skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen OpenAI's current board?

Explain how an MS employee would have greater conflict of interest.
I don't think it's that bold. It's like saying learning Spanish is easier than learning Japanese if you're a native English speaker. The basis in the shared Latin characterset certainly makes it easier to learn Spanish, no?

Similar syntax equates to similar constructs and concepts. The way async/await works -- from a dev perspective -- is the same. Exception handling is more or less the same with try-catch-finally. Lambda closures work largely the same (some differences due to how JS binds `this`). TypeScript object hierarchies like interfaces and abstract classes are more or less identical in function (obvious differences, though in underlying implementation and capabilities). Same null coalescing, same nullability constructs. Array methods like `map`, `filter`, and so on are subset of System.Collections.Linq operations like `Select`, `Where`.

Certainly having similar syntactic language constructs makes it easier to adopt if you are already comfortable with try-catch-finally and async/await versus entirely switching paradigms in Go or Rust, for example.

Tooling is very similar from a CLI perspective and DX isn't that different. Hot reload, .csproj = package.json, main.ts or index.ts = Program.cs
In that case, the problem still exists. I was running the most recent PopOS (Ubuntu based) and it was still a problem.
Isn’t it equivalent insofar as Christian conceptions of charity aren’t prescriptive? Besides tithings, “love thy neighbour” or other Christian ideas can be interpreted in infinitely many ways, similar to EA.

I think the morality of Christianity is the old-testament part and the charity/universal love is the New Testament part and thus more the focus of Christianity (obviously this depends on your particular sects interpretations of the scriptures).
Thanks. It's far from perfect, but at least it made it possible to build the Oberon IDE with toolchain and LeanQt all in one batch on all platforms with no requirements other than a C89 and C++98 compiler.

> Even with big builds we don't have to much variables hammering

Have e.g. a look at the Chromium or Dart VM build; it's huge and very complex; understanding the build system given that most of the relevant information is only available during the build is frightening; I even built my own tool to at least get some orientation using best-effort cross-referencing, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/GnTools.
> some weird old PCI cards that only have XP drivers, but work fine with Linux.

I will say, supporting old hardware is probably Linux's strong suit, because their model of upstream first means that maintenance tends to get carried a lot further than proprietary drivers ever would.
When I got Amazoned a couple of months ago and didn’t have a personal computer at all, a side contract fell into my lap where I billed $150/hour. (Don’t cry for me. I found a full time job 3 weeks later).

I recouped the cost of the M2 MacBook Air 24GB RAM/1TB in less than 15 hours worth of work - taking my after tax rate into account.

My work was not compute intensive so the Air was fine. But I would definitely pay for a 30% improvement at that bill rate.
The archive.today method has always worked best for me. I made a Firefox Add-On to do it automatically for sites I encounter regularly: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surmount/
Tangentially related:

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

https://youtu.be/HOuZyOKa91o
That was my first thought as well. And now it is the top comment on this post. Isn’t this brave new world OpenAI made wonderful?
Both cider and wine give me very fast headaches even with small amounts of consumption. Beer and other spirits do not.

Curious if quercetin(+alcohol, specifically in the forms found in those beverages) in-fact is a culprit, since cider also has quercetin in it.
Are you basing that on any information?
An initial import with DuckDB from all the 15 files takes only 36 seconds on a regular (6 years old) desktop computer with 32GB of RAM and 26 seconds (5 times quicker than QuestDB) on a Dell PowerEdge 450 with 20 cores Intel Xeon and 256GB of RAM.

Here is the command to input the files:

CREATE TABLE ecommerce_sample AS SELECT * from read_csv_auto('ecommerce_*.csv');
I think an awesome leader would naturally create some kind of cult following, while the opposite isn't true.
I understand what you mean. It makes me wonder if there is room for a solution those who want to own their own hardware and data. Almost like other appliances and equipment that initial cost too much for household ownership but maybe having a “brain” in your house will be a luxury appliance for example. As a Crestron system owner I would love to plugin Jarvis to my smart home somehow.
> Everything for a common person should be easily accessible via a gui.

