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Who else can land and reuse boosters? Learning from repeated failure and incremental improvements made it possible.

They'll get there with Starship too, if not too obstructed by red tape or unrelated Twitter/politics stuff.
Fantastically cool explosion
I could believe that hot staging might've affected the booster, since it seemed to blow up right as it tried to light the engines again for boostback. But I don't think the ship would've made it so long if it were seriously damaged by the hotstaging.
Surely anyone looking at such a system from the outside sees the economic inefficiency for nebulous gain. Why not do away with it and let them start right away?
Yeah, accepting death and prayer are both sort of like cheat codes.
BTW, the share link in ChatGPT was failing so I just copy and paste the transcript.
And how exactly do you propose that we do that?

Even if we pass laws forbidding AI, you still acknowledge the existence of criminals. They aren't going to stop just because there's a law against it. (Neither will foreign governments. If Russian disinformation is messing with the US's internal political conversations - and I suspect it is - then a Russian disinformation AI could be that on steroids. Now imagine that the US has stopped their own AI research, and so is unable to counter or control this.)
So the big issue is that the control is in so few hands? If we are to believe that OpenAI will develop AGI is this not a form of dictatorship? Should there be a kind of surrogate shareholders who the board answer to?
I can't wait for the next one. How many tests are we expecting? 7-8? Seems to be too long! I wish we had the spirit of the Apollo.
It's been so long that anything new has happened that it's easy to forget what it takes to move things forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8
Well, you are right.

We have created a system of "artificial selection" where only the ideas the net the greatest short-term profit flourish. Unfortunately, this has been taken to a global scale with modern tech companies, and this is the sort of scenario where short-term thinking can do the most damage.

I realize that almost everyone here will be against me, but I figure it is a good place to start a debate and face the fiercest opponents.
> does anyone run an OS thread per request unironically?

Of course they do. There are loads of appropriate applications. Heck, people still run CGI programs unironically.
Being safety first means others with more nefarious values may achieve it first. AGI will eventually arrive at the same singularity point, but between initial creation and that point, it could be extremely destructive. What would happen if authoritarians authored it first?

Would if have been better to go safety first with nuclear weapons so that Germany might develop them first in WW2?

I find that by going very fast and in the open, humanity has the best chance of producing safe AI. Slowing down and making it closed will result in a much worse outcome. Who gets to make the decision on who gets to utilize that kind of knowledge power? Why is such a small group of people being given power over all of the collective human sacrifices and knowledge to get to where we all are?
And there's tons of video about V2 blowing up which is where we got our 1960s tech from
Are incandescent bulbs still a thing in the US? In France they got banned like 10 years ago and it’s not a problem for anyone anymore…

Honestly, you’re just being dramatic over nothing. Just buy warm LED bulbs and favor accent lamps instead of the big light.
Definitely did better than last time!
That’s the practical argument, and also seems to be true based on the news that came out late last night.
Sam and the board have realized the existing structure of OpenAI does not make them (Sam, board, investors) as wealthy as a for-profit structure would. This is the start of winding down OpenAI. I will not be surprised at all if Sam does what you have said and some members of the existing board invest.
Only if they know their Alphabet
The FTS actually working this time is positive. FTS exists for a good reason, it working is therefore good.
Using YouTube as Unlimited Cloud Storage [video]
I am one of those oblivious ones. Not that I am unaware, just powerless to do anything about it.
6 months is very short in rocket time.

just look at Ariane 6...
Small correction, I think. The booster appeared to survive hot staging fine. It went through quite a bit of it's flip back maneuver. It was awesome to watch. There were some interesting activations of engines in the booster engine ring at that point. It's unclear to me if that was anticipated as an offset subset was what was desired for the off axis maneuver, or things were degrading at that point. And then it blowed up, rather instantly. That something happened to the booster during the separation that led to its RUD ~20 seconds later is likely, but technically it was "long since separated" (in rocket launch time) when it was destroyed.
They all got together and wrote a letter to FDR w/ Einstein as signatory because the implication of not having it was the Axis Powers getting and using a nuclear weapon.
There's probably people whose main job was to read the code and then communicate it more broadly. This is also cutting edge ML where a ton of code is basically thrown away due to not panning out so possibly the amount that needs to be communicated is fairly small.
And last but not least iMacs, Mac minis, Mac Studios and Mac Pros.

The word "Mac" encompasses all of those, just fyi.
Good point hidden in badly formulated comment. After two years of making good progress with Dutch, I can't understand anything in a movie. If I can read it, I can get much of it.

