skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's only so much spoon-feeding that can be done. We already have so much information at our fingertips.

If people just want to copy+paste it then mark a jira issue as complete, that's up to them.

However, for those of us who want to understand - sometimes it's better to see a working example and pick at it.
air conditioned trains are an achivement in 2023?
Sunday night: this is the only path forward.

Monday morning: she cried!
Yeah, but that's not a conspiracy or even something negative. It's just common sense for a country/group of countries.

OP made it sound like the Evil Corporate Overlords are conspiring to hold us back from achieving battery freedumb.
I think some do. I don't use my macbook anymore so don't have it on hand to check, but both my HP laptops (one running windows, the other linux) and my iphone seem to not fluctuate the battery charge if I leave them plugged in. The iphone doesn't even get warm, which can happen when it recharges from a drained battery.

The laptops won't even attempt to charge if the battery's above a certain threshold, like 95%. My linux laptop barely moves from my desk, so it regularly spends multiple days on end with the battery showing something like 96%.
Finance I guess.

They’re working through a process of rebuilding Central line trains, updating virtually everything it seems.
Let's say you read that "what's new" pop-up and still update your phone because you expect it to work like before, but it doesn't because you're one of the lucky ones that had the clock speeds cut in half.

What do you do now? Your phone is laggy and there's no setting to disable the feature or a way to revert to an old iOS version. You go to the store and they don't tell you anything about a battery replacement, but instead suggest a new iPhone!

The feature was useful, the implementation wasn't. The issues weren't caused by the user not reading the changelog.
IMO this is increasingly the most likely answer, which would readily comport with "lack of candor" as well as the (allegedly) provided 2 explanations being so weak [1]: you certainly wouldn't want to come out and say that you fired the CEO because you think you might have (apparently) dangerous AI/AGI/ASI and your CEO was reckless with it. Neither of the two explanations seem even to be within the realm of a fireable offense.

It would also comport with Ilya's regret about the situation: perhaps he wanted to slow things down, board members convinced him Sam's ouster was the way to do it, but then it has actually unfolded such that development of dangerous AI/AGI/ASI might accelerate at Microsoft while weakening OpenAI's own ability to modulate the pace of development.

[1]: Given all the very public media brinkmanship, I'm not so quick to assume reports like these two explanations are true. E.g. the "Sama is returning with demands!" stories were obviously "planted" by people who were trying to exert pressure on the negotiations; would be interested to have more evidence that Ilya's explanations were actually this sloppy.
> The only people who truly believe this AI safety stuff are those with no technical knowledge or expertise.

This is a demonstrably false claim that gets repeated over and over. 2 out of 3 Turing Award recipients for work in AI are people who talk about AI safety, and even existential risk. There are many more. It may actually be BS but it’s simply false to say that it’s based on technical ignorance. The question I have is why is this claim made over and over when it is so easily seen to be untrue?
I agree. I prefer to use the Elizabeth line whenever possible.
Freakishly Smart Falcons Run These Islands
> I could not imagine this ever happening when dealing with the IRS.

Have you tried? I haven’t tried it with the IRS, but I have tried asking my states permitting and planning department about the legality of various rental schemes for a property (that I didn’t own) and they were happy to look up the permits and tell me that indeed what I was asking about was not legal for that property. And further they let me know that tons of people do it anyway and that they don’t really check, but it’s a risk.
A Cyber Attack Has Crippled the British Library
Yeah, the problem is not on the python script side. It seems like a problem with tar or gzip.

Tar expects gzip to react graciously to SIGPIPE. Gzip only registers a SIGPIPE handler if SIGPIPE is not ignored. This is either a bug in gzip, or tar has to make sure it starts gzip without SIGPIPE ignored.

