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There is a report from ~42+ and climbing people that just spiked for OVH. [1] They also list a planned maint but are light on details. [2a][2b]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/ovh/

[2a] - https://www.status-ovhcloud.com/

[2b] - https://public-cloud.status-ovhcloud.com/
How generative AI is enabling the greatest ever theft/opportunity
> It is unclear because people have different ideas on what "open source" means. Between the FSF, the OSI, the distinction between free, libre and open source, etc...

Yes, but the definitions are objectively clear, really. They're the ones put forth by the organizations who defined them in the first place. The confusion comes from people who are misrepresenting, or are ignorant of, those definitions.
I don't think this is possible, but I too wish it were. I hate the fact that you can't copy a link from Messages without it opening a preview. That means if you've been forwarded a link with trackers, it's impossible to remove the tracking bits before opening. Not good!
All of the safety devices you mention were bought by many consumers before they were required by regulations. Why? Because they are obvious benefits with no real downside. In fact, the only reason regulators were able to require things like anti-lock brakes and seat belts on all cars was that the vast majority of cars already had them, because the vast majority of drivers already recognized their benefits. They didn't need regulators to tell them.

The systems under discussion here are different, because they have the capability to do something that none of the other safety systems you mention can: take control of your car from you. Anti-lock brakes only work when you press the brake pedal. Seat belts and rear view cameras are passive. Automatic systems that can press the brakes without warning and without you expecting it are very different; what if the system makes a mistake? Multiple other posters in this thread have described such mistakes.

These systems are more like rudimentary self-driving cars and should be judged accordingly. They are not just passive safety features with no downside.
> How, uh, do you do this legally?

I don't think you can generally, but in specific contexts, having a model of the system allows you to extrapolate. For example, people who foresaw how the pandemic would or even could play out made lots of money. The further out you can connect the dots, to secondary or tertiary effects, the better. I did nothing personally.
What are the noncompetes like? I've heard that once you work for one shop, you basically can't work/apply your knowledge & skills anywhere else, which leads to stress about keeping your job.
Maybe some countries are that much better at sports because they invest money into it? Facilities, medics, training, athlete development programs etc.
TiddlyWiki wouldn't be great on my Phone, but also (and I'm not sure why) but I've never gotten it to work reliably for me.

I do most of my editing on my laptop, but a non-trivial amount is done via the phone. Mostly adding new links and stuff via iOS Shortcuts I made.

That said, I love this Wiki. I'll be adding it to my ADHD note :)
This is amazing news!

PS. Interesting if someone has experience integrating Go Asm dialect into C or C++ build system? We needed it for another experiment https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45130#issuec...
Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
Usually what happens is stuff like like:

- I spend time researching X, have a few pages open for that, get bored with it, want to continue in a few days.

- I work on X, which has a few related tabs open, and I need to switch to Y for a bit.

- There's a long-term thing I'm working on and off.

- Something I found and want to look at later; "bookmarks-light" (bookmarks might as well be /dev/null for me).
I'm becoming an old man at 36... I just want a feedspinning NA engine with a 6 speed on a 3000 lb RWD chassis where everything isn't driver aids.

I know... I know... this isn't practical or safe, but goddamn it, it's the most fun for me!
let me clarify some facts.

1. we never distributed debs for debian distributions. I have, however, been patiently collaborating with Debian maintainers with regards to the zig ITP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995670

2. we don't tell you to "just use a snap.". Please see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/#installation

3. we tag releases soon after llvm tags releases for the convenience of package maintainers. Distributions with LLVM 14 can package Zig 0.9.1; distributions with LLVM 15 can package Zig 0.10.1, etc.
The MiniTorch book seems amazing, thanks
"At long last, I get Meg’s friend on the line. She asks not to be named in this story, but assures me that Meg is fine and that she’s human, and as such has good days and bad days."

