skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be honest, Linux as a desktop environment is already more usable than many people realize.

This will be true once the stability of graphics drivers on Linux improves. On every major kernel update, I am always bracing for everything going blank because of driver issues.
See, neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs are around these companies, and all is fine.

Apple and Microsoft even have the strongest financial results in their lifetime.
Laravel 10.33 Released – Laravel News
Keeps AMZN alive.
They seemed to have called Canada’s poker hand successfully knowing no one takes Canada’s leadership seriously anymore. Probably the most unserious leadership you’d want in a global conflict requiring being tough and assertive. Unlike US<>Canada the Sikh killing was predated by a long series of bad looks by Canada re: India. They knew the deal.

Canada hasn’t even risked releasing any evidence months later. The issue seems DOA.
Same boat, while they keep shipping impressive features, I've been bitten far too many times on btrfs and zfs.
My work machine has those specs. My workloads aren't massive, but it's been able to handle everything I've thrown at it without any issues. It also runs Factorio almost as well as my gaming desktop.
Ha! I'm teetering on the edge of buying a MicroFreak. There's no way I could justify the cost of anything from TeenageEngineering - though £299 isn't as steep as I was expecting from these. Stay Strong!
As an employee of OpenAI: fuck you and your condescending conclusions about my peers and my motivations.
Wow, compared to some of their other products $299 for a TE sampler seems absolutely reasonable and much lower than I expected.
It's not *almost* cost prohibitive, here (in France) a max spec Apple laptop cost about 8500€. Ridiculous.
Are you eating Pringles wrong?
Exactly. My largest page before and after minifiying has a size of 78KB~ and 70KB respectively. With GZIP it goes to 13.2KB. Just under the 14KB mark.
"Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications."

Filed under "Naughtiness" at http://paulgraham.com/founders.html
> working for someone as formidable as sama

His name is Sam Altman. And why is he so formidable?
It's not a crusade against whiteness. Unless you're unhinged and believe a single phenotype that prevents skin cancer is somehow an obvious reflection of genetic inferiority and that those lacking it have a historical destiny to rule over the rest and are entitled to institutional privileges over them, it makes sense that companies with employees not representative of the overall population have hiring practices that are problematic, albeit not necessarily being as explicitly racist as you are.
Ianal, but given that OpenAI Inc is a 501(c)(3) public charity wouldn't that mean that the mission statement has some actual legal power to it?
You mean zero additional dollars. They already gave (checks notes) $13 Billion dollars and own half of the company.
Seems like that's a good thing when the goals of the open faction is to slow down development lol, how would that make OpenAI win?
Likely this. 349 EUR is 17% VAT on 299.
You are absolutely right. An hour+ commute, let’s call it 75 miles.

150 a day. Show me an EV for sale right now that can’t do that in a day and charge overnight at home or at the workplace.

EVs for sale today do this easily, even in the cold
Air France supposedly bugged their first class section to do industrial espionage on behalf of the French government back in the 1980s.
Engineering Career Progression at SH:24
Leadership Gets Shit Done. A cult following wastes everyone's time on ineffectual grandstanding and ego fluffing while everything around them dissolves into incompetence and hostility.

They're very orthogonal things.
When Ilya signed the letter, most of the researchers would follow suit.

As for the rest of the non-researching roles, most of them were hired after Altman's expansion for commercial operation. The existence and future prospersity of their jobs rely on having someone like Altman to push for profitabilty/go-to-market vision.
Honestly he has a point — but the bigger point to be made is financial incentives. In this case it matters because of the expressed mission statement of OpenAI.

