skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tip for presentations: in presentation mode in both Powerpoint and Slides, if you type the slide number and press enter, the presentation will jump to that slide.

If you have notes about which auxiliary slide is relevant to which persnickety comment/topic, you can seamlessly warp to it and it hits harder/makes you look more prepared/polished than a bunch of page up/down and "I know it's here somewhere" filler speech.
I have not. Any good links?
> The future should only be filled with very bland and non-offensive characters in fiction.

Did someone took the pen from the writers? Go ahead and write whatever you want.

It was an example of a constraint a company might want to enforce in their AI.
> Load your current Mac up with the apps you normally use together when working, and watch their use in Activity Monitor’s CPU History window. If its P cores are fully occupied much of the time, and that workload often spills over to the E cores, then you should aim for an M3 with more P cores

Author mentions we can use Activity monitor to see where are apps running, in P or E cores, but I am unable to see this. Can anyone share how to check this? Running the latest Sonoma update
The problem is moreso trying to maximize profit after claiming to be a nonprofit. Profit can be a good driving force but it is not perfect. We have nonprofits for a reason, and it is shameful to take advantage of this if you are not functionally a nonprofit. There would be nothing wrong with OpenAI trying to maximize profits if they were a typical company.
Show HN: Convert NextJS APIs to AWS Lambdas
Polygon has always been pretty awful.
> How is a machine supposed to make itself smarter when it can't predict that it won't just crash after a code modification?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine#cite_note-G...

> The papers I've seen on the latter problem (years ago) start by assuming that the halting problem has been solved, essentially, by giving the agent non-deterministic computational powers.

Of course this is not required. An AI system can simply not implement optimizations that it can't prove are correct, per the above link. Alternately, if simply "crashing" is the issue then it could simply register a fault handler that reverts to its previous code.

The notion that these would be any kind of impediment is completely bizarre to me. As a lowly human I already know how to handle these problems, and we're talking here about a superintelligence more capable than either of us.

Some FOOM scenarios are clearly unphysical, but the idea of recursive self-improvement being impossible or infeasible is not one of those reasons.
Epic is no better than Google in many regards.
At face value, it doesn’t seem like encouraging more off-roading is a positive for the environment. I’ve been involved in some very light off roading, but nothing like what comes to mind for most people.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_rp_t32...

> While I concede that there should be questions about the environmental impact of all of it, I overall think it's a net positive to get people outdoors, and offroading is another avenue that people can use.

I fully encourage getting people outdoors more, but surely we must balance the relative impacts. And to be clear, I don’t have enough information on which way to land on this particular question.
Satya invested 10b into a company with terrible, incompetent governance and not getting his company any seat of influence on the board. That doesn't seem great.
Yeah, most M-series are plenty fast I think. Just upgraded from a 2018 Intel Macbook to the M3 Max and the change is very noticeable. Hope and plan to keep using this machine again for 5+ years or so.
Ah, I suppose that would make sense.

On the other hand, for people who can't afford a ton of games but want to play a ton of games, Xbox Game Pass has been huge.

I actually wonder if Game Pass has had any effect in reducing piracy the way Spotify had a gigantic effect on music piracy. Or if Game Pass and pirates are distinct groups without much overlap.
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps
Latency of text entry, as one example.

In an application like Teams, the delay between striking a key on the keyboard and the corresponding glyph appearing on screen is comically bad - two orders of magnitude higher than performing the equivalent action on a computer from the early 1980s.
> On a test with a Linksys NSLU2 (ARMv5TE processor) the speedup was a factor 5 (big endian mode, gcc 4.1.2, -O3)

Now that's a name I hadn't heard in a long long time.

The post is from 2008 anyway, I wonder what would happen if one were to put this code (or the earlier, non-unrolled-loop versions) to the test with modern compilers that can do all sorts of black magic for performance, or if it could be extended to take advantage of modern CPU features.
>Flops really are quite cheap by now, e.g. vision inference chip ~$2/teraflop/s !!

