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Email Marketing for Recruiters: The Ifs and Buts

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Sam Altman addresses that when he was asked that question in 'How I Built This' Podcast.

Essentially: OpenAI did not realize the massive scale they needed for them to be successful. When they realized this, they could not raise any funding as 'non-profit'. They asked govt, who did not want to fund it, and other sources, at the end they did not have any other recourse.

Sam Altaman says: 90% of funding was needed for compute power, but also was needed for things like buying dataset and then to pay employee so that they can compete with likes of Google to retain them. If they would not have done this, then very soon they would have become irreverent.

So to retain the earlier intent (for greater good) they put in bunch of 'safety features' around funding - Ex. 'Profit Cap' - investors would get only certain amount of profit and after that the profit would be distributed to the world (in some way). Similarly, there were few other 'safety feature he talked about.

The relevant portion starts at 32:39 mark in the following podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3oOX1QHLPw9uvLL5LmBk28?si=s...
I’m really skeptical about TTS. There’s lots of theoretical and academic and research lab stuff that supposedly is quantum leaps forward in TTS. However, all the commercial offerings sound like TTS and never match the breathless hype. Try them out and you can tell within seconds it’s a robot talking.
I think this is how it works already with harvesters, where the demand is only really during a month of the year.

I don't know the details how it works, but I am assuming there is a way they can work it out where everyone is reasonably happy. Because it is in the interest of the rental service to be predictable.

And there is a huge benefit for the farmer to not have to own and store something that is probably the most expensive machine they have. And also not have to worry about it breaking down at the most critical moment.

But that comes at a steep hourly price i assume.

Market economy is not always a bad thing.
Ctrl-z is useful to be sure but nowadays (n)vim has terminal emulators built-in.

I use this plugin:
https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim

Nvim also has a new --listen flag (if you ever tried nvr this is now built in). So no matter where you are the file will open in your main nvim instance.

No need to exit.
Max Wolf catalogued over a thousand high proper motion stars, which tend to be relatively nearby which I guess makes them popular locations for sci-fi.
That's because cutscene production was usually outsourced to specialized companies that offered the entire cutscene production process as a service to game studios and publishers (not just for game cutscenes and intros, but also marketing trailers) - those companies usually created all cutscene assets from scratch, and at most used artist sketches for 'inspiration', but no 'ingame assets'.
The title of this submission is editorialized and misleading. @dang, please change to the original title "Three Lessons from Threema -- Analysis of a Secure Messenger".
GitHub API returns a 500, no help coming?
Requests to a Github API endpoint used to run fine, then after a month it returned a 500 error code.
Posted a question about it on their Github Community space. A manager of the community tells me they are overloaded. Is there anything I can do to speed up the resolution? Thanks!

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/40628
I'll try to link to several of Alan's talks [1] referred to by localhost on the first books and printing press.
This first one [2] is too short, there are more detailed versions. Talk [4] has different slides then I remember.

[1] https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay

[2] https://vimeo.com/6606439

[3] https://vpri.org/writings.php

[4] https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Alan_Kay_at_Xerox_PARC_(1...
Imagine its 1880 and the news of the day is that farmers are allowed to shoe their horses on their own, with horseshoes that they can procure themselves.
> I wonder how effective the extractor is above the stove, if you always put it on its max fan setting when cooking, would it improve the VOC and other gases detected?

The answer is likely "Yes, it improves things a little bit, but it's still a terrible idea to keep a device spitting dangerous emissions inside your home".
> Wok cooking without gas is unimaginable to many people, what's a possible solution here?

There are actually some excellent electric woks.

> Sure, you can use an electric oven, but is this really more efficient?

It's probably not that different in terms of efficiency, I would have thought. But it could even be acceptable for it to be a bit less efficient if it is less harmful for the occupants of the house.
Already exists in those systems, there's "lay judges" who sit with the judge and have stuff explained to them.

IMO the 12 jurors thing is not ideal. Too many people, and cases can get technical.
That design is garbage.

Hot stuff from your stove will naturally rise, so capturing it above the stove is much better.
> for example meat consumption has gone down in germany by almost 10% over the last 10 years and it's not because meat is expensive or had disincentives attached to it),

Any citations to show that this reduction was through altruistic individual action for climate change?
been using neovim for years now and I didn't know this.

I've only recently started using ctrl+c to move from input mode to normal mode
This is nice but it's impossible to get a Raspberry Pi 4 anymore without selling a kidney.
Nah, they’ll only live as long as their least trustworthy staff or least reliable part lets them. Or the ship of Theseus kicks in and disqualifies the android/ai from claiming it’s the same person. Doctor who had fun with this.

