skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this MSFT giving up on creating a good OS?

Now you can run you legacy software also on Mac!

Which is funny because everybody I know that has worked with office on mac and windows says that the mac version is better...
Right... thousands. I see one piece of "evidence", which is... government unemployment statistics, aka data from the very last people to trust on this, because they have every incentive to make the numbers look better than they are.
For some reason that never bothered me, not even when two droids were bickering with each other on tatooine, but battle droids talking and "roger roger"ing to each other bugged me. Nobody in the 70s was asking why they didn't just use wifi, but it seemed so obvious in the new ones.
Which would never occur in RealLife™ as no Tru Apple fanboi would follow The Daily Stormer ?
Exhibit 5 in Annals of Postmodern Capitalism.
Thanks for sharing this!

I read somewhere that Mistral 7B had a similar performance to GPT-3, but it seems to be miles behind it unfortunately.
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> And the ones who don’t experience this issue at all, perhaps US could study why that is?

You'll have to name a few first.

I know the comment you replied to said "most", but that's not a declaration that any countries have actually solved the issue. It's more that some countries are just too small/isolated to see certain crimes, so it's easier to say "most" than "all".
More details in the lawsuit.[1]

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.38...
it's because a lot of us are working in an environment that has a certain degree of Microsoft forced upon us, made by people who believe more in sales than their own engineers.

Is Teams the best option? No, but it's the most used.

Is Excel the best option? Who cares in a world where Airtable, Google Sheets, Monday, Notion, is blocked by the company firewall, you take what you can get and you start to do things with Excel that are not a spreadsheet anymore, just because it's the only thing left.

Is Azure the best cloud? AWS and GCP are clearly more developer friendly, but they don't get to choose.

You want to use Jetbrains tools? Too bad, your company decided on VSCode. Because surely those are the same.

You want to use Miro? Too bad, your company decided on Microsoft Whiteboard. Was there an RFP? No it just came with Office licenses.

This is why people are sick of Microsoft, and it's happening again with OpenAI now. Most don't even have a choice to experiment with Anthropic or try out Llama. Some DPO/CTO/CDO exec love their microsoft contract and it's hindering digital innovation so much
Perhaps to simplify implementations that read multiple characters at a time?

But I think it's likely just poor design taste.
> ChatGPT has already had a tremendous positive impact on society.

Citation needed
Nice problem observation.

One solution is the outbox pattern:

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....
Media Matters staff aren't authentic users? Is Linda trying to imply that they violated the terms of service?

If a user can "force a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads," and those ads end up alongside pro-Nazi content, then the platform has a problem. The user isn't at fault here for the experience provided by Twitter.
Do Microsoft tutorials uses anything beside OpenAI or Azure version of the same? Amazon tutorials do use many third party frameworks as well as python base ML frameworks.
But does it include lessons in board management?
Anyone care to speculate on why this was flagged.
It feels like Altman started the whole non-profit thing so he could attract top researchers with altruistic sentiment for sub-FANAAG wages. So the whole "Altman wasn't candid" thing seems to track.
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No movie will get made if there is no controversy. The universe is looking for a movie here I think.
I don't know if it does but my point is to prevent others from thinking that a giant money making entity like the NFL does not pay any taxes.
What are you talking about? I use WSL2 every day. Issues are very rare (rarer than on my desktop that runs an actual linux distribution...). I've never encountered 100% cpu when waking up from sleep.
Naive question. In my part of the world, board meetings for such consequential decisions can never be called out on such short notice. Board meeting has to be called ahead of time by days, all the board members must be given written agenda. They have to acknowledge in writing that they've got this agenda. If the procedures such as these aren't followed, the firing cannot stand in court of law. The number of days are configurable in the shareholders agreement, but it is definitely not 1 day.

Do things work differently in America?
I think she is suggesting that the user profiles they curated to maximize the chance of this happening were not the result of authentic usage patterns.
Help with conditions is not really help; it is a deal.
Maybe the personal issue was Ilya and sam was saying to one board member he has to go and to another he is good.
> All of our competitors are working towards a family of aircraft going upwards of 200 seats

Isn't ZeroAvia tackling smaller aircraft?
What even is an "authentic user"?
An equation co-written with AI reveals monster rogue waves form 'all the time'
TBC the discussion is around idle battery usage. Presumably, backgrounded apps will contribute to that. FWIW I do notice a difference, especially depending on what apps are open. Whether closing apps increases battery drain during reopening them for intentional activity is a different question.
> taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

This is absolutely peak irony!

