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> This is something I often tell my friends who complain about Calibre: his project his rules.

It is hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this. I certainly don't, nor did I say anything to the contrary.

> If you think there are genuine pain points you can address, fork it and make a better one no one is stopping you.

The only thing stopping me is common sense.
Get your HVAC license and trades education instead, there is decades of work ahead installing heat pumps and the work can be done anywhere in the world. Way easier than acquiring a drilling rig and being constrained to a geography and its local economic trajectory. Just my two cents from the perspective of optimizing for optionality.

If you’re retired or are otherwise financially independent and are just looking for a hobby, buying a drilling rig and digging water wells and ground loops is not a terrible option.
>Cheaper to operate

I’ve seen in a number of places where the led lights have rapidly degraded, putting out really unpleasant bluish, purplish hues, as if the super bright daytime like sports field lighting everywhere wasn’t already bad enough. So this rapid degradation necessitating replacement no doubt eats into some of the cost savings.

Also, “cheaper to operate” mostly seems to have turned into “pump out more photons” instead banking the savings and maintaining nighttime lighting at non eyeball scorching levels.
What is the test for this?

I taught it Firefly, which is an undocumented programming language I'm working on, through conversion.

I find it's a lot quicker than any human at picking up syntax and semantics, both in real time and in number of messages, and makes pretty good attempts at writing code in it, as much as you could expect from a human programmer.

That is, until you run out of context - is this what you mean?
Carpeted bathrooms, carpeted kitchens too lol

You don't see the horror when you are living inside it.

It was only once I began spending significant time outside the UK I became aware of what we hath wrought.
Have you heard about Dieselgate?
I programmed for Symbian OS.

The dialect of C++ was pure hell, and the wanton diversity of products meant that there was no chance to get consistent UI over a chock-full of models whose selling potential was unknown in advance. Theoretically, there were standards such as Series 60. Practically, those were full of compatibility breaks and just weird idiosyncrasies.

Screen dimensions, available APIs, everything varied as if designed by a team of competing drunk sailors, and you could always plunge a week of work into fine-tuning your app for a platform that flopped. Unlike Apple, there just wasn't any software consistency. Some of the products were great, some were terrible, and all were subtly incompatible with one another.
One of the advantages of low-pressure sodium lamps is that they emit nearly all their light in a narrow spectrum which is easily filtered out. This leads to non-existent colour rendition - everything is seen in shades of warm orange - but given that these lamps have been used for decades without too many problems this seems to be a surmountable problem, at least on motorways which are a major source of light pollution.

If monochromatic orange light is deemed undesirable it might be worth experimenting with mixing three monochromatic red, green and blue sources which also can be filtered out. The combination of the three produces something close to (but not identical to) white light which provides better colour rendition.
Ha, true. Well, I did say "democratic governance", not "democracy" itself.

Substitute "rules of order" or "parliamentary procedure" if you like. At the end of the day, it's majority vote by a tiny number of representatives. Whether political or corporate.
Too late - these ideas have, in a backward sort of way, been implemented in the form of quantitative easing, aka inflating away your savings.
Honestly? If even a tenth of Sam’s reported connectedness / reality distortion field are true to life… very good odds.
99% with the 1% being it is actually $20-30B
3 minutes into the video, not a single Perkele heard. I'm impressed!

(I was also thoroughly impressed by Second Reality itself when I found it on a BBS in the early 90s. I couldn't believe anyone could be _that_ good at coding. It pushed the envelope in almost every dimension)
We also understand, down to a very very very microscopic level, how neurons work. We also know a helluva lot about the architecture of the brain. Does that mean we can explain our own intelligence, how our minds actually work? Nope.
I am pretty sure that Satya Nadella would want Altman booted.
Actually no. Expiration of money and inflation can exist simultaneously.

Expiration of money is an end of life cycle event of individual bills - it affects certain lump sum of money that will become void in corpore. The nominal value of the money will remain the same.

Inflation is continuous devaluation of nominal value of all the money regardless of individual bills.

If we discuss expiration of money then we should consider what constitutes as money creation - when will the countdown start.

Is the money created when it is issued by a (central) bank or is created when an exchange (for value) takes place?

With the first idea a single transaction can contain money with multiple expiration dates and as such the money with longer expiration date will immediately become more valuable and the nominal value of the money is not universal anymore.

The second approach avoids this problem - the nominal value of the transaction is always the same. This has an other interesting side effect as it would incentive to make transactions legal.

But what Gesell describes is mandatory deflation of value of money by insisting a tax on money - a monetary money holder tax, kind of. Whoever holds the money is obliged to pay the tax - if you put your money into bank then it would be the bank. So his idea is considerably different.
> A lot of kids have to live by arbitrary rules that don't make any sense, or if they do, haven't been explained to the kid.

