skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example of an important human task that is not "economically valuable" in this sense, is caregiving within a family, such as parenting, since parents are not employed in that role.

OpenAI is not setting the goal post that far, to say that they are aiming to develop a machine that is superior to humans at all tasks, including such tasks as raising a human child. That would be ridiculous.

Focusing on "economically valuable" tasks (the jobs that humans are employed and paid to do) sets the goal post more realistically.
Their current split favors big artists. 90% of the music I listen to is jazz and classic, and if I was on Spotify (I use Qobuz instead), 90% of my subscription (minus Spotify's share) wouldn't go to these artists, instead most of it would go to the most popular artists on Spotify. That's not fair, I am de facto subsidizing the biggest artists, even if I don't listen to them, while the artists I like receive less.

And there's the fact that the payment per stream is low on Spotify compared to Qobuz or Tidal.
That’s fine but the impactful stuff was just a rehash of stuff that people had already dealt with a year or two prior. So no, it wasn’t very impactful from my perspective.
> Small indie artists will have contracts with Spotify.

They won't. They will have contracts with distributors: https://artists.spotify.com/providers
Between Killer Robots and Flawless AI: Reassessing the Military Implications
A fairly reasoned take, I think, particularly with respect to the three points raised (physics still matter, still marginal advantages, and yet there is an increasing appetite for deployment).
Humans are flexible and reprogrammable in a way you can't really understand until after you've tried to deploy and work with automation.

It turns out that "robots are cool" is not on the chief engineer or product designer's list of priorities.

Which is why car plants use robots for a limited number of tasks, almost always involving relatively non-flexible parts that can be placed in a straightforward way.

Paint shop automation is still impressive anytime I see it, even after years of watching it though.
The US did benefit from slavery and the fact that most of Europe ended up destroyed in WWII.

However, it did not use green energy to build up its huge industry. It used fossil fuels. If it did use carbon-free energy sources, I would have agreed and wouldn't be such a climate-change skeptic now.
Yeah! An insidious problem that’s not obvious when you’re picking a retry interval.

I had fun with the details of the explosion animation. When it explodes, the number of requests that come out is the actual number of in-progress requests.
Buy everyone on your team an excellent microphone and boom arm — should be required. Anyone on a shitty mic is not allowed to talk.

Turn your self video off.
> They learn from failed attempts in ways that LLMs do not seem to. The material they are trained on surely contributes to this problem.

For transformer models, they do learn from their mistakes but only during the training stage.

There’s no feedback loop during inference, and perhaps there needs to be something; like real-time fine-tuning.
Maybe less highwaymen and more a local baron suddenly levying a toll on a major road. That sort of thing happened a lot, and never failed to upset merchants who would protest with a higher authority.

Except in this case there's a random aspect to the toll, and you can avoid the toll by knowing the situation and lowering your speed in time. I'm pretty sure the locals are all familiar with the situation and know how to avoid these fines.
He lives in England nowadays too
I bought a new hairdryer. I'm a little disappointed in it's performance, but it has good ergonomics.
Slowly but steadily we age out "divine mandate" for "hustle mandate."

Nothing changes, psychopaths still cling on to some nebulous notion to make labor work harder to capture more excess value.
allSettled() returns an array of objects for each promise result that tells you if it has been rejected or resolved, so as long as all the promises reject or resolve then it should solve the problem I think?
Yep, something always helps.

My visions were also mostly dangerous or about life eating itself.
These scripts are often used to install the application, so that introduces a chicken-and-egg situation. How can I install bash before running the installer?

Also, we'd have to build and maintain our own just for platforms missing it, which increases cost and complexity. It's easier, cheaper, and less error-prone just to use a minimum common denominator that runs on everything.

Additionally, when your customers have strict policies regarding how applications are approved for use and have to vet and test everything you give them, it's best practice to avoid installing anything that you can avoid installing. Doing that minimizes the effort and hassle for both the customer and the developer.
>If the entire US music industry was a company, it wouldn’t even make it into the S&P 500.

