skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's reading too much into, what is fundamentally a very normal and common way of dealing with CEO turnover -- appoint a safe, business-friendly steward of a CEO, while you stabilize the crisis and decide who the real long-term leader should be.

The word "interim" was clearly used, and there's no hint in the PR statement about this being a permanent appointment. So I don't think it's reasonable to equate this to a clear doubling down of anything.

At the same time, a guy like Whitehurst is a safe, relatively unimpeachable medium term choice, not like someone you'd use for a truly short interim 30-90 days while you execute an executive search quickly. If you need him for 1-2 years of just don't rock the boat leadership, it'll probably work out fine for the company and the board would be satisfied.
I'd give ytnef and libpst a try. They both come with a command line tool suite for working with Outlook files.

https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef

https://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/
They changed the logo to regular English capitalisation, away from stylised lowercase. Such fun.
I mean, there already is an integrated element of punishment – if you don't manage to plug in the HDMI connector correctly, you don't get to watch any TV :)
Isn't this the essence of teddy-bear/rubber-duck debugging? You're forcing yourself to run your abstract concepts through the narrow channel of language and instantiating it in a way you haven't previously done (because if you had, you'd have solved the problem already and wouldn't need to be talking it through.) (I'm very specifically talking about the case where you explain and noone else contributes/responds, and you come up with the answer solely through trying to explain/speak it.)
> My 1996 Mustang's CD player has a "Compress" button on it, to make listening to highly dynamic music more feasible in a noisy car environment.

I believe _this_ is where the issue mostly originated (well, radio, really). Radio is already massively compressed, and many people were either listening to things in the car, on some tiny little radio in the kitchen, or with awful cheap headphones with their walkman's built-in radio.

All of these weren't great environments to start with, and the dynamic range of radio was tiny given the overall bandwidth available to most FM stations.

So, companies compress, people get used to it, and thus the horror continues.
>And this stance would be perfectly fine if the alternatives were better.

I believe we passed the point where solar with storage is better. It's certainly faster and easier to deploy, but now it's apparently also cheaper per produced Wh than nuclear even accounting for a mere 30% efficiency from the storage "detour".

Solar has kept falling in price this year as well, while nuclear is always revealed to be more expensive every time a new study is made.
AI Risks
I agree - this may be unclear phrasing on my part.

What I meant in my original comment was, "wow, this seems like a hire that is only focused on finding someone with lots of experience managing, and not at all on the gaming industry / customer goodwill".

So I think you're right - and I also think this shows how I misjudged how I originally thought a scenario like this would have played out.
For an example of an asymmetrical "rectangle", look at HDMI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#/media/File:HDMI_connecto...
that's quite optimistic. i'd give us fifteen tops
Agree on no _t suffixes!
The main advantage is not foisting unsigned on the user of the API.

(You can do that while using unsigned internally, but then you have to convert back and forth.)

The most important decision is what is the index type at the API level of the circular buffer, not what is inside it. But it's nicer if you can just use the API one inside.

The sizeof operator yielding the type size_t which is unsigned has done a lot of harm. Particularly the way it spread throughout the C library. Why do we have size_t being unsigned? Because on small systems, where we have 16 bit sizes, signed means limiting to 32767 bytes, which is a problem. In all other ways, it's a downer. Whenever you mention sizeof, you have unsigned arithmetic creeping into the calculation.

