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It's funny, you clearly read the news in this very thread (US publicly denouncing a kill plot on US soil), yet you absolutely don't manage to connect the two.
I realize part of why Sam Altman feels so important in OpenAI is because he invited everyone to come along. You can build something pretty close to chat.openai.com on the APIs, and their APIs continue to grow as their product grows. I think that's closely related to his leadership.

This Inflection announcement feels kind of like your neighbor showing you his cool new Jaguar. Can I even take it for a test drive? Well, no... but he'll take me out in a drive in a while, you betcha. "Yeah, cool model you have there," but I'm eyeing the exit.

This is the other side of the "commercial vs mission" argument. Doing commercial activity is the only way to be inclusive. Except open source... but even there it's not a clear call. And writing papers touting your achievements is... kind of narcissistic?
>This is diplomatic and precedent setting

Extrajudicial killings by governments have happened for time eternal. There is absolutely nothing new or precedent setting about this. The truth is that most of the time governments deal with it quietly and behind the scenes. It's actually incredibly odd for the US to have announced what they have, and it is almost certainly because of the Canada thing.

>a leader who clearly isn’t respected enough

You have partisan glasses on. What do you think any other leader would have done? Would Harper have declared war? Would PP in the future?

Given that India absolutely flipped their shit (they've backtracked on all of it, as an aside...so powerful), clearly Canada's announcement by itself was an enormous action.

But seriously, what do you think the US is going to do? The most powerful nation on the planet is going to...send some diplomatic cables and express their disatisfaction.
An alternative to leaning on your laptop that way is to use a 2nd headless system to do builds, run tests, host containers, etc. It can be more economical over time and better DX to use this [semi-] dumb terminal approach, depending on specifics of your workflow.
good points. on second thought, i should give them due credit for building a brand reputation as being "best" that will continue even if they aren't the best at some point, which will keep a lot of people with them. that's in addition to their other advantages that people will stay because it's easier than learning a new platform and there might be lock-in in terms of it being hard to move a trained gpt, or your chat history to another platform.
Polar Star is Coast Guard. Coast Guard is technically armed service but they do search and rescue, and law enforcement. They are under Homeland Security.
This website is YCombinator. Sam was with YCombinator
I don't think the age of the board members matters, but rather that younger generations have been taught to criticize boards of any & every company for their myriad decisions to sacrifice good things for profit, etc.

It's a common theme in the overall critique of late stage capitalism, is all I'm saying — and that it could be a factor in influencing OpenAI's employees' decisions to seek action that specifically eliminates the current board, as a matter of inherent bias that boards act problematically to begin with.
Kent does plenty of things right during the development process, but having a decade of experience contributing to OpenZFS/ZFSOnLinux, I can say that I will be very surprised if everything goes as well as people seem to think. There are many bugs in a complex code base and a simple 10x increase in userbase will undoubtably result in more reports of people hitting them.

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.
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Often I avoid comments by using long names for functions and variables (e.g. the test whose name is a statement of the postulate behind it) and minimization squashes many of those.
Was trying to configure a network bridge for a vm just the other day from cli. The guide (for Ubuntu which I was also using) was using nmcli (Network Manager), tried it and command not found, back to searching and was nudged to systemd networking by stackoverflow which didnt work either. Turns out that my system was using Netplan. Three different systems to handle networking, really? Ok, chatgpt convert this nmcli command to netplan, sure here you go just put this in your netplan config file and apply config. Ends up with a botched network config on a headless system.
Sure. And as I addressed at the start of this sub thread, I don't exactly think that the OpenAi board is perfectly positioned to navigate this problem.

I just know that it's hard to do much worse than putting this question in the hands of a highly optimized profit-first enterprise.
Oh, the screensaver. I confused myself and thought you were talking about the 3D hovercraft game. Oops.
thanks, i really enjoyed watching it
you could also say that "supports linux" allowed them to discover and remedy this vulnerability which would likely have still existed without linux support, thus making the device stronger for both windows and linux users.
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> One is a financial commitment, the other is a military commitment. They're very different.

The U.S. co-producing nuclear submarines with Australia isn’t a military commitment?

> your argument is US aligned with Pakistan only because India aligned with Soviet Union

This was never said? We didn’t ally with India because it was allied with the Soviets. We have no problem allying with both sides of a regional spat e.g. Israel & Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Greece and Japan & Korea.
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The worst thing is the swell of people who feel they have the right to know. It's a private business decision, not gossip.

Also, when you fire somebody with cause, you don't broadcast the gory details. You're not trying to destroy them, just get them out of your orbit. Retaining the whole reason also limits the legal comeback.

