skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching to Git makes sense, but choosing GitHub is diametrically opposed to what Mozilla claim their principles are — specifically principle 6 of the Mozilla Manifesto: “The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralised participation worldwide.”

=> https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/about/manifesto/

In future it won't be possible to contribute to Firefox without a Microsoft account. If Microsoft decide to close your account (which they're entitled to do — they own the website), you can't participate.

Mozilla were one of the few hold-outs against this particular attempted monopoly. Again, Mozilla makes a short-termist decision that makes sense for a Silicon Valley lifestyle brand, but makes no sense for an independent mission-driven public-service community project.

They're an untrustworthy upstream.
1. About 15 years of experience in C++, 2-3 years in Rust.

2. I'm retired now, but I would have considered Rust for any greenfield project that didn't have a compelling reason to pick C++ (e.g. mandatory interop with an existing big C++ library).

3. Rust nearly every time. I sometimes use a layer of C++ as an FFI shim, such as when writing a gRPC client/server (the Rust libs there aren't mature).

4. The library ecosystem. Rust's crates.io seems full, but if you scratch the surface it's just a bunch of half-baked hobby projects at v0.x versions. And Cargo (the most popular build system for Rust) has essentially no support for multi-library packages, so instead of something like GLib (a single dep with lots of functionality) it's common to see even trivial programs depending on dozens or hundreds of half-baked hobby projects at v0.x versions.

5. Most of the Haskell/ML-ish functionality, such as traits and proper enums. I'm currently in the middle of a Rust project that's gotten much bigger than I expected (parsers are hard! compilers are hard! zero-copy is hard!), but it's still possible to make progress by leaning heavily on the type system.

I often describe Rust as "a dialect of C++ where the compiler forces Google Standard C++ on the world", or alternatively "the language you'd get if you hired a team of Haskell developers to write firmware".
There are ad networks that serve simple, lightweight ads, and yet when people install an ad blocker their revealed preference equates to refusing all ads, even when they do not have any of the negative characteristics you mention.
As far as I can tell it's always been on both ext3 and ext4, yes.
One of the most important things I've learned in life is that organizing people to work toward the same goal is very hard. The larger the group you need to organize, the harder it is.

Initially, when the idea is small, it is hard to sell it to talent, investors and early customers to bring all key pieces together.

Later, when the idea is well recognized and accepted, the organization usually becomes big and the challenge shifts to understanding the complex interaction of various competing sub-ideas, projects and organizational structures. Humans did not evolve to manage such complex systems and interacting with thousands of stakeholders, beyond what can be directly observed and fully understood.

However, without this organization, engineers, researchers, etc cannot work on big audacious projects, which involve more resources than 1 person can provide by themselves. That's why the skill of organizing and leading people is so highly valued and compensated.

It is common to think of leaders not contributing much, but this view might be skewed because of mostly looking at executives in large companies at the time they have clear moats. At that point leadership might be less important in the short term: product sells itself, talent is knocking on the door, and money is abundant. But this is an unusual short-lived state between taking an idea off the ground and defending against quickly shifting market forces.
It made me wonder how hard it would be to get Firefox running inside of there.
you mean how google scans everyone's fingerprints and apple scans everyone's faces?
Very soon, we will be able to change story line of a web series dynamically, a little more thrill, a little more comedy, changing character face to matching ours and others, all in 3D with 360 degree view, how far are we from this ? 5 year ?
Didn't most sign the letter before they knew they had any offer to join Microsoft in any capacity?

Also maybe I'm just too risk averse but if I were concerned about money I wouldn't be putting my name on such a list. Although at some point past 50% it would feel pretty safe because what are they going to do, fire everyone?
Even the Federal Reserve has the “Fed Whisperer” Nick Timiraos. Pretty much an open secret he has a direct line.
Thank for the recommendation! Will check it out.
Which begs the question: why do people buy consoles at all? Why don't they buy PCs? I have never owned nor seen the attraction of a gaming console as opposed to a general PC.
If he pushes WorldCoin? Yes. No doubt.
>if the game consoles get commoditised like PCs

That might be bad for Sony share holders (to a degree) but it's excellent in general.
If the ZIRP era has taught us anything, it's that private companies can spray other people's money up the wall just as well as anyone
How so? A universal and tamper-proof ID system sounds like a good idea. In my country we have a pretty rock solid digital ID but the problem is that it's national, so the utility is limited.

I want to build global apps where I know every user is real and limited to one account but currently that's impossible. I don't know enough about Worldcoin to know if that's it though.
Right. They aren't actually voting for Sam Altman. If I'm working at a company and I see as little as 10% of the company jump ship I think "I'd better get the frik outta here". Especially if I respect the other people who are leaving. This isnt a blind vote. This is a rolling snowball.

