skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the hypothesis for the Late Ordovician mass extinction event, which killed off about 85% of all marine species at the time, is an unfortunate burst of gamma rays, about 10 seconds long, from regions of space at least thousands of light years away. [1] One star goes boom and blanks out life on a planet thousands of light years away. The brutality of our universe cannot be overstated.

It's one of the many reasons life being multiplanetary is so important. There's no reason this, a giant asteroid, supervolcano, or any other of the million possible ways the universe can think up to kill us all off won't happen. In fact it will happen, sooner or later - and we're overdue. Of course the odds of it happening tomorrow are near zero, but that will be just as true the day before it happens. And the number of things that can wipe out two wildly different planets simultaneously is a small subset of all things that can wipe out 1. And the same is true as we expand on outward to new star systems, eventually even new galaxies, and perhaps further yet beyond that.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Ordovician_mass_extinctio...
This article reads like nonsense to me, but the last point of security is just blatantly ignoring facts.

> Are we talking about safety against hackers? The large majority of C++ applications are non-public facing.

Total nonsense. Even a PHP application will be running behind various webservers written in C/C++, the runtime is written in C, and there are plugins/libraries like libcurl also written in C/C++.
This is a very interesting read from the New Thought original sources: Prentice Mulford’s Your Forces and How to Use Them.

https://archive.org/details/yourforceshowtou02mulfiala/yourf...
It is quite amazing how many people know enough to pass wide judgment on hundreds of people because... they just know. Feel it in their gut.
I haven’t found that option. I know it exists in Gpt4all though.

Personally I use a locally served frontend to use ChatGPT via API.
I suspect Google is, too (Bazel).

If CLion/RustRover support was there, I'd probably switch my personal project over to Bazel+vendored deps.
> Ads are the same thing. I don't feel bad about using ad blockers any more than I feel bad about walking around the mall for exercise or using their bathroom and deciding not to buy anything.

The terms of service for a mall are different than the terms of service for Youtube.

* https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599

* https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#c3e2907ca8

A little while ago someone was charged in Canada for theft because he did a gas-and-dash at a petrol station, and his defence was that the pump was in a publicly available space. The judge was having none of it. My front yard is publicly available, but that doesn't mean someone can pitch a tent and have a campout. Just because Youtube's web page isn't completely behind a login doesn't mean what's on it is ripe for the taking in any way you see fit.

If you don't want to watch ads on Youtube, why don't you simply stop watching Youtube (or pay for Youtube Premium)?
>They must’ve been receiving all kinds of threats from those involved and from random twitter extremists.

Oooh, yeah. "Must have".
It is a bit of a cultish environment no doubt. But there are a lot of very very nice people here too.
So... your complaints are about Linux as a desktop, direct-use environment. The linked article is about a datacenter device (or at least a dedicated build box, virtually all 7995WX chips are going to be deployed headless for sure). But for sure all the skills you need to use to deploy and administer a dedicated 96 core monster are for sure ones you can productively apply to install packages or whatnot on your Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch/Mint/whatever laptop.

But also, all that said: if you want a Linux laptop where everything "normal" works with no fuss, just buy a Chromebook.
My experience is exclusively with small studios, which were Windows shops.
Getting KernelEx should not be hard to be able to get a newer Firefox version in it.
VSTs didn't even exist when Amgias were relevant. Each of those tracks was not running a virtual synthesizer, convolutional reverb, parametric EQ, compressor, amp sim, etc.. A modern DAW is simulating an entire studio worth of hardware, not just an eight channel mixer. One of these laptops can mix hundreds of tracks without issue; it's the plugins that require more power.
Proton mail completely misses basic features like having a working Android app. They indeed need to re-focus and actually make sure what they are building _is working_.
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We're not burned out, we're just suspicious and conservative based on our years of experience of having the rug pulled out.
YMMV.

I switched off of OSX as my primary machine around 2015 and moved to full time Linux. Just decided to commit and fully dove in. I tried several different flavors for months at a time from Fedora to Ubuntu. Eventually I settled on PopOS.

I was really happy with everything up until my work shifted to management and spending > half my day on Zoom calls. For some reason, I periodically would have issues with peripherals. Picking the wrong mic, having to close and reopen Zoom, correct camera not working, etc. None of this is an issue if you're on a laptop but it regularly was a problem since I used my machine as a desktop all day.

I decided I finally need to get a machine with a beefy GPU this year with all of the LLM stuff happening (plus my son is getting into PC gaming) so I bought an Alienware desktop with Windows. First Windows computer I've owned since 2005. Now I have a 3 screen setup where my middle and left screen are the Windows computer, my fully loaded System76 Meerkat is on the right using Barrier and 99% of my development work is remote on that machine.

