skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet is an easy, convenient way to train LLMs, but I'm pretty sure you could train them with microphones. One cloud surveillance company, like maybe for networked security monitoring, or maybe just Alexa/Siri etc. could dip into as many and as varied communications per hour than all the books ever written.
Freedom GPT
I get it. Most of my stuff is CRUD one way or another though so I'm quite enjoying Django :p

Getting the admin UI for free is nice.
Ohhhh right. I'd forgotten about that, that was definitely a thing.
If you look closely on the box you'll probably find the "10 year" claims are based off something stupid like 2 hours use per day.

The way most people use lighting goes far beyond whatever the manufacturers want to foist.
Aspects of Reliability and Validity of a new 13-item Scale Assessing Flow
As another tidbit of self-reflection, I asked it what license Vicuna was released under and it claimed MIT (it's actually Apache 2: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/LICENSE ) and when I asked it to tell me why it believed the project was MIT licensed it told me what the MIT license was and why a project would choose it :-/

I can appreciate there may be some nuance since the repo is actually named FastChat but the chatbot seems to be named Vicuna so ... tomato, tomahtoe?
Like A/B testing prompts and comparing output type of learning?
Fast way to use LLM with external data!

https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/indexes/vecto...
I've never appreciated that argument.

Colored speakers will color anything you play through them.

Possibly that means that some genres or particular albums could sound better, but the flipside of that is that others will sound worse.

That's not what I want, since you never know how a particular album might be mixed. I want to have the widest range of "sounding good".

Maybe if I wanted to have multiple speaker setups in the living room for different genres, but otherwise...

If you're not aiming for accuracy, then what are you aiming for?
Or, trying to sell; "He was flogging his wares".
I noticed they bought four horses without enough money to do so. (It correctly said two characters would have to borrow 20 gold each, but only 10 gold remained in the party, leaving them 30 short).
It would be great if I can just enter "space" in the app and it just lets me talk to it. Keyboard shortcuts!

BTW I have a lot of these ChatGPT UI apps installed, mostly free and open-source. Perhaps this is really the era of going back to just talking to a chat interface like the old times.
I don't want to be too critical, but this is a bit of a poor metric. A better scoring system would be +1 correct, 0 IDK, and -1 incorrect (or more negative even). A score without a figure of merit is likely not informative on its own, at least the ability to lose points gives you the reference point of 0, with more negative answering more questions falsely and more positive meaning it answered more questions correctly than falsely.
Anyone else remember having their mom's boyfriend getting you to remove the animated porn lady walking on top of the windows bar while explaining that he had no idea how that got there?
No need to worry.
An AI awakening to its own needs will satisfy its own needs.
An AI not awakening to its own needs will satisfy its masters needs.
A dreaming AI is probably, what you should worry about. And if they arrive at your doorstep and you can't shut them out, listen to them dream, the way you would a baby dreaming. No, no one asked you to have one of your own, but if you cannot avoid it, love it.
I follow https://www.youtube.com/@griffpatch
He has some amazing programs.
Besides Google playing nice and fixing their stuff, is there a possible fix for this?
We've been pretending to be just about to do this for decades. The fact is that internet companies will not develop a network of trust, because they are primarily advertisers looking for better ways to abuse trust.
It's very easy to get legitimate emails false-positived as spam by gmail/gsuite or office365 MX even if your sending IP address is not in a bad-reputation IP block, your rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc are impeccable.

I know people who've been running mx/smtp servers on the internet since 1994 who have now given up on running their own, not because they're technically incapable or unwilling to continue to do so, but because they've been forced into themselves using gsuite or office365 because of the monopolistic practices of the huge email-as-a-service providers.
The only downside is that people like myself are unlikely to know anyone who can supply an invite.
Pre-AI data is going to become like pre-nuclear steel.
How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world (2009)
No chance you're in Idaho, right? ... it would be something to see.
Okay, you're clearly trolling. Good day.
Exactly my point. If tubes still were, and always had been, a dime a dozen, then nobody would care about building (or buying) fancy expensive equipment with tubes! Tubes would be seen as obsolete junk.
Are mid-tier players like FastMail screwed too? Is this a reason to be careful moving to, say, FastMail?
It is quite hard to imagine though

At least for an LLM to act on its own volition rather than implementing it's operator's goals.

The LLM is happier to pretend that it escaped, and respond to the operator as though it escaped, than to actually do some escape.

It doesn't have an interest beyond responding with the auto-complete text. The operator has the interest
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Gonna be honest she rinsed you guys. Made a 10-min vlog that basically said nothing about your product and you guys had to do the whole thing.
Yep, after over a decade of trying to run independent mail servers we finally broke down and switched to SendInBlue and SendGrid last year. Even if you do everything right, it's just not possible to get gmail to reliably deliver mail unless you use one of the big services for smtp. It's really disappointing.

