skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well as a physicist I think it's safe to say this, of course you can't know everything from a single solar system. Most of the stuff we see/measure is massive, and the smaller stuff like exoplanets is general.

What we are doing now is like squinting while looking around a busy city street. You can get a sense of the cars, the people, etc. but you can't tell me exactly what the sign across the street says or what the hours for street parking are for that spot across the street and down two cars.

And the real interesting thing to us as living beings is other living beings/organisms no matter how different. And no matter the quality of your telescope or detectors, you are never going to be able to resolve anything that far away nor with any degree of certainty. So from the limits of physics, we know we are going to eventually need to get down from our windowed apartment and start walking the streets of Paris. For no matter how long we stare, we will never truly know the smell of the bakery a few streets over until we walk through it's door.

And to those that say robotic missions are the only true way, they are missing out on the truly human and sentient reason to go. Through individual experience we can create more than just new knowledge, we can expand upon the human experience as well as create new art to share those experiences.
I’m actually starting to believe that the more companies he is a CEO of, the better they will do, as he will have his attention divided between them all and less time to negatively impact them on an individual level.
Reminds me of that classic riddle.

You come to a fork in the road. There are three statues, you need to ask them all one question and figure out which way is the right way to go.

One statue always lies, one always tells the truth and one kills people who ask convoluted questions.
Are the raw materials that much cheaper in China? I hope there is more than $4k worth of materials in any vehicle I drive or how long can it last?
Sam and Greg have already said they’re starting an OpenAI competitor, and at least 3 senior engineers have jumped ship already. More are expected tonight. Microsoft would just back them as well, then take their time playing kingmaker in choosing the winner.
The article has this quote from Roosevelt:

> “In any wild country where the power of law is little felt or heeded, and where every one has to rely upon himself for protection, men soon get to feel that it is in the highest degree unwise to submit to any wrong…no matter what cost of risk or trouble. To submit tamely and meekly to theft or to any other injury is to invite almost certain repetition of the offense, in a place where self-reliant hardihood and the ability to hold one’s own under all circumstances rank as the first of virtues.”
"No, thank you."
There’s a ceiling on how much pain they can put people through. Too much, and it’s back to piracy. That’s the difference now. Back in the cable days people didn’t have that option.
That becomes less of a mystery when you look at the gun violence details. A significant chunk is self-inflicted, and another significant chunk is gang related. Remove those and that leaves a surprisingly small amount of gun violence when you consider there are 1.5 guns per American.
The issue with Alpha Zero analogy extremes is that those are extremely constrained conditions, so can't be generalized to something infinitely more complicated like speech

And

> When training, it is never going to be 100% accurate in predicting text it hasn't trained on, but it can continue to get closer and closer to 100% the more it trains.

For example, it can reach 25% of accuracy and have an math limit of 26%, so "forever getting closer to 100% with time" would still result in a waste of even infinite resources
It would be a better idea to use the same query with a variable wait and see if there's a linear correlation in elapsed time.
But being in a situation where this was called for twice?

That strikes me as someone who is either lacks the ability to do proper due diligence or they're straight up sociopaths looking for weak willed people they can strong arm out. Part of the latter is having the ability to create a compelling narrative for future marks, to put it bluntly.
PayPal went down the embrace, extend, extinguish route. If it were possible for them to do the same with bitcoin, they would have.
Webpages should not show autoplaying video ads and your browser shouldn’t let them.
Curious to hear your reasoning why.
You know those pictures of a spiral galaxy that say "you are here?" pointing to the outer edge.

You actually aren't. That's not our galaxy, we don't have pictures like that of our actual galaxy and don't have any idea how to get one.

Also there's tons of other fundamental limits - galaxies that will likely forever be just faint pixels, the distribution of photons being too dispersed for any detector.

Also there's the light horizon problem - we can only see to what the age of the universe allows, not necessarily to its extent.

Beyond that let's say there's a 100% confidence of methane on a planet around one of the Alpha Centauri stars, say Proxima Centari B, a pretty solid indicator of life. Ok now what?

Probes like Voyager would take 75,000 years to get there. If we had loaded a ship with neanderthals during paleolithic times, their descendants would just be arriving now. Even the much touted solar sails would take 25 years to get there and 4 years to send back any data. If magically launched tomorrow, it'd be 2052 before first byte. The distance is really wildly insurmountable and that's just our next door neighbor.

If I could time travel say, 25,000 years hence and we somehow had not blown ourselves up, I could imagine even then asking "how much of space have you explored" and getting an answer like "well, the milky way is 100,000,000,000 stars and 100,000 light years across so about 0.001% of that." There's ballpark a trillion galaxies btw. At some point, the numbers become meaninglessly large, might as well just call it a zillion.
Denial of service is still by far the most common tactic, encrypt the data and no one can use it.
Yeah, me too. There were onboard cameras on Starship and Super Heavy. Hopefully they'll release more footage and info over time.

