skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many OpenAI employees expressed their support for Sam at some point also on Twitter. Microsoft CEO (based in Redmond) tweeted quite a lot. Tech media reporters like Emily Chang and Kara Swisher also participated. The last one is quite critical of Twitter and I am not sure they all like Musk that much.

Are they all in the same “tribe”? Maybe you should enlarge the definition?

How about us all IT people who watched the drama unfolding on Twitter while our friend are using FB and Insta, we are far from SV and have mixed feelings about Elon Musk while never in a million years wanting to be like him? Also same “tribe”?
https://archive.is/cSntf
The issue is that the 2019 MBP16 were crap. Especially the higer i7/i9 models had thermal throttling issues when connected to an external monitor.

My 3000€ i7 mbp16 2019 recently died and I replaced it with an "interim" base model, 650€ MacMini M2. The jump is huge, that freakin Mini beats my 3yo (I bought it in 2020) decked out MBP that constantly spun fans. While intended as Interim until M3 MBPs where announced, I see no reason to upgrade right now.
He's pretty good at upsetting the board, for one.
How is so much of the content just corporate or police press releases without any further research? How are so many publications willing to provide a pseudo-authorative platform for the worst people on the planet in their op eds?

Without even bringing up that I'd be paying for the privilege of having ads jammed in every three inches of scroll. I'm not paying a damn thing to help them spread bullshit as if it were news.
A DevOps Turkey-Day Poem
The 2007-02-02 Dilbert applies: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9df021106cc801301d50001dd8b71...
Most average HNers should get 32 or 64 Gb. You can use a 16 Gb machine but you'll be limited.

I bought a M2 Mac Mini with 16 Gb to test the platform. There's a Studio with 64 Gb in my future ;)
> Some have those results. Some have the opposite results and lean into learning how to handle those situations. That is also a very common reaction.

Childhood trauma is a routine area of clinical specialization because it is so common, and I've never known anyone in that field to hold this position. Anecdotally sure yes plenty of traumatized children become successful adults but very simply and grimly most do not. Extreme survivorship bias at play here, often literally.

And separately I am not sure, in this context, considering what we now know about the behavior of american soldiers in afghanistan, that people being drawn to that environment or succeeding within it is evidence of anything positive about them.
I've dealt with a similar situation. The CEO claimed he wrote a business plan, validated the idea (some hackweekend where only the idea was presented, no prototype), will quit their job and put 20.000 Euro into the company (can't remember the exact number). I countered that, sure, I'll put 20.000 Euro for 50% of the shares. CEO didn't like it, apparently the soon-to-be company was already much more valuable. In fact he gave up shortly after so value went to 0.
K8s CPU Resource Sharing in the Real World
Ask HN: Are there sites to search for formulas similar to searchonmath?
Unfortunately, searchonmath.com doesn't work for me. It shows results but I can't register and they don't reply to my emails. I'm looking for similar sites or tricks to use normal search engines to look for references that use certain formulas.
I upgraded from a MacMini M1 (Geekbench multicore pref: 8425) to an MacMini M2 Pro with 12 cores (Geekbench multicore pref: 14431.) That was definitely worth it.

The only upgrade for the M3 line I would make would be to an M3 Max 16 core (Geekbench multicore pref: 21387) or an upcoming M3 Ultra 32 core (probably a Geekbench multicore pref: ~30000), but it is very expensive and probably not available in the MacMini form factor, so I will hold off for now.

All stats from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5dBe_rsiNaQATH-D-Pj...
AGIs hiding in basements are not an existential threat. Joking aside, what you describe isn't really different to the present (or past) - so it doesn't warrant much of concern in relation to AGI. People have followed ideologies and ideas into doom throughout history, it is not clear that AGI is a change there then.

That is, if that type of AGI ever exists in the first place. Maybe real AGI has different desires?
This seems like a silly way of understanding deceleration. By this comparison the USSR was decelerating the cold war because they were a couple years behind in developing the hydrogen bomb.

Microsoft can and will be using GPT4 as soon as they get a handle on it, and if it doesn't boil their servers to do so. If you want deceleration you would need someone with an incentive that didn't involve, for example, being first to market with new flashy products.
> And it's targeted in an entirely different domain -- systems programming.
> Haskell is a garbage collected pure functional programming language.

At the time there were many people trying to make a go of doing systems programming in Haskell. I remember lots of arguments about libraries using ByteString/Text vs String in their public APIs, where the research people were like "linked list of u32 is so conceptually pure!" and the systems people were like "what, no".

You can see the Haskell influence in Rust today, for example the popular benchmarking library <https://crates.io/crates/criterion> is directly inspired by <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/criterion>. I've seen a lot of the same names in the Git logs and chat rooms.