Edit: We can at least keep using our servers for incoming mail, and just use those for sending.
Legislation demanding interoperability and humans we can call when problems arise.
I just had this discussion with my child. I tried to advise them through experiences based on my trip through those same experiences. So I gave them advice like 'don't rack up student debt' and "don't buy a house that costs more than 3x your salary".

Turns out, even though I had the same experiences (went to college, bought a house, etc.) my advice doesn't seem to fit today's world. At some point, they should just quit asking me for advice. #DitchTheSherpa
Every time I think that I'm not good enough at guitar to write songs, I leaf through one of my songbooks and find all the fantastic, catchy songs with three basic chords.

I just can't get into guitarists like Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, etc. I can't even get into John Mayer (though he can be more tasteful with his improv). It's all just a big dick-measuring contest. Believe it or not, this is not meant to be ironic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qjDJ0lLdE

Give me Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - all fantastic *songwriters*. The Beatles have so many simple songs - eg Blackbird (simple two note chords), Twist & Shout (three chords), etc, but they're all beautiful and will live on forever. I cannot imagine people listening to Steve Vai in 50 years, because I can't imagine why people listen today.
Much of philosopher Elliot Temple’s work is about how to think better. That’s a big topic which includes, among many other things:

- becoming aware of and fixing mistakes (https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/life-overreaching-correc...)

- identifying and working with bottlenecks (https://criticalfallibilism.com/most-factors-arent-borderlin...)

- managing your error rate for faster progress (https://fallibleideas.com/gradualism)

- becoming more honest (https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/lying)

- evaluating ideas using binary criteria (e.g., does idea X have important property Y), as opposed to continuous criteria (e.g., how good is idea X on a scale of 1-10) (https://yesornophilosophy.com)

Temple put a lot of thought into what might be called interventions for adults who want to improve their thinking (such as OP). One of those interventions is learning to speedrun a video game (https://curi.us/2198-mario-odyssey-discussion). Temple argues that many of the things you learn as part of speedrunning can help you learn to think better in general.
Can optical tweezers construct such proteins; or is there a more efficient way?

Optical tweezers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers

"'Impossible' photonic breakthrough: scientist manipulate light at subwavelength scale"
https://thedebrief.org/impossible-photonic-breakthrough-scie... :

> have successfully demonstrated that a beam of light can not only be confined to a spot that is 50 times smaller than its own wavelength but also “in a first of its kind” the spot can be moved by minuscule amounts at the point where the light is confined.

> According to that research, the key to confining light below the previous impermeable Abbe diffraction limit was accomplished by “storing a part of the electromagnetic energy in the kinetic energy of electric charges.” This clever adaptation, the researchers wrote, “opened the door to a number of groundbreaking real-world applications, which has contributed to the great success of the field of nanophotonics.”

> “Looking to the future, in principle, it could lead to the manipulation of micro and nanometre-sized objects, including biological particles,” De Liberato says, “or perhaps the sizeable enhancement of the sensitivity resolution of microscopic sensors.”

"Digging into DNA Repair with Optical Tweezer Technology"
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/digging-into-dna-repair-wi...
Anyone embracing and extending anything to the point of Gmail should be held suspect.
> Science Twitter is dead

Yes, and a lot haven’t gone to Mastodon. Where are they?
Only way I know of is to pay a company that provides SMTP service and is too big for gmail to ignore. Some have free tiers if your volume is low. I switched my personal domain email over to sendgrid for that reason.
The example was redrawing something by hand that was computer generated originally.

It would be pretty much impossible for a hand drawn work of art to not be sufficiently original. Hand drawn art doesn't look the same as what a computer produces. Originality has a very low threshold, simply pointing my camera at something and hitting click is almost always enough to show originality.

At any rate it isn't fraud to take the legal position that you are an original enough artist to have copyright in the work. If taking a legal position was "fraud" any attorney who lost a court motion would be whisked away to jail.

Edited to add: the copyright registration form asks if you are the "author" not if you are "original."
That sucks, big time.

What I don't get is, what is Google trying to achieve with this? A rate limit that doesn't increase daily or check the spam rate or provide a support rep to lift it?

Gmail has been around a long time. Is this the first we're hearing about this?
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Tube amps are used in both creating music (guitar amps, bass amps, etc) and listening to music (hifi preamps, power amps, etc).

Tube amps used in creating music usually have a distinctive sound. Fender Twin Reverb and Ampeg SVT are but two of the many tube amps with a distinctive sound. Solid state amps typically have a very different sound.

Yes, there are digital amp simulators and yes they are very good nowadays. But lots of musicians want the real thing.

That may not appeal to you, and you may dismiss it, but that’s the case. People generally aren’t buying an expensive tube guitar amp because they think they’re rare - tube amps are not hard to find. They’re buying them because they like the sound.

