skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you won't take a job because of OS, you should ask upfront in the interview.

If working the job requires a specific OS you should mention it right upfront in the interview, or better yet the job description. Why is it the candidates job to telepathically guess at what hard requirements might exist? You have a requirement, state it.
>They will continue to raise maintenance and licensing fees until they very last customer turns off their last ESXi box

hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Honest question. Maybe there are some licensing issues I'm not aware of. Isn't vbox open source? If not, wouldn't even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ in the browser would do most virtualization trick now days?
If this is of interest, I highly recommend reading Christopher Alexander’s two books: Notes on the Synthesis of Form and The Phenomenon of Life

The former (I believe was his dissertation) goes into the sociological forces within domains of expertise that produce the absolute fucking inhumane insanity of modern architecture (and design more broadly). It’s a fascinating thesis: as a discipline becomes professionalized, your objective is to impress other people within your profession. For architects, that comes at the expense of designing livable spaces. For the most part, these need to have their drawers in the right places more than to leave their viewers gasping for breath at the brilliance of the designer.

The second book attempts to lay out a quasi-scientific model of why people find the more ornamental and intricate designs shown in this article more compelling (he calls them “more full of life,” which I think is actually a good descriptor).
I don’t understand this sentiment. Aren’t consumers doing the burning?
FWIW, I've noticed Chrome uses considerably more power than Safari when watching Youtube - about 3 watts - when having one video playing in the foreground. Just to be aware in case you switch between them.

I'm seeing a bit better battery life in general on my 16" M3 Max than I did on my former 16" M1 Pro.
One thing I've universally noticed in unintelligent/conspiratorial political analysis is they think you can explain everything by "following the money", like here. These people are sometimes known as "low-information voters".

It's amazing how much this is actually never true. Politics is largely about sincerely-held ideologies.
Wise words, and there are good takeaways for me here!

It's time to land this version of the product, freeze the code for a while (sans major bug fixes), and get some high fidelity 1:1s with (who I think) my audience is.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me this reply. I really do appreciate it!
Good. EA is designed to make the ultra wealthy feel like they’re superheroes.

It’s crazy to me how common I see these views espoused by people who don’t realize that you have to be born into incredibly lucky circumstances to be able to even hold these views.

Thus, EA serves the dual purpose of shining a light on just how out of touch the wealthy (and their most intense fans) truly are. In the worst cases is even abused by people like SBF to (try to) change public perception or even gain favor with investors.
Why does OpenAI get to define what AGI is?
>Because it was introduced by a FreeBSD developer, and FreeBSD's fs and cp are a generation behind Linux's so they weren't even able to hit this.

Honestly, this feature could have used more testing on both platforms.

Also, FreeBSD's VFS in theoretically able to support reflinks across datasets while Linux's VFS disallows that. It is not really behind.
I don't believe that's true, regardless of what you mean by "can run at a power envelope".

The M1/M2/M3 use 20-25 Watt at peak, but only 10% of that when idle. (But that's only in the notebooks – it goes beyond that in the Mac mini.)

The M3 Pro is basically 50% more of everything than the M3, so I'd reuse that multiplier to guess its power levels.
It will be well beyond general purpose and well beyond human level and there will be an inflection point where most people finally accept it and then everyone panics and completely overreacts but also possibly too late.
GitHub stars aren't really an accurate indicator of market share. I've previously starred it, too, but I've never used it.

I'd like to draw attention to the last phrase in my comment:

> WebGPU sees any meaningful market share

I am comparing anything implemented in WebGPU to existing games that are played today by gamers.

Finally, it's using Rust, and the majority of graphics + game engines are written in C++ (with a minority in Java and C#). Despite the safety and tooling benefits, moving to Rust is still a change that companies have to implement and educate their developers on, which is going to take a lot of time. And game dev companies are fairly slow at adopting new language standards (even if they adopt new graphics APIs and hardware fairly quickly, e.g. ray-tracing).

I don't quite share your optimism; sorry.
Teams enters the chat.
> Making sure tech-inexperienced friends and relatives have an ad blocker makes a night-and-day difference in the amount of damage control and cleanup you'll have to deal with.

I understand there are people who need safety rails (or shouldn't be using computers at all), but that doesn't really negate my point.

Most ads are not malicious, and the web is perfectly usable and safe without an ad blocker, providing you use common sense.
Being legitimately good at reasoning when it comes to numbers is a new emergent behavior. Reasoning about numbers isn't something that exists in "idea space" where all the vectorized tokens exist.
Theranos wasn't a Silicon Valley company - nobody in SV invested in it except Draper (who's a nutcase) because they all thought it was a scam.

It was an affinity fraud on non-SV rich people founded on acting like a tech company.
Too slow to be useful for anything interesting.

Too expensive to be useful for any IOT or general computing.

