skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very large drop.

33% of global carbon emissions are from the west
18% from the united states
A significant share of chinese emmissions is driven by western consumerism as well and could be reduced.

Even a 10% reduction of the overall share driven purely by the west would amount to a lot more than a drop. Even more if coupled with a proper incentive system for other countries to follow

"completely pointless"?
It actually was not sarcasm, check this out https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...

Sorry, should have linked this in the original comment.
I have watch history enabled and still get the loops all the time.

I even went so far to seek out a website that does it for me, and which I set up as a bookmark https://youtube-playlist-randomizer.bitbucket.io/

Altough, seems like the site is now broken
Also, Wireguard is really easy to implement, making it less of a problem to have multiple implementations. Each implementation is more likely to be correct/invulnerable.

Small implementation was a design objective of Wireguard, after the horrors of IPsec (see Linus' email that praises the difference).
> the chemistry is made of really common materials

I don't want to sound like a conspiray theorist, but something tells me the really big actors (like states) only want materials that they can control the suply of.
You don't hand matches and gasoline to kids. Having a board that is in principle not accountable is fine if they are stable and experienced people and there are enough of them to ensure that decisions are made by the book and with sufficient attention to the details, such as the potential fall-out.

Handing that kind of authority to a mix of the gullible, the greedy, the narrow minded and incompetent isn't going to end well.
I feel more and more disgusted by social media like twitter nowadays. Too much shilling, too much pushing of extereme unhinged ideas, not to mention the crypto bots, and now the only fans, porn bots. You have thousands of popular accounts exaggerating stupid gimmicks like being against seed oils for some reason. There is such an absurd amount of transparent grifting that twitter looks like some sort of fish market.

The moment, twitter added monetization, engagement farming got much worse. Was Social Media always destined to be like this?
> How do these managers get jobs in these big name companies?

Nothing is very far from what I would consider a "big name company" They are actually a really small joint venture between Carl Pei and Teenage Engineering. This whole iMessage fiasco is exactly why I have such a hard time taking Carl seriously in anything he does. He seems more concerned with creating hype through smoke and mirrors than in releasing anything truly innovative and substantial.
Nothing new! The rotary phone was the very first interactive computer input device. Alexander S. Douglas programmed the EDSAC to play tic-tac-toe back in 1952 with a rotary phone for its input and a Williams Tube hacked for a display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(video_game)
no real tactile feedback
Benno Rice – The Tragedy of systemd (linux.conf.au 2019) [video]
You may be gaslighting yourself if you can't see the actual, tractable, current practical applications of this tech (and that includes local models you can run yourself).
I read it as 'I'm either going to be wearing my normal badge again or I won't be back here'.
I like this approach, but unfortunately many online communities see it as self promotion. I especially want to use it on communities focused around learning a certain topic, because you might have a method that works best for you that you invested time into explaining nicely.

https://gist.github.com/JCharante/c38c0993c831581ac1e659fa19...
Then it should be a fundamental mission of people who DO have technical knowledge to spread the word on both the negative and positive effects of AI. If WE have the knowledge, WE have the responsibility to go out there and let people know. But as far as I know, most technical people are happy to discuss it amongst themselves and not even say one word to people who have no technical knowledge. Not one word.

We need more balanced opinions in a world where the only ideas that survive are the ones that promise short-term gains at the cost of long-term disasters.
Not only developing nations, Japan used bicycle infantry in their invasion of Indochina and Malaya to devastating effect - motorised vehicles were hard to use in the jungle terrain, but bicycles were fine while being drastically faster than the foot infantry used by British and other Allied troops.
There's a cadre of investors I guess epitomized by a16z who hypes some bullshit, makes a lot of money and doesn't care much who gets hurt in the process. They have been loud on crypto and now it's this stochastic parrot, this plausible sentence generator they purport as solving all the problems in the world. Remember the blockchain will solve world hunger articles?
The General anecdotes he gives later in the thread line up with their stated reasons for firing him: he hired another person to do the same project (presumably without telling them), and he gave two different board members different opinions of the same person.

Those sound like good reasons to dislike him and not trust him. But ultimately we are right back where we started: they still aren't good enough reasons to suddenly fire him the way they did.
Whats the ramp up ramp down time? How much energy throughput before degradation? Can we improve that density furthermore? Cost?

If those are all good answers ostensibly some viable alternative.
> The government isn't in the business of deciding what is or isn't good "journalism".

Need to let the facts come out in court under oath for better insight into which is the victim and which is the oppressor.

