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> The current hypothesis seems to be that every star has at least one planet

I think you mean, that stars have at least one planet on average. E.g. in the unlikely event that only one third of stars had planets, but each one of those stars had on average 3 stars, then it would fit the hypothesis of averaging at least one planet per star. It's not a stretch at all since our rather boring star has at least 8 planets, and of the 4,051 stars we can currently detect with exoplanets, they have a total of 5,438 planets, meaning over 1.34 planets per star not including the unknown but unquestionably vast number of planets we currently don't have the capability of detecting.

Still, just as we suspect large numbers of rogue planets that have lost their stars, there must be at least some stars out there that have lost their planets, whether to passing neutron stars or perhaps indigestion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_exoplanets#:~:text=Th...
Congrats Zeno. Have tried today and falling in love with Resend. Currently installed it with my sites. Easy to setup and looks stable.
Would you plan to announce another plan in the middle of Free and Pro? I think 20 monthly and 50k emails sometimes overusing. 10 monthly and 20k emails or something.
If Instant Pot goes out of business, I wonder where people should go to get electronic pressurized pots?
To be fair, the article does not talk about the stonk cult either. This is one of those articles where there really isn't much to say about the story itself.
> It was sort of a path of least resistance thing and it did have its drawbacks.

This makes sense, but ya aren't there serious scaling implications to this?
Would the problem "how can I run this cool ML project from GitHub" be solved if developers would publish their container images on dockerhub? The only downside I see is enormous image sizes
Oh, great shout. Thanks.
No, none of that is true. Follow the links, too. Really, the whole article is about how to do better than JWT in an auth token format.

It's always interesting to come across people who are surprised by things like JWT being considered a poor format. The only reason you don't see this said all the time in 2023 is that it was settled years ago. Cryptography engineers hate JWT.
"These guys have no idea what consciousness is (nobody does)"

Where do people get off saying no one has any idea what consciousness is? I agree that there is a significant sliver of a philosophical problem which remains stubborn (how precisely does physical activity produce qualia), but neuroscience knows quite a bit about what physical processes underlie our behavior from the behavior of individual neurons to the activity of the entire brain.

I object to the wholesale dismissal of neuroscience because thinking about the brain relative to LLMs is genuinely informative about what sorts of things you could expect to be going on in an LLM. And, to my mind, a real appraisal of the differences between brains and LLMs makes the case pretty strongly that LLMs experience nothing and are, furthermore, fairly well characterized as stochastic parrots.

"They can't prove I'm not a stochastic parrot anymore than they can prove whatever cutting edge LLM isn't." Prove is a very strong word, but I think its actually quite possible to demonstrate via scientific observation that you differ in many, significant, and relevant to the question of "being a stochastic parrot", ways, from LLMs. It astounds me that people routinely suggest that human brains and LLMs are somehow indistinguishable.
> GPS directions are the minutia, and if you follow directions at that scale, its VERY easy to become disoriented or lost.

I can't bring myself to use turn by turn directions unless I can look at the overview map first. The turn by turn is useful to me to find an unfamiliar freeway exit or a turn onto a street with terrible signage. But I need to see the overall map first to prime it in my head.

I get really frustrated at online maps that don't show street names (and one-ways) at medium levels of detail. Or they'll put the street label just outside the viewport.
I live in Menlo Park. We frequently go to SF for cultural/historical/nature reasons. But to go shopping, it's far easier to drive and park at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto or Santana Row in San Jose. I've stopped in at Westfield before but it was never a destination and I don't remember ever buying anything there.
Allagash? Sam Adams? Budweiser (they have in operation in NH iirc). Smuttynose in NH? I feel like there are breweries across new england that if they stopped tomorrow would affect a lot of people, but maybe on a smaller scale. Of course people would buy something else, but they would still be sad to see it go.
I want to like North Up, but it's not very functional with a phone screen. If you're going north or south, you can see what's coming up, but east or west and you have no ability to be visually ahead of where you are. Google Maps is already fighting against me by zooming in way too close, but it's worth in North Up.

North up can be usable on my cars with GPS, but outdated maps and difficulty of making changes while in motion mean those aren't used.
“Should designers code?” is an obsolete debate (2021)
> China has concentration camps

why isn't the west or the islamic world doing anything about this? isn't the forever war in the middle east over by now? why can't we redeploy some of those military assets to invade china next? certainly we can get support from saudi and israel and pakistan and the UK to support us, right?
Only 6.4% of GDP is spent on government pensions - and almost 60% of that comes from state and local pensions - meaning less than 13% of federal spending is on federal pensions.

