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In principle, yes, but I’d bet that to make a fortune (100s of billions of usd) you’d need to break some laws.
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It's been so annoying lately to have to fucking open up the console every few weeks and fix security attestation so I can pay with my rooted phone. I wish they'd fucking stop, just let me live my life and have a functioning computer in my pocket. Why can't we have nice things? I just want control over the device I paid for.
As they strive to cut costs, European carmakers feel they are insufficiently supported by governments, whose decarbonisation policies have forced them to develop the battery vehicles at which China excels.

Why do the European carmakers need to 'block' Chinese imports?

Can't they compete enough on their own merits?

Stupid European sanctions on cheaper Russian energy mean that the European manufacturers can no longer compete on cost. They are not long for this world.
I have no idea if he has any standing or not, but from your reasoning it doesn't follow that he doesn't. If I put a box with a sign on a street "Donate to such and such charity to save dolphins", and you give me money only to later find out that I have nothing to do with that charity and your money will be spent on my new car, I scammed you, plain and simple, and you can sue me. Was this sign a contract with you? No. Do I become a stakeholder when I donate my money to charity? Obviously not. But it's a scam nevertheless. In fact, you don't even have to be a victim start litigation, but you can claim compensation if you were.

So, once again, I have absolutely zero idea if OpanAI can be held accountable for not following their charter or not, but if they do, anyone can raise a complaint, and since Musk did give them money to save dolphins or whatever, he may actually be considered the victim.
The problem is that everyone wants to screen their calls but no one wants _their_ call screened.

People will keep finding ways to steal your attention if they want it (starting new threads, etc).
> Only on HN will people argue that spending a day or two a year on something as stupid and unnecessary as refueling and car maintenance is worthwhile.

Probably because you’re inventing scenarios in your head that only apply to you.
Putin will die one way or another and Russia will have to exit the war and try to return to normal economy. Nawalny or another similar leader is their best shot at that. They created nadiezdin for a reason, they kept nawalny for a reason, they will create somebody new like that eventually. It's internal struggle in Kremlin that will determine which of them will succeed Putin and when, but Ukrainian war has a huge influence on that.

Every time Russia lost a war they had a temporary liberalization. Usually orchestrated by the government because there's no civil society in Russia.

As for what Russians thought about Nawalny - doesn't matter, never did. Nobody knew who Putin was, yet fsb made him a president no sweat.

And don't get me started about NATO. Russians will almost all immediately flip from "Ukraine in NATO is an existential threat" to "nobody cares" the moment the narration in tv switches.

The russian trick of presenting their dictators as the reasonable forces keeping the even worse tendencies of Russian people contained is obvious bullshit. In reality Russians will just go along with almost anything.
The whole suit reads like amateur hour - sounds like some teenager whining about how he's been wronged. It reminds me of Hans Niemann's chess suit.
There are some old ideas about water management that are A LOT different than the modern techniques. I live in a 120 year old house framed with old growth redwood. As wood goes, it's rock solid, but also everything in it breathes. It's painted with linseed oil paints, the lathe and plaster walls breathe moisture, and frankly it's not sealed well anywhere, including my original double hung windows.

If this was a modern house, it would be covered in 5 different layers of plastic with the intent on keeping any moisture out, then sheathed in OSB that basically sees water and just melts away. Like you said, there is no way to keep it all the way dry, but energy efficiency (and cheap materials and quick building techniques) have also driven a housing design that is so tight that if there is moisture intrusion, it's got no good way to vent out.
Like the home page - like the animated graphics.

Like that you have a section on privacy,
quite confused about the statement there though.. like,
"you'll only see results from threads you're authorized to view"

So it sounds privacy is a main thing.. but the gist of this tool is that it pushed chat data to openai servers? and I;m assuming it's not a self hosting option, it's a saas on your servers?

I would look more into how it actually does whatever if I didn't see the privacy issues, there was a self hosted system to connect with a self hosted llm or something.

