skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, id under Carmack kept cranking out hit after hit for years, essentially shrugging off Romero's firing like nothing happened.

I believe this is absolutely wrong. Quale 2, 3 and Doom 3 were critical success, not commercial ones, which led ID to be bought.

John and John were like Paul and John from the beatles, they never made really great games anymore after their break up.

And to be clear, that's because the role of Romero in the success of ID is often underrated like here. He invented those games (Doom and Quake and Wolf) as much as Carmack did. For example, Romero was the guy who invented percent-based life. He removed the score. This guy invented the modern video game in many ways. Games that werent based on Atari or Nintendo. He invented Wolf, Doom and Quake setups which were considerably more mature than Mario and Bomberman and it was new at the time. Romero invented the deathmatch and its "frag". And on and on.
++ it's unclear what data this breakthrough is helping to keep private and how.
The minimum latency is bottlenecked by the monitor unless you allow tearing.
Ah yes, you are right. I’ll never actually look at the continuous unless I’m robbed, so it doesn’t bother me. Person and animal detection is really good, so you’d have to be very motivated to want to slop around in the space between.
Half-Life is turning 25, and Valve threw it a party with a free update
OpenAI obviously.

You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.
There is a brief view as the inner ring of engines relight (note that the 3 core engines don’t shut down). All but one come back online initially but begin shutting down again shortly thereafter. There are some pretty violent events happening near the engines during the time that they are being lost one by one. The more I look at it, the more it looks like an actual RUD. It seems like maybe those violent events around the engines compromised something in the mid section of the rocket, which is where the explosion originates from. Scott Manley speculated that the very fast flip manuever may have caused some issues with continuous fuel delivery into the plumbing which seems quite plausible given the erratic behavior of the engines after they first appear to relight without issue.
It says my email is not found, which does not surprise me, since this appears to be something I never signed up for.

I will admit to some amusement at this error:

Error 404: Email not found.

Is that what this 404 message I keep seeing on the internet means?

Thanks anyway! I guess I could email somebody on their team or something.
This goes back to what the original commenter was saying. The rumor is that Altman was planning to launch an AI chip startup to take on Nvidia before his ejection from OpenAI.
See my other response. If you have people sign a contract that says the mission comes first, but also give them profit sharing stocks, and cap those profits at 1.1 Trillion, it is bound to cause some conflicts of interest in reality, even if it is clear who calls the shots when deciding how to balance the mission and profit
And his second tweet explained what he meant by that.
This is exactly the link I referred to, but for some reason HN changed it.
> Knowledge of a secret does not imply that you provide value.

If it did not provide value to tell the employee the secret then it follows that company would/should not tell the employee the secret.
Neither motion or object detection are really that reliable, in any system I've worked with. The norm in commercial systems has long been to record continuously and use motion/object detection/other classifiers to annotate the recording. That gives you the opportunity to search for events, like thefts, that may not have been detected by classification. You also have access to footage well before and after the detected event, which is often absolutely critical to answering useful questions (e.g. how did someone get past the fence?). Common patterns like 10 seconds before/30 seconds after just aren't always sufficient.

Unfortunately consumer devices are almost always cloud-based, where storage but especially upstream bandwidth are much more costly considerations, so recording only on detection has become the norm in the consumer world.

External triggers are also an important feature in commercial systems that a lot of open source projects miss---but Frigate isn't guilty of this one, it can receive triggers by MQTT, which is the same thing I do right now with Blue Iris. That's the big thing that has me optimistic about Frigate going forward. Because motion and object detection are so inconsistent, triggering VMS events based on access control systems and intrusion sensors is often a much more reliable (and even easier to maintain) approach.
I haven't used Calibre for years (it was annoyingly slow on a low grade laptop), but I've dealt with many epub files, and I think Calibre does a bad job when modifying them.

It's easy to identify an epub that went through Calibre: there's usually a lot of junk metatada in the file. Not just a "contributor" tag or a custom "modified" timestamp, but dozens of empty json structures embedded in xml. And a (potentially empty) bookmark file. But what surprised me is that Calibre accepts to write metadata that is obviously wrong. For instance, a simple heuristic could detect when the user has confused the full name "Jane Doe" with its file-as form "Doe, Jane" and ask for confirmation. And after seeing many dates at "0101-01-01 ...", I suspect that was the default value in some version of Calibre.

