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>It's amazing how confident they are due to the compiler having their back, and how confident I am their code won't blow up that much in prod.

I get what you're saying, and I'm glad you are having such a good experience with it. Disclosure, I am not talking down to any language here...in fact I actually like Rust as a language, even though I don't use it professionally.

I am just saying that Go is incredibly easy to learn, and I don't think there are many people who disagree on this point, proponent of Go or not.

> I have to disagree.

We'll have to agree to disagree then :-) Yes, the code is verbose, but it's not really noise in my opinion. Noise is something like what happens in enterprise Java, where we have superfluous abstractions heaped ontop of one another. Noise doesn't add to the program. The verbose error handling of Go, and the fact that it leaves out a lot of magic from other languages doesn't make it noisy to me.

> I don't think those two are incompatible.

Neither do I, but that's the path Go has chosen. It may also have been poorly worded on my part. A better way of putting it: Go doesn't subscribe to the "add as much as possible" - mode of language development.

> But is it high-value productivity?

Writing the verbose parts of go, like error checking, isn't time consuming, because it's very simple...in fact, these days I leave a lot of that to the LLM integration of my editor :-)

Is is high value? Yes, I think so, because I don't measure productivity by number of lines of code, I measure it by features shipped, and issues solves. And that's where Go's ... how do I say this ... obviousness really puts the language into the spotlight for me.
> including satellite phones, walkie-talkies, cellular towers, and GPS.

How can they track gps devices? I thought gps devices are passive in the sense that they don’t emit any signals but only read signatures from satellites.

Or am I reading the article wrong?
I originally opened the article and didn't and comment until later. Real time messages would solve that.
I use blueiris which barely works because I'm overloading it with 9 reolinks at 4k. I'd like to figure out my bottleneck but it works enough barely that it's not worth mucking with it.
Yet another example of why Electron sucks. Is it really that hard to make a native client, especially these days when we have so many cross-platform development frameworks?
Sounds ambitious as a piece, but pretty weak.
Modern Art as CIA Weapon (2013)
The way effective altruism has been criticized in the wake of SBF has been disturbing to me, because it frequently conflates:

- Genuine and meaningful criticism of the latest manifestation of "ends justifies the means" thinking (and how it inevitably just becomes a rationalization for whatever you want to do)

- Significant questions about whether longtermism and a focus on hypothetical future people leads to an altruistic impulse getting detached from genuinely useful action

- Sneering philosophical chauvinism that acts as though the way people normally behave (caring a lot about people and things close to them and caring little or not at all about people and things that are far away) is inherently, obviously the right way to act, and anyone diverging from that should be inherently viewed with suspicion

- Tall-poppy syndrome, acting as though people wanting to change the world is itself a problem, rather than flaws in their approach.

There's plenty of ways to poke at the assumptions of EA-as-practiced, but it often feels like the prevailing tone is "these weirdos, why are they trying to be any different than the rest of society?" - which feels more and more like an inevitable trap for outside criticism of any subculture.

(Disclosure: I give 10% of my income to the Against Malaria Foundation as a result of reading about EA ideas, so I consider myself EA-aligned. I don't do any longtermism stuff or participate in discourse beyond that.)
I dont think employers have to worry about that when the employee works his whole life to be a quant in such a competitive industry.
I think that's where the “not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities” comes in.
I see, crooks look for new venues to rob people of hard earned money?
I can't find the exact quote, but I distinctly remember Sam giving founders advice along the lines of, "operate under the assumption that co-founders and investors are not going to screw you". Pretty sure it was a Startup School lecture at some point.

That still may be good life advice in general (even if it wasn't for Sam in this case) but what I really don't get is the fact that OpenAI's board governance was structured in a way such that this was even possible.

I also don't understand what is to be gained from the perspective of the remaining senior leaders at the company. This is a tremendously momentum-killing event. I cannot think of a single facet of their day-to-day operations, product roadmap, competitive position, etc. that would be improved by this decision.

Yesterday, when this was announced, I was bracing myself for some truly awful news about something that Sam had done in his personal life that was about to be divulged, since that is the only possible rational reason for the board to make the decision it did.

What am I missing? It's all so strange.
Boor also lacked proof, together with common sense. Still
If nobody is to he found to tax then you can just take the land. Super lax version of use it or loose it
>OpenAI had abandoned its public good mission and had morphed into a psuedo-private for-profit.

>They should be fine with the overwhelming volume of investment available to them.

>Another way to look at it: How could this be wrong, given that their objective was not profit, and they can raise money easily with or without Altman?

This wasn't just some cultural shift. The board of OpenAI created a seperate for profit legal entity in 2019. The for-profit legal entity received overwhelming investment from Microsoft to make money. Microsoft, Early investors, and Employees all have a stake and want returns from this for profit company.