Market cap =/= revenue
Wasn’t Tidal owned by Sprint? (And apparently it’s now owned by Jack Dorsey.) Isn’t that like supporting Zune for being an “underdog”, despite it being owned by Microsoft?
Turn off your status indicator. Block your calendar off with fake meetings and leave one cluster available.
> Maybe if the only way of making your business model sustainable is by underpaying artists

Spotify pays 70% of its revenue to music labels... but its Spotify's fault that this money never reaches the artists?
Bandcamp, iTunes, Beatport, there's an absolute ton of them.
Cheap over-the-counter nail drug found to work on crippling flesh-eating disease
Right, but "running GUI applications" isn't the only goal, I want to run a full desktop environment, in full screen.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is about use case. A SR-71 successor would not be snapping pictures of static known sites where nothing is changing. That can happen at a leisurely pace which means that satellites do that fine. Satellites and reconnaissance aircraft do different things. There are many cases where you need to go look at a specific area RIGHT NOW, not in 7 hours. You can't wait for your high end LEO satellite's orbit to pass over the correct spot of the earth. Reconnaissance aircraft can actually maneuver and fly over specific places making them dramatically more flexible when you need to find something that may be in a completely different place 1 hour from now.

>What sensors are you talking about that cost hundreds of millions and requires multiple?

Nearly all sensors worth putting on a satellite in a military context are going to cost at least $10 million and those would be pretty low quality and of limited usefulness. The NRO regularly launches individual satellites with sensors which cost >$1 billion dollars. Their yearly budget is >$6 billion despite having almost no personnel. High end sensors are very very expensive. You need multiple because, as previously stated, if you only have 1 you might be waiting an entire day for it to orbit over the correct place on the earth. You can build 1,000 of those and get near real time tracking but it's going to be absurdly expensive. Much cheaper to just fly a single aircraft over the correct part of the earth you're interested in. The sensor payloads that RQ-4s carry still cost >$100 million but you can just fly them exclusively over areas of interest meaning you don't need nearly so many of them. They're also a lot closer to the ground meaning that an equivalent quality sensor can see a lot more than it would be able to from LEO.
Why do you? I don’t understand your logic.
Well, you could post a vast amount of comments into social media and see if and how others react to it. It's still humans doing the work, but they would not even know.

If this was actually done (and this is just wild baseless speculation), this would be a good reason to let Sam go.
Unshackling Artificial Minds
And what would you have Spotify do in this situation? Sign artists directly? And draw the ire of those three labels who will immediately pull all their music from the service?
I think there is a lot more speculation than knowledge, even about the timing of the existence of AGI. As our discussion shows, it is very difficult to agree on some common ground truth of the situation.

Btw., we also don't have special controls around very smart people at present (but countries did at times and we generally frown upon that). The fear here combines some very high unspecified level of intelligence, some ability to evade, some ability to direct the physical world and more - so complex set of circumstances.
You keep saying, "honestly" and "in my opinion" and yet you are dismissive. I can absolutely see how many people can depend on it. You seem to have no idea how useful this is for many many folks. I miss it dearly in Android.
Workers AI Update: Stable Diffusion, Code Llama and Workers AI in 100 Cities
I should have said, as I understand it, the point of this type of question is not that one particular answer is the right answer and another is wrong, it's that often the model in giving an answer will do something really weird that shows that it doesn't have a model of the world.
To undo any action
The about page [1] has a (somewhat hidden) link to the GitHub repository [2]. The readme there has further links to some research papers.

[1] https://scratch.fim.uni-passau.de/litterbox/about.php
[2] https://github.com/se2p/LitterBox
> I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay.

