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paulkon··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Just needs a health warning label, like on alcohol or cigarettes. Then onto the high sugar products, and a quarter of the grocery store
paulkon··on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
How do humans with very little exposure to grotesque violence or extreme content universally label such content so well? This is not graduate level data that needs labeling.

What is missing in an AI model for it to intuitively understand what content is extreme from very few labeled sample in training?

paulkon··on Trader who made $190M shorting crash also apparently bet on CZ's pardon
Why risk using the same wallet to make $56k?
paulkon··on If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
This right here is important. We could be running fiber end to end in the near future. Ethernet would end up obsolete like the phone line.
paulkon··on The unnecessary decline of U.S. numerical weather prediction
“In the U.S., governmental global weather prediction is spread over FIVE efforts:

NOAA

The US Navy

The US Air Force

NASA

U.S. Department of Energy

Thus, scientific and technical talent and computer resources are diffused over five groups, greatly undermining progress.“

I suppose if Elon has his way, the overlapping functions from these are on the chopping block.

paulkon··on Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI
Is there an open source speech-to-speech model which retains intonation, cadence and delivery?
paulkon··on Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
The reason for this seems to be

1) extended depth of field with a smaller pupil in bright sunlight (smaller aperture) that keeps objects at a wider range in focus

2) biochemical cascade responding to certain wavelengths in sunlight that produce a “stop growth” signal in the retina

paulkon··on usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
I'm running virtualhere on thousands of raspberry pi's sharing various USB devices to cloud machines over vpn. It's been working without issues for years now. Seems to be a solo developer in Australia that's been working on it for a really long time. https://www.virtualhere.com/
paulkon··on French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity
What are the vegan cheese alternatives I can conceivably substitute in a dinner party of discerning charcuterie board lovers?
paulkon··on Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
Can this be used to click around in the browser with text prompts? Maybe after some fine-tuning on screen recordings of specific workflows in browsers.
paulkon··on Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in
Would this impact resolution of a disputed transaction when using their credit card product?
paulkon··on ChatGPT leaks answers to others queries when you prompt with a specific pattern
Is it leaking training data or is it all hallucinations?
paulkon··on Reading SEC filings using LLMs
Could you share more about the prompt you use to get GPT-4 to return a query from the user's question? This is fed into postgres full text search?
paulkon··on Ask HN: What does your AI tech stack look like?
Thoughts on fine tuning pythia, flan-t5 or codegen/salesforce models? Possibly to run the model and DB locally?
paulkon··on Google DeepMind
Well put, the brand awareness of ChatGPT is the biggest challenge they have now.
paulkon··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
What skills are needed to make this kind of low level application? Nitty gritty driver and kernel knowledge? C, C#?
paulkon··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Is this similar to how Shazam operates? I suppose there's more filtering and denoising going on with mic input.
paulkon··on Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?
Many chatGPT prompts with mathematical inconsistencies in the output simply clear up with the some variation of "Explain your thinking step-by-step". Anyone know how or why this works?
paulkon··on My Overemployment Story
I agree. I doubt anyone juggling multiple jobs is also writing about it in detail for others to follow.

This blog is likely getting SEO points so they can eventually sell books, courses or coaching services to folks.

paulkon··on Ask HN: Recruiters, how bad is the hiring market for candidates?
Are the struggles related to candidates that only want remote work?
paulkon··on Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS
Only thing with VSS is that ransomware can delete all your snapshots. Samba shares on ZFS via TrueNAS or the like with VSS support mitigates that attack vector.

Speaking of, any stats out there on which proportion of ransomware is targeted at which distro for linux, freebsd, windows and mac os?

paulkon··on Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
Thanks for sharing. Do you find the clients and contract work through your network or from your full time job?

I'm at a startup that has some customers which need extra work that I can do but the optics of it might look bad if coworkers find out.

paulkon··on Wg-access-server: WireGuard VPN server and web UI for device management
What is the recommend wireguard mesh solution where peers can easily join and leave and shortest connection paths are automatically determined?

I want to setup a way to access my mobile home office subnet (behind cellular which doesn't allow incoming) and two other subnets sites and some mobile devices which come and go.

paulkon··on Tesla Model S locks up in the middle of a highway
Why isn’t there a low level override button for neutral?
paulkon··on I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
Is Stripe forced to do this because of their upstream provider ToS, Well's Fargo?
paulkon··on SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
Or they wanted to spur the major ISPs to roll out fiber quicker.
paulkon··on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
Is a REIT usually better for a more passive investment? Or does investing directly in a property gives greater control of returns?
paulkon··on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
Do tenants communicate with you via email for repairs, etc?
paulkon··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
How do you create a recurring subscription model without gating the service in the cloud as a SaaS?

/s (or maybe not..)

paulkon··on Favorite Interview Questions
"Product lead of monetization at Slack" ...hmm
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