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I was working on a Grab competitor, you would be surprised about the number of subsystems running there.

There are entire teams that are working on just internal services that connect some internal tools together.

There was also very little effectivity and efficiency in the era of cheap capital so there were tons of talent wasted on nonsense. Uber built their own slack for a while!! (before just going to mattermost)

People always ask who actually makes money on Uber... I think it's not the cab drivers, not the investors, who makes money is the programmers. It's a transfer of money from Saudis to programmers.

Well it was, anyway.
I think the title is misleading and should be changed. Most phones don’t have satellite capabilities.
That's reader view and you can set your browser to enable it for all websites by default. It's great!
That's not true. Sometimes these technologies get pulled up high side or are only developed there so the public doesn't hear about them. You should read the ietf paper on the crypto wars. Crypto and ZKPs are some of the known attempts to keep these technologies out of the public.
what in the world is going on at the bottom of the site, it’s crazy distracting.
What an incredibly annoying popup. Sorry, can't read that.
This is full of contradictions and nonsense.

For example, it starts out arguing that certain kinds of knowledge come best from exploration in leisure, yet near the end it also argues that you learn the most on the job when you're under pressure and everything is at stake. Which is it? (The latter I will say is false: In high risk situations, I often retreat to safe answers -- and I could construct an argument that this is very rational. More often I first learn in play, and then apply later in times of trial.)

More disturbingly, it mixes religious language, including religious/academic/artistic ideas of monasticism, with ideas of (I assume Silicon Valley style) entrepreneurship. This is sick. And exactly as professors preach monastic values to their students (so they will work for free), the VCs at the top of Silicon Valley preach individual risk-taking to the each-probably-doomed "founders" who comprise their diversified portfolios. The people who believe it are being suckered.

There are elements of this that I think are true. That we should sometimes leave the narrow, tracked paths that constrain us. That we should sometimes explore, without killing ourselves to increase whatever metric is used in this month's OKR. That we need longer term and bigger goals for our lives than the ones given to us by our bosses. All this I agree with. And yet -- still this essay leaves me with a very uneasy feeling, and a little nausea.
The current interim CEO also spearheaded ChatGPT's development. Its the biggest product, consumer market based move the company's ever made. I can't imagine it's simply a pure "Sam wanted profits and Ilya/board wanted pure research" hard line in the sand situation.
Let me rephrase: in a real-world city environment, electric cars are very quiet compared to combustion cars. For one thing, unlike combustion cars, they are absolutely silent when stopped at intersections or in traffic!

Of course they do still emit some noise when moving, and this noise increases with speed. But not enough to annoy you when you’re trying to sleep at night, or have a conversation with a friend. It is always combustion vehicles which do that!

This isn’t my “beliefs”, but actual real-world experience of living in a busy, noisy city where there are large numbers of EVs.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that Go should be like Rust. It's too late for that. We're suggesting that people should just use Rust (or Haskell, or F#, or any other robust functional programming language) instead.
I don’t have too much an opinion on either side here, but as a developer who works full time in Go (and has for >6 years) all these things exist in Go.

Uncaught exceptions -> panics, like what this nil catcher is aiming to solve

Places far away -> easy goroutine creation with no origin tracking makes errors appear sometimes very far away from source

Use after free -> close after close

FactoryFactoryFactories -> loads of BuilderFunc.WithSomething

Lots of other pains I could add that are genuinely novel to Go also, but funny that for everything you mentioned my head went “yep, just called X”
People keep saying that but so far, it is commonly acknowledged that GPT-4 is differentiated from anything other competitors have launched. Clearly, there is no shortage of funding or talent available to the other companies gunning for their lead so they must be doing something that others have not (can not?) done.

It would seem they have a product edge that is difficult to replicate and not just a distribution advantage.
They'll treat you kindly and fairly, right up to your meeting with the axe.
OpenAI has been bleeding money for a while [0]. Why would it be so crazy that the board wants heads to roll? The craziest part really is that he literally was allowed to give a keynote like a week ago (a good one), but of course, have they sacked him before... what kind of message that sends. Instead, he got sacked after, ANNOUNCEMENTS WERE MADE!

0: https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-losing-money-chatgpt
I would guess that that 486 speeds were the terminal velocity for Second Reality’s performance. That was the high end when it originally came out.

Don’t get me started on the GUS. That was such an incredible sound card for its time.
Oh if you're here: Any plans on covering APL/Miscellaneous Technical?
There are all manner of reasons to criticize Israel’s actions.

