skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMR was such a bad idea it was difficult to figure out how bad until it went into full production.

Now we know.

With a HDD there has always been an expectation of nominal performance when used as a boot/system drive for the current version of Windows at the time.

And that expectation has logically been for higher performace as technology improves, HDD's were a big jump up in both speed and capacity compared to floppies, followed by other stepwise improvements regularly seen over the years.

SSD's might have put HDD's to shame on speed some time ago, but nobody was expecting HDD's to reverse course after all these decades.

A few years ago before the "discovery" that SMR was the "secret" that allowed a significant stepwise increase in capacity (while concealing a more significant unprecedented decrease in random-access performance), I had the opportunity to deal with one of these on a nominal basis to install both Windows 10, then later Windows 11 for a user that expected the usual improvement in boot and access speed that further developments in HDD's had always resulted in up until that time. There had been a major project within Microsoft during Windows 8 development to drastically reduce boot time, and that accomplishment has not been nearly as badly compromised as it could have been by now in Windows 11.

The SMR performance disappointment continues.

Now that the dust has settled, it can be seen that on an almost 20-year-old PATA IDE 100GB HDD, Windows 11 boots approximately in 1/10 the time it takes on an 8TB WD SMR fast SATA HDD.

Most people dont get around to this kind of A/B testing, me neither but eventually the anecdata builds up to where it means more than a focused short-term comparison.

Then you compare them back-to-back and confirm your suspicions on a level playing field.
That’s a fantastic point, but I can also think of two more.

Let’s say you were thinking of an M2 but knew this was coming. The difference between the M3 and M2 may tell you it’s worth getting the newer M3 or the (now cheaper) M2.

Or perhaps you saw the M2 wasn’t a big leap. You want to replace your older laptop but didn’t want to get an M2 because it wasn’t a big leap over the M1 in many respects. This info would tell you if it was a big leap (buy now!) or you might as well hold off another year if you can.

The other reason is simply making it interesting. If every article was comparing to a 5-6 year old laptop, the answer would almost always be “it’s amazing!” Even if that’s what most people come from it’s a boring story. But year to year variation is much higher.
Argentina's Javier Milei faces airline privatisation backlash
My weekend driver is currently a 69 Beetle ... you could offer me double but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't sell.
Because the amount of resources that Microsoft and NVIDIA pour at graphics programming dwarfs the amount of resources that everybody else combined seems willing to put into it.

The implementations are better. The support is better. The ecosystem is better. The debugging tools are better.
I have been using a catch-all for about 2 years now with great results. I hadn't thought of hashing/obfuscating the emails though. I think since I use a password manager anyway, I could just generate a random 6-8 character prefix when signing up for a new account, and since it's saved in my password manager it's easy to look up again later (no need for a true hash).
Ohhhh thanks.

Looking at those it looks like there was an edit:

> Updated on 6/12/20

> In May 2019, Geoff Ralston took over as YC President. At that time, Sam Altman stepped away from any formal position at YC.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201028062425/https://blog.ycom...

And then shortly after the edit disappeared too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210423025128/https://blog.ycom...
I'm not the parent commenter, but I'd like to explain their logic, which has at least a modicum of reason to it.

About 99% of desktop video games (by far the largest clients of graphics APIs) target Windows, and therefore target either Direct3D 11 or Direct3D 12. This includes free-to-use game engines including CryEngine, Unity, Unreal, and Ren'Py. Almost all the famous, proprietary, high-performance game engines (id Tech, Frostbite, Slipspace, REDEngine, Source) target D3D exclusively. Vulkan is clearly a second-class citizen on Windows. Some engines target OpenGL, and they tend to be used in (hurriedly dashed-out) console ports, but in almost all cases they exhibit worse performance than their D3D competitors.

Vulkan is completely absent from MacOS and iOS, where Apple has pushed its own API, Metal. OpenGL on MacOS is deprecated and is stuck on 4.1, missing all the advancements in 4.6, which include mesh shader support.

