skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Booking.com has lots of annoying patterns like telling you how many people looked at a listing and that there's only two rooms (currently) available for those dates

Assuming they're not making up the data, why is this bad? If a hotel is very popular and almost sold-out, isn't that something useful to know when you're making reservations? Sure, it does feel a little high-pressure, but if it's truthful (normal "high pressure sales" tactics aren't, they create a false sense of urgency when in fact there's no shortage at all), it can be useful if you're trying to book a room at a popular place or during a peak time.
... Who hurt you?

You can say express your empathy and care without it being compromised.
How so? Yallenge accepted

Edit: moar elaboration please
I really want 80% limit feature on TWS earphones. It has small battery, perhaps fully utilize battery capacity for longer battery life, harder to replace battery (especially with waterproof). I'd like to have a 80%-100% slide switch on the case, but it would be too nerd feature.
i want to know beyond macros, where else is libreoffice lacking behind excel ?

i have been daily driving calc for a long time now and with each update it feels like they are fixing that one bug i did not remember last time but it is fixed this time.

yeah, then there is power query and power stuff but other than that, i mean for regular people at home or "regular" office stuff, this should be enough, what do you think?
I don't have a solar system on my roof yet. But what you describe is something I see with almost every owner of such a system. Suddenly everyone cares about the production and power consumption rates over the day.

I think this is a very positive development because I my case I only get reminded of my power consumptions once a year when my supplier asks me to sent him the current value of my electric meter.
I’m confused how the board is still keeping their radio silence 100%. Where I’m from, with a shitstorm this big raging, and the board doing nothing, they might very easily be personally held responsible for all kinds of utterly nasty legal action.

Is it just different because they’re a nonprofit? Or how on earth the board is thinking they can get away with this anymore?
There has to be a bigger story to this.

Altman took a non-profit and vacuumed up a bunch of donor money only to flip Open AI into the hottest TC style startup in the world. Then put a gas pedal to commercialization. It takes a certain type of politicking and deception to make something like that happen.

Then in the past week, he's going and taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

Combine that with a totally inexperienced board, and D'Angelo's maneuvering, and you have the single greatest shitshow in tech history
I've been wondering the same since the beginning of this story. Couldn't have said it better myself.

I start to believe these workers are mostly financially motivated and that's why they follow him.
The nature of those rights to OpenAI's IP remains the sticking point. That paragraph largely seems to concern commercializing existing tech, which lines up with existing disclosures. I suspect Satya would come out and say Microsoft owns OpenAI's IP in perpetuity if they did.
Weirdly plausible considering Tasha McCauley also works for the RAND Corporation
No, the implied threat is that the brands name will be conspicuously dragged through the mud using every tool they have in the national media.

Brands don’t care if a small group of activists boycott their product. They are terrified of being featured negatively.

But at this point you’re just off in the weeds. This is all well-known tactics. Believe it or not tactics I don’t have much issue with. It just isn’t merely “criticism”. It’s an active and devastating campaign aimed to do as much harm as possible to bludgeon their adversary into the ground. It’s meant to inflict maximum damage to the recipient to induce fear in anyone who might consider following their example.

But hey, I guess if they call it “criticism” then we can’t criticize them for doing it. Otherwise we’re just being hypocritical.
In over 10 years of experience, I have never known this to happen.
Has a copy of the letter signed by employees been posted online anywhere? That would provide some credibility to the article.
> This gossip is going to continue for as long as they stay silent.

Their lawyers are all screaming at them to shut up. This is going to be a highly visible and contested set of decisions that will play out in courtrooms, possibly for years.
I'd have thought you could easily enable some fs-jail that maps any-and-every request matching /~/..+/i wherever you want?
Quercetin is present in grapes. Wikipedia says it's "the main flavonol" in both red and white wine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenolic_content_in_wine ).

It is or at least was pretty common to hear about flavonols, flavonoids and specifically quercetin in various foods and their purpoted health benefits. Seems we've moved on to other compounds that are not yet known to be ineffective.
You blow up a spacecraft full of people and you might get into the habit of second guessing yourself too.
Why is this even flagged?
> A year ago starship was doomed to fail because 33 engines firing at once would tear the rocket apart. Now it’s a failure because they screwed up the landing.

I’m unsure what you mean by “screwed up the landing”, both stages exploded in flight.

Scott Manleys analysis and reasoning seems sound: that the error was likely due to hot staging burn causing damage or being mistimed causing propellant sloshing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2C7xE9Mj4

Lots of data from this launch. Definitely a successful test.

Falcon failed 3 times.