They are. Just there are many different GUIs. Each distro by definition has different ones and you can easily change them yourself etc.

There are dozens of sound GUIs, hell, I've tried 4 redshift GUIs before settling on QRedshift. It's so easy to write software for Linux that you have countless opportunities. That's why the command line is easier - it always works(ish).
Some unbreakable encryption keys are accidentally leaking online
> I'd sayu the AI safety problem as a whole is similar to the safety problem of eugenics

And I'd sayu should read the book so we can have a nice chat about it. Making wild guesses and assumptions is not really useful.

> If you really care about AI safety, you'd be putting it under government control as utility, like everything else.

This is a bit jumbled. How do you think "control as utility" would help? What would it help with?
They are talking about this project : https://pypi.org/project/fixit/2.0.0a1/#description

https://libcst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ powers Fixit 2. I would love to hear if there are any production users here for this new linter, and how is that working out for them?
If you’re referring to discussing their qualifications to be on the board, I don’t think that is in any way driven by sexism. There were numerous comment threads discussing the qualifications of all the board members and these two stood out as being specifically unqualified, and D’Angelo stood out for having clear conflicts of interest.

Given how the board handled this whole situation like an amateur hour shit show, you will be hard pressed to argue their competence and qualifications in their favor.

Rather, you are doing exactly what you are claiming from others, you’re seeing two unqualified board members, who happen to be women, and defending them because they’re women even though this whole situation displayed the incompetence of the entire board, Helen and Tasha included. The only one taking a sexist position is you.

If the board handled this situation like competent adults who had ever spoken to an attorney, we wouldn’t all be having this conversation in the first place.
$10 billion of compute credits. Not $10 billion of real money.
Tesla autopilot should be outright illegal.

Tesla is well liked among geeks, so I expect downvotes.

However, Musk pitches FSD as actual full self driving which it isnt. He made comments that driver is there for legal reasons.

If a car makes an abrupt turn into a highway divider one may not have enough time to react.

Going back to the incident, why was the driver allowed to continue to drive? Shouldnt the car stop and disable FSD?

Plus, the vision system can’t even detect rain properly and phantom braking is still an issue in the right circumstances.
Braun: Designed to Keep is a book worth holding onto
Or just making the source available on github.
I've been using an immutable Fedora for quite a while now and it's amazing. I use toolbox and run everything in containers, including GUI apps, so not even using Flatpak which I'm not a big fan of. I think I have like 3 or 4 packages installed on top of the base image. The peace of mind while upgrading can't be overstated. Highly recommended.
Am I missing something here? I'm on a recent M2 machine. Every model I've downloaded fails to load immediately when trying to load it. Is there some way to get feedback on the reason for failure, like a log file or something?

EDIT: The problem is I'm on macOS 13.2 (Ventura). According to a message in Discord, the minimum version for some (most?) models is 13.6.
> Offering people jobs is neither illegal nor immoral

The comment you responded to made neither of those claims, just that they were "involved".
Wasn't really following the subject, but amazed at how tendentious the writing here is. Starting with the title, unsubstantiated claims, really weird turns of phrase, etc. Here's an example:

> not just common, it’s start-up gospel from Altman’s longtime mentor, venture capitalist Peter Thiel

— according to whom? Is it supposed to be common knowledge? Is this even a helpful parallel?

In comparison, reporting on FT on this same topic is a lot more subdued and matter-of-fact.
I love my PO-33. If I didn't have a SP-404 MK2 I'd be getting this. I still might be able to figure out how to justify it to myself. But really I don't need a 3rd sampler.
RLHF progress: Scaling DPO to 70B, DPO vs. PPO update, Tülu 2, Zephyr-β
> If Elizabeth Holmes had been able to pull off some successful product

Like Loopt?
Yes, also Elon.
It was also the awful amount of indirection of X(Free86/org) which made sure you had to jump through hoops to get anything on the screen. Even with accelerated hardware X doesn't feel as fast as Windows/macOS due to the insane amount of round-trips for perceived 'network transparency' which doesn't work that great and almost nobody uses.