Many Android games are likely still running GLES. Vulkan is pretty hard to get started with, because things that are implicitly handled by the OpenGL global state machine now have to be explicitly handled by the developer, and chances are the developers of the millions of throw-away microtransaction-laden game apps on Android aren't writing their own rendering engines in Vulkan.

Therefore, despite all the positives of Vulkan—open-source specification, cross-platform support, SPIR-V shader target allowing shaders to be written in any language (HLSL, GLSL, other esoteric languages that compile to SPIR-V), an extension mechanism allowing fast iteration and updates—it has a fairly uphill battle.

EDIT: I was incorrect, id Tech supports Vulkan exclusively. But it is a minority in a sea of D3D-first engines.
> I guess when you set up a board of directors tasked with not letting the company accidentally destroy the human race you set up a showdown when the board thinks the company will accidentally destroy the human race

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1727463238051229734
> Yet they are not startups or manufacturers stepping up. All words, no action ?

I suspect the problem is more that the possible market share for such products is tiny.
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It's mostly governments that need to change because they control land use policy. This is up to individual decisions of those 7 billion people though, because that's how voting works.
Yes, for example Novo Nordisk is a pharmaceutical company controlled by a nonprofit, worth around $100B.

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

There are other similar examples like Ikea.

But those examples are for mature, established companies operating under a nonprofit. OpenAI is different. Not only does it have the for-profit subsidiary, but the for-profit needs to frequently fundraise. It's natural for fundraising to require renegotiations in the board structure, possibly contentious ones. So in retrospect it doesn't seem surprising that this process would become extra contentious with OpenAI's structure.
I just put issues on a GitHub repo then solve them when I feel like.
The colors are random, but I agree with you. I was considering doing some twee basic spectral analysis and using that to inform the colors. I’ll look into it!

Thanks for the suggestion
OpenAI Shoves a Data Journalist and Violates Federal Law
"Following his victory in a presidential run-off vote on Sunday, Milei said he aimed to hand over shares in Argentina’s state-owned airline Aerolíneas Argentinas to its workers and reduce the state funding on which it relies."
>and the ability to understand what the organization even is becomes impossible.

What makes it impossible?
You left out the kicker:

> OSHA inspected this incident and fined the contractors.
Because if you invert it, it's "the average employee suffers some injury every 21 years. That injury might be a papercut or a twisted ankle or a missing arm.

OSHA tracks this and is a much more reliable source than a random article.
I’m not the person you asked but my 2c (since I agree with their point on Vulkan)

Very few video games are made with Vulkan. DirectX is the primary API.

Android is the only place where Vulkan really has an interesting market share.

For a beginner, it has an incredibly steep learning curve vs DirectX as well. So given the low usage and high friction to pick it up, you have a really poor ROI.

DirectX and Metal are much more conducive to getting results quickly and efficiently.
Preference is not the same thing as "I wont take the job if you do Windows" etc. We all prefer things of course. I prefer Macs for example. But will I refuse a job because it uses Windows ? Naah. I will look at everything else that is more important to me which are the team, the work, the goals, whats in it for me, do I see a career path here etc.
This is why governments don't build rockets any more.

"Experimental test rocket blew up", yea, they tend to do that.
that sounds close, but how much tooling do you have to hand-roll for it?
I did just that, including signing up for discord. Despite never having used discord before, I was able to find the link to the beta AppImage in a pinned message and downloaded it. Made it executable with chmod +x LM...... Ran it. Searched for some of the models referenced in this discussion. Downloaded one and ran it. It just worked on Linux Mint 21.2.
Hyper-V isn't dead by any means, however I would have a very difficult time recommending it in a greenfield environment. Microsoft's focus is clearly not A) Windows Server and B) Hyper-V.
Usually the upgrade is for better webcam, screen, a fresh keyboard, maybe want more storage, etc. MacBooks hold value, so you can resell them at good prices towards the next gen.
Yeah, it is, I agree. I don't have a workflow where I bounce between LLMs trying to get the best results. I use LLMs when I think I'll get results faster than if I just Google for the answers. After a few letdowns with the competition I stopped defaulting to thinking about how they could help me.

