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What exactly is "noxious" about jacarandas? Most of us people admiring them are also invasive species.
You are right but I disagree.

Yes, devices do not charge batteries to 100% as that is directly damaging. And they don't discharge to 0% for the same reason.

So they charge to something slightly less. But that slightly less is for all intents and purposes the only definition of 100% we, as end users, have.

It's like saying that your CPU is actually only running at 70% clock frequency but overclocking it to 100% would require massive cooling and reduce the lifetime to months.

I agree a better definition and preferably one directly comparable to all brands and battery types were available, but I'm not aware of any and I'm sure that even if we had it you wouldn't trivially be able to get that information.

Noone should ever charge to more than 80%. That is short sighted and environmentally moronic. After less than two years a device will have more capacity at 80% than the same battery will have at 100% if it was charged to 100%.
Returning to Canada on my Canadian passport now no longer involves talking to a human at all. Scan passport, then facial scan, quick touch-screen questionnaire, and that's that. Fast and convenient, but disturbing.

I'm used to the humiliating invasions of privacy and overtones of fascism etc when traveling to the US where it can be "excused" because I'm a foreigner there. But I don't particularly feel great about the biometric stuff in my own country.

I kind of miss the "welcome back, I hope you didn't smuggle anything in" routine TBH.
He says that everyone is nice but Sam Altman, who, though always nice to the author, was mean to friends of the author in ways that are not described.
Using the same code across more OSs than just linux seems nice.

Also, it's based on code by the wireguard author: https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go

They customized it some, but it's all more or less upstream condoned code that Jason built.

Also, if you want to access your tailscale network, but don't have permissions to create a tun or wg device, the fully userspace implementation can work in that situation, which seems like a nice property to have.
Yeah I'm in the same boat here I never even considered it taking place in the equatorial trench, the size established early on was huge and it was very clean compared to the cramped and chaotic trench featured in the trench run.
You did all this in 15 minutes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gVWGAw8do

Let me guess, the back cover wasn't stuck on very well from the repeated battery replacements.
yEnc was rejected by the MIME standardization group for two main reasons, one good and one bad. The good reason was that it has some encoding pathologies, although these could have been fixed in the standardization process. The bad reason was "it's too hard to add a new Content-Transfer-Encoding because you have to change all the user agents", which given that by that time all the clients were changing to support yEnc it was quite clear that uptake would likely of a new addition would have been fairly rapid.
This is pretty parsimonious.

Smart, capable, ambitious people often engage in wishful thinking when it comes to analysing systems they are a part of.

When looking at a system from the outside it’s easier to realise the boundary between your knowledge and ignorance.

Inside the system, your field of view can be a lot narrower than you believe.
Refuses? interesting word choice!

It's a technical limitation that I've been working on getting rid of for a long time. If you say it should be gone by now, I say yes, you are right. Maybe we'll get rid of it before Python loses the GIL.
> Could this be the explanation? That D'Angelo didn't like how OpenAI was eating his lunch and wanted Sam out? Occam's razor and all that.

If that were the case, can't he get sued by the Alliance (Sam, Greg, rest)? If he has conflict of interest then his decisions as member of the board would be invalid, right?
omg they never had lidar
I thought Elon's takeover of Twitter was a mess... but now OpenAI is taking it to a whole new level.

Hypothesis: excessive hype + tens of billions of dollars at stake = even supposedly intelligent people are prone to lose their shit.
LLMs aren't programmed and it's why the neural network working as it does is black box to everyone, developers included.

Imagine a billion black boxes with hamsters put in them. You put in a bag of equally mixed Skittles in one end of each box and then rate each box based on how well it does to get rid of the yellow and green Skittles but push out the others. The ones that do the best at this you mate the hamsters and go again, over and over. Eventually you should have hamsters in boxes that almost always get rid of yellow and green Skittles and output the rest.

But is it because you bred in a preference to eat those color Skittles? An aversion to the other colors? Are they using those colors for nesting? Do they find the red and blue and orange ones too stimulating so they push those out but leave the others alone?

There could be a myriad of reasons why your training was successful, and without the ability to introspect the result you just won't know what's correct.

This is a huge simplification by way of loose analogy for what's going on with training a transformer based LLM, but no one is sitting there 'programming' it. They are just setting up the conditions for it to self-optimize around the training goals given the data, and the 'programming' just has to do with improving the efficiency of the training process. Analyzing the final network itself is like trying to understand what each variable in a billion variable math equation is doing to the result.
https://nitter.net/geoffreyirving/status/1726754270224023971
Ah, here we go with emphasizing the dichotomy. As I said, the important part for comparison is the amount of control being exerted.

