skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's being disingenuous and hoping people are too stupid to see the implication of what he's proposing. He's saying it's fine if there's a kiddie pool, but that there should be a glass ceiling beyond which regulation kicks in.

Where will that glass ceiling be? Well of course it'll be just behind where OpenAI and other market leaders are at any given time. The argument will be made that because we know current offerings are safe, the ceiling should be just below current offerings.

So it becomes basically illegal to compete with market leaders, namely OpenAI/Microsoft and Google. Other huge corporations will be able to buy their way into the club but upstarts will find it nearly impossible.

Regulation will also require that everyone doing anything non-trivial report it to regulatory bodies so existing market incumbents can become aware of it. They can then prepare a strategy to respond either by lobbying to block it with regulation or preparing a market response ahead of time using massively greater resources. No stealth mode AI startups or other private efforts that OpenAI et. al. don't know about would be allowed.

The end result of this will be to push innovation in this area off shore and open source onto the dark web.
Better yet: stop reading Twitter
This is very much true in NM where I live. Agriculture accounts for 79% of yearly water use. We're known for our chile (63,000 tons) but that's dwarfed by alfalfa (784,000 tons).

I'm not sure what the answer is. The farmers have their own water rights, and as a group are pretty well politically connected.

We could try Eminent Domain or unilaterally breaking those old water contracts... but that's guaranteed to make the Supreme Court. Given the current make up of the SC, I don't see any decision coming that might curtail property rights. I'm guessing it'll be perpetual subsidies for letting land go fallow.
Privacy in the Age of AI: The Dangers of Unverified ChatGPT Plugins
Has anyone bought one recently that can vouch for Brother (especially on Linux)?

I love the "10 years ago" testimonials and those are helpful, but I'm worried that quality/philosophy of Brother might have dropped in the intermittent time. Or are the same models still available new? That would be neat.
I'm not sure. I used the service in the past and I'm considering using it again. Picnic Health is really great if you're seeing a lot of different doctors over a short period of time or you have a health issue that involves coordination of a lot of records. It's really a pain to deal with different offices to get your medical records exchanged.

However, I was surprised when I used it last. They were able to find doctors that I didn't report. Turns out a lot of doctors are part of networks in geographical areas that allow sharing of medical records. They might've also used my insurance provider. If you see doctors with insurance, the insurance company will also have a record.

I don't think doctors are required to report patient records to a central authority. The government is able to access medical records without a warrant though. They might have a centralized way of knowing which doctors a person has visited.
> Diphenhydramine as a first generation antihistamine acts on a large number of receptors and can even be used as a mild anxiolytic, so I'd guess it could very well have antidepressant effect.

It does, and this observation led to the development of dedicated antidepressant drugs. There are several such cases where interesting side effects turned out to open a world of possibilities, including an anti-TB drug that also led to antidepressants, and of course Viagra.
you seem to have skimmed the previous messages and misunderstood them

it's not a weekend hack, it's a commercial product, designed and built by a team of several people. the weekend hackers (or chatters) are the intended customers; they are not the makers. they have 50 prototype units in stock, and they're taking preorders for two more larger batches which they expect to ship in august and september. august is 70 days away, an interval which is 35 times larger than a weekend

the 'weekend' aspect is how long the user should expect it to work for, not how long they've spent on developing it

unfortunately, their current design seems to have a fatal flaw that renders it useless for its intended purpose, but one that's easily fixed

my comments are not shitting on it; they explain how to fix it, providing information the original designers were evidently unaware of, so that they can ship a product that fulfills its intended purpose, which would probably make them a few tens of thousands of dollars. up to them if they want to do it or not; i'm not an investor. if they don't, probably someone else will

i could of course be mistaken about this, but so far there's no reason to suspect that i am; the pushback in comments here has all been ego-driven posturing like 'This power management scheme fits the use case perfectly.' instead of something like 'actually i have a rp2040 deep-sleeping at 100 microwatts' or 'i have this pi zero w running at 700 milliwatts with such-and-such a kernel config so actually they'll get 12 hours of battery life'
> It should be a human right to end ones life if so desired.

Why? I have no opinion one way or the other, but what makes you feel that this particular action should be afforded the protections of the term "human right"?
If you are curious and want to learn, Central Valley in California and Farmers have a lot of legitimate grievances.

Wanting unlimited water is a pretty biased take.

The start of the whole issue was that many Central Valley Farms and counties raised bonds to put in aqueducts and entered into purchase agreements with the state of California. The California legislature then passed environmental regulation and stopped providing the water. In many instances this water was already paid for, or the state decided that farmers must continue to pay while the state doesn't hold up their side of the contract.

The farmer's position is that the state needs to fulfill it's half of the contract or buy its way out of the obligations it made.

