skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Answer: yes. The article concedes that TCO over the lifetime of the vehicle is only just at parity with the middle of the petrol car range, the upfront cost is higher, insurance costs tend to be higher, and on top of that you have “range anxiety” to worry about.

There are certainly pros to electric cars, but as yet price is not one.
If I understand this correctly, the court decided that the programming part is an implementation detail therefore it is not the primary subject of the patent claim. As a result, the judge reasoned that the claim is not primarily to a computer program, thus not invoking the exclusion .

Sounds fair to me. If the actual invention claim is patentable is another story though, it's just that being implemented in code doesn't make it a computer program automatically.
The terms against using the output to develop a competing product seem the same as reverse engineering to me.

Competitors can't get OpenAI's model weights but use its outputs to produce a functionally similar model.

It's like if you had a competitor's engine and couldn't open it up but could still see the outputs: torque, rpm, ..., and could control the inputs: fuel intake, air mixture, etc... Then you make an engine by inferring back from these measurements.

Wouldn't that be reverse engineering?
As an aside since we're apparently bringing out the woodworks here, why is it that nearly all electric vehicles look like crap?

Seriously, their designs are nearly all terrible compared to gas/diesel cars.
Their special sauce is most probably the quality of data and the amount of data cleaning effort they put in.

I’m speculating here but I think Google always refrains from getting into the manual side of things. With LLMs, it became obvious so fast that data is what matters. Seeing Microsoft’s phi-2 play, I’m convinced more about this.

DeepMind understood the properties, came up with Chinchilla but DeepMind couldn’t integrate well with Google, in terms of understanding what kind of data Google should supply to increase model quality.

OpenAI put annotation/cleaning work almost right from the start. Not too familiar with this but human labor was heavily utilized to increase training data quality after ChatGPT started.
I guess he means simply punching out the hex code onto a cardboard?
If you leave dependencies off a hook by mistake you’re creating bugs, unintended behaviour and making your code a nightmare to modify. That’s always going to be worth linting for. Can you over lint a codebase, sure I guess so, if your lint stage is taking hours it probably needs optimization, but your assertion that type checking is enough is incorrect.
But you wrote the docs and documented it’s place in the enterprise knowledge graph, because you’re a professional, right?

As an eng manager at an enterprise (not SV style tech) I differentiate between coders and developers.

Developers help our business by actively taking part in shaping software, automated workflows and integrations that makes us improve as a whole.

At lot of time is spent documenting and figuring out how that piece of software someone wrote 7 years ago, before us, works and what integrates.

This is why I firmly believe you need to tie documentation to running code in some way - at the very least a basic service graph that contains all services, dependencies and some metadata.

Tie this database to automatic firewall and proxy configuration and you’re on a good track.

We’ve on the other hand taken the strategic decision that tech and IT will help us win (is it the 90’s all over again?!) and we staff as such. A team is at least two, and no individual can own a service.
However, it might be a tad hypocritical to name your company "OpenAI" in such arrangements.
Seems everyone is trying to catch up with OpenAI.
The other day Grok was spitting out OpenAI terms and conditions
It's very strange. It's also not clear to me why you couldn't construct that any software is a hardware emulation, and therefore use that as a claim of prior art. Seems to be a fundamental contradiction.
This reminds me of the discussions some years ago whether one should invest in an SSD when buying a new laptop or stay with a spinning disk.

Nowadays, barely any new laptops are released without an SSD.

When it comes to electric versus petrol, I often think about the fact that the sun sends more energy to earth in an hour than all of mankind uses in a year.

I guess that in theory, all that energy could be captured with parts that need no service at all and do not degrade? Of course, we will not practically reach that efficiency. But we will continue to improve towards this limit. When I think of what it takes to dig for oil and all the steps needed to turn that into a moving car, the way we are heading seems clear.
I’ve done this before, don’t remember regretting it and always wonder why more don’t do it. I’ve even avoided any logging configuration files by configuring programmatically during application startup.

