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Something like 30,000 Americans alone are killed every year in car accidents. I think the primary idea is to reduce the constant death on the road by making machines that are safer at driving than humans. The toll that car accidents have on society is honestly unconscionable.

So much is discussed about self-driving car safety because the implications are really big but also uncomfortable. However, I always get stuck on how little enforcement there is for human drivers who habitually break driving laws and cause dangerous situations. DUIs are one thing sure but honestly most drivers who are bad and dangerous are sober and face no consequences for reckless behavior.

Is there something specific that caused this halt on Cruise's testing permits?

Oh yeah! That’s the one I remember! Just didn’t come up first when I searched

Windows CEMENT https://archive.org/details/wincement

I saw Marcel's movie in theaters probably 7 times at least. Top, top movie. The YouTube shorts a great of course, but the movie is next-level.

I also bought an XPS13 around 2012, and paid for the Ubuntu version. The receipt even said Ubuntu on it. But they shipped me the Windows one! Returned and refunded based on their phone support, they said installing Linux on it would void the warranty. Never tried again, too much hassle.

I’m not the commenter above but, something must be done about serial lawbreaking drivers. I see maybe 100 cars per day run stop signs, red lights, speeding excessively, and other dangerous driving actions with no consequences.

There needs to be some enforcement and yes I would suggest suspension if it is found that the behavior is habitual for a driver.

I wonder when the API release will be. I have a site ready to upgrade to DALL-E 3 but I need the API! I tested out some of my prompts I've used with DALL-E 2 and they are way way way better when run with 3. So much better it's quite shocking haha. The earlier announcement said "later this Fall" but I don't see any update yet on this, anyone know?

I like playing with the odds and changing the unknowns to extremes in my head - what if abiogenesis is relatively common given the right conditions and enough time, and also that panspermia is common. This would mean that life could both easily arise alone on a planet and also the universe would be strewn with asteroids scattered everywhere carrying single-celled organisms/simple life.

Ignoring the question of the likelihood of intelligent life out there, I do wonder if maybe the universe is full of lush planets with lots of related lifeforms across trillions of star systems.

Could life even cross into new galaxies this way? I dunno! But it's fun to think about.

Ever since reading about this I have wondered if alien civilizations have been watching Earth in HD for millions of years, from thousands of lightyears away. Are they watching the Romans sail and fight wars now? Will they see nukes go off in a couple thousand years?

Even better, is it predictable that by a few thousand years ago we would probably be getting to space about now? Does this actually give credibility to the idea that aliens may visit and watch us from up close now? Perhaps there are probes arriving now-ish that were dispatched thousands of years ago.

My first paid programming job was a VB6 app in ~2004 in high school. It was initially a volunteer thing for a local youth court assistance group but they paid us $100 at the end as a kind of surprise reward. The thing had a UI with the right tab movements and backed by mysql db, and even did correlation calculations for crime statistics.

I still have 1 VB app on my resume from way back then, I refuse to remove it!

And boy do I miss just making stupid games really really fast, and making actual productive applications also really really fast. I had made an HTML editor with previews, syntax highlighting (lol, my own 'algorithm' haha), project management tools, and everything. I was so proud of that.

The base fond VB memories are the simple joy of starting a new project (before .NET called them Solutions) and making the thing I had in mind in like a couple hours. Really miss that.

My ground-floor Seattle apartment gets flooded with gas smells once a week because of these gas leafblowers. The noise is insufferable and the smell is nauseating. It saddens me as a society we have collectively agreed this is 'worth it' to have the plants by the road get leafblown in the fastest and cheapest possible way, because the health concerns are very real and the alternatives seem possible. But always ignored.

FWIW Star Wars is set a long time ago, not in the future ;)

I've always liked to imagine any similarities between Star Wars and humanity on Earth is because Star Wars is set so indeterminately long ago that it seems 'plausible' that Star Wars is all really true, and if we build the right telescope and point it at the right galaxy, perhaps we can watch the Rebels fight the Empire IRL!

I'm working on this right now actually!

here's a screenshot https://imgur.com/a/a1S2Mb0.png

it will be part of https://cosmictrip.space when it is done, hopefully soon!

GPT-4 generates the games themselves, the turns as well as optional action butons, and also generates DALL-E image prompts for each turn. DALL-E generates just based on the current turn right now but I'm working on adding context.

It’s now safe to turn off your computer.