Looking forward to seeing if starship beats or matches or if bigger means more.
No that wouldn't have been us. Hope the feedback they received was "Australian aerospace company - great idea!" though.
I haven't read Ken White's stuff for years, but I saw it here so I looked.
Musk's case is not about free speech or censorship, it's about tortuous interference. Media Matters pushed a false narrative and it was used to convince large companies to withdraw their advertising from Twitter. MM is in pretty big trouble here because Twitter precisely describes what they did, (as retrieved from their logs) in the filing.
Six Flags Qiddiya begins design of fastest roller coaster
If the EV is truly dead then you may not even be able to put it in Drive mode until it’s plugged in, so regen wouldn’t be possible.

But sure, assuming you have enough power to put it in drive, there’s no reason that you can’t do this. There’s YouTube videos where people have tried it successfully.

My understanding is that manufacturers don’t support or recommend this method, though.
I drop my kids off at school on the way. They bike too. Started with a trail-a-bike, and now they are their own bikes and I bike with them to school on my way.
Exactly. Basically the energy market is changing very rapidly. One thing that is enabled by renewables and batteries is selling energy in much smaller units. It used to be that large energy companies would buy/sell energy at a price that was fixed for some amount of time like half an hour or even more. If you fire up a gas turbine, it's basically going to be producing until you shut it down. There's no point in trading in small chunks. However, with renewables, the length of those time slots has come down. So, instead of hours you can now buy energy in chunks of minutes at the same price. Eventually that comes down to seconds or even fractions of a second. All controlled by algorithms.

So, you get energy companies that are able to adapt very rapidly to peaks and dips in energy production and demand. And that in turn incentivizes large consumers of energy to invest in batteries. Top them up when energy is cheap, sell off energy when it is expensive and electricity companies are buying. Use solar panels to get some free energy when it's available. Store any excess, and sell it when energy prices peak. Buy energy when you need to. That kind of is the game now.

If you think about the insane amounts of batteries that are going to be produced in the next few decades to power ships, trucks, planes, cars, grid batteries, domestic batteries, etc. it becomes clear that managing the charge state of these batteries is an enormous opportunity. When do you charge? Can you sell energy back to the grid when its scarce? We are talking many twh of batteries produced per year accumulating to a sizable percentage of the world's energy production (around 25000 twh). Each of those batteries can be cycled thousands of times. It starts adding up. A few decades from now, we'll have tens to hundreds of twh of battery out there. Most of them at a high percentage of charge most of the time, mostly plugged in and ready to charge/discharge in milliseconds. That's a lot of energy just sitting there. Even a small percentage of that is a huge amount of power.
Yep, and I agree about keeping high standards, but replacing the nonexistent security of SMS with something that can't be easily stingrayed or passively collected by pervasive surveillance would still be progress. This combined with the potential path forward to the Android style is still something, more than I would have expected from Apple.
Seeing Musk desperately replying to Satya's xeets shows just how much he wants to be taken seriously in all this, forgetting that he made it clear how much he actually cares about safety of humans when he bump and dumped crypto.
There are other things that also cause heart disease.
if another human is lodged under millions of drivers' cars ..you are saying 99 percent of them are going to run them over and flee? There's that many murders out there?

Further you are saying what I detest about this dumb technology ..that being ..oh once we hurt someone or killed them we will have learned something from their death and push out a software update with each person we harm or kill. Thanks for sacrificing your life for technology progress and expanding tech bros wallets.

As for Waymo they need to be strung up too if it's found out they learned something from cruise's incident and made changes. Which scarily shows they are learning as they go and more people are going to be harmed or killed.

Love technology but love human beings more!
Because of the flatness of the voltage curve, limiting your charge to the middle range makes the state-of-charge estimation a much more difficult problem (less voltage signal). So there's actually a trade-off between longevity and accuracy of charge reporting.
What Rust's Nightly feature are you looking forward to the most?
The thing is that Firefox is the biggest project for an independent fully open source browser not tied to a big commercial company. Google having almost a monopoly is not good for the users, because Google therefore has a lot of leverage to push certain browser technologies that mostly benefit them and not necessarily the users. It's important to have an independent browser that is not optimized for 1 particular company's technology and needs. So we can view the web from a somewhat more neutral view. And yes, I think it's Google's responsibility to adhere to the webstandards and at least test their stuff in Firefox so they adhere to this neutrality. Otherwise they are only providing their websites for the Chromium-web, and not the Open Web.
The idea that someone could hide parts/manufacturing costs is ridiculous on its face. You, as a consumer, can get a general BOM for most any device. It's how we know that the original Beats headphones were "worth" 7-8usd.

Just as we as consumers know we pay extra to the company (even if the numbers aren't oblique), businesses know the same. It's about how much you're willing to spend, not how much they spent to build it.
Caring about SV board politics strikes me as deeply weird.
OpenAI in 'Intense Discussions' to Unify Company, Memo Says
I recently picked up my Surface 3 for the first time since 2017. It had a 66% charge from the last time I used it...