In the end its labels who pay the artists, not Spotify.
Or we could ban private yachts, planes, etc and plant millions of trees to literally hedge against the tech not working
Challenging to control a drone at hypersonic speeds & low altitudes (sub orbital) I think, the behavior of the air as a plasma around the craft will mean that it will probably have to be fully autonomous, which if armed could be quite a challenge ethically.
You can look up all the UC positions here:

https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

A lot of professors are making over 200k, but most that I knew were around 150k.

(You can also find all the 5M positions, usually head coach)
I've made some changes to address this. Thanks for letting me know!
If I listen to 10 songs in a month all by artist 2 and you listen to 1000 songs by artist 1, should my subscription money all go to artist 2 or should it 'subsidise' your listening to artist 1. That is the core question.

Basically do you put all the money in a pot and then split it, or do you treat each subscriber as a unit and split their subscription fee just among the music they listen to.
Increasing the MTU at the sender side to something >1500 is not a great idea. It’s unlikely that the path will support 1508 byte end-to-end.

A better idea would be to reduce the MSS inside the tunnel.
> Take capitalism out of it, do we really want to boil down intelligence to a calculation of expected economic value?

It's a lovely sentiment, but do you expect e.g. universities to start handing out degrees on the basis of human dignity rather than a series of tests whose ultimate purpose in our society is boiling down intelligence to a calculation of expected economic value?

We live in the world we live in and we have the measures we have. It's not about lofty ideals, it's about whether or not it can measurably do what a human does.

If I told you that my pillow is sentient and deserving of love and dignity, you have the choice of taking me at my word or finding a way to put my money where my mouth is. It's the same reason the world's best poker players aren't found by playing against each other with Monopoly money.

> Why force the term intelligence into it at all if what were talking about is simply automation?

In what world is modern AI "simply" anything?

> we have spent centuries considering what human intelligence is and how it separates us from other species on the planet.

Dolphins would like a word. There's more than a few philosophers who would argue that maybe our "intelligence" isn't so easily definable or special in the universe. There are zero successful capitalists who would pay my pillow or a dolphin to perform artificial intelligence research. That's what I mean when I call it the meaningful Turing test in a capitalist society. You can't just "take capitalism out of it." If I could just "take capitalism out" of anything meaningful I wouldn't be sitting here posting in this hell we're constructing. You may as well tell me to "take measurement out of it."
I am curious as to how a hypersonic aircraft can collect radio signals - the air does strange things around such a craft
> Revenue is broadly in line with what it's been

Not if you adjust for inflation.

Not if you adjust for population growth.

Not if you adjust for growth in artists and music avaiable.

So in the end the money that goes to artists is worth maybe 10% of what it was in 1973, while serving a customer base that is 58% larger, probably much larger than that considering everybody has access now. And this money has to be split among many more artists than before, including many artists who have been dead for decades.
A sign bit also means you have deal with positive and negative zero.
> Especially if your headset

What I'm suggesting is that I wouldn't be wearing a headset at all, but everyone else in the meeting wouldn't realize this. My VR self (I'm calling that my avatar) would be on auto-pilot, driven only by my voice and reacting to others voices and virtual positions.

Most of the time it would just need to face whoever is speaking and appear to be engaged, and throw in some random movements, so I don't have to physically do that myself.

I could continue to play guitar or take my dog outside while those with VR headsets on are stuck going through the expected motions.
I'd be open to it if it meant folks stopped worshipping rich people.
Let's get into the "at the cost of giving a shit about everyone else" part - do you think that, prior to anti-discrimination laws intended to create an even playing field, everyone got some kind of benefit that they no longer get? If so, you are mistaken. In the United States, we do not have and have never had a system that cares about every citizen. We just don't. What we have are limits to cruelty and a general concept of fairness as a base starting point for life.

ADA compliance especially does not give the disabled an advantage over others. It is an attempt to level things and an acknowledgment that assistance is necessary for some people to enter the workplace as otherwise they would not physically be able to do so. Most of the other protected classes are based on the Constitution - not including pregnant women and women that may become pregnant, as a sub-class, who are classically discriminated against in the workplace and elsewhere and forced out of their jobs on a regular basis.

