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Having only front brake is almost common for fixed gear bikes because they can break rear by retention and fixie counts as a commuter bike.

Also it might be a decent config for learning some BMX tricks because if you want to be able to do a barspin you can not have both brakes.

And if you have a bicycle with a coaster hub and a front brake and your chain is off than you are effectively having only front brakes.
I only visit Buzzfeed through sites like HN so all I see is their better half.
Sorry, I am speaking of the employees taking concerns seriously, not Google itself. I'll edit to clarify.
Presumably in response to this; https://petergabriel.com/news/diffusetogether-ai-video-conte...
So, a couple of blog posts about standard email encryption, with one pushing for a worse in almost every way proprietary replacement?

None of that even applies to this context.
It still is, because I can have my CI use it to determine whether to publish a PyPI package.

Nice try though.

This is definitely a new low for Python. The main issue is just that it was a Microsoft-only launch. All the rest is just window dressing.

It's a good reminder about the Pylance situation in Visual Studio Code. Microsoft tricked people into using closed source. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
It's barfing up text in a form similar to tens of thousands of database troubleshooting guides in its training and filling in context you've given it in your discussion/text prompt. It has no understanding of what a database is and would happily tell you what to name your databases' child if you told it the database was pregnant or other similar nonsense.
> Something tells me the usual critics still won't be satisfied, but these are both a big deal and tell a story about listening to the improvements that were desired by users.

As a current user of Ubuntu (and someone who has only defaulted to Ubuntu from the day Shuttleworth shipped a set of like 10 CDs for me to install Ubuntu), I hope this isn’t Canonical’s take in this situation.

Automatic updates and replacements while using the app was egregious behavior by default, and the fact that users couldn’t turn it off for years is not something that is resolved by them fixing it after users suffered with it for years. The fact that they introduced it without an off switch, something that even Apple, which is the ultimate control freak still provides on iOS, the ultimate corporate control freak platform, is not something to be proud of.

The question it raises is what insane settingless default Ubuntu might push onto its users next. And fixing it years later does not answer that question at all.

The only thing it does is Ubuntu admitting that they were wrong after spending years pretending otherwise. Something they’ve also done with other insane decisions, such as Mir, for example.
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'...the assumed brain function producing entanglement, must use a kind of quantum distillation process on mixed states.'
I thought this was the singer, I was so confused…
your post would be a good response to yourself mate, as your opinion of the US's "role in the conflict" has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing and seems to be bait
What's the easiest/cheapest way to obtain a continuous glucose monitor for someone curious about how blood glucose level correlates with subjective well-being and diet/exercise behaviors, but without a medical need for it?
Third Place is a term I hadn't heard before and now I'm obsessed with the concept. Nice to find a useful comment under an infuriating headline. I want to go to there.
> The latest and greatest engines are not that far from the theoretical thermodynamic efficiency limit. So future designs are running into the hard part of the asymptote.

No. Even if an engine got to the Carnot efficiency, you can still improve it. Massively. You can push a certain quantity of air with a velocity v or 4 times that quantity with half the velocity. The second option produces twice the thrust, for the same fuel consumption. That's the reason engines are getting larger and larger, and going for higher and higher bypass ratios.

Separately, the maximum theoretical (Carnot) efficiency depends on how hot the engine runs. GE has introduced turbines made of silicon carbide, which can withstand absurdly high temperatures. Silicon carbide melts at more than 2800 Celsius, but they don't push it to such limits. But they push it to more than 1300 Celsius [1]. Military jet engines run much hotter though. Exact numbers are classified, but according to [2] the temperature inside F35's engine might reach 2000 Celsius (the actual number is obviously classified). Of course, military jet engines are many times more expensive than civilian ones, with higher maintenance costs, and lifespan about 2 orders of magnitude shorter.

Still the fact that they can run this hot means improvements for the civilian jet engines are possible. And they will happen.

[1] https://www.ornl.gov/news/ceramic-matrix-composites-take-fli...
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285727346_Fahrenhei...
Hi. I'd like to leverage your experience to ask for a JS game engine suggestion for a 2D game that I plan to publish on web and mobile.

