skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea and demo but tough to see many municipalities refitting their street lighting to keep astronomers happy. Might be easier to persuade them to just turn streetlights off completely for a few hours a night, at least then there’s some cost saving.

Maybe in the future when we all have smart glasses with night vision mode and self driving cars we’ll look back at citywide streetlights as a quaint and inefficient solution
Captchas? I'm on plain old firefox, no issues or captchas at all.
How do you you do this in practice?
Well, whether you want to call it 8/9 years ('61-'69) or 14 ('55-'69), I don't think NASA looks too shabby landing men on the moon in that time frame without the decades of experience we have to draw on today, and with 1950's/60's technology, and so far no-one else has done it.
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> you're imagining that non-competes are there to protect proprietary know-how.

Legally speaking, that is often the case. Many states require a noncompete to have a “legitimate business reason”, and proprietary knowledge is the most common legitimate reason used.

I suspect judges in most states would invalidate a noncompete for a sandwich shop worker.

The legal purpose of these clauses is to keep high paid workers from stealing customer lists or business secrets. The legal system does tend to frown on them being used for rank and file.

Many employers just use them as an empty threat to manipulate people, because they know few people are going to hire a lawyer over it.

I mean, even from a practical perspective, noncompetes are pretty weak unless the employee is the kind of person who would make the news when they join a new company. You can always leave a company and tell them nothing about where you’re going. A subway franchise ain’t gonna hire some PI to figure out where a former front-line employee got a new job.
If you're going the argument from authority route you should probably cite sources that don't say "The hypothesis is subject to questions about its validity." in the very first paragraph.
I appreciate you asking. I'm going by memory from several years ago, but if the Greek word used to describe Telemachus means something like "presence of mind," to hint at the boy growing up to be a man worthy of such a father, and then the translated words chosen are things like "whined" and so forth, you tell me.

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Edit: Here is an essay in the "Bryn Mawr Classical Review," which touches on the issue of the slave girls killed at the end. Look for the paragraph that begins:

"This brings me to the episode often discussed by Wilson, the killing of the slaves in Odyssey 22."

This particular essay doesn't touch on what I've said about Odysseus and Telemachus, but it does touch on the fact that her own opinion of things influences the translation.

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.10.58

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Edit: And here is a review in the "London Review of Books," which touches on what I said:

"This makes him sound more of a brat and much less of a would-be hero than he does in the Greek."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n08/colin-burrow/light-t...
I'm on plain old firefox, no issues or captchas at all.
It's the pre-stuffed email address in Contacts, for as long as my memory goes back.

Why it's flipping is another matter, like the auto-suggestion of an email address I haven't used in a year, or the URL that I never ever typed being suggested in the browser.

I'm open to suggestions on how to get rid of such phantoms, without killing auto-fill suggestions entirely.
That’s a hypothesis. It may not be true, as we have yet to build AGI
That’s an excellent example why AI doomerism is bogus completely unlike nuclear war fears weren’t.

Nuclear war had very simple mechanistic concept behind it.

Both sides develop nukes (proven tech), put them on ballistic missiles (proven tech). Something goes politically sideways and things escalate (just like in WW1). Firepower levels cities and results in tens of millions dead (just like in WW2, again proven).

Nuclear war experts were actually experts in a system whose outcome you could compute to a very high degree.

There is no mechanistic model behind AI doom scenarios. There is no expert logically proposing a specific extinction scenario.

You can already trivially load up a car with explosives, drive it to a nearby large building, and cause massive damages and injury.

Yes, it’s plausible a lone genious could manufacture something horrible in their garage and let rip. But this is in the domain of ’fictional whatifs’.

Nobody factors in the fact that in the presence of such a high quality AI ecosystem the opposing force probably has AI systems of their own to help counter the threat (megaplague? Quickly synthesize megavaxine and just print it out at your local healt centers biofab. Megabomb? Possible even today but that’s why stuff like Uranium is tightly controlled. Etc etc). I hope everyone realizes all the latter examples are fictional fearmongering wihtout any basis in known cases.

AI would be such a boom for whole of humanity that shackling it in is absolutely silly. That said there is no evidende of a deus ex machina happy ending either. My position is let researchers research and once something substantial turns out, then engage policy wonks, once solid mechanistic principles can be referred to.
The fundamental premise is that Congress is actually trying to protect the children, because that's the only way parental controls would have helped. It doesn't actually matter what the facts on the ground were, Congress would have found some excuse to try to pass this legislation.
> Can you disclose three of the types or products you buy with it without going to jail though?

I know this isn’t the main point of your question, but illegal things can be moral (eg most “victimless crimes” like being homeless/sleeping in a van) while legal things may be immoral (eg bank accounts in the canary island).
Worrying is good if you can act upon that worry
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
This is really cool. What will the pricing be? Does it mean that non plus members can access my guts?
> The woman who originally owned the painting passed away just two days after the sale, leaving her three heirs to inherit her estate.