I like minimal application configuration and find the “configuration surface” offered by most logging libraries much too large and also see it as a burden for users to learn/google the configuration file format of the chosen implementation.

I prefer to offer minimal and ergonomic logging configuration options. Analogous to basic “-q”, “-v”, “-d” options typical of command line programs, which my code translates to whatever logging framework.

And you don’t end up spending ages fiddling with slf4f and other exclusions and version range stuff in maven.
> The Houthis have repeatedly stated they are only targeting ships heading to/from Israeli ports.

Then they expanded this to any ships with some connection to Israel but already attacked a ship headed to Italy which has no (publicly) known connection to Israel. IMHO attacks on unrelated ships will continue to happen because: 1. they have poor intelligence 2. why should they care about mistakes if they meet zero pushback.
So the conclusion is, lawmakers decided software patents are unwanted. But I know better than them, so I’ll allow them anyway.

I hope there’s still the possibility of appeal and this bad judgement is reversed.
Detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: "conversing" with a whale
SETI first contact with a whale
Nothing, but similar to other accounts a small sensation of knowing what it should look like without the visual.

Shocked when I learned my immediate family member can actually visualize things without even closing their eyes which lets them essentially 'trace' what they're envisioning.

My best friend also is incapable of seeing things with eyes closed - they were a bit upset when I brought it to their attention.

Interestingly enough, of everyone I know I have the most vivid, engrossing, lucid dreams. Guess all that brainpower when sleeping saps the power supply for during the day.

My significant other only dreams in Black and White, which was more mindblowing to me than seeing black.
Yes?
Not only that, most of them look terrible and the driving technique has to change dramatically to get any half decent range. It's a lot less engaging to daily an EV.
Does Bytedance allow OpenAI to train ChatGPT using TikTok?
"You can't reach this speed easily" doesn't sound like a problem that's specific to Mach 5+.
Where I live (Italy) is still a matter of infrastructure. Situation is improving, but I'm not ready to live with the constant fear of not finding a charging station, especially if I need to travel thru the country or in the countryside.

I'm not ready yet. I'll be more for plug-in cars in a 5-years span.
Making better AIs with it should benefit the humanity. They should change name already.
Unfortunately I don't have anything, as I don't like Google having my location.
Hi there, I'm one of Ubicloud's founders.

I agree with you on the sentiment about starting with a liberal license and then re-licensing once you gain enough adoption. We think it's only fair to our users that any re-licensing should go in the other direction.

I also had a clarification question, just to better understand. Which part of the Elastic V2 license do you find the most restrictive? (PS: We don't have license keys in Ubicloud. So, only directly competing against our managed service should apply.)
> Though sovereignty and final power flows from the Council.

Eeehh... This is an open point of law, technically. Per Maastricht treaty, the European Parliament has co-decision powers, and its consistent electoral system arguably makes it more directly representative of European people than national governments. Parliament "stared down" the Council on occasions.

The Council/Commission/Parliament setup is really not the finished article, I expect things will change again before the end of the century.
One will be appointed to you.
it seems they are :D
They still sell the iPod touch
"Politicians in Europe know they will eventually have to impose taxes on electricity (or else raise income taxes)"

I heard that a lot, but are we sure about this?

Petrol in Europe is taxed at about 50%, but is almost exclusively imported, thus this is the only income for gouvernements.

Electricity, on the other side, is also taxed (about 25% here in Belgium). But's it's almost entirely produced in the Union, which creates additional income and thus taxes. In the end the government income generated by electricity production is most probably around 50% too.

Add to that the external costs of petrol cars that electric cars don't have (at least not as much), such as the huge impact of pollution on the healthcare sector, climate change, or the negative import balance caused by the import of fossil fuel... And it might well be that electric vehicles will be a better deal overall tax wise.
I use Maccy for this alongside nifty macOS configurations
In city centres for sure. In the country side, the population density makes public transports more challenging. People could walk or bike or ski but that would reduce their life quality.

