skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, I think he is laying a good foundation (from what I have heard/read about his development process), but there are many times when the best of us have been confident in code that turned out to have problems and I doubt he is an exception to this.

For mixed storages, bcachefs will be interesting.

For RAID1, another option is any filesystem over dm-integrity over mdadm: dm-integrity can protect against silent file corruption if used below the mdadm level: any filesystem reading inconsistent data + checksum at dm-integrity level would cause dm-integrity to give a EILSEQ to mdadm, which should recover data from the mirrors.

It's done with a cryptsetup step, and explained on https://gist.github.com/MawKKe/caa2bbf7edcc072129d73b61ae781...

Main advantages:

1. it's a "bring your own filesystem" (ex: XFS, EXT4): you add protection against bitrot to any filesystem

2. dm-integrity may be newer, but mdadm and XFS have a large user base, making them well tested.

3. you can test this approach by simulating bitflips on the underlying data device, reading from the /dev/mapper entry, reading files themselves, doing a scrub etc.

4. you can select other algorithms besides crc32: in the rare case the error couldn't be seen by crc32 (which is likely to be applied at the hardware level) you gain an extra layer of safety
> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft

That's kind of silly, isn't it? Altman is a college dropout who has barely ever worked and somehow fell upward into CEO positions very quickly.

His level of communication in talks and interviews is terrible, so I am genuinely confused where all this mystique comes from. He sounds like a college student being asked and talking about management.

It seems that if you have any title or personal relationship attached to you, people will listen to anything you say, and even say things or just conjure up an ora for you.
I gather that there are two (somewhat related) definitions of mind-body duality:

1. mental phenomena are not physical

2. the mind and body are distinct and separable

Neither of these claims are supported by modern science in any meaningful way. It is perfectly reasonable to say that mind-body duality has been disproven by science, insofar as it is reasonable to say anything has been disproven by science. Just because neuroscience is still in its infancy doesn't mean there can be no established foundations of the discipline. These foundations may turn out to be wrong or incomplete, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about them.
Seconding this recommendation.

The idea of solving this issue at a societal level is really daunting, but Playborhood was an empowering read as a parent. It makes the case that, at least for your children and your (hyper-local) neighborhood, you can create conditions that significantly change your kid's childhood (and mental well-being) for the better. And it provides actionable steps and examples to do that, rather than just bemoaning the state of the world.
While it’s true that all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way, this sort of seemingly illogical vindictiveness is exceedingly common.
They will also use that info to tell you if a part you installed has been recalled. I also don't like giving my info out, but it has its uses.
> If Elon is wrong, it will cost him dearly. If he is right, the consequences for Media Matters, their inner and outer circles should be severe enough to fit the crime.

It's not even a matter of whether Elon is right or wrong since he doesn't really dispute any facts. That's the biggest hangup people have with the lawsuit.

> How is this behavior good for society in the long run? It isn't.

That's not really relevant here since "good for society" is not the legal standard for libel/slander/defamation/etc. cases, for better or worse.

And if I'm thinking of the same thing you are, you can't use the US government to substantially address the behavior you so detest without repealing the First Amendment.
In 2022, premium subscribers accounted for a bit less than 9% of YouTube's audience (and 67% of premium subscribers were in the US), according to this:

https://www.mediagistic.com/blog/how-many-youtube-users-will...
I am curious what the ideal number of kids is amongst women per the number of pregnancies and births they have had.

I bet there is quite a dip in ideal number of kids after going through pregnancy, childbirth, and infant rearing for the first kid, and the second kid.
There's no cliff divers or novelists either?

"I couldn't do it, but they aren't doing it, like I would have done it, while not getting it done."
This is a very strange comment. Yes people often get territorial about their kids. This is long shot to evil, corruption, or not looking each other in the eye.
It sounds like firsthand experience to me.
Can you hotplug a GPU or do you need to still (effectively) reboot? (I know it's only the windowmanager that needed a restart but if all programs run under then, well.)
Apologies for layman question: how much tera/peta/exa-flops do current models use to train?

