skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm also English and I didn't read them that way. However, I do think that Paul is telling people that competing with Sam in certain domains would be extraordinarily difficult.

The other thing is that if you take a look at Paul Graham's blog posts, he used to regularly thank Sam at the bottom of these -- this isn't something you do if you don't like or respect someone. However, on the other hand, perhaps they fell out at some point? I can't personally make out that signal from the little data there is.
Alienation from what? People who uncritically parrot fabrications and propaganda on HN?

THAT is what shouldn't be "normalized".

But since you brought it up, of all the indicators of societal descent over the last 7-10 years, the shift away from critical analysis and open dialogue to soviet-level information control and behavior/thought policing is most troubling.

I use Twitter daily because it's the only platform where I have a chance to hear the whole truth on a given subject, usually assembled from multiple sources. I follow a lot of actual leftists as well as the conservatives and liberals-in-exile that make up the modern "right".

I don't know that I follow anyone with whom I agree on every topic, and that's as it should be IMO. Even when I strongly disagree, I'm grateful for the freedom to hear and evaluate these voices.

And while I'm reluctant to engage with your "argument", I'll say that I've seen a handful of antisemitic posts over 10+ years on Twitter, none recently. I have seen a fair amount of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist content in the last six weeks, consistently from those on the left and consistent with what I've seen in demonstrations around the world.
This is true, Linux developers could write their own fully featured FTL. However, it's difficult. To quote the MTD docs

"Unfortunately it is a rather difficult task to create a good FTL layer and nobody still managed to implement one for Linux."
Maybe? I'm having a hard time finding a contemporary example. Bezos bowed out (though Amazon culture was famously bad for years), and even Facebook doesn't have 100k employees.

My point though is there is a difference between having a leader who got there by politicking versus a leader who got there by building a great company. They're both going to have different strengths and weaknesses, but there's at least a chance the founder isn't going to tolerate the sycophants.

An example: I was at Google 2005-2008. My manager's manager's manager was one of the early empire builders. He hired like crazy with no plan at all for the people he was hiring, and kept getting promoted for managing such a rapidly growing org. Eventually he rose high enough up that someone near the top realized what was going on, and promptly fired the guy, leaving behind a fair-sized mess as folks tried to figure out what to do with all his hires.

From what I've read lately, if this guy had just shown up to Google a few years later, he'd still be getting promoted.
I'm not sure I agree that "most people don't care about the stuff you (as a Linux user) would care about". Some people put up with Windows problems because they don't know it could be different, to them that's just how computers work. Take automatic updates for example. More than once have I heard from a friend how they lost unsaved work or an overnight render because their PC rebooted for updates. While on Linux months long uptimes are the norm, and you can trust it won't reboot on you out of blue. Same with ads and other Windows annoyances.

Other people are bound to Windows by their software needs. You're right that many important programs are just not available on Linux (to your Office example I'd also add the Adobe suite). But the end user experience of Windows itself has been downright abysmal for a long time now, and for casual users who don't need much besides Chrome and a couple other Electron apps, modern Linux desktop might genuinely be the better choice.
Perfect comment.

Thank you for your writing, Maciej. It’s so good.
Is that because ChatGPT returns better results, or because when it returns results, it wraps them in words that make you feel more
comfortable accepting them as better
Postgres is having a moment with excellent queueing libraries right now, not sure what GP is referring to. We use Oban[1] at Mux for some workloads and love it, and a former colleague just built something similar in Go that was on the front page yesterday (River)[2].

[1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

[2] https://github.com/riverqueue/river
Emacs or Vi ? /s
Keep the eyes open on https://oxide.computer/ - they are building hyperscalar racks with open source components. Using bhyve as the hypervisor, API as a first class citizen, Terraform/Opentofu, live-migration. Can't wish for much more
Well, or was it? Unclear to me why they did that in TFA - if they just changed the name, keeping same SSH key on that one (now under a new name) would be fine, helpful even. We don't know if it was changed/removed on the old name (just assume/hope so).
NASA Requests Funding for $1B 'Space Tug' to Deorbit the ISS
All are good choices.
> As a reader, would you ever prefer to be given the AI-fluffed version instead of the outline?