Let’s say there was some non-profit claiming to advance the interests of the world. Let’s say it paid very well to hire the most productive people but they were a bunch of psychopaths who by definition couldn’t care less about anybody but themselves. Should you care about their opinions? If it was a for profit company you could argue that their voice matter. For a non-profit, however, a persons opinion should only matter as far as it is aligned with the non-profit mission.
Assuming he's as manipulative as the worst reports of him say, "ethical grounds" translates to "doesn't believe my lies"
Finally, a good reason to return-to-office.
This is what happens when you let the intern make the ocean with no oversight. "Hey, the ocean is too curvy." 100x Earth -> "Better?"
As if Tecent was any better.

All of these companies only complain and find competition unfair when they are the underdog.
> Panun did also threaten to blow up an Air India flight by Nov 19th

Source?

The article says “Pannun angered Indian officials this month by issuing a video in which he warned Sikhs not to fly on Air India because it would be ‘life threatening’ and that “he told the FT he was not making a violent threat against the airline.

Given the context of Sikhs being murdered overseas by New Delhi, that statement seems to have multiple reasonable interpretations.
IIRC sodium ion batteries have traditionally had trouble with rapid degradation due to the large size of the sodium ion, which disrupts the carbon electrode via swelling during intercalation. So I would be worried about the number of cycles they can last.
It's pretty incredible that the upper echelons have so thoroughly psyopped everyone below them that the public runs confused around in an endless maze of ideology, false pretexts and stirred up drama.

This way only insiders recognise the most fundamental realpolitical power struggles of all ages; that the "very confusing" wars, coups or power grabs is not very complex at all but always - almost as a physical principle - stemming from the richest members of society pulling the strings to benefit themselves.

Then some note or some FOIA request will be released in 40 years about the orchestration and no one will care.

Just follow the money, or the networks of people and it's easy to see the undercurrents of class warfare, elite power via the security state or oligarch clubs siphoning money and power away from the public, but that's called conspiracy these days and is dangerous (to the ruling classes).
Not who you're replying to but I'm sorry, he's right.

The GRUB incident last summer was the last straw for me. I found myself with an unbootable system. The r/arch sub was radio silent. r/EndevourOs posted a sticky about the grub issue. On researching it more, they were using a build of grub off master (not even a release!). When I asked an arch dev if he thought it was appropriate to do that given he'd just left thousands of people without a bootable system, he dismissed me with something to the effect of 'If you can't repair your bootloader maybe you should use an easier distribution'

You know what? I agreed with him. I formatted my laptop and installed PopOs and it's been really nice running a system where the devs actually seem to care about stability.
This is very insightful, thank you for sharing!
+ according to the rumors on Bloomberg.com / CNBC:

The investment is refundable and has high priority: Microsoft has a priority to receive 75% of the profit generated until the 10B USD have been paid back

+ (checks notes) in addition (!) OpenAI has to spend back the money in Microsoft Cloud Services (where Microsoft takes a cut as well).
> ~$2/teraflop/s

H100 is basically ~$2/(2000 tflops/s)/hour or $1 for 4*10^18 floating point operations.
I hope no one does. Whether it's the Open AI situation or the job market, I am describing reality, not wishful thinking.
The poster spoke of human intelligence, not general intelligence. I was trying to say that emotions are not just simple drivers they are structurally important pieces that we use to represent the world and that we use in all our cognition. I don't think the human intelligence easily can be separated from emotions since our whole system is built around it.

An older but still popular view of the human mind separate the brain and body as two parts. And we also like to separate emotions and intelligence. From my amateur understanding that does not correspond to modern neuroscience, it is all a very integrated system. We usually like clear and separate categories instead of fuzzy complicated integrated systems.
introducing a new term when an established term exists seem to add another overhead. "but bro, you'll get used to it in no time." i hear you, buddy. it just leaves a bit bad taste.

anyway, i can't believe i say this, i think dhh's words on tradeoff between squeezing performance out of an ecosystem and "just throw more hardware on it" is a tradeoff that i can clearly choose.
I'm already saying that.

The toothpaste is out of the tube, but this tech will radically change the world.
I always give a short candid response to those questions. Sometimes it brings follow up questions.