The separate non-profit OpenAI has a major problem on its hands if it thinks its goals are no longer aligned with the co-owners of the for-profit company.
It depends on what you are planning to do.

Stable diffusion works great locally on both the dell+linux and the mac laptop I tried it on. This one was easy to use while exploring models from huggingface: https://diffusionbee.com/

DALL-E still gives better results, though.
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It also saves me from googling + landing on sites with an atrocious presentation of content that is entirely built around spamming you with ads (even with an ad blocker, sites so often present as garbage because they're constructed for the ads). Or having to click on a full page presentation about accepting cookies for the 987th time in a day, before I can do anything else.

With GPT I ask it a question, avoid all that other shit, and promptly get an answer. That's it. I paid for a service and they delivered. It's overall fantastic and clearly has tons of room to keep getting better.
A lot happened before those two bombs were dropped, so how would you articulate your stance about those I wonder? Axis and Allies were bombing each other all over the place. Plenty of cities (in Japan, since you hyper focused on the nuclear bombs) were devastated and wrought with bombings before.
I have set the hard limit, but because I never know how much time I'll have in a month for developing and testing these things it's pretty high and just a worst case fail safe. Pre-purchasing credits at a fixed amount for a variable time seems better to me than vice versa. And I would say most companies are already used to that from paying licensing fees and seats for other saas.
The text only mentions satellite phones, so the headline might be a bit click-baity.

I assume tracking mobile phones from space would be way harder and more expensive, although the progressive addition of satellite connectivity to recent iPhone models might help with that?
I really second this. Even if your participation is virtual. The party organizers are really accommodating of just about anything that's entered, which means the barrier to entry isn't super high, and there's multiple categories of things you can enter, even just an mp3 of some music you're sequencing, or an image you are painting in some interesting way, somewhere is fine.

It can be really fun to go, and in person can be a real blast. I'll also echo that since the party is run by CMU's computer club, the collection of vintage hardware you can mess with is absolutely unreal.
> consumption being the opposite of saving

No. The opposite of saving is spending. You can spend on capital as well as consumption. Inflation only devalues cash, i.e. money you keep in your mattress. You can avoid inflation by either consuming or investing, both of which help keep the economy humming along.
Wow, I'm pretty shocked how this all went down. Given the abrupt nature of the announcement and the pointed message in it (essentially accusing Altman of lying), I was sure there must have been some big scandal, not just normal boardroom differences of opinion and game-of-thrones-style maneuvering.

Even if I agree with Sutskever's general position, I think his actions here were colossally stupid. He's basically managed to piss off a ton of people, and I have no doubt lots of employees will just shift to whatever Altman and Brockman end up doing, or else there will otherwise be some huge splintering of OpenAI talent.
> Also, there may be a false sense of productivity. Go is verbose, and you write a lot. Sure if you spend most of your time typing then yes you are productive. But is it high-value productivity? Some more concise languages leave you more time to think about what you are writing and to write something correct. The feeling of productivity is not there because you are not actively writing code most of the time. IIRC plan9 makes heavy use of the mouse, and people feel less productive compared to a terminal because they are not actively typing. They are not active all the time.

This is my sense. "False sense of productivity" is an accurate statement - I've also found that it seems to be for a very specific (and not necessarily useful) definition of "productive", such as LOC per day.

It's not as bad as dynamic languages like Python, but very frequently Go codebases feel brittle, like any change I make might bring down the whole house of cards at runtime.
Michael Spavor alleges Michael Kovrig's Intel gathering led to arrest by China
This was an OK article, but clearly the author knows almost nothing about modern cancer diagnostics and therapy:

> Despite some early instances where genomic sequencing was performed on cancer patients, like Steve Jobs in 2009, the overall impact of the new science on healthcare has been modest at best.

Extensive genomic sequencing is at the heart of all translational and clinical center research, and attending a single cancer conference would disabuse the author of their misconceptions here.

Some treatments, such as those that target gene fusions, may still have been discovered at a pace several orders of magnitude slower at similar increases in cost. But we have hugely accelerated discovery through knowledge of a reference genome, whole transcriptome sequencing, and targeted sequencing of genes known to be associated with cancer (which is of course not all).

All the future developments in early detection, the "holy grail" of reducing cancer death, are based fully on large scale genomic sequencing.

Read through NCCN guidelines on cancer treatment, and all the newer diagnostics and therapies within the past 10-15 years are either directly genomic or greatly accelerated through the use of genomics in cancer.
The iMessage Nothing Chats app is a privacy nightmare with unencrypted messages
Your comment really resonates with me, because I'm experimenting with a project to do "ansible, but with Python syntax" [1]. It has some declarative abilities, but also full imperative abilities, and does away with "coding in YAML", so I get full LSP abilities.

