skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gas tax had usage and efficiency built in and was paid gradually by consumers as they used the gas. EVs change this completely.

1. How to measure usage

2. How to account for efficiency and weight

3. How to not get big bills from accrued usage paid less frequently
The USSR invasion of Romania? That's insane revisionism. Who, exactly, started the invasion? Like you realize the Romanians were literally guarding the front of the Germans at Stalingrad? Maybe Romania should've have invaded the Soviet Union with Germany?
> Ridesharing’s present outcome isn’t to strive for

it's much better than the taxi of yore. It's not the perfect outcome, but it's an improvement nevertheless.
What potential risks of UBI do you think the existing studies rule out?

I think pro UBI people often straw man anti UBI arguments as a disguised belief that Group X is lazy. I think pro UBI people do this because they are morally triggered by discriminatory work ethic beliefs (fair enough). I think that people who cite these studies might see the studies as ruling out the straw man, which makes them feel fuzzy self righteous feelings, but to me the studies do not even remotely address what I see as the actual risks of at scale UBI deployment.
There's been only 1 build in 2013 and last one before in 1978 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...

so nuclear wouldn't affect those 14%
> AGI is not around the corner, so no worries

Unfortunately while this is very likely the case, the vast amount of money being poured into these projects will also seep into other horrifying projects like: Lavender or Pattern (seriously go look up both of these, it's actually going to fry your brain).
Being exclusive to Nvidia GPUs doesn't sound like a good idea. What makes it rely on CUDA anyway?

It's cool that it's using Wine though. From these cloud services like Amazon's Luna or Geforce Now, none are running Linux, so this is interesting.

No idea why Stadia couldn't do the same and tried to reinvent the wheel with Windows ABI translation at some point before it shut down.
I didn’t say it was like climate change, I said it was like claiming climate change is not real.

> There are very real disagreements between very real experts on just how dangerous these new technologies are

…but they do not dispute that the technology is impactful.

In fact, anyone who claims it is just “Text continuation”(quote) is being deliberately disingenuous and deliberately downplaying it.

> Comparing skepticism about AI alarmism to climate change denial is just lazy internet rhetoric

Unlike calling AI “Text continuation”?

It’s awfully convenient it’s only lazy internet rhetoric when it’s coming from the other side.

Hm?

Why is only one side allowed to do that?

Would you care to call out the other side for being reductionist?

That’s a very high horse you’re sitting on.
Efficacy usually drops off a cliff after first line (first therapy) treatment in many cancers. The best chance of being cured is typically the first therapy.

This is a population who has already been treated with a PD-1 (or PDL-1) therapy and platinum chemotherapy, which is pretty much the best treatment available, and their cancer has come back.

ESMO (European) guidelines suggest "Taxane or methotrexate or cetuximab or BSC (best supportive care)" for these patients.

Median OS for this drug was 11.5 months while the KEYNOTE-048 trial had the current standard of care at 10.7 months. So this drug is at least as good as current therapy which is very promising in such a small trial and difficult to treat population.
How GM Made the $35,000 Chevrolet Equinox EV into a 319-Mile Range Champ
Actually, it was an article about how they could increase housing density near existing refineries in the urban area and in already inhabited flood plains.

There are 6 refineries that I found inside the highway 8 beltway in about 30 seconds. All of them have housing developments within 1000m. Two have houses within a few hundred meters.
Terraforming a planet is another use case.
One of the benefits of GeForce now is im pretty sure they are subsidizing it. I get unlimited gaming on a 4080 for USD$20.

I have a 4080 at home and I can't get the same latency/frame rate with Parsec even though I have a gigabit connection.

Cool project, actual experience unsure.
>Humans are more of an emotional target. Some humans are a high value target, but most are not

Only using western $military spending$ numbers, like $10K switchblade-300 or those ridiculous $90K Rogue https://www.twz.com/air/rogue-1-is-one-of-the-marine-corps-n... https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1colzqq...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/12/04/some-o...

Ukraine calculated that at $500-1000 per fpv kill they can deplete all russian able bodies without breaking $10 Billion, something inconceivable to NATO armies.
GM, LG agree on $150M relief for Chevy Bolt EV owners over faulty batteries
Yes, there was 32-bit EISA.
Designs tips to make remarkable headlines
I have read all of them and I have watched almost all of the training videos mentioned and that, is the list I would give anybody who I would want to discourage from joining the field. The textbooks I mean COME ON. They are comprehensive and neatly academic but not pragmatic at all. There are playlists in youtube that would cut through all the unnecessary content and will get you building RAG systems in a couple of hours. Kudos to the Langchain team for all the content online.
- There has been a significant increase in global temperatures in that time (~0.5°C, which considering the limit from Paris is 1.5°C).

