skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech workers better hope that rate hikes stop soon, otherwise CEOs might take Musk as inspiration.

Almost everybody agrees that his actions are extreme and often stupendous. But that's not the point. The point is that he fired 80% and Twitter is still operational.

Also, Twitter 5 times smaller than before seems to fairly rapidly change/add features, whilst old Twitter never shipped anything.

Nobody should adapt these crazy tactics, but it's an (extreme) demonstration of fluff and discovering core value. You don't have to go Musk mode, but Musk demonstrated the effect of a decimation of the work force.

That suggests to CEOs that one might go half-Musk mode. There's a lot of room to cut when you previously hired entire villages each year. Not 80%. But 30%? Why not. 40%? Maybe.

Consider Facebook's "year of optimization". They hired so many people that it takes them a year to figure our what all these people are even doing. What you have normalized as "normal times" were in fact dot com boom times.
> The neuroscientist claimed schizophrenia is a disorder of too little inhibition of left brain inferences by the right brain.

This sounds very "bicameral mind"-y[1] to me, and it's worth noting that schizophrenia's causes haven't been pinned down accurately yet. There are a ton of hypotheses around how schizophrenia develops/works, but none are conclusive.

I bring it up because when you hear relatively simple explanations about the left and right brain and the tasks they're "assigned" or "designed" to process, or how their perceived differences contribute to mental illness, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Similarly, I'd hesitate to compare LLMs or any NNs to actual human brains. Their similarities are entirely superficial, and beyond the very basic topology of NNs that were inspired by specific types of neurons, the similarities end there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality#The_Origin...
Even if you turn all permissions on for your bot including the ability to use slash commands it won't be able to send commands to the Discord mid journey bot. (And there is no publicly exposed API)

The only way to do it right now would be to create a separate dedicated discord account linked to midjourney, and then have your bot control that user account and that's a good way not only to get your MJ access revoked but also to have your discord account banned.

As far as kneecaping their growth, they have one of the largest discord channels in history and they frequently run up against compute limits, so if this was one of their ostensible goals they failed at it pretty spectacularly.
What does it mean to let people go from society?
I'd hope this would come down eventually. I got hit way back when in 2018 in my Model 3[0] and it was a pretty fresh car. Not many on the road and Tesla still figuring out how to scale the manufacturing.

I think part of the high repair price was that the Model 3 was so new, which also meant that there were only a few shops that could/would work on it (Tesla does not do body work, or at least not back then). I had to wait a month before they would even look at it and then they dropped the huge price tag. What was I going to do? Go the only other shop and wait another month? They had all of the leverage and could charge as much as I wanted.

The total bill was ~$28k. StateFarm only covered ~$22k so I have to pay ~6-7k out of pocket (it was an insane "uninsured driver" who car-jacked a teen and hit 4 other cars. Pictures in the album of him preaching on top of our car).

0: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sbne4ATVZgD74Hon7
You can make it rigorous again by studying nonstandard analysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis
LLaMA is genuinely not interesting?
This is why I think Apple's direction of building a neural engine into the M1 architecture is low-key brilliant. It's just there and part of their API; as AI capabilities increase and the developer landscape solidifies, they can incrementally expand and improve its capabilities.

As always, Apple's focus is hardware-first, and I think it will once again pay off here.
It seems nuts to me, that in a shared medium such as public roads, that there isn't some upper bound in collision liability for unintentional damage caused to other vehicles. Given the average cost of a car today, this incident would likely clear whatever bar is set anyway, but given the necessity of driving (at least in the US), the idea of someone making peanuts be liable for multi-tens-of-thousands repair bills for low-speed collisions because someone chooses to drive a car that costs as much as a house, just feels like an unnecessary kick in the nuts.
My knowledge of Simula is limited to reading about it and looking at small code samples, so I'm learning. But it's probably telling that I've learned more about Simula and seen Simula code but I've only ever heard about Self as a kind of footnote.
The submission itself talks about creating & loading snapshots, which is sort of a Checkpoint Restore In Userspace (CRIU), allowing one to create a new context with a lot of existing libraries already loaded very very quickly.
The $50k is probably limited to the car damage portion of it.
> "...Harry Potter is a wizard" is a fact about a work of fiction, not a work of fiction in itself

But LLMs aren't trained to learn facts like "Harry is a wizard", they're trained to reproduce specific expressions like "You're a wizard, Harry".

That is, they're trained by prompting them with a selection from a (probably copyrighted) text and weights are adjusted to make it more likely they'll output the next word of the text.

