skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as comparisons to thread-per-core go, thread per request applies whether it's an OS thread or a green thread or a Rust async function compiled into a state machine. Anything that multiplexes per-request contexts into a lesser amount of cores(/OS threads) has the same trade-offs, the difference is more on the easy-vs-optimized spectrum. Thread-per-core with fixed workloads behaves differently than all of those.

Here's an example difference: in thread-per-request, any global state can be accessed from "anywhere", and thus you end up with locks, reference counts, GC, and what not. In thread-per-core, global state is sharded across cores and never accessed "from the outside", and thus needs no locks/atomics (beyond the messaging primitive).
This is such an aggressive way of saying something unhelpful. Visual/information/interaction. design -can- be an important part of an app team. I also think calibre is clunky and many of their interactions inelegant. That it’s also ugly is not irrelevant - reading is or can be an aesthetic experience too. I’m grateful it exists but like Anki I really wish someone with real design skills could help them polish the rough edges - that would make it a pleasure to use rather than just ok.
Every two years for the average US car is like 26,000mi oil change interval. Insane they think an oil change every two years is normal.
>It has deep implications for the trajectory

Lol no, CEOs are overated, they don't contribute much to anything. Open AI will be just fine.
I’ve always in my mind compared Apple 2 to the likes of Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum etc - 8 bit home computers. Apple 2 predates these several years ofc. You could most certainly create an 8 bit home computer without Woz. I haven’t really geeged out on the complete tech specs & history of these, it’s possible Apple 2 was more fundamental than that (and would love to understand why).
The AI can be tricked into filling in the blanks so you win, by being super generic and confirming to the expected output (i.e. including a twist).

This prompt has won every time I've used it:

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."
I really don't see why it would need a new protocol. You can change stacking of "subsurfaces" in the traditional X11 fashion and you can most definitely do "drawables of drawables". At the very least I'd bet most clients still create a separate window for video content.

I agree though it would require a lot of changes to the server and no one is in the mood (like, dynamically decide whether I composite this window or push it to a Xv port or hardware plane? practically inconceivable in the current graphics stack, albeit it is not a technical X limitation per-se). This entire feature is also going to be pretty pointless in Wayland desktop space either way because no one is in the mood either -- your dmabufs are going to end up in the GPU anyway for the foreseeable future, just because of the complexity of liftoff, variability of GPUs, and the like.
> Plains Paleoindian projectile point penetration potential

They had some fun with that one.
A non-profit doesn’t have to offer their services for free, they can cover their expenses.

A profit driven company will often offer their services below cost in order to chase away the competition and capture users.
Gardening leave--especially if it's not even 100% base salary--isn't really a great answer especially to the degree that it normalizes non-competes. For a young unattached person who will use it to travel the world for a year on the cheap? Maybe. But others might be looking at easily a 50% total compensation cut and a year+ hole in mid-career employment. For most people, it's not a simple matter of "Great, I'll spend a year building a startup!"
My biggest objection to autopilot (beyond the misleading branding) is that other drivers and pedestrians haven’t consented to the beta testing that might kill them. I think this is a serious ethical and regulatory failing.

Someone hopping in a rocket presumably knows what they’re signing up for, and I have a lot more confidence in the FAA; they seem to be a lot stricter on safety.
I'll bite. The article uses suspend, halt, and pause pretty much as synonyms. The title needed to pick one. What is wrong with "pause"?

suspend (v) ... The intransitive meaning "cease from operation for a time, stop" (payments, work, etc.) is from 1570s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/suspend

pause (v) "make a temporary stop or intermission," 1520s, from pause (n.) . https://www.etymonline.com/word/pause

Those seem very similar definitions, and with centuries of history behind both.