Perhaps better to say that the momentum of massive piles of money continue independent of their purported driver.
Zero to Production – Rust book review
Earth is a PvP server.
I like is idiosyncratic take on math, it is good to know there is someone with a slightly different opinion than everyone else.

His videos about multisets released in the last weeks have been super interesting. They seem like a very promising alternative to classical set theory that maybe could be used for some better type system.
Don't know if UX is as big of a problem as you think. My understanding is that the problem with self hosting is reliability and spam prevention.

For reliability, self hosting a server that will always be available is hard. Not getting an important email because your server went offline is a massive bummer.

Similarly, while filtering spam on your end might be doable, self hosted email servers are often filtered by major email providers for looking like spam.
Well I'm on the tech side so I agree with you, but it's a massive social change. To people who don't understand tech it's like introducing magic, something they clearly are going to fight against.

But yeah there must be low hanging fruit there that in theory could be picked.

Or maybe get that judge who codes to help educate some of his colleagues.
There are induction wok stoves. Only stumbled upon them recently myself as well https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/99626/files/334365439/maxim...
What's interesting to me is that there seem to be a number of "Hawaii" dishes (involving pineapple) that all seem to date back to roughly the same timeframe (1950s) but seem to have very different origin stories.

For example, "Toast Hawaii" appeared in Germany in 1955, consisting of a slice of toasted white bread, one or two slices of cooked ham, a pineapple ring, a slice of processed cheese and a cocktail cherry, baked in an oven. Interestingly, I've read that that dish may be derived from an American "grilled spamwich" (but spam was not availble in Germany at the time). Likewise, "Steak Hawaii" (as well as "Schnitzel Hawaii") involves baking with pineapple rings and cheese.

I'm guessing someone somewhere associated cheese and pineapple with Hawaii in the 1950s as part of the general obsession with Hawaiian-inspired culture (e.g. tiki torches, fake lei garlands, ukuleles and luau-themed garden parties) and it caught on as an "exotic" twist on home cooking internationally (despite Hawaii and pineapples otherwise having no clear relation).
I suppose the memory test would likely be in a book or pamphlet in the house
In the US, especially apartments, kitchen cooktops often have no ventilation (or the hood will even fake vent into a cabinet).

I don't really know how it's code but it might be because there's often a window in the room that can be used instead?

I think that's how some bathrooms got away with not having a vent too.
That’s an OG unix command, not a vi command.
Strange. I’ve never used it, and never needed to use it. Though I regularly use Telegram, Discord, Skype, Slack, and Viber. All conversations with relatives happen on imessage/facetime.
Sure, but until computers get citizenship (and maybe even then), it will be illegal to use non-algorithmic programs for decision-making, because it runs afoul of the laws that mandate that you must be able to explain how the program helped you to came to a decision (tracing the algorithm step by step) in language that your average person can understand.
I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner venting the hot air inside the room.
I had planned to play around with TorToiSe[1] next weekend and already watched some videos. There it looks like all you have to do, is to offer you own voice samples to the system and no separate training seems to be required. TorToiSe is slow to synthesize, so it doesn't beat the 3 seconds but can anyone confirm that these models really don't need an extra training phase to clone a voice?

[1] https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
Yeah, I am increasingly nervous about some point in the future where you cannot trust any digital medium because of deep fakes, NERFs, voice cloning...

The only possible solution I have seen being talked about is digitally signing any and all "real" content, similar to GPG/SSH.
At some point natural people are going to use cryptographic signatures just to authenticate themselves in daily life. No video, audio, or text can be presumed real unless signed by the human subject.
Wasn't controlled by the landlord, but by the management team which is paid by the condo fee. If you own the condo, you pay that fee, if you rent it from a landlord you also pay it. The management team I believe is hired by the residents committee which is elected by the residents. Sort of like an HOA, I guess? There were elections during my stay and we were invited to participate, but I didn't care enough and this was a temporary situation.

This was in a large apartment tower complex in the semi-countryside. Not sure if it's always like that, it's the only apartment I stayed in. In Seoul I've only lived in villas.

Perhaps it's a countryside thing because I've also noticed noisy public speakerphones in the streets blasting PAs about random stuff, but I haven't seen it in Seoul.

Overall though, the local governments do spam your phone with alerts about all sorts of remotely relevant (IMO) things on a daily/hourly basis. I find it annoying but it's just how it is here. Today they were spamming about possible debris from a NASA satellite deorbiting.

Here is a very collectively oriented society. That's my take on it. High trust communities, so much so that things like this are possible: https://mobile.twitter.com/AntoineGrondin/status/16123864859...
I'm skeptical of products when they have copy such as this on their homepage:

> Virus
> Tracking your humidity and keeping CO2 levels low will greatly reduce spread of virus.

