skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, thanks for the conatructive tone. Every day I am astonished that people directly impacted—whose friends died and might have been sexually abused on 7.10 and people whose families have been blown to pieces by aerial bombardment—somehow still manage to be more reasonable (on occasion) than many of their supporters in the West.

Second, I am not sure that this is a ‘small’ minority. Even ignoring the Channel 14 polls (which do seem to be made up) the current coalition is on about 50 seats (looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_I...). And then I am not really convinced that Sa’ar or Lieberman would really be opposed to this specific action, which would make a majority. For that matter, I saw one poll saying a Sa’ar+Cohen+Bennett tie-up would hit a whole thirty-two seats and reduce the Likud to twelve (that's the one labelled ‘Merger of Gideon Sa'ar, Naftali Bennett and Yossi Cohen & Labor and Meretz under Yair Golan’…) Admittedly maybe Lieberman would say that it’s stupid but that’s different from saying it’s disgraceful.
How is that relevant? You understood the context and instead choose to focus on the misspell.
BizBuySell. However, according to my broker, most business sales never make it to market. It's mostly through email lists and connections.
That article kind of misses the premise of its own headline.

90% of the article is the usual discussion about working from home: Are employers more or less productive, cultural changes after COVID, managers reasons for RTO, etc

But all of these don't answer the why of the actual key observation:

"...they are losing experienced managers and top performers at disproportionate rates"

Why disproportionate? There could be many reasons, but there is surely an obvious one:

"You can force employees back to the office, but not the good ones "

And why is that so? Because you're less likely to force a good employee than a bad employee to do something, simply because the bad employee has less opportunities to leave your company.

The more interesting question would have been, whether there is actually a disproportionate amount of good employees, which wanted to work from home and therefore left, or only a disproportionate amount of good employees, which were able to leave (which is naturally always the case).
You're recommending that OP uses an abstraction over the system. It takes their X problem and makes it a Y problem instead (because they won't learn systems that way)!
Yeah it’s absolutely weird. The board is supposed to be the top governing body - they need sight of future plans. And if something changes in middle of quarter then at a minimum a mail or phone call as a heads up.

They probably didn’t expect quite that big of a reaction sure but hard to believe they didn’t know at all that it would be important.
That's a bad faith take which doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Amazon customer service is shit. My wife is currently on the fifth round of disputing a charge for a product that Amazon itself asked us to dispose rather than returning it; this after trying to get them to ship the correct product four times (and every time they shipped the wrong one), before she finally gave up and just asked to do a return.

Amazon product quality is shit. Fakes are prevalent, half of reviews are fake these days, sellers use blatant fraud such as swapping one item listing for something completely different while retaining the existing collection of 5-star reviews etc.

But meanwhile Amazon's sheer size and monopolistic practices (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...) mean that alternative choices are often simply not available.

And then that market dominance is itself built on large-scale abuse of its workforce. Which is to say, people who are my neighbors.

Ironically, I used to be a hardcore right libertarian; ancap, even. I just couldn't do it anymore because none of it was possible to reconcile with day-to-day observations. I still believe that free markets are good for the people overall. I just don't see any free markets when I look at capitalism. For a market to be truly free and competitive, there must be a balance of power between the players. We don't have anything even remotely like that - not between capital and labor, and not between large and small capital.
The board is working with the assumption the CEO isn’t a liar. Altman is a classic sociopath, a T-1000 to Musk’s clunky T-800.

OpenAI is fated to implode in scandal. His 7 trillion dollar funding round ambition is a blaring siren to anyone with a working brain that he’s out of control and capable of doing real damage. He wants a sum of money that could crash the world economy. He thinks he should have the power of the world’s most powerful government. Solely dictated by his whim. He makes Napoleon and Hitler look like pikers.

He is Musk in 2016, when some of us knew who he was, and the fans were still enthralled.

You will look back and say “No one knew” and this comment will be there. We knew.

Musk will end up the Bush to his Trump. We will fondly recall the crimes of a guy who just wasn’t as bad as what followed. Why do you think Musk hates him so much? He’s a better Musk than Musk. He’s the guy who took OpenAI out from under him. It’s envy.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
"Selective auditory attention is a normal sensory process of the brain, and there can be abnormalities related to this process in people with sensory processing disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder,[30] post traumatic stress disorder,[31] schizophrenia,[30] selective mutism,[32] and in stand-alone auditory processing disorders.[33]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_auditory_attention
The software portion of this has a common real-world use case: keyword spotting (voice command) in interactive phone calls.
That seems offensive.
> "commute helps clear the mind / switch context", but a simple walk does the same

Fully agree. In an ideal world, the commute would _be_ a walk to the office.