Because human activity rise in urban areas, temperatures from rulal areas have not increased that much. Satellite and balloon measures proofs that. (1)

Also rising temperatures is not new phenomena. Greenland ice core project (2) showing that there was about 25 dramatic climate changes in history. Its called Dansgaard–Oeschger event. (3), (4) and shows that for example during Younger Dryas (5) there was dramatic temperature decline and increase in few decades.

Back to topic. Why Germany need so much renewable source of energy and having most expensive energy price in same time? Shouldn't they build more nuclear power plants instead of cutting trees for unreliable source of energy?

(1) https://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/christytest...

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_core_project

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard%E2%80%93Oeschger_eve...

(4) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/2%20He...

(5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
The book The Mom Test warns about asking other people about your ideas. Usually because your mum will say “thats a great idea” but the opposite can also be a problem. What you need to know is if people will buy your product. Do market research! Maybe make an MVP and do at least people use the thing alot because they need it or see if people will buy it.
Large Language Models are no joke and if you think they are the I suggest you learn how to use them properly.

Even if AI doesn't ever go "evil" itself, that doesn't mean people that don't like other people won't use it to more effectively kill those people. All that's really needed is a capable programmer willing to give the LLM the tools it needs, along with funds and access. The LLM could hire humans to do the work it's lacking at. These things are already capable of all that, plus our world went mostly digital during the pandemic... they have easy egress because humans have made it so, even though that was meant for other humans to use. If you don't think they are scary, in the wrong hands, then you are lacking in imagination.
Likely relevant to source of the living brain tissue:

“Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents show”
https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/world-premiere-living-...
NGL my mind went straight to the Titan after I read "carbon fiber" and "ridiculously strong" in one sentence. Thank you for the clear explanation and for alleviating my anxiety of flying transcontinental again.
Bit of a non-sequitur. But, yes, I do know how to code FWIW.
>> on the order of a couple years up to maybe 15 or 20 years

Fusion, flying cars, AI in the 50's and in the 70's... Hell Hal was born in 97 and the film was in 68.

For as impressive as LLM's are once you dig into them they aren't magical at all. A sophisticated model of language that predicts the next word is about as likely to become an AGI as whether predictions are likely to control the weather. Ask any expert in AGI what the "next token" is and they are going to fucking disagree. This isnt us building the bomb where we have a pretty good idea of how to do it and just need to put all the parts together. This is a bunch of people stabbing in the dark and getting lucky here and there.

Were not going to bumble fuck our way forward on this, and the path were going down has potential to be a game changer but its not going to give us a super intelligence...
The distinction I focus on is that one exists, while the other remains a futuristic pipedream.
Plus with those same resources you could probably build a solar-system-sized passive interferometric radar swarm, and get decent warning time on any relativistic launches.

0.99c of blueshift coming from a specific star's direction? Weird. Shoot a couple relatively slow BBs at it, and the projectile will vaporize itself around the Kuiper Belt.

Poor guys. They've now announced to the universe that they're an aggressive threat to all life around them…
Allow me to introduce you to Moore’s law…
Incredible game and atmosphere to this day. I would love to see the original models and maybe even try to render them in real time on today’s technology. Or maybe that would ruin the magic.
> In the United States, the power is almost entirely in the hands of the landlord.

Very much this. The current outcome of any tenant complaint is a private warning not to make a fuss, with an auto-served eviction notice if the tenant makes a fuss anyway.

This situation can only be improved by legislating away at-will evictions (no, less demand would not help fix this, see pandemic). No chance of that in most of the U.S., though.

Uber/Lyft improved upon taxis because there were a lot of people who wanted to supply the service, but it was illegal for them to do so until Uber/Lyft punched a hole on the legal system. The rental market does not have this problem, in some sense the opposite.
Measuring Energy Usage of a Function
LLMs are useful to a certain extent, but from my usage they are not ready for anything harder than very basic tasks.

I feel like this megaphone about AI safety and creating a sense of doom is a strategy to increase importance of OpenAI and exaggerate the capabilities of LLMs. This era of “AI” is all about pretending that machines can think and the people working in these machines are prophets.
We will cull them like we did when we invented the sewing machine and the loom... them luddites were right then and they can be again

/s
How do you know it isn't so much worse than what they're saying that this is actually part of the cover up? I'm not saying I believe that, just following your own logic.
The Philosophy of Dress
As a GFN user myself the biggest single problem is publishers getting a say in whether I can run their game on the service. With self hosted solutions like Netris you don't have those limitations because they're not baked into the software. In terms of other differences I'd imagine that you would end up paying more for this in the cloud. As someone else has mentioned, NVIDIA are likely to be subsidizing access to their GPUs.
From https://clugproject.eu/en/presentation

> A failsafe on-board multi-sensors localisation unit consisting of a navigation core (IMU, tachometer, etc.) brought in reference using GNSS, track map and a minimal number of reference points

From https://www.clug2.eu/objectives/

> to complement the existing European Train Control System (ETCS) odometry system by using GNSS to enable absolute safe train positioning whilst also transforming today’s train localisation by demonstrating a GNSS based multi-sensor fusion architecture.

