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Tell HN: DigitalOcean locks your account for KYC
Disclaimer: I might not have any Droplet or other service (or anything) running on DO at the time. But I cannot check because my account is locked.

I've received an email from DigitalOcean with the subject:
> [DigitalOcean] Ticket #xxx: Verify Your Account: ref:!xxx.!xxx:ref

Great subject BTW! (op.ed.)
(replaced real references with xxx)

I logged into my DO account and found that my account is locked and I cannot access anything but their ticketing service. I think this practice of lock first ask questions later is terrible and I hope they change it.

Here's the full email body (references replaced with xxx):

Hi there,

We're excited to have you as a customer of DigitalOcean and we would like to verify your account.

Because your recent account activity is atypical, we’d like to better understand your product needs. To help us in restoring access to the account, please respond to this email message with a description of the workload you’ve deployed on your Droplets and how you plan to use your account going forward.

We appreciate your understanding and look forward to better understanding how DigitalOcean can support your needs!

Regards,
DigitalOcean Security

ref:!xxx.!xxx:ref
XFS Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]
They are not cross fungible.

Money/gold is a proxy in the current social system.
> which will eventually just be React Router

how strongly do you believe this. because ive just read both docs and i think they have different goals/audiences (tho obviously same owner). i think react router will be a poorer project if it starts to require serverside components like it is looking
Do you have thoughts on persuading people to spend years of their lives writing books for zero compensation?
ECH is going to be huge for people in regressive countries. For example Iran.
> There were months worth of articles on how strawberry is considered almost dangerous internally its so smart.

Like clockwork, every time they need to drum up excitement:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953040/openai-text-gene...
This sounds like a reasonable take (exponential vs log discussion notwithstanding). It is also corroborated by their recent pitch to the White House for 5-gigawatt data centers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-24/openai-pi...

Posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642905 but it didn't get traction
Does this make more or less likely to be made by aliens in the minds of those that think so?
Even if they get the whole site taken down, I'm pretty sure whoever operates it can just deploy the same thing to any number of other domains. The actual server infrastructure would need to be taken offline, which it sounds like they don't have enough information to do.
Probably one of the many decisions that Mira and other original founders were against.

Sam Altman is a poison pill.
Or the moral imperative to not assist Sam when an employee finds out they aren't working for a non-profit humanity-centered mission but a Sam controls AGI for-profit like it's been revealed.
I disagree that a'99%' level won't get good enough for legal liability. Let's say normal human drivers make an error once every 10 miles, but Tesla's FSD makes an error once every 100 miles. The obvious choice is Tesla FSD even though it is not 100% perfect, and in fact it is 10 times better than a human driver. They might even make it illegal to drive without FSD once it becomes widely available. In the end all the speculation about how good it is or can be means absolutely zero because the results will be created in the end by insurance companies or Tesla, which has it's own insurance company. If it actually is causing more crashes, insurance companies will start charging higher rates, less people will buy Tesla's etc. But we aren't seeing that, with FSD already out there, the insurance premiums for Teslas are not skyrocketing to cover all the accidents. I sort of glossed over this but Tesla also provides insurance which guarantees at least one market participant in FSD, if they cannot make money insuring their own cars FSD will fail, if they can make a profitable insurance company insuring them then FSD will succeed.
I'm a huge fan of views to serve as the v1 solution for problems before we need to optimize our approach, and this is the main thing that serves as a blocker in those discussions. If only we were able to have v2 of the approach be an IVM-view, we could leverage them much more widely.
Please don't besmirch Tesla's good name by comparing him to Musk.
As I said, I think you're fine to be skeptical, and there's surely a lot more stuff to be researched in the future, including these questions. I was just trying to speculate on maybe why you got downvotes.
>Ukraine could say which one are not theirs

Ukraine has no way of knowing that a random dish that it is not paying for is being used by Russia, or by Ukrainian forces on the front lines after being donated by an Australian.
> Who are the weak being "sacrificed"?

The work of artists, authors, etc.

I know currently the legal situation is messy, but that's exactly the point, anyone who can't engage in lengthy legal battle and defend their position in court are being sacrificed. The companies behind LLMs are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying and exploiting loopholes.

Let's be real without the data there wouldn't be LLMs, so it crazy that some people are downplaying its significance or value, while on the other hand they're losing sleep over finding fresh sources to scrape.

The big publishers seem to have given up and decided it's best to reach agreement with their counterparts, while independent authors are given the finger.
Then again — we had that disaster, and we are all still here and doing fine, in general.

