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Thread by sawaba on the MS breach and the CSRB report
>earthquake I felt in NYC

I am getting anxious just thinking about this. With all those sky scrappers..
I was in love with SGI when I was an undergraduate just over the hill at UC Santa Cruz in the early to mid 90s. Everything about the machines from their industrial designed cases but wonderfully colorful cases, and the sexy desktop OS ("This is UNIX. I know this!") and the way IrisGL rendered molecular graphics.

Driving to a Phish show at Shoreline, we passed the low-slung office buildings of SGI which seemed like the sexiest place to work. When I graduated, I thought I was "too dumb in CS" to get a job in Mountain View and went to grad school in biophysics instead.

By the time I was a few years into grad school, I worked in a computer graphics lab outfitted with Reality Monsters and Octanes and other high end SGIs (when you maxxed out an SGI's graphics and RAM, they were really fast). I was porting molecular graphics code to Linux using Mesa (much to the derision of the SGI fans in the lab). When we got a FireGL2 card it had a linux driver and could do reasonable molecular graphics in real time and the SGI folks looked real scared (especially because the SGI Visual Workstation had just come out and was a very expensive turkey).

Less than a decade after that I was working in those very buildings for Google. Google took over SGI's old HQ (Jeff Dean told me there was a period where Google and SGI overlapped in the GooglePlex and the SGI folks looked very sad as they paid for their lunches and teh googlers got free food). There was still plenty of SGI signage strewn about. And now Google has gone dumb and also built their own HQ next door (note the correlation between large SV companies building overly fancy HQs and then going out of business).

Such is the cycle of sexy tech.
"at this point" being the last 6 months, I'd assume?
I think it’s horrifying, instead of neat. We are social animals that need contact with each other. No amount of textual, voice, or video communication can replace real human interaction in person.

> That is, assuming you're introverted enough that zero human interaction doesn't affect your mental health.

There are zero people who fit this description, sorry. Anyone who claims not to be affected by loneliness is lying.
I didn’t read that part as saying “they’re not doing these things at all”, just that they’re not staying home them specifically to do them… they’re not “employed” as a “homemaker”, they are working from home. Unclear if you read it this way or are just commenting that you do more of those and you used to, several sibling comments seem to take, from your comment or the article, that this was a focus, and I don’t think it was?
How are you supposed to trust "journalism" from a text generator that hallucinates? The information ecosystem is bad enough without running it through a text blender that's already hitting compute, power and data limits.
Underrated comment. So many orgs seem to spend a lot of time and effort on DX that makes onboarding, building, and deploying new software packages fast. But in most cases getting these pipelines set up was never a bottleneck, and automating their creation is a nearly NP-complete problem.

I think the reasoning behind these efforts is twofold: first, devops empire builders that mistake this for a good metric, and leadership that thinks it might let them get rid of ops ppl.
It's easy to forget in modern society, but in tribal society the elders were fountains of wisdom. When computers, reference materials, technical documents, libraries, school systems, etc don't exist, the value of lived experience goes through the roof.

Being able to consult the elders when the group faces perplexing problems (who may have lived through something similar, or at least heard stories from the recently deceased generations who have) might mean the difference between between 20% of the population starving and no one starving.
Good read. I find myself doing a lot of these too.
Just a question, why do you guys want sn unopinionated media server? I love that I click some buttons in jellyfin and it just does it's thing, I don't have to think of my own structure
Oh I totally missed that, thanks for making me aware of it.

Edit: Oh wow, I totally missed the rate limiter thing as well. Just last week I was implementing my own using DO. It's great to see this developments.
When you describe something as archetypal, you basically admit it had very large impact. Similar to Tolkien being archetypal fantasy. Does not help your argument, really.
> How can you call someone a good person

I know the guy.

> if they literally hired then fired people?

If hiring and firing is inherently wrong then I guess all founders are bad?
Looks like there's a kyoo.apk in the latest release, and I see the source in the 'front' directory. I see IOS stuff in the config in there, too.
There’s nothing wrong with that phrase, and it’s definitely not “wrong”.
Well, wait, the Amiga had preemptive multitasking way before Apple or Windows got it, like the mid 80s. I don't think Windows got it until Windows NT, and it didn't become mainstream until Windows 95. Macs had bizarre cooperative multitasking that would freeze if you just thought it about it funny [1] all the way until OS X.

There's other stuff too; they had better color graphics in the 80s while DOS was still dealing with CGA and EGA, and decent sound hardware. Even by 1990, the video toaster was released, well before it got any port to DOS.

[1] I'm sure it got better, my first exposure to it was System 7 and that thing was an unholy mess. I didn't touch macOS again until OS X.
Nope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...
Google Considers Acquiring Hubspot
The simple trick is sort the respective columns one after the other, starting with the least significant one. E.g. if you want to sort by columns A, B, and C, first sort by C, then sort by B, then sort by A. If the sort is stable (which it should be), this will result in the desired multi-column-sorted state.

