skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People here are jumping through hoops to justify these purchases. I don’t get it.

It is completely OK to want to have nice things in your life. It is OK to invest in yourself. It is OK to place a high value (2021 vs 2023 Mac) or any value (2014 Mac vs 2023 Mac) on your time.

Maybe the shocked reactions are a result of currency conversions, but when you factor in trade in value, the M1 to M3 upgrade isn’t much more expensive than an iPhone.

Over the course of two years, the Mac is no more expensive than a gym membership (actually quite a lot less depending on the gym) and probably gets a lot more use.

But there I go justifying again. If personal computing is your hobby or your passion, you should spend your hard-earned money on what you want.
That the US and India aren't each other's closest ally confuses me. It's the 2 biggest democracies, both are on uneasy terms with China, there's an enormous Desi diaspora here. Both are heavy into high-tech with struggling manufacturing bases. Both have a history of trouble with Islamic terrorism, both ardent allies of Israel. Each is the largest country in their region.

Hell, we speak the same language (kinda, I know it's a lingua franca etc)! So why are we allies with Pakistan, a country that openly hates us, instead of India?
It's an autocracy that delivers though, realistically he is not at risk until growth drops below 4%.
Micro USB? Won't be coming out in Europe then...
there is another key difference between rust and c++, rust by default bundles its stdlib into the executable, which make each executable kind of a static binary, they add up fast.

c++ uses shared libraries, smaller in size for the whole system, and, you can upgrade a library separately too.

on embedded systems where storage space is restricted, rust is simply a no-go.
the implicit argument you're making here is that the only acceptable security risk mitigation strategy is one that works 100% of the time
ultimately I'm not sure that is a tractible problem; any method a screen reader would need to use to decode to speech would require getting the address in clear text via programatic means, which is something that one specifically needs to avoid if we want to stop bots scraping addresses
> she risked people's lives

She was found not guilty of that bit. The conviction and jail time is only for defrauding the investors.
That’s one very specific type of risk, and a thankfully rare one. (That also appears to be a men’s rights activist site with an axe to grind on this subject).

A more neutral source:

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

… which suggests the opposite (but there’s not much in it).

In terms of broader risks, males commit a clear majority of violent offences and a vast majority of sexual offences.

This isn’t even just a human thing. Male primates (and mammals generally) exhibit more aggressive behavior than females. It’s probably a deep consequence of anisogamous sexual differentiation:

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169...
What's the point of posting this and providing zero examples of how?
I have only interacted briefly with Sam but I found him to be one of the smartest YC folks. But I will let a Paul Graham essay speak [1]:

Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html
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Thanks for the link.

I expected it to not let me run this. I have an intel Macbook, was expecting that I'd need Apple Silicon... am I misunderstanding something? I get fairly fast results at the prompt with the default model. How's this thing running with whatever shitty GPU I have in my laptop?
HN is strongly anti-controversy. So when you have a large enough minority of users who rally around flagging certain topics, they easily get taken down even if there’s otherwise interest in the discussion. I don’t think it requires owner manipulation. You can see it in how things like any coverage of Palestinian perspective getting flagged immediately while coverage of far-right ancap politics lingers despite both being contentious political topics (where ancap discussion is controversial but detractors lack the habitual urge to flag brigade and are more open to discuss).
It's black enough for me!
Using off-peak electricity during on-peak hours means installing a stationary battery at the charger. They'll do it if saves money.

It'll be more likely if a high amperage grid connection is also expensive at the charger location. A battery and a low amperage connection can replace a high amperage connection for an infrequently used charger.
> the video from Instagram

If this is the best source available, we’re probably best without it.
Unfortunately, Nvidia has ~87% of the market share of discrete GPUs.
Gonna pick this up in Portland on Friday. $300 out the door
>I've had a much worse time with hardware on windows than Linux these last couple of years.

I don't doubt that as I have had same experience. But somehow Windows has to get worse from non-technical users' perspective to be real trouble for Microsoft. So far my spouse still find think Windows is the normal thing despite using rather trouble-free, fast Mac at home for many years along with horribly slow and problematic Windows laptop provided by employer.

So even with their own first-hand experience with Windows problems they consider Linux or Mac difficult/exotic thing.
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> editing documents

Orthography and grammar checking was too slow. You had to press a button to check them, and it missed a lot of tricky cases.
If the existing packages are worth more than MSFT pay AI researchers (they are, by a lot) then it’s not acquiring OAI for $0. Plausibly it could cost in the $B to buy put every single equity holder, at a $80B+ valuation.

Still a good deal, but your accounting is off.
Use LTO if that's a problem.

