skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have enough of those to send, seems like something easy enough to A/B test. You only have a few sentences before an email recipient marks your email as spam. If one of those mentions your YC batch and that's what keeps their attention for another couple sentences, hey.
Could introducing a progressive tax on margins in strategic and consolidated sectors be a possible solution?

Average business margin is 8%, taxed at 21%, any more margin would be taxed at a higher rate, reaching a much higher rate on fat margins (like >30%).

Such thing should be limited to strategic sectors like basic food to limit price gouging/profiteering without byzantine controls
The old school approach is to use Excel and a Requirements Traceability Matrix. It’s not fancy, but it works, especially when plans, procedures and test results point back to the matrix. The failure in traceability is usually human error or lack of compliance. It has to be a team priority and enforced by management and work style/environment.

Here are some options/things to look at in making your decision:

https://www.dau.edu/tools/Documents/SAM/resources/RTM_Risk_R...

https://www.perforce.com/blog/alm/what-traceability

https://www.jamasoftware.com/requirements-management-guide/r...

https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Topic/Requirements-Traceabil...
The only people who can use redstone are those who just memorize the standard gates and treat them as black boxes. That's no longer redstone then, that's just normal boolean logic stuff.
gjsman-1000's point and yours make sense and somewhere on the page it was suggested to start running DC power just for LED lighting in homes. Until then, our new plan is to use LED light strips and stop buying LED bulbs. The idea is that the strips have an external power supply so I'm hoping the LED's will have the lifetime they deserve.
That really ought to be something Cortana (or Siri) can do.
That money needs to come from somewhere. Those politicians need to come up with it somehow, and there is a limited pot. The fares are an additional pool of money - if they are adding money to make up what is lost in fares they can add that money and retain fares as well.

Fares + subsidy it not a zero sum game.

> And on top of all of that, there's no positive feedback loop created by charging a fare

Sure, but it isn't a negative loop either. So long as the fares are small of course. People mostly are fine with paying a small fare. So you should charge that small price and get that additional money. You can subside a few riders who are really poor, but for the most part your focus should be on riders who can afford the fare.

More money is needed to build/run more transit. If you are spending money to replace fares that is money you are not spending to build/run more transit.
Again, that's a statement of fact. Why is it impolite? What's wrong with being directly told you've caused a problem? Especially if you in fact have.
Yes, it does add something.

To be vain about it, there's enough drama and messiness in day-to-day life. I don't want to be reminded of that when I look back; I want to see the good parts, that it was all worthwhile.

But, more practically even, photographs capture history. You may not be thinking about it when you're just taking a personal photo, but a fair bit of history does come from personal collections. Especially less significant figures or events where those personal artifacts are the only things that even exist.

Its difficult to gain much useful information when the images are blurry, distorted, or covered in shadow. You may appreciate the funny face, but can a historian or a great-great-grandchild confirm the person in the photo when they are covering half their face in a sneeze?

That said, the pendulum definitely swings in the other direction, too. Despite all the information we gather these days, there may be less meaningful history for the next several decades because you simply can't trust any of it is actually genuine.
I suspect some of us are going to be really disappointed when the actual parameter count for GPT-4 is discovered.

Has anyone considered the opposite possibility around the closed nature of OpenAI's work? I.e. Instead of worrying that someone will reproduce their 10k+ GPU GPT-4 training super farm, maybe the opposite happened - They discovered a way to increase performance while simultaneously reducing the required parameter counts and/or hardware.

Would that realization be more or less dangerous with this A100 constraint in mind?
I don't see a way to leave feedback right away on your page. To solicit more feedback, you might consider linking your email address/contact page in the article itself, or have an anon. comment section on your blog itself. (I realize you have your obfuscated email in the "about" section, but you might provide a simpler mechanism if you have time)

Happy blogging!
Agreed that this is a wildly broad social phenomenon.

As for what to do, I think socializing a defense has merit. Talking about these dangers, trying to make people smart, critical of criticism, wary of over zeal or conviction. Posting about & sharing & discussing malignent maligning forces, drawing light to radicalization, showing some of the bad impacts this talk has had. Not as a talk itself, but in terms of what a magnet for very much problematic & zealotous negativities.

