skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its very easy to min max a situation if you are not on the other side.

Additionally - I have not seen someone else talk about this, its just been a few days. Calling it a narrative is a stretch, and dismissive by implying manipulation.

Finally why would Sam joining MSFT be better than this current situation?
"suburbia" generally refers to areas that were built out in the last 70 years, not towns that are 300+ years old
Oh no. I am sorry that happened to you. My experience have been pleasant from the community. But I understand that might not be everyone's experience.

Might I suggest setting up timeshift or other things like BTRFS which have rolling back features? I never have to use it in my 5+ years old arch install, but I have used it once while using Manjaro (Arch derivative). If your system breaks, I just use Linux Mint live boot and revert it back to last working state from Linux Mint which bundles timeshift. And you just wait for a fix before you update again.

I suggest this because my experience has been that point releases creates problems in the long term and hence is not without issue. So this might be helpful.

PS: I have heard nice things about PopOS. Hope things are fun over there. :)
It’s not quite the same thing though, is it?

This is a person with a history of provocations making an indirect threat. I’m not saying he deserves punishment, but I can see why the Indian government would take his threat very seriously.
Well. I was in the "analytics is mostly bad" camp anyways. But the things that you just told me are more of the "analytics are far worse than you think" kind. Like "how the hell aren't those people in jail right now"?
You'd be surprised at just how slow running zellij in iTerm was on an Intel MBP. Somehow in 2023 we've managed to create resource hungry text interfaces.
Surely a majority of graphics cards are the integrated Intel and AMD ones. Nvidia maybe has a majority of the high-end ones.
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, everything Facebook has done has done nothing but reconfirm how unwise it is to build large-scale infrastructure on dynamic scripting languages. They have the resources to move heaven and earth to do what amounts to turning their dynamic scripting language back into static languages in everything but name, and they have the hole they've dug themselves into that justifies it. I have neither.

I don't think that Facebook necessarily made a mistake at the time, though. Static languages have come a long way. I can prototype in them very nearly as quickly as I can in dynamic languages now, with the crossover point for where the static language is simply straight-up an advantage being roughly one to two weeks. Circa 2004 I would not even remotely make that claim. By the time static languages reached that state they were already in deep.

But I would consider it a mistake for most cases to start right now, in 2023, with dynamic scripting languages as a base layer.
I'm pretty sure there's a middle ground between recruiters for Microsoft should be banned from approaching other companies' staff to fill roles and Microsoft should be able to dictate decisions made by other companies' boards by publicly announcing that unless they change track it will attempt to hire every single one of their employees to newly created roles.

Funnily enough a bit like there's a middle ground between Microsoft should not be allowed to create browsers or have license agreements and Microsoft should be allowed to dictate bundling decisions made by hardware vendors to control access to the Internet

It's not freedom of employment when funnily enough those jobs aren't actually available to any AI researchers not working for an organisation Microsoft is trying to control.
When I worked in aerospace using properly calibrated torque tools at the fastener's torque spec is drilled into our heads. How does an oversight like that happen?
Depends who gets onto the board. There are probably a lot of forces interested in ousting him now, so he'd need to do an amazing job vetting the new board members.

My guess is that he has less than a year, based on the my assumption that there will be constant pressure placed on the board to oust him.
Microsoft doesn't have to send an employee to represent them on the board. They could ask Bill Gates.
Many new e-readers are pushed back to 2024
Cue the "it's a Christmas Miracle!"
Win98 had pretty great Unicode support, didn't it? Or am I confusing it with general multibyte?
Lucid Air Pure Is Excellent in Context
There are kernel modules on github. Some of them are drivers.

https://github.com/topics/linux-kernel-module
And Scott Adams also previously worked at a Telco.
How do these guys manage to create such damn cool looking stuff every time? It's really impressive.
I Need an Open Source Mouse So I Never Have to Look at Razer Synapse Again
I was curious about this too, so I decided to simulate it. It's a fun problem to model and code, with some entertaining places to trip up - for example, that brief awkward period where the elevator is full, but newly arriving people recognize they should not press the button until it leaves. In any case, the answer varies based on the rate of arrival - in some regions of the parameter space it's better if all elevators stop everywhere (intuitively, if odd people arrive every 2 min and it takes 3 min to go up and down, it becomes too expensive to have to wait for the odd elevator). But even in cases where interleaved floors performs better than all floors, there's a solution which is even better there - lower half of the floors on one elevator and the upper half (plus ground floor) on the other. This will make for a fun interactive notebook.
If spinning up a dev build on my M1 took 18 seconds, M2 takes 13 seconds, and an M3 takes 8 seconds... and I do this 50-100x per day, then the time saving can certainly be worth it.
There are open source alternatives. Perhaps they could even help contribute to development? Those licenses must not be cheap, seems like the money would be better used paying OSS developers. A few big institutions making an effort to free themselves of commercial software might have a meaningful impact.
Amazing outcome. Empty shirts folded. People who get stuff done persevere.
There are topics where I'm interested in discussion but I don't think HN is mature enough to discuss them so the early comments are very thin ideology or discrimination so I just flag the article, even if it was good. I'm probably not alone in this.
Adam D’Angelo keeping everyone straight on the mission of OpenAI. What a true boss in the face of woke mob
I respectfully disagree.

