skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting if it repeats. He may just be a guy that existed in one of the most privileged eras in human history for making money like that, like a colonist writing a book about how easy it is to get free land in America.

https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
I have a Link and one of their 360 cameras. I am impressed by birth the hardware and the software.
awesome to get a little bit of insight :) thank you!
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> the prescription is always to go back in time

I read it more as an indictment of layoffs being treated as business as usual. A company that grows a bit more modestly during boom times, fires fast continuously and maintains adequate buffers shouldn’t have to lay people off. Ever. The advantages of that haven’t been well explored. Ian makes a compelling argument that it should be.
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I'm not pretending anything like that. I assume good faith on the part of individuals (intentional word choice), because individuals are not systems or institutions and they really do tend to be decent and well-intentioned.
>We by-and-large ignore a lot hypothetical (and non-hypothetical) risks,

In regular software this is why all of your personal information is floating out there in some hackers cache. We see humans chaining 5+ exploits and config failures together leading to exploitation and penetration.

So, on your just flip the switch...

The amount of compute you have in your pocket used to take entire floors of buildings. So if we imagine that compute power at least keeps up somewhat close to this, and the algorithms used by AI become more power efficient I believe it would be within reason that in 20 years we could see laptop sized units with compute power larger than a humans capabilities. So, now I ask you, is it within your power to shut off all laptops on the planet?
I drive the cheapest possible car.

I'd seriously consider paying double that for one which was genuinely open-hardware.

I'd never consider Tesla since the way it works, you buy the physical hardware, but in practice, Tesla controls your car. It's not true ownership. This seems like a 180 degree turn. At least for me, it would seriously increase the odds of buying a car and the price I'd be willing to pay.

It'd be interesting to see a company pull this off with an in-production car. Knowing the crowd, ideal audience would either be a pickup truck or a basic sports car.
> A symptom of this is the spreading contingent of inept middle management. Take Jeanine Banks, for example

Wow. Shots fired.

More seriously, his description of this manager has been my typical experience of managers in large companies. Very sad to see what Google has become.
> Owning it isn't a crime.

Not sure if you meant "in general". Whatever the government decides is a crime, is a crime.

Slavery is banned. You can't own people. For some crimes countries like having extraterritorial jurisdiction, too. E.g. FGM "tourism" and child sexual exploitation. It's not just warcrimes that are extraterritorial.

I'm not equating these, certainly not morally. I'm saying that saying "outside the control of government" and "can't be banned" is either false, or applies to any other crime too.

And if it applies to all laws, then that's basically the sovereign citizen theory of laws; people getting the legal consequences for their actions all while saying "you can't do this", where "they" demonstrably can.
We could add support for Rust, and it would work the same as go, do a built step prior, and then cache the binary. If we have enough demand for it, we will add it (we are a small team and can only prioritize what's popular unfortunately).

On a personal note, I write a lot of rust (and love it) but using rust for writing non-backend type of stuff is not something I would do myself. I'm more of a believer of hybrid like polars that optimize the compute in Rust but provide a compatible sdk in python.
It's like if MS released the source of MS-DOS but the only files in the release were the graphic design files for the floppy disk box art.
> Other information such as the URL or Referer do not relate to an identified person.

This doesn't sound like it holds weight: Referer is a user-specified string, this could easily be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information

The URL of this comment is [0]. I clicked the link above, if Referer is being tracked, it's almost guaranteed that you've collected my PII

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38385378&goto=item%3Fi...
> We know that relying on reasonable interpretation is a bad practice that should be avoided as much as possible.

I have some bad news for you about the last couple hundred years or so of how the US legal system works, especially in but not exclusive to the aspects of case law and judicial review.

For future reference, the convenient shorthand for your position here is: "Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided."
What a tragic waste of fast typing speed. If only you were using Emacs, your typing speed would be multiplied by Emacs's superior capabilities, with multiple shell windows and keyboard macros and many other powerful packages thanks to its deep and flexible extensibility, and you would be so much more productive and powerful! Typing speed isn't everything. ;)

Disclaimer: My cat is named Emacs, so if you say anything bad about Emacs, I will take it personally, because he is such a fine cat, named after such a fine text editor.

PS: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el
> A genuine question: if one is a good, well intentioned human being, supposedly with principles, and ends up actively contributing to a dystopia or at least a much worse society, is that person excused because of "oh, the leadership fell off!" or "because I had good intentions"? At all? No, you'd be piled up with all the others that sold their morals and their society for money.

The challenge is that we are all simultaneously part of many groups whose behavior we don't always agree with.

Should you be piled up with all the others because you're a member of a species that is destroying the planet's natural resources? Should you be piled up with all the others because you pay taxes to a country that used that money to build weapons that killed innocents? Should you be piled up because you live in a city whose cops commit police brutality? Should you be piled up because you bought a product and gave money to a corporation that uses child labor?

