skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's people's opinions on Frigate+?

For anyone that uses it, can you prove since details on value?
> that isn't strictly necessary

i guess i don't follow what this means.
This was a very personal firing in my opinion. Unless other, really damaging behaviors emerge, no responsible board fires their CEO with such a lack of care for the corporate reputation and their partners unless the firing is a personal grievance connected to an internal power play. This should be embarrassing to everyone involved, and sama has a real grievance here. Likely legal repercussions. Of course if they really did just invent AGI, and sama indicated an intent to monetize, that might cause people to act without caution if the board is AGI doomers. But I'd think even in that case it would be an argument best worked out behind closed doors.
This reminds everybody of Jobs of course, but perhaps another example is Gary Gygax at TSR back in the 80s.
>ChatGPT has a model of all the text information on the internet, but it remains to be seen what the hard limits of this model are.

Before training is complete and loss is maxed, there will be limits on what the "learned so far" model can do that say absolutely nothing about the limits of a perfect(or very close to it) model.

It really looks like anything will converge with enough compute. I don't think architecture is particularly important except as "how much compute will this one take?" question.

https://nonint.com/2023/06/10/the-it-in-ai-models-is-the-dat...

>Does this model let it do logic or predict the future well, or will no amount of training give it those abilities?

There's nothing special about logic. Basically, any sequence is fair game. It literally does not matter to the machine.

Boolformer: Symbolic Regression of Logic Functions with Transformers(https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12207)

That said, GPT-4 can already do logic. It's not perfect but if perfect logic were a requirement then humans cannot do logic either.

>Simply being good in one task doesn't imply a general ability to do everything, or even most of everything.

It's not one task. It's one modality (text) that a plethora of tasks could be learned in.

Coding and playing chess did not suddenly become a single task just because we found the common ground that allows a machine to learn both.

The text, image, video and audio data we could feed a transformer will cover anything we care about.
> Did you consider having an open beta? It might allow the ecosystem to develop while still enabling you to charge for the product later down the line.

I don't think being free for personal/non production limits the ecosystem at all. Additionally, I don't appreciate rug pulls from changing free to non-free down the road, and I doubt my customers would.

The pricing is what it is: ensure Etcha is sustainable and supported. Think of it as a forced OSS donation if you want. There's way more than $1,000 worth of value here.
[Removed. Unhelpful speculation.]
Lol. There are ambitious people working at openai in Ilya's lane that will jump at the opportunity. Nobody owns any lanes.
Many compare Altman to 1985 Jobs, but if we believe what's said about the conflict of mission, shouldn't he be the sugar water guy for money?
True. So the CTO knew what was happening, wasn’t happy, and then coordinated with the board, is that what appears to have happened?
Check out ansible-pull, which is installed by default with Ansible.
That is subjective, i do not want the input latency induced by synchronizing to the monitor's refresh rate in my desktop as it makes it feel sluggish. The only time i want this is when i watch some video (and that is of course only when i actively watch the video, sometimes i put a video at the background when i do other stuff) - so for my case the correct default is to have this disabled with the only exception being when watching videos.
Soft money is a contract with the state, hard money doesn't expire. A $1 silver dollar coin from 1901 is worth a heck of a lot more than a $1 bill from the same time.
Those all have apps for Netflix and others, as well as video on demand.
Didn't BBC have a bunch of retractions when they were caught lying against Israel. BBC is probably the most influential media globally.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/bbc-apologizes-israel-ham...
I'm not seeing any concrete pro-union info in this thread either.
That’s not the sense of open they’ve organized around. In fact, it’s antithetical to it.

Theirs is a technocratic sense of open, where select credentialed experts collaborate on a rational good without a concentration of control by specific capitalists or nations.
Improving content filtering in Manifest V3
I've had that, and it did panic.
makes sense. ppl root for the underdog.
The fragmentation is both a flaw and a feature. It means we have diversity in media vendors, at the cost of a pretty high cognitive load to just watch something… which app is it on? What’s the account login? Search the device main search, then go to each app and do its own individual search. All while dodging ads and autoplay and “what’s new” and “for you.”

It sucks for users. But it also sucks for developers, who have to maintain multiple apps for multiple platforms, even multiple generations per platform. And this affects users too, when a version of an app eventually gets dropped because the developer decides it’s too costly to maintain.

The diversity and competition is good, but there’s got to be a better way. The AppleTV platform makes some effort to bridge the gaps, but apps have to play along, and many decide to roll their own instead of using the provided APIs, complaining about the APIs not letting them do what they want to do the way they want to do it. To which I say, getting all these apps to do something in a consistent way is the point.