It’s difficult to reduce your life quality unless you are forced. I don’t see country side people giving up their cars.
Some speculate that this is what OpenAI's Q* model is about and what caused the Altman/Sutskever split.
You can't find one you trust, Android uses Google's location service to get your location. If you trust Google to uphold your "don't store this", you may be OK.
Beside all of that, if you convert let's say 1/10 of cars with internal combustion engines to electric motor cars, there is no electricity to charge them. Which also leads to envirnonmental problems - creating so much electricity (+ CO2 emmision from thermal-electric plants). Just count average low electric car consumption 15kWh/100km.
In the UK, most people don't pay the "sticker" cost for a car. They take out a PCP or similar plan. Pay £X00 per month for Y months. At the end of the period, either buy the vehicle outright or hand it back. Or, as many people do, switch to a new vehicle.

That's why you see so many expensive cars driven by people who can't afford them. No one is paying the up-front cost. They splurge their disposable income on a motor and treat it like a mobile phone - upgrade it every few years.

A VW eUP (an electric vehicle) is about £200pcm. The new Mini is about £300pcm. Those are comparable with ICE vehicles.
It’s like company A collects everyone’s phone number and then publishes it as a phone book. And then company B copies the phone book and publishes it as their own.

It’s not a straightforward copyright issue but in many jurisdictions that is not allowed. Company A did the work, they should be allowed to profit.
> Ukraine war there was so much misinformation posted about grain, grain yields, etc, making it seem like a permanent quadrupling in grain prices would occur.

Prices didn’t quadrupled but they stayed very high for a few months in 2022 and recovered to pre-war prices very slow. It was not a problem for rich countries but affected many developing ones, especially in Africa.
The work on the internet is on the internet freely available to all and the output of their API is the output of their API only available after registration and agreeing to their terms and conditions.

OpenAI are free to block anyone from using their API if they want. Just like anyone hosting their content a website is free to block the OpenAI web crawler.
> GPT3 has been around for a little bit now and the world has not ended or encountered a singularity.

And they won't right up until they do. Reason why is that…

> The models are expensive to run both in compute and expertise.

…doesn't extend to the one cost that matters: money.

Imagine a future AI that beats graduates and not just students. If it costs as much per line of code as 1000 gpt-4-1106-preview[0] tokens, the cost of rewriting all of Red Hat Linux 7.1 from scratch[1] is less than 1 million USD.

[0] $0.03 / 1K tokens

[1] https://dwheeler.com/sloc/
It's not like schools have any other option on the table, students will find a way to use all the help they can get like they always have. Embracing it is the only way they can stay relevant in the coming age of one-on-one AI tutors.

It reminds me of the middle ages where only the priest was allowed to read and interpret the bible, mostly through the virtue of knowing latin. Then suddenly the printing press comes around and everyone can get their own cheap bible in their language. You just can't fight and enforce this kind of thing in the face of such insane progress. In 100 years (if we're not extinct then) people will probably look back on mass education where one overworked teacher tries to explain something in a standard way to 30 people (over half of who are bored or can't keep up) as some kind of old age savagery.
I miss the plot of the blog post
people are surprisingly patient with messaging,… WhatsApp was down for 2 hours like last Tuesday at 3am and a civil war erupted in Brazil and stuff
CPU-Z came some time ago with a "latency.exe" which was used to measure cache sizes and latencies. Anyone knows if the source is available somewhere ?
Does that mean mankind has to grow its energy usage 24 times to match the energy absorbed by the Earth?
Ye it was really strange. And the simultaneous "outrage" on some Twitter users. The praise felt very artificial. But the drama was real.
Well, this solution won't help with those rules since your bottleneck is now tsc.
I think I picture an accurate elephant head, but I may just be fooling myself into thinking I picture that. I don't trust my brain farther than I can throw it.
Indeed.

I can give a vague, poorly written, poorly spelled request to the free version of ChatGPT and it still gives me a correct response.

