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I don't think any of that really affects the day-to-day at OpenAI if they got bought. There are plenty of counter-examples for forcing you to use Edge or ads in the Start menu. They made Typescript. They made VS Code. Those teams are just doing their thing, and it's very likely that OpenAI would be like that. Microsoft is past the world of "everyone must use our browser and OS", they really just want to sell any of their products if you'll buy them. Like, I use Outlook on my iPhone because my organization uses Office 365. That would have been unheard of a couple decades ago; Outlook and Windows was their moneymaker and if you wanted one you got both. But now, it's just teams doing their own thing.

The likely effect on day-to-day for OpenAI would have been a different promotion process, their stock being worth $0, and having to use a different videoconferencing solution. I worked at a startup that got bought by a huge company, and that's basically all that changed for us. Our team continues to work on our product, and I'm only vaguely aware of what the rest of the company even does. (I think they make servers? Like solder together chips and put them in the box.) Day-to-day doesn't change much; it's the same people, the same code, and the same goals. I didn't get bought by Microsoft, but I can't imagine that these strategic acquisitions are much different across the Fortune 500.
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sound like a mechanical oscillator -- up until someone figures out how to emulate it, which is true of every instrument. But, here it is, and it sounds unique, and that's the point.
It is implied in OP's reply too, right? No word about 'hey we're giving powerful tech to a hyper-monopolist', it's only about your friends and the money
OpenAI was formed as a nonprofit with a specific charter ("OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.") and the capped-profit entity under which daily operations occur formed years later with the claim that it was instrumentally useful for pursuing that charter. The capped-profit entity remains a subsidiary of the nonprofit. The board in the dispute is the board of the overseeing nonprofit.

So there are many particulars that mean pattern matching to a standard board dispute will lose something. I think it's likely many of the primary actors have, at various times, had non-strictly-pecuniary motives. That one side won doesn't mean that the other side was always a farce.
CalyxOS is a ROM with a similar focus and does support some more phones, including the FP4 and with the FP5 marked as upcoming, see the device list on https://calyxos.org/. It is the more reasonable choice to GrapheneOS anyway, given their recent issues with developer behavior.
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Bloomberg link not working; here's TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-w...
Couldn't even make it through the whole thing it's so cringe.

Checking voltages and they have a sine wave on the oscilloscope lol.

You could just read out the whole rom contents quite easily with whatever computer you had handy.

There was no read back protection or scrambling - You give it an address and read out the bytes
I can confirm that some files were somehow deleted in march. I suspect the problem is related to announced that 5m files is not limit anymore [1]. I was thinking that some of our team members messed up but now I feel bad.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135
Indeed, and this is how Google used to be as a company. I remember when Google Maps & Earth launched, and how they felt like world-changing technology. I'm sure they're doing lots of innovative science and development still, but it's and advertising/services company now, and one that increasingly talks down to its users. Disappointing considering their early sense of mission.

Thinking back to the firm's early days, it strikes me that some HN users and perhaps even some Googlers have no memory of a time before Google Maps and simply can't imagine how disruptive and innovative things like that were at the time. Being able to browse satellite imagery for the whole world was something previously confined to the upper echelons of the military-industrial complex.

That's one reason I wish the firm (along with several other tech giants) were broken up; it's full of talented innovative people, but the advertising economics at the core of their business model warp everything else.
"Conway's Game Of Life" is a game of cells on a 2d grid that live/die/reproduce based on how many neighbors they have.

As a result of the game rules, you can get simple behaviors like "everything dies" or "everything is stable". But you can also get more complex behaviors, like things growing for thousands of turns before eventually collapsing and then stabilizing into a few fragments here and there. And you can get behaviors that don't stabilize -- like shapes that evolve in a way that after a certain number of turns the whole shape has moved along the grid ("gliders" or "spaceships") or oscillators of various periods.

Quite a while back there was a loop discovered that allowed for a period 43 oscillator, which could be adjusted by just moving things farther apart and therefore allowed every period of 43 or more. And oscillators of most smaller periods had been discovered -- but 19 and 41 were still unknown, up until both were discovered in rapid succession by 2 different people. So now we know how to make an oscillator for any given period within Conway's Game of Life.
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Yeah, exactly. So I was wondering of the same analog circuit has been built outside an IC (ie. discrete components) but according to the other response, the IC specifics are integral to the result, which is crazy and really cool.
That’s one way to close out those tickets.
Could long Covid 'brain fog' be an acquired form of ADHD?
Thank you. The whole project actually started as an advent calendar. Then I started thinking okay, what should be the content of it :)
Yes I would. I have a fairphone 3 and when it gets too old or damaged I'd like to buy something newer and a headphone jack is a deal breaker.
Ah I see that's pretty insane. So the character of the sound doesn't just come from the circuit but is really intrinsic to the chip design. That's some really clever engineering.
It took me about 10 minutes to do what should have been a single click. They even wanted me to generate a new password even though I login with facebook. In US though and had some fun. It isn't as good as ChatGPT but very impressive.
First dev job, boss discouraging me from using best practices to save time
I’m worried about where I’m at right now. I got a job as a junior dev and I’m super excited however my boss gets annoyed with me when I take a little bit longer on a project for implementing things like error handling and sanitizing inputs, etc…

