skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from being used to apple laptops, I was shocked at how bad even microsoft-branded surface devices were at sw/hw integration and useful quality of components in general.
I have a mix of systems, have had for several decades, Linux works on all of them, old and new, no issues, seems odd what you're saying, almost like it was entirely made up.
The relationship with Pakistan is mostly historical as it provided access to Afghanistan and acted to counter Soviet/Russian influence in the region. India, although officially neutral, was in practice a semi-ally of the USSR and then Russia for a mix of ideological and economic reasons. But those relationships are likely to reverse over the next few years for the reasons you suggest. Pakistan no longer has anything of value to offer to the USA; their only card to play is threatening to form an alliance with China.
RPI has crap, buy Dell, HP or Lenovo.
ESP32-S3 Which Pins Should I Use?
My current jobsite still uses vista era laptops with 4GB of memory, a battery that dies within minutes if not plugged in, and a painfully slow spindle drive. A 3 year old computer would be a luxury here.
“That engine” was a turbo diesel never sold in North America, not the 22re
A cursory search for Shireen Abu Akleh says she was killed by an Israeli soldisr in the west bank. American citizens dying in a foreign country is not a sovereignty threat
A large contingent of people here (and anywhere) are prone to hero worship, especially if it tends towards trendy topics like generative AI. The natural reaction to criticism of an idol is to shut it down so you can maintain a singular narrative lest you have to deal with cognitive dissonance.

Which I find ironic, because I’ll see the same people looking down on non technical people idolizing celebrities, but not recognize that it’s the same thing in a different field. The height of Elon worship was identical to Swifties imho.
> In the sense that matters most for effective altruism, climate change refers to large-scale shifts in weather patterns that result from emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane largely from fossil fuel consumption. Climate change has the potential to result in—and to some extent is already resulting in—increased natural disasters, increased water and food insecurity, and widespread species extinction and habitat loss.

> 80,000 Hours rates reducing extreme risks from climate change a "second-highest priority area": an unusually pressing global problem ranked slightly below their four highest priority areas.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/climate-change

You should point your climate denier accusations at someone, so readers can at least check that person's statements.
> on the edge of buying a MicroFreak

Just do it, it's a lot of fun! You only live once, and if you save the box + bags and regret the purchase, you can sell it for minimal loss :)
You're just begging for the remark: then output an empty file. Super speedy.
That's good to know! Is there any formal proof of said theory? Like what is this analytics layer called, and is the tunneling something that devs are aware of? Just interested in putting some names to this theory so I don't sound like a loon when I try and describe it.
In the C#/.NET world this is the standard and it works very well. It definitely increases productivity to not have to double check each and every instance of violating a lint error, as you can just have the fix applied to an entire project without having to worry to much.
I agree, but at least they are fighting the monopoly.
Thanks for the pointers everybody. They make sense. The frustration of seeing a 299 price tag and then being hit with a 349 price after one click on the store link is bad.. Didn't stop me from buying though :D
You absolutely can get Rust codegen down to as small as you’d ever need: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032824
I don't think this is a problem with you, rather with the content. I'm more likely to not do anything else when I rewatch a movie I like then when I watch a new tv show that's average.

Some shows are just super slow or full of unnecessary stuff and they try to sell those portions as "art"
Developer MSG Abandons London Version of Las Vegas Sphere
Technology transfer and verbal support is nothing like coming to a country’s rescue during a war. An official treaty was only signed during the events of 1971 war. US-Pakistan mutual defense treaty dates back to 1954.
Now do one for voting blocs. And don’t use one color for lines that intersect. It’s poor communication practice.
Yes, it's a somewhat different diplomacy issue. Surely, though, a citizen of your country being killed by an allied country's military, that you give billions of dollars to every year, is...an issue of some magnitude?
Now go back in time and cut them before their companies took off.
The existence of interpreter opcodes implies you have already compiled the code for the interpreter, but with this heuristic you can send this function straight to JIT.
I think your wife is right lol
> This is such a partisan take: It's okay to not like the Trudeau government, but to distort your worldview based upon it is not productive.

Thank you for saying this. It's nice to know there are still reasonable people here.
This is a forum post from a student with 18 total karma
You think they licensed it, rather than just copying it from google image search? (Speaking as someone whose spouse licenses images and sees people doing that ALL THE TIME.)
India follows a policy of neutrality and the us wants a country in the region who will allow it to have a military presence.

Pakistan is okay with giving up sovereignty of American military bases. India is not. Thus the US nominally allies with Pakistan and India steers clear because of that.

Although as others have said, India clearly favors the US these days
A charity is a type of not-for-profit organisation however the main difference between a nonprofit and a charity is that a nonprofit doesn't need to reach a 'charitable status' whereas a charity, to qualify as a charity, needs to meet very specific or strict guidelines
The surprising part isn't that near-30-year-old software runs faster now than it did then.