I'm really interested, can you share where you got these numbers?
> How are so many publications willing to provide a pseudo-authorative platform for the worst people on the planet in their op eds?

That's because newspapers should be platforms of free speech. If an editor refuses to take in an op-ed from important people, no mater how horrible, hen he is no fi for he job. If newspaper readers don't want to read the opinion of their enemies, they're just dumb.
Deep-sea mining threatens jellyfish
Irb is a "default gem" - if your Ruby install doesn't have Irb, it is broken.

As such, unlike pry or debug you can always assume it's available.
Windows NT 3.1 (the first released version) had Unicode, but it was before Unicode 2.0.
I ran an experiment a while ago. My windows work machine takes a good 3 minutes to compile one of my C++ projects, but a Linux VM on that same machine builds the same project in 45 seconds.

That's really all I need to know about Windows
As someone who has been using Linux exclusively for my personal machines since 2007, here's the chicken-and-egg problem that the Linux world is constantly battling: new technology is always being released and pushed out before it actually works.

It's happened constantly since I started using Linux: KDE 4.0, PulseAudio, btrfs (to be fair, most distros didn't really push btrfs as a default), Wayland, etc, and now Flatpak and Snap.

And it's not to say that I don't understand the dilemma: you need to get user feedback to improve the tech, and the pool of Linux users is very small (for desktop stuff). But what that means is that desktop Linux is almost always in a state of partial brokenness. (And please also note that I'm giving a 100% pass on driver issues--that's a given when hardware manufacturers simply only care about working with Windows.)

Honestly, when it comes to "just working," desktop Linux is worse today than it was when I first installed it on my budget laptop in 2007. Wayland is mostly fine for my uses, but others still struggle with its missing features; snaps/flatpaks are slow, bloated, and have strange behaviors because of the permissions models that are NEVER going to be obvious to a casual computer user; and managing an Ubuntu install is still really bad UX.

As an example of the latter, I usually run an "expert" distro on my personal machines, but I decided to slap Ubuntu on a PC that I hooked up to my TV, and after a year or so of just chugging along and running updates whenever prompted, it started displaying errors that my boot partition was full. You've gotta be kidding me... THIS is supposed to be the "easy" distro for normal humans? How the hell do you expect non-tech people to micromanage the /boot partition and delete old kernels and shit?

So, while I agree with all of the technical issues and complaints about things like permissions, security, etc, that advocate for Wayland and Flatpaks/Snaps and whatever, you can't pretend to care about adoption while also pushing out half-baked technology to "stable" versions as though everyone will be happy with beta-at-best functionality.
40k people a year in the US die in auto accidents already, and we collectively pay for that. Now Tesla pays for it when humans make poor risk choices.

If you're watching a movie on Autopilot and end up dead, how is that Tesla's fault? Yes, Tesla should not be able to lie about driver assist capabilities ("full self driving"), but there is no perfect safeguard against humans abusing assist systems (Tesla puts interior cameras in the cabin now to detect attentiveness and alertness, and people complain about that). Will we simply pay out to next of kin of those who abuse safety systems and end up dead? If so, I guess that is the cost of progress in a system with human participation. If you exceed the capabilities of systems where life safety is involved, you'll die, and we'll all move on.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...

https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/52/

> A Tesla Model S on autopilot crashed into an articulated tractor-trailer on Highway US 27A in Williston, Florida killing the driver, Joshua Brown. The trailer was turning left in front of the incoming Tesla, and the Tesla autopilot system was unable to detect the white trailer against the bright sky. Cruise control was set at 74mph and did not slow before collision. The driver had his hands on the wheel for 25 seconds of the 37 minute trip and was watching a Harry Potter movie when the collision occurred. Before the collision, the driver received 6 audible warnings that his hands had been off the wheel for too long.
Sibling response posited a rather compelling reason to specify the group otherwise. It’s by far the most obvious explanation that comes to my mind as well.
Window -> CPU History ⌘3
Have you or anyone close to you ever had to take multiple years of leave from work from a car accident or health condition?
x86 Emulation on Arm CPUs – Better on Windows or macOS? [video]
If you're having to use the terminal for anything other than your own work (actually even then it should be optional, but I find it easier to run make/gcc/etc. directly vs using an IDE) everyday something has also gone wrong, so I think it's a fair comparison.
Because non-profit?