But whatever. I’m in no hurry to go back to huge cable bills. We told the industry to get on board with streaming if they don’t want piracy, and they did, so now here we are. Instead of digging through BitTorrent and newsgroups, we are juggling apps. ¯\_(°_o)_/¯
It's a bit weird that LEDs street lights didn't mimic the color profile of the sodium lights they are replacing.

In fact, I think it's a bad thing. Night vision is better preserved with warmer colors. The bright blue daylight color kills our night vision which ultimately results in temporary blindness as we move away from the street light.
The word you are looking for is "shareholder."
Trust me: you can be compassionate to all and yet question TikTok.
> You could see the attackers just as well as they see you.

That's only if they're moving within the sensors that switch on the light.

> The problem with warm lights is that they are much harder to see in the dark.

Not sure what "in the dark" means here. Light by definition is easier to see in the dark than it is in light as it has less light to compete with.

In any case, I find warm lights much easier. Cold lights are too much sensorial information for me. In any case, street light at night shouldn't be meant to allow you to see everything like it's a sunny day. It's supposed to give you enough light that you can see your surroundings and potential threats around you. For that, warm lights should be more than enough. If you need more light clarity, light your own phone torch or something.
Somebody on HN saw this coming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36604501
This news is worrying for the AI community. Three important researchers, Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry, and Szymon Sidor, have resigned from OpenAI. It makes us wonder about the direction and teamwork at OpenAI. Aleksander Madry was in charge of the AI risk team, a group focused on making sure AI is used safely. Their leaving might affect how OpenAI works on AI and deals with potential risks. OpenAI needs to tell us more about why they left so that people can trust that OpenAI is still committed to developing AI responsibly. We hope to get more information to understand what happened.
Fixed now. Thanks!

(Submitted URL was https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB but our software got caught in a redirect to a login.)
Surveillance Tech Write Press Releases for Cops; News Agencies Are Publishing It
In California you cant legally enforce non-competes but the companies seem to do it illegally behind the scenes.

Kind of behavior seems like it should result in government intervention.
Pretty sure NASA doesn't care about losing the booster for a moonshot mission. Shuttle was 1.6 billion per flight.
> Angel investor Ron Conway wrote, "What happened at OpenAI today is a Board coup that we have not seen the likes of since 1985 when the then-Apple board pushed out Steve Jobs. It is shocking; it is irresponsible; and it does not do right by Sam & Greg or all the builders in OpenAI."

With all sympathy and empathy for Sam and Greg, whose dreams took a blow, I want to say something about investors [edit: not Ron Conway in particular, whom I don't know; see the comment below about Conway]: The board's job is not to do right by 'Sam & Greg', but to do right by OpenAI. When mangement lays off 10,000 employees, the investors congratulate management. And if anyone objects to the impact on the employees, they justify it with the magic words that somehow cancel all morality and humanity - 'it's business' - and call you an unserious bleeding heart. But when the investor's buddy CEO is fired ...

I think that's wrong and that they should also take into account the impact on employees. But CEOs are commanders on the business battlefield; they have great power over the company's outcomes, which are the reasons for the layoffs/firings. Lower-ranking employees are much closer to civilians, and also often can't afford to lose the job.
@overactor account was created only 5 hours ago and this is their first submission. interesting.
This is more like receipt paper, where you shouldn't put your hands in your mouth after touching it. The coating washing off into the water supply is what nags me.
Fuck you, google. This is some top tier doublespeak
What do you think the borrow checker is?
Yes, any kind of car is wildly more difficult to build at scale than a PC. The motor and transmission are only two of about two dozen systems in a car which need to operate flawlessly.

Just the paint alone is hard to get right. Wrong alloy with wrong paint, it chips and flakes. Wrong application, it fades or scratches. Introduce new colors and they might react differently. So now you need to be a paint expert, and be a expert at applying paint, in multiple phases, for multiple parts, many times a day, and never make a mistake.

Now do that for 23 other systems in the car and try not to make a mistake. Suspension, steering, brakes, air con, heat, ECU, brake controller, headlight controller, trim fitting, interior fitting, seats, signal and tail lights, seat belts, front/side impact air bags, bumpers, crush zones, windows, speakers, stereo, main electrical / battery, alternator/inverter, wheels, tires, etc, etc. If you screw up the torque on a bolt, break a clip, forget a fitting or connection, etc, the car now has a defect and needs to be repaired or your brand suffers from consumer complaints (in the best case) or down right safety violations or injuries (worst case).

Compare that to a small metal box which has about six breadboarded electrical components, a screen and a keyboard. The car has that too, plus everything else!
The average SWE at OpenAI who signed up for the “900k” compensation package which was really > 600k in OpenAI PPU equity probably saw their comp evaporate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36460082
Then what did Microsoft pay for?
They'll survive fine.

