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"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…

"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 a…

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 p…

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…

"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…

The lidars used on self-driving vehicles are far more capable and far more expensive.

"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 …

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…

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.

"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…

It seems kind of inevitable that we will discover that Chinese intelligence agencies have been spying on millions of people's homes, businesses, and government offices. Their gover…

> 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 sy…

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 the…

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 …

Still seems like Elevenlabs is crushing them on realtime audio, or does this change things?

Okay this looks pretty good. Also just found https://github.com/amasad/jfk_files although it's only 1000 files or so.

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.

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…

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 b…