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by theoryofx 1y ago
"We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from..." [CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN CALIFORNIA AND DELAWARE] This indicates that they didn't actually want the nonprofit to retain cont
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by theoryofx 1y ago
"It's an industry standard because other compensation methods for salespeople that pay them like all the other non-salespeople don't work ..." [citation needed] I think it's more accurate to say that it's an in
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Sales people that don't sell just get fired, that's the thing about being such a quantifiable role. So in practice at a startup with a hot product you end up with a team of sales people receiving huge amounts of cash comp. Everyon
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Yeah no doubt you have to have performance based compensation but that's exactly what equity and bonuses are for everyone else. Sales people are special in getting large amounts of cash comp in addition to equity.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
"this is in keeping with the way enterprise sales is done more or less everywhere..." For non-sales roles you're doing things very differently than (most) everywhere else, which is why it seems like a compromise to give in t
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by theoryofx 1y ago
The lidars used on self-driving vehicles are far more capable and far more expensive.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
"The updates often come from US based FTP servers." Almost never FTP and it's not a significant difference if the Chinese company uploads it to S3 and the device downloads it from there.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
One thing that I appreciate about dang, and PG before him, is their intellectual honesty and strong sense of ethics. On the face of it, HN should be terrible. It's a forum owned an investment firm as promotion for their business. But b
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by theoryofx 1y ago
The massive problem as I see is that Chinese intelligence has the incentive and capability to do this and yet no one seems to be doing anything about it.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
"these exploits that need a human in the loop to deploy -- I'd be more worried about who you let near your electronics " These devices are flashed in factories in China and receive firmware updates over the air from China. Th
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Ask HN: Probability that Chinese intelligence backdoors consumer electronics?
5 points by theoryofx 1y ago|7 comments
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by theoryofx 1y ago
> First implementation used an SQLite database (with WAL log) – only to find it corrupted after just couple of days of extensive power on/off cycles. Did you try setting `PRAGMA synchronous=FULL` on your connection? This forces fs
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by theoryofx 1y ago
He knew the system well and seemed to do enough local testing to avoid major breakage but still. Why have a bunch of rules and policies that you do not follow yourself? Because these rules and policies are for people that are judged to ne
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by theoryofx 1y ago
I do not have any affiliation with Elevenlabs or OpenAI except as a user of their APIs. I'd actually prefer it if OpenAI had a better realtime product than Elevenlabs because it'd be more convenient.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Still seems like Elevenlabs is crushing them on realtime audio, or does this change things?
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Okay this looks pretty good. Also just found https://github.com/amasad/jfk_files although it's only 1000 files or so.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Is this "conclusion" based a single social media post? I'd expect that at the very least this release includes fewer redactions. But I have yet to see anyone do the analysis.
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by theoryofx 1y ago
I've tested Gemini 2.0 Flash on a bunch of the JFK Files PDFs and it's excellent. Even with extremely blurry typewriter scans that are difficult for me to decipher. It's incredible. I'm sure there's cases where it w
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by theoryofx 1y ago
Yeah, I expect it'd mostly be useful for OCR and search. These are hard to read PDF files and there's a lot of them. I found a few projects related to using AI with The JFK Files but they all seem old or uninteresting. Which is wh
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Ask HN: Is anyone with AI expertise analyzing JFK files?
16 points by theoryofx 1y ago|11 comments
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by theoryofx 2y ago
You've got to work on something where there's an immediate distribution channel and customers. Don't work on anything so speculative as this, where you're just hoping there will be someone who wants it. You have to know
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by theoryofx 2y ago
Really is. Seems like they lost their nerve. Their credibility is in the toilet now. Clearly not good faith actors. Which is a shame because seems like there's a real opportunity to really shake things up with an open voice model that&
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by theoryofx 2y ago
This is the logical conclusion of companies with undifferentiated crapware products that compete using aggressive sales teams. Sales driven companies are all corrupt and corrupting. This kind of espionage is common, as is outright bribery o
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by theoryofx 2y ago
Yes, Caesar was an invader. But it's important to understand that all of Gaul was tribal. The was no unified country. These tribes were invading each other's land constantly to loot, rape, kill, take hostages, enslave, and extract
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by theoryofx 2y ago
> He fought it against the wishes of the senate. This is factually incorrect. He was a proconsul in command, fully authorized by the Senate. You're probably referring to the fact that some of his political opponents in the Senate tr
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by theoryofx 2y ago
Pointing out a legitimate double standard is not "whataboutism" in the least. Either you have principles that apply equally or you do not. China sterilizing and and enslaving a million Uyghurs isn't bad enough to warrant your
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by theoryofx 2y ago
"About a million dead and a million enslaved might disagree" You might be very surprised at how differently ancient people viewed the world compared to yourself. Sure, no one wants to be killed or enslaved but the societies of the
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by theoryofx 2y ago
What bothers me about this is not injecting an opinion (it's TechCrunch) but the superficial and ignorant take. Julius Caesar was not just some "violent dictator" like a Hitler, Stalin, or Putin. He wasn't sending people
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Ask HN: Why are there no realtime open weights voice models like Elevenlabs?
1 points by theoryofx 2y ago|0 comments
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by theoryofx 2y ago
Neither of these points contradict the fact that Americans very broadly support Israel and are opposed to Putin and Russia. Of course there are varying degrees of support on any specific issue. Yes, the UN has attempted many more resolution

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