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This is a great company, doing great things but the cynicism towards "Open" AI is of their own making; the original vision that many here supported seemingly left by the wayside as soon as the money started rolling in.

There would be less "cynicism" if they had either stuck to the original open plan (or communicated the lack of openness intended better from the get-go); or at the very least were honest about their seeming U Turn and changed the name to reflect the new position - maybe branching the actual open stuff off into a separate and clearly demarcated organisation.
I have Netflix, Prime Video is basically free (I have Prime for other reasons), HBO comes with my ATT internet, AppleTV is included with a new device, but will then come with Apple One (which is a good deal if you have a family of users), and Hulu.

I pay for Hulu because I'll pay just about anything to never see a commercial. When I do have time to watch something, I don't want to see commercials. If that means paying a bit extra to have another service, so be it.
Yeah, the guy I was replying to was making stuff up. I'm making the point that sunscreen has a positive purpose, and you could potentially be doing a lot more harm than good if some trace benzene ends up in you frying to a crisp instead and getting melanoma.

You need to do the risk analysis. Until you do, you can't possibly say it's ironic using sunscreen since it could easily be doing more good than harm.
Please don't take HN threads further into religious, er, flamewar. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There may be some actual legitimate reasons to want to withhold AI from the public.

A company named OpenAI, though? So stupid. They need to change their name already.
> If the CMBR was the heat source, what was the heat sink?

Good question. I haven't read through the paper yet, so I don't know if the author addresses it.
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>Or should it not be revertable? I don't think it is revertable, and I think that is a massive end-run around democracy.

I didn't think about this but now that you mention it, it does seem like a judge regulating from the bench instead of lawmakers making laws or executives making policy.
> Terseness, sure, but not simplicity.

I feel the same whenever somebody shows up talking about their favorite functional language. Sure it can be less code, but it looks like an explosion at the unicode factory.

Really though, I'd much rather have a few language "gotchas" that you need to learn once, over countless gotchas in other developers code because they are using a language the lends itself to ungrokable code. C really does have the properly where you can look at the code and just know what it does.

That said, I don't think C scales very well for big projects and I personally develop in C/C++/Python/ environment as a robotics system SWE. C for embedded stuff, C++ for nearly all system code, and python for the data/Deep learning stuff.
Maybe not European by a strict modern geographic interpretation, but ancient Greek culture laid down so many ideas fundamental to the modern West it would be disingenuous to say it isn't European.
Oxides of silicon are used extensively in the CPU lithography process, which is where I assume their name comes from.
> That means dumping C++.

Or just integrate with C++ code by exposing it through C linkage with `extern "C" {}`. Sure, C is the de facto lingua franca of programming languages, but that doesn't seem like a pragmatic reason to choose C over a different language that may be better for the job. Also, C++ has a massive ecosystem.
Yours is neo-nazi thinking: "Look at all those banks and media companies, so many Jewish last names..."

Anti-black racists have the same mindset: "Hmmm... what do all those looters and criminals have in common?"

Of course, your mindset totally ignores the millions of people that don't fit your stereotypes.
A few years ago, I ordered the cheapest six-axis robotic arm from ebay for about $100 that came with basically no software or motor-driver boards, so I did it all from scratch with a PCA9685 board, a basic kernel driver and some very hacky scripts from user space.

One day I had some friends over for a glass of wine, and wanted to show off my creation. I invited them into my "lab" and placed my wine glass down on the desk so I could type a few commands with both hands.

My rudimentary software had some motion smoothing once it was up and running, but upon initialization, if the arm was significantly displaced from where it had been when it was turned off, the PWM board would instruct the motor to immediately "be" in a position that required the arm to travel clear across the desk in effectively as little time as possible.

In this case, where it had been previously happened to be where my wine glass was now, and the flimsy aluminum at high speed was enough to shear the stem from the glass and explode the bulb. Luckily the wine didn't get in any sensitive electronics, but I learned a valuable lesson about the difference between messing around with hardware vs software.
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People need places to live and we aren’t making more of them. There’s no world where public policy guarantees such scarcity relative to fundamental demand but speculators look the other way. Let them invest in development instead.
Well wisdom of the crowds suggest that there is a truth... and a conference is charged with representing the best so I think that randomization and meta moderation + other strategies are better in the long run.
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How often have I heard of people running into C++ compiler bugs. Oh the horror. This is what originally bit me in the 90s, and I never went back to C++ again.
Yes, it's white. In space, and from the ground when it's not near the horizon, under almost all atmospheric conditions.

As for the confusion... oh my, such a rich area.

