skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> character length is a very cheap heuristic

Unless your interpreter is trying to optimize text blocks, op-code length will be cheaper and way easier to develop.
What are you talking about? Just the four cards is $10k, and then you still need to buy the rest of the computer. And you probably can’t take it with you and use it from the coffee shop or the couch.

And yes, Windows systems are bad. They shipped broken TouchID for years, and they don’t trust you to turn off OneDrive (and will re-enable at every turn). Edge just gave me a toolbar yesterday that looked like browser chrome, but was actually a GamePass ad. I’m just pulling the easiest examples, listen to Windows Weekly for a full enumeration.
Workbench had a very limited hardware it supported. Linux Kernel supports 1000x as many pieces of hardware from different CPU configurations, all the way to the most random USB/Firewire devices.

Like, software bloat is totally a thing, but comparing Workbench to the Linux Kernel (let alone the entire GNU/Linux environment) is ridiculously naive.
What is the danger here?

What damage could an individual suffer because the data a dealer of auto parts holds about them got in the wrong hands?

And is this just a theoretical danger "Someone could use the pieces of data to impersonate you and then run some kind of social engineering attack against you for which the involved companies will reject to compensate you" or did something like this ever happen to someone here among us and resulted in real financial loss?

UPDATE:

So far all answers are of the form "With the SSN, theoretically, someone could impersonate you".

That is what I meant with my "is this just a theoretical danger" question.

But what concrete harm could someone do with your SSN?

Did anybody here on HN ever had something happen to them because someone got hold of their SSN?
Does a poor filesystem count as part of the kernel? In my experience, Windows file systems are the main source of Windows underperformance.
What's that regulatory capture how did you move so fast?
Speaking in general, prices tend to differ between regions away from just basic exchange rate math, since shipping costs means you don't get proper arbitrage pressure, which is what would pushes prices toward (lowest advertised price) x (exchange rate).
Military spending increased dramatically in the EU. So this is not suprising.

Nuclear energy is just a political by-product of producing weapons-grade nuclear material.
As both Windows/Mac user Windows seems way more aggressive with have this online account. I don't know its got that kind of hectoring tone. Well you've been stalling for 2 months and now its time to have login created.
It doesn't help that the board publicly accused of being a liar without any evidence. If they simply left it at "Sam's vision no longer aligns with the charter of the nonprofit", I'd bet they would be viewed much more sympathetically.
This is such a partisan take: It's okay to not like the Trudeau government, but to distort your worldview based upon it is not productive. What "evidence" you think Canada must release to satisfy your zeal? Canada isn't appealing to some world hot take court for justice.

And I have no idea what Canada's purported "poker hand" was. The government revealed an incident when the media discovered it and it continues at its normal pace behind the scenes. India had an apocalyptic, absurdly over the top fit and Canada yawned. India has literally zero sway over Canada so it was all rather ridiculous.

And this US revelation clearly springs from exactly the same well (via exactly the same intelligence sharing). I mean, when the Canada revelation happened the US leaked that they were investigating something and has repeatedly announced their concern about this. If anything the outsized Indian reaction to Canada was precisely because they thought they could preempt this from the US.
Actual file data ends up in the same transaction group (txg) as metadata if both are changed within the same txg commit (either flushed explicitly, due to recordsize/buffer limit being reached, or txg commit timeout - 5 seconds by default), so if there is a write barrier violation caused by hardware lies followed by an untimely loss of power, the checksums for the txg updates won't match and they get rolled-back until the last valid one when importing the pool - which doesn't end up zero'ing out extents of a file (like in xfs) or ending up with a zero file size (like on ext3/ext4).
I think it's pretty bad, yes. There are certainly worse, though! What's omitted from the CEO-Board analogy is the largest group of "stakeholders": the citizenry.

Regardless of that, though, I also think that an AGI should not be in any position of power at all, let alone some sort of CEO analog.
MS doesn't have enough leverage to pull such move.