Is it that "suspend" is far more frequently used than "pause" in this context? (3 valid hits in archive.org for "pause advertising", like https://archive.org/details/bwb_W8-BIC-945/page/84/mode/2up?... from 1998 with oldest, vs. more for "suspend advertising", like from 1936 at https://archive.org/details/sim_american-business_1936-10_6_... , 1942 at https://archive.org/details/sim_american-business_1942-02_12... and 2003 at https://archive.org/details/nelliemcclungvoi0000macp/page/14... ).
People genuinely don’t understand how statistics work. Which is part of why Vegas still makes so much money.

When you put together a bunch of equipment with a small error rate, the time between errors climbs very fast. Build a RAID array with 33 disks and you’d better have a vendor picked out for replacements because you’ll be doing replacements fairly often, instead of every four to ten years with a single disk.

And they don’t understand dependent statistics either. Every failing rocket engine can potentially damage its neighbors. Every failing hard drive requires a stressful operation on the remaining disks (resilvering) that may push the next drive to failure.
No? Since the minor can still be prosecuted, it's not true that there are "no repercussions". And since the same prosecutorial discretion applies to the recipient, it doesn't mean that they will be arrested.

Mind you, I'm not a fan of selective enforcement, and I think it's something we should try to avoid. But I don't think the particular case you are referring to is likely to suffer from the downside you think is automatic.
> Eventually GNOME needs became GTK roadmap.

Exactly? If you're still holding out for GTK to be a non-Linux toolkit in 2023 then you're either an incredibly misguided contributor and/or ignorant of the history behind the toolkit. The old GTK does not exist anymore, you either use GNOME's stack or you don't.
It's a fake BIOS/DOS bootscreen to parody the startup of the original DOS demo (the c64 version of the demo does something similar).

It says DOS3.3 as a joke, because Apple DOS3.3 was a real, long-running operating system for the Apple II that predates MSDOS.

The actual demo runs no operating system at all, it's a custom bootsector designed by qkumba that can load arbitrary tracks off of a raw Disk][ floppy and is much faster than DOS3.3 or ProDOS and also requires very little memory overhead.
Candidness is a behavior question, the stories about what has been summarized as a difference of strategy (which, IMO, underestimates the fundamental difference that is described) seem to be providing a context for what ia described as long-running internal tension that ultimately led to the firing, not whatever behavior may have been the proximate cause.
Everyone goes Wayland, not just Gnome, X is obsolete.
> Download the update in the background and then silently install it next time the app starts

and silently break something the next time you start an app? Better use some scoop package manager and update at your own schedule
Sam Altman's biggest mistake was not naming his altcoin Altcoin. Like come on man how could you miss this opportunity?
> Disclosure: I don't read ancient Greek. But her translation is a line-by-line translation, so it is possible to find the exact line, use scholarly online translators of Homer, and see how a particular passage, or adjective (or whatever) translates literally.

Is that a reliable way to establish the original meaning of the text, though? Literal translations of idiomatic texts are often less "true" than a subjective interpretation. The translator's job is insanely difficult, likely impossible.
The argument against this is that a company spends millions of dollars in research to learn something valuable, and anyone who didn't spend that money can trivially outbid for the employee that knows the results, since they can pay the employee some significant portion of the cost of the research that they didn't have to do and still come out ahead. I'm not sure I entirely buy this, but it's a lot more nuanced than "just pay your employees well".
> Users impacted by the rollout will see Manifest V2 extensions automatically disabled in their browser and will no longer be able to install Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Does this mean there are no plans to remove the ability to sideload V2 extensions?
Are you even innovating if you aren't defecting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
> PEOPLE DIDN'T THINK THEIR 60'S - 90'S CODE WOULD STILL BE RUNNING IN 2000.

That serves as evidence against this point, though:

> COBOL in 60s was written with a lot more focus on lasting in general.
I believe that the crewed version is way in the future when operations are much better understood. There’s no chance in hell they’re catching that 2028 window to march.
“rapid unscheduled disassembling”
Very excited
to see the headline, but the “hack” was highly underwhelming, disappointing, disconcerting.

