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> The James Webb telescope cost 10 billion, but that was spent over 17 years, and it should work for 20 years or so.

> Compared to the budget as a whole, it is insignificant.

No. A lot of the cost of the JWST was driven by the limitations of the launch vehicle. Engineers needed to come up with the very complex folding and unfolding mechanism, and that was for a thing produced in a quantity of 1.

Once the SpaceX Starship gets going, these limitations disappear. All of a sudden. I predict that by the end of this decade there will be numerous telescopes in the sky with capabilities surpassing JWST's, and built and launched for dirt cheap compared to JWST.

One problem with science is and will always be this: things that cost $10 billion now might very well cost $100 million in 2 decades.

The question that nobody asks when funding mega scientific projects is not what is the bang for the buck, but is it worth to pay big bucks for a given bang now, or can we wait 2 decades and get the same bang for 100 times less money?
> A Maverick is just an open air hatchback.

Not always. Sometimes it's a weird little muscle car platform.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(1970–1977)
I guess if you're starting something from scratch today you'd be better off using https://openresty.org/en/ (based on nginx and Lua) than TCL on this?
Not really, at least not in my terminology. Classes (in the pfp world) are pretty much just a bundle of free functions with some predefined bindings that are available to all those free functions, and putting those functions into their own namespace.

Those are valid things to do even in pfp.

data classes are technically similar or even identical but conceptually a different thing (though of course also useful and needed).
Definitely. I'm thinking LLMs are capturing real world structure of some kind that the brain also taps into except with a different algorithm and also stores it differently.
I gave 4 months notice once, at a 15-person company where I was the lead of a 3-person team responsible for everything technology at the company. My boss was the sort who would tell people to leave immediately, and happily pay the 2 weeks they intended of notice. But I was critical to the functioning of the company, and I was able to hire and onboard a successor. I continued consulting part-time for a while past the end of my employment, it was good for everybody. I've never worked at a job where I would afford the company such a luxury of my time.
This is me making up head cannon and has no basis in any sort of fact. I'm totally excited to be wrong about this but I bet in 10 years we find out that all the lame metaverse shit was stuff Zuck was contractually obligated to do and the reasons JC left was he was sure Zuck didn't really want to work on interesting things and he left and he made Mark have to go parade himself into the world and make a tool out of himself.

Also, I 100% support Mark's rights to his ownership of his company and to totally torch something so great in the way he did it. It was absolutely choice to watch.
Maybe for Intel-based Macs. With Apple Silicon Macs, I don't think that's true anymore. You can get cheaper computers, sure. And maybe you can get better ones. P

But not ones that are both better and cheaper. The M1 and M2 chips turned that market on its head.
If you think AI is a disaster, think about the potential for medical breakthroughs that can emerge from this.

The “think of the good” argument is over played. Same was true for combustion engines, they will probably send us extinct.

I’d like it if people just stopped with it. People aren’t idiots, they know good things and very bad things can be achieved.
Oh cute, a thinkpiece for a hot button topic exists on the internet. Meanwhile Motor Vehicle Deaths have not changed significantly in 40+ years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Before a rewrite in Java around 2009, MapQuest ran on AOLserver. Tcl was a bit of a surprise to me, and struck me as a very powerful dynamic language.

If AOL had open sourced it sooner it might have occupied the “A” in the LAMP stack.
This also adds an Install App (or changes the feature from "Add to Homescreen" on Android Chromium-based browsers.

Thanks!
I know I’m missing the point, but many exchanges have support for defining and executing spread strategies atomically.
Just gonna leave this right here...

https://medium.com/@marisnaylor/continuous-glucose-monitor-c...
Is it called "CozoDB" or Cozo? Your README is inconsistent.
So the "AI Giants" that have already trained models using SO / Reddit data will have a perpetual advantage over any newcomers trying to come up. So yeah, totally not a fan of this position from SO / Reddit. Anybody trying to democratize access to foundation models, who isn't (Google|OpenAI|Meta|Microsoft) is now going to find the on-ramp even steeper than ever. As if it wasn't bad enough just paying for compute time.

OTOH, I get why Reddit, SO, etc. would take this position. And I have some sympathy for them in that regard. But the idea of locking in the centralization of powerful AI models is, to me, a bigger problem than Reddit or SO optimizing their profit margin by a percentage point or two.
Try chrome canary
Just a heads up ChatGPT isn’t a substitute for a real doctor.
Zipcar ran on this until recently.
Hilariously, the self unaware downvoters proved your point.

I just find it amazing that we essentially achieved something very close to equal opportunity, but because that didn't produce equal outcomes it wasn't good enough, and now we have equity in its place.