The surprising part is that in the intervening near-30-years of development, we have made software slower instead of faster.
I'm using Rocket for a small production application for my PhD project. One supervisor recently took over the project and asked me where he could connect a log stream to detect crashes. I said: "I don't know. I never have crashes". At the same time, maximum memory consumption is about 15 MB (3% of 512 MB) and CPU load 0.1% on a Starter instance on Render.

So credits to the Rocket maintainers for making Rocket such a reliable piece of software!
I already have too many hobbies.

My job doesn't really involve those annoyances. Obviously I have some meetings and things that aren't really super engaging. But I enjoy what I do, I like everyone I work with, and I have a good work-life balance.
Come check it out!
What am I missing? The worst sin is trying to look bigger than they are?

You should listen to How I Built This. Tricks like this when starting out are pretty common, be it unicorn startups or personal businesses. So common that founders are openly willing to admit to it on public radio. In almost all cases, both parties came out better. It's not as if the client is at all upset at this "fraudulent" behavior.
you're username suggests so :)
From the Verge article[0] on this device, it was designed from the ground up to a) only need parts that they could actually get during the pandemic, and b) sell for less than $300.

I think this looks really cool and I want my in-laws to gift it to me for the holidays.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23965528/teenage-enginee...
I've used nvidia for close to 2 decades on various PC hardware machines, desktops to laptops, Dell, HP, Lenovo and nvidia (binary drivers in the Ubuntu/Kubuntu distribution) work 100%. Zero issues. Old and new machines. Very odd eh?
"You are a dim-witted kobold who prefers to hack-n-slash-slash-slash-n-burn over any sort of proper diplomatic negotiations or even strategic thinking; we would like you to consider next year's capital expenditures; what are your top three suggestions for improvements that could be made to the employee breakroom(s)?"
Usually I dont care, but this long weekend is pure joy and I learn a lot in these hard to grasp realms of how things/people work.
People want to game, and a lot of gamers want Nvidia. The driver may or may not work, but if it has a reputation for maybe not working, people will decide against it.

It also possible that people who find out the Nvidia cards are unreliable on Linux are making decisions over other systems where this shouldn't be such a big deal.
The operating key word here being "agreement", which, as far as I'm concerned, is the absolute antithesis of what EA is all about.
i'm curious to hear an argument about how trade is always positive sum like you claimed with this comment:

> Even if you consider all externalities, trade is positive-sum.

even if the business pollutes the environment or contributes to climate change in an outlier way?
Ridley elevated Alien to ridiculous heights but then got absolutely everything wrong in Prometheus. Which bothers me to no end.

The only conclusion I can come to is that he's an expert visual storyteller (none better) with amazing craft, but can't recognize the difference between a great story and a mediocre one.

Maybe he doesn't care, he's just happy to put the next film in the can?

But it seems to me that he doesn't entirely care about telling a great story, just about telling a story extremely well.
This got some discussion a few days ago before the decision had been made. The Mayor has now made the final decision (that could be appealed) to block the construction, and Madison Square Garden have abandoned the plans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38346943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28040911
A FreeBSD developer wrote this code.
It really shows how it is a massive waste to colonize Mars compared to stuff like preserving Earth and maybe researching ways of shielding from all sorts of radiation (that would also make interplanetary space travel possible without dying quickly after arrival, by the way, and living on planets without magnetosphere).
Another: Used the same email for ~2 decades, never hidden it, giving it out freely and available on lots of public websites including my own. Get around ~30 spam emails per day, all automatically marked as spam. Around 2-3 gets through my filter each month.
> New World Order is a paradigm where US runs the show for everyone else

Have you watched our politics? We don’t want to run shit. Running shit is expensive.

Also, America did run the show. Twice. After WWII, when it held a global nuclear hegemony. And after the fall of the Soviet Union, when it was the sole superpower. Both times we basically did everything we could to slough off the responsibility.
https://github.com/enricoros/big-agi seems better and is open source
It’s amazing how rumors can distort the true story. I thank you for the authoritative link!
I used the (legitimate) profits of cryptocurrency trading to fund part of a house. But you wouldn’t see that in research such as this.
> AI includes, but is not limited to, machine-based systems that can, for a set of defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments

by this definition my toaster is an AI
There was a great HN post a few years back about "chum", the taboola-style garbage ads and a breakdown on each one's tactic. For instance, one was talking about why they show close-ups that you can't quite tell what they are, or show a picture of swiss cheese so that the holes trigger our instinct of Trycolophobia (I think thats what it was called). It's not honest communication when they resort to those scummy tactics to steal our attention.
Is there an NVMe manufacturer that sells their product as just naked flash? The first rule of hardware is that hardware providers don't know how to write software. It would be nice if we could get rid of the proprietary and buggy embedded operating systems running our storage as an opaque abstraction layer. Things like lying about flush that was recently on HN would stop being a problem.
That's actually hilarious, I thought "it can't be that bad" but its really just a couple video embeds and it took ages to load.
Everything I have ever learned about EA and it's followers has led me to conclude it is perhaps the largest and most complex internal belief system to justify stressful amounts of motivated reasoning, so people who have amassed unconscionable wealth can use that wealth to do basically whatever it is that they wanted to do anyway, but with an ideological overhead to shield them from inevitable criticism. It's the peak of this "good billionaire" nonsense where people can aspire to a level of wealth that is, to be clear, unable to be attained without exploitation of other people on an industrial scale, but justify it internally as "well if I do that I can do the most good."

