skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, whoever has the biggest guns will control this resource as well.

If someome resists, they will end up just like anyone who opposed the US's quest to take other nations oil.

As Donald used to say:

"Take the oil, then get out". They took the oil and stayed.
Interesting. Also what a clusterfuck.
>negotiated with MS

Why? The board is from OpenAI, Inc. and MS isn't an investor of OpenAI, Inc.
It goes even deeper than getting laid if you study Costume History and its psychological importance.

It is a powerful medium of self-expression and social identity yes, deeply rooted in human history where costumes and attire have always signified cultural, social, and economic status.

Drawing from tribal psychology, it fulfills an innate human desire for belonging and individuality, enabling people to communicate their affiliation, status, and personal values through their choice of clothing.

It has always been and will always be part of humanity, even if its industrialization in Capitalistic societies like ours have hidden this fact.

OP's POV is just a bit narrow, that's all.
Depends on your definition of AI Safety. Like you said, there is in fact some very legit research that (unfortunately) is done under the umbrella of "AI Safety", but that's quite different from the threat-to-humanity AI safety crowd.
As someone who lost their job whilst Nomading, due to travelling to a location with bad network, which meant I missed a lot of team meetings. I was wondering if there was space for a service that helped people Nomad to wherever they wanted with ease by helping them curate and plan countries to go to, provision transportation, provision suitable accommodation and working facility with the required amenities, curate daily fun things to do in those places, and also handle un-foreseeable events like language, legal and cultural barriers?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSek52sJmJMI1A0GcctC...
> sound like a conspiray theorist

Well you do?

It won't work as long as there's a roughly equal alternative that's cheaper/easier to produce. Free market will win here.

There's no way one state can force another state (aside from war) to manufacture something a particular way. It's like if I controlled the world's timber supply and said Canada must produce houses out of timber and not, say, concrete. Canada's gonna go produce using concrete unless I somehow make my timber price competitive.
I’d second the point about atmospheres. Was most apparent to me on the moon but now I’m really curious to see Jupiter with 0 atmospherical lighting.

Incredible work! The game developer in me now wants to see you slowly create a game around this. Really impressive how light weight this is.
>You might be firing yourself up a little too much

Why, I'm not "firing myself up" at all. To the contrary, it's rather calming to talk about fonts rather than wars.

> The web site banner and slogans are ehh lets say intentionally and super-obviously grand, if you get what I mean. (?)

So is your attitude towards feedback, if you get what I mean. (?)

>I shared it so anyone else who likes it also can use it. It works really well for me. A few others have told me the same. That’s more than enough for me.

The fact that you have donation links, a Patreon page, and a merch store[1] indicates otherwise.

Clearly, "a few people telling you it works for them" wasn't enough; you'd also like people to give you money and buy your merch so that you could make a living doing this.

From your Patreon:

>If everyone who visited the font home page and downloaded the font had contributed like you do, I could have developed Victor Mono and other fonts as a full-time job.

So... yeah.

>It’s great that you have found something else that works for you

How would you know that?

>Peace, man! :)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://victor-mono.myspreadshop.com/
If I was the OpenAI board and this goes ahead I would be investigating the possibility of taking legal action for this very reason.
I hate posting my stupid things here, because they are hardly ever relevant, but w/e here goes.

Last night I spent a good couple of hours with ChatGPT assessing the similarities between DNA and Blockchain. Blockchain does seem to have quite a few similar features to what DNA.

With smart contract type code you introduce a mechanism that can act like an immune system if programmed to, setting up bounties for proactive repair on the open market.
I don't know why I want blockchain to act like synthetic DNA, but in my mind these things are more similar than distinct. As is the idea that blockchain could be the natural place to house AI.
Why burn the planet down to mine hashes, when you could be mining inference.

Anyways, I agree with your sentiment though. A lot of AI is the new crypto is going around, the only difference being, AI has way more potential upside (unless people realise the economy is dead, and only held aloft by trillions of dollars of paper that has next to no value once people realise how diluted it is).

Ironically, I think we should listen to 4chan and buy silver xD
You can use "song radio" to get a mix of new material and favourited songs that relate to a song, album or artist. It's even been given a prominent icon if you're using Spotify via Car Play or similar.
This is a good development, but it falls really short of the almost 3.5 kWh that would be possible to achieve with sodium metal fuel cell. Such device is described in the expired patent US3730776A (copy available here: https://orgpad.com/file/DrCoHGH6xJJqraDeusqrtS?token=D6S5Bow...)
A similar device producing electrical current can be constructed in a garage.
> create a new site every time I feel like blogging again

Relatable haha, I've rebuilt mine so many times. Some times barebones minimalist with just text documents in a list, other times with pagination and nice styling and a database, it's fun but probably no body cares about the differences.
I've seen this sentiment echoed a lot, and I find it somewhat perplexing as my own twitter experience has been mostly pleasant.

