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I don’t think it’s any harder now than it was then. It’s not like people somehow automatically knew where to get free hosting or how to use it. They’d learn it from friends, or books, or online sources. You can do the same today. The only difference in difficulty is that the resources are much more readily available and there’s far more high quality free software you can use. (Anyone remember paying for an FTP client?)

If it seems harder today, it’s only because the newer options are so much easier. Back in the day, if you wanted to put something up for people to read, you figured out web hosting or you didn’t do it. Now, you figure out web hosting or you post it on Medium/Facebook/whatever.
The latter seems like the likely answer. If your unit is pulling back, then you have to decide on an individual level if you're going to follow the herd or go AWOL. Pretty easy groupthink situation.
I think it is a sliding scale where local politics are more important and national/global politics are a backdrop. Heck, when I was in California, my state vote mattered none due to how districts were drawn. My vote very much does not matter at the national level. However, my voice and vote can be important locally (city, county).
Well, I don't think I'd view any AGI that is an existential risk as "friendly".
>That is a common trope. But what if it is only half true?

It's mostly true and the "mainstream mass audience" has always exhibited low active participation rates. There's a wikipedia article[1] about this that happens to focus on the internet and its low ratio of contributors.

However, this phenomenon of passive consumption has been happening all through history before the internet and it is independent of technology. Whether it's the Gutenberg Press or earlier primitive technology as simple as the quill pen & paper, there's always been a very small group of people that create the content vs the much larger group that consumes it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
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I hate all these gimmicks you are talking about (slow to load fonts, unnecessary videos, fucked up scrolling, spinners everywhere, etc.).

That being said I challenge the assertion that they are used for no good reason.

- Custom fonts are used because they help shape a brand. Properly used, the choice of fonts communicates a lot (at a subconscious level) about the company or person behind it.

- Unnecessary videos unfortunately work (i.e., help grab and retain user attention). Not for me (quite the contrary!), but for the majority of people stumbling upon a company's website.

- Same for weird gimmicks involving animations and what not. I can feel them draining my battery out and it phisically hurts, but most people like them and take away the impression that "this is a modern person/company".

All in all, many website's primary goal is not to communicate factual information, but to capture user attention and/or communicate at a subconscious level, and gimmicky things work for that purpose :S
Parts of it are deliberately nonsensical (you essentially just drugged an AI that has the ability to feed false information to your senses), but yeah, even the "real" parts are pretty wild. If you haven't seen it already, you might get a kick out of the "External Gazer" side story added to MGS2: Substance, which is widely regarded as self-parody of that aspect.
I used to think this way. Then I saw what our boys went through doing house-to-house fighting in Iraq. The rural areas of the US are way more heavily armed than the Iraqis were circa 2005. Not to mention the amount of ammo and guns that right-wingers have been stockpiling since the Obama administration. (Perhaps for misguided reasons but nonetheless it happened)

It would be a bloodbath.
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This shows that Microsoft has reformed and is not the same company as under Ballmer. Nadella has understood the importance of open source. Interesting times ahead.

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it must be described somewhere, though not in the announcement. I don't think you're allowed to make $1B deals with a public company without specifying those things somewhere.
I've never heard of a company doing that.
There are still free hosts out there, and the simple HTML of yesteryear still renders fine today.
Cosmos is throughput not size. So it would be a month of having the capacity to I/O a DVD worth of records.
I like it that way, it reads like a story and it IS a good story. Not everything in tech or HN has to be to the point and a collection of facts, some narrativity is ok
Genuine question: In what sense is OpenAI open ?
"Millennials are killing music with their beats and their memes"

> but there's a thick layer of terrible that rises to the top of the pop charts and you have to dig through it to find music of any worth.

This is a trite argument that's been true since the 1950s. Pop is designed to be as lowest-common-denominator as possible, because radio stations need to make money.
Is there any of these live music programming languages that uses python?

Can't get my head around lisp/clojure.
That's the same as knowing that "there's a thing called cookie that needs to be 'set' for my user to be authenticated".
Congrats on the investment, but this release reads like a parody.

I believe that building a beneficial warp-drive engine will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential to shape the trajectory of humanity. The aliens we're sure to encounter will be capable of mastering more fields than any one human — like a tool which combines the skills of Curie, Turing, and Bach. An alien working on a problem would be able to see connections across disciplines that no human could. But even though I'm known as the warp-drive-guy, I don't actually know how to build a warp drive, so in the meantime I am building increasingly powerful transportation technology in the hope this would lead to a warp drive one day soon, and have decided to focus on bicycles. They're really good bikes, though, and unlike others who make bicycles, I like to consider those I build to merely be pre-warp, a necessary step towards warp technology. So when you buy my bikes [1], you are literally helping me change the trajectory of human history and meet aliens (did I mention Curie, Turing and Bach?)