Thanks grandma!
> Their commenting be like

Their commenting _is_ like.

Otherwise, I agree.
What do you think Apple does to get that level of quality? :)

It's simple. It costs.
They get money for launching stuff into space, i.e. it's a business.
> t's getting close at being able to program a robotic arm to swing an hammer, as soon as vision can do video it'll be able to debug it

Agreed. My original comment was simply that ChatGPT (or whatever) can't swing a hammer yet.

The whole thing feels like an oncoming tsunami and I'm just trying to figure out how to scramble to higher ground (while it lasts).
Ethnocentrism is ethnocentric.

It's like how historical American medical data collected by universities has been misapplied to pharmaceutical and medical practice because of demographic bias. Research participants largely matched the demographics of the university: healthy white males.

Or more broadly, whenever you see a
"last name" requirement on a form, you know it's software made by people who think it's normal for people to have "last names", and that everyone should know what that means.
I myself love the frequent updates but understand where you're coming from. Perhaps you can install/upgrade via your package manager, on macos at least homebrew has Calibre (and his other project kitty) available as casks.
The OpenAI investment contracts they signed literally says "OpenAI IS A HIGH RISK INVESTMENT!!" in capital letters in a colored box. Not joking.

So no, Microsoft Lawyer's can knock all they want.

IMPORTANT
* Investing in OpenAI Global, LLC is a high-risk investment *
* Investors could lose their capital contribution and not see any return *
* It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the spirit of adonation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world *
The Company exists to advance OpenAI, Inc.'s mission of ensuring that safe artificial
general intelligence is developed and benefits all of humanity. The Company's duty to this
mission and the principles advanced in the OpenAI, Inc. Charter take precedence over
any obligation to generate a profit. The Company may never make a profit, and the
Company is under no obligation to do so. The Company is free to re-invest any or all of
the Company's cash flow into research and development activities and/or related expenses
without any obligation to the Members. See Section 6.4 for additional details.
I like how reducing subsidies is somehow a blow against the premise.
It seems like an observation to me. Let’s take the Marxist utopian ideology. It led to 40 - 60 million dead in the Soviet Union (Gulag Archipelago is an eye opening read). And 40 - 80 million dead in Mao Zedong’s China. It’s hard to even wrap my mind around that amount of people dead.

Then a smaller example in Matthia’s cult in the “Kingdom Of Matthias” book. Started around the same time as Mormonism. Which led to a murder. Or the Peoples Temple cult with 909 dead in mass suicide. The communal aspects of these give away their “utopian ideology”

I’d like to hear where you’re coming from. I have a Christian worldview, so when I look at these movements it seems they have an obvious presupposition on human nature (that with the right systems in place people will act perfectly — so it is the systems that are flawed not the people themselves). Utopia is inherently religious, and I’d say it is the human desire to have heaven on earth — but gone about in the wrong ways. Because humans are flawed, no economic system or communal living in itself can bring about the utopian ideal.
A lot of us care about the charging port being on the bottom. It’s ludicrous. I can leave any top of the line Logitech mouse plugged in all the time and never have to even think about charging.
If you're trying to say that a power station run purely for profit would mean the ultra-wealthy in society would have good power while everyone else can suffer with the crummy leftovers..... I think it's time you gave up.
The rocket was mostly empty, so it wasn't all that powerful. Imagine the power if it explodes fully tanked.
I can point out dozens of "sharp and drastic" crashes in stock prices, but that doesn't mean investing in the stock market is a bad idea.
> choosing expensive solutions like microinverters [...] that add a high fixed cost to each panel, even though both technologies offer very little utility to the customer.

I have to disagree with you there... they're not that expensive, and they eliminate the most common single point of failure in the system.

When I installed mine last year, I got quotes from every major supplier: I paid a roughly 10% premium for panels with microinverters over a traditional system.

We're talking about extending the time it takes for panels that will work for 20+ years to pay for themselves by a few months, in exchange for a massive increase in redundancy: that was an obvious decision from my point of view.
Everything is hard until you solve it. Some things continue to be hard after they're solved.

AGI is not solved, therefore it's hard.
1. Open an ebook (epub/mobi etc.) in the viewer.

2. Click the top or hit escape to show the menu and open up the preferences.

My current settings are:

- Colors: off-white background and dark grey text - I tend to pick these per device given different brightness / temperature of the display

- Page Layout: margins - left/right: 100px, top/bottom: 75px

- Fonts: I get Libre Baskerville from Google Fonts. I believe I choose a different font on Windows because each OS's rendering is slightly different. For me it's a matter of getting the font-weight just right so that it's not oppressive to the eye, distracting or hard to read but just right and it's a combination of the font, colour, size and how the OS renders. My goal is that it feels like the words on the page just fall into my eyes without effort.