So overall, the system seems to be quite resilient.
For those who don't know (the article meanders), India is more like Europe than America, until the post colonial era the individual "states" were their own countries... since the beginning of civilization. Thus their languages and culture are distinct and dissimilar in various regions.
The first major release in 27 years. 64-bit internal structures, so data can be huge. Full unicode with all the funky new emojis. Zip filesystems, etc., etc.

There's lots of new stuff, and some old cruft has been dumped, so some programs may need a few updates, but there's still a high level of compatibility. The page above links to release notes with details of what's in and what's out.
Technical blog pro tip: Assume that many of your readers are VERY literal-minded, and many of your other readers like their humor obscure and as deadpan as possible. Sorry.
You can't post personal attacks to HN, regardless of which person you have a problem with. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. No more of this, please.

Yes, it would be the same in the case of anybody else.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. We've had to warn you more than once before, and it looks like you've been continuing to break them.
FB should allow DT to degrade the quality of service and display a banner to DT users - the people it pisses off are going to be the Instagram-using public who in theory were the ones paying to connect to Facebook anyways.
In my VW, the cellular modem and something I actually use (I think it's the Bluetooth microphone) are in the same module, so pulling the fuse or disabling it in the CAN gateway would be too heavy-handed. I would need to spend hours getting to, and into, the module. Or maybe replace the antenna with an effective dummy load / terminator? Tons of trim work. Luckily it's old enough to be 2G, and my understanding is most towers no longer speak to it, so I haven't pursued it further.
Related: Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license (36 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650355
Yes, I do think government should be more black and white, and the government should stay in it's lane. I support regulation that empowers and informs individuals to make their own choices.

Labeling of side effects, calories, and similar topics fall into that category of empowering the citizen.

Sin taxes dont educate or empower, they simply punish and try to prevent individuals from acting on their own choices.

The two are very different.
I know what you mean but if CNET Downloads advertised themselves as “The Most Trusted Source for Firefox” The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation would not allow this. A consumer new to the term WordPress might be given the impression that wpengine.com is a more trusted platform/source for the software than wordpress.org itself.
CMMC 2.0: A Well-Intentioned Misstep in Cybersecurity
The problem with postgres's JSON support is it leads to last write win race conditions compared to actual document stores. Once they can support operations like incrementing a number while someone else updates another field, without locking the row, then maybe.

I don't think you'll see a paradigm shift. You'll just see people using other documents stores less.
>>1) what about dishes that get captured by Russia?

>I suppose Ukraine will be happy to report stolen devices to Starlink.

If Russia completely wipes out a Ukrainian unit and seizes its dishes, who will report their being stolen? Especially if those dishes were donated and paid for by private individuals outside Ukraine in the first place, so do not appear on any Ukrainian government list?
>Oh, we know it's weighted connections.

I disagree. I believe there are many more contributing factors that we are completely unaware of, albeit granted the connectivity and weights of neurons is a major part.

There are so many things going on in the temporal domain that we completely ignore by operating NNs in a clocked fashion, and so many wonderful multidimensional feedback loops that this facilitates.

To say we know how brains work, I think is hubris.
Many in the life extension community die early deaths due to faustian bargains they make taking understudied supplements and drugs. It's almost a joke on longevity forums how many of the top people in their fields have a tough time reaching their 60s.
Thanks! I'll certainly give it a try. Not sure what the business model should be, though.

You may want to take some inspiration from prezi.com. One could write prezi-like HS workspaces to document some particular workflows. You would want the possibility to add text to the canvas (outside of the code editors), and allow zooming in/out from editors. This could be a premium feature that large companies want to pay for.
facebook knows me so poorly though. I just look at the suggested posts. It's stuff like celebrity gossip, sports, and troop worshiping ai images. I've been on the platform 20 years and I've never posted about any of this stuff. I don't know who or what they're talking about. It's just a never-ending stream of stuff I have no interest in.
> Can someone more knowledgeable tell me how to square this with the news that OpenAI is trying to spin up a for-profit arm? Are they afraid of layoffs or are they smelling things turning rotten?

OpenAI spun up the for-profit arm called OpenAI Global, LLC in 2019 [1] shortly after GPT2. If you pay for ChatGPT plus or for the API, that's where your money has been going.

The big change is that they want to allow the for-profit arm to issue shares to other people and investors. Until now, the for-profit arm has been owned and controlled by the nonprofit's holding company [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...

[2] https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4200df88-28fe-4212... from https://openai.com/our-structure/
One way to look at this is it is already sort of the dividing line between traditional "Fantasy Sports" and modern "Sports Betting". Fantasy Sports involves finding a like-minded group and winnings are often as much "bragging rights" and camaraderie as it might be any actual pool of money. Sports Betting is certainly not that.