My wife says I should just always say good or great.
I at least hope they sell/give away those machines to keep them in circulation. I'd be a real shame to have modern and environmentally expensive hardware like that be torn apart for scrap metal in a recycling facility. Many tech companies love the "eco-friendly" trade in programs that essentially serve to take working, used devices out of circulation.
Why would they be morally bankrupt? Do the employees have to care if it's a non profit or a for profit?

And if they do prefer it as a for profit company, why would that make them morally bankrupt?
And often there's also an invisible consumer rights 'tax' on top. Since online purchases and warranty are quite heavily regulated in Europe, sellers often add some margin to cover the extra costs this might bring.
Creepy uncle says "I was just watching, nothing sinister here"
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/07/developer-tools/fixit-...

Just a test, for some reason your link isn't clickable for me.
> seemed to have called Canada’s poker hand…issue seems DOA

The investigation is progressing at a normal pace. It’s incorrect to suggest it’s DOA. It also had a multibillion-dollar impact on multiple Indian investments, so to suggest it had no consequences is also wrong. (On a fundamental level, the killings Streisand effected the Khalistan cause. I’m of Indian descent and had not heard of Operation Blue Star [1].)

> Canada hasn’t even risked releasing any evidence

If the intel was American SIGINT, Ottawa wouldn’t have the authority to unilaterally release it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star
Apart from Nvidia, this feels like a non-issue for me nowadays.
I'd probably give it a release or three (or 5). Still plenty of development actively happening despite it being mostly just Kent.

But yes I plan to use it soon-ish as well.
I really dunno why people advocate ripping out the kernel and using Linux instead, while keeping Windows userspace. The NT kernel is the best part of Windows. It has built-in asynchronous real-time I/O. A completely plug-and-play driver model. Far more advanced permissions model. It is far ahead of the competition.

The userspace and UI of Windows is very straightforwardly modified; that's why it has changed so much every iteration of Windows. Telling people that we should keep 'Windows apps' and then rip out the kernel and use the Linux kernel instead is like saying one has a small rash, let's do chemotherapy. It is breaking a fly with a wheel.

I want to go back to the Windows 2000-era UI, with the same advancements in the kernel and core Windows technologies we have today.
Yeah, SVN was terrible. Its chief advantage was it was just less terrible than CVS and carried roughly the same workflow, so wasn't unfamiliar to people. It was basically CVS with atomic commits and a better interface and transport layer. You could drop SVN into a CVS shop without ruffling many feathers -- and back then I found most people were quite resistant to "novelty" in revision control systems, so SVN fit into that.

I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with a centralized revision control system. I used Piper/CitC at Google for years and it could be ... tolerable. Many people just end up using git this way anyways.

But SVN shipped with garbage merge-on-merge support, and that was the deal-breaker for me.
OK, you've pasted from the #1 Google result after searching for "46.875 kHz samplerate".

What does this have to do with the Teenage Engineering EP-133? It doesn't have USB audio or SPDIF, so no standard samplerate clock to conflict with.
What term are you referring to?

Also, speed and performance aren’t the only reasons to use Rust. Rust also helps ensure correctness in significant ways, and make stable applications.
And to maintain control over European air forces.
> defending them because they’re women

There’s absolutely nothing in my comment that even implies I’m defending them and their actions, and also absolutely nothing in my comment that implies any of my statement is based on their gender.

I seem to have struck a nerve with you, though. I think the commenter doth protest too much.
That's why juries suck. For some reason we pretend that even a random group of people can't have shared biases. Especially when there's a lack of evidence, it opens a jury up to judging someone based on their race, gender, appearance etc and I've seen it happen.
If I've got a laptop and am looking for "normal" gaming experiences, rather than the latest AAA games, I'll load up an old or light game on it.

Why would I buy a separate piece of hardware taking up more space in my home and life? More money down the drain.

