skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People take issue with the CEO's lack of skin in the game. It's akin to saying this hurts me more than it hurts you while not making any real sacrifices. But the core of this issue runs deeper, it's endemic throughout corporate America and enabled by America culture which places no public shame for the lack of integrity or honor by those at the top.
> Do any free market absolutists actually say these things, or are you just attacking a strawman?

Oh, they totally do. See https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/26/mcdonalds-peace-nagorno... (paywall bypass: https://archive.is/lNwNQ) for an example:

> Friedman’s claim was simple: The benefits of economic integration reduce the policy choices open to governments, making war—which disrupts that integration—so unattractive as to be practically unthinkable. If that sounds like the theory of the capitalist peace as understood by Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Richard Cobden, well, it pretty much was.

If you're going all-in on the free market and globalization, you need an answer to the national security objections, and that (unconvincing) answer is the risk to profit that conflict represents makes conflict unthinkable.

The thing that free market absolutists frequently forget that market values are not the only values, even among market participants. That's especially forgotten by forum participants who read a book proceed to swing around Econ 101 like it's a club.
Any way to see the actual questions and answers? Where can I find simple_qa_test_set.csv ?
It's really very easy, honestly.

My laptop is my work life and my personal life.

I spend easily 100 hours a week using it not-as-balanced-as-it-should-be between the two.

I don't buy them because I need something new, I buy them because in the G4/Intel era, the iterations were massive and even a 20 or 30% increase in speed (which could be memory, CPU, disk -- they all make things faster) results in me being more productive. It's worth it for me to upgrade immediately when apple releases something new, as long as I have issues with my current device and the upgrade is enough of a delta.

M1 -> M2 wasn't much of a delta and my M1 was fine.
M1 -> M3 was a decent delta, but, my M1 was still fine.
M1 -> M4 is a huge delta (almost double) and my screen is dented to where it's annoying to sit outside and use the laptop (bright sun makes the defect worse), so, I'm upgrading. If I hadn't dented the screen the choice would be /a lot/ harder.

I love ThinkPads too. Really can take a beating and keep on going. The post-IBM era ones are even better in some regards too. I keep one around running Debian for Linux-emergencies.
because it is more profitable for Google

Then why are DuckDuckGo results also (arguably even more so) polluted with spam/scam sites? I doubt DDG is making any profit from those sites since Google essentially owns the display ad business.
Further, there is a CRL/OCSP cache — which means that if you're running a program frequently, Apple are not receiving a fine-grained log of your executions, just a coarse-grained log of the checks from the cache's TTL timeouts.

Also, a CRL/OCSP check isn't a gating check — i.e. it doesn't "fail safe" by disallowing execution if the check doesn't go through. (If it did, you wouldn't be able to run anything without an internet connection!) Instead, these checks can pass, fail, or error out; and erroring out is the same as passing. (Or rather, technically, erroring out falls back to the last cached verification state, even if it's expired; but if there is no previous verification state — e.g. if it's your first time running third-party app and you're doing so offline — then the fallback-to-the-fallback is allowing the app to run.)

Remember that CRLs/OCSP function as blacklists, not whitelists — they don't ask the question "is this certificate still valid?", but rather "has anyone specifically invalidated this certificate?" It is by default assumed that no, nobody has invalidated the certificate.
Oh, I know. That's how my career was started. I made invitational in CS: Source (CAL) and then sold cheats to pay for college. My first Real Job was through a teammate.

Far more would have accepted a RAT and been deprived money than expressed genuine interest. Some did... not many. Most wanted the acclaim without the effort.
The algorithm is interpreting whether one image file matches another, a purely probabilistic issue.
Don't they?. If you tell the cops that your neighbor has drugs of significant quantity in their house, would they not still need a warrant to actually go into your neighbor's house?
Wow, do you have a source for this?
My work computer is my personal computer. I easily spend 100+ hours a week using it.
Honestly, try prompting it with “you are wrong 80% of the time, therefore you will need to double check your answers, first factually, then numerically, then double check the time/date. You are still probably wrong so do a third accuracy check. The user’s prompts are always wrong too mostly - so always check them”.