Government wages are already crap. How much crapier do you want them to get?
Yeah, I can easily buy that it makes it easier to learn a process. Just maybe not the one that the upstream LLM actually used.
I have a similar experience for personal life. I use this too - it's imperfect, but it's a nice balance of complexity and utility that doesn't get in the way once you set it up.
I'm in a much smaller city than NYC and /r/<mycity> is a very reliable place to find out what is going on around town, chat about the best place to go for <cuisine>, etc.
The NVD seems optimized for dealing with companies. It definitely provides a valuable service, but the service it provides is something like “ingesting all the company PR about a given security issue and distilling it into an automated format for algorithmic consumption”. Curl has a particular combination of extremely high deployment numbers and very few developers. This pattern is common in open source projects, but (vanishingly) rare in commercial projects. But almost everything the NVD evaluated is a commercial project, which is probably why the NVD struggles so much to get it right on curl.

The compromise solution is probably something like an “open source security issue” evaluation agency - it can take assessments derived from actual ability to read the code, and adapt it to a “press release” format that the NVD can handle. Basically an interface issue.
Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio
Lazard has been tracking the cost of storage for a while now (and cost of hydrogen production).

They have a whole section when they compare renewables with battery storage against other "near firm" options.
Wait until you learn that not everything on the front page of google is factual.
I think he may have wondered how would, say a Python backend using Resend Python SDK, render a React Email template and send it. Their API docs [1] for "Send Email" has an option for specifying a 'react' component to render the message but it's only available on the NodeJS SDK. Otherwise you pass HTML and/or Text.

Personally, I was expecting the api to optionally accept a React Template, along with the Data, where upon the Resend api would Render it (or fail) then Send it. Passing a 'preview' param would return the rendered HTML/Text (for testing) - just a thought.

[1] https://resend.com/docs/api-reference/emails/send-email
I added something about materialization while you replied. Materialization is controlled automatic denormalization. I would guess it is usually not labeled as denormalization because the materialized data is not really part of your data model, it is more a cache of precomputed data that is automatically kept up to date and consistent. In contrast denormalization in the data model proper usually means that the code has to ensure that things remain consistent.
Is it a setting that requires a certain amount of karma to display?
Couldn't disagree more, both on future vision of what this could be, as well as the implication that I said, "paying the servers is enough." "Sustain the site" involves growing the site, but none of that involves obtaining millions of users.

Also lesswrong is a cesspool of pseudointellectual bullshit. Eliezer Yudkowsky's ideas don't stand up to reality on average, and the people who "follow" him tend not to understand the relationship between methods of thinking about the world and methods of predicting how the world will behave.
STX did. SEC reg A sale docs: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1693656/000110465919...

Disclaimer: I work on STX and its blockchain
This is a good observation that further clarifies: while money may indicate that people care about _something_, that something is not necessarily obvious. Maybe the point of the watch is too look wealthy, or maybe there's a different motivation altogether. Conversely, this indicates that _not_ giving money doesn't necessarily indicate not caring, which still rather undermines the point of this post.
You can dictate GTK and Qt's design.

Also, I think for Chrome at least, it draws scrollbars using its own widget library — built on top of Skia, I think? Not sure what the widget-library part itself is called. You could definitely contribute to that.
Postmark shows the body for 45 days by default, and it can be extended to up to a year. https://postmarkapp.com/email-analytics
> ...tools that can be abused to...

Interesting choice of words. Why would it be an "abuse" of a tool that can be adjusted to generate nearly anything, to use it for a relatively specific subset of anything?

Would you also consider it an "abuse" if they were, say, attempting to generate new works in the style of michaelangelo or picasso instead?
Well, I will no longer be using their web site, I guess. I’m simply not going to hand over my information to ID.me.
I love the typo of demoralized. :D

But, yeah. My question for the thread is if that is considered in this case or not? I'm assuming the poorly done denormalizations are of the editable kind?
The pieces definitely vary in value by position. Chess engines that people have no chances of beating will occasionally sacrifice a rook to take an enemy knight on a good outpost square (past ability to get attacked by enemy pawns and attacking enemy space). Hard to argue they don't know what they're doing when they can beat all humans.
s/misunderstood/misplanned/
It's how Russia sees the world, which is why the Soviet Union failed. Really impeded trade relations in the eastern bloc
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Great solutions require two main things, a real problem and talking with the people that have it.
Prblms is a community focused on that. Sharing problems of any kind that we personally find, connect and build solutions to them, that hopefully become successful products.
Anyone can post a problem (no account required) and every problem has a comment section and a solutions section.
People can connect on the comments section and when a solution is posted, the upvoters of the problem get notified so they can try the solution and give feedback.