The board could decide to kill the company in MS not only loses a 10 billion invest but has to reconsider its whole artificial intelligence integration push.
I have found it's very easy to scapegoat the "engineers" for situations like this, but in the long term not the cause of the problems nor the actual solution. For example, screws have standard torques published, and for small common diameters is left implicit. The matter is, Northrop's blue collar assemblers didn't particularly care and just installed the screw however, and now the contractor is looking to shift blame. If the drawing did actually say "12 inch pounds" or however, it's still a coin flip if the screw was actually that tight, and the end result of the shake test would be identical.

For an analogy, say the website designers just specified "add a button" and you went and made the button fluorescent yellow with white text. Then the design fails the color contrast test. Will you say it's entirely the designer's fault for not specifying the button color?

Digging into the paperwork to the extent described may have the highest assurance level, but it is extremely expensive. This spacecraft in particular was quite over budget and most likely only able to be carried over the finish line by pure government inertia.
What about security for your children?
I was about to say this. Only correct answer.
Hard to make a blanket statement about analytics being 'good' or 'bad'. They are there as one of many tools to provide a compass and let you know whether you're headed in the right direction.

I think there's a bit of nuance here between an artist's approach versus that of a product designer, for instance. Artists seek to express an idea, feeling, or concept. Analytics, which (in the case of Youtube) optimise for a certain outcome, can easily befuddle. Designers seek to solve a problem. Analytics can help shed light on whether the problem has been solved.
termbar – depsless status bar for OpenBSD
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I didn't know about any of that. I either got "lucky" and switched to Mac before all these happened, or just didn't pay enough attention to see these changes.
Building a Neural Network with PyTorch
I had a 486 CPU running at 120 MHz. The WinPlay3 player was able to play MPSs smoothly, WinAMP wasn't.
I used to use an HP EX920 for my system drive and it was abysmally slow at syncs. I'd open Signal and the computer would grind to a halt while it loaded messages from group chats. After much debugging, I found out Signal was saving each message to sqlite in a transaction causing lots of syncing.

I found some bash script that looped and wrote small blocks synchronously and the HP EX920 was like 20 syncs/sec and my WD RE4 spinner was around 150. Other SSDs were much faster (it was a few years ago so can't remember the exact numbers)
This! Oh, this! And look at the size as well. A fresh install of 11 is over 10gb.

It's something of a Parkinson's law of optimization. The more computing power there is, the more clutter and less optimization will be had until we fill the computing power. When your hardware is a big limiting factor, performance becomes a primary concern.

I think there is also something to be said about the size of the project. Win98 was in the hundreds, 11 is in the thousands. I have found much harder to get the fundamentals right on a larger project than a smaller one. Responsibility is diluted, architecture creates more seams and redundancies, and coordinating people is more complex. On top of that, slap a product culture that favors form over function, and cramming in the largest feature list possible, and you've got yourself a modern OS.
Wow this is sleek, good job.
That's a good callout. I was reading over it and confused who this person was and why they were summarizing but yeah they might've just told ChatGPT to summarize the events of what happened.
OpenAI has executed its turbulent priests
You have a second vote. I trust more gandutraveler than the people running the shitshow that is happening at the moment.
Win9x/2000 didn't ship with bloatware but the OEMs that pre installed those OSes sure did.
"Like Thomas More (and Thomas Becket, for that matter) the OpenAI board had forgotten that the job of the priestly caste is to anoint power, not to tell power what to do. More wore a hair shirt beneath his chancellor’s robe; his loyalty was to God before the king. When he refused to accept the king’s divorce, he failed to understand that the system was not designed for him or for God, but for Henry VIII, who beheaded him for his disobedience.

The people who sacked Altman similarly failed to realise that Nadella had not given $13bn “in the spirit of a donation”. They were only going to remain in charge for as long as they allowed power to flourish. The money was always going to win."
It would be beautiful if these costs led to safety and were justified.