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OpenAI doesnt even have shareholders, so the company would just bankrupt and few hundred people would be out of jobs.

Probably Microsoft would hire them to some AI shop, because Microsoft is the one deploying the stuff. But Microsoft has rights to use it and the code, so for them OpenAI is only a research partner.

Maybe research would get slower.
entire article: "it's trivial to do, anybody can do it, look we did it for other things. it only cost me 400$"

HOW? "trust me bro"
Does anyone know if this is using the Mamba architecture[1] instead of transformers? It looks like it uses a state space model (SSM) layer.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752
Yeah it's pretty useless. Spend the $20 for a month to try GPT-4, you'll be surprised. It definitely saves me more than $20 of time each month.
Why wouldn't they love it? They should try a 3-day workweek, they'll probably love that even more.
You can't just give away all assets of a non-profit to a for-profit and say that now the old non-profit values no longer matters.
The manufacturers certainly list it as part of the expected life. Lipo batteries for example are guaranteed for 6000 cycles at which point they will have 80% of their rated capacity and a minimum of 10 years. So they are fairly certain one of those two criteria is going to lead to the battery no longer meeting >80% capacity.

But that is the other thing about them only lasting 6k cycles or 10 years, its not like the battery is expected to be dead just lacking a fifth of its capacity. What is happening with batteries out of old EVs today is either cell scavenging and remade into new batteries or just racking the whole battery into grid storage. Per KWH they pretty cheap once they are that degraded but still quite usable in other applications.
The Walrus operator is pretty limited tho, as are lambdas in Python.
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Why would the logic hold well to begin with when using an analogy?
> It segfaults on macOS because the runtime/OS has allocated the stack such that the overflow results in a bad memory access, but that is a behavior of the runtime/OS/hardware, not the language.

Stack overflows are checked in C on macOS not because of guard pages but because the compiler emits stack checks (with cookies). Probably the same is true here.

> I guarantee I could exploit this on a system that does not have virtual memory, or a runtime that does not have unmapped addresses at the end of the stack, to, say, manipulate the contents of another thread’s stack. Therefore, this behavior is undefined.

That's implementation-defined, not undefined.
When I work on that project I often consider it as a weapon against the Googles of the world, so it's not surprising that they haven't made things easy. If we want to cut them out of the loop we're going to have to rebuild some of that loop.
No entity “got the whole 1.9 billion” because it was fictitious. The nature of the Wirecard fraud was (at least mostly) not that real profits were being siphoned off to nefarious entities, it’s that they were faking the profits.
Spirit of the law is literally a thing and EU courts interpret in line with it. Each and every EU directive has first lines state the spirit.
This is fantastic news. Waymo is great and the best road companion I've had.
I think the gap in the distribution is the problem. Some 9 million people die of hunger every year (https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...) compared to 2.8 million for obesity (https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-fac...). First source shows 1/3 of all food is wasted.
Given a choice to pause and ponder versus jumping in and saying something that you might regret, I would always pick the latter.

Most of the time, people who are 'quick-witted' have either come across the situation before and recalled a good response (think chess players memorizing good opening or endgame moves), or that they are actually really good at analyzing and solving a particular type of problem really well (think prodigies that have an abundance of natural talent).

This is something that you can practice by listening to what other people say and analyzing the situation rather than jumping in with a comment of your own.

In time, you'll be the one jumping in with the 'quick-witted' comment.
I don't know how to feel about this. These are my two favorite people, and likely the two greatest minds the world has ever seen. Every hour they spend in court is an hour they deprive humanity of the value they bring. This is the saddest day of the year so far for me.
> I see where you're coming from, but I think there's a big misunderstanding about what Julian Assange is really being accused of

Not really, the full text of the indictment is in my link. I'd encourage you to read through it.

> It's super important to remember that a lot of what he did is pretty much what investigative journalists do all the time. Caitlin Johnstone nailed it when she said that Assange is getting heat for the same kind of work that journalists are praised for: helping sources stay anonymous, secure chats, and encouraging more leaks. This isn't "hacking" in the criminal sense; it's basic journalism 101 in today's digital world.

