skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spare a thought for us Windows users - we went from our pristine and oddly beautiful home directories in Windows 7, where everything was neatly squared-away to either AppData\Roaming or AppData\Local - to our post-Electron, lazily-ported software world where my home directory now has no-less than twenty Unix-style dot-directories littering my %USERPROFILE%

Incidentally, the worst offender is Microsoft themselves: it all got worse with .nuget, .vs, .azcopy, .azdata, .azure, .azuredatastudio, .dotnet, etc. I just don't understand it.
> HN will have all sorts of wild opinions about what's going on and we can't have that!

Uh, or investors and customers will? Yes, people are going to speculate, as you point out, which is not good.

> we might realize this is not all that important in the end and move on to other news items!

It's important to some of us.
Alternately: X sues Media Matters for unsubstantiated slanderous remarks triggering unwarranted financial setback
But the only time that a judge has ruled on whether or not a crypto token is a security is in the XRP case, and it ruled that it was not (at least when it was sold on exchanges). This is not comparable to a ponzi scheme where the legality is not in question at all.

And let's not ignore the fact that these exchanges have done this right out in the open for around 10 years now. Coinbase even had their IPO approved by the SEC. So it's very clear that the SEC treated this as legal for a decade before suddenly changing their position. This seems incredibly dishonest to me.
You're confusing "enjoying a creative endeavor" with "being able to make a living from that creative endeavor".

Hand weaving is a creative endeavor, but almost no one makes a living from hand weaving today. People still do it for fun, though.

The upside there is that most people are able to afford more than two sets of clothing (one for daily wear, one for church, weddings, funerals, etc.).
> Take that further to airline points and Chipotle points.

No-one is holding those with an "expectation of profit". Whereas essentially the only use of "stablecoins" is as investment schemes; even if someone isn't expecting the value of their stablecoin to rise against USD, they're expecting it to rise against something.
I’ve long had this issue, seemingly with red wine, and hoppy beers. An IPA headache is no joke. I also have a crazy sweettooth..candy, ice cream, cookies, etc. Ate way too much. On a whim several months ago I cut sweets from my diet entirely. I swear my headaches have completely left. Like somehow it was the sugar crashes that amplified some reaction to these alcohols (that have no sugars). Who knows. But my head is better now without all the added sugars.
> We made a mistake by creating so much automation.

So you're volunteering to become a stoop-labor agricultural serf, then?
There are several bets on that prediction markets site I forget the name of, about the reason for the firing.

It's possible that none of them will ever be closed because will we ever know the reason, and if it is told will it be credible?
Which is french for "wexre going to put a subscription in it"
> Clearly, they don't in this case. Or the controls are for another case.

I mean the lawsuit (and preceding tweets by Yaccarino) allege that they do indeed work and Media Matters effectively committed a denial of service attack of sorts in order to forcibly cause them to appear.
On a desktop OS software is more likely to try to auto-update large software packages in the background (think auto-updating the 6 GB of Photoshop, 100 GB games in Steam...), whereas software on a smartphone OS is more aware of what is a "cheap" data connection or an expensive one. macOS does have this concept but I would be that most third-party software doesn't check.
2050: if you have a handful of beans, you are rich(?)
Should’ve just made it an Electron app
I've been trying a similar experiment for several years now. I have a four year old iPhone, and for most of its life, the battery level has been kept between 30% and 70%. Settings => Battery => Battery Health and Charging says that the maximum capacity is 91%.

No idea whether that's better or worse than average, but I mention it so others can compare. I can say that this is the first time I've tried this experiment, and this phone has already outlasted any previous phone I've had.
And we know exactly who to blame. Unlike the human. And that human likely would have kept driving too. Clearly did not show the empathy that would suggest they would pull over.

As an aside, I wonder if all Waymo and Cruise vehicles will include undercar cameras in the future.
Seems like a well grounded complaint. It’s obviously going to be politicized, given politics precipitated things from the start, but there is nothing wrong with letting these matters play out in a court. Remember that Elon has himself been the subject to defamation suits, and he’s won them all. If MM committed deception then likewise they will be held to account as the court determines right, there is justification for the lawsuit as X can prove they were damaged.
It seems like that would be better.
Ok. I can Found a tech company by filling out LLC papers on LegalZoom for $40.

What have her companies done?
Give a goal (ex. make it more intuitive/easier for the user to do X), have 2 teams independently work on it, A/B test them, winner gets merged.
Here are some good references on this with actual measurements, see e.g. table 4 on how many discharge cycles you can get out of a certain maximum voltage / charging level:
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-204-how-do-lithium-...
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-501a-discharge-char...