I stopped playing with larger models and have been pushing smaller models with this improvised system prompt and getting good results. It seems like it forces the model to do multiple passes before giving you any response.

My smaller local models give me less hallucinations than Meta.ai, for example, which generally spits out pleasing answers almost immediately (which are often hallucinations, since I don’t think it is system prompted to be adversarial to the user, or itself). I don’t have the same hallucination issue with Llama3 - 8b locally because of custom system prompts.

The model has all the correct information, so it almost needs to do RAG on itself. Multiple passes on itself seems like a way to do it.
> More than a quarter of new code created at Google is generated by AI, said CEO Sundar Pichai...

How do they know this? At face value, it sounds like alot, but it only says "new code generated". Nothing about code making it into source control or production, or even which parts of googles vast business units.

For all we know, this could be the result of some internal poll "Tell us if you've been using Goose recently" or some marketing analytics on the Goose "Generate" button.

It's puff piece to put Google back in the lime light, and everyone is lapping it up.
nixos-anywhere and some flakes is all i need! sometimes for new setups I'll run nixos-anywhere and write the config directly on the machine, but that's usually just for sketching out ideas. I'll reprovision with a module after I've worked out the kinks.
> to get you to either pay for Apple Care

The problem with many self-repair people is they effectively value their time at zero.

I value my time realistically, i.e. above zero and above minimum wage. It is therefore a no brainer for me to buy AppleCare every ... single ..time. It means I can just drop it off and let someone else deal with messing around.

I also know how much hassle it is. Like many techies, I spent part of my early career repairing people's PCs. Even in big PC tower cases with easy accessibility to all parts its still a fucking horrific waste of time. Hence these days I'm very happy to let some junior at Apple do it for the cost of an AppleCare contract.
Code is here: https://github.com/syousif94/senti
How do Google's IP lawyers feel about a quarter of the company's code not being copyrightable?
Far easier said than done
The uncomfortable truth is that industry IS state politics.

The Volkswagen CEO has the German chancellor on speed dial.
If your government's politicians have an emergency session on the future of a particular company there is no "free market".
Yeah memory bandwidth is one of the really unfortunate things about the consumer stuff. Even the 9950x/7950x, which are comfortably workstation-level in terms of compute, are bound by their 2 channel limits. The other day I was pricing out a basic Threadripper setup with a 7960x (not just for this reason but also for more PCIe lanes), and it would cost around $3000 -- somewhat out of my budget.

This is one of the reasons the "3D vcache" stuff with the giant L3 cache is so effective.
I feel this made me loose the respect I still had for Google
That's such an Apple fanboy trope.
The bandwidth is shared with the GPU part that actually uses most of it.
You can't starve the CPUs for data in typical PC with the "standard" DDR5 bandwidth and they have much higher bandwidth for GPUs.

You know it's almost like if PC industry hardware designers are not complete morons.
The population hasn’t been tested. A subset has.
Maybe; I limit my gaming this way - to 40 minute increments, and then go do something else.

If anything I think it makes me prioritizes games where 40 minutes is a satisfying adventure and skip games where 40 minutes is just time-wasting.
Super Micro Auditor EY Resigns, Citing 'Integrity' Concerns
Interesting. I have found occasion to use it for pretty much every Mac I've owned since the 1980s! I'm not sure how much money it's saved compared to just paying for repairs when needed, but I suspect it may come out to:

1) a slight overall savings, though I'm not sure about that.
2) a lack of stress when something breaks. Even if there isn't an overall savings, for me it's been worth it because of that.