Well, I'm assuming they'd use whatever they're given, so maybe the question should be "how much less time would training take on a 1.5 exaflops computer?"
I took it as them dispelling the notion of metaphysical nonsense, not unlike how space and time are talked about as spacetime.

Not that it matters all that much. Every single test ever performed looking for a mind absent a body has conclusively, and unquestioningly failed. There are even large bounties available for showing a single successful test which have yet to be claimed.
Well, it's pretty arbitrary. What is missing from most image (or sound) data is metadata to say what physical intensity is represented by the signal. I.e. how many nits (or decibels) should be emitted for this signal.

AFAIK, most encoding standards only define a relative interpretation of the values within one data set. And even if standards did have a way to pin absolute physical ranges, many applications and content producers would likely ignore this and do their own normalization anyway, based on preconceptions about typical consumers or consumer equipment.

To have a "correct" mixing, you would need all content to be labeled with its intended normalization, so that you can apply the right gain to place each source into the output. And of course there might be a need for user policy to adjust the mix. I think an HDR compositor ought to have gain adjustments per stream, just like the audio mixer layer.
Silos and fiefdoms allow small gelled teams who know and trust each other, have similar levels of competence, and sit physically near each other to put their heads down and execute with extraordinary speed and quality. Once silos are broken down and cross-team/cross-org collaboration becomes valorized, everything is strangers and Zoom meetings and time zones and Process and maybe if you’re lucky one person in your partner org or site who can be trusted to give a straight answer or get something done that wasn’t formally planned a year in advance. The best way to derail a project is to get the greatest number of engineers involved in it, especially engineers who don’t share priorities, timelines, conventions, geography, or language. This is coincidentally also the best way to get promoted at a large company that believes in breaking down silos.
OpenAI engineers earning $800k a year turn rare skillset into leverage
There are third party tools like Graphite, CodeApprove, and Reviewable that will basically add these workflows on top of the existing GitHub API.

There's a much more detailed and complex answer to this question (TL;DR you can kind of fake it in various weird ways without too much effort) but that's probably the best approach if you're willing to fork over some money. Graphite in particular seems pretty well reviewed.

You may also want to look into Sapling and tools like git-branchless, which will change your workflow to better accommodate this kind of thinking.
In un accordo recente, Fincantieri e l'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) hanno sancito una partnership finalizzata allo sviluppo di soluzioni innovative nel campo della robotica per garantire una maggiore sicurezza e assistenza ai lavoratori nelle industrie pesanti.

La firma dell'accordo, compiuta da Giorgio Metta, direttore scientifico dell'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, e Pierroberto Folgiero, Amministratore Delegato di Fincantieri, segna l'inizio di una collaborazione focalizzata sulla realizzazione di prototipi di sistemi robotici. Questi sistemi, sia autonomi che collaborativi, saranno destinati all'esecuzione di ispezioni a distanza e all'assistenza agli operatori, oltre che alla progettazione di esoscheletri per gli arti superiori e inferiori.

L'obiettivo primario di questa partnership è incrementare i livelli di sicurezza sul luogo di lavoro, migliorando al contempo l'efficienza dei processi produttivi. Claudio Cisilino, Direttore Operations e Innovazione di Fincantieri, ha sottolineato il forte impegno del Gruppo nel garantire la sicurezza sul lavoro e nel perseguire l'innovazione tecnologica. Darwin Caldwell, Responsabile del laboratorio Advanced Robotics (ADVR) presso l'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, ha espresso la convinzione che l'implementazione di soluzioni robotiche possa rivoluzionare positivamente le condizioni di lavoro, specialmente nell'industria pesante.