I have found many people (me included sometimes) seeking to build something but struggling with what to build, or building something nobody wants. With Prblms you can be sure you are building for real people's problems, and you will have some initial users from day 0 to talk and iterate.
Another option is to use llama-index and index the Obsidian vault. I use a gradio based web interface to query my Obsidian vault via GPT-3.5. It's pretty awesome.
To me personally, its not that the used copy was only then worth $15, it is the massive spread between what they'll buy it from you versus what they'll then turn around and try and sell it for. Buy the $60 new game off me for $5 for all I care, but when I turn around and see them immediately stick it on the shelf for $40+ I'll feel like I got a bad deal.
I've never met a styled scrollbar that was better than those native to my OS, and that includes the ones imposed by any app, not just web apps. Even Edge is guilty.
This will sound harsh, but I won’t sugarcoat it: OpenAI isn’t a charity.
This is outstanding, personally I would immediately switch to it if it was an addon for zsh instead of a standalone new shell.

While I'm spending quite some time in my shell and the extend that its a core part of my system is quite considerable and makes switching to another shell altogether a huge time investment.

Nonetheless, I'll always keep an eye on promising alternatives and eventually switch over once the functionality missing gets apparent enough on a constant basis as it happened for me when switching from fish to zsh.
I wish I could upvote this a couple of dozen times, because it's really the core of the issue. All this "the SEC won't give us guidance" is theater.
This is great to hear. Thanks. I'll see if I can find them if only just for the sake of curiosity.
"...everyone has one." Going to be difficult to sell more then. :^)

Also, they don't fully replace more traditional cooking apparatus, like a pressure cooker, a crock pot, or rice cooker. We have all 4, and what the Instant Pot got a lot of use initially we found that the for purpose cooking pots worked better and got better results. So the Instant Pot slowly fell out of favor.
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This is true. Pretty much all alt.binaries though and there is an interesting ecosystem of tools, forums and providers that you need to be aware of in order to access content.
> it's ok to reorganize categories

This is an important point. A person’s interests and areas of responsibility evolve over time; so refactoring is not only permissible; it’s probably also helpful to unload accumulated organizational cruft that’s no longer relevant.

When it comes to indecision about where a file goes, I’ll often just place a .txt file in the “wrong” location pointing to the correct spot. Or an alias.
Maybe you should say hello to the people of Pakistan for a change.
Something good that came out of crypto was a lot of people thought about what money actually is. LLMs are doing the same with intelligence.
I think I landed on using 4 workspaces and 5 scratch pads (most of the time).

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Workspace 1 : browser(s)

Workspace 2 : code editor(s)

Workspace 9 : music library/mpv

Workspace 0 : signal

Scratchpad - : zoom

Scratchpad + : slack

Scratchpad [ : browser (front-end development)

Scratchpad ] : designs/notion/ChatGPT/etc

Scratchpad \ : terminal

---

What's your workflow?
I get that they cost money.

The federal government has a lot of money. So does the California government. So does the San Francisco government. So does the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So does Harvard University. So does Amazon. So does UnitedHealth Group. So does NY Presbyterian.

I reiterate: Why does the federal government need to pay for every single residency?
Right it's not mutually exclusive, but they are suggesting that the donation potential would be higher if they chose to work overtime instead of volunteering. This could only matter if said lawyer was attempting to maximize the dollars donated - no one does this anyway. And scarcely you'd find someone motivated to work lots of overtime (why have an arbitrary number of 1 hour?) just to give it all away immediately. People have more than one incentive and desire in play.

The "utility-maximizing" choice, if both "effectiveness" and "feeling good" matters, would be to donate whatever one cares to and volunteer as much as one cares to.
Can't have it all I'm afraid. For this reason I keep my zshrc contained to one file so I can easily move it around, but it does require zsh to be available in the first place of course.

All things considered, I'd rather optimize for the 99% of the time I'm on my local machine than the 1% I'm on a remote machine.
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The changes to tracking pixel is a bit complex. Yes some email clients do not load any images. Other email clients load the image through a proxy to hide the user IP (google/yahoo). Apple's Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) loads all images at the time it was delivered to a device. That metric is still very useful because you know the device received it and it's an active email address. Versus the alternative is to send an email and wait for an click if they have images turned off.
Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301612
Read the whole article and I still don’t know what denormalization is
The AI could simulate whole subreddits as generative previews! You don't even need real people - it just looks real - oh and the posts contain subtle advertising for the paying corps

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create a chain with 3 comments and unique user names in the gist of the subreddit /movies/ with subtle advertising for WD40

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Comment 1: MovieLover123: "Just watched the latest blockbuster action film and I have to say, the car chase scenes were mind-blowing! The precision driving and intense stunts had me on the edge of my seat. What's your favorite car chase scene in a movie?"

Comment 2: FilmFanatic456: "Oh, I absolutely love car chase scenes! One of my favorites has to be from 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' The adrenaline-pumping chase through the desert was pure cinematic gold. Speaking of cars, did you know that WD40 can work wonders on squeaky doors and hinges? It's like the 'Fury Road' for rusty parts!"

