skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that an EU-issued specific phenomenon?

Not as far as I'm aware. It certainly happens with GBP-issued and having briefly looked at some of the agreements, it happens with various Asian issued cards too.

To clarify:

- If the transaction is in your "home" currency, you get charged in that.
- If the transaction is in USD, you get charged in that.
- Everything else is subject to double-conversion

Example wording below from the GBP card (the last phrase of the last paragraph is the important one). I see they no longer charge double-fees, but you will still loose out on the double currency conversion because there will be a double-spread on there:

If we receive a transaction or refund for processing in a foreign currency, we'll convert it into Pounds Sterling on the date it's processed (which may be different to the date of the transaction or refund).

This means that the exchange rate used may differ from the rate that applied on the date of your transaction or refund. Exchange rate fluctuations can be significant.

If the transaction or refund is in U.S. Dollars, we'll convert it directly into Pounds Sterling. In all other cases, we'll convert it into U.S. Dollars first and then into Pounds Sterling but we'll only charge one non-sterling transaction fee.
Sometimes it’s helpful to take a break from Twitter.

I know the hype algorithms have tech folks convinced they’re locked in a self important battle over the entirety of human destiny.

My guess is we’re going to look back on this in 10 years and it’s all going to be super cringe.

I hate to throw cold water on the party…we’re still talking about a better autocomplete here. And the slippery slope is called a logical fallacy for a reason.
I think I’ve figured out what he’s doing. He knows Twitter is going to flop due to its tremendous debt, dwindling audience and the failure of his paid premium subscription scheme.

But this way, when it happens he gets to blame all of that on “woke corporations“, rather than on himself.
That can't be causuality? Probably people that don't take vaccines are more reckless overall.

'Of course, skipping a COVID vaccine does not mean that someone will get into a car crash. Instead, the authors theorize that people who resist public health recommendations might also “neglect basic road safety guidelines.”'
IMO the problem was the acquisition of Blizzard by Activision.
I agree that MS will be a better steward than Activision who managed to completely ruins Blizzards reputation since the acquisition.
So you basically wish for Wikipedia to also feature simplified explanations of technical topics.

I don't think "good English vs simple english" plays into this.

It's not like the problem for technical articles being impenetratable on Wiki is that Wiki doesn't have an intermediate level between expert-talk and simple english.

It's just that it doesn't have simple english explanations of some technical topics.
one of the concepts we are trying to push is exactly that - my cofounder actually wrote a blog post about it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38086082
Exactly. It sounds like those board members themselves were acting in the interest of profit instead of the "benefit all humanity" mission stuff, no different than Altman. If anything then, the only difference between the two groups is one of time horizon. Altman wants to make money from the technology now. The board wants to wait until it's advanced enough to take over the world, and then take over the world with it. For the world's benefit, of course.
SMIC 7nm doesn’t scale just yet.
Yeah, for me I find inline ruby to be enough for smaller repeated tasks.

$ ruby -e '10.times { puts 1; sleep 1 }'
Oh yeah, it's a lovely camera. And it's so much cheaper than Rolleiflex or Hasselblad.

I bought mine a few years back, 40+ years old, but in mint condition. I bought it from a guy in Virginia so we call the camera just that -- Virginia :)

One of the reasons I looked for a Yashica was that Francesca Woodman used it in her work.
What kind of background check do you think exists when buying a fighter jet?

It’s kind of a moot point since only one F16 exists in civilian hands but you can buy other jets with weapon hardpoints for a million. Under 3 million if you want to go supersonic too. The cheapest fighter jet is on the order of $250k. There’s zero background check.
Yeah. I think the most realistically-achievable positive outcome is that Microsoft is forced to give up their new board-observer seat, which seems highly improper for them to have since the board they are observing is supposed to make decisions that benefit all of humanity equally. If Microsoft gets to have a fly on the wall in those discussions, it gives them a gold mine of juicy insider knowledge about which sectors of the economy are about to be affected next by Generative AI — knowledge which they can use to front-run the market by steering the roadmaps of Bing, MS Office, etc. so as to benefit from upcoming OpenAI product launches before any non-insiders are aware of what OpenAI is currently planning.