Jail is certainly a pretty strong deterrent. But it's actually not as strong as say not being able to eat. Which is contingent upon there being enough competition [0] between providers of food such they can't exercise coercive power. And the surveillance industry has been steadily destroying that open market dynamic we take for granted, for example "the unbanked".

And thinking about coercion in hard discrete terms is fallacious as well. If the government illegalizes some thing, whereas cooperating corporations just make doing that thing such an uphill battle that most people don't do it, the net effect is quite similar. Resist the temptation to think "sure but you can still opt out", because while that can work for a handful of things that really matter to you, this won't actually change much. And conversely, you can actually still do anything the government has declared illegal if you're willing to possibly pay the price.

[0] or more accurately - not too much collusion. these are different measures
The only thing akin to that would be an AI safety concern and the new CEO specifically said that wasn’t the issue.

And if it was something concrete, Ilya would likely still be defending the firing, not regretting it.

It seems like a simple power struggle where the board and employees were misaligned.
We Linux users suffer it. Supposedly, nowadays applications should store their files under ~/.config, ~/.local and ~/.cache, but you still find a million applications that create their own folders without following any standards. But at least file browsers hide those folders by default...
Apple reportedly plans to release its Vision Pro headset in March 2024
I agree that "suing journalists" is scary, as the author says. But "media watch" is not "journalists", it's an NGO.

The other side of the story is that this is intimidation and fraud, thus, it's not protected by free speech:

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037

2. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1726653530218619018

3. https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1726671127840493811
I did find a detractor: https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427022402397...
Well, technically, this isn't true for age. You're allowed to discriminate based on age if the person is under 40 but not over 40!
It's not wild. "Predict the next word" does not imply a bar on intelligence; a more intelligent prediction that incorporates more detail from the descriptions of the world that were in the training data will be a better prediction. People are drawing a straight line because the main advance to get to GPT-4 was throwing more compute at "predict the next word", and they conclude that adding another order of magnitude of compute might be all it takes to get to superhuman level. It's not "but what if we had a better algorithm", because the algorithm didn't change in the first place. Only the size of the model did.
The implied threat was… that they wouldn’t buy from those companies anymore? While I guess that’s slightly worse than just casually notifying a company of bad behavior, it’s not much worse. The whole point of this kind of criticism is to exhort behavior change so I’m not really convinced it’s misleading… and I think that’s Popehat’s point.
people understand that under normal circumstances they are untouchable however if they destroy the livelihood of all employees and have severe conflict of interest maybe some other laws apply. Which laws, that is the question
We are witnessing right now that most of OpenAIs employees are ready to jump ship now that Altman is leaving. The facts on the ground changed.

Also, it’s standard in many contracts that you can’t actively poach a partner’s employees. That doesn’t mean that if the employees actively reach out to you, you can’t hire them. I saw that at AWS.

If they had so much funding why were they willing to give up 49% of the company to Microsoft? Does that read like a company that could be picky?
I don't have any insider knowledge that the linked post is true, but it seems plausible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349969

Even if there isn't anything explicit, there may be an implicit promise that a strategic partner won't share all the company secrets with the partner's competitors.
In case your system is from Tesla: I wrote an app that you can load on a tablet and stare at that energy flow all day :)

https://www.netzeroapp.io
He made it pretty clear that he consider it as a once in a life time chance.

I think he is correct, being the CEO twitch is a position known by no one in many places, e.g. how many developers/users in China even heard of Twitch? Being the CEO of OpenAI is a completely different story, it is a whole new level he can leverage in the years to come.
Basically Sam is dishonest and not a likeable person. This is a datapoint.

Anybody else who knows Sam well want to Chime in? All this hero worship is coming from people who don't know Sam and don't know why he's fired.
I'm pretty sure they don't make their own brakes.
TLDR: someone who worked at OpenAI relates their firsthand experiences with Sam (not always positive; some lies and deceptive behavior), while strongly vouching for Helen's and Ilya's integrity and character.

My take: this is a counterpoint to a point that is not very relevant. Yes, the ad hominen attacks are despicable, but it should be a debate of their actions, not people's values and character. It's undeniable that the 4 board members didn't demonstrate competence to handle this situation, and very likely didn't fulfill their duty towards the interests of OpenAI's mission (neither the for-profit or the non-profit one). They don't have anyone but themselves to blame for this s*show.
I'm going to be the only one in this thread calling it this.

