skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of neat Python research coming from Facebook.

libcst (which Fixit uses) is super cool - I use it in https://gitlab.com/harford/logzy
Maybe not. Microsoft and Summers are now much more in control. That’s a win for the USA and DOD.
"You are trying to slowly and invisibly accrue power to not scare anyone until you're absolutely ready."
It looks like the interesting feature of their tool Fixit 2 is that its lint rules know how to auto-apply themselves. I'm fine with an auto code formatter, an auto import organizer, but not sure how much I trust a linter to auto-apply "fixes".
I don't think Sam is necessarily irreplaceable. It's just that Helen
Toner and co were so detached from the rest of the organization they might as well been on Mars, as demonstrated by their interim CEO pick instantly turning against them.
Not sure if that's intended as irony, but of course, if somebody is taking multiple years off work, you would be less likely hear about it because by definition they're not going to join the company you work for.

I don't think long-term unemployment among people with a disability or other long-term condition is "fantasticaly rare", sadly. This is not the frequency by length of unemployment, but:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1219257/us-employment-ra...
The article is light on specifics, which I suppose is understandable given the nature of it, but my first question is if is considered state sponsored? If so that would be very incendiary to U.S. - Indian relations and maybe a reason for the reticence of details.
Surely the Earth would be too thick for that?
Do you use Linux? There are no driver packages on GitHub you make. It's all in the kernel.
Good to know! It never occurred to me. When I get back to San Andreas tonight I'll have to try that.
Sadly, not minifying source code can often lead to your idiot customer discovering that their web app is not a magic binary blob and complaining that it's "insecure! anyone can see how it works!", which then in turn leads to your idiot PM agreeing to a new "obfuscate all code" feature without bothering to involve anyone technical.

Deliberately obfuscated JS is far more evil, take it from someone who's had to debug 3rd-party obfuscated JS libs.
Yep, which makes them features rather than easter eggs. Easter eggs should be subversive and unapproved.

It's a loss for sure, but at least they still appear in some indie games.
South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians
But aren't you a small child, and doesn't the AI know so much more than you?

To be honest, what they view as ethical is actually unethical: this idea that the AI knows more than a human, in the human's situation, and can pass judgment on that human.
I picked up a 16gb M1 Pro about as soon as they came out. It was unbelievable for the first year, basic React web stack work.

Now I'm working on a project that requires about six Docker images, and we made a questionable choice about Typescript packages for typing our API responses. The Docker consumes most of my RAM, and even when it's turned off, there's a visible different in the IDE between mine and my M2 equipped coworkers whenever a document that uses this dumb lib is opened.

So anyway I'm picking up an M3 Max next week.
So is the real story here that putting your email on the open web simply isn't a significant "vulnerability" anymore?

Honestly, why would you spider and scrape sites when you can just grab a leaked dataset?

It would be slightly more interesting to put the canaries in a more commonly scanned location, like a plain-text bio field on a popular site (like this one... or FB... or LinkedIn...).
Market cap is a pretty arbitrary value and meaningless in this context. It's not a bank account full of that much money.

Their revenue for 2022 was $81B with a profit of $21B.

Framed correctly, $40B is in no way a tiny amount.
Tight integration is necessary - (in)security does not respect boundaries - but it is not sufficient. if your vendors are not doing it right, it's still your problem.
Minification always struck me as a cargo culting type way that "badass rockstar programmers would get every last ounce of performance" out of their code.

Because as noted below minification is much less impactful than compression, but going even further, if you really care about performance the solution is as simple as not shoving 20 metric boatloads of JavaScript in your website in the first place.

If you're argument I'd "muh rural customers" then maybe you should actually look at how your website is designed and ask yourself if you need to ship 3 different frameworks to accomplish what you need to do, or maybe start by stripping out the bloated analytics and ad nonsense in your code.

At the end of the day the author is right, the arguments about whether minification is useful is a teachincal argument, but the business will always want it for the purposes of obfuscating their code, and so we need to push back against the idea of it being an industry norm otherwise managers will push to make it so.
Ted Kacynski's writings were his worldview and what led him to send out a dozen bombs, including one which exploded on an American Airlines flight and luckily did not bring the plane down. His manifesto is his justification for said actions and to advocate becoming a student of it similarly justifies said violence.

It's the same self-own as the massive dummies in the last week who were all talking about Osama bin Laden's Letter to America being right when it was his justification for killing thousands of people on 9/11 and effectively kicking off multiple wars and further deathtoll.

It is a disgusting suggestion and I believe that you should seek professional help.
For some reason this reminds me of the Coke/New Coke fiasco, which ended up popularizing Coke Classic more than ever before.