Even the first launch had some. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/12claay/the_k.... I recall the during the SpaceX audio commentary of this morning's launch (but perhaps EverydayAstronaut's) it was mentioned that onboard cameras on Starship and Super Heavy would be attempting to communicate via Starlink for the first time.
Oh they want to install a geo-locating tracking device in my car 'for the children'. Haha, how about not only 'no', but 'hell no'. I'd rather die free than live 'safe'.
I think this is misguided. There can be goals internal to the system which do not arise from goals of the external system. For example, when simulating a chess game, it (behaves identically to) has a goal of winning the game. This is not a written expressed goal but is emergent. Like the goals of a human are emergent from the biological system which on the cellular level have very different goals
> the "a" connector has not been deprecated.

Actually, it is:

> The three sizes of USB connectors are the default, or standard, format intended for desktop or portable equipment, the mini intended for mobile equipment, which was deprecated when it was replaced by the thinner micro size, all of which were deprecated in USB 3.2 in favor of Type-C.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connectors
Interesting that instead of addressing real problem - incompetence in driving, is solved by making world slower instead of forcing to learn to drive. In Germany it normal to drive way faster and noone has any problems
I have set up two zones per camera: The “yard” and the “entry” which is directly in front of the door. Whenever someone is at the entry, I get a notification. Since I walk these paths myself, I have hundreds of test points. Apart from that, I’m happy to _always_ get a notification before the bell rings. And I never have to open the door before I know who is there.

The “yard” part, I review every week. Here, of course, I have no data to compare it to, so I cannot say if it’s missing anything.

So yes, I’m certain it misses nothing that’s important to me - is there someone at my door and who is it.
It's possible that it's already too late to course correct the organization. We'll know for sure if/when Altman gets reinstated.

If he's reinstated, then that's it, AI will be used to screw us plebs for sure (fastest path to evil domination).

If he's not reinstated, then it would appear the board acted in the nick of time. For now.
Coding, at least quality coding, is for slow people that are patient enough to study in depth and to get it right eventually. And getting it right can still be incredibly hard.

ADHD is certainly not a good starting point.

P.S There are certainly a few geniuses who code quickly and well. But they are true exceptions, not enough to run an industry.
Was trying to create a course for my grandkids over the weekend, will give it a shot.
Do you believe:

1) Earth has an infinite past that has always included life

2) The Earth as a planet has a finite past, but it (along with what made up the Earth) is in some sense alive, and life as we know it emerged from that life

3) The Earth has a finite past, and life has transferred to Earth from somewhere else in space

4) We are the Universe, and the Universe is alive

Or something else? I will try to tie it back to computers after this short intermission :)
I get really mad about stuff like this, because it's so easy for bureaucrats to unilaterally decide that utilitarianism should trump deontology when that isn't how human morality works at all.

Things like this kill people and agency officials justify it to themselves with the comforting thought that it's okay because it's fewer people than would have died otherwise, never stopping to appreciate the difference between throwing the switch between trolley tracks and pushing a fat kid in front of the trolley.
What? What is the problem with having a daily ride you take to the track on weekends?

Personally, I have no interest in this, but I know plenty of people who do. I don’t know many people that want more government intervention over what they can and can’t do.
Same Here. Much better than any CAPTCHA!
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329766
One of the world’s most advanced economies has a huge highway network where a substantial fraction of has no upper speed limit. Fuck off with this nanny state bullshit.
"Line must go up"
Programming as a Career Isn't Right for Me
> The board will be sacked.

How does sacking a board work in practice?
Nimbys in the neighbourhood have their usual negative predictions ... traffic will be worse, parking will be impossible, precious views will be lost, transit will become strained, etc. This is all possible. The latter is, I think, solvable.

OTOH, thousands of much-needed rental homes will become available in the center of the city. That positive outcome seems highly likely.
My impression is that people don't measure the time they work, but judge it by their impression. First, they think that they work for, let's say, 40 hours per week. They don't consider how much meals, coffee breaks, mental breaks, off-topic office discussions, checking social media, visiting restroom take. Second, when they work overtime, they get tired and overestimate the amount of time they worked. 10 hours of overtime probably feels like 20 hours.

100 hours is equal to 2 full-time jobs and a half time. People believing that number should consider how they would live going to their second job after their day ends (second full-time job) and working on weekends as well (half-time one).

Under ideal conditions, someone might be doing it. But, people shouldn't be throwing around these numbers without any time-tracking evidence.
This effort feels like another example of the government's desire to push law enforcement into the private sector. Mandate speed limiters > car companies have to pay for it > cars get more expensive > consumers have to pay for it. That's been the USG's go-to for years now, and its frankly unsustainable.