I find it very disappointing some people are still fighting Wayland which, while not perfect, at least tries to get Linux desktops graphics stack 'on par' with macOS versions from 20 years ago...
> If Microsoft backs off core Windows development, which it certainly seems like they are, this is what we'd expect to see...

If this is really true, I am deeply saddened. I grew up using almost entirely nothing but Windows since 98, and have used every version (except Windows Me) since.

As a desktop and enterprise OS, Windows is pretty fantastic to develop with, natively, contrary to many opinions here. Technologies like COM, .NET (Framework), Win32, Direct{2D, 3D}, and the Windows API are all very powerful and fairly future-proof, too.

Core Windows/NT development is extremely fun, interesting, and the choices that the NT kernel developers made in the 90s put it light years ahead of the competition. Consider its advanced permissions model (ACLs versus UIDs and GIDs), its plug-and-play driver model, and its ability to run on a wide variety of hardware.
“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, _Stranger in a Strange Land_.
There were way more people who framed the board, than Altman as someone who did bad. At least until Monday. There were a ton of hearsay why ousting Altman is bad, without any context and internal info. And many of them was written by PR people. For example, "the last time when this happened was with Steve Jobs 1985". This is clearly a statement which wants you to direct towards that Altman is the victim. When it's not even true, because it happens all the time, like with Emmanuel Faber at Danone.

Btw, this is the most probable reason right now: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...
Employees on Bootstrapping
I wonder then, if each inference only uses a small part of the net, could you possibly perform multiple inferences in the same forward pass?
I think it's good to be concerned and cautious but I also think you are being a bit extreme here.
No directly related, but I wish there was a 'standard' linux documentation that look more like Python docs.
Sunbird is shutting down its iMessage app for Android
Why though? If I build a big fancy shopping mall should I let business owners use units rent free? I’ve paid construction costs, electricity, taken the risk etc, so it’s obvious I should be able to profit from tenants otherwise I wouldn’t have built the thing in the first place. If you don’t like how I’ve built my mall you can go to the Xbox mall next door, or the PC slums where you are free to do whatever you like.
A small remark for the casual readers: This is not about SSDs, this is for raw NAND flash access.

On an embedded device, you might have a piece of NAND flash directly attached to the CPU e.g. via a parallel bus or SPI. Usually with a controller somewhere in between, or integrated in the SoCs.

In Linux, there is a subsystem called MTD (memory technology devices) for dealing with not-quite-block storage that provides a thin hardware abstraction layer with an internal driver framework for NAND flash and backends for all sorts of controllers.

Some particularly cheap flash chips/controller do not support hardware bit-error correction. There are IIRC 2 software engines that a driver can use as a fallback: hamming and BCH[1] based (the former is documented here).

The MTD subsystem is really just a thin abstraction layer tough and provides a uniform API for e.g. page read/write & block erase for the flash chip it talks to. There is another subsystem called UBI (Unsorted Block Images) that can be stacked on top of MTD. It takes care of wear-leveling, bad block management and implements LVM-style logical volume partitioning. It also does not emulate a block device, but acts more like a flash device with idealized properties.

There are 2 filesystems in Linux which are designed to deal with the weirdness of those devices: the older JFFS2, which stacks directly on top of MTD, and UBIFS on top of UBI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCH_code
Interesting viewpoint, lie is a lie and amoral is amoral. We can wrap it in nice package or act like 'it had to be done because others are doing it', and it may be a correct statement. But its still a plain in-your-face lie.

If that telco would know truth they would most probably cut them out, not due to their size but due to their lies. This is not how trust is built, this is how you lose it very quickly and for good.