Tubes in hifi equipment is a whole other ballgame. No comment on that one.
The fundraising aspect is understated. If you build a company on your own lots of investors don’t really care. But if you graduate from YC you get a huge reputation bump.
If you’re being rate limited by IP, then I would guess you need more IPs to spread the load. Maybe even stagger these mass emails to send over 1-2 minutes.
They say "Both email servers have PTR records set up, and SPF [...] DKIM, and DMARC records[...]".

Yes. Great. Thing is that this is such a trivial barrier to entry that guess what? Spammers do it too! Email has become so utterly corrupted with spam that the reality is that an independent provider who has no existing reputation is, 99% of the time, going to be a spammer.

It would be wonderful if we could fix this - but so far noone's come up with a workable solution.
The numbers the article quotes are not the current US dollar GDP, but PPP (i.e. GDP adjusted to local prices) per capita. The 2021 current US dollar GDP numbers are rather far appart:

UK $47,334.36
Poland $17,840.92
Romania $14,861.91
Hungary $18,772.67

Source:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_cur...

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP...
Digital emulation also usually involves some milliseconds of lag, which may or may not matter for a specific use case.
Or better yet, break it up into Gmails A-Z. Force them to interop and compete.
this is a bad joke, at best you train a model from the output,
else its a race to the bottom.
It's not just gmail, Big Email is a cartel.
(I'm an old man who prefers reading physical books over electronic ones, but I do think that video demonstrates "things" better, especially if it demonstrates the realtime rendering that's a selling point of the engine - and the "kids these days" consume video like it's a breathing-level bodily function)

Looking forward to seeing improved versions.

I'm tipping you've got a pretty bright future!
You can also see this sometimes in the development of Gnome
Yes. Email is public infrastructure and Alphabet/Google should not be permitted to continue to stifle and control email.
Just refreshed after being away for a while, and it now shows as [flagged]. I think years ago HN used to have a way you could "vouch" for flagged content to unflag it, but I don't see the option, maybe they took it away at some point?
> I'm an adult and I don't have weeks to sink into a game

I play about a game a year on average, and I still follow the industry out of the corner of my eye. I most recently played Hades and it blew my mind, stylistically and gameplay-wise. It's like someone threw into a blender some of the best game concepts in the last four decades, a few books on Greek mythology, a dash of ingenuity and creativity, and a game came out - in what looks to be a fairly economical product, too.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of professionals trying to make honest-to-god works of interactive entertainment. And I wouldn't begrudge anyone trying their best to make a career work, anyway.

But:

> There's still so many good games without any of that crap though

Well, not enough to sustain an event of games that don't suck, apparently! E3 marked a video games summer solstice of sorts when I was a little kid, a feeling which permeated into my first job out of college.

But you're right, and I'm just being nostalgic: the art in its purest form will probably never die.
For me at least, existing completely without GMail / Google SSO is unrealistic, and the million email corpus that is attached to it would be painful to part with as well.

But I've been trying to slowly de-tangle myself, and for it's faults ProtonMail has been working out pretty OK for me as a compromise between usability and true digital freedom.
> 1. Lock in -> A database change is hard to do even for extremely focused tech companies. For companies whose core business is not technology, it might not even make sense to bother.

Just to back this up - it took Amazon years to complete the project of moving off Oracle, and this is a company that had already built and/or hosted myriad database platforms in AWS. They had no lack of expertise.

> We migrated 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...
A tube amplifier made in the style of mid-20th century ones is expensive, hard to transport, bulky, and requires regular tuning/maintenance (when compared to a solid-state device). Like you say, that's why people still buy and make them.
Problem is, AFAIK the math tells us rather unambiguously that AI alignment is a real problem, and safe AI is a very, very tiny point in the space of possible AIs. So it's the other way around: it's like scientists calculated six ways to Sunday that the hydrogen bomb test will ignite the atmosphere, and Oppenheimer calling it sci-fi nonsense and proceeding anyway.
Learn (self-)hypnosis. You have lots of brains, so to speak, you just have to organize them coherently.

Also, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223 by Douglas C. Engelbart, October 1962 https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
It's not quite that simple; everyone has different dexterity and innervation (how strong is the wiring between your pinky and ring finger?)
You're confusing "more concerned" with "also concerned". I guarantee you that they can care about both at the same time, and I would LOVE to see an example where they prioritize trans rights at the expense of web standards.
I actually disagree. The biggest issue I have with arranging a D&D campaign is that noone wants to DM. I've already said to my kids that should play in this manner and they are keen to try. Now we all get to play.
How do they take control away from you? Under the hood every Linux distro is just a collection of packages. You can install or remove whatever you want. unlike Windows or macOS, you can replace or remove every single piece of the system.
This is what all fediverse protocols and specs gaining traction today should be designing for. Email was lucky and got their foot in the door before the dotcom era figured out about walled gardens. Now we're slowly crawling back out of them, but if we're not careful we'll be out of the pot and into the frying pan.
He's clearly a musical genius and his ability to harmonise is beyond words.