I still think that there is a strong possibility that all of this was created to serve as a distraction from the real issues to keep the masses from guillotining the elites for their corruption and destruction of the middle class.
There are many "viable" options to advertising with AdSense!
as I understand it a cellular sheaf complex assigns vector spaces to nodes and linear transformations to edges
Why wasn’t tensorflow good?
Yeah I really hate this line of argument as well. We obviously understand it can have a lot of beneficial effects in society. It's a strawman to say that people don't see that. The problem is nobody seems to be properly discussing the bad things that can and will occur.
Doesn't really matter. You load up a wallet like you do today and have for decades then pay people from that. FedNow unequivocally solves this problem, and I guarantee you, it won't lead to micropayments because payments infrastructure is not now and has never been the blocker.

After all it's also not something people in countries with lower interchange or instant payments want.
Kuasar: An efficient multi-sandbox container runtime
Also, nobody wanted to run the old Firefox-based distro where the userspace (from X up) was in XUL.
No, hilariously Buzzfeed News was top tier investigative journalism, and at their best was as good as anything done by NYT or WaPo.

The business model seemed to be "what if we have truly great investigative journalism, funded by clickbait listicales that we, inexplicablly, use the same brand for".

It's easy to mock the branding decisions they made (and not entirely unfair) but it's still a loss to the internet to see them go.
Also losing control and hitting a tree with your front crumple zone is much better than hitting the same tree side on with the driver door

That is the understated safety factor of understeer, but people prefer to think in terms of never doing mistakes instead that in terms of overall safety
Plus "giving up on long term PGP" doesn't really apply here. You can add and remove GPG keys on GitLab every day if you like.

I have respect for those who still have a private key to go with a public key they created 10+ years ago. I don't, except maybe on the encrypted hard drive of a dead laptop on which I haven't gotten around to doing data recovery.
> Imagine if your upvote button was wired directly into your wallet and extracted some amount of money with every press.

Every press? Nobody has ever proposed that. All I want is a button in my browser (not on websites) that I can configure ahead of time. Perhaps I'd set it to $0.10. Then, when (and only when) I want, I can click on that button, knowing it will attempt to send $0.10 to the website I'm currently viewing, if that website has set up the ability to receive money in this way.

Maybe I won't click it for a week, but then click it ten times on one article (or website) to send a dollar to that site.
Was that flame bait? I thought it was common knowledge.
> All-electric building systems

What? Are there current control towers that run on something besides electricity from the grid? What is this actually talking about, backup generators?
"Build one to throw away. You will anyway."
for laughs i tried to recruit people to make a FOSS banner rotator (or actually multiple formats of it) I imagined it funny to plaster website with advertisements pointing at actually good and free things. I made some banners but this takes time and using names and logos without permission makes it hard to make funny things however noble the effort.

Thankfully no one was interested, more like the opposite. The FOSS community is full of people who passionately hate promotion. If they see it on the horizon they explode in rage.

Meanwhile I cant find things I know must exist and no one knows what I've made. There has to be an answer to the riddle but it takes better men than me.
If you're doing ~20 other FP ops (not including division) per inverse square root and not using a huge dependency chain of inverse square roots, you might not even notice the impact of using an exact inverse square root with this method.

Short of functions like exp and the trig functions, DIY approximations are usually not worth it these days. However, FP division getting faster has made these functions faster, too, since they can now use rational approximations rather than pure polynomials.
Lovely interview, super long read, mostly in Marianne’s own words. Lot’s of insight into the skill of acting.
I too couldn't recognize him. I had to dig around the main site and verify that this is indeed the Peter Gabriel that we all know.
I've driven a Camaro year 'round in Minnesota for the last 10 years. The only place I've gotten stuck is our own (sloped) driveway, a few times. Snow tires are amazing, and it's ridiculous how few people have them here. It's always a hoot borrowing someone's pickup in the winter that they feel is oh-so-good in the snow and realizing how carefully I need to drive it because of their all-season tires. I literally plowed a road with the front of my car this year through nearly 2 feet of snow.

To be fair, they probably wouldn't get stuck in my driveway but I can stop a hell of a lot quicker and turn if necessary. I also find controlling a near spinout to be more intuitive on a RWD vehicle than a FWD one, but that might be just because my first car was RWD as well.
"Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35580959 lists a few REPLs
My Eid Mubarak
ty, not reinventing is the purpose of my post :) I've explored using PowerBI a bit, it doesn't seem to be geared towards extracting the data once it's in PowerBI. I'd want to be able to query the data from other services, for example grafana so that we could set up alerting. There doesn't seem to be a clean way to do this, all I could find was https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/datasets...
Natural gas heat. It’s keeping in line with administration policy on climate change, electrification, etc. Building energy use is a substantial component of national energy consumption. Proper insulation and high performance building standards means heat pumps should be sufficient (and can run off diesel generators air traffic control infra would run on in a power outage regardless, as it’s critical infrastructure).