Do people simply not bother curating their follows?
Retrofitting is =dumb=, like very dumb. The nominal voltages are different to begin with. However not that only - retrofitting in general is not a bright idea: case in point LEDs into E27/E17 incandescent fixtures.
>good will

Microsoft and the investors knew they were "investing" in a non-profit. Lets not try to weasel word our way out of that fact.
Today marks the end of me being a digital nomad
Jacques's Law
11.8M CHF ≈ 13.3M USD
> I'm guessing due to some backwards compatibility idiocy that seemed like it made sense at some point ...
> ... making a compelling reason to fuck over the future in favor of optimisation now

> I never questioned the competence of past engineers

False just based on your opening volley of toxic spew. Backwards compatibility is an engineering decision and it was made by very competent people to interoperate with a large number of systems. The future has never been fucked over.

You seem to not understand how ASCII is encoded. It is primarily based on bit-groups where the numeric ranges for character groupings can be easily determined using very simple (and fast) bit-wise operations. All of the basic C functions to test single-byte characters such as `isalpha()`, `isdigit()`, `islower()`, `isupper()`, etc. use this fact. You can then optimize these into grouped instructions and pipeline them. Pull up `man ascii` and pay attention to the hex encodings at the start of all the major symbol groups. This is still useful today!

No, the biggest fuckage of the internet age has been Unicode which absolutely destroys this mapping. We no longer have any semblance of a 1:1 translation between any set of input bytes and any other set of character attributes. And this is just required to get simple language idioms correct. The best you can do is use bit-groupings to determine encoding errors (ala UTF-8) or stick with a larger translation table that includes surrogates (UTF-16, UTF-32, etc). They will all suffer the same "performance" problem called the "real world".
It seems to flow from the idea that “might makes right”, but you replace might with money.

If you make money you’re doing well. That idea can be extended to imply that being poor means you’ve done something wrong.

To me it echoes feudalist ideas like divine rule. The king deserved to be king, otherwise God would not have allowed him to be king. Therefore the king must be good.

In my opinion this way of thinking is formed by looking at existing hierarchies and retroactively defining morality based on those hierarchies. Which then leads to the idea that poor people must be poor because of something they did, how could the hierarchy exist otherwise?

This line of thinking also leads to the opinion that rich people do better, which does not consider that poor people might be doing the best they can under their circumstances, even if it is not the optimal strategy.
Or, I guess, "someone" could apply for a custom gTLD and link it. Of course, that "someone" would need the $200K needed to review the application and all that stuff :P
Not disagreeing with you or the OP about anything, but then this just raises the question for me of why not use facial recognition to screen against a no fly database (negative screen) than to verify identity (positive screen)? Or restrict it to trusted traveler on an opt-in basis?

The TSA approach and security paradigm in general seems poorly thought out and misguided to me sometimes.
Hah, that reminds me of Spotify. If you had shuffle on and it happened to play the last song it would stop playing, because it was the last song in the playlist ...
They could be fined and then forced to pay full whack.

But I'm not sure they meet the threshold for anti-competative practice. You'd need to show some sort of paid exclusivity (eg a bribe so only Spotify could get a better rate).

30% for market access is a bigger net evil that anything Spotify might be doing IMO.
I think the OpenAI board has enough trouble as it is but if they really want to ensure they are going to be sued for their actions over the last couple of days that would probably be the thing that would do it. I would absolutely welcome such a move because it would mean complete transparency about everything that has happened since Last Thursday and I think we would all benefit from such transparency.
realistically the cobalt based Li-Ion can reach ~250Wh/kg (and they are better than the LiFePO4). So 3kg of cobalt based li-ion would be below 1kW/h
I think this gives you similar material to the Song Radio functionality. You could use Album Radio or Artist Radio as a shortcut. I use these and Discover Weekly to discover a lot of new tracks. I know some people don't find discovery via Spotify to be useful at all, but like you, I think it's excellent. I've come across thousands of new tracks, and their strike rate for suggestions is generally very high.

It might help that my bar for favouriting a track is as background noise for the office or around the house rather than purely 10/10 killer desert island tracks.
that's not really the same thing as GPT4turbo APIs, custom GPTs, etc.
No but I don’t trust you with my life either. Are you useless then?
After all the OpenAI stuff I've just started reading drama into all these head lines. Like I read this as: 'North Korea develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion...' I am expecting something to happen now... OpenAI literally broke my brain...
An anonymous social media could work if you moderate it extensively and/or restrict who can sign up in the first place. Not to mention, the need to monetize or support the site.

Creating a good Social Media site is a hard problem IMO.