The author of the above blog article has the right idea to want a sizeof operator that yields ptrdiff_t instead of size_t. (Unfortunately, the execution is bungled; he redefined a language keyword as a macro, and on top of that didn't wrap the macro expansion in parentheses, even.)
What a naive statement. Do you really believe no other nation is capable of making such a thing? This doesn’t improve our national security at all. Just ups the ante for robotic infantry, whatever the hell that ends up meaning. Like advancements in war technology has ever been a positive in the world.
Study finds the gulf stream is warming and shifting closer to shore
Even if you're right about the pricing. Launching this change with so many unanswered questions (like how they're going to track "installs") was going to end in disaster. Should have gotten their ducks in a row first.
The endocrine system has a huge impact on your brain and thought process.
I wish Jeff Bezos would squander less of his wealth. Spending a billion dollars a year funding a mediocre rocket ship company seems like a poor use of funds. Thank goodness his wife took half and is doing some good with it.
Agreed, there's definitely a lot of value in LLMs even if they don't really have an understanding of the world.
Arguably this, and similar cases, is what motivated Microsoft to become an aggressive patent filer. I know that at various times in my tenure there (99–13) that I was on teams where patent filing was encouraged
Satoshi Kon – The Lost Interview
Good catch, it actually leaves the goat with the cabbage in the answer above.
One does deterministic matrix math and the other doesn’t.

It’s a common experience that candy tasted sweeter to you as a child, right?

How does that work in a transformer?
I think it's worse than USB. It's so damn narrow and has a requirement for precision. It's hard to know if you've got it upside-down or you're just not well-aligned.
That's because in the Netherlands everyone is equal. You're treated according to medical needs. Doctors don't care that you are a very important Google developer. They read your chart and know that you can wait. It's battlefield triage in Dutch hospitals. I find it hilarious that people think that they put you on list you for shits and giggles.

You're totally free to find a private clinic in Singapore (but let's face it most people who think they are affluent don't quite have the money for that and Google isn't forking over the money because you're not that important).
Given how much people love to hate Twitter these days I could see it continuing on for a least another few years on that alone.
I agree!

I posted before that comment, which was definitely helpful - that context (and some other helpful replies here and elsewhere in the overall thread) have changed my assessment as well.
Yeah, I have a few of the Gen8's too, and agree about the iLO. Especially with the "advanced" iLO option, which the BIOS doesn't check the validity of its license key... so you can just look for an iLO key using your favourite search engine and you're good to go. ;)

For fallback purposes I bought a VGA to HDMI adapter like this:

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/cables-&-adapters/displa...

Not sure if that's the exact model I have (am in different location atm, so can't check), but the pictures in that listing look like the thing I have. It's worked fine in the times I've needed to use it.
FWIW Epic's cut is 12%, not 30%.
My answer would be that Chapel supports a partitioned global namespace such that a variable within the lexical scope of a given statement can be referenced whether it is local to that CPU's memory, stored on a remote compute node, or stored within a GPU's memory (say). The compiler and runtime implement the communication on the programmer's behalf and take steps to optimize away unnecessary communication. Other key features include first-class support for creating parallel tasks in high-level ways, including parallel loops.
I mean, I'm referring to things I've had to deal with. Failure isn't obvious until the user complains of random disconnects, and then you find that although everything looks fine from the outside, you can wiggle the wafer inside like a loose tooth. The plastic of the wafer has cracked and is being held in place only by the metal in the contacts.

I'll grant that it's robust in that it continues to work more than I'd expect, for example continuing to charge the laptop but not reliable for the external display. And once connected, sure it's secure.

I suspect it's not the cable mating that causes the failure, but other foreign objects… keys in the bag or something… that manage to dislodge it. And some laptops have more play in the connector than others, which I think allows the connector on the cable end to hit the wafer with an angle of attack sufficient to dislodge it. Some of my users handle heavy bulk materials all day and are anything but gentle with computers.

In any case, I'm sure the designers considered this, and far be it from me to second-guess their compromises. It is what it is. But if the port has failure modes, this is one of them.
USB-C plugs are supposed to have 2.0 data pins only on one side. It is only the sockets that should have them on both sides. The other data pins are negotiated.

When USB-C was brand new, I got a flawed breakout board where only the socket's data pins on one side were connected. I did not notice it until it was soldered together and the device got power but no connection when the cable was connected in one orientation. But then I had already built a metal case to fit that breakout board perfectly, so I just left it in.
> The CEO's job was to make it digestible to the general public, and he failed at that.

