skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is because monopolies can be dismantled by two things:

> 1. The coercive power of the state.

> 2. A sudden realization among those who run and benefit from the monopoly that selfless love for their fellow human beings is enough reason to stop predatory rent-seeking.

You're missing the third option: Someone else finds a way to break their lock on the market.

In many cases this happens indirectly. If you had a monopoly on local media before the internet, you don't have one after the internet.

But that doesn't mean you can't do it with a purpose.

In many cases this requires an act of altruism. To break the monopoly, somebody has to spend non-trivial resources to reproduce the ability to do something that currently only the monopolist can, without hope of turning a profit from it. People can do this if they choose to.

And the work required to do it can be distributed throughout a community.
He spent the last 9 years in competition with Android so it's not surprising that he has some biases about it
Link? Sounds like a good read! :)
Not that I am any sort of expert on the subject, but the way I understand it is:

1. If you have a fossil you can carbon date it based on the amount of C14, which is an isotope of carbon, and is present in relatively stable amounts in living organisms. That's because a living organism takes carbon from its environment and then incorporates it in itself and C14 is continuously generated in the environment because of the radiation from the sun. As the organism dies, the intake stops, so then you can determine its age based on the half life of the C14 and the amount of it still remaining in the remains. Long story short: it cannot be accurate.

2. You can only measure this in remains of dead organisms. Maybe in leather, if the car had some, otherwise I don't think you could easily carbon date a car :)
I think by scenario you mean “script” (that’s the typical way to say it in English).
The Board is another one, if you're CEO.
...this doesn't seem instrumental?
The author learned that the hard way. It took three trips to correct.
I knew a guy who was not exactly anti-tax, but he believed that poor people should be taxed more heavily than the rich ones, the moral justification being that that would motivate the poor to try harder to be rich; plus, of course, there are more poor people, and taxing them would likely yield more money than taxing the rich, not to mention that much of the taxes go to the social programs to support the poor, so it's only fair if they paid for those themselves.
That's a good analogy, with the change being that sprintf is now somehow required to reallocate your buffer on every call if the length ever changes.
Im currently typing this on a fresh Fedora install, on an XPS 7390 using a an Logitech MX Master 3S mouse, a K380 keyboard and Teams with Bose QC35 headphones. I also use a BT Polycom on the same laptop, didnt have to do anything other than repairing. Its 100% your hardware, bluetooth has been solid for a few years now.
Let's call it the "messy middle" and see if we're on the other side of it. :)
Doesn't seem like the worst plan in the world.
That's what I would term a black-and-white case. I don't think there's anyone with sense who would argue in good faith that a CEO should get a vote on their own salary. There are many degrees of grey between outright corruption and this example, and I think the concern lies within.
There are more ships in / around the Middle East and Persian Gulf, including 2 Carrier Strike groups (CSGs), the same number based in Japan, plus additional Amphibious Ready Groups, Fast Response Groups, and Landing support. That tends to support more action in the middle east region than against China / NK.
My favorite pass time as kid was building small cities with infrastructure. Then I discovered Railroad Tycoon and the likes.

Now I work as a civil engineer.

I can go out and look at big machines whenever I want. Five year old me would be proud.
"Renaming a file should always happen-after pending writes to that file" is not a big pony. I think it's a reasonable request even in the absence of fsync.
Yes, Microsoft really re-invented itself. Maybe Google can turn itself around too after a decade or two of malaise.
What a delightful shit show. I don't even personally care whether Sam Altman is running OpenAI but it brings me no end of schadenfreude to see a bunch of AI Doomers make asses of themselves. Ethical Altruism truly believes that AI could destroy all of human life on the planet which is a preposterous belief. There are so many better things to worry about, many of which are happening right now! These people are not serious and should not hold serious positions of power. It's not hard to see the dangers of AI: replacing a lot of make-work that exists in the world, giving shoddy answers with high confidence, taking humans out of the loop of responsible decision making, but I cannot believe that it will become so smart that it becomes an all powerful god. These people worship intelligence (hence why they believe that with infinite intelligence comes infinite power) but look what happens when they actually have power! Ridiculous.
This is reminding me of the Ewok defense.
Trinity: Why It Mattered
I can see it. So it is visual for me.
> Should we be nihilistic and do nothing because of that?

No, not at all. But let's be honest about the stakes. We don't need to save Earth for Earth's sake. We need to save Earth for our own sake.