Yes, and that’s what all humans experience throughout their whole lives.

If kids aren’t exposed to measured loss and frustration in the thoughtful safety of their home, they won’t develop the skills needed for adulthood, where loss and frustration may not be so measured and constructive.

While lying is one coping skill they might develop, there are many others, and a helping role of the parent is in helping the kid find good alternatives.
> They don’t have investors

OpenAI has investors [0].

[0] https://openai.com/our-structure
I carry around a piece of hard currency (1901 Silver Dollar) to remind me of what real money is like... it's always been worth about 4 retail gallons of gasoline. I expect that trend to continue for at least another decade.

Soft money, tends towards zero, as you said.
Not useful at all.. but it sure is fun! This is gonna be my whole dang weekend.
That does make sense, but then it’s not net metering anymore and would require a smarter meter. It’s also less attractive to homeowners because they get paid a lot less. (Prices are low when the sun is shining due to competition from utility-scale solar.) Charging batteries starts looking like a better alternative.

A decentralized power system is going to have a lot of battery backup and that might even be more important than the solar panels?
I agree. Though there's a limit to what he actually can do in the US power structure, even with buy-in by other figures.

It's a truism in the US that if you care about the economy and defense you should vote Republican, and yet when you look at the actual actions of Republican presidential administrations you basically have to go back to Reagan economic and defense policies which were actually decent (and Reagan's most decent economic policy was reappointing Volcker who was originally appointed by Carter).

This is not to say Democrats have been all that much better, but at least they weren't cutting taxes during an expensive war of offense.

These same truisms exist about so-called strong leaders.
By volume I imagine most jewelry sold is cheap stuff intended to only be worn a few times. Go to any fast fashion store and you'll see piles of cheap earrings, necklaces, etc. Not every piece of jewelry needs to become a family heirloom.
>Keep your hands off my bank account.

Your bank account balance is of little importance with a fiat currency. Banks themselves are superfluous now that money does not have to be represented by cash and thus needs no vault.

Maybe you mean “Keep your hands off the purchasing power of the currency in my bank account”.
The fallacy being made in this argument is that computers need to perform tasks the same way as humans to achieve equal or better performance on them. While having better "system 2" abilities may improve performance, it's plausible that scaled-up next-token prediction along with a bit of scaffolding and finetuning could match human performance on the same diversity of tasks while doing them a completely different way.

If I had to critique Hinton's claims, I would say his usage of the word "understand" can be vague and communicate assumptions because it's from an ontology used for reasoning about human reasoning, not this new alien form of reasoning which language models embody.
Sunbird Security Isn't Nothing
Are you thinking of Juno II AM-16? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIJF26ukQgw
Data incidents cause more problems than can easily be resolved with a contract lawsuit. Perhaps the data was siphoned by a 3rd party that hacked your vendor, or a malicious insider at your vendor sold it to a competitor. Sure, you can recoup some losses by suing your vendor for breach of contract, but once the data is leaked, it's never secret again.

And then there's the example of businesses that work with lots of confidential customer data, like banks or doctors. Again, you can sue your vendor for breach of contract if they behave irresponsibly with your data, but your customers may not care; you're going to suffer a hit to your reputation regardless of whether or not the breach was your fault.
You have to define upfront what you want to get from a test. After that you go back and see if what you got is what you expected.

Optimistic/Pessimistic does not really matter.

By this criteria, I would say failure/partial failure or partial sucess. There is no way this was a success.

Also, everyone can call this what they want. The thing that grinds my gears is not respecting that other people do have a different opinion.
> Nil is useful, as long as correctly reined in.

A good way to rein in behaviour is with types. If you need Nil in your domain, great! Give it type 'Nil'.
Lora-based low cost nanosatellites for emergency communications
I always think things like this are amusing:

Poor people “failing” the Marshmallow Test is taken as not having impulse control — but I’d argue studies fail to account for different life experience in people taking your “marshmallow” away, no matter what they promise.

This is stealing marshmallows on an industrial scale.
> They're going to get all the streetlights in an entire city to blink in unison. Sure they are.

Thre are a super simple and effective distributed algorithms for this, if each lamp can see another few lamps. They don't even need a good clock, just a relatively stable oscillator within a few percent of a standard frequency, a light sensor and an integrator.

I agree that it's better to just put hoods on the lamps to direct the light to only where it's needed, but distributed synchronization is a solved problem.
Non-compete + garden leave = important resources siphoned off the economy [1]

Remove non-competes, then there's no need for garden leave.