Unfortunately that's nowhere close to the truth. If you look into it, you'll notice that you e.g. can't reuse a reactor design (after being safety certified) but must recertify the same design each time. Upgrades also require recertifying all parts. (You can also pause the certification process in certain geographies by suing for different types of environmental surveys, causing a new certification to start as the old one timed out.) As a result, we are all running old designs when far safer ones exist.

In Sweden's case, in 2017 they at least stopped a special tax only on nuclear (which raised about 400 million euro equivalent/year).
Sounds like Roko's Basilisk knows where he lives.
> India is just too big

Only in population, which is irrelevant, since nobody is contemplating a land war. Economically [1] and militarily [2], America has bigger allies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

[2] https://power.lowyinstitute.org/data/military-capability/sig...
That was my experience too, but a decade ago while running NVidia+Intel hardware. Since switching to AMD+AMD my home machines have only run into the issue once or twice, and then only when running something odd like multiple graphics cards.
Funny, I just went back and edited my comment to add in filesystem where I didn't have it before and then saw your reply.

Because, yes, NTFS is just slow as hell. I have never been clear why but as I said elsewhere, various *nix filesystems have always outperformed it. I understand that on paper NTFS was technically superior back when Linux was stuck with ext2 & ext3 as standard, but in practice it just made for a really slow system.
It's not hard to motivate them to do the fun parts of the job, the challenge is in convincing some of those highly motivated and passionate nerds to not work on the fun thing they are passionate about and instead do the boring and unsexy work that is nevertheless critical to overall success; to get people with strong personal opinions about how a solution should look to accept a different plan just so that everyone is on the same page, to ensure that people actually have access to the resources they need to succeed without going so overboard that the endeavor lacks the reserves to make it to the finish line, and to champion the work of these nerds to the non-nerds who are nevertheless important stakeholders.
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On COM/.Net, today almost nobody cares.

Lots of LoB applications in various industries are still developed using .NET (even for new developments).

> Also, on the enterprise, most people it's migrating to Unix backends and web frontends for lots of tasks.

Not for every task, web applications are a good choice (which is why lots of new LoB applications in enterprise are still developed as Windows desktop applications).
I would not say nice. Smart, and sometimes cordial, is how I would describe people here.
"95% of the staff" -- this is Kim Jong Un approval rate territory. caution advised.
Just wanted to say this is awesome (with pardon for the window manager related pun). I really missed this when I had to use Apple hardware a couple years ago.I know there are other solutions, but this seems really elegant, I'm just not sold on the way the floating bar works, because the area where you "drop" the window does not correlate 100% with the position its going to occupy. Maybe if it appeared closer to where you started draggin instead of the top of the screen? Either way, bravo.

PS: even though its nice to have instantaneous feedback. Often when you start arranging you don't really know how you'd like the windows do fit, its kind of a "try it until it feels good thing". This apparently does it really well.
Why? Did they have to sign a charter affirming their commitment to the mission when they were hired?
> was it just Helen Toner’s personal vendetta against Sam

I'm not defending the board's actions, but if anything, it sounds like it may have been the reverse? [1]

> In the email, Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company... “I did not feel we’re on the same page on the damage of all this,” he wrote in the email. “Any amount of criticism from a board member carries a lot of weight." Senior OpenAI leaders, including Mr. Sutskever... later discussed whether Ms. Toner should be removed