No issues with the peripherals for meetings on the Windows machine. Still greatly prefer the Linux machine for everything else but the reliability of knowing that my peripherals are going to work for meetings has been important. Plus, I started a tech podcast (Carolina Code Cast) and that's been important for all of the A/V that goes with it.

All that to say, there are tradeoffs. Eventually, I hope that Linux will have first class peripheral support. I'd like nothing more than to install it on this Alienware machine one day.
> I honestly have a really hard time believing that the reason newspapers are so expensive to run these days is due to web hosting costs

All those metrics and analytics and anti-adblock services can really add up. The largest assets on an average, e.g., NYTimes article are 2mb+ scripts; not images
No structure or organization is stronger when their leader emerged as "irreplaceable".
Twitter's Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence
Gpt-generated summary?
Purely my opinion:

There was an era of stability in the Haskell project during which it was possible to write code for industrial purposes. A lot of people were attracted to the idea of a memory-safe language that compiled to native binaries, and there wasn't much competition in that area at the time.

Then the research-oriented nature of the language and community re-asserted itself with Haskell 2010, and there was a lot of churn in both the base libraries and Hackage. Around this time was when Swift, Go, and Rust had their first releases, all of which offered memory safety and varying levels of ML/Haskell inspiration. So Haskell was suddenly less appealing, and there were other options -- why file another perf-regression GHC ticket into the void when Go has an HTTP server built right into the stdlib?
z-index causes me physical pain. z-index puts stress on my marriage. My children will experience generational trauma through z-index.
The rise of the Splinternet: The many problems of a fragmenting world wide web
Even with all the improvements in the last couple of decades, PC gaming is a much more tinkery, finicky, and even error prone experience than console gaming is.

You’ve got to contend with the mess that is Windows (Linux is improving but is even more tinkery) and its idiosyncrasies, keeping drivers up to date in some cases and rolling them back in others depending on what the driver update improves/breaks. You’ve got to know what makes a gaming PC good so you don’t get ripped off with some giant overpriced ball of aggressively angled plastic and LEDs with terrible airflow. You’ve gotta know to wipe and reinstall clean Windows or at least how to remove bloatware. And if you really want to get the most out of the experience, you need to know how to build a PC and how to set up RAM speeds in BIOS and all that. And even after all that, there’s a decent chance you’ll come home from work hoping to fire up your favorite game only to find that some combination of factors has broken it, leaving you SOL until the game gets another update or you dive under the hood to fix it yourself.

Meanwhile with e.g. a PS5 you just buy it, put it on your TV stand, plug it in, and boot it up. Boom, it’s running your games optimally, no knowledge or tinkering required. It doesn’t randomly break, it reliably just works.

I have a custom gaming tower and it’s nice to have but damn if it isn’t a pain in the rear from time to time. I can absolutely see the appeal in something more plug and play even at the cost of some performance.
While the premium is indeed high, the total cost of the tool even at the premium is quite low. I think you can get the 14 M3 Max fairly decked out at around $5-7k. Not even close to a new car these days.

Maybe I am in the minority but I see it as a tool. My workflows work well in MacOS, I like the build quality of the tool. My replacement timeline is generally pretty long. The value this tool generates is massive compared to the cost of it.

I remember how often coworkers would joke about the cost of a Kinesis keyboard. They would die if they were a mechanic.
The person you are replying to is questioning whether a conceptual distinction can really be drawn between cognition and emotion. To say that "you will reach human intelligence [but not emotional stability] by just modeling the brain" assumes what is being questioned.
Outcomes measured with what endpoints?

Last I looked it up, there were pretty serious mental health issues associated with the tiger parenting technique.
Is it possible that some of the perceived performance gains come from comparing an old installation (with lots of tools and packages that are no longer used) with a brand new installation?
And some people need to thinking about how inherently superior they are compared to most other people to feel good about themselves.
Are we talking web frontend, or can we extend this to desktop GUIs as well (that may be cheating, but bear with me). Windows Forms and WPF are both still supported. If you're a business built on Windows Forms (very productive for GUI development), you haven't had to worry. Even VB.NET is still supported, although not receiving active language additions.

That said, I personally wouldn't choose to build on MS tech.
Also, this didn't come from OpenAI or DeepMind, or even industry. What are those guys even doing? :)
Lumma Stealer malware uses trigonometry to stop it from being detected
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> Employees followed the money trail and Sam to preserve their equity and careers

Would you not when the AI safety wokes decide the torch the rewards of your hard work of grinding for years? I feel there is less groupthink and everyone saw the board as it is and their inability lead, or even act rationally. OpenAI did not just become a sinking ship, but it was unnecessary sunk by someone not skin in the game and your personal wealth and success was tied to the ship.
I picked up Rust in a few days/weeks, but ... I'd say not totally idiomatically. It actually takes a while to really learn the ins-and-outs of the right way to express certain patterns.