1) The denominator and numerator need to match up.

$40B is the total costs assuming self-driving had 100% market penetration and were self-driving 100% of the time. It's not an estimate for damages this year.

If you look at a snapshot today, Autopilot is responsible for O(300) accidents per year, leading to around $300M in potential damages. That's about 1% of their profit, and 0.25% of their revenue.

2) Market cap is quite literally a bank. I can always borrow from the market by releasing more shares, or do the reverse by buying them back.
To offer one corroborating point, my email address is posted in cleartext on the front page of my website and it receives spam at a rate of less than one message per day.
it helps, I tried 'how to make rust the minimal in size', but still, it's like 10x of the size comparing to c++ with shared libraries.
> And yet, users don't convert to Linux. So there must be other reasons, and performance benefits don't seem to work so far.

For enterprise desktop purposes:

One central reason is that there is no Excel for GNU/Linux. Accept it or not: the workflows of lots of departments are deeply intertwined with Excel (and it would take an insane amount of work to replace Excel by some other spreadsheet application). Another important reason is that GNU/Linux is not some singular operating system, but a proliferation of various different distributions - this is not something that enterprise customers like.
Barry Lyndon is amazing! The magical quality of the lighting, the music, lady Lyndon's expression at the end. Probably one of my all time favorite films.
It isn’t? Seems like one to me.
Unfortunately ruff is very inconsistent and has lots of differences from the flake8 plugins it tries to emulate. Lots of rules are confused by irrelevant context so that it can miss lots of things it should find when the equivalent flake8 plugin still find them. It's automatic fixing of issues will happily introduce other issues that it doesn't find until the next run. I've tried pretty hard to use it and gave up, it's just not remotely ready.
Not as a (good) general solution. Some things are just hard to break down into smaller logical units. E.g. a complicated new driver might introduce thousands of lines of changes. Half a driver usually won't compile, but you could break things down into PRs over individual functions (in call order so there aren't compiler warnings). That's a wildly unnecessary amount of effort though. You could write a skeleton driver first too, but that's rote declarations barely worth reviewing even as part of a larger PR.
> a person with a history of provocations making an indirect threat

It’s sort of like an Iranian student group saying American Airlines isn’t safe to fly anymore. Like, okay? Not nice. But not quite a threat. (Certainly not a credible one.)
I’m running Nvidia on Wayland (Fedora) without issue. Recentish (3 year old laptop in my case) card. Games work great via Proton. I can’t complain.
I'm just another victim of autocorrect
Exactly, every single builder or similar has a van. It can be locked and it doesn't rain inside.
Unfortunately, it's a time disparity issue.

Someone who politics for more time (with some aptitude) will generally beat out someone who doesn't.

One of the marks in favor of being cutthroat about pre-registering KPIs and expected outcomes, and then evaluating solely based on them.

In the end, I think it comes down to organizational culture.

The companies I've seen with healthier executive ranks all had a very strong culture/tradition of "brook no bullshit" and shunned/discouraged up and coming colleagues from doing the same. As well as a focus on a central, objective mission (e.g. "Does this help us X?").

You still got bad apples, but their behavior wasn't nearly as pervasive as I've seen other places.
Plot twist: that's the very first job the AI will be taking.
> cybercriminals have stolen information, including social security numbers

Very few companies have any way to differentiate between "person who has a SSN" vs "someone else who knows that SSN".

> some kind of social engineering attack

It's not really even social engineering at that point. It would take a lot of work to convince a company that person was not who they claimed to be.
“Isolated” is the right word for EA.

Everybody else concerned about the future is concerned about climate change but EA is at first silent and then reveals itself as a climate denying movement when it does open its mouth as every other imagined threat, even ones with a 10^-50 probability seems to matter more for them.

But it is not accidental because isolation is one of the most important techniques of cult mind control. The point of Sequences is the same point as Dianetics it is supposed to rewrite the way you communicate so you just can’t relate to “wogs” (the rest of us) and can only talk to true believers.
Hi I wrote this post! You're right - that's what I was getting at in the post :)
I've seen lots of people say analytics are "bad" recently, and that's what inspired this post (as well as starting to write an analytics-free blog).