I know nothing about the product other than seeing some enthusiasm for it on HN, but writing like this would typically be enough for me to discount purchasing anything from the company.
You moved to another country and did one single banking transaction there in a month? That seems like something you have to actively try in order to do. Right? Why did you try?
What about Lightwave? Wasn’t Babylon 5 done with that?
> There's also the "push to call, pull to cancel" mentioned in a sibling comment --- observe how the buttons are shaped such that they imply you can pull on them:

Many thanks for these videos, the shape of the buttons in the last video is exactly how I remember them (both the push/pull floor select buttons and the push-only door close/open buttons, and yes, I'm sure it was an Otis); the main difference is that there were many more floors.
A relative of mine recently died from bulbar ALS. By the time she had the diagnosis her voice had already changed and weakened significantly so she couldn't get a decent recording to use with a text to speech synthesizer. Something like this could potentially help people like her or those who lose their voices in traumatic accidents. Even if you do have the time to do it, training a current TTS engine in your voice takes a significant amount of time and the results are often poor.
I hate this name. Don't know how to pronounce it, but every way sounds bad.
!remindme - :)
I have a bin for certain things. I have a bin for ham radio stuff. I have a bin for cables, connectors and chargers. I have my old Xbox and accessories in a bag. I have all my various unused SBCs in a zip lock bag in a bin (usually in the little mylar and box they came in for protection) and that bag is in a big bin with other electronic components bags (caps, resistors, diodes/transistors, connectors/cases, etc).
Sales and marketing, learned they can be.

A business without knowing accounting/finance, exist can. (An accountant, hire, one can).

For accounting/finance to be useful at all, a business exist, must first.
Show HN: Hey GPT-3, Write my PRD
Women and Diversity in Communities
IME it depended a lot on individual studios. The company I worked at (Radon Labs) was a 100% Maya shop, other Berlin game companies were entirely 3DSMax based. I guess today it's more mixed up because Maya and 3DSMax have ended up in the same company and (hopefully) can easily exchange data.
anyone know what's up with the sudden uptick in AI assisted everything?

- ChatGPT
- DALL-E
- VALL-E
- Stable Diffusion

maybe it's just a reflection of my interest being peaked with AI junk and google ads -- but I feel like I'm seeing it more and more even in HN.
I listened to the 3 samples, and I must say some of it is quite close and some of it is completely wrong with how I would expect that person to sound saying those words.

Like the first one "just his scribbles that charmed me" sounds so weird compared to how the sample sounds.

Second one, sounds very close but again "just his scribbles that charmed me" sounds off and wrong. His "scrouples? that charmed me".

Third one as well, it's very up and down (not sure the correct science words for that type of speaking), "Dynamo and lamp.... Edison realized". The second one is completely flat and seems computer generated.

Overall these don't seem very good to me at least. It's clearly not to the level of some other AI coming out where it is very difficult to determine the human part, I could easily pick up the human and generated version from these samples.
Citing software like autoland which slavishly applies the rules humans have programmed into it as a reason why neural networks should be considered better than humans at solving general intelligence problems is moving the goalposts even further the other way...
Useful analogy but what makes you think what we're dealing with is exponential ?

Human intelligence isn't growing exponentially and moores law is said to be breaking down.
Hardly different from any public company then ?
Yes. Then I listened to the samples, and was relieved that it's not good enough to handle a well-known voice impersonation... yet.

My primary worry is for criminal misuse. There's a class of scams where the scammers find elderly victims, call them, and pretend to be their children or grandchildren on vacation in a plausible city and suddenly in need of money to help get their passport back or a ticket home.

There are any number of cases where I have accepted an order worth large sums of money over the phone from someone I have previously dealt with and feel familiar with their voice.
January 4 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technology/meta-facebook-...):

“Meta suffered a major defeat on Wednesday that could severely undercut its Facebook and Instagram advertising business after European Union regulators found it had illegally forced users to effectively accept personalized ads.

The decision, including a fine of 390 million euros ($414 million), has the potential to require Meta to make costly changes to its advertising-based business in the European Union, one of its largest markets.”

Even ignoring that it is including a fine, I would think $414 million is large enough for some fairly high-up managers at Meta getting flak for it.
The issue is the compiler/language.

Since RISC-V should be an international standard for assembly level interoperability, that removes in a reasonable way this "compiler/language" issue ... until no technically very expensive code generators/code preprocessors are used since those would not be that less worse than an optimizing compiler.

Write RISC-V assembly once, run anywhere.

The cherry on top, RISC-V ISAs do not have toxic IP tied to them, like x86_64 or ARM, and that at a worldwide level.

I would be ready to pay the price of losing some speed on C code paths until I can compile them with "toy"/small/alternative compilers which are not gcc/clang, BUT I cannot even do that since linux code is hard dependent on gcc extensions.
- Not arguing, just repeating arguments I have heard -

Not sure if you can achieve wok hei with those (which seems to be THE thing that differentiates wok cooking from anything else). Some background from the nyt: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/dining/stir-fry-recipe-wo...
But... That's good no?