A problem is infection. As Sports Betting is more legal and profitable, Fantasy Sports gain more Sports Bets and pseudoanonymity and lose some of their community spirit for "micro-transactions" and other "extreme gamification" and the line between each blurs. (Including to the point where groups looking for one might be easily confused into doing the other.)

I idly wonder if there is a way to shore up Fantasy Sports against the tide of Sports Betting profit.
Indeed! Perhaps the ads for lawyers getting people out of timeshares is part of the Great Timeshare Conspiracy between our two states.
Chinese nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US official says
OP is saying humans are machines, and that we are therefore anthropomorphizing ourselves by attributing human attributes to our machine selves.
That's totally fair. After all, laws are about what people will force you to do using (the threat of) violence, while ethics and morals are about how you personally navigate the world, and a bit about how people will try to shame or socially compel you. If you are comfortable with your decision, that's all that really matters at the end of the day.
Oh ok, I thought you were saying it shouldn't be regulated at all.

So like,what about making gambling work like credit cards: you get a license that allocates a monthly cap based on a combination of credit score and income. It starts very low and scales up to, I don't know, 10% of income?
To prove that that DoNotPay does not work, they will use DoNotPay on themselves to defend against this case.
Mostly _removing_ big slow general purpose tools that were _in the way_ of my productivity, and using self hosted server with vim and my own PHP tools. It didn’t multiply my effiency, it just made room for things to flow naturally.

When I made a game, the most efficient ”tool” was a page I made with direct links to CC0-only search for graphical & sound assets, so I never had to look for a license and just grab the file. And lexica.art for generating characters, and then ”Pixelator” for turning them to pixel art. It didn’t only speed up the process of adding 200 character sprites, it made it even possible in the first place.
Will be wildly ironic if Apple pulls uno reverse card and eats Kotlin on Android instead of the other way around.
More discussion re: Mira: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651038
VHS was not driven by porn, and neither was video compression.

VHS adoption was driven by the fact that time shifting content was a godsend that people loved. This is a huge reason VHS beat betamax, because you could fit more football games on the VHS, even in it's abysmal longest recording quality. People bought VHS recorders well before anyone was releasing ANY media on VHS.

Name a single video compression codec or ASIC that was produced by or for a porn company. Math geeks made compression codecs well before they were viable for software encoding on general purpose computers, and then set top box manufacturers drove the adoption and development of ASICs that could actually use those codecs.

What porn HAS driven is innovation in video streaming platform UI. Youtube has stolen every nice feature it has from Pornhub, who usually deployed them years earlier.
Requiring a timezone seems sensible to me, but I don't understand the choice to make it a required part of the expression, instead of a separate parameter. Most software specifies the timezone separately from the expression (e.g. k8s has separate `schedule` and `timezone` keys).
Isn’t that the plan?

This is why they are planning what 5,6,7 data centers and re-opening 3-mile island.

They will need more nuclear reactors as well to reach their goals.
Hours, perhaps. They can shut the power off and that alone will de-energize the coils without touching the helium. Then it can be turned back on. No damage to the MRI, though the damage to the officer's ego might still be unrecoverable.
I'm not more knowledgeable, but can't you square it with the fact that a for-profit arm is a new direction, and when organizations make big structural changes like this there are often people inside the org who disagree and decide to leave?
This does look nice (as a functional programmer - Elixir, elm, etc and fan of coffeescript back before modern js). Even has pipes!
> it seems too early for the nearly-always-wrong naysayer crowd to be right & take their victory lap.

I agree it's too early to call for sure, but just to clarify: The naysayers are nearly always right. We just only remember the times they were wrong.
Ah understood, and guessing that you’re working alone on it. I don’t have any suggestions than the typical find a friend willing to look, or see how one of the code LLM (codellama?) may fair in terms of reviewing or even look at static code analysers (which may be a little different to that which you’re looking for)
Regarding the 4 million dollar car, Sam already made a ton of money from Reddit and being President of YC.
From an eating-popcorn perspective, I would find it truly entertaining that a printer package could somehow result in a 9.9 security vulnerability that is somehow worse than heartbleed. How many linux systems actually have cups installed and active?
Mira joined in 2018. OpenAI was founded in 2015.
In fact, one approach could be to sell a premium version with collaborative tools (such as sharing workspaces with colleagues).
Users flagged it, entirely correctly.

It's a throwaway snarky Reddit comment from 9 years ago whose only interest is that it feeds into the hottest celebrity ragefest of the moment. That's a model of offtopicness for HN!
That's maybe a bit... thick. Fewer commercial ambitions?