I’m worried that it may stunt my progress. I know I’m new but my philosophy is to build something right and right the first time and so I don’t have to go back and fix a buggy app for six hours when the problems couldve been avoided with an extra 2 or so hours of development. Idk I just feel strange because I’m so happy to be working in development but I’m having a lot of trouble with the whole “put it out as soon as it meets the e minimum threshold mindset”. Am I off base, I mean I still am a junior developer so maybe I’m just expecting too much?
I had a problem using it just yesterday. I uploaded an image using the phone app, then tried to find it and download it on my desktop. It wasn’t in the Recent list. I found it by searching, tried to download it and the website told me “You have selected a file that does not exist”.
>There have been a lot of "having your cake and eating it too" going on in Sweden in the last few decades

What do you mean?

>The current Swedish government just signed an agreement to be able to station US troops under US jurisdiction at Swedish military bases. You think they are going to side with the unions?

They don't have a say in the matter.

Companies, Unions, Workplaces and Courts are separate from government.
Plain ol’ sql
"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of planting one rootkit." — not WCF
with the housing bubble and cheap labour they have a massive oversupply of buildings. they have ghost malls even in the middle of the city.
Agree, I don't know what Transportstyrelsen has to say about the interruption in their service this provides. My guess is that they do have the contract with PostNord and are just pretty hesitant to break that and rather wait and see if the problem goes away. The government wouldn't get involved just for a few weeks of postal problems for newly registered very expensive cars, it's not like a crucial service to the people.
Because a company that is “invisible” to a random person on HN that has been one of the most valuable companies in the world for over 20 years and still sells the operating system powering most of the worlds personal computers, 2nd largest cloud provider, and is embedded deeply in most large enterprises and government, it should mean what exactly?
I hear you but I think even partially “open source” models are better than all the closed systems that can only be accessed via APIs.

I would like to acknowledge companies that offer even partially open source models in hopes of convincing others to do the same.
Question:

Why do so many webhooks use HMAC signatures for authorization?

For everything else in APIs, people are perfectly happy to use API tokens/secrets directly in headers.

Why don't webhooks directly share secrets, instead of HMAC signatures?

Like, I understand the advantages of HMAC, but for some reason it seems to be that webhooks are unique in their usage of it.
Security done properly requires some sacrifices. Keeping old insecure versions working means exposing users to trivial ways of breaking encryption.
Firefox support is tracked on https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/227/firefox-browser-support, I think it will be added next year.
What is a Facebook badge.
> The labels we give to others to divide us

They gave the label to themselves
> When she walked into the arena with Altman to try and remove him however he had much more experience and orchestrated an incredible counter-coup.

Nit: Altman may have orchestrated a coup, but the board certainly did not. The board is the legitimate authority, and in no way is a board firing its subordinate a "coup." Rather, it's executing its legitimate power.

Coups triggered when subordinate feels threatened is a pretty common pattern. IIRC, the recent coup in Niger was triggered when the leader of the presidential guard thought the president was about to fire him, too power in a coup rather than lose his job.
> I don't think larger single mirrors is going to be a thing.

With regard to optical light space telescopes, one iteration of a single large mirror would be a great advancement. Hubble is only 2.4m. Back when NASA was developing Ares V there were proposals for an 8m optical space telescope. You can still find vestiges of that at NASA[1] and various videos of the launch and deployment.

Maybe that can still happen with Starship, SLS or whatever. Just need a big enough payload fairing.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100004890
I always wondered why there's not some kind of nonprofit volunteer journalism organization you can get involved with.

It doesn't appear to be something anyone tries to get normal citizens into, despite the fact that we constantly try to convince people to learn other stuff with much less individual scale value, sometimes even somewhat crazy stuff like home chemistry experiments with lead salts.

I always thought that's what I'd want to do with my life if I wasn't coding, and maybe I'd be happier if I had gone to college and studied journalism...
One who doesn't want to be replaced, especially in companies with a few very large shareholders who have their representatives on the board (e.g. major investors in startups) where if a CEO isn't proactive in ensuring that their vision is aligned with the board's vision will not be a CEO for long, even if they were the founder or something.

