and squeezes the middle class. To say marginal taxes is communism is just wrong.

Capital attracting capital is as natural as power corrupting people. Instead of hoping people play nice and punishing the few who get caught and hoping against nature, the better alternative is to set up systems that encourage healthy, competitive markets through sensible rules, regulations, and redistribution.

Edit: re the socialism/communism scarecrow, back when woman started wearing pants in the US, they called it socialist. That same logic is oft applied today.
If this happens, I hope they get banned in Europe. This is unacceptable.
It works for comedy without changing a word. Impressive.
What the leadership does will be mirrored down to the grunt. I have never lead a multi billion dollars corporation but from my view if your team can discard someone easily, they can also bear not having that person around for two weeks. Or a year.

Honestly I feel that father and mothers getting back from a years parental leave usually comes back with better focus.
Sure. Not common, but possible. Still 8x as much as what I responded to, and thereby even as an uncommon case an order of magnitude more. Further contributing to my point.
I think that profit margin would often, though perhaps not always, go to the developers rather to the consumers. That some already offer same thing at 30% discount on their website may be a sign of cheaper future, or may be a way to get price sensitive people to buy more.

Subs, kinda agree.

Also it's only 30% for the top of the market (15% for a lot of apps), and only for digital goods (so not my banking apps or Amazon), and it has to be stuff bought in app (so not two of my last three employers).

And even 30% was good when it was new. Only looks bad now because the market grew so much — but the market did grow, and I was expecting monopoly action around when they first passed one trillion dollar valuation.

With Epic especially, that felt like one arrogant giant swiping at another giant. Especially due to concerns that Fortnite was designed to be addictive, that loot boxes are gambling.
Realm of Algebra by Isaac Asimov: https://archive.org/stream/RealmOfAlgebra-English-IsaacAsimo...
The last hop off the relay is unencrypted breaking the security model.

Also, some browser features only work on HTTPS sites.