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jp42··on Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants
I am not saying Intel needs to cut 80% like twitter, what I am trying to say that Intel can cut a lot without any impact.
jp42··on Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants
Intel can save a lot of money by getting rid of incompetent folks in higher management, closing a lot of projects/teams that do not add value, a lot of middle management, simplifying processes that slow down the teams that are actually doing job, changing culture where working 10hr/wk is not tolerated. They need to do some variation of what Elon did to twitter. I have seen many of these things first hand.
jp42··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
+1 chatgpt or simialr tools are extremely useful, if you ask the right questions. I use for: - code completion - formatting: e.g show it sample format & dump unstructured data to convert to target format. - debugging - stackoverflow type stuff - achieving small specific tasks: what is linux command for XYZ etc and many mentioned in above comment.
jp42··on What Extropic is building
honestly, it would be too early to say this. Considering the people who invested in this startup, its better to assume CEO is capable. If he is not able to deliver in reasonable timeline then, we all are free to blame him for posting things on SM. actually many knows his company because he is goofing around on SM especially e/acc stuff.
jp42··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Well, they didn't addressed extent of Microsoft's control over OpenAI.
jp42··on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
I lived in small village in India. When I was a kid (6+ yo) the only time I was at home is to eat & sleep. Parents were not watching us at all. Me and my friends used to go wherever we want to go miles away from village & somehow used to come back by lunch time or dinner time. I miss those days.
jp42··on Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
Personally I think if bot can get things done, then I wont mind. I just hope these bot don't repeat same things and don't get something done
jp42··on I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
If someone non programmer cab build useful things using chatgpt or similar tools. Its not too bad to call them programmer.
jp42··on British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
Recently read The Making of Atomic Bomb & Skunkworks. Govt puts enormous amount of money & employees best people in given area to achieve their objectives. It's hard for me to imagine govt will be ok to have tech that they can't crack, they will find a way to crack. I am not saying we should be OK with it, but I don't see a path to make it happen. It can be made difficult with E2E and other tech but not impossible.
jp42··on Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI
The article is behind paywall. Anyone care to give link without paywall?
jp42··on Receiving weather satellite images using SatDump
any recommendation for tutorial to build receiver for to get live satellite data?
jp42··on US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil
What's you thoughts on Canada harboring Khalistani separatist and not acting since years? Same with US - Pannun is US Citizen, also designated terrorist, openly threatening to blow Air India plane.
jp42··on GitHub 404 errors
GitHub enterprise seems to be working perfectly fine.
jp42··on How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
Wonder what kind of experiments CIA is doing now that will be revealed in after 50+ years from now.
jp42··on Space Force chief says commercial satellites may need defending
Is there any literature on what kind of attacked are possible apart from ASAT & cyberattack on satellite?
jp42··on Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
I absolutely agree that they should immediately release data & images for more technically inclined section. However the reason for speeches is entire nation is watching this event across all age group, most of them don't understand technical things, I would say even image of moon surface wont connect to most of them. Basically speeches is the way to connect & artists impression images. To give some example, people thing entire rocket goes to moon, one of the politician was wishing "passengers" on the spacecraft, reputed news channel claiming "breaking new" that there wont be delay in landing as if we can push breaks like in car or traffic on the way. So you get the point, to connect to masses they are speaking in language that everyone understand
jp42··on Our response to Elon Musk and X Corp’s lawsuit against CCDH
I don't understand why I am being downvoted? I am just trying to understand what's going on & both side of the story.
jp42··on Our response to Elon Musk and X Corp’s lawsuit against CCDH
why don't CCDH publish its research? its methodology, results and how they come to conclusion? Let the public decide.

Can someone care to explain what there is lawsuit, where is the Elon's contention?

jp42··on Quick thoughts on research
It is excellent advice. The advice is not specific for research, but general enough to apply to almost any type of work.
jp42··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
I cannot confirm or deny whether this comment is psy-op.
jp42··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
personal experience - I'm using GPT4 for writing code especially in python. After using bard today, I feel bard is doing quite well considering its free. I will keep using it and if its keep doing well, I will cancel GPT4 $20/month subscription.
jp42··on James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail
If JWST can do these amazing discoveries and detailed images, I wonder what kind of discoveries we make when starship can launch way bigger telescope than JWST. Future is Awesome!
jp42··on Dominion Voting Systems and Fox reach last-minute settlement
Election commission of India conducts elections really well, given the scale of 800M+ voter. despite of isolated incidents booth capturing in remote or ungovernable areas, overall results reflects the mood of public. It super super hard to manipulated system at scale.

roughly the way it works is - there is standalone electronic voting machine (EVM). it is NOT connected to network at all. for each vote, a receipt gets printed and vote puts that receipt in ballot box. the EVM count is used to aggregate over vote count. it speeds up counting process. Some percentage of randomly selected voting machines vote counts and corresponding printed vote ballot is cross verified.

During the whole process, a representatives from all the parties are present in all election activity

jp42··on Pentagon leak leads to limits on who gets access to military’s top secrets
Leaks can be intentional to misguide enemies. Wondering how to identify this one is legit or intentional leak?
jp42··on Tesla Market Cap falls below $500B
I agree that Tesla has been overpriced. but comparing Tesla with other Auto makes is not apples to apples comparison. In addition to automake Tesla is in business of battery, AI, solar panel etc business, they are vertically integrated and I would say that why they are far ahead of other automakers and hence market cap bigger than other auto makers.
jp42··on Ask HN: How do I start feeling secure financially as a tech worker?
I review my transactions on regular basis (once a month), using apps like mint or similar to see trends in each category, it takes 5mins. But I catch a lot of delayed payments, insurance companies increase payment, recurring payments that you wanted to cancel but did not, extra charges that you didn not recognize and so on..

These number catch up, simple review transaction is saves a ton of money.

jp42··on Ask HN: How Many Left working/employed at Twitter?
few things I can see from where this is coming from. 1. He wants people out if they don't want to work long hours. from experience I can tell, one negative person can slow team down 2. With so many layoffs, he is not worried about incoming talent 3. he always worked like that so he doesn't care what other people think & how other companies are ran. I don't like, he wont stop anyone.
jp42··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
I'm sure there must be advance techniques to catch leakers...spaces and characters is quite old, though it still works if one is not careful.
jp42··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
Current Prime Minister of India is from 'Other Backward Class' and and President is women from tribal community.
jp42··on GitHub Actions Pitfalls
I use gh workflow cli. it works without pushing workflow to default branch. https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_workflow_run
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