I think it's especially twisted when analytics companies (like google) try to manipulate me into changing from an "artist analytics user" into a "engagement engineer analytics user". That's bad.
In much the same way that rationalists groups attract the most irrational people. We're seeing that Effective Altruism is a magnet for psychopaths. I'm not saying that all people who practice EA are psychopaths, it's just that it provides a natural habitat and cloak for dark triad types.
> The earliest M1s are three years old now, so may be up for replacement under some corporate refresh policies

If anyone knows where I can be downstream of these M1's (website, other old stock websites) please let me know. I would like to procure 1 or 2 on the cheap. Esp an M1 Pro.
> A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable

With the amount of nannyware and spyware these corporations load up on your laptop it actually does feel pretty unusable. The difference in performance between my personal 4 year old laptop and my corporate 3 year old laptop is ridiculous.

The corporate laptop has so many antiviruses and stuff running all the time that it feels like a 2000’s era windows machine that’s been exposed to the internet for too long.
Zephyr is coherent enough to bounce ideas off of, but I'm eagerly awaiting when open-source models are on par productivity wise with the big providers. I imagine some folks are utilizing codellama 34b somehow, but I haven't been able to effectively.
VUOS – Virtual Operating System
"VUOS is a Virtual Operating System implemented at user space. Currently it implements about 150 Linux-compatible system calls providing support for a wide range of applications. Each process or even each thread in VUOS can see a different execution environment: file system contents, networking, devices, user ids etc. The main idea behind VUOS is that it is possible to give processes their own "view" using partial virtual machines.

VUOS is a different perspective on namespaces, anykernels and related concepts.

A partial virtual machine intercepts the system call requests and operates like a filter: system call can be forwarded to the kernel of the hosting system or processed by the partial virtual machine hypervisor."
It’s not exactly a secret. The company structure was a setup that allowed a high degree of internal alignment (at a level of a cult, it seems). And at some point there was a need to realign with making a lot of cash. This resulted in an alignment on this goal, and of course everyone who is in on it is supporting Sam Altman’s moves.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai...
It'd be nice if there were a database of known bad/known good hardware to reference. I know there's been some spreadsheets and special purpose like the USB-C cables Benson Leung tested.

Especially for consumer hardware on Linux--there's a lot of stuff that "works" but is not necessarily stable long term or that required a lot of hacking on the kernel side to work around issues
I absolutely agree that the UK should become more like Islamic countries re its treatment of women.
The reason I mostly don't subscribe is I follow lots of aggregator links to lots of different publications, and I don't read enough at any one publication to subscribe. Micropayments would solve that for me, if they were reasonable (not a dollar per article) and just a simple button click, and I trusted that the article wasn't clickbait.

Another business model would be some kind of group subscription to all the major papers and magazines. They could keep track of whose articles I read and distribute my payment among themselves.

Instead they're stuck in an ancient business model where you subscribe to a newspaper and a couple magazines and just read those, because it's all printed on paper and distributed in batches.

In the absence of micropayments or group subscriptions, I pay for one major publication, bypass paywalls on the rest, and feel like I've done my bit. If everyone did the same, then with a reasonably random distribution the publications would all be getting paid.
When conflicts occur when performing rebase, git prints out the following:
```
hint: Resolve all conflicts manually, mark them as resolved with
hint: "git add/rm <conflicted_files>", then run "git rebase --continue".
hint: You can instead skip this commit: run "git rebase --skip".
hint: To abort and get back to the state before "git rebase", run "git rebase --abort".
```

The options on how to proceed seem pretty clear to me.
From an American perspective, unfortunately, yes. It’s long been known that autocracies deliver foreign policy goals more reliably than democracies.
Are you talking about Sam or an AGI?
Gates and Jobs helped establish these companies as the powerhouses they are today with their leadership in the 90s and 00s.

It's fair to say that what got MS and Apple to dominance may be different from what it takes to keep them there, but which part of that corporate timeline more closely resembles OpenAI?
> India openly allied with the Soviets, so we took the other side.

I’m afraid you have it backwards. India and the Soviet Union signed a treaty only after the US sent its seventh fleet towards India during the 1971 India-Pakistan conflict. US supported Pakistan in the war and India had no choice but to align with the Soviets to deter them.
Supposedly Worldcoin deletes your biometric data after it's done generating a hash of it. If you don't believe that, then why would you believe that Google and Apple don't secretly send your fingerprints and facial scans off device?
https://archive.ph/xb0iD
An open source lib for OpenAI/Azure API failures
Stemming from OpenAI's APIs being down the last few days (and us being down subsequently), we launched an open source OpenAI + Azure fallback and retry tool: https://github.com/Spryngtime/openai-load-balancer

This open source library helps you mitigate errors & downtime from @OpenAI's APIs by retrying and falling back to Azure (and vice versa).