This is truly a fine specimen of Silicon Valley prose. It's got something for everyone: human history, a wild-eyed dream of a bright future, a connection to the arts, name-dropping, the trajectory of humanity, and, of course, lots of money in cloud services (integrated platform). They even showed some restraint in stopping short of ending all war and curing all disease. "Making the world a better place" is really too mundane.

[1]: The Warp Drive Corporation®'s Pre-Warp Bike™️ is now on sale on Amazon.
OpenAI is a research company - that's what research is, working out how to do things we don't know how to do. Research requires some money so at one level it is a money problem.
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There's a paradoxical incentive to write comments about topics that nobody knows about. It is true that bad comments get downvoted on subjects where there are many experts. But there might be many of us that for no good reason would like to get access to these Hacker News features that require more karma, and could be tempted to only comments on topics where there are no experts, hoping to reap some karma points doing so.
Your chances of getting the middle seat go up as the other seats are taken, meaning that a lot of the people in the middle seats are people who had to book that ticket on short notice: death in the family, emergency business trip, other flight got canceled, etc.

The airline's already got "being crappy to the person who's having a crappy day" covered. Don't be the human embodiment of an airline.
No bro, this guy talks in broad sense only.
There’s probably room for another git* hosted company.
$1B is not like investing $100 in a crowdfunded project, "nice toy and let's hope for the best." I expect that Microsoft is going to look very closely at what OpenAI does and possibly steer it into a direction they like. Unless you have a few other $1B investors. We'll see how it plays out.
The exit row window seat on my flight yesterday was pretty tight left to right. At some point airlines shrank the buffer space between the window and window seat to zero, so there's no longer space for your arm on the window side. Squeezed between a full-sized adult on my right and the wall to my left was no way to spend four hours. tl;dr: Airlines need to stop shrinking the distance between seats on the same row.
Half decent? Has the GP heard of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, or how Churchill starved 3m in Bengal?
That's true, but that global state of the universe can be written in terms of its reduced states on spatial subsystems. From this perspective we can talk meaningfully about propagating superpositions. For example, take a toy example in one dimension with three spatial subsystems A, B and C representing disjoint intervals arranged in order. Immediately after a splitting event the combined wavefunction over all subsytems might be:

(psi_1 + psi_2)_A x phi_b x rho_C

(ignoring normalisation for convenience) then after a certain amount of time it becomes

(psi_1 x phi_1 + psi_2 x phi_2)_AB x rho_C

and then eventually

(psi_1 x phi_1 x rho_1 + psi_2 x phi_2 x rho_2)_ABC .

Now, all of that is certainly happening within the realm of some joint superstate, but it still makes sense to talk about how fast the split propagates, surely?
If you can prove your money is in there and can also prove that the money wasn't proceeds of a crime (selling illegal drugs, firearms, etc) then it's yours. I'm guessing very few people really wanted to tell the FBI who they were and what they were selling/buying on there.
I appreciate you doing these tests, this (and your last article) instantly answers my question about "how will this perform in one of my rpis?". Please keep doing them as new cards(with their marketing claims) are introduced!
ML Kit runs on-device if sending to Cloud is your worry.
My point is, you don't need an expensive global CDN if your end goal is to optimize for ad-revenue within the U.S market. I don't know why you stuck on the CDN, and it sounds like you are using it as a hammer to achieve scalability.
I thought I knew what it meant to lead with vulnerability, and then I became CEO
Didn't someone put a theory out that the Venus of Willendorf was not venerating the Fat Goddess, but rather what someone sees when they look straight down at their body?

(cuz cave people didn't have good mirrors and all)

Deeper explanation: https://steemit.com/science/@deeallen/self-portraits-of-fert...
>(I work at OpenAI.)

Humble understatement. *co-founded and co-run.
> research papers they had published

I wonder how academic publishers feel about this growing trend to require not just a degree, but now peer-reviewed, published, research papers to get a job. The sentiment behind it is, of course, if you’re really smart, you would be published, so if we look for people who are published, we know they’re smart. The reality, though, is that once this catches on, journals are going to be flooded (even more than they already are) with desperate attempts to get something, anything, with somebody’s name on it since that’s another checkbox they have to tick before they can eat. Just like what happened with higher education.
Given that Microsoft and Outlook started the disaster that is HTML e-mail, why would you think that they'd actually fix the mess that they started?
That'd be an interesting feature to see but I'm sure it'd also really run up the board cost...
Can we talk about the usage of the term "AGI" here? Considering its connotations in popular culture it sounds terrifically inappropriate in terms of what we can feasibly build today.

