skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two FAANG companies don't compete at a product level, however they do compete for talent, which is significant. Probably significant enough to cause conflicts of interest.
I think they offer a credit card. Might be storing info.
This Canadian logging trucker has many excellent points. Apologies, it's TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/@freightfamous/video/7294648129654246...
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Given that ~14 feet of water attenuates gamma rays by a factor of a billion[1], and it had to reach earth from 6,000 light years away, that's an absolutely gobsmacking amount of energy.

With the factors of power involved I don't think being on another planet would have helped that much. Even if we were a few light years away the hypothesized burst travelled thousands of light years to get here and we don't know what direction the next killing bolt will come from (I suppose we could go further away from the galactic core to reduce the highest odds, but still). And it still had enough power to cause decimation a billion times over if we weren't underwater.

[1] https://stemrad.com/cbrn-gamma-radiation/
thanks for the extra material!
What if I told you...Bill Gates was/is on the board of the non-profit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

Lol HN lawyering is hilarious.
Hi Rochus,
congratulation on BUSY, and thanks for the comments.
Will work on a better comparative explanation soon.

Regarding static X dynamic. For this kind of payload i think dynamic will be faster ans easier to work with. Even with big builds we don't have to much variables hammering. And there are big systems built on python and Ruby and JS.

Best
Pry appears largely inspired by Smalltalk, which Ruby itself also draws heavily on, and which if anything can go much further.
Doesn't really matter after compression unless the bulk of your code can be culled from the end product. Tbh the largest business value this has is slowing down people trying to use your internal APIs.
> Humans can do all these things, and much better than machines

No they can't. Show me a human that doesn't need to sleep.
If the Roman empire could fall, we finally would have the glorious dark ages
Sometimes I think people compalaining about windows are just to lazy to look through the settings and search for the things they want to change. Windows has a lot of things to complain and be 'angry' about, but 90% of the issues I see people mentionning are completly solvable with a few clicks.
I love you, but you are not serious people.
And because they keep finding those obviously wrong things, the program justifies itself!
After quitting drinking, did it take 3 years to see the effect? Do you drink any non-alcoholic/0.0% beers?
Console generations; Playstation 5 is a generation after Playstation 4, with Playstation 3 before that. There are rough equivalents on the Nintendo and Xbox side, but Playstation numbering makes generation identification easier.
> Peer pressure and groupthink likely also swayed employees more than principles

Chilling to hear the corporate oligarchs completely disregard the feelings of employees and deny most of the legitimacy behind these feelings in such a short and sweeping statement
Who could have possibly seen this coming?!?
> They weren’t getting equity at Microsoft

This is wrong.
They sure as hell have no incentives to make Neural Network faster and more accessible, for starters..

(Considering they right now make more money and have more control, the less accessible and the more computation-hungry AI models are)

To be fair, this approach (claims to) only speed up inference, not training, so all the GPUs are needed anyway.
And now, a limerick!

There once was a proud web designer
Whose code ‘pared with most was far finer
Yet he minified
And nobody spied
The great masterpiece of Brent Spiner!
Hard disagree.

Nobody cares about the source, let website authors do what they want.
You cant view your own Gift Card balance on Hulu
You need to be rich to afford a new computer every 3 years?
Wait, the CEO having a seat on the board is kind of not cool
I was playing with the voice interface and pointed out something minor it got wrong (a misunderstood word in my input, not a hallucination/confabulation). The voice response began with, “Oops, my bad”, which made me laugh.
Or maybe they work with computers in a business full time and the price of a new computer is minor compared to the income it's used to produce, especially if it's tax deductible, such that it's a valid business decision if the improvements are barely more than marginal.
Promotions on the government and contractor sides are about appearances, not accomplishment. Strong technical people tend to like focus versus meetings and the ladder climb. Less visibility means less mobility. Giving an unpopular though factual technical analysis is career limiting.

To rise means to manage people and budget. Higher the better. Kelly Johnson's 14th rule is never followed:

"Because only a few people will be used in engineering and most other areas, ways must be provided to reward good performance by pay, not based on the number of personnel supervised."

https://jalopnik.com/legendary-skunk-work-founder-kelly-john...
The flip side is equally true. People don't usually internalise suggestion at face value unless they are in the right situational mindset. For example, telling your colleague directly that making a smaller pull request would make the review process easier may fallen to deaf ears. But someday, maybe having reviewed other colleague's PR, or maybe reading a blog of a famous professional, the same colleague may suggest back to you the very same thing you suggested 3 months ago.

There is nothing wrong people giving suggestion or opinion. It takes taste to discern which suggestion has merit. And it take experience to build up taste
Anything Adobe falls into that camp saddly..