[profile.release] # A profile to try to minimize the size
panic = "abort" # Abort on Panic
strip = true
opt-level = "z" # Optimize For Size
lto = true # Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)
codegen-units = 1 # Reduce Parallel Code Generation Units to Increase Optimization
I also imagine the morale of the people who are currently implementing things, and getting tired of all these politics about who is going to claim success for their work.
Article writer here! Yeah it's really creepy. In the "Research" tab, youtube tells me what my viewers have been searching for - especially the searches that don't produce many results. Sometimes the search terms are very general (eg: javascript), and sometimes they're more specific (eg: how to [personally identifying task]).

It also shows me what my viewers favourite videos are. Again, the 'highest rated' ones are general. But as you look down the numbers, you can see more specific things.
In the context of Linux adoption on the desktop it is not big news, unfortunately. To my mind, overall end-user experience is already better in Linux compared to Windows where similar tasks are more complicated, even before the raw performance starts to matter.

Better performance would be a prerequisite indeed - no one wants to move a slower OS - but then there must be other convincing reasons to drive the desktop user adoption. And no roadblocks.

Edit: sorry, rephrased a lot, but the core idea is hopefully the same.
Biometric data as authentication vs. differentiate my shitcoin so I can get in on the crypto grift.
> Perhaps the manufacturers will start to help out more and more on the Linux side too, as more users demand compatibility.

I do believe that manufacturers would be willing to help out if GNU/Linux was sufficiently standardized that they can simply drop some code/binary that works on basically every GNU/Linux distribution (just as they can basically do on Windows). The problem is that GNU/Linux is not some single operating system, but a proliferation of lots of different distributions.
Looks like it, and also seems like BS.

SBF was convicted ~2 weeks ago and a Section 35B (federal cooperation and substantial assistance) doesn't go through that quickly, unless SBF started cooperating against CZ before his conviction.

And it sure didn't seem like SBF was interested in cooperating in any way pre-conviction.
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I suggest you reread your comment then. You claimed the only reason people questioned their qualifications was sexism.
Even if the IRS isn't a fan, what are they going to do about it? It seems like the main recourse they could pursue is they could force the OpenAI directors/Microsoft to pay an excise tax on any "excess benefit transactions".

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
(I'll hijack your comment a bit, just want to share my experience working in something related to it)

I've had a chance to work with some HR people who genuinely wanted to improve the work environment on their respective companies (I know! Please believe me, lol).

One of the bigger issues was corruption in general, of which this sort of behavior could fall under. The line of reasoning for that is that people usually resort to these behaviors in order to immorally/unlawfully attain some material benefit to them (it is very strange to find a pure blooded sociopath that just does it for the sake of it). When people artificially distort any system that is set up (for acquisitions, promotions, terminations, you name it) so that it no longer serves the company's interest but that of a group of rogue employees, well ... that's corruption. This framing is nice as it makes company exec's take a look at it from a business' gain/loss perspective instead of "meh, it's just employee's gossip".

Anyway, the proposed solution was a sort of ombudsman for companies (it's actually a tech thing, not an actual person), a private channel where people could raise these issues without fear of retaliation. There cannot be a clear cut criteria by which one could define whether a particular employee is being corrupt or not, but we've observed something like a bi-modal distribution where problematic individuals truly stand out! Quoting Warren Buffet, "there's never just one cockroach in the kitchen"; you usually observe a lot of employees with no comments on them, a few getting like one or two remarks per month (and you can just ignore those, shit happens everyday) and then you have this guy who is getting 10+ comments per week and that's who you really need to sit down with and ask what's going on.

Obviously this relies on the HR person being fair and honest, not part of the plot, and that comes with its own set of caveats; but at least, it's much easier to control that for one person than for 100s. Overall, the whole thing felt like an improvement.

But, conclusion, the app didn't go much farther than being used at a couple companies, and then we realized it would be very hard to monetize, the team disbanded and we all moved on to other things :P.
Yeah fair enough. Any idea how Larry Summers even ended up on this board? He seems like an arbitrary choice with no domain expertise, although granted the board shouldn't be filled with AI experts.
Like 7 years ago (I'm 17), I was running around playing from 9 am to 8 pm during the summer, without a phone.
Okay. Let's move goalposts.