- Style: This is where you can write css. (complaints about how bad my css is will fall on deaf ears!) The hack job I have on this machine is:

p
{
line-height: 1.5em !important;
font-size: 0.854em !important;
padding-bottom: 25px;
text-indent: 35.868px !important;
}

div
{
line-height:1.5em;
padding-top: 1em;
}

line-height: 1.5em;

- and then I just zoom-in with ctrl-mousewheel for a decent text size and to me it looks roughly the same as Apple Books.

Some ebooks have hardcoded styles that force ugly formatting. Fortunately Calibre lets you edit ebooks so you can just open them up and delete their custom css.

3. A few other things I remove are i) columns from the grid view like rating/publisher/series ii) categories on the left like language/format - I only use author/tags. Once you remove all the things you don't use, it's a neat minimal app.
We mostly drive our PHEV. The ICE gets maybe 4k miles/yr. I realize this is less than most, but my point was that changing oil every few months would be very uncommon (and either due to someone driving 20k mi/yr, or a misunderstanding about how frequently it’s needed).
Then what's the point of the for-profit?
More Senior Departures from OpenAI
Could the agreement have a “key man” clause ?
Exchanges rarely care about their absolute latency. The latency race is for the best place in the order entry queue. As soon as the order is queued for sequential processing by the risk checker or the matching engine, the race is over. I've seen places where you needed sub-microsecond tick-to-order latency to win the race for the front of the queue, but the actual risk check and matching took tens of milliseconds.

They do care about throughput and providing fair conditions to all of the participants, though. On busiest derivatives exchanges this means resorting to FPGAs for initial checks.

Then, every message send to the exchange is clearly traceable. In some cases participants have dedicated physical lines. When the exchange sees increased rate of malformed packets from a single line or from a certain participant, they just cut it off and call the contact person from the participant (trader/broker) side to demand explanation.
> It is easy to sell a company for $43 if you raised at least $43

I'm curious - how is this easy?
> VAERS is a voluntary reporting system. It's right there, in the name.

Can’t do science until there are sufficient data collected, even if it is merely supplied by layman.

And I too filled one out for my total hearing loss after taking Zyban.

Cumbersome data entry, yes; useless, no.
Quite possibly, that's certainly a helpful collection (and probably that whole thread, I did search for past topics but somehow missed that), thank you.
Big picture mode was completely stagnant, until like stated, they started working on the Deck. The new Big Picture we have is nothing but a Steam Deck UI backport. Hell, for a while it would use Steam Deck’s screen ratio no matter what, meaning you’d get black bars on 16:9 screens.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great they’re finally pushing things again, but they were stagnant for a very long while. Ramming the downvote button in a blind panic doesn’t make that less true :)
This is a (messy imo) collection of scripts to install various games on Linux (utilizing Wine). There's no mention of any source code for the games being released.
Are we back to some of the magic requiring ideas of the nanotechnology hype?
Why would you need to compete with such an entity? What does "compete" even mean here? Can't instead everyone get one (or 10) of these to.. assist them? I don't understand why we are jumping directly into dystopian scifi vs what past tool revolutions actually look like.
So? That does not make his view on it any less interesting. You don't need to agree with him. Too little is known for me to make up my mind on it, but his views on it do seem rather hyperbolic. What I addressed was why his views are of interest here, I was not giving any reasons to agree with him.
If you ask the reps from Coke/Pepsi if they are losing to the other that has top sales, they will tell you "yes". If you ask someone dealing broadcast TV ratings if they are losing because they are the 2nd rated show, they'd also say yes.

I'm not really sure your point. Just because the 2nd placed entity is earning lots of cash means that they are winning? They may be successfully operating their business, but if someone is earning more then they are not winning. I'm really not sure of your definition of winning. Maybe you're using the Charlie Sheen version of winning?
> Four years ago, when she began clearing out her home ahead of a move, she intended to throw out the painting, unaware of its true value, per the Guardian’s Kim Willsher. Luckily, her family called in an expert to appraise items on the property. The unusual depiction of Christ caught the eye of the expert, who assumed it could be worth hundreds of thousands.

Thanks to the family wise choice to call an appraiser and the appraiser's good eye for art.

btw is it normal for families to call appraisers? Or was it likely grandma had lots of nice antique things. Or maybe was wealthy (mentioning a "hot plate" indicates probably not).
From a long perspective I think the bell monopoly probably served an important purpose and may have been worth it. Not having universal service would have been socially divisive and culturally a problem. I think we need to stop judging things only on (presumed/assumed) economic efficiency. Non monetary values mean regulation is often important. We accept this with environmental and health/safety rules to some degree - I wish we could develop a language to argue for it more in other spheres.