They're not a collection of general facts, they're a collection of estimates about which word follows which other words, and the order of words is the essence of copyright in text.
It's harder to find quality people who are willing to relocate their family every time a job is finished.
If the power was out, how did ground engineers know what the temperature inside the station was? My guess is that they could calculate absorbed and emitted energy and figure it out that way, but I'd be curious to know for sure.
“War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength”
> prototypes instead of classes

Maybe the author picked that one as being in the lineage of JavaScript?
I once had a fender bender in a Tesla that cost 20k to fix (back in 2016). Downside of not having 3rd parties making the parts.
Google has recently limited the pro plan to 100 compute units per month. Using an A100 on colab burns 13 units an hour. So you could be out of units within 8 hours. Not really the $10/month deal you're looking for.
>I really disagree about it as a direct ancestor of the contemporary plugin API. These have always run on the host CPU, not dedicated DSP chips (excluding of course Digidesign's original ProTools model, but that was DSP farm rather than just a chip).

That's like saying "computing in the 80s was all about the home computer market, if we exclude the PC". ProTools was the biggest name (and quite close to a monopoly for pros at the time).
If the currency gets debased and money flows into the market wouldn’t it also just debase the S&P500 equally?
West Michigan is a really awesome area. It’s unfortunate it only makes the news for PFAS but at least this time it’s good news!

Funnily (or not so funnily) I searched “superfund site Rockford” expecting to find info on the Wolverine contamination. Little did I realize groundwater contamination is so rampant that it returned results for Rockford, IL as well.

Also, fuck Wolverine. They need to do more. As I understand it they have weaseled out of some responsibility by claiming they cant afford it.
It was the ancestor in the sense that the DSP features were part of the OS and not a bolted-on add-on with non-standard drivers. And also in the sense that you now had an off-the-shelf machine that could do non-trivial real-time synthesis and processing.

When NeXT was folded back into Apple, the audio classes eventually became (more or less) the AUs in MacOS.

An abstraction layer made it possible to run natively, or on internal DSP, or on external DSP. Aside from Digi, Waves, Universal Audio, TC Electronic, and Focusrite all made external processors that used the AU/VST interface. (UA still do, although recently they - at last - also started offering native versions of some of their plugins.)
It doesn't work with MPH... amphetamines only. It's best to be at least in the same family of drugs when talking about interactions like that. I would strongly recommend not switching to adderall to try though.
I remember, as a student in high school, seeing this event get barely a paragraph in our textbooks, and it made me so angry. My mother was there on that day; she was friends with three of the four people who died. She was passing by on the way to class, and a friend pushed her down and told her to run when the shooting started. On a different day, she was chased back to her dorm by guardsmen with tear gas for walking with a group of three people, who nonetheless fired it directly into the dorm after she and the other students had made it in. She had to transfer away from Kent State due to the trauma of everything, and she has struggled some degree of PTSD ever since.

Thanks for reminding me what day it was today.
Look, I spent a decade at Amazon working for Jeff Bezos and the horde of sociopaths he enabled. I know how it goes.

Tobi has never given me the impression that he's a sociopath. It's part of why I wanted to work for Shopify. I used to joke that "'Shopify is the no assholes company.' 'But what about Kaz?' 'It's the no assholeS company- we're allowed one!'". But honestly, even my view on Kaz softened up over time.

Either the leadership at Shopify are genuinely nice people trying their best, or they are way better than the Amazon leadership at hiding their sociopathy. But either way, it felt nicer working for them.
How kind of him to take his shoes off before climbing on your vehicle. Don't see little courtesies like that nowadays...
I agree with your assertion that AI will seamlessly integrate into existing software and services but my expectation is that it will be unequivocally superior as a 3rd party integration[0]. People will get to know 'their AI' and vice versa. Why would I want Bard to recommend me a funny YouTube clip when my neutral assistant[1] has a far better understanding of my sense of humor? Bard can only ever learn from the context of interaction with google services -- something independent can pull from a larger variety of sources supersetting a locked system.

Nevermind more specialized tools that don't have the resources to develop their own competent AI - google might pull it off but adobe won't, and millions Saas and small programs won't even try. As another example, how could an Adobe AI ever have a better interpretation of 'Paint a pretty sunset in the style of Picasso' than a model which can access my photos, wallpapers, location, vacations, etc?

[0]Much how smart phones seamlessly integrate with automobiles via CarPlay and not GM-play. Once AI can use a mouse, if a person can integrate with a service an AI can do so on their behalf.

[1]Mind it's entirely possible it will be Apple or MSFT providing said 'neutral' AI.
Often soil is washed with solvents to remove the Dense Non Aqueous Polar Liquids (DNAPL). These are chloro/fluoro - carbon liquids that settle down to the bottom of the water table and flow downhill over many years - deep in the ground, and finally emerge as a DNAPL 'spring' on a river bank.
Many of the super fund sites are these. Here is the rabbit hole for them

https://www.google.com/search?q=DNAPL+super+fund&rlz=1C1CHBF...
Your analogy isn't equivalent to what was said. To be 1-1 with the OP, you'd be arguing that the lighter caused something to be flammable. Causing a *fire* is something else.

