skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Stronger" is ambiguous. If you interpret it as "resilience" then I agree having a single point of failure is usually more brittle. But if you interpret it as "focused", then having a single charismatic leader can be superior.

Concretely, it sounds like this incident brought a lot of internal conflicts to the surface, and they got more-or-less resolved in some way. I can imagine this allows OpenAI to execute with greater focus and velocity going forward, as the internal conflict that was previously causing drag has been resolved.

Whether or not that's "better" or "stronger" is up to individual interpretation.
What about Debian or other linux flavors, is this some Ubuntu proprietary thing or open source stuff? I would love Debian to have this the same as Ubuntu.
Feels like moving goalposts here.

Technologies change all the time in every stack; flavors come and go.

By the standard of the web JS ecosystem, .NET has been relatively stable.
Sam is a leader. Let there be no doubt. Does he have foibles? I’m sure. I do. Everybody has people out there who will proffer criticism of them, especially those at the top of the pyramid. Our summer at YC was heavily influenced by him; he always had time for us, and always thought hard about our problems.
Inflection-2: the next step up
> Under capitalism...

Which part of capitalism causes the government to scam the state funded military. There doesn't appear to be any private ownership of capital involved at all.
I think minification should be done on another layer: HTTP compression and HTTP parallelization and that kind of stuff. And just don't make a complex web app, so it will be fast.
Never thought I would see the release of v0.5. Congrats to all the maintainers!

Can’t wait to play with this!
That's an interesting development. Since the ransomware outbreak earlier this year, there has been an increase in security concerns about VMware. I've heard more complaints about the lateness of security patches and the difficulties people have had installing them, etc. I'm curious if this has anything to do with that.
We don't need AGI for an AI disaster. Enough humans using AI-based tools to drive important decisions (read: outsourcing thinking) will stand in place of the "G" just fine.

Corporations have been acting in this capacity (making massive changes to the ecosystem, human lives, etc) just fine. The corporate "organisms" have caused humans to erect massive projects to shave a few milliseconds from HFT, for example. AI-based decision support tools will just make that process more efficient.
I found those posts extremely weird, the emojis and lowercase tweets and screenshots of Notes. I would imagine people who were/are in charge of a company on the fast track to being worth hundreds of billions / trillion USD would be a bit more serious, but here they are, quoting each other tweets with heart emojis.
I guess the analogy kind of falls down as a physical business owner and move and setup somewhere else, but then they won’t have access to the mall’s traffic… actually I guess this kind of still holds up
Depends on your focus. If it is privacy or security, you may want to consider Tails and Qubes OS recommended by Edward Snowden.

[1] https://tails.net/

[2] https://www.qubes-os.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-B9d7iz1A
The RHELatives catch up: Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3
Can't you imagine a group of people motivated to conduct AI research? I don't understand... All nerds are highly motivated in their areas of passion, and here we have AI research. Why do they need leadership instead of simply having an abundance of resources for the passionate work they do?
If the problem is the hardware itself and not Windows in this case, I fail to see how Linux would fix this particular problem.

Also worth pointing out that:

> Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked Blackwing Intelligence to evaluate the security of fingerprint sensors

Hating on Windows is fine, but lets be realistic about where the hate is going here.
Those PC's look like great value and availability and are clearly very popular - have squeezed out other options like Intel NUC. Very tempting.

But I've heard that you pretty much never get a BIOS update and the quality of any such update is going to be dubious. Nothing sinister about this - it is simply a bargain basement option.

So, you are really throwing security out the window.
You can always check https://status.openai.com/
Anyway it works OK here
I'm at the beginning of my third desktop Linux year and I managed to install it on all the hardware I have thrown at it ranging from 10+ years old PCs to a recent Ryzen workstation and a Framework laptop.