Comment 3: CinemaCritic789: "Interesting tidbit, FilmFanatic456! I had no idea WD40 could be so versatile. It's like a secret weapon for maintaining smooth functionality. Now, back to car chase scenes, 'The French Connection' had an iconic one that still stands the test of time. The gritty realism and raw energy put you right in the heart of the chase!"

Comment 4: MovieLover123: "Absolutely, CinemaCritic789! 'The French Connection' is a classic. And thanks for the WD40 tip, FilmFanatic456. I'll definitely keep a can handy for those squeaky moments. Now, back to movies, who's excited for the upcoming summer blockbusters? The trailers have been teasing some epic action sequences!"

Comment 5: FilmFanatic456: "You're welcome, MovieLover123! WD40 is a game-changer for all those little annoyances. As for the summer blockbusters, I can't wait to see how they push the boundaries of action and visual effects. It's going to be a thrilling cinematic experience! Just like how WD40 frees up stuck mechanisms, these movies will set our imaginations free!"

Comment 6: CinemaCritic789: "Indeed, FilmFanatic456! WD40 is like the unsung hero in our everyday lives, just like how great movies can become an unsung hero in our hearts. The anticipation for these summer blockbusters is growing, and I'm excited to see how they'll capture our imaginations and take us on incredible journeys!"

Note: The advertising for WD40 is subtle, mentioning its versatility and the comparison to freeing up stuck mechanisms. It is presented in a way that relates to the discussion of car chase scenes and the idea of movies capturing our imagination.
I think what you're saying is valid, but is only one angle of looking at it.

LLMs, in my opinion, are on average better at writing copy than humans. Or rather they manage to do so more consistently. Thus, even if humans still need to provide supervision, the clarity and conciseness of government documents may be improved overall.
Sounds like a good market fit.
I think the problem is that _everyone has one_.

> The company's meteoric growth trajectory has slowed down in recent years. According to S&P, sales declined by almost 22 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, the seventh consecutive quarterly contraction.

We got one for the house ~4 years ago. It's still working fine, and we don't need to upgrade to one with Bluetooth connectivity or anything like that.

I'm guessing they found the size of their market wasn't infinite.
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i wish i had an interest in learning.

i seem to prefer mindless consumption.

is it just laziness and lack of discipline.

im unmotivated to learn anything that doesnt have immediate practical value, like consumption has immediate reward.
You go get them, cookie.
There are two other aspects I can think of as well. One is that burnout in work. I don’t think I could work 2-4 hours more a week for years without massive diminishing returns. Volunteering building homes is a positive use of my time for others and help me not burnout so I can keep doing both!

The other and more important is relationships. I could work more and get payed more (I’m salaried so I wouldn’t actually be payed more but hypothetically if I did) and donate that for someone to build homes but it changes the dynamic of relationship and I’m missing from it. I’ve advised people I’ve worked with and for on college, software, or even just how home loans work. And the fact I’m doing all this for free for them is meaningful for both of us, probably even more so than a mediocre handrail I added to the stairway
Yes, i could. Several coworkers. But due to their nature, they are largely invisible (they do not care about being seen, validated or represented) if you aren't seeing them in person.

And i, myself, would probably also qualify.
So what I’m wondering is how people in these trials deal with the depressive effects after it wears off. Or are the dosages so low it doesn’t matter? I see no mention of this in the article.
Frankly speaking, I think this is more on us for thinking that we are special or that living forms are special. This is just our ego talking.

Under the view that we are all just complexity arising out of an unfathomably large universe, then we can accept that LLMs are just that, like us, but weaker, and that is fine.

They will improve, we can leverage them, we can live with them. It's almost as if we have created a new species that exists only abstractly; and arises out of silicon and electrons.
China is really big and has nukes
I'm shocked by this. We have an Instant Pot and use it. All. The. Time. It is a well made product that is simple to use, has a good feature set, is useful, and relatively inexpensive (even better when it goes on sale, which is frequent). All the people I know that have one (and that is a lot of people) feel the same way. How can't you make money when you have something like this on your hands?!?!?!
I work for a gov. agency, and we're in the midst of a project (with your typical MBB consulting firms) to map the use of generative AI/ML tools, and what possible benefits there are.

One immediate internal benefit would be the information retrieval bit - you kind of get rid of the "data" barrier, which involves knowledge in databases/SQL etc.

Gov. agencies typically have lots of bureaucrats with deep domain knowledge in laws, regulations, and whatever the field they're working on - but limited data knowledge. And instead of relying on analysts etc. to retrieve the needed information, these LLMs could bypass that step.

Of course, it's not entirely that straight forward - as you'd need to validate the things the LLM serves you, but that's one of the ideas. Leadership have been discussing AI/ML non-stop for the past 6-7 months, and it seems like these kinds of FOMO projects are popping up everywhere...good times for the consulting firms.
That's totally fine, you can still send emails using HTML or Plain Text.