In retrospect, starting with a low-level systems language and adding safety turned out to be a better idea than using `ST a` to implement borrow-checking in a high-level GC'd hosted language. I can only say "it seemed like a good idea at the time...".
Most of that is GPU-accelerated anyway so the OS / CPU doesn't need to do much beyond telling the GPU what to do.
So having one easy to use build system (and actual package manager) is worse than having countless arcane build systems?
Nah. Microsoft still exist and is thriving. Altman is the new Bill Gates except he is better at retaining ~~cul~~ employees. Many at HN love him for those qualities.
What's the difference between leadership skills and cult of following?
On Windows 11

- Right click Taskbar

- Choose "Taskbar Settings"

- Untick Widget. Weather badge gone.

- Untick Teams (if you have it- I don't, and don't have Teams popping up)
I dreamt of being a few wildly different things from cartoonist to war correspondent. Then my calling became more and more obvious: software engineering.

This lasted for a few years, but after a while I felt like being an artisan baker at a bread factory. The love was gone after all those meetings and KPIs and sprints.

I was fortunate enough to start a successful business that uses my love for software engineering, but only to produce something entirely different. I make bureaucracy easier for immigrants with well-written online information. My dev skills help in more natural ways, just like any other business skill.

I could never have expected that, but the benefits far exceed what I could get from any dream job. My real dream was to enjoy what I do and to have a healthy work life balance. That's far more valuable.
nitter link https://nitter.net/ajayjuneja/status/1727117041977766182#m
Analytics flattens user engagement to more narrowly defined single dimensional metrics. And, critically, it ignores the bidirectional nature of a creator's relationship with their audience.

It's like when politicians cite opinion polls to justify their platform but ignore the fact that they often play a huge roll in the formation of those opinions in the first place. IMO, having a platform means not only that you respond to and are shaped by your audience but also that you play an active role in cultivating it
Thanks for your response. I learned about a few people related to this movement. Fair points.
I think if I had the opportunity to learn Rust, and some guidance so that I didn't have to do everything the hard way (essentially how I learned C and then C++), then I would!

So far I have used Rust very little, but what I have seen I have liked. I especially liked the much simpler inline assembly in Rust.
I am not a fan of the essay nor of its style, but I credit the author with good topic selection and nice details.

I like Ridley Scott movies. I think of Scott like Dickens.
A straight-ahead, topical but not actually edgy (in subject) cinematic allegorist, and a great master of the business of telling stories.

As a moviegoer, I am entertained by his movies, in the moment. As a filmmaker, he is sufficiently deep in his treatments to give me something to return to from time to time to consider and relate to real experience.

I still make every niece, and nephew watch The Martian when they are in middle-school and Bladerunner in high school. Some of Scott's work is, in a manner, canonical.

Scott has made some bad films, and he abuses some stories in service to the business of movies. Let's see Napoleon and talk again.
like what? genuinely curious. building native apps is notoriously painful
It's the complete opposite for me. With Linux I'm in control of the OS and can make it work the way I like. Sure, you need to know what you're doing but the learning curve these days is rather easy. With Windows and macOS I feel like they're treating me like an idiot and I always have to settle for 80-90% of the behaviour I want if I'm lucky.
What about the negative characteristics they didn't yet mention? Do those also track us across all the websites and share all their information with Meta and Google?
This is pretty much a certainty when the laptop, OS and security peripherals are all made by different companies. The only real security comes from tight vertical integration.
What will this unsafe AI do?
I dunno, seems like a pretty self-evident theory? If your leader is irreplaceable, regardless of group size, that's a single point of failure. I can't figure how a single point of failure could ever make something "stronger". I can see arguments for necessity, or efficiency, given contrivances and extreme contexts. But "stronger" doesn't seem like the assessment for whatever necessitating a single point of failure would be.
No argument that rice can be grown better, but going back to your call for increasing wetland, isn't it the wet that makes soil produce methane? In the same way that the flooding causes rice paddy soil to create methane, and drying it out (per your study) arrests the process.

With 20-30% of atmospheric methane coming from wetlands, while they may ultimately sink more carbon into themselves, the process seems too inefficient, trading CO2 for some CH4.

Forestry produces a much healthier mix of gasses. On its own it's not a quick sink but when you manage it, and extract timber and end up sinking tonnes of carbon into your buildings. The trees consume CO2 to photosynthesis and aerobic bacteria in open forests consume CH4. Seems like a win-win.
Software is the purely informational elements and constructs of a computing mechanism.

Or

(more broadly) Software is any construct that is functionally equivalent to its description.

(edit)
Everything + EverythingToolbar

https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar
And “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Wong.
central bankers are indeed criminals!
Yes but I think there's a point: hardware horsepower is undoubtedly capable of handling such workloads. I'm not knocking on Logic, but for 'fun' projects especially I find it impossible to believe that the hardware listed is the problem.
How much RAM do you need for fast Xcode + Swift UI development?
> how would such a machine - from inside a laboratory, within an isolated network

Someone clearly isn't aware of ChaosGPT. The notion that these systems would somehow stay isolated to the lab is absurd on its face.