There's nothing wrong with running a perfectly good car wash, but you shouldn't be shocked if people are mad when you advertise it as an all you can eat buffet and they come out soaked and hungry.
There’s no indication a Microsoft appointed board member would be a Microsoft employee (though the they could be of course), and large nonprofits often have board members that come from for-profit companies.

I don’t think the IRS cares much about this kind of thing. What would be the claim? They OpenAI is pushing benefits to Microsoft, a for-profit entity that pays taxes? Even if you assume the absolute worst, most nefarious meddling, it seems like an issue for SEC more than IRS.
The opposite of the "design by committee" method that resulted in the F-35 disaster. A plane so bad in every imaginable way it was put (and kept) in production purely and reluctantly as a jobs program.
The article is a joke, and so is the author. Everyone says we should listen to the youth because they are young. Meanwhile, the young are inexperienced, irrational, and mercurial with a very limited perspective helmed by an under-developed brain and an even less developed sense of self and purpose. Teenagers eat tide pods and routinely kill themselves or their friends (or others) driving drunk. The question is, why do we need advice from high school students? Easy. We don't.
I've long had this crackpot theory that mycorrhizal networks are to plants what skin and digestive microbiome are to humans
Larry Summers is in place to effectively give the govt seal of approval on the new board, for better and worse.
You really are the "quintessential affable sales person." With the way you twist narratives, I suspect you sell a lot of networking equipment.
They don't tell you because they don't feel the need to justify it to you. They do tell some of it individuals with the proper clearances who hold some level of power over them (comittees etc).

Here is a small list of the ones that were publicized.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrori...
But he's acting as a board member firing the CEO because he arguably believes it's the right thing to do for the company. If he then changes his mind because the fired CEO continued a successful career then I'd say that decision was more on a personal level than for the wellbeing of the company.
> If AGI was to arrive it would potentially remove those frustrations, right.

We don’t really know what happens next. There are optimistic outcomes that AGI could enable, but this tech is ultimately being built and distributed by humans currently deeply beholden to the system that everyone seems dissatisfied with.

AGI is not some savior that bursts onto the scene and magically fixes problems. There’s a lot of very messy human work ahead of us if we ever hope to integrate it with society in a way that actually removes those frustrations. And this is not a guaranteed outcome.
Isn't this what source maps are for anyway?

Low footprint by default, anyone who wants to inspect then downloads the extra, and for bonus points can even see the original typescripted version instead of the js.
Reading the responses to this comment are interesting; wildly different experiences with Windows and Linux. Likely due to the different use cases involved, hardware the OS is running on, and software/drivers installed.

My 2c: If you use common PC hardware with standard peripherals, and stick to software in your distro's package manager, you're fine. Ubuntu and Mint are popular and easy-to-use choices. Most people have an easier time than I do, but it feels irresponsible not to post this; I've been trying Linux every few years for the past 20. My experience hasn't deviated much from this:

I've found that once you start installing drivers for non-standard hardware, or installing software not in your package manager, there's a pattern of

- C+P text into CLI
- Errors
- Sudo edit system config files
- Browse internet forums, Stack Overflow, and generally channel XKCD: 979. Tens of browser tabs open; hopefully one has the answer.
- End up kicked out of the GUI after a reboot
- The system is totalled, in that it's easier to do a clean install than fix it.

It feels like there's a tension between you're not supposed to use sudo except in special cases and you have to use sudo to do anything.
What's even the lesson learnt here?