Similarly someone can be schizophrenic but have an *episode* caused by weed. The weed didn't make them schizophrenic but it did cause an episode to happen.
> It's no coincidence that the US is perennially split down the middle

That's true, but its not a conspiracy either. Supermajority is unstable because the faction of the supermajority party closest to the main opposition gains power to draw policy closer to its preference by joining the opposition, so the split between the main parties has a strong force driving toward rough parity.

> The whole idea is to keep the country divided and to motivate you to vote.

It’s literally not, demotivated voters on the other side (or, in extreme cases, tricking them into failing to vote) is a strategy central to, and incentivized by, the electoral system.

> With all the "we can't let <the other team> ruin the country" rhetoric, you would think the swings back and forth would be like a wrecking ball.

They usually aren’t because our system is designed with lots of veto points, and the “swings” usually don’t swing all of them.
I tried Bluesky Social and it's basically a far friendlier Twitter (for now)
for my kids i've just thought of introducing them to computers via linux tiling window managers, they can operate from a terminal and learn to code.

i think browsing the internet via terminal like w3m does might take out a lot of the addictive nature of what catches your eye, and you can keep the utility of stack overflow

another equivalent would be teaching them to scrape each individual web-page for text on their own
What Does It Mean for a Conspiracy Theory to Be a ‘Theory’?
Yes, but no. Yes I will pay to verify my identity. But no, I want to control my identity: My own domain. My email is “verified” (I own the DNS) but I can move to another provider while keeping my email. Public key identities work the same way (like what Bluesky does).

Free + ads is a great business model. It works. There’s a reason all major consumer platforms work that way. The world, in general, is not ideologically hungup about ads like HN is. Also notice that most of HN‘s rhetoric doesn’t match their actions, most are using popular social media anyway.
"We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall. ... the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin. We cannot get out. The end comes ... drums, drums in the deep ... they are coming."
Instead of certificates, could you not use published tokens, using the same mechanism that registrars already use for publishing DNS NS "glue" records?
Mostly it is the half lives of the reaction products, sometimes the half lives of the decay products or intermediate products. Ramping up and down was historically somewhat difficult, famously one of the contributing factors to the Chernobyl accident was the reactor having been turned down to a very low level on the previous day. You have to be careful not to accidentally poison your reactor during the day when the solar farms are chugging out megawatts only to not be able to ramp up in the evening when the sun sets.
For my use, I replaced AHK with kanata. I needed, basically, software QMK, not something to automate and script things.
Maybe you should read the comments on the issue first.
Something I haven't figured out: should I think about these memory requirements as comparable to the baseline memory an app uses, or like per-request overhead? If I needed to process 10 prompts at once, do I need 10x those memory figures?
k. And you feel those things benefit the world more than the negatives yeah?
I think it's really like hearing an external sound, it's not something you consciously control. I feel like I heard a hypothesis somewhere that maybe there's something off about what you perceive as your own conscious thoughts. Obviously everything is coming from your own brain, so I would argue they are your own thoughts but we're just talking about the perception of being your own thoughts.

Related to this, some schizophrenics think that thoughts are being placed in their head by something external or that they perceive thoughts from other people. Telepathy is also a common rationalization.
I love the way this progressed from, latent disease doesn't happen to prove to me tomatoes don't cause turbo-cancer. There's so much text there that its really nice and smooth.
Doing Less with Less
That's still 10x though, which is basically untenable to a whole bunch of the population.
As someone who was laid off by Shopify today, I can say this: the document was written well for the audience it was meant for.

It was genuinely Tobi. That's how he talks and writes. That's exactly the analogies he would use. No PR person anywhere would write this letter for him.

Also, he is wildly obsessed with LLMs. I would place a large money bet that he did have GPT help him edit this document.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/22/jobs_trusted_cook...
Thanks for the info! I'll check it out.
You’re right, mine should have gone to the person you were responding to, sorry about that :)
There's C90. There's also C99.

As far as ISO is concerned, each edition of the C standard is made obsolete by its successor, but that doesn't impose any obligation on you or on compiler writers. If you have gcc, you can still use `gcc -std=c90 -pedantic-errors` (or c99, or c11, or ...).
The Downsides of API Batching
> AI sound cool but at this point I'm just expecting another half baked feature that checks boxes for executives to justify purchasing it.

Its unfortunate, but just fixing and making an existing product awesome has lower ROI than implementing good-enough features that your competitor has. It may sound stupid, but works business wise.
They should change the liability limit so that the maximum payout is the cost to buy an equivalent-functionality vehicle of the same age on the used market.

So if someone owns a $80,000 (new price) 2018 pickup truck, and someone smashes into them, the most the driver at-fault has to pay is the cost to buy a low-end 2018 pickup truck of any brand. Someone whose 2005 Ferrari gets smashed gets enough money to buy a 2005 small car, maybe a Hyundai.