I believe that most American teens opinions on this matter are influenced by either anti-Islam or anti-Jewish messaging they read through social media, and not a genuine interest in the conflict.
It's interesting you say that math is blindly following steps. I have the opposite experience, that math is an exploration of concepts and how they relate to each other - much like programming!

Blindly following steps, whether in math, programming or anything else, does indeed sound unrewarding.
They dont care
Should not this be news when it is actually done or announced at least?
Again, I am an outsider and uniformed. But the established money printer was already going brrrrr...

I would imagine that it's arguable that a pheasant could have ridden that rocket to the moon.

My bias and stupidity may be showing here, but I just don't think that he is very smart. Maybe that was the point of his position: to keep the company from going beyond the imagination of Wall Street normies.
At the end of this video: "We never forget who we're working for."

If you have to put this disclaimer into your work, we already have a problem.
These days you get a much worse service if you pay[0].

Can't make that shit up.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4GZUCwVRLs
Suddenly, I hate software
There are satellites now where 4G/5G phones can roam to them. This is just listening, not roaming. The title look correct.
> But it's got such market and mindshare for open source e-reader software that there hasn't been much room for other folks to try something different.

This contains the misunderstanding that merely by existing calibre "uses up" something like oxygen. This is true in a commercial product when there are a finite number of buyers whose money in turn funds a finite number of merchants efforts to bring a product to market.

In open source software users are finite but on average worthless except insofar as they constitute a funnel whereby some microscopic portion may in some instances become contributors but more often than not that funnel is virtually non-existent with contributions coming from the same small cadre of developers.

> The UI feels very dated to me

Perhaps the worst reason to make a different piece of software. Modern usually is synonymous with an oversimplified interface which shoves much functionality into a junk drawer and makes it easy to do some subset of easy things and hard to do anything else.

Although quite usable out of the box the calibre UI is also very customizable and trivial to figure out how to customize

- You can add or remove functions to right click menu or tool bars

- tool bars by default has both icons AND text and you can change the icons if you want something that looks more "modern"

- The default layout has a toolbar, search bar, list of books, info about the selected book, and a tag/author/series etc browser toolbar.

- If you were wondering how to change the layout there is a button on the bottom right that says "layout" alongside a colorful icon. If you click it you can choose a pretty cover grid view and hide both the book info and tag browser. Congrats it now looks "modern"

- not only can you set single character shortcuts because they only operate when the cursor isn't in a text field but the preferences menu for shortcuts makes it easy to search for a function by name in order to bind and the shortcut so chosen is shown by the function.

- It has a search that is both powerful and works exactly how you would think it works

For having a huge pile of functionality it is probably one of the most usable pieces of software I use regularly. It works in a fashion that suggests the author uses it and has thought a lot about what would make it easier to use.

I'm also a little lost at what slow means here as on Linux it like virtually every desktop app that isn't based on electron it responds instantly and briskly. Perhaps it works poorly on Mac?
> Sam Altman has been an objectively successful leader of OpenAI.

I'm not sure this is actually the case, even ignoring the non-profit charter and the for-profit being beholden to it.

We know that OpenAI has been the talk of the town, we know that there is quite a bit of revenue, and that Microsoft invested heavily. What we don't know is if the strategy being pursued ever had any chance of being profitable.

Decades-long runways with hope that there is a point where profitability will come and at a level where all the investment was worth it is a pretty common operating strategy for the type of company Altman has worked with and invested in, but it is less clear to me that this is viable for this sort of setup, or perhaps at all - money isn't nearly as cheap as it was a decade ago.

What makes a for-profit startup successful isn't necessarily what makes a for-profit LLC with an operating agreement that makes it beholden to the charter of a non-profit parent organization successful.
Three points:

1. I don't think Ilya is equivalent to Carmack in this case — he's been focused on safety and alignment research, not building GPT-[n]. By most accounts Greg Brockman, who quit in disgust over the move, was more impactful than Ilya in recent years, as well as the senior researchers who quit yesterday.

2. I think you are underselling what happened with id: while they didn't blow up as fantastically as Ion Storm (Romero's subsequent company), they slowly faded in prominence, and while graphically advanced, their games no longer represented the pinnacles of innovation that early Carmack+Romero id games represented. They eventually got bought out by Zenimax. Carmack alone was much better than Romero alone, but seemingly not as good as the two combined.

3. I don't think Sam Altman is equivalent to John Romero; Romero's biggest issue at Ion Storm was struggling to ship anything instead of endlessly spinning his wheels chasing perfection — for example, the endless Daikatana delays and rewrites. Ilya's primary issue with Altman was he was shipping too fast, not that he was unable to motivate and push his teams to ship impressive products quickly.