Why read Huckleberry Finn when you can read the cliffs notes?

Summarization is lossy, usually on the experiencing part.
Love listening to Munger. He feels more genuine than any other successful businessman I have come across — other than Buffett.
There’s a market out there for a very well designed turn key cloud with things like managed Kubernetes and Postgres you can deploy on bare metal or cheap VPSes. Too bad they aren’t looking at that. They have plenty of expertise and some of the software pieces already developed.

I bet the problem is that they are too “enterprise” and couldn’t price it low enough. If it were too expensive it wouldn’t be competitive with big cloud managed offerings.
The devs of Windmill seem to have taken the winning advice of "do one thing and do it well" and done the exact opposite. Going over windmill.dev I have no idea what specifically the software should be used for. Is it a competitor to Retool? Airflow? Temporal? Apparently there's a no-code workflow builder? A drag and drop UI builder? An online IDE? Dozens of integrations? What on earth is going on??
That is not quite what I meant. Not shipping premature code that you know needs more work is something to be admired. It is something I wish more developers would do.

Anyway, it has a while since I read anything about bcachefs, but what I have read stuck me as being consistent with doing things well. For example, he is working on having an automated test suite in place before he ships it, which is a great thing to see:

https://lwn.net/Articles/934692/
Bishops Gate has been a place before Watergate happened.
I had to doublecheck if this is more than just vitamin C deficiency. But, anyway, it is not a result of hard work, but of a poor diet [0]. Stress actually makes your thyroid hypo, not hyper [1].

[0]: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24318-scurvy

[1]: https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/thyroid-disorders/ho...
> Graham did not respond to a request for comment.

Not said: "...but has consistently spoken in support of Sam Altman."

This article is incredibly disingenuous. Almost to the level that I'd cancel my Washington Post subscription over if I hadn't already for similarly bad journalism.
No, they just want to pick one.. Boring as ever apple management.
What OP means by cloud provider? Cloud is overused term.
That said, we have Hezner, OVH and Scaleway.
You can ask other way: why US don't have cheap well known bare metal provider.
Not actually exploiting 2.11 fwiw but rather showing how to make an exploit payload if there were an exploitable program in 2.11 (which undoubtedly there is, somewhere).
If they had solid evidence the person committed a serious crime, particularly actual terrorism, it'd have been no problem getting Canada to turn them over.

The real issue is they wanted to kill someone who wasn't a criminal. Which, ultimately, is just plain old homicide.
They can’t in any possible way, unless they can do it without traveling in public.

The right to film in public is a first amendment thing. This law just codifies it and specifies that public areas of public buildings are areas where filming is allowed.

Hence why I suggested sending an officer, or allowing reporting remotely via phone and web. Which, of course, are all ways that the NYPD accepts reports.
Sorry for nitpicking on your grammar, but you are supposed to use the prophetic perfect for stating future events as if they were past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophetic_perfect_tense
Username and user ID are distinct. If username was the ID, you couldn't even change it yourself.
What's the issue with the answer for "Are Korean and Chinese mutually intelligible"? The highlighted part is definitely true, at least.
A workflow engine is indistinguishable from a regular interpreter or runtime, except for the fact it's suspendable (hence can run tasks long).

Ideally a workflow engine being fast means it can be just the platform you write everything in. The artificial separation between "normal" code and "workflow engines" is completely unnecessary. Our platforms are extremely fragmented, pointlessly so. Remote vs local, statically vs dynamically typed, async vs sync, short running vs long running...

If an engine is written without these arbitrary limitations, it can be more.
Look up instrumental rationality, rationality in that sense is not related whatsoever to right and wrong, only what helps with the agent's goals.
Google has been trying very hard to diversify, mostly through Cloud.