It's not so much the OS as the device firmware, since the Surface 4 runs the same OS but has significantly worse battery performance.
Paul Graham has a lot of things to say about a lot of things. It doesn't make what he writes right.
There's also the Span panel which can control everything in the house
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world (2020)
They instruct you not to pay, but that instruction has absolutely no binding.

The Australian orgs I have deal with in large compromises have universally opted to pay to prevent release, where it was financially feasible.
I learned it from this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQano9BaJxg
SpaceX's Falcon 9 had two (full) failures (in 2015 and 2016), but the crazy high cadence since then made it the safest vehicle in the history of spaceflight. The next vehicle with comparable safety was the Soyuz rocket (which had various versions of the same design from the 60's, and has been launched a total of almost 2000 times!), one version of which had a streak of 112 consecutive successful launches in the 90's, but sadly Russian space program has declined since (they have more and more reliability problems). The last (major) version of Falcon 9 has 100% success rate with 225 successes out of 225 launches.

NASA never before used a vehicle as reliable as Falcon 9, so... You can't compare crazy ambitious development program to established vehicles, and as Falcon 9 shows, given enough time, SpaceX can achieve something close to perfection.
How much value has Twitter lost due to moronic behavior... Microsoft's stock could take a hit from all the and continued flailing.
> It absolutely does. There is a fundamental difference between "go to jail because of your speech" and "people don't want to do business with you because of your speech". The former is making speech illegal; the latter is the fundamental right of every person to decide who they associate with.

"Illegal" is just a word; if the village locks you in a cage, or hangs you, it doesn't make any real difference whether they signed some pretty documents first or not. And if rather than hanging you they "exercise their fundamental right to decide who they associate with" and refuse to sell you food, or allow you to forage on their land, well, you end up just as dead. Extreme example obviously, but that's the direction we're heading in. We already recognise that enough individuals choosing not to associate with someone adds up to a denial of that person's rights, otherwise we would never have antidiscrimination laws.
> if Bernie Madoff were to go to the SEC and ask them "I don't know how to run a Ponzi scheme legally, can you please update the guidelines to make it easier", of course the SEC is going to refuse.

The actual problem is that no part of the government wants to be the one to tell you if something is legal, because whoever actually makes the decision takes the blame for the consequences one way or the other.

So Congress punts and passes unclear laws. Then the SEC refuses to comment. Then the courts send you away if you try to get them to decide by asserting that you don't have standing because no one has tried to enforce the law against you yet. But then you have no way to know if they'll try to enforce the law against you in the future -- and the only way to find out is to do the thing that may or may not be illegal and see if you get charged with a crime.

Which is bullshit. Somebody should have to officially tell you if you're allowed to do something or not, ahead of time.

And if you're Bernie Madoff, all they have to do is tell you that no, you're not allowed to do that, and here's why. But then if you think you are allowed to do that, you would have standing to challenge that official determination in court.
Bitmaps for logical CPU cores and certain lock-free algorithms don't scale well to arbitrary high CPU counts e.g. reclaiming resources once in a while is O(n^2) or worse or the size of the lock structure is linear to the maximum number of cores etc.

The relevant parts of the ABI have been future proofed to allow raising the kernel CPU core count limit without breaking the syscall interface for systems with less cores than the existing limit.
Maybe trying to backdoor sell your company to Microsoft even though its owned by a non profit might be it? you know, Microsoft showed its true face today.

This is even worse than Google's destruction of Firefox
Maybe we can get another email corpus like Enron for NLP from all of this.
Pretty good, I think! (Maintainer.)

What I liked best about it is the portability, the scoping, and the preprocessor, which I prefer in particular to how many other assemblers do macros, and that's why I ended up taking it over (though Andre still did a lot of the code in this release too). The linking is not something I personally use much but other people do, and the O65 binary object format it uses covers a lot of use cases.
A challenge he can't win, brought in by people 90% of the company hates, and with the four most influential people in the company either gone or having turned on the board does not sound like a "challenge" but more like a "guaranteed L".
Train more AI engineers to sell more AI services/compute. More like a content marketing sales funnel.
> To me it sounds like saying somebody was not shot, he just didn't step out of the way of the bullet. Do you mean people are not prevented from speaking because their mouths aren't literally sewn shut?

Exactly. So "just because something bad happened to you after your speech doesn't mean you didn't have free speech" is thoroughly fallacious.
My Oneplus 5T got replaced because it has a small crack in the screen so it's impossible to disassemble without breaking the screen. I used ACC to only charge that to 90% so I could get three years out of the battery instead of just two.

