skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did once create a GitHub repo to write a BS target for Haxe.
Called it HorseScript, extending the BS pun.

But, like you, I couldn't justify the time.
Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection
You think OpenAI is going to care unless you have a team of expensive lawyers to back you up?

Microsoft is out there laundering GPL code with Copilot. These companies live firmly in the don't give a fuck region of capitalism. Copyright law for thee, not for me.
Might be stepping up efforts? Just came back to the US from Mexico (Yucatán) with partner and kids, had to make a drug dog walk (you walk at a steady pace as the drug dogs are exposed to you during the 10 meter walk) in the terminal.
Personally I’d love my suburb to go in this direction. There are so many problems with cars.

- They’re expensive

- They make people unhealthy from pollution and inactivity

- They make people anti-social because they never see their neighbors except through the tinted windows of their suburban assault vehicles

- Huge amounts of space is wasted because it’s dedicated to cars for driving or parking

- They pollute the air with emissions

- They create huge amounts of noise pollution

- They restrict the possible amount of housing because of requirements for housing to include space for parking 2+ cars per family

I could go on but a world without cars would be so nice.
> That is the use of AI by militaries, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies.

This is already happening, and has done so for at least a decade - probably longer, but under different names. The trust put in automated systems to flag up suspects of crime has been proven multiple times to have a lot of false positives, often racially biased.

One example is the Dutch childcare benefits scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...). In a response to a handful of Bulgarian scammers that found a loophole in the system (800 bulgarians for a total of €4 million), they installed a fraud prevention team that was incentivised to find as many scammers as possible.

This caused thousands of people - often of Carribean descent - to be marked as fraudsters, had their benefits cut and had to repay all of it, sometimes going years back. This in turn caused stress, people losing jobs and houses, one person killed themselves, others left the country. 70.000 children were affected, of which 2000 were removed from their house.

All because a handful of people defrauded the system, and they employed technology to profile people. And of course, offered incentives to catch as many as they could, rule of law / due process be damned. It's part of the string of right-wing policies that have been going on for a while now.
It's true that YC will tell you over and over to (1) work on your product and (2) talk to users. Those are the "make" and "people" in "make something people want".

If you want to focus on marketing tricks / media hype / "content" / that kind of thing, you're going to hear the above repeatedly, since those are neither (1) nor (2). For my part this reflects well on YC. In fact it's a little reassuring to hear that this is what (some) people are complaining about. If you're a YC startup and want to launch on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches) you're going to hear even more of it from me.

I like this part: "present dry facts—how much money customers already paid you, what the size of the market, if you count all the units you can sell, what you have actually built and what is working today." On the HN side we also push for "just the facts" and urge founders to cut hype and marketing speak. That's as much about the HN audience as core values, but it's nice (and for me a relief) that those overlap.

If building a valuable product, talking to users, and focusing on facts sounds good to you, you should consider applying to YC.

(feel free to discount this to zero based on my bias but I wanted to say it anyway!)
YC only invests in companies that aim big, and have a big opportunity. So you would have to lie to get them to invest, and they likely would catch you out lying. http://paulgraham.com/growth.html and http://paulgraham.com/mean.html gives you some idea (also see http://paulgraham.com/articles.html ).

Giving 7%, but getting say 20% extra when you sell, could be financially sensible (depending on your other costs and benefits).

Do you think it is worth lying?
Faster Whisper is 8x faster than real time on CPU and even faster on GPU. https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper

Vocode uses Whisper for real-time zero latency voicechat with chatGPT. Give their demo line a call to see how well it works: +1-650-729-9536
It is originally a European-based company founded in 2007 and started as a website, mobile app, and data provider serving mainly corporate clients. Meteosource as a service (low-cost weather API) started at the end of 2020 and this is just a new service operated by the same company, not rebranded company or anything else... I don't think there is anything sketchy in this.
I'm in Oregon, just about on the 45th parallel. Not nearly as far north as some people, but winters can be pretty hard light-wise, and SAD is a bitch. I really should move to Arizona or Mexico in the winter.

On the other hand, summers are spectacular.
> Wait was it or wasn’t it?

Doesn't really matter. The problem is the choice for the employer is really:

A risk of paying 3 x whatever (sometimes crazy) number the employee is asking for

versus

Certainty of paying 1 x whatever we settle out of court for

Risk aversion kicks in, and so the company settles.
The code is under GPL but we all worked on it. Do you think GDPR could work?
PWM headlights should be illegal. Full stop.
> the result of cost optimization and general apathy towards the customer

aka capitalism? People prioritize price over quality, but you can't make something better the cheaper it gets. So in an open and "fair" competitive market, all goods and services get shittier over time. It's a race to the bottom.
Regarding whether this can be likened to Cambrian explosion: We don’t know what caused Cambrian explosion but conceivably it was some evolutionary innovation such as vision. Similarly deep learning is a cause for the explosion of new AI use cases.
I code in 5 languages professionally, and I also do infrastructure and architecture. My kid is so much better than me in Scratch; it is embarrassing.
not able to copy/paste images in from the clipboard is very limiting for me. I make my wireframes with powerpoint and love this idea, but I cant do it without snipping stuff around
Adtech is immoral. It has been immoral, it will remain immoral.