This doesn't mean the failure is any less complex. Tar incorrectly assumes that starting gzip without extra setup doesn't make it ignore SIGPIPE, which is subtly wrong.
Now follow up with: how many holes do trousers have?
base64 is older than URLs, though.
> It's like if I controlled the world's timber supply and said Canada must produce houses out of timber

This is quite naive - in fact we do this all the time

* IMF provides loans to developing countries on the condition that they dont have 'socialist' policies

* EU bailouts for Greece/aspain/etc. was given on the condition of sale of state assets and doing other things

* The worlds ship insurance industry is run in London. Nuclear powered contsiner ships are faster, cheaper, and better in every way. Good luck insuring them. Running them without insurance is. illegal

*'non-tariff barriers' - i.e. free trade negotiations - are all about aligning countries on how they manufacture/insure/regulate things like cars. Guess which econony gets the bigger say.

Russia was forced to adopt Eu standards for petrol quality and engine emissions standards in 2,000's and they still follow
The definition relates to a treatment not the disease.

In your example the question would be, does antiretroviral therapy cure HIV? It does reduce the viral load but not permanently, so no, its not considered a cure.

The answer might change with the treatment. Does a stem cell bone marrow transplant eliminate HIV? Yes, permanently as far as it’s known so HIV is “cured” in this case.
For an M1 powered MacBook Air, none of them creates a significant power spike on the system. I use both regularly, generally one hour at a time, and battery percentage doesn't take a noticeable hit after the call, and the computer doesn't warm up.
A "lost BBC Interview" gives strong vibes of Banksy style performance/publicity trick.
At least they are trying. A (very sore) rogue CEO is out, the non-profit apparently stays true to its mission.
Is OpenAI the Silicon Valley VC morality play in drama and corp board ethics?
That's just silly. Look at NATO operations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations

Only Afghanistan and Libya can be argued to have been some sort of cover for resource extraction... and both operations have ended. Plus the Libyan intervention was very short.
Worse than that, it means that standards shouldn't be changed (e.g. to improve them): because the changed standard would be different from the standard and that would make it wrong by, well, being different from the standard!

I've actually heard a similar argument about moral systems, about why the debater should not change his moral beliefs: it would be morally wrong for him to do that, you see, because then he'd then consider some things he currently considers morally right to be morally wrong and vice versa. Probably completely coincidentally, that debater was not a very nice person to talk to.
What if your lawyers say one thing, but one of your possible regulators say something else? Or rather, doesn’t say anything, just allude?

It’s for the courts to decide then. That’s what they’re literally for.

You could argue that a more productive approach would be to come up with something at the lawmaker level. Even if it’s so restrictive that it drives most exchanges out, such as Canada has done.
I agree that the migration experience has been subpar! I dropped ESM migration of my packages 2-3 times before finally picking it up again and wrapping it up in a simple guide. Hopefully with the config I shared you’ll find that you can use all those out-of-reach ESM packages now! Also, I provided examples for getting __dirname and __filename -like behavior.
Yes, something like that. It's totally outside of the envelope of expected board member behavior. And so far out of it that it makes me wonder if he ever thought about what it actually meant, to be a board member.
Blogging is for hit posts, tweeting is for ... something that rhymes with hit posts
You should also read the Parkinson's law. It's more about bureaucratic systems but is not any org such a system?
There actually are several C# to JavaScript transpilers out there but none are well-maintained with a strong following (compared to Fable). Some examples are...

https://github.com/theolivenbaum/h5

https://www.dice.com/career-advice/exploring-bridge-net-c-ja...

https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/duocode-csharp-javascript...

http://jsil.org

I wonder if the community just isn't interested in this approach.
It looks like you can still get laptops with i7-1165G7s, and there are new, complete laptops with an equivalent Ryzen 4700U/5700U for under $700. Most will have upgradeable RAM and storage.

A barebones NUC with a i7-1165G7 is around $450, has more ports that don't require adapters, and has fully featured Intel-supported firmware.
Outside of the Iraq 2003 stupidity, has the US done this kind of thing in the past 20 years?

