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> The NJ and NY port authorities have an existing agreement as of Feb 2024 to allow for experimentation and buildout of drone-based last mile delivery systems.

And if this were the reason for these particular drones the NJ and NY port authorities don't really have any reason not to just come forward and state as much. You'd think they'd be more than happy to crow about their "innovation hub" and the work they are doing. They've already gone to the trouble of having their Media Relations staff write up the article you cited. Why waste an opportunity certain to have a greater reach now?

Journalists didn't generate this attention, the drones themselves did. The public is genuinely interested and concerned. Journalists may be capitalizing on what the public is already wanting to learn more about, but I don't think they're avoiding investigative work for fear of the public losing interest. There is simply no one they could ask who would be willing to provide them with the truth.

Any journalist who did somehow manage to get the real story would pull the attention from all the other journalists without answers so they've got the incentive, just not the means. All they really can do is repeat what little they are told to a public which has been asking them to give them that information while also pandering to their audience with whatever speculation they think their viewers/readers will want to hear. A large part of journalism in America is entertainment after all. They wont waste this opportunity since they absolutely want attention and money, but they can't take the blame for "content free articles" when no one is willing to provide them with anything but speculation and more questions.
I'm definitely not serious, it's a ridiculous take. The response to it on bluesky[0] is an entertaining read though.

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/amongus.innersloth.com/post/3lcxvjk...
e-/bikes and e-/scooters are big changes to city navigation.

e-skate and segways are non-factors. And that's the difference between a good product (ebike or even just plain old bikeshare) and a bad one (segway).
A comm sat network is very very different from a positioning satellite network. You'll notice that here on earth those missions are done by very different satellites in very different orbits, they are not substitutes for each other.

Every NASA science mission to Mars orbit for over 20 years has had a communications relay on it, for relaying messages from rovers back to Earth, but the one in the best orbit for communications (Mars Odyssey) is also the oldest and most likely to fail. The other NASA science orbiters (MRO, ME (ESA), MAVEN) all also have relays, but the orbits all leave something to be desired for communications purposes (they are in the right orbits for answering their scientific questions, e.g. MAVEN is in a highly elliptical orbit for studying the Martian atmosphere).

There was a proposed Mars Telecommunications Orbiter- a satellite whose primary mission would have been beaming back information from rovers on the surface- proposed back around 2005, but it was canceled in a budget crunch, when actual science producing satellites were prioritized. That would have been in the right orbit.

Building a positioning satellite network around another body is going to be significantly harder, incidentally. Even something like TRANSIT (aka NAVSAT) (1) is going to be significantly harder on another body because we haven't mapped their gravity fields due to density fluctuations as well, the upper atmosphere is not as well studied for drag effects, and we don't have fixed locations that can determine orbital parameters very precisely by either visual or radar observations after every orbital maintenance burn. Small uncertainty in orbital position lead to gigantic uncertainty in your position, and none of the techniques we use here on earth to remove that uncertainty would work around Mars.

1: Instead of the "see multiple atomic clocks and use triangulation and the speed of light to determine distance to each of them, then our location from their known locations" which is how all modern satnav systems work, TRANSIT used a single satellite passing nicely overhead every so often. When it was right above you, you could listen to the Doppler shift and know when it reached exactly the zenith above you. If you knew it's orbit very precisely you could tell where it was in space when it reached that zenith, and therefore where you were.
I think an assumption that a lot of people make about people with power is that they say what they actually believe. In my experience, they do not. Public speech is a means to an end, and they will say whatever is the strongest possible argument that will lead them to what they actually want.

In this case, OpenAI wants look like they're going to save the world and do it in a noble way. It's Google's "don't be evil" all over again.
I completely agree with everything that you're saying here - my use of the term "basically everyone" was lazy in that I'm implying that at the 110 IQ level the majority (approx 70%) of people are economically obsolete outside of niche areas (e.g. care/butler style work in which people desire the "human touch" for emotional reasons).

I think that far below the 70% level we've already broken economics. I can't see a society functioning in which most people actually _know_ that they can't break out of whatever box they're currently in - I think that things like UBI are a distraction in that they don't account for things like status jockeying that I think we're pretty hardwired to do.
> but the nuance is Elon only wants what benefits him most at the time.

Isn't that almost everyone? The people who left OpenAi could have joined forces but everyone went ahead and created their own company "for AGI"

It's like the wild west where everyone dreams of digging up gold.
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You should read what he says about software engineering. He's clearly clueless
may he rip!
> no obvious large-scale product-market fit

I mean, I know pessimistically "ackshually"-ing yourself into the wrong side of history is kind of Hackernews's thing (eg. that famous dropbox comment).