I'd like to use something lighter than Unity or Godot.
Not on more modern cars. In an emergency stop situation the front brakes still do the work, but in normal more gradual stop situations traction control biases to the back wheels as much as possible so the front wheels can steer.
It means not putting profits before the concerns of a technology that has already proven to be garbage just because you are nervous about other companies winning the AI hype race.
It sounded like Elon also put a decent probability on the rocket exploding on the pad. In that case, the flame diverter would likely have been destroyed anyway.
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But it is the singer.
> fear remote is here to stay, with all of the wage changes that will create for skilled American labor

I do too. And it means a return of apprenticeship. Nothing more, nothing less.
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> I know, we're just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make/play video games.

I mean, many of the people on this website are the people who work for and enable these very companies in their injustice. The first step is to accept that, if you work for one of these companies, you are the injustice. "But I only work there, I don't make decisions!" people will claim; yet, at the end of the day, they are not only directly enabling these injustices but are very directly benefiting from them! We need to stop talking about these big tech companies as if they are abstract all-powerful gods acting from afar... somewhere, there is a software developer--with a human name--who built this automatic ban system.

At the very least, if you have any friends who work for these companies, and if they aren't actively working from within to make something better--or like... don't have some pretty epic sob story about how they can't get another job and really really need the money for some reason (I'm going to leave this exact line up to the reader, as it is frankly negligible: the vast majority of the people who work at these big tech companies are not hurting for the money and are often part of a whole host of other problems in localized inequality)--it should be made clear to them that you are not OK with their moral tradeoffs.
Maybe because some of us are actual users of Ubuntu, and have deep workflows based on it, with our personal and work lives dependent on running it.

Switching to a new OS isn’t something that’s either easy or a decision that can be made lightly.
Care to describe who these bad people are?

I've been to public libraries in several states known for vastly different politics and have seen the same things: quiet, calm people, old folks, and mothers with kids.
It is the singer.
Fox settled - it could have gone to court and Fox could have won. It's not like the government had much say in the amount which Fox settled for. Fox paying $750 million was their own decision.
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I’m not in favor of it, but most of the global market is too poor to matter.

One of the things I do respect Google for is providing services to poor people, but that doesn’t mean it’s a business advantage.

If you offered me control of the entire Android ecosystem or just Apples iPhone business I’d not even blink to take Apple.
I used them in our kitchen in a small countertop bin. Our kitchen and yard waste are picked up by the city and composted in high heat composters. If I was still doing backyard composting I doubt they would break down.
> it can provide great education and better healthcare to billions.

Correction: if you are in America, *to those who can afford it.
The local airport near me has had an experimental remote tower system since 2018. Prior to this there was no tower which limited the types of aircraft which could use the airport and the services which could operate out of it. They were informed in February that SAAB, the provider of the remote tower service, and the FAA were unable to reach an agreement regarding final certification of the system. SAAB has withdrawn their application for final certification. The remote tower system must be shut down June 30th. I believe the air traffic controllers are located in the Kansas City area and the facility there will remain open because the system is certified and in use some places outside the US.

The FAA is going to provide a mobile tower through September after which the town, which owns the airport, must enter a lease for the tower including manning it with controllers at a cost of $720k per year. The town is currently investigating how to fund the mobile tower and a permanent replacement tower. They are seeking grants and/or considering instituting landing fees. The permanent tower must be completed and certified within 5 years.
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I don’t think it’s that tough. Lie about 2018-2020, then blame the pandemic, lie again about a short stint someplace 2021-2022, and then say you got laid off late last year.

If the options are lying or not getting a job, it shouldn’t be a hard decision. Get friends to be fake old bosses. Try to remember a local restaurant that shut down. Do whatever it takes.
It absolutely is relevant. If you don't have to wear seatbelts you can fit four or five kids in the back seat of a sedan. If each kid needs a seatbelt then you have to buy a bigger vehicle.
It makes more sense to do this for the relatively low volume of plastics than when food stocks are used to produce fuel like alcohol and biodiesel.
I am not awfully sure. Point is I threw you a bone in my first response to you, you know -- "opposite" sides to synthesize, which I now know I shouldn't have done, and you shat all over it. Which is why the conversation with you is over.
It indeed works and loads quick. I am more interested currently in the Vicuna 7B example from https://mlc.ai/web-llm/

Also instead of just "Update Chrome to v113" the domain owner could sign up for an origin trial https://developer.chrome.com/origintrials/#/view_trial/11821...
I believe the idea is more about 'modular' construction.

the towers in the press release are all end of life, and they need replacing, so you may as well toss in being green if you can.
it's interesting that the letter he signed is for large language and language + image (input) models, have nothing to do with this
I think OP was referring to the people that are trying to shut down libraries.
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I'm on the latest Brave (Chromium 112.0.5615.165) and it tells me it is not supported.
Were they also running the currencies on a publicly viewable, worldwide distributed ledger? Could you see exactly where it went and where it came from?