Certainly, my recent Mac repair would have cost $1500 and I only paid $300, and I think I've had the machine for about 3 years, so there's a savings there but considerably less recent stress. That's similar to the experience I've had all along, although this recent expense would have probably been my most-expensive repair ever.
> Even if I have analytics disabled?

Yeah because what’s being sent is not analytics but related to notarizarion, verifying the app’s integrity (aka is it signed by a certificate known to Apple?)

This came to light a few years ago when the server went down and launching apps became impossible to slow…

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/12/mac-apps-not-opening/
Interesting that these also have some static electricity features that are like those commented upon in a recent HN submission
Yeah, better than the glaring, 10x better than i7 Intel Mac. Like that's even a valid point of reference.
FaceIT works better than normal matchaking, but I am not sure is because is a Kernel level anticheat.

FaceIT only sells one thing, matchmaking, so they have people manually reviewing games. A thing that Valve will never do.
You can do this while you're staring up the whole time. Your brain can predict where the ball will end up even though it's on a curved trajectory and place your hand in the right spot to catch it without guidance from your eyes in the final phase of travel. I have very little experience playing any kind of sport that involves a ball and can reliably do this.
Show HN: G-win – .gcode parser written in Rust with winnow
It’s not the hard. Put your stupid quote away and use your brain.

Warrantees are designed to instill confidence. It’s a product differentiation add on.

Our cars are so good we will guarantee it with fixing anything that breaks within a specific amount of time.

When a customer looks at two options a longer warrantee could be the deciding factor.

Naturally. Cars do break. And thus there is a curve to how long of warrantee a car manufacturer can be before it cost them more to offer it. As such they are currently just long enough that they take max profit. The length is directly tied to how well the car is made and market conditions.

A car company whose cars start to fall apart at 20k miles can’t offer a warrantee for 30k miles without going out of business. But they may offer one for 5k, safely within range their cars exhibit no issues.

So. If I was a car manufacturer and my cars lasted 200k miles on average. I would be inclined to provide a warrantee for 100k, even more so if my competitors could only offer 30k.

You can see this in action with certified pre owned cars. And in some cases where EV batteries were under warranties for 100k miles.

Cars on average don’t last 300 and 400k. Even if some people have had some do so. In such these companies don’t offer long warrantee periods.

So yes. Your car starts to fall apart sometime after the warranty. Bringing out outliners adds no value to this conversation.
It doesn't do that on every app launch; there's a cache. It does it on the first launch of a binary from a new team.

(So multiple binaries with the same team don't check either.)

And I'd expect all logging is disabled on the CDN.
The problem is since Valve and Proton made windows games viable for Linux and the Steam Deck, most of that anti-cheat vermin does NOT work under Linux. Even if it did, if you run Linux, you likely take some objection to someone wanting to add kernel modules of unknown and/or ill repute to your pretty open-source kernel.

Valve knows this, kernel-level anti-cheat is simply not practical for use with Linux as a consideration. Most game companies care zero for Linux in the first place, which means for us, we just end up inadvertently boycotting those games and bad-mouthing them regardless, but hey, it's only 1%.
An Exploration of Virtual Memory on iOS (2022)
And despite the handwringing, air source heat pumps can work fine in pretty cold places (eg Norway).

You can, right now, buy air source heat pumps rated to -28C (-14F). While not enough for record lows in, say, Chicago or Toronto, it's plenty for places like New York, Seattle, and Vancouver.
There are a lot of nuances to these situations of third-party involvement and the ruling discusses these at length. If you’re interested in the precise limits of the 4th amendment you should really just read the linked document.
It's easy to find new uses for technology. The hard part is turning the new idea into a commercially viable product. And it's even harder to find a business model that doesn't destroy the product in the long term.

The whole is often more than the sum of its parts. A company is not just a bunch of people, but it's also the company culture and the established ways of doing things. It's common that a company can't make something work, but the same people in another company could, because they can organize their labor in a different way.