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...
Rather strange that FT, a British business newspaper is the primary reporter of such a huge geopolitical event. How come it was the one to contact "the people familiar with the case" first and not literally any American news channel?
This statement about Ilya seems just ridiculous to me. Ilya was one of the people who created all these ML/Deep Learning hype with the "ImageNet moment". I don't care much about all this VC stuff, but before 2023, Ilya seemed to me much more famous than Sam.
I dunno, it kind of seems fair to discuss what the thing actually looks like in the wild? Especially since to the average end user, the only information is "does this thing have the 'Hello' sticker on the case?" Like, yes, we need to talk about the actual details and the article should always lead with that clarification, but I'm not sure it's wrong to use that title.
I think everyone is missing the point. Sam Altman seems to be a reasonably effective leader (and certainly flawed and a bit sociopathic), but ultimately unimportant and replaceable. This was not about Sam, this was about the strategic direction of a critical Microsoft partner. Microsoft felt Sam would take orders and therefore supported him. If Sam ever asserts himself, he will be gone, just like the board was replaced.
Over the years I've gone through a Core2 MacBook, a 2011 MBP, a 2015 MBP, and now a 14" 2023 M2 Pro as each wore out physically over the years. Generally the charging systems and keyboards degraded severely by the 5 year mark. The 2015 had all those problems as well as janky graphics issues, but I used it until its SSD died recently.

Aside from performance it's hard to overstate just how quiet the current MacBook Pro is. The 2015 got noisy pretty easily especially if I had to switch to the discrete GPU, and anything heavier than 1080p30 in Firefox would cause the fans to go bonkers. By most accounts the last of the Intel models were worse. This one? After a few hours of transcoding video the fans still only spin up to a quiet whisper.

What I don't hear anyone talk about is the rigidity. You could hear the 2015 creak and flex if you picked it up with one hand. The 2023 just feels like a solid chunk of metal.

For all of its warts, this is probably my favorite hardware of the bunch. The software (macos 14) is utter garbage though. That's the culmination of lots of poor design choices over the years and nearly non-existent quality control.
From a quick glance it seems still vulnerable to trivial slowloris’ing D:

Is anybody actually exposing their rust-based websites to the internet? I want to, but it seems that for some reason every rust web framework keeps TCP connections open _forever_, meaning that even with file descriptors bumped to 64000, my web server runs out of FDs and needs to be killed and restarted every 3 hours or so. The standard advice seems to be “don’t do that, put your rust app behind a reverse-proxy written in C or Go, and let the proxy handle the complexities of TCP”, but it seems so sad to add an extra layer of latency and complexity just to close idle connections ;(
Unfortunately some very useful Metal profiling/debugging tools [1] are only available on the latest hardware. Funny enough this was always the main reason for me to update, not performance (e.g. not being able to debug Metal shaders on my old Intel Mac was one important reason to finally upgrade to an M1 Mac).

Otherwise I'm still entirely happy with my 2021 minspec M1 MBP.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111374
Vantage Cloud Cost Report Q3 2023
It's all good as long as the trains run on time?
>Wasn't Iraq about to switch away from trading the oil in USD ?

I don't know. Do you have a source for that claim? Preferably from before the war started. (Later is fine too.)

>But let me flip your argument -- why did the US invade Iraq?

This doesn't flip the argument. That would only be the case if not being able to explain the war meant that it therefore was started for oil. These are not two sides of a coin. Simmilarly I wouldn't say that if we can't explain Iraq then it must have been to find aliens.

>The US has/had troops stationed in Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia was in the US's pocket at that time

And what percent of the oil profits did the US get? If the claim is that the US will invade for oil then being in the US's pocket, whatever that means, is irrelevant. But I think you answered your own question here. The US likes having countries "in it's pocket." It wants to station troops in other countries. These are legitimate -- here I don't reffer to moral legitimacy -- national objectives. Skimming contracts or suppressing oil fields is not a legitimate national objective. If there are groups in the US (eg. Exxon) that are so powerfull they can make the US go to war without a single national objective achieved then they could simply take the $3 trillion directly. I think your point about the petrodollar is interesting, although I'd like to see some more evidence.
An useful handbook for engineering management
Engineering Management is hard and there's not a lot of help out there. You go from dealing with deterministic software to very much non-deterministic humans. And you’re sort of expected to just figure it out. If you're lucky your company may have leveling guides and job descriptions, but that’s it. If you’re really lucky you may be able to find a great mentor but they are few and far between. So my colleague and I wrote this to fill in some gaps. It’s the quickstart we wish we'd had when we started our management journeys over 10 years ago each.