Of course, this isn’t intuitive in the sense of being self-evident, but once you know this method, it basically works almost everywhere.
It really was a letdown when Rackable resurrected SGI and then brought about that ... thing of a logo. It just felt it hollowed out the brand even more, even if SGI itself was still making some interesting hardware at the time-namely the Altix 4700, UV and ICE, the soul just wasn't there anymore.
I did not have perception, that Youtube’s Premium offering drives people off.

For me it was the default option once it appeared, because it allows not get bothered and get the content I came for instead of ads coming each five minutes in some really greedy edits.

Interesting take, thank you.
Considering the aftershocks are way less intense, probably not. I've felt 2 now, last one was just a few minutes ago, parents confirmed (they are about same distance from epicenter but I'm northwest, they are southeast of it)

EDIT: waiting for usgs to update with latest but here's all the ones associated with event https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...
I prefer extortion, the X makes it sound cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE
> Amiga was only better 1985-1988. By 1987 PC and Mac caught up and never looked back.

Oh indubitably! I don't think even the most committed Amiga fan, even the ones that speculate about alternate histories, would deny that at all.

The thing is, though, that only happened because Commodore essentially decided that since it had so much of a head start, it could just rest on its laurels and not really innovate or improve anything substantially, instead of constantly pushing forward like all of its competitors would do, and so eventually the linear or even exponential curve of other hardware manufacturers' improvements outpaced its essentially flat improvement curve. So it doesn't seem like IBM PCs and eventually even Macs outpacing the power of Amiga Hardware was inevitable or inherent from the start.

If they had instead continued to push their lead — actually stuck with the advanced Amiga chips that they were working on before it was canceled and replaced with ECS for instance — I certainly see the possibility of them keeping up with other hardware, and eventually transitioning to 3D acceleration chips instead of 2D acceleration chips when that happened in the console world, eventually perhaps even leading to the Amiga line being the first workstation line to have the gpus, and further cementing their lead, while maintaining everything that made Amiga great.

Speculating even further, as we are seeing currently with the Apple M-series having a computer architecture that is composed of a ton of custom made special purpose chips is actually an extremely effective way of doing things; what if Amiga still existed in this day and age and had a head start in that direction, a platform with a history of being extremely open and well documented and extensible being the first to do this kind of architecture, instead of it being Apple?

Of course there may have been fundamental technical flaws with the Amiga approach that made it unable to keep up with other hardware even if Commodore had had the will; I have seen some decent arguments to that effect, namely that since it was using custom vendor-specific hardware instead of commodity hardware that was used by everyone, they couldn't take advantage of the cross-vendor compatibility like IBM PCs, could and also couldn't take advantage of economies of scale like Intel could, but who knows!
Well, luckily for me, the new Outlook is a crappy web app that replaced my perfectly good Windows Calendar, which is accessible with my screen reader and starts in an instant, with .. this web app junk that's worse than Discord and Slack and Element combined. So I don't use that.
Just upgraded my small homeserver

sysupgrade; sysmerge; pkg_add -u;

Done! What a delight!
Who'd have thought that thought-crime would take the shape of interaction with a statistics-driven text generator about "the wrong subjects?"
It’s hypnotic writing in the style of Yudkowsky, Ron Hubbard or supplement scam videos on YouTube. On one hand it is pretending to be thinking rationally about things but with a heavy dose of fantasy mixed in that can put readers in a muddled mental state. They drone on and on and on so that you either give up reading it or go into a trance.
Sim City "Disaster" menu items
EPA warns about danger of weed killer used on farms, golf courses
I have to imagine the valuable training data is domain specific stuff like sales call recordings for specific industries and technical materials about specific topics owned by companies. Surely there is enough public or copyright free general purpose material.
The pilot is likely the only one in this list that might face some consequences prior to an incident. The rest would only come out after the lawsuits start.
Well not really that modern and certainly the other side of the wholesome spectrum, Margaret Atwood is in the same sphere IMO as the other authors I mentioned.

Also as I mentioned elsewhere I love Ian M Banks' Culture series.

I would love to find other authors like Becky Chambers shes got great prose and is a great antidote to the pessimism of lots of other fiction I read.
But a real Limey would never say "Y'all", so we don't believe you.
Back in 1993, I was in college and working for the extended education department running their all their computer infrastructure.

One day, someone wheeled this approx. 3x3 foot sized box to my door and asked me if I wanted it. It was a SGI Onyx with a giant monitor sitting on top, with a keyboard and mouse.

