skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those stories that reminds me of the 'privacy & security movement' where in tech all the advocates for privacy and security are willing to put up with something they don't like (extra steps, carrying around tokens, what not) for better overall security. But people who market to them realize how much they are willing to pay for better security is not much more than what it costs to get better security.

Using the fictional example, Browser X $10, Browser Y with more security $15, they both function identically. The market buys the $10 browser and promises themselves to be careful.

If you try to sell plant based ground beef for a lot more money than cow based ground beef, most of the market seems to just buy the cheaper "regular" beef and promise to eat more vegetables or something.

Bottom line is that it is really really hard for many, if not most, people to justify paying extra for something because it is "better for the world" or "better for society."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

> According to Chinese/Japanese medical [...] when the upper sclera is visible it is said to be an indication of mental imbalance in people such as psychotics, murderers, and anyone rageful. In either condition, it is believed that these people attract accidents and violence.

It might not be scientific but people with this look certainly do freak me out. (FWIW, I haven't seen any images of Sam with these eyes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite#/media/Fil...
>But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift.

And shift they did.

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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I watched their product overview video last night, but like, I don't grok what the difference between rebasing a branch and rebasing a stack is, and they said something like "if there are conflicts, this is when you'd fix them." but I thought the point was reducing conflicts. It sounds to me like short lived feature branches with a lot of extra terminology.

I really think I just need to actually try the tooling and then examine the git repo. I am very bottom-up brained when it comes to git, and so I need to visualize what commands actually do to the DAG to really grok what's going on.
US EV sales are up almost 60% year over year! It's the opposite of a downturn. US legacy auto is really hurting on EV sales though, because of lack of product, higher prices even more unattractive because of high interest rates, low production, plus price reductions by Tesla and other more nimble companies are making the legacy auto lose out.

Losers: Ford, GM, Toyota

Winners: Tesla, Kia, Rivian. Many euro brands doing pretty well in this transition, way better than Detroit.

Near future killer car: Volvo EX30, a ~$35k smaller suv type car, also available with awd etc. This is the car that big auto should make. The Tesla Y is in this class too. [1]. I wish I was an auto analyst, it seems more fun than being a software engineer at times.

Guess when you think internal combustion (ICE) cars will reach their max annual sales? It's a trick question because it happened in 2019! Since then the growth has been in EVs. Tesla is almost at 2 million cars a year now, world wide.

That "ev sales are going down" is an amazing bit of incorrect propaganda. How about up ~60% year over year [2]

What's happening is legacy auto is doing terrible and losing market share, either not making enough vehicles (gm & ford, toyota), dealers marking them up too much over list price (gm, ford, toyota), etc. GM was moving everything to a new battery pack technology (ultium) but they have unclear problems and they can't make the battery packs at scale; gm has enormous demand for the huge hummer and they made fewer in the first half of the year than last year. Toyota can't make a decent ev (it's on purpose). Japanese brands haven't done a good job overall on making attractive EVs and they are losing major market share in China, because China loves EVs. European EV sales are also growing.

1. https://electrek.co/2023/11/05/volvo-ex30-review/

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1810g57/u....
If google's mantra had been "Don't rock the boat" since they achieved market dominance, we would still have xmpp.
> But I have a use case for exactly this feature. Why should the language limit me? Why should I implement x functions that take different tuple lengths, with me having to choose the correct one for each use case, when I could write one function that does all?

If the PSF ran a poll for the most-wanted type checking features, I don't think this would come close to first. This sounds very niche. The people working on typing seemed very busy in the last few versions.

> Simple example - I have functions that return a Rust-like Result type, and I want to transform that into a different tuple-based format using a decorator. The transformation itself is static, but I can't write one function that handles it all, because Pythons type system is simply not developed enough. Something that would be incredibly easy in Typescript.

Returning errors as values isn't really how you're supposed to use Python though. And why is there a second tuple-based format that does the same thing?

It also smells slightly off that the rest of the code takes an object that's exactly similar to the first function's result, but with a transformation uniformly applied over the values. Shouldn't the first part's output and the second part's inputs both be clearly declared independently of each other? And then wouldn't it be an extremely niche case that both types are identical except for one transformation applied to all values? Is it worth the language complexity and a dedicated function?
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And iCloud private relay.
Awesome. In wind mode, I see a blue line of low velocity in the middle of the North Atlantic. It’s flanked by high speed zones. Is that a real thing?
I had a colleague that people assumed was on the autism spectrum, this somehow came up years later over drinks to which he responded "maybe I should ask my doctor, I always assumed I was just an asshole"
Hi, macOS user here. I know Firefox is great, and I'd love to use it (again), but Mozilla's decision to remove all user-facing, OS-level scripting capabilities from it (i.e., AppleScript) made me drop it a few years ago.