Since my goal was to be able to have a conversation with someone in Dutch, I eventually stopped using Duolingo. Part of the "gamification" makes it fun but also misdirects a user from the audio part of learning a language. When I started learning Czech I paid much less attention to the visual and more to the audio. I did better, but that was despite how Duolingo is presented, not because of it.

Duolingo is certainly not useless, but my experience echoes that of the poster, so certainly it has significant - and for me crucial - limitations.
100% and that issue was very important to the FAA. Being able to blow up a rocket if it starts to go off course is absolutely critical
As expected, the launch is now complete. I won't spoil the results :D
> Is the board being cautious about irresponsible growth in AI and lack of ethical governance? Is caution the 'mission'?

> Or is the board blowing off responsible, cautious management in pursuit of runaway profit?

To summarize the context:

The chartered mission is to lead the safe pursuit of AGI. The leader of the “coup” is a scientist who feels passionately about that mission. The CEO who was fired was a venture capitalist responsible for the recent product launches and lucrative commercial agreements.

Everybody involved is still being vague about the underlying dispute, but (so far) it plausibly reads that a passionate and anxious idealist felt like his opportunity to fulfill a mission critical to the future of humanity was being disrupted by a profit-seeking dealmaker.

(Whether the researcher’s purported worry is sound or not is likely irrelevant to explaining the news itself. It’s a closely held private org and so typical internal disagreements can have major practical consequences)
>They were all depressed because of how sure they were that they helped destroy humanity, it was just a matter of time. And here we are.

There's still plenty of anthropocene left for them to be right. At least I hope there is.
Marx does not say this at all in the Communist Manifesto. And further, if anything he was in awe of capitalism. He didn't write those 3000+ pages investigating and articulating capitalism because he simply "didn't like it."

He saw it as a crucial and huge moment of history that we will one day evolve out of, not some bad thing that bad guys do.

Say what you will but its quite funny to describe him as "dismissing" anything; he quite literally would not not shut up about it. Marx maybe dismissed Proudhon, but not Smith! Not Ricardo! Not even Malthus really.

Drawing parallels is good, but you gotta make sure you know what you are talking about!
“…Alright, so it can DREAM!!! BUT CAN IT suffer?!?!”
SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
> This is one of the benefits of the Wayland protocol over X

What.

The original design of X actually encouraged a separate surface / Window for each single widget on your UI. This was actually removed in Gtk+3 ("windowless widgets"). And now they are bringing it back just for wayland ("subsurfaces"). As far as I can read, it is practically the same concept.
> It could be argued that the Industrial Revolution was the beginning of the end.

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans"
The FTS failed last time and it caused months of delays with the FAA. This time it worked so there should be fewer delays from regulators in the future.
Failure comes before success. If you fear failure, and are unwilling to face it, then you have no business striving for success.

I thought everyone here knew about this. Every software bug is a failure. Going through and squashing every one is the path to success.
Heh, I generally agree with you. But you really do need to wonder how much of the "SpaceX" cheering is staged/prompted. For example, they let out a big cheer from the SpaceX employees right after Starship RUD'd (try t+8:30). But the interleaved shots of their actual control center shows far more restraint. Certainly no overly disappointed looks, but Elon's face looks quite measured.

Though of course, even the most negative cynical person can make this whole by rationalizing that the line employees cheering are cheering the flaming end of a death march (and channeling all of their suppressed 'i told you so's), while trying to blind themselves to the next upcoming death march.
Impressive, but does anyone know where will the debris from the second stage re-enter?
It wont be six months. Also, your comment makes it seem like they would have redesign the whole first stage, which is highly unlikely. This is the first time they've tried to do a hot staging and it might be something relatively easy to fix related to that.

For the second stage, my guess is they triggered the FTS due to the telemetry issues or just for safety's sake, i.e. they didn't want to take any risk with the lack of telemetry.
Remember folks, the trigger point that makes MS's investment worthless is reaching AGI point as that then triggers the charter rules to take the IP back out of commercial products....that is the crux of the firing...one board faction felt they had reached AGI and the people that were forced our or left felt they had not yet reached AGI.

From my brief dealings with SA at Loopt in 2005, SA just does not have a dishonest bone in his body.(I got a brief look at the Loopt pitch deck due to interviewing for a mobile dev position at Loopt just after Sprint invested).

If you want an angel invest play, find out the new VCfund firm Sam is setting up for hard research.
> Funny they mention nickel and cobalt, since they're not actually required. I think LFP cells are somewhere around half the EV-battery market these days.

