skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He will actually use his position in the government to take down his competitors (by, for example, stopping the tax benefit of EV). Elon has grown into the biggest corrupt guy
Vim tells you how to quit when you press ctrl-c. It even tells you how to quit the moment you launch it. The meme about how impossible it is to quit Vim is nonsense.
What whistleblowers go through would make anyone depressed. Often the goal is to destroy the person psychologically and destroy their credibility.

Often, this is enough and they don’t even bother going through with the hit, because it turns out that even billionaires can’t “just hire a hit man.” Real life corporate hits tend to compromise people the person trusts, but whistleblowers are both sparing with their trust and usually poor, which makes it harder because there are fewer people to compromise.
I also read silently vastly faster than I can speak (~1100 vs 150 wpm), but I can as easily read slowly enough to speak what I'm reading fluently.

When I would hop on a call with these people and ask them to summarize what they thought my message said, they weren't close on that either, so I'm pretty sure these people actually were not reading fluently.
Looking at his ventures, I think he is after power and leverage.
Discussion (1075 points, 1 day ago, 447 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398952
> overestimating the relevance of minor bits of American (or historic) culture.

That’s a judgement you can’t make because by your own admission you’re unaware of the subtleties involved.

That’s the core issue. It’s not that you can’t know what’s happening it’s that you’re assuming you do know what’s happening even when you’re missing significant elements and then in a fit of circular reasoning assuming because you don’t know it must not be important.

Clues embedded in a murder mystery, signs that someone was cheating, implications of fraud, etc etc all depend on concrete details you simply gloss over.
I hate to break the hacker news guidelines but this does feel like hacker news is a lot like Reddit.
> It should be obvious that I love SCCS, it's a dramatically
better file format than a patch based one, you can get any version of
the file in constant time, authorship can be preserved across versions,
it's pretty brilliant and I consider myself blessed to be posting this
in response to SCCS's creator.

I have seen Larry make similar claims about the weave format vs. patch-based format many times, and he has also put git firmly in the "patch-based" camp, but I believe the only real effect to git not using a weave is increased time-complexity of "blame" operations.

1. Git has constant time access any version of a file as well; the --depth option to the pack algorithm places a constant (but configurable) upper bound on the number of deltas that will need to be applied whenever fetching a blob. Intuitively, it would seem to me that for files with extremely large numbers of changes, this could be faster than extracting the weave, potentially at reduced space efficiency.

2. Merges are separate from the commits that effect the change; the lm/clem example in TFA would work as expected on git. Merge commits will only show up in the annotation if there were conflicts.
Quasi related; how does one find out if your ISP is using CGNAT?

I'm rather lucky in that my ISP recently started offering IPv6 (and somehow my workstation appears to be using it by as the default), but none of the other PC's on my network do. (Win11 change perhaps?)
I would also most certainly have a dead man's switch releasing everything I know. I would have given it to an attorney along with a sworn deposition.
The affordability crisis is entirely a function of over regulation and NIMBYism. Supply and demand are economic laws and it turns out when you restrict supply and demand is held constant or increases, prices skyrocket.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/10/16/ne... says:

> it is not known whether the Oct 17 graffito referred to that day, or a day in the past or the future

The last option would explain it, potentially.
That is a fascinating idea that I'm surprised I haven't heard before. I guess implicitly it sort of happens when the money is spent on food or drinks.
There's also the output side: Perhaps outputs of generative AI should be ineligible for copyright.
If you look at the NHTSA's data[1], certain manufacturers have strangely low numbers of reports, and some manufacturers seem to be missing from the data entirely.

If you read the NHTSA's standing order[2], it says:

> Crashes that meet specified criteria must first be reported within one or five calendar days after the manufacturer or operator receives notice of the crash, and other ADS crashes must be reported on a monthly basis.

The phrase, "receives notice of the crash" is very important. I'm betting that most manufacturers have low report counts because only a few (like Waymo and Tesla) have instrumentation on their vehicles that automatically notify them when a crash has occurred and whether that crash involved self-driving software within the previous 30 seconds. Everyone else has to get notices via media reports, lawsuits, their own internal testing, etc. Even if a manufacturer has OnStar in their cars, it doesn't look like OnStar automatically reports the crash to the manufacturer, just emergency services and insurance companies. If they do, they'd also need to send info about the usage of any self-driving software before/during the crash.

The order seems well-intended, but it does have the side effect of discouraging companies from improving their data collection.

1. https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde... Look at the ADS and ADAS dashboards, and go to the "Reporting Entity" tab.