US pouring trillions into its army and close to nothing into its society (infrastructure, healthcare, education...) : crickets

Some country funding AI accelerators: THEY ARE A THREAT TO HUMANITY!

I am not defending Saudi Arabia but the double standards and outright hypocrisy is just laughable.
You're mixing up what we mean by what rules it's following or how it's working.

If I ask how it's able to write a poem given a request and you tell me you know - it multiplies and adds this set of 1.8 trillion numbers together X times with this set of accumulators, I would argue you don't understand how it works enough to make any useful predictions.

Kind of like how you understand what insane spaghetti code is doing - it's running this code - but can have absolutely no idea what business logic it encodes.
Windows 10 is still supported until end of 2025. And you can just force Windows 11 installation if what's blocking you is just the CPU model / TPM.
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I decided to write about AI, in light of the consequential changes to the tech landscape this past year, and I also wanted to reflect on some related feelings I have been experiencing.

Feel free to leave a comment.
Welp. Time for a conference we all fly to using private jets to tell the plebs how it's their doing that's destroying the planet. Maybe agree on a tax or something that screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect on the global climate.
My 2016 MBP drops from 65% to 30% in a month even when it's turned off.
There are also genre-based playlists and a release radar.
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Outlook for Mac is a dream. The animations, design, great support for keyboards, focus mode integration, native toolbar UX, and menu bar app are almost enough to make me think there’s a future for desktop-native software.

I don’t know how the MBA types let that team get away with making such a great work of software.

It’s weird because on Windows they’re moving to just shipping the web version in an electron (or equivalent) wrapper.
I don't think the comparisons with Gmail/YouTube are really fair or accurate. YouTube doesn't have any real major competition - and not only did they never want to become a subscription-based premium streaming service, they didn't even really have a path to doing it when it started. The entire point of YouTube is user-uploaded content. Google did try expanding into selling some real films and such several years ago, but I can't imagine that ever being a major money-maker. At the end of the day, it's unmatched at what it does.

Same with Gmail... How would Google transform a conventional email service into social media and manage to convince users that they wanted that change? It's like saying that MS failed to transform Outlook into social media, or that Apple failed to turn iCloud Mail into something similar. Besides, Google did make separate attempts to make both a messaging service and a social media platform, but both failed.
> Until the new study, many experts believed the majority of rogue waves formed when two waves combined into a single, massive mountain of water. Based on the new equation, however, it appears the biggest influence is owed to “linear superposition.” First documented in the 1700’s, such situations occur when two wave systems cross paths and reinforce one another, instead of combining. This increases the likelihood of forming massive waves’ high crests and deep troughs. Although understood to exist for hundreds of years, the new dataset offers concrete support for the phenomenon and its effects on wave patterns.
Fair enough, I should have said, it’s my opinion that it has had a positive impact. I still think it’s easy to see them as a non profit. Even with everything they announced at AI day.

Can anyone make an argument against it? Or just downvote because you don’t agree.
I'm confused how simply using Twitter and following Nazi-leaning accounts is an inauthentic usage pattern.

Nazism is bad but being a Nazi supporter or sympathizer doesn't make someone's usage inauthentic. At worst it makes their usage harmful.
> if they want to avoid invoking the wrath of US sanctions

What's even more interesting is they'll (other countries) do this aggressively. If you get caught in the crosshairs, the punishment can often exceed the supposed crime. For the same kind of incident(s) in their own laws, it's more lenient.
We were so close to buying an old Nomad for our tech demo! But we thought if we took it to an airshow, it would only get a small sub-set of attendees excited, compared to a Bonanza, which people seem to love.
We would really love to do it all in Australia and think Australia is a great place to do the initial development work, flight testing our tech demo and retrofitting the first set of our B1900D-HE product. But we would, reluctantly, agree with you that the SA-1 design, testing and manufacturing would be at best global but most likely heavily centered in the USA. Its our plan to grow the team in the states, starting soon, and slowly shift the center of gravity as the projects move through maturity.
It’s not critical, it’s arbitrary. The earth is warming, it’s going to keep warming. What we should do is focus on practical responses to both limit future warming and handle the consequences of where we’re heading.

The moralizing and doom don’t really help anybody.
> OpenAIs goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. OpenAI believes that artificial intelligence technology has the potential to have a profound, positive impact on the world, so the companys goal is to develop and responsibly deploy safe AI technology, ensuring that its benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.