I don't think very many people actually need to believe in Sam Altman for basically everyone to switch to Microsoft.

95% doesn't show a large amount of loyalty to Sam it shows a low amount of loyalty to OpenAI.

So it looks like a VERY normal company.
Pro no, Air however yep, I'm one of them. Big performance boost from the base M1 to the M3 Pro.
do you have evidence to back this up?
Exactly this. Is the goal to reach a level of intelligence comparable to a human or is the goal to emulate human behavior?

Those are two very different goals and I don't think one is necessary to achieve the other.
As far as I understood it: Forget GPUs, this thing is plenty fast on CPUs.

In general, GPUs are bad at branching. The fastest way to implement it on GPUs is probably to let it calculate both sides of the branch and then only use the result of the one that was taken. Which won't be faster than a normal NN.
> only left remnant traces as idioms in English

Just to pursue this thread: the Online Etymology Dictionary says

> The notion of the intestines as a seat of emotions is ancient (see bowel) and probably explains expressions such as gut reaction (1963), gut feeling (by 1970), and compare guts. Gut check attested by 1976.

where "guts" says:

> The idea of the bowels as the seat of the spirit goes back to at least mid-14c. (compare bowel).

and "bowel" says:

> The transferred sense of "the viscera as the seat of emotions" is from late 14c.; especially "inner parts as the seat of pity or kindness," hence "tenderness, compassion." Greek splankhnon (from the same PIE root as spleen) was a word for the principal internal organs, which also were felt in ancient times to be the seat of various emotions. Greek poets, from Aeschylus down, regarded the bowels as the seat of the more violent passions such as anger and love, but by the Hebrews they were seen as the seat of tender affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. Splankhnon was used in Septuagint to translate a Hebrew word, and from thence early Bibles in English rendered it in its literal sense as bowels, which thus acquired in English a secondary meaning of "pity, compassion" (late 14c.). But in later editions the word often was translated as heart.
I am an Arch enthusiast since I like building my system up and learning how things are put together, but it is not a terribly good platform for learning how to use or manage a Linux system. One of the issues is that you end up with a system is tailored to your own needs. While that sounds great, you have to make an effort to generalize those skills since no one else will have a setup quite like yours.
I’m down for the next season of this hot drama.
I would be really interested what you were unhappy with? the only major thing that truely changed after 2017 was that wine became almost universally compatible.

It was freakish how little issues i had in 2019 when i switched completely.
Your comment and sentiment is wildly inappropriate. You don't even bother to raise an accusation, just smear a person's character. We should all expect better from this forum.
I work with a lot of 4K elements and video in Apple Motion, After Effects, and other applications. The better the chip the faster things go, especially previews and encoding. Every second ends up counting.

I can see why others like me may upgrade. But I’m not going to bother just yet.
Selling something at a loss to make money elsewhere is not inherently anti-competitive in many locations. Depends on where you are.
>My only complaints are that Linux can be tedious, everything is just 43 commands away

That is because you are using Ubuntu which is a prehistoric Linux OS. Try Fedora Cinnamon.

People complain about linux, but are using something that is designed to be a decade old for 'stability'. Meanwhile I have 0 issues with Fedora Cinnamon's stability, I think Ubuntu + children are cashing in on name recognition. Its time to move on.
Yes...

Investors and executives.. everyone in 2023 is hyper focused on "Thiel Monopoly."

Platform, moat, aggregation theory, network effects, first mover advantages.. all those ways of thinking about it.

There's no point in being bing to Google's AdWords... So the big question is pathway to being the adWords. "Winning." That's the paradigm. This is where big returns will be.

However.. we should always remember, but the future is harder to see from the past. Post fact analysis, can often make things seem a lot simpler and more inevitable than they ever were.

It's not clear what a winner even is here. What are the bottlenecks to be controlled. What are the business models, revenue sources. What represents the "LLM Google," America online, Yahoo or a 90s dumb pipe.

FYIW I think all the big text have powerful plays available.. including keeping powder dry.

No doubt that proximity to openAI, control, influence, access to IP.. all strategic assets. That's why they're all invested an involved in the consortium.

That said assets or not strategies. It's hard to have strategies when strategic goals are unclear.

You can nominate a strategic goal from here, try to stay upstream, make exploratory investments and bets... There is no rush for the prize, unless the price is known.

Obviously, I'm assuming the prixe is not AGI and a solution to everything... That kind of abstraction is useful, but I do not think it's operative.

It's not a race currently, to see who's R&D lab turns on the first super intelligent consciousness.