Getting anything out of FF on macOS, locally, is a major pain in the ass, actually. Try to grab the current URL from the active tab…

I think it's a super-solid browser that unfortunately doesn't give a shit about the platform it's running on. Irritatingly, it's fine with being a black box, so much more than the Chromiums are (for all their various faults).
If switching today is better than yesterday, then by induction switching tomorrow will be better than today.
I spent longer than I would like trying to figure out your clever joke here. But it turns out that you actually meant the disease, scurvy... that Sam Altman contracted a little over a decade ago, according to the article.
He held the world record, so I’m comfortable saying he was the best at it. If that’s not sufficient and we’re interested in being a semantic pedantic, that’s not a discussion that interests me.
Same for NYC. Maybe rayiner stuck to neighbourhoods where they don't uncap fire hydrants in summer.
I have an intuition that OpenAI's mid-range size gave the employees more power in this case. It's not as hard to coordinate a few hundred people, especially when those people are on top of the world and want to stay there. At a megacorp with thousands of employees, the board probably has an easier time bossing people around. Although I don't know if you had a larger company in mind when you gave your second example.
As with engineering: “if it looks easy, you don’t know much about it.”
> The military has always been a caste, and will always be

The US made a very strong go, initially, at not doing that, with a cadre-style Army reliant on militia mobilization for significant action (and a somewhat similar situation for internal security).

The whole security forces as a separate caste with interests divorced from the population thing was something the founders were aware of and concerned about.
I think there will be Cybermonday deals? I am waiting for Monday :)
> Putin is the best in the world to deal with the situation he’s in right now, if you need a negative angle on this.

Probably not true? It seems like Russia could use another Yeltsin (or Gorbachev) more than Putin for its current situation.
I don't know if this is what Fridman is doing, but interviewers will often ask naive questions that they already know the answer to on behalf of an audience who might not.
Everyone's VMWare licenses are gonna go up so much it'll be hilarious. I wonder if any large shops will jump ship to something else, but to what is the question.
Ex-googler here as well. What are you guys using instead of flume for data pipelines? Beam on Spark?
Western Digital Releases 24TB Ultrastar and Gold Hard Drives, 28TB SMR Ramping
Containers containers containers ;)

In all seriousness, I think it is a hot topic in Enterprise Architecture (tm) meeting rooms ever since the merger was announced (I know it was in ours). But even if you find an alternative, you need to move, and a lot of companies have a lot of hard to modernize workloads which are skillfully managed by a lot of VMware trained personnel. No easy task.
For the simple reports it's generating I'm surprised this deployment of GoatCounter requires javascript in the client instead of just consuming the Location/ip/user-agent string from the server logs.
I think the key is data interoperability and open protocols.

Ideally peer-based but I know federation is much more popular and that can work also.

But it's not just the fact that they leverage open software to build their closed systems, it's the large networks and marketplaces they have. The only way to compete with that is through decentralized systems. Which (despite the connotation of the name), are the best approaches for creating large scale, open, holistic networks.

Moving to decentralized protocols also means it is harder to dominate with one piece of software. Ideally the protocols are in some kind of protocol registry so they can evolve freely.

But on some level I believe that some entity like a government needs to mandate this. Although I know there are many people who are philosophically against governments or practically against them due to their track record of being generally awful. But at some level you may have to force people to cooperate in some basic technical way in order to avoid the technopolies.
What's your financial standing? Are you doing this for fun and you already have enough assets to live on, or does this need to work financially?

If it needs to work, I think pausing development and focusing only on marketing, as you say, seems like a good path. And I'd try and do "high fidelity" marketing rather than low fidelity - e.g. approach people in person at the cafe at a gym or after their workout, rather than sending ads or emails into the void where you don't know what lands.

I'll note that it's kind of wild to have invested $1mm without a seemingly clear plan for distribution, but, it seems that you're taking steps to address that now at least.
If a lot of people think you are autistic, chances are you are autistic. It's a spectrum. We've all got a lil bit of that going on. Some more than others, particularly in our ecosystem.
I'd like to explore more the fan-out pattern:

- having it generate an outline

- have multiple clones write each section of the outline

- a stage which synthesizes the parallel-written sections, capturing the best

- a stage which combines all sections and ensures flow based on the original outline

- finally a stage which critiques and generates edits.

Iterate a couple times and you might actually have something good!