For a small file (github.com/runk/node-chardet, release version 0.7.0, index.js, 154lines, 4KiB)

Raw - 3.30 KiB

Minified - 2.05 KiB

Gz - 1.01 KiB

Minified+Gz - 0.81 KiB

That's a 25% reduction

Still huge. If minifying before gzipping multiples the size of my transfers by a factor between 0.75 and 0.40, I'm not skipping it for the one oddball that wants the sources in a human-readable format on the production environment

They can use the sourcemaps, or find the files on github
I'm curious what the real cost of power protection is for the manufacturer. Adding caps or a bit of backup power seems like it _should_ be a fairly cheap compromise to maintain performance without lying about persistence
I’m curious about your perceptions of the (median) motivations of OpenAI employees - although of course I understand if you don’t feel free to say anything.
Actually, I think that one has technical merit - the SD card spec includes non-storage IO - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDIO_cards - that isn't supported by slots that only care about storage. At least, that's my understanding of the situation.
> the US and India aren't each other's closest ally confuses me

We increasingly are.

> why are we allies with Pakistan, a country that openly hates us, instead of India?

India openly allied with the Soviets, so we took the other side. Also, India was an immature democracy through the 70s, when it flirted with outright authoritarianism. It isn’t until recently that it has become a middle-income democracy with a high-income upper-middle class and cosmopolitan elite.
it says in the page that its because all the mails were on the same page (and presumably then scaped by the same bots), and yet a couple mails were recieved by other addresses and not by the unprotected one. So it would seem that the control is the set of unique mails recieved by all addresses.

"Surprisingly, the unprotected email address appears to have blocked a spam email. Either that message wasn’t received, or an extra message was sent to one of the protected email addresses."
I suspect the signers were a combination of wanting to follow their comp out the door and a bit of Tom Wambsgans from Succession: "Because I've seen you get fucked a lot, and I've never seen Logan [in this case Sam] get fucked once."

There's very little risk in signing if everything falls apart, but there's a lot of risk to not signing if Sam comes back on as lead.

> I find it hard to believe

I also find it hard to believe that anyone on HN interested in this space doesn't at least have a "friend of a friend" who works at OpenAI. Based on what I've heard (which is nothing particularly quotable), it certainly gives off the vibe of being exactly that "kind of environment"
It's a very fair point but it's a then and now thing lmao.

I can't justify slavery in x country because "well the west did it before and so now it's their turn" (to use an extreme example and yes I know that slavery has already occurred in almost every country/is still occurring in some).
> This model is provided only as sanity check for research purposes, it is untested and unfit for deployment.

I guess this means it isn't pretrained yet? Is it still just random weights?
Sheryl Sandberg’s sense of ethics and moral compass are highly questionable.
New World Order is a paradigm where US runs the show for everyone else. The world’s largest democracy is a threat to this. One of the worlds largest economies is also a viable economic opportunity. + Military / Geopolitics. These are all factors in play at the same time
It’s likely that that will eventually be his downfall.
This comment bugs me because it reads like a summary of an article, but it's just your opinions without any explanations to justify them.
Many Sikhs (including myself) believe Panun is a professional provocateur. This recent statement of his is downright insane.
It could sneak in before the end of 2024. Perfect opportunity to release a new improved model...

There's actually a vintage super 8 in a charity shop near me for, like, £20.
His organization - Sikhs for Justice - only posts on Instagram and FB
It is true, yet multi language support was near non existent, you had a special version for CJK, digging the registry was a common thing, good luck trying to read a linux partition and an emulation of a bash shell would be the best you'd get.

All in all I respect the nostalgy, and see how many people would still be fine with these restrictions. I personally wouldn't want to go back to these day short of being paid a few trillions.
Selling the M1? My email is in my bio. Thanks
Yes. But unstable is Debian's repo. Unstable repo contains software packages which is tested against Debian. It doesn't mean instability of the software. But unstable against Debian. There is a huge misconception and misunderstanding regarding what these Stable/Testing/Unstable repos means. Unfortunate indeed.
Apple will not be value for money for desktops, especially if you need large RAM, disk. Top of the line Max won't beat mid range 40xx. For laptop though build quality, battery life screen etc. matter. I was looking for a personal desktop 6 months back, building an Intel based was no brainer. And now I can upgrade SSD/RAM and graphics as my need budget evolve.
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you're off by a bit, the announcement of Sam returning as CEO actually increased OpenAI valuation to $110B last night
How the heck did this ever make it through? I don't think this ever would have happened pre-OpenZFS, and undermines the stable reputation of ZFS. OpenZFS needs to do better and look to FreeBSD developers, not Linux developers, as role models.
Users here often get the narrative and motivations deeply wrong, I wouldn’t take it too personally (Speaking as a peer)
India is just too big to be obedient client state. US have no allies.
> My last Macbook Pro is a 2014

For those curious: this is running a 3.7GHz 4-core Haswell. That's very roughly the performance that you'd get from a contemporary Alder Lake-N (the E-cores only variant). c.f. this very reasonable mid-range $450 Chromebook: https://store.acer.com/en-us/acer-chromebook-314-cb314-4ht-3...
$110B? Where are you getting this valuation of $120B?
Did it run slow for you? How many milliseconds? :)
Ah! that makes more sense. New startup, new tech and therefore the new default color. I hope its just that and because I only tend to notice AI startups purple is what I end up seeing.
In my immediate family I have 3 people that have taken multi-year periods away from work for health reasons. Two are mental health related and the other severe arthritis. 2 of those 3 will probably never work again for the rest of their lives.