Questa partnership promette di integrare avanzate proposte tecnologiche nel campo della robotica assistiva e d'ispezione provenienti dall'IIT, con l'esperienza pratica di Fincantieri nel settore industriale. Un'iniziativa finalizzata a migliorare la sicurezza e l'efficienza delle attività lavorative in contesti industriali impegnativi.
Yet a billion people with have better mathematicians and software makers than 1000 people.
Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals
"ELI5 to me how I can order something on Amazon using an iPad"

Engineering is about clear communication of ideas and sometimes we have to _really_ dumb down some things for a non-technical audience (think board members).

Trying to ELI5 a subject you feel is your strongest is surprisingly difficult - but a vital skill when moving up the engineering ladder.
Maybe not 'financial loss' but my encounter with identity theft cost me around 350 hours of labor to resolve. And I know I wrote 'resolve' but quite frankly there is no end point. Checking the mailbox continues to be a stressful part of the day because it can come back anytime.

Generating paper trails, arguing with call center people, waiting in line at the courthouse, etc. And that's just what I tracked for myself, not other related people like clerks and bankers that needed to research my case.

While I was swimming in that circle I heard about people who suddenly found warrants out for their arrest and shit, too. Don't let other people do fraud with your name, fraud is a crime and the man wants to nail someone for that crime.

Also protip: If you aren't with a 'dedicated internet bank', then change banks to somewhere local after you move. I thought I was sitting pretty with PNC's special out of market HYSA rates until they decided they needed me in their branch which was not very convenient since the nearest branch is about 400 miles away. This turned out not to be a very good security boundary because they also told my thief to come to the branch, and he did and got everything squared away for himself. Still resulted in PTO usage for no good reason on my end.
It was suggested by the OP.

"The book The Devil Wears Prada was loosely inspired by Lauren Weisberger's stint as an assistant to legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour."
Anthropic is made up of former top OpenAI employees, has similar funding, and has produced similarly capable models on a similar timeline. The Claude series is neck and neck with GPT.
“Just” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here.
I haven't made any inference at all.

You seem to be telling the GP that they made a (common) mistake in thinking that early Google had non-evil motives.
> OpenAI is selecting for the type of people who want to work at a non-profit with a goal in mind instead of another company that could offer higher compensation. Mission driven vs profit driven.

Maybe that was the case at some point, but clearly not anymore ever since the release of ChatGPT. Or did you not see them offer completely absurd compensation packages, i.e. to engineers leaving Google?

I'd bet more than half the people are just there for the money.
> Every bit of innovation in the AI space today originated at Google. The company poured probably tens of billions into its Brain division, sponsored and made public every bit of research, and pretty much created the field of modern AI. So what was the outcome? When the employees realized they had struck gold they figured they'd rather go join startups or found their own companies instead, because regardless of the amount of success they achieved at Google they would never 1000x the share price or be the ones calling the shots.

And that's a pretty strong indictment of Google! Googlers who worked on this research and technology believed that they'd have a better chance of doing something life-changing and making some bank outside of Google! While that isn't all that uncommon, it's also something Google could have taken steps to prevent. Better culture, better compensation. It's a huge risk to strike out on your own with something like this; Google could have made it both safer and more lucrative (or at least lucrative enough) to stay. But they didn't.

> If as an employee you are nostalgic about the "culture" in the early days of such a company then you should realize that it is not coming back, just like the carefree days of your own childhood aren't coming back. Quit and join a smaller company instead.

Couldn't agree more. Our brand of capitalism isn't set up to allow for such corporate-culture time travel.
You need to be able to separate macro-level and micro-level. GP is responding to a comment about the IRS caring about the conflict-of-interest on paper. The IRS has to make and follow rules at a macro level. Micro-level events obviously can affect the macro view, but you don't completely ignore the macro because something bad happened at the micro level. That's how you get knee-jerk reactionary governance, which is highly emotional.
That reminds me of my last query to ChatGPT. A colleague of mine usually writes "Mop Programming" when referencing out "Mob programming" sessions.
So as a joke I asked ChatGPT to render an image of a software engineer using a mop trying to clean up some messy code that spills out of a computer screen.
It told me that it would not do this because this would display someone in a derogatory manner.