I see the challenge here as not merely personal, but also societal, in how we deal with especially highly critical highly skeptical behaviors, those that write things off. And the excuses, however shallow, they can stand on to reject.
Spelunk
Fair enough. But at least the light was good.
These two people writing in "a blog about our upcoming book" might know the truer truth regarding the real risks of AI. Or they might be pissing in the wind, attempting to snatch 15 minutes of fame by contradicting a document signed by over 1000 people involved in AI industry and research. Whichever "side" one takes boils down to the appeal-to-authority fallacy anyway -- since no one can truly predict the future. But I believe I'll take the 500:1 odds in this case.
A few reasons:

1. Extremely permissive license.

2. Very simple embedding API.

3. Fairly efficient for a scripting language.

4. Simple and relatively easy to learn.
> Governments have no right to compel companies to engage in policing activities like this.

It's called privatization of tyranny and it's been going on forever.

Companies like to do it to get closer to the government to get less regulation or government contracts.
my kids really like CodeCombat

https://codecombat.com/
Is it odd?

Ted was a very intelligent math professor whiz.

He thought that machines and industrial society was becoming a negative for humanity.

Was he right? How many threads on HN have we been having about highly increasing depression, anxiety, hopelessness, deaths of despair, falling fertility, now possible mass unemployment, and real existential threats from AGI?

If he was right and didn't do what he did, would anyone be reading and digesting those facts and considering stopping the madness? Trolley problem.
The campaign to save TikTok has been years in the making
I would also add on to the context of Tesla and SpaceX. Now part of this is speculation on my part. But I would also like to propose that the problem domains of Tesla and SpaceX also attract people who have vested interest in the problem domain. Engineers and researches at both of those companies are passionate about the problems that those two companies are trying to solve. With Twitter and social media, maybe there exists some people who are passionate, but I imagine the biggest attraction of Facebook and Twitter are the pay and the resume item. But at Tesla or SpaceX, your willing to eat more shit because your working on something your probably really passionate about and not to mention badass. I don't like Musk, but I would worked for him at SpaceX just because rockets are badass and I like space.
Be that what it may, the Twitter API was making like $400 Million/year revenue for Twitter.

So Musk has destroyed Advertising Revenue, and now Twitter API revenue. Is he really trying to make money from just blue check marks alone?
If your fare collection is really bad that is true. However collecting fares in a way that isn't very costly is not that difficult/expensive and so most transit agencies are making a nice amount of money from their fare collection.
> Just look at history

history shows us a relentless increase in consideration of, and protection of, human rights. The moral ideas you are talking about are relatively recent, especially in their widespread application. While we were developing ever better technologies for labor saving and weapons building, we were also building better "legal, civic, and democratic" technologies for governance and egalitarianism.

if I look at history, I'm filled with optimism and hope. Every negative idea you fear, was more fearsome in the past.
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"... as a joke."
See my edits for more substantive points, but more generally it is really useful to formalize your argument. Once you do that, it is much easier to see what parts of the argument are on a firm footing, and which ones are inadequately justified. Lots of plausible-sounding sentences about math turn out to be wrong.
It's what I do, Wireguard on a cheap VPS. It's plenty fast but does take learning the configuration which wasn't hard.
I'd argue the dismissals are a lot more handwavy.

The simplified argument is:

- Superintelligent AGI that can modify itself in pursuit of a goal is possible.

- If that AGI is not aligned with human goals it very likely ends in the end of humanity.

- We have no idea how to align an AGI or even really observe what it's true state/goals are. Without this capability if we stumble upon creating an AGI capable of improving itself in such a way that leads to super intelligence before we have alignment, it's game over.

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For point 1, that seems like the consensus view now (though it wasn't until recently). I think it seems obvious, but my general arguments would be humans aren't special, brains are everywhere in nature, biology is constrained in ways other systems are not (birth, energy usage, etc.)

For point 2, in pursuit of whatever its goal is, even a 'dumb' goal that happens to satisfy its reward functions, humanity will likely either try to stop it (and then be an obstacle) or at a minimum will just be in the way - like an anthill destroyed in the construction of a dam.

Point 3 is not controversial.

The dismissals from Tyler Cohen and Pinker are mostly just relying on heuristics which are often right, but even if they're right 999 out of 1000 times, if that 1 in 1000 error is the end of humanity, that's pretty bad. Most of the time a disease not a pandemic, but sometimes it is. I've read some of what Pinker has written about it, he doesn't understand EY's arguments (imo). Cohen's recent blog post could be summarized as "we'll likely see an end to peacetime and increasing global instability, might as well get AGI out of it". Just because things don't usually result in human extinction doesn't mean they can't.
I repeat myself: we have a similar outcome in Europe, but we have a wildly different situation, and the things you listed don't apply here (and many of them applied in the US even stronger in the past when the kids were alright).

Group therapy is for helping people deal with something. It's not a process to understand a phenomenon, that's not its goal.