This is not about tree-hugging and kumbaia-singing. This is about the survival of our global civilization.
I think it’s arms race logic. “If we don’t pursue it before figuring out risk, worse people will pursue it without figuring out the risk.”
I really like Kagi Orion and hope it can succeed, but the keychain integration is still severely lacking, and also is my favorite advantage of safari. Maybe there are settings I'm missing, but migrating everything over to their keychain still has a substantially worse experience. No auto-filling, requires swapping all devices over to it, and seems much less aware of which password to suggest. It upsets me that Apple has Safari behind a usability moat like this, though someone has suggested that the recent mac/ios update has provided safari keychain access to third parties.
I think I pretty much laid out the bulk of the argument. Facebook is moving heaven and earth to mitigate their choice of a dynamic language, even if it was the right choice at the time. You can go look at everything they've done, and everything Typescript has done, and all the gradual typing initiatives. I left plenty of threads to pull there.
A cutthroat environment is going to encourage plenty of people to behave conservatively so that their rivals do not seize on their failures, real or perceived.
You don’t even need ML for that plus it already exists, Soviets had Dead Hand decades ago, an autonomous weapon system capable of ending the world.
Could someone do a sentiment analysis from the comments and share it with all of us who can’t read all the 1,700+ comments?
There are also those who can afford it but don't see the value add. There better be some serious value add for me to spend $4k IMO. Others are a bit loose with their money which is their prerogative.

I really only upgrade if my current PC cannot do a thing that I need it to do.
As any AI startup can tell you: credits != quota

Right now, quota is very valuable and scarce, but credits are easy to come by. Also, Azure credits themselves are worth about $0.20 per dollar compared to the alternatives.
Also, they sell Premium
Power of local LLMs especially with new Apple chips
We are already facing an AI apocalypse with the primitive tech we have now. AGI will only be worse for humanity.

Our current AI tech is built by and for giant corporations and governments (many of which are dystopian). AI will simply accelerate the vast divide between the haves and the have-nots.

AI is being used to increase profits of corporations, with no concern for the rest of us. AI will allow the elites to rule with fewer messy humans in the loop, who may disobey orders or have sympathy for their fellow humans. AI will blur the distinction between truth and lies, enabling dystopian regimes undreamt of by writers like Orwell. AI will provide a vast toolset for criminals as well.
Right. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And regardless of the intentions of the engineers, Google is run by its executives, not by its engineers. We don't have the luxury to extend the benefit of the doubt to ultramegacorporations.
> at least there is a strong moral compass in the field

Is this still true when the board gets overhauled after trying to uphold the moral compass.
Optimizing 2D AABBs with SIMD
Wouldn't be surprised if he receives a subpoena to testify in Google's anti-trust case
/s/ Have they issued a list of demands ? /s/

Seriously,
FTA:

"...the pigs were very good at surviving Canadian winters. Smart, adaptable and furry, they eat anything, including crops and wildlife. They tear up land when they root for bugs and crops. They can spread devastating diseases to hog farms like African swine fever. And they reproduce quickly. A sow can have six piglets in a litter and raise two litters in a year.

That means 65% or more of a wild pig population could be killed every year and it will still increase, Brook said. Hunting just makes the problem worse, he said. The success rate for hunters is only about 2% to 3% and several states have banned hunting because it makes the pigs more wary and nocturnal — tougher to track down and eradicate."
He has always creeped me out. The way pg talks about him is meant to be an endorsement, but it makes Sam seem like a Svengali whose main quality is the ability to manipulate and get what he wants.
"We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAI and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary..." so no, they knew.
flang [1], it's part of the LLVM project.

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/flang
The big deal in this statement, to me, is thanking the leaders of Qatar and Egypt. Israel and the Palestinians aren't going to work this out on their own, and the US is always going to be seen as too biased to play more than an ancillary role.

They could be very important, not just finding a final cease-fire but possibly a real lasting peace. We're a long way from that, and I personally believe it can't happen while Netanyahu is in charge of Israel. But there's good reason to think that will end in a couple of years, and if these two can continue to be trusted by both Palestinian leadership and whoever runs Israel next, there might be something positive.

I'm not prone to optimism, especially on this topic. But to see names named here actually matters.
Wouldn’t everyone.
Getting your point, although the fact that something is within your rights, may or may not mean certainly that it's also a proper thing to do ... ?

Like, nobody is going to arrest you for spitting on the street especially if you're an old grandpa.
Nobody is going to arrest you for saying nasty things about somebody's mom.

You get my point, to some boundary both are kinda within somebody's rights, although can be suable or can be reported for misbehaving. But that's the keypoint, misbehavior.

Just because something is within your rights doesn't mean you're not misbehaving or not acting in an immature way.

To be clear, Im not denying or agreeing that the board of directors acted in an immature way. I'm just arguing against the claim that was made within your text that just because someone is acting within their rights that it's also a "right" thing to do necessary, while that is not the case always.
I think this summarizes it pretty well. Even if you don't mind the garbage, the future AI will feed on this garbage, creating AI and human brain gray goo.

https://ploum.net/2022-12-05-drowning-in-ai-generated-garbag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
Vision replaced front facing radar for AEB and TACC (traffic aware cruise control). The safety tests including automatic emergency braking, which Vision provides signal for with regards to forward travel. Automated lane changes were always Vision.