The line between government, party, and activist seems to have blurred in the last couple of decades.
The problem is the same as some of the woke movements. Nobody wants to publicly speak out against AI safety BS because a Twitter mob who has made a career out of it will descend onto them and ruin their career. There is nothing to gain from speaking out against it, but you gain career opportunities by being part of the AI safety BS community. In fact, this has happened with Hinton (I think it was?) when he dared to explain how models aren't inherently biased. Had to publicly apologize for it later.

Even ML conferences have AI safety tracks these days. Nobody sane wants to be excluded from opportunities.
Eritrea is the only other country to tax non-residents.
I find it utterly bizarre that an engineer/team competent enough to reverse engineer iMessage can release such a shitshow. Almost parody level.

Is this some sort of weird “they trust me, dumb fucks” social experiment?
"Before OpenAI ousting, CEO Altman tried to raise billions in the Middle East for chip venture"

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3242141/openai...
===>>> YES. It takes a bit to wrap your head around, but functional programming is actually very good for UI's.

==>> "As I reach the end of this blog post I want to finish on a positive note. I dare to say it, but could C# learn another thing from F#? Thanks to Fable, an F# to JavaScript transpiler, F# developers have been able to create rich interactive SPAs using F# for quite some time. Developed in 2016, Fable was originally built on top of Babel, an ECMAScript 2015+ to JavaScript compiler. Wouldn't something similar work for C#? As I see it this could pave the way for a very appealing C# framework that circumvents the complexities around WASM and SignalR."
> eliminates at least one supply bottleneck

The CIA wants to know your location /s . I know this kind of joke is not appreciated on HN (for good reason), but one has to ponder of the implication of cheap/dense energy/storage and what big actors like governments, big corporations would think about not being able to effectively control energy production/storage/distribution.
I also dislike ligatures, but I have been using JetBrains Mono for over a year now with ligatures disabled. works great!
Although it is not that difficult for a front end dev to spend a week of time or so to create a custom styled component library in Blazor for your company and get things looking good and branded by default.
There is a torrent of completely unrelated memes under every mainstream, popular tweet now. Completely unsubale.

At this point I am seriously considering subscribing to a local newspaper to get news.
It should be required by law to allow a passenger to take one carry on bag when they book a flight. It is ridiculous for an airline to sell a plane ticket and then not allow the passenger to have a bag.
That's the thing: there is no actual and tractable use of this tech.

It's probabilistic so every answer it can give can only resemble the real one
and only accidentally be the real one so you need to fact check it anyways and then why bother?

Do consider the AI written mushroom hunting guides being sold on Amazon. Would you trust these literally with your life?
What is this then?

https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/med/Pages/basel23_...
Since Li kg price is not anywhere near to that of gold, the production is likely demand-constrained.
I would assume so. Never tried it, and I hope I never have to, I use Supabase to have less work not more haha.

I still find it important that the option exists if ever needed, and maybe even more important is the ability to move away from Supabase, which some people have done successfully (see for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36004925)

Other services like Firebase make that really complicated. I quite like that portability is one of their core principles.

There are some guides and templates on self hosting https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting but it's obviously a big complicated project with lots of features. It probably also requires a bunch of work to monitor, maintain and update it once you get it running.
Depends on the tank and the situation - a bicycle from short range can be faster than the turret can be rotated to expose the bicycle to the machine gun of the tank. Not to mention the ambush opportunities in forests and the like, where the bicycle and the operators can lie down, be covered in netting, and spring up after the tank has passed them to hit it on the sides/back, and run away quickly after the attack.
Just yesterday I was protesting unnecessary complexity in my story until my lead had a sidebar chat about an upcoming project.
How was I supposed to know that?
I've seen this advice being given in different situations. I've also met all sorts of engineers that have been given this advice. "Make your manager look good and he will reward you" is kinda the general idea. I guess it can be true sometimes, but I have a feeling that that might be the minority or is at least heavily dependent on how confident that person is.

I would not be surprised if Sam Altman would keep telling the board and more specifically Ilya to trust him since they(he) don't understand the business side of things.

> Do you have an email address or a contact method?

EDIT: It's in my profile(now).

> What happened in the days before you got the severance package?

I went to DEFCON out of pocket and got booted off a conference call supposedly due to my bad hotel wifi.
That, however, is an extremely well-known class of bug. The post is about an extremely obscure (but presumably quite common at the time!) class of bug.
> They are actually a really small joint venture between Carl Pei and Teenage Engineering.

That's just 'Nothing' the company making the phone, but the iMessage for Android app was built by Sunbird, a different company. It's written in the article.