Something is telling me this is a bit different, compared to 19th century banks
Thanks, that's helpful.

It seems to me that he's really missing some of the major concerns about "AI" as it stands today. As often happens with new technology, the old rules that secure rights don't quite fit anymore. E.g., if I were an artist who had spent years developing a unique, recognizable style, I'd be furious to have a for-profit company use my work to create something to imitate my art. It's probably not illegal at the moment, but it easily could be down the road, and it regardless raises real ethical questions. I'm disappointed to see Gabriel fail to grapple with that here, where his cache as a prominent artist is being used by a for-profit company for their own ends.
> The opacity of it all made me a little worried. What similar models exist, trained on actually private information, for more nefarious purposes?

What do you mean by 'nefarious purposes'? If you have illicit access to private data, chatGPT won't reveal anything that isn't already in the data. If your access to private information is legitimate, anything you do with an LLM trained with the information will have the same moral/legal consequences as just using the information directly.
There is nothing about your comment I disagree with. Thanks for sharing as most people are terrified to speak out against these divisive policies. I am hopeful their creators had good intentions but this is just a power play to get those with power to bow down to those without; which is just another form of psychological oppression imho.
Sure, and those can absolutely be valid requirements and considerations.

They weren't part of the wish-list I replies to, though!
Serious wisdom in there.
Author here. Fully agree.

> I agree the LLM is going to produce text that is going to be narratively consistent with the assumptions of the question. But we already know LLMs are giant bullshitters. Is there any reason to think they are doing actual introspection and description of internal state? Or are they just going to give plausible-sounding words?

This sounds like something we could test by inverting the LLM-provided reason of why it can/cannot do something and playing that back through the model.

The example I gave in the blog was, unprompted, the LLM thought it should not generate code that it thought had already been executed. If we take it at face value, I could add a line in the code generation prompt to instruct it to generate code even if it "thinks" it has already executed it. We then assert the outcome.

Not very scientific, but might give us some insight when trialed across thousands of prompts.
Now if only they could either modernize the ATC system or get out of the way and let the airlines do it.
why, if you are in America? afaik chatGPT is available everywhere, & there's a huge amount of alternatives
The original Toyota Tacoma wasn't quite this small, but it was a heck of a lot smaller than the current model. It used to be a compact truck, now it is midsized. I hope this trends shows makers there's demand for smaller pickups.
Your comment would have upped the incidence of said keyword by 33% at the time it was published.
Well said, this thing is here to stay. When I first played around with gpt-4 I was filled with immense dread. I, as many others have, immediately understood what kind of enormous societal impact this would have.

But I put the question to myself, if I could magically wish this thing away, would I? I wouldn't. I understand the many that would, this thing completely upends the status quo. Massive swathes of people will have skills they have built up their entire lives become worthless. But the potential for good that can emerge from this, can potentially benefit everyone and the people that are not benefitting from the status quo the most.

If you think AI is a disaster, think about the potential for medical breakthroughs that can emerge from this. Doctors will spend fewer hours writing charts and more time with patients. Every underprivileged child could have a personalized tutor. The number of discoveries and ideas that can be generated are endless.
Every time you turn a light switch on or use an appliance, you are being charged for the electricity used to run it; this cost is extremely difficult to track, is different for every device you own, and adds up such that at the end of the month the cost is non-negligible (at least to the point where you probably are paying more on utilities every month than streaming media services)... and yet, while people, in the abstract, care somewhat about reducing their usage of such things like water and electricity (and thereby put in at least a bit of effort to prevent the most egregious of wasted costs), almost no one is crippled by the "mental load of evaluating whether each" time they flip a switch or turn on a faucet is "worth it". It is kind of ludicrous that this argument against micropayments somehow holds as much traction with people as it does when essentially all people experience not only experience the obvious counter-example so often as to be nearly every waking minute of every day, it makes up a significant fraction of their overall expenses.
Seems like more of a Yahoo! to me. They have products that are popular, but they're blowing money on crazy ideas like metaverse.
Having just tried out Voila, I do think these products are serving pretty different audiences on the front end.

When I open examples in the Voila gallery, it spends 15s or so building the site, which a dev may tolerate, but a business exec has already given up on.