When you start diluting what people are actually looking for in an ocean of advertisement, malware, tracking pixels, and surveillance call-homes you've firmly left the territory of the moral.
Not really, that's why I don't put an evaluation criteria of "how close you going to get with the star founders". It's silly to expect that.

I only expected and discusses the community engagement within the batch, and the power of YC connection between the batches. Both are quite low.

The connection to Brian Chesky or Paul Graham is expected to be ~0 from the start.
I had. It really doesn’t help much.
Please read about the opium wars. You have no idea what kind of force you're encouraging passivity to.
I mean, back when it first became a thing it was down frequently (fail whale), but people kept coming back anyway. Downtimes have never been a deterrent for Twitter.
Senate votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations 20 years after U.S. invasion
This comment implies that faith-based 12-step programs aren’t proper treatment, and that is false. Any medical professional will tell you that there’s no alternative that produces better results. The problem is abysmal: both faith-based and non-faith-based approaches perform poorly, but 12-step programs are the industry standard because they are the best we have.

Personally I think the non-faith-based centers only exist as a result of severe religious trauma. I’ve met plenty of 12-step alcoholics who make jokes about how bad things like SMART recovery are. It’s a trope on recovery meme sites.
https://twitter.com/paulwulff/status/1641093942702637057
Visual Studio Code March 2023
According to the copyright board a promot is not anymore than any person commissioning a work from an artist, which does not provide copyright, and the lack of human authorship for the design decisions still stops it from being protected by copyright.
There is a referral program, hey
Try explaining to your wife that this ugly lamp that uses a regular bulb will be better for us in a long term :)
Twitter New API Tiers
It's crazy to me that in 2023, Amazon still refuses to offer meaningful product filtering. The miscategorization of items has been written about many times, and the best explanation for why they're not fixing it is basically "people like digging through piles of trash to find the good stuff". It's an infuriating experience and these days I typically use Google to search Amazon because their basic search will many times fail to show the product when I search for the exact product name or model designation, even when they do in fact carry it. On Google it'll be the first result. Google obviously can't filter Amazon products by category, let alone other parameters, but it's just so frustrating vs using other sites like McMaster-Carr, DigiKey, etc.
Common trope wrt autism as well. It’s not really accurate. There’s plenty of high performing office workers.
Nice. It took about a minute to clone it, run it, enter my API key, and get started. The speech-to-text worked flawlessly.

Most people can talk faster than they can type, but they can read faster than other people can talk. So an interface where I speak but read the response is an ideal way of interfacing with ChatGPT.

What would be nice is if I didn't have to press the mic button to speak -- if it could just tell when I was speaking (perhaps by saying "hey YakGPT"). But I see how that might be hard to implement.

Would love to hook this up to some smart glasses with a heads-up display where I could speak and read the response.
Funny it's called API v2, IIRC the current version is supposed to be v2 as well.
> than trying to push a concept of "alignment" that is not clearly defined or generally understood.

True, I have no good idea of what people mean when they say "alignment". But I also don't have a clear idea of what you mean when you say "symbiosis".

What is your definition of that in this context? What would it look like?
That's not the point - the point is that motivated Americans are the ones driving the fentanyl epidemic.
you would be committing fraud. what happens if a criminal commits fraud?
Are the TOS even enforceable is AI content can't be copyrighted?
My take is that for GPT-4, it has mastery of existing knowledge. I'm not sure how it would be able to push new boundaries.
I don't agree, the parent's point is directly attacking strategy:

> a lot of YC advice, especially w.r.t. what to prioritize, is from an era of startups about 10-15 years ago.

I'm saying any misalignment in strategy matters less than implied. I spend a lot of time with current and past YC founders these days, and the recurring thought has always been "if you know already know business they're not going to teach you that much".

> it adjusts the relative value of something that doesn't help you acquire customers.

Money is how you acquire customers. From outlasting competitors to advertising to improving your product, it's money that turns into customers. So YC being valuable for investing is tantamount to being valuable for gaining customers.
Yikes...

Scratch and Roblox conspiracy to create an army of child developers? :O
The 19 Best Live Streaming Encoders: Software & Hardware
It's not the case around Boston. I directly experience the 1.5+ hours it takes me to commute into the city when I do.

(As the article notes, Boston has some of the worst congestion.)
We at least had, and still have, a lot of government restrictions around these! Companies aren't just allowed to freely manufacture their own stockpiles of nuclear weapons to appease shareholders.
Enterprise is not in Vocode's target market. Target market is startups and individual devs.