I'd hope the times of the US trying to turn regular countries into banana republics are over.
I think you're misunderstanding the verse you're quoting. The part you quoted basically says they already got their crappy reward and that's all they'll get. They won't be getting the good stuff. Don't be fake, do what's right even when nobody is looking.
> There is a new zfskeys rc(8) service script, which allows for automatic decryption of ZFS datasets encrypted with ZFS native encryption during boot
plenty. But normally the degradation is more gradual and automatic. For example, as the innards of your clothes dryer gets clogged up with lint, at some point the thermal cutout will cut in and out to briefly reduce the heat.

End result is your old clothes dryer starts taking longer and longer to dry clothes.
> Why not?

B/c the LEDs require a driver which runs on DC [the better case is constant driven], the space constraints are too high and there is not enough room for heat dissipation which in the US kills the driver (as running on 110/120AC is less efficient), and in Europe it tends to kill the LEDs because they get to be overdriven, but the driver dissipates less heat. The power factor on all them tends to be atrocious, usually 0.5phi. They tend to quite noisy, esp. when it comes to EMF. In short there is not enough space to have a decent LED driver along with enough space for heat dissipation for the LEDs (usually only 15%, being generous, of the energy will be emitted as light. The rest is heat, so if you see 8W of LED, more than 6.5W is just heat)

Pretty much almost all LEDs you can buy in a retrofit case are almost guaranteed to be overdirven to show better numbers and be 'brighter'. Near ceiling larger fixtures can be designed for LEDs. They tend to have an actual 15-30k hours lifespan.

Dimming the LEDs is the next atrocity, esp. when it comes to chopping the sine wave. The LED dirvers have to work with the chopped sine wave and detect how much it has been chopped to reduce the current or the PWM.

About the AA(A) and the TV. I can control the TV w/ bluetooth and an app but I find that incovenient. However NiMH nominal voltage is 1.2V which fits the 1.5 of the alkaline batteries. It's good enough already. So yes, it takes different chemistry unless the remote controls provide built-in step-up/step-down converters, effectively variable operational voltage.
Only late x86-based Macbooks seem to be affected according to the article. Time to upgrade to Apple Silicon? :)
My bad for not adding a /s. But I thought the second sentence would make it obvious.
I really can't imagine. I am super pissed and only over something I love that I pay 20 bucks a month for. I can't imagine the feeling of losing this kind of payout over what looks like complete bullshit. Not just the payout but being part of a team doing something so interesting and high profile + the payout.

I just don't know how they put the pieces back together here.

What really gets me down is I know our government is a lost cause but I at least had hope our companies were inoculated against petty, self-sabotaging bullshit. Even beyond that I had hope the AI space was inoculated and beyond that of all companies OpenAI would of course be inoculated from petty, self-sabotaging bullshit.

These idiots worried about software eating us are incapable of seeing the gas they are pouring on the processes that are taking us to a new dark age.
Linda Yaccarino: Yes, we serve ads to bots and make you pay for it.
World's 'most sought-after' whisky sells for $2.7M
Demand for seafood is soaring: Can we farm fish in new ways?
The Prius Prime supposedly does this. It charges to 80% internally but displays as 100%, although usually drivers have the display set to "miles remaining" rather than the battery percentage. I vaguely remember the manual referring to this.
What do you expect him to do, give up his vision and disappear?
How much of that weight is the essential weight of the battery, and how much is consumer-friendly outer shell, electronics, other one-offs etc.? I.e. if you wanted to take the same tech, put it in a non-consumer-facing context (say a grid-scale battery) and wanted to make it 100x the capacity, would it be 100x the weight?

I can imagine a lot of the weight of the battery unit itself isn't necessarily the battery, if that makes sense.
Adding AC units to trains which travel through tunnels with minimal clearance is the achievement - Can't make the trains any bigger and there's no room in the old ones to just tuck an HVAC in without make them even more cramped.
This will be a fun book to read after it's all done.

As its happening I had no idea what is going on though. Surely the board can not be this incompetent? Who kicks out a current CEO without having found a replacement or at the very least a shortlist. No evidence has come out that sama did anything egregious against OpenAI. Truly one of the most bizarre sequence of events I have ever witnessed.
In my personal projects I use ”type”: “module” in the package.json.