If an industry insists it needs non-competes, the dept. of labor could issue exceptions with strong penalties (x3 wages (incld. expected bonuses) for the duration of the non/
-compete, etc)

[1] an argument could be made that the more workers are put on garden leave the better it is for the economy, vis a vis less folks doing damage. Overall, I think the whole fintech industry is a waste of STEM talent. Those physics PhDs could be something beneficial instead, like being a magician at three year old birthday parties.
Any kind of post-process effect like transparency, zoom; many stuff like window previews,
overviews screens (these are sometimes possible without as well), and tear-freedom.
And for that matter if I were a provider of some kind of computational service for hire, I (and my insurers) might feel a great deal of relief at the idea that we’re no longer having to sit on a big attractive ransomable pile of our clients’ data.
It's quite a rhetorical move to look at two people involved in a transaction and say "it's not a good thing for anyone", by implicitly excluding the entire public.
People may have panicked, but the move happened too quickly for a human to react in time
Well, the old staging method tried in the last launch was to rotate the entire vehicle stack and "fling" the ship off. That obviously has a performance penalty in that you're not going to be pointing in the correct direction when you come off. I don't know if the 10% was compared to that or compared to a hypothetical "straight" staging with pushers, though.
Different person but anyway. Well, in work I use a computer and it has a screen, so my existence is not at all without screens. Now, I communicate with family and friends in real life and sometimes in phone, my phone is very old and while it technically has a small non-touchscreen it's useless for anything other than brief SMS messages. I've got a computer also in my home but I don't use facebook or any chat programs, only a few anonymous niche sites comparable to hacker news to stay tuned to what's happening in the world and gather information of the topics I like. I would probably go insane if my family and friends were bombarding me with smalltalk all the time.

Zero notifications outside work hours, I'll check my email a few times a week if I'm not expecting anything. Life is good. I'd say the absolute majority of the information we receive is either non-important or outright harmful and it's beneficial to block as much as you can possibly can.
When leadership takes on a gigantic amount of VC backed debt that must be paid back whether or not there was ever a business model that could justify the loans, then you get shitificaition.
American here, it has vastly eroded in the past two decades among the younger generations.
> SV embraced merit and the belief that anyone could achieve anything.

One slight correction: SV embraced the idea of merit, but it was never truly about merit.
I had a look at trends over time (https://www.macrotrends.net/2550/dollar-yen-exchange-rate-hi...) and looked back by decades. In 2013 it was 97.6, in 2003 it was 115.94, 1993 it was 111.08. So roughly around a hundred yen per usd. Before that it was 237.55 in 1983.
Making and Launching Advanced Model Rocket Components
I mean, young people have been dramatically more pro-Palestine since long before social media. Grain of salt and all, but I don’t think it’s a wild claim on its face, especially once you account for the nature of network effects / filter bubbles.
Has any world government implemented this in a similar/relevant fashion that illustrates this in action?
Man this still seems crazy to me. The idea that this tension between commercial/non-commercial aspirations got so bad they felt the nuclear option of a surprise firing of Altman was the only move available doesn't seem plausible to me.

I believe this decision was ego and vanity driven with this post-hoc rationalization that it was because of the mission of "benefiting humanity."
Pretty sure it's to sell proficiency certificates, i.e. https://englishtest.duolingo.com/applicants Established institutions are more likely to accept Duolingo as equivalent to traditional language education if they follow the same standards.
Do you have a study showing EBT cards are more effective and reduce fraud compared to direct cash subsidies?
Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?
HL3? Not in this lifetime
Is there a significant difference? Hardware planes are basically that, just optionally not full-screen.
Major Ayn Random vibes from that statement

https://xkcd.com/1277/
In my meager understanding which I'm happy to be corrected about: In a windowed scenario (vs fullscreen), in both the X direct-rendering and Wayland scenarios the application provides a (possibly gpu backed) surface that the compositor uses as a texture when forming the full screen video output.

In a full-screen case AFAIK it's possible to skip the compositing step with X11, and maybe with Wayland too.

"Zero copy" seems a bit ambiguous term in graphics because there's the kind of copying where whole screen or window sized buffers are being copied about, and then there are compositing operations where various kinds of surfaces are inputs to the final rendering, where also pixels are copied around possibly several times in shaders but there aren't necessary extra texture sized intermediate buffers involved.
Every mistake I've made since 2014 [video]
You could see the attackers just as well as they see you. I meant because of the annoyance that it would create.

The problem with warm lights is that they are much harder to see in the dark. Maybe dim lights around 505nm would be a better idea.
I'd say this falls into an even more base question...

What is intelligence?

This is a nearly impossible question to answer for human intelligence as the answer could fill libraries. You have subcellular intelligence, cellular level intelligence, organ level intelligence, body systems level intelligence, whole body level intelligence, then our above and beyond animal level intellectual intelligence.