I've considered the question: What is the difference between declaratively providing an Apache config file, and just copying that file over unconditionally? The big benefits I've come up with are:

- Detecting the change so I can trigger an Apache restart only when the file has changed.
- Ability to do "--check" and "--diff" to tell me what will change during a dry run.

With the downside that the "tasks" become more complicated to build.

I had previously built a version of my tool that was just a simpler, local ansible-like tool, with a YAML syntax and realized: I really hate coding Ansible playbooks in YAML. So I started imagining what it might look like if it was in code. I picked Python syntax because I really didn't want to write a parser for a DSL and wanted to see if I could get close enough without it.

[1] https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook
The article is about what UI toolkits are used to build content apps for TVs and TV devices like FireTV/Apple TV, but I wish for a world where using those apps weren't my only options.

It'd be nice if TVs and streaming service apps were better participants in the open-protocol smart home. I'd like it to be possible to call an API on my TV from say Home Assistant to tell my TV to turn on, switch to Netflix, and play the next episode of a show - though honestly I'd settle for just control over linear TV channels and to be able to say 'switch to channel 55' at an API level and have it work cross-vendor without having to use their native app. Maybe you can do this with CEC and stick a little raspberry PI and stick it into the TV with HDMI, but the CEC content controls seem very limited.

Apple's got some kind of a start for this since they've got a way to feed data into Siri and their internal guide, including telling the AppleTV device what's currently playing and what should be considered 'up next' but they're all private APIs, I think, and only work if the content providers sign deals with Apple directly.

Maybe a future version of the Matter standard will incorporate media playback, right now I think it's just changing volume and pausing whatever's playing on a speaker, and so a long way from being able to control what the actual content being played is.
This article gives a clear view on Marx’s vs. Engel’s view of Utopianism vs. other utopian socialists [1]. That Marx was not opposed to utopianism per se, but rather when the ideas of the utopia did not come from the proletariat. Yet you’re right in that he was opposed to the view of the other utopian socialist, and there is tension in the views of the different socialist thinkers in that time. (I do disagree on the idea that refusing to propose an ideal negates one from in practice having a utopic vision)

That said my comment was looking mainly at the result of Marxist ideology in practice. In practice millions of lives were lost in an attempt to create an idealized world. Here is a good paper on Stalin’s utopian ideal [2].

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/chro17958.7?searchText=...

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3143688?seq=1
I believe you can trigger recording with mqtt, so you could make an automation for it. You could try to bump this https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/2590#issue.... You could even try to use ai to write the feature.

There's only been one incident where I would have liked continuous, I've tweaked events to be more than enough.
I meant "free market" in the sense of open trades on an exchange. Except for exigent or criminal cases, it's very difficult to undo trades. The "That's not fair"-argument doesn't work except for exigent (circuit breaker halt) or criminal cases.
200 francs isn’t going to buy you shit in any type of inflationary crisis situation.
Every radio has a local oscillator that can be detected at some distance - from space however? I am highly skeptical.
The Perpetual Rise of Sam Altman Takes an Unexpected Turn
Title changed from Nothing Chats, the Sunbird-based iMessage app, is a privacy nightmare with unencrypted messages and images because of length
Hard money can expire, sort of.

Hard money is a contract with generalized civilization that only has value so long as civilization continues to organize and complexify our resources. A $1 silver dollar coin still has a lot of objective value because civilization still provides lots of good and useful stuff for us to consume.
... and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock
There are some dedicated GPS devices that phone home for things like tracking trucks.
Really? I'd be way more inclined to be pessimistic about it.

OpenAI is massively ahead of anyone else in the AI space, anything that shows problems in the organisation seems like it could set us back massively in the development of AI.

Several key people at OpenAI have also resigned, including Greg Brockman who was removed from the board but told he was too important so would remain in his other roles, he also tweeted not to worry bigger things are coming.

If Sam breaks away and does something else in this space, I can see others joining him and although competition is deathly, I feel like it is just going to fracture our AI developments, everyone is trying to catch up with OpenAI, any new company would be starting from scratch and be years away from anything useful while also leaving OpenAI a shell of it's former self.

Hopefully not the start of bigger issues at openAI.
Yeah it seems like not entirely candid may turn out to be something like "he said he was a super-doomer and pinky swore it to us, but then we realized he wasn't doomer enough for us".

If it's not malfeasance about finance, business, safety or security practices and is merely a "breakdown in communications" then that rules out virtually everything that could justify such an abrupt firing. Sounds like there's no legal problems to worry about, leaving an incompetent board as the only obvious possibility left.