Cars are supposed to be for transportation, not status symbols. If you want an expensive car, you should pay for the insurance to cover it.
It's also worth mentioning that materials wear out in space in ways we don't always appreciate and certainly did not in the golden era of the Soviet space stations. The Mir, an upgrade over the Salyut program, was pretty trashed by the time it was abandoned. It's absolutely not worth boosting dangerous trash for it to potentially break up.

That said, it is sort of a shame we didn't capture Salyut 7 and bring it back down safely, or at least a chunk of it. It would have been interesting to see what uncontrolled heating and cooling does to a body meant for human habitation that big in low orbit.
No.

The runtime is the combination of the execution engine, the garbage collector, and the environment.

V8, JSC, SpiderMonkey, LibJS, etc all provide all of those.

They all have APIs that let you (the embedder) a few new objects and functions, as it would be a useless embedding API otherwise. But that's all you're doing: adding some glorified callbacks to an existing runtime. You are in no way "rolling your own JS runtime".

To break it down:

Execution Engine: the part of the runtime that evaluates JS, an interpreter, jit, or some combination. That would be "Ignition" and "TurboFan" in V8, "LLInt" and "FTL" in JSC, "WarpMonkey" in SpiderMonkey.

Garbage Collector: the part of the runtime that supports object allocation and reclamation. "Orinoco" in V8, but not sure if given a separate marketing name in other runtimes.

The environment: this is all the builtin objects and functionality, things like the global object, the regex engine (note it's not a regex runtime because all it does find the start and stop sections of matches, the embedding environment is responsible for everything else), all those core things like the Object, Array, Math, Number, etc types, and all of their implementations and runtime functions. The Execution engine does not need any of those to be implemented, as to the engine there is essentially no distinction between those builtin things and anything else written in JS.

When you embed V8, JSC, LibJS, etc you are getting a full runtime, that can do a huge amount. You _might_ choose to use there APIs to add some new objects or or functions, but what you are doing is negligible, and certainly not "a runtime".
John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
vimium is the best
Thank you for the overview!
Microsoft funded Apple to keep another OS vendor alive, so it's not about discouragement. It's probably a lot cheaper to fund a competitor than paying the gov't and getting tagged as a recognized monopoly
Rarely will I defend Amazon in anything, but I'll make an exception.

In my experience, AWS/Amazon people do not force you or even direct you to a particular architectural choice. They are relatively indifferent about it.

Instead, trend-driven architectures seem to come from the tech community themselves. It's the customers often making the wrong choice.
It's brilliant for experimentation and prototyping though. Granted I've not deployed anything llm related yet so I have not thought about it yet, but I don't want to just start writing every integration I think I need by hand just to experiment with it.
Curious about becoming an executive consultant?
It’s absolutely not true that it’s a “people problem” not a “tech problem”.

Tech companies have deployed many billions of dollars, and the smartest minds in the world to ensure that their little fiefdoms are the ones that become the internet.

First, they deploy psychology and tap into basic human behavior knowledge, to ensure people are addicted to their platform and spend most of their time there instead of anywhere else.

Further, companies like Apple originally made it difficult for an open source, or a hobbyist to create an app that can be distributed on iPhones, first by instituting their $100 dev account requirement, and then building an insanely Kafkaesque approval process.

Then there’s the bait and switches. Google went ahead and bought Blogger/Blogspot when it got popular and then stopped investing in it beyond making it easier to insert Adsense. Then Google destroyed the non-Twitter sharing ecosystem by bringing the majority of the RSS ecosystem to Google Reader, and killing it basically overnight.

Apple used to provide simple personal website publishing with their iWeb products, which they pulled.

Then there were the non investment and destruction of Flash, which had become a huge source of internet creativity with no equivalent alternative. Apple famously killed Flash, and probably for good reasons considering Adobe was focused simply on extracting money from it, but Apple didn’t bother creating any authoring tools that made it possible for random middle school kids to create cool stuff with.

Facebook originally presented its pages as something that would be openly accessible to the internet. But once people created a bunch of them started requiring logins.

We rightfully criticize MS for their embrace, extend and extinguish strategy that they’ve deployed against so many of their competitors. The reality, however, is that even “better” companies like Apple, Google, have done the same thing, except they’ve done it to the Open web, and because the open web doesn’t have billions of marketing and lobbying dollars to complain, we didn’t even realize that was happening.
You have the option to use a non cloud password sync method today. Best of all, that can sync a single password or private key across multiple vendors. This locking down inside bubbles really needs to go for me to want to use passkeys, I don't want to register 3 separate passkeys for each account I want to register 1 and sync them between my devices.
You don't need to have an account with google for them to collect your personal data. Facebook keeps and updates profiles on people who have never had accounts and never used the website.