1. Keep doing your work, and focus on building your product.
2. Ignore the noise, go back to 1.
I'm curious as to why BCH is not a ponzi vs BTC given the former is a fork of the latter - so they pretty much work the same way apart from a larger block size.
You don't burn your methods and systems for some political points.
> I still have not seen anyone adequately explain what "intelligence" actually is.

A formal definition would be useful, but not strictly necessary. "More capable at task X", where X can range over all non-physical/information processing tasks is sufficient.
Hey... good to see this. I was never convinced about this for small to medium JS code base while serving through mod_deflate or similar.
The description links to the tech article.

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/07/developer-tools/fixit-...
Hard to say without seeing how the two new board members lean.
VMware is now part of Broadcom
> Peer pressure and groupthink likely also swayed employees more than principles

What makes this "likely"?

Or is this just pure conjecture?
> There's also a strange satisfaction when skipping one or two meals.

Is this a fact or your personal experience?
IMO and experience a good product manager is far more important than a good engineer or good scientist

Elon Musk’s neuralink is a good example - the work they’re doing there was attacked by academics saying they’d done this years ago and it’s not novel, yet none of them will be the ones who ultimately bring it to market.
Thanks, I was looking at the CPU tab and thought something changed in the CPU Load in the bottom.
Snap can't even fix basic things. Like running stuff over X11, or having your homedir on a different harddrive than /.
I’m not assuming ill-intent, I’m talking about the idea. Stating something is wrong or illegal seems essential to the discussion. It’s like if someone said “I should rob a bank”, I sure hope saying it’s illegal will be taken into account in their curiosity.
Many labs doing foundational work like this and making progress don’t have the anything near the budget or compute to implement at scale. In other words they don’t have a Sam and his backers or a Zuck and his budget.
> Furthermore, the overwhelming groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either.

"Because someone acts differently than I expected, they must lacks of critical thinking."

Are you an insider? If not, have you considered that perhaps OpenAI employees are more informed about the situation than you?
It’s just another hot take instant reaction of a new headline. Social media threads on controversial topics are always a whiplash, people love the swings in narratives, the opportunity to be contrarian or superior to the other people commenting on the topic, because they knew better.

A new headline by a journo seeking their own clickbait angle comes out and the flood of “See it was really just [black/white] position and you were all wrong” is the most classic stereotypical social media take to a now past it’s prime story, when IRL it’s as nuanced and shades of grey as ever.
LLMs are able to do complex logic within the world of words. It is a a smaller matrix than our world but fueled by the same chaotic symmetries of our universe. I would not underestimate logic, even when not given adequate data.
It looks like it's made of plastic. Some of their other outrageously priced products are made of aluminium. Maybe that accounts for a chunk of the difference.
Feel free to change them! Or I can include the default Steam descriptions
Of course, the profit incentive also applies to all the employees (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, its good to align the company's goals with those of the employees). But when the executives likely have 10s of millions of dollars on the line, and many of the IC's will likely have single digit millions on the line as well, it doesn't seem exactly straightforward to view this as the employees are unbiased adjudicators of what's in the interest of the non-profit entity, which is supposed to be what's in charge.

It is sort of strange that our communal reaction is to say "well this board didn't act anything like a normal corporate board": of course it didn't, that was indeed the whole point of not having a normal corporate board in charge.

