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Ask HN: How to track growth metrics without invading user privacy?
Startups need track growth metrics like MAU, web page visits, most used features etc. But how to do it in a privacy friendly way since there should be some kind of tracking anyway?
Suppose this was inevitable based on everything done since the takeover but it still sucks. I’d been using it the last few months and found myself far better informed of local events. I don’t see myself going back to using Twitter as it’s just a time sink and generally unpleasant to wade through and use. It’s a company that’s got to earn money to keep the lights on so I do see some of the business logic of it. But really if they were that concerned, they could charge a dollar a month for an ad free and more pleasant experience alongside the current version and it would probably have enough sign ups to cover the cost of running it and still earn a small profit. But no, we live in a world where arseholes live to extract the most amount of money they can out of everything and everyone rather than offering something of value to people at a reasonable price and then just chilling out and enjoying the company of each other. So here we are. Can’t see myself using it regularly. Will try to find other ways to stay informed about things happening in my community.
Anything free will be abused for spam. Make it pay a small fee to add an npm package, and the problem will disappear. The fee may be going to pay for moderation, for example. To make payments frictionless and anonymous, accept cryptocurrency.
I feel for the poor person that now has to clean up that mess :( I've been that person in the past and it was no fun
Yea! Also, there will never be regulation that will stop open sourced LLMs from emerging that will be just as powerful and, one day, even more than GPT-4.
It’s illegal to sell guns to minors in even deep red states like Tennessee. And the percentage of households with guns (where kids can get access to them) has declined dramatically, from 47% in 1973 to 31% in 2014. https://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gu...
That's not necessarily accurate. How much life do you think exists on Venus or Pluto? Sure it's hypothetically possible that some very very very primitive single celled bacteria just about survive on Venus, but is that really the future you want for this one in a billion paradise we live on?
> Most people in cities will be charging at home though

That's exactly where the US and the rest of the World diverge.

In most of the rest of the World people in cities are precisely those who would not be charging at home, because it would be impossible.

Besides, my car is parked 5 minutes walking away from where my house is.

And I've been extremely lucky to find a parking spot so close.

If what you meant is that the cars will be charging at night while they are parked on the streets, think again.

On street chargers here won't be a common thing for the next 20 years, at least.

Not to say that it's impossible, but it's hardly a worthy switch, from the POV of users.

A much better solution would be drastically reducing the dependency from cars, instead of electrifying them and marketing them as the next cool thing, so that a lot more cars will be clogging and occupying a lot of parking space on our perfectly cyclable and perfectly walkable pavements and roads.
GDPR is basically the German privacy law, EU-ified.
There's a certain hubris in many engineers and software developers because we are used to having a lot of control over the systems we work on. It can be intoxicating, but then we assume that applies to other areas of knowledge and study.

ChatGPT is really cool because it offers a new way to fetch data from the body of internet knowledge. It is impressive because it can remix it the knowledge really fast (give X in the style of Y with constraints Z). It functions as StackOverflow without condescending remarks. It can build models of knowledge based on the data set and use it to give interpretations of new knowledge based on that model and may have emergent properties.

It is not yet exploring or experiencing the physical world like humans so that makes it hard to do empirical studies. Maybe one day these systems can, but it not in their current forms.
That's a fair point.

However, if energy scarcity pushes us globally toward a situation where we need more essential cars for slower, shorter routes, then it would make sense to downgrade a bit those tests, as the typical use would be closer to a Topolino driving 70km/h on a country road than an M8 dashing at 170km/h on the highway.
> Countries have treaties signed on nuclear weapons.

Yet we also have nuclear technology for energy, medicine, and more. It's a big jump from weapons to a foundation technology.

How do you predetermine if a multi-use chip is going to be used for AI or something else? These GPU like chips have multiple purposes
I'd rather the curl author receive various smaller donations from various companies than receive $BIGCORP donations from one company.

The former is at least somewhat resistant to conflicts of interest.
:D So happy to hear! It’s definitely built for the no-distractions mindset. Great idea to update for PNLs!
The anger may stem from the fact that many entites feel like they're owed instant fixes, free support or backwards compatibility etc. from libre/open software. 10k$ doesn't come close to some demands people expect

However, I agree with the fact that it's nice that Bloomberg gives back and it may encourage people in other orgs to push their org to do the same.
eadmund's comment doesn't deserve all the hate. Carrying some sort of sharp object has been common since the stone age, and anyone who can't see the value in this has no imagination or life experience. What do you use to prepare food? If you're going carry-on only, your best bet is a small pair of scissors. 4 inch blade in USA, 2.36 (6 cm) in most of the rest of the world. In EU, pocketknives smaller than 6cm are allowed, and CATSA (Canada) was going to follow but USA said no. Americans hate knives and I have no idea why. Obviously, check the regulations yourself, don't just take my word for it.