That's also the same kind of work that espionage entails. The discriminating factor is, like in many areas of law, intent. Specifically for classified info, whether it was leaked with the public interest in mind or to "be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation" and the degree to which the leaker conspired with the source. Yeah that's vague, but that's what a trial is for. Assange leaked unredacted cables, documents on cyberwarfare capabilities, in addition to stuff that was obviously of public interest. He and Wikileaks released so many documents that they admitted they didn't even look through most of it. "Helping sources stay anonymous" is a deeply funny thing to say that Assange did given what he leaked.

> Manning’s lawyer even argued that the leaked info didn’t contain anything that was still sensitive or would harm ongoing missions.

And that argument failed.

> When they went after Assange with those Espionage Act charges, they weren't just targeting him; they were firing a warning shot at every journalist out there.

There is, like, no better country on Earth to publish secrets about than the US. Glenn Greenwald and the Snowden documents, The Intercept and the Reality Winner documents, Neil Sheehan et al. and the Pentagon Papers. Even the sources themselves get fairly moderate sentences. Reality Winner got ~5 years, Manning got out after 7, Ellsberg wasn't even sentenced because the Nixon admin was so corrupt. The idea that Assange is going to be extrajudicially murdered as soon as he steps foot in the US is projection.
If you're paying $20k every 20 years, that averages out to a $80/month "window subscription" when itemized

That said, my property is really old and has effectively all window types in one place or another. Because it had 15years of lack of maintenance I can see which are repairable, which aren't, and how fast each degraded.

The really old windows aren't much of an issue (as OP said). Reglaze, reseal, performance is decent.

Cheap wooden windows are more of a problem, but repairable and upgradeable.

Cheap plastic windows have not fared well all. The plastic frame isn't in place due to heat/cold/UV exposure and they're a full replacement. They leak tremendous air and let bugs in.

The aluminium windows have fared a lot better.
I'd be curious to see improvements in "work being done" metrics. Something like DORA. Where a company has a timeline of metrics before and at some point they introduce Copilot or other types of "AI" assistants. I suppose we will start seeing these, since its something companies would like to share with their shareholders.
You're perhaps forgetting that the plaintiff here is Elon Musk, the man who was forced to buy Twitter due to not realizing that signing a legally binding contract was legally binding.
Does this mean they can go on the highways? If so that’s a significant upgrade to the Waymo service in the SF Bay Area, as it can now take you between towns.
Or alluding to…
All connected cars are a security risk. It just depends on your risk tolerance.
Here's the thing about engineering. It does not need to be perfect. Good enough is good enough until something better arrives. Li-ion is good enough until solid state and other battery chemistry is ready for prime time. That time is very soon, but still a few years away. Li-ion is good enough until then.
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Has anyone tried it recently? Does it work well? How does the price compare to Uber?
NY Times is unusually biased [1] and has been embroiled in strange activity over the years [2]

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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...
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Yes… and what I was saying in my response is that even if Apple did want to kill PWA there is good legal reason to have made the investments they have in the past few years. In court they can argue that app makers are free to make a PWA if they don’t want to pay the 30% cut. If they removed PWA support they’d not be able to make that argument.
While consuming more than you burn will lead to weight gain regardless of what you eat, I think modern foods are more likely to cause this because of the addictiveness of their high sugar levels, and also the fact that each item contains a LOT of calories… it would be much harder to get fat binge-eating celery than it would be for Doritos.
After the export ban, China demonstrating a process node advancement that shocked the world. So the GPU story doesn't support your position particularly well.