I plugged it in and it sounded like an airplane taking off. It immediately heated up my entire tiny office. It was the 4th Unix I had ever played with (Ultrix, NeXT and A/UX were previous ones). It had some cool games on it, but beyond that, at the time, I had no use for it because A/UX on my Quadra950, was so much more fun to play with.

I don't even think I ever opened it up to look at it. I don't know what I was thinking. lol.

After realizing it did not have much going for it, I ended up just turning it on when the office was cold and using it as a foot rest.

Oh yea, found a video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA
I worked at Google from 2013 to 2020. There were definitely employees (maybe a majority) who assumed that Google would always be the dominant force in technology. Those of us who were a bit older always understood that everything changes in Silicon Valley.

Those buildings represented that change to me. I can remember coming to concerts at the Shoreline in the 90s and looking at those Silicon Graphics buildings: they looked so cool, and they represented the cutting edge of technology (at the time). And yet...it all disappeared.

Same goes for the Sun campus which is where Meta/Facebook is now. Famously, the Facebook entrance sign is literally the same old Sun sign, just turned around! [0]

So I always cautioned co-workers: this too, shall pass. Even Google.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back...
Input validation bug on the frontend app - resolved it, sorry - thanks!
Directory Report has a 64bit version so that you can scan millions of files without running out of memory
> does differently from all the others

You can tell Emby and Jellyfin to direct play. Pretty sure Plex has that option, but I've not used it in a few years so could be that changed.
Fecal Bacteria Transplant May Improve Parkinson's Symptoms in Humans
They might pee in a bush again?
Yes, what the hell! It's so good. One of the rare writings that's extremely insightful while being an absolute pleasure to read.
I agree that these machines and their OS were too proprietary and
over-engineered to weather the PC revolution. But when I think back to
my days using Suns and SG (Indigo) the memory feels like driving a
Rolls Royce or Daimler with leather seats and walnut panels.
Yeah, if this type annotations proposal gets to higher stages I expect the associated ES target to get far more strict warnings/errors on those features.

Though I'd suggest that the Typescript team also doesn't seem to be waiting on that to try to deprecate them, either. They've made it somewhat clear that the only reason enums and namespaces survive is a commitment to deep backward compatibility (both go all the way back to 1.0) and are neither features that they would add today (without waiting on TC-39 proposals for those features in JS first). As an interesting side note: up until very recent versions the Typescript code base itself was one the biggest users of both enums and namespaces. (They managed to finally do a lot of namespace removal in the very recent ESM rewrite. I haven't checked where they are at in enum removal.) It is always fascinating to me how important backward compatibility can be when you bootstrap your compiler in its own language.
the irony. im surprised how businesses built on selling google search results is allowed to exist. i guess for the same reason google scraping the internet and building a product on top of it is allowed.

then it only makes sense scraped AI training data is also going to be tolerated because you would need to reproduce a large language model like ChatGPT using your copyrighted content can produce a similar derivative of your copyrighted content by doing forensic analysis.

its such an uphill battle for copyright holders. They need to replicate: copyrighted input ---> LM similar to ChatGPT4 ---> copyrighted output

So far its not looking good for OpenAI because its possible to generate copyrighted output (type spiderman in czech) so all that remains is demonstrating the middle layer (training it on LM similar to ChatGPT4) but that is unrealistically expensive.

I have theory that all this money spent on large models is to make it impossible for discovery (as it would require access to $100 billion GPUs)
Jordan Mechner vs. the sands of time
I've only suspected it twice. I take this as a sign that I'm pretty good at curating my web feeds. I'm not sure that those two instances were really AI generated, or were just poor writing, but I removed those sites from my feed anyway.
The article doesn't mention the reason for the fall: less good but cheaper competitors. First Sun, then Windows NT and Linux.
> The readiness is sent too early

What makes you say that? The readiness notification is sent after the sshd has opened the listen socket, it literally is accepting connections at that point.
The reason SGI failed, and eventually Sun too, isn't because the world "chose wrong", but because their performance simply did not keep up with x86.

When these RISC-based workstations were initially released their performance, especially at graphics, was well beyond what a PC could do, and justified their high prices. A "workstation" was in a class by itself, and helped establish the RISC mystique.

However, eventually Intel caught up with the performance, at a lower price, and that was pretty much the end. Sun lived on for a while based on their OS and software ecosystem, but eventually that was not enough especially with the advent of Linux, GCC, etc, as a free alternative.
Don't overestimate them either, there's a single developed dictatorship on earth and it's the city state of Singapore.

There's some good reasons behind that and I have a feeling they are discovering some of those paradox at the moment.
This is a github issue to discuss this topic, not a breaking change.
They're more interested in eliminating jobs than creating them.
> With SGI/Sun you were very much completely locked in to their hardware/software ecosystem and completely at the mercy of their pricing.