Personally pretty tired of the drama.
"The small electric van just celebrated its US unveiling at an event last week signifying the brand’s plans to enter the US market. According to HW ELECTRO, commercial sales of the PUZZLE are expected to begin in 2025."
The bigger question, of course, whether the following statement is true:

"All we ARE now are faster, better, more powerful Elizas"

Is that all there is, but organic instead of digitally modeled? Organic brings in a lot of uncertainty and chaos. That, too, can be digitally modeled. Are we ghosts in our own organic machines, or are we simply those machines, hallucinating our own importance?
> We should be using rolling release distros like Arch/Void/OpenSUSE

No thanks, standard Ubuntu or Kubuntu are great. I don't want a rolling release nightmare like Windows. Steam screwed up by not using at least Debian (base for Ubuntu/Kubuntu) in their Steam console.
> I'm left feeling like there are no angels here.

That's my feeling after watching all this play out over the last few days. I don't trust any of these people to be good stewards of anything that is supposed to benefit humanity.
Because it a common term used for a category of languages that everybody understands.

If you have a problem with it, you can take it up with the aforementioned everybody. Personally I think it gets perilously close to the error that if you argue definitions enough you can change reality. It doesn't matter what labels we slap on clearly related languages Python/Perl/Javascript/Lua/PHP/Javascript, I consider it a mistake to build a large system with them in 2023 because of their deficiencies, and given the extreme efforts being exerted trying to fix those very same deficiencies with things like gradual typing and strongly-typed languages like TypeScript that compile down into them, which includes the effort Facebook has exerted, clearly it is not a terribly heterodox opinion.
that's for MCU and yes, as it does not use rust's stdlib.

there are lots of embedded systems that run with glibc or musl shared libraries, if rust is used there, it will blow up the storage space with just a few executables due to the static stdlibs.
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Effective altruisme is a smoke screen term to make legislators and the public believe that tech companies have humanities best imterest at heart. It's just to prevent legislators from imposing legislative controls on the industry by making them believe that they have things under control... When they obviously dont.

Self regulation of industries has never worked and never will.
It's understandable though... 'supports linux' tends to mean secure boot isn't enforced, and you have a much higher chance of being able to just boot from a USB and dump the disk...

I was disappointed when I installed linux on my laptop to find that a default ubuntu install could mount and decrypt a bitlocker encrypted windows drive with no trouble - while I was under the impression that the encryption keys were locked deep in the TPM and couldn't be extracted by anything but a securely booted windows installation.
Looking at the history even if such policy exists they are def. trying to avoid targeting western journalists. As sad as it sounds if she looked like a westerner she would prob be alive. On the other hand I have no clue clue if Hamas etc. have history of using vests and other press gear as cover in their ops.
If you read a bunch of books and then write your own book, is that book a derivative of the books you have read throughout your life? I doubt too many artists have never experienced nor been influenced by other works in their medium prior to making their works, but that's not what we are referring to by derivative work. Typically derivative work means something like a movie based on a book, or a translation, or a parody, etc where something of the new work is clearly coming from a previous work. While an AI could certainly produce a derivative work, for example if you only trained an AI on a specific artist's style to produce new works that specifically emulated that style, at some point the link between a new work and those that influenced it is so tenuous that the new work is original.
Wishfully I hope there was some intent from the beginning on exposing the impossibility of this contradictory model to the world, so that a global audience can evaluate on how to improve our system to support a better future.
Partially historical inertia, partially the fact that commercial Fortran compilers have had decades to optimize numerical code to within an inch of its life.

Also, for at least the older versions of it, its a pretty small language. If you have a grad student who's already familiar with programming, they can probably teach themselves Fortran and start being able to make useful changes to your research code in a week or two. Compare, say, C++ where just learning the language enough to be useful could take most of a semester.
I've been writing python for a longer amount of time.

What makes python popular is it's the ease of use and debugging. It may not have been type safe but every time it crashed it's extremely easy to find out where and why it crashed. This is not the case languages like JavaScript or for even something like golang which is ironically type safe. I like to emphasize this here. It is more important for a language to be extremely clear about the origin and nature of a runtime error then it is to be type and statically safe. Look at C++. It has powerful static typing but is marred by seg faults and memory leaks which are hidden errors that are extremely hard to tease out.

That being said, modern python now has types. The bandaids on top of python from sheer coincidence turns it into a powerful scalable language for the web rather then an ugly patchwork.