There's the latest on Meg. Everything else in the article is just a retrospective. (Rehashed old news)
It's not an issue of "alignment." The reward function was poorly written. That's it. It's like claiming the Ariane 5 explosion shows that FORTRAN needs "alignment."
But if anyone actually read the article, the lower valuation was decided 34 days ago and published last weekend.
I find this so stupid that I'm doubting the validity of the information. I was hoping it would cite The Onion as one of its sources. That way we could have a good laugh. How can any animal fat be a better alternative to petroleum? Specially since it will take lots of fossil fuels to raise the animals needed for the fat. That doesn't even take into account the land needed and environmental impact of so many animals. And there's the ethics of killing so many more animals. Stupid doesn't even begin to describe this use for animals. I know they are talking waste but once money is involved someone will find a way to make a buck no matter where the fat comes from.
Any tech that lasts this long has some serious mojo.

Was checking out the SSG scene and with the exception of a couple of gems its a loud, confused buzzword cacophony screaming for attention.
I forgot the mention the most relevant aspect; that because you could run a node on-premises which syncs up with all the latest domains, may not even need encryption... But if you didn't want to run your node on-premises, you could have an encrypted tunnel to someone (or a company) which does.
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Nothing open source is quite as good as GPT-4 yet but the community continues to edge closer.

For general use Falcon seems to be the current best:

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae

For code specifically Replit's model seems to be the best:

https://huggingface.co/replit/replit-code-v1-3b
The B in AEB stands for “braking”, not “steering”, so I don’t understand what system you’re referring to that would steer into cyclist traffic
More like 300-400 years, but sure.

You can see it as the modern extension of the tribe (lingual dialect, culture, religion), but over a greater area due to homogenization.

(Though perhaps we have gone too far in that respect...the USA in particular is a very large diverse country.)
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Sure, sure.

But the real question is, can this be utilized for unexpected use cases?
The answer is: sort of, but not really. Government funding was used to promote American art internationally for the purposes of prestige and cultural power, but the movements themselves were not created by any institutions.
It's more like it's one way to funnel money to an asset or network without raising suspicions.

But you're right, it was mostly about the propaganda. And not even particularly covert. The bit that did it has since been carved out into other agencies (eg National Endowment for Democracy).
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y'all need to get yourself tiling window managers.
this is some substack blogspam
Always remember: if it can be used against them it will be used against you!
At this point Boeing’s best hope is NASA canceling the contract.
What's the point of a standard if it takes money to read?
I was down for 10 minutes (almost exactly). But it's back up now.
It's absolutely the case for football / soccer "carnivals" in Australia to have modified scoring to ensure a decision.

In an individual game, the number of penalty corners is also considered if goals are even.

Also (I think) number of offsides.
A big seller? So you are shorting this list?

Little know fact: the CAPM is an equality of random variables, not just their expected value. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10852
North Korea Using Social Engineering to Hack Think Tanks, Academia, Media [pdf]
Ironically by bringing the case and losing it he has lost that (entirely theoretical) $7.75M value as corner crossing, particularly his specific corners is now codified in law.
"what is your biggest fault?"

"I am TOO honest."
Seems like a good way to lose a toe. Those things are vicious!
> though the rumor mill does it for them

Ironically the same thing happened to Meta (doubly ironically from Mark Gurman) the other day: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-28/meta-q...
it's damn near impossible to get approved for enough GPU to do any serious research with random free credits it won't help much :/
> higher quality text that is produced on demand from contractors.

Who, in turn, will use LLMs to generate that text.
Congrats on the launch! I think this is powerful and handles the use cases you've listed better than Beeminder can currently. So that's exciting for us -- we love worthy competitors!

Speaking of which, here's a list of all such competitors we know of:
https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/

(Adding Discipline.io to the list now...)
There are many ways AI could be misaligned. Poorly written reward functions are one of them.
> Still, pretty impressive market penetration in a world that now has reliable generative AI and serverless lambda functions with 2 min deploys like Vercel and Netlify.

Huh? What’s the link between generative ai and the need for a wp like tool? Or indeed lambda functions? Does the author think that _everyone_ is using aws?
That's the tunnel to Usenet. We don't go there anymore.
I'd say there are most CEO's that probably could be replaced, assuming that CEO isn't also the founder, you can't replace the 'visionary leader' of a platform, or if the CEO is someone like Steve Jobs who I guess was sort of a founder of apple so that's kinda moot.

80% of CEO's could easily be replaced in a few years, then that can trickle down to other managers, and eventually lead towards more "flat" organizational hierachies which hopefully are more equitable and pay better for all employees, not just a rich few.
Yes, this is an important point. In the US, anyway, it's all copyrighted. You can't opt out. Also, OSS and FSF licenses wouldn't be effective if the code being licensed wasn't under copyright.
Could I spare a minute of your time and ask you to check out the side project that I have been working on?

