skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fertilizer

They can get that via rail from Russia and Kazahstan with almost no issue, even from Belarus if Kazahstan says no. Yes, it will add some extra-costs but nothing that won't be financially manageable.

> fossil fuels

Basically just oil, which it will be very easy for them to replace in case of a war against the US by telling their (China's citizens) not to drive petrol cars anymore. Mission accomplished. It also helps that China is leading the EV industry and that it has a very extensive and intensive railway network in place, so if there is one big country that could make do without personal cars that would be China.

> iron ore

Russia to the rescue again, for example the largest world deposit of iron ore is located in Siberia [1]. Also, most probably the Chinese authorities will put all new civil construction on hold until the blockade/war would be over and they'll redirect all that iron ore to the military industry (for making artillery shells, tanks, stuff like that). Not to mention the fact that by that point Australia (a major US ally) would have already become close to broke (as their economy depends on selling to China lots of stuff taken from the ground).

> imports of food

I've read some piece in the Economist a couple of months ago where they were mentioning how come China has food reserves for at least 2 or 3 years, but, ignoring that, Russia will come to the rescue again (thanks to their chernozom).

As per Japan in WW2, they could have lived off the land (i.e. off China) had they really got in and conquer it all. They had been already doing a similar thing in Korea for three or four decades by that point, so they had practice. The imported oil was basically needed for their Navy, so with no new Navy big campaigns in the works that wouldn't have been necessary.

[1] https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/554788
Sure this is a "burner" account

I had a poor background but I had grants so I did have access to education but I was bad at it eg. failed. I was lucky to pick up web development to try and get rich from high traffic ads. That did not happen. I worked in factories/restaurants and did some freelancing. I landed my first W2 agency job at $40K/yr then $50K/yr. I climbed the ladder, SWE contractor job $84K/yr then a failed startup thing, $110K after that. I then quit my job since I didn't want to learn C#/.NET (dumb). Was hard to get a job for a couple months, about to go work in Amazon Warehouse till another local agency picked me up for $75K/yr where I'm at now.

All the while I've been either burning money (eg. POS car repair, or expensive toys) or helping my families (last 3 years) I think I gave them $60K+ in total. Current net worth is -$80K.

Anyway I have been very fortunate/lucky I'm just dumb.

I hate my job at the moment so I'm either going to get another job or get fired... repeat the debt implode cycle again.
Good CEOs are good communicators. Most CEOs, like literally any other profession, are not. People like Jobs are exceptions, and for every one of them there are a hundred shitty CEOs who are neither talented nor intelligent, even among the companies that are still alive, but they don’t get discussed here because this is a site about making money first, and tech second, and the crowd here doesn’t like hearing it’s all bullshit. For every Apple there are a hundred Shitty Integrated, Inc. companies that no one talks about, and every one has a CEO.

There are no qualifications to be a CEO, ultimately, except the board happens to want you as CEO.

It’s just a title.
The Chinese state can trivially identify these people even if they don't use their real names. But by forcing them to use their real names they crowdsource the initial policing of opinions to the public. If that doesn't work the state will step in.
I mean, the mission of the company is almost just to bring about a post-money world via developing AGI. Given that, it's only 800,000 reasons for those employees who either

1. don't really believe in the mission
2. recognize that they are nowhere near AGI
I don’t think most Russians would agree that either of the other gentlemen would be preferable. The 80s and 90s were not a time of great happiness, prosperity, calm, and order.
It is not because now AI means that.

If you want to say "true AI" you have to say "General AI"
RedHat / IBM had a huge opening to take some of this market share... but then for some inexplicable nonsensical move (common with IBM owned Redhat to be honest) they made the choice to just exit the Onprem Hypervisor space to focus on "Cloud".

I know a few organizations and vendors (like Veeam) were looking to RHV to be a good replacement, the announcement to discontinue the product seems to catch everyone by surprise.