But if you don't think OpenAI found product-market-fit with ChatGPT, then I don't think you understand what product-market-fit is...
You can’t do much better than that; that’s the size of the audiobook! For what it’s worth, I also used Storyteller on Wind and Truth, and got it down to 1.2GB by using the OPUS codec with a 32 kb/s bitrate.
> v13 is way better and safer than a great Uber driver, let alone average.

Will need to see a source for this.

Especially since NHTSA crash reporting data is not made public.
https://busybox.net/~landley/c99-draft.html#7.20.6.1

"The abs, labs, and llabs functions compute the absolute value of an integer j. If the result cannot be represented, the behavior is undefined. (242)"

242 The absolute value of the most negative number cannot be represented in two's complement.
Surprised nobody mentioned ‘Starfish’ by Peter Watts.
Some do. Some don't.

What's the basis for your analysis? Keep in mind that some people actually do kill themselves.
What would it be like if you opened your favorite music app in 1991? Or 1965? What are the biggest hits at the time? Who are the top artists or the rising stars? What are the major events that helped shape the future of music?

I made Rewind, a concept app that allows you to time travel back to your favorite era of music. Rewind offers a new way to discover music based on context with a little hint of nostalgia. It supports TIDAL, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and YouTube.

Please check it out and provide any feedback. How do you like the UI which changes per decade? What ideas would you like to see?
A blue whale can be 30m long, 5m high, and 10m wide, so to fit in Olympic-size swimming pools (50m/25m/2+m) you'd need 3 pools stacked on top of each other.

(Technically there's no limit to the depth of the Olympic pool, so you might just need 1 really deep one.)
Leptos and WASI 0.2 for full stack WASM development
I will always love Kim Stanley Robinson but I dont care: please, Musk, go to Mars, you can have it.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411608
Coinbase was founded in 2013 and hit $1B in revenue in 2019 iirc
It’s popular but not making money. So maybe product-audience fit so far.
Java2k – Probabilistic Programming Language
If this was ‘Starfish’ it was longer than a short story
745 of 770 employees responded on a weekend to call for his return, threatened mass resignations if the board did not resign; among the signatories was board member Sutskever, who defected from the board and publicly apologized for his participation in the board's previous actions.
It's naive for anyone to think that Elon won't use his influence in government to empower his companies and weaken his competitors.
Technically, it maybe the world's biggest single AI supercomputer.

But it ignores Amazon, Google and Microsoft/OpenAI being able to run training workloads across their entire clouds.
I'm finding this extremely interesting. I'm a reading outlier, I have a stutter which makes it difficult to hold conversations with fast talkers, so I gave up trying during early elementary and started reading novels. I really got into reading, to the point by the end of 4th grade I'd read every single Nobel Literature winner at that time. By the end of middle school I was running out of authors I liked to read. Today, at age 60, I have pretty much finished reading every author I like, and of their better novels and essays I have read them dozens of times.

The result of all this reading is I have, for lack of a better way to describe this to the HN audience, I have a gargantuan context. I can hold a huge amount of information in my head at once, and work with it dynamically. When I imagine a software issue, I see it as parallel implementations in my mind with variations between them, and as I evaluate the variations those that are not possible or no functionally better than the others disappear from the grid in my mind, and when there is only one left I start coding.

However, I find explaining my software development process to others impossible. They say what I'm doing is not possible, or they say I'm lying. I think all this reading gave me an over developed sense of secondary consideration insight. I simply see further the implications of things, of how their combinations are going to affect one another. But as hard as I try, I cannot explain these insights in a convincing manner. It's like being aware a tower is going to collapse, I can tell people how it will happen, and they just deny it, and then it collapses. Sometimes I then get blamed for not insisting against their denials.

Due to all this: I've become a student of effective communications. I'm continually trying to figure out how to explain to those that cannot see these combinations and implications of how in the future this thing is going to fail.
It’s not even released if it’s suicide. Please don’t uselessly speculate until more info is released.

My wishes are with his family
Markdown isn’t suitable for most spreadsheets in the first place, IMO.
Yes I think some people get very depressed and stressed and act out in a way they think might improve their situation. When it becomes clear that it will only end up making their situation a lot worse, they take their own life.
After wasting the better part of a decade on speed reading as a teen and using speed reading tools I can only find myself to agree with them. Remove multiple-choice questions and ask questions about the material and speed readers comprehension crumbles apart to such a degree it is difficult to call what they do to be "reading".

There are quite a number of studies on this, but I'll reference a blog that does all the referencing for me [0] since their experience and thirst for knowledge that led them to later be an advocate against - rather than an advocate for - speed reading is basically a 1:1 match of my own.