In my tsconfig.json I use

{
"compilerOptions": {
"alwaysStrict": true,
"module": "ES2020",
"moduleResolution": "node",
"outDir": "./js/lib",
"noEmit": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"pretty": false,
"strictFunctionTypes": true,
"target": "ES2020",
"types": ["node"],
"typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types"]
},
"exclude": [
"js",
"lib/terminal/test/storageTest/temp",
"**/node_modules",
"**/.*/"
],
"include": [
"**/*.ts"
]
}

Internally in your apps never never use relative file system paths.
>As a project manager, that's the last thing you want. First, it'll show what you didn't manage well. Secondly, it costs money. Finally, negative findings will delay delivery and means you failed to deliver on time, which is your only priority.

And yet FAANGMAULs and other tech-first companies like Mozilla, seem to be doing quite well on security with relatively very few oversights, caused by dev gross negligence.

So it's definetly possible to deliver airtight products if that's your goal and part of your dev culture, instead of just "ship it by Christmas at any cost".
Doing five minutes research it seems that it's just down to the Piccadilly line being busier than the Bakerloo line - given that the Bakerloo being duplicated in parts by the London Overground.

The Central line are on much more modern stock - the 1992 stock, and are currently undergoing a renovation programme, so the need to replace them is less pressing.
Major Mea Culpa from MLB
And they also push songs you recently liked more often.
I also noticed an unusually high amount of throwaway accounts on OpenAI threads lately. I am not sure whether it's a concerted effort but Altman does seem to have a lot of fans.
It's the first time a captcha tool flagged me as robot and banned from their site.
Strong agree. This has caused a major rift in the Node ecosystem (and for its packages).

All we can do is adapt and keep building. Using Node v20 (LTS) currently with the config linked in the parent post.
I'm not a user of X/Twitter, so genuine question: how does it work? Users get money for viewing ads? For ads shown along their posts?
They won’t but mainland China hasn’t shown a very good track record of keeping up, much less inventing new methods that gain any sort of traction.

They do seem to produce plenty of good researchers, who sometimes proceed to do good research with proper funding from western institutions.

I would be more worried about Europe.
I always found it easier to avoid `ts-node` as it introduced a bunch of small compat issues.

Since TS 4.5 and their support for `.mts`, I finally settled on just chaining `tsc --build && node ./build/main.mjs`.
what are you trying to say with this giant list of names of various machine learning researchers? Most of these aren’t even EA folks
I read half way through that article and I still don't understand how did they manage to fit aircon on these trains. There were various ideas over the years including for the trains to carry ice, but none stuck.

This time they finally develop ac "that doesn't emit heat outside" and they say nothing about how it works?
I've long dreamt of being able to to have a battery buried under the cellar floor. Size and weight wouldn't matter. Lifetime and safety would be quite important.
> Running /bin/sh on a bare kernel isn't a unix system.

That's true and you're right.

However, what I was specifically discussing here is core kernel functionality versus layering it on top, and for that, I had to describe things in an artificially simplistic way, because Linux folks tend to think Linux invented everything and is everything and start to go on about in-kernel Ethernet drivers and in-kernel NFS and so on and because they get busy counting trees, they miss the fact that they are lost in the forest.

I am not advocating the use of bare kernels here. I am not saying this is a rigorous or fair comparison.

What I am trying to demonstrate is the fundamental difference between having networking and a networked system as core parts of your system design, as opposed to bolted on later.

It's integral in Plan 9. Whereas Linux is a UNIX, and therefore must implement things later on top of a core design which assumes that all machines are standalone multiuser minicomputers with dumb text terminals.

This is such a fundamental part of the design of Unix that it is everywhere and it's very hard to show to Unix users that it's there... because it's the material of the walls, the floor, the ceiling and the door and so it's hard to see.
Yeah, sure. "Oversight". Funny how that only ever seems to benefit governments and entrenched corporate interests. Can't let normal citizens have free computing, lest they start encrypting things or violating copyright at massive scales. Now the new boogeyman is "unrestricted" AI. Can't let people have that, it might provide people instructions about sarin gas manufacturing or something. The government intelligence agencies totally want full access though, they can feed everyone's communications into it so they can ask it questions about the people they're surveilling. Is person X planning a terrorist attack? Is there anything that could ruin person Y's reputation?