I hope Sam and Greg start a new foundational AI company, and if they do, I am extremely excited to see what they ship. TBH, much more excited than I am currently by OpenAI under a more alignment-and-regulation regime that Ilya and Helen seems to want.
Well, this is a rare case of a professional-looking site rendered completely useless thanks to a single design decision made for no apparent reason at all.
Really the best NVR / motion detection out there. Incredibly good camera support through go2rtc and ffmpeg. Supports accelerated video codecs via ffmpeg. You can use your own Yolo weights and models for object detection. There are some that are trained for high angle person detection that are great for surveillance cameras, for example.

Frigate also has pretty solid OpenVINO support now which means accelerated inference on modern-ish intel cpu/gpus, which is a game changer when you have several cameras.

Great docs, too.
In this case it is not an illusion.
Usually I don’t mind some whimsical features on a personal site, but this one is obnoxious and completely kills my desire to actually read the post (the subject of which had me intrigued).
Starship engines were cut off at 8:03, while the nominal mission profile in Wikimedia mentions SECO at 8:33. The speed at cutoff was ~24000 km/h at an altitude of ~150 km. Without the AFTS, the Starship would have crashed somewhere in the Atlantic.
good with the flow there, US here and agree

> most Americans don't have the disposable income

odd formulas since lots of common urban addictions use up money, and lots of incarcerated cant buy things directly. Not an economist here, but I think of it like "circulation" in a body.. there are cold spots and overheated spots, not evenly flowing.

Commerce in this US West location is not at all as it was before the ubiquitous phone, that is for certain.
The world on our plane of existence absolutely is exhaustible, just on a much, much larger scale. Doesn't mean that the process is fundamentally different, and for the human perspective there might be diminishing returns.
This whole thread is about the money Über has spent to work around panics in Go.
Feels like some kind of hoarder stressing about all their boxes being filled up with stuff, while at the same time continuing to acquire more stuff. Sure, you can keep buying more boxes forever, but have you considered accumulating less stuff? A reasonable solution probably includes both.
> what do people typically use to power the cameras? A single PoE switch, or multiple PoE injectors?

It basically doesn't matter at all - I have a mixture of both in my home, multiple PoE switches and multiple PoE injectors for things like cameras, wireless APs etc. Use whatever fits needs/budget/location, you don't have to go nuts buying a single high end PoE switch. There's often good deals to be had on used PoE switches on ebay etc too if really budget conscious.

The only real advantage of going with a single or fewer PoE switches is you have less things to put on a UPS, if you require the system to still work when power goes down. A UPS that can run say 4 cameras, the PoE switch and a system running Frigate for more than a few hours can get pretty expensive too, in my experience - most cheap UPSes are designed to get you enough power to save some files and shutdown a PC in a matter of minutes, not hours.

Cheap intel box with a Coral runs Frigate fantastically, and if a tower build plenty of room for internal storage drives.
Youth is easily impressionable. That is not to say pro-Palestine is a bad thing, but young minds are easily impressionable, for good and for bad.
My solution for this at the moment is to run a a separate NVR using continuous recording in parallel with a Frigate instance.

- Redundant disks/mirroring on the NVR

- Replication of Frigate's Event Database and Recordings to remote network storage

I primarily use Frigate as a general event index, with 'active-objects' as its recording criteria, and look at the NVR when there may be gaps in Frigate's coverage.

I've also been writing my own software to integrate with Frigate to help make better sense of activity and events at a macro level, compared to its current user interface.
This is one of those things which feels like just a small trade off against convenience for the language design, but then in practice it's a big headache you're stuck with in real systems.

It's basically mandating Rust's Default trait or the C++ default (no argument) constructor. In some places you can live with a Default but you wish there wasn't one. Default Gender = Male is... not great, but we can live with it, some natural languages work like this, and there are problems but they're not insurmountable. Default Date of Birth is... 1 January 1970 ? 1 January 1900? 0AD ? Also not a good idea but if you insist.

But in other places there just is no sane Default. So you're forced to create a dummy state, recapitulating the NULL problem but for a brand new type. Default file descriptor? No. OK, here's a "file descriptor" that's in a permanent error state, is that OK? All of my code will need to special case this, what a disaster.
What the heck are all the notifications on this site?
nothing new, generated voices are already used for scam. so far they are recordings. like "daughter" screaming for help, or "boss" ordering money transfer. but it's possible there will be real time generators soon. which means scammer will be talking and adjusting depending on the reaction of the victim. there still will be some delay as converter will have some lag. unless the 'scammer' is actually AI. then it may look naturally, especially for not prepared victims. all attacker needs to mimic the voice today is just 3 seconds of recording.
I appreciate this argument, but I also think naked profit seeking is the cause of a lot of problems in our economy and there are qualities that are hard to quantify when you structure the organization around it. Blindly following the economic argument can also cause problems, and it's a big reason why American corporate culture moved away from building a good product first towards maximizing shareholder value. The OpenAI board certainly seems capricious and impulsive given this decision though.
Kiwix PWA allows users to store GBs of data from the Internet for offline use
I think your viewpoint is great and poetic. However, since most people are not as mature as you, our societies are not as mature as you. Meaning that until this fact changes, I do not think it is realist to expect someone to give something for free when they could make billions with it.