From their filing as a non-profit

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
It’s cool but it’s kind of funny that they have to yell at it like it’s your deaf 80 year old grandfather. Wonder if they have to do that or feel compelled to do it for accuracy.
But it would mean that the nazi apple fanboy is seeing exactly what they want to see. The problem lies with the user, not with the platform.
Remember GPT-3 != ChatGPT. I could perhaps believe it is similar to GPT-3, but it's certainly miles behind ChatGPT even with 3.5
This is going to be a weird thing to say but: What happens if I'm a genuine nazi user (and follow lots of nazi content creators) and also interested in computers? Eventually they would see Apple ads next to Nazi posts. Right? Anyone that's been online for more than a couple seconds knows these kind of people exist.

To say that media matters manipulated the algorithm because they follow nazi people and apple is a weird argument to make. Twitter is more than capable of knowing which posts are antisemitic/nazi and it should be trivial to simply not show sponsored content around these posts. The only side effect of this would be that Nazis in the platform won't be seeing any ads.
That's a wild attack. I don't trust science? I'm literally a scientist...

I trust the ANSES and the ANSM, who actually employ scientists to make their recommendations, more than a rando on HN. My field is not medicine, so what good would links to medical studies do me? It's not like I'm going to read them or understand their methods or findings. I'd rather have specialized people summarize the findings for me. And it's not like you have provided links to medical studies for your comment.
> by reducing performance like Apple does with old iPhones

What Apple did was clock down the CPU of iPhones with degraded batteries in order to reduce peak load which would otherwise result in crashes that would have made the device borderline unusable below some charge percentage.

Yes, they should have shipped the feature off by default and with a toggle, but the feature itself was amazing as it let already old phones last longer than they otherwise would have.

Apple deserves a lot of shit for their bullshit surrounding replacement parts, but this particular topic is something they get an undeserved amount of shit for in my opinion.
That's true for big airplanes. Small ones need a lot less runway. Which means they can land at smaller airports. Some of the electrical VTOL planes under development currently don't need airports at all and can take off from pretty much any flat surface.

The size of jet planes is dictated by fuel cost. Fuel is expensive. Large planes expend it more efficiently. But they are also loud and pollute. So people don't like them too close to where they live. When you use fuel by the thousands of liters per flight, it starts to add up in terms of cost. It's also why private jets are only for rich people. They burn hundreds of liters of expensive fuel per flight. Add to that the maintenance and staffing and you are looking at eye watering amounts per flight.

Hydrogen is of course not cheap currently but it might drop in price substantially as renewable energy gets cheaper. At that point a few smaller planes might be cost competitive with a larger jet fueled plane. But still, there are lots of logistical challenges related to getting large quantities of hydrogen to fuel planes. I doubt it will be very economical or practical any time soon.

My pet theory is actually that most short haul flight will shift to small, autonomous, electrical planes. They'll wipe out three of the largest cost factors in aviation: fuel, staffing, and maintenance cost (much less complex mechanical systems). They'll fly point to point rather than hub to hub; or at least tiny airport close to your origin to tiny airport close to your destination. If you want to fly further, you can just chain a few hops. It will work like an uber pretty much.

Inter continental flight is a different challenge. At least short term it's not feasible to do that with battery electric. Synthetic fuels and hydrogen look promising for that. But I wouldn't discount electric for that either long term. If battery breakthroughs keep on happening and we get some fancy solid state batteries delivering 2000 watt per kg or so, that whole game changes as well.
> but you always have power.

Ah yes. I can tell my manager who may tell their manager who will just say "it's company policy".

If I'm not on a visa I can probably quit and go to. different company, but that's often all the power that you have.
It is: You might or might not be considered one of the people, though. Long history of making people not people (See: Slavery and incarceration)
I wish my car can self-limit to 80%. Right now I have to set a timer to remind myself to unplug. If I forget to set the timer, I'm screwed. If at the exact moment it's inconvenient to go unplug, I'm screwed. Replacing the battery costs 18000 EUR.
ASLR has absolutely nothing to do with this. All it does is to ensure that the address of, say, the value of (int) ((void*)malloc) is not always 0x12345678 or something predictable, and the same is true for the start of the stack and heap etc. What it obviously doesn't do is to randomly scatter every allocation at different addresses. If the address of arr[0] is 0x1000000, then the address of arr[1000000] is very much guaranteed to be 0x2000000.

Now, the actual layout of your address space in RAM is not necessarily contiguous of course. That has nothing to do with ASLR, it is all related to virtual memory, a much older concept. However, this is also irrelevant for performance, at least until you get to NUMA architectures which anyway need their own specific models.

The reason virtual memory to physical memory mapping doesn't really matter for performance is that RAM is, actually, random access at this level. Reading two contiguous cache lines worth of data from physical RAM into the processor cache is just as fast as reading two non-contiguous ones.