No. It was to either do that or be the scapegoat and take the golden parachute. Either way it's wins all around.

Now he can be blamed for the board's decisions. Meanwhile it remains to be seen how much anything will change. After all, the cause of the problem is gone now, right? /s
After reviewing the proud new features, they're all the opposite of what I want.

Generally, I don't want things that make driving harder for me or other drivers. I want headlights that don't blind everyone else and external indicators that inform without distracting or demanding attention of others. I really want fewer distractions inside the cabin.

I will praise the Miata for not having over-high headlights that nuke-flash the driver in front of me. I sincerely appreciate that.
Unreadable? Or perhaps just not to your liking?
Anecdata, but most women I've spoken to prefer to delay childcare until the kid is around a year old.

There seems to be good reasons for not separating an extremely young child from their mother.
That wasn't at all why people got mad. The unilateral claims (perceived or otherwise) on prior releases of the engine, claiming that the platforms (e.g., Microsoft) would just pay it--it was badly messaged, badly considered, and the initial feedback from their customer base was blown off and dismissed.

None of it was handled well.
I built a similar project, and had great results with cloudflare stream.
It’s also unclear that LLMs have no “reasoning loop”, or that a “loop” abstraction is necessary for all reasoning, or that eyeballing wrong answers is a sufficient metric to categorically dismiss “reasoning." A "reasoning loop" argument is especially odd when applied to LLMs...which explicitly have architectural loops, and their output generation is a literal loop.

Folks, we don't understand our own minds. You think we already understand a potential alien mind? With our n = 1 examples of generally intelligent mind architectures (ours)? Fat chance.

Anyone confidently claiming sweeping, nebulous conclusions about these new models is likely revealing more about their biases than the model's inner workings. We just don't know much. Hot takes on ML are just anthropocentrism Rorschach tests.
This fallacy reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_hypotheses_suggested_b... in particular. If you didn't have any reason to look for wrongdoing other than a statistical dataset, that same dataset is never sufficient to confirm the resulting suspicion.
In mentoring engineers I've found that some are doing what amounts to advanced pattern matching. They memorize the syntax for a for loop but never really internalize what it does (they just seem to know write these letters if you want things to repeat). Not dissimilar to what I suspect LLMs are doing when they generate code.

By contrast when I write code I see in my minds eye what the code should do, tinker with it, formulate an algorithm, and only then do I try to translate what's in my head into syntax.

When asked how people can learn this skill (or get better at algorithms in general) I always say they should practice writing code by hand.
That is the entire cycle from browser, to server and back + js execution.

As mentioned in a comment below php execution including db call is:
P95 is 120.9ms
P99 is 634.11ms

Which means the rest is DNS lookups and js execution.
Doesn't seem like one would preclude the other.

I guess I'll have to take a video next time I see it.
Why top posting vs just not having the redundant quoted content at all?
Comment said "why clutter with extra masking" (just use the unsigned types).

Although unsigned types have no overflow, running to them as some sort of safe refuge is a mistaken knee-jerk reaction.
Our history is rich with stories. In December 1773, a bunch of colonists tried to drug the fish in the Boston Harbor with a bunch of tea.
This is helpful context as well, in addition to doomlaser's explanation of his background re: IBM and Red Hat. Thanks for sharing it.

I wonder to what extent Silver Lake drove this overall decision (vs. others on the board potentially initiating it)
That seems to apply to ruling out Bayesian priors, and I think it's perfectly reasonable for society to disallow certain forms of evidence in the interest of ensuring fairness, perhaps including Bayesian priors. But this article points out that it goes beyond that, into ruling out the entire idea of epistemic uncertainty:

> You cannot properly say that there is a 25 per cent chance that something has happened: Hotson v East Berkshire Health Authority [1987] AC 750. Either it has or it has not.
Need this in Airpods pro. Right now they reduce background noise but not voices.

Note: the bar is easier for me: I define anyone speaking at all as "annoying".
I do think nervous systems (the brain being the most complex example we know of) are the only things that do what we call thinking.