One of the benefits of a static site for reporting use cases is that it’s just HTML and JS. It loads virtually instantly as it doesn’t hit a database - all the data is shipped with the site.

Open it on your phone when you wake up, in a cab, by the gate at the airport: you’re looking at a mobile optimized site, and 5s later you can finish writing that email with the datapoint you needed.
>Is there any reason to think they are doing actual introspection and description of internal state? Or are they just going to give plausible-sounding words?

Someone needs to call out the double standard applied to AI.

If machines that bullshit are philosophically indistinguishable from intelligent humans, how is it that humans that bullshit are distinguishable from intelligent humans?
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>I have added my name to a letter written by Max Tegmark, Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk amongst others to pause on the release of new AI for six months while we try and figure out what we should be doing, but if we don’t use this time to play with and learn from what we have already created how can we hope to understand it?

this is a great point, and i think represents a really good attitude. it seems like there's a whole lot of people who think if they pretend hard enough, AI will go away. and that's obviously not going to happen - it's a useful tool, and so let's all try to figure out how it can be useful in a productive way, not a world-ruining way. and that means using it.
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Easier said when you collect royalties from a 50y+ catalogue of quality music for yourself.
This Youtuber covers the issues and considerations in this video where he buys and reviews 5 different products:

https://youtu.be/gPpAD8w4jEM
As the article acknowledges, the training data that goes into the chatbots that people actually use in 2023 -- ChatGPT (both the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 flavors) -- are probably very different from c4, which was released 4 years ago. GPT-4's training data is probably a similarly big chunk of the public Web plus a bunch of licensed content. But we can't know for sure because OpenAI has chosen not to disclose any information about the people that they take content from to build their service.
They might or might not be permitted by the FAA to do some unconventional manning of that role when they fly out of BFE, Texas. (but to what end?) I'm sure they do things traditionally when their rockets fly from NASA or Space Force facilities.
I think it's only natural to think of AI as the enemy no? Sure theoretically it means better healthcare, scientific improvement. However what nobody has really answered well is what happens to the artists, writers, programmers, scientists, maybe even doctors and lawyers. As we become potentially obsolete what happens to us. Saying that you can do art as a hobby or programming as a hobby really isn't an answer people want to hear. If you want people to not see AI as an enemy then perhaps you should have that discussion. Just to give an anecdotal sob story, my mother passed away from cancer and if AI means a solution to cancer that is amazing, that no other person has to go through the anguish my mother and family had to go through would be amazing. That still doesn't change the point that what will millions of people do in this new industrial revolution? I've said in other threads that my visa is a working visa, if (when?) AI takes my job without that permanent residence what do I do? I don't have anything that ties me to my home country anymore. For me I can only see AI as a future enemy who can do a lot of good...
I get what you're saying but the airlines are running on computer systems from the 80s that frequently have outages.
The N1 was always doomed to fail because the USSR spies had been found and were given misleading information and plans for the US space program. The US intelligence community snuck bugs into the N1 design by sneaking them into the designs their spies thought they were stealing.
Thank you for building this! I am really excited to try it out on a backlog item this week.

It seems like you really nailed a sweet spot. Analyst first reports as a product that can be extended / enhanced by devs, and both can continue to maintain the project once it ships.
I ran a web site and our e-commerce all ran through PayPal, about $2m a year. One competitor would email PayPal on a weekly basis to tell them we were selling CSAM which was a really great way to get PayPal to instantly block all payments while they investigated.

In fairness to PayPal, and the reason for my reply, is that PayPal's tech staff would go to town and do a very thorough investigation of our entire site, including the back end, to make sure it wasn't true, and then would restore the account. So, some companies do have the staff and willingness to actually make the effort to investigate. I had no problem with PayPal doing it, I just wish they didn't block first, but they were simply covering themselves and I totally understand their business position.
So tired of these kinds of Debbie Downer comments.

It's entirely possible that new technology could drive the cost of these things down even in America.
Sorry, I'm not following your point.
The opposite of "moving fast and breaking things".
Focusing on personal responsibility instead of legislation is a dead end.
I've been thinking more about my post above, and I've come to two conclusions:

1. Don't post late at night.

2. I have no idea how society could integrate with a sufficiently complicated synthetic intelligence. What would person-hood even mean to something that can be instantiated? Easier to not think about any of this.
I would suspect that Japanese kei cars would not pass the safety requirements. Road speeds really are much slower over there. IIRC, the warning alarm on my kei car in the 90s would go off if I exceeded 90 km/h (about 55 mph).