skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number one thing these glasses/software need to solve is that the words match the speech for a one to one conversation in a quiet environment. Eg doctors visit. I think they are very close.

We just got the Nreal/Xrai setup a few days ago for deaf from birth wife (hearing husband) She grew up lipreading but integrated more with signing and deaf community as an adult. She has a cochlear implant but can not understand language from sound alone. And really doesn't enjoy hearing that much unless we are watching a movie etc where the sound is 100% linked to the visual.

Initial reaction to the setup is.
1. Impressed, hopeful, excited
2. A bit complicated technically. More stuff to deal with. not an everyday thing.
3. Phone battery usage high. Maybe 3 - 4 hours
4. In the right situation they will be really powerful.
5. Need more control over the interface eg show/hide 'listening' icon etc. Can be distracting. Move subtitle position (maybe you can)
6. Processing delay can make you more an observer of the conversation. Response time is delayed enough to interrupt the flow a conversation. (satellite tv connection interviews)

The number one barrier to using them is having everything ready for the moment they are needed. You need to plan ahead. Takes a few mins to set up.

All the other high end ideas can be set aside while the core function is dialed in.

We really appreciate the effort and hope to contribute.
it is speculative but the difference is that it speculates based on credible research based evidence. which is why I say "more"
Stroking the ego of posters
Hope we could get the Linux and Windows version soon!
They're already walking that one back because younger people are screaming about it.
There are a million edge cases that don't work in the browser. System wide hotkeys (Eg push to talk), screen sharing with audio, etc.
I've always wanted to buy one but it seemed a bit expensive, I imagine now that its discontinued the prices may drop.

Will it work without google services, can you sideload ?
and it seems that everyone is surfing the AI suffix hype, even though there are no "I" at all, but applied statistics doing plausible jobs
>It’s cruel and ridiculous to suggest all Deaf people should just learn to lip read.

Yet you seem to think everyone is obligated to learn sign language...

>Spanish is easy enough to learn for your trip but ASL is too difficult to learn?

Spanish is NOT "easy enough to learn"; perhaps some basic phrases for tourists, but certainly not fluency. It takes years to master a new language for most people, if ever. Spanish is relatively easier for English speakers than many other languages, such as Japanese, but it's not something you're going to become conversational in quickly unless you're gifted at language learning.

The idea that people are somehow "cruel" and "narrow-minded" for not learning a particular language that isn't the dominant language in their region is the most ridiculous thing I've read all day, and that includes the comments from North Korea supporters here.
> There will always be a place for human intellect. Machines will not replace us.

I have precisely zero confidence of this and anyone that thinks otherwise is very shortsighted or ignorant or simply lacks imagination. Human intellect is limited by many environmental factors. It has to fit through a 10cm canal, it can't use too much power, it must be made from simple and impure combinations of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen that have poor conductivity, it must dedicate much of its energy to non-reasoning functions like digestion and respiration control.

Just as we made machines with many times our physical strength we can make machines with many times our cognitive strength. The brain is ultimately just an arrangement of about 1500 grams of matter. If we find better arrangements and use better matter and assemble larger amounts of it we will have something with much greater cognitive strength.
In this case they didn't. In this case they had more control to make the decision they wanted too, since they control it.
We'll see how the free market responds to them dropping (possibly) substantial open source project support.
>Should we try to outlaw any type of automation then too, as people lose their jobs over automation as well?

Yes, yes we should. Especially when we are making absolutely zero progress on improving safety nets.

Or, we could be flabbergasted every time there's a new statistic on how many people are killing themselves. Whichever sounds more fun to you.
This. It’s way more performant too, because you can host DB and other services from the same machine.

You don’t need to orchestrate a complex cluster to serve thousands or even millions of users. You can scale to hundreds of gigs of memory on a single machine nowadays.
What's your position on the right to privacy?
ChatGPT and LCSHs
https://a.co/d/2hw5NSv

Solaris Internals

has the greatest explanation of this that I knew, including what you said.
To everyone saying, this business does not make sense because they could just buy the servers and serve it themselves and make all the money, please consider that the same argument applies to any intermediated business whatever: to Uber; to wholesalers; to franchise businesses like McDonald's.

The reason businesses like this work in general is because they break a big, complicated business into smaller businesses where there is specialization. There may not be be meaningful potential for specialization here; but that is the argument to have. For example, it may be that Farba can be a leaner business if they don't have to think about how to get the best pricing in dozens of different hosting markets.
Basically a neo-luddite kind of argument.
It seems like there are limits, though. Do you really need to contribute to a flash crash [1], or is some longer time period okay?

Not getting triggered by a flash crash seems more robust, and getting triggered by it more fragile? Some of the time, anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
I'm waiting for Coolify's Kubernetes support, personally, I'd love to use it as a pseudo-managed service while still having much lower costs and higher uptime.
> Think of it as renting or a lease.