"Managing the board" is one of the major jobs of the CEO, most of that work done outside those key moments when the board meets to formally vote on what they usually already decided based on earlier discussions between themselves, CEO, shareholders and others.
I don't know if Safari is that important to Apple. I have the enhanced data security feature of iCloud turned on, and I can still access my stuff in Chrome on the iCloud web interface (via the auth flow on my phone). It's actually exceedingly well-thought out and a nice bone to throw to Windows users that otherwise use Apple stuff! They could have been Safari-only or Mac-only, but aren't, even for super niche features.
YES! You jogged my memory - it absolutely was a lecroy with a floppy disk as well! What a cool piece of equipment.

Though I won’t say I was too sad when we got to use a 5GHz touch screen Tektronix instead! It ran Windows XP and was generally super awesome to use.
> The takeaway here is that my regions are smaller than most European countries.

Did the author miss certain relevant developments in the period 1789-1945? Maybe overlaying a map post-Westphalia would be more reasonable
Wait, does the for-profit even have a board?
idk man, no one bristles at the S&P 500.
> then he's doing his job well

He got fired today.
By reading the title I imagined a brand new way address routing. That’s how high I regard Tailscale, I guess.

I remember watching many years ago a talk about a mesh network scheme where its users would unambiguously assign themselves addresses through some hash function. I was fascinated by this concept of generating my own address (instead of having it assign to me) and that it could possibly be mine forever, perhaps associated with some biometric marker.

Anyway, this is also cool, just less ambitious :)
I like meet too, but the inability to send messages to breakout rooms is quite annoying.
(Shrug) He called himself one, although admittedly in a former role before moving to Electrek.

The point stands. People who DGAF about their jobs are going to lose them, and that's not a bad thing.
And yet some of them (the c-suite for the egg producers, for example) are being convicted for it. So, there's definitely limits to that "duty".
It sounds nuts that they reorganized the phone to increase the battery size from 3900mah to 4200mah. Also this phone is too expensive to be a practical device rather than a statement. Someone please just make a straightforward phone powered by replaceable 18650s dammit. If it runs AOSP out of the box then great.
what is your suggestion for duplex communication?
And until you get into a position where you can control the direction of a large corporation it doesn’t matter. Microsoft doesn’t care about the random idealistic developer?
bluetooth headphones have a noticable delay for anyone who pays attention.
as in, a database queue?
Have driven ~100k miles on it, at speeds of up to 85 miles an hour (where legal to do so). Yes, very safe. More people will die from auto accidents in a day (~118) than the total that have died on Autopilot (42) in billions of miles of Autopilot miles driven over 8 years of the driver assist feature being available.

I pay attention though, and therefore aren’t dead. I also trust Autopilot more than your median human.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/
> Altman tried to get her fired, so she retaliated

I don't think it's that simple.

First, after confronting Toner directly and getting a response he didn't like, Altman went behind her back to the other board members trying to get her fired. That's not what a responsible CEO does. A responsible CEO, if he does not agree with the position taken by one Board member, brings that concern openly to the rest of the Board in a formal setting. He doesn't go behind the one Board member's back. If Altman really believed Toner's actions had harmed the company, his responsibility as a CEO was to bring that concern openly to the Board and let them make the call openly. And that's especially true for a company that, according to Altman's own public claims, has stewardship of a technology that could be an existential threat to humans. That makes any behind-the-scenes maneuvering on his part even more of a problem.

Second, according to the article, other Board members had concerns about Altman's honesty, and not just due to whatever transpired during Altman's behind-the-back attempts to get Toner fired. So it's not just that particular incident that's relevant here.

That's not to say that the Board didn't make mistakes. I agree with other posters that they should have seen the consequences coming for firing Altman. It also appears, from the fact that the lawyer's advice about fiduciary duty came after they fired Altman, that they didn't seek legal advice before doing that, which seems like an obvious mistake. (It's possible, though, that they did ask the lawyer beforehand and he didn't raise the possibility of a backlash and consequent damage to the company, which would put at least some of the blame on him.) I just don't think that because the Board messed up, that makes Altman the good guy. I don't think any of these people come out of this looking good. Certainly I don't have confidence in any of them as stewards of AI if AI is really as big a deal as they think it is.
Everyone who's ever died has been full of that stuff! And there have been no controlled studies where subjects are isolated from it. Someone should look into that! What is the DHMO lobby hiding from us? ;)
What makes more sense?