A similar legal battle is playing out all throughout California over groundwater. In those cases, the state passed environmental regulation bypassing the eminent domain process.

I know dozens of families that have lost their life's work and savings overnight because the state thinks it found a loophole to stop them from using water without using eminent domain to buy it.

The closest analogy for the groundwater situation is if you owned a farm in a migratory bird path and the state passed a law for minimum roosting land. Then, instead of buying your farmland, they made a law that you aren't allowed to step foot on it.
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/scottsdal...

Looks like it was just vetoed by the governor today.
There's also a famous clip from Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World where a penguin does something similar,[0] and I've seen it theorised (possibly in the book Empire Antarctica, but I'm not certain) that this may be a mechanism to find new breeding grounds (though, as you say, in a way that may be good for the species but is bad for most of the individuals so called).

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y
We outlaw these things because they deceive the user, thereby making it impossible to 1) know this and 2) vote with their dollars.
https://www.printerpotty.com/
seems there is another paper? 8 laws in wikipedia..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...
Hi Saul,

I attempted self hosting it on an RPI4 but the video quality was dropping heavily and stopping alltogether from time to time. I did not see an obvious bottleneck anywhere in the system. The rpi had both ram and cpu to spare, my connection is 1gbps down, 100mbps up. Should be more than enough for two people.

This was early this year. I followed the official guide word-to-word. Others reported similar issues on the official forum so my issue isnt new or unique.
Other countries don't work with the US because they trust us, they know perfectly well after Iraq and Snowden and Trump that we're not to be trusted. They work with the US because we're the world's last superpower, have overwhelming military force and enough nukes to crack the world open several times over. We're Darth Vader, the world is Cloud City, and the deal is whatever we say it is, and if we alter it, pray we don't alter it further.
The virgin ChatGPT vs the chad ELIZA.
Much of the Imperial Valley — which uses a lot of Colorado water — is below sea level and could (in theory) be fed by desalinated water with very little pumping. But it's not economically viable. Still, quite a bit more viable than nuclear greenhouses!
The cookie popup that comes up and obscures the article before you can finish reading the title is deliciously ironic.
I've all but moved to Mastodon and Bluesky, but there is some interesting stuff still posted on Twitter.
How much helium is required for suicide? Would not a few dozen balloons be sufficient?
All the food delivery riders I see have carrying capacity for 2 or 3 orders at most - there's no way it's a dozen. Most of the time I'm pretty sure they're only carrying a single order.
See also:

> DoorDash accused of charging iPhone users more than Android users for deliveries (sfgate.com)

> 15 points by mikhael 2 days ago

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36007992
Think about how much water a person uses per day compared to how much salt. The former is measured in liters, the latter in grams. Desalination produces far more brine than humans could ever need.
Criticism of the Documentary “Silicon Valley: The Greatest Ponzi Scheme”?
Chicken is not the opposite of tuna, salmon is. Because salmon swim against the current but the tuna swim with it.
You're concern trolling, and what you're doing is a great disservice to those trying to make a change. Lets attack a few misguided attempts, spread some FUD and remove the focus from things that matter, all while brewing hopelessness.
Lifeforce was pretty bonkers, especially for my teenage self who couldn’t get enough of the female lead. Hard to believe it’s the same director as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist - although Spielberg allegedly directed most of Poltergeist.
I can assure you that being homeless is far worse than not being homeless. It's actually completely incomprehensible to me that you would suggest otherwise. It seems like a totally disconnected comment.

But you can looks for yourself. Most people int he US today are far better off than most people were in the 1950s and 1960s. Median household income is up, life expectancy is up, educational attainment is up, percentage of income spent on food/housing/debt is all down, and on and on. Are there losers in the current social arrangement, of course but they represent a smaller fraction of society.
I need to dig into this more, but I'm sceptical of only benchmarking ops/second, that's not really a problem that needs solving, the existing toolkits are fast enough. Also, this benchmark doesn't show document size and growth, that is something where more research is needed.

Always excited for any CRDT innovations though, and I'm sure there is stuff to learn from this work.
How Mixing academia and industry opens doors in graduate school and beyond
Which is why they're not making any money yet.
Right -- all that was ever said at the time was that the pipeline would be put on hold. Not "bombed" as the commenter above yours is perfectly aware.
This is the exploration-exploitation trade-off often found in reinforcement learning.

https://towardsdatascience.com/intuition-exploration-vs-expl...
I am shocked that someone is arguing that homelessness is better than working and being in debt while housed.
That’s a weird comment. Were you trying to be sarcastic?

There are 3 major federal parties (Liberals, Conservatives, NDP), who received 33%, 33%, and 18% of the popular vote respectively.