I am still hoping Veeam will add support for a good 3rd option, proxmox, XCP, direct KVM, something...
The only reason I'm sticking with VMware ESXi is because of Veeam, it's like the only solidly working piece of backup software for VMs. Otherwise I wouldn't doubt to go with Proxmox.
Nor in 2022 when it was first archived by Wayback (unless archives from previous have been removed)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.ycom...
Sounds similar to computed GO TO, as in:

GO TO (LABEL1, LABEL2, LABEL3, LABEL4) I

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/805-4939/6j4m0vn9l/inde...
Cloudflare R2 might work well for you for serving the image files themselves, there's a per-request fee ($0.36/million GETs) but no bandwidth fees. AFAIK there's no restriction on NSFW content on any Cloudflare service, as long as it's legal.

Disclaimer: I work for CF, but not on a team related to R2. I'm just speaking as a CF enthusiast here.
What is a problem with being an IC?
Difference Between Greg Brockman and Helen Toner
Democracy only when the vote goes in favor of the interest of leadership / moneyed interests.
""Ninety plus percent of the employees of OpenAI are saying they would be willing to move to Microsoft because they feel Sam's been mistreated by a rogue board of directors," said Ron Conway, a prominent venture capitalist who became friendly with Altman shortly after he founded Loopt, a location-based social networking start-up, in 2005. "I've never seen this kind of loyalty anywhere.""

Perhaps this looks like "loyalty" when viewed with the narrow mindset of Silicon Valley and so-called "tech" venture capitalism. But it also looks like disloyalty to OpenAI and its stated mission when viewed more broadly.

"A former OpenAI employee, machine learning researcher Geoffrey Irving, who now works at competitor Google DeepMind, wrote that he was disinclined to support Altman after working for him for two years. "1. He was always nice to me. 2. He lied to me on various occasions 3. He was deceptive, manipulative, and worse to others, including my close friends (again, only nice to me, for reasons)," Irving posted Monday on X."

One could see similarities with the way so-called "tech" companies treat computer users.

It's no surprise people working for so-called "tech" companies are trying to hide behind labels such as "Effective Altruism". These are not altruistic people. They need a cover.
I prefer windy.com! Many more layers and models to choose from.
Indeed I studied computational economics because that’s the closest we get to Cybernetics today IMO
I guess you have a different email address that you use for website signups, shopping etc?
> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft

But Sam the CEO has totally failed to manage the narrative throughout this episode. [A CEO needs to communicate better]

Surely he could have stated it was a disagreement in direction? Instead he left it open to rumours: rumours which mostly assumed the board had good reason to sack him (everyone presumed the board couldn't be that stupid plus he didn't defend himself). : Many of those rumours were extremely damaging to Sam. Even if he couldn't say a thing, he could have got other third parties to endorse him.

Nadella and Eric came out looking pretty good.
Not sure. But it’s different from saying they support Altman’s endeavour in being the best at it.
I understand where you're coming from and I think that's reasonable in general. My perspective would be: you can definitely iterate on the technology to come up with safer versions. But with this strategy you have to make an unsafe version first. If you got in one of the first airplanes ever made the likely hood of crashing is pretty high.

At some point, our try it until it works approach will bite us. Consider the calculations done to determine if fission bombs would ignite the atmosphere. You don't want to test that one and find out. As our technology improves exponentially we're going to run into that situation more and more frequently. Regardless if you think it's AGI or something else, we will eventually run into some technology where one mistake is a cataclysm. How many nuclear close calls have we already experienced.
This collective action seems like it was effective enough and achieved its stated goals. Why introduce yet another permanent layer of bureaucracy and politics at your company if you can achieve your goals without it?
But this contemporaneous TechCrunch article—which is clearly talking about the same blog post—says it did!