> as long as the company decides to host it

If you put a clause like that into a rental agreement for a house, and try to collect, it would be thrown out as soon the judge stops laughing.

If I rent a house, and have already paid a year of rent, my landlord can't just wake up one day and kick me out in the middle of the year. These companies can just remove you on a whim.

Furthermore, landlord has obligations towards me: he must fix the house if it is leaking, and if the house is rendered unlivable (i.e. the roof caves in) and it's his fault, he has to provide me with alternative accomodation.

For a contract to be valid, it must have duraton. If it's a lease that says '9999 years', then the landlord/freeholder can't just sneak in at night and demolish the building.
Euler Finance to Offer $1M Reward as It Reels from Nearly $200M Exploit
I understand how tax brackets work and what a marginal rate is ;)

The original post I replied to first however does not seem to be aware of it. To quote the relevant part again:

their ass to break 100k when they're getting a 60% tax bill.

No, you do not get taxed 60% once you reach 100k in income, not even in the UK, not even under the new rules that even the government's own calculator does not take into account ;)

That is specifically why I quoted the average tax rate too and not just the marginal rate. Now of course, w/ the reduction of the tax free amount at those incomes coming into effect, yes, in comparison to some other countries (and apparently previous rules), you do get taxed quite high. Now let's compare.

100k GBP ~= 166k CAD

Canada, cheapest province - Alberta. Average tax rate ~31%, marginal tax rate ~42%

Canada, expensive province - Quebec. Average tax rate ~38.5%, marginal tax rate ~50%

150k GBP ~= 250k CAD

Canada, cheapest province - Alberta. Average tax rate 35.4%, marginal tax rate 47%

Canada, expensive province - Quebec. Average tax rate 42.8%, marginal tax rate 53.3%

The only rate that really matters for what you have in your pocket in the end is the average tax rate. You could have a country with a 99% marginal tax rate in the highest bracket but a bracketing system in which 99% of the population never reach that bracket, so quoting the marginal rate is not very helpful except if you want to complain about taxes - or you make the 150 million at which that marginal rate might apply in this fictitious country ;)

While we're at comparing, Germany, a country with high taxes that 150k GBP is about 170k EUR and results in an effective tax of 43%.

Since apparently the government calculator is wrong for the UK and I only find broken ones myself, can you calculate the above w/ one that does things correctly and post for comparison?
> Furthermore, I've come to believe that "careful prompt work" doesn't really save much time relative to just writing/coding the output I want.

The real magic happens when you train a better AI using those perfected prompts.
Time* this way*
Boy he's been out of the news cycle for a few weeks...
The end*
Most people only use etcd at small scale. If you try to store 10 or even 100GB in etcd you are going to run into uncommon problems.

Most people don't even know that the Kubernetes control plane by default has a hard limit on etcd size. It used to be 2GB, not sure what it is now.
Is it self hosted?

Yes => secure.

No => not secure.

QED.

Unless you have the power to define your own information boundaries (eg. via your own security in your own cloud account, or your own network), you can't assume privacy is protected.

Any kind of privacy assurance is only as good as the word of the salesman.

Would you send your medical records to an arbitrary 3rd party? Would you send your production code base to an arbitrary 3rd party?

There are very few entities that people trust for this (eg. AWS) because they have a history, reputation and audit history to support their claims.
Hey all. I'm a former YC founder who has been working in the creator economy before that term existed.

Anyways, I wrote a piece in the Beacons.ai blog (S19) about the importance of real-time welcome emails, and how to create one. From our own data, we find that close to 90% of creators who collect subscribers don't have a real-time welcome email set up, which is a damn shame.

I would love some feedback on this, as this post is a working document we use in our user outreach. Thanks!
> Most people think handsfree is okay, but it's bullshit. The problem with phones is that drivers' brains are distracted from driving, not that their hands aren't on the wheel (although that too is problematic).

Yup.

Counterintuitively talking with someone who is in the car with you is much less dangerous than talking with someone on a phone.

A big reason for this is that a passenger can see when you are doing something that needs more attention. The conversation can naturally adjust to match the amount of attention that you can safely spare.
Microsoft’s Azure Container Registry now has a check box feature to “vendor” external container images. This takes more space obviously but will protect systems from critical base images suddenly disappearing or becoming rate-limited.
Personally I had always assumed “directed energy weapons” was a cover story for investigations into whether Havana syndrome was a more conventional attack on US embassies.

Imagine some hard-to-detect chemical that causes mild brain damage, I’m sure many exist. Is there a nefarious actor going around infiltrating catering services for US embassies and sneaking it into the food? Is there a nefarious actor going around infiltrating local water utilities and introducing it into the water supplies at US embassies? You can’t openly investigate that without diplomatic blowback and/or alerting the nefarious actor that you’re onto them, so let everyone believe you’re chasing evil microwave brain lasers or whatever.

