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capableweb··on Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that Grafana being used in the boat dashboard? At least some of the widgets seems to either be very Grafana inspired, or straight up pulled from the Grafana UI.

Probably the last place I'd expect that memory-hungry and CPU-inefficient UI to appear.

capableweb··on Vore: A minimal, no-bullshit web-based RSS/atom feed reader
I bet most people who don't frequent tumblr/reddit et al don't have the slightest idea of what "vore" is. The internet is pretty large, and humans are pretty clueless on average.
capableweb··on Data-Driven Development Is a Lie
Something like Fuckup Nights (https://en.fuckupnights.com/) but proper conference and with focus on software development, would be really interesting.
capableweb··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
> What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

Well, we don't know.

What we do know, is that the "coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman" is a rumor and speculation about a thing we don't know anything about.

capableweb··on OpenAI Boardroom Battle: Safety First
Huh? We technically know how to airgap something already. You wanna be absolutely sure? Build a bunker underground, make the power and all utilities independent, allow nothing connected in there, and there you go. Do we technically know how to solve aging and cancer already?
capableweb··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
If anything, the examples in that tweet shows the opposite. GitHub and Mojang both done lots of things that wouldn't happen if they weren't now Microsoft, especially GitHub which is only "GitHub" by name at this point, none of the original spirit is still there.
capableweb··on Why I tend not to use content negotiation
Depends. Including it in the location part of the URL could make it harder to understand if you have multiple parameters, instead of just one. Using query parameters makes it very explicit, which can be good or bad depending on your use case, while sticking it into the URL makes it implicit.

Together with that, you can also go for putting it in the `hash` part of the URL, if you want to keep it a secret from the server, as the server doesn't receive those parts, `/fred/#format=md`. In this case, it doesn't make much sense, but useful to know for other things, like keys and whatnot.

capableweb··on OpenAI Boardroom Battle: Safety First
Properly and absolutely airgapped should do it. Internet is the big vector that can't be closed once exploited.
capableweb··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
Did you figure out the motives behind Bitcoin too while doing your research?
capableweb··on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
Just because you're storing the time in UTC doesnt mean you can't also store the timezone, and lots of other related data too.
capableweb··on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
Can be adjust client-side, or wherever you need to present it, rather than adjusting stored data.
capableweb··on SheepIt Render Farm
You can just send a job with the specific frame you want to preview, get the results back and once you're happy, send the entire render job.
capableweb··on SheepIt Render Farm
Not for training, but execution in a SheepIt-similar way can be done with AI Horde, which not only does LLM inference but also Stable Diffusion. https://stablehorde.net/
capableweb··on Meta disables Jill Stein's Instagram account
> It’s a political vision of the future where the other ethnicity simply cease to exists

Hasn't Likud had/has an official policy of "between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"? If at the beginning, it was mostly Arab residents in the areas where there is now mostly Israelis, doesn't that count as trying to eliminate another ethnicity, from those particular areas?

The political policy of Likud has resulted in multiple massacres, across a long period of time. Even if you wouldn't call it genocide personally, is it valuable to persecute people who would call it a genocide?

capableweb··on Meta disables Jill Stein's Instagram account
Is it forbidden to remind people that Israel has repeatedly massacred Arabs, because they're Arabs? Is it also forbidden to talk about Arabs have done the same to Jews? Is it forbidden if you mention one but not the other?
capableweb··on Greg (2017)
> The profit focus being wrong seems so weird to me.

It is a non-profit after all, who owns a for-profit company. I'm just trying to imagine how the board sees it.

capableweb··on Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
> Incredible.

Incredibly dystopian. Since at least nine years ago, there hasn't a single place on the surface of the planet where you had any total and absolute privacy.

capableweb··on Greg (2017)
> 2. I hate OpenAI (or Sam Altman's?) apparently puritanical inclination to anything considered Not Safe For Work, especially for paid API usage. Why not allow people to build and sell virtual partner chat bots with explicit NSFW content?