> Consumers were outraged and demanded their beloved Coke back – the taste that they knew and had grown up with. The request to bring the old product back was so loud that soon journalists suggested that the entire project was a stunt. To this accusation Coca-Cola President Don Keough replied on July 10, 1985:

"We are not that dumb, and we are not that smart."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
That's clearly not true.

I can run a full virtual music studio on my Mac, with tens of channels, each with a collection of plugins, and multiple samples and audio files streaming off SSD at the same time.

None of that is GPU accelerated - except maybe the UI, which is split across three 4k monitors

On Windows 95 I could barely play a single WAV at once, and a dual monitor system was an exotic luxury.

Hardware has gotten a lot faster, and the software can do more without crashing. (Mostly.)

The real problem has been the move to browser+cloud for productivity applications. The OS is a front end for the browser, which is a front end for remote compute. This is hugely slow and inefficient compared to making everything work locally, and perhaps including some cloud-ish hooks for sharing.
> to individuals which no one would consider well-off enough to be labeled "greedy")

Greed doesn't have anything to do with how much money you have, it's about how much do you want "more" and what are you willing to do to get it. You can be content with nothing and greedy with nothing; content as a billionaire or greedy as a billionaire.
The duplication of work is staggering. The best people at Mint are working on the same problems as those at Fedora and PopOS and Cube and Suse … infinite loop.
> just don't make a complex web app, so it will be fast

I never thought about that, I will just tell my customers that I removed all non-trivial features to make the app load faster. Also, there won't be any new features. I'll report back on how it goes.
The issue here is that the board of the non-profit that is supposedly in charge of OpenAI (and whose interests are presumably aligned with the mission statement of the company) seemingly just lost a power struggle with their for-profit subsidiary who is not supposed to be in charge of OpenAI (and whose interests, including the interests of their employees, are aligned with making as much money as possible). Regardless of whether the board's initial decision that started this power struggle was wise or not, don't you find the outcome a little worrisome?
They don't ship to most countries from the European Union. What makes it so difficult to ship to all countries from the EU? They don't even ship from the EU. They ship from China, Taiwan or some other country from Asia.

They now have notices for using forwarding services on their site. Why would anyone bother to spend so much time and money to be able to give them money? It doesn't make sense.

I'm sure they're reasonable, talented and intelligent people. I'm not going to take their company seriously until they start shipping to the entire EU and to more countries.
As far as it goes for me the only endorsements that matter are those of the core engineering and research teaches of OpenAI.

All these opinions of outsiders don’t matter. It’s obvious that most people don’t know Sam personally or professionally and are going off of the combination of:
1. PR pieces being pushed by unknown entities
2. positive endorsements from well known people who are likely know him

Both those sources are suspect. We don’t know the motivation behind their endorsements and for the PR pieces we know the author but we don’t know commissioner.

Would we feel as positive about Altman if it turns out that half the people and PR pieces endorsing him are because government officials pushing for him? Or if the celebrities in tech are endorsing him because they are financially incentivized?

The only endorsements that matter are those of OpenAI employees (ideally those who are not just in his camp because he made them rich).
Well, it hasn't stopped memory safety bugs from being a thing, that's for sure.
Wow, very surprised this is the first I'm hearing of this, seems very suspect
Think of the lives lost to javascript minification.
I think the M1 Pro/16GB is the sweet spot for home development. I have an old Intel Air that I want to upgrade out of but the prices are still a little high. I get the feeling it will not be going much lower since any discounts should have materialized. Will keep looking at the Refurbished page on Apple.
Desperate people who have no choice than to wait for someone to remove their golden handcuffs.
I'm just pointing out that your theory is trivially disproven.

An excess of comfort is probably still bad, but I doubt it's the main cause of obesity.
I just checked: 514kB gzip vs 314kB minified+gzip. Not negligible, IMO.
I think it is quite different though, in that biometric-as-a-device-authenticator features keep your biometric data on your device. The plan with worldcoin is to create a central database of this data.
Beautiful device. Ugh. Coming across ads like this is like a bad drug.

I can hear the equipment in my closet that I already barely use, crying out to me "don't do it!"
I think you're not aware of all the available evidence. The lab leak theory does not implicate China so much as it implicates particular people in the US who intentionally moved the research to China to evade the US' ban on gain-of-function research. These same people then got to be the experts with the authority to craft the official narrative on the subject.

The most important pieces of evidence (imho) are

- No evidence for zoonotic origin has been uncovered, *and it's not for lack of trying*.
- Peter Daszak applied for funding with DARPA to take a bat coronavirus and insert the furin cleavage site; his proposal was rejected.
- The cover-up started with the "proximal origins" paper: a *peer-reviewed* paper in a *respectable journal* establishing zoonotic origin with certainty in the public eye. The Fauci emails show that the authors were far from certain, and several were leaning the other way.