Sure, it's nice that it "just works", but so does `pacman -Sy xonotic`.
Here we go...see your "Buddy" in action! Buddy is designed to redefine productivity in your everyday work and personal tasks. Imagine having a digital intern that understands and executes tasks through simple, plain language instructions – just like a conversation with a colleague.

It effortlessly handles routine business workflows and skillfully extracts data from various documents, structured or unstructured. What makes Buddy stand out is its accessibility: you don't need any technical skills to harness its power.

#GenerativeAI #ai #aiautomation #FutureOfWork #NeuralWave #ArtificialIntelligence #WorkplaceRevolution #DigitalTransformation #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #TransformerArchitecture #FoundationModel #ActionTransformers #IntellitentCoWorker #AICoworker #SmartCoWorker
Like most public policy issues, a balance needs to be struck. Typical SUV trips could easily be done in a lighter vehicle or even no vehicle at all.
WizardCoder is probably close to state of the art for open models as of right now.

https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM/tree/main/WizardCoder

https://huggingface.co/WizardLM/WizardCoder-Python-34B-V1.0

Top of the line consumer machines can run this at a good clip, though most machines will need to use a quantized model (ExLlamaV2 is quite fast). I found a model for that as well, though I haven't used it myself:

https://huggingface.co/oobabooga/CodeBooga-34B-v0.1-EXL2-4.2...
Like PHP, where FB has spent many man years writing AOT compilers, an new VM, and a strong typed variant from PHP?
They are registered as a 501(c)(3) which is what people commonly call a public charity.

> Organizations described in section 501(c)(3) are commonly referred to as charitable organizations. Organizations described in section 501(c)(3), other than testing for public safety organizations, are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions in accordance with Code section 170.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
Your landing page doesn't even add html tags. Firefox says it's in quirks mode. That's not making up for performance.
How has the valuation of OpenAI increased by $20B since this weekend? I feel like every time I see that number it goes up by $10B.
I'm trying to find a way to share the video from Instagram to HN. I'm not sure how to generate a share link.
I struggle to find any delivery stats at all. How many MWH/GWH were delivered in 2022? in H1 2023? There are usually only declarations of future production capacity. Anyone can do that.
Given the absolute over-the-top histrionics by the Indian contingent regarding Canada's revelation (one that was basically forced when media got ahold of the info), clearly Canada complaining meant an enormous amount to India and Indian expats. That whole situation was utterly bizarre. Canada abandoned free trade talks with India.

The best part was the continued assertions that Canada stood alone (courtesy of our navel gazing, self-critical media which is how it should be, but is a bit asymmetrical when countering fanatics), all the while the US continually stated that they backed Canada. Indeed, it is overwhelmingly likely that the intel for both incidents had a common source.

Another interesting revelation that flew under the radar-

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/30/indian-opposition-leaders-...

The Modi government of India is basically acting like an autocracy now. All of the Indians who spent so much time attacking Canada might spend a little more time looking inwards.
Ask HN: Good blog posts about react/TypeScript build process
Hey everyone,

I'm trying to learn more about React and TypeScript 'under the hood', specifically focusing on the build process - compilation, packaging, optimizing, etc.

If you've read any good blog posts around these topics, I would be more than happy if you share them with me :)

Thanks!
An Air India flight was blown up in 1985 by Canadian Sikh terrorists killing 329 people. With that context, it’s easy to see how this would be considered a threat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
> Forget GPUs, this thing is plenty fast on CPUs.

Does this mean everyone could be running the 100+b models from ram?

This opens up a lot , some models could be run very fast on small machines with this.

Bundling a small model inside a game to act as part of the mind for ingame NPC's (obviously with some tuning) becomes practical with this.
Most places are unable to beat silicon advances to improve their build times.
Meet Adam D'Angelo, the OpenAI Board Member Who Brokered Sam Altman's Return
What about accessibility for people with visual impairments?