I'm not a Linux guru by any mean, there's only one distro that gave me problems: OpenSuse. I'm currently on Fedora.
Memetic thinking aside, Ilya signing that letter might have sealed it for them. Though, working for someone as formidable as sama in itself is a great pull, nevertheless.
What a gigantic mess. Everyone looks bad in this: Altman, Microsoft, the OpenAI board, OpenAI employees, etc.

It also has confirmed that greed and cult of personality win in the end.
I completely disagree; discipline is only optional in C++ if you want to ship broken code. Even the top poster in this thread that actually cops to the productivity overhead of C++ admits (albeit obliquely) they still make memory errors
I feel the same way, however.

The 95% will lose a huge chunk of money if Sam leaves, at least their fortune are all in serious jeopardy. So, money might have played a bigger role here.
Just like former President Trump?
Yeah, very weird. They have a sample prep tool that converts existing samples to the correct format, and obviously the internal sampling records to that rate.
If it's true, and if it really happened, it would have dramatic consequences for US-India relations. And there are at least 2 countries that would like to see that happen.
Compilation speed difference between 2015 15" mbp and M1 Pro 14" was truly profound. I could compile in a time it takes to make and drink a coffee what previously took half night.
Can client/browser choose if to use compression? If so, this is a problem for the website
You assume that “most HNers” use their computers outside of work and a work provided laptop for anything processor or memory intensive.

I use mine exclusively for a side contract and that’s the only reason I bought it. I’m either using VSCode with Python or Node and occasionally to build Lambdas in a Docker Amazon Linux 2 container.

If I need more compute than that on my side project, I spin up a Cloud 9 instance on my client’s account.
We have been informed they are dropping their academic list pricing entirely, which will cause many institutions to pay double or even triple what they do now. As a result, several major universities (specifically the Big Ten but I'm sure many others are as well) are looking into alternatives to reduce license costs ahead of next year's contract negotiations.

Source: Someone higher up in my department.
For more context, that's a comment from one of the ext4 main authors, Ted Ts'o. the other subsequent comment from him spells out the case more but sadly no spelled out NUL byte origin story I spotted from skimming.
Neurotransmitters are used all over the body. A lot is centralized in the brain, but the periphery also uses neurons and neurotransmitters.

Neurotransmitters in general don't particularly imply they're being used in the brain. Some neurotransmitters travel through the body, but a larger fraction are produced locally by a cell and intended only for close neighbors.
As mentioned in this thread, tightly integrated apples aren't all that great either.
Here's an old article: https://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-minification-a...

In the example given:

Original - 147 KB

Minified - 123 KB (83%)

Gzipped - 22 KB (15%)

Both - 20KB (14%)

Compression is waaay more effective, so if you have to pick one, go with compressing. Is having readable source code worth the other 2KB? That's up to you. Source maps can do the same thing with less, though. Also, modern devtools have ways of de-minification (if you don't mind all the mangled variable names).
Yeah the control you get over Linux is both good and bad. You can pretty much get it to work exactly how you want, but getting there is very complex, and remembering CLI commands is extremely difficult for me even after many years of doing linux server admin.

It's slowly getting better though, things are starting to have sane defaults more often, and there are more easy to use GUI settings for things, instead of needing to deal with stuff that requires having documentation open on the side.

My benchmark for 'good' is that I shouldn't have to look at documentation or remember CLI commands to set up and use an OS.
https://archive.is/ufTjg
The briefcase was mostly for storing files that would be synced between devices. The general idea was to allow loading contacts and documents onto your PDA, editing stuff on the go, and syncing it back.

Sync primarily happened via either a hardwired serial connection or wirelessly via infrared. The infrared sync worked, but was finicky and required that the infrared sensors on your laptop and PDA be directly facing each other.

I only played with this after I'd graduated and started making enough money that I could buy used PDA's just to see what they were capable of.
Not everyone is on 5G. In rural zones and poor countries every kB counts.
Well, I can’t charge $150+/hour for using a car…
I guess if you are paying 4k+ for your computer it makes sense to push out your next purchase. I'm usually paying ~2k.
How big is your JS that minification has measurable performance impact? In my experience, minification doesn't add much (if anything) on top of gzip + cache for most applications.
Windows KRunner with slightly improved styles?
They are okish a lot slower than c but still reasonable if you dont use tons of generics/macros and other heavy stuff.