Life is not so black and white. We have some responsibility for the behavior of the groups we are part of, but only fractional. We should exert our agency towards good when we can, but believing that we have all of the stains on our hands of every community or group we've ever touched or participated in is not a path to a better world, it's just a path to individual shame and misery.
The reality is we have to give Sam total credit for transparency. From the USNI and Air University articles mandevil and I cited he was completely open and honest about how he intended to run OpenAI (although he was still at YC then). Let's just hope his next role model isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftaly_Frenkel
Is this an alternative to privategpt or GPT4All?
I've dabbled in PICO-8! Great fun. A small claim to fame there—I was its first public user: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=6
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Calling her out by name felt a bit harsh within the context of the post. Sure, call out Sundar as he's a public figure, but this lady, never heard of her, never seen her.

He could have made the point by writing "I had this terrible boss who had no idea about anything and...", her name is irrelevant to demonstrate the issue of decline at Google.
As a hiring manager, I would appreciate if the candidate can let me know quickly if it is a show stopper for them. Quickest disqualification for both sides.
MRI? No radiation.
No, in this case it is docker. Last I remembered, docker on macs run in a VM
> PG removed Sam Altman silently without harming his future.

When police departments do that to overly aggressive cops, it’s generally considered a bad thing.
The industry has changed in a few important ways that I think make this kind of culture difficult to maintain.

First, in the boom prior to around 2015, most software problems were accessible to a smart generalist, but nowadays I don't think that's true. Teams are more specialized.

Second, the industry is a lot more regulated and risk-averse, and fewer people maintain the kind of wide-eyed optimism about tech that fed into the old Google. Things are more locked down and organizations less trusting.

Third, the reasons why people go into tech have changed. It's nowadays a "good job" and there are entire cottage industries dedicated to getting you a job at a tech company. The people making their start in the 90s generally went into computing because they loved it, not because it was a good job.

I've gone to one of the companies that people from Google have been going to, and I know people at some others. They're nice places to work, but the vibes are very different. And there are reasons to think that the current cycle (AI...) will favor the incumbents, not newcomers, being already extremely heavy on GPUs and regulation.

This is a long-winded way of saying I don't think it's possible in this industry at this moment.
Seems like more than a "nit" to point out that they didn't really release much beyond the service manuals.

Other than the 3 simple circuit boards, there's no CAD, no design files, no engineering, nothing.
And the fulcrum, as with Trump in 2016 and Johnson in 2019, was immigration. It's the biggest populist wedge on the planet.
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> Are there any enthusiasts here that use this much space for any reason, for what?

Right now my NAS is 2x12TB disks in RAID-1. It's full and I'm constantly under space pressure; primary usage is the on-site backups for 3 kid computers + 2 computers each for my wife and me.

I separately have about 5TB of virtual machines, plus a few other terabytes of miscellaneous data.

Consolidating most of this with enough headroom that I don't need to worry about storage too much is appealing. Currently thinking tiered storage, with 3x24TB drives in a RAID-10 for 36TB of capacity plus a mirror of 2x2TB SSD in front of it (so ~3% cached plus really good write performance) is appealing.
This is why, the WSJ says: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-s-path-ahea...

"One surprise signee was Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and one of the members of the four-person board that voted to oust Altman. On Monday morning, Sutskever said he deeply regretted his participation in the board’s action. “I will do everything I can to reunite the company,” he posted on X.

Sutskever flipped his position following intense deliberations with OpenAI employees as well as an emotionally charged conversation with Brockman’s wife, Anna Brockman, at the company’s offices, during which she cried and pleaded with him to change his mind, according to people familiar with the matter."
Would this mean that any data I happened to have in memory during the flow now permanently lives in callstacking's data stores? How does it handle all the data flowing through from a security perspective?
When you tried, we didn't have s3 integrations nor restartable flows. We will present all of this in day 5 of our launch week and it might be a good time to revisit.

I agree we were not a good fit prior. I think we would now compare favorably as we will offer excellent ergonomics for data processing, leveraging polars, duckdb, and other OLAP libraries to their full extent.
>You probably have items in your house made by people working for $100 a month - which is less than what slaves in mid 19th century's America earned. But this is not discrimination, this is different, right?

Not trying to straw-man you but it seems that your point is that because it is possible to skirt US anti-discrimination laws by importing from overseas, the US should have no anti-discrimination laws?