The entire point of Go is to be the Java of Google, the language you don't need several weeks of training for to be productive in and start reading and writing code.

Java's problem is that it doesn't do this well for anything but heavy business logic applications, and the more clever the programmer, the more they can build up complex structures. Go counters this by not having complex structures and forcing you to consider every failure case (at least until writing "if err != nil" becomes second nature) while also having a better (but not perfect) API surface for writing the kinds of applications important at Google (network heavy, distributed systems, performance focused).
Hell of a lot faster, though.

It’ll stick around as an important feature in a lot of things. It’s more useful than cryptocurrency, at least.
It will also be glorious
He's also lucky the chimney for the boiled helium was working properly. Otherwise he (and perhaps some of his comrades) would be dead from asphyxiation.

The quenching process isn't exactly something they practice.
Yes. 100% Several times. Though it's just another marketing vehicle, and with marketing, it is an amalgam of all of your marketing efforts in all channels. And a personal site doesn't have to be a blog.
10 Years of Programming
We should be probably jailing or shooting all that life extension research. People are worried of AGI skynet, I am way more worried about immortal primitive dictators just won't die, becoming progressively more detached from reality and humanity with egos dwarfing Mt. Everest. Just look at some 3-letter analysis of the degradation ie in putin in past 10 years or few other dictators. Death is terrible tragedy for a human but saving mankind over and over again.

I know a bit naive from various angles, and a bit over the top, but I stand by the core concern.
Oh no, what a pain, to make changes to the world based on a broad consensus of opinions, rather than relying on rapacious billionaires to helpfully put their surveillance device into all of our hands without our permission.
>What’s the issue?

Of those three examples I gave? No issue at all, why do you think there is one?

>and somewhat useful.

I don't see how they are useful when deciding on where to move. Can you explain how you find them somewhat useful in the context of moving cities? How are you factoring in "we cute here" into your relocation decision?
The Rhythm Circle
> She said she is leaving "because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration." Murati was joined by McGrew, who said: "It is time for me to take a break." Regarding his departure, Zoph stated: "This is a personal decision based on how I want to evolve the next phase of my career."

What a coincidence they all want to go on a break at the same time.
I think a UBI could be a good start.
Oh cool, I see. Didn't get that impression when I first looked. I will check it out!
Oh I didn't mean to say a shredder not destroying information was common sense. Maybe I just didn't like this particular example too much because I think even for non-physicists it's still imaginable someone could – in theory – piece together the shredded paper again.

Anyway, I agree with your overall point.
There is old group photo floating around with Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz.

One ended up in jail commiting suicide for scraping freely licensed JSTOR articles.

The other is considered hero for scraping JSTOR articles and every other article ever.

Lesson is dont waste peoples time with things that dont make money. More money it makes the safer you are.
Cut the cords to the cellular module
Agreed. It's been a decade or more since I and the teams I worked with did anything other than squash-merging a feature branch into main. The PR body becomes the commit body for the squash, and we're done.

Developers can be as f'n messy as they want on their branches, no one cares because it never hits main.
Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Here's an anecdote: where I live the closest gym is 19 miles away. The closest park that has walking trails is a little over 12 miles away. Walking/running/cycling on the county roads is not wise. There is a seasonal farmer's market in the closest city to us (~15 miles away), but it's only open one day a week for 4 hours. The closest "healthy" grocery store (like Sprouts, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's) is 32.9 miles away (just had to look this up). For the local grocery stores, the organic, health options are rather minimal compared to the rest of the store's footprint, if they even exist at all. Organic produce doesn't exactly fit Dollar General's target market. Delivery doesn't always come through: there are some parts of my county that do not even get Amazon deliveries. Delivery from other providers can tend towards cost prohibitive. Most of my neighbors are blue collar (trades, construction), so even if they wanted better health and food options they're not about to drive to get it after spending a good part of the day on the road traveling to/from work sites when there's a Walmart nearby with super cheap unhealthy food.
Nah, they're just going to block the whole ECH handshake.

Idk about Iran, but Russia and China just block eSNI, QUIC and whatever their DPI firewalls can't really handle on the fly.
Money and political/legal power are freely and effortlessly convertible both ways.
> there's basically no chance that the sale price of the non-profit assets is going to be $150 billion

The non-profit’s asset is the value of OpenAI minus the value of its profit-participation units, i.e. the value of the option above the profit cap. Thus, it must be less than the value of OpenAI. The non-profit owns an option, not OpenAI.
They aren't an investment, period. You generally can't sell them. The complex can assess whatever maintainance fee they wish with little to no requirements for justification.