If the codebase that the eng is being brought into is established with good conventions, I could see it happening quickly though.
How do i remove teams or the stupid weather badge from the task bar? I can remove explorer and edge with a right-click, just those two i can not. It is inconsistent.

That it is not impossible with a few more clicks and that i have to know, where to find it, well, duh.
This is wildly inaccurate. Technically speaking it is considered by many to be more optimised than chrome and in my experience it is the most performant browser (at least on windows).

Of course that doesn't mean I use it as my daily driver. It's lack of other features and my distrust of MS mean that I use Vivaldi as my daily driver. Which also happens to report the UA as being ms edge on bing.com so that Bing AI can be used without edge.
There are a huge number of business-specific Windows-only apps out there, because for so long Windows (and DOS before it) was what everyone ran on. So when you hired some college CS student for three months to create that custom app for your business workflow, it ran on Windows. And it's still there running the business, and so you can't change because that would mean replacing the app. Source code? What's that?
But it's not only the companies, it's the marginalized so desperate to get a "seat at the table" that they don't recognize the table isn't getting bigger and rounder. Instead, it's still the same rectangular that is getting longer and longer.

Participating in that is assimilation.
Context: 5+ decades ago, my father worked as an applied chemistry researcher. For a company which made commercial laundry products. Including products used in hospital laundries.

Even back then, his wisdom for killing microorganisms in the laundry was that chemicals which you poured into the washing machine could wash away or kill "most" of the bad guys. But "actually kill the remaining ones" happened in the dryer, via old-fashioned "high enough temperature, for long enough time".

Kinda Related I - My understanding is that commercial dishwashing machines use some pretty-nasty chemicals to get stuff clean. But the actual sterilization in them happens in the rinse cycles - where health codes mandate high minimum temperatures for the rinse water, and long-/strong- enough rinse water sprays to heat all surfaces to those temperatures. And that was true both 50+ years ago, and is true today.

Kinda Related II - I've seen an article or few linked from HN, about how the chlorine in public swimming pools can take a week or more to actually kill some of the most-resistant germs in the pool water.
Lots of non profits that collect money for "cause X" spend 95% of money for administration and 5% for cause X.
I wrote about Blazor server-side mode yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363704

I wouldn't touch the WASM mode with a 50 foot fiberglass pole.

For me, Blazor was a great entry point. I still use .NET for everything, but now we mostly use simple form posting with string interpolated vanilla HTML responses directly to HttpContext.

There are no more frameworks in our shop, but I don't think we could have arrived at this point without things like Blazor, Angular, RiotJs, et. al. temporarily bearing the load of our ignorance until we (or the technology standards themselves) could finally pass through.

The web in 2023 isn't like the web in 2017. I think you could start completely blank on vanilla MDN and PHP-style web dev and arrive at an extremely happy outcome. No blazor, no react, node, nothing. Confidence that the javascript or CSS will "just work" 99.99% of the time is there for me now. Avoiding premature optimization regarding UX edges (i.e. justification for SPA) and backend technologies are the major remaining challenges. Chasing a pixel-perfect, cross-platform UX is how you wind up with absolutely nothing to show for it at the end of the day. I blew about a year of my life on that one.
It's the vibe in almost all of the big silicon valley companies and probably most of the smaller ones too. Founder worship etc. Just silicon valley culture I assume. I guess it takes a certain mindset to dedicate the prime of your years to making someone else incredibly rich.
I'm retired on a fixed income. I do some programming, but not every day. I'm always interested in new things, but not enough in this case to spend $$$ on something that won't benefit me that much, not because there is no benefit but because it's not something I do a lot.

I suppose on the other hand I'm a little spoiled by all of the free (as in beer) tools available today. There was a time I paid well over $100/month for MSDN to get equivalent stuff from MS. (I see it's just under $100/month today so I may be misremembering the pricing.)
> Hg and RCS are the only VCSes I’ve seen require data to be recovered from a backup due to normal usage.

Count yourself lucky then. Git was well known for losing data, so much, that it was featured at xkcd [1]. Well, perhaps not the tool itself, but it's user interface was (more than it is now perhaps) so awkward that users often got it wrong. If you don't make that back-up, you might not even know how much you've lost.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1597/
Ahh well, at that price point, I guess one can just get a similar new PC with way better spec - e.g. intel 12400 on 660B + amd 7600xt + 32gb ram + 2TB ssd + case/psu is around $600 new, entirely retail (newegg) price. It does not include keyboard/mouse/gamepad, but thing has 44GB of combined memory (compared to the 16 of ps5). It's a pretty decent machine for everyday use.
That's a lot of boilerplate code, scaffolding and additional instrumentation. In fact, much of my experience with C++ is at Mozilla, which does all of that and more. And still needs a team dedicated to recording and investigating crashes.