The author has warnings for the last three version, because of usability. I see lots of red flags also for the other versions in terms of accessibility.
Someone has to set direction. The more people that are involved in that decision process, the slower it will go.

Having no leadership at all guarantees failure.
Larry Summers Jumps to Center of AI Stage With OpenAI Board Seat
What I'm missing from the article is an explanation of what the control is. The email with no protection, which you'd expect to be the control, blocked 17% of spam - 17% of what amount of spam? How does the author quantify the spam that's out there?
Without cryptographic pairing (and a hard requirement at that) and secure channels that aren't optional, none of the setups can really be secure. SDCP tried to do this, but with so much being optional and scoped smaller than the actual attack surface (pun intended), it's about as good as TPM-over-LPC.

As soon as it's optional or can be exchanged/replaced with no side-effects, you're screwed.
Someone must have run a wiki update script that calls OpenAI api somewhere.
No, crypto exchanges are only profitable as a result of massive wash trading and scamming. If they had to actually compete the margins would be hilariously low. Probably even lower than a typical bank because the product is just worse.
I find Debian unstable to be a perfectly stable rolling release distro. Unfortunate naming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_by_algorithm
The content strikes me as being more an editorial on what happened vs simply a summary of events.
That's a lot of money for a laptop. But its roughly the same as single intercontinental business class flight.

Computers are very, very cheap.
All at once.
"Apart from a majority of graphics cards it's a non-issue"
excuse me where's the semi-colon? Unshippable!!
> Anyways, I think it would be a shame if MS gave up on the NT kernel.

I can't say this more. The NT kernel is really the best part of Windows. Almost everything that people complain about in Windows 11 is in the userspace. Start menu nerfed? Right-click menu hidden? Settings versus Control Panel? Cortana, Copilot? There's nothing in the kernel or lower-level OS constructs that require any of these.
Dunno, you have to be able to deliver on some of those promises of desires fulfilled. And as you get older, your ability to see through it should only increase. At that point, the only real question becomes: is it to my benefit?

FWIW, while I follow this saga, I am kinda waiting to see the full retrospective. I think we don't know everything relevant yet.
HEADLINE: MICROSOFT SECURITY BYPASSED

First sentence of this click bait horse shit:
Security researchers have found flaws in the way laptop manufacturers are implementing fingerprint authentication.

So fucking sick of clickbait.
Rocket's documentation and overall 'dev experience' are very pleasant. In the past, I felt like I was making a significant tradeoff when using Rocket over more actively developed frameworks (Axum and Actix Web). With v0.5 (finally) coming out, and the Rocket Web Framework Foundation, that feels like much less of a concern.
A great example of Rocket in use is the official Rust website, which is open source.
No, I was referring to the structure of Python docs. More specifically, I want there to be something like the 'Library Reference'. It starts from the basics and moves to more abstract/advanced topics. I guess the current docs are optimized for many different use cases, but as a beginner, it is very hard for me to gen an 'Overview' of linux from the official docs. There should better categorization IMO!
I just don't get his cult of personality. He's an underwhelming intellect but a top-notch promoter. And Worldcoin, seriously? I can see in 2019 wanting to be in on the grift, but let it die.
The King Is Back in the Castle
it would be shocking if it wasn’t Russia and yet you’re trying to convince us it’s not!? And at the same time attempting to discredit western media as a whole?

A cyber security threat mainly occurring in Ukraine and you’re trying to tell us don’t assume it’s Russian origin?

I guess you don’t now, Russia invaded Ukraine and has been at war with them for a while now. They are notorious for their cyber warfare, both through state groups and state sanctioned hackers.

So yeah, That comment seems like a motivated attempt at smearing the article. And the non Ukrainian security firm checkpoint research shows the vast majority of incidents are in Ukraine. It would be shocking if it wasnt russia and was another countries hacking group.
Us vs them is how our brains work on a fundamental level and that ain't changing without some serious human genome editing to erase our evolved past.