Still it could be a lot better.
Scale. A restaurant can only serve 100's or maybe 1000's of guests in a single day.

Spotify has Millions of subscriptions. 2% at scale is significant.

Here is their recent Q3 earnings report: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-10-24/spotify-reports-thir...

Their revenue was 3.4 Billion Euros at 2% they can take away 68 Million dollars. Which is more than enough for the business to be viable.
Regulators aren't going to make it illegal, but you are still entitled to your opinion. You can't stop a determined human ignoring or bypassing safety systems from getting themselves killed. It is an unfortunate reality. I am not without empathy, just pragmatic when you try to build systems to protect humans and they do what they do. "Make something idiot-proof, and they will build a better idiot."

Until regulators pull it from vehicles, we're going to carry on with it except for folks who get themselves killed (with some economic drag from these legal proceedings).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
I used Manjaro for years before moving to Arch Linux myself. Manjaro broke their 2 weeks testing cycle promise. It used to be stable. Then they started cherry picking systemd and kde directly from upstream instead of the traditional Arch stable repo -> Manjaro unstable -> Manjaro testing -> Manjaro stable cycle for a package. Things started breaking and they were hostile to the community which resulted in a new forum. I have both technical and reasons of morale to ditch Manjaro being an early ~2016 Manjaro user.

I also have a sour taste regarding Manjaro because I was one in the minority of people who supported them when they wanted to kickstart a company with Manjaro. I am also going to ignore the whole issue about the leadership issues and outsting of Jonathon (R.I.P Jonathon!). I walked away from Manjaro because there was no technical reason or joy to use Manjaro and partly for Jonathon. He was the glue for our community. Old Manjaro users know how awesome their community was initially.
Their pocket operator series were inexpensive, at $60-100 per model, but were very basic with essentially a bare PCB and most of the electronics protected by being placed under the screen. I believe that much of the cost of their expensive products is due to a lot of custom parts like CNC machined aluminum enclosures. This product seems designed to hit a price point between the pocket operators (~$100) and their plastic OP-Z (~$500).
> Based on what financial statements do we know FTX was profitable?

The crypto-exchange part I have read many times it was profitable. Running an exchange is a profitable endeavour as you just take a cut of all transactions. As long as you control your costs it is a money printer.

The rest of FTX was full of fraud and Alameda was a money sink via unprofitable speculation. Also likely helping laundry money as well via poor KYC.

Running an exchange is a great business though if you have the volume, doesn't matter if it is crypto or futures or stocks.
Prices in the US generally don’t include VAT, and maybe there’s some exchange or import
fee on top as well.
Agreed. I have a Linux computer upstairs, and the Wifi dongle (I know, but it's fine!) broke. Buying a new one, or even knowing what to buy, that doesn't require me to USB key some random drivers (probably cloned off GitHub) is a tricky task.
The only major series with a brilliant, satisfying, and true to form ending and you want to resuscitate it back to life for some cheap curtain calls and modern social commentary, leaving Mike Judge to end it yet again and in such a way that manages to duplicate or exceed the effect of the first time but without doing the same thing? Screw it. Why not?
It doesn't, but opposing protections for children and veterans is widely perceived to be a losing political strategy.
I hear NFT's are gonna really hit soon....
Allowing me to run a coil under them, for running them over my land, seems fair and calming.
Yes, HTTP Accept-Encoding
Retail shelf space is a constrained physical variable as opposed to screen space which is virtually unlimited. Putting own white label product on shelf incurs stocking and restocking costs as well as shelf space which could have been used to sale other branded products.