Basically a lot of what this article does, but automated.
The ownership class will do anything to stop fascism except allow the public to vote on the continuous upward transfer of wealth from the workforce to the already wealthy. War and nationalism are a surefire way to distract the public and muzzle critics, to tell a story about national greatness stolen by outsiders instead of by your very own titans of industry and politicians who have more in common with their opposite number in other countries than with anyone foolish or unlucky enough to be born outside of the circles of capital and access to capital.
To respond in good faith: please try to make an actual argument rather than resorting to an ad hominum. Elsewise you do nothing but prove my point further.
> Modifying a traditional filesystem like ext4 to run on flash would effectively be a complete rewrite.

I mean that’s patently incorrect though… All modern PCs are running on raw NAND with a flash controller mediating things to present as a legacy block device and ext/xfs/nags etc runs just fine this way. Heck, even Apple OSes, which actually afaik do have their own in-house flash controller, had HFS running on top of the translation layer rather than baking those requirements into the FS (I think this is also true for APFS but not 100% certain).

So while everything you wrote about the complexities of raw NAND are true, it doesn’t follow that the filesystem MUST handle all that complexity itself. Something designed to take full advantage might perform better, but that’s always true and seeing cheaper storage solutions with reliable fsync might be a worthwhile trade off (+ you can always run a filesystem that’s better designed to accommodate the underlying HW details)
You would be surprised how having riches does not stop people from continuing to be greedy.

Weird to bring Ukraine and Russia into this...
Android also runs all kinds of devices way outside of the mobile space. It turns out a relatively open touch screen OS can drive toasters, washing machines and handheld TVs pretty well.
And losing access to your primary email tends to have a drastic ripple-effect since so many websites use it as the primary means of handling password resets, password recovery, and such.

Hearing about Google similarly shutting down people's Google accounts for iffy reasons is what got me to stop using gmail as a primary personal email address and start using my own domain (with hosting at fastmail for now, but easy enough to change this should I ever need to).
> But why? I could legitimately IMO rag on a handful of former managers who I think mostly meant well but I’m not going to do it in a blog post.

Maybe he doesn't think that she mostly meant well?
Huh? The LLMs (mostly) use strings of tokens internally, not bytes that might be invalid UTF-8. (And they use vectors between layers. There’s no “invalid” in this sense.)

But I didn’t ask for that at all. I asked for a sequence of bytes (like “0xff” etc) or a C string that was not valid as UTF-8. I have no idea whether ChatGPT is capable of computing such a thing, but it was not willing to try for me.
That ship has sailed, and her name is bitcoin.
It was probably an individual decision rather than high-level but that's only because the Israeli leadership has normalized killing Palestinian civilians and the military personnel know there will be no repercussions unless it is so bad that they can't cover it up.

They used the normal playbook in this case (blame Palestinian terrorists) and when there was enough evidence to disprove that assertion they just threw up their hands and said "accident" and that was it.
> what's the alternative? A cutthroat corporate environment

No. Sure, that's the easy route. You can reposition and retrain folks. You don't need to fire people to change, although that is what's commonly done.

C-Suite can drive a culture where folks feel safe through reorganizations. Setting those expectations in a believable way facilitates the large changes an org like Google needs to periodically make to stay relevant.

I work at another large tech company and, despite its problems, I'll say that they have done a great job of showing they don't easily toss people aside and that results in a better culture overall.
The skepticism should extend beyond big pharma to anyone trying to sell healthcare products or treatments. There is good reason for the Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics Act.

What gets me is how people will distrust pharmaceutical companies - whose marketing claims are at least regulated by the FDA - and then blindly trust nutraceutical companies, random streamers (i.e. spon con), etc.
It’s sad to hear, but a great reminder of why I keep declining suggestions to turn my web apps into native iOS
I've been burnt by "open core" in the past. Never again.
No need to disagree, both our statements can be true at the same time. I also need to be less stoic, but I refuse to put on a mask to achieve that.

My statement was directed at those who wear that mask all too well. Example, my landlord, who's in real estate and a very nice guy in person. However, he promised to do a few things and didn't do them. So his niceties where just that, nice words and nothing more. I'd rather deal with a less nice person who actually does what they said they will. With limits of course, no one likes a-holes.
> It's automatic fixing of issues will happily introduce other issues that it doesn't find until the next run.

I think a few of the "bad" auto fixes have been recently disabled by default, they now separate fixes into "safe" and "unsafe" (for example: it used to always change `x == True` to `x is True`, which broken common numpy selection patterns)
But you could.
Because they do business in China?

But yes, they have got it..

https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=22439649&gfv=1
Except all my logins are from "a new device" because I use Cookie AutoDelete, there's no way to opt out of this spam, and I don't give a shit if anyone DID actually hack my Google account because it's only a way to keep track of my Youtube watch history and subs.