What else does (please do not mention any deterministic counting machines like semiconductors - neurons are not deterministic and thought isn’t a deterministic set of calculations).

I would argue that the difference in process is extremely important, as evidenced by how easily we are fooled by optical illusions.

Just because we think two things appear the same does not mean they are, and understanding why they appear the same but are different relies on a study of the “how”

To put your argument differently - “if we can make drawings that appear to be three dimensional to our eyes, why bother understanding the difference between 2-D and 3-D space?”
"More Black Mirror than Mirror's Edge" was my takeaway too. In terms of Parkour this is slow and awkward, but it's like watching a baby taking their first steps towards murder. The most important hurdle for many soldiers is the one these machines never needed the help of AI to get over. Even after dehumanizing the enemy many soldiers are "non-firers" and won't shoot another person even if their own life is in danger, while those who kill children and civilians are often haunted by that act.

These robots won't have any problems pulling the trigger at anyone or anything. They won't hesitate or refuse an order the way Stanislav Petrov did. They won't be trained to have empathy or respect for life. Humanity is the final check against the worst atrocities war demands from the people we send out to kill each other, and devices like these solve that "problem" by dehumanizing the soldier.
I have a Klipper-driven print farm. For a 3D printer controller, you do not need a Raspberry Pi 5. Or a Raspberry Pi 4. You can use a $30 Le Potato and be fine with it.
Ask HN: Can we please ban Political Conversations on HN?
I understand that HN has a strong free speech ethos, but Political conversations are inherently divisive in our modern world.

I've said this a couple times, but toxicity and divisive conversations are increasingly common on HN.

Inevitably, there will be a conversation on HN that is so divisive and virulent, it will have a reputational impact on YCombinator as a whole.

Please, please can we finally ban these kinds of divisive conversations and return to the collaborative tech, innovation, and business ethos that existed in this forum?

@Dang
The only argument against free will that’s needed is that consciousness emerges from physical processes in the universe. There’s nowhere for free will to “come from,” even if there are non-deterministic effects in the brain.
I'm expecting to receive my shiny new Framework 16 laptop in the new year. It will be my main workhorse/development machine. I vacillate between learning Nix and giving that a go, or sticking with Arch+Ansible to manage it.
'Predator Files' report prompts call for worldwide ban on spyware
I'm not really answering your question and I'm sorry for that but why are you against having a job that pays you to do research?
Yeah I should have constrained it to new-stock stuff that isn't a repurpose of other hardware. You have absolutely been able to find stuff if you wanted to work for it. I don't really, so it's not on my radar.

Alder Lake stuff is showing up now, and that's pretty great. It is not, however, particularly fast hardware, and the GPUs are still really pokey.
How is it possible? The game looks horrendous. I can understand Genshin Impact, Supercell games or even Candy Crush but this? What am I missing?
Current LLMs use an optimisation of processing data one word at a time. This makes them bad at solving puzzles involving individual letters or digits.

This is a well known, well understood limitation that can be overcome (Facebook published a hierarchical model that can parse individual characters), but this technique isn’t used by ChatGPT.

Whenever I see a criticism like this, it says more to me about the hubris of humans and the falsity of their assumed superior intelligence.

You’re criticising the intelligence of a thing you don’t understand yourself!

You didn’t “read the manual”. You didn’t go find out why the AI is failing. You just spouted an angry comment and gave up without gaining any understanding.

PS: the “stupid AI” understands all of this. Just ask it to explain it to you: https://chat.openai.com/share/7bc1c1cb-d888-4ccb-904a-79e9ae...
> The link says that it supports only Fedora 38

That is correct. I didn't think specifically about Fedora 37; it's been a while since I upgraded to 38. I couldn't find F37 builds, even though that's around the time I tested yabridge. You might consider switching to 38 anyway, as 37 is less than two months away from it reaching EOL -- F39 release date (17 October) + 30 days.