Assuming I'm correct on that, we really have no idea which applications LLM capabilities companies are actually competing for.
> Are we talking about safety against hackers? The large majority of C++ applications are non-public facing.

That is like saying that most screws aren't load bearing, so it's fine if they fail 30% of the time. The way engineering works is that people build on reusable pieces. For example, several bugs in libjpeg have caused serious vulnerabilities in many applications, including web browsers. You cannot predict how software will be used; it will end up somewhere in someone's stack and suddenly its bugs are CVEs with huge impact.
Worldcoin

You must be a sociopath to think that's a good idea.

> “Sam lives on the edge of what other people will accept,” said one of the people who had worked with him closely. “Sometimes he goes too far.”

Silicon Valley has a profound problem with (a lack of) morals and ethics.
US law requires airlines to include all required fee in the original price. I don’t pay a penny more than what’s listed on google flights.
Sure, but most of those are things you rarely need and it’s not like Mercurial was an AI which always knew what you meant - anyone who ever tried to explain merge-queues to someone else knows that some concepts are just harder than others.
They are getting a 78x speedup w/o hardware support which is pretty good: they think they can speed it up another 4x if they had the right hardware support. So it looks useful now with possibility to get better.

So long as I've been involved with neural networks for text analysis it's seemed to me that we really should be using sparse activations because any particular document only involves a limited set of concepts.

For instance a search engine for patents might be looking at a patent for adhesive tape which activates a certain set of concepts but is not going to activate concepts involved with bicycle derailleurs or public key cryptography: a sparse representation reflects this and dense representations don't.
I probably learned that fact from an episode of neuroscientist Andrew Huberman's podcast--more likely than not episode one:

https://youtu.be/H-XfCl-HpRM
One of my earliest bosses was the main web developer for a telco's marketing department. He would get everything working and ready the way that it needed to be, then prior to showing it to marketing would change something to be clearly wrong. In my example, he just put a red line down the middle of one section that looked out of place.

Marketing would review it and say, "Everything looks good, let's just change that red line there. Thanks!"

I asked him why he did that and he said that if he didn't give them something obvious to change, they would find something that was working that didn't need to be changed.
I noticed a performance increase over windows 11 on my setup as well.

I thought it was just a fresh install thing, but its been months and still flies.

Highly recommending Fedora Cinnamon.
It would be lovely if more people with absolute integrity (vs. "integrity, but...") were at the decision-making table on this. Sadly, that seems not to be the case. And those actually at the table are very well-entrenched, with strong interests in maintaining the status quo.
My thesis is that at one point, people knew this about their creations through direct interaction. Analytics are a poor substitute, especially since they do not show the subtle aspects of engagement.

Our natural instinct for curiosity as you put it is precisely the tool used by big-tech to subvert our natural human instincts into becoming replaceable cogs of their technological kingdom.
He's a YC guy who made a lot of money in tech and this is a YC website full of people wishing they made a lot of money in tech.
their long term project doesn't save or store retina patterns in any way. they store of a hash of it that is mathematically impossible to reverse. it's clear you wildly misunderstand how this works, i would encourage you to go learn more. i'd also welcome you to explain how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains
Ask HN: Are there any governments incorporating LLMs into the civil service?
I've been concerned lately with administrative creep, and the potential for chatbots to take over roles in the civil service without costing more money or being tempted by opportunities for graft. My question is, are any countries or municipalities experimenting with that now or discussing the potential to do it in the future?
M1 to M2 Pro for the 96GB which is nice for LLMs/AI.
Maybe but I think the next big one will be reasoning.
Speaking of running Windows 98 in a browser, some of you might enjoy this:

https://win1998.com
As a Rust developer (and former C++ developer), I agree with much of what the author writes. I feel that Rust is a largely better language for my tasks but yes, Rust doesn't yet cover all the use cases for C++. I feel that the reasons to pick C++ for any new development are dwindling, but they still exist.

However, this author, like many, does not understand what safety means.

1. There is much more to safety than memory-safety. Safety is about protecting your invariants. A program that is not safe is a program in which things that happen that are contrary to the intent of the developer.

2. Memory-safety is just one of the many tools in the safety toolbox. Without memory-safety, it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot. With memory-safety, it's still possible, but you have to work harder at it.

3. Segmentation faults or stack overflows are what happens if you break memory-safety and you are extremely lucky. In most cases, what you get is random memory corruption. Do you really want memory corruption in a trading platform?

4. Security and safety are related, but they are different topics. See https://yoric.github.io/post/safety-and-security/ (self-promotion).
> All I'm saying is that I used to diminish the importance of quality senior leadership.

Quality senior leadership is, indeed, very important.