It's utter nonsense. It positions the person in question as some sort of arbiter of humanity's future, someone so intelligent and so well rounded as to see the folly of mankind itself as an obstacle to be overcome, not as a collective where we move forward together, but as a personal barrier to what you already know needs to be accomplished. It is arrogance without limit to assume that you personally know better what needs to happen than the total summed knowledge of billions of your fellow man and I cannot take anyone who self-identifies as an EA seriously as a result. You, singularly, are not qualified to "fix" the fucking world, you are not ABLE, let alone currently, to be qualified for that.

To be clear: There are TONS of problems that the resources of one of these jackoffs could solve basically overnight. Flint's inability to have clean water is a great example, but just buying a shit ton of pipe and having it installed in a struggling city isn't flashy, it isn't exciting, it isn't paving the way for the future: it's just fixing a problem we know how to fix and that should be fixed, but that isn't enough. You can't put your name on it, you can't get famous off doing it (outside of Flint anyway) and therefore it doesn't get brought up.
im sorry but if you have the slightest knowledge of how anything works you know that this is a fantasy land scenario.
How far advanced do you think an AI would be where we could say to GPTx “here is your source code - write us a much more powerful AI than yourself”? How far off would you say this was?
https://wg5-fortran.org/N2201-N2250/N2212.pdf is John Reid's complete document.
I finally gave up and just bought it from their Amazon store. https://www.amazon.com/teenage-engineering-sampler-sequencer...
1. Microsoft was heavily involved in orchestrating the 95% of employees to side with Sam -- through promising them money/jobs and through PR/narrative
2. The profit incentives apply to employees too

Bigger picture, I don't think the "money/VC/MSFT/commercialization faction destroyed the safety/non-profit faction" is mutually exclusive with "the board fucked up." IMO, both are true
> These people are at the top of the AI industry, they’d make bank in a ton of jobs if they left tomorrow.

I know a signatory of the letter and I can assure you that they were nowhere near the top of the AI industry six months ago.
> If the US should feel threatned it would be by the EU.

The EU is a society that is winding down.

Americans are sensible and realize the future of innovation and progress lies in countries that have young people.

A bunch of old Europeans are not a threat. Europe is utterly feckless anyway and is unlikely to ever be able to field a large enough army to actually be a threat
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/04/03/millennia...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/29/gen-z-mil...

Above stats are a bit stale from 2018. 1.8M voters over the age of 55 die every year, and 4M citizens turn 18.
I have absolutely no use for this, but damn I love the aesthetics. That thing is just gorgeous.
Others have pointed out several reasons this isn't actually a problem (and that the premise itself is incorrect since "OpenAI" is not a charity), but one thing not mentioned: even if the MS-appointed board member is a MS employee, yes they will have a fiduciary duty to the organizations under the purview of the board, but unless they are also a board member of Microsoft (extraordinarily unlikely) they have no such fiduciary duty to Microsoft itself. So in the also unlikely scenario that there is a vote that conflicts with their Microsoft duties, and in the even more unlikely scenario that they don't abstain due to that conflict, they have a legal responsibility to err on the side of OpenAI and no legal responsibility to Microsoft. Seems like a pretty easy decision to make - and abstaining is the easiest unless it's a contentious 4-4 vote and there's pressure for them to choose a side.

But all that seems a lot more like an episode of Succession and less like real life to be honest.
That "horrifying automotive blight" is less than one square kilometer and virtually nobody lives there. If you don't like it (few people do) then don't live there. The rest of Bedford Country has thousands of other square kilometers for you to live in, with numerous small towns that aren't interstate rest stops. Go streetview in Bedford PA, where about 3000 people live vs Breezewood's <200. It's a modest community, the people there aren't rich but they have nice yards, sidewalks all over the place, and few cars on any of the roads. Teach your kids to look both ways before crossing a street and they'll be fine. Only somebody who's hopelessly neurotic would worry about their kids walking to their friend's house in Bedford.

> kids don't like growing up in the country

Most do, but if you think yours won't then go live in a small town or a city. Citing Breezewood as a problem with American society is simply idiotic. It's a tiny aberration that doesn't effect you or anybody else except for the handful of weirdos who choose to live there.
EA continues to look like moral cover for good old-fashioned profit maximization.