The Stanford Solar Center outreach site[1] could be a fun place to start. It manages "It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red." On a site heavily themed in, yes, yellow and orange and red. Other outreach sites don't even manage that warning, despite similar colors. It then continues with a common color misconception "However, the Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white." Followed by a miscolored ground spectrum[2], of which there's a diversity[3], on a page named GreenSun, reflecting a misconception that ground irradiance spectrum peaks in green (rather than 490 nm cyan/blue), and another misconception that spectrum peak determines object color, and thus another that the Sun is in some sense green.

In US popular culture, Sun color is yellow[4]. And that's pervasively used in K-12 astronomy and earth sciences illustrations, competing with orange.[5]

Astronomy textbooks, including the top 10-ish introductory astronomy college texts (thanks Library Genesis!), similarly use yellow. This is reinforced by "G2 class yellow star", while failing to mention that classification's blue "white"-point (Vega). And further reinforced by a diversity of aphysically colored H-R diagrams.[6]

We've known Sun color for a century, had detailed limb darkening and tint numbers for decades, and now years of intensive effort on stellar atmospheres in support of occultation and exoplanet work. And science education content manages to remain decoupled from all of that.

Confusion... sigh. There's a physics education research line, "if you think your lectures are working, your assessment also isn't". I'd extend it to "if you think your science students, content, and instructors, aren't deeply steeped in misconceptions, then your knowledge of your field's education research also is". Confused mess doesn't begin to cover it. The juxtaposition of good caring people putting in lots of (tragically not-broadly-collaborative) effort, with baseline that's so very ghastly... sigh.

If you know of anyone/project/lab/forum/etc with an interest in speculative exploring "what might science education conceptions/progressions/interactives look like if they weren't a disaster?", even if, as with Sun color, there's little hope of fixing it any year soon, I'd very much appreciate hearing of them. Thanks!

[1] http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.htm...
[2] http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/images/solar...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+sunlight+spectrum&tbm=...
[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=drawing+of+Sun&tbm=isch [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+system&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=winter+summer+sun+diagram&tb...
[6] https://www.google.com/search?q=Hertzsprung-Russell+Diagram&...
there’s so little testing

Seriously. It seems like even relatively loose QC would run full a full chemical composition analysis on the occasional random batch.
> Imagine a process where the only criteria are technical soundness and novelty, and as long as minimal standards are met, it's a "go". Call it the "ArXiv + quality check" model.

One possible issue is that researchers usually need to justify their research to somebody who's not in their field. Conferences are one way to do this. So are citation counts. Both are highly imperfect, but outsiders typically want some signal that doesn't require being an expert in a person's chosen field. The "Arxiv + quality check" model doesn't seem to provide this.

> I suspect the bigger problem that CS has is a large percentage of poor-quality work that couldn't be replicated.

As a sort of ML researcher for several years, I agree.
> Finding extraordinary evidence requires a commitment of extraordinary funds

I would suggest that he answers to his own complaints. There is a great deal of prioritisation going on in science and fringe ideas require too large steps away from where we are today. The real break-throughs in science are ideas that massively reduce the size of the backlog. My guess is that these ideas will receive proper treatment them when the time is right.
A better example of C's context-sensitive grammar might be the expression "(T)*x", which parses differently depending on whether T names a type or a value.
Deliberately conflating cause & effect is a classic politician’s move. It doesn’t even have to be a reversal of the two: it’s probably even more frequent when they cite one part of a positive feedback loop as the unambiguous cause and the other as the clear effect.

The classic example of the later are the politicians who rant “if only these people would get married and stay married, they wouldn’t be so poor” and neglect to consider that impoverished communities create the conditions for rampant single motherhood. The desire to raise children does not magically vanish merely because there are exactly zero worthwhile men in your community that aren’t your father’s age.
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You forgot to support the assumption that

> Unlike most modern languages, which have a context-free grammar, it has a context-sensitive grammar.

Implies it C does not have simple syntax.

Is there a law a language with "simple syntax" cannot have context-sensitive grammar?
The fund is no charity or like a typical VC investment, it clearly says they want to see your project leveraging their API, in other words you will be paying them back by using their API's. It's almost like how cloud vendors give free credits, no way it will help research or open source community.
Haha yeah. I've definitely "harmed" myself in the form of time lost from deleting files/messing something up on my computer, but I think this was the only time I've actually experienced physical pain from my own bad code.
Oh it's all a bit more nuanced than that. The right kind of social acceptance (i.e. within a sub-society structured to seek validity) is a very good indication of that validity. That is why papers, journals, etc even exist.
Roughly 15% of petroleum goes into chemical feedstocks.

Not all of that is plastics. I suspect natural-gas-fired ammonia synthesis (Haber-Bosch process) is a major fraction.