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/y-combinator-president-sam...
Africa produces 0.32% or the annual supply of rare earth metals, and nearly all of it comes from Madagascar, and it is a Chinese owned mine.
What is your definition of reasoning? In my mind, GPT-4 has some nascent reasoning abilities.
Nothing will happen when the old guy pushes because the SSH key was changed.
perhaps they are in a war zone and must learn to make molotov cocktails without connecting to the internet
You were right though, OpenAI Inc, which the board controls, is a 501c3 charity.
Typescript supports it too (quick example[0]) :) and Python actually as well, but currently you can't unpack two TypeVarTuples in the same type expression: https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/

[0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/C4TwDgpgBAglC8UDaA...
Yes, I guess I was implicitly assuming that the investor only had these two options, which might be a good model some of the time, but not typically. You're absolutely right in the more general long-term case.
Yes according to the press release yesterday, didnt give any details.
It's not a precaution. A security precaution would be blocking the login because of unusual activity

I get so many, I tune out. I bet I'm not alone
> No one in the world is better than Sam at dealing with this kind of situation

This is clearly entirely subjective. To prove otherwise, feel free to show me the list ranking how people in the world would deal with this kind of situation and explain why Sam Altman ends up on top of that list.
Also a bit pointless when it's just summarising < 90 HN comments. One can skim that in a minute or two anyway.
A similar saying that I learned from a business mentor years ago, "Just because someone is nice to you doesn't make them your friend, just because someone is mean to you doesn't make them your enemy."
> The end user experience is way better on Windows than Linux.

Window management in Windows 10 is so terrible that it makes TWM look modern.

Cluterred title bars so you need to aim for some free space to be able to move the window on other monitor, 1px window borders - good luck resizing windows on HD and UHD monitors. Gray on gray. Terrible scrollbars.

And the best one: Programs keeping files open after you close them.
The employees don't control the board - the board controls the company

I'm curious (and I guess ill informed) though - what was the actual mechanism for the boards removal? Was it concession of defeat/voluntary resignation? Or were they forcibly removed?
conversely, I'm a boomerang Googler who worked there in 2015 and again now. In 2015, I felt like no one cared, that Googler engineering skills were overrated, and 17/23 people on my team quit in a year. In this stint, however, I'm amazed by how smart and passionate people are about a variety of different technologies, and enjoy collaborating across many teams on different things.

I think the takeaway for me is that, in a company of hundreds of thousands of people, these experiences are more situational/random/based on what energy you bring to a space/team-based/seniority-based than they are a symptom of universal company culture.
This is provably false. Customers are anything but rational, and pick things out that play against their best interests all the time.

Be it due to fashion, social pressure, brand recognition, cultural norms, et cetera and so forth.
Working for a company you believe in is one good reason. 800,000 reasons is 799,999 more.
Red Hat didn't exit, they moved from RHEV to OpenShift Virt. Now it's kubernetes scheduling KVM VMs instead of ovirt-engine scheduling KVM VMs.
Sure, they're not achieving everything they want, but I think most people would be pretty happy if they just achieved a huge money-printing machine through an app store and ad exchange.
I think we've seen pretty convincingly that all a super intelligence would need access to in order to completely ruin humanity is social media APIs.
RHV is dead, they're trying to move people over to (the much more expensive) OpenShift. Support for it has gotten predictably worse.

I don't expect Ovirt to survive, the vast majority of development was RH.

"The market" seems to "deciding" that in-house virtualization will be insanely expensive, and otherwise you need to rent OCP.
> Sure, but while it's not possible to type basic functions like ones that concatenate tuples, I can say that Pythons typing system is not superior to Typescripts.

That's not really fair. The uses that make sense when considering Python's convention ("Pythonic" code, nebulous but usually well-understood) are supported.

I think what confused me about these examples is that they imply multiple values that have completely different meanings, but all get processed as equals anyway. That was before you talked about refactoring old code though.

> Okay, so how am I supposed to handle non-exceptional errors? Because using exceptions for that kind of thing absolutely isn't good practice.