So is the weather just hallucinated then? We're just making up memories and calling them real? And advertising this blatently, called rainy days sunny and sunny days rainy? My god I hate this so much.

Not even a discussion about if this might be harmful or what the risks are or anything, just plain old "THIS FAKE MOMENT WAS REAL AND YOU'LL BELIEVE IT"?!

I really have a hard time with this. Wow I'm upset, more than I expected. The tech is fine yeah but the marketing is just deeply upsetting.

I haven't heard of comfyui yet but a simple install with a headless API and ability to run on my linode (hopefully..!) without a gpu is all I really need to kickstart the local-running plan. Intersting, will check that out, thanks! And thanks for the kind words as well, glad you love the idea haha!

Ooooh exciting ! Been using DALL-E 2 to generate space images every 30 mins from prompts generated by GPT-4; and I've noticed the DALL-E output is so dramatically worse and more constrained than MJ (no API though) or SD (which I'm not running locally yet). Been sad at the image quality and was just wondering this week when DALL-E 3!

You can see it at https://cosmictrip.space

(and coming soon is an adventure game series backed by DALL-E and GPT-4)

Software does degrade with age, though. Simply the fact that vulnerabilities are found over time means that our understanding of a piece of software and how it works changes. But it's not just vulnerabilities being found, it's protocols used that may be unsupported etc. That change is a kind of a rot like people call 'bit rot' but it's a specific software rot that does happen. Systems are complicated.

Some amount of the value baked-in assumes that SpaceX will earn money on any of the thousands of revenue sources possible in the creation and running of the first large-scale city on Mars.

Maybe you think it isn't going to happen - and sure there is some risk (!) - but in the successful case, SpaceX should be worth many trillions. At least.

New space AI images every 30 minutes: https://cosmictrip.space

I waited too long to publish this but it is still nowhere near done and I just had to publish early.

Missing most features I want to add but hey, it’s live now!

That was an official feature of the Facebook app at one point. Like 10 years ago. It's absurd that anyone would deny this. It was right there as a feature! Default off I think. But it was definitely there.

Well I’m crying. Kevin was my hero for so many years growing up and inspired me to do nearly everything I’ve done. I met him at The Last HOPE so many years ago and I feel so privileged for that opportunity.

RIP Kevin, we’ll miss you so much.

I once let my Hotmail account go 30 or 90 days without a login, so Microsoft followed their policy to delete my email and open the username to the public. Someone saw my email on dns records, found it was available, registered the email and stole my domain.

Extremely bitter about that ~17 years later. Extremely.

I remember getting access to Google+ first in my group of friends. I was up late and got in at like 1am. Nobody else was there. It was an absolute ghost town. No content anywhere. I thought, "wow I should treasure this moment. Soon and for the rest of time G+ will be filled with content!"

Evernote lost my note when I tapped on an email notification in Android in ~2011. Nevernote for me ever since. How. in. the. heck. do you call it Evernote if it loses your note when changing apps?!

I've been thinking about this comment for a few minutes and do find it interesting. But the extremes of the comments and quotes above make it clear that even displaying your product is an ad; demonstrating how it works to a crowd would be an ad; telling someone that it exists would be an ad; there seems to be no way to tell the market that your product exists without that being defined as an ad.

So I would answer you with, given the extremes defined above, that indeed advertising is a necessity since good products would otherwise rot inside the inventor's home. It being illegal (say, for example) to have ads would mean that it is illegal to even tell anyone that you invented a product.

I think there's got to be some kind of give from the anti-ad side if we want to have _things_ in the world that do stuff - because if I can't even say "I made a better product that does x,y,z" then how the heck is anyone ever gonna find out about it? Where does the word-of-mouth kick off even?

You gotta _tell_ people you made something - but that's an ad.

As a space nerd, I thought Lightyear was great actually - I really loved it.

I think it got great reviews too? (Except for the people angry about the gay 'kiss hello' obviously)

Great content and great answers except for open source question. Sam is saying that he doesn’t think anyone would be able to run the code at scale so they didn’t bother? Seems like a nonsense answer, maybe I’m misunderstanding. The ability for individuals or businesses to effectively run and host the code shouldn’t have an impact on the ability to open source.

If I were to draw a fantasy bedroom there’s a pretty good chance some parts of the room would be squiggly doodles meant to be more interpreted by the viewers imagination rather than a specific object I had in mind.

(I’m also Not an illustrator)