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sesuttonon OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

Ilya posted this on Twitter:

"I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

sesuttonon Serde has started shipping precompiled binaries with no way to opt out

Judging by the response I've seen the only thing he's lighting on fire is all the trust he's built up.

sesuttonon OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist

They don't. Not anymore anyway. Any sexual content gets filtered and sent to AI Dungeon's own model.

sesuttonon Scientists create their own GPS by spying on internet satellites

Iridium already offers a positioning service with its satellites.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YE1HZ

sesuttonon Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border

He was in Fiji.

sesuttonon How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?

Interestingly Go will give you a negative 0 if you use strconv.ParseFloat("-0.0", 64) but I can't see any way to get -0.0 from a number literal.

sesuttonon When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?

I'm kind of impressed at the mental gymnastics needed to make journalists wanting to hear what powerful people are talking about in a semi-public place into the stasi.

sesuttonon Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval

According one of their videos[1] by the time the water has boiled away the reactor will be cool enough that it can be air cooled.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--FAVoAQvk

sesuttonon Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

So this is just a very roundabout way of subsidizing Australian news media without having to call it that.

sesuttonon U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients

Presumably he means they would've happened in the same time period otherwise it's a meaningless statement. On a long enough timescale everyone who died of Covid would've died anyway.

sesuttonon Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)

Doesn't the KRACK vulnerability undermine the idea that formally verified equals perfectly secure?

sesuttonon Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY

New York state has been increasing testing pretty rapidly. A few days ago they were at 10,000 a day.

sesuttonon Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms

They'll just stop distributing versions through the Mac App store and the Mac App store will become even more irrelevant.

sesuttonon Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

I'm fairly certain it was World of Warcraft. Also my AT&T router's UI does this, which probably explains why it's so slow.

sesuttonon Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU

As far as I can tell the only logical reason is political. It would be far less popular to force news organizations, which might be influential and local, to delete data than forcing an unpopular foreign corporation to do it.

sesuttonon Memory Makers Plan to Cut NAND Flash Production

>The "getting together" is entirely your own supposition.

A not unreasonable one considering two of the three (Hynix and Micron) are convicted price fixers.

sesuttonon Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

VISA should at least be capitalized like in the original title.

sesuttonon Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville

I think people here in Raleigh would hardly notice if Google Fiber pulled out. They only ever offered it in a very small area and AT&T has been offering gigabit to to large parts of the area for several years now.

sesuttonon Canada grounds Boeing 737 Max 8

I don't think it would be so bad if aviation regulators did jump to conclusions by erring on the side of safety.

sesuttonon Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

Unless they changed it very recently you can still sign up completely online or have them mail you a PIN. They do still mail you a PIN no matter what so you can at least deactivate it if you didn't set it up.

sesuttonon Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs

It managed to get picked up by mainstream outlets like the BBC.

sesuttonon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Case in point, I was getting NXDOMAIN for mailarchive.ietf.org until I switched to 8.8.8.8 from my work's DNS.

sesuttonon High-speed rail in California was a disaster, but there’s a better way

Those recommendations are ridiculous. It depends on the airport but for my home airport I only budget 45 minutes and usually only need 15.

sesuttonon In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades

The section on Lisa Randall seemed unnecessarily personal as well.

sesuttonon Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay

>I don’t care how cheap the policy is, I’m assuming they’re charging more than they payout on average.

How would an insurance company stay in business if it were any other way?

sesuttonon Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it

>/new is mostly just TechCrunch articles and things like that

Those are all copyright-protected works. Literally everything of any substance is automatically copyrighted.

sesuttonon 9cc: A Small C Compiler

Clang (tested with v7) however does issue a warning even with no flags set.

sesuttonon U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves Are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service

I just signed up and 2 out of the 4 questions could easily have been looked up on Zillow and they're all multiple choice with 4 options. The 2 questions were the year my house was built and the original sale price.

So anyone would've had a 1/16 chance of just guessing it right.

sesuttonon MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable

>Copyleft is one thing, but this is so invasive and byzantine that it beggars belief that anybody actually thought this license made sense.

It makes complete sense if its purpose is to be so onerous that no one can actually use it without a commercial license.