If an operation on a homogeneous collection can say "nope" for some values and process others, the values would be typed "T | None". If the data isn't really a collection but a structured mapping, in general, attributes would be made optional on a case-by-case basis. If all attributes happen to be optional but the mapping itself is non-optional, that sounds more like an accident of this specific case than something we should complicate a language over. If this happens over a whole codebase, I guess I feel for you. Maybe that's when it makes sense to give up a bit of static typing and treat these values a bit more like data and a bit less like separate arguments, no matter what kind of complicated typing the language can do.

> Legacy. Typescript allows me to do refactoring of things like these step by step and very easily. Python doesn't, because it's inflexible.

> Are we taking apart my code now or what?

Honestly yes, this example seems so unusual that it doesn't make sense to debate it without knowing concretely what's happening in your code that this needs to be supported.

I guess that this specific example would get easier. But I would hardly call one type system superior over that.

Edit: my final opinion on this is "this is something that's technically possible if you follow language and conventions to the letter, but with experience you see that it's a bad idea that won't fit well with the language and you should change the design to avoid it". It happens in all languages IMO.
The whole post is a good illustration of what made early Google so insufferable.
I migrated from Pipedream, Windmill is much, much more developer friendly.
If "it" is F'23, then none. GNU Fortran has had the "new" degree-unit trig functions for a while, but no compiler, FOSS or otherwise, has the newly invented features of this revision.

Fortran doesn't prototype features with real implementations (or test suites) before standardizing them, which had led to more than one problem over the years as ambiguities, contradictions, and omissions in the standard aren't discovered until years later when compiler developers eventually try to make sense of them, leading to lots of incomplete and incompatible implementations. I've written demonstrations for many examples and published them at https://github.com/klausler/fortran-wringer-tests/tree/main .
The study doesn't blame the pollution on jets. It says it is from industry, and since the rich own stock in companies, they blame the companies pollution on the rich who own equity. dumb and deceptive article
Hard agree. Sold Google stock after realizing I'd more or less replaced Google Search with chatgpt...
Autozone is not using SSN to verify identity, they use it to report taxable income. (They don't collect SSN from customers, it's from employees.)

What would you do instead of SSN? Or how would you change the process of providing a number for income tax purposes?
Going to need a citation for.. everything in this post.
Biden proposes ban on cable cord-cutting fees
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that something that occupies 0.3% of an ecosystem can't be thriving? "Thriving" is not the same concept as "widely used" or "popular"!
Def not true. People who operate at this level can separate business and friendship. But occasionally when big enough deals fall through it can damage long term friendships, but it's not common. PG firing sama and keeping it secret sounds like PG likes and respects sama but didn't think he should run YC. If he didn't like sama he could have done a lot more damage by making it more public.
There are at least 16 different switches to turn off recommendations and marketing emails from LinkedIn, because each category has a mixture of interaction-based notifications and recommender-style ones. You can reduce it to about 8 if you don't mind disabling each category entirely.
Board hired him back. They could have said no and stuck to their guns. No shareholders to give them the boot.
As a reader, would you ever prefer to be given the AI-fluffed version instead of the outline? I say if you have a few concise bullet points of the point you want to get across fantastic, let me read them and be on my way.

If on the other hand your mission is to produce a proper creative writing work where the choice of words is the art, then if you don't do that yourself what's the point?
Paging your friendly neighborhood phrenologist! Have you measured the shape of Altman's head yet?
Their stock price was flat for a decade, so no. The company was a wreck financially under Ballmer.
Getting Musk vibes.
Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications
Can playing 16:9 content on a 21:9 OLED screen affect burn-in risk? Apparently.
As a Yoyo enthusiast, you got my curiosity and it looks quite fun !
That implies that those with newsletter like me need to write in argument form as it is way harder for AIs to emulate argument writing styles and unique voices.
It’s more accurate to say this forum has an accusing-others-of-being-in-a-pg-cult cult thing going on.
> So is the real story here that putting your email on the open web simply isn't a significant "vulnerability" anymore?