Apple/YouTube music not having any platform fee does give them an unfair advantage. Not sure how they rank in their own app stores in music categories though. Android user here so YouTube comes installed by default and even Yt music. Not sure if Apple music comes pre-installed as well. If it does, it does give another advantage to Apple.
Did the Life spell heal you to full if you're alive? If so that must be what I'm thinking of
I have a MacBook pro m1. I'm considering an upgrade, but not for CPU. What I really need is more memory. This computer is not capable of doing any real load of development work without running out of memory. It's insanely frustrating.
I’m sorry to hear you are still suffering. I’ve been there, and yes those high achievement individuals often have too at some point.

Part of the problem is that we often focus on what could have been, instead of the wins of what was, no? Part of what makes things hard though, is if we never process/feel the bad things, we can’t move on.

When we process the pain, we can start to let go, and the wins start to come through.

It becomes a past, not a present. We can start to see the truth of what is in front of us, instead of getting stuck in an illusion.

Some learned/were able to earlier, some later. In my experience. We can look at the future more than relive the past.

Some avoid it, and that is often where true evil takes root.

‘Toughing it out’ works in the moment, but adds up over time until we hit our limits. The longer the pain stays in, the more it calcifies. Often, if it’s ‘stuck’ it’s due to something that is very difficult to see due to how bad it is.

No one comes through life without some grief and loss and pain, literally no one. Some get more than others, some handle it more than others.

In the end, we’re all dirt anyway - what matters is what we do with the time we have. I hope you find some peace. It is possible, but it is often not natural.

If you’re still struggling, there may be alternatives that can help. They do often take time and money.

I’m happy to provide some pointers or references if you’d like. No guarantees, but I have had some significant personal relief as have others. It is possible.
The short answer is a lot of potentially useful decentralized protocols completely buckle under the weight of Sybil attacks, so if Sybil attacks were impossible, there is a whole lot more that could be built
As someone who was very critical of how the board acted, I strongly disagree. I felt like this Washington Post article gave a very good, balanced overview. I think it sounds like there were substantive issues that were brewing for a long time, though no doubt personal clashes had a huge impact on how it all went down:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-alt...
Tangent

I have this suspicion that Windows has basically a layer of analytics tracking over the top of the DE that slows the system for most desktop uses, and that they essentially "tunnel" through that layer when a program actually needs the performance. Like gaming or exporting a video project.

This is why Windows is able to benchmark high for specific tasks, but for overall usage it feels very slow compared to every linux desktop.

Am I crazy or is there a nugget of truth there?
I've seen the same thing with different jQuery versions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3239125/is-there-any-poi...

At least with jQuery, it seems that minification matters considerably.
The GP looks to me like an AI summary. Which would fit with the hallucination that microsoft wasn't involved.
It's almost certain that all employees did not behave the same way for the exact same reasons. And I don't see anyone making an argument about what the exact numbers are, nor does it really matter. Just that some portion of employees were swayed by pressure once the letter reached some critical signing mass.
> They're an untrustworthy upstream.

All I needed to come to this conclusion was the abandonment of interesting (and necessary) projects like Servo, and the continual increase of superiors' salaries.
It's the (partial) owners' money. The (partial) owners might be VC firms, but they are risking their own money.
The Lie of "Deinfluencing"
Without any more information this post is just bullshit. For example, it's not documented how the flushing has been done. On Linux, even issuing 'sync' is not enough: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/98568/difference-be...

The bottom answer especially states that "blockdev --flushbufs may still be required if there is a large write cache and you're disconnecting the device immediately after"

The hpdarm utility has a parameter for syncing and flushing device buffers themselves. Seems like all three should be done for a complete flush at all levels.
Doesn't gzip compression & source maps take care of this withou the abomination that is minification ?
This was used in the PocketCHIP for instance. They changed SLC to MLC and they error ratio got much smaller. AKA shit happened if you let the device shutdown by hardware due to low battery usage, you would loss lots of files.
Apple certainly uses hardware partners to make components of their systems. Apple has an advantage in that they can charge more for their systems due to their brand value and reputation. Since the value of their products are high they have less of a need to cut corners and oversight to maintain margin. Chinese manufactures produce the quality to the spec you give them and you pay for.
The kernel docs are generated with Sphinx, just like the Python docs are. Are you saying you wish we used the Python theme?
Amazing that windows systems are so bad that people are justified in buying a $7k laptop instead of a 4x 4090 + threadripper super computer.
And correlation does not imply causality.