You can confirm the transition did not have a material impact on Autopilot safety using their data: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
The best time to switch to Firefox was many years ago. The second best time is now.
Lex Fridman Podcast: John Mearsheimer [video]
No because it's not relevant to the only point I made, which is that Helen Toner has no personal fiduciary responsibility to the investors of the for-profit.

You implied that she couldn't publicly disparage the for-profit because the board has a fiduciary responsibility to the minority investors in the the for-profit. I only piped up to correct that single point because it's wrong.
I wonder if they've ever used, or wanted to use, a path or org themselves (like actions, say) that was taken by some external user.

Seems a good idea to put user generated content somewhere else, like example.com/users/OJFord instead of top-level say, and then if you decouple handle from displayed name people don't care to claim they're clean name as in OP so much either. But of course for the URL, you have to think of that in your early days - GitHub can't break all those links now!
> and because setting up the environment on new hardware is a time sink

If you replace your laptop, don't you just restore a backup and you're ready to go?

Wipe the old machine and sell it and you're net the same amount of ewaste.
I thought the headline meant that this was going to present Signal as an example of the bloat, but it's the reverse: the article says Signal has only 50 employees but still successfully operates a major communications service, where other companies have thousands of employees.

Apart from Signal just generally doing a good job here, I see a few other possible factors:

* Signal doesn't see user content, so it doesn't have a content moderation team

* Signal is designed in such a way that it can't comply with most kinds of legal requests for user data, so it doesn't need a large team responding to those requests

* Signal gets some amount of pro-bono legal help, so it might not have as large an in-house legal team as other organizations

* Signal isn't trying to directly profit from user activity, so it doesn't need to study user activity or engagement metrics with a view towards profiting from them; similarly, it doesn't need to manage relationships with advertisers

* Similarly, it doesn't need to try hard to grow its user base (that would be desirable, but it doesn't necessarily increase revenue much)

* Similarly, it probably doesn't need to try hard to expand into other business areas

(I think these things are generally great. Yay Signal!)
> Google+ and "Real Names Considered Harmful"

That happened right after I'd accepted an offer from Google but before I'd started work there; it was an uncomfortable shock and a bad way to begin. I only lasted a year, also largely because I was unable to transfer. It's funny what happens to one's motivation when unable to do meaningful work...

This author's remark about Vic Gundotra struck me as... a very tactful way of describing him. To my ears, that guy was a straight-up bullshit artist, and his prominence in Google management significantly damaged my faith in the organization.
It sounds like the generic complaints of everyone who doesn't like their manager ever and frankly I would have thought twice before attaching my name to a broadside that attacks a former manager by name. But hey, what do I know, I never worked at Google.
that fast huh?
About 0.355% (95% CI: 0.144%–0.566%) self-identify as transgender according to Wikipedia, which cites (https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jsxm.2016.02.001).

> distractions sowed by the elite

That's a nice conspiracy theory. Got a source?
They will spend the next ten years drip feeding the latest model and no one will be any wiser.

As I understand it, the idea of AGI is that it will be able to “invent” stuff, that it will be able to piece together information to create something new. Is this not what they are basically selling?

And if so, in what world do they see themselves this ever being available to the public? There is literally zero percent chance AGI will ever be given to the public. The CIA/FBI will stash it in a black box and use it to continue exploiting the world with a few “here and there” releases for society.

I also don’t want to say I could be wrong, because that’s how I understand “AGI” based on what these people market it as. And in that case… OpenAI will keep taking it nice and slow so as long as no model gets close to them based on a pre-determined margin.
Sundar is one of the worst CEOs in modern American corporate history. Anyone can keep Google profitable, but only the most inept could mismanage, to such a magnitude, the "Dream Team" of Engineers that Google used to be and, to some extent, still is.

Google hasn't created a new major product in years, despite having some of the best paid professionals in the market. I know many Googlers; people at the top of their game, from the best universities, going to waste as Sundar directs the company to one uninspired direction after another.

Sometimes I feel that wasting the intellectual resources of our species is borderline a crime against humanity. This man has to go.
I was there in the late 90s to early 2000s, when the ad wars created auto-launching pop-overs and pop-unders. Where closing an ad would spawn 10 more, and where hitting any site on the wrong day could initiate a blizzard of browser windows that would bring even the most powerful PC of the era to its knees such that your only possible solution would be a hard shutdown and restart, your current active and unsaved data in any other program be damned.

Sorry, but that particular well for revenue generation has been permanently poisoned for me. I will never suffer another online ad if I can possibly help it.