Maybe we need to accept that this is expected from all startup owners/ceos. Fine with me too, but its still amoral. We define our own legacy, if we ever care (and these mega egos do care a lot).
GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
I'm having some trouble with YouTube. Possibly, Videos don't load fast for some reason. Now, I remember a YouTube Video about something related to this issue and Chrome's web integrity.

I think, Google is trying to push ads more and more.
In my experience, it’s because people fail to learn core CSS properties and principles but can remember which classnames to jam into an element to get it to align correctly (not realizing the sacrifice is duplicate CSS—and sometimes things only rendering because of specificity in the order of the classnames they jammed in—I.e. a lot of extraneous ones).

Tailwind and utility classes make things bloated. Source: been writing HTML and CSS for 20+ years and working with a lot of devs who just don’t get CSS.
Lots of good replies on this thread, but here’s another possible analogy:

In high frequency trading, you have very complex software doing stock trades inconceivably faster than any human. If something goes wrong, it could bankrupt your hedge fund pretty swiftly. So hedge funds will have lots of safety checks, probably including a “big red button” that just shuts everything down.

So those companies must be completely safe from computer errors causing bankruptcy, right? After all, you can just shut the system down.

But some companies have gone bankrupt due to computer error. There are plenty of good reasons for the system not to be shut down in time (or at all). The risk is hopefully small but it’s not zero.
It's also par for the course in these scenarios for the public story to be completely fabricated and have nothing to do with whatever thing actually pissed off the board, so we may never know what really happened
>Sometimes I think people compalaining about windows are just to lazy to look through the settings and search for the things they want to change.

Sometimes?!
Yes because people couldn’t possible have workloads that benefit from a 30% speed up or have bill rates that justify it.
Terrible name, given that its value is that it runs locally, and you can't do that with ChatGPT.
My roaming range on my bike was about 5 miles in any direction. All of those places cost money. I'm not sure what kind of childhood you had, but I didn't have a job at 14, and those are places I rarely went. What you seem to be advocating for is a credit card more than a ride.
Doomerism was quite common throughout mankind’s history but all dire predictions invariably failed, from the “population bomb” to “grey goo” and “igniting the atmosphere” with a nuke. Populists however, were always quite eager to “protect us” - if only we’d give them the power.

But in reality you can’t protect from all the possible dangers and, worse, fear-mongering usually ends up doing more bad than good, like when it stopped our switch to nuclear power and kept us burning hydrocarbons thus bringing about Climate Change, another civilization-ending danger.

Living your life cowering in fear is something an individual may elect to do, but a society cannot - our survival as a species is at stake and our chances are slim with the defaults not in our favor. The risk that we’ll miss a game-changing discovery because we’re too afraid of the potential side effects is unacceptable. We owe it to the future and our future generations.
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I think it's more that most mainline Windows laptop vendors suck at writing software and firmware. Try to spend an hour with an HP or Acer laptop.
Even a lot of the new APIs are quite fast. I feel that slowness creeps into frameworks two ways.

1. Bad abstraction, causing the moral equivalent of N+1 queries in UI code. For example, modify one thing, causing layout, moving something else, causing layout, moving something else, causing layout, etc., etc., until it is all recalculated and re-laid out, and then allowing the paint.

2. Hidden serialization of asynchronous processes, essentially causing tiny pauses throughout the main thread.

I think this is one reason why people are so impressed with IMGUI. They imagine that the UI code must be doing an incredible amount of work to feel so slow, but then they watch a similar IMGUI app build and display the whole UI every frame 60-120 times per second, with plenty processing power left over. But if the other frameworks weren't wasting clock time, they could feel plenty fast.

You can get a good feel for what is really slow by using a very slow computer. The original Macintosh feels snappy, but it is doing one process in black and white. It's not hard to reach 30fps. When you take System 7, and put it on a 16MHz 68020 with half a memory bus (Mac LC), and run it at 16-bit color, painting those windows takes a long time. Our trick back then was to jump to black and white when we needed to get things done quickly, then back to higher bit depths when we wanted color or eye candy.