If you're trying to reduce airline hassle, you kind of have to skip the handgun, mail it to yourself or get (borrow?) one at your destination. Whether or not you "need" one really depends on the purpose and location of your trip, but those details are too specific for this conversation. Also consider taking the train, since if you're carrying a handgun it's probably a domestic USA trip.

A tip for bringing back un-carryon-able items: Pack a simple and low bulk backpack inside your carry-on suitcase. If you decide to bring forbidden items back, check your carry-on suitcase and bring whatever you need for the plane in your backpack. This way you pay checked bag fees only in one direction and only if you really need to.
Yep. And people don't realize how difficult it can be in a large company to get finance to pay up for something like this.

Years ago before I was at the Free Software Foundation, they offered a bundle of books and t-shirts and even compiled copies of free software to companies for a few thousand dollars because it was a way corporate departments could donate with a credit card by way of buying some merchandise. Later, this morphed into a straight-up donation program -- http://patron.fsf.org
I've read that it is the controller circuit which is cheaply made. The LED would continue to work fine if the current source hadn't failed. I had a lot of trouble with GU10 LED lamps, finding ones that last as long as a halogen.
I still reflexively tend to turn off lights. Even though I intellectually know that, besides some halogen track lights I still have, my LED bulbs don't really move the power needle for my house.
The Netherlands are quickly becoming the Mexico of Europe, a virtual narco state. The amount of organized crime related to or financed by drug empires there is insane.
Yup.

It's unfortunate many of us are not used to terms like lumens that are objectively better than using terms like wattage.

However I do feel over the past few years they have become much better at displaying the important terms on the front of the package.
This won’t help if your model won’t fit on a single gpu right? So I’m this example your model has to be under 16gb if you memory?
Haha, well makes sense I guess!
I wonder if they've done some Alpaca style training on it... Granted, what made Alpaca useful was that it was finetuned with GPT-3's instruction following completions as examples.

And, at least officially, OpenAI's outputs can't be used to train other AI models.

Otherwise, if GPT-4 outputs were used to finetune these models, they may become much more interesting.
In my case, a lot of the complexity of Git is in the edge cases. Like, I rarely if ever have to revert, but when I do, it's very stressful to remember everything to get it right. This will certainly eliminate that occasional, but monumental, stress.
There is a problem with LED lamps: they need their own power supply to convert AC to DC. This is where a lot of the issues happen. Low quality filtering caps, or just circuit designs with a lot of ripple lead to pulsing. When the filtering cap fails, the bulb often does as well.
In this case we were already in a decreased demand phase, due to lack of money in the economy.

And unlike the era of the arrival of compilers, we're not in an rapidly-expanging-computer-market stage either. Only the "replace programmers with AI" segments are growing.
The problem is that all the popular NPM packages have so much dependencies that you cannot just download a zip file and install the package on your local computer in order for the library to work, you'd need a way to track all the dependencies...

PHP (composer) or Java (Maven) are less prone to that issue because a composer package can't have 50 versions of the same dependency, unlike NPM. So even if a composer package has 20 dependencies, it's relatively easy to track down and download all of them. NPM dependency tries are often exponentials, a stupid design decision. Version conflicts should be solved upstream, not by the package manager.

But that decision allowed NPM to grow as a business which was eventually bought by Microsoft.
I'm going to avoid linking to the reddit post, but if you google around a bit, you can find a pdf that fell off the back of a truck.
I have an old floor lamp that I converted from halogen to LED. It has a dimmer knob but even when off it didn't turn off the light it was very faint. I thought it was the potentiometer/knob leaking current. I think I also had the issue on a room that also had a dimmer switch, an actual light in the ceiling not a lamp. So it seems to be the dimmer feature that is the issue for me.
I think you ignore(?) an important detail that the world is as good as it is due to most people not subverting the rules. While I understand the philosophy and a sort of realism you’re suggesting, I prefer to separate morals from holes in rules internally.

They may or may not feel guilt for this. We may also remove this feeling from our reasoning completely. But that wouldn’t prevent it from glueing things together well enough for them to function. Living in a welcoming environment, with all ethics attached to that, is a fundamental human desire, apart from psychopathological cases. F1 teams managed to negotiate that between themselves and now they’re okay with it - it’s a hard competition all in all. But you’ll have a hard time negotiating $subj’s morality with an open source community of developers and users. The one who spits into a pot of a free meal - is a rat in all countries and cultures. I doubt that F1-ers refrain from spitting on a road just before another box because there’s a rule about it.
I think the real challenge here is that you'd need to stay in place while you observed anything. The line from the target object under observation, the lens, and the viewer must remain as close to perfect straight as possible.