These are all different things that work in concert to keep you alive and everything working, and in a human cannot be separated. But what happens when you have 'intelligence' that isn't worried about staying alive? What parts of the system are or are not important for what we consider human intelligence. It's going to look a lot different than a person.
Maybe not yet? Google already made having non-store extensions as annoying as possible (e.g. a nag every time you open Chrome that tells you to disable them) and maybe they think that's working well enough to dissuade people.
Still single digit billions, as I said.
Not only did not everyone agree with him, many people including Nikola Tesla thought he was a fraud.
I got 5 paragraphs into this before realizing that it wasn't a Resident Evil fanfiction (?!)
Let's say the 'replacement' dll file isn't very good at verification.
I found terms like Achaeans very confusing too when I first read the Iliad (E.V. Rieu's translation). But going out of my comfort zone and learning some new context broadened my horizons.
People would buy gold or other money

We don't want that
A lot of them have already left this morning. idk for sure why but a good bet is that they are more on board with Sam's vision of pushing forward AI than the safetyist vision.
Well, it didn't even come to my mind that a fast food worker might have a noncompete agreement. I thought this only is about engineers, scientists, managers etc - people who actually have knowledge which is reasonable to prevent from leaking to a competing company too quickly. Applied to a fast-food worker any noncompete agreement sounds really wild. Do fast-food companies actually require this? Sounds crazy.
Yes that's part of it.
It will probably require a nil type which is currently untyped nil when found in interfaces.

The untyped nil type is just not a first-class citizen nowadays.

But with type sets, we could probably have ways to track nillables at the type system level through type assertions.

And where nillables are required such as map values it would be feasible to create some from non nillables then ( interface{T | nil})

But that's way ahead still.
Can this actually manifest? Even without the -race flag I think maps are a special case which will panic with a concurrent mutation error if access isn't synchronized.
Age verification (without leaking other PII) was the illustrative scenario for W3C Verified Credentials (it lets you use a validating authority to sign specific subset of your schema).

There’s lots of other ways to solve the problem for verification/signing use cases tbh. Homomorphic encryption shines best when you are looking at more complex calculations than just a Boolean result - such as tax calculations.

Can you submit your financial information and have your taxes calculated without revealing the amounts involved? Can you apply filters to an image without having the image readable by the server? It essentially allows us to “trust a remote server” in scenarios where one wouldn’t usually.
I don’t trust TikTok, but that’s not the same thing as saying they’re never capable of telling the truth. I find this claim plausible on its face, but I’m not sure any of us have any way to confirm or deny it.
Unless you go back to Bartering, Money can't expire, but currency can, such as when an Empire/Country/Political union collapses/arises, new currencies appear. A more recent case being the Euro currency - many EU countries dropped their currency, for Euro. In the process there were losses and gains, since there may not be cross-market consensus in value-conversion. For instance, Real Estate may suddenly be more expensive, likewise groceries, but salaries stay the same.

What you could do though (i'm not an economist) is to periodically introduce Monetary and Fiscal Policies that reset/adjust the economy (outside a government's influence e.g. Central Bank + Supreme Court).
Board is not exactly leadership. They meet infrequently and get updates directly from management, they don't go around asking employees what they're working on
It sounds like the painting was only prevented from leaving France for a limited time.
Amazon are double dipping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38194818

Only consumer equipment company I “trust” are Apple.
I feel the same way. If I'm sitting still I find I don't care much... but if I'm working with my hands and moving around it drives me crazy and gives me headaches, especially if I'm focusing on something spinning.

Just for fun, I replaced the LED dimmer in my garage with a homemade board that has a frequency knob in addition to a duty cycle knob. I've found that the cutoff for bothering me is around 10KHz, which is far higher than I'd have ever expected.
He could get sued if he admitted that he was conspiring with Altman to use company resources for a competitor, so he would say regardless if he was guilty or not.
Yes, but that's an active process. You can't just be "pro change".

Occasionally, in high risk situations, "good change good, bad change bad" looks like "change bad" at a glance, because change will be bad by default without great effort invested in picking the good change.
> How can humans come up with novel ideas then?

hallucinations, emotions

> Why can humans learn from their own output then?

if we don't, we suffer
Your soul is worth whatever you value it at.
Note that embodiment doesn't mean in anyway human or animal like.

For example, you're limited to one body, but an A,G|S,I could have thousands of different bodies feeding back data to a processing facility, learning from billions of different sensors.
Perhaps they don’t want to work for a board of directors which is openly hostile to the work they’re doing?
Note that there's a phase even beyond that where the notes are completely unredeemable.

At a numismatics fair, I saw a 10 CHF note in a stack priced at 4 USD, and thought "Woo! Free money!"

However, it was a 5th series note, which were fully demonetized in 2000.
Insanely bad idea. People will always try to store their wealth in inperishable goods. People will get rid of their perishable money and buy property. Which is what happens now already, because of inflation. When property becomes a "money" in a store of value sense, it will become overvalued, and people can't afford houses for living anymore.