Do you use a variety of LLMs in your daily life? Can you share some queries you'd issue to Bard for Maps/YouTube integrations that ChatGPT fails at? I'd be very interested in some concrete examples. Specifically in a post-plugin world where ChatGPT uses Bing to interface with the web.

I don't want to become blind to the advancements in competitor's tooling.
Do you mean racial disparities in hiring or in performance?
Startup is cashing in on the e-waste from India's EV revolution
I don't think I've ever taken an opportunity to respec. It just feels like it cheapens the experience. This is my character. This is me. We are more than a number of points.

If I wanted an experience where all of my features are irrelevant and it's just net worth that matters... Well I don't need RPGs for that.
Heh... there are soooo many 'industrial' devices that just have some files added to a default Pi OS, Debian, etc. image.

A lot of times the smaller hardware-driven companies (who may charge $3000+ for a Pi-integrated solution) have very robust hardware... and software that I'm surprised works at all.
Your "immune resilience" greatly impacts your health and lifespan
$128 in 1967 money is worth approximately $1,172 today - not cheap for a kids' toy!
Extreme thanks!!! I’m actually performing tonight at another Matt Silver show. Video should be up soon after :)

Cheers!!
The actual report:

https://www.pymnts.com/study/reality-check-paycheck-to-paych...
They don't have to know. But if you won't take a job because of OS, you should ask upfront in the interview. Better to end it right there instead of continuing further. Heck, ask before the interview through email and get it over with.
Restrictions or constraints being creativity. That's the whole fun of it.

No fun in pressing F to win.
OSHA has 2200 employees. If you’ve been around construction you’ve probably witnessed how frequent osha violations are. Most people don’t even know hardly any of the regulations. I’d be shocked if even 1/4 of the construction industry was osha compliant half the time.

The best is seeing the guy on the jackhammer with his ppe hanging around his neck.

It’s like a cultural thing. Most guys in construction don’t seem to care at all. And osha has very little influence. Think of the number of workplaces, factories, and construction sites around the country compared to how many inspectors there are…
How is that a kicker?

If you hire someone to do work at your place of business (or home), and they fail to take the necessary precautions, why would you be held responsible?
Thank you haha. I really liked that sketch but yes, it’s demanding (of the audience) :)
Yes this is one of those situations where responsible employers report more minor injuries, and then it is used against them by people who don't know better.

Guess what... the meatpacking plant in Iowa with 98% undocumented immigrants is not reporting all their injuries because they are threatening their workers with deportation.
"Hey, look! An obvious distraction!"

Either from the Tesla factory safety issues you mentioned, or from the MediaMatters / Twitter allegations and lawsuit. Plenty of reasons for him to want people to look elsewhere.
I feel like this comment perfectly captures the difference between programming and coding.

Programming comes from a place of first principles, the goal being to understand what is needed completely so that a solution that meets many parallel constraints can be constructed.

Coding comes from a place of completing a task, the goal being to get from the requirement to the operating task in as short a time as possible so that one might move on to the next task.

Both disciplines have value. The original question was unclear about where the author hoped to end up.

To put this in a slightly different perspective, a graphics programmer can write a program to show a shaded object on any platform with a CPU and a way to display graphics. A graphics coder can write a program to show a shaded object only on those platforms where they have previously mastered the APIs for generating display graphics.
Aren't these CRM use cases?
Random for now but will look into making it a little bit more correlated. Thanks!
One could make the argument it's the opposite of a feature...
Building Applications with Real-Time Stable Diffusion APIs
Got any citations for that? The "increase in cars and driving?" And per what? Per block? Yes, we have entitled trash driving around in giant barges. But we also have anti-lock brakes.