For all the snark Hacker News gets, I think its not a bad attempt at creating a tech focused social media. Reddit and its many subreddits is something else that works to some extent.
“Mr Milei gained 56 per cent of the vote, compared to Mr Massa’s 46 per cent…”

Did the US sell them some used voting machines from 2020? <<it’s a joke, save your downvotes>>
Is it? From TFA: "The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future..."

If this is true, then ad blockers will, de facto, be disabled in Chrome.
I’m unsure who you think is using subterfuge here? The interviewer or the interviewee?

For instance the three languages listed in the title were organically brought up when discussing zigs cross compilation features (~14m into the video) because it still manages its cross compilation even for cgo and rust with c or c++ ffi.
China is going to bring into production from this year a lot of sodium ion batteries. For me the weight and density of the batteries is not as important as recharge cycles and cost as that would price out more carbon producing electricity generation

https://carnewschina.com/2023/11/20/sodium-ion-batteries-are...
I'm betting they are just colossally bad communicators, the majority of the board, and in the heat of an emotional exchange things were said that should not have been said, and being the poor communicators we know in tech oh so well, shit hit the fan. It's worth being said, Sam's a pretty good communicator, and could have knowingly let them walk into their own statements and shit exploded.
False. AI alignment makes the LLM less effective. It's not pure virtue signaling if there's a cost. It's actual virtue.
There are open source bridges for iMessage.
So I’m not convinced they did.

Example:
https://github.com/mautrix/imessage
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $37,356, up 0.56% in the last 24 hours.
The price has been in the state of consolidation closing in on the $38,000 resistance level.
Although Bitcoin has been relatively stable over the last 24 hours, prominent altcoins have lost some of the ground they made during early November surges. According to Whale Alert’s data, many whales have recently transferred significant amount of Bitcoin to exchanges.
lithium is not the issue at all for Li-Ion.
>Am I missing something?

I think so. Your causality is wrong.

Strong economy -> More demand for employees -> Low unemployment
Weak economy -> Less demand for employees -> Higher unemployment
Comparing the two is a bit unfair. Don't get me wrong, I never liked twitter all that much and lately I've grown to hate it(and I wouldn't miss it one bit if it suddenly disappeared) while in principle I love blogs. But they are very different beasts: twitter is a cheap cheese and tomato frozen pre-made pizza from Lidl: it's food but that's about it. You could hand it to a professional chef and that might make it somewhat better if they add some personal touch with ingredients they have laying around but... It's still a frozen, pre-made pizza. It will never be what the chef would be able to come up with if you give them the ability to choose their ingredients and tools.
sodium batteries are safer as well when it comes to fire and explosion etc
The entire product weighs 0.5 kg, and it is 0.7A at 3.6V. I assume the amp rating is really amp-hours, which would give it 2.52Wh. Figure the battery is half the weight of the tool, which would give it roughly 10Wh/kg.
Because if they wanted to keep their compute credits that they desperately need to achieve their mission, they cannot be randomly pissing off their biggest collaborators. Just because the board doesn't legally _need_ to work with their for-profit investors, doesn't mean they shouldn't.

Had they played this like adults they could have seen through a smooth transition and not be looking at a total collapse like they are now.
But they didn't reverse engineer anything, afaik. Their Android app is just talking to a Mac Mini somewhere in a closet, logged in with the users Apple account (or so was stated in one of the interviews).
That's really cool. Looks like lichess supports it too... I'll give it a shot.
I am not sure, if the motives are much more simple:

1. there is a board member, who has at least 40m USD invested into a company, that is now effectively competing with OpenAi (i.e. Quora with poe.com) since the most recent announcements. ...and by the way has a history of sacking founders who don't agree with him.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-sudden-mysterious-exit-o...

2. Whoever wants to make significant progress in foundation models needs massive compute, which a non-profit has a hard time simply getting donated.

So why should the obvious not be the case? Sam simply trying to get money with a viable business model, so that progress in AI research can actually get funded internally. This unfortunately crossed the business interests of a board member, who wants him out.
See the large number of JSON parse solutions and all the variants that there are with respect to broad properties of JSON, I wonder if it would be a good idea to implement a JSON parser generator.

In 2022, I spend some time looking at JSON parser for the ESP and I discovered that most libraries build an object structure. When processing a HTTP response, you first need to store the retrieved data into a string before it can be parsed into a tree of objects, before you can start parsing the contents of the response. This solution requires a lot of memory allocations. I started developing a solution that would be called from the HTTP request callback and immediately store the result of the response in the final a memory structures. See: https://github.com/FransFaase/ParsingJSONforHTTPClient
If there's one thing we've learned in the past year is that curly haired men named Sam in the tech industry claiming that they are doing it "for the good of all humanity" probably ain't doin' -anything- for the good of humanity.
They probably won't skip ICE car ownership and dirty industry revolving around mining and manufacturing cheap stuff for the 'green' west.
Are any of these developing battery chemistries likely to become very affordable to the point that future houses are built with cellar-sized batteries stored underneath them?
It feels like manufacturers decided to offset their lawnmowing to end users. I am not an expert in this field but 0% charge is not zero as far as I know. Completely drained battery cannot be charged and is usually unrecoverably dead. As for 100% again there is a speculation that 100% does not reflect the full charge and if it does, then the battery itself has safeguards to cut off power.