On the Ms point.. is your argument that we should have no intellectual property rights for software at all? It seems odd to single out only this example. I’m broadly not in favour of software patents but I’m not clear that they were relevant to MS success anyway. I think you need to make a clearer argument about what regulations we would have forgone for others to really evaluate your case.
Github Copilot Chat is in beta and is marketed as a separate product. I suspect it is using a later generation (and better) underlying model. I used it many months ago, and I agree it is much better than vanilla Github Copilot. I haven't done a careful comparison to GPT-4, however. As you point out, the integration with the IDE does save a lot of time. Developers should definitely try it out.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/github-copilot-chat/about...
Same with me. I use a gaming mouse on the right from my keyboard and a trackpad on the left. Very convenient for me.
some of my thoughts about the reaction

>is a clear indication that the GPL license follows in the steps of the biblical ten commandments, and likely other works of coercive law such as the Hammurabi code.

a stupid jab. people find patterns when looking for them, not the other way around.

>How can someone create such an ugly license and

what makes the license ugly?

>“Selling GPL-licensed software” also sounds absurd; The first buyer who decides to give away copies of your software will make it effectively “free as in beer” for everyone.

why? have you heard about selling support? can every buyer build a support network around a GPL software thereby robbing the original developer income earning route?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292409
There's a difference between finding what they say interesting and automatically believing it.
Does anyone have a gift link? The usual archive dance is not working. TIA
Where should one look/read about for state of the art?
I'm going to assume you made this comment in good faith.

Most rockets (almost all) use just a few engines. The Saturn V had five engines, and the Space Shuttle had a total of five engines (including the Solid Rocket Boosters). The Atlas V uses one engine, New Glenn seven engines, etc.

Historically, there has only been one rocket that attempted the 'many engine' approach before now: the N1 by the Soviets, which they never managed to get working successfully.

SpaceX is thus attempting something unprecedented. They are not only trying to create a rocket with 33 engines, but they are also building the most powerful rocket ever made. Furthermore, it is the only rocket ever designed with fully reusable first and second stages. In this single machine, SpaceX is innovating in multiple ways that neither the US, the Soviets, nor any other country has managed to achieve.

Additionally, the Raptor engine used by SpaceX is the only full-flow staged combustion rocket engine that has ever flown. This design makes it more efficient and high-performing and has been considered the 'holy grail' of rocket engine design. Until now, no one has managed to build a successful rocket engine using full-flow staged combustion due to its complexity. The Raptor is also, pound for pound, the most powerful and efficient rocket engine ever made.

SpaceX is innovating throughout their space 'stack.' The entirety of the Starship project is immensely innovative in almost every way possible. Many others have tried and failed to achieve even a single aspect of what this project encompasses. The fact that SpaceX managed to have 33 Raptors firing perfectly today is already absolutely phenomenal.

So yes, I expect things to fail because much of what they are doing is literally the first attempt of its kind. It's entirely predictable that some aspects might fail. What you're asking is akin to questioning the pioneers of quantum computing: 'Hey, are you telling me the first quantum chip you built failed? That’s crazy! How can you build something so expensive and expect it to fail?'
yes, some people ask why I rushed this out the door rather than finishing it later and releasing at some other party. But I really wanted to support Demosplash, and as a US scener I try to release something nice there each year.

I really would have liked to be there in person this year but things came up. November is awkward timing for me, both with the college schedule but also because it often overlaps with the big Supercomputing Conference that happens around the same time.

And as why not release at a European demoparty: most of the crowd there don't really appreciate/understand the Apple II limitations, but also with Covid over they expect you to show up in person and bring along working hardware (sourcing a local Apple II, especially an NTSC one with a compatible power supply would be a challenge).
It's an exciting time to be working in homomorphic encryption!
I actually found I like path better then old tree. The big difference is that with path, I do the next dot on the path or dont. With tree, I was tempted to constantly optimize the xp. Do I want 2x now or later? Should I do revision or new content? Should I continue this node or that node? When was the last time I did the boring node I am avoiding?

With path, there is no obsessing over strategy, pop up app do the lesson and that is it. I also found that I retain more, because revision is build into path instead of me having to manage it.
Hello, I'm someone who's been through that and I'm "on the other side" in the sense that I did stick to it. I wrote this and I hope you find it helpful: https://medium.com/@vonjuice/4-important-words-for-writing-c...

> Now I see everything I start as part of a big experiment to test which things stick. So that I can learn which properties of a habit make it stick with me.

This is wise. In addition to watching the properties of the object, which could be considered static, be mindful of the properties in yourself and how these interact with the former, because yours are dynamic and can be developed as a skill, so you learn how to make beneficial habits stick more regardless of their perceived properties.
It's so incredibly not-difficult that Boston Dynamics themselves already did it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzOBZUFzTw
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