That is not a good point. Would you please clarify if there is something I missed?
At least they have alternate ways of selling ads, though. For example there has been a lot of talk about how their search business ads are threatened by LLMs that answer questions directly instead of giving search results that include paid placements, etc. But even if that happened, it likely wouldn’t affect YouTube ad revenues much.
Hacker News submissions automatically title case all-caps and sometimes all-lowercase in submissions by default, particularly if it's the first word in the title (e.g. when you submit a post about the graphics library ggplot2, HN corrects it to "Ggplot2" which is definitely wrong: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ggplot2)

A workaround is to edit the title after submitting it, which will not be automatically be corrected.
No one knows when to raise like Sam. Some may say that is his only skill. But, it is valuable skill to have when you are about to be the richest startup of this generation.

Same reason top football players contracted with Mino Raiola.

A scum bag (or tough/sleazy negotiator depending on how you see it) who can be a scum bag without everyone hating him is an exceedingly rare talent.

Sam seems to have it and is valued accordingly.
It’s Coase’s theory of the firm [1] in synecdoche. Silos escape the political transaction costs around them at the expense of access to external resources.

They can famously work, e.g. Skunkworks. But they also decay into fiefdoms.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
That could work too I guess.
IIRC they ship in batches, and the current batch are receiving their shipping notifications right now.
Love that guy.
The author worked under her at least during their time working on flutter; which was their most recent experience at google.
Indeed and it's always good practice to keep the key backed up somewhere safe. Often times you need to manually enter the bitlocker key after a hardware change. This is only slightly inconvenient and exactly what should happen.

Popular linux distros being behind Windows on this front is one of the key reasons I still daily Windows.
What's missing from https://parts.vw.com/ ? The Tesla UI is a little better, I guess. It's also not particularly difficult to find the VW parts catalog software, EKTA.

There's an industry-standard set of interchange formats for spare part number listings called PIES and ACES. Unfortunately no vendor I'm aware of openly shares the underlying PIES/ACES data.
How is Wine these days for such apps?

IIRC, there used to be a problem with .Net and/or Silverlight apps in Wine. But I could be 100% remembering wrong.

(I also have no idea if/how Wine supports apps that use ActiveDirectory.)
Generate SSH RSA keypairs, store public keys, and return an authorized_keys file
Sounds excellent.

I download whole channels and serve them on Plex. It requires a fair bit of management, and doesn't work when traveling, or if my desktop PC is VPN'd somewhere or off. This is all to prevent suggestions and random browsing. A much simpler solution is very welcome.
There isn't enough text in the Tolkein works to generate a functional LLM. You need to start with a base model that contains enough English (or language of your choice) to become functional.

Such a model (LLaMa is a good example) is not "ignorant," but rather a generalized model capable of a wide range of language tasks. This base model does not have specialized knowledge in any one area but has a broad understanding based on the diverse training data.

If you were to "feed" Tolkien's specific books into this general LLM, the model wouldn't become a Middle Earth savant. It would still provide responses based on its broad training. It might generate text that reflects the style or themes of Tolkien's work if it has learned this from the broader training data, but its responses would be based on patterns learned from the entire dataset, not just those books.
And to go along with it for Part 25, you're pretty much guaranteed to be doing something "thinking outside the box" if you're doing a clean-sheet design, because the current models (737 Max8, A320, etc) are all pretty darned close to their local optima. No one's going to do a clean-sheet design for 5% more pax and 5% less fuel burn, they're just going to riff on something that already has type approval so that a good chunk of the regulatory burden is already mostly taken care of.
3-4 days.
If you are willing to leave a paycheck because of someone else getting slighted, to me, that is acting against your own self-interest. Assuming of course you are willing to actually leave. If it was a bluff, that still works against your self-interest by factioning against the new leadership and inviting retaliation for your bluff.
It's seconds. You can find all the detailed numbers there: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/misc/benchmarks/competitors
Reminds me of the time I coded up an FFT from scratch in BASIC on my Model 100 riding in a Greyhound across Vermont.
In my circles, every single woman, including my wife, did not want more than 2, and that was mostly so the kids have a sibling and so we can experience parenting a boy and a girl. This extends to my parents’ generation too. It is almost bizarre to meet someone with more than 1 sibling who is not 60+ years old.

Out of 20+ couples off the top of my head, I only know of two couples that had 3 kids, and that was because the first two were the same gender, and they wanted both genders.
We aren’t talking about your bookings. You can’t add value when none of the tricks are secret anymore.
Oh gosh, thank goodness. Firing up Firefox with a question burning in my brain to be answered only to be delayed by a browser update was the most annoying thing to me. I'll give them another shot.
I am using Rundeck now to schedule project jobs, get notified on errors, provide UI for PowerShells/bash scripts, and have decent project and user management. It uses Quartz and can handle hundreds of jobs per minute without a problem. It can connect to git repository to keep job definitions there. I also use local file system a lot (on Windows or Linux) as I don't like to edit my scripts in browser, given that they are mini programs with lots of separate includes.