Luckly fewer and fewer bits of software remain.
Analytics are just some metrics. Paying some attention to metrics is usually good.

But too much focus on metrics - vs. the actual long-term goals - is always bad.
Interesting, it's exactly the opposite for me. My understanding of voice is much lower than of reading, and much slower. I think the biggest factors are that reading is faster than words are typically spoken, yet I can also pause and dwell on sections I don't get the first time, so I really get it and then proceed.

Obviously, brains work very differently, so there really is no one-size-fits-all solution; we need the varied methods.
Good points. Anyway I guess nobody will remember the drama in some months so I think the damage done is very manageable for OAI.
Why does the internet "need" this? Anonymity and pseudonymity are features, not bugs of the internet. Eliminating them will supercharge surveillance and government/corporate control.
>I asked ChatGPT if it could change its dialect - it said yes, but sounded exactly the same anyway.

Dialect, or accent?
I have been switched for a year now, for the 4th? 5th? time in my life, and it looks like I'm gonna end up back on windows once again.

The perpetual problem with linux is that it is written and maintained by people who love linux. Its great if you just need a machine to check email, and it's great if you are well versed in linux OS structure and know the CLI command set/structure through and through.

But if you are middle of the road power user, linux is just a constant annoying nightmare of reading forum posts and copy+pasting seemingly random strings of characters into the terminal hoping that it will fix the sound issue on the video you're trying to play.
If he survived to this point, I doubt he will go any time soon.
What would you do if 999 employees openly signed a letter and you are the remaining holdout.
Was this really motivated by AI safety or was it just Helen Toner’s personal vendetta against Sam?

It doesn’t feel like anything was accomplished besides wasting 700+ people’s time, and the only thing that has changed now is Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley are off the board.
I don't understand; I'm not going to increase the size of my assets just to please the very small minority of hackers who want to play around. I'd rather open-source my code.
Yes, I've worked for a couple guys in my career like this.
Typically they would bet absolutely unhinged about things like grammar in emails, code style, PR nitpicks, or how the teams wiki looked.. while having no actual input on the teams user facing work product .

It's a good way to demotivate the team into slowing down the trains.
>When people complain it's a 'you said, he said' situation where the manipulator inevitably wins

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. These types must have weaknesses of their own. I’m growing the cynicism necessary to tolerate them, but I’d like to know more robust strategies to manage them and keep them in check.

I find it hard to truly hate people, but with this type I can muster some pretty flowery invective on the spot.
>- Microsoft strengthened its power despite not appearing involved in the drama

Depending on what you mean by "the drama", Microsoft was very clearly involved. They don't appear to have been in the loop prior to Altman's firing, but they literally offered jobs to everyone who left in solidarity with same. Do we really think things like that were not intended to change people's minds?
the battery life is really good
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I'm also neither a Sam Altman booster or detractor, but the types of activities described here (and honestly, sometimes much much worse) are very common at startups.
It would be nice to have experimentally-derived numbers to point to in order to help people visualize whether or not minification actually improves compression to any significant degree.
Yeah I don’t know. I think you’d be kind of nuts to build anything on their APIs anymore.

Sure I’ll keep using ChatGPT in a personal capacity/as search. But no way I’d trust my business to them
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT Down? It's not even allowing me to login
In this case the claim rests on section 18 of the Competition Act 1998 [1] and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union [2], which still applies post-brexit. Both relate to abuse of a dominant market position to charge “unfair” prices.

The judgement granting a Collective Proceedings Order is at [3].

It’s worth noting that this CPO (class action equivalent) regime in the UK is still developing its case law, having been dramatically expanded in a landmark 2020 case [4]. That case and the judgement implies that the merits of this case are largely untested by the court, so the fact that a CPO was granted doesn’t say all that much about whether Sony will lose.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/section/18

[2] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eut/teec/article/102

[3] https://www.catribunal.org.uk/sites/cat/files/2023-11/152777...

[4] https://my.slaughterandmay.com/insights/briefings/uk-collect...
as a funny note John Reid was the singer of Nightcrawlers in the 90s.
The charter
"How many died" and "Where are you getting your figures" are disturbing questions when speaking about ethnic cleansing. These people have had their homes and lives taken away from them.

Like the Ukrainians. Like the Ugandans. Like the Armenians of the early 20th century. Like the Jews. Like the Cambodians. Like the Bosnians. Like the Croats. Like the Serbs.

All of this is history, all of this damages a people and their culture. Let's not put a yardstick next to it to prove how bad things are. Let's remember why these things happened so we don't do them again.
> 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.