Can we assume that marketing overrode engineering on the terminology of this press release?
I understand that being an owner will have potential greater upside than being an employee almost ever will. I cannot think of a business idea for anything (at least, nothing with the possibility of profits, haha).
It's a sort of bucket list item for me to write a Shouts & Murmurs. I would never expect to be paid for that, so I guess I am undermining the market? Obviously, as I have no professional writing or comedy experience I am very unlikely to ever be published which makes the point rather moot but I still wonder how the industry at large deals with this.
It's both. And storage cost is amplified by number of regions replicated to.
Google is big. What does Google or Alphabet do that others may 'egregariously' not?
Replacing Google products with more ethical alternatives
It is also much less useful, requiring you to hover over an element to get any information, including the name of the element.
Released a great content marketing add-on for Shopify
But I'd guess that since individual emails to customers are more common with B2B than B2C (due to higher transaction volumes), those emails are often Outlook to Outlook, not Outlook to Gmail.
Lawyers practice law not investment. Lawyers are involved in every bad and good deal.
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This idea has merit, advertisers pay for access to our lives every which way from Sunday - except for email. But this will not be the solution.

Execution matters and it looks like the company is shutting down or close to it.

The ceo's twitter feed is, umm, interesting. Looks like he recently fled the US to the UK because running a business in the US was too hard and one can only assume the sec is on their heels. He also tweets about going through divorce with his co-founder and making layoffs.

According to Alexa, their website traffic has dropped from top 11k to 49k site in the last 90 days alone (that's all Alexa rankings show).

Someone mentioned it being an ICO, their ICO funds (yay for blockchain wallets being public) are basically empty after raising $12million two years ago.
Is there a risk that with the present Artic heathing a significant percent of that carbon gets released?
> On Southwest, I actually go for them first to get within the first couple rows and get off the plane quicker. I've never had someone fall asleep and rest their head on my shoulder as I've seen on TV. But I do have a small bout of anxiety as I'm walking down the aisle for the chance I have to sit next to an overweight person.

I tend to do this for Southwest as well - If the plane is already fairly full, I'd prefer to pick my neighbors and take a middle seat rather than risking it further back in the plane.
OpenAI is a for-profit corporation now. It's in their interest to use as many buzzwords as possible to attract that sweet venture capital, regardless of whether said buzzwords have any base in reality.
Came to say this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tweyWNr6X18
Sounds like a huge number until you consider 150M victims works out to $4.67 per victim. Are your private data worth $4.67?

Bonus points to Equifax for winning the deal with the government with its 1st qtr $690M charge within 1.5% of the actual number.
(no sarcasm)

You know, I can't prove that researchers being funded is the best way of figuring out how to do things, but I have a gut intuition that tells me that.

I'll look into it so that I'm not just blindly suggesting that $$ ==> people ==> research ==> progress.

Thanks for the opportunity to reflect!
You need to be able to test your designs and for that you need resources like AI accelerators.
'Our paychecks bounced': US workers in limbo as coalmines suddenly close
Well, sure it’s detailed somewhere. We in this thread don’t know, is what I was getting at.

The comment I replied to may not be far off the mark in what this really is: computer/human time “worth $1 billion” or something.

If it’s actual cash that says something different to me than a donation of resources with some value estimated by MS.
Yes. It's easier to run an entirely unified society in a centralized fashion than it is to run a free-for-all.

Your monoculture must necessarily be authoritarian to enforce the cultural and ideological policies.

It's also extremely fragile. Cut off the head and everything turns to anarchy. Which is what has happened over and over throughout China's history.

Versus somewhere on the polar opposite end like Switzerland where the national government is basically non-existent and could disappear tomorrow and there wouldn't be much disruption.
What airline charges extra for non-middle seats? I’ve never seen that.
Is the population of the New Territories North region less sympathetic with the pro-democracy protesters than Hong Kong Island and Kowloon?

They appear to have commercial ties to Shenzhen across the border. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Yuen_Long_protest
SSH – Ecdsa vs. ECDH vs. Ed25519 vs. Curve25519 (2014)
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Yes, it can be sold for carbon credits if sequestered properly. No, it's a fresh water plant.
Last time we got hot and bothered about Chinese money, the British crashed the entire nation via illicit drug sales. No reason something like that won't happen again.
What airline is this? I haven't noticed this. As long as I get the tickets early enough, there are always window and aisle seats available.
I took it for a super simple test run and behavior seems very… weird and incorrect: https://codesandbox.io/s/7o92r. Perhaps I'm just using it wrong, but it's not very clear why this example's state fails to update as you would expect. And I found a few examples of rendering that don't behave as expected.
My experience has been that building a strong boundary between work and not-work life has made me more effective at work and made my not-work life much more enjoyable and refreshing. I don't get work emails on my phone, and my boss has only called me after hours twice in the last year, and both times it was completely understandable and didn't bother me.