> But hey, let's blame social media. Better yet, let's blame TikTok. We don't like them being Chinese-owned anyway.

You're mixing things up. Calm your emotions, I'm not attacking you, and I'm not attacking your daughter.
>screw in a standard bulb - what happens when it sees 48V DC?

Either it lights up or not? I don't see a problem here.

But I'm not sure moving part of power supply elsewhere will help that much, it needs current driver electronics anyway.
Last week, I built a Chrome extension that takes and edits beautiful screenshots. Captr is free to use and currently has 100+ users. It was #17 product of the day on Producthunt.
Where do you keep up with scientific papers now, if you don't mind me asking?
I can see why this got down-voted, but seeing this in fruition would be quite interesting.

Of course, this would probably require sharing internal corporate data which is a big no-no.
It looks its still possible to write a tweetbot within the free tier. That's good, I've been meaning to for a long time.
> FDIC thresholds are de facto meaningless and expose litigation risks for selective non-coverage.

The first of these claims is false, the second is true only in the trivial sense that anyone can sue for any reason however baseless and even a completely baseless claim has some cost, and the existence of the limit may make people upset enough to file a baseless suit.

> Is there any downside to changing the policy to state “All deposits are covered, regardless of amount”.

Presumably Congress felt there was both when introducing the FDIC Act and again when revising it in 1991 to restrict the conditions in which the FDIC could cover deposits beyond the insured amount.

> This is effectively already happening

No, its not. The invocation of the systemic risk exception in limited cases is not the same thing, "effectively", as a general extension of FDIC insurance to all balances without limits.

> AND would contribute value-add safety and security to US bank. It would also create a level playing field for US banks, regardless of size, to have the opportunity to service customers of any size.

This contradicts what precedes it; if it was effectively already happening, doing it officially would change nothing of substance.
Nah, people will just make a new and improved packaging system and start over from scratch!
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Things like ShareGPT or PromptHero give vast repositories of human-curated ML outputs, which make them fantastic for at least incremental improvement on the base model. In the grand scheme of things, these will be just another style, mixed in with all the other crap in the training set, so I don't imagine it's too harmful... eg, 'paint starry night in the style of midjourney 5'
Waveform Lighting bulbs have a great CRI and no camera visible flicker, but even they are overdriven/undercooled. I've already had one fail because of the PFC chip (I did an autopsy). They also don't have enough bulk capacitance to not flicker when other nasty loads are on the line.

I did find these tables from Budget Light Forums handy for shopping, however the fact that you have to use these I think only reinforces the point of the article:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12jj1A6PNjHmWbFNu0FSi...

https://optimizeyourbiology.com/light-bulb-database
What's the best resource for the equivalent of this page but for Postgres?
Yes but without having to mess with your router config
Nobody is seriously proposing to add enough money to transit systems that they can run a system with such great coverage and frequency that there isn't anyplace more service wold be needed. Until you are funding transit to that levels we should charge fares.
admitting I didn't look at TFA, I have to say from the domain name churnkey.co, promising to sell me "churn-key systems" seems like a dubious promise, however admirably quite honest! Customers will start fleeing, right out of the box!

ok, now I took a look. I think the ideas they're talking about are actually well known in marketing circles, best summed up by the old aphorism, "the customer is always right." I think most people misinterpret this phrase, thinking that it means "you have a customer in front of you, engage in ass-kissing, tell them they're right" and I don't think that's the right way to think about (because then your inner child starts screaming "i don't want to kiss ass!") The right way to think about it is, here is a customer telling me their authentic experience, what they like, what they don't like. Can I change what they don't like? For every customer complaining, there are 10 more who were annoyed and swallowed it. "The customer is always right, because the customer is giving you free market research about friction they encounter."

I just think this is a more positive way to think, it's less scolding than this article.
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That position is only held in the case where the major world governments are actually able to coordinate on a policy position and ban. It's also explicitly about what such enforcement of that position would really require to be effective.
“Depressed investor sentiment” applies to publicly traded companies as well. Profitability is now the focus. Speculative bets are not.

Public markets operate on opinions and feelings more than science. That sentiment of the markets is not high right now is clear. Look at every publicly traded tech company’s performance in the last 12 months.
thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now :)
Awesome, thanks for the links. I also tend to believe that it is a process over tooling question; you could even accomplish this with a text document and some checklists.
The Twitter Buyout is structured as a $13 Billion loan.

That means that Elon Musk's Twitter Buyout costs $1.3 Billion/year _ON TOP_ of all the other costs of Twitter.