Not sure how the heavy, all-steel cars of decades ago compare to the bloated 5000-pound hogs favored for driving one kid to school today, admittedly.
FWIW, no they aren't.
I looked in to this a little when Windmill was last discussed here, and the gap you may bump into (as a replacement for Rundeck) is that AFAICT Windmill has no support for executing scripts remotely over (e.g.) SSH and passing the GUI values along as environment variables.

It seems you need a full-blown install of Windmill on each host where actions are to be run.
To be clear, this is something that's been happening over the course of the past few years. This is not, as I was originally led to believe by this deceptive headline, an active Skynet scenario.
Cobra Kai started on "YouTube Red" which I think was renamed "YouTube Premium"

Then it went to Netflix where it became a big hit.

There was another show I liked named Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television. They constantly broke the third wall making fun of YouTube Red being confused with some kind of adult content service.
Fred Hoyle wrote a great kids book on science in the 1960s (astronomy really, but he starts low with earth's creation and reaches up into the skies) and he talks about two forces with water which people ridiculed at the time: Firstly how deep it can be, and secondly the pangenesis theories that it mostly came down from comets. He was irritating, and argumentative, and people wound up shunning him (and I believe his graduates) a bit, but he wasn't entirely wrong: subsequent 20th century science showed the earth is (and always has been) bombarded with outflows from comets, on a scale which we find harder to measure underneath the blanket, but over aeons adds up.

He writes of geotechnical forces "squeezing" water through rock. His tendency was upwards but I guess the same applies downwards.
The silo thing is extremely true. Different pockets will have different stories. Hiring as a show of strength sounds a bit silly.
I think you are talking about “innovators dilemma” great book by the way
I wonder if this has any weird artifacts because of natural polarized light in nature?

for example, I have a pair of polarized sunglasses where the left and right lenses seem to be polarized at different angles.

When I look at clouds, they look strange because the light from them seems to be polarized - and the image I get from each eye is different. So the cloud doesn't converge in my vision.

(that said, I don't understand circular polarizing filters at all, if that is in play)
> This article is just links to other articles with absolutely no data or real analysis.

This is unconscionable. Many of the other linked Verge articles include links to external information sources in the first couple of paragraphs, and the fact that it takes two clicks instead of one means that The Verge is fabricating stories.
a more informed report as they went by the OSHA reports

https://aa.law/blog/tesla-received-triple-the-amount-of-osha...
I could use this as a bridge between developers and operation, but in my case the lack of localization is annoying for the staff in the ops side. I don't have time to contribute something like this right now, but I will keep an eye on this.
Thank you SEC.
WebGPU is little more than a laboratory experiment right now. There are probably no industry implementations (game/graphics engine, visualisers, etc). Computer graphics is particularly industry-driven—consider the proportion of game devs who present at SIGGRAPH versus academics.

I give it at least a decade before WebGPU sees any meaningful market share.
Very interesting. Thanks
Conan and vcpkg are already quite rich for the libraries that matter.

Other than that, even as C++ aficionado, I agree there is a general resistance against safety in general and Rust in particular.

To the point that while there are compiled managed languages that can also take over some C++ roles, those die hards only see Rust as a threat.
Good Lord this may the brain transplant she has needed for so long.
I will never get people who have never been in the wild salivating at the idea of having broadband while in the wild.

1) This isn't just for people, "in the wild." If you're just rural enough to not have broadband, Starlink is one of your best options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_prpVDMRo

This is going to be a huge boon for the 3rd world! Also note how much of a benefit it was to Ukraine. (And no, Elon Musk didn't cut off bandwidth from Ukraine. That's demonstrably false media spin.)

2) If you've ever felt screwed by your broadband ISP, but had no other choice -- know that this still happens to people in 2023.