2. https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2023-04/Second-A...
> locals can no longer be used before declaration

There's a lot I like about Lua but it so happens that a few days ago I spent longer than I'd like to admit debugging a trivial typo for Advent of Code day 5 that would have been caught by this.

Wondering if Luon will also prohibit or at least warn about storing nil in a table.
A useless argument. If Elon does, in fact, have the legal authority to prevent OpenAI being for profit due to his initial investment (and these emails seem to indicate that the other founders think he does), then it doesn't matter if he wanted it then, only if he wants it now when the decision is being made. The fact that this is being presented to the public and not to the court is further evidence of its weakness.
I think their post boils down to: "This title implies someone would have a strong reason to murder them, but that isn't true."

We can evaluate that argument without caring too much about whether the writer intended it, or whether some other circumstances might have forced their word-choice.
Self-driving won't take over by just being available in the new cars people are buying anyway.

It'll take over when people find it cheaper to ride robotaxis than to own a vehicle at all. That's potentially a much quicker transition, requiring significantly fewer new vehicles.
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Elon now IS an unelected bureucrat with lots of power and few responsibilities. If he's really afraid of that kind of thing, he should throw himself out.
That's really interesting. Do you have any books or information about Michael O. Church for further reading? Wasn't he a HN user?
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I saw this hypothesis in another thread. Although interesting, I did wonder why a regular helicopter doing the same thing would not be sufficient.

I don’t now anything about such scans but that was my immediate rebuttal.

Like you, though, at least I find this explanation plausible.
To put it simply: there's only one solution for each 2d position, if you force the mid joint to always be on one side (and that preferred side can be allowed to switch, to minimize accelerations of the lower arm).
Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag
Access scales from being a one process all-in-one solution to multiple processes sharing the same database file and also to a separate ODBC-connected database engine with Access as a frontend. At least some 20 years ago, there was an assistant to automatically migrate an Access database to a split Access/SQL Server setup.

Looks like there are some additional configurations that MS actively supports: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ways-to-share-an-...

If I had to throw together a reasonably robust data entry form in a time crunch today and could connect to the DB engine via ODBC, I'd probably still use Access for that.
i'm assuming the supreme court will void this one too?
It's surprisingly small! In order to deliver enough light, I would have assume it would need to be maybe half the size of the area it needs to illuminate.

Would it ever make sense to build one for ones own home? I guess it must be far enough away for the light to spread out enough...
Matter of perspective, Ai tools value depends on your existing skill level and whether it only doing what you already can do and you can correct it very well.

However that kind of user in my experience is rare , vast majority are junior developers who do not understand the output well enough and now generate 5x of it that I have to review and they no longer make the effort to understand any foundational concept .

This is not new, the rise in popularity of StackOverflow created a class of developers who didn’t want to spend the time to learn properly reading the manual.

In itself reducing the skill level needed to be productive is not inherently bad, it was PhD in CS could only program in 70s and 80s. Each generation of tech and abstraction opened up software development to newer class of employees.

However the difference is the industry desperately needed expansion each time because PCs became popular or the desktop or mobile devices etc . There was enormous demand for new applications both personal and professional which couldn’t be satisfied with kind of volume CS research programs could fulfill.

There is no such transformation currently , there aren’t a new class of users or major applications coming up in a such high volume, that quality drop is compensated by quantity .

There is lot more need for higher quality products as software market is plateauing from the highs mobile adoption gave.
The highest tier has all these usage limits, which I feel make it inconvenient to rely on something like this. Is there no tier with unlimited use?
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> regularly post public video attesting to you current mental state

Yes, indeed, that would attest to your mental state!
40 hours a week is less than they ask of factory workers? Yeesh. Even with fancy robots etc they can't make it work on an 8 hour shift?
Wasn't that the idea behind SQL, then Excel, then no-code tools, etc. The second abstraction makes a previously complicated process simple the scope of expectations goes up.
I feel like myself and a few others, some cash, some materials, a bit of legal immunity, could easily have a working solution to capture a few of these for analysis.
Hey you're right, moving my head and less my eyes is way faster
Check the IP that your router receives on its WAN interface and compare it to the IP printed by internet services like Google (search for "what is my ip" and there'll be a special card among the results) or https://ipinfo.io/ip . If they're not the same (because your router's IP is a private IP like 192.168.#.# or 10.#.#.#) then your router is being NAT'd.
> What's your idea, specifically?

This is the problem. Lots of arm-chair protocol engineers claim it'd be easy if 'They did X'. Of course, these immediately fall apart under the barest of scrutiny but they keep coming up.