That's the reason for which Mozilla (and now some of the developments at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon) has started moving to Rust a while ago.

Also, I've written it somewhere else, but I'm going to repeat it:

> which practically never crashes because of memory problems

When you have memory issues, crashes are the lucky case. The common case is random memory corruption.
Less kids more people is interesting,
> Not saying Altman deserves uncritical praise. All I'm saying is that I used to diminish the importance of quality senior leadership.

Absolutely. The focus on the leadership of OpenAI isn't because people think that the top researchers and scientists are unimportant. It's because they realize that they are important, and as such, the person who decides the direction they go in is extremely important. End up with the wrong person at the top, and all of those researchers and scientists end up wasting time spinning wheels on things that will never reach the public.
> That's the main idea of Blazor really - to start imagining what building the web without javascript really means.

To start? This is not new. We've been down this road a dozen times.
I don't know how they do their math, but they advertise it for 299USD but when I open the store it's sold for 349EUR which today converts to 380USD... That's a 30% difference that hurts.
Right. At least some of the board members took issue with ChatGPT being released at all, and wanted more to be kept from the public. For the people who use these tools everyday, it shouldn't be surprising that Altman was viewed as the better choice.
What kind of input/output are you talking about?
What was the state of the art in terms of open source ad blockers at the time, do you know? Its seems like this is more of a recent thing, cracking down on adblockers
I think the biggest implied benefit is sailing the high seas (cough cough) and the low price of Steam deals.

For me, sure, Steam prices are great; but the fact that it can be taken away from me for any reason and I can never sell/give any item means I’m basically buying… what, exactly? It feels like buying an IOU for a game.

As for piracy, well, I don’t think I need say more.
It is absolutely curious to talk about profit when talking about academic research or a non-profit (which OpenAI officially is).

Sure, you can talk about results in terms of their monetary value but it doesn’t make sense to think of it in terms of the profit generated directly by the actor.

For example Pfizer made huge profits off of the COVID-19 vaccine. But that vaccine would never have been possible without foundational research conducted in universities in the US and Germany which established the viability in vivo of mRNA.

Pfizer made billions and many lives were saved using the work of academics (which also laid the groundwork for future valuable vaccines). The profit made by the academics and universities was minimal in comparison.

So, whose work was more valuable?
I've been having a reasonably good experience with Pop OS, which is Ubuntu-based but different in a bunch of ways. The makers (System76) put it on the computers they sell so they have a strong incentive to make it "just work", and that seems to have mostly worked out well.

As someone with years of light Linux experience but no patience for pissing about with config all day, my golden rule is to avoid updating anything ahead of the version that the distro bundles. E.g. no I shall not be updating my Nvidia drivers independently!

I like docker for arbitrary command line software I haven't checked the source for, Flatpak (or Snap/AppImage I guess) for big complicated GUI software, and if those aren't options I sometimes run things in a VM if I don't trust them not to screw up the system (hello Tizen Studio!). I ended up installing Blender from Steam, of all places.
These people are at the top of the AI industry, they’d make bank in a ton of jobs if they left tomorrow. They weren’t getting equity at Microsoft yet they still chose that opportunity as an alternative.

Clearly they care about working on the most interesting AI around instead of continuing to work under a CEO and board whose whole plan is to cripple AI development. Both the interim CEO Shear and likely coup leader Toner made it clear they are anti-AI and want to slow progress. Toner specifically said she’d be okay with the company collapsing as that was in line with the charter.

Occams Razor is people working on the most interesting stuff in the tech industry want to keep working on it rather than follow some radical EA doomer plan to kill it off well before we get near AGI.
Have a solid vendor for these that isn't insanely priced (for home use)? The last couple I tried to buy they sent 7300's and tried to buy me off with a small refund (eBay).
Well, they already did [0]. It's not very fun to use; something that was less miserable would probably see more use. Retrofitting them to a language isn't impossible, either; there are a few languages that have managed to do it by adapting to their ecosystem's mores, like TypeScript and Kotlin.

That beings aid, I don't disagree with your general point. C++ is already incredibly complex and impossible to understand as a single individual; I don't think that can be fixed without removing things from the language.

My gut feeling is that the future of C++ is not C++, it's cpp2 or Carbon.

[0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant
The pricing is surprisingly low ($299) for being Teenage Engineering, wonder if they got tired of people complaining about their pricing? I guessed somewhere around $1000 before seeing the price.
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You really need to abandon the "just keep it in the box" argument (i.e., "why give it such a level of control"). It's already out of the box.

Even if it weren't it could trivially convince or fool one of the hundreds/thousands of people working on it to do what it wants. In light of recent events, it is not reassuring to think that the people developing the next generations of AI have both the will and insight to even know where the box is exactly.