My infrastructure bet is on 5G and fiber to dominate connectivity, however my poker mind would love to scoop some SpaceX shares to offload to bigger fools down the road.

Folks like Jim Chanos have lost billions betting against Elon. And lots of people have made their fortunes taking him at face value. (I'm one!)
simplest explanation is most likely the one nearest the truth
Its not very cool IMO to name & shame anyone lower than Sundar.

Nevertheless the article is spot on with the effect of layoffs, and the general culture of big tech.
> Only if you deem SSO to be of an essential nature to such products.

I thought that multiple features were enterprise-only (like multiplayer, the content search...).

In our world where we don't take security seriously enough, I do think that SSO is essential.
My understanding is that SpaceX will not IPO until they reach Mars. And I think most of the value in what they’re developing is going to be extracted after that point rather than before.
Once it becomes acceptable I expect the correlation between people naming and shaming and actual poor performance/bad behaviour to drop drastically.

Proper workers aren't as good at playing politics as those who just focus on politics.
> warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity,

> Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, [..] Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.

I somehow expected a bit more.
> Last thing you want is funds having their say on how to run the company.

And who exactly do you think owns 58% of SpaceX that Mr. Musk does not own? [1] It's not like being private means the company is not owned by funds or they have no say on how to run it. What does mean they have no say on how to run it, though, is that although Mr. Musk owns only 42% of SpaceX, he controls 78% of voting rights [again, 1]. Given that he already has a complex scheme to have full control over public Tesla [2], I doubt if SpaceX goes public, Mr. Musk will lose his control over the company.

> How can it be a good idea to have such an important company to national security public?

It doesn't really matter who "owns" the company, it matters more who is on the board and who have most voting rights. Anyway, if national security is of any concern, better ask why Lockheed Martin or Raytheon are public.

1. https://archive.is/7jbAd
2. https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/how-elon-musk-con...
It can, in the way you can follow the abstract of a paper with its body. Don't forget that the model has access to the original text; it's not just going off the summary.
That's exactly the point. I'm C level, but at heart, I'm a hacker and and engineer, and have been for what, 24 years now (sobering). Reflecting on this isn't a criticism (though we all know how touchy engineer-types can be) -- it's just an acknowledgment. To E-types, firing is loss of job, loss of livelihood, to C-types, it's a reposition of an asset, a reassignment of a resource to a new project. All we're doing here is acknowledging this.
It makes sense. It's not like corporations have responsibilities that can have life & death impacts on people, or that can radically transform the lives of people who don't even work there.

Oh wait...
It's what my graphics courses in my computer science degree did. The skills I learned have benefitted me long after (20 years), and I mostly "just" do web development.
I think working on some big tech thing where you’re actively constructing a product with huge negative ramifications is way more evil than working in a big decentralized org where some people far removed from you do something you think is evil tbh.

But I don’t care. I’m just commenting out of mild interest. It’s not exactly a big cost to comment.
I suppose it's possible that they simply do not enough error corruption, but given that I don't get IO errors, only wrong data, I doubt it.

Typical algorithms work like:

* 1 bad bit is corrected

* 2 bad bits produce an error. Since there's nothing else meaningful to do, this can only propagate to the higher layer.

* 3 or more bad bits may produce wrong data or an error

so we wouldn't expect to hit case 3 without hitting case 2.
There are many local and third party good LLMs, but there is no ChatGPT style FOSS interface which can do math, browse the web and read pdfs at a minimum. Does anybody know any?
This is not a vulnerability in 2BSD but rather a consequence of the CPU not having the capability to mark the relevant area of memory as non executable.

EDIT: Actually a fix may not be impossible as 2BSD makes use of the PDP11's ability to have a 64kB text bank and a distinct 64kB data bank. I suspect this may require a major redesign.
Lithium is still part of the cost of producing batteries and their production still requires a large number of lithium mining operations. Having a ton of lithium mines around isn't exactly what's destroying the planet, but having fewer would be more better.