Yes. The whole obfuscate my email thing is silly. I have the same email since the mid 90s, I post it without any care to wherever.
PaprikaApp - recipe app I love

https://www.paprikaapp.com/

iOS and Android apps are currently 40% off
macOS and Windows apps are currently 50% off
TikTok parent used AI to optimize Linux kernel, boosting performance, efficiency
I'm loving everything I see about the Playdate. This is how gaming should "feel". Keep up the good work.
Just trying to help you prove your point instead of mine :)
fake it and pretend you made it
Rickover effectively seized control of the entire USN submarine arm and ran it as a personal fief for three decades. I don't think that could possibly work with civilian power in the US, because it's NOT a military organization and can't be changed by top-down mandate.

A 1978 USNI Proceedings essay on NR and leadership[1], which won a bunch of prizes, had this great description of Rickover's micromanagement: "Each nuclear submarine is commanded by two people: its captain and the Di­rector, Division of Naval Reactors [Rickover]. The captain has full responsibility for the military operations of his ship as well as for power plant safety. He also has full authority over the military op­erations. NR has much of the authority over the power plant; its Director has been known to place a call to a sub­marine’s engineering space telephone and then personally direct the com­manding officer how to organize his watch bill."

That level of micromanagement wasn't great inside the US Navy, a military organization (hence the essay) and would have spectacularly bombed and flamed out in the civil power world and is also not a great idea for the commercial world at large. This is why taking Rickover as a model is something that you should do very very carefully. He did some things right, but a whole lot of things can't be brought over to your company, in a way that suggests using him as a baseline takes you further away from a good answer.

I wrote a paper decades ago comparing Rickover and Jackie Fisher- of HMS Dreadnought/HMS Invincible fame- as technological entrepreneur's introducing new technology into their respective fleets. And one lesson I took away was that both of them took a whole lot of advantage of being in a military service where they could issue orders and have them be legally obeyed in a way that commercial people just can't get away with. Employees will just leave your company if you tried a bunch of the crap that Rickover did.

[1]: A badly OCR'd version of the essay is available here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1978/july/leaders... The author, then Lt Ralph Chatham, would go on to have the first ever novel published by the US Naval Institute Press dedicated to him. "To Ralph Chatham, a sub driver who spoke the truth" is how Tom Clancy's _Hunt for Red October_ begins.
When I ride my motorcycle with my insta360, the difference between one gray pixel and a slightly different gray pixel for the asphalt is really not something I care about. What I care about is that I can't notice it. If the denoising model does a better job of making up convincing pixels, that's a win. The outcome I'm looking for is a video with fewer visible artifacts caused by the limitations of the hardware.
No, I learned about ML in another way: working with a CS professor who worked on ML at the time. This was back in the days when autodifferentiation was not well known, so we had to come up with analytic derivatives of our loss function to do gradient descent.

What I learned in Cybernetics was really: how prefix-free codes work (unsurprising given that Huffman was the instructor), how karnaugh maps work, and something about sphere packing being easy in 8 dimensions. Oh, and that Huffman was an arrogant jerk but also an excellent teacher.
Maybe it’s the wrong URL?

This one looks alright: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/181241a/amazon_sol...
This presumes that people with no children are somehow less horrible.

In truth, all humans are equally worthless.
What context are you talking about?

In single mode where it’s just SDR, it’s mapped to take the full range of the display up to whatever is deemed a comfortable cap.

In a mixed HDR/SDR mode, the H is range above the S , so it doesn’t make sense to scale it up. I prefer Apple’s terminology of Extended Dynamic Range because it’s clearer that its range above the SDR range.

Now you could say that you intend for that SDR to be treated as HDR, but without extra information you don’t know what the scaling should be. Doing a naive linear scale will always look wrong.