But even if they were on an isolated network, and you grant that this is a superintelligence, then how much isolation do you reckon is really sufficient? If it's software layer, then a superintelligence might be able to find bugs that we've missed and break out. Not even an air gap would necessarily fully isolate [1] a superintelligence.

And then you're completely missing the human factor: a superintelligence could easily make anyone rich, so a researcher in this lab could easily be tempted to exploit that for personal gain by connecting it to the internet.

How many of these attack vectors are AI labs insulated against? How many attack vectors are we simply not even imaginative enough to have thought of yet?

[1] https://threatpost.com/air-gap-attack-turns-memory-wifi/1623...
TWUP (Transactional Windows Update Processing)
The $299 don't include VAT.
Have you tried decaf longer term?

I started getting panic attacks about 10 years ago and narrowed it down to coffee, so I went from 2-3 cups per day, to 1 cup before noon only and that helped.

Then my life got a lot harder and panic attacks came back, so I'm on strictly decaf for the last 3 years. No more panic. Noticeably less anxiety. It's so directly related for me that sometimes I'm on vacation and have regular coffee. After 2-3 days of relaxing my decaf-only rule, I feel it coming.
I don't think so. Based on my experience. I have enough experience with snap performance issues. When I was using snaps in another distro (Manjaro), removing snaps shaved me a nice 11-12 seconds boot time. Snaps adds boot time. They are slow to start. They also have these performance issues. What I didn't know or somehow missed was Firefox snaps was eating way too much memory than I thought. And the whole package was not appealing or solving my problems.

Linux Mint in my past experience have always stood tall even in old installations. So I don't expect that as a reason. And I don't expect LM to slow down as well. But thanks. I will keep an eye on it and see.
you end up waiting for console updates
Same here but the other way. I find Linux much simpler to grasp than endless hard to navigate menus, windows where each is from different land, registry, shell and what not. I rarely use Windows but when I do, it feels like MS either ruined it or I simply forgot how to do things. I used to think like you so I guess it's just a matter of taking the leap and learning new OS

Bonus points: no ads, no Edge or Drive bullshit, nearly any small quirk that annoys me can be rid of (which admittely can take some effort BUT it can be done)

Example:
- Linux: just type the command vetted by hundreds of people on StackOverflow to edit the config file
- Windows: open app, click this and that... Where is it? Ohhh outside of screen because it uses super duper stylish gaming UI. Let me change system-wide UI scaling just to see thing I want to toggle. No, there was no way to just drag that window.
pretty new to this but I thought that irb was a dependency of rails, so when they say "not a gem," it's still a dependency somewhere...

using `binding.b` via the `debug` gem appears to be the path that most of the industry is going since I think it has 100% of these capabilities and more. I might be wrong. Curious what others think
> But generally it’s still very unpolished, inconsistent and has poor UX design.

Came here to say that. If you stick to the 2 or 3 desktop apps that they offer and do everything else in a terminal, then no worries. But the minute you try to get things done, beyond just the terminal - it comes apart.
Or generating art and be found by the wrong group of enraged artists...
Airplane Food: Good if you fly a lot?
I've had a much worse time with hardware on windows than Linux these last couple of years. My work laptop runs Windows and will get stuck in a BSPD bootloop if I turn it on with external monitors connected. My USB keyboard and mouse disconnect every few minutes.

Windows may as well not even have Bluetooth for as well as it works. Some devices always show as connected, despite not being present. I have to un-pair my headphones every time I want to connect. Sometimes I have to reboot my computer to get them to work. Windows also doesn't even support Bluetooth audio sink. On Linux, I can play audio from my phone to my computer and pipe it back into my Bluetooth headphones. Windows 7 supported this, but 10 does not.

I've even used some weird old PCI cards that only have XP drivers, but work fine with Linux.

The only hardware I've had trouble with in the last 5 years is Nvidia cards. And that's a deliberate decision made by Nvidia to not support Linux. AMD cards work perfectly.

I haven't seen problems with audio or WiFi on Linux in over ten years.
There’s a conspiratorial way of thinking about it, which says “they could have protected everyone, but chose to only protect this group, therefore they must think it is ok for these harms to fall on others, therefore [insert innuendo or conspiracy]”

And there’s the pragmatic way of thinking about it, which says “these concerns were raised by advocates for this group based on past experiences where this group saw abuse, and the conversation was never elevated beyond protecting this previously-victimized group from future abuse”

Thats not to defend what is probably bureaucratic myopia, just to say the reasons are more likely banal than strategic.
Yes, and we’ll never know if OJ Simpson did it either. Right?
This is false, and I see the corollary as a project having a BDIF, especially if the leader is effective. Sam is unmistakably effective.
I see. I've never read his work before, thank you.