When I was younger I remember thinking non-profit orgs were awesome and hoping to work in that space one day. This + the Wikimedia Foundation funding scandal + the proliferation of "misinformation" NGOs has really turned me off the whole concept. Nonprofits seem to have more than their fair share of problematic governance. There's something about commercial trade that grounds people.
GNSS jamming devices.

> (U//PROPIN) Additionally, HawkEye 360 satellites can detect RF signals in the GPS bands, as well as other GNSS systems, e.g. GLONASS. If detected by all three spacecraft, the RF energy from a GNSS interference can be geolocated to its point of origin using an adaptation of the company’s existing geolocation techniques. Due to the global coverage of the constellation, geolocation of GNSS jamming or spoofing can be conducted over denied areas without exposing airborne or terrestrial sensors or personnel to hostile conditions.

So you can target these jamming devices with force projection and disable them to improve location services for local assets (force projection can typically switch to ring laser INS or terrain guidance when GNSS is degraded or unavailable during terminal phase).
Ultimately one important job of the board is to be able to replace the CEO. So it would be odd if it was structured in a way that this wasn’t possible.
Agree completely. Badmouthing someone as you fire them is immature, and would only be warranted in some kinds of very extreme circumstances, which this does not appear to be.

I predict that this is the beginning of the end for OpenAI. The company won't collapse overnight or anything, but its best people will start leaving in January, then its average people will leave over the course of 2024, and there will be little left by 2025. They may have enough money to live on as a zombie company for several years after that, but everyone will know that it is no longer what it once was or could have been.
It was a fantastic test. Successful in all that it set out to do. Explosion is the least of the worries.

It was gorgeous to see the biggest rocket humanity has ever built soar like that. The rocket tail was so long and magnificent. So much power. 33 raptors.
I'm not CMU connected either and can confirm the party organizers, volunteers, and attendees have been great the few times I've made it in person. They really just want to do cool stuff and have fun with computing equipment.
> In September, the Observer revealed how three early-childhood education experts discovered that the Department for Education tried to cancel invitations for them to speak at government-funded events because they were judged to have been critical of government policy.

"The thing is, you have spoken to the wrong expert. You've got to ask the right expert. And you've got to know what an expert's gonna advice you before he advises you."
There are 3 distinct positions one can take in this situation that all get wrapped up together and cause people to talk past each other.

You can support Israel.

You can support Palestine.

You can support Hamas.

Not wanting Palestinians to die by the hands of Israelis is conflated with Pro-Hamas by Israel supporters.

I categorically don't support Hamas while also being incredibly skeptical of Israel's current actions but I'm also familiar with the various bad faith efforts at peace from both Israel and Palestinians that have bolstered Hamas.

The people that leave a bad taste in my mouth are the ones all in for any if those three groups that fail to see their shortcomings. Luckily I don't think there are that many of those but I do think that the Hamas/Palestine side of that is primarily the young left and the Israel side is primarily older but still, both are a vocal minority.
I know nothing about this specific painting but the fact that it was painted by an Italian artist in Italy is a red herring.

As far as I understand the law allows any significant art piece in France to be deemed a National Treasure. Think of it more as an important asset for the country rather than something that was made in France or by a French person.

In French the definition is that it is important to the national "patrimoine", which is the same word used to refer to someone's assets/estate.
Super high income tax and extremely low wealth tax seems like a great recipe for some revolution.
The piece fails to zoom out and ask, "Why do Sams keep happening?"

It's more difficult to live with the answer than it is to arrive at the answer:

VCs love single-vision, "we're going to change the world"-type leaders.

The problem this group has, correctly identified by the author, is naïveté, narcissism, seeing people as a means to an end, and an ideology that distorts their reality. These types[1] really get VCs excited, get loads of funding, and then crash an burn.

Kinda sucks this best we can do. I had higher hopes for humanity. I thought we could change the world.

1. See Holmes/Theranos, Hsieh/Zappos, &c.
“Mysterious Nature article about the/a ‘Tasmanian devil’ space explosion baffles readers by failing to explain why it/they is/are called ‘Tasmanian devil/s’”

Hypothesis 1: So named because of rapid spin combined with erratic very-high-energy bursts reminiscent of the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character.

However, “devil” isn’t capitalized, so…

Hypothesis 2: Astronomers who study these so-called LFBOTs have been naming them after animals — cow, koala, finch, camel. Next one? Tasmanian devil. Why not?

Because it wasn’t why. According to the Syndey Morning Herald, it’s because the last three letters of its catalog designation are “tsd”. https://amp.smh.com.au/national/a-galactic-war-of-aliens-the...

Pfft.
Not at city speeds they’re not. City streets with EVs are much, much quieter than ones filled with roaring combustion engines. There’s a reason why regulations require EVs to have noise emitters when moving at low speeds (but they’re still much quieter than combustion cars!)

Not to mention the benefits of cleaner air, and far less waste heat being emitted.