The watermark is applied to the spectrogram. Each "pixel" of the watermark represents a small band of frequency in a small time slice. The watermark presumably does something like increase the volume by 1% in the watermarked "pixels" -- basically imperceptibly adjusting EQ by tiny amounts in tiny places.

That will survive lossy compression just fine -- lossy compression applies a low pass filter and then removes whole spectrogram chunks where the signal is below a threshold.

But a watermark will still be entirely detectable in all the chunks that remain.
To the terminal or instrumental goal of the statement it is working on.

Question to LLM, "I have one hundred and eleven eggs in the store and another two hundred and twenty two are showing up in an hour, how many eggs will I have in total"

Internal response "this looks like math problem that requires addition. the answer is 333. use a calculator validate 111 + 222. (send 111+222, receive 333). Tool returns 333 validing previous response"

External response: "The answer is 333"

This chain of logic is internally consistent, hence makes sense.
"but I think those are the main reasons why a number of hybrids have highway EPA ratings 10-15 mpg higher than the highest MPG ICE car ever produced."

I agree with everything you said, except for this. Is this really true? The Geo Metro is rated 53 mpg highway. The 80s VW diesels had good mpg too.
Praising a post defending Hitler is hardly about calling out genocide, is it not?
Emacs is oftened remarked to be a whole operating system to itself, fulfilling Dan Ingalls' definition[0]:
"An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one."

0. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
Around here if you live in the middle of nowhere you’re on a septic tank system and not connected to a sewage system

It is unrealistic to expect the same amenities regardless of where you live.
> What would be the point of toggling off MV2 extensions if users could just immediately open the Extensions window and toggle them right back on?

The point would be to get people off MV2 by default, but giving themselves more cover on the antitrust front by technically still allowing people to use these extensions.

Given the ways in which the story has changed about this rollout, my default is to assume that nothing that is projected is set in stone. This is certainly the case for things that have been left unsaid, like the possibility of sideloading.
Dart has a great write up on how they fixed the null problem by adding non-nullable types: https://dart.dev/null-safety/understanding-null-safety
> 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

Especially since I don't think we know that much about how human intelligence actually works.
Why? Just to muddy the waters?
You can say it’s insufficient but it is what it costs them today.

I guess the better comparison is that cost in a financial statement plus some expected increase in revenue due to a “better” product.

Again, I think you are correct in your analysis of the improvements but that contributes little to the revenue as explaining the benefit to most customers requires framing your existing product as potentially harmful to them. Educating them will be hard and it may result in an offsetting realization that they were unsafe before and as a result were paying too much.
i took 'paper' 20 quid note from i think 2015 to an exchange here in this asian country to turn it into $ and was told no 'sir' we dont take this note anymore, only 'plastic' 20 quid note. my 20 quid note was valueless right here. of course i suppose i could go back to london and exchange it for a plastic 20 quid note. just saying.
Rust is a lot better in this aspect, but this is a symptom of not having proper code review and standards.
Do not forget that in some scenarios using unwrap is totally fine if a panic is acceptable.
The same could be said for javascript: How many time have we not wrapped JSON.parse inside a try catch? More than we would like to admit.
Really appreciate Rust “forces” you to handles all execution paths.
What if Enterprises get access to a much better version of AI compared to the GPT+ subscription customer?
I wonder if the "benefiting humanity" bit is code for anti mil-tech. What if Sam wasn't being honest about a relationship with a consumer that weaponized OpenAI products against humans?
No actually, at least by the idea of Gesell.

His idea was to put a kind of tax on money and the responsible to pay this tax is on the holder of the money.

As such you could still put your money into a bank and free yourself of this responsibility and the bank on the other hand is highly motivated to loan the money out as fast as possible to relive itself from the responsibility.
It's not. And since it is also 10000x slower than merely checking a signed number, nobody is interested in doing this.
I don't think wanting to make sure that their technology doesn't cause harm equates to being hostile to the work itself.
Not to mention a lot of us are in the US, and the international perception of deliberately bombing a civilian population, turning off its water supply, etc., in retaliation for a terrorist attack (however brutal and big) is much more dim than most American media outlets and power-holders want people to believe. I think the rest of the world is looking at the situation a lot more realistically, and is fully aware that a lot of the civilian deaths in Gaza are part of the point, and not mere collateral damage.

By American standards, thinking that the life of a Palestinian child has equal moral worth to that of an Israeli child is a non-mainstream opinion.
> it is also possible to move toward developing a society where “potential attackers” is a thought much more distant in people’s minds

Amen, but alas we're not there.