Another time I tried to let it generate a very specific Sci-fi helmet which covers the nose but not the mouth.
When it continusly left the nose visible, I tried to tell it to make this particular section similar to Robocop, which caused it again to deny to render because it was immediately concerned about copyright.
While I at least partially understand the concern for the last request, this all adds up to making this software very frustrating to use.
It's a joke. The explanation is that who would have to have worse morals and ethics than Altman for Altman to dismiss considering them on those grounds.
Google, Meta and now OpenAI. So long, responsible and safety AI guardrails. Hello, big money.

Disappointed by the outcome, but perhaps mission-driven AI development -- the reason OpenAI was founded -- was never possible.

Edit: I applaud the board members for (apparently, it seems) trying to stand up for the mission (aka doing the job that they were put on the board to do), even if their efforts were doomed.
Watch him at Dev Day.
Firing Sam was within the board's rights. And 90% of the employees threatening to leave was within their rights.

All this proved is that you can't take a major action that is deeply unpopular with employees, without consulting them, and expect to still have a functioning organization. This should be obvious, but it apparently never crossed the board's mind.
yaffs2 was never upstream.
> Some of those that work forces are the same that burn…

that made my day.
Kind of interesting that Jessica Livingston (Paul Graham's spouse) tweeted this a couple of days ago:

> The reason I was a founding donor to OpenAI in 2015 was not because I was interested in AI, but because I believed in Sam. So I hope the board can get its act together and bring Sam and Greg back.

https://twitter.com/jesslivingston/status/172628436492378127...
Yeah I'm not convinced either. No doubt that good communication is a strength in a good CEO. But the only thing I can confidently say is an essential part of being a CEO is that they are blame-sinks for executive decisions, particularly their own.
Hey, which Dell, HP, Lenovo laptop you used in this time? I really-really want to know which system doesn't have any issues on Linux. Also what Linux version your used? Pretty please?
I assume that it would “matter” to you if somebody shot up a class of kindergarteners at your local elementary school. That’s what I mean by “matter.”

Maybe you are right and we’re all just selfish and driven by our own desire to survive, but why does it matter to you if you survive if you are just an input/output mechanism? My computer doesn’t care if it gets crushed to bits (I assume).
Like a number of other LLMs we tested, including the Palm 2 chat model (chat-bison-001), it adds in the street value, and assumes the plants are cannabis (which is reasonable but is an assumption not mentioned in the article).
Just because they are sued doesn't mean they are at fault. The court will decide fault.
We are not very careful and have never been. People plowed into new territories, sampled flora and fauna, tried substances and so forth. To be extra careful (in considering it an existential risk) for a hypothetical is historically atypical and I so far have not seen a convincing reason for it. Like any technology there are risks, but that is business as usual.
Did he miss? Sam was fired.
40GB although hearing reports 3090 can do low frame counts
I don't think it's any of that to a significant extent. Big companies just have thousands of processes, and the body count is just what's needed to sustain all of those processes. You see the same thing in government. Yeah, 50 people can do the work of hundreds because they aren't having 6 meetings with 6 people each to propose, implement, evaluate, review, and commit the font change to the help page, plus employing all the admin staff to support those people. Big companies are.
Who needs that when you've got Larry Fucking Summers!
From Paul Graham's Twitter, three days ago:

"No one in the world is better than Sam at dealing with this kind of situation."

Jessica Livingston retweet: "The reason I was a founding donor to OpenAI in 2015 was not because I was interested in AI, but because I believed in Sam. So I hope the board can get its act together and bring Sam and Greg back."

Also from a sibling comment: https://twitter.com/search?q=from:paulg%20since:2019-01-01%2...

Seems incredibly respectful and supportive, I'm not buying that there's a lot of bad blood there.
"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" is a great book that touches on this subject.