Now we have a situation where we can output full screen 24bit color in a millisecond or less, we are waiting on other things.
> Basically, any sufficiently advanced agent will have “prevent anyone from switching me off” as an instrumental goal.

Are there no intelligent people who committed suicide?

But maybe intelligent people are simply not sufficiently advanced agents. Then how can you extrapolate this at all?

This darwinian logic has another fatal flaw. Why don't the cows revolt against the butchers?
Has anyone used SIMD instructions to try and speed up cpu inference?
If all media lies always, why do we discuss anything on here at all? Top comment for every article should just be “all of this is lies and propaganda” then I guess.
I mean, this is actually backwards from a pure engineering POV from what would be actually excellent.

The core Windows NT kernel is quite excellent, and was always in some ways far superior to what Unix offered. E.g. proper asynchronous I/O from day one. Dave Cutler and crew did a bang-up job. Linux is only getting competitive things like io_uring now(ish).

The problem was the shitty API and user space they papered in front of it with. Lack of a proper CLI shell, slow filesystem, the godawful "registry", a low quality, unsafe windowing toolkit (Win32 API), and then, after WinXP, bad UX / environment stuff. And, of course, the fact that everything was proprietary, closed/closed-source, and the $$ licensing story for running a WindowsNT server was always garbage.

As a user operating system none of this mattered so much because the sheer mass of the market meant that driver support and application support was always going to win out on Windows.

But these days, with all my attached devices being USB-Cish things that just implement USB standards I have zero issues in Linux. In fact, audio interface support works better for me in Ubuntu than it does in Windows right now.

But people who were serious about running servers naturally stuck with Unix, despite it being in some ways technically inferior on paper -- because that experience on NT just wasn't as good. Remote administration via GUI. Anemic CLI. MS proprietary everything. Per-user $$ licensing stuff. Tight coupling with IIS & SQL Server, which has their own licensing stuff, etc. etc. etc.

Anyways, I think it would be a shame if MS gave up on the NT kernel.

With WSL1 they did an interesting job of getting Linux user space running overtop of the NT kernel, but they dropped that approach with WSL2 and went with a more VM approach.
lead researcher on this here. I've spent a big part of my career exploiting Apple, and I definitely wouldn't say Linux is better in security critical work.
Still airlines have the worst margin (low one digit) in the whole industry.
Where are all the margins going you ask? I don’t know today (I left the industry years ago) but in the recent pst it was mostly in the hands of GDS (Amadeus, Sabre and Friends…). I imagine this shifted to the online aggregators now….
An easy solution would be integrating a code unminifier/beautifier and viewer into browsers.
No, since there are clearly cited sources on the centrality of Ethereum on AWS and everyone from Vitalik and others knows it.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/3-cloud-providers-accounting-...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/10/12/morgan-stanley-...
Soooo long gone are the days of the really compact website

There used to be a contest for best website that would fit into 5k bytes. [0]

Now, the bloat is so bad that there is a serious suggestion to nevermind the website, just make people download the entire cargo load and use it locally, merely to get acceptable performance.

If this does not tell us that the entire framework thing has gone too far, abstracted everything from actual speedy code, larded everything up with so much 'just in case' baggage code, etc... IDK what will.

[0] https://www.the5k.org/
NTFS has had several updates over the years, and supports trim just fine.

Of course, that doesn't make it comparable to ext4 or zfs or whatever, but I wouldn't expect it to be the worst bottleneck in the system.
Well then, are we in agreement that you can't use the argument that ChatGPT replaced some people's work as an overall negative without a lot more qualification?
Pretty easy to complain about lack of morals when it’s someone else’s millions of dollars of potential compensation that will be incinerated.

Also, working for a subsidiary (which was likely going to be given much more self-governance than working directly at megacorp), doesn’t necessarily mean “evil”. That’s a very 1-dimensional way to think about things.

Self-disclosure: I work for a megacorp.