I filter these as spam.
I've spent a lot of time in Serbia. They're not all obsessed with politics. Most of the younger generation are resolved to the reality that Kosovo is lost forever (and never really mattered much anyway). Unfortunately, the political ruling class is still trying to maintain support from hard-core nationalists and maintain their distance from the EU and NATO; this won't work out well for such a small, poor country.

Some foreigners criticize Americans for being ignorant of history, and they're correct. But ignorance is also a strength in that it allows us to move on without holding grudges. It's not a perfect analogy but to some extent Americans have found it easier to get over the Civil War that ended in 1865 than Serbs have from the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
this has been in the pipe for more than a year
What's missing is in which context the tuple's length is variable, and in which context it is fixed. You can have a tuple size fixed everywhere (because the callee sets it) or a tuple size fixed at each call (and propagated to the callee statically).

"Arbitrary" doesn't really help because it could refer to the elements' values, to their types, or to the tuple's length. Also "arbitrary" and "variable-length" sound like synonyms to me.

Guido might use some expressions in the context of Python steering discussions but that doesn't make them less obscure for the rest of us who read C++ docs every day instead.
Engineers who worked in AI and have AI publications would be a good fit for that term.
Many people will exclaim, "only $9M!?" It's probably true that this amount is underestimated. But it's also true that incumbent politicians are very cheap.

For example, a $10,000 donation obscures that the lobbying group might also have threatened to donate millions to a competitor in the next election.

Most incumbents stay in office not by advancing any particular policy, but by not making themselves an enemy of interests that could mount a campaign to replace them.
It’s a cost / benefit analysis.

If people are easily replaceable then they don’t hold nearly as much power, even en mass.
Unfortunately for Sam Altman, an LLM will never produce anything half as funny as a bunch of rich VC guys calling a "politics expert" to tell them who to vote for. The human spirit prevails.
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Have you tried the arch forums? I don't know the exact steps but it'll be something along the lines of booting a linux iso mounting the boot partition, editing grub (assuming you're using grub) and having it see the efi partition/boot stuff (assuming you're using efi) ... but honestly arch or arch related forums might be a better solution. https://forum.endeavouros.com/
>I wonder which corporate overlord will take it over in the next 4-5 years.

There will be no next. Broadcom will get blood from the stone, rest assured. They will continue to raise maintenance and licensing fees until they very last customer turns off their last ESXi box. If you think IBM and mainframe is bad, you've never lived with a technology that Broadcom has acquired.
So the statement is that Sam Altman is the best person in the world at getting fired?
No PWA support unfortunately :( No split screen either. There are several extensions that provide vertical tabs
As long as you know the reason. For everybody else, it’s not spam.
We have the sky high regulatory capture as it is, just that what has been captured is opaque. There are loads of things that corporations should be getting fined for but are not.
So the right move was to brazenly assassinate this person instead of accusing them? If what you're saying is true, the Indian government stands to lose quite a bit by killing their strongest evidence of American intervention.
If it means it fuels more competition than the late stagnation in tech that was pre-LLM stuff? (and arguably in a wide variety of fields than just ML)

Absolutely.
Sataya Nadalla

Mark Benioff

Reed Hastings

Warren Buffet

Jensen Huang

Jamie Dimon

Benard Arnualt

Mary Bara

Safra Catz

David I. McKay

How many do you want?

The world is full of talented CEO's. I can't claim to know all the CEO's around the world but the above have all been exceedingly good over their terms.

Whose on your list?
It seems obvious that tech media are largely not even close to neutral here. Most everything coming out feels manipulative as hell. I don’t know why anyone thinks they have a clear story of what’s happening here.
There will be, eventually, because these companies refuse to accept the responsibilities that go with the social power they've accumulated.

Right now nobody at Google or Apple has any incentive whatsoever to care about collateral damage when a user's entire account is locked. That will obviously have to change. The change doesn't have to come by way of government mandate, but that seems to be how they want to play it. They will have no one to blame but themselves when they're on the receiving end of the collateral damage that will accompany such legislation.
If Nutanix were smart, they'd decouple the hypervisor from their garbage storage layer and make hay. But they won't... too much pride to swallow that pill.
I suspect that while vendors would like you to believe it’s all patented secret sauce, I’m more skeptical. There’s too many vendors and they all perform roughly similarly with the controller chip speed and bus speed being more impactful. The FTL might be more impactful for disk longevity but I wouldn’t put much stock in consumer device numbers here. Even if Linux starts with an initially worse implementation, over time it should succeed because of cheaper costs multiplied by in aggregate a greater investment from stakeholders than any single private stakeholder could match. There’s a reason Apple and Amazon have written their own controllers and it’s largely because vendor solutions actually suck quite a bit when you start digging in.
North Korea launches suspected spy satellite, its neighbors say