> As I understand, it is the repository for packages uploaded by random anonymous users (not related to the authors of yabridge or Fedora).

That is mostly correct. It was not uploaded, but built on the Fedora infrastructure, following the RPM spec you can reach from the builds tab [1], for example the latest change located here [2].

There is an amount of trust you have to give to the copr author, but you can also check the rpm spec file [3]. Important quick checks are around the source0 lines.

> Also, the main page for COPR says (in a small font): "NOTE: Copr is not yet officially supported by Fedora Infrastructure."

Getting a package shipped into the Fedora base repositories seems rather bureaucratic and I understand any hacker that doesn't want to use their own time to deal with that.

[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/patrickl/yabridge/bu...

[2] https://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/patrickl/yab...

[3] https://copr-dist-git.fedorainfracloud.org/cgit/patrickl/yab...
That's the thing, a lot of professionals do rote jobs that are necessary but not valued by their employers - such as designers at law firms. Many law firms, I believe, will settle for an AI-generated version of their old logo/masthead/website and fire their designer.
There's a free pdf download, which is nice.

It's slower than it has a right to be, since it builds a custom file and watermarks each page prior to download. If you're not logged in (I'm not sure why one would be) it watermarks each page as "guest" and with today's date, which seems a little pointless.
His wikipedia article says he got his BS in CS from Rice.
I can recommend Linear[0]

No affiliation. Simply, I really like how it works, and its a great interface as well. Really gets out of your way, has solid integrations and a good API for building your own

[0]: https://linear.app/
What year was it manufactured? Manuals seem to be from 2016. That's a bit earlier than I'd expect this kind of behavior (not conclusive of anything. Just an observation).

Do you have a firmware date?
Drawing a line around the bits that aren't language generation unfairly ignores the massive apparatus that seems to be specialised (oftentimes overly so) at language generation.

Sure there's other stuff going on, but a lot of it is language and a lot of that subset seems to be quite closely approximated by these larger LLMs, warts and all.
> should be a presentation-time decision, not a query-time decision

Agree, but sometimes you just need to shove the results of a SQL query into an Excel file and you don't want to get fancy.

You're either 1) overwriting Sheet B and then using a pivot table in Sheet A to get the final presentation, 2) pivoting in the code/program executing the query before writing to Excel or 3) pivoting in SQL and skipping the code and Excel pivot table altogether.

I run into this a lot with data used for financial modeling, or financial reporting that heavily relies on using dates/categories as column/row headers.
They already are: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This was on 4chan. See link below. Just showing the value of 4chan.
Given the number of bent pins I've seen on mini-DIN connectors, I think people don't find it as easy as you do.
I find it more impressive that Intel/AMD vcpu (i.e. each "vcpu" is actually an SMT thread) competes with or usually beats a Graviton vcpu (which afaik is always a real single Arm core).
That irony is that if TikTok were breaking US law then there actually would be a legal avenue for the government to enforce changes or ban it. And they absolutely would if they had a case.

The unspoken truth is that TikTok is doing the same shady things as Facebook, but the government doesn't want to ban or regulate Facebook, so a special law has to be crafted to target TikTok.
The Original Bondi Blue 233 MHz iMac Rev A (tray-loading CD-ROM) had:

- 2x USB

- 1x 10/100 Ethernet

- 1x phone jack

- Infrared port

- 1x audio input

- 1x audio output†

- 2x headphone ports

†I thought it had two front headphone ports so that two students could share a computer in school labs, but googling for that suggests it was probably a later revision feature.

EDIT: It did indeed have 2 headphone ports on the front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3#/media/File:IMac_G3_Bo...
The time is one aspect of it. Washing clothes is backbreaking work. Saving that is worth something, isn't it?
Not to mention the loss of trust from having the new pricing retroactively affect already-launched titles, as opposed to giving developers advanced notice of a policy change at some point in the future. No one wants that kind of unpredictability from a critical dependency.