But why does no one think it's possible these women are CIA operatives?

They come from think tanks. You think the US Intelligence community wants AGI to be discovered at a startup? They want it created at big tech. AGI under MSFT would be perfect. All big tech is heavily compromised: https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247

EDIT: Since this heavy speculation, I'm going to make predictions. These women will now try to force Ilya out the board, put in a CEO not from Silicon Valley, and eventually get police to shut down OpenAI offices. That's a CIA coup
Yes, I've had a couple days with partial cloud. I've tweaked the battery settings to handle that. (The battery augments during the cloudy time, and charges back up in sun). Before I'd assumed the battery would only be used at night.

For the next 6 months I'll gather data to answer the question - should I have more battery (expensive cost, short-term storage, 95% effecient), or rather pump back to the grid (cheap equipment, long-term storage, 40% efficient buy/sell margins).
You've posted about this 6 times now and we're getting complaints. Repetition is definitely not what this site is for so could you please stop?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You probably have one with a LFP battery.

They have a different chemistry that is cheaper, have a lower energy density, are less powerful, don’t like cold, but that can often be charged to 100%.

The reason you need to charge it to 100% so often too is that it’s the voltage on a LFP battery is all over the place and the battery management system (BMS) has a hard time to keep track of the remaining capacity. Those system usually rely on the voltage but they can’t on this kind of battery. So charging to 100% will let the car know an accurate battery state of charge: full.

I have a model y with a classic LG lithium battery and I almost never charge to 100% and the car is discouraging charging that high in its user interface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_batte...
What's Zig got that C, Rust and Go don't have? [video]
I’m literally quoting and linking to original sources and your response is to accuse me of spreading lies.

Your claim that “there is no evidence that the women… were ultimately unaware that they were taking birth control” directly contradicts the TOI quote mentioned above. I don’t know what else to tell you.
IBM was bankrolling all the development. They only had one choice.
Timestamp for "improve upon the existing tech"? I only heard him say they have rights up and down the stack, which sounds different.
The local-first version of Overleaf is just LaTeX, or am I missing something?
Thank for that. Alas mine us not Tesla, but my inverter does gave WiFi and updates every 5 minutes :)
TypeScript 5.3 Released
welp i guess its over then
Courtesy of the "free speech absolutist".
And since none of them have equity in OpenAI, their external financial interest would influence decision making, especially when those interests lie with a competing company where a board member is currently the chief executive.

I've seen too much automatic praise given to this board under the unbacked assumption that this decision was some pure, mission-driven action, and not enough criticism of an org structure that allows a board to bet against the long term success of the underlying organization.
Lots of countries don't have the concept of "credit rating" and yet still everyone uses the phone as a second factor, everywhere.

No, the reason is that your phone number effectively functions as your personal ID, lacking of any other good alternative.
Okay... Sorry that I don't come to the internet to infer sarcasm and whatever other inflections you're assuming from written text...
This is happening right now, on a massive scale in Australia's NEM (National Electricity Market). Our market operator has recently moved to five minute pricing and settlement windows to accommodate the rapidly changing energy mix throughout the day, as well as rooftop solar; lots of it.

Most rooftop solar installations were installed before home batteries and smart inverters were common, so the market often finds itself in negative pricing during the day, incentivising investment into grid-scale batteries and pumped hydro which can be paid for both storing the excess during the day, and exporting it in the evening peak. Recently, as home batteries and smart inverters have started to become more accessible for home-owners, it is common to join your household onto a 'virtual power plant' with your electricity retailer, who then commands your household battery alongside thousands of others as similar to this article and pays a credit onto your bill. The other interesting development has been the wholesale pricing retailer; not only do they apply the live wholesale price to your consumption, but also your feed in. I know one of them (Amber) can connect into your battery and drive it's charging/discharging in response to the market price. It's not been uncommon to hear people's bills ending up in credit as the capacity of their battery, combined with the price volatility far outweighs the price impact from their consumption.

The volatility poses its own challenges however. Traditional retailers which typically provide flat or peak/off-peak rate have been struggling to economically provide competitive feed-in tariffs to their customers with older roof-top solar systems; systems which are unaware of the pricing environment. Many of their customers have these solar systems which export straight into negative pricing, creating a loss for the retailer that they have to somehow recoup. As far as I understand, they can't legally have a negative solar feed-in tariff, so I assume they're shifting the loss to the consumption tariff. Even though our daytime prices are often below $0/MWh, the average Australian will tell you that their electricity bill is the most expensive it's ever been.
Ideally consumers would have access to multiple 2FA methods that all vendors support standard, including SMS, app based authentication, RSA keys, Yubikeys etc. that the user would choose based on the users constraints, need for convenience, and threat model.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/aug/28/the-cas...