Agreed!
I'm not totally sure Space X cares what the rest of the industry thinks. This is next-level space engineering compared to what's come before. Who's opinions are we concerned about? ULA? Arianespace? Those companies can't even blow up a space craft successfully because they can't launch them (see, SLS, Ariane 6).
We’re talking about an insider who has insider knowledge about accounts and maybe also a personal relationship that they were paid to develop with a client.

Also, it’s a 100% fact that companies consider client rosters confidential. It’s fun to say no one can claim my name or phone number as confidential data… but that’s not how things work.
Their previous method didn't work at all.
Buying lobbyists works. You may need a few years or a few more decades to realize your other claims also don't work because the system has been completely gamed by vested interests.
That phrasing is the right one, because the economic value is the part that will involuntarily put people out of work and cause mass societal disruption.
Yeah I realized that right after posting. Looks like I got confused with the timezone, I expected it to be one hour later.
NY, the subject of the article.
I dont understand why something has to be conscious to be intelligent. If they were the same thing we wouldn't have two separate words.

I suspect AGI is quite possible, it just won't be what everyone thinks it will be.
Wasn’t OpenAI populated in part by Google Brain people who left Google’s bs bureaucracy and internal politics?
These companies exist by agreement with societies and limiting their power can be done relatively easily if societies want to.
I believe so. It also has some water cooling thing that sprays the pad
I've actually seen this particular library used (and misused and abused). People tried to offload I/O and data heavy tasks on it and was a spectacular fail, with multiple threads getting blocked and people having to frequently adjust it's buffer size and batch size.

One of those things to remember is that Java I/O layering (stuff like JPA) is really terrible. And people in my known Java world tend to prefer the abstractions while the people in the trading world try to use GC-less code (unboxed primitives and byte arrays).

Unless you have verified your E2E I/O to be really fast (possible off heap), you're just pushing a few bytes here and there, your latencies are all in check - this library is not for you. Do all that work first, then use this library.
For food, the answer is basically always “yes” or “probably” if the question is “does this contain an estrogen analog derived from petrochemicals that causes developmental and reproductive harm, and cancer?” (So, does it contain PFAS or similar equally bad compounds?)

That includes stuff like biodegradable straws (~= paper dipped in PFAS), produce (plastic food wax is common) and meat (packaging, plastic-coated butcher paper).
Good idea to ban them, then. No issue remains.
NCCs are very well explained in [1] and USA has differences by states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
Bao, a learned system for query optimization
Then they got the double heavy landing, which was mindblowing seeing it the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3KEg6b6bE
It's a bit hit and miss to be honest. You can throw some pretty wild stuff at it and often it reacts surprisingly well. On the other hand it also often crucially misunderstands things and generates pretty nonsequitur responses.

The good outweighs the bad in my opinion, but YMMV.
Supply chain guy - This is it right here. Hardware accessories like mice aren’t driving substantial sales or revenue; they’re just a cost of doing business if you sell PCs.

But swapping tooling and retraining staff on assembly is extremely disruptive for a manufacturer. That disruption is passed back to the 1st party brand in incremental FOB and per-unit surcharge.

The incremental cost eats at your margin, which eats at your profit, which eats at your street price.

So, if you’re forced to choose between margin erosion and incremental cost for a product that has little effect on sales growth, you save the money and recycle the design.

People will bitch about the port on that mouse while they walk to the Apple Store to buy a new Mac that comes bundled with said mouse.

Apple will save millions annually by not optimizing a product that doesn’t really make them any money on its own.

When it’s reasonably cost effective to make a better peripheral, they will. Until then, they’re going to pay more attention to their books than people’s complaints, because mice don’t drive their business.
I propose a system or consortium of people that are united by a few simple rules. To summarize: (1) don't use AI and (2) preferentially support people who minimize their use of AI as much as possible.

This consortium will also promote sustainable living in smaller communities, relying more on local talent and basic living sustenance as opposed to global corporations. This consortium will be more of a collection of local groups that rely mostly within themselves.

Certainly, a good personal start for people with technology skills is: do not contribute to AI yourself, and don't use it for God's sake.
Come on man they did a lot better than last time. How dare you bring any negativity here
The 1960s tech also blew up a lot as well.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/USAF_ICB...

Blowing up lots of rockets to figure out how not to blow up rockets is traditional rocket development. The "get everything perfect the first time so it never blows up even once" tactic is forced on NASA because Congress is dumb.
I think the boy of Aveyron answers that question pretty well.
Use an icon pack, and it is very likely it has something different already there for Calibre. I use candy icons, and I like the Calibre "logo" in this icon pack.
vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOqu4vcDto
Imagine if the standard was this, a link that is opened by a native media player, rather than 14MB of js for a shitty stuttering inconsistent mess.
There are thousands of mice available on the market, and almost all of them can be used on a Mac. It's strange that anyone bothers to fix any mouse. Just buy a mouse that fits your requirements.
Everyday Astronaut was able to reconnect to their robo-cam and pan over the launch area. No damage visible. Not only did the cameras at the launch pad survive, they didn't even get their tripods knocked over.
The assistants API is fantastic; I was just getting started with it. This news makes me reconsider -- but I also think it's inevitable that a compatible API will be released with open source underlying LLMs. I've deployed the OpenAI-compatible completions API over Llama2 in production with vLLM, and it works perfectly.