I'm glad Calibre exists and that many people like it, but I hope a better software will emerge: safer, saner, faster, maybe prettier and easier to install.
> type checked

Kinda...
Thanks! changed from https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/17xyo1m/its_he....
Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving world, technology is constantly advancing, shaping every aspect of our lives. From the smartphones
The world perceive the way how it wanted to and in this case legitimately so

Arguing about semantics is useless
I’m not against using big words when they’re used according to their actual accepted meaning. But take my upvote regardless :)
Radiation damage to the reactor structure and radioactive waste, among other things.
From a phenomenal demo day to this revelation Sam has managed to get out from under the limits of heading a nonprofit to something that could be immensely profitable, all while engendering sympathy. I’m not saying it was orchestrated with this intent, but if it was it was a masterful bit of reputation engineering.
I'm still unsure what you're advocating for.

Dim, but cool coloured lights? That's certainly better than bright cool ones but I still find them very annoying and overstimulating at night.

The only thing I can't do with dim, warm lighting is read small text from something other than a backlit screen. For everything else, it's perfectly fine. And if I do see myself having to do that, I'll just add a spot of light to what I'm trying to read, problem solved.
>Salaries: Pretty abusive salaries for a non profit

Non profit employees aren’t monks, they don’t need to be talking vows of poverty.
Try (the current incarnation of the ? operator) is actually a very clever trait which does rather more than that.

Types for which Try is implemented can Try::branch() to get a ControlFlow, a sum type representing the answer to the question "Stop now or keep going?". In the use you're thinking of where we're using ? on a Result, if we're Err we should stop now, returning the error, whereas if we're OK we should keep going.

And that's why this works in Rust (today), when you write doSomething()? the Try::branch() is executed for your Result and resolves into a Break or a Continue which is used to decide to return immediately with an error or continue.

But this is also exactly the right shape for other types in situations where failure has the opposite expectation, and we should keep going if we failed, hoping to succeed later, but stop early if we have a good answer now.
Yeah, they should be obligated to pay for the length of the non-compete. 1 year? Okay, you're paying me for a year.
I have the impression that some people can be software developers for 10 years or longer but they still don't "get it" while some junior devs are really great right from the start.

These Seniors might be good at duct taping, overengineering or have a "my way or the highway" mindset but aren't capable of finding and implementing a good solution given the constraints.

It probably boils down to factors like intelligence, creative problem solving, ability to focus, reading skills, knowledge retention and a healthy dose of humility.

I guess everyone can (and probably should) learn basic coding skills, but it doesn't mean everyone can become a great software engineer.
I don't really get the sentiment in this thread. There is an enormous chip shortage and we are just about getting started with useful AI. The chips are not optional and his or rather OpenAIs current mission hinges on their availability.

If Sama feels the current players are not doing enough, it seems entirely in line with his publicly stated and often repeated goal of advancing AI, that he would try and move things along. That's just extremely consequential execution.
The same reason superstar athletes and athletic events are all flocking to the Middle East. Some of the richest fortunes on the planet are associated there, but they’ve been amassed almost exclusively on oil and in nations that are generally considered highly conservative and insular and in an area of the world likely to be most severely impacted by climate change. They are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars to try and get the rest of the world invested in them before the need for oil disappears and they are left to wither and die. Hence tourist cities like Dubai exploding practically overnight. There’s also been enormous spending in the Middle East on sporting events like the FIFA World Cup, golf, soccer and basketball stars, F1, boxing and MMA, and even eSports. Look at how valuable the fab industry has made Taiwan to the world. Something similar in the Middle East is something many oligarchs there would be more than happy to throw money at.
> My boarding school headmaster, for instance, possessed an Edwardian bathtub of some magnificence, with great brass wheels and levers which could rapidly fill it four feet deep with hot water or subject the user to a bracing shower from above, behind and on either side.

So there's a real world version of the bathtub described in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, where the head of the Unseen University has something like that. There must be pictures of such things.
>Cellular signal from a personal cellphone isn't strong enough to register at satellite altitude.

Sure it is. The iPhone can do that right now with emergency SOS.
There's nothing better than a panic in production caused by a third party library.
> It's an extremely IP sensitive industry

I know this will not resonate with some, but on some level I do not really subscribe to the idea of intellectual property. My personal belief is that the brain is more like a radio receiver. The ideas are floating out there for anyone to pull down. The more sensitive among us are able better able to hear what is there and report it back to the rest of us. To claim ownership of an idea is to me like claiming ownership of the note A or the pythagorean theorem. Of course there should be some rewards for introducing novel ideas to the world but to me the real reward is the creative experience of bringing something into the world that was previously unknown.

In an ideal world, I do not think that hedge funds (or most fintech) would even exist. It sort of offends me that we would waste our civic resources legally enforcing ip rights. But I also understand that my position is far from universal.
> not likely the development of new modes of living.