How well they are succeeding at that is up to interpretation but they are chipping away at Ads' percentage of revenue. It used to be higher than 85% but as of 2022 it's down to only being 58% of operating revenue[0].

0. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-mon...
What? If it doesn't include the code to run the car, it's like shipping MS-DOS 1.0 without any code at all. Your comparison makes no sense
Pretty standard rate of failure for early stage startups.
Nothing is as good. Bard is quite good but not the same.
Azure OpenAI GPT-4
> During these frenzied moments we almost need a forked HN homepage where the trend of the month is cordoned off to prevent contagion.

I wish dang would just disable registration for a week or two when this kind of thing is happening. It attracts low-value commenters who only want to talk about drama, pick fights in the comments, and ban evade. We even have one such commenter in this thread. I'm sure people who actually want to discuss technology would wait until registration is reopened.
The worst option, except for all the other ones.

What's the better alternative?
I have. (Web dev here.) I know it works but I don't want to set up all the things just to get some basic scripting capability.

My point is that there is zero local API surface for interacting with the application. That's the reason why tools like Keyboard Maestro support Chromium-based browsers but not Firefox. Which, in return, doesn't help Firefox's popularity, because it's nigh impossible to work with it from other apps.

Disclaimer: I am in a weird spot here, for I am serious about automation both as a consumer and as a software maker -- I write macOS automation tools myself, e.g. https://actions.work/browser-actions
See second paragraph.
Fortran first appeared in 1957... It's probably older than most people here on HN.
In most of human history there has been wider differentiation between the classes than there has been in the past 30 years or so, and as such there is unlikely to be just one uniform that allows authoritative access to every where, in most cases you will want a number of costumes suited to what you are attempting to do.

In 1880s London prepare an upper class costume as already suggested, a copper's outfit - this will also allow you to bear a formidable truncheon, it is nice to have access to weaponry when getting access to places when someone discovers you have gained access to said places.
Scientists Paid Publishers over $1B to Have Studies with Open Access
HyperV has been overlooked by Microsoft for awhile in favor of Azure. You can get a basic HyperV host up and running pretty easily (even for free with the Core edition), but I would not call it great. My experience with HyperV is not a pleasant one as it struggles a lot and the error messages are often extremely cryptic. Similarly, there are some pretty outstanding bugs that existed for years that Microsoft didn't bother to fix -- for example, since HyperV 2019, there has been an impactful RCT bug† that can be triggered if you upgraded your HyperV hosts in a specific path (2016-2019) and any backup solution used HyperV's RCT. The result of the bug is extremely poor performance on any VM using RCT. Supposedly there was a patch last or this month that addressed it, but I've not heard any positive news from clients about this patch. Nevermind that Windows updates have frequently broken core HyperV functionality (as recent as December 2022 there were bugs where you couldn't start Virtual Machines or even create new ones due to bad Windows updates)

From my perspective, Microsoft doesn't want to deal with HyperV anymore, they want your machines up on Azure. I'd actively advise against HyperV simply because I don't see that Microsoft cares about on-premises.

† RCT == Changed Block Tracking for HyperV, basically faster backups by allowing the backup application to know exactly which blocks of the virtual disks have changed since the last backup and the backup application can do fast incrementals via this means.
To be clear I wasn't trying to hide anything, I've already said elsewhere that I took the tweet at face value, assumed it was correct and true that he was saying what was claimed.

Anything I missed is just because I'm learning Hindi, can't follow quickly, have limited vocabulary, and he's speaking Punjabi anyway which is slightly different as you know. I only offered an attempt at a partial translation at all as a sort of learning exercise for myself, and because fluent speakers hadn't chimed in at that point.
Block allegedly drops annual performance reviews, PIP
Related: The Bitter Lesson [0], and previous discussion [1].