On Thinkpads you can use tp_smapi to set charge start and stop thresholds https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/tp_smapi
Ah, well so long as it's discouraged... I'm sure no one's critical systems would depend on it, right?
But the issue is that a part of the population look up to him, an especially young and easy to influence part. And he help make them whiners. He's not the only one, I've observed that guru often do the same thing (or take the complete opposite approach which isn't healthy either).

I'm just tired of the US news having yet again whining as a defensive mechanism. It started with Hillary, then Trump, and now this. I'm just tired of US news I guess.
Media matters followed a few major brands, a few extremist groups, and then refreshed until they saw a combination that people would get upset about. I think that is why they are being sued
Good point. That is why LLMs are incapable of humility. And that may be their downfall.
Was that under Nadella, though?

Things have changed quite a bit, as I understand it.
> The failure to create anything resembling AGI can be easily explained away by concerns about the safety of AGI.

Isn't the solution to just pipe ChatGPT into a meta-reinforcement-learning framework that gradually learns how to prompt ChatGPT into writing the source-code for a true AGI? What do we even need AI ethicists for anyway? /s
Sugar doesn't affect me in that way although I need to be careful for other reasons. Alcohol is such a social lubricant in so many societies that the inability to consume even small amounts affects one's personal and professional life.
> Attorney General Paxton was extremely troubled by the allegations that Media Matters, a radical anti-free speech organization, fraudulently manipulated data on X.com (formerly known as Twitter).

Hilarious. Is the AG opening themselves up to a lawsuit with this characterization?
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This joke made me curious about the actual funding for this research, shown here: https://crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/29940
Firing Sam as a way of sticking up for Ilya would make more sense if Ilya wasn’t currently in support of Sam getting his job back.
Humans have been making and successfully containing things that can kill us all for the better part of a century now, probably more depending on where you draw the line.

There is a 100% chance that something kills all of us if we aren't mindful of it. I don't see a lack of mindfulness, I see an abundance of fear, and progress being offered up as a sacrifice to the idol of status-quo.
Maybe they needed two teams to independently try to decode an old tape of random numbers from a radio space telescope that turned out to be an extraterrestrial transmission, like a neutrino signal from the Canis Minor constellation or something. Happens all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)
Trying to pull the dye out of the water
It sounds like X did serve ads next to pro-nazi tweets, it just took them 10-15 refreshes to get it to happen.

https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1726772923841552784...
...towards reality. The "free speech absolutist" guy got his little feelings hurt again.
Any BMS needs to charge fully to have the most accurate charge capacity, so it’s no surprise it automatically charges to 100% occasionally. Shouldn’t really matter for longevity if you’re doing it rarely.
Thank you! I get the sense that none of this matters and it's all a massive distraction.

News

Company which does research and doesn't care about money makes a decision to do something which aligns with research and not caring about money.

From the OpenAI website...

"it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world"

Big tech co makes a move which sends its stock to an all time high. Creates research team.

Seems like there could be a "The Martian" meme here... we're going to Twitter the sh* out of this.
Let the user choose! Some people tether their phone a lot and use the battery only when out. For them 80% max is OK.
I'm in the "flashlight nerd" gang, and I've learned to store my long-term storage li-on batteries at near 50% capacity to extend their life tremendously. I've also implemented this strategy with my portable chargers, and they've lasted for years now at full capacity still.
Banks have strict cash reserve requirements that are externally audited. OpenAI does not, and more to the point, they're both swimming in money and could easily get more if they wanted. (At least until last week, that is.)
Since I'm bashing on fallacies here, I'd also like to call out the naturalistic fallacy as a frequently abused one.

If your ancestors managed to survive in the natural environment, and there is something novel in the synthetic environment, then the synthetic alternative does in fact deserve more scrutiny because you have less evidence about it.

"Natural doesn't mean safe" type reasoning only really applies when the natural and synthetic thing are being put in equally novel situations--which is a pretty rare setup. Like, how often do you consider eating a plant which nobody has ever eaten before?
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Easy to have the best of both worlds, though. FDA can continue to collect and publish data on safety and efficacy of medications which is incredibly useful and absolutely worth the tax money. But if you want to take something not approved, then they should have no right to tell you that you can't take the risk.
MSFT may perceive a benefit in absorbing and locking down the openAI team. Doing so will require large golden handcuffs in excess of what competitors would offer those same folks.
BMW i3 does that, kinda. I checked the raw data against the claimed battery size, and the in-car 0-100% was 20-80% of the battery.

My new Renault Megane E-tech does not do this. Instead it has an option to limit charging to a given percentage (if you set it to 100% it'll ask if it's just next charge) and the manual states that if you have less than 15km range the car might switch off at any moment without notice...

Let's just say I was mildly surprised about the latter.