The truth is these technologies are subversive. They literally subvert the existing social order and impose a new one. A new social order where the users of the technology are empowered. They can't tolerate it when we are the users. It takes their power away. So they ban it, control it, flip it around on us and turn it into the very mechanism of our wide-scale oppression.
That phenomenon you speak of is real but I think the parents' comment is valid in this case. Being afraid of a large language model running statistics does look a lot like childishness or mental illness.

I can give the general public a pass because maybe they don't know the tech and are going off media hype. But for someone to know what this is and be afraid of it does look silly doesn't it?
> "[...] Thanks for the great ride!" Vogt wrote.

Not the best phrase to use in response to this scenario...
Here's a simple example: https://github.com/cwarden/souffle-go-example

It illustrates how you can have the Souffle program load its data from SQLite databases, or how you can work with tuples and relations from Go.
but nobel prizes are usually for basic research a long time ago and the battery-electric automotive revolution is relatively recent development, where applied research and bringing new batteries to market is more important
Central Line trains are 20 years newer, so presumably aren't going to be at the front of the queue. They do seem to be planning to do major refurbishment / upgrades on them in the near future, up to replacing the motors and related power control systems (DC to AC motors).

Bakerloo line trains are about the same age of the Picadilly line, but the Bakerloo line is less used, so presumably that has edged the Picadilly ahead. They are next in line, as the article notes.
Is this comment calling anyone outside of SV "gullible, greedy, narrow-minded and incompetent?" Or is that referring to the people actually on OpenAI's board?

I can't tell if you're agreeing with the above comment, or disagreeing.
Probably because the NTfL studies forecasted much larger opportunities on Piccadilly (60% capacity increase versus 25 on central and bakerloo). So they prioritised deploying the new trains on Piccadilly.

All three lines, and Waterloo & City, are planned for upgrade.
Elon is struggling with consequences of his desire to become Kanye.
That’s what ChatGPT generated for us. There was a note saying something like „this is just an example. In a production environment please ensure proper encryption,“ but we ignored that.
IMO, at least with x86, there is a point where it simply doesn’t make sense to cram higher clocks into a laptop. The last Intel MBP could be had with an i9, and IME if you left turbo enabled, even at idle the fans were annoyingly loud. If you pushed it, you’d get a quiet jet engine as they struggled to keep temps just below 95 C.

It was usually less annoying for me to just disable turbo, and only turn it on if I really needed the boost.
Yeah, that is absolutely horrible. But not the same kind of deception. It's horrible because it consists of preying on the vulnerable. But it's not exactly fraud.
It definitely used to be a lot more 'curatable', but in the Musk era, it's become less pleasant on average.
Sure, they have product managers.
Yes, given the size constraints of the deep-level Tube tunnels, which are much smaller than those for mainline trains; apparently developments in small air con systems have helped a fair bit here, fifteen odd years ago apparently it just wasn’t feasible.
And for development?
Michael Crichton has (rightly) entered the chat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton

Crichton says these failures of humanity are inevitable because there will always be a technologist who does things because they can, not because they should.

That everything will go off the rails, no matter what people attempt, is the plot of the novel Jurassic Park.
This is missing the point.

The point is that if functionality is core to what you are doing with your OS, then it ought to be a core part of that OS and not layered on top.

If that would make the kernel of your OS too big and too complex then the design of your OS is wrong.
London underground runs in a parallel universe where they are reinventing 60's tech.

They only recently got cell service for example. 20 years after most of the rest of the worlds railways.

Some lines don't even have that yet either!
I generally agree with your statement, but have found ts-node incredibly valuable especially when developing servers or CLIs where I want to start/restart the process many times without a build step every time.