Giving your brain a chance to relax and focus on other things rejuvenates its capability to solve problems when you need it to.
The research that OpenAI’s doing is groundbreaking and the results are often beyond state-of-the-art. I aim to work in one of your research teams sometime!
Out of curiosity, what do you find inelegant with Rust?
>Tech has been moving in the direction of oversimplifying technology

Completely agree with that. There's an animator (nina paley) that keeps an old computer with Macromedia Flash on it for the sake of keeping that sweet spot of software power or complexity and creativity.

It's weird seeing productivity tools reduce and guide their functionality towards what the devs think we mean to use the tool for. Getting more power and more complexity is still desirable in production. The ML procedural tools coming in productivity software will help with that, but the overall design ethos has been to cut out and simplify things that didn't need to go.
> There is nothing wrong with the play store per se in this context other than it not being FOSS.

Well, the store itself isn't free-software. But the software it distributes also isn't free software and is many times crapware/malware, without any human review. F-Droid has "AntiFeatures" tags on applications, and while these could be better, they're already more informational for end-users than blindly downloading/running programs : https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures

Then, there's also the problem that Google Play Store relies on Google Play Services. So if you don't want to install Google's universal backdoor on your phone (which Google used last year to push silent config updates on some phones, wtf?) you can't use that. Or you have to use F-Droid to setup a Play Store scrapper such as Yalp or Aurora.
Sounds like your best option is to stop procrastinating so badly that you have to get work done in one of the least work-friendly environments out there.
As far as I know that the agreement was for Hong Kong's way of life to "remain unchanged" for 50 years. So it should have been 2047 when they can start thinking about integrating Hong Kong.
The single best advice I can add to this is, if you don't want your device searched at the border, don't take it with you. All your data is generally in the cloud. So last time I went to the US, I took a Nokia 6280 dumbphone with me instead of my Android smartphone (this would later prove awkward because very few base stations were compatible with the frequencies the 6280 uses and I had very limited signal for the entire trip). But the fundamental takeaway was - even if CBP had confiscated my phone, all they would have is my SIM card. There's literally nothing useful on a phone like that, apart from text messages, which are already sent unencrypted over GSM anyway and should be assumed to be monitored. I also take a secondary laptop with me, which has a bare Linux install with enough to keep me occupied on the plane (and extremely good battery life), but nothing of any particular importance on it.

If you're travelling and don't need all the features of your primary device, it's a perfectly legal and practical approach to preserving your privacy. Just because you have nothing to hide does not mean you have nothing to protect.
A proper browser can display all HTML documents crated like, ever, if you can live with some imperfections that are there to deal with improper browsers in the first place.

I mean, I get your point, and it makes sense, and for a similar reason we didn't get WebSQL. But I think HTML is special in this regard. Everyone just accepted the complexity of dealing with all sorts of documents.
It depends on how you define 'our planet' though, no? There are things you could do to this planet that would wipe out most forms of life on it and at present we've been seeing decreasing populations of insects, animal species, etc. The planet will certainly still be here but it's a pretty big bummer if we manage to knock out half the biological diversity or more on our way out. Without biological diversity and feedback loops our planet is just soil and water.
PLA holds anti-terrorism training, would intervene Hong Kong when necessary
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Yeah, I was referring to the "real" parts; I understand that the "I NEED SCISSORS 61!!!!" stuff is purposefully trippy, but the cutscene with the woman who can deflect bullets but not really then you're suddenly swordfighting with your father or something because of the internet(?) really confused me.

I'll check out External Gazer.
Hong Kong police make 'largest ever' seizure of explosives on eve of protests
Phones/tablets are not good at creating web pages or writing code, but what about the other innumerable creative uses they are good for? Photography and video making has never been simpler. An iPad is as good a digital painting device as a beefy PC combined with a heavy Cintiq now. Plug a microphone (or not) into a phone and it becomes a portable recording studio with an included editor.

Phones were never good at producing web pages, it's not like their presence has somehow now removed the ability from the PC.
I am kinda pissed that after all this time, Android doesn't natively support that and instead still rely on third-party apps. IMO it should be mandatory that all camera apps that comes with a device on Android be able to read all sorts of QR codes.
That’s how we are going to end up with standing only places and paying for the toilet. Do not accept the unacceptable.
I was wondering when we'd start to see the authoritarian apologists.
Geez, when they said it wasn't a direct transfer, they weren't kidding. They must be milking the the Oberth effect for everything it's worth if it will take a month+ to get the payload there.
And yet, a lot of remote companies pay differently based on location. I'm also not quite sure why the choice of location should be factored in but family planning not.

Paying the same, regardless of location, would maybe motivate some people to move away from crowded areas, one of the big chances remote work offers.