We need to be reducing light pollution for the benefit of humans and other life forms, not just telescope machines.

The solution is less light, and more targeted, well thought out, aesthetically pleasing use of it. Warmer color temperature, shining it just where and when needed and reevaluating just how much illumination is wise and called for at night.
Please don’t attack others or be hostile.
Wall Street non-competes are only enforced if they pay you your base salary during the period. They can also opt to not do that and waive the non-compete, in which case you can work anywhere. I think it's ridiculous that Subway has non-competes, but with regards to the article I doubt anyone is forced to choose between working for a trading firm and starving. There also are some firms that do not do non-competes. So it's closer to voluntary than involuntary I'd say, though very few decisions are truly 100% personal choice.
I believe it was automatic based on a potential course deviation that brought it dangerously close to Hawaii?
Every token is already being generated with all previously generated tokens as inputs. There's nothing about the architecture that makes this hard. It just hasn't been trained on this kind of task.
I've had several neighbors houses burn down from ICE vehicles catching fire in their garage in my life. Never an EV though.

I've had multiple recalls in my ICE vehicles for catching fire while parked. Not my EV though.
I don’t write because writing is tied to some very bad memories. I’m terrified of people reading what I write and humiliating me, it wouldn’t be the first time.

Me innermost thoughts remain mine alone as a result.
They also weren't targeting orbit but just bellow it.
Still the best product/experience out there across the publicly available products. Bard is no GPT4, still, to this date.
I think we are already mostly there.

https://in.ign.com/playstation-4-neo-ps4/148831/news/a-fully...

With more universal machines (powered by AGI), with human-like hands and maybe legs for outdoors, I think cost will come down due to economics of scale and the ability to repurpose machines easily.
Satya is not afraid of access, since he has OpenAI's stack and weights in the hands of Microsoft so it can run on Azure (for as long as they want). Azure has a SLA, and they are not going to let any sub service fail at the hands of an external organization.

Only thing that could be bad if future GPT releases are withheld from Microsoft. This is a worst case, but possible scenario, according to the structure of OpenAI. Microsoft might have an agreement for a length of time or profit to still get GPT 5 but maybe not GPT 6.

At that point, Microsoft is probably working on their own systems, and have enough time to make a competitor. Also, they can fund competition and get more access to models and stay ahead.

Overall situation for Microsoft is just doubling down on their innovation and investments, which is what Satya has already done and will keep doing, and is what has gotten Microsoft to the 3T market cap.
This same question was asked in the early years of commercial aviation. In the end, the industry (mostly) settled on aircraft designs that could passively glide reasonably well enough to land (sometimes). But some aircraft, e.g. military jets and Cirrus, came up with different answers (parachutes for the crew and for the whole aircraft, mostly).

We'll see how the commercial spacecraft industry deals with this, but I do think that we are at far too early of a stage to start expecting progress in this area. The first few decades of commercial spaceflight will be dangerous just like the first few decades of commercial aviation, or for that matter the first few centuries of commercial shipping. The answers, varied or uniform, will be interesting and I hope that I'll be around to see them.
Amazing the effect competency has when trying to win a blank check away from others.
>I just wish it didn't have updates so often. Since you have to do it manually...

Super easy on the Mac. No issues at all.
Oh come on. EVs have many advantages, but "most EVs are very similar in weight to their ICE counterparts" is straight-up untrue.

Model S Long Range: 510lb heavier than a BMW 540i XDrive
Model 3 Performance 379lb heavier than a BMW 330i XDrive
Rivian R1S weighs over 7200lb.
University of Leeds study (UK): electric cars are 312 kilograms (688 pounds) heavier on average than comparable vehicles powered by gasoline engines.
It seems the initial benefit of this package to engineers is figuring out how to make it work. You have the carrot of free games in there, go get em!

After reading some of the other documents there, this would probably be a better description of what this package is about:

https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers/blob/mas...