I've worked with a contractor that went into a coma during covid. Nearly half a year in a coma, then rehab for many more months. Guy is working now, but not shape.

I don't know the stats, but I'd be surprised if long medical leaves are as rare as you think.
Modi, for all his faults, has made a huge pivot towards America like no other PM before him. India and US are closer than ever before, even in the backdrop of India’s neutrality stance in Russia-Ukraine conflict. There are multiple defense agreements between the countries, including intelligence sharing, at levels we have not seen before.

But India hates playing the second fiddle, so they don’t want be a traditional “ally” that the US can push around at will. They want to be more like “partners”.
Ma vi veere.
When the first CEO appeared on the earth he got tied to cliff so the birds could eat him. It seems like that was a good call.
I have had similar experiences.

The best career decision I ever made was to prioritize working with Good People and one of my few regrets was putting up with smart jerks for so long.
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While I agree with you broadly that hardware support is a problem for less popular operation systems, I can personally say that Fedora has been a dream for me, hardware-wise, for a while now. My 7900XT GPU just works. My printer just works. My webcam just works. My headset just works. My audio interface just works (the audio I/O, at least - I haven't actually ever tested the MIDI I/O).

I'm certain I've gotten lucky, and I'm certain there's plenty of edge cases to be ironed out, especially with more specialized hardware. But I think a lot of common consumer goods are in a good place right now, at least in my personal experience.
ZFS is undeniably impressive – I first started using it back in 2009 with OpenSolaris. This year, motivated mainly by the power consumption of my previous OmniOS setup, I made the move to the "dark side" with Synology. After more than a decade of relying on ZFS, I must admit, the transition to something less rigid but still robust has been quite refreshing.

It could be a subjective feeling, but the recent years of OpenZFS development have reminded me a bit of the OpenStack experience. It seemed like almost anyone could contribute, sometimes resulting in features that were questionable in terms of stability, development, and overall thoughtfulness. Perhaps this is why iXsystems has taken a more cautious (albeit slower) approach in enabling new features in TrueNAS.
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or use same paywalls filter list for adblockers:
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...
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I guess though, a lot of organizations never develop a cohesive leader at all, and the orgs fall apart. They never had an irreplaceable leader though!
Transfer time is only a part of the story. JS parse time has a measurable impact on page speed, and scales with character count.
I've heard and experienced plenty of problems with BTRFS, but it's pretty rare that I hear of problems with ZFS (aside the the current article, obviously); what problems have you hit? (As a very heavy user of ZFS, I would very much like to know about possible problems before they bite me)
8500€ for a business class flight? Maybe first class.
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I think Microsoft's deep pockets, computing resources, their head start, and 50%+ employees not quitting is more important to the company's chances at success than your assessment they have the "wrong DNA."

The idea that the marketplace is a meritocracy of some kind where whatever an individual deems as "merit" wins is just proven to be nonsense time and time again.
Agreed. I'd say the source of the problem is the lack of real third places. I like to call this "the abolition of society", but I'm a bit dramatic.

While the internet is certainly addictive, I'd assume that most people who, like me, waste their lives online, do so primarily because no real alternative is available.
> With that context, it’s easy to see how this would be considered a threat

Not really? Threats require specificity and credibility. Using simply ethnicity or even cause as the sole qualifier for credibility isn’t something most people do.
I would guess "fairings", at least that's the only one I don't know on this page: https://rocket.rs/v0.5/guide/
Isn't he a big Jeffrey Epstein fanboy? Ethical AGI is in safe hands.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/5/epstein-summers-...
I wanted that toolbar for a very long time, didn't know it now exists. Thanks for recommending. I have switched to https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar/ for a very a while now but this is very intriguing.
Interesting. I always thought of cybernetics as robot hands and such, but your description of it is exactly the thing I am most interested in right now.
Pro/EDR> Undiagnosed pneumonia – China: (BJ, LN) children, reported epidemic
"This report suggests a widespread outbreak of an undiagnosed respiratory illness in several areas in China as Beijing and Liaoning are almost 800 km apart. It is not at all clear when this outbreak started as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly. The report does not say that any adults were affected suggesting some exposure at the schools. ProMED awaits more definitive information about the etiology and scope of this concerning illness in China."

Some background on Promed:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-promed-crowdsourced-the-arri...
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