But it's not a tiny percentage.
> I am heartened to see that people are still trying out ideas like superdeterminism, but I have to admit, all the data supports the basic QM model of the universe.

Here's what I don't get about "superdeterminism" – what it is "super-" about it? I read an explanation of "superdeterminism", and it just reads like plain old determinism to me. Any convinced determinist is going to say that of course determinism includes the human will among the things that are determined. Philosophers such as Spinoza or the Baron d'Holbach were already saying exactly that long before any physicist had thought up the term "superdeterminism".
I don't think it has to be - I think they're thinking about how to turn that research into money in a healthy way, so as to keep doing relevant work in a super capital-intensive area and maintain their ability to exert some control over how AI is used, and they quite rightly assume that they can't both do the research and invent all of the killer apps at the same time.

It's interesting if you compare it to Bell or Xerox, right? The research lab's hackers helping make funding decisions about startups that use their secret sauce might seem funny historically, though maybe it would have been more effective.

(In practice, though, as HN is well aware, OpenAI isn't just some research lab; serial entrepreneurs who are connected with the most successful incubator ever, etc).
I agree with all of this... Except, what's so terrible about the ternary operator?
Life doesn't need a temperature difference. It only needs some material in one energy state whose transition to a lower energy state it can catalyze. Say converting visible light to infrared radiation using photosynthesis, or rusting iron [1], etc. The CMBR with 0-100 C provides for the environment that allows for the molecules to be stable without life needing to take any precautions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria
Equally, the branch of Protestant Christianity commonly practiced in North America is pretty far from the Christianity practiced in the the Middle East, or Africa, or even big swathes of Europe. Disparate cultures often put their own spin on things, and it's no surprise the relatively rational-secular West put a rational-secular spin on Buddhism.
I have. Back in early days of Oculus, I was using one of the development kits (DK2?, maybe DK1) and making something in Unity. The Oculus had one screen, with lenses over the left and right halves. To give depth perception, it renders a view for each eye, and shows them in a vertical split screen. Some script had a bug, and none of that happened; Instead it simply stretched a normal view across both screens.

I put the headset on, and quickly noticed things weren't working right. I was walking around, trying to figure out what the issue was. Trying walking back any forth looking at a wall in front of me, I felt terrible pain. Something about the left and right eyes seeing movement in different directions across their entire field of view really breaks the brain. It was very sharp and localized too.

The brain's perception system is weird.
even for free / OSS apps ?
Then indeed there would be nothing to take issue with. However to make the analogy extremely tenuous (at best), one needs to show that there is no baby, rather than just claiming there isn't.
His twitter feed for a start.
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President Joe Biden said on May 26 that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) believes there are “two likely scenarios” that may have caused the CCP virus outbreak in China, noting that a significant number of officials believe the virus was spread due to a “laboratory accident.”
> You seem to be talking about the preprocessor, not C itself, and I'm not sure that anything you say about it is true (the preprocessor is complicated).

The preprocessor is part of the language. Both in literal sense and in real-world. All C programs use the preprocessor. You need to deal with it. Also, the grammar of the preprocessor is intertwined with C proper due to "#if" directives. The expression on the right hand side of an "#if" is parsed according to the grammar of C proper.

> I'm not sure that anything you say about it is true (the preprocessor is complicated).

You can run the examples under compilers and verify. Also, the part about it being context-sensitive (with regard to tokenization in #include directives vs everywhere else) is explicitly noted in the standard. Nothing controversial here.

> Certainly, your first example won't compile without warnings for any sensible GCC options.

Compiles just fine without any warnings with GCC with options -Wall -Wextra.
Yes, I'm becoming quite convinced that in general its stupid to meter almost anything. Why can't we just starting to give social repercussions to bullshit so we can just trust that people aren't scamming everybody all the time. In general, competition is mostly just waste of everybody's time, and in the end it's usually easiest to win just by cheating.

A sort of reputation system is in place in almost all peer-to-peer societies, it tends to form automatically. I don't think we really need any of this weird mess of a system.

We have Wikipedia, we have open source, we have OSM, we have all sort of things that should be "impossible" given the dismal perception people have of other people. This perception is just plain wrong and really harmful.
LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month
You would be surprised to learn then that California has many unconstitutional laws on the books.
I always liked its concept and I am surprised very few projects are using it. On NetBSD it works well, I guess NIH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here) syndrome :(
I'd continue with frequent hand-washing/sanitising to this. I remember reading that Influenza virii spread via touch as well [0]. Plus, it's just good hygiene :)

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm#:~:text=The....
So in the UK the Government is already underwriting first-time buyer mortgages for anyone with a 5% deposit on properties up to $850K USD.