As correct as usual at least (85-95%), but that's a different problem.
The WS2815 (12V version) actually is a 4 wire setup. It has a "backup data wire" that allows a single failed LED unit to be bypassed.

http://www.normandled.com/upload/201808/WS2815%20LED%20Datas...
I mean its a big deal on a statistical level for many launches adding up, but it’s not exactly going to take us somewhere we can’t otherwise go.
You should look up Steve Yegges earlier work. It's pretty glorious and definitely not AI.
Pull to refresh what? It's an annoying feature that's already built right into Firefox for Android and doesn't need an extension.
There's only one Cambridge anyway :)
I didn’t realise until recently just how engrained this practice is in people’s behaviour.

I was discussing cars with someone not long ago and they were really matter-of-fact about switching to a new car just because the dealership offered it to them. It came across very much as that’s just how it works and everyone does that.
>> That's why you see so many expensive cars driven by people who can't afford them

How is it possible to keep possession of the car if you’re not paying the contractual obligation? Is there some exception for cars?

For example, failing to keep up with mortgage payments will eventually see you lose the property.
It’s not like OpenAI trained their model using someone else’s and now won’t allow it done to them. This seems more like saying “get your own content and do the work like everyone else”.
Maybe. But it seems unlikely - are you confident that the filtering were using on weak AI would also work on strong AI? I'm not...
Thanks for those ideas! Exactly what I'm looking for. Though I've settled for a combination of alternative #4 and #1, I'm using my phone's hotspot with USB Wi-Fi stick.
Yeah I suspect a lot of that has to do with ad blocking and the problem with using log based analytics is filtering out bot traffic
Most people live in urban areas. Even in suburban areas, the bicycle could be a viable form of transportation. My grocery store is literally under ten minutes away by bike, but it is essentially a nightmare to bike to because of a lack of safe cycling infrastructures.
The people who move to Threads are those who are being deceived, not the people who remain in federation networks. Yet, you can't expect Threads to commit resources to limiting its own growth. It's naive to think that it would.
Show HN: Reverse engineering Microsoft's dev container CLI
Rejoice, for the gods have decided to be generous.
Thats why i store bookmarks for visited 'places' (any suitable object' in OrganicMaps, separated by country (list) and category (=color).

For EXIF, there's f.e. PhotoMap for Android.

Would never put such data in the cloud. But i'm also neither on social media nor American nor app-loving, so...
I tested mine and it came out to around 65hrs w/ rockbox playing FLACs.

I've also got a Sansa Clip+ that is super small and great with Rockbox.
More like 24 * 365 times.
but only extreme metals

and money, that galaxy has no money
Assuming the quoted figures are correct ...

it'd be more like 24 x 365 (and a bit) to match the per hour input to per year usage.
Divi Theme with Wordpress is great. Allows for quick prototyping but is used for many production websites as well.
Can't be affected by an attack vector if the vector doesn't work to begin with, clever.
> using public data

As far as we know.
I had this experience when running RockBox on an iPod to play OGG files. The battery was much shorter.

I can't remember how battery life compared for MP3/AAC (was RockBox able to use the hardware decoder?).
SSD only became mainstream after 3D TLC was invented, bringing costs down. Planar MLC was okay but was still somewhat expensive, tech enthusiast thingy.

So for petrol, sure, if we just had as energy dense batterry as fossile fuels.

No, current tech is not there yet. The big range vechiles are stupidly expensive, and the inexpensive ones are daily commuters only, mostly. They also charge slowly. Most people don't own multiple vechiles for different purposes, the primary purpose of personal vechile is utility and mobility. People get stuck in their personal bubbles and forget that for most people cars are actually a tool.

For batteries, big range drops in winter, no solution for people living in apartments with no capability to "charge at home", high electricity prices at not "charge at home" places.