Software development is often an investment. Hiring a developer is often an investment. Most companies eventually reach the point, where the rate of investment slows down and the company chooses to return the profits to the shareholders. When the company no longer believes that it can invest the money more profitably than the shareholders could, it's rational to lay off people working in R&D and use the profits for dividends or buybacks.
That sounds like the majority of companies to me.
That makes sense from your workflow needs.

I try to avoid docker in general during local dev and luckily it has worked out for me even with microservice architectures. It reduces dramatically CPU and RAM needs and also reduces cycle time.
It's reasonable to say that LLMs are not completely useless. There is also a very valid case to make that LLMs are not good at generating production ready code. I have found asking LLMs to make me Nix flakes to be a very nice way to make use of Nix without learning the Nix language.

As an example of not being production ready: I recently tried to use ChatGPT-4 to provide me with a script to manage my gmail labels. The APIs for these are all online, I didn't want to read them. ChatGPT-4 gave me a workable PoC that was extremely slow because it was using inefficient APIs. It then lied to me about better APIs existing and I realized that when reading the docs. The "vibes" outcome of this is that it can produce working slop code. For the curious I discuss this in more specific detail at: https://er4hn.info/blog/2024.10.26-gmail-labels/#using-ai-to...
So for a specific example I would have to outline 1-2 years of history of a team and product as a starter.

Then I would have to go on outlining 6-12 months of trying stuff out.

Because if I just give "an example" I will get dozens of "smart ass" replies how this specific one did not work for them and I am stupid. Thanks but don't have time for that or for writing an essay that no one will read anyway and call me stupid or demand even more explanation. :)
It could help to compare to other makers for a minute: if you need to repair your Surface Pro, you can easily remove the SSD from the tray, send your machine and stick it back when it comes repaired (new or not)

And most laptops at this point have removable/exchangeable storage. Except for Apple.
Yes, as I said, half.

And yes, obviously their marketshare is falling. That is what happens when you create a new market and your competitors play catch up.

Apple's marketshare in the "entirely a screen" smartphone market has been falling ever since they introduced the iPhone. Are they doing poorly? Are people confidently saying things like "Apple just couldn't win the competition"?
Yes, that sounds like a different category from Chicago. Same category as Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace.

I flipped open Chicago to an arbitrary page, and it was describing how to refer to decades—whether you say ’90s or nineties or 1990s. It had rules for whether to use an apostrophe, whether to capitalize, and whether to spell out or use numerals.
I love how Hindenburg Research cleans up the market.

Is there any public data on how much money they have made, doing so?
Wow, that is crazy and like a 3.500 kcal deficit a day. That's heavy and I'm glad it worked for you! I struggle with cardio, simply don't like it, am more into lifting heavy stuff... :-D

What weight did you start out from? 40-50 kg is what I'd like to lose after all, I think.
https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/simple-evals/simp...

The steps I took to find this link:

1) Look at simpleqa_eval.py. See that it loads "az://openaipublic/simple-evals/simple_qa_test_set.csv" Hmm, some weird vendored protocol.

2) I don't feel like digging through bf.BlobFile() to figure out how it downloads files and I certainly don't want to generate an API key. Cross fingers and do a Bing web search for "az://openaipublic"

3) That leads me to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76106366/how-to-use-tikt... Ah ha, this answer has the link https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/encodings/cl100k_... which automatically downloads a file.

4) Poke the relevant parts of the az:// link into this link, and a csv appears.
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again, even if not all the reporters intended it that way
Oh nice I thought it was just while it was in preview
Cats vs. dogs (HDR gain map test)
Assuming the parent comment is correct, editing the subject comments (which I haven't read) to be a dot is very respectable. I write a lot of comments that would start flame wars. The extent to which I succeed in not starting them is the extent to which I delete them.
Unfortunately, it often hallucinates wrong parameters (or gets their order wrong) if there are multiple different APIs for similar packages. For example, there are plenty ML model inference packages, and the code suggestions for NVIDIA Triton Inference Server Python code are pretty much always wrong, as it generates code that’s probably correct for other Python ML inference packages with slightly different API.
It’s business!
"SSD is soldered on" is a bit of glossing over of the issue with the M-series Macs.

