skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A VC gushing about a charismatic founder does not itself convey meaningful information. They did about Sam Bankman-Fried, after all. That an overwhelming majority of OpenAI staff threatened to quit unless he is reinstated is more informative, but that might just be because they trust in his ability to wheel and deal and are seeing their big payday go away.
What's the best option to buy a framework laptop outside of US. I tried shipping them to a parcel forwarder but they didn't also accept non-US debit cards.
Does anyone have any feedback on using those open-source models with any language except English? Particularly non-western group of languages like korean/japanese/chinese?

Will assess myself but wonder if anyone tried.
Quora’s data is next to useless.
Lots of variables in sizing a battery system:

- Is your goal battery backup or load shifting?

- How much backup do you need?

- What is your energy usage and peak demand during that time?

Peak demand is a big factor: a single Tesla Powerwall 2 for example has 13.5 kWh of capacity but only 5kW of continuous power. A heat pump or AC can exceed that, which is why many people stack multiple batteries to be able to power their homes. (The new Powerwall 3 can supply more power.)
After seemingly being the front man in the firing of Altman he supposedly has put his name on the internal letter to reverse course, fire the board, and reinstate Altman.
> the report identified lighting, brakes, and axles as prominent sources of faults

Heavy powerful car is rough on the chassis and suspension. News at 11.

Basically Tesla made a sedan with insane torque using normal sedan parts, but it weighs more like an SUV because of the battery weight. They should've used reinforced parts, but that would've been more expensive.
This board is a shit show. I was responding to the GPs comment which was more general and not just about OpenAI.
Ask HN: How is Apple able to make quality software?
So this might be a little controversial and I'm not trying to start a flame war, but rather look at how Apple produce their software in an objective way. Because as a developer and tech-user with attention to detail, I cannot look away from the fact that Apple is able to create software products that are
1) Performant / resource efficient
2) Reliable
3) Very user friendly and beautiful (GUI)
This interests me because I personally strive to create high quality software, especially when it's user-facing (client side).

e.g. How come Microsoft is beaten by Apple in terms of resource usage in their desktop OS? Is Objective-C somehow the reason for Apple's software quality success, while Windows is put together from a messy combination of C++ and C#? Yes, Apple creates both the hardware AND software, and their M-chips are largely the reason behind the 2x battery life over Windows laptops seen in recent times, but macOS/Linux-distros are still way less bloated and more resource efficient than Windows, right...? At least that's the impression I'm left with after being a user of all three desktop OS-es. Microsoft is struggling with porting their OS to ARM and I can only imagine it's thanks to it being so convoluted and messy. Also, when Microsoft creates a new desktop application, they reach for Electron or React Native over their own in-house GUI frameworks. While Apple always create their apps natively with Objective-C or the more recent Swift.

Also, if you look at iOS vs Android, iOS has always been lightyears away in terms of performance, reliability and resource efficiency. C# and Java are closely related performance wise, is this a reason behind Apple's superior software performance?

I'm just trying to organize my own thoughts and learn on the topic of high quality consumer-facing software, and I appreciate any comments and thoughts on the topic.
Isn’t the benefit of rust for backend simply the massive resource efficiency/speed?
I was at JFK recently and was shocked how fast the Global Entry facial recognition system was compared to say UK one. I literally had barley registered on the camera before it gave me a green tick.
I think they were very careful to have the same expressivity as latex. It’s basically a whole language with a human-friendly syntax.

Their discord channel has a bunch of community plugins if you want a showcase. It’s not yet as big as latex, obviously, but I think it already has the critical mass to make it a sound choice.
For some company to get financing to build a battery it requires some certainty they will not go bankrupt, which means a contract with someone than ensures they will make money. Gambling on the arbitrage opportunity in electricity market rates alone isn’t going to get a 100 million dollar loan.

The last line of your comment is the most interesting to me, electricity is more expensive than ever in Australia.
Perhaps fcc should look at India’s regulatory mechanism for sim swap solution.

They disable SMSes altogether for 48 hrs when a new sim is given. This gives enough time for a victim to go to a physical location to resolve the issue. It doesn’t solve it 100% but definitely introduces enough friction to put a dent in the efficiency of the attackers.
You're definitely right. I'm painting with very broad strokes to make a point of what I've been seeing.
The same article notes that they are using an engine by GE/Safran, and that there was espionage involved in the development of the C919.
That's an x86 emulator with all the performance and battery penalties that entails, and not even full JIT like Rosetta would provide.
Well, this doesn't mean they work for FSB but rather they want to stay away from them.