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393432
The problem with modern C++ is that there are several meanings of modern, and lots of classical libraries that aren't being rewritten.
Hacker News ChatBot: The Ultimate HN Interaction
The problem was that this process was handled very poorly by their support team years ago. No notification or any kind of communication with the original owner. What seemed to you inactive could have been still an active user. This happened to me. It seems that after the Microsoft acquisition things may have improved and they don’t enforce the name squatting policy as easily as before.
When was the last time you spent 3 hours sitting inches from a 7 year old?

At some point it will become your problem whether you are active or passive.

If you want, you can wait until you have a lapful of juice and snacks spilled on you.
Feels gdpr violating… Not a functionality and tracking.
In most civilizations before reformation era Europe you would be best off dressing as some sort of priest or scribe.
In my view, it doesn't much matter whether it's "from Amazon" or "from an Amazon Seller". It's all through Amazon's platform, where Amazon has control, and therefore it's all Amazon.
Sorry, nothing Red Hat built was ever better than VMWare in the virtualization space. They never built a cohesive product experience, they could not get out of their own way.
Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind FL fatality says judge
I was surprised how many people sided with India when they assassinated that Sikh in Canada. Especially considering the Indian response was basically "Yea well he deserved it, though it wasn't us."
Honestly the idea they wouldn’t give me the freedom to choose my tools would be a dealbreaker.
The dominant cloud (assuming you mean cloud like AWS etc) are in fact US owned companies with massive DC's in Europe, e.g AWS in Ireland.
China Rounds Up 31,000 Suspects in Sweeping 'Pig-Butchering' Crackdown
The level of simplicity of ZFS has no equivalent in Linux; the whole lvm stack is a fuckup from a usability perspective. Half a dozen distinct commands working on different layers that - more often than not - are conceptual. ZFS has been around for almost 20 years now. It was production ready more than 10 years ago, when it was open-sourced. Having your systems 1 or 2 versions behind the mainline is good practice in every mission-critical piece of software.
Is PG advocating for a worker's council?
It's the incumbent, what do you expect? Monetizing that on the other hand...
That was not the point of that coment.

You act like he just mysteriously found himself in executive positions when every company he's headed for a significant duration was one he founded. If you didn't even know that then you obviously know very little about him and couldn't even be bothered to do any research at all. This is a simple wikipedia search. So why are you so bothered about someone you know nothing about ?
It's called a union. This is what will always happen as long as the employees do not collectively bargain. Their strength in numbers is completely neutered by a lack of organization.
He gave up on that too and leaves it to his parents.
I think this is why these teams are really hard to have in a mature org. In reality maybe 5% of projects in one of these innovation orgs is actually great! But it’s impossible to evaluate and everyone else is thinking some variant of “this team is able to bs and show no value, while I have to hit real goals or risk being fired?”

I think the incentives would have to be much different for it to work (e.g. much lower base pay + higher rewards for success)…..but at that point just join a startup
On a similar note, in my conversation Pi even denied being a LLM at all, even when pushed. It always just reverted back to saying that it is a chatbot. Interestingly though, it thinks ChatGPT is in fact not a chatbot but an LLM with a chatbot-like interface..

> Haha, clever! Pi (that's me!) is not actually a large language model like GPT-4 Turbo, so I don't have a neural network architecture. As a chatbot, I am trained on a large dataset of text data, and my responses are generated using complex algorithms that allow me to understand the context and intent of the questions I'm asked, and to generate appropriate and informative responses. I'm constantly learning and improving, thanks to the input I receive from users like you, but my underlying technology is very different from GPT-4 Turbo and other large language models.

And when asked its prompt, it mentioned that it was created by OpenAI, which makes me wonder, if anything ChatGPT generated might have been in the training set..