As a long time Ubuntu user, used to use Skype, now Teams, Google Meet, Google Voice (used to be Hangouts) and sometimes Zoom, I have had no issues, or no more than when work makes me use Windows, when using peripherals.
mkbhd's review is that the m3 isn't black enough to be considered black.
> I include installing a fresh copy of Windows to resolve the inevitable corrosion that Windows has over time.

Remember that one from the past and countless times I had to do this for others because Windows would become a mess.

Nowadays I just upgrade old Linux distros running for 5+ years because of security concerns or out of boredom. Magically still running same as fresh install
ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption
I ran Disk Defragmenter, just out of curiousity. The drive actually has some sectors marked as bad.
And don't forget Employee records
With GZIP and moreso Brotli the difference in actual data transfer is negligible anyway.

Minification doesn't really achieve much other than obfuscation these days.
OpenAI is not a charity. Microsoft's investment is in OpenAI Global, LLC, a for-profit company.

From https://openai.com/our-structure

- First, the for-profit subsidiary is fully controlled by the OpenAI Nonprofit. We enacted this by having the Nonprofit wholly own and control a manager entity (OpenAI GP LLC) that has the power to control and govern the for-profit subsidiary.

-Second, because the board is still the board of a Nonprofit, each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial. While the for-profit subsidiary is permitted to make and distribute profit, it is subject to this mission. The Nonprofit’s principal beneficiary is humanity, not OpenAI investors.

-Third, the board remains majority independent. Independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. Even OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, does not hold equity directly. His only interest is indirectly through a Y Combinator investment fund that made a small investment in OpenAI before he was full-time.

-Fourth, profit allocated to investors and employees, including Microsoft, is capped. All residual value created above and beyond the cap will be returned to the Nonprofit for the benefit of humanity.

-Fifth, the board determines when we've attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Such a system is excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft, which only apply to pre-AGI technology.
Curious that its got a nonstandard 46.875 kHz samplerate rather than 44.1 or 48.0 kHz.

Not that it matters since its only output appears to be on the analog side of the DAC.

This is a surprisingly well-featured sampler/sequencer for the price!
Yes Google "Ubuntu 2022" or "Kubuntu 2022" if you prefer KDE (I do), install and run it, that's all you have to do.
That’s a rhetorical question, correct?
His obligation as a member of the board is to safeguard AI, not OpenAI. That's why in the employee open letter they said, "the board said it'd be compliant with the mission to destroy the company." This is actually true.

It's absolutely believable that at first he thought the best way to safeguard AI was to get rid of the main advocate for profit-seeking at OpenAI, then when that person "fell upward" into a position where he'd have fewer constraints, to regret that decision.
Don’t agree with this take. Sacrificing the performance for all my users so a minuscule percentage of them can poke around a little easier? All the JavaScript is likely transpiled anyway. They can use dev tools to unminify most of it. Deploying with source maps for production might be a better ask?
No business model is more important than upholding consumer rights and preventing anticompetitive behavior.

No business model has a Constitutional right to exist, period.
The point though is that the tail wags the dog: I don't believe for a second that most objectives aren't, in fact, being selected for being measurable via the available analytics (or even merely the appearance of being measurable via those metrics).
You’re right. But in an emergency, there is a close option which is to put the company into receivership and hire an outside law firm to advise. At that point, the board becomes the executive council.
hmm, wonder which fields people are using fortran now ?

did a search, ha

- numerical weather prediction,

- finite element analysis,

- computational fluid dynamics,

- geophysics,

- computational physics,

- crystallography and computational chemistry.
On a work machine, that's more likely to be due to excessive background services installed by the company, particularly antivirus (which is known to kill disk performance, which means it's particularly awful for compiles). Don't get me wrong, I despise windows on its own merits, but I don't think that particular case is a fair comparison; there's a good chance that a completely clean windows VM in the same circumstances would also be faster. (Now, that might still be slower than linux, at which point we would have a fair comparison)
No problems for me. Just logged out and back in.
Unfortunately, yes... ;-)
maybe they all remapped their shift keys
Which FOSS compilers support it?
Hehe, that thought was going through my mind as well just now. It's not really such a far out idea; if Microsoft wanted to, they could certainly put the manpower behind it to make it happen. It would also be the most delicious plot twist ever.

But I don't think this is in the cards for the foreseeable future.
They certainly have an incentive to keep these kinds of improvements in-house and not publish them, since they are commercial entities and this represents a competitive advantage.
My latest PC was a pretty randomly chosen Chinese PC from Amazon that advertised Ubuntu compatibility. In other words, except that advantage to slowly slip away from Microsoft too.

It's been years since I really put any effort into checking before buying - it had gotten to the point I could assume that issues would be minor and/or resolved soon after purchase.
Seems like drawing the collision geometry would have been more efficient. Not as fun, though.
> Arch is terrible due to their bare testing package release policy.