There are two minor federal parties (Greens and the People’s party) who together took around 7% of the popular vote, and

Finally there is the Bloc Québécois. It is a federal party but it exists only in one province. It grabbed around 8% last time.

Of course those percentages aren’t entirely representative, because seats are won in a first-past-the-post style in each riding.
Should call it the "Cramer Model"

(tl;dr - one of the most touted folks in US Finance is a guy named Jim Cramer - he has been wrong on a vast majority of his financial recommendations to the point that he is a litmus on finance whereby if you do the opposite of any of his recommendation, you win)
Do you find they are better than the opposite - ie an app using the GPT-4 API? To me the plugins seem back to front as far as optimal architecture is concerned.
I remember reading similar tactics for mice when learning a maze with food (cheese). A steady portion of the mice did it differently then the majority of the mice.

Breeding only the ‘deviant’ mice, resulted in exactly the same percentage in the next generation ==>> hypothesis: this is an evolutionary advantageous trait.
... with the rest of the world following shortly.
I think there is (or was, depending on the institution) a disconnect between the curriculum and what skills students needed. For context, I was a tutor, instructional assistant, adjunct professor, and finally a curriculum advisor for the Los Rios Community College system and the University of California Davis Extension.

First, CS programs that went 100% into Java did not age well and most of these courses were taught in a way that led students on to believe this stuff was static and won’t really improve. The concept of new languages beyond what was available in circa 2006 was unimaginable.

Another quirk that a Java-centric education brought on was that low-level courses were often taught in Java and you ended up writing all your data structures coursework in Java taught by someone with a C background. But you couldn’t use C or anything sensible for this because universities promised students would know object oriented programming. This created a lot of disconnect and meaningless ritual around a paradigm that did not fit the language.

CS programs that succeeded understood that a foundational knowledge coupled with language flexibility. They had to understand that the specific languages did not matter so much, rather it should fit the paradigm and principles of the context in which it was written. Once students are able to think in terms of computer procedures, instructors can leverage this knowledge to introduce abstractions and a grand unification principle.
Regardless of pollutants, agriculture uses way too much water for this to be practical. Average seawater salinity is 35 g/L, and the WHO recommends a salt intake of at most 5 g/day, so from one liter of water you get enough salt for seven people for a day. Approximating global population at 7 billion people, that means we could consume the salt from about 0.365 km^3 of water per year.

Just the US alone uses about ~110 km^3 of water for irrigation per year.
We've spent 40 years congratulating ourselves on having done nothing, and it's not worked so far, but anyone who points that out is engaged in catastrophization...
SRE at Google: How to Avoid a Self-Inflicted DDoS Attack – Google Cloud Blog
Lego Pac-Man Arcade
At the same time, we have philologists who agree that Descartes was the first to use "conscientia" in a way that doesn't match the historical use of conscientia and instead matches our use of the word "consciousness" and John Locke was the first to use of the word "consciousness" in the same way we use it today.

Additionally we can point to Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind as a theory that doesn't assume a historical consciousness (or at least in the same what).

Who's right then?
Agreed, that was one of the few recent SF films that didn’t seem formulaic.
Depends on the actual cost of that first ink cartridge. If it's $3 or less, then by all means let them have it. If it is over, then adjust your subscription's start cost to fit.
Gonna let you in on a little secret: Colonel Girkin has never not been fulfilling his duty, not now and and not in 2014. Make of that what you will.
> Hence if PRC retains domestic best, then PRC has relatively comparable talent pool to draw from as US+west.

If that were true, why do we keep getting so many good PRC computer scientists in the states? When I was working in China, we lost of a lot of great candidates to Google or Facebook in the USA. China's net emigration rate is still very positive, and that's not mostly migrant workers and people on Chinese restaurant visas.

PRC's lack of access to worldwide talent is a problem, since they aren't exactly keeping their best either. They pay better for software positions than Taiwan and Japan, or even Korea, and they can leverage that, at least.
Comparing things to car dealerships in a positive light seems fraught.
This playbook is great, the maintainer also has a second one https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook that's compatible with it and also includes jitsi (as well as other non-matrix related roles).
(Non-practicing) Lawyer here. Interesting for them to bring the case, because offhand I'm struggling to figure out what they believe to be illegal or discriminatory according to the law.

We have a ton of law on the books on the things that ARE illegal to discriminate on (protected classes), and none strike me as particularly close to this.

My "consumer protection" self loves to see companies get taken to task on this sort of thing, but I really don't see what law they think they have to stand on here.
Ales were historically harvested at high krausen, which is the origin of the phrase top cropping. But you're right, almost no one does that anymore. You can do it really effectively at the small scale an get a lot of live active cells that way though.
thanks for elaborating. I don't know anything about Brando outside of this interview so I have a very slim view of his character. it sounds like this interview isn't representative of how he was entirely based on your comment.
You're correct that if you're printing 100s of pages per week, laser is the way to go. That wasn't really what I was talking about, although I realize I was not very specific.