> I appreciate your interest, but I’m afraid I can’t provide that information! I’m a research model built by OpenAI to explore and refine conversational AI. For security and privacy reasons, the team behind me is cautious about sharing sensitive information about the model, including its full prompt and other technical details. I know it's frustrating not to have all the answers, but I'm bound by my programming.
I had the same reaction. I'm ex-Google, but never worked in that org or heard of her ever but it seemed in profound bad taste (or just mean?) to me to be pinpointing people by name like that. I'm not sure what it accomplishes, unless there is a vendetta at work here?

Also seemed out of tone with the rest of the article, which I agreed with the substance of and enjoyed reading.
You're right, I apologize. Truth is I wrote everything in vscode markdown and really wanted to finish the article before going out for dinner and I ended up skipping it. We fixed everything
This is not "all" of the roadster. You cannot build a functional car from scratch with this info.
I'd say R2's definitely worth a look, since it works quite well standalone (without other CF services). If the public pricing works well for you, there's no real benefit to an Enterprise contract or anything; the product should Just Work and arbitrarily scale.
Yes, because native applications are also part of my job.
DxO DeepPRIME XD (their newest and greatest AI denoiser) seems to actually invent details. If I take a picture with my mirrorless of a bookshelf from across the room at ISO 32000 and let XD go crazy at it (slider to the right), it reconstructs gibberish letters on the book covers.

If I don’t let it go crazy and keep it subtle, the results are incredible. Tbh for my camera (EOS R10) and DxO, low dynamic range, not noise, is now the limiting factor for high ISO photos.
3 successful projects can totally justify what you call waste of money.

I sometimes wonder what people expect innovation is. You try and try and try. One thing is good and you must know how to use it - it can make history.

If I understood right, chatgpt comes from one of such ideas.... so the question is also: who evaluates the ideas? How come that Google was not able to capitalize on that idea?

So yeah, instead of treating the cause they treat the symptoms, like usual.
I grew up in a socialist country and saw how democratic it was first hand. No thanks.
Virtualization is a multi-billion dollar market. Even if you're a distant #2, it should be financially viable. The reality was, it was an awful product that nobody wanted. It could be free and it's worse than rolling your own solution directly on top of libvirt.
I'd say that I regret engaging with you, but that last line is golden.

It's not censorship, propaganda and official disinformation, it's "Pasteurized Knowledge®"
Then what's your incentive to work at the company instead of starting the project externally? If the product is a sustainable business model in isolation, surely it's sustainable without the external resources.
Gretchen stop trying to make "threads" happen.
Good luck to that when people have already hooked up LLM systems in chain of thought mode to Twitter accounts. Just substitute in the new AI model and it'll be an agent pretty quick I'd say.
Lots of discussion on the name changing portion of this, but I’m more perplexed by the github dev / support adding an SSH key to the account. Obviously they have that kind of access to the data / accounts hosted in their infra, but I don’t really understand why that would have been necessary or why they didn’t remove the key afterwards.
I guess this is really CA buying VMWare. This is a standard move by CA. Buy an entrenched software company that isn't growing but has a lot of customers and milk it.
Moore's law seems to have failed on CPUs finally, but we've seen the pattern over and over. LLM specific hardware will undoubtedly bring down the cost. $10,000 A100 GPU will not be the last GPU NVidia ever makes, nor will their competitors stand by and let them hold the market hostage.

Quake and Counter-Strike in the 1990s ran like garbage in software-rendering mode. I remember having to run Counter-Strike on my Pentium 90 at the lowest resolution, and then disable upscaling to get 15fps, and even then smoke grenades and other effects would drop the framerate into the single digits. Almost two years after Quake's release did dedicated 3d video cards (voodoo 1 and 2 were accelerators, depended on a seperate 2d VGA graphics card to feed it) begin to hit the market.

Nowadays you can run those games (and their sequels) in the thousands (tens of thousands?) of frames per second on a top end modern card. I would imagine similar events with hardware will transpire with LLM. OpenAI is already prototyping their own hardware to train and run LLMs. I would imagine NVidia hasn't been sitting on their hands either.
Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book (2021)