I would like to try windmill instead. Can it cover all those cases, particularly the part where scripts are on the file system? Can I use automatic GUI creation for PowerShell scripts of windmill in such case? Rundeck transmits environment variables with GUI values when starting script.
oobabooga is the king.

As far as I know, ollama doesn’t support exllama, qlora fine tuning, multi-GPU, etc. Text-generation-webui might seem like a science project, but it’s leagues ahead (Like 2-4x faster inference with the right plugins) of everything else. Also has a nice openai mock API that works great.
Thanks for the tip! Already an Affinity user, but had missed the whole version 2.
Agreed, it's maybe-maybe not. This is like playing what-if. There's no A/B testing with history.

What is not the case is that it would have clearly gone one way or the other.
I know a couple folks, including family, who have spent tons of money modifying their vehicles for off-roading. Lifted, added light bars, full size spare taking up the whole bed, the works.

I'm sure someone somewhere actually uses it, but they don't.
Hating your job is a matter of the real, material conditions * your own perspective, optimism, ability to make lemonade out of lemons, and pain tolerance.

Unfortunately it's often seen as easier to change the former than the latter (which seems to perhaps be developed throughout childhood and one's upbringing and former experiences), but I would perhaps try to brainstorm if you can ways to improve your own subjective perspective/lens itself. If you quit your prior job, and with your new one hate and want to quit it/think your discomfort for it'll get you fired, maybe you could try to reach out to those around you in your peer network (maybe a former dev coworker or boss or a current coworker and try to get their perspective on things). Maybe there's something with your own ability to tolerate discomfort or find solace in good aspects of your jobs that you could find.
It seems she, being his direct manager, was a large part of the reason he decided to leave after 18 years. There is probably a lot of anger and frustration. I do agree this part of the post could have been phrased better.
Interesting, because it was OK (as I typed it for submission) for a while and then ...changed... not just the capitalisation but also removing words and changing the units from 39KB to 39k. The original correct title is preserved in automated posts on social media at the moment it hit the top. Anyway, I think it's far too late for me to edit it now. :)
8-9% is actually a pretty impressive conversion rate considering close to 100% of people use YouTube. They have like 97.6% market share.
It became one a few jobs ago. Company kept saying they were working on being able to support Macs. Regime change and I straight up asked the new CTO about getting a MacBook on my desk. He blabbed something about needing to make a business case. Filling out my exit interview paperwork, I asked the CTO about the business case for losing a top developer because he wanted to be cheap about laptops (to be fair, there were also other reasons I left). About a week into the new job and my old team told me they were getting MacBooks if they wanted them. They thanked me for taking one for the team.

Be the change you want to see in the world, and all that.
It's interesting because you can't argue with the success he achieved, and given how high the stakes were, you can sort of understand the temptation to micromanage. But (having read the essay now) you also can't learn much from Rickover's methodology, or apply it anywhere else. If for no other reason than the fact that few/no similar problems exist anywhere else.

We also can't run the experiment multiple times to determine if he was really relying on luck all along. The Navy's luck ran pretty low at a couple of points (Thresher and Scorpion come to mind).
The calculator at the bottom of the page is doing some weird calculations. If you have no incidents a year, it still costs you money. So do incidents that take zero minutes to resolve. I took apart the code, and this seems to be the equation in use:

(revenueTarget / 8760) * resolutionTimeTarget * numIncidentsTarget * resolutionTimeTarget + numEmployeesTarget * avgEmployeeTargeRate

This means revenue lost is correlated to the square of the lost time and the cost from employees is a static yearly cost.

There are a couple things wrong with it. The third * should be switched with a + and the last term need to be multiplied by the number of incidents.

(revenueTarget / 8760) * resolutionTimeTarget * numIncidentsTarget + resolutionTimeTarget * numEmployeesTarget * avgEmployeeTargeRate * numIncidentsTarget

Which if anyone at Call Stacking is here, just means changing

o = (n / 8760) * e * t * e + i * r;

to

o = (n / 8760) * e * t + e * i * r * t;

or more succinctly

o = t * e * (n / 8760 + i * r)

I'm assuming that's minified, so

numIncidentsTarget * resolutionTimeTarget * (revenueTarget / 8760 + numEmployeesTarget * avgEmployeeRateTarget)

Edit: With the correct math, the example is wildly different. It should be $37,277.81, not $87,991.23.
Correction, it was Larry Page (close enough), Elon and Ilya.

Source - https://youtu.be/7nORLckDnmg?si=1T5qyYAdPrMwsEGG&t=73
Sorry, my bad, I have not followed his tweets recently.
(un?)fortunately I haven't had access to Memegen since 2020.
And thats exactly why we buy cameras to do actual photos, not some random computational imagery.