> No video, audio, or text can be presumed real unless signed by the human subject.

Where is the controversy in that?
> I put it on my calendar to cancel in 30 days

Cancel immediately after you sign up; you still get the 30 days for free.
Websites can’t see a PC’s DNS configuration, so it can’t know what DNS resolvers a client is using except through some inference?
> it's still a terrible idea to keep a device spitting dangerous emissions inside your home.

I completely agree, but some people will grab their burning pitchforks and will try to convince you that they can't cook as well on an electric stove.

I use both of them, and gas considerably lowers the air quality (I can feel it), and prefer electric very much, however it has a learning curve, and people don't want to change.

Also, AFAIK, you can't use a wok as it's meant to be used on an electric stove.
You can fake GPS data. Also, capabilities are far beyond the Android and iOS model.
Sample size of one, but ours is pretty effective (and loud lol)! We have an old Wolf stove, the fan vents directly outside, and I have been ad hoc testing it with an Awair sensor over the past year. Without running the fan the Awair score drops from the 90s to the 40-50s pretty quickly when running the stove (either oven or surface) and takes about 45 minutes to return to normal once the stove is off. With the fan on high the score stays in the high 70s to 80s. My ears, tho...
Fair point. I was arguing from the efficiency perspective alone.
If you're running NixOS there's an impermanence plugin that allows you to specify specific directories and files you need to persist outside of what NixOs/HM builds for you and then use a tmpfs in-memory partition for root and/or home. Then at boot you're loading up the NixOS/HM config and then the persistent files are symlinked or mounted to where they need to be, but otherwise you have a fresh system on each reboot. It's a bit painful and manual to figure out exactly what to keep (unless you just want to keep the entire .config, for instance, which I don't) but it's amazing to know that you can mess up your home directory as much as you want and then it'll automatically clean itself with a reboot.
It’s so frustrating that the entire CSI camera module ecosystem has been completely handicapped by the choice of connector for the camera module.

The V1 camera module (OV5647) only supported two lanes, so it was a fair enough decision then, but they had a chance to change it when they changed connector on the PiZero.

The connector even had the 4 extra pins specifically to support 4 lane CSI, but it was as if it was forgotten about. The V2 camera came out not long after so the combination would have made for a massive upgrade.

I think they ended up back peddling from the new connector due to the horrific combination of a too thin custom flat flex cable with a connector that could barely meet its 10 mating cycle rating.

It didn’t have to be that way, a standard 0.5mm FFC with decent swing down latch connector is 10x more robust.
Yeah, as far as I know the Amiga was popular for US TV productions, probably because of the Video Toaster heritage, and the low resolution of TV allowed to render out lower resolution video which didn't require powerful SGI render farms. I don't think Lightwave was ever popular in the PC game development scene (I remember one small Berlin game studio though which sticked with Lightwave for a fairly long time because they had built a pretty extensive workflow around it).
I want to learn LISP and do a machine learning deep dive following a long twitter thread of things to learn Suhail did.

I'd also like to learn some basics of piano so I can goof around with this little synth I have some more.

[0] https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1541276314485018625
In the UK all the one I've had vented into the room sadly...
Emacs itself does much more than HTML and JS.
I don't know what, if any, regulations are involved but here in Norway several of the big electrical retailers have started publishing the expected lifetime of products together with statement of how long spares will be available.

For example the Ankarsrum food mixer (successor to the classic Electrolux Assistent) entry at Elkjop.no states that the expected lifetime is 30 years and that spares will be available for 12 years.

https://www.elkjop.no/product/hjem-rengjoring-og-kjokkenutst...

The French idea looks good. IKEA don't provide that information here :-(
There are ventless extractor which have carbon filters. They're designed to trap the odors. Not the gas. When I was building my home, two of the three architects balked to the idea of a venting extractor.

"You can have carbon filters, why the ugly pipe?" they have said. I prevailed and have a venting one now.
It's the new hot topic?
Breakthrough tech doing breakthrough tech things
So, first you say:

> There isn't any reality behind that statement, it's somebody with an axe to grind

And then you hilariously say:

> discovered a right to privacy in the bill of rights to get the outcome the justices wanted

There is absolutely no reality behind that statement, you're just someone with an axe to grind.

Bro. Did you even read Griswold (which is a completely different case than Roe)? Also, are you just gonna throw all penumbras out? This shit's been around since the 19th century. If not guaranteed by the 1st, 4th, and 9th the 14th adds it.

Oh look, here's the right to privacy again: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priv...

It's from 1890 in the notoriously disreputable HARVARD LAW REVIEW.