(1) The majority of companies expected their input costs to rise so quickly increased prices to compensate, when they didn't rise as much as expected they slowly lowered prices to remain competitive. Since nearly everyone was reading the market the same way, they weren't punished for this.

(2) Companies became really greedy a few years ago, and increased prices just because they could. Recently they have been less greedy, and prices have come down.
It's not a joke. Just because they didn't write everything from scratch (Chromebooks also are made with hard disks that Google didn't create from directly mining raw materials and performing all intermediate manufacturing stages) doesn't mean they haven't released successful products that they didn't just buy in.
Because it's not just me. I'm just the only one in this thread. HN is not the entire world.
The main motors of an EV are not powered off of the 48V system. EVs generally have 300-400 V main batteries, with discussion of 800 V on the table (someone may have already done it, I haven't been keeping track).
This is completely untrue. Microsoft very much had a mobile phone operating system way before 2007 and before the iPhone.

It was simply a failure of execution. Can you point to one thing in the consent decree that stopped them from competing better in mobile?
Don't forget the person who thinks they really have "big data" and needs all this massive infrastructure. Eventually, one discovers it's a few gigs of CSV files that fits in RAM on a laptop.
Good sign to me is one of the steering members is Tom Hacohen founder of Svix (webhooks-as-a-service). We're adopting them where I work and everything from them has been solid. I know he's seen a lot of different use cases and will have good consideration for the schema they define in their spec file.
I agree that's pretty decent. Especially since it consume no energy...
W4 Games (Godot Engine) raises $15M
I'm sure Sam's cut will go up x10. But there are many ways to screw options of the regular employees.

I'm not talking about key people, about first 50 employees, etc. Regular people.
Being the CEO's pet AI lab is one of the best positions to be in, as it's actually the rare combination of being able to do innovative work but getting all the resources of big tech to do it. Satya is no muppet; he knows that if he were to absorb them he'd have to keep anyone from messing with them. They would be the most protected class of employee at MSFT.

The main reason why you'd not want to do it is that Startup Funny Money stock options won't be as high as they might be if you'd stay independent.
If they tried to focus on ads, then they wouldn’t have the talent to support the business. They probably don’t need 17 chat apps - but they can’t start saying no without having other problems.
You can buy wireless charging modules that plug into the USB port and are hidden between the case and phone
Is this a for real question? Or is it like a joke about how cloudy Cardiff is?
Very much so. Most homes would have had either a fire pit or a hearth. It was too resource intensive to design something just for cooking when you could also use it for heat, light, and warding off bugs.
A Fortunate Man - John Berger
G. - John Berger
A Painter of Our Time - John Berger
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos - John Berger
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Continental Drift - Russell Banks
Affliction - Russell Banks
The Polymath - Peter Burke
Ditto.

I code the patterns that I cut on my GlowForge using React & SVG.

Works great.
There is another track in X files which they never officially released by I absolutely love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMB5NBRJEc
Anybody remember the google duo demo?
When I ask people if they have out-of-cloud backups of their data they look at me as if I'm mad. The cloud can't lose data. Until it does. And then what?
> Or can and power over twisted pair.

I was reading an anti-Musk subreddit over on Reddit and I think the cybertruck is doing this? They were mad that the cybertruck uses 48V and Ethernet cables, but to me, that seems perfect for CAN and power. We already use 48V (or similar) for PoE, and CAN needs a twisted pair... so why not buy that off the shelf instead of using a custom wiring harness?

I don't think the cybertruck is a particularly attractive vehicle, but I also don't think they're crazy for trying that. You can do 10Gbps over a cat-6 cable and it works great. So I'd expect that you can easily do CAN.
Reading this made me realize that I wrote my first web page 22 years ago. Unfortunately I have no backup of anything from that time. Also, I remember having a book by Eric Meyer about CSS not too long after that. That a lot of memories coming back from this post. Thanks for sharing!
Lambda doesn't allow websockets in the way you might expect. However, you can use the WS feature of API Gateway[1] to implement WS serverlessly in AWS.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
Main board failures are hard, they'll kill just about any phone and it's pretty challenging to make the service part economically viable.

For what it's worth, I don't know of any systemic problems / higher than usual error rates with the Fairphone 3 main board. You got unlucky.

Consider giving them another shot sometime!
IIRC they used a variation of this a second time on a newer model of iPod. They found a way to trigger the click speaker, wrote a program to dump the ROM via the clicker Morse code style, and left it sitting next to a microphone in a foam lined box for a few days.
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from the article, the paragraph right before it explained how she got on the board:

"In 2019, she spent nine months in Beijing studying its AI ecosystem. When she returned, Toner helped establish a research organization at Georgetown University, called the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she continues to work."