I'm sure its really useful that one time you couldn't take a flight to a location and didn't have a car so you took a bus and that bus was made in 1990 and didn't have 120V outlets retrofitted and you decided to work for 12 hours straight on things that never used GPU.
Don't worry, the petroleum moguls actions may just negate the long term impact of AGI on humanity anyway. Ie Cliamte Change will beat them to the "kill all humans" phase of AGI.
As much convenience is brought to the table with cloud solutions I cannot help but feel that large parts of what are being offered should never be touched. They do get touched however by over-eager, young, energetic employees who read such "blog" posts.

And then you are left with a freakish system that is unpleasant to work with!
For the same reason the IRS has no money. Because funding them is absolutely against GOP priorities, and big business in general.
Why is it nonsense?
GPT4 solves this problem
In any combination easily.

What do so many posters seem to claim to have stumped it?
I played a bit now on cloud and was able to run things in powershell and create a custom GUI form, connect button to script and show results in the text area.

I didn't succeed to return all output from the powershell, just last value. The only way I got it is by using control "job log". This one however has some custom header of windmill (job guid etc.), so is there any way to show a raw log ?

I generally do not like no-code tools, but first impression of this mix of no-code and code looks intriguing and app feels very nice overall, with great UI and easy to understand features. Good job.
Damn it, I just purchased an workstation license too.
The parent's remark suggests Tesla management was responsible and at fault; OSHA's disposition begged to differ, and that part was conveniently omitted from context.
But that's the problem; you falsely believe you're capable of differentiating between propaganda and quality. You're not, on topics of which you are not an expert.

That's what flat-eartherism is, that's what jewish space lasers are. The argument you're giving is a tacit endorsement of that kind of "inquiry", which for reasonable people is unconscionable.
They even fuck over their own customers by locking away documentation and firmware updates behind a support contract paywall.
should've learned to make ariplanes first
That's nice for them. They also recommend paying attention to what you're clicking on, as a dot point above that.
> You can't really train them to do math unless they've seen previous calculations with similar numbers in their training sets.

Generally true before xVal[1], but not exactly true after. Expect fairly basic advancement in the future to solve this problem completely.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02989.pdf
> Layoffs at Google didn't happen because they had to happen. They happened because the leadership was concerned that in the good years, the company accumulated way too much dead weight - pointless projects, underperforming employees that the managers never had to deal with because they could always hire more people, etc.

This doesn't really match the reality of the layoffs. They weren't team/project based or performance based, they were seemingly random. If they were concernee about too many low performing products and employees they went about it in completely the wrong way.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/fanakalo-language-minin...
And?

This doesn't change the fact that centralisation is still a massive problem with Ethereum and it is still a big enough problem that everyone knows that the crypto infra of choice is to coalesce on AWS.

Infura deploys Ethereum nodes solely on AWS further centralising Ethereum on there thanks to a Consensys and AWS partnership.

The entire opposite of decentralisation in crypto.
Between Xen, KVM, BHyve, Hyper-V, the use cases for VMware vanished well over a decade ago. They'll bleed out their remaining customers until there is no one left.
In reinforcement learning, Q* represents the optimal action-value function
It is the right thing to do. Flutter team losing someone like Hixie is a big loss to everyone. It is very much possible Tim also left Flutter because of her. This terrible manager has nothing to contribute compared to that. I hope other googlers speak up.
Since this is on the front page I guess I'll post the resource that the graphics programming industry actually uses (note, I'm an author): https://raytracing.github.io/

It's included in the "Useful Websites" in the article above.

Also note that graphics is large enough that there no longer exists a one-size-fits all solution to learning graphics. If you want to learn graphics I'd recommend finding a mentor.
What does this means for the development of the Spring Framework ecosystem (including Spring Boot et al).

VMware was a pretty good steward from my limited perspective. Does anyone have any experience with successful open source projects under Broadcom? They don't seem to have a good track record with driver support, at the least...
I like the distinction, and I think there should exist different terms, but I don't think those two are nearly universal. Many people will use them interchangeably, others may even think other way around ("programming" as a professional discipline where you use tools to achieve an MVP most efficiently, vs "coding" as an enthusiastic activity that's more creative and open ended).
You can just self-claim to be an accredited investor. I did this for ages until it started becoming true.

But it's probably best they stay private. As you can see in these HN comments, public investors lack the ability to see the project through. i.e. there will be failures, planned and unplanned.

This is also why I think Kickstarter projects should be restricted to people who understand that they can end up with nothing.

I know of at least a couple low-profile high-value things that are invite-only and I'm only a part of because I'm in the network. This is probably the future of these things. Being able to constrain your audience to only somewhat wealthy people insulates you from the lumpenproletariat, perhaps at the cost of some smart and unwealthy.