More realistically: for those who happen to live in an environment that allows them to commute by foot or by bicycle, working in the office is already much more appealing than for others.
Do you consider the occupation of Palestinian territory previous to Oct 7th to be major conflict?
> Meanwhile, I hope the trend of playing louder and louder music in cafes, restaurants and bars dies out.

I don't hold out much hope because as far as I can tell it's done to make everyone "shut up and drink". I could believe it adds at least 50% to sales because when you can't hear a word anyone says, all you can do is smile and nod and take a swig. And if the place is already full anyway, they don't care if you leave, you'll be replaced. What matters is whoever is in there taking up a space is drinking as fast as possible.

Of course, people who get substantially drunk (which is to say, customers who spend) also don't care because they're not really listening closely or making conversational sense anyway and their pain tolerance is way up, so it's just a good time to them.

Even more cynically, it also keeps the place "cool" because all the old, past-it fogeys like me don't even bother going in. From this sample of one, someone who thinks the music is too loud is un-hip, isn't adding to any hookup appeal (either not in the market or pushing the creepy end of the age range) and won't even spend much because they can't get really hammered because the hangover will take them out for two days and they can't afford to lose a weekend.
Are there any similar projects written in NextJS ?
My previous laptop was a $180 Thinkpad that stayed with me for five years. The claim that _most_ IT workers can't afford that and are forced to do their private stuff on a company computer sounds preposterous.
That's one of the more popular arguments but not the only one. When WFH, i have enormous freedom of arranging tasks they way I want them executed and it works marvels for my productivity. When I want to go out on my bike for 20 minutes, I do so, and excellent ideas come to my mind them.

There is simply no amount of money that would force me back to the office. I routinely pass on job offers where they demand "just two days a week in the office".
That exactly what it's called. That was my example. What do you want exactly?
Can we stop allowing the richest billionaires in societies decide who is and isn't deserving of philanthropic funds?

Fair taxation and properly funded services paid for by directly elected governments, please.
And yet Shotwell didn't create SpaceX, define its mission, establish its products, create Starlink or recruit the core team. Musk did all of that and tons more as well.

It's fascinating how nobody was making this claim of a non-technical Musk up until the moment he stopped being loyal to one particular wing of US politics. Now we see a concerted effort to diminish his achievements. Do you people really think this will work? There is endless testimony from people - independent of Musk and in the space industry - saying that the dude is an honest to god rocket scientist who single-handedly made SpaceX happen through sheer force of will, engineering ability and personal investment. He routinely displays a fluent understanding of orbital mechanics well beyond what any normal CEO would be expected to display. Anyone can read his bio or the testimony of people who work in the space industry and understand that Musk was (and still is) intimately involved in every aspect of SpaceX, down to detailed engineering decisions.

Shotwell meanwhile is regularly described as managing the business development side. She negotiates with customers and oversees day to day operations. This is critical work that she clearly does very well, and she has an engineering background. But I can't find examples of people claiming that she drives product development or overall strategy for SpaceX.
Vision pro isn't gonna change anything
If we assume you were wearing a Vision pro for 5hrs a day, What problem would you want it to solve for you? Apart from a better movie/work productivity experience?
I think the arbitrary amount of compute involved in training cutoff is the only problem. Plays into the whole imaginary agi Terminator scenario. I'm glad the rest of the act seems to be targeting specific use cases that do in fact need regulations like social scoring etc.
I don’t trust conflicts of interest, if that’s about a site selling it’s own product and having reviews, I’m glad to find that results in a demotion

While bigger marketplaces have other ways of driving ranking
One aspect I've not seen mentioned is there may well be things such as comments & labels in the source which haven't aged well.

Not only profanities, but they could be littered with labels indicating different attitudes to race, gender, religion, politics etc etc which would be unpalatable now. In the early days with more solo and isolated developers I'd expect there is quite a scope for this to have happened.

The company releasing it and also the author could well come in for a hard time. There have been a few high profile instances where a Tweet/BBS post from 10-20 years ago has come back to haunt people. Sometimes it's best playing it safe and keeping it locked away, if it still even exists.
I can recommend https://github.com/frappe/frappe as a general engine, https://github.com/frappe/erpnext is a full blown CRM/ERP built on top of it
This is truly depressing because the aspirations of tinygrad are so appealing in terms of being concise, effective and maintainable. Then, instead, they throw comprehensibility entirely out of the window.
Isnt altman the architect of chatgpt as a product. He seems on par on that genius at the others on tech
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Well, no. This is a reasonable guess turned strangely confidently wrong and opinionated.

Voice acting is quite literally done a sentence or at most a paragraph at a time. Often the recording order is completely different from the script.

