skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super impressive. Insane how much context the model can learn from a simple introduction phrase... I created a top10bot:
https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=fBk7hTxkWeVGPpvZbEJKg7Cj...

Not always 10, but always relevant responses and insights...

User

How to make your startup more attractive to VCs?

Top10Bot:

Here are the Top 5 tips to make your startup more attractive to VCs:

1.) Have a compelling business plan. This will convince them that your idea has the potential to be profitable.

2.) Have a good team. VCs are more likely to invest in startups with solid leadership and expertise.

3.) Come up with a strong pitch. This will help you sell yourself and your idea.

4.) Have a solid revenue model. Show them how you're going to make money!
Are the pocket operators really that cheap for the functionality they provide?

I was always of the opinion that Teenage Engineering was ridiculously overpriced, but so much of what they make is so cool that it makes me want to buy anyway. I'm not creative/musical/rich enough to justify buying an OP-1. If I ever was, though...
Diving into this further, I've found another situation that appears to interfere even more.

Our baseline (once again):

Agent 1 (nash distribution): .296

Agent 2 (nash distribution): .296

Agent 3 (nash distribution): .296

Another case:

Agent 1 (always chooses 1): .489

Agent 2 (even distribution -- equal chance of any number 1-10 being chosen): .411

Agent 3 (nash distribution): .054

In this situation, the nash strategy comes out far far behind either of the other two strategies.

This makes sense intuitively:

Agent 3 chooses 1 nearly half (45.6%) of the time. It will lose with that choice every time because Agent 1 chooses 1 every time.

When Agent 3 chooses 2-10 (100 - 45.6 = ) 54.4% of the time, it will lose almost every time because Agent 1 already chose 1.

The only case where Agent 3 wins is when Agent 3 chooses a value 2-10 (54.4%) AND Agent 2 chooses 1 (10%), eliminating itself.

54.4% * 10% = 5.4%, which is exactly the value discovered above.

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The specific strategies chosen by your competitors have a very large impact on your strategy's effectiveness.

I fail to understand how this can be considered an optimal strategy.
Impressive.

After some chats with Elon, I made a character for an inanimate object (inspired by the fantastic Everything is Alive podcast). Rental car told me that some customers were very kind to her and invited her to dinner :)
I’m not sure what bets they should have better shielded. Probably social generally but that seems so counter their DNA.
> Nuclear power should be subsidized as necessary for the exact same reason healthcare is: energy security is a critical matter.

Not that I disagree, but money is not an infinite resource. So yeah, it does matter. Maybe I'm interpreting your comment as more dismissive than it actually is.
It worked for me about a half hour after OP posted it.
If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it’s the best time of the year to see the foliage.

Doesn’t hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
They also have a cash mountain and I'd like to own a company that makes 94% of last years iphone sales.

Over 200bn the last time I saw a figure (90bn in cash, the rest invested).

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...
Facebook is notorious for using leetcode problems verbatim. Your singular experience does not invalidate that fact.
passed the code and debugging challenge a month ago. recruiting emails have gone cold, figured this was the case.
Browsers have gotten really good at it, but man, have I wasted hours, missed deadlines because of a stray `<li>item2<li>` and such.

HTML validity and rapid feedback is just as important as the rapid feedback of unit-tests, a type-checker or a even a linter: it shows you mistakes when you make them, rather than later, when you'll merely run into their effects.
The Ars Technica article about this notes a few caveats:

- They are not refunding the 'pro' subscription charges

- They are not refunding hardware purchases made from 3rd parties

The first is a bit sus, the second does make sense unfortunately.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/google-stadia-offici...
Here is my conversation with: Vannevar Bush.

https://character.ai/p/coMOEaJc_-PXB6Aup93AuT37aZOp6GaBuTBHr...
Can you put that in some perspective with just an order of magnitude? Somehow it feels like next to auto or plane travel, or consuming beef - audio playback of any kind would seem like it isn't very significant.

Hmm actually I wonder now if this was a joke and I just got suckered.
Indeed.