500-600 WPM is the upper limits, 99.99% of people claiming otherwise are bullshitting, I always leave that 0.01% because some people are literally just built different and are truly one-of-a-kind (or one-of-maybe-a-dozen people on Earth). Anyone claiming such speeds is going to be under a lot of scrutiny the same way I'd be skeptical of anyone else claiming to be in the top 0.01% of anything. If someone tells me they're a Top 10 Challenger ranked League of Legends player I'm not just going to take their word for it without some solid evidence.

[0] https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-re...
Some might characterize OpenAI leadership as not 'consistently candid'.
I didn't even realize he was American until this year. I thought he was African.
I'm generally in the camp of "I wouldn't miss anyone or anything involved in this story if they suddenly stopped existing", but I don't understand how engaging in a publicity battle is considered proof of anything. If their case was weak, what use is it to get the public on "their side" and they lose? If their case is strong, why wouldn't they want the public to be on their side?

I hope they all spend all of their money in court and go bankrupt.
Ok, but I think it's clear that what I wrote does not convey violence or vehemence but simple disrespect. A disrespect not born out of their early life and personal history but out of their actions here _today_.

Which I think I'm entitled to convey as these are two CEOs attempting to try a case in public while playing fast and loose with the truth to bolster their cases. You may feel that I, as a simple anonymous commentor, "owe this community better," but do you spare none of these same sentiments for the author himself?
One thing that will help greatly is to regulate hospitals into having an umbrella of "services" that allows "private" operators BUT those operators have to be covered by any insurance that wants to work with the hospital rather than these 3 nurses in one pay center, this surgeon in another, assistant surgeons in a third, and the anesthesiologist so far out of network he laughs and isn't part of any HMO, PPO or anything else.
True, but it is my understanding that in those cases they were reimplementing existing services, where the precise requirements are already known. Exploration isn’t for quick-and-dirty programs, but for finding the right solution in a wide space of possibilities where you don’t even know what all the requirements are yet.

For example, consider programming a game. If your only concern is putting triangles on the screen, then there are some well-known solutions that you can adopt that will work great and you can do that in any language you want. But gameplay mechanics are a different beast entirely; inventing (or discovering) something new and fun is exploratory. You’ll benefit most from a dynamic language where you can change your code rapidly, and features like strict typing and lifetimes are not so helpful. For this a language like Common Lisp, with garbage collection, a REPL, gradual typing, just-in-time compilation, and support for multiple programming paradigms is ideal. Or Javascript, or whatever.
Inexpensive catalyst recycles methane emissions at room temperature
Custom wear "proof" 3D printer hotend
I bought but haven't yet read Huxley's excellent work, except a bit of the beginning where I learned he was a Sufi (in spirit, within the purpose of God's unifying design, as we are members of the compassionate people within all Earth's cultures) and Rumi's excellent aphorism:

Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

He is our kin, but I haven't been of mind to commit to that work, yet. Perhaps in time.

The 19 pairs of virtues and vices are from the Quran, as explained by our Sufi understanding. Whether or not we are Sunni or Shi'ite, I really have no idea. We don't dwell on such differences, as they are born of ignorant human friction that impedes our human race's unity. As a born Christian, the Bible remains the basis from which I understand life's purpose; and the Quran is in harmony with it, no matter how many ignorantly self-righteous and often oppressive fools claim otherwise.

If you want more details, you can ask me specific questions but they're likely already present in my last two weeks' comment history. The key detail is that once you make that important prayer/wish, you will be guided along your path to reach your teacher. As with all religion, it's between you and our Creator.

Here's two sub-threads that should be of help:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42322933

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317164

We love you. I am at your service.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi
Are we really giving Twitter that much credit these days? I feel like we gave it less credit when it was actually popular. I would give Elon jumping around on stage more credit than what Twitter/X did for this election.
U.S. airman in Japan is sentenced to 5 years for sexually assaulting a minor
> I really don't remember a plethora, rather some games

Ubisoft's whole catalogue going all the way back to Black Flag, RDR2, EA's latest titles (FIFA, Star Wars), Cyberpunk, and tons of indie games (I had Premium, every month I got ~2 new indie games; by the end I had something like 50+ games).
It was genuinely impressive and I don't mean to downplay that, but NASA always massively lowballs "mission goals". In practice, probes either fail completely, or wildly outperform.
Great, so maybe the Viture Pro that gather dust on my shelf will become useful.
Didn't so many people in history proclaim themself as the pope that even the Catholic church no longer is able to give an exact number?
The claim seems to mostly be coming fro NVIDIA marketing [0].

[0] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spectrum-x-ethernet-netwo...
Don’t give them any ideas. Next time Starbucks will be popping up in the ChatGPT output, offering to convert your unused tokens to rewards there.
> I thought everyone wanted him back,

Ilyia Sutskever who was the chief Scientist of the company and honestly irreplacable in terms of AI knowledge left after Altman returned.
That’s a really interesting idea! The more I think about it, the more I like it.