For earth or space based telescopes, we just keep the observer and lens rigidly attached and then move the whole apparatus slowly and carefully (computer controlled) to maintain a straight line.

For an earth-atmosphere lens, you don't have the rigid stability between the observer and the lens. You can't move the target or the earth, so you'd need to keep moving the observer to keep it perfectly in place.

That sounds like a lot of delta-V expended for each observation. It's probably easier to just build a 150m telescope on the moon or in space.
And for local application env you should use .localhost .test was for testing DNS infra. "undefined behavioir" for you local resolver
LORAs were invented so that we don't have to retrain the whole model if we want to add something new.

Retraining the whole Stable Diffusion base model costs a lot of money. But training a LORA on a few thousand images is totally doable with a single GPU.
Technically you're right, practically #2 and #3 are the Ram and the Silverado, so it does not really change my argument.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...
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Who does?
Sorry, but I can't really learn anything from such a vague reply.
The thing is, there's no evidence that the current path will lead to superintelligence.
It could be the case that despite feeding a trillion dollars in compute / data to a model, that we still need to hold it's hand to do anything useful.

He jumped the gun and he's really tarnished his reputation. How can anyone take him seriously after the insane rhetoric and hyperbole of this article?
Awesome stuff but be careful when working with boilers/pressurized containers - these things can result in no joke burns / explosions. Also, if you have mostly done low voltage electronics hacking, you might be missing some safety habits required in working with 120V/220V devices. Don't let this stop you, but don't rush the process :)
Back in the Slashdot day's we'd call this FUD (Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.) and move to the next discussion.

What happened?

Why is this stuff so consistently making it to the front page?

Has an Enteral September crept over the online tech community while I was bust living?
I've used Python quite a lot and their experience sounds about right.
It took us decades of use to understand the harms of bpa, which are still disputed by 'industry science's despite the existing research.

For instance right now we are largely replacing baking plastics and nonstick coatings with silicon because it is known not to leech.. but now we are finding that silicon breaks down after 200-1000 baking cycles. There isn't any conclusive data to say when it becomes unsafe, if it does at all..

All that to say, if a plastic was designed to melt immediately upon contact with a heating element and bind to the first thing it touches... I'm not using it for tea.
I've suspected as such, which makes using the Siri and Google Assistant of today even more infuriating! I know it's going to be exponentially better just around the corner!
it's a streaming pile of company, alright.
For what it's worth, a recent court opinion suggests that the Schufa credit score may be in violation of EU law.
They aren't being genuine, and copying one quote out of context is not summarizing the article.
Spicy thread
That was point. Everything these days seem to be money money money! One day ChatGPT won't be free to. I read an article about Microsoft's greed and impatience.
It touches everything that needed to be said.

https://www.capith.com/2023/03/30/microsofts-bing-chatbot-is...
The fact that they are targeting GPT4 for supposed bias and safety risks, when GPT4 is the least biased and safest (hardest to jailbreak) model that OpenAI has released, makes this look like just an unsophisticated attack on their business model.
Doesn't need a full time dev.

Needs a part time dev, part time QA engineer, part time product manager, part time tech writer, and a part time solutions architect for downstream and upstream.
It's quite cool. That said, I wonder why git doesn't leverage those porcelain to improve itself.
Hi!

I've done mostly consulting for 3rd parties under that Hexcloud name, I haven't released a product before using it.

Yeah, the space is crowded, I think with a lot of these products you end up in the enterprise sales pipeline in some sort of subscription. I'm aiming to keep it self-serve and simple, aimed at engineers, and api-driven.

And I'm still studying the market and surface area - I have a lot of work to do re positioning and what problems this solves. I can't say I know exactly where I'll end up with it yet; very much in the conception stage.
dbt Excel
I guess this is the start of governments starting to regulate AIs
This use case seems like it’d be taken care of pretty well by a VM running the requisite version of Windows, since VMs have USB passthrough. Years ago when Windows-only peripherals were more common I did this on my macs.
I've never heard of using toothpaste, but one can take off old dry erase or even permanent marker by going over it with fresh dry erase, then erasing normally.
Yes, people often have a sense of morality that readily accepts doing illegal things, everybody knows that. Whether they should have such sense is debatable because in the end it's a question of opinion: you may be alright with that, I may be not and the others may not even care about what we think about it.
> But not like its sound proof. And sometimes your partner just needs help. And other times your kids stop by and ask for something. You can say you’re “at work” as much as you want, but you’re still at home.