Every wealthy nation & individual on Earth has abundant access to AI's "ingredients" -- compute, data, and algorithms from the '80s. The resource controls aren't really comparable to nuclear weapons. Moreover, banning nukes won't also potentially delay cures for disease, unlock fusion, throw material science innovation into overdrive, and other incredible developments. That's because you're comparing a general tool to one exclusively proliferated for mass slaughter. It's just...not a remotely appropriate comparison.
> The Green parties wishes on the topic of heat pumps

... which are the most efficient way to wean us off of Russian gas. The Greens have pushed for years now to get rid of fossil fuel dependencies, turns out they did have a point all those decades.
Fantastic news. I use them all the time in Phoenix. My mom uses them to get to her doctor appointments. I think people underestimate how much of a quality of life improvement these are for people even when compared to Uber/Lyft.
As someone who buys, sells, installs, and operates enormous volumes of battery assets, I disagree.

No one I know who is in battery tech for a living is writing off sulfur batteries as napkin-math-interesting only. I’m curious to know who you work with that believes otherwise in industry so assertively.
Israel has long served a kind of cut-out role for delivering weapons to states with atrocious 'Western values' records but which are compliant with US corporate interests. Equatorial Guinea was one such example, with dictator Obiang and his ExxonMobil contract. Steve Coll mentions this in "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" (2012):

> "Fortunately for Obiang, coup-prone African governments rolling in oil but lacking in arms and intelligence to defend their bounty had a discrete alternative to the Pentagon and C.I.A. for defense support: Israel. Quietly, the Bush Administration encouraged Obiang to enter into security and commercial ties with Tel Aviv."

Azerbaijan is a similar example as US weapons sales were banned for human rights abuse reasons. A Wikileaked US State Dept cable stated (2009) "Through its close relations with Israel, Azerbaijan gets a level of access to the quality weapon systems it needs to develop its army that it can not obtain from the U.S. and Europe due to various legal limitations..."

If the dictatorial government funnels the oil money into the Western banking system, then the US turns a blind eye to this kind of thing (e.g. Saudi and UAE use of Pegasus to persecute pro-democracy activists) and if not, it's sanctions and regime change time.
As a resident, I don’t support this at all.

Waymos are annoying to have on the road - they go extremely slowly (with good reason) and make weird traffic moves.

Do we want our roads getting clogged up with super slow taxis that steal jobs from ordinary people and give them to the tech industry?
absolutely. the best is when you spend all this time trying to figure out what this awful and convoluted thing is. and you finally just take it out to see what happens, and the answer is .. nothing

its software. we should take full of advantage of its plasticity.
-1 because this comment made me feel bad. The US and its client states have never done anything to deserve this reputation, and to suggest that they have is frankly nothing short of unpatriotic. The Lavon Affair never happened.
I take them in SF regularly, for trips that aren't well-served by Muni. It works well. I've never had even the slightest criticism of how it drives. Compared to Uber, it costs more but never drives on the sidewalk and doesn't operate a Prius with 900,000 miles on the odometer and no windshield wipers.
I agree. From the Systems Thinking, the best case scenario is that a new leader will start changing the rules of the game (internal incentives, punishments and constraints). Only then, and slowly, over decades things may start improving. It is just hard to imagine this outside of couple urban centers.

Right now majority of Russians still think they are a temporarily embarrassed great empire. And the goal is to return to the past glory. And the way to do it is by force, because only might is right.
Not OP but I use https://wheregoes.com, as it shows you all redirects that happen.
Hell yeah. This is the best news I've read today. Waymo has completely replaced all usages of Uber for me whenever possible. Expanding the range makes me thrilled. Hopefully they're able to put more vehicles on the road, too, because wait times have been going up.

The app isn't updated yet, though. I wonder how long it'll take?
My impression, using it ~1x/week in SF: Slightly more expensive than uber (+10%?). Takes a bit longer to show up (+25%?). Utterly magical experience.
I've seen Waymos on the 280 between San Jose and SF countless times over the past year. I guess those were not operational rides, just tests?
Some fats which are bad for you are wrapped around internal organs. Subcutaneous fat is easy to separate though.
Say what you want about AI; say it'll put us all out of work, catalyze a utopia, kill us all; it would never in a million years have done this.