The main problem with python right now would be the performance and the library ecosystem. Performance is of course mainly the gil and libraries are often written with tricks that make static typing impossible. It's just old tech debt getting in the way not the modern language itself. Linters should prevent anyone starting new code using those patterns again.

Other then that, pythons type system + checkers supports even sum types with exhaustive pattern matching added with extreme ease of debugging runtime errors makes python one of the best languages for big projects. That level of safety isn't even offered by go or typescript. The only alternatives are rust or haskell for sum types.

I highly disagree with you. Python is not without old tech debt warts holding it back, but overall it is a superior language.
In Fortran you can write high-performance array code without getting lost in a maze of pointers. As most of the code is written by academics, the talent question is pretty immaterial, there is no money to compete for top-level software engineers anyway.
It's so nice, actually. Great little effect that fits well with the rest of the page's aesthetic.
Ask HN: Is possible to have a Linux setup where Bluetooth just works?
Even with Kernel-compatible devices and custom BlueZ configuration, the UX for bluetooth devices on Linux is simple terrible. Even on Steam Deck, which is quite optimized and less-prone to errors, it is not the same as in other platforms. So I was wondering if nowadays it is possible to have a software and hardware setup where the things just works?
Adobe won't come to Linux until they would lose money by not getting there.

They won't lose money, unless there's a competitor, that eats their lunch. Basically something competitive like Davinci Resolve, but for the other parts of their suite.
Its honestly pretty on point
AWS and GCP aren't monopoly/duopoly. Console may be interesting but seems no one cares if that market.
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It's a problem when offices have to operate according to Beijing time.
If some of the smartest people on the planet are willing to sell the rest of us out for Comfy Lifestyle Money (not even Influence State Politics Money), then we are well and truly Capital-F Fucked.
Eh, this is messy in the sense if you have an older car that you tend to fix yourself it can be useful for them to have your information.

For example I replaced some kind of ignition pack on my car that had a multi year warranty. I had moved since I bought it an long lost the receipt. It started to go out, and I went to the store, gave them my name, and they were able to swap the unit out then and there.
It isn't clear from the article that this leak isn't just current and past employees. They certainly have that many current and somewhat recent past employees. They may also have SSNs for folks who have commercial accounts. Commercial charge accounts often come with better pricing that a normal retail sale.

I doupt they had been collecting retail customers SSNs on a large scale.
Most of the EU is NATO, so no idea what you are talking about.
Not sure how this is supposed to answer what I wrote, but okay, thanks for the information.
Do you have any strong example websites? The website you linked is very simple, I can’t see why most pages on it would benefit from using JS at all except for analytics or similar. It’s a good website, I don’t mean to make it sound otherwise, but it’s not the type that should consider minifying code in the first place.

Minification’s more useful for web applications, along the lines of: MS Office (e.g. Excel), Zappier, UberEats, Photoshop, the reporting side of analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) where you get all the interactive graphs and maps.

I think many of the disagreements on here would dissolve if they were only considering blogs and similarly small websites.
Seriously if you are still running email with HTML and scripting enabled you need to turn it off. Plain text is fine for everything use a secure messaging program like signal for anything else.
> We are stealing all their top talent as migrants.

Lol no. The USA is stealing India's top talent. Canada is just getting whatever residue remains at the bottom of the educational immigration barrel, filled with washouts who couldn't get a job back home so they decided to enroll at a fake degree mill (yes, there are exceptions, far and few).
It might be because of the clock of the CPU or the dac being 24Mhz.

24MHz/512=46.875KHz

Edit: or 12, 6, 3...

24MHz/512=46.875KHz
12MHz/256=46.875KHz
6MHz/128=46.875KHz
3MHz/64=46.875KHz...
Fortran 2023 adds ternaries. I approve! ...but I am doubtless heavily outnumbered.
The first two points will be addressed in the next major release with typed catchers. The latest release notes[1] call this out, and in fact reference the same Github issue.

Additionally, it looks like they're even addressing one of the most common criticisms - having to declare requirements/guards on every handler. See "Associated Resources".

[1]: https://rocket.rs/v0.5/news/2023-11-17-version-0.5/
Hard-to-eradicate Canadian super pigs threaten to invade the US
We have a fascination to find a hero or villain as a singular explanation. It makes for a a good article or Michael Lewis book. The JWST might have also succeeded because of the failures learned from the Hubble telescope.
Firefox has hardware video decoding enabled by default on linux for years now, only google chrome doesn't want to bother doing the work to enable it. That said, in some cases hardware video decoding may be unavailable due to IP issues that forbid the necessary code to be distributed freely.
I’m surprised URL encoding works so well. I’ve been base64 encoding and using JS to decode, but if URL encoding is that reliably, it’s probably not worth it.
I haven't seen it put this way - food for thought.