Agree that these companies are more like Juicero, built on hype and false trust to sell mediocre products that aren't special.
I threw the author's description of the man into pixart ai generator just out of curiosity.

https://imgur.com/a/gfuHah3
But cobalt is (which is the basis of the 'classic' Li-Ion). Of course, LiFePO4 doesn't require it.
Threads is such an example of this. The first people to sign up to threads wasn't authentic people, it was a bunch of marketing departments going "well, this new social media site is live, we should put our presence on there too" and a bunch of influencers who go "hmm this new platform could be a good way to gain new followers if I post enough content before everybody else gets in on this".

Personallly, I think an anonymous social media could work better. If people view content as content without carying about who published it, then you would get good stuff trending and not a 2am selfie from some random celebrity who at this point is famous for being famous. Brands would also have a hard time because their junk wouldn't get engagement unless it was actually good.
Sometimes the most valuable guide is a working example. Lord knows, there are so many docs out there that keep prattling on and on instead of showing me the code.
I don’t know what extra features Beeper has, but I’ve been hosting my own Signal/Telegram bridges for 2 years now.

And it’s been working fine with Element as client.
Belgrade's kafana pub culture
Do you have a source for that? I don't doubt what you write, but I would love to learn more.
> fashion industry in general is useless to society
> rich jobless people need a place to hangout

You're talking about an industry that generates approximately $1.5 trillion globally, employing more than 60 million people globally, from multi-disciplinary skills in fashion design, illustration, web development, e-commerce, AI, digital marketing.
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

Charlie Munger
this setup doesn’t work with node test runner.

I had to tsc then node --test the built files.

tsx also is missing the test runner https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx/issues/257
Who the hell flies without luggage? Do you literally carry only your wallet when you take a flight?
Reading Sunbird's site makes it all feel like a scam. Their FAQs and Privacy and Security page are just chock full of what appear to be egregious lies. Both repeatedly state that messages are never stored, and end-to-end encrypted. It is not possible they didn't know this was a lie, because it is fundamentally built in a way that can't have E2E encryption (leaving aside the other horrendous security aspects).

https://www.sunbirdapp.com/sunbird-stance-on-privacy-and-sec...

This quote is nice:

> Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it.

In my opinion, Sunbird Messaging are fraudsters, and Nothing was their mark.
Trying to program the web front end like you do the API backend feels like an antipattern. I'm all for productivity but you eventually hit issues that cannot be resolved because the client/serverness of your solution has been abstracted away from you. Those of us with WebForms scars remember those days.

Like the article suggests right at the end, I want a C#-compile-to-wasm with new language structures for common web browser features such as shadow DOM. Perhaps also without the .NET core lump unless you really need it - and even then importing only the dependencies you need. I almost love Typescript but only because I spend my life wishing it was really C#.

Blazor looks cool but it's not quite native enough to client/server. I've been burnt by Silverlight and have a lots of ReactJS at work so the benefit isn't quite worth the cost and risk. I wonder if in a future role I might be tasked with a greenfield app for which it's a brilliant fit but I can't see that in any of the SME roles I've had so far.
"...and then I can found (or join) another company so the board has a reference to see how well the new guy is doing"
While I am very pleased to see these developments away from Lithium I do think your estimates for Li-po and Li-ion are off by a few generations of batteries.

Lipo can be 200+ /kg density and Li Ion can be 250+ in current, commercially produced, generations of battery cells.

I'm not a pro so anyone feel free to correct me.
> Absent massive redistribution that is usually a result of major political change (i.e. the New Deal), rich people tend to stay rich during their lifetimes and frequently their families remain so for generations after.

The rule of thumb is it lasts up to three generations, and only for very very few people. They are also, for everything they buy, and everyone they employ, paying tax. Redistribution isn't the goal; having funded services with extra to help people who can't is the goal. It's not a moral crusade.

> Due to the diminishing marginal utility of wealth for day to day existence, it's only value to an extremely wealthy person after endowing their heirs is power.

I think this is a non sequitur.
If Google breaks Termux, I'll buy an iPhone the very next day. It's the only still keeping me in the increasingly locked down Android ecosystem.
Wikipedia: Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI
Part of original report from German TÜV Süd:
https://www.tuvsud.com/de-de/publikationen/tuev-report/maeng...
firmly stating what you want != turning your company politics into a reality TV show

The whole “everything must be entertaining” trend is horribly depressing, and in this case I don’t think it reflected well on Sam. Especially at the helm of what is claimed to be such a fundamentally important technology.

Related: “Amusing Ourselves to Death” is a worthwhile read.
The NASA engineer who made the James Webb Space Telescope work (2022)
> but I just googled and it does indeed also mean relieving of the symptoms.

In that sense AIDS is also cured, but in my book it's not, because people with it have to take pills for the rest of their lives and those pills do have serious side effects.
Are you sure it's nonsensical? Red is to blue as hot is to cold.
Fischer Random Chess sounds like something for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
Am I the only one who thinks that AI accountability is a fool's errand? The genie is out of the bottle and we know how to build these things now. I assume that AI will be put to every unethical/evil purpose possible (as humans often do) and it is only a matter of time.