So when someone, you in this instance, complains about "not being worth protecting" in comparison to a group that is routinely disadvantaged or innately vulnerable, it creates the appearance in people listening or reading their words that they are extremely naive and/or a cruel, mean person. This perception is something a person who is neither of those things should consider before speaking or posting about subjects like this one.
Man, that has been a dream since I was a kid: to see humanity create better gods. It would be really cool to see these machine gods evolve over time too, and scripture and morality along with them. A version controlled religion for future historians (AI, humans, or otherwise) to study!
Boys clubs give seats to some incompetent boys just because they are "boys". It follows that there would be a smaller amount of incompetent people if it was not a boys club.

You shouldn't thank boys clubs if you enjoyed those games - there could have been more, better games.
I think it was a few months ago here on HN that I saw someone suggest that we'll only accept AI as people when people start worshipping them.
I get the overall point, but this humility makes it difficult to use some kind of grading/levels.

Take e.g. MS Office as an example of a large C++ project. Certainly, there are developers with just "average" knowledge of C++ working there. Then there are people having strong/advanced C++ knowledge.

But in a project like MS Office there are certainly devs who are still much stronger in the language, best in the project/company, but still likely below people like Stroustoup or Alexandrescu. How to call those? I think avoiding the term "expert" just to be consistent with the above-mentioned humility is impractical.
Russian-made Ukraine-targeting malware has infested systems worldwide
The fallout from this week will be world changing. IMO, concentration of power in the hands of ‘sama as OpenAI changes tack to full commercialisation can only be a bad thing. The prevailing feeling at work is that AI risk experts are about to have their day in the sun.
> Most of the Node API is still reliant upon callbacks and the frontend absolutely doesn’t care.

This is not true at all. Promises and async/await are ubiquitous.
Even if adjusted for inflation, it seems middling rather than "nowhere near what it was" and it seems to grow as well.

The 90's were an outlier IMO, because we got CD's for easy distribution but it was before the internet and especially smartphones were widely available.

Companies like Spotify and Netflix basically hinge on being more convenient than internet based piracy, radio, ad supported streaming etc.
Business of premium CDN is providing the bits as fast as possible (to legit users). This is what customer pays for. If the experience is worse on a CDN, customer will quickly put their traffic and money elsewhere.

Strategy might be different for a free-tier/cheap CDN.
The "pool all streams" model doesn't necessarily favor big artists, it favors artists that are listened to by people that stream a lot of music.

For example, consider a bimodal population of 1000 people that listen 10 times to a popular artist (for a total of 10,000 streams) and 10 people that listen 1000 times to a small artist (for an identical total of 10,000 streams). In the "pool all streams" model, both artists get paid the same, while in a "split per user" model, the popular artist gets 100x the payout of the small artist.

An interesting question then is whether big or small artists are disproportionaly listened to by people that stream a lot. I haven't seen any data on it, but intuitively it wouldn't surprise me if it's the latter case.
I still do that.
A must-read (or rather: must-see) for anyone who thinks exponential backoff is overrated.
The article makes the point that the corporate structure wasn't enough to rein in the human ambitions at OpenAI. But then it concludes that we need more... government regulation. When has that ever stopped the march of technology?
You can use it in a browser without compiling anything. Have you ever taught someone from scratch? You don't invent nonsense rabbit holes and barriers to entry to make things harder.
What components on the F-117 are from other aircraft?
Users U1 and U2 have a the same subscription, and $10 of the fee they pay will be distributed to artists.

User U1 listens to tracks from artist A1 ten times.

User U2 listens to tracks from artist A2 190 times.

The $20 that U1 and U2 have paid are distributed to artists according to number of songs streamed. Artist A1 gets $1, and artist A2 gets $19.