Reminds me of that attempted mass murder at yet another Winter Festival in France - doesn't make any sense that this would happen again and again by Islamists from a US perspective, but from a "fuck it, we're just giving up" perspective it makes perfect sense.
All discussions of EA run into the fact that EA is a diverse movement with lots of different opinions and “wings” of the movement with different priorities. So any statement like the above is going to have dissenters.

At the same time (and to practice charity, as many in the movement recommend): it is also perfectly accurate to note that there is an opinionated wing of the EA movement that believes AI risk is the most important X-risk facing us, and influential members of that movement have certainly made statements downplaying the relative risk of climate change. They’ve also managed to get some agreement from portions of the broader community. (And it is also hard to deny that some of the latter elements of the movement seem to be gaining ground in ‘capturing’ the brand, at least as far as it’s known to the public.)
Working out nicely for Msft then. You can use GPT4 via Azure already.
Bluetooth doesn't “just work” anywhere. It’s ranges of tolerable and Linux is just in the lowest extreme.
I was excited to try zfs on a separate disk with Ubuntu, until I screwed up my windows boot... guess sit will be a while before I get to try it while I fix my mess.
> They are registered as a 501(c)(3) which is what people commonly call a public charity.

TIL "public charity" is specific legal term that only some 501(c)(3) qualify as. To do so there are additional restrictions, including around governance and a requirement that a significant amount of funding come from small donors other charities or the government. In exchange a public charity has higher tax deductible giving limits for donors.
> The important thing is that the nonprofit (donated, tax-free) money doesn't flow into the forprofit section.

I am sure that is true. But the for-profit uses IP that was developed inside of the non-profit with (presumably) tax deductible donations. That IP should be valued somehow. But, as I said, I am sure they were somehow able to structure it in a way that is legal, but it has an illegal feel to it.
I think part of it is because a lot of these more user-oriented features (desktop compositing, sandboxed app stores, hdr, etc.) don't get a lot of attention on Linux until after the two major commercial operating systems get them and prove people actually want them.

The monied interests driving a lot of Linux development do not have the same need for these things as end users. To them, Linux is a server, or a lightweight embedded OS, or needed for some other specialized use case.
i'd be curious to know, of the spam emails received, what percentage were blocked by basic spam filtering?

in 2023 email spam seems like mostly a solved problem - i very rarely get any that actually makes it through to my inbox. trying to solve the spam problem by protecting your email address from becoming public might have seemed like a valid strategy 20 years ago, but we have better tools now.
It would be impressive if it had built the robot, serviced it, and deployed it to my house to do chores.
Not really a block. I’ve worked on CAPTCHA-solving bots. But it does increase the cost. I’d probably not scrape for emails anyways though, using leaked datasets is likely far more economical.
> One of the marks in favor of being cutthroat about pre-registering KPIs and expected outcomes, and then evaluating solely based on them.

That's the only thing off in your comment. Those KPIs are always set by politics, always have surprisingly subjective measurements, and always have unpredictable consequences that are cleared out by politics.

An environment with all formal strictly set objective metrics is one of the easiest ones to manipulate.
This article sounds like the author started with a conclusion and worked their way back to a premise. Monopolistic powers are a business and economics problem, it has nothing to do with the building blocks used to build their products.

>For example, if Uber’s driver rating could be exported to other similar ride-hailing services, it would have the effect of reducing the lock-in effect of Uber platform.

People are not using Uber because they don't have a rating on newcomer apps. They're using it because Uber has a large number riders and drivers in many locations, and people are aware of it.

> Mandate the use of open standards and open source competitor: All solutions must have open source alternatives before being implemented. For example, the Bavarian government switched the government operating system to Linux in 2018 to avoid being subject to Microsoft’s monopoly on software. While the project was not entirely successful

They discovered that there's a difference between "software" and "a software implementation". A myopic view of software as just code that you can throw over a fence is missing the entire reason that Windows was and is dominant on desktop. Deploying, integrating, maintaining, and operating software across an organization is labor intensive. Microsoft doesn't "compete with Linux", they compete with Red Hat or Canonical.
I've heard Lexicon used to use weird sample rates in its reverbs to make it harder to reverse engineer.
> Also, plenty of linter errors are actual errors that need non-trivial fixing.

These sound like they're not lints at all.
Same as for the Israel-Gaza war, or any conflict whatsoever, one bad deed do not justify other bad deeds.