If I was based in a country I would not want to target those that can more easily get me into jail and/or kill me.

I have no idea if FSB work for them, this is more speculation than open secret, but they certainly do tolerate them and see them in a good eye as long as they target western companies and agencies. The enemy of my enemies is my friend.
Can the 3 board members also kick out Sustkever from the board?
The amount of background crap has been steadily increasing on Apple devices, you're probably right in your observation that it's related to wireless/Bluetooth.

I have a iPad 2 (yes, the one from 2011) which I keep around with the plan to turn it into a house-automation screen and I'm always surprised when I look at it every 2-5 months to see it still has a decent chunk of battery left. And it's in sleep, not turned off.

I just checked it, it's at 76% with a standby time of 562h (23.4 days). And this is with WiFi turned on.

Im really impressed, it's after all a 12 year old battery. And the device was in daily use for the first 4 years and then less frequently.

This is a side topic but I find it's a good example of forced obsolescence, because there is nothing wrong with it other than the fact that it does not support modern web standards or modern iOS apps which makes it trash for most people.
Not really. How would future employers know?

Part of their deal entailed the company would not say anything negative to any company looking to hire here in the future.

Even if you file a lawsuit against a company they aren't going to generally say "Well, they filed a lawsuit against us". They generally don't say anything disparaging unless you are dealing with a mom and pop type of company.
FYI

Bali Rice Experiment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140831
In Denmark, we have a common login system called MitID (translated: MyID), which is used by all bank, insurance company, the governmental digital mail system (not email, but pdf's in a vault) and it still-alive now-commercial-only predecessor. I believe it is by law.

The system is 2FA with either your phone or a hardware dongle proving your identity.
It is strongly authenticating you as a person, that is precisely identified (but the services are only getting a token, but it can also validate your person-number - think SSN in US context).

It is quite harsh in device security, recently failing on beta versions of Android - on top of afaik always failing on rooted devices...

The phone version also requires you to scan a continuously changing qr-code twice to proceed, which is shown when you need to identify yourself (in an I-frame). This is to ensure you are "physically" present where you are being authenticated (i.e. to block of some phone scams).

Works pretty well and is reasonable secure, whilst still having some flaws..

In the future, I believe this system will work in some/all of the EU due to the coming eIDAS legislation...
Corporate structure is not immunity from getting sued. Evidently HN doesn't understand that lawsuits are a tactic, not a conclusion.
Mandatory binding arbitration is a real thing in Turkey, used for certain types of civil disputes.
Sydney has less than Brisbane
Yes, that's what's called net metering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering

However, despite being convenient for the user, it isn't great for the grid nor scalable if all users were to have solar panels. (Here in Italy solar on rooftops are quite widespread).

You can see that a kWh on a sunny summer noon when all panels the area are working well, isn't worth the same as a kWh in the cold winter night, where non-renewables often supply the grid.
This sporadic activism only hurts the activists, and occasionally, as with road blocking, random people completely unrelated to the matter at hand.

My advice is don't harm your service utilization, at least until we have clarity on the OpenAI situation. Why are you're in such a hurry to cancel Adam? Are you worried that facts may invalidate our reasons to be angry at him?

We need to stop with this primitive knee jerk cancel mentality.
Can you link one such library here?
Compared to RHEL, CentOS, FreeBSD upgrading is a breeze. Debian is easiest. I have done like 100 different upgrades of FreeBSD and most has been without any issues.

If you use Jails, you have to upgrade them also, there are guides for this.
> we should go back to covid society

Yes, covid society was better for the environment and humans.
Was Marx wrong?
Do we even have an idea of how the vote went?

Greg was not invited (losing Sam one vote), and Sam may have been asked to sit out the vote, so the 3 had a majority. Ilya who is at least on "Team Sam" now; may have voted no. Or simply went along thinking he could be next out the door at that point; we just don't know.

It's probably fair to say not letting Greg know the board was getting together (and letting it proceed without him there) was unprofessional and where Ilya screwed up. It is also the point when Sam should have said hang-on - I want Greg here before this proceeds any further.
Even federated platforms, or private ones that I run on my own? How does that work? Please be precise when you say "every".
But it's the literal truth, and using a descriptor on a group of people acting does not attribute the action to all people who fit the descriptor. Not all mammals are dogs, and that shouldn't need to be said.
The more I read into this story the more I can't help but to be a conspiracy theorist and say that it feels like the boards intent was to kill the company.

