evanrmurphy

To your second question, I am worried about the power dynamics of one lab having a monopoly on super-powerful models. But by far the worst risk I'm worried about (and it's my job to try and help mitigate) is catastrophic accidents from someone creating a super-powerful model without the right alignment techniques and safeguards. And that kind of risk is heightened when there are more actors competitively racing to build AGI.

It's good when AI labs don't publish some details about powerful models, for the same reason that it's good when bio research labs don't publish details about dangerous viruses.

It's for musicians who need help with music sight reading, and music teachers who want to help their students with it. (Only piano supported right now, but more instruments coming.)

One issue in sight reading is that you constantly need new music to practice. The way I'm dealing with that right now is kind of fun but expensive/experimental: I hire professional composers to write the pieces. Then I monitor usage by my sight readers to see when anybody is soon going to run out of pieces at their skill level. At this point I order a new batch of pieces from my composers.

I have a few dozen people on free trials now and will find out in a few days how many convert to paying customers. I'm hoping that this product will be able to support me soon so I can continue working on it full time. It could grow slowly though... in the worst case, it's been a great learning experience.

Thanks for checking it out, I'd love to know your thoughts on the idea or how you think I could run it better. And if you're a musician or music teacher, would love to know if you'd consider using it!

That's why I decided to port Try Arc to WordPress. I think it will make the codebase more maintainable, and help me to get features & fixes out faster.

If you're curious, the Arc web server is still in play here. But now rather than the whole site being hosted that way, only the REPL is (the only component that needs to be). The rest of the site is served from a separate Apache instance; it gives way to the REPL through a simple IFrame in a WordPress page template.

Let me know what you think!

Try Arc goes down under heavy traffic because every page load requires its own sandboxed Arc instance to be running on the server. It only takes a few of these to gobble up all the resources on my Linode 512.

In any case, http://tryarc.org is back online. Thanks for your patience. :)

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Update: OK, I see. It's in the Quitting The Day Job section starting at "Also at Christmas I had a conversation with Thomas Ptacek".

Google's algorithms are proprietary, and they have data from tons of sources beyond links (including clicks) that they could be using to guide search relevance. How do you know that they're not?

This is the doubt that inevitably sneaks up on the hope you get when you read small business advice. If what you say is true, why are you spilling the beans? Why don't you protect your secret and reap all the reward for yourself?

It's difficult to dissect because there's a general correlation between the sites that are clicked on and the sites that are linked to. (The exception being aggressive linkbait, which everybody clicks on but then feels deceived and doesn't want to link to.)

If someone knows the answer to this, I'd like to know as well.

1. You're struggling to pay the bills or want to save up. Bargain for the highest salary you possibly can.

2. You're doing well financially; what you really wish is that you had more time for your relationships or to work on your own projects. Negotiate to have extra vacation time, to only work 4 days a week, or whatever you like.

3. Your commute sucks or you don't enjoy being in the office. Negotiate for the ability to telecommute twice a week. (This is also a decent way to address #2, because you have more control over your time when you telecommute.)

These are just a few possibilities. It could literally be anything you want that they can provide. Good luck, and let us know how it goes!

I'm not sure that's the same as calling HN a credible source, because they're not vouching for anything said here. In any case, it's interesting and I've never seen it before on Wikipedia. :)

Could you add margin-bottom: 8px; or similar to #comments-wrapper p? Would help with the readability. :)

For example, 2.3¢/min is currently listed at http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/prices/payg-rates/

The only unfortunate part for Twilio is they can't expect to repeat the process and still grow their revenue, since now they're down to 1 cent per SMS. (Unless they move to fractions of a cent...)

beer.free, shoes.free, porn.free...

Having multiple projects that pick up and start competing for your time is much better than the more likely outcome that none of them takes off.

If you start to have too many successful websites that you feel overwhelmed, feel free to give a couple to me.

(I'm only partly joking here. You could use a service like Flippa.com to sell your websites if you start feeling like you're not the best person to be maintaining them.)

Less to type... Maybe non-technical users who never understood why the hell everything ended with ".com" will be more comfortable.

Reminds me of when the W3C decided we should be able to do <header> instead of <div id="header">.

After he added a feature to make queries linkable, we can now compile a "Best of" list for all the leaders on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders). This is an attempt to compile and maintain such a list.