US Right to Know does good journalism on this and other subjects: https://usrtk.org/category/covid-19-origins
The current board won't be at OpenAI much longer.
Using the largest, unminified, single file I could find in my node_modules folder (which happened to be tsserver.js from typescript, 11mb and 185 000 lines long)

Raw: 11 403KiB

Raw gzipped: 1 881 KiB

Minified: 3 543 KiB

Minified gzipped: 865 Kib

A 2.17x reduction between the two gzips

Even with GZip, minification is huge
> Given that the percentages of blocked spam are just 17, 50, 67 & 83, it appears that the sample was likely just 6 spam emails which isn't a lot.

This is mentioned, but a little hidden (in the description for URL encoding):

> This is based on a small sample size: just six bots that were observed over a one-year period.

I think the number of spam emails would be a bad measure, since a single scan could result in many hundreds of spam emails.
The engineers at meta worte a language + runtime on top of PHP to make it work "at scale".

If Facebook wants to make something work they have enough resources to throw at the problem to solve it. Regardless of whether it makes sense or not.
Only way to do it is to do it.

- try something like Mint if you are used to windows and PopOS if you are used to OSX

- remember that everything in GUI has a commandline equivalent
Not surprised.

That said, Panun did also threaten to blow up an Air India flight by Nov 19th (clearly didn't happen).

That said, there won't be blowback between India and US relations as a whole. The US is too important to India and India is too important to the US.

The Indian method also sucks from an OpSec standpoint - Indian agencies transfer Senior Police from state level to RAW or IB and those state police departments might brag about it on their websites. This is a big issue with Punjab Police (who tend to manage the Khalistan issue)
At that point idiot PMs just need a technical discussion in the closet for an hour having the concept explained to them with a sock full of oranges.
Imagine if the board of Apple fired Tim Cook with no warning right after he went on stage and announced their new developer platform updates for the year alongside record growth and sales, refused to elaborate as to the reasons or provide any useful communications to investors over several days, and replaced their first interim CEO with another interim CEO from a completely different kind of business in that same weekend.

If you don't think there would be a shareholder revolt against the board, for simply exercising their most fundamental right to fire the CEO, I think you're missing part the picture.
We have an evolutionary aversion to situations and things that may lead to our deaths. Staying alive is a “terminal goal” for most humans, not an instrumental goal (with the exception of people who seek to commit suicide as you point out, but evolution doesn’t need a 100% success rate). The argument that self preservation is a convergent instrumental goal is a more general statement about goal-seeking agents.

Think of a person with no attachment to his life. He’s not suffering in the way suicidal people are, he’s just indifferent about whether or not he keeps living. But he has a child who he is committed to giving the best life possible. He will act in a way as though he wants to preserve his life. He doesn’t really, but in order to accomplish the goal of giving his child a good life he needs to stay alive.
IMO, if minification is the difference between a slow and fast page load, it means you aren't utilizing compression. Minification is more obfuscation than anything, it doesn't really bring much to the compression table.
Used market is full of those 8 GB models
Windows 11 has become an ad delivery vehicle with Microsoft milking what life Windows has left in this fashion. Linux has largely commoditized operating systems and the major DEs here excel over Windows in many ways, further putting the nail in Windows for the desktop. Combine this with many applications being available with any web browser, the only reason to run Windows is for the legacy Windows applications.
This is cute. It's refreshing to see such a simple idea published on the internet in such a way. I also got a kick out of the URL.

Thanks for submitting it!
Facebook Watches Teens Online as They Prep for College
They're a small company. Maybe at their current size they can't afford the expense of conforming to European regulations.
It seems you've stirred up the minification cargo cult, who all seem to be ignoring the actual performance data vs compression . Thank you for the article!
The rpi forums have a lot of experience with this.
Is it OK to just mention a common misconception which is still prelevant about Linux?

Rolling releases provides STABLE verions of software/packages. It is NOT "bleeding edge" since it is NOT a development branch. It is the latest stable version provided by the upstream (developer/cretors of the software). Point release comes from a time where we didn't have continous development. We didn't have these faster updates.

We should be using rolling release distros like Arch/Void/OpenSUSE more cos Linux ecosystem is far more stable than you think these days. I find more breaks in point releases than in rolling releases.

Use stable software. Not old software which gets software patches from the latest stable version after which each distro has to backport the fix. Then maintain that which leads to more bugs. Just use latest stable versions. Use rolling releases. :)

You don't call iOS 17 as bleeding edge. Firefox 119 which is the latest version of Firefox as bleeding edge right? It is a stable software version.

ALSO HARDWARE: Using Linux compatible hardware will make the entire experience pleasant. There is this notion that Linux works on anything. It does. BUT NOT 100%. You'll loose bluetooth, wifi or some other things. If you want good experience, don't go for vendors like Razer laptops and complain that Linux is not working properly. Use supported hardware. There are so many these days.
1) if you're just referring to pointer size, wouldn't it be mostly a matter of computer hardware and recompiling to 64bit exes? Functionally it's the same
2) there's less cluster and more optimization. Why would it suffer at anything?
Microsoft was using GPT-4 in production as part of Sydney's "Bing Chat", even before it was released to the public on ChatGPT.
IMO, once Adobe comes to linux, or they lose their position in the industry to competitors, we will see the shift.