The reason random memory accesses are much slower than linear ones is not the physical layout in RAM. It is because when doing linear reads, you'll get most of the data from the processor cache with a single slow read from RAM, whereas with random access you'll need to go all the way to RAM (or gods forbid, to disk) for each and every read. The difference is exacerbated even more by predictive pre-fetchers, which can paralleize reading the next cache line from RAM while your code is running on the current cache line - but those only work if your code will indeed use the predicted next cache line, otherwise you'll stall.

So, random access code is slow because it is actually running at the RAM's speed. Linear access code is fast because it is actually running at the L1 cache's speed. Physical layout of your pages in memory is almost entirely irrelevant (it's only a problem if your reads are not page-size aligned, which is not normally possible).

And finally, the cache-oblivious computing model for complexity analysis is pretty well established, and it is known to be significantly better at predicting real-world performance differences than the more traditional system. It is more complex to work with, though, so some people don't bother. And it is not of that much theoretical interest in the field of computational complexity analysis, since it doesn't fundamentally change the complexity class of any algorithms (e.g. both this and the simpler O(1) memory access model will agree on whether an algorithm is polynomial or exponential).
HN’s “don’t change the title” rule presumably applies here - don’t rephrase British English from a British newspaper into American English. It’s “ousting”, not “ouster”.

(Unless the FT is serving different headlines to different IPs?)
Afaik the media matters employees were not genuinely interested in consuming Nazi content.

I think their point was that none of the real nazis saw these ads next to nazi content I guess?
Any user that does things that Musk likes and does not tell the media about Nazis on the site.
No, it's making the correct point. The government can't get you out of having to do the evaluation yourself because the government is broken, which is unlikely to change. In fact this is a major problem with the existence of the regulations -- they protect incumbents. Patented drugs get FDA approval, public domain drugs that could be alternatives to them don't because there is no one to pay for the approval process.

If heroin is legal, nobody forces you to buy it. If generic insulin is illegal, you're in trouble.
You can apply this reasoning to "anything-driven design."

Just stop being dogmatic and choose the right tool for the job.
2050: You don’t need a house or a job, welcome to the Matrix (not the shitty Keanu Reeves one)
One is operating in good faith the other is by definition defrauding people. That’s not equivalent.
Mom and pop is most of the workforce which is what this site seems to forget. Most people don't work for a fortune 500 company.
What's confusing is that... open AI wouldn't ever be controlled by those that invested, and the owners (e.g., the board) aren't necessarily profit seeking. At least when you take a minority investment in a normal startup you are generally assuming that the owners are in it to have a successful business. It's just a little weird all around to me.
It's not really the point. Twitter made representations about "brand safety" that ads for these brands had a low chance of appearing next to neo-nazi content. It turns out it's easy to make it happen.

In any case, she's also admitting that IBM, Comcast, Oracle, Apple, etc. are paying for ads that not a single authentic user has seen. That doesn't make Twitter look good either. How many other useless ads are they paying for?
> When people say they want to "randomly shuffle a playlist", they really don't want that.

Same in games. "I had an 80% chance to hit and didn't" is a perfect example.
If we ever get to that point, could your 50 seater be easily equipped with that, or would you redesign it from the ground up?
Why does every other social media get a pass with this stuff? This is so blatantly a political move it’s sickening.

I just went to Instagram, typed in “shoplifting” and saw dozens of extremely racist comments, followed by advertisements. I can’t imagine the stuff written on Facebook being much better and don’t get me started with TikTok.
What other cases are there. The only cases I know of are of US laws being "applied" overseas. I don't know of any other country that does this/has the power to do this.
They didn’t explain what it did. The feature was amazing, the presentation misleading.
It's detrimental in the sense that it gives you a false sense of security (literally.)

We have no idea how many people/states broke TETRA before one made it public. And there is no feedback mechanism to get to know it either.

If the algorithm is out in the public, public research funding provides an incentive to publish findings, creating that missing feedback loop.
> Looking at the graphs, however, we should go back to covid society, well, without all the dying.

With the dying you save the environment way faster. "We should go back to covid society" just means let's all be ascetic monks. There's too many people in the world. We don't need more wetlands or this or that, we just need to understand that a population that grows without limits always destroys itself, that's all.

What's the point of a planet with billions of people if their lives suck and they have to stay home using their CO2 quotas? Much better to have less people living normally.
Altman himself was pushed out of the president role at YC, not sure if Shear was a partner then. If he was he'd know the inside scoop

Regarding saving VCs money, if he pushes too hard for commercialization over safety he risks his job.