Until the AIs can build better AIs without needing humans. Give it 20 years.
apologies, fixed.
I believe my similar idea to be more funny.

Government mints a currency that can be used to pay taxes (for example 2024)

It uses the currency to buy products and services from the private sector. It will have a flexible exchange rate.

You anticipate how much taxes you will have to pay and try to buy the currency cheaper than using the conventional coins.

A forex market will happen based on economic activity, how much collective tax there will have to be paid.

If there is a crisis there is likely to be more of the currency in circulation than the total sum of 2025 taxes.

After the final tax day the currency is worthless.
> Then general SV opinion

through AFIK the general opinion I have heard outside of SV by people working with AI is that Altman is the one who had been acting "dishonest, manipulative" in a way which endangers open ai (not OpenAI but AI which is open) in recent times

and lets be honest SV isn't really known for caring about morals and bad consequences their tech can have, but the non-profit which made the decision has roughly committed to upholding such standards

> that basically the board is screwed unless

I highly doubt this, probably his comments (some of which where very misleading and manipulative i.e. not candid at all AFIK) in front of congress in context with the goals of the (non profit parent of) OpenAI which fired him has committed to would be enough reason to fire him. If we used similar manipulative speech also in board meetings this would be a pretty clear open and shut case in favor of the board which also would thoroughly destroy his reputation (iff that is the case and it's brought in front of court) so from an outsider perspective this would be a very interesting case.
I haven't worked for Sam, and expect most people commenting on him haven't either, so they only have his interviews and his public commentary to judge him by. From that commentary he seems extremely ... vanilla? But that is probably good for an exec.

I haven't read any of his blogs and thought "wow, how insightful?" - rather, they read similar to press releases I see constantly on LinkedIn. "You have to put something out there" type of stuff. Just doing it to do it, not to share insight.

That's my take, anyway, from basically all I've seen of him, and this gives a "not special" vibe, but my gut tells me that's very, very intentional ...
If I'm understanding it correctly, it's basically the non-profit, AI for humanity vs the commercialization of AI.

From what I've read, Ilya has been pushing to slow down (less of the move fast and break things start-up attitude).

It also seems that Sam had maybe seen the writing on the wall and was planning an exit already, perhaps those rumors of him working with Jony Ive weren't overblown?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23893939/jony-ive-openai-...
> You’re stretching too much for this lift

I read/hear sentences like this all day at work and I’ve taken to just interpreting them literally. So I’ll have you know I’m neither exercising nor on an elevator right now.
Why do you think someone who could be CEO of a $100 million company would be qualified to run a billion dollar company?

Not providing this kind of oversight is how we get disasters like FTX and WeWork.
Why not saltstack?
Until last night, Microsoft seemed to have a lock on the world's most advanced AI. Now if the top talent follows Altman to his new company, Microsoft's investment could be stranded.

We should start a pool on which Microsoft competitor will overpay the most to freeze them out of the new company.
I’ve been using Frigate for six months on a raspberry pi 4 with a Google Coral TPU. It’s connected to 2 network cameras streaming in 2mp each.

Frigate standalone works super smooth with no hiccups at all. I am using object detection for people and have not yet had a false positive or false negative. Additionally, I record not only the events, but but also a 24/7 video. Frigate takes care of garbage collecting old assets.

I have it hooked up to my Home Assistant running on the same raspberry pi. From there, I get notifications to my phone which include a live video, snapshot and video recording. The UX and configuration options are way better than any commercial end user product I have found.

It’s been a literal lifesaver, also fun and easy to use. Would recommend 10 of 10. I have no affiliation with the maintainers.
Excellent question.

I've worked in the LVAD and artificial heart industry, designed several.

You are right, that most modern LVADs are rotary pumps which are technically non pulsatile. I say technically because yes, if you test the pump on a bench of course it's not pulsatile. But once they're implanted, and working in concert with the native heart the net result is somewhere in between. You have more flow that you did before, less puksatile, but still pulsatile.

The implant guidance for most lvads calls for the clinicians to lower the speed setting of the lvad until they can see the aortic valve intermittently opening and closing on echo. If they set the setting too high and the valve stays open, or too low and it doesn't often open, it will calcify in one of those two positions.

If they follow this guidance, the net flow is pulsatile.

Onto your question.

Look up "pump head". This is what happens to the brain on truly non puksatile flow, like you get when your on extended periods of support on a heart lung bypass machine.

Check out a company "ventriflo" who is working on a pulsatile pump in this space to overcome these traditional challenges. I helped design this too.