Microsoft plainly shouldn't be allowed to have this advantage, in that giving an advantage to any one party directly harms the mandate set forth in OpenAI's Charter:

Broadly distributed benefits

We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.

https://openai.com/charter

It certainly seems that Microsoft, a "stakeholder", has managed to get a highly improper listening seat that will give them the ability to act on insider information about what's coming next in AI, allowing Microsoft to front-run the rest of the AI software industry and all those industries it affects, in a way that will plainly "compromise broad benefit". (Since any wealth that accrues excessively to Microsoft shareholders is not distributed to other humans who don't hold Microsoft shares.)

A mere 10 days ago, Nadella was shamelessly throwing his weight around on national TV, by appearing on CNBC where he improperly pressured the OpenAI non-profit board — which owes nothing to him legally or morally — to give him more deference, in direct violation of the "always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit" provision of the OpenAI non-profit charter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-o...
Can Herbie also look at expressions that are part of summing floating point numbers, or similar operations, to minimize the error of doing so?
What makes this hard to read/follow is the grandiose moral vision... and the various levels of credulity it's met with.

If it's words from Ilya, Sam, the board... the words are all about alignment, benefiting humanity and such.

Meanwhile, all parties involved are super serious tycoons who are super serious about riding the AI wave, establishing moats, monopolies and the next AdWords, azure, etc.

These are such extreme opposite vocabularies that it's just hard to bridge. It's two conversations happening under totally different assumptions and everyone assumes at least someone is being totally disingenuous.

Meanwhile, "AI alignment" is such a charismatic topic. Meanwhile, the less futuristic but more applicable, "alignment questions" are about the alignment of msft, openai, other investors and consortium members.

If Ilya, Sam or any of them are actually worried about si alignment... They should at least give credence to the idea that we're all worried about their human alignment.
> A lot of their designs started out stolen or cloned from the West

This is also called learning by doing. This is how skill and expertise is most efficiently developed in the very beginning.

This trope of assuming that copying is inherently valueless or devoid of creativity or innovation is simply wrong, and comes from an implicit assumption of superiority of the self.

They may not innovate as much as you expect now. But they are building a foundation for future innovation.

Also: Huawei is still leader in 5G technology, with the best products. You should look at their patents, they own the majority of 5G patents.
Canada offers limited outsourcing opportunities from the US perspective. Population is only a bit over one tenth of the US and there is already a significant brain drain to the US due to higher salaries and ease of moving. Canada also has strict labor regulations and a "union problem" which aren't very appealing to US companies. The UK suffers from similar problems on top of the timezone issue.

The company where I work has an office in both of these countries, but they only have a fraction of the US-based employees (and not growing in either). Most of the growth in the company is happening in the cheaper parts of the US instead.
On a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10, I made it executable (`chmod +x llamafile`) and it worked just like that. After installing `nvidia-cuda-toolkit` it also worked with my GPU. So far the most seamless method I've tried.
In both of your examples, the result of "immoral inputs" is immediate tangible harm. In case of GPT-4 or any other LLM, it's merely "immoral output" - i.e. text. It does not harm anyone by itself.
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While saying nothing about the quality of their games or the decline thereof, Blizzard did a perfectly good job torching their reputation themselves when the report of their insane and inappropriate office antics was made public.
There has been nearly a century of scholarship now about how there may never have been a Homer, and therefore he couldn’t have had students. Even if there was a Homer and he had students, that immediate generation after Homer may still have been a purely oral one, and the text was not committed then to writing.

In any event, as much as poetry remained a matter of live recital, by the Hellenic period there was certainly plenty of prose that was read by connoisseurs, not performed before an audience.
We absolutely do, though, if we want those things to e.g. write books and scripts in which characters behave immorally.
> This on top of now most software engineers are using AI Copilot and ChatGPT in their work which means that most quotes and salaries look very overpriced.

So, why don't you use these services and do the work yourself then?
> Very original

It's a copy of someone else doing exactly the same thing (2 layers of breakout played by moving window) but in C++ (which the author credits) both years before the following. Although the general concept of having games creatively use windows is probably much older. I assume it showed up now because of recent trend of people rediscovering that this concept works in (some) browsers and making various non breakout variations of it of it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413660
He had to say it at least because everyone else was expecting some resentment.
I'd rather not work at all than work for that complete disaster of a corporate environment. The corpo speak in Callahan's note at the end is simply infuriating. Don't know how these people can lie and mislead with a straight face and sleep at night.
You missed the ~

The full path would be /home/user/.local/bin
I read the README but I'm not understanding yet why the return path might be what you want. The stack trace at error creation sounds more useful.
While doing these code things are fine, is the reuse of the name ok? That's what I would be concerned about.
Adobe isn't a monopoly it is simply domainant. Consumers have a choice to use other alternatives.