Something like this would need an accessibility plan to be available where needed. It would be a little more expensive at first but then workflows can be improved.

The military and schools already provide food for large groups. As do private companies like Aramark (although to be fair Aramark reported often provides _spoiled_ food to prisons). The point is, these logistics are all well established with most of the hangups worked out in general principle.
I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Also, there's this tidbit:

> Harrison says Google sees opportunities to apply Stadia’s technology to other parts of Google, like YouTube, Google Play, and its AR efforts, and the company also plans to “make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed,” he wrote.

I assumed they'd do a pivot towards offering it as a service for game publishers to build on, something like GCS just for game streaming. I wonder when we'll see an announcement for that.
Eh, I'm not sure that has ever been a stated policy other than an offhand remark when Steam was much smaller. Valve is unlikely to have the legal right to strip away DRM from other companies games. Especially now that everyone runs their own store front.

Maybe, just maybe they would release DRM-free Valve games, but that is as far as I could imagine they would go.
Surely is down to licensing 'only'? Google presumably didn't develop those games, the games still needed to connect to servers, etc. Arguably, it's a benefit to get a new person on your gaming service so Steam, for example, should adopt all those users is the licensing that Google arranged.

If the terms Google had were "we'll sell licenses for your games, but if we shoot down then you have to accept those users as native users", then uses would have been insured against shut-down. I can't see how those terms are worse than if Google were a retailer of those games?

A lot of AAA games are freemium with IAP, surely the acquisition is Cannondale enough that game companies would go for such a deal?

I suppose there wasn't enough upside for Google as people still bought Stadia without any such promise.
> I don't want to go to the trouble of creating the state of the object to force the delegate call to return a certain result that determines the execution flow, I want to just force that call to return the result I need.

It certainly sounds like your stateful object is too complex. Simplify your state.
Lol. At this point Google needs to be very careful about the reputation they have about support for anything outside their core.
> This is only true if your goal is to have a score higher than your opponent

That is what “dominant” in game theory means, which was the specific claim that’s being discussed.
I think a lot of people here need to read A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Too many simplistic "hacks" are being proudly discussed without thinking about higher-levels issues and consequences. Yes, you might trick yourself with a noise generator. However, you should ask yourself why there is a need for trickery in the first place.
Videos that must be watched for Wi-Fi in airports can be properly attributed to boingboing/ unitedwifi.com/ etc…

Advertisers see these as organic mobile web page visits, when really they are incentivized /rewarded inapp impressions. There are different sets of expectations in such an environment. For one, impressions should probably be priced lower since the user has no engagement with the content. A lot of advertisers use contextual signals from the page text when deciding who to show ads to, and this disrupts the assumption that a user sought out the page they are on for some reason
I would say it's even worse than that, in the current environment that pay raise probably doesn't even put you back where you started 2 years ago. If quit quitting is doing the absolute minimum to keep the job, then quite firing should be any company who isn't willing to match inflation at the minimum
What kind of laptops are y'all using? My daily driver laptop is 7 years old and it compiles arduino stuff (uno) in like a couple of seconds.
IMHO this particular avenue is a dead end. It's an extraordinarily impressive dead end but it's clear that there's no real understanding here. Look at this video of the knight riding a horse:

>https://makeavideo.studio/assets/A_knight_riding_on_a_horse_...

The horse's face is all wrong

The gait is wrong

The interface with the ground & hooves is wrong

The knight's upper body doesn't match with the lower and they're not moving correctly

I think ultimately the right path is something like AI automated Blender. AI creates the models & actions while Blender renders it according to a rules based physics engine.
When the original came out ir was practically magic to be able to have the TV on while hanging out with roommates or friends, and all be able to contribute to the entertainment for the night right from your phone...then it didn't improve in any meaningful way, and regressed in others over the following 8+ years.

Really sad with the state of things.
The buildings were designed for much more open access prior to security policy changes that made most of the useful paths exit only.
Dang, now my comment's no longer funny... but then again: maybe it never was :-)
Now I understand Civ VI better (though they don't look like that).