An actor may very well record his final scene on the first day of a project, after the whole character arc has transpired. But you know, acting. They get fed a line with stage direction and do a bunch of takes and somehow it works.

Heck you might be a full blown Italian who can't say a word in English but with the right kind of jacket it comes out a banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

You mention Eleven labs being ahead, check out Suno. There is no LLM-scale anything involved there. The voice in this context is a musical instrument and there are lots of viable ways to tackle this problem domain.
So can the Mercator projection (or any projection really). Why is the author complaining about the California-Japan distance when they can just recenter near there?

Point being, recentering is not the answer.
I'm looking some of the latest Intel processors' specifications:

- Intel Core Ultra 9 185H: 2 memory channels.
- Intel Core Ultra 7 165U: 2 memory channels.
- Intel Core i9-14900KF: 2 memory channels.

The last one is a 6GHz, 24 core, 32 thread, 253W behemoth, and even that has two memory channels.

What's the benefit of having four slots, and adding more wait states and reducing bandwidth in a system this powerful? That doesn't make sense.

Instead, I'd rather have two channels in a module, and change the whole RAM in one swoop. If you are unsure, over-speccing a system slightly at the start won't hurt on the long run.

> using swap is the biggest killer of responsiveness

I have bad news for you, then. Even if you have tons of free RAM, unused pages are still pushed to your swap. On the other hand, while swap heavy computation is a last-resort in high load systems, command waits are with you the moment you touch your power button.
I guess, in a sense, the intelligence "black box" up to now, in science, has been the human mind ...

... and we built mechanisms in the scientific process to provide visibility into what are human, internal proceses (peer review, references, data openness and others) ...

... we need to to likewise with AI.-

(Not that it's easy. But it seems to me like an analogous scenario ...)
Not sure if the systems programming mentioned by the OP includes drivers, but AFAIK the standard language for drivers is C/C++. Not that it's impossible to use C# (see https://github.com/ZeroLP/WDK.NET), but it's not necessarily the most widely used approach.
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> Some say that "commute helps clear the mind / switch context", but a simple walk does the same IMO

No, it doesn't for everyone. Personal experience matters: after a 70-day lockdown including a very stressful work period (dedadlines etc), there's no way I'm going to WFH ever again.

But that's just me, of course. For others, priorities may be different.
The point is that you don't need to be 'in the middle' to evesdrop unencrypted data - you can sniff traffic without either end being any the wiser, but if the data is TLS encrypted then you can only decrypt it if you interpose yourself.
I'm into AI but not into sound, so I might be saying something stupid here, but I think using something like this for very high volume like concerts would be possibly outright impossible, but, even if not, certainly quite dangerous and therefore not commercializable.

My understanding is that to "mute" a sound, you need to inject another wave that is exactly the opposite, with the exact same volume and in perfect sync, so that the two waves interfere destructively. However, in general but especially in AI, you can never guarantee 100% accuracy. If you use this technology to "silence" a background fountain, and something goes wrong, at worst you get a lot of noise that make you grimace and remove them. If at a concert with 100+ dB of music you get an error and your headphones start producing a similarly loud, but not perfectly aligned noise right into your ears, you probably won't have the time to remove them before damaging your hearing system.

In general, I think that having a tool that drives 100+ dB straight into your head is probably not a wise idea :-)
Yes, but he or she is giving convincing sounding reasons that might be helpful for the op.

Maybe it is actually better for OP to learn .net, maybe not. But the answer had quality, so I do not think the downvotes are appropriate.
> What are alternatives to containers that provide similar capabilities?

VMs on one hand, tools like Guix and Nix on the other.

> More philosophically, are containers a necessary component needed to run software at scale (such as replication and partitioning)?

No. They're one tool in the box among others. They're common for reasons, though.

> Or are they the result of the accidental complexity the modern OS has?

What does this even mean?
Depends on the objective of OP. Abstractions always leak some of the underlying capabilities so you could use them as a more beginner friendly approach to get acquainted with the system while doing something useful or fun.

For related examples, you can learn Ruby just by learning Rails. Or in more general aspect, the web technology stack through a modern web framework.
I was exactly looking for this in the article, couldn't find it, and therefore just ignored the whole thing.

Either you paint a truthful realistic picture, or you pick some political side. I'm not interested in the 2nd one.

I work 1 day at the office, and that's my ideal setup, maybe 2 would be better but I don't work fulltime. I have colleagues that after the pandemic "Don't want to work a single day at home during their lives". These guys were locked up alone in their apartment during covid and absolutely hated it. I get it.

For me, if I stay weeks at home, it works on my mood and energy. Humans are social animals, with maybe a very few exceptions.

Also a European perspective.
enemy population?

I thought this wasn't war? It's only Hamas that's the enemy, right?
> Wouldn't that be offputting and annoying if someone were to say that to you?