Same principle as UFOs being a cover story for investigations into whether other nations are using secret advanced flight techniques to fly spy planes over the country.

A friend points out another, even more plausible investigation this could be a parallel construction for: the US embassies may have secretly deployed some kind of high-energy jamming measures at their embassies to protect against electronic snooping, and now they’re worried those measures have dangerous side effects. They can’t openly investigate this because it would reveal they have been experimenting on US government employees without consent, but if they are investigating “energy weapon attacks” they have a perfect excuse to walk around with antennas without raising suspicion.

This article seems to indicate that the investigation actually was just a contagious and stupid idea that was earnestly and wastefully investigated. (Of course, in the cover story worlds, you publish this once you’ve successfully found and eliminated the problem…)
It's funny you mention elections, because the 2020 election was a potent demonstration of why reality has a liberal bias. (FWIW in 2016 I was the one telling my friends Trump was likely to win)

Both major parties are corrupt corporocracy boosters, but at least the Democrats still keep their social media fueled nutjobs mostly in check rather than embracing them from the pulpit. I used to think this was a flaw, but apparently I've gotten more conservative as I've gotten older.
The less-comfortable reason is that concern for others’ wellbeing is at an all time low.

Driven in turn by a lack of empathy, and a sense of feeling interconnected with others. As fueled, in turn, by smartphones.
If I were free to do what I’d like to do
And had ambition and a lot of vim
I’d go so far away that someday they’d say
“I wonder what happened to him?”
-Michael Brown
There are these thingswe wused to put on DVDs, we call them install files. You can find them on like every torrent tracker these days.
Perhaps intelligence is just applied statistics.
Words are powerful. See how hard they fight the legislation.
Build an onchain gaming universe where physics and economy could be simulated
AMZN has built a great e-commerce civilization based on the Internet. Now AI+blockchain is aiming to create an open, expandable, immortal, composable and interoperable gaming ecology.

It's more like a digital civilization built on blockchain, where physics, economy could be simulated, creatives, gamers, thinkers, artists, and developers could be better incentivized, greatly accelerating abundance by bringing huge economic value, enriching all humanity.

What do you think of this approach?
I'm scared and I hope government intervention will be swift.

But on the artistic side... new tech makes possible new ways to be creative. And there are still acrylic painters even though Photoshop exists. And there are still human races and sports even though machines are faster/stronger. So I'm thinking people already recognize there are different kinds of performers, and by and large people haven't been cheating much that anyone could tell (though ghostwriting and such already exist).
Ublock isn't sketchy. Nor is NewPipe, which allows you to use it (and have favorites) without an account so there's less tracking. Premium doesn't let you do that, you pay but Google still gets to datamine you as much as they want as well.
I live in the UK and it's relatively cheap here, and very popular.
Nigeria’s tech workers used to big salaries and high demand face the crash
Do people really do that without immediately crashing?

Whilst a passenger (and not a driver), look inside nearby cars sometime. The prevalence of people doing exactly this is shocking.
ISOs may have a 10 year limit, but that's only for their ISO tax treatment status... they don't (necessarily) need to expire. They can convert to NSO by way of an extension. https://www.esofund.com/blog/nso-extension
I had them help me with activation problems circa 2005.
You seem to have cited exactly why I don't recommend my clients use a hashi stack, it seems like you've failed to make a point?
That's actually really good, I am sure I came across a similar problem but never thought of where to make a proper complaint
Another "innovation" shown in the eyes of CGI
> It really sucks that anaconda always lags behind.

I usually just go for virtualenv (if python library versions are the only issue) or go for docker (if it's more than that). Both let you just use the latest and greatest without any friction. conda sits in a weird middle ground that I hate.
It's not much of a competitor with this performance. From the OpenChatKit model they claim to be using:

> Write a rhyming poem about ray tracing

OpenChatKit:
The sun is shining

The birds are singing, and the flowers are blooming.
I'm so glad that I'm alive, and I'm so glad that I'm here.
I'm so glad that I'm alive, and I'm so glad that I'm here.
I'm so glad that I'm alive, and I'm so glad that I'm here.
[repeated several more times]

ChatGPT:
In a world of graphics, sharp and bright,
Where realism is the ultimate sight,
There's a technique that takes the lead,
It's called ray tracing, indeed!

Ray tracing is a visual art,
That sets the scene right from the start,
By tracing rays of light in the air,
It creates an image beyond compare.
In general, if state laws are unconstitutional, it’s for the judiciary to declare them such, and not for Congress to overrule them in statute.
The luddites had a point. What happens in an economy when machines can do most tasks? What happens to power structures when people become a cost rather than a benefit?
> This is not what humans do when humans think.