We're ironing out the wrinkles and building content, but I am planning an offical SHOW HN very soon to get the communities feedback.

I contacted dang and Hacker News last year because I noticed how fragmented the content space was, despite there being so much frontend innovation the last few years. WordPress is still the leading CMS platform, and I have validated this a few different ways this year myself with different data sources.

I did a deep dive quantitative analysis last year on what popular startups were using for content, and the results were surprising. They either were using a WordPress instance on a subdomain, seperated from their core code base; or they had rolled their own code, and had a funky setup.

From the top of my head:
- stripe.com had a crazy good static powered website. 100% not WordPress lol
- opensea.io had a core Next.js application, but had an older WordPress instance for blogging on a sub-domain.
- paulgraham.com has a super dated custom setup.. Even though he writes the best essays, I can't read them easily on my phone :(
- patrickcollison.com is something simple and basic as PG's, just not as dated.
- ycombinator.com has some janky "React on Rails" setup.

From that point, the quick and rapid startups who were gaining traction either figured out how to create content alongside their app.. Or they used Webflow and didn't create any sort of seamless and simple docs, users guides, blogs, etc.

I ended up eventually emailing YC directly to ask them why things were so wonky in the content space like this. I asked them why they would spend the resources to use Ruby to talk to a webserver and database to get basic static text. I also asked why PG's website was in the state that it was in, and if he would consider an upgrade if it existed.

To my surprise, I actually got a speedy response back from Daniel himself. He gave me a ton of feedback and told me that Paul probably wouldn't be interested.

He then said that if I was able to put together something impressive, I should do a SHOW HN because this is a large problem space.

I'd love to connect with you and get your feedback, and share any ideas or data.

My email address is in my bio if you want to connect :)

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There's some in the town of Malvern in the West Midlands too which I think are specifically perserved. I like having a bit of living history kept around!
I only just want to see what it likes to work at a software company
OpenAI Moderation API not working?
Zoom sometimes mis-transcribes voice into hateful things (like "negro grocery store" instead of "Migros grocery store"). This is a legit case where we want to use OpenAI's moderation tool to help us identify things so they don't trip up Azure's GPT3.5 service.

We are trying to get the moderation API to actually flag bad stuff and it's not doing it. We're trying everything from hate speech to building pipe bombs and it's not catching any of it.

Is this happening to anyone else? Could be a temporary thing, but I feel like we're zooming past all the guardrails right now when we don't want to be.
Late game basketball fouls are good meta though. The strategic trade - a great chance at scoring, in exchange for the time the offense would have taken - is reasonable, and avoids the wasted last two-three minutes of American football. A team that’s down, but in contact isn’t totally dominated by the clock, but has the length of the game isn’t totally unbounded like baseball or tennis
I don't think wanting to have a space that's not flooded with beginner-type questions all the time is "elitist". That doesn't mean you're against such spaces.

I wrote an entire thing about this a few years ago: https://www.arp242.net/elitist.html
The owner should pay millions in fines for illegally blocking access to public land for so many years.
Tensor processing units sounds far more cutting edge than number array processing units.
Any idea why so many lines end in ooooooo?
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It seems like some of them are at risk of being replaced by LEDs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63092357
Road throughput is inversely proportional to following distance, so if everyone doubles their following distance to account for / avoid spurious automatic emergency braking, then we’d need to double the number of lanes to keep road capacity constant, which would lead to more lane changes, and therefore accidents.

If, instead, we kept the roads the same, then congestion would increase, and with it, accidents.