No explanation beyond "he tried to give two people the same project

the "Killing the company would be consistent with the companies mission" line in the boards statement

Adam having a huge conflict of interest

Emmet wanting to go from a "10" to a "1-2"

I'm either way off, or I've had too much internet for the weekend.
Doesn't it only affect Africans?
Maybe 90% of employees doesn't follow Sam specifically, but are appalled by the board's behavior?
Haha cute story...they stayed married..
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Why is Go included in the comparison, and not, say JS, OCaml, Haskell? It makes zero sense, and I swear that’s some marketing tactic for that language to sell itself.
Well, the appointment of a CEO who believes AGI is a threat to the universe is potentially one point in favor of AI safety philosophical differences.
> a tank

Imprecise terminology often causes bad thinking. A “tank” could be a MBT, or it could be an armored personel carrier with very limited offensive capabilities.
You "discovered" trying to fool a chatbot? It's one of the first things everyone does, even with old generation chatbots before LLMs.

If so then 4chan had prior art, discovering prompt injections when they made Microsoft's Tay chatbot become a racist on twitter.
Risk of being force choked to death too. The pay must be great.
AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves
I just upgraded to FreeBSD 14 from 13 and it was fairly clean. It asks you to evaluate diffs for a few config file changes. The only issue I had was that sudo was uninstalled for some reason so I had to go back to my server console, go in as root and re-install sudo.
Yes, actually. Social media and internet made ad industry much more effective, which in turn made wonders in commerce, which is exactly what raised people out of hunger.

A lot of people in southeastern Asia and China are working in industry and live tens time better than subsiste farmers just one generation before them exactly because the niche trinkets they make can now be sold on instagram.
By that logic you can fire absolutely anyone at any time. No malfeasance, nothing illegal, nothing harmful, but they were like... totally planning to do something in the future despite saying otherwise! Boom, lack of candor!

Let's be serious. Because this board isn't.

Note I'm not "team Sam Altman". As most startup/yuppee CEOs, he's extroverted, superficially charming, but can be manipulative and use people as pawns in a game. All the traits unfortunately needed to attract talent and capital. Without these kinds of people, most companies wouldn't exist.

However there are different shades of gray. He's also a smart CEO who clearly led the company to success, saving it after assured bankruptcy when Elon Musk fled, and understands the product and his team. Alas, he didn't understand his board.
You're correct about their error; however, Hinton views that a sufficiently scaled up autocompletion would be forced, in a loose mathematical sense, to understand things logically and analytically, because the only way approach 0 error rate on the output is to actually learn the problem and not imitate the answer. It's an interesting issue and there are different views on this.
While Mistral's Docker image provides a practical solution, it's important to note that Docker isn't truly cross-platform. A Docker image compiled for x86 architecture won't run on ARM, which can be a limitation for diverse hardware environments. On the other hand, Rust + WebAssembly (Wasm) offers genuine cross-platform capabilities. Wasm is not only faster to start and more resource-efficient but also more secure. This makes it exceptionally suitable for handling large language models, ensuring high performance while being cost-effective. In scenarios where diverse hardware support and efficiency are crucial, Rust + Wasm emerges as a superior choice over Docker.
Couldn't you just set up a text service to request a one time token? That way you could fall back to SMS, but it wouldn't be required.

(e.g., anyone could create a service that someone could use, which would allow them to request a 2fa code to be issued over SMS at any time after enrolling it via the OTP pairing process)
It depends on your definition of dismal. Any phone repair shop can open phones and replace batteries. There are also disassembly videos for most models on YouTube. I looked at them, ordered parts and replaced the battery on my Samsung A40 when it started to discharge too quickly. I also replaced the camera after a hard crash on the floor broke the autofocus. Maybe not having Samsung shops makes all of that dismal but I actually prefer to have many small independent shops around the country.
I have 2-year iPhone 13 Mini which I didn't care much about keeping some charging regime. It reports 100% capacity. I wouldn't trust this number. Another data point: 2-year MacBook Pro 16" which lives on my table (I don't think I've ever used it without charger), keeps its battery at 80% and reports 91% capacity.
"Write for humans" is garbage advice for SaaS blogging
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Ehhhh it was fine when I read it as a teenager but the writing quality alone (ignoring the content) certainly did not age well decade+ later
No corporate structure – except for maybe incorporating in the DPRK – can eliminate lawsuits.
LLM training fodder?
The lithium is not disappearing though.

At some point in the future, we can start mining old landfill.