Do you know if there are any projects working on this? Even something like a high quality json-tuned base model would go a huge way toward replicating OpenAI's current product.
An llm is a database modelled on the concept of a neural (the tissue in our heads) net (because our neural tissue appears to be highly interconected like a net). An llm is a very interesting and complex tool that the creators and many users anthropomorphize this shit out of. Llm's are a spherical cow, a statistical model of a very poorly understood organ and difficult to define process; intelligence. Do we "prompt" our sql databases? When our querry results are incorrect is the database hallucinating? As amazing and usefull as these new ai tools are they are it seems to me they are no more intelligent or conscious than a hammer or guitar or the computer your using right now. I thinks a usefull perspective to apply to ai is competence. To clarify this I will compare an llm to a flea. A flea has a neural network that outperforms any hardware used for ai. Fleas eat, mate, avoid preditors and probably exibite a great deal of complex behavior that we are not aware of. Fleas are highly intelligent competent actors opperationg in a complex environment. Llms are not actors any more than a hammer or a sql database is and only an actor can be competent. I will agree that in most cases llms have more utillity than fleas. Consciousness seems alot more slippery than intelligence which is hard enough by itself.
Yes, this is my point. It’s marketing. I was taught not to wallow in my failures, but not to celebrate them either when I’m trying to reach a larger goal. There’s no success in failure, that’s an oxymoron,. You can learn things from failure, but it’s not a success never.
Yeah! The text is extremely tiny on a Desktop (I'm also on a 5K 27”). Here is my only custom style that uplifts HackerNews to my preference;

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It's relatively easy to generate that amount, especially when you can easily import 20% of your power(very dirty coal power), and also run gas turbines for another 40%, like it is at this very moment https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/AU-SA

When you're talking about changing the US, it couldn't just import 100GW, Canada and Mexico couldn't provide that much, even if they were clean energy. There is just a difference between providing for one small region vs a continent. Also, Uruguay has huge neighbors, they could easily import-export clean energy from them (they are all hydro-centric).

But yeah, I will see the US going to 70% pretty soon, considering where panel prices are. The one big thing missing is the low cost to install on rooftops. In the US is costs at least 3 dollars per watt to install panels, whereas in the Eu or Australia it's under 1 dollar. The panels themselves can be bought for 15-20 *cents* per watt, so there is a lot of room for improvement. Rooftop solar in the US is a big scam at the moment, they are fleecing the consumers. On the other hand, utility size in the US is cheap, so they will cover the gap.
Mars is a horrible place to live so I'll take Earth any day. But it would be nice if humanity doesn't get wiped out if we get unlucky with an asteroid.
And their competition didn’t had the same resources?
Have you ever worked in Research & Development? Failing to meet every objective is normal and not viewed as “failure”
> but the rest of the industry does not consider it normal or a "success."

True. The rest of the industry also can’t seem to muster a reusable orbital class first stage. So far evidence is with spacex. Their RUDy development seems to have born fruit before.
I, for one, am glad that Ilya has the reins on OpenAI and that Sam is out of the picture. It does seem that he weighs the ethics of what is being built more heavily than Sam.

I’m also hoping that OpenAI cools down on the regulatory moat they were trying to build as a thinly veiled profit seeking strategy.
it's a hobby project..
I can't promise you this, because I haven't seen the actual code. But in the discord one of the devs has alluded to a bug occuring when the AI for some reason doesn't decide if the player survives or not. I'm pretty sure the LLM decides if the player lives or dies, but it's definitely pretty random sometimes.
I'm using 125% for hacker news, which does 15px, so 16px is totally fine for me
Great tip! Thanks. Crazy that I put at least some thought in my backups and other security and stepped over this one.
"I'll pay you lots of money to build the best AI" is a pretty good narrative.
The “rest of the industry” isn’t doing anything at all.
I get that it’s hard. But there’s no such thing as a “successful failure“. That’s a bullshit marketing term used to keep people hyped up about the project. I wouldn’t mind them cheering if they reach their main goal but I’m pretty sure their main goal wasn’t to have the rocket Blow up on both stages.