John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an 'illusion'
Large carbon capture has been solved and demonstrated using a technique called iron fertilization. Basically just dump iron sulphate into ocean to simulate large algae bloom (nature best carbon capturer). They will then die to sink to bottom of ocean or eaten as part of ocean food chain. It was so successful weather actually registered temporary cooling in one of the experiment. It scared the regional government (Canada if I recalled correctly - probably directed by USA) this can solve the global warming and swiftly banned it. Government loves carbon taxation. Solving carbon issue is never a consideration. Even Greta has been trained to not touch about the real solution iron fertilization to solve climate change. Everything else solution at this stage can be effectively smoke and mirror scam encourage by worldwide governments. You can talk to Putin about how much he wants Siberia thawed. USA and EU loves the carbon taxes. Anyone thinking governments wanted reverse carbon capture, I have plenty of climate change books to sell you.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers
Maybe his account is not true premium as tied to old GM account. I had a few months last year. Quite pleasant compare to usual "naked" YT. But nowhere as good as vanced and then revanced, UBO, VPN+Adguard, pi-hole, and tonnes of fake Google account created from all over the world and outsourced the passworded access to 3rd world to be abused so to confuse Google algorithm. Since using all these to thwart Google tracking and ads, I stopped YT premium after 3rd months as really no point I can do better than their premium service - and cheaper too. I thought premium frees up my time to tinker but they still track and occasionally ads do get thru.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Is it legal to mix cash in a jar? How is Bitcoin mixing any different?
The act of mixing or laundering isn't per se illegal. The issue is government couldn't track illegal activities generated funds used in that mixing. It is the same with encryption, it isnt wrong when you encrypt but government will hunt you down if you export that tech to others. They will also hunt you down if you dont modify you encryption tech to their liking quietly. Even court sided with government in every countries. If you mixing the money in jar with a bunch of crook, and refuse to cooperate with government, they will hunt you down. So the issue isnt really they can't do the mixing. They didnt want to cooperate with government. Hence what we see now is just normal government hunting. Macfee and Bobby Fischer had gone thru this and paid dearly for not cooperating with government - legal or not.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change
Microsoft own OpenAI equity. Technically he has the authority to do so. At this point he cant do Elon firing as they need to preserve the stock price. You can say in a way the existing board turn rogue and hold him hostage. Once this settle, you will see near 100% board changes. If this not happening, half the OpenAI staff will be gone before next year 4th of July. At that point, their equity will worth significantly less. The crux of OpenAI is not their chatgpt but gpu. They are like Apple and Amazon big enough to make their own gpu. Sam wants to secure gpu access by founding a 2nd NVIDIA. Even if not, they can still be kingmaker. Whoever gpu being used, you will see that stock price shoot up....yes if Intel Arc. The board members arent that smart and thought he try to circumvent them. It is basically ego power play. They never realize how powerful and influential Sam is. At this point it is too late for those board members. Expect them to get shunt by evety investors in SV. As for Quora....hahaha...pretty much another Evernote fate.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Likely being groom to take over Satya 10 years from now.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
He can poach away half the staff IMMEDIATELY. You cannot run a company with majority of your key personnels gone in a week. Then the remaining staff will be moving over within 3mths to a year. What OpenAI will be left in a year time will be back to square one, startup mode. Whatever tech they have now it will stay stagnant. Whatever tech Altman started in his new venture will be just slightly behind what OpenAI has. Within a year Altman will supercede it. He is that important. Think Steve Jobs to Apple but AI.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: I can't find a job. What do I do?
Get back to college. In coming recession around the corner 2024 to 2026 extremely likely. You go into college and get shielded. Study hard and score well. Get all the pro certs you can. Do master if possible. Specialize only on AI+Blockchain (using Java+Python+Rust+C). You will thank me later.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce
Microsoft owns near half of OpenAI. Meanwhile OpenAI staff pretty much consider Altman as their chieftain. If Altman return, the board has to resign. If Altman going out, near entire OpenAI staff (especially the key personnel) will follow Altman. Then board still has to resign because OpenAI collapse internally. So either way, the board has to resign...difference just when. Board did bad moves. Obviously a few factions developed likely jeoulous of Altman fame.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
These are likely just money laundering within government officials and military complex. None of it has been tested in real life war/battle. If you have seen how American-built decimated in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, you would take this write up just some grain of salt. I recalled in 80s we had some cool star war laser defense. It even made it into Sid Meier Civ game as irrelevant near end game SDI. Today we largely know that was just fake news cooked by Reagan. Nearly 1T usd spend every year got stalemate by Putin's full of corruptions 60B budget. Meanwhile Russia and China demonstrated their satellite killer programs recently. Even their hypersonic missiles scared American pacific carriers to park a few thousand miles away from Chinese shores. Ah, and that B21 raider...
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: Inflation Appears to Be Over
That is BS mantra by economist that failed as entrepreneurs. 1990 to 2010 American booms largely help by lower production prices from China. Your average laptops and computers from the 90s tend to drop prices bigly from $10K mac to somewhere around $2K. Let me know how bad Apple did. Let le know how worst off Americans during those low gas prices and cheap GPUs.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: What If Google Wasn't the Default?
Kagi and You.com are way better than Google. Searches are usually within 1 page result unlike Google these days peppered with so many ads that the thing I look for usually at page 10-20 range. The only downside is they are paid service. Google stickyness is because it is free using us as product just like Meta. If you forho it being free, Kagi and You.com are great alternative. DDG is also free but due to way it monetize, it lacks a lot of features to what Kagi and You provides.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video]
It is not really failed. It is more like a mathematical tools being forced to be the physic law. Think of it like Newton law without knowing relativity. You probably keep modifying to match the relativistic result. Instead of finding Einstein GR, that modified Newtonian equations grew into incredibly complex to match reality. Then declared it is so because it looks so nice and symmetrical instead of having actual physical result supporting it. Currently ST is so complex nothing in it can be proven and yet supporters declare it can "explain" all other theories/result. And each time it cant, they just up the dimension to show the math now corrected to match the physical result. It is no longer science at this point...and it is pity so many bright minds wasted their lives enhancing this branch of physics (or at this point more correct to say mathematics).
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video]
Actually I found that she has impressive concentration...playing games and explaining such a deep subject at the same time. You can think of it more of showing off her mental capacity. Nevertheless, I grow fond of her channel and don't mind of "shtick"-ism. If you can't concentrate just set to audio mode like podcast (assuming you use libretube or vanced/revanced) or just let the audio run while uou shwitch to another tab (probably have the UB refresh the filters to block the ads). I do patron these days and heavy UB.
John7149
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2 years ago
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on: LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land
China. They able to mass produce Boeing spare parts and also built their own planes cheaper at same or at least better quality to eat into Boeing market worldwide. Those ransom would be way cheaper to pay than losing 20Bil usd over then next 8 years (I have done analysis how bad this will affect Boeing revenue). I forsee Boeing going downhill in the next 20 years ala Nokia-Blackberry style. I already dump their stock just before those crashes. Extreme poor decision.