Both cars had battery guarantees though, the Megane's is minimum 80% SOH after 8 years or 160000 km, with no reservations against charging to 100%.
If you try and attack a company, that leads to monetary damages, then yes, that company is entitled to use their data for redress. When you open HackerNews, or any website, of course they have all your information in log files about what you opened, when and from where (ip address, browser headers, etc). That should not be surprising.
If Emmett will run this the same way he ran Twitch, I'm not expecting much action from him.
Something like Fuckup Nights (https://en.fuckupnights.com/) but proper conference and with focus on software development, would be really interesting.
Is there an adjustment when I replace the roof? When I add a bedroom? When the house next door burnt down and got occupied by squatters? When OpenAI opened an office withing biking distance? When the local industry collapsed? When the house collapsed?

Because each of those scenarios opens an avenue for gaming the system, and if there's still a big deficit of units, every game of corruption will be played in order to squeeze out the market-banned value.
Is it just the once. Or do you have to have repeated infusions?
Have you not been on the verge of getting a payout for the best part of a decade now?
They already have a name, CoPilot. They made that pretty clear by mentioning it 15 times per minute at last week's Ignite conference :)
Absolutely agree, would be beyond pissed. A once in a lifetime chance at generational wealth blown.
I think, where feasible (to fit in HN’s length limit), tweet submissions should include the name of the person and/or title. This tweet is by Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

While being terribly annoyed with the events since Friday (not because they affect me directly but because of the sheer amount of useless noise created by them), I was thinking that these folks joining Microsoft are short sighted and won’t last or stay very long there. I’m glad to see an echo of that here.

> and execution risk (see DeepMind within Google for how all the smartest people in AI can still get stymied by the bureaucracy of a giant company).

> I think the chances of the senior OpenAI folks still being at Microsoft in 3 years is asymptotically approaching zero. Where the independence and clear mission of OpenAI was exactly what could have kept that group of incredible talent motivated and aligned over the long term, making Office365 spreadsheets a bit more clever isn’t something that rallies a team like their’s. Sure they’ll try and have some level of independence, but the machinery of a trillion dollar+ business software behemoth is hard to not get caught up in and ground out by.

I’d give them one year, maximum, before they all split up and either go back to OpenAI or form new companies in alliance with other money-minded devils with deep pockets.

Now might be a good opportunity for others in this space to take advantage of the chaos, and in making things worse for OpenAI and Microsoft. And I can’t wait for this to get out of the news cycle.
“Human rights” don’t exist not because it’s abstract, but because it’s self-contradictory. “Cultural values” and “rights” can exist with respect to a particular society, or by reference to a particular legal code. But “human rights” implies rights that are universal to humans, and there is no such thing.

“Human rights” is a religious concept that makes sense if you have a God that provides the source of universal values. But presumably we are having a secular discussion here, not a theological one.
Don't the prediction markets usually define explicitly the payoff conditions, which is usually for something like this what is published/reported by a very particular source?
Full half capacity?
Nonsense. India started pumping out covid mRNA drugs for dirt cheap in just a few months.
Really? I’ve always assumed (known) there is no actual difference between high level execs and you: they just think higher of themselves.
Is he wrong? Hundreds of employees and billions in investment would be entrusted to someone with <3 days of diligence?
Vulkan > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan

DXVK: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
I know that zooming exists. My phones don't have a scroll wheel, and I use quite a few different browsers.

Zooming on phones typically breaks the layout (making the viewport larger than the screen).

If I don't own the device I'm using, this solution doesn't work at all as well as simply saying a legible text size in the design.
Be interesting how this contrasts with the cc65/ca65 tool suite, which is pretty complete I think in terms of assembling, linking, and libraries. (Discounting the actual C compiler part.)
Both 'reasons' are a bullsh*t. But interesting is Sustkever was the key person, it wouldn't happen without him. And now he says board told him why he was doing it? He didn't reiterate he regrets about it. So looks like he was one of the driving forces, if not the main. Of course he doesn't want the reputation of 'the man who killed OpenAI'. But he definitely took part and could prevent it.
You don’t one near your residence. They drop slippery leaves everywhere.
This is an interesting theory when combined with this tweet from Google DeepMind's team lead of Scalable Alignment [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427761849141...

The "Sam is actually a psychopath that has managed to swindle his way into everyone liking him, and Ilya has grave ethical concerns about that kind of person leading a company seeking AGI, but he can't out him publicly because so many people are hypnotized by him" theory is definitely a new, interesting one; there has been literally no moment in the past three days where I could have predicted the next turn this would take.
Almost every cable company has open wifi networks on their customer equipment. Right now I can see three such devices in my wifi. All Apple has to do is contract with Comcast, Cox, etc. and bam - as long as your wifi can see one of those companies open networks, the device can connect to these widely distributed wifi networks. Heck I'm pretty sure more than a few smart TVs already do this.
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Inspiration come from kitplummers clikan, which was featured on HN a few years ago [1].
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They absolutely are not banks or none of this would be happening.