This helps noone short term because the banks just pocket the subsidy, and long-term it just drives prices even higher.
While I agree with your worldview as presented here there is a difference between:

1. helping a friend hide the body

2. telling your friend they are in the wrong and you will help them through the consequences IE likely charges, court, gaol time, life rebuilding etc.
You make a strong argument for the FDA to get its own fleet of aircraft carriers and probably ground support as well. I bet they'd have many fewer enforcement issues. Then again the optics of the FDA sending a nuke to a company that is non-compliant in it's handling of medical grade radioactive isotopes might be a little bad.
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Archive link since the site appears to be down (too much traffic I guess)

https://archive.is/E3GvJ
I've actually just encountered this first fucking hand and it disgusted me. I'm an aspiring founder working on something and met a coworker who had been through YC W17. I wanted to pick his brain on his experience, especially since I've been applying to YC myself.

This coworker told me he and his "startup":

- routinely lied to potential customers on the size of their client list

- misled clients on the depth and completeness of their product

- blatantly broke CA laws to cut cost corners

All of this was done to secure contracts in order to secure more funding. "Always be selling", he said.

He literally fucking said to me that he learned to "be dubious, not deceitful" which is probably one of the most deceitful things I've ever heard.

Made me sick to my stomach and pretty much validated (1) why I never moved to SF in the first place, instead moved to NYC and (2) how much of a fraud YC has become. Absolute fucking madness.
We're in a weird space that previous models don't map very well to. For example, the legal system doesn't map because virtually none of the things people are doing on social media are illegal, and probably shouldn't be. On the other hand, the previous social models, such as gossip ("random people freely making whatever conclusions they want") don't apply because their potential for destructive effects are relatively circumscribed.

Maybe one analogy would be the way that gossip and rumour in a very small town could harm a person, such as by affecting their livelihood, their family, and so on. Now that we have the global village, the "small town" is basically everybody. I see the current debates about "cancel culture" or whatever as a messy attempt to work out norms for this new space. We're probably still in the early stage of those getting worked out.
And charge other electronics much faster. Power tools, household pluggables. This market isn't sexy but it's a good time to disrupt
My last paragraph addresses that.
I really like sass the language. I really hate the dart-sass implementation.

Earlier this week they pushed a _minor_ version that started throwing deprecation warnings in all of my projects. Worst part is that it's not even my code; it's from one of my dependencies so there's no way to fix it other than piping the warnings to /dev/null or pinning dart-sass to a random minor version.

Maybe this is just the way things work in the node ecosystem but in frameworks/languages that I actually enjoy using, deprecation warnings usually come in major version N+1.0.0 not in N.X.Y+1.
Why is diversity of thought limited to Democrats and Republicans, two perspectives that are actually quite close when it comes to economics - do you want a mixed-market economy that tilts slightly more in the direction of free market capitalism or not?

There's just not much daylight between Democrat and Republican economic professors compared to say a Marxian Economist vs Chicago School for example. I think the handwringing over D/R splits really boils down to narcissism of small differences.
again though, this is bad but not a flaw in usb-c. a manufacturer created a device that violates the spec.

MicroUSB devices can also be bricked by using non-conforming cables and power adapters, but fortunately devices like that are rare because the spec has existed long enough that all the bad devices have been flushed out of the market. manufacturers having made stupid decisions in the past does not mean we shouldn't make USB-C better now.
This reminds me a lot of Sea-Thru but they never ended up making their tool public, did they?
I do woodworking and construction work. In real life, I always must select first. Apply action second.
So to me this feels more natural.
Because only C++ compilers have bugs, of course.
>On average were budget for getting 10% max power generation out of single sided panels and about 25% for double sided.

Well, yes. It's a panel that only generates power when sunlight is shining on it. When the sun goes down, solar stops producing power.

Switching all power generation to PV solar is going to require massive overprovisioning. This has been obvious, and widely known, for decades. Cost-per-KWh is going to be widely variable during the day. This has also been known. Running an aluminum smelter at midnight is going to stop being economical.

We can either do this, or pay to raise every building and road in Miami by 6 feet. One or the other.
> we don’t celebrate bullshit artists so much in school.

This was not my experience of school in the US. Just as one example, two words: Cliff's Notes.
As I mentioned below and on the disclosure page, it's trivial for Apple to reliably detect this in apps submitted to the App Store and reject them, so I'm not worried. There's no such thing as "obfuscated" malware in the traditional sense on the App Store. You can obfuscate the code flow all you want, but all executable code has to be signed to run on iDevices. If you try to use this register, the instruction will be there for all to see. You can't use self-modifying code or packers on iOS.