I read it in the middle of purchasing a new car in 2010, and had signed paperwork and a purchase agreement to buy car at $X. Next day I'm told "My manager won't let me sell for anything less than $X+Y", after I'd gone through all the trouble of filling out all that paperwork.

Fortunetly I'd just finished a chapter in the book outlining this EXACT sales technique, that relies on a person being more willing to go through with an action if they've committed something to it... like filling out half an hours worth of paperwork. Said no thanks, and found the exact same car an hour away at less than $X.

Haven't underestimated the impact of a salesperson since, and no longer delude myself trying to believe somehow I'm special and immune to such things.
> I mean, hard to imagine someone thinking "I'm not going to deal with Google because so-and-so's subordinates say they don't understand her strategy"

I'm not quite there, but as a heavy Firebase user who generally loves the product but who has been incredibly frustrated with a lot of the (lack of) direction of new features over the past 4 years or so, reading this post made me think "Ohhh, now it makes sense."

That is, there are basic, presumably easy-to-implement, features that have languished for years in Firebase. Part of me has wanted to go interview with Firebase just so I can get hired to fix some obvious missing feature. Now, granted, it's obviously impossible to pin this directly on this manager, and this is also a Google-wide problem, but I think the author's point is that a lot of this "directionless-ness" is a result of poor middle management.
Not in the machine learning world ;-) You'd need to switch to marketing workloads to make 8GB = 16GB.
For RoR, see every method call, parameter and return value in production
Well you see I grew up in a poor household so now I have scarcity mindset/hoarding mindset and I NEED to keep everything what if it's useful in the future or I can sell it for two bucks or or or or....

I like borderlands but good god is it a slog for me to play because I have to pick up ALL the loot and kill ALL the things and do ALL the side quests so now I'm 40 hours in on my first play through and haven't even beaten the game yet while all the normal people are talking about the new mechanics in super ultra extra hardcore vault hunter mode newgame++++

I downloaded a mod for Fallout 4 to make most things weightless so I could actually play the game instead of picking up every single 10mm round when I don't even use pistols.
The thing is, if the sample rate matters with respect to anything other than the Nyquist limit, your filtering isn't good enough.

Relying on spacing between sample clock harmonics to keep beatnotes out of the passband isn't great engineering practice. I have to do that in a relatively-exotic RF application, admittedly, but I wouldn't advertise it as a feature. :) And I'd never choose that approach at audio frequencies. There's just no need.
I am reassured by the fact they have only 50 staff. I’d probably be even more reassured if they could manage on 25. I speak from experience in having worked for companies with both 30 staff and 30K.
Reminds me of a funny story - the first day at Google (2018) I got a chat from an SVP, I forgot who, saying "Hi!". At first I was blown, wow, what a company! SVPs greeting new engineers! A minute later they were like "oops, my bad, wrong person".

They intended to message someone else with my first name, so my guess is they used to type that name and hit tab to start the chat, and that person was no longer the first option in the auto-complete since I joined.

(side note - the most bad-ass response to this would have been to just send back "go/no-hello" ;) )
What good does that do when they ruin a workplace? If I were bad at my job, it's not like I wouldn't get fired because I'm just such a great person outside of the workplace...
> "Dynamic" or "scripting" aren't features of languages

Surely dynamic typing is a language feature? I can't imagine what else someone would refer to with "dynamic".
Banks and trading firms can’t use customer deposits to pay their legal expenses.

Oh wait, haha, I was thinking of real banks with regulation, but this is crypto world. Yeah, your moneys’s gone.
My line of thinking is as follows. He is a smart person, not just a successful entrepreneur but a techie. He is also a LISP nerd, that means he is not afraid of unpopular choices. I would like believe these traits go together with a few others that create the kind of personality that can swallow admitting a mistake.
Tips on step 2?
The Fortran version wasn't written at MIT.