Here is your challenge. Create a way to add this address space extension in a way that doesn't break backwards compatibility. Remember, you need to be specific how you would add the change and how it would keep backwards compatibility.
I know Elon fucked Brin's wife and is currently fighting with Altman over the OpenAI fortune, but is there actually any broader beef there?
VTOL VR

Down the Rabbit Hole

Trover Saves the Universe (mostly because I'm a Rick & Morty fan)
And those cases could definitely be audited, but that will be a limited and biased sample.
I'm not particularly surprised: they planned 5 missions, all short in time and distance. Since every gram has to be accounted for (how many grams of fuel to a gram of sensor to Mars?), my guess is they equipped it with the bare minimum sensor package for the 5, and hoped maybe to get a few more missions in.

My speculation is that the next one will have a host of sensors, given how much more likely double digit missions of greater length now seems.
They've done it before at the request of a corporation. What has changed that they wouldn't do it now?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
> At the point that we have an AI that's capable of every task that say a 110 IQ human is, including manipulating objects in the physical world, then basically everyone is unemployed unless they're cheaper than the AI.

Until a problem space is "solved", you will still need AIs that are more capable than those with 110 IQ to review the other AIs work. All evidence points to "mistakes will be made" with any AI system I have used and any human I have worked with.
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]
The most reliable way is to compare your ISP-assigned address to the response from any one of a number of services that return the caller's IP address (e.g., https://checkip.amazonaws.com/).
What I see is tech billionaires muscling out the traditional MIC for Pentagon billions.
Quit trying to score cheap points with low-effort snark. This is an article about research funding, not symphonies or art or orphanages, and my comment above was obviously intended in that context. If we have to qualify every comment to prevent possible misinterpretation then the discussions become really tedious.
Ooh, that's an interesting idea. I only have one device where I would ever want to switch to listening to my book, but a couple others where I would like to read it.
The military has all sorts of cool techniques to find things without using drones, which makes me wonder if it's a private party conducting a search. Or is this in order to make it deniable for the military - not _looking_ like a military op
Q.js
I have a really hard time understanding why people like 0 based indexes.
They are a relic of C style arrays that are based on and interchangeable with pointers which use offsets that are naturally 0 based.
Use in later languages gives us endless off-by-1 issues and rise to "for 0 to count/len/num - 1" or even better range syntax that is start inclusive BUT end exclusive.
It is a horrible cludge just to support 1970s language perfomace optimization.
Arrays should start and end at whatever start index is required, not at offset 0 of pointer to fist element of array.
Agreed. This is a good time to revisit an Intercept investigation from last year that explored another suspicious suicide by a tech titan whistleblower:

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/
Assuming we get to your level of value prop. It will still only be a choice for new first time buyers

If I already own a car, for which am paying an emi and no hope of selling for good value (because market is dropping as newest buyers disappear) it won’t make economic sense for me till I generate LTV from the car to switch over .

Either way it till take 1-2 decades after ubiquitous L5 availability, even if that was possible at all and soon
There's certainly a customer segment such as yourself who is both:

1. Extroverted(likes meeting new people for the sake of it)

2. Is willing to devote time to this format.

I assume small, but it's there.

You have 2 options:

1. Accept those constraints, find a few more of those type of people, and really focus on exactly what sort of product they want.

2. Try to loosen those constraints. For example, reduce the anxiety of a meet up somehow. Or pick mechanics that make it easier to arrange a meetup (maybe you reduce the scheduling overhead by building an immediate-match Omegle-style product)

Good luck! Would love to see this succeed!
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
It would be cool to do this with Project Gutenberg and LibriVox files, since they're all public domain works anyway.

The entire Great Books of Western Civilization are on both, and I know I'd make more progress on reading it if I could hand off between reading and listening more easily!
My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash
Liked the reference to uOTA - OTA updater for MicroPython

https://github.com/mkomon/uota
Ok, I emailed you.
You are quite correct that Substack will favor the popular, not the best. But universities will favor what is popular too. Just popular with the different audience who controls university budgets instead of the general public. And how can governments do any better? The way they are held accountable is an election, or in other words a popularity contest.
737 MAX had nothing to do with replaceable engines, but with trying to run an ancient airframe with new engines but without necessary upgrades to support the new engines because of costs.
From Brockman's email:

"Our biggest tool is the moral high ground. To retain this, we must:
Try our best to remain a non-profit. AI is going to shake up the fabric of society, and our fiduciary duty should be to humanity."

Well, reading this in 2024 with (so-called) "Open"AI going for-profit, it aged like milk.

Also a few lines later, he writes:

"We don’t encourage paper writing, and so paper acceptance isn’t a measure we optimize."

So much for openness and moral high ground!

This whole thread is a masterpiece in dishonesty, hypocrisy and narcissistic power plays for any wannabe villains.