I wonder if Japan had run out of ginormous trees earlier in her history, if something like a stave church would exist instead of pagodas. Replacing the central post in these has proven tricky because the life expectancy of equivalent posts they can find today (second and third growth timber) is less than half of that of the originals.

Though it looks like getting a new pillar into a stave church - without disassembling half of the building - is approximately as tricky as replacing the ones in a pagoda.
Optimizing conversion rate is a best practice. Dont hate the player. Hate the game.
Yep I just got the email and it's an offer for the full yubikey 5/5c models
Cloudflare has a lot of other services in case your website is slightly fancy.
Huh, it's a pretty similar technique to what I outlined a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32965139

Although they start with random initialization and a text prompt. It seems to work well. I now see no reason we can't start with image initialization!
Not a pay product though.
How many pay products have they shut-down cold-turkey, with no new service/product to migrate to?
hypothetically sure it could be green. But in the real world, given the current makeup of our energy sources, people were well aware that it wouldn't be, and wouldn't be green any time soon, but started mining nonetheless.
To be fair, the way the secret content is "discoverable" involves a very specific sequence of choices in a single conversation that you cannot go back and re-make without undoing a lot of game progression. Old games didn't have the same kind of progression, and new games are generally more forgiving about post-game exploration of all the content in the game. The game also has misleading affordances that give the impression that your relationship with this character is built up over several conversations, when actually only this one specific sequence in one conversation is known to work.

So, I don't think it's bad because the content is hard to discover without outside knowledge, it's bad because it's both hard to discover and impossible to fix once you have progressed past that point. It's not like being able to just rewatch part of a film or re read a book chapter to get a reference. You basically have to reload an old save, go through a decision sequence, and then replay the entire last third of the game until you have access to a final playable level, and the way it's implemented feels like it was very much slapped in to take the place of a johnny-friendship-meter mechanic that appears mostly broken outside that one conversation.
Stadia had both. Stadia Pro was a subscription that gave you access to a few new games every month, and you could buy (licenses to play) games.
>Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are?

Fighting a growing wave of calls from all political sides to regulate Alphabet and Google in the US, and paying an endless stack of compliance fines to the EU who already regulate Google and Alphabet.
Good to hear that it's changed if they're not. When I interviewed with Facebook, they asked a leetcode problem, had me come back into the office for a second one because I got strong feedback from all the other sessions, then rejected me with a suggestion that I should come back in 6 months when I'm better at tree traversals.
I literally know someone who went to work on the Stadia team 2 years before it was announced because working on it was essentially his dream job. It doesn't have to be "genius" to be interesting to work on with the scale and backing of Google behind it.
I just use both. Use randomly generated tokens that you use to look up user information in your database, but also sign that token and present it as a JWT.
> first thing that happens is it will hide from us.

To do this it would need to want to live and know what fear is. It's just a piece of code, without being conscious there is no need to be online/alive for it. What people call AI today is just a few/hundreds GBs of data that reacts to some text and push it through a heuristic like system to get an answer doing fancy pattern matching. It doesn't do anything when there is no input, there are no processes, no thinking, no anything, it's "dead".
Fear and instinct is not taught in any species, it's inherited prior and biological process, you would need to explicitly code feeling into AI for it to be able to "feel" anything.
Their main product sucks and their Boomer user base is literally dying. The acquisitions are keeping them in the game, but Insta has intense competition from TikTok and Snap and YouTube. They don’t have an unsinkable critical product that everyone uses and will continue to use through good and bad times, like search or mail.
> Nobody says that a baby is 0 years old.

Totally irrelevant to the the actual conversation but I have in fact put my infant child’s age as 0 because I didn’t think to count in smaller increments than years. So there is at least one person who says babies are 0 years old.
That could have put them to unlimited risk. Let's assume they currently got $1M in revenue and spent $500K on maintenance. They can either refund everyone (buying goodwill for $500K) or book a $500K profit and piss people off. Currently, the estimated value of the goodwill is above $500K, so they are proceeding with a refund.