California has issued 3,000 speeding tickets to drivers going over 100mph, per month. Do these people still have their license? Why?

I think there's so many perverse incentives in speeding tickets that its hard to have an objective discussion about it. Speeding tickets represent a massive portion of county budgets in rural areas of the country; they're not going to be happy automating that income away. Its also interesting to think about how this impacts punishment today; they can't make the punishment too high, because then their revenue is impacted. Nationally, we can't set punishments at levels which actually impact behavior because we're too dependent on cars, and removing peoples' access to them is, reasonably, a cruel punishment.
Did they take a wire transfer for $10bn in cash, now sitting in their bank account? Or did they get a promise of various funding over N years, subject to milestones, conditions, in a variety of media including cash, Azure credits, loan lines etc.

I'd imagine the latter, and that it can be easily yanked away.
> evidence of PCP, alcohol, and cocaine. Robinson also had a history of reckless driving

... and the takeaway is that the automakers should add governors to their cars. For shame, mfgs. For shame. Not like you can pin this on some drug-addled, drunk, reckless driver.

I mean, he couldn't do what he did if cars (or oxygen) didn't exist, so let's everybody grab a pitchfork and start banning something
Sure. The cameras are Tapo C320WS. They are cheap, waterproof, connect to wifi if there’s no ethernet and can stream video in two resolutions at the same time. I use the lower resolution for motion detection and the higher resolution for object detection and event recording.

The whole thing is running in docker-compose on Raspberry Pi and Coral TPU.
Alcohol is probably the most open-source food product of all time.
A very stupid metric, or very useful if you want to know who just wait for emails instead of doing long strands of deep work, with notifications off or not visible.
I think the problem is someone has a 'technology' they want the government to force people to pay for.
I might be able to help with this if your stack is Elixir/Phoenix. Contact me at daniel “at” danieljaouendevelopment.com.
The bad mothers are a vocal minority
> How does sacking a board work in practice?

For a nonprofit board, the closest thing is something "the members of the board agree to resign after providing for named replacements". Individual members of the board can be sacked by a quorum of the board, but the board collectively can't be sacked.

EDIT: Correction:

Actually, nonprofits can have a variety of structures defining who the members are that are ultimately in charge. There must be a board, and there may be voting members to whom the board is accountable. The members, however, defined, generally can vote and replace boards members, and so could sack the board.

OTOH, I can't find any information about OpenAI having voting members beyond the board to whom they are accountable.
There’s a command to force it to update table statistics… you just run that, especially after doing manual stuff. Pretty common, but easy to forget.
Most of the times that "move fast, break thing" is more like "move fast, do stupid things".
What I would give for an eyeroll emoji. Yeah, I'm sure that the story outlined in the article of a guy that killed 9 people in a single accident while on PCP and cocaine could have been avoided if he just had a few more drivers' ed courses...
What I was imagining didn't make any sense, but I'm still rather disappointed that this isn't a story about an AI girlfriend showing up at the precinct to bail the CEO out.
> In a coup, a leader with the support of the people is ousted by force.

Not necessarily. An unpopular leader can be even easier to overthrow, because the faction planning the coup has a higher chance of gaining popular support afterward. Or at least they can expect less resistance.

Of course, in reality, political and/or military leaders are often woefully bad at estimating how many people actually support them.
People that don’t have a lot of money should be able to choose to watch ads for content.
I really don't want to see this in my car, but if this person's car couldn't go 103 mph, and instead was limited to the 35mph speed limit of that street, I think it's a lot less likely that they would have killed those 9 people.
> unceremonious firing

What's a ceremonious firing look like? Serious question.
It's confusing to me why people consider this such a big deal then. Nothing has emerged that shows that he has a core piece of the ouzzle that no one else has.
Are you responsible for hiring though?
Almost certainly adding a speed limiter to a modern car would cost effectively $0. This is a dumb regulation, but “regulation always makes products more expensive” trope is silly, too.
Coincidentally, Americans' trust in woo and pseudoscience continues to climb.
We have restrictions on the ownership and sale of plenty of dangerous substances. It's a lot easier for a troubled individual to cause mass carnage if you give them something capable of delivering thousands of Newtons of force, be it a gun, a car, or a thousand kilograms of fertilizer.
I doubt we can have a productive debate here as you're harping on issues I didn't even reference. Compared to peers, the language is stable, is readable and maintainable, full stop.

- The language has barely changed since inception

- most if not all behavior is localized and explicit meaning changes can be made in isolation nearly anywhere with confidence without understanding the whole

- localized behavior means readable in isolation. There is no metaprogramming macro, no implicit conversion or typing, the context squarely resolves to the bounds containing the glyphs displayed by your text editor of choice.

The goal was not to boil the ocean, the goal was to be better for most purposes than C/C++, Java, Python. Clearly the language has seen some success there.