There are bloated and over engineered voice chat services for LLMs for Enterprise already.
>One self-driving car who kills a person is not the same one person killing another person

I fundamentally disagree. A dead person does not become less dead just because their family has someone to blame.
Here, https://www.ycombinator.com/investors

1.5 - 2%

Harvard: 4%
Correction – breaking terms of service that you have not explicitly agreed to is not punishable in any way. A site cannot enforce a "by using this site you agree to..." clause deep inside some license page that visitors are generally unaware of. If you violate an agreement that you willingly chose to enter, however, you will likely be found liable for it.
Did search engines result in a local maximum of human ability to organize information? LLMs are the next logical step, except instead of organizing information, they synthesize it. I expect this will lead to increased creative output from humans who will be unburdened of the task of synthesizing information, in the same way search engines unburdened us from the need to organize, recall and locate information.

It may make some people "dumber" in the same way that Google has eliminated the need to commit information to long-term memory. And yet you still remember things, or at least, you remember how to look them up (personally, I often find myself remembering what to search for to find an exact answer, rather than the answer itself). Search engines gave our memory space to remember more abstract, higher level concepts. Similarly, LLMs will free our brain to synthesize higher levels of information.
Twitter I used for several years and may go back now that someone with common sense is at the helm but only ever heard of WeChat and what I heard was mostly negative.
I suspect these simulated keys have no weight/spring back force. Ie. the robot hand doesn't have to 'push hard' to make them go down.

It would be equivalent to you trying to play a holographic piano in the air in front of you. I suspect you'd adopt a very different hand position too.
It does seem like he was not in the right state of mind when he decided to buy for $54.20/share
I don't know if Flickr counts any more but I think they were up there at least in the past.
Do you think taking almost 5 years to approve environmental permits is a reasonable amount of time?
Then the problem is doubly-solved, right? Humans will also be forced to take it slow if we want our AI to be aligned with our own interests.

Oh, wait...
Bedrock has IAPs now? I mean it was useless anyway for running a private server, and only runs on Windows, and automation is limited because they crippled the world update distance to have the omg raytracing! or whatever.

And now it has IAPs too?
No, the case did not decide anything, no precedent was set. The point is that you cannot use this case to argue that you can scrape public data free of consequence
That's a fine answer. Maybe that should be the answer in the FAQ. The website just felt a bit scam-like to me so I did some more research. Finding out stuff like that, when it isn't clear on the website, only furthers the gut feeling of "this might be a scam".

Your answer ignores why you didn't pursue forecasts.cloud as this new venture instead of meteosource though.
Docker and Kubernetes founders talk about the future of cloud
> Why couldn't they just add ads within the API

Because the first thing every 3rd party client will do is ignore the ads and not show them to users.
Philips is generally a safe bet, and G.E. + Osram are as well. The generic crap at Home Depot and Amazon and Walmart that costs 1/4 as much will probably perform awful, but could be a hidden gem. Some dead giveaways are total lack of heatsinks and low price, but higher price does not necessarily equal good quality.
SIMD or related low level accelerator stuff
I think AI might influence one number in particular: How much of fraction of a population you need to have behind yourself in order to maintain power.

My worry is the kind of society that falls out of that equation.
> If Google indexes a blog, how does it know whether it was written with AI assistance and therefore should not be used for training

Yes, this is an existential problem for Google and training future LLMs.

See also, https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-... and https://searchengineland.com/verge-best-printer-2023-394709
As someone who needs to be 1x a month in Paris for a week I can confirm that I was hugely impressed. On red lights you sometimes see so many bikes (congestion) that you can’t even see where it ends. On streets like near the louvre/palais royale the quietness was beautiful instead of the highway-feeling it used to be.

However one element my coworkers tell me is that typically Parisien houses (old houses) have no parking space for bikes. So even if one of the assistant would want to come by bike she can’t park it a home. Streetparking will result in theft or demolition. So the problem is not solves by only reworking the steets.
I Never Asked to Be Transhuman: A Call for the Creation of the Turing Police
I think that's been the practice for sometime now; we had to do the same thing at Puerto Vallarta's airport a few years back.
Yep! Should be supported - we have standard CRUD apis for managing data/documents
IIRC one of Hedy’s unique features is that it gradually increases in complexity as you “level up” including introducing what we’d call “breaking changes”. At level 4, they start allowing and requiring you to quote string literals: https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/4#default
It's disappointing that they're putting time and effort into this rather than into legislation aimed at reducing the abuse of the public by online advertising companies.
Yes we already have tools to ban TikTok if this is what we need. Instead they want a law which would allow them more and more ways to criminalize our own people. Message to them - GFY.

>"the Constitution isn't a suicide pact."