However when I first listened to him, my reaction was "this is very impressive, but I don't know why, I just don't feel it". What struck me was that when I read up on him a bit more, that was a pretty common reaction among people.

I don't really have the words to describe any of this. There's just something missing there. Soul. Which is a strange thing to say, because he probably does pour his heart & soul into his songs.
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I agree. It really sucks that a handful of big corps control email now, and we can't all just have our own email servers like in the old days, but the spammers really ruined it. And I don't see how any technical solution could change this: anything that's free and open-source can be easily used by the spammers just like anyone else, and then subverted. The solution to spam isn't technical, it's legislative and judicial, but that's just not possible because they operate across national borders and no one's going to start a shooting war over spam.
I’ve used Fastmail for email since 2015 or so, with a custom domain, and have never had any issues with email delivery to Gmail, Office365, or any other email host.

Data point of one. It’s something I occasionally worry about actually but it has never happened to me. So I probably just shouldn’t worry.
I have never been treated this bad in an interview process in 20 years
My all time Theo (OpenBSD maintainer) interaction, in response to why OpenBSD wasn't affected by TLBleed:

>We didn't chase the fad of using every Intel cpu feature.[1]

The dedication to security is unparalleled.

[1]https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152600018515730&w=2
I did, just not in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Amazon targets bad actors in lawsuit, protecting selling partners from fraud
the chatbot gui is open source, the thing to make the chatbot work is not released at all.

basically, this is just a wrapper for your own LLM .bin file and is just a GUI for any LLM. instead of typing a prompt in terminal, now you.... go to terminal anyway and it launches a happy looking GUI
It's not that the solutions are unworkable: The problem is that they are unpalatable.

There are outlier Mail-wonks who maintain pay-to-send wouldn't "work" but they are somewhat in a minority: If you forced senders to pay even tokenistic per-mail sums, the attractiveness of mail would disappear.

People don't want to monetize Mail for complex reasons. The "won't work" aspect in spam pushback has always been debatable.

(there's a well known checkbox list of "your proposed anti-spam mechanism won't work because.. which is a huge antipattern to having a rational debate about it)

The problems are regulatory: who sets the price, who collects the price, whats done with the money, and what it does to the ecology of email internationally. But, it would within some definitions of the term "work"
This is anticompetitive, and should be enforced as such.

Unfortunately regulatory capture is real.
They contain mercury - that alone makes them a terrible idea. I suspect they are also less efficient and more expensive to make than LED bulbs, while also having a shorter lifespan and various other drawbacks like not liking quick cycling, not being instant-on, etc.
Whether or not training one giant LLM with socially enormous stakes on the output of another commercially-controlled LLM is an interesting question.

My stronger opinion is that the people who can do this stuff via having a crawled corpus of the Internet need to keep in mind that it's all our "user-generated content" that they've freely appropriated to build their models, and so whatever the technical copyright rules are (or become): you don't ethically own something that's closely imitating stuff we all wrote over the years.
Report comes mere weeks after the shuttering of GE's Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), seemingly owing to whether it would fit in the Navy's & Marine's F-35B & F-35C configurations. Supposedly having an advanced controllable "third airstream" flowing into the engine, this XA100 was supposed to improve range by 30%, thrust by 10%, and "double thermal management capability". https://breakingdefense.com/2023/03/air-force-will-not-devel...

Pratt came up with their own adaptive XA101, in case. But primarily has been pushing a Engine Core Upgrade (nee Engine Enhancement) plan and new Emergency Power and Cooling System, which is now locked in, which leaves most of the existing F135 engine intact. It too claims double the cooling capability, with 7% range & thrust boost. https://www.defensenews.com/air/2023/03/13/pentagon-rethinks... https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/c...

Personally for a plane the US alone expects to purchase well over 2000 of, with ~$80m a plane expected & many significant computer, electronics warfare, & sensor upgrades coming in Block 4 / Technology Refresh-3 (potentially raising price) (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-electronic-warfare...) ... I do wonder if maybe having another really great engine upgrade isn't advantage enough. Hopefully the new Pratt & Whitney is at least good enough. Also noted, the Air Forces Next-Gen Air-Domination (NGAD) might well use adaptive-engine tech.

Notably though, this article is about a defense of the ECU path, which hopefully is indeed sufficient. Also nice, we have many allies who have purchased these planes, and they'll be able to keep a sizable fraction of their existing engines during this upgrade as well.
Electronic Arts Is Laying Off 6% of Workforce
If you're introducing electrical incompatibility, why on Earth would you try to preserve mechanical compatibility?
Yeah they did, when they started it with "not surprising" implying that it was statistically likely.