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DriverDaily··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Who sacks the person who sacks?
DriverDaily··on Sam Bankman-Fried testifies, says he "skimmed over" FTX terms of service
> he's naive enough that he thinks that will work in court under the eye of the whole media

I mean his publicity tour immediately after FTX went under worked pretty well for a while. He got Kevin O’ Leary to blame CZ in front of congress. And Michael Lewis painted a pretty positive picture. He talked to everyone he could and the vast majority of the media were not sure if he did or did not commit a crime.

All he has to do is convince the jury to have a reasonable doubt.

DriverDaily··on Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification
Getting electricity out of hydrogen works the same way as getting electricity out of all the sources you mentioned, except your generator now produces zero emissions.
DriverDaily··on Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification
Anybody who needs to run 24/7 and/or can't count on an electric grid could use hydrogen power: A logistics network, an army, public transportation, utility companies, forestry or mining...
DriverDaily··on Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)
Bias as in training? Photographers are trained to pick the most interesting subjects, perspectives, and moments.

Waves like this have a clear peak when they stop rising, but before they fall, so there is a natural moment to click the shutter.

DriverDaily··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
I see, I misunderstood
DriverDaily··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
Wouldn't infinitely spawning web workers do the same thing as a zip bomb?

```

<script>

   const workerBlob = new Blob(['

        while (true) { console.log("this is a worker that will never stop") }

    '], { type: 'application/javascript' })

   const workerBlobURL = URL.createObjectURL(workerBlob)

   while (true) { new Worker(workerBlobURL) }
</script>

```

DriverDaily··on Show HN: Host a Website in the URL
Plenty of room for a recursive function with no base case
DriverDaily··on What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?
I’m only familiar with people claiming AI may one day automate some of their tasks, not that it’s currently ready to replace them.
DriverDaily··on Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
Also, looks harder to mow the lawn.
DriverDaily··on Launch HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys
You want a 90/10: 90% of the benefit, 10% of the effort.

This is like a 10/10.

DriverDaily··on Young people are flocking to astrology
I was repsonding to this

> It's notable that MBTI is fairly correlated with the FFM

Sounds like we agree this statement is false

DriverDaily··on Young people are flocking to astrology
Few of those r-values are actually notable

> To further examine the universality of the Five-Factor Model, they examined how the MBTI dimensional raw scores related to the FFM/Big5 scores. They showed that FFM-Extroversion was highly correlated to MBTI-Introversion (r = -.74), FFM-Neuroticism was weakly correlated to MBTI-Introversion (r = .16), FFM-Openness was correlated to MBTI-Intuition (r = .72), and to MBTI-Perception (r = .30), FFM-Agreeableness was correlated to MBTI-Feeling (r = .44), FFM-Contentiousness correlated to MBTI-Perception (r = .49).

DriverDaily··on Young people are flocking to astrology
Each letter is binary, whereas personality is not.

If someone is barely extroverted you’re assigning them a full E anyways. That’s a poor predictor.

DriverDaily··on Young people are flocking to astrology
As far as I know the Five Factor Model is a far more scientific measure than MBTI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

- Repeatability

- Not based on Jungian pseudoscience

- Peer acceptance

DriverDaily··on Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
Yes, and that’s because they’re focused on quantity over quality. And if that’s your strategy, you can do it with AI.
DriverDaily··on Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
They’re stuffed with content, but much of the content is of poor quality. The good stuff everyone has seen, and you can attract new viewers with a new show that is good.
DriverDaily··on The English Programming Language
Leave two English programs running in isolation for a few centuries and suddenly you need a translation layer…
DriverDaily··on Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Are “destroy the purity of my idea” and “destroy the company” the same?
DriverDaily··on What It Takes to Convert a Multi-Million Dollar Office into Housing
I lived in the Arcade in Providence, RI for a year. It was the USA’s first enclosed mall. The second and third floors were converted to tiny apartments.

https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/micro-loft...

Not only was it the cheapest place I ever lived, it was the most enjoyable.

You can try to contact the architects https://ncarchitects.com/

DriverDaily··on Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months
Let’s not forget Tesla dropped prices like mad to make these sales.

The Model Y Performance was $69,990 last year and now costs $54,490.

DriverDaily··on Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
Aluminum has its own problems leeching into acidic foods.
DriverDaily··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
> No new laws are needed.

So the laws worked just fine, they just need to be enforced better? That’s exactly what a lack of political will looks like.

DriverDaily··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
If you want to be proactive about problems you need the political will to create and enforce rules. But nobody votes for rules that make people’s lives worse now, but future generations lives better. You can’t just blame rich people for that.

The political will didn’t exist for pfas back then, and it doesn’t exist for things like water scarcity, or antibiotic resistance, or e-waste today.

DriverDaily··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
It’s hard to blame it all on one class.

Littering was a social norm when these chemicals were invented. Even today, most Americans eat meat from factory farms, drive gas powered cars, and throw most trash in a landfill. Problems that will have to eventually be fixed.

If you’re born into this kind of society are you going to handicap yourself by holding yourself to a stricter set of rules than everyone else? The ‘yes’ and ‘no’s to that question don’t fall neatly into class lines.

DriverDaily··on Scan iPhone backups for traces of compromise by “Operation Triangulation”
You want me to double your budget so you can get the same amount of work done?
DriverDaily··on Launch HN: Bloop (YC S21) – Code Search with GPT-4
Well, one week after the API launch everyone's moat will be low.

It will be interesting to see how fast these tools grow, and how they can add value beyond a purposeful UI.

DriverDaily··on Big data is dead
COVID was proof The Right Data is better than Big Data. All those data sources to measure how many sick people we have and it turns out we just need one: Wastewater.
DriverDaily··on Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
My anecdata, I have been running 4x 500GB Samsung 850 EVOs in Raid 0 continuously without failures since early 2015.
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