You have to be a saint or already have everything you could ever dream of
Using OpenAI’s name to get funding for a startup that would profit by selling to OpenAI is not fair game
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is you don't want a model capable of writing a Stuxnet-type cyberweapon for a script kiddie to use.

All the other stuff about nuclear/chemical/biological/illegal drugs etc. is basically nonsense, that information is in the public domain already and the way governments try to control it is through legal restrictions like Select Agent Rules. Likewise, the result of giving most people a recipe for a chemical weapon is that they'll end up poisoning themselves, and those who won't already possess the requisite skills (happily the vast majority of trained experts in these fields aren't psychopaths). The real risk here is governments doing such things in the name of national security, I think.

The other argument that many have adopted, that LLMs will make such cunningly clever arguments that gullible humans will follow them to their own destruction (I assume this means getting the masses to embrace communism or fascism or tax the uber-wealthy or something like that) seems utterly ridiculous to me, even though that's probably the "AI threat" I've seen the most ink spilled about. The best defense against such dark arts is simply teaching critical thinking skills to children.
I was also genuinely interested in your simple question, "what makes the functioning of all the engines so difficult?"

You received a response with many words but I don't think it contains a real answer, other than "the Soviets couldn't do it".
They may even be making the right move but not in a way that it looks like they made the right move. That's stupid.
Mysterious JmethodID
In France, the tax is not on the amount of restate but on the inherited income, ie each kid gets taxed on his share. So if there are n kids, the amount of tax paid is nT(K/n), not T(K). Since T is progressive (convex), nT(K/n) < T(K).

Given that the first 100k are not taxed and that there are three kids, only about 14 millions will be taxed at the 45% rate, not 20.

Note that we are talking about each kid making 6,67M€ (four centuries of minimum wage, three centuries of median wage).

If they earned their money through their labour instead of through their birth, they would actually be taxed more (IR + CSG + CRDS).

As for the grandkids, there are a bazillion ways to reduce the tax bill: life insurance is not inheritance-taxed, you can donate money to your kids before your death (about 300k€ per kid every 15 years before it’s taxed - if there are three kids, three grandkids per kid and everyone does a little tax planning you can give 9 grands kids * 300k€ * say give them money at 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 yo that’s 13,5M€ originally from the grandma that won’t even count as inheritance, etc.).
The immediate firing is from our perspective. Who's to say everything else wasn't already tried in private?
Running a Zero Waste Flywheel
Made me seasick.
Does that not apply also to Sam Altman?
I'm sure my coworkers at [retailer] were not happy to be even shorter staffed than usual when I was ambush fired, but no one who mattered cared, just as no one who matters cares when it happens to thousands of workers every single day in this country. Sorry to say, my schadenfreude levels are quite high. Maybe if the practice were TRULY verboten in our society... but I guess "professional" treatment is only for the suits and wunderkids.
bingo. it either landed somewhere secretly or crashed. In both situation there was nothing aboard, secret cargo or important politicians, that would justify unveiling of their capabilities to track everything everywhere at all times.
Why is the size a milestone? I don't remember ever hearing NASA measure its achievements by the size of its rockets.
I resent the attempt to tie the entirety of science to the use of animals in experiments.

Someone can still be a strong proponent of the scientific method but be opposed to animal testing for moral reasons.
I'm guessing that it is just showing other people browsing the same site - which might be fun if it happens once in a while.

But having this on the HN frontpage, there are tons of visitors right now and this is indeed annoying.
I was an insider at that time and I didn't disagree with that decision, especially as Google were funnelling money to Firefox and at that time Firefox was executing well and had a lot of support across the community. Part of why the money printer was going brrr was a relentless effort on optimizing it and growing it, which did benefit from the executives actually focussing on it. The idea it all just happened automatically just isn't so.
I have almost exactly the same setup, except using the intel gpu for accelerated inference with an OpenVINO Yolo model and HA for notifications. Super reliable.
I take it bad founders means the founders that run less than billion-plus companies.