It is NOT. This is biggest mystery I have about people's perception about Arch Linux. Arch provides latest upstream stable packages unlike point releases. NOT developer branches of packages BUT STABLE versions of package as soon as it is available. Point releases like ubuntu gives you old versions of software. And backport security patches against that version from latest stable packages which again leads to possible bugs etc etc. Apart from Linux, you will never see anyone calling a latest stable version of a software as "bleeding edge". You don't say iOS 17 as bleeding edge. It is the latest stable version of the iOS. Windows 11 is not bleeding edge, it is the latest stable version of windows OS.

I have a 5+ year installation Arch installation from which I am writing this comment. It is fast easier to use and predictable. Point releases always give you a easy jumpstart and it is often a pain to maintain in the longer run. Arch definitely requires initial time investment (It is after all a DIY distro, not a managed distro), but it is easier to maintain. I use Arch because I am lazy. I don't want unpredicatable changes.

I don't think I am going to complain getting firefox 119 (which is the latest STABLE version at the time of writing) within a week or two. Especially in these times where we should be using latest packages for security and stability.

Also repost for Linux distros (like stable/unstable/testing) is testing a package against the distro. It is NOT checking the stability of the software itself. It is checking the stability of a software/packages against a particular distro.
i use my po-33 constantly. it's one of my favourite things I've ever owned. it's crazy how good they are at making little devices feel easy to use
Different strokes for different folks, but I have a higher bar than "usable" for tools that my income relies upon. A moderate improvement in experience (whether performance, screen, storage speed, or merely that a key on the keyboard no longer "feels weird") warrants frequent upgrades of my main machine, yes.
Indeed, it is hilarious.

The Foundation has nothing to do with MS and can't possibly be considered a competitor, acquisition target, supplier, or any other entity where a decision for the Foundation might materially harm MS (or the reverse). There's no potential conflict of interest between the missions of the two.

Did you think OP meant there was some inherent conflict of interest with charities?
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At Apple's prices, yeah.

I sit on desktops for 5 years+ with modest opportunistic upgrades, and I consider that extravagant.

I think people forget that $4k+ for a computer is Quadro workstation territory.
Is your argument that the 1 employee operated on peer pressure, or the other 999?

Could it possibly be that the majority of OpenAI's workforce sincerely believed a midnight firing of the CEO were counterproductive to their organization's goals?
Vague disparaging remarks, fine. Specific allegations, not so much.
> how the crypto side of it is bad in comparison to other uses of blockchains

It sucks and the other uses also suck.
There's a whole genre of twitter post articles by the NYTimes that fail to credit the original work of the journalists at a local paper or NGO type of media service. So that phenomina can operate in reverse too
Shame on the ACS for publishing this tripe.
Nope, I've never even __heard__ of someone having to take multiple years of leave from work for any reason. Seems like a fantastically rare event.
Given that the percentages of blocked spam are just 17, 50, 67 & 83, it appears that the sample was likely just 6 spam emails which isn't a lot. Also doesn't really explain the methodology. I assume it's against a control of no obfuscation which was the 6 emails.
Securities fraud is a criminal charge. It's not about someone receiving relief from some injury like a civil case. You can be charged criminally even everyone ends up better off; it's a crime against the state.

Think about this: I hijack an airplane full of people but all I do is get them to their destination faster. Everyone is better off (i.e., no material injury occurred) but I assume you'd still think I should be charged, no?

FWIW- Madoff used the same excuse that "nobody actually lost money." According to him, none of the principal was lost, it was just unrealized gains. Most people still think he should have been charged with fraud.
Are those people really double checking their previous sources of information though?
It's quite common, actually.
This will be remembered as the biggest waste of time and energy since the LK-99 fiasco.
>but they literally offered jobs to everyone who left in solidarity with same

Offering people jobs is neither illegal nor immoral, no? And wasn't HN also firmly on the side of abolishing non-competes and non-soliciting from employment contracts to facilitate freedom of employment movement and increase industry wages in the process?

Well then, there's your freedom of employment in action. Why be unhappy about it? I don't get it.
This entire thing has seemed to be the board saying "don't be the guy who went behind our back to summon the Devil" and everyone saying "but the Devil promised us Unlimited Moneys!" And HN agreeing that Unlimited Moneys are what startups are for, and everything else is excusable.
which is actually a security risk
Similar to Elon Musk stories..
None is nowhere, a lot is somewhere and all is everywhere. sort of.
While the console still has to do updates, their sleep mode makes even those fairly painless for an end user.
Based on what financial statements do we know FTX was profitable? Also, the stole customer funds.