Cost savings are there too, the grid gets cleaner and cheaper over time as renewables penetration hockey stick growth curve. Furnaces and boilers burn gas their entire lifetime.

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy

https://www.c2es.org/document/decarbonizing-u-s-buildings/
Man I miss the old internet. It was a wild adventure around every corner with a huge diversity of tech and self hosted everything.
Twitter removes hateful conduct policy protections for its trans users
Why? More regulation almost always ends up helping the big players.

Are you suggesting removing any regulations?
I^n is just a countably infinite subset of R^n.
Wow thanks, no kidding, just bought from Fully last year and totally missed that. Although, I am somewhat of a Miller/Knoll fan having bought multiple of their chairs second hand, they do have all the features and generally last forever.

Can Fully still exist as a B-corp longterm? I hope so. My Fully standing desk supports are excellent, working great with an oversized 8’ desktop I grabbed from Home Depot. My office mate and I bought a matching pair for our private office aka post-covid coworking space. Would buy again.

https://officerepublic.news/en/2019/09/knoll-acquires-fully/
> I'd be interested in what survey you are referring to.

Its the same as mentioned in the video.

> But I was mainly responding to your comment ...
> Unless GPT-4 specifically is believed to be a threat to the human race ...

That's flawed logic. A false dichotomy, and also begs the question as to who decides it is a threat.

As for whether its dangerous, I think the fact that the model they discussed in that video shipped and deployed publicly before anyone knew it had embedded knowledge of research grade chemistry capable of some horrific things, all without the knowledge of the people who designed it. It was only discovered after the fact, and that is pretty disturbing.

With dangerous and existential threats, its not considered safe until deemed unsafe, its by-default considered unsafe until deemed its safe. That's how you limit tragedies.

We can disagree, but if we do I sincerely hope you do not touch this stuff.
The model "parameters" for the DNA encoded part can't be much more than about a billion. Basing this on the size of genomes and their information content (they are often repetitive).
This wave of AI has the power to be incredibly transformative for good, but not given any of the current economic or copyright systems we have now.

I don't know how any of the proponents can pretend that this isn't an abject disaster on the horizon for anybody who depends on copyright to make their living.

This is the natural progression to the unnatural properties of the shared delusion of pretending like ideas are property or that it every was natural to keep them artificially scarce. If we lived in an ideal system where ideas are free, copyright didn't exist, and artists and programmers could survive and thrive without the ability or need to hoard their work as if they were physical goods, this would be a non-issue. The system was antiquated for the needs of the modern world for multiple human generations already, and this is the dam breaking.
it's the salt water, it corrodes and ruins everything metal it touches.
I worked the BP oil spill building hesco barriers in the Guard. I highly doubt their issues are from the oil. Not saying it wasn't but this was a very short event. Weeks to a couple of months at best. I know there were PPE protocols. Were they wearing it at all times? Probably not. It is Louisiana. Hot as hell. From the pics I don't see anybody wearing basic PPE but I do recall many workers were wearing it. This is also one of the most unhealthy places on the planet. Poor diet, little to no exercise. Are those factors? Of course they are. Add aging of 13 years ago and many of them are not healthy oil spill or no oil spill.
Nope. It's not that individuals are offended or whatnot. It's that a ton of people will literally never be able to use this tool because they've never heard of it.

They will not have heard of it because many of the kinds of people who might be able to introduce them to it will not take it seriously because it is a fundamentally unserious name.
This is all true…and also American drivers are legitimately aggressive toward these kind of vehicles.

They have a terrible reputation, primarily because they get used a lot by people who can’t afford a car.

I wish it were different, but driving a moped/Vespa on American roads is a pretty big risk.
I wonder to what extent they can prefabricate and produce pieces of these that can arrive on site on DOT width/height compliant flatbed trucks.
However what nobody has really answered well is what happens to the artists

So does the world currently only listen to singer-songwriters on acoustic guitar at small local venues?

The humanity in the consumption of art has been subject to mass commodification for centuries at this point.

This process is driven by money and not love. Technology has nothing to do with it.
I live in Minnesota and very few people buy snow tires, and most balk at it. They don't realize the difference it makes.

I regularly drive in conditions in my damned Camaro where the only other vehicles on the road are trucks, with some of them not being on the road anymore.
With appropriate rounding modes, the basic operations (+, -, *) are fairly short code sequences. Things like exp and 1/x can become adventures, but they're not too bad.
Two things jump to mind:

* Okta has customer service people. So if there are issues, you can get help.

* SSO is Okta's main business, as opposed to a side hustle competing for attention with a gushing cash machine. That means they'll continue to move it forward.