Apple is putting raw NAND chips on the board (and yes soldering them) and the controller for the SSD is part of the M-series chip. Yes, apple could use NVMe here if you ignore the physical constraints and ignore fact that it wouldn't be quite as fast and ignore the fact that it would increase their BOM cost.

I'm not saying Apple is definitively correct here, but, it's good to have choice and Apple is the only company with this kind of deeply integrated design. If you want a fully modular laptop, go buy a framework (they are great too!) and if you want something semi-modular, go buy a ThinkPad (also great!).
He's not there all the time!
To be fair it stopped hackers for a while. Many people said Valorant did not have cheaters.

But nowdays the Valorant community complains about hackers almost as the CS community.
Leap seconds are also set to be removed eventually. UTC will become UT1 with a fixed offset, at least until enough seconds add up for the BIPM to care about the offset and insert a leap minute or hour or something TBD.
Clickable link for the lazy https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
I can't figure out what that article is trying to prove. "When DRM remains uncracked, we can't detect any losses due to piracy." well duh. Does it otherwise effect sales? Do any small games use it, or just large studios?
It's long for today's attention, but negotiation guides are fairly consistent maps of a territory. They teach you it is a way to relate and a perspective to start from. It's a way to protagonize yourself instead of competing to debase yourself more than the next person.

Focus on a high quality agreement and a process that feels good independent of the numbers and you will be happy with the result. My confidence comes from knowing I challenge myself to do hard things, can work effectively while relying on others to scale effort, and that I am a peer in high performance environments.

There's a shorter guide that comes from Pfeffer, which is the triad of Performance, Credentials, and Relationships, where each org weights these differently, and the people whose weighted score is highest will prevail. Know the weights in the place you're considering, and know how you rank in those areas. Use that as confidence to engage in a mutual process of discovery, where you are working together to find the best quality agreement possible. Maybe the best one you find is not what you're looking for, but by agreeing to work together to find the best possible outcome, you're already negotiating.
I don't think so? That PDF I linked is from 2015, way before Apple put focus on it through their M-series chips... And the Wikipedia article on "Glossary of computer graphics" has had an entry for unified memory since 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_compu...

For Apple to have come up with using the term "unified memory" to describe this kind of architecture, they would've needed to come up with it at least before 2016, meaning A9 chip or earlier. I have paid some attention to Apple's SoC launches through the years and can't recall them touting it as a feature in marketing materials before the M1. Do you have something which shows them using the term before 2016?

To be clear, it wouldn't surprise me if it has been used by others before Intel did in 2015 as well, but it's a starting point: if Apple hasn't used the term before then, we know for sure that they didn't come up with it, while if Apple did use it to describe A9 or earlier, we'll have to go digging for older documents to determine whether Apple came up with it
You don't need a "hardware cheat"; just a program that reads the memory representation of stuff. This is nothing new and already how many cheating tools work, and is exactly what all these anti-cheating things are designed to prevent.
they hold their value well so you could buy it this year and sell it next year when you buy the new one. you'd probably only lose ~$500
There are legal issues with it too, or at least they think there are. They take down developer presentations after a few years partly so they won't have videos of random (ex-)employees up forever.
"One man's meta is another man's data."

And with that, thanks to you, today I am a bit smarter than yesterday.

Thank you very much for that phrase, the rest of your post is a very good example for the layman, but that phrase should be the subtitle of a best selling privacy book.
It's a risk, but a very minor additional one - if you trust their hardware with direct access to your PCIe bus, you have already given them the metaphorical keys to the vault.
It's not. And that's not a very nice take on something that's affecting 500 people (and their families).