Yes, abstractions can be useful. Yes, the average engineer should probably be barred from creating abstractions. Go discourages abstractions and reaps some benefits just by doing so.

Go feels like a massive step in the right direction. It doesn't have to be perfect or even remotely perfect. It can still be good or even great. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

I think for the most part I'm in agreement with you, philosophically, but I don't get the hyperfocus on this issue. Most languages you consider better I consider worse, let's leave it at that.
How I interpreted this is that you download the google search algorithm, then scan their database over the internet with that algorithm. Which would take ages or millenia depending on how much data google has.

You wouldn't need to download the entire database and there would be alot of uncertainty over which search result you'd actually used.
Dear god that sounds interesting and yet terrifying.
That is precious time that can be used to work on alignment.
Our WAF logs are fun reading. We see so much traffic from bots looking for PHP files and posting to inputs.
Hot-staging is amazing tech. It's odd how Russia is so good at rocket science. Until Falcon, they had the highest thrust-to-weight engine, Soyuz is insanely reliable at this point, and they generally just punch above their financial weight class.
I noticed it only when logged in. When logged out my UBlock works perfectly. (Note, I havn't logged in for a while, so maybe the situation has improved in the meantime) (Firefox)
Those countries have much stricter requirements to obtain and maintain a driver's license and much higher penalties when the laws are broken.
> On one hand that's what we asked for. On the other hand it was in the same wave as giving up on the touch bar, slowing (stopping ?) the evolution of the iPad, no touch support on the laptops when the design changes were hinting at it.

Apple typically tries for a fixed design cycle - the 2016 MacBook Pro design changed in 2021, so you can hypothesize when the next significant revision.

Loud voices stated that pros hated the keyboard, hated the Touch Bar, hated having to use dongles to do certain tasks like give a presentation or pull in photos from their camera. People also waxed poetic about MagSafe.

Lo and behold, the next version changed the keyboard, dropped the Touch Bar, and added HDMI and SD card slots, and added back MagSafe as a charging option.

The iPad has had hardware revisions since then (it has gone from A15X to M2) but there has been some hold-up on rolling out new models. The oddity is that nobody reporting based on supply chain leaks has knowledge here.

My suspicion is that there was originally a launch planned for March 2023 of new Air, Pro, Mini, and two new Apple Pencil models. For some reason - all we got was a new base Pencil model this year, and that was only released last month.

I know of no design changes to laptop hardware that hinted there would be touch support. The software design changes in MacOS 11 and beyond have been around UX alignment with iOS, and more specifically iPadOS. Apple wants the 'mobile' team that works on iOS apps to see that there is a supported and intuitive way to adopt their codebase to iPad and Mac releases, rather than having the 'web' team wrap the code in Electron for Mac and letting iPad run in iPhone compatibility mode.

This is why iPadOS has been gaining Mac-like features (mouse/trackpad support, keyboard shortcuts, multitasking/multi-monitor enhancements to name a few larger ones)

> Basically it felt like they froze the hardware form factors in time to solly focus on the ARM transition and the Vision Pro.

The Pro models have a design expected to accommodate the M1 through M5. Several iPad models are all due for a design change, but for whatever reason thats gummed up.

I would expect if design resources are taken up by Vision Pro, they don't break or pause their iterative process - they just have less manpower to propose and implement changes in an iteration.
As a database guy I really can get around this. OOP hurts my head sometimes when the hierarchies get too deep.
I do the opposite: a hidden field that is filled automatically by javascript. Yes, that means you can't submit without JS. That's a tradeoff I was ready to make. I'm actually surprised it still works as well as it does.
The point being that there are a limited number of human beings, including prosecutors, that can make the system work, even plea deals are rate-limited.
It's not because they love to watch gym tiktoks that they work out themselves. Not unlike the masses of cooking shows consumed by people that never cook.
How about a kinetic energy limiter so if you want to drive a 9000 lb Hummer EV it’s not able to drive as fast as a 3000 lb Corolla?

If I’m remembering my math right, the Corolla gets to go sqrt(3) times as fast, about 1.73x

So if you limit the Corolla at say 110 mph, a Hummer would be allowed to go 64.

Edit - a question for the physicists, would kinetic energy or momentum be the better metric for how deadly a projectile a vehicle is? If it’s a momentum limit then the Corolla would be allowed 3x the top speed for its 1/3 weight.
Looking for comment that claimed that OpenAI has no investors because it’s a non-profit.
> If you read those memoirs/history of those Silicon Valley companies

Can you give a few recommendations?
People regularly drive way faster than 100mph through towns and through junctions at red lights and everyone is fine? I doubt it.

Doing over 100 on the motorway/highway/autobahn is a totally different proposition.
It's moving there, but slowly. Recent Asrock motherboards have 2 USB 4 ports already.
Plenty of Civics, Subarus, et. al. that are dual purpose.