Cheers!
I think that there is some kind of elitism around AI researchers. Yes they are very valuable, but someone helping everyone else be more productive is absolutely critical.
This really feel like a supervillain origin story though

Now Sam should make a green goblin mask and learn how to fly around town
> I’m currently thinking of moving over to continuous recording, perhaps trying out moonfire-nvr or mayhaps handwriting a gstreamer pipeline. Simple software -> fewer failure modes.

Moonfire's author here. Please do give it a try! Right now it's a little too simple even for me, lacking any real support for motion or events. [1] But I'd like to keep that simple server core that just handles the recording and database functionality, while allowing separate processes to handle Frigate-like computer vision stuff or even just on-camera motion detection, and enhance the UI and add stuff like MQTT/HA integration to support that well. I'd definitely welcome help with those areas. (And UI is really not an area of expertise of mine, as you can see from e.g. this bug: <https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/286>.)

For now I actually run Moonfire and Frigate side-by-side. They're almost complete opposites in terms of what they support, but I find both are useful.

[1] The database schema has the concept of "signals" (timeseriesed enums like motion/still/unknown or door open/door closed/unknown), but my code to populate that based on camera or alarm system events is in my separate "playground" of half-finished stuff, and the crappy UI for it is rotting in one of my working copies. I'd like Moonfire's database/API layer to also have a more Frigate-like concept of "events" and one of "object tracks".
Most of these could be done with Photoshop, a long time ago, or even before computers
So much wrong in this article. First, barter does not outdate money, contrary to popular wisdom. Money is always the most difficult to produce or procure, most long lasting, widely saleable good. No matter what system you start with, it will evolve into these characteristics because that's what problem solving humans want because it benefits them.

Money is, among other things, a tool to transfer capital temporally. Saving it is tranfering capital you created today into the future. Borrowing it is transferring capital you will create in the future to today, at a cost that benefits a facilitator. Financially this is equivalent to shorting the present or shorting the future, or going long on the future with leverage, if you borrow for investment purposes.

Creating a type of money that can only do this in one direction, that is, borrowing, is creating a world where we can only take from our futures and not give to our future selves. How you can do that without making the future worse is beyond me, seems impossible to my simple mind.

We already have a softer version of this. Money doesn't expire, but it devalues, there's a cost to saving in money, that is higher in the present and near term than the cost to borrow it. So the game is such that the incentive is to borrow. And we see the effects of this, taking from our future, the future looks increasingly bleak because it is a certainty that, at some point in the future, this system will spiral out of control. We have sucked the value out of our future for frivolities today.

If you can look at the state of the world and see the impact that our current monetary system has had, and believe that money that expires will be a positive development, I'd love to hear your reasoning.
If "and" operates as logical "and," then being "honest and not open," "not honest and open," and "not honest and not open" would all be possibilities, one of which would still be "honest" but potentially lying through omission.
Ask HN: What is the next big area of software engineering?
Is it just AI?

Seems to me we have said all that needed to be said when it comes to web sites. Cloud systems are fairly mature and unlikely to change that much. What else is there? Is software engineering a "solved" discipline?
They're probably not trying to convey that.

But, to take a stab at that, yes, I personally think there can be some very specific viewpoints that, if compared to how things are today, some aspects of life were quantifiably better than they are today.

If we're holistic about it? Then all the human, technological and societal progress probably overshadows those teeny-tiny aspects of human life that were better before oil. It all depends on your own viewpoint and what you personally think is valuable in life.
Is a CEO a company executive?
Not at the same level of quality. For example, their game, ultima underworld if my memory doesnt fault me, didnt have sub-pixel precision for texturing. Their texturing was a lot uglier and unpolished compared to Wolf and especially Doom. I remember I checked, they were behind. And their game crashed. Never saw Doom crash, not even once.
Ask HN: Minecraft Community for Kids?
My son is 10. He loves to do advanced builds in Minecraft, using pistons, etc.

Are there any online communities for kids around his age who also love to build?
Exactly. That kind of anti-scientific propaganda is dangerous. OP shouldn't have so many upvotes.
> It can achieve more than any other skill.

And also destroy more. The line between is very thin and littered with landmines.
Enabling Linux in Safety Applications
The Enabling Linux In Safety Applications (ELISA) project aims to make it easier for companies to build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications – systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage or environmental damage. ELISA members are working together to define and maintain a common set of tools and processes that can help companies demonstrate that a specific Linux-based system meets the necessary safety requirements for certification.
Free will is the ability of an individual to take actions that are independent of an individual's construction (that what made the individual what it is) or any external stimulus (something motivating the individual to act or not act).

There is no free will. Proof: there is no possible source of free will, so it doesn't exist.