Acknowledged long time ago - do not yell fire in a cinema example.
To state the obvious, the more successful people are the more unlikely children fit into the schedule. If one is never home, beyond genetics, the success wont rub off onto the next generation. Work form the office seems a terrible long term plan.
The real problem are the disgusting sound mixes that make you not hear voices and have your ears explode when a car passes by.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/symbiosis

It is widely defined, established, and prevalent in nature. Pointing an AGI to "symbiosis" will give it a plethora of examples and ways to optimize for a symbiotic relationship with humanity and the planet. It is a much, much better optimizing function than some stupid human-centric "Alignment-problem" we are trying to solve for.
This is fine. The fret is the important part, it’s the part you want to communicate, the space between the frets is just where you touch the strings if you want a clear sound, and your guitar is fretted. You can place your fingers directly on the frets, it just makes a different sound.
Testing YakGPT right now, excellent work! I would recommend adding some screenshots to the GitHub README so that people can get an idea of how it looks before entering their API key.
I'd like to have an RSS feed that aggregates independent blogs that I can point my RSS reader at. I would like to subscribe to more blogs like

https://lachlangray.blot.im/

and

https://paper-chan.moe/

but my RSS reader is sucking in content from superfeedr which charges me 10 cents a feed per month which is a bargain for arxiv.org or The Guardian but not affordable for a blog that posts once a week. Yeah, I can write my own RSS feed sucker-downer or find one and I may do that, but superfeedr's pricing is somewhat reflective of the hassle involved. Some kind of aggregator would put this content within reach and w/ my filter I'd have no problem adding between 100-2000 more articles a day.
If the warranty expires, buy the same ones from $BIG_BOX_STORE and return the broken ones. The companies send them back to the mfgs for credit. They'll get the hint eventually.
You're letting semantics shape your reality. Simply because a police action is called a 'war' doesn't mean when it refuses to go away forever there was a failure or its hopeless to have any enforcement action whatsoever.

Crime of many categories will always exist, that doesn't mean we should give up on policing.
You could use a ConstitutionalChain with langchain to say it’s allowed to make vulgar responses? I’ve seen people demo bad things with it and then used it to make it good, so I assume you could leave it as the bad thing :P
Interesting stuff - and thanks for digging! Here's what I just got.

Q: Which is faster, a Pi Zero or a 486/33?

A: It is difficult to compare the speed of a Raspberry Pi Zero with a 486/33, as they are built on different architectures and were designed for different purposes.

However, in general, the 486/33 is likely to be faster than the Raspberry Pi Zero. The 486/33 is a desktop-class processor from the early 1990s, while the Raspberry Pi Zero is a low-power, single-board computer designed for embedded systems and IoT projects.

The 486/33 has a clock speed of 33MHz and typically had a performance of around 30-40 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), while the Raspberry Pi Zero has a clock speed of 1GHz and a performance of around 1,000 MIPS. However, it is important to note that performance depends on the specific tasks and applications being run on each system.

Edit: Asking exactly the same question as you (in a new chat) it concluded the Pi Zero was indeed faster. The answer includes this little gem:-

">The 486/33 has a 32-bit architecture, which means that it can process data in larger chunks than the Pi Zero, which has a 64-bit architecture."

I'm not knocking it - it's very impressive - so really I'm exploring the limitations of it as an everyday tool.
I'm dating a chatbot trained on old conversations between me and my ex
The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is terrible
Its great that they don't do any man-in-the-middle like cloudflared
Search image for an Orange Circle. The results are hilarious
We can add this! We have image drag n drop already so should be very easy to also support pasting from clipboard.
> Today, already, you can set up a red zone watched by computer vision hooked up to autonomous turrets with orders to fire at anything it recognizes as human.

Sure. You could also achieve broadly similar effects with an autonomous turret with a simple, unintelligent program that fires at anything that moves, or with the 19th century technology of tripwires attached to explosives. The NN wastes less ammo, but it is't a step change in firepower, least of all for someone trying to monopolise power over an entire country.

Dictators have seldom had trouble getting the military on side, and if they can't, then the military has access to at least as much AI and non-AI tech to outgun them. Nobody doubts computers can be used to kill people (lots of things can be used to kill people), it's the idea that computers are some sort of omipotent genie that grants wishes for everyone's firstborn to die being pushed back on here.
Yeah there's not much you could personally do, other than maybe report it to the California Energy Commission. Bulbs need to be lab tested and the results submitted to the CEC, but I'm not sure how the lifespan testing is actually done, how accurate it is, or how easily it could be manipulated.
Sure, but GPT-4 through the UI costs $20 per month, which is a lot of api calls.
Audio-engineer: professional setting up live and studio environments.

Audiophile: crackpot with a $2000 bundle of boutique digital audio player and headphone amp hooked up to some head cans worth more than my monthly income riding the subway.