Whatever you think of Sam, Adam, Ilya etc, the one conclusion that seems safe to reach is that in the end, the profit/financial incentives ended up being far more important than the NGOs mission, no matter what legal structure was in place.
CEO is a ruler, scientist is a worker. The modern culture treats workers as a replaceable matter, which is redundant after the work is done. They are just tools. Rulers, on the other hand, take the all praise and honors. It's "them" who did the work. Musk is an extreme example of this.
Microsoft has more leverage now because they can sue OpenAI for intentionally sabotaging Microsoft's investment.
The three hard problems: naming things and off-by-one errors
I understand and have read the guidelines before submitting.
If you think the title isn't enough to spark curiosity, you should write a sentence or two about "where do ideas come from?"
Why censor penis when it's not a dirty word, is a perfectly acceptable word, and mentioned multiple times in the article?
> - Mission-driven employees may still leave for opportunities at places like Anthropic

Which might have an oversight from AMZN instead of MSFT ?
> Since 8GB unified memory is "equivalent to a 16GB non Mac"

Yeah, right.
'Poison Ivy'Zelman:'depressed levels' of existing home sales for years
Very few websites have optimised their assets and number of connections enough that the size of the code is the bottleneck. Moreover, code tends to be highly compressible. I doubt it really saves much bandwidth. All javascript build systems out there already does it, though. Not doing it would require people to go out of their way. I think that's ultimately the main reason people do it.
I think that's a really great way to put it, but also not something the majority of leaders (or people in general) are capable of. Nothing is ever perfect, everyone has a different opinion/view, at some point you need to wrap up a work product and move on.

I found with a former manager the creation of project plans was absolutely hell because of this. Arguably project plans are not something directly deliverable to a stakeholder or with a firm deadline. Sort of like politics in academia, the lower the stakes the worst the battles.

So he would spin through 20 iterations of expressing his discontents with the current plan.

Typical feedback was what he didn't like / was wrong, rather than what he actually desired to see. Sort of like a very hands off editor who doesn't want to write the book for the author.

Often times midway through he would be Don Quixote'ing items in the plan that were added because of his earlier feedback.
The “HP Tuned“ version of Windows may be the issue. Would expect that to have a ton of bloatware.
If that's what is meant by 'an input/output mechanism' then it seems like a pointless observation. It's just saying "you can do things to it, and you can observe things about it", which is true of pretty much anything.
adhd sucks - i bought one of these pedal boxes so I could exercise while watching tv (i know, better than nothing though) and it was great until I moved it out of the way, now I can't see it I don't do it, and I remember when I'm not in front of it, think "oh i'll put it back" and then instantly forget.
That, and Windows being the only OS with good fractional scaling. My main problem with Linux is that, in order to have tolerable fractional scaling, you have to use tons of hacks to make sure everything is running on Wayland. And even then some basic stuff is just broken, like JetBrains IDEs just not supporting scaling (except on KDE but then other stuff like icons are broken), drag and drop being broken in VS Code, cursors sometimes going absolutely massive, etc. macOS straight up doesn't support fractional scaling, which is even worse (good luck using a 1440p 24" display with it).
I tend to ask this type of question as well. Not only does it show you the level of detail they know, but it also show you how well they filter that knowledge to the situation and audience. I'd expect someone being hired for a networking role to talk more about the networking and DNS, while someone begin hired for a front-end role would talk more about the content that is sent and returned to the browser, and a back-end or full-stack dev to talk about how the destination server handles the request and builds a response. Even better if they ask a clarifying question to confirm which pieces I really want to hear about.
The mirror: when iPhone AI creates a photo that never was and never could be
It was a fun prank to replace someones desktop to an active desktop.
> paid bullshit

Why do you want to read bullshit?
Conditioned on the outcome of the internal investigation, which seems up for grabs.
Ahh cool, makes sense then.

Haven't heard of that one before, I'll have to check it out.
Snap can die in a fire.

Flatpak... I'll warily try it for "user facing" apps.

But after a clusterfuck of trying to get a flatpak Jellyfin to work (HW accel fell over, and it wanted me to dumpster dive into flatseal to unsandbox it so that media OUTSIDE OF HOME could be accessed... never got around to looking at getting it to even boot at startup) I'll shy the hell away from it for daemons.
If you are never having to faff about with registry, then you are either lucky or using a different OS.

I include installing a fresh copy of Windows to resolve the inevitable corrosion that Windows has over time.