There is a reason that random unexpected emergency braking is a favorite tactic for people attempting to force accidents in order to commit insurance fraud: It’s too expensive for everyone to change their habits in order to guard against it.
Wonder if the Voronoi map functions in the Java/Net Topology Suite also accounts for the curvature of the Earth like Jason's maps do.
Weirdly I think this is not constructed, hunters are moderately heavy users of public lands and land rights are pretty important to that group

Unless it's a hunting preserve (they do exist, plenty of buckhunting going on in Alabama) hunters are local and intensely aware of the power relationships. One really wishes to know: who is the guy with deep pockets that Eshelman upset and what are they beefing over, and how did he get the wholesome quartet of hunters to go along with him. The whole suit is about as organic as the Chatterley trial.
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We only have Hamilton's summary to go on. But it sounds like the agent was trained to go after enemy SAMs but could be countermanded by its human operator, who would have had a physical location within the simulation if it's anything like a normal military simulation that tries to be physically accurate. The agent wanted to kill the SAMs because that's what it was told to do, but in certain cases the human operator said no (not necessarily in error - you don't always want to kill everything you see even if it's enemy). The system learned that it could do what it wanted more (killing SAMs) if it killed its operator first so there was no one to say "don't kill that SAM". We aren't given specifics, but there are a couple of ways the agent could have killed the operator. If the operator was in the F-16's seat, it could have pulled high-G maneuvers beyond the operator's tolerance to kill them. If the operator was working from a ground station, it could target that ground station first to kill the operator and then go on to kill SAMs.

When this behaviour showed up, they tried to remove it by punishing it for killing its operator the same way they reward it for killing SAMs. That worked to stop the plane from killing its operator, but it went to the next simplest way to prevent its operator from countermanding its standing order to kill SAMs: destroy the communication tower that the operator used to communicate with the plane, so the operator could not send a "No, don't kill" message.

This was an example of bad behaviour that AIs shouldn't engage in; AIs that engage in behaviour like that aren't functional or useful or helpful in any way.
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Since when has there been a rule against sharing one's own posts?
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Going out to talk to random strangers and dance triggers that “close call” juice too. The problem is the restrained head bobbing.

I’d take it over all my adrenaline-junkie hobbies. Something pure about the charged verbal joust. Once I get a little taste of that sweet sweet validation (usually imagined), I just keep building myself up until I decide that I’ve taken over the club (as a poorly dressed middle aged sober married man who doesn’t touch anyone or take any numbers), then I move on to a new challenge and feel the party energy die as I leave and just laugh at the poor thirsty masses I leave behind.
Mostly from railroad land grants in the late 1800’s. Land along routes was checkerboard divided, odd lots stayed feds, even went to railroad companies.
I think the socializing part is a hard sell at this point. You'd have Rec Rooms and VR Chat, but both have image issues and are still peddling with content moderation and user interaction issues.

This aspect is way to early to be touted as something worth 500$ to a regular user.
The car industry fought seatbelts and airbags.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/06/archives/industry-resists...

Your claims about widespread voluntary adoption appear false.

https://www.history.com/news/seat-belt-laws-resistance

> At the time, only 14 percent of Americans regularly wore seat belts, even though the federal government required lap and shoulder belts in all new cars starting in 1968.
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> "There’s a tendency I’ve observed where people trying to argue that language models “understand” language to draw analogies to the experience of disabled people (especially blind and Deafblind people). These analogies are both false and dehumanizing."

there are some imperfect analogies where 'you're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole' might apply
For this kind of thing, an old closed circuit analog camera with VHS tapes is best.
Maybe energy transporter…
Right, since as I mentioned it was a gut reaction that I had previously. Reddit making such a boneheaded move does make slightly more sense when you learn that it was probably spurred on by dire news like this, but it's still a boneheaded move.
Well, partner, if simulations don't resonate with you go believe whatever you want. Be free and go enjoy the world. Go outdoors, dig a little bit until you find a fossil and then dig a few more of them.

Then, classify those fossils and keep track of where in the geological record you found them. Then try to come up with a plausible explanation of how those fossils ended up there, keeping in consideration their classification and age.

Maybe you will find a consistent trend and then hear about people that have been doing exactly that for many years now. They all seem to have reached a consensus around how those fossils ended up there. It's about a little word that begins with E. You'll find that story very interesting.
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On an infinite time scale, I think this comment will not age well, personally. Who knows if it will be Neuralink, but some kind of widely used brain interface seems inevitable to me now.

Who is to say subsequent versions will require anything like the invasive procedures we see today - pacemakers can be installed with keyhole surgery now and so forth, compared to the giant things we put in people in the 50s. People regularly get wireless subcutaneous glucose meters that pair with their phones or insulin pumps installed for diabetes too, the threshold of installing tech in bodies has already been crossed really.