About 5 minutes to setup - syntatically the exact same as OpenAI's library.

If you need expedited access to Azure, feel free to email me - I can get you connected to our Azure account executive! (Startups with funding ONLY please!)

Hope this helps some people out there!
I think a page developed by YC thinks a lot more about him than that ;)
That’s my point: yours is a weaker urge than the calls to take down Palestinian perspective as being terrorist sympathizing and antisemitic that come from that particular flag-brigade set (as one example), compared with diffuse concern over immaturity
How do you handle https if you don't? Do you use certs directly in code? Also, do you use LetsEncrypt or do you actually pay for certs?

I have been developing websites all my grown life and I always put them behind a reverse-proxy. That has never been the culprit of any slowdowns in my experience and nginx is very, very fast and supports everything you may want to have.

I usually nowadays reach for caddy just because it's so much simpler and fast enough.
I mean, if you didn't know, you probably came in after all these things happened. A lot of the old community fled to Arch or Endeavour.

It is good right? You had a pleasant time with Manjaro. Fun is good. Excuse me if I have kind of spoiled it for you. :)
Linux blows away Windows hardware support on everything except for graphics cards.

I set up dual boot on a newish Dell laptop recently and Windows couldn't even access the SSD or the wifi card without installing extra drivers. I haven't had problems that bad on Linux since about 2006.
Risk from GAI is very nebulous, even if we assume that it is a given. It's not exactly clear how you will align an AI for the benefit of humanity, let alone aligning humans with other humans in mutually beneficial arrangement.

Let's not forget that benefit for humanity is also somewhat nebulous term, especially since humans can sometime have incompatible goals against each other. However, it's not impossible to have some kind of agreement, like making sure that we all have shelter, food, and water, and so forth.
Holden Karnofsky's recent comments on FTX (March 2023)
Did you have an Intel Mac before? If so, did you have the same workflow with the same amount of plugins or did you expand your usage based on the laptop capabilities? Just curious about “workflow creep” because I’m wondering if I should get an M[1..9].
From the previous paper you cited
>Pushing FFFs to the limit, we show that they can use as little as 1% of layer neurons for inference in vision transformers while preserving 94.2% of predictive performance.

This feels like that often misinterpreted Einstein meme/qoute about humans only using a fraction of their brain power.

Is this only for inference though? could it boost training?
Made me look:

Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990
Scientists plant tiny moustache on a red blood cell
Cool list. I saw there is a calculus GPT. I'm pretty skeptical that it's any good since so far, my results with chatGPT and math aren't great. Because the math is mostly wrong.

If anyone here wants to try our "AI" calculus course, check this link. I appreciate all feedback. http://learn.amy.app?inviteCode=trmrx
No one is proposing Tesla be liable for every accident on the road.... At the time they have 100% market penetration, their market cap will be much higher.

Nevertheless, it's not clear the impact on Tesla's market cap. If a self-driving car costs $1000 more, and saves me $1000 on insurance, on the net, it's a wash for the buyer. Tesla can quite literally pass on the costs to the buyer in the purchase price, who can get it back in insurance premiums.

Personally, it'd be an upside to me. My costs would be the same, but my stress, risk, liability, etc. would go down. I don't want to kill someone, and if I do cause an accident, I don't want the headache. If other people are like me, sales (and market cap) might go up.
He has his network and technical credibility, so I wouldn't underestimate him. Board composition remains hard to predict now.
Sources on it being “climate denying”?
I hesitate to respond, but in this case, it is actually a relevant argument. In Italy ( and other nations for that matter ), fascism became popular, precisely because it was 'more efficient' than the pesky democracy with all its turns and stakeholders and all that. In a sense, it delivered ( while also providing high amounts of power to its leaders -- and as we know from history, power tends to corrupt ).
They don't filter out low-volume queries?? In AdWords search term report they would blank out any queries not searched by multiple different users which was enough to not leak anything personally identifiable..
Energy efficiency: boiling water using electric kettle, gas or microwave?
Nice.

I know HN can sometimes be the place where humor goes to die, but I found this comment hilarious.
It understands more languages than it speaks, so no it does not always reply in the same language.
> US authorities...issued a warning to India’s government over concerns it was involved in the plot

I'm interested in how some of these diplomacy decisions actually play out. I'm hoping some insider writes a book later.

Compare, for example, the case with Shireen Abu Akleh. It seems very clear she was deliberately killed by the IDF. She was an American citizen, wearing full press gear. As far as I can tell, the US never even gave a "stern warning" to Israel.
Karnofsky was also a former member of OpenAI’s board
It is prudent to recall that enhancing shareholder value and delivering record growth and sales are NOT the mission of the company or Board. But now it appears that it will have to be.