However, far, far too many people see "their company makes a lot of money" or "they are charismatic and talk a good game" and think that means the senior leadership is high-quality.

True quality is much harder to measure, especially in the short term. As you imply, part of it is being able to choose good management—but measuring the quality of management is also hard, and most of the corporate world today has utterly backwards ideas about what actually makes good managers (eg, "willing to abuse employees to force them to work long hours", etc).
> ADTs

C++ is already a very complex beast as it is.

ADTs (and pattern matching) make it concise to express many different programming things.

But I'd imagine that adding it to C++ would be horrendous.
Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?
I think the problem comes down to: I have no faith that any for-profit journalism institution presenting a paywall will perform like a good actor in return, because the well of advertisement and content for money has been poisoned for so long by so many bad actors that there can be no trust.

Cable promised that you paid it, so it would never have ads. At the movie theatre, you pay to get in, then pay $25 for sugarwater and corn, then sit through 25 minutes of advertisement.

Does the international-megacorp-owned newspaper that shut down all its local news teams really need my $6/month? Would they do good if I gave it to them? The horse is unfortunately kinda out the barn door here.

Not part of that group are smaller, intentionally local or mission driven, perhaps non-profit organizations, especially if they offer the news for free but then have a premium model that allows me to support them and get a non-essential frill. Those places are at least starting from a place of utility and trust, and I will reward them for it.
I'm sorry to say this but South Africa is towards the bottom of most safety rankings I've seen. Of course most other places do better, including the US :-(
Even if all the employees don’t quit, losing even a quarter would be devastating. They will have a reputation as a shit show and lose all the best people to anthropic, Microsoft and google. They have the best product right now but everything improving so quickly means they will get left behind.
CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE
that's exactly one of the biggest use cases for WC. the internet needs this and will need it 100x more in a few years
I think I saw several across Europe. Here's one in Croatia: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ikZfxSPX7gbuVFFv8

When it comes to pylon shapes, I quite like this one because it vaguely looks like a goat: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZsmXL95mr1fknCqw7
US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
Depends on your workload and what you're doing. This is an extreme example, but Marco Arment over on ATP discussed going from a top-o-the-line M1 to top-o-the-line M3, and saw his Xcode build time for his app (Overcast) get nearly cut in half (I believe he said 19 seconds to 11 seconds). For something that happens several times a day and is a critical and interruptive step in his workflow, yeah, he found it meaningful.
This looks like it's about to change, at least in the EU.
We’re not gonna see it but I’d love to see Sam’s new contract and particularly any restraints on outside activities.
Pattern matching can be done over structs as well, in Rust.
I honestly don't have a strong position on app stores being exclusive or not -- I see pros and cons on both sides.

But I do find it ridiculous that a lot of people (including lawmakers) want to force Apple to open its store, but defend Sony/Xbox.

No. From a legal standpoint, there's no good reason to treat a $499 consumer CPU+GPU device differently, depending on whether it sits in your pocket or under your TV.

If you support government-mandated third-party app stores for your iPhone, you should support them for PS and Xbox as well.
I also use stupid sayings sometimes too
I subscribe to the HN RSS feed, which shows flagged items since they're published on the feed before they're flagged. The craziest thing that stands out to me is how so many negative stories on Sam Altman end up being flagged, even though they are just as legit as the positive ones. I'm almost 100% certain that HN is highly manipulated for this story.

For no other topic have I seen so many flagged stories, and all of them are the ones that paint Sam in a negative light.
> That's not the key at all.

The reason it is is because defamation requires falsity, and if the article states nothing false then there cannot be a claim for defamation or for anything arising from that.

> Some of what is being alleged is the equivalent of taking something that is several standard deviations from the mean and claiming this is the mean.

The article did not "claim[] this is the mean," though. There is no wording directly stating anything about frequency of occurrence or whether the observations are representative. Your quoted paragraph says as much.

> Making a concerted and calculated effort to damage your career and person with false and deeply distorted allegations? Would that be OK?

Being OK with something is not the same thing as something being (il)legal. The First Amendment doesn't only protect "acceptable" speech.

In addition, you're mixing two different things here. False allegations are subject to defamation claims by definition. Deeply distorted allegations, on the other hand, are not automatically defamation - the manner and effect of the distortion influences the analysis.
I'm not completely sure if it works the same in the States as it does in Canada, but asking strangers/distant acquaintances how they're doing is never a real question. People aren't actually asking. You basically have 4 or 5 canned responses to supply from "great, you?" to "living the dream...", all of which don't say much. Any more and you're being a nuissance.
https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-a...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

He came to visit our office (YC '12 company) a few times and spoke with our team in very small fireside like gatherings. Dude always gave me a very creepy vibe. Something aint right there.