I work for an Okta competitor, but those are the reasons that come to mind for me.

That said, Google is great for companies up to a certain size and Okta isn't going to be cheap. But at some point you get what you pay for.
You're showing off a perfect example of understanding your domain vs understanding the bigger picture.

In your mind not having "100% child safety" is apparently equivalent to "not solving health and safety risks". Unfortunately that's not a take that's compatible with the reality on the ground. The internet is not 100% child safe and if we had locked it up until it was, there'd be no internet.

What people fail to understand is that sometimes settling for something strictly worse in domain terms results in a much better overall outcome.

—

For example, who's having more impact on the future of safety and alignment in LLMs:

- Someone working on ethics at OpenAI; who settled for Google's "80%" on all topics including child safety and is therefore empowered to actually achieve that (with a massive head start on learning how alignment is being broken in the real world)

- Or someone working on ethics at Google; who was stuck on 100% until their project stalled and their entire opinion got discarded and they get laid off and the thing goes out with an "experiment" label and significantly less testing?

You can't steer the ship if it sinks. Some companies are currently at a place where everyone has their hand on the rudder pulling in their own direction as the ship runs into an iceberg because everyone is certain that their direction is correct, and the other direction is certain doom for humanity. At the end of the day you need to learn to discard that sort of extremism, the world is not that black and white.
There is disaster communication below emergency alerts. The article gave example of Turkey earthquake where people were coordinating supplies on Twitter. Or weather alerts that aren’t emergencies but people want to follow.

Mastodon would work for those. But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them.
> there should be a right to choose to refuse it

Even out of the context of AI, I think this isn't stressed enough in general copyright discussion, especially around piracy.

People often say that piracy doesn't actually reduce the sale -- which I fully agree -- but that's not the only concern artists have, especially some indie ones. I have seen both illustration/musical artists explicitly stating they don't care if "their work is enjoyed and known by more people because of piracy", they only want paid users to get it. I don't even agree with this sentiment, but I respect it since it's their choice to make, not mine.
Thank you, that makes sense. Plus with vector search there seems to be ways of shoehorning FTS with it. Could also potentially use sqlite storage and piggyback off SQlite FTS5 but not sure how well that setup could work
In a way yes but not entirely, there is a larger loop of the language model that is in effect what consciousness is.

The cool thing about this is that we could actually use more efficient language models (think GPT 3.5 instead of GPT 4) as the core language model and achieve a much higher level of problem solving capability with this loop. People are already on to this idea with things like baby AGI but I don't think anyone else has defined the exact structure and how it describes consciousness yet as I think I have.

Edit: there are also things that I've been able to nail down like short term and long term memory that are key to consciousness as well.

Edit 2: Note that conscious minds do not solve in real time, after giving a human a problem to solve it has to spend time thinking before it can come up with a solution. Read: consciousness is not feed forward.
OK, so I actually happen to be an elected government official, and I additionally have spent a lot of my time working on attempts at getting legislative relief from DRM. And, you know what kind of sucks? At the end of the day, democracies reduce back down to personal responsibility, as you rely on people to vote, lobby, and even donate.

So like, here's the question: if we are going to give the people we know at Google a pass for their injustice because "don't hate the player, hate the game"... are we also going to give them a pass when they don't get involved in the attempt to get the laws changed against Google?

Most of the people I've known who work for Google seem to like Google, in no small part because of all of those benefits they receive due to all of the injustices they are enabling. Even if they feel a bit bad about what Google is doing, they still refuse to get involved because they claim it will get them in trouble at work... which is just the same problem, just shifted around a bit.

At the end of the day, all we have is "personal responsibility": if you keep shifting the blame for the things that happen in the world to the system and keep waiting for other people to come up with a solution, you've done nothing but become a demonstration for the tragedy of the commons.
John Deere 'Kill Switch' renders stolen tractors useless (2022)
I miss it too. We've lost so much. Anytime I find a self hosted web page with very basic html, I get excited.

I learned that there's a whole corner of the web where Japan never left web 1.0 design. The thinking being, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

God bless Japan.
It is typical to have a need for exact bit-by-bit equality between outputs. For integrity and security purposes.
For niche topics you probably can.
Prior to this JEP I always thought there was some big mystery reason in the JVM why this wasn’t allowed.

I would possibly guess the original authors were trying to maintain consistent lock acquisition ordering. Turns out it was “just because” (Not always a bad thing, but maybe a bit over restrictive here).
Peter Gabriel is fucking courageous. I love it. I'm a 50+ programmer. I can absolutely feel this shit pressing on me. Good. Are people right that there are ethical concerns, absolutely. We need to get busy realizing the potential and dealing with the issues.
How did Nadella yank the empire builders out of Microsoft?
I miss cgi-bin urls after form submission.