Please don't bring in hydrogen here :) it's Toyota's pipe dream, not reallity. We really need 3D NAND flash of SSD moment for batteries, that would revolutionize a lot of industries, not just personal vechiles.
OP meant "can't afford them" in the sense of "couldn't afford the full price of". There are lots of people here in the UK on medium incomes driving around in £80,000 cars using this finance
Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs dash for affordable cars
If you accelerate as slow as a median ICE car, the range shouldn’t be too bad. If you find it difficult not to press the accelerator pedal too hard, you can always use eco mode, chill mode, or Toyota mode, whatever it is called.

I find daily an EV much nicer as the driving is more silent, more smooth, the car is warmer faster, you don’t need to go to the oil and gas station once a while if you can charge at home or at work.

And the torque curve and the response time are so much better than all the car enthousiastes ICE cars in a similar price range.
Patent appeal for artificial neural network, the appellant argued that the ANN was self-trained and not directly programmed with detailed logical steps, thus, it shouldn't be considered a computer program under the exclusion.
The cool thing about mp3 players and phones with physical buttons is you could control them in your pocket with one hand while riding a bcycle to school. I remember texting someone on a T9 numpad, once you got the hang of it you could do it with the phone behind your back!

Later I had the worst designed mp3 player created by man which despite having physical buttons, still required you to look at the screen to use it because button presses were (a) context specific (required sequences) and (b) not idempotent (the first press was ignored and brought the device out of sleep mode).
In the last decade, decentralized web-crawlable forums (the likes of vBulletin, phpBB, etc) have been decimated by the proliferation of monolithic walled gardens like Discord and Slack. Then Zulip comes along with features that feel like a throwback to the forum era (web frontend, public access option, threaded topic system, email notifications) but with modern sensibilities in mind (mobile clients, proper API, bots, push notifications). Zulip seems like the kind of project that has the potential to turn the tide and make discourse more decentralized again.

I fear that the introduction of any pricing for self-hosted installations like this will steer Zulip away from its potential as a ubiquitously deployed platform and toward a niche subscription model, as open as it may be, relegated to the odd enterprise with refined taste in communication platforms. Very unfortunate news.
> This is very different from where we’re at today, where there’s one format: HTML

The part of the proposal it comments listed "pure ASCII", and surely we have plaintext files on the web as well. And all kinds of images, sound, video files, which are readily supported by common web browsers, out of the box. PDFs, too, which may contain hyperlinks that are active and handled by common web browsers. And even more if you count those handled by external programs (e.g., LibreOffice Writer must qualify as a "word processor", which is also mentioned in the commented part of the proposal, and then there are all sorts of other markup languages and formats, including those capable of hyperlinking further), web browser extensions, or don't restrict it to common web browsers.
Without some form of extreme compression,
that 2GB portion will be quickly filled by random social network junk.
I think what parent is saying is people lease or finance cars so they can drive cars they wouldn't be able to afford in full. That is, those people can afford the monthly payments but cannot afford paying the sticker price.

An easier to understand example would be how most people finance iPhones with their carrier. Most people balk at paying one or two grand for a phone, but don't mind paying ~$50 per month. At the end of the loan when they pay off the balance, or maybe even before that if the carrier offers, they upgrade to the next new iPhone.
That's not really special sauce though. Using data from an external sauce is foundational computing. :(
the overwhelming support of him across HN/Twitter (circle jerk) really rubs me the wrong way and I just can't take Sam Altman seriously anymore
Every once in a while Google acknowledges the customer exists, but usually for a brief moment, either to close their account, or to tell them they are using the product wrong. They promptly go back to work after such brief outings, so as to not fall into the mistake of actually listening.
Petrol cars were too expensive for decades
> It is not implementing code given to it by a human. The structure, in terms of the emulation of uneducated nodes and layers, may well be the result of programming, but that is just the equivalent of the hardware ANN. The actual operation of those nodes and layers inter se is not given to those elements by a human. It is created by the ANN itself.

So therefore the inventor is a computer? I thought that was settled already.
24 * 365 times