I'll probably get a fairphone next so I don't need to worry about this. But the people with glued-in batteries definitely have to.
Try NextDNS all the time, on all your devices... it's fantastic!
they used to offer full data download but it looks like they disabled that. Nebula Genomics is offering to do it for $500 with black Friday sales, which is close.
You’re missing the point.

The most advanced rocket company of all time that is literally putting the industry to shame very clearly knew the risk and took it anyway.

You're so excited to point out their MaSsIvE fAiLuRE You forgot to ask why they consciously took that risk.
Mean != manipulative / driving wedges.

That said, it feels awkward to even point out these gradations, without knowing the people in question.

I just realized that this is the kind of conversation that preceded forum witch hunts. Or tribe formation :/
I’ve been using rancher desktop the past few days, not been having a bad time. Curious what you’ve been encountering that I need to look out for.
As far as I (not the OP) am concerned, it's mostly not that I need some advanced feature of Office, it's that a document I get from someone else uses some advanced (layout) features or some fonts which aren't available on Linux, and then the document appears completely garbled.
"Thermal fleet" ...I like that term.
I think Jigar was referring specifically to behind-the-meter flexible-load control.
Yes, pre-heating (and pre-cooling) turns the building and the hot-water tank into thermal energy storage (with no occupant impact, if done right).
I wonder what explains the large gap between Mellanox and AWS kernel wireguard performance (the original Go code has a much smaller difference so shouldn't be just CPU speed difference).
I think if you truly believed you were as in the dark as you admit you are, you wouldn't have jumped to conclusions about this affair as early as you did.
Ilya: AGI must be CEO, humanity be the board (2020)
I'm curious - what's the medication? Someone I know gets pretty regular migraines. She takes sumatriptan when they occur, and also has cut alcohol due to being a potential cause.
> “I think over the next thirty years every home will have a battery. I don’t know if every home will have solar—some have too much shade, or the wrong roof. But batteries are going to become an appliance, just like a dishwasher or a television.”

From quick googling I learnt that the current home battery lifetime is 5-15 years. Replacing a battery in every home every 5 to 15 years seems like a big unnecessary hustle.

Wouldn't it be better to install all the batteries in one place, maintain them properly there and rent them out to individual home owners in the neighborhood?
> Sam Altman: I believe that this will be the most important and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented. And I also believe that if we’re not careful about it, it can be quite disastrous. And so we have to navigate it carefully.

Nice, what is that, only 25% chance we all encounter destruction instead? Everyone else want on this train? Oh, that's right, we don't have a choice, it's up to them.
> The other interesting development has been the wholesale pricing retailer; not only do they apply the live wholesale price to your consumption, but also your feed in.

It works the same in the Nordics, you can purchase and sell power at the spot rate.

Our timing is still hourly, but will soon change to 15 minute intervals.

Our power here is still so cheap, and while the pricing is volatile the jumps aren't yet really large enough for battery systems to give positive ROI. At least not for consumers.
OpenAI's Board Approached Anthropic CEO About Top Job and Merger
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

It depended a LOT on the workload.

valley? 20%

glmark2? 91%

vkmark? 11%

To some degree this is probably just the vulkan driver and compiler being really, really immature. I expect that the gap will become a LOT closer in the next 6 months, or whenever they get past implementing vulkan 1.3 in the compiler and can put some work into cleanup.
According to Wikipedia Comac has orders in the range of $26 billion for the C919.
There is an x86 virtual machine running Linux available on the App Store now.

https://ish.app/

Now would Apple allow a full blown Windows VM is a different question
Uhm yeah. Glomar Explorers at work again...
The obvious way to do this would be as adversarial networks like in GANs for image generation. Have the existing LLM as the generator trained exactly as at present but with an additional penalty for being found to have committed an error and have another network trained at the same time as a validator where its fitness function is finding errors in the output of the generator.

People must be doing this, probably just takes a while for the research to bear fruit.

Some of these errors are so obvious I can’t imagine this would be too hard. For an example, try asking an LLM “generate me a system of two equations in two unknowns. Both the coefficients and the solutions must be integers between -10 and 10”. In my experience it will generate a valid system. Some of the time the coefficients will be in the range specified. Probably about a third to a half the time the solution it gives will be wrong and when you ask for an explanation of the solution it will make some basic arithmetic error (eg flipping a sign etc). Then when you point out the error it will correct.
Wait till you find out the truth about matching donations.
Their prime competitive advantage is their product and quality:cost ratio. For a product company, at least.

If your business' primary competitive advantage is that it gets ICs for 1c less/per thousand, your business is built on shaky foundations. One that you would still want to disclose during negotiations ("yeah, our product is the exact same quality as Widget Co; but we've found a supply for some internal parts at slightly below market value").