It sucks for any legitimate website looking to support its operations, but those horses have long since fled the barn.
And Mike Alware is still salty about it.
Why are people so obsessed with this guy? Keep falling into the same trap of Cult of the Tech CEO
You forgot: and offered the company for a bag of peanuts to Microsoft.
"FireFox is already running", ah, I almost forgot that. how far we've come :)
I tried New Coke when it was re-released for Stranger Things. It really is a lot better than Coca Cola Classic. It's a shame that it failed.
The system isn't without flaws and unfortunately the American legal system is particularly rife with the. To stay on topic though, no 2 people will give you the same definition of "AI" and yet we're rapidly moving into the age of it.

As such the only way to regulate around it is on a "we'll know it when we see it" basis. I know HN doesn't generally care for regulations on technology but the undeniable reality is that the online space has a dramatic effect on the real world and that AI can have a dramatic effect on the online space.
A reminder that the "e" in "e/acc" does not stand for "ethical"
So the claim that people using Twitter are largely unaware of the substantial changes is an inaccurate one.
>Why the Metro Memory Game is so Addictive

https://theweek.com/tech/why-the-metro-memory-game-is-so-add...
I agree - this shows Signal in a good light. But it does beg the question what is the real financial incentive discussed in the article for the large tech companies to have such employee bloat? You'd think that employee bloat would be a hindrance to company value but it seems to be the opposite? The more employees it seems the better from a shareholder perspective? It does lead to wild hiring / firing swings but there must be a market logic to it somehow?
Now they will unironically push back against Safari for not using enough bleeding-edge APIs. The lesson here is that web developers only have their own interests in mind, and what they want isn't necessarily what's best for the web.
This isn't the first time they were hacked, and it won't be the last. There are no repercussions here aside from some process shit around notifying folks (that companies get better at doing the more times they are breached...!).

We need laws with teeth similar to HIPAA for personal data usage.
That's not logical, though. Assuming that "worse people" will develop it anyway, wouldn't it make more sense to let them, and focus entirely on how to mitigate the risk instead?
The attempt is not persuasion, but alienation. This is the fate of people who behave as he does, and I believe will contribute (to the extent any one person can) in deterrence of others from trying to normalize continued Twitter usage in light of its antisemitic shift in tone.
I've had that experience at a different company. Was really exciting when I joined and I had a very long leash to do pretty much whatever I thought was the right thing. Long-time manager left and did some new interesting stuff for a while. But then I bumped around a bit and I really just counted a couple years until my last major vests and retired.
> In this economy, it's a little easier to tuck away your ideals in favor of a paycheck unfortunately.

Its a gut check on morals/ethics for sure. I'm always pretty torn on the tipping point for empathising there in an industry like tech though, even more so for AI where all the money is today. Our industry is paid extremely well and anyone that wants to hold their personal ethics over money likely has plenty of opportunity to do so. In AI specifically, there would have easily been 800 jobs floating around for AI experts that chose to leave OpenAI because they preferred the for-profit approach.

At least how I see it, Sam coming back to OpenAI is OpenAI abandoning the original vision and leaning full into developing AGI for profit. Anyone that worked there for the original mission might as well leave now, they'll be throwing AI risk out the window almost entirely.
The USA has employed drone strikes on non-US soil against Al Qaeda members who were, as I recall, quite eager to terrorize and destabilize "the great Satan", as they called it.
Hit tabs, three dots, close all tabs.

Slightly quicker than doing them one by one.
> a default ubuntu install could mount and decrypt a bitlocker encrypted windows drive with no trouble

This means BitLocker was off or "Pending Activation," so the Volume Master Key (VMK) was available in plaintext rather than sealed.

When BitLocker is "On," the default is to seal the VMK using TPM PCRs 0, 2, 4, 7, and 11, so tampering with the Firmware (PCR0), UEFI Extensions (PCR2), UEFI Boot (PCR4), Secure Boot State (PCR7), or the BitLocker state itself (PCR11) will result in a failure to decrypt the key. Of course, there are vulnerabilities at every stage (especially sniffing key material as it transits the TPM), but the concept is reasonably sound.
It is mostly from external observation. He seems to be the reason that bcachefs isn't being shipped in production today, as he is trying to work through all of his backlog rather than shipping it in a WIP state. This is very different than how developers of a certain filesystem in Linux's kernel source tree that I shall not name do things. If I recall correclty, a developer of that filesystem told me several years ago that if they did not ship the code for users to use it, they would not find bugs. That file system is not much less buggy today than it was back then. :/
I assume those objecting are from 'higher' castes?
you don't have responsibility for washing yourself before going to a mass transport vehicle full of people. it's within your rights not to do that and be the smelliest person in the bus.

does it mean it's right or professional?

getting your point, but i hope you get the point i make as well, that just because you have no responsibility for something doesn't mean you're right or not unethical for doing or not doing that thing. so i feel like you're losing the point a little.
ime Googlers/Xooglers have this egotism that needs a sharp kick in the butt to remedy.
Jack Dorsey ends PIPs / performance reviews at Block