How does this "hinder the growth of human development"
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Around age 70, https://web.archive.org/web/20210307035012/http://www.paul-l...

> This winter I'm just going to do a math course. I'm doing a three-unit, as opposed to five-unit course on infinity, which I've never done before. I'm planning to study like crazy. It's for non-math majors. I'm trying to bring in the fact that infinity is when things get complicated. In calculus, algebra, probability, geometry, everything, so I'm trying to learn things like how perspective drawing uses infinity. So that'll take me three months. They won't appreciate it, but I will. I'll have fun with it. I've been teaching a course for non-mathematicians for years, and a lot of the stuff has already been covered there.

1997 math lecture performance (13m), including "That's Mathematics" for kids, https://archive.org/details/lehrer/lehrer_high.wmv
Also if pips are constant it will just create a nasty culture which is very hard to turn back.
Adobe is a horrible company, and Figma is terrible software. They deserve each other.
We weren't designed for anything. We take metal from ore and make metals which we shape and make thin to cut other apes in some cases to make them better even.

They're good apes brant
Given that their own implementation of curl itself answers with "curl : The remote name could not be resolved: '--help'" just for trying to figure out how to use the damn thing, I wouldn't count on XCurl to be implemented with any degree of competence either.
(std::map is famously rubbish, to the extent that a common code review fix is to replace it with std::unordered_map. Map is a tree, unordered map is a linked-list-collision hashtable. Both are something of a performance embarrassment for C++. So std::map outperforming a given hashtable is a strongly negative judgement)
You received two quotes and you assess US developers are 16x more expensive than European developers? I assess your venture is not likely to succeed.
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In the warehouses...well, nobody else is hiring those kinds of headcounts. And few of the people taking those jobs are in any position to be picky.

For the high-skill stuff...I'd say that social status is a big part of it, especially for the young. "I program computers at Amazon" gets instant recognition from everyone. Vs. "I program computers at {little company that treats its employees well}" gets "who's that?".
Zoom has a very similar feature which I would also assume is implemented like this.
I just tried asking it a question:

> User: What is the third planet from the sun?

> Llama: The third planet from the sun is called Mars.
> the words are all about alignment, benefiting humanity and such.

that's why you only consider the actions taken, not the words spoken.

And in fact, i fail to believe that there are any real altruists out there. Esp. not rich ones. After all, if they're really altruistic, they would've given all their wealth away - before their supposed death (and even then, i doubt the money given to their "charitable foundations" count for real!).
You're taking the "fuck you" out of context, blackmail is the keyword here.

> "If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself,"
What a myth.

You probably live in a cramped 60 sq.m. rented apartment, whilst your American counterpart lives in a mansion house in the suburbs of a major city.

You ride the public transport to work and your counterpart drives his luxury SUV.
Exactly. Most people are not in that situation and therefore cannot threaten to leave so easily.
> But I had a huge stock investment coming up. So there was no way I was going to rock the boat in any way, shape, or form just trying to get to this date.

So the employer has a financial inventive program to encourage people to stay in the organization long term, and some hyper-rational VP repurposes that reward as a kind of tenure cliff forcing people out just ahead of it? All the pieces are in the article, just waiting for folks to put them together.

If you're someone considering moving to a company that aggressively uses "performance management" like this ... the target of this system is you, not because you're bad at you're job but because you're new. The human toll of people in positions of trust essentially gaslighting their colleagues about their performance to confiscate special comp or satisfy the gods of analytics.... Deeply misanthropic.
Same Linux/Firefox experience here, and I'm on Wayland, which I have a feeling might be relevant.

Edit: also GNOME 45
And what is it you do to survive?

And when you're done doing whatever it is that is, do you go home to your home, your stable, if you like, to sleep and eat?

Are you truly so different from a horse in the scheme of things just because you spend a portion of your free time staring at a mobile phone?
59 eurobucks *EVERY YEAR* to use a free program (git). Not to mention it doesn't support what git was written for (linux).
Sure.

But this precise story is unfortunately pretty common in any big company (worldwide).

As soon as the company starts to treat its workforce like a blob of anonymous replaceable "ressources" that you can scale up or down according to your finances, this starts to happen inevitably. Most of the time, they even manage to create enough layers in those process so that most of the people involved think they are not responsible and that they do the right thing.