I want my device to plug in and out without much thinking as this is the scenario 99% of customers will follow. So the device I am charging should be smart enough to handle overheating, overcharging, its battery’s lifecycle, etc. and I believe it is possible to do without involving end users into this decision making.

If the lower threshold is 30% let it be so. Tell me via notification to connect a charger to help the precious energy cell stay safe and healthy.
If the upper is 80% just lie to me saying that you are fully charged when in reality you are rotating the ions. Just be consistent in the average behavior and that’s it.
"Your comment kind of implies that 80% charge is irrelevant"

I don't mean to merely imply that only charging up to 80% charge is (essentially) irrelevant. I mean to state that it is.

What actually happens at around 80% is that the charging regime changes. It's nothing to do with "making the battery age less". A lithium battery has two charging regimes: Constant Current and Constant Voltage. Up to about 80% a lithium battery is charged with constant current => charge speed is limited by the maximum output current of the charger => bigger charger faster charger speed => happy customer.

Above ~80% you switch to Constant Voltage. Charger now charges at a constant voltage and the charge current drops off following a log curve. The closer you get to 100% the lower the current => battery charges slower and slower the closer you get to 100%. This is a simple matter of physics and is the antithesis to "Fast Charging" which is why fast charging always talks about charging up to 80%.

"but the things you mention PLUS the discharge depth or how full you charge also affect the equation from what I gather."

Yes, depth of discharge (DoD) does affect battery ageing. But there's also a dozen other factors as well. Some affect the battery life more than DoD.

So yeah don't waste your life trying to compile custom kernels or whatever to only charge to 80% :) Just help the battery keep cool with what I posted earlier. It's all you can do. Worry about other things in life :)
I don't install extensions without reviewing the source and building it myself.
> Android should really just go the "curated app store" route like Apple.

I'll buy an iPhone if Android goes down that path. If I must be in some walled garden, I'll choose the better kept garden.

Remote attestation is bad enough but breaking Termux will be the last straw for me.
Crosscompiling NetBSD with Build.sh
Movie Tax Write-Downs Help Studios Profit at Public's Expense
I think it’s naive to assume otherwise.

Relevant cartoon by The Economist:
https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2023/11/02/kal...
The sun intensity makes the planet look weirdly blurry to me. Is that how it normally is? Is that how it's supposed to be? Dropping the sun intensity to 0 made it look more crisp, which is the way I like it.
Wild speculation regarding the OpenAI fiasco
This stinks of bad science. All of the observations come from stars. "Older stars seem to have less lithium than they should, and some younger stars have much more."

"BBC Science Focus wrote in 2023 that "recent research seems to completely discount" such theories; the magazine held that mainstream lithium nucleosynthesis calculations are probably correct."

I am unconvinced.
Exactly. People forget that all the environmental damage coming from China and other sweatshop countries, comes from manufacturing stuff on the cheap to feed western consumerism, and those corners cut to achieve such low prices are not just on labor but also on lack of environmental protection.

There's a reason semiconductors are no longer manufactured in 'Silicon Valley' who's soil is still full of forever chemicals, but mostly all moved to Asia where there's a lot less concern for the local environment as long as billions are flowing in the country.

https://theconversation.com/how-silicon-valley-industry-poll...
This is a great analogy. Puts the threat into more understandable terms for people.

Not for the jobs threat. 'it took ouuurrr joubbbs' threat. This is already happening, and will continue.

But for the killer AI threat, the concept of 'material' in chess is good. As long as AI needs us for power, mining and manufacturing, we still have some advantage.

Until it gets to the point where it has so much power that it can threaten us to keep the power on, keep manufacturing chips, then we can still maneuver and win.

The whole problem with the movie "Colossus" is that they handed over nuclear launch control. So there was a threat of nuclear strike that forces humans to keep the power on. Without this, humans can come back, change direction.

Like with this excellent chess analogy, there will be a time when the AI is smarter, but humans will still have more material.

Lets say in 10-20 years we do get AGI, it is installed in F-16s. There will still be time, a gap period, where we can change direction. We see it has gone too far and we turn it off. The world realizes we are going to far and all countries come together to abandon AI.

The real threat is humans, threats of other countries, and profit motives. This is what will keep AI moving forward and in control. Because we'll be to scared or greedy to turn it off. NOT because of its superior strategic thinking. MOLOCH.