The "Effective" part is immediate and drives short-term incentives like maximizing profit. The "Altruism" part is hypothetical and delegated to a future date where the resources acquired "effectively" are deployed for the benefit of humanity. In the gap between the two are fallible human beings, not necessarily more virtuous than average, that task themselves with making decisions about what's important.

The focus on hypothetical dangers like GAI is telling here. If you can invent an apocalyptic boogeyman that you're "addressing" by funding thinktanks and sitting on company boards you don't actually have to spend anything on addressing immediate issues.
I'm a total newcomer about this, but I would like to learn and start making "music". They advertise:

> MAKE USE OF THE CURATED SELECTION OF DRUMS, BASS AND KEYS THAT COME PRE-LOADED ON YOUR K.O.II.

Question: would I be stuck with their pre-loaded curated selection or is there any way I can "upload" any extra dum/bass/keys and use them?
New features in Fortran 2023 [pdf]
Yesterday an expensive desk toy, today a reasonably priced sampler. Not sure if TE is YOLOing or it is all part of a genius marketing plan.
>>A completely plug-and-play driver model.

this is one of the things I despise about windows that most. The Driver model.

I hate it, it causes soooooooooo many issues from security to just breaking randomly in weird ways, problems you do not have with a monolithic kernel

>> Far more advanced permissions model.

This is a double edges sword, very very easy to get into all kinds of trouble here, sometimes "less advanced" is better.

>> It is far ahead of the competition.

That seems to be subjective

>>dunno why people advocate ripping out the kernel and using Linux instead

Well my parent comment was more tongue and cheek jab at the "year of linux desktop meme"...

>>Telling people that we should keep 'Windows apps'

More about Win32 API compatibility to keep 80-90% of software working.

>>I want to go back to the Windows 2000-era UI

I 100000000% do not... Windows 2000 UI was terrible.
"Unfit for deployment" or "not intended for deployment" is semi-standard wording for research models that are just raw language models with none of the safety/bias/offensiveness filtering that is usually desired for product applications. For example, if you deploy it as a customer-service chatbot, it might tell your customers to kill themselves, or call them racial slurs.

It doesn't mean that there's anything technically wrong with the language model per se as a model of language, just that there has been no effort made to ensure it's fit to be deployed as-is for any given generative-AI use case, and the model authors would prefer you didn't do that.
Jobs was really unusual in that he was not only a good leader, but also an ideologue with the right obsession at the right time. (Some people like the word "visionary".) That obsession being "user experience". Today it's a buzzword, but in 2001 it was hardly even a term.

The leadership moment that first comes to mind when I think of Steve Jobs isn't some clever hire or business deal, it's "make it smaller".

There have been a very few people like that. Walt Disney comes to mind. Felix Klein. Yen Hongchang [1]. (Elon Musk is maybe the ideologue without the leadership.)

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-...
No unicode in Win98.
I think more a accurate title would be "AI industry's favorite philosophy turns against the industry". My understanding is the anti-AI bent is much more recent within EA.
There was once a time where shitty software couldn't just ride on the back of good hardware.
> OpenAI is not a charity.

OpenAI is a charity nonprofit, in fact.

> Microsoft's investment is in OpenAI Global, LLC, a for-profit company.

OpenAI Global LLC is a subsidiary two levels down from OpenAI, which is expressly (by the operating agreement that is the LLC's foundational document) subordinated to OpenAI’s charitable purpose, and which is completely controlled (despite the charity's indirect and less-than-complete ownership) by OpenAI GP LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the charity, on behalf of the OpenAI charity.

And, particularly, the OpenAI board is. as the excerpts you quote in your post expressly state, the board of the nonprofit that is the top of the structure. It controls everything underneath because each of the subordinate organizations foundational documents give it (well, for the two entities with outside invesment, OpenAI GP LLC, the charity's wholly-owned and -controlled subsidiary) complete control.
It does have DACs, that presumably operate at the standard frequencies.
I meant the dark triad personality traits, more than borrowing from The Prince.
My impression was that every group of immigrants to America (for which there is any written history) has brought its own system of discrimination (based on wealth, social class, sex, race, religion, nationality, appearance, etc.) with them.

But yes, the emotional appeal of writing "$Other_Group_1 may not discriminate against $Other_Group_2" laws is pretty obvious. Ditto shielding your own group's current system from scrutiny or censure.
>...aren't even trying to pretend to be...

Suggests GP is not making a legal distinction, it's a description of how they are actually running things.
They're not specifying who they want to protect from a general harmful business practice, they are saying who is targeted by a specific harmful business practice. So for example they're not saying protect only veterans from scam calls, they're saying protect everybody from scam calls that impersonate VA services in an attempt to scam veterans.