This also is about unregistered securities and not interest bearing accounts although that too is an issue because they're not banks.

edit: They're Money Services Businesses and that's it. They might have some state-level lending licenses but I'm fuzzy on that.
Question I would have for Popehat would be whether a DoS attack is speech or not. If it is, why isn't it protected, because it's inline messaging on the medium it uses and is therefore like any other mediated expression. If it isn't, what is it about attacking the medium and participants that isn't speech?

The problem with the cancel culture people is their "working the ref," strategy launches a DoS attack on the participants in targeted discourses. I'm thinking what the equivalent is, like maybe LibsofTikTok, which is public mockery that likely crosses over into similar cancel-culture consequences, where there is a strong argument to be made that it is incitement. However, I don't think one can defend cancelations in principle without also defending LibsOfTikTok, or much worse, something like 4chan or kiwifarms, because if you are defending the incitement of a cancel mob, you're also defending one that uses mockery and that also results in some lunatic taking it too far.
If it was anything all that bad, Ilya and Greg would’ve known about it, because one of them was chairman of the board and the other was a board member. And both of them want Sam rehired. You can’t even spin it that they are complicit in wrongdoing, because the board tried to keep Greg at the company and Ilya is still on the board now and previously supported them.

Whatever the reason is, it is very clearly a personal/political problem with Sam, not the critical issue they tried to imply it was.
You'd be getting on the bad side of some of the most powerful people in tech and taking the helm of a company full of people who don't want you running it. It's not a surprise a lot of people don't want the role.
Is that in professional contexts where long hours at work followed by drinks with the boss are expected (so I'm told)?
The total capacity, meaning the battery's original mAh capacity.
It's better to have 3G/2G than nothing for a phone especially for calling, but perhaps it's reasonable to omit 3G/2G for a Mac for average use case, though it may be fine for reading HN.
While Kurt Vonnegut's house may not be haunted, I'm certain that if you spent the night there, you'd wake up refreshed and hungry for a Breakfast of Champions.
I would gladly have a 5 sec load delay than watch another one of those AI-narrated commercials for some garbage or other.
One of my co-workers who teleworks. He's in an apartment where they gate keep internet access with ridiculous fees. It's way cheaper to use his phone, so he does. And since he's in a dense urban area with ample 5G coverage, it's probably faster than the building provided internet.
The singularity is where this works.
Half the board lacks any technical skill, and the entire board lacks any business procedural skill. Ideally, you’d have a balance of each on a component board.
The most pathetic thing here is the Texas AG's participation.
Or just make capital gains apply on any earnings over $1M or so. Suddenly it would not be such an exciting amazing thing to have your home double in value, would it?

The raised taxes could be earmarked for building (gasp!) public housing. The stuff we used to build until the 90s, when it suddenly became absolutely unpopular and politically toxic for governments to encourage affordable housing stock.

That these kinds of policies can't/won't happen tells you that the foxes are running the hen house in this country, at every level of government and business. E.g. the response to affordability crisis is more stimulus and subsidies (new tax free home buyers accounts, etc), rather than getting pricing under control by building homes and regulating real estate law.

All very frustrating.
I disagree with the customs and border comment. I think a nation has a right to know who is entering the country. Otherwise you just have open borders. In addition other countries want to know who you are. So you need a passport
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It's way better to dogfood a new chip in a laptop where there is a much bigger battery and a lot more space than a phone, too.
I think you may be hallucinating reasonable reasons to explain an inherently indefensible situation, patching up reality so it makes sense again. Sometimes people with puffed up egos are frustrated over trivial slights, and group think takes over, and nuking from orbit momentarily seems like a good idea. See, I’m doing it too, trying to rationalize. Usually when we’re stuck in an unsolvable loop like a SAT solver, we need to release one or more constraints. Maybe there was no good reason. Maybe there’s a bad reason — as in, the reasoning was faulty. They suffered Chernobyl level failure as a board of directors.
"Adaptive Charging" is the answer to this problem no?

My phone lowers the rate of charging so it's only at 100% by the time you wake up.

Even just making it easier to replace the battery ("right to repair") would mitigate this.
She only founded one, Fellow Robots, and that "company" went nowhere. There's no product info and the company page shut down. She was CEO of GeoSim for a short 3 years, and this "company" also looks like it's going nowhere.

She has quite a track record of short tenures and failures.