A challenge I foresee is that the media overlays are only reusable if you have the exact same input EPUB file, and have processed it with Storyteller to mark up the sentence boundaries. EPUBs have unique identifiers, though, so maybe this would be fine! We’d need to add a new processing flow to Storyteller, but it should be doable.

Feel free to hit me up in the Storyteller chat if you want to discuss more! Thanks for sharing this idea!
> Personally I think there are a lot of white collar people who are devastated to have a child who is a poor reader who won't follow in their footsteps (college professors, journalists, people in ethic groups where people will think you're a loser if you're a cop or pro football player, etc.) Labeling it as a disease makes it easier for people in that situation to live with it.

Isn't this just how all diseases and indeed all things work? We're the ones who come up with these simple categorizations and labels to describe reality which is vastly more complex. The terms are necessarily underspecified and the boundaries between categories are necessarily fuzzy. This is true even within some medical community that attempts to have more precise definitions of "disease"/"disorder"/"disability"/etc. and it's all the more true for colloquial usage of these terms. But yes, these terms do end up just meaning "any condition that is not normal that causes problems for the person experiencing it."
wisely so, the bar is alarmingly low in most spaces.
Altman appears to say AGI is far away when he shouldn't be regulated, right around the corner when he's raising funds, or is going to happen tomorrow and be mundane when he's trying break a Microsoft contract.
I think it's best not to casually make a public accusation of murder.
The "Code Name: Ginger" book, by a writer embedded with the team, is excellent btw.
Yeah dude until I saw that it needs an external apparatus, I was quite interested.
HelloWorld.java (Nanowar of Steel)
> and no obvious large-scale product-market fit,

Really?

I use, and pay for, OpenAI every day
* 747/770 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/747-of-770-openai-employees-...
Consciousness is a stupid and unreasonable goal, it is basically impossible to confirm that a machine isn’t just faking it really well.

Singularity is at least definable…Although I think it is not really the bar required to be really impactful. If we get an AI system that can do the work of like 60% of hardcore knowledge workers, 80% of office workers, and 95% of CEOs/politicians and other pablumists, it could be really change how the economy works without actually being a singularity.
Doing nothing else is the simplest thing that might work.

You have implemented the big idea and had success attracting users and are still attracting them.

The hard problem is local community building. It is not adding generic features that are available from iOS, Android, and HTTP.

Actual meetups is the meaningful metric. Achieving market liquidity (people who want to meetup can find a meetup, people who hold a meetup have people show up).

Ultimately, communication should happen around the site person to person, not through it. It should be between people not bottlenecked.

If there is a lesson from HN, it is the 90% of iceberg below the surface is what matters most. Good luck.
The FromIterator impl for Vec is specialized with unsafe code for these cases.

FromIterator is the trait that the collect method uses.

Specialization isn’t a stable feature in Rust, but is used extensively in the standard library.
You can use radar or similar technologies to determine velocity. Point it straight down and you can see how fast you're falling. Point it at an angle, subtract vertical velocity, and you have horizontal velocity.
Yea, I mean, if it can't show a return in the very short term, is it even worth doing? How could something possibly develop into being profitable after years of not being so?

All you have to do is point to bankrupt bookseller Amazon, whom that dumb Jeff Bezos ran into the ground with his money-losing strategy for years. Clearly it doesn't work!
Yeah and Mars is a shitty place to live. And will always be a shitty place to live. No amount of fantastical "terraforming" is going to create a magnetosphere.
Google/Gemini are also the only ones who are not entirely dependent on Nvidia. They are now several generations into their in-house designed and TSMC manufactured TPUs.
I didn't say health; you did. I said mortality which is synonymous with death.

Misquoting someone to prove a point is intellectually bankrupt. Take a breath and calm down. Why don't you try stealmanning instead?
If Bezos declared he was selling all his amazon stock - the market would react badly. Both due to the scale of inventory and the implications of his alignment and investment.

Dimon sold some stock and it was front page news, and it wasn't that much.
I'm confused by the term "whistleblower" here. Was anything actual released that wasn't publicly known?

It seems like he just disagreed with whether it was "fair use" or not, and it was notable because he was at the company. But the facts were always known, OpenAI was training on public copyrighted text data. You could call him an objector, or internal critic or something.
Condolences to the family. It sounds like he was a very thoughtful and principled person.
I would think certain recent events in New York will probably be a bigger impetus for Fortune 500 execs living at sea on yachts
One's about changing things and one's about showing that you're morally superior.
http://suchir.net/fair_use.html

When does generative AI qualify for fair use? by Suchir Balaji