Are you sure? Our senses have gaps that are being constantly filled all day long, it just gets more noticeable when our brain is exhausted and makes errors.

For example, when sleep deprived, people will see things that aren't there but in my own experience they are highly more likely to be things that could be there and make sense in context. I was walking around tired last night and saw a cockroach because I was thinking about cockroaches having killed one earlier but on closer inspection it was a shadow. This has happened for other things in the past like jackets on a chair, people when driving, etc. It seems to me at least when my brain is struggling it fills in the gaps with things it has seen before in similar situations. That sounds a lot like probabilistic extrapolation from possibilities. I could see this capacity extend to novel thought with a few tweaks.

> Given that GPT-4 is a simply large collection of numbers that combine with their inputs via arithmetic manipulation, resulting in a sequence of numbers, I find it hard to understand how they're "thinking".

Reduce a human to atoms and identify which ones cause consciousness or thought. That is the fundamental paradox here and why people think it's a consequence of the system, which could also apply to technology.
Sort of reminds me of the claim made by FDIC that they can back up all accounts in SVB. Maybe they can, but it's mainly the illusion that maintains the economy.
So are you supporting this types of illegal activities because as per you Mamata Banarjee also does the same?

Will you also support a crime because other criminals also do it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_righ...
Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history? It’s complicated
Long Covid sucks. It has had a detrimental effect for sure. I was lucky to have it early at a young age and being physically healthy. I am now mostly recovered 2 years later. I could not imagine having it being older.

https://jondouglas.dev/long-covid/

The studies on the effectiveness of nattokinase, Bromelain + NAC, and nitric oxide are seriously worth considering if you suspect you have it. I wish I knew about those earlier.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36080170/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7999995/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295384/
Typically with the max % going down if the tender offer is oversubscribed.
^^^ this guy gets it
For startups, Levels.fyi is not a useful resource.
If you think it is always abuse if the use of AI is not explicitly disclosed, then you're going to have to recognize there are many thousands of situations where that view is absurd.

Imagine you and a group of friends decide to develop a game. You make a company and have a team of four people. Your budget is tiny and you can't afford the same resources a huge game company can. You want your new company to be profitable so you use large language models to generate realistic material textures for your 3D models, and to generate a diverse range of intetestimg character backstories and dialogs. This used to require a larger team of developers and content creators but now you can do more with fewer people and ship your game sooner. You make a great game and users love it and it's a financial success.

But oh wait, you didn't explicitly disclose that you use an AI powered tool to generate some art assets and character backstories. Therefore you are just a greedy company that is abusing AI for profit.

That's so ridiculous.
You might want to slow down on hiring, more people doesn't equal to solving the problem faster or better. It could be better to queue new sign ups to your service for a while, even if it's painful.
You've been around for a decade, I'm not giving you pity points. Can you provide what we want or not?
The beginner’s guide to owning a ZX Spectrum again
Depends. The code I was pasting is public anyway (website javascript), so quite harmless for this purpose. It contained some paths in the code that would identify where it came from, which I removed.
Trust that the invisible hand is keeping itself busy funneling dark money.
Easy- revoke copyright protection.

Your "software X" is not worth hosting any more? Fine, then someone else can host it, maybe they will find it profitable.

Maybe even it could be a former employee.
And that's how we have a police state.

No, that's how we have a slippery-slope argument.

Studies have shown that texting while driving is about a high a risk factor as drinking alcohol. If not classed as a felony (and intrinsically more difficult to control) - the state should at least do something to seriously discourage people from doing it.
Better question on that front is how it’s legal. It’s not what congress passed or the FDICs charter / mission statement. So it’s kinda just “we’re doing it, even if it’s illegal”

Kinda like how they gave everyone a year or more where they could live in a place without paying rent via some BS CDC power that didn’t exist.
I think we’re in that phase similar to 2001-2007ish, where there was a waning of tech meetups, and then a resurgence for a few years as new languages and frameworks really disrupted things.
pkgsrc allows installation of multiple versions of same package ;)
As an example, computers have beat people at chess for a long time now. It’s still fun to play chess though

Cameras can make better pictures than sketch artists, but people still draw for pleasure
This is completely false. Apple doesn't chargeback more than it paid out.
The standard of proof in non-criminal US traffic courts is usually "preponderance of the evidence" and the various problems that entails. For license revocation it's even lower as that's administrative. I've been fined near 4 figures on the basis that "the cop says he counted the lines and time it took to pass them."

Fix the courts before making the fines higher.
Very interesting!
The choice with the subnetting is a bit odd to me, it's surprising that you got the hosts talking to each other with that addressing.
I would have chosen a proper /30 between the two computers, that would be 10.0.0.1/30 and 10.0.0.2/30.

10.0.0.0 network address
10.0.0.1 host (usable)
10.0.0.2 host (usable)
10.0.0.3 broadcast address

Nice writeup nonetheless!