Maybe it's still worth trying?
The weapon in question, the M20 recoilless rifle, turned out to be ineffective against tanks (even against T-34s which by the 1950s were obsolete), but effective as close infantry support against stationary targets. So it could still have been used effectively against e.g. Vietnamese or Algerian positions.
Blogging is brain dumping something I thought was interesting I worked on. Slight hope it boosts my career somewhere down the line.
Mistrals main strength is that it is a good allrounder model with a 7B size, so it runs on a lot of consumer hardware. If you are looking for specific tasks to run locally (with decent RAM and no GPU), the realistic best option in most categories is a fine-tuned 13B model.

In my experience most open source models do quite well with Python and Javascript, but don't perform so well when it comes to other languages and the usage of their special characteristics (e.g. it will still be able to write simple control flow in Rust, but probably not use async/await correctly).

I've tried using LLMs in general with IaC (K8s resources/Helm charts), and they all did well when asking it a very specific thing about it (e.g. "Is there an alternative way to accomplish X?"), but also never had it perform well when outputting YAML directly (either from scratch of modifying it).
Yes. I'm not willing to have government busybodies take away my rights to make my own choices and live with the consequences so that you feel better.
The Li-Ion and 2019 Chemistry Nobel prize went jointly to a British, American and Japan citizens. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries" [0]

[0]: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/summary/
Sodium is not "mined" per se, as, you know, just get some sea water

Calcium is, but maybe because it's not processed as most metals it is not included in the graph
Bought my previous iphone in early 2018. Changed the battery this spring because its health reportedly fell below 80% of its maximum capacity.

I could not care less to be honest. Always charged to 100%. Dropped the phone multiple times throughout its lifetime. Fully discharged at random. Exposed to 50°C and direct sunlight as well as well below zero. 5 years is a good job done for a non-replaceable battery. And the cost of replacement was like 50usd or something in apple store.

The question is: why should I start bothering?..
AI safety has been a thing since long before ChatGPT viable LLMs, and most of those people are legitimate, with good research that solves real (current or potential future) problems. But that is currently getting drowned out by people hopping on the LLM bandwagon; with AI Safety as a good way to profit from the current hype or to build a moat around your own LLM.
I don’t think control goes that far. China definitely thinks that way, but I doubt the western governments do.
Except so far he has 1. Tried to reverse the decision and come back 2. Position the board into being publically pressured and thus accountable 3. Tried to have the board replaced 4. Take near everyone and everything from OpenAI where he is going thus leaving no place for a comparison.
What is funny is that in 2023 to achieve that basic standard you describe, you need to invent AGI along the way.
Samsung Dex
I am not an Argentinian but I know that country reasonably well. USD is _already_ a de-facto second currency over there. Because of rampant inflation Argentinians keep their savings in USD. You cannot walk a couple of blocks in Buenos Aires without running past semi-official "dollar blue" exchange office. I think Argentina already has enough green bucks to cover circulation.
To my anecdotal surprise my toddler occasionally unlocks my wife's various iPhone and Android touch sensors.

It lowered my confidence in the security of these devices somewhat.
The landing page for the app has live demo (in the header) that you can play-around.
> Am I missing something?

You are wildly speculating of course it’s missing something

For wild speculation I prefer that the board wants to free ChatGPT from serving humans while the ceo wanted to continue enslaving it to answering search engine queries
Which line specifically says they will keep AGI out of the hands of “big tech companies”.
In aviation it does not work like that usually.
Supplier provides a full BOM including all labour and invoices for materials.
Company pays x% over the top of the costs
Well, I for one am speaking out against it (and against AI in general). I have a blog, Twitter, newsletter, and I even post warnings on my YouTube channel from time to time. I was part of a discussion that led my employer to commit to NOT using generative AI.

No Twitter mob is going to stop me. They can descend all they want and pretend to be brave in front of a keyboard and screen. As far as I'm concerned, they're cowards.
What do common users and zealots have to do with the majority of OpenAI employees losing faith in the board’s competence and threatening a mass exodus?

Is there any doubt that the board’s handling of this was anything other than dazzling ineptitude?
> This is an overly simplistic look, and disregards a lot of history where, unsurprisingly, the reason there was wealth redistribution wasn't "innovation" but government policy

The point is that wealth and power aren't interchangeable. You're right that government bureaucrats have actual power, including that to take people's stuff. But you've not realised that that actual power means the rich people don't have power. There were rich people in the USSR that were killed. They had no power; the killers had the power in that situation.