Humanity, from now until the sun explodes, will only get one chance to check mars for life. Right now the first samples are still waiting in tubes to get picked up from the martian surface. Musks' solution to the problem of contamination is to fire as many rockets as he can as fast as he can and hope to contaminate mars completely before anyone can red tape his ass.

We owe it to all future generations to make sure he never lands a single payload before the question can be thoroughly resolved.
Are you the guys from Australia who were asking about Aerospace opportunities as an Australian company here on HN some time back?
I wrote many physical books in rst. (see rst2nitrile).

Last year I decided to join the 21st century and migrated my tool to be Pandoc and markdown based. I'm still writing code for my toolchain, but now I'm using tools that much more folks are using.
Some models (RWD?) are equipped with LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries. Tesla recommends setting a charge limit of 100% and, as you mentioned, charging up to 100% at least once per week.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/10ji8yk/l...
Little Tricky Logic: Misconceptions in the Understanding of LTL
While true and while absolutely better from the security and privacy standpoints, aren't passkeys less inclusive than SMS 2FA? Honest question - I'm not sure. I can see them being more both less and more inclusive: it's somewhat more inclusive because they don't require any monetary payments on a monthly basis to keep the phone number active, but it's also most likely significantly less in terms of adoption.

Also, passkeys don't provide a way to perform non-Internet authentication. Like when you call your bank or they call you, you cannot use a passkey to authenticate each other purely over the phone, you need to be online. While this is surely technically possible to do over the phone (or postal pigeons -- j/k), it's not even on a radar and is extremely unlikely to ever happen in any foreseeable future.
I actually don't know if it's an intention, but it is the only explanation that makes sense. It should be noted that the original PEM specification (RFC 989) did have a similar use case where alternating encrypted and unencrypted bytes can be intermixed by `*` characters, but you are still required to pad each portion to 4n bytes (e.g. `c2VjcmV0LCA=*cHVibGlj*IGFuZCBzZWNyZXQgYWdhaW4=`). It is still the closest to what I think padding characters are required for.
You missed my point
This can't really be that big a deal. My framework laptop used to have a setting right in the bios about not charging past 60% if you plan to keep it plugged in all the time... at some point they just bug broke that feature and never bothered to fix it ever again. These are smart people and I trust that it can't really matter that much or they would have fixed it by now
> What's to stop me from doing the same to Reddit, FB, TikTok, etc??

By all means, do it. Please.
I read Ben Kuhn's post about this topic[0] last year and bought two corncob LED bulbs, one for each side of my desk. I'm not sure how big of a difference they make (very hard to compare my emotional state in November 2021 to the following two years because a lot has changed since then), but I do feel more energetic during work hours. An unexpected side effect is that my lighting for Google Meets is incredible.

[0] https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/
In mainland Europe, banks used 2FA devices with a little lcd display since at least the early 2000s.

Now they're going more phone based which feels like a step back to me (but more convenient of course... though I hate the kind that makes you film a colored qr code from your pc monitor: doesn't work in mobile browser since phone camera can't look at its own screen, and makes you look like photographing your pc screen)
Are you guys seriously involved in a WPM pissing contest?
To both of your points, I think there are two different scenarios for which there are two very different answers.

For the those who are concerned about mass surveillance, tracking, etc, the fact that those of us who can view activity or block things don't see suspicious traffic is almost as valuable as doing it yourself. Kinda the same "many eyes" theory that applies to malicious code in open source, even if you can't check it yourself you benefit from those who can existing.

For those who are concerned about being the specific target of a government or major data company, if you don't have all the skills you're probably best off living like it's 1995.
Internal recruiters might value that, but third-party recruiters don't. The more people jump around between companies, the more money they make in commissions.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37336350). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I'm very excited for this. Does anyone remember the Sony Vaio P series of laptops that had this capability? You had to insert those huge cellular adapters. It was such a dream of portability well ahead of its time.
It looks like plugins work fine. I downloaded 7 and had three plugins that needed updating, but I think that was just a timing issue.
Yes, you can have common assembler code among platforms, provided they use the same CPU.

From what I've seen of code developed in the 80s, however, asm code was not written to be divided into general and os specific parts. Writing cross-platform code is a skill that gets learned over time, usually the hard way.