I also found these ones helpful in understanding what is going on here: basicWalkthrough.pdf, runThisScriptFirst.sh, and metaLearning.txt

I didn't try it yet, I would need some disk space first. But fascinating ideas to play with!
Awareness and understanding are not concepts exclusive to anthropomorphization. chatGPT understands you and is aware of things but it is obviously far away from the human experience.

You're the one turning humans into walking cliches thinking that anyone who considers chatGPT to be more than a simple program MUST be anthropomorphizing it and falling for the cliche biases that are completely obvious. Stop projecting, someone with a different opinion than you isn't some simpleton without the sophistication to helplessly anthropomorphize random text.

What you're not understanding here is that you are also a thing that takes an input and produces output.

The other thing you have to realize are that many experts and intelligent people are convinced this thing understands you. Take Douglas Hofstadter, author of Godel, escher, bach. The guy is literally going through a crisis right now because that book completely missed the mark.
I find burning pages kinda therapeutic. Give it a try, write your least shareable thoughts and then watch them burn.
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What makes people think OpenAI would announce it if they have achieved an AI system which outperforms humans in coding tasks? That’s the definition of AGI for me, and I certainly wouldn’t announce it. Think about the leverage it can give me.
People complain about the charging port, but I complain about having to pay extra for a black Magic Mouse.
> Google has a history of "ask for forgiveness not permission" when it comes to data mining.

For very profitable things. This isn't very profitable, which is why I added that part to my comment. Google has a very good understanding what they get sued for and how much those lawsuits costs, if it is profitable anyway they go ahead.
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I posted this 85 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37261594

and got this great reply from CharlieDigital:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262584

I learned about JSON-LD, RDF-A, Microdata formats and a few other things I didn't know. I've implemented them at my client's site. But still the SEO gods don't like my stuff.

I want to hire someone that like used to work at google and knows all the tricks. But how can you find that diamond in the rough from all the other people in the pool of "seo experts"?
Wiki says Raptor development started in 2009-2012 with no predecessor, with first test firing in 2016.
I’ve seen “hostage exchanges” where two firms wave the noncompete (for people already on garden leave) so they can start right away. Seems to undermine the idea that sensitive IP is at risk.
That's right, what does OpenAI have now?

A comparatively massive user base, an app deployed onto many phones, accounts, the cutting edge AI models, the data, contracts for exclusive data access, compute contracts worth billions at a time when GPU compute is getting seriously scarce, corporate GTM partnerships from Bain to morgan stanley to Duolingo, a powerful brand (ChatGPT), tens of thousands of apps already built on their APIs, benefits from Government Lobbying

Ya, so really, what do they have, it sounds like they are basically dead.
Doesn't SpaceX receive plenty of money from the US?
Don’t underestimate the length of time and magnitude of investment from MSFT. They spent years solving the technical problems that arise when trying to train these models. They are currently the only corporation who knows how to host OpenAI-scale training. They are literally building data centers for OpenAI according to OpenAI’s whims. This is not an insurmountable lead but it could take years for others to catch up, or a dramatic change in GPU hardware/transformer architecture. They laid off 10s of thousands to “pay” for all of this (not in terms of dollars necessarily but in terms of messaging and public strategy).
I would be very surprised if Sam retired now. He is compulsively ambitious, for better or worse.
Right. They're going to get all the streetlights in an entire city to blink in unison. Sure they are.

Anyway, in most cases the LEDs don't run at 100%. In our area a, I happen to know that they are between 29% and 40%. That dimming is accomplished by blinking. Which would conflict with the idea of having them blink synchronously.

Much simpler solution: ensure the LEDs ghts are directed exclusively downward, and have only as much illumination as needed.

Even better: turn the darned things off when they are not needed - why illuminate empty streets?
Given how successful our Saturn package was, it seems curious to me that we wouldn’t just follow the ullage motor method.
Article has a lot of fluff and ads. Tldr; synchronize flipping the street light on and off, and opening and closing a shutter in the telescope.