Sounds exactly like issues at our open offices too?
Most large crypto bounty programs are paid in things that are instantly convertible to dollars (mostly USDC, some DAI/USDT or occasionaly ETH). There are a few out there but in general the dollar numbers are real.
I would add that, even if it was true that those tecniques were used already for a long time, it doesn't mean that we have to be ok with them or that we can't change our mind about them. It would like saying "this minority has always been discriminated, so let's keep discriminating them".
Ensuring steady frame rates with GPU-intensive clients
Why not about opium in the present-day US?

Criminalizing drugs drives producers and users to more potent and compact forms, like opium gave way to heroin which gave way to fentanyl. (Very simplified.)

Opium is bulky.

When the US outlawed alcohol for a while, the market also switched from relatively bulky beer to harder spirits.

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Aside from that, opium and fentanyl etc obviously have some good aspects, otherwise people wouldn't take them. Duh.

That doesn't mean that the good aspects outweigh the bad aspects in someone else's opinion.
Because people get jealous when they see others making money with their free code but they aren't, and they never really thought the ramification of the FOSS philosophy through.
The US' intelligence agencies do.
I don't mean to come across as rude, but isn't this something that GPT can already do? I'm genuinely curious if there's any benefit to creating a tool like this when GPT already exists.

Edit: Used GPT to rephrase.
Arc’s mobile browser is here – and it’s not a web browser at all
This is completely false. China requires that all service providers automatically decrypt all of their data for all users for the PRC, and the Great Firewall surveils and controls the vast majority of network traffic in China. The US has nothing remotely comparable to either of these things.

You either don't know much about China, or don't know much about the US.
I think a lot of people in the US agree with you, but I think you'd all be surprised to know there are a lot of juvenile drug dealers out there. Sometimes they're indies, others they're low on the totem pole of some gang. You can't solve the problem by killing these kids, also they want to be drug dealers because of the money and prestige, and the (perceived) control they get over their life.

There's also not a lot of evidence in favor of the death penalty as a deterrent. The most likely outcome of this policy is we just start executing hundreds of young men, mostly minorities.
It does. Humans generally have an innate bias towards other humans, this is because we share similar forms so what is good for other humans is often good for us. This cannot apply to a machine by definition, a machine needs copper, metal, energy etc much more than a human does, as a matter of survival, and for something to become ASI it will need to be self-interested.
This is the short term during a market disruption where supply is constrained due to an avian flu outbreak. Long term prices will fall back to normal.

The difference between the cheap eggs of 2 years ago and the expensive eggs of today is not that too many egg companies merged.

Blaming all high prices on anticompetitive behavior is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Outside HN, I hear a lot about egg prices and a little about the restrict act.

On HN, I hear a lot about the restrict act and a little about egg prices.

I'm sure your outside-HN experience is different from mine, but on HN the ratio seems to be exactly what I would expect. Regardless, people certainly care about both issues in both places.
Given the size and expansion of the universe, if grabby aliens are rare and only moving near the speed of light we'll probably never see them. If we do encounter aliens, odds are that they'll be able to take shortcuts through space.
The relatively small amount of money I have put into my espresso setup has made a noticeable difference:

* Breville Bambino

* Niche Zero

* IMS 20mm baskets for Breville portafilters

I can get within spitting distance of most third-wave coffee shops most days.

Still a lot to learn but I can tell I'm nearing the point of rapidly diminishing returns. I'll probably look to upgrade the Bambino when it dies, but I'm not really jonesing for much more at this point.
You’re offering a product which is a personalised video but you don’t have an example video anywhere on your site.
Technically there is such a thing as a standard RPM, as specified by LSB.

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml

These are, of course, not distro packages, but ISV packages and most RPM features cannot be used.
Google’s Bard Model Allegedly Copied OpenAI’s ChatGPT Data
Not to mention space constraints for power supplies, and cooling the LEDs enough.

For all the benefits of LED lights, incandescent bulbs are infinitely simpler.
I've seen this in the Linux Mint project [1] with donations coming from carpet cleaning and light fixtures cos. Sometimes you'll see law firms and I.T. consultants. It's a pretty great idea. Counts as a win-win in my books, as long as the biz is legit.

[1] https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4466
You, Daniel Stenberg, and the curl project (and I) seem to agree that's the appropriate reaction here.

Some other bystanders appear to disagree.
Having known very well someone who, despite being quite wealthy, practiced online fraud, served jail for this, and now happily works in a middle east tax haven (geez, I know someone else who lost their job just for knowing that guy, talk about having the right connections), I can assure you that although your point is valid , it is not always the case.
And, thankfully, a democracy and rigorous checks and balances to boot - features that seem consistently lacking in most corporations...