There's a very emotionally-loaded tone to this discussion, which I don't think was an element in my original comment. I was struck by the fact that some people seem unable to change their mental state just because they're at an "office" or at "home".

This is totally different to the fact that an open-plan office (all I've ever experienced before the pandemic) is a noisy and disruptive environment, with people talking loudly, making phonecalls, playing ping-pong, eating, and often dogs running around and barking.
I actually rented separate space for that. So I pay for 50 m2 of private office space where I have two rooms, kitchen, bathroom, a desk with a comfortable chair, a bed, some simple gym equipment and other amenities. And in spite of paying for this every month, I would never ever come to the office where I could use some of these things (an old office chair) for free. It feels like some dark era has ended, at least for a certain type of employees.
Just to be clear - Musk’s crimes are single-handedly turning the US into the leader in EV and space industries, calling one guy a „pedo” and standing trial for it, and supporting the political side that you don’t like?
Biggest impact was reduction of the typical "find untrojaned chinese bootleg copy of IDA" step.

Not that it disappeared completely, but there's less of a need :)
Very interesting. I'm building a RAG chatbot and I haven't done the inline citations yet, I honestly thought it was a lot more complicated then just telling the llms to cite with a number and then have numbers next the sources. I did something to that extent as kind of a joke and it worked but the llm didn't always listen. I thought either post processing (checking cosine distance between sentences and retrieved chunks) or function calling would be the way to go.
> They only do that because there is no public Java API to do the things they want to do. If a public Java API to do the same things were made available, I’m sure they’d gladly migrate to doing that instead

Lombok is an alternative language for the Java platform, and the thing they want to do is modify javac so that it compiles Lombok source (which does not conform to the Java Language Specification) rather than Java source. You are correct that the JDK does not currently wish to offer an API that would allow code, without any special configuration, to change the compiler so that it violates its own specification. If you want to change the behaviour of a JDK tool in a way that violates its specification, then you need to explicitly configure it to allow that.

The Java platform, however, does support many alternative languages, and that is not a violation of the specification. The only reason Lombok is experiencing a technical challenge that, say, Clojure, Kotlin and Scala do not, is because it insists on being used in a way that hides its operation. If Lombok were used like all other Java platform languages it would experience no friction.
> He might not be a super technical software engineer, but is he "non-technical" in that he can't even write some simple python or something equivalent?

1. that's a very low bar, almost to the point of making any distinction meaningless

2. imho, "technical" and "non-technical" are context dependent, and not intrinsic human qualities. Speaking for myself : I'm a technical individual contributor on my current team, but there are plenty of domains (bleeding edge AI research likely being one of them) where my technical acumen would fall short of expectations for an IC, and hence where my most logical role would be non-technical in nature.
And if people start demanding a better pay the only thing that would change would be:

[...]

2. They demand a better pay

3. Everyone does this, so the cost of everything goes up and prices go up.

[...]

Unless that better pay is somehow tied to higher productivity and overall GDP increase it would not solve the problem.
An audiologist described this to me as having an "audio processing disorder". Hope this helps.
One of my most valuable memories is when I dismissed ChatGPT the day it came out. I didn't bother trying it; GPTs were just autocomplete, and OpenAI had already stretched the limits of what autocomplete could do, so this ChatGPT would just be slightly better autocomplete.

Much like pg dismissing Facebook as lame when it first launched, I was exponentially mistaken: https://paulgraham.com/swan.html

> History tends to get rewritten by big successes, so that in retrospect it seems obvious they were going to make it big. For that reason one of my most valuable memories is how lame Facebook sounded to me when I first heard about it. A site for college students to waste time? It seemed the perfect bad idea: a site (1) for a niche market (2) with no money (3) to do something that didn't matter.

> One could have described Microsoft and Apple in exactly the same terms.

It's worth remembering that even the big successes often don't realize they're onto something -- you'll be less likely to dismiss the next big wave when you see it forming.
Yeah, sadly it looks like it was employees' greed that brought Altman back.
If I remember correctly: iOS is preventing apps from running any generated code that's not signed ahead of time (it's allowed for browsers specifically for JIT but not for IDEs, I believe); spawning processes and loading new dylibs is also forbidden so it's still very inconvenient.
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Interesting. Who pays for that?

Sounds like, economically speaking, you are taking over the costs from your employer for providing a usable workspace.
Okay, that's good to know, thanks.
As an European: yes and no, because that (mostly) means living in the heart of a big city and not everyone wants to do that (less living space, higher noise and air pollution)
Not at all. I am saying that centralising the amount of power OpenAI has is inherently antisocial. If you have done it so the average person uses the qualifier "a bit of" you are extraordinarily gifted.