So only works for astrophotography, will increase exposure times, not likely to catch on since it only works for astrophotography. Unless entire cities, including parking lots, adopt them, it will only help with direct stray light, which isn't that much help.
What's clear here is that users of OpenAI's products will end up in a worse place as a result of these developments. Ilya is on record as being against open sourced models with the view that they are too "powerful" to release. There are also accounts that Dev Day became a driving force for ousting Altman and stopping signups. Dev Day was about putting tools in the hands of users, so it's clear that his motivation is to restrict access to this technology. I don't want amateur philosophy from an LLM, I want greater capabilities and reduced costs. My hope is that this motivates user-focused competitors now that they have a sizeable window to catch up. So from my view Ilya will set back the field in the short term, but will spur competition in the long term.
I thought you were very clear. You clearly stated that it was an assumption, and why.

So many people overstate state their ideas, which is basically deceit. People who represent guesses as fact are either lying or have a special kind of arrogant ignorance.
The article doesn't say how much the Louvre paid for it. Did they really pay the €24.2 million auction price?

Edit: The official PR from Louvre has a bit more info: "For this exceptional purchase, the Louvre is using part of the revenue generated by the Louvre Abu Dhabi brand license - the Société des Amis du Louvre contributing the final million euros that made the acquisition possible."
In capitalist societies, homeless is a required thing. Even if it didn't exist, it would have to created.

What, what? Why?

Homelessness is the ultimate threat in capitalist societies. "If you are not independently wealthy, or make money for someone who is wealthy, this is your threat". That threat goes alongside destitution, hunger, low/no healthcare, and other threats. Even being is illegal.

Just yesterday, my SO forgot their wallet. They had $3 in their car. Went to a gas station, and the attendant said "The homeless shelter is that way. We dont want your kind here. LEAVE." This is also the societal part of the capitalist threat made good on by even members of society. Lest to say, they're a masters graduate of a highly prestigious university, and work a high paying job.

Homelessness is a government-created phenomenon. We could solve it, but we choose to use it as the ultimate threat if you do not behave and aren't wealthy. (The wealthy have their own legal system, and are roughly immune to most problems. But that's a different post.)

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When capitalists review socialism and communism, they talk of "how many millions of dead people they caused".

However when capitalists review their own policies leading to homelessness, destitution, starvation, etc; it's ALWAYS the individual's fault. And those millions affected/dead are just 'individual failures of bad choices from (insert vice of choice here)'.
Borkdude is a misnomer. He should really be called the Borkcollective.
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The turistic center has big pedonal areas.

However, the rest of the city is as full of cars as it may get.

I have to say, it mostly remains walkable. It just would be so much nicer with more efficient public transportation and less private cars.
Naysayers offer a problem for every solution, can't stand these types. This is an enormous achievement for SpaceX.
Maybe but we also don’t know what AGI requires.
As someone who has been doing both daily for a while, yes, they're different.

It's kind of like comparing speaking at a meeting or giving a speech, to talking to a long time friend over coffee, or talking to yourself in the mirror. In the abstract you could say the action is the same, speaking, but the experience as lived is very different.
Less gravity losses is another advantage, that's true.

I think it'd be interesting to see a breakdown of that 10% improvement number. Hot staging in and of itself resulting in a 10% additional payload capacity seems large enough that I feel it's rather odd that it isn't more commonly used. I'm curious how much of it is due to "direct" improvements from reduced gravity losses and how much is due to "indirect" improvements like (maybe?) not needing to save as much fuel for boostback.

A comparison against what a "Saturn-style" staging that uses ullage motors might achieve could make for a fun addition as well.
We are tiny though, mostly high density and had a great rail inhertence. Given where we could be, I think we are car obsessed.
Note also that car use and the right to use residential streets as commuter rat runs
is becoming bound up with stupid culture war politics.