So they just got Cipolla's definition wrong, then. It looks like the third fundamental law is closer to "a person who causes harm to another person or group of people without realizing advantage for themselves and instead possibly realizing a loss."
I saw config was identified as an issue. The vanilla config for `debug` is amazing!! It gives me everything I needed from pry
Geekbench for an M1 Pro multi-core is 11643, while the M3 Max (16 core) has a pref of: 21387. That would be a major upgrade so yeah, it is probably worth it of you can afford it.

All stats from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5dBe_rsiNaQATH-D-Pj...
It has nothing to do with the cost of hosting or the technology aspect. Making high quality content, and especially journalistic investigation, is a full time job. It takes a lot of time and effort, as well as some money to do it.

That you can find repeats of the information with Google after somebody has made the time and effort to make it means nothing. The information wouldn't exist at all without the initial effort of somebody, and that person needs to get paid.

> Let's spread the information out more.

Okay, then volunteer your time to make important journalistic investigations.
What? What kind of attachment i have to service provider other than bloody contract?

Do not push 'morals' to the end user of service.

Make a system that enforces companies to not break them in the first place.
Not minifying your code is evil from the viewpoint of people who have to wait for your page to load.
This caught my attention because I'm obsessing about storage performance (again) and have included a kernel build in my benchmarks. I found and followed the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/BuildADebianKernelPackage which were trivially simple.

As an aside, I was astonished that the build took less than 100s. My recollection is that this took about an hour on on my previous system (I7-4770K, 32GB RAM and SATA SSD formatted with ZFS.) New system is Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GB RAM and NVME SSD. I expected a performance boost, but not that much. I'm still wondering what I did wrong/differently.
Since psychology is expressly about dysfunction, it is a reverse survivorship bias no?

And not like anyone who has gone through these situations is going to hang a sign on them that says what they’ve gone through.

All of them I know have been quite successful however, and if you walk into any ICU or Emergency department and randomly sample a nurse or Dr, at least 80% odds you’ll find they have that background if you can get them to talk.

EMT-B or EMT-P, much higher.

The world is a dangerous and scary place many times, for everyone. Chances are, you’d be shocked if you listened to your local EMS/LEO frequencies at how much even within a few miles of where you are sitting.

Most of the time, society is able to put up a facade so there is a chance everyone doesn’t have to experience it too directly or too terribly themselves, so others have a chance to live a different life.

The sick and injured get treated, the bodies get cleaned up, the threats get dealt with quickly and effectively, etc.

The people that do that, can stare it in the eye and deal with it, and that often is because they experienced it and learned how to cope or even thrive. Usually as a child.

Respect for that is more warranted than what you’re doing. They get enough shit as it is.

They can handle it though, they deal with worse every day.
I broadly agree but there needs to be some regulation in place. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
This was premiered last night on YouTube. It showed 20 days of filming in Mariupol and the daily life of the locals which included footage of them being shelled with artillery and their families being killed with shrapnel and debri from the building collapsing and killing their children and family members. It also included the bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital and the pregnant women getting killed by the collapsing building.
On just Sam’s part or all around? Seems like there might be quite a lot of it.

Sam gives me a manipulative vibe but the way he was booted with knives out was also pretty gross. No clue what else was going on behind the scenes.

Edit: if the people who booted him were really doing it in the name of safety paranoia, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t Machiavellian. The motive can be whatever but conspiring to boot someone like that is still a knife in the back.
They are not equivalent - it's pure marketing BS.
That is one of infinite hypotheticals, sure. It could also be that everyone agrees to put some failsafe in the form of EMP weapons in place to destroy a rogue AI - it's all super speculative.
there are other markets for android: from samsung & huawei at least(was it called petal apps?). There's also fdroid. So at least for android it's not that bad
> Why are there so many non technical managers/directors in charge of engineering or IT in Government type jobs?

due to product/program/project managers making a case for themselves to lead these teams. it might work in most of the cases, but clearly does not in engineering intensive projects - because the lens required to look at and deliver these projects is more than input/output, deadlines/deliverables.

understanding the subject is necessary to make smart tradeoffs (common scenario in projects that are as large scale as this one), but few of these folks do.

engineering enterprises that have often become successful owe it in their early days to majority of management having technical expertise. this is not a need once the companies become large, but such attitude does show up as inefficiency holes, if one knows where to look.
My hope is that the brain is basically just a "consciousness" receiver and does not create it. Brain damage results in bad reception, people with schizophrenia receive signals not intended for them, people with alien hand syndrome have their brain split into several receivers and so on.

If that were the case, the body (including the brain) could die but the consciousness could continue to exist.