I don't think that is either's fault, the US is just very puritan and a lot of it is because credit card companies and banks don't like it.

> it's easy to interpret this as purely in the self-interest of OpenAI shareholders

My guess is that this is probably what the board didn't like, Altman focused too much on profits in various ways.

capableweb··on Our structure
Normally, I'd say that probably they hold a lot of power in their agreements. But in this case? Sure, they've been providing hosting and resources, but I'm sure there are at least 5 other companies that could and would provide the same if they had the opportunity, just to be associated with OpenAI.
capableweb··on Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman – and What Happens Next in the AI World
> OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity

This outlines their mission.

> In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission

This acknowledges that they had to adjust the current structure in a attempt to in the future continue focusing harder on the mission.

> The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI

This tells us that the board is acting not with the goal of maximizing monetary profits.

> While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter

This tells us that the company in a traditional sense have been growing, but lately focus from the core mission has been lost, and they're aiming to regain the focus on their mission.

capableweb··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
That seems to work perfectly fine and the ideal submission link then, straight from the source and no login required.
capableweb··on Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman – and What Happens Next in the AI World
> It started with a rather cryptic and not very pleasant-sounding blog post from the company announcing a leadership transition. Here are the most revealing bits:

That doesn't seem to be the most revealing bits at all. Personally, the last part is what is the most revealing, as it reaffirms the boards commitment to the mission they initially declared:

> OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.

Between the lines, that paragraph is giving us the background to why the firing was necessary.

capableweb··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
Isn't it better that there is any feeds, than none? The Twitter/X link is not accessible for people outside the platform...
capableweb··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
But keyboard wise, it's just holding down shift vs not holding down shift when typing. The difference in real life between m and M is less than you think :)
capableweb··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
Maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg (NASASpaceflight) would be better, as it's accessible without any login-wall and doesn't require creating an account to view.
capableweb··on North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency
If had a bunch of badass hackers in my dictator-run country, and I want to try to exploit that fact for as long as possible, I'd probably make sure to give the impression that my country is so backwards we cannot even edit images correctly, so people give me the benefit of doubt.
capableweb··on North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency
Bitcoins aren't individual. You just have addresses with an associated sum, once two different addresses send 1 Bitcoin each to that address, those are equal and if you send 1 Bitcoin from the address who just received it, it's not one of Bitcoins that was received that got sent, it's just two values being updated at the same time (sender's amount decremented, receivers amount incremented).

What you can do, is blacklist specific addresses, and deny receiving/sending to anything that been "in contact" with that address. But you will for sure end up blocking more than you want with this approach, although that might not be a huge issue for the ones who are trying to block things.

capableweb··on North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency
Wouldn't it be enough that someone located not-in-the-US to do any sort of business with a person in the US, for the US government to now consider that part of their jurisdiction and get involved? Just one random example from Wikipedia, but there are a bunch more cases of the US acting "outside of their jurisdiction": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_Sky_Global

Similarly, I guess North Korea could look at things the same way.

capableweb··on North Korea making billions from stolen cryptocurrency
Viewed with another lens, North Korea has quickly become one of the biggest production penetration testers, with a focus on making the cryptocurrency industry safer by demonstrating how much security some exchanges are lacking. If these exchanges actually did their job and hired competent people, maybe they wouldn't frequently lose user's funds.

All for the cost of ~$US1.65 billion per year. I wonder if this would be cheaper or more expensive than a high-profile security consultancy covering the same surface area.

capableweb··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
> I'd like to see the actually open and free models trained on the hardware used to train OpenAI: then we'd see how much of a "software edge" OpenAI has.

It would seem like you're talking about what "software edge" OpenAI has in the future, when others have caught up, while parent is talking about the existing "software edge" OpenAI has today, which you seem to implicitly agree with, as you're talking about OpenAI maybe not having any edge in the future.

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