In any case, threats don't always come from purposeful attackers. It's useful to see animals, vehicles and bikes with no light, etc.
Are you proposing we should stick with gas vehicles until all cities on earth has been redesigned to not need cars and trucks?
One thing I forgot to add is some concrete examples of the “defenders of democracy.” John Brennan, former CIA director who authorized and ordered CIA torture program, the assassination of American citizens, who said the CIA was above the law, and who spied on Congress to facilitate coverups - went on record on an NPR interview saying that they had to do whatever it took to get rid of Trump, and was lauded as a resistance hero. It makes me very uneasy to be on the same side as John Brennan. Similarly, a US general proudly announced on television that he lied to Trump about American troop presence so that they could maintain troops in the country in question. The American government is riddled with such people very clearly undermining democratic institutions, but they are ignored and lauded as heroes for opposing the enemy du jour.

> You can't expect the entire population to be well informed about all issues, our current system offloads the requirement for everyone to be knowledgeable about everything, which I would say is that gap.

Sure, this is a fundamental problem with the increasingly complex nature of modern society. But it’s also why, no matter who you vote for as an American, you get basically the same foreign policy, whether you elect Bush or Obama. Foreign policy is really not so much decided by the President, though he gets some influence, but by tens of thousands of State Department experts and to some extent the DoD and security establishment. Americans don’t get a say in whether it’s a good idea to meddle in the internal politics of every country on Earth, or whether the particular position taken in some country benefits them or not, they simply have to accept the expert view, even when it blows up in their faces and harms millions of people and leads to 9/11s or helps the arming of ISIS. There is no easy solution to this problem of expert interests gradually diverging from average American interests.

Another example might be marijuana legalization. A large supermajority of Americans support medical marijuana but it remains federally illegal. This is an area where the “expert” political class does not really care so much and does not widely support it, so nothing happens. When there is political class consensus, forms don’t even matter - legislated law is set aside in favor of executive orders, if necessary to move as quickly as possible - and if the next President tries to rescind such an executive order, he will not be allowed.

But you can’t simultaneously make the argument that “democracy is good” and “actually, we need rule by experts.” You’ve gone from saying Trump was bad because he ignored democracy to making an argument yourself about where democracy fails.
They nag every time you open Chrome? Terrible. I guess that's why I use Brave, which sideloads with no problem. Hopefully V2 will continue to be sideload-able there indefinitely.
I guess so? I like it because it shows that thousands of engineers are rooting for their their work. Aside, the stream itself is marketing, they are not required to broadcast launches.
Thinking like an attacker: find an ambush spot - probably near the trigger-point of the motion-sensor; hold very still; light goes off; victim approaches; ???; profit.

I agree with you, though: lights blinking off and on all the time are not great. I drove somewhere in Europe where they did that with streetlights on major roads, and found it startling, long past the point at which I'd have assumed I'd become used to it. It wasn't the ones that were responding to me, it was the ones that responded to traffic on the opposite side of the road - they'd flash on in my peripheral vision and make me jump. Did not like.
the chairman of the for-profit got demoted. then he quit.
Saw that Scott Manley video that came out right after that and it looks like fuel issues to engines probably caused it. All but one engine started up, but they started failing after that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7LYw6gU65ac
Yeah, you drive things with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ... since it's dynamic
If it’s rooted in math none of the IP should be protected. The training and definition of axioms and viable algorithms should be an open human endeavor.

Letting capitalism dictate what math is public and private is pretty fucking draconian
So you came to this thread and saw this comment made 18 minutes before yours, with replies to that comment, and just reposted the same irrelevant, dismissive, low-effort comment? Did you think it needed to be said twice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294857

On an unrelated note, HN rules forbid me from implying that a commenter has not read the article.
The car and flight sims are engineering simulations - differential equation solvers employing multiple degrees of freedom, flight models and tire models validated vs. data, etc. Game manuals, which are hundreds of pages long, describe how to, e.g., set your differential coast and power ramp angles to tune racecar responsiveness, and how to decide whether a one-circle or two-circle dogfight is more advantageous based on the specific power diagrams of your aircraft and your AI opponent's. These games have staying power because they are clearly labors of love, where accurate physics was top priority in game development. Dave Kaemmer, a top sim racing developer, summed it up this way: "We don’t care if it’s fun or not. We care if it’s real"
Ansible pull is definitely an option, but it's not how most folks use Ansible in my experience (preferring Tower or adhoc run books), namely because it's harder to centrally manage and configure. Etcha creates release artifacts instead of pull down a git repo, and allows you to monitor your deployment using metrics services like Prometheus. Additionally, there is a complete webhook framework for triggering runs.
There was some historical reporting where lights were delaminating because of a bad batch of panels produced by Acuity. It's not representative of the majority of LED installations, but each install may vary.

https://fee.org/articles/why-are-some-us-street-lights-turni...
The value of that $1 silver coin is either the market value of the silver, or the sentimental value to collectors. It not functionally money anymore.

The notion of "hard money" is a joke.