And to be honest, the lumpenproles usually demand to be protected from these things, so it's a good idea to give them that since there's an easy way to segment the population.
> > And lots of people have made their fortunes taking him at face value. (I'm one!)

Congrats, that's only half of the battle though, in order to make the bag worthwhile you need to avoid getting screwed when you convert your $TSLA money into stuff and experiences, lots of savvy salespeople in the real estate, vehicles and hospitality sector looking for fools to take them at face value.

Watch out because the next salesman you take at face value will sell you a 75k package for the Vegas GP and you'll end up with seats obstructed by rails and a 1 sec handshake with one of the (retired) drivers.
Say it loud enough and long enough and people will believe anything. The evidence and the truth matters not a jot.
When people start running out of tests to benchmark it against humans. But that won't be as scary as when the agent is given (by humans) the ability to execute tasks outside of a sandbox. A lot of dumb animals are scary, after all.
I have never worked at Google or in any company with ad driven revenue. I have no vested interest.

I'm not sure why I need to be to think that the web is not "unsafe and unusable" without an adblocker.
> Folks like Jim Chanos have lost billions betting against Elon.

Yeah like him or not there’s much easier money to be made than betting on Musk’s failure.
Noob Question: So is the idea to load only specific branches (and by extension log(n) order neurons), right based on the input data. Would this be something that a compiler would do using a JIT trick(because the input needs to be known to get the right branch) to issue a call to the right neurons into memory(SIMD?) to do the Feed Forward?
If you want to learn webdev you don't start by building a web browser despite the fact that building a web browser would teach you a lot.
too many things going on, involving too many people and nobody can possibly keep track of it all in their head. You have to split it up. But by splitting it up, the left hand doesn't really know what the right hand is doing.

So controls and processes are put in place to ensure no bad outcomes are possible, but this also prevents good, innovative outcomes from sprouting.

Fundamentally, it's a loss of trust that can exist in a smaller organization.
Everyone seems to make up their own bizarre and personal definition what involves
Godlike abilities then claim everyone obviously agrees with it.

For me I think gpt4 is clearly generalized intelligence.
> In future it won't be possible to contribute to Firefox without a Microsoft account

What makes you think that?
Agreed. I've seen beginners fall into the trap of spending way too much time on software rendering that won't be useful or performant later because every platform they'll ever develop for has hardware accelerated rendering. I learned how to painstakingly render scenes pixel by pixel and then had to unlearn it because graphics programming doesn't work that way anymore.

Teaching beginners to render graphics without the GPU is like teaching them to do fractional math without the FPU. It won't make their first project better and gives them the wrong idea of what to expect.
While I agree Microsoft probably doesn’t want to buy VMware, they absolutely have a pretty strong “hybrid cloud” solution, which basically means running an Azure hypervisor on your on-prem servers.

Really it’s just Hyper-V with extra “cloud management” bits (“Azure Arc” and friends), but it’s _relatively_ friendly to manage alongside your Azure cloud resources once you set it up.

Bottom line is, I really don’t think they’re worried about on-prem hypervisors competing with Azure!
Edit: the following statement is incorrect and retracted: ‘Virtualbox is not free for commercial use iirc’

Esxi is an enterprise product which engineers are familiar with, the cost of the product vs the cost of migration and upskilling in alternative tech should not be underestimated, particularly when it’s the thing that runs all your other things.

Edit: in case you’re not aware, many organisations still leverage on-prem virtualisation technologies - that might not be obvious to people that haven’t seen it.
> I'm not buying that there's a lot of bad blood there

I didn't see anything in the article that there was bad blood, just that Paul fired Sam. Those are not the same thing.
New Library: Simple Router
Do anyone know what Q* is?
Any inventor should attempt to understand how their work relates to Jevon's Paradox. Being ignorant of it at this point is hardly excusable.
Yes, as I said, I spent much of my life around oracle products. Most are freely downloadable for non production purposes.
None of the news sites I read have that. I haven't seen an automatic download attempt in almost a decade - all major browsers block that by default and have done for some time.
Are these companies where you can work 4 (or 5) days or where everyone works 4 days
Well I’m going to buy myself a drink https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38358587
Grade school math plus basic reasoning is what most of the professional middle class does.

It’s pretty frightening imo.
Because I did stump it, not claim to. Used GPT-4 near when it was released, fed it variations on the problem for about an hour. I found it to be a fascinating exercise because it was teaching be the difference between knowledge (training set) and intelligence (generalization).
Something what I'd really like, would be:

1. You have an application open, let's use for this example Apple Notes
2. You ask it to summarize the "Recipe xyz"
3. It will search for the recipe
4. Open the note
5. "Copy" the text
6. Summarize it for you

This is a very simple example and maybe not "cool" enough. But would be great to give it any kind of interface and then do some more "advanced" (for an LLM) tasks.