It's amusing to see they keep their masks on even in internal communications though. I'd have thought the messiah complex and benevolence parade is only for the public, but I was wrong.
I'm not sure how implementing a system like Germany or Japan wouldn't impact those things at all. Why aren't Germany or Japan equal to the USA in 5-year cancer survival rates? Their systems optimize for different priorities, and those involve trade-offs.

So no, it obviously doesn't go without saying. If we want to cut overall health system costs or improve access then we might have to accept some reduction in service quality, at least for the most expensive stuff.
Albedo
lol it’s funny coming in here and seeing the HN echo chamber where AI never gets better and is just a fad. They will insist AI is useless even as it begins automating entire industries and surpassing humans in every benchmark. Claiming there’s no product market fit when ChatGPT has 200m users and companies are saving billions replacing workers with GenAI is laughable.

What keeps people from accepting this new reality? Is it ego, a fear of irrelevance due to AI inevitably eclipsing them in their most prized aptitudes?
Yeah I was toying around with that, too… but folks often mess around with metadata in tools like Calibre and Audiobookshelf in ways that wouldn’t have an impact on Storyteller’s sync, but would change their hash. On the other hand, I don’t know how various publishers handle EPUB dc:identifiers and that may not be robust enough, either. We could try doing something like hashing only the contents of spine items (including their file names, since that’s how media overlays refer to content)
https://www.deadmansswitch.net is one.
The point is not that they are snakeoil and have zero value . Every one of these things have some value in some area of applications.

However the hype cycle just as now in AI claimed it will change everything, not hey here is interesting new thing and it is going be used in select applications . Nobody is investing billions and billions on that pitch
That legal exemption was made possible by a law passed in 2005 which, at the time, was completely non-controversial. It's only after vaccines have become politicized that it suddenly became problematic for the government to take steps to protect its citizen's lives.
Neither does Anthropic/Claude.
They 100% should be put in jail, if fines are the only deterrant then they just become cost-of-business and dont deter anything at all.
I use deadmansswitch.net - it sends you an email to verify that you are still alive, but you can also use a Telegram bot. In this case I have it set to send a passphrase to an encrypted file with all of my information to trusted individuals.
what kind of adjustment and who are adjusters?
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I mean, I think probably yes, and likely that society would be better off if people agreed with me but I understand that my view is significantly outside the norm. I will happily agree that for practical reasons we can agree on some limits, however I think we should still err on the side of transparency in these situations.

How do you feel about the weaker claim that footage of all police action in public spaces should be available and searchable?
I am cautiously optimistic about what Elon Musk is attempting with DOGE. But half my friends are convinced he will fail and that his legacy won't be Tesla or sending rockets to Mars but failing to reform the government. The other half think two trillion is too small a target.

I think two trillion is way too high a target but I am pretty certain they will achieve meaningful cuts that will make our government more nimble and faster. I just wished that Trump had not promised they wouldn't be allowed to touch social security or Medicare and Medicaid. I think there are hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicare and Medicaid fraud that could be rooted out in two and a half years. But I do plead guilty to being an optimist.
A doppler shifted reflection requires a feature, significant in size to the wavelength, to reflect off of, somewhat perpendicular to the direction of movement. For RADAR, I don't think a smooth sand field would have such a thing. Doppler LIDAR could probably detect it, but I naively assume lidar is hard in dusty environments, without oodles of large moving optics required to penetrate a dusty, optically clear, window.
No. That's not how currency works when you're the issuer.

Thinking that way is already baking yourself into Murray Rothbard.
Why would they advertise their ai product by pointing out that the thing it’s meant to replace isn’t most of the job?
I don’t think that’s worth worrying about. No amount of worry will extend the life of the SSD. But you can backup your files to cloud storage or an external drive so if the SSD does wear out you don’t lose anything important.
Resonates me a lot, I am a decade older though. From my POV it looks like we were overgrown kids but now just getting old.
They most certainly are. Their continued survival requires keeping revenue at or above expenses just like any other business. They have employees. They have customers. They sell merch. They have professional sports teams (which don't pay their players). They even own hedge funds (which don't have to pay taxes).
Several states banned expiring gift cards.

The gift card companies put up signs saying "never expires!" as advertisements in those states.

Ethics aren't exactly abundant with this stuff.
It seems to require an existing accnt just to get in
Childbirth can be natural or cesarean. The latter is functionally akin to a major abdominal surgery. Pain meds are normal after that.
I've used Thuraya in a region of the world not far from there as well. Globalstar, Iridium, Inmarsat were all available at the time as well.
Only 1 of the 6 board members are still at OAI.
So dystopian.