But yes, it's easier (and more efficient) to recycle before putting them in landfill.
It's funny how you are cheating companies by impersonating customer from different areas AND demanding honesty about remaining seats on same premises. At least you should be content with your behaviour and demand.

To make it clear I personally have nothing against both approaches - by being on both sides of transaction at times.
Base64 and ASCII both made perfect sense in terms of their requirements, and the future, while not fully anticipated at the time, is doing just fine, with ASCII being now incorporated into largely future-proof UTF-8.

Considerably stranger in regard to contiguity was EBCDIC, but it too made sense in terms of its technological requirements, which centered around Hollerith punch cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

There are numerous other examples where a lack of knowledge of the technological landscape of the past leads some people to project unwarranted assumptions of incompetence onto the engineers who lived under those constraints.

(Hmmm ... perhaps I should have read this person's profile before commenting.)
Getting attached to a perspective despite evidence to the contrary would require perspective and distinguishing fact from fiction, but just copying humans protesting that they're right (regardless of context) seems plausible, as there's a lot of that to learn from.
> Another risk that is set in motion by TSA’s use of face verification is the very real possibility that our face eventually becomes our default ID and creates a de facto national ID controlled by the government.

For one, why are people afraid of a national ID? I remember this argument being used to delay RealID changes in some states. Other countries have a national ID and it hasn’t lead been billed as a privacy nightmare.

Second, we have a national ID already called a passport. That’s valid ID in the US and issued by the Federal government. I have one and so far the Feds haven’t come for me while I’ve slept or thrown me into whatever lies at the bottom of this slippery slope argument. Am I missing something?

Third, what makes the Feds worse than my State government? What stops Florida or New Mexico from turning State ID databases into a surveillance tool? Is it possible we really have 50 slippery slopes to deal with? Again, I don’t understand where the fear is.
jacquesm was being sarcastic
If you leave it plugged in all the time, battery life doesn't matter. Self-limit or don't.

I'm rarely away from a power source for very long (and when I am, I'm not on my phone much). So I just leave it plugged in all the time. I've very rarely had my battery die on me, and like OP, I leave mine plugged in all the time. At night or while working, it's charging.

Even after a few years, I don't notice much of an impact. I'll sometimes notice it's getting low (again, if I'm out of my routine), and just charge it.
One perspective that one often hears, but nobody seems to have brought up here, is that the role of the board is essentially a kind of joke that doesn't really do what it says on the tin. A bunch of friends of the management, given a lot of money for very little work.

People here have even pointed out how unqualified they think the board members are, or how they have conflicts of interest.

Picture yourself in this world where you essentially get free money for pretending to advise a company. Most of the time, you don't need to do shit. Other people have got you covered, the company does some well known widget-making business and everyone has known since business school how the business works. You just nod your head when there's a board meeting and otherwise try to keep a good handicap at the country club. When there's a decision to be made, you feel out which side will win and hedge your bets. You've get several of these board jobs, and each of them thinks the other memberships are why they are hiring you.

One day, your friend invites you to be on the board of a company that does something truly new and interesting. In fact some people say this is the modern day Manhattan project, taking humanity into a new yet potentially dangerous age. It's prestigious, and you think how different can it really be to any other business?

As time passes, you realize your strategy of just doing whatever the other board members are doing is not going to work. There is this really big question of what you should do about keeping things "safe", a vague idea that you've heard of from some prominent employees. It dawns upon you that you might actually have to think about what to do.

Eventually, you crap yourself, and you decide to use some of the formal powers of the board. You saw on Silicon Valley that the board can depose the CEO, maybe that should be done? You know a bunch of people who have talked about AI in the past, perhaps one of them has a clue about what to do?
And that's your bias speaking, since my statement is factual. It's perfectly normal, and you can accept that my meaning and your interpretation can be wildly different, therefore accusing me of the worst possible interpretation is unfair.
It's been a long time, but I don't think that's exactly true. The resource fork simply became optional, assisted by later versions of MacOS, which let applications open files which didn't have one.
I have an ARM Mac, I want the performance of a native x86 computer, and I don’t have to share my 24GB of RAM with the VM.

And we are talking about a a quarter an hour for a 4 vCPU 16GB instance.

It’s a simple bash script to start up the instance and start session manager system manager to create a no ingress tunnel to the instance to run RDP over

https://awscloudsecvirtualevent.com/workshops/module1/rdp/
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It's plugged in when not in use. A single use that takes it away from an outlet can last a good while.