And the main reason is Apple doesn't support Nvidia. There are limits to what you can accomplish editing videos without a beefy GPU, so you're trapped on windows if you're using adobe premier.

I mean, games like Valorant require anti-cheat root kits will still keep us on Windows forever, but those are edge cases.
One advantage of byebug is that if you do a sleep in something with theeads like capybara tests, the browser becomes functional again. Which is not the case with irb/debug. I couldn't find a way to reproduce this behavior in recent debuggers.
There are different aspects of minification though, right?

I don't know if you count tree shaking but I do know my main project at work has 60,000 files in node_modules and if all of those were incorporated in my bundle that would be a big problem. The "modern web stack" just wouldn't work without it.

I've done a lot of photo projects where asset optimization is pretty important because it is easy to get in a place where your site costs 4x as much to run as it should and just as easy to get in a place where you compressed files too much and your images suck.

I am getting into WebXR and facing even tougher problems of asset optimization since I do want to support 90 fps on the not-too-terribly-fast generic ARM Meta Quest 3. I'm sure there is more than one reason you can't upload images to Horizon Worlds but avoiding too many textures with too much detail has to be one of them.
How long have you been using Windows for? You're "playing around" with Ubuntu and expecting to be as good at it as your full time OS of many years?
The one piece of this that I question is the employee motivations.

First, they had offers to walk to both Microsoft and Salesforce and be made good. They didn't have to stay and fight to have money and careers.

But more importantly, put yourself in the shoes of an employee and read https://web.archive.org/web/20231120233119/https://www.busin... for what they apparently heard.

I don't know about anyone else. But if I was being asked to choose sides in a he-said, she-said dispute, the board was publicly hinting at really bad stuff, and THAT was the explanation, I know what side I'd take.

Don't forget, when the news broke, people's assumption from the wording of the board statement was that Sam was doing shady stuff, and there was potential jail time involved. And they justify smearing Sam like that because two board members thought they heard different things from Sam, and he gave what looked like the same project to two people???

There were far better stories that they could have told. Heck, the Internet made up many far better narratives than the board did. But that was the board's ACTUAL story.

Put me on the side of, "I'd have signed that letter, and money would have had nothing to do with it."
https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-threading-python/27...

In which Meta promises 3 engineer-years for enhancing python.
The Power of Bidiagonal Matrices
> I can see what other videos you watch.

> I can see what you type into the search bar - even when it’s not for my video.

Wait, wait, wait, what!? How does the platform allow that?
Spidering and scraping is 'more' legal?
Recent nvidia (3-4 series) cards work pretty well now.
I don't disagree with you but have you ever had to google a windows issue in recent history? You get 90 links of 'Microsoft experts' that ask you to run "sfc /scannow" or "chdsk". None of them having a clue what they are talking about.

I think it is usually easier to fix windows if you have 'audio not working' but windows 10+ has started to have a lot of non trivial issues and there are no simple google fixes. I have had serious problems as an IT worker with EVERY large windows update in the last 3 years.

On the other side of things, I have seen linux desktop issues that are a nightmare to figure out, including audio not working after a recent update.
I think this was the case with the last generation of Threadrippers too. I wonder if they could get more performance with a more recent kernel?
My HR web service, used to check if colleagues are on paid leave, has a paginated view of an html table of paid leaves, 30 people per page. A single page contains about 2 million times the character "space", which in the vast majority of html rendering, is completely ignored (exceptions when they actually separate symbols and when they're present in raw text rendered as-is).

There so many more ways to improve performance without minifying code.
The Weizmann Institute spent ~20% of its budget to build the first computer
> It's maybe a bit broad.

I've always thought the difficulty in defining what AI is stems from a need to differentiate humans from the "artificial" part of it.

The real issue with using AI (from a law enforcement perspective) is the inability to put somebody under oath and ask them why they made the decisions they did. All the FTC really needs to say is something like "If we suspect your product is discriminating against a protected class and you can't (as a company) explain what the decision making process was (that was non-discriminatory) we will assume the worst."
Most people aren't making webpages that need a quarter million lines of JS. For a normal sized webpage, difference between raw gzipped and minified gzipped is negligable.

Or maybe even "modern front end" hello world apps now need a quarter of a million lines because "modern" JS devs use super mega react typescript which installs 1000 npm dependencies and requires a 30 second "build" to generate a huge monolithic minified tree-shook js blob. I wouldn't know, I just use vanilla JS for my web pages.