Example:
Put a loser as CEO of a rocket ship, and there is a huge chance that the company will still be successful.

Put a loser as CEO of a sinking ship, and there is a huge chance that the company will fail.

The exceptional CEOs are those who turn failures into successes.

The fact this drama has emerged is the symptom of a failure.

In a company with a great CEO this shouldn’t be happening.
Who are the two countries?
I find it interesting how many tutorials praise the simplicity of git while simultaneously assume nothing goes ever wrong. It's when you have to pull the main branch into the feature branch you're working on (because you sure don't want to do the big merge in a few weeks when you're done, not the least, because you don't even know whether you're still there to do it), but aren't ready to commit all changes made yet, when Murphy assures that there are conflicts. Then you have to do the stash/pop dance and since you manage to not fix all conflicts, the stash wasn't dropped, which you do manually and you just lost some changes. Then you wished you'd done a back-up before the pull ...

Sure, if you always commit your changes before pulling, then you won't need the stash and (even old CVS documentation reminded us that a VCS tool cannot replace communication) if there are no unrelated changes in the files you're working on, there won't be conflicts, but that just aren't realistic assumptions.
First of all, you're probably bundling your code, stripping comments, have tree-shaking eliminate parts of it. That's already a form of obfuscation. Then, minification will affect performance of parsing, it can even affect whether a function gets inlined by the JIT compiler, because character length is a very cheap heuristic. Whether I care about that or not is my judgement call.
I'll put my comment about price here. I saw "teenage engineering" and immediately thought "no way I'd afford that", but I clicked anyway. Sort of like how I'd look at a Lamborghini poster as a kid.
> 1. I went with 16 GB of RAM on the M2 and sort of regretted it from day one. I have 36 GB on the M3 and feel much more comfortable about that in a machine I plan to use for the next 5-7 years.

Very fair; part of the reason I went with 64GB on my ThinkPad, and Apple makes this configuration almost cost prohibitive.
No one mentioned profit, I think.
It has touchpad gestures, and I even used a GUI program (I think it's called Touche, trivially installed via the app store) to customize the gestures further (it's quite powerful, it lets you assign arbitrary keys or shell scripts to gestures and scope them by context, e.g. I assigned four-finger swipe left/right to Alt+Left/Right while inside Firefox to perform back/forward navigation (this was before Firefox started shipping with gestures natively)).

As for browser hardware video acceleration, I sure hope so (the model I got has a beefy GPU) but I'm not sure how to check, and in any case I reflexively watch all videos in 480p after years of watching my old Windows laptop overheat while trying to decode video so I'm the wrong person to ask. :P
I don’t think it was everyone, I think there were just some loud voices. I also attribute that to human nature rather than anything organized. I’ve made a few Altman-skeptical comments and they generally got upvotes rather than getting flagged into oblivion; this tends to indicate there wasn’t premeditated astroturfing.
> 95% threatening to leave

Have you never had that employee or colleague who threatens to leave once a year? Curiously around pay negotiations?

Nobody joined Microsoft. Nobody left. Two people were fired. Lots of threats were made, every one magically leaked within minutes to Twitter.

Nobody followed anyone anywhere. Instead we saw $81bn vaporise, and the people who stood to gain from it panic and throw their weight around.
Fair enough, I understand better where you're coming from. Thanks!
So is everyone else at Google.
You dont need thebloke. Its trivial to make gguf files from bin models by yourself.