It's counter intuitive that U1 effectively pays $9 to A2, without having listened to their songs even once.
>> Starts with ADSL and 1TB/month download for £25.00

Wow.
Why?

what's the benefit of a supersonic missile system vs a high subsonic missile platform, what are the drawbacks, cost, availability, size, handling.

Also what are the drawbacks - operationally - like increased visibility, decreased range, decreased payload?
>but since most video traffic is transferred by HTTPS these days they end up just making a massive list of IP's which look like they might be sending video data and dropping some percentage of traffic to those IP's.

You really don't when every modern browser sends SNI, which exposes the full domain name it's trying to connect to.
Spotify charges a flat monthly fee to their customers, so the income per stream varies widely: Someone who listens to only one album a month is providing more income per stream to Spotify than someone who leaves it running as background 24/7, but the artist that recorded that one album doesn't get a proportional share of the income generated.
There are a lot of problems reported on thinkbroadband forums for zen about some new routing configuration they are doing, which is meant to be better but is in reality a lot worse.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is related to that someway!
Another Finder memory leak in Sonoma
People driving through your country without doing any business in your country can be a serious strain, though. This is particularly an issue in Belgium, which has exactly the right shape to host a lot of through traffic between Netherland and France, which puts a lot of wear on the roads without paying for it.

Belgium has normal speed limits, fortunately, but poorly maintained roads. It wouldn't be unreasonable if through traffic from Netherland and France somehow paid a bit for that.
Bootstrapping Wisdom from20+ Founders on What Really Matters.
Yep. I'm not much of a religious person, but if I were, I might say: not only does AI not create stuff, humans don't either, only the Creator did! I suppose the big bang theory doesn't stray far from this either. Point is, maybe we use this notion metaphorically/imprecisely even for human output, and therefore we might as well extend it to machines.
That's false information.. Spotify does NOT distribute 70% of their revenue.

As per their latest financial statement ( https://s29.q4cdn.com/175625835/files/doc_financials/2023/q3... ):

Revenue: 3357
Cost of revenue: 2472

> Cost of revenue consists predominantly of royalty and distribution costs related to content streaming.

> Cost of revenue also includes the cost of podcast content assets (both produced and licensed)

> Cost of revenue also includes credit card and payment processing fees for subscription revenue, customer service, certain employee compensation and benefits, cloud computing, streaming, facility, and equipment costs.

So all operational costs is included in that "70%", including: infrastructure, payment fees, etc. etc.

A breakdown:

217 committed Google Cloud Platform per quarter (based on 4344 in 5 years)
105 for amortization of content assets (podcasts they bought)
30 for some content write-off
102 "minimum royalty" for licensed content (not the regular artists), (based on (2124-83) in 5 years)

100 my estimate for app store fees, assuming 15% fees for 20% of the users
67 my estimate for ca. 2% creditcard fees
? streaming
? facility
? support software + employees
? equipment, software, etc
? refunds etc
? free spotify for employees

So a total of AT LEAST 723 is not related to paying out royalties.
(2472-723)/3357

They're paying less than 52%. My estimate would be between 35% and 40%
There is so much vagueness around this whole OpenAI thing that it's difficult taking anything seriously anymore - it's almost hearsay at this point. Yesterday it was Altman's personal interests, now it's a breakthrough model, tomorrow it's something else. At the very least it's fantastic marketing (albeit at the expense of their customers).
> Nolan said at a recent "Oppenheimer" screening that it's important to own the film on Blu-ray so that "no evil streaming service can come steal it from you."
"There is a danger, these days, that if things only exist in the streaming version they do get taken down, they come and go," the director added.

I'm not sure if he's talking as a consumer or a film maker - I had a lot of VHS (now gone apart from a few sentimental ones), have boxes of DVDs which I'm not sure I want to watch again and no player anyway. Most of the rarer movies that I'd like to see but aren't available on streaming services aren't really worth the high prices as low volume physical media.