I think this could be possible with GPT4-Vision, but it would be very costly, for things which you could do yourself with a few clicks and key presses.
Weird. I use the Firefox snap (due to my lazy inertia), and my saves/downloads are all in $HOME/Downloads

I don't think I did anything to change that either.
This is the most important comment in this whole thread.
I'm in the process of trying to convert to openstack at my university. but so far its been slow going. I've got a few smaller clusters online currently running it
> It’s stored “encrypted” which means the original data is retrievable

That does not follow. It's true if you're using technical terms correctly, but I've absolutely seen companies use encrypted to mean hashed.
Is it even fine tuned for question answering?
Starlink is an actual order of magnitude faster than the next best option (centurylink dsl) in my town of 2k people. Considering that we never even got broadband out here its been great. Starlink has applications beyond an off-grid cabin in the backwoods, if only because ISPs have utterly failed the rural broadband mandate. And as an elon anti-fan it pains me to pay him monthly.
> A bad register allocation decision could cost 5% in the wrong circumstance

5% of what?

>yet no one is suggesting reintroducing the register keyword

If I understood you, you mean that some variable might be allocated on stack instead of register and we need "register" keyword to alleviate this? Not really, when such thing happens we write asm() block which has all capabilities of the old register keyword and much more. And if 5% is latency then who in real time would not get to asm() to get it? This whole talk of "1% this, 5% that" seems just some kind of reddit meme. Would you give me 1% of your income for nothing? If not then why would you increase latency by 1%? Would you write five line of assembly to get 5% raise? If you would, then why would not you want to do it to drop latency by that much?
It would be a major breakthrough if the model wasn't trained on math at all. Which I suspect is the case here, because otherwise it doesn't make sense.
< can afford med school

I mean arguably subsidizing med school would be a pretty sensible thing for a government to do if it wanted to increase the number of doctors. The other elements of the venn diagram can't be modified I agree, but affordability of med school doesn't have to be there
Weirdly enough, this sort of lines up with a theory posted on 4chan 4 days ago. The gist being that if the version is formally declared AGI, it can't be licensed to Microsoft and others for commercial gain. As a result Altman wants it not to be called AGI, other board members do.

Archived link below. NB THIS IS 4CHAN - THERE WILL OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE.

https://archive.ph/sFMXa
most people don't use vmware the way you use virtualbox.

The money making part of vmware licensing is the baremetal hypervisor ESXi, the competitors are xen or hyperv and the likes.

The lock-in part of vmware is the vsphere management software, that allows you to move VM's en mass from one baremetal machine to another baremetal machine, or allows you to nest vm's, etc. manage your entire fleet of vm's which could be thousands or hundreds of thousands of virtual machines, from one management interface.

it's basically docker except it's actual entire vm's being moved around. VMWare ESXi being a baremetal hypervisor means you can run different OS's on top of these vm's and imagine being able to move these VM's all running different OS's around in your ecosystem.

That's what people pay the big bucks to vmware for.

It would be very difficult to build the vsphere/esxi ecosystem with pure opensource tools (it's possible with Xen, etc) but you'd be right back at paying some vendor a massive amount of money for building, integrating, and supporting this kind of system. (Redhat will happily sell you something that approximates vmware's tools, for megabucks).

As an aside, the consumer "vmware" software that you install on your workstation is such a small portion of their business, they basically spend no money on fixing/upkeeping. Apple silicon support was in beta for a loooong time, and they don't actually care about their workstation product. ESXi makes the money.
Chrome is switching to using Dawn (Google's WebGPU implementation) for its Skia backend. This would render all UI elements across Chrome using WebGPU. You can find plenty of projects that are using WebGPU today. In the web space, BabylonJS has had plenty of experience using it already, and you can run several demos [0]. Offline, there are games like Veloren [1] that use it exclusively as a graphics backend. Plus a number of other projects I can't talk about yet.

It's pretty obvious WebGPU is not going to replace any big engine's custom-built graphics backend, but it's already pretty capable, and I think it's going to be a good place to start for beginners for a long time.

[0] https://github.com/Popov72/OceanDemo
[1] https://veloren.net/
ironically, that’s too simplistic. Simplicity is only virtuous in an explanation if the explanation itself is not contradicted by reality. Unbound from reality, simplicity is dangerously seductive because it’s easy and wrong.
I've seen it gets tripped up if you mix something common with something uncommon. ChatGPT chokes on, for example:

"Two trains on separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?"
GPT-4 is not solving logic problems, it's doing an extremely good job of generating text based on recognizing familiar patterns.

If you give it something weird and unfamiliar, it will absolutely fail.
> People with high levels of immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.

Pardon me, but isn't that stating the obvious? I mean tto say, your immune system protects you, and the better it does the less likely you are to succumb to disease, is what the immune system does. It's not like you're nervous system is going to beat back an infection.