If Twitter was "barely profitable" in 2021, they're now $Billion+ short / year. That has nothing to do with "old Twitter" decisions, and 100% to do with how Elon Musk structured the buyout.

Presumably, you're supposed to assume that Musk knows what he's doing and that he has a plan to make $1.3 Billion in profits (to break even on the loan) and then go beyond (to make profit on his $44 Billion investment). But... I'm honestly not seeing it.
Cool so what's the last thing you described to your team using terms from DNA research?
Depend on version of fsd. They used to go through a normalization process that tried to make the video similar in differents conditions. This has been ripped off and now the signal go strait to NN.
I heard (and saw video) where the camera detected animal in the dark that were impossible to see to the naked eyes.

It’s possible their system is not that good, but eventually cameras will outperform the human eyes in every way if that’s not already the case.

Our perception is not that good, but our brain filter it out and make us believe that we see the full picture were if fact we see only what catch our attention.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%253Ahomedepot.com+CRI

Cree, GE's "HD" line, Phillips' high CRI line, and I believe "Feit", the HD brand, also has high CRI bulbs.

You can only get Cree bulbs from HD via shipping; they don't stock them in store, at least in my area.

Phillips and GE HD bulbs are available in a lot of local hardware stores and even pharmacies.
The trick is getting a kettle that fits the brew chamber on top, so it steams while the water boils, I use a bonavitta with a mesh strainer as it's mouth is a bit too wide, but it seems like the fellow is almost a perfect fit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlairEspresso/comments/j53vy0/fello...
Also worth noting that there have been apt RCE's capable of being exploited by a MITM.

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733

https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html

I really don't see how anyone can still defend not using TLS for debian packages.
Note that EU has made a similar power grab[1]. This means that whatever has emboldened the two is not nation-specific. Now compare this with the recent Schwab's rhetoric on WEF.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35345612
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30-60 minute each way is pretty much standard comute where I live in Europe
Or you can take the money from somewhere else and still charge fares and have even more money.
Has anyone used PlanetScale's SaaS offering? How has been your experience?
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Yes, exactly. It’s one thing to need to be an expert to find a diamond in the rough. It’s another to not be able to guarantee you’ll get a premium product by going to a reputable retailer and picking out an expensive whatever. That’s the really frustrating part.

I think the issue is that there are no more reputable retailers. Just amazon, which more than half the time isn’t even amazon.
> The impetus is on you to decide when things have started to look uncanny. “I wish that would be addressed by the industry — like, maybe if it reached a certain light-loss factor, it would just shut down, you know?” Nelson said. “Or if it shifted in color past a certain point, it went into failure mode.”

This is complicated, and I don't think the consumer knows what they're asking for. From my understanding (and watching a lot of Big Clive lightbulb teardowns on YouTube), this would require an active sensor in the bulb. Most of the circuits in these bulbs are embarrassingly simple - 3-4 mostly passive components, and 1-2 silicon based chips or raw transistors. If you add an active sensor to that system, your cost balloons significantly. Then you have to calibrate the sensors. Then we get into the "printer cartridge" problem, where "my light bulb won't turn on because it's insufficiently cyan, but I only want a red light."

We didn't know that we wanted things when we had incandescent bulbs. Now that we're being forced to switch away from incandescent bulbs and use a new technology, users are able to ask for things. I think that's partially exciting (users having preferences is good!), but it's also potentially complicated by companies not providing low-cost solutions that are as good as the old thing. So, overall, good and bad.
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I first saw this in Sniffing Glue magazine - today I learned it first appeared in Sideburn.
What had made Twitter easier to use for me was the aggressive use of filters to just block out most of political Twitter. It didn’t block everything, but you would be surprised what blocking the names of Presidents, former Presidents, Presidential candidates, the clap, and a few popular political slogans can do to really cull the politics from a Timeline in the height of election season down to almost nothing. I was going to investigate targeting shibboleths next but then Twitter killed Tweetbot and Twitter is dead to me without Tweetbot.
Congrats on the launch, Andrew and Ani. This is most of the backend stack any LLM app needs. We built similar infra when we first started using Open AI's completions API in our product last year.

With respect to GPT-4 and image inputs, how do you see search working with such inputs on the platform?
hope that is a not yet.
currently no... only path based you can use multiple endpoints for http(s)
That isn't my argument.

My argument is that consuming news media like CNN or Fox is unhealthy.

You're now comparing the consumption of news media to attempting to break out of prison.

Can you not see the psychic prison with which you are confined?
So what? Is OpenAI RLHF dataset more valuable than millions of books and paintings OpenAI used for free without stopping a second? Why is that? Because one big tech corp paid money for that dataset?