And we will keep building this. If you’d like to contribute, have feedback, or topic requests we want to hear them!
Quick test I've done with some popular frameworks. I wonder if minification affects to parsing speed.

+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+
| Library | Size | gzip -1 | gzip -9 | brotli |
+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+
| bootstrap.css | 280813 | 47312 | 33109 | 24533 |
| bootstrap.min.css | 232948 | 42003 | 30776 | 22695 |
| react.development.js | 87574 | 28733 | 23513 | 19818 |
| react.development.min.js | 25612 | 10217 | 9224 | 8052 |
| tailwind-2.2.19.css | 3642321 | 376787 | 304100 | 82049 |
| tailwind-2.2.19.min.css | 2934019 | 354063 | 294632 | 72803 |
| vue.global.js | 476920 | 134655 | 105130 | 87121 |
| vue.global.min.js | 167898 | 74769 | 65582 | 57922 |
+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------+--------+

Edit: something important to note: some frameworks (e.g. React) have lots of comments on their un-minified versions, that are removed when minified. That affects their size greatly.
I'm rather tired of making the argument that market cap != Cash, thank you.

The easiest would be to compare this to giving fines based on net worth.

If you own a home and car your net worth could be in the range of 100-200k dollars.

You happy to receive a fine of 10k dollars? That surely is nothing for you, I mean its 5-10% of your net worth.

I'd argue for a lot of people even a fine of 1k dollars would put them back quite a bit.
20% extra performance matters a lot to anybody buying a $5000 Threadripper machine. If they didn't care about performance, they could have saved a lot of money...
> The only real security comes from tight vertical integration.

Yep because when I think of Microsoft I think security. It's not like they ever did something mind numbingly stupid like decide to default to the administrative user if you called the Azure API without an AuthZ header......
I might go so far as to call them barratry.
According to scientists, we only use 0.3% of our neural networks. Imagine if we could use 100%.
Link to a login-wall.
Well, until I read this comment thread, I wasn't aware that there was an ambiguity with that, either. "Spice" is synonymous with "spices".

I thought the ambiguity was the difference between "spicy" and "spiced", where people often use "spicy" to mean "hot", and "spiced" to mean "contains spices", but not necessarily hot.

Now that I'm aware that others find ambiguity, I have nothing I can say about it because this is new information to me. I suppose it's up to them to define it!
“How have you sought and obtained leverage against the status quo.”

In all fairness, it’s the perfect question to ask founders of startups you want to invest in. You’re enabling people who know how to find weaknesses in and beat the system.
Furthermore, spending 2x of its profit on liability payouts would lower is present and projected profit, resulting in a much lower market cap.
They never said the word "only" or implied it.
> Pretty easy to complain about lack of morals when it’s someone else’s millions of dollars of potential compensation that will be incinerated.

And while also working for a for-profit company.
What a beauty!
Why are you lying to protect sama’s reputation?

Worldcoin stores the biometric data for opt-in users. They say it themselves. It’s stored “encrypted” which means the original data is retrievable, and kept in Worldcoin’s custody. All Worldcoin claims is that it has safeguards against retrieving the data it does collect and store, like say Equifax or 23andme claim about your PII.
the release notes imply that they are still at it
This wasn’t the only block cloning bug. They also completely broke cp from unencrypted to encrypted by cloning unencrypted blocks into the encrypted file system.
I was thinking the same. The letter symbolized a deep distrust with leadership over the mission and direction of the company. I’m sure financial motivations were involved, but the type of person working at this company can probably get a good paycheck at a lot of places. I think many work at OpenAI for some combination of opportunity, prestige, and altruism, and the weekend probably put all 3 into question.