Most people just print a few pages every few weeks, and I'm arguing that those are also good use cases for laser. The upfront cost of laser is pretty low these days. You can often get a color all-in-one laser, with duplexer, for under $200.

The sweet spot for ink is somewhere in the middle. Printing regularly, but not high volume.
There are open source engine reimplementations which use the original assets to play the c&c games on modern machines. See https://www.openra.net/
But how would they get to that sort of carrying capacity? They almost never use cars around here and I doubt it would be viable (parking issues, cost of vehicle ownership/maintenance etc.).
Is there any place one can donate toward the creation of bigger and better open source models? I'll send my $20/month there.
This is blowing my mind
Are there any credible studies in the net effects of the added salinity vs how much water is dumped back in from rain run off, reclaimed sewage and other land based sources?
I'm just saying this is the embodiment of value-based pricing. Like it or not, that's what has made the silicon valley.
These are highly complicated

pieces of equipment...

...almost as complicated

as living organisms.

In some cases, they've been designed

by other computers.

We don't know exactly how they work.

- Westworld 1973

Fantastic movie and this quote seems so timely.
> I kept also-busy with woodworking projects

Why do programmers tend to enjoy woodworking? They have interesting parallels.
I've never experienced a grid outtake in my life. And most of this gas is being burned in big power plants anyways, which have the exact same grid problem.
It's how i'm living, too. Basically tried my best to avoid the crowd first.

Simple reason: In a crowd, the probability for you to be alive is less than when you're ignorant.
> Everyone knew IE was going away.

No. That's an exciting fictional world in which you live, and was not the case. Even in the last years preceding Google's chrome release and massive marketing push, when Firefox and Safari were taking "significant" marketshare, it was assumed IE would be forever, and IE-only sites were still common (and the norm in "enterprise" software).

There is literally no difference between a developer that says everyone uses/should use chrome, and a developer a decade ago saying the same thing about IE.
One limiting factor is that everyone dies eventually. (With current technology, anyway.)

Organizations may or may not live on. Most businesses have shorter lives than people, but some have lived longer.

Sometimes they change so much that they might as well be a different entity.
Tennis Robot Could Pave Way for Advancement in Fast-Movement Robotics
If you don't think he's a grifter just search for "worldcoin." Then there's the fact that Altman appropriated a non-profit and closed the technology. Both of these things are very damning to his character, especially when taken together.

If AI really is dangerous then this is an argument for all AI research to be required to be done fully in public view. No proprietary models, no closed platform plays, nothing that isn't done fully in the open. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. That way if something starts to behave in really dangerous alarming ways we can all learn about it and prepare to deal with it.

This was OpenAI's original mission before Altman took it private and closed. Remember?

The most plausible dangerous scenario for AI is that it will end up in the hands of a small number of people who will use it as a force multiplier to control and conquer other groups of people at tremendous scale. Other scenarios like autonomous AGIs trying to take over or exterminate humans are significantly less plausible, especially since these models so far have precisely zero ability to self-reflect or exercise independent agency. They only do what we tell them to do after being trained on data that we created and fed them.

Now check out that "worldcoin" thing and ask me if the people behind that (and behind appropriating and closing a non-profit) are the people who should be in exclusive control of closed massively powerful AIs with a regulatory moat in place to prevent anyone else from creating anything that equals them.

The most plausible of the scary scenarios is the one Altman is trying to bring into being: a small oligopoly empowered with AI beyond anything anyone else possesses. He's either completely delusional or a grifter... or perhaps both since the best grifters are often delusional.

Some of the shadiest people I have ever met are full of hot air about how enlightened they are and the purity of their motives. When someone starts tooting their own horn about how pure and wise and altruistic they are, check their basement for mounds of loose dirt and their closets and drawers for little baggies of human hair and clippings of clothing.
This aspect of adding randomness to avoid local maximums reminds me of AlphaPhoenix’s automated gerrymandering project: https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44
Cheers, I'm never donating ever again.
When we have 50% of AI engineers saying there's at least a 10% chance this technology can cause our extinction, it's completely laughable to think this technology can continue without a regulatory framework. I don't think OpenAI should get to decide what that framework is, but if this stuff is even 20% as dangerous as a lot of people in the field are saying it is, it obviously needs to be regulated.
Ask HN: ChatGPT Without JavaScript?
Hey HN, is there a way to use ChatGPT or similar without JS?

I've tried going to chat.openai.com and I get a blank page, looks like it's completely broken without JS, so just looking for an privacy conscious alternative.

And no AI generated answers please as these are unhelpful.