Okay, so as I expected they want to add GNSS as an additional sensor input. That is useful because without it train odometry is purely relative and the train doesn't know where it is until is reads the first balise. The plan doesn't seem to be to remove all other sensors. Denial of GNSS would then mean that start-of-mission is about as tedious as it is today and odometry accuracy might be reduced. Depending on the number of balises on the track that lowers the capacity of the track a little but is far from catastrophic.
One key question is the extent to which your own costs depend on usage. Some companies have to stick with usage-based pricing because otherwise they'd go under (unless they're well-funded). The downside of this approach, as others have noted, is that this tends to depress usage and generally makes a product less sticky because people are hesitant to embed it in their workflow.

If your costs don't vary a ton with usage, it could be better to offer subscription pricing. If need be you can offer tiers that support different levels of usage. You can also feature-gate other aspects of your product, so it doesn't seem like you're pricing based on usage per se. Rather, you'd be charging more for customers that need SSO, more than X seats, SLAs, etc.

I will say that one downside to having minimal marginal costs is that some customers will bristle at paying value-based prices. They'll think that if your cost is minimal then they shouldn't be paying much for your service.

It's really interesting to read all the different perspectives shared below. We each have our unique portal onto the pricing landscape, and seeing what others have learned, and how they put their perspective into words, is quite enlightening.
Read the 'Study Goal'
The point is that the probability doesn’t matter because the outcome, total human extinction, is given infinite weight.
My understanding is that it would, to some level - I remember reading about how they put effort into every pixel, which child-me took to mean that after the rendering, they went in and modified it to exactly match what they wanted. That can only work with a fixed perspective, which I think was proven out in the later full 3D Myst games.

PS - Ever read the books? :)
I understand that the idea is far from perfect, but I am willing to risk some harm to national security in order to avoid actual harm to the interests of citizens. We need to start understanding that hiding things from citizens equals actual harm and, in general, actual harm outweighs theoretical harm in my book. I will also add that the fact that so many people in this forum understand the basics of US classification shows how many people actually have had a clearance in their lives. How much are we actually protecting national security when so many people know the secrets already?
Given the relative paucity of housing choice and the fact that no singular site is liable to be universal in usage the expect result of such an action is to slightly increase time to rent with no reasonable expectation that it would effect price of unit.

EG say they on average interview 3 tenants before they pick one and take 4 days to get one inquiry after listing a property convincing fully 1/3 of tenants to give them a big miss would result in the property being vacant for an extra 4 days every 3 years. Meanwhile they will be pricing their property based on prevailing prices for units like theirs.

This strategy would not be expected to work so few people are going to make unfairly negative reviews about places they already live.

I would actually expect to see

1) Fake positive reviews by management/owners

2) Unfair negative reviews by people who were themselves problematic

3) Apartments trying to force people not to review them as a condition of tenancy and trying to unmask reviewers to sue them

4) People trying to get negative reviews removed with hallow or real legal threats

5) Fake negative reviews by competition
There’s a remake coming. Looks gorgeous. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/
The fastest way to learn is always to go after a difficult problem you find fascinating. Learning by the books is the second fastest, and is suitable for those without the experience to have a fascinating problem to motivate them. This applies to many but not all, for example a university student might have a vague interest in AI but not know where to start. If you’re already in the field though, it’s best to just keep hacking forwards, even if you can’t prove every theorem from the major textbooks.
I share a similar experience and response to talldyo. The problem is "we" (talldyo and I) understood how to solve the problems (as proved by passing the tests) but were uninterested in wasting our time doing busy work. The teacher could have changed their grading to be something like 50% of the grade comes from homework and 50% from tests. Then I likely would have done the homework, while still being pissed because it's just "busy work". I prefer just taking quizzes and tests to determine grades and if I understand the material. How I learn and how much practice I need to get to understanding and being able to solve the problem should be no ones business but my own. If the teacher was prudent they would have just left talldyo alone. The teacher needlessly caused additional problems and pain and suffering.
That's a big "if" so more research is needed. LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, and such should all be trialed for treatment-resistant therapeutic targets. Depression is one that has already been identified and is treated clinically with ketamine. My mom takes a crapton of gabapentin for post-stroke trigeminal neuropathy pain, and it would be excellent if she could take less or none.
I may not be understanding what you mean by "working". The Universal is that everyone gets a guaranteed amount, maybe every month, which they can allocate. They can use it themselves to earn, or they can be paid by others to use theirs.