You want to be able to fire thousands of employees for no reason so you have to find reasons, and all you know about them is some vague impression of their own management / team that is somehow translated into some arbitrary number and then you sort people by that. What could go wrong ?
My take is that the board probably never had a chance no matter what they said or did. The company already "belonged" to Altman and Microsoft. The board was just there for virtue signaling and for quite a while already had no real power anymore beyond a small threat of creating bad publicity.
So freedom of choice under a capitalist system that has supported him immensely is now something to be judged by "earth".
> [Jean-Noël Barrot, French digital minister]: «My team and I have been using it since July 2022. In December, the entire government will be using [Olvid], the world's most secure instant messaging system» ... // Tchap, the government-developed secure messaging and collaboration app, launched in 2019, is also allowed

The first question is, how can the rest of the public be sure that those two new systems indicated are free from backdoors.

Olvid was briefly discussed by the community apparently only at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779230 two years ago.

Tchap was examined in 2019 at https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tchap-the-super-not-secure-app-...
This is something like "don't be passionate" according to the book "Ego is the Enemy."

This is like disassociating your sense of identity or ego from your opinions/thoughts according to Eckhart Tolle.

This is something like being "aware" or "being an observer" of yourself according to Zens.

This is something like "stillness" according to stoics.

Congratulations! You've unlocked your "deeper self" :D
OK let's look at one of those quotes:

The main answer to the paradox of “how does he succeed while making so many bad decisions?” is that he’s the most focused person in the world. When he decides to do something, he comes up with an absurdly optimistic timeline for how quickly it can happen if everything goes as well as the laws of physics allow. He - I think the book provides ample evidence for this - genuinely believes this timeline, or at least half-believingly wills for it to be true. Then, when things go less quickly than that, it’s like red-hot knives stabbing his brain. He gets obsessed, screams at everyone involved, puts in twenty hour days for months on end trying to try to get the project “back on track”.

This is from a person who has failed to understand that most of what Elno says e.g. at those big Tesla day events is just baits for his followers and baits for investors. He's regularly promising the impossible. He's a confidence artist a.k.a. con man a.k.a. notorious liar, someone who lures people into giving him money in exchange for things he'll likely never deliver, and if and when he delivers, it's rather too late, too little. He's done that countless times with e.g. the Tesla semi, including his ~2017 assertion "this is something we can do now, right now". He could not do it then and he hasn't done it since. This is just one example. He feels entitled to say like anything he feels he can get away with and gets mad if his minions don't manage to get it done. This guy's a fraud in and out.
Those are not the same.

You can see cache usage in htop; it has a different colour.

With MADV_FREE, it looks like the process is still using the memory.

That sucks: If you have some server that's slow, you want to SSH into a server and see how much memory each process takes. That's a basic, and good, observability workflow. Memory leaks exist, and tools should show them easily.

The point of RES is to show resident memory, not something else.

If you change htop to show the correct memory, that'd fix the issue of course.
This. For skilled workers, it's still a lot of money if you can't get a job at the other FAANG companies. In the few miserable years you'll be there, you can make a lot of progress towards buying/paying off a house, for instance. If you have a thick skin to not care about a PIP and just shrug off the nonsense, it might be a really good deal.
Diablo II (the one I know), generates maps procedurally. However, the quests, weapon categories, general story, are all the same for each run. I'm talking about taking this concept up a notch. At the very least, have a new story for each run or player.
Please ask the people of Laos to "understand how it happened". A country where thousands have died after they were bombed to hell and back because of the unexploded bombs which still makes farming unviable. I don't need to understand the "how" because there is no "how" beyond imperialism which I understand perfectly well enough. There's no complex morality here

People here should really stop pretending that reading "both sides" of everything is some form of enlightenment. It is delusional
He has said that he's fine with running the company at-cost, and that profit is not the primary goal. His actions have been internally consistent with this statement.
Disagreeing is fine but myth is an odd word to choose since I live it in 2023. For reference, I'm from Los Angeles, moved to EU and can attest to this.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guess you mean on the desktop? If this thing runs linux, it is as serious as everything that can run Linux.
This is absolutely wonderful! I didn't think it would work with my setup (bspwm and Firefox 115), but it did. I consider myself pretty good with these kinds of games, but this really does take Breakout to a new dimension, with a difficulty to match!
I had a similar idea using two windows for a game.
One large window with an overview map and a popup window you can move around as a magnifying lens that shows details and lets you interact.

However, I never tried implementing it.