How is that in anyway different from Apple today with it's ARM SoCs, soldered SSDs and an OS that requires "entitlements" from Apple to "unlock" features and develop on?
> Why not go even further? Itemize the marginal cost of maintaining your property's parking lot for those customers who visit your business by car?

Aka... charge for parking? I mean? This is pretty common? I've always found it annoying that stores will validate parking for motorists but if I choose to take public transit or bikeshare, I don't get any corresponding debate.
The same benefit doesn’t exist for ChatGPT as Google because Google means people click on your site and you get ad revenue. Google even facilitates this in both directions with search ads and as an ad service you can get paid from for hosting ads. The ROM site DMCA thing was always BS lmao it’s completely legal for you to dump your own carts and use them in emulators but that freedom doesn’t extend to having a copy of someone else’s game cart. That’s just an intentional misunderstanding of the DMCA in a futile attempt to not get banned
Yeah, but if every project, no matter how small, required you to spin up and maintain a full Postgres install, surely you'd start thinking, there has to be something easier than this...

The problem with Git is the same kind of problem Excel has: everyone can (correctly) claim to only use 20% of its features, thus everyone can say "Git is too complex!". But the problem is that everyone uses a different 20% of Git; Git is the union of the solutions to lots of different problems.
That seems very counter-intuitive. Energy usually comes from a difference between two things. How could there be uniform energy everywhere? It's paradoxical.
I spent a large part of my childhood as a somewhat obsessive SW fan and read a lot of EU books.

Disney alienated entire fandom to appease people who were never really into it and didn’t win enough to cover the cost. Good luck with that, I will be patiently waiting for EU revival. AI might bring a lot of indie productions in the area :)
The big exception here is that SGI took IrisGL and made it into OpenGL which as a standard lasted far longer than SGI. And OpenGL played a critical role preventing MSFT from taking over the 3D graphics market with Direct3D.
I should have said “attempt to reform”, it’s one of the many follies of youth that habits change in a day.

It’s actually pretty recently that I’ve really started to recognize the gravity of this forum, how much scope there is for causing harm or precipitating healthy change: HN is in a sense a sort of “swing state” in the conversation. It’s a small community in numbers on a national or global scale, but is overrepresented in influential posts in technology, the sciences, and the generally “logic motivated” posts in society.

I really am sorry that it’s been such an uneven outcome for so many of the intervening 15 years since I wrote that. I should have started forming a coherent worldview, analyzing its ethical implications, and attempting to master my own worst instincts in the sense of translating that into a compelling argument and actionable “policy platform” in terms of how I write on the Internet.

And in a sense I really owe a debt of gratitude in a perverse way to a set of people and institutions that represent such a clear and present danger to the legacy of the Enlightenment to galvanize me into beginning to get organized around what I believe in and expressing that effectively.

I’m still an awfully small fish to merit a 16-year post history in a kind of tinker-toy opposition research commensurate with my tinker-toy influence.

That’s a lot of effort even with modern automation for a guy who is basically a nobody with an opinion.

Absent automation it wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time, and in either case, I’m really curious to know what induced you to spend yours on that?
Perplexity is already looking to include ads. Free is a hook to get users invested before they trap them and extract all the value for themselves.
The Guardian article on this had quotes from the "operators" involved. They don't question or examine any of the output just hit approve.

The only apparent operator act that seems to be something they are involved in is turning the dial up or down to get more or less "hits". Depressingly this appears to be related to superiors shouting at them as they don't have enough targets.

It's absolutely sickening.
That's the beauty of the system we have. Your data can be routinely used against you and you'll never be told about it.

Your health insurance company can buy up records from a data broker that show you've been spending 6% more time at fast food restaurants compared to last year and they can use that to raise your rates, but they'll never tell you that was the reason, you'll just have a higher bill than before

An employer can pass you over for a job you've applied to because you wrote something on a social media site 12 years ago that offended their political ideology, but you'll never know that was why, you'll just never get a call back.

If you get arrested, you could be denied bail because some AI decided you were a flight risk or more likely to reoffend if released, but no one will be able to tell you what made the AI decide that and you may not even be told an AI was used to make that choice.

As our lives become increasingly interconnected and recorded and analyzed it becomes extremely difficult for you to be aware of how or why your data is impacting your life, but it would be a huge mistake to assume that it isn't.
> We never used them.

When I was in high school we had a lab full of SGI machines. They also never got used. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of computing equipment, and probably that much again in software licenses (at the commercial rate), just sitting there doing nothing. It was heartbreaking.

On a happy note, the SGI bus (a semi-trailer full of SGI machines demoing their capabilities) came to school one time. As a teenage nerd, getting to play with a refrigerator-sized Onyx2 was a good day.