Money is actually no different really, except that we trade money directly goods. I look at this as a layer of abstraction which provides a re-framing. I don't think we're going to get rid of money, and will money move to be an allocation of AI credits? Maybe, but I hope not.

When someone is given $500/month, I believe the reaction for most people, outside of covid times when spending was a challenge, is, what will I spend this on. Given a resource that has an intermediate step and could be valuable to many people, the mentality may change to "what should I sell this for?".

The person can chose to donate it to a cause they feel valuable, sell it to the highest bidder, or multiple options in between.

That's my hope anyway, but if it was just dropped in tomorrow without the right social guardrails in place, I doubt it would work out like this.

As far as scalability, with hundreds of billions being spend on compute in order to train AI, I doubt scalability of distribution would be a major issue.
1 and 3 are important. Efficiency matters not at all for road budgeting. Weight would be good, EVs are heavier than gas equivalents but when a tractor-trailer screws up pavement with its heavy crane load or similar it would be great to recoup that cost.
> the dump had included the innermost secrets of tens of thousands of people, desires and deeds and memories that in many cases they’d only ever confessed to their therapists

How is that all necessary to persist at all?
One must ask if the investigators of this study selected the correct faculty for examination. (I kid, this is embarrassing)

As a mathematician, I was primed with the knowledge that a large fraction of a mathematics department failed this test. I looked it up on Wikipedia, didn't spoil the answer, and thought damn hard before unfolding the "solution" section. I was relieved to see my answer therein. I do wonder if the students and staff were primed to think about this as a logic puzzle, or if they simply went with a gut answer. Because in my experience, that makes loads of difference in how people of all stripes, mathematicians included, respond to challenging questions.

My gut response was to flip an extra card, for what that's worth. Secondary consideration took a couple of seconds, and I spent another thirty convincing myself that I was correct.
Yes, there is a lot of bicycling happening in the Netherlands.

My point is, it’s not very walkable.
in the urban city i grew up in, it was quite literally illegal to be in public after 11pm
i think i would prefer if people had a little more evidence. i wasn't even entering my house, let alone breaking in, just outside with a flashlight
How do you suppose, keeping in mind we're trying to avoid emitting carbon in the process, and keeping in mind 3 of them have nukes, we're to disallow BRICS from building coal plants?

It's also simply the case that if all Co2 production stopped tomorrow that countries like the United States would have all the stuff, as a consequence of a history of more overall pollution, so the resistance to stopping all coal production is naturally higher in poorer places.

Basically the only card one can pull is to decide not to reduce Co2 oneself, which ultimately does nothing directly to solve the problem.
No, also false.

And my example was only 99% light speed.

At the link below you can see simulations at 99.9% light speed. An entire Egyptian pyramid, hitting Earth at this 10x higher speed, might kill off life, but it’s still not obliterating the planet.

We are not capable of accelerating any macroscopic object to .999C. Let alone a huge piece of tungsten, which still wouldn’t be powerful enough.

https://youtu.be/DwgMjr-Qu1Y?si=-goF8QResb976kpN
My dad adored the Myst games. We would plug a computer into a big screen (eventually projector) and try to solve the games as a family over a Christmas break

Not enough can be said about the quality of the writing and worldbuilding in the universe. It's as pity that the format died around the game.
> Meanwhile, it is trivial for us to end their civilization. If we decided to, with more or less today’s technology, we could accelerate a chunk of tungsten to comical speeds and obliterate their homeworld.

We wipe out their planets, then the 99% of their civilisation that isn't living on planets wipes out our planets. Now we have two very angry civilisations (without planets) in a protracted interstellar war. Great.
I disagree, i think it's worse in every way except that you can hail one with an app now. It's certainly more expensive and the driver makes less than ever, but now there's a kafkaesque middleman that doesn't appear to provide any value but can fuck with both of you at will with little recourse available for either party. Pricing is only reliable in the sense of feeling gouged by a party that has provided no value.

But yea, slick app. I hear the drivers are sometimes less racist, too.
It's closed source but freely available to over 100 million people. To everyone but tech people, it's open.

What's more valuable for the normal person, Lllama, that I will never be able to use because I don't know how to get it to run, or ChatGPT that I can use for whatever I want?
I organized a huge game of capture the flag for the dorms at the University of Utah back in 1999. We had 3 teams, one for each dorm building. The RAs were given special powers to free people from jail and couldn't be tagged, but weren't allowed to carry a flag. I think most people had a great time. It really helped people get to know their neighbors and the RAs for the year.
I remember the books existed as a kid but never ended up reading them. Are they worth the read? I’m in between books at the moment