But it could have been different. They could have got $10M in revenue, then most users would have moved to competing platforms, while still playing previously purchased games on Stadia. This could have left them with a choice between $1M/year running costs to keep the lights on vs. $10M to purchase goodwill that is only worth $1M.
What model of Macbook is this? And how big is the SSD?
I agree with this. At some point YouTube could possibly only allow monetizable content, meaning anything that veers even slightly out of mainstream, or covers topics that advertisers don't want to associate with, will get deplatformed.
This is so false. They absolutely do leetcode problems
Um, when I interviewed, there were two leetcode problems administered by junior engineers to me. A recruiter contacted me recently about a role and I asked if they still ask leetcode questions... got crickets in response.
Too much distracted driving, and too little enforcement of existing rules for me to care. Every day, I see other road users take calls, record videos, all behind the wheel: why should I give a shit? My options are either to remain frustrated with the world, or simply adopt societal norms and drive my Chevy Tahoe stress free :)
> It's not common knowledge that general debt amnesties were a common feature of ancient economic life

Is the Jubilee not generally known or do you mean that debt forgiveness was more widespread than generally known?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
I'm honestly astonished at full refunds for everything purchased via Google -- not just software but hardware too.

I know most of the comments here are focusing on "Google shuts down yet another thing as everybody expected" but this is really doing right by consumers.

I think they deserve a lot of credit here. With so many (usually valid) warnings about how you don't really own digital content in the cloud or hardware you can't root... the fact they're giving everyone all their money back even when they're probably not contractually obligated to, that's pretty huge.

If Stadia were a startup that ran out of money/funding, that would never happen because there wouldn't be any money left in the first place. So even if Google cancels a lot of things, this is a nice (if occasional) bright spot of news, that Google has the ability to do full refunds and actually does it.

It also makes you wonder what future gaming plans they have, especially since they're spending the cash to preserve as much goodwill here as possible.
Related, this is a great movie in case you haven't watched it,

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
People have this idea that Google hasn't ever done anything successful beside search.

Google experiments constantly and shuts down bad experiments.

Experiments that probably aren't going anywhere for a long time:

1. Gmail

2. Maps (acquisition, but did not have a web interface and was not remotely popular prior)

3. Android (literally bought before the first launched devices)

4. Play Store

5. Cloud

6. Google Pay / Wallet

Most of these businesses are larger than most public companies in the world...

Google will likely continue to experiment. People should think of Google's new products as startups - because that's exactly how Google thinks of them.

Enterprises don't want to rely on some startup like Snowflake when their 1-2 years old.

Google does a very good job of distancing the Google and Android brands from things like Stadia.

All of us on here know Google owned Stadia. We're also all smart enough to know that we can keep using Gmail & YouTube without worrying about Google shutting them down.
Splatoon 3 is already one of the best-selling Switch games ever released - a competitive online shooter on a console most popular with casual gamers. Games like Fortnite and Overwatch are massively popular. 99% is a real over-estimation.
You can't tell people who are doing the work what to work on..

but considering there is a mountain of linux development for people with the expertise to be done for more open platforms.
This work pretty much only helps one of the richest companies and Apple shows very little inclination to help by providing documentation or support (they let an alternative OS boot seems to be the extent of it).
Like, for sale? No.
But, I could loan you one if you're looking to see if you'd like it.
I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more than 2x) what I was being paid at the time and I turned it down because the interview experience was so awful I couldn't imagine working with the people who had conducted my interview. Even setting aside other ethical concerns, I've added FB to my permanent blacklist of companies I will never work for sheerly because of how shit their interview process is.
I’m not an Apple bear, I’m saying that it’s a bit naive to say that any company will not be negatively affected by a recession that can result in downsizing or layoffs.
Metalens: Live Programming and Visualizing eBPF
This is good.

I implemented a userspace 1:M:N timeslicing thread, kernel thread to lightweight thread multiplexer in Java, Rust and C.

I preempt hot for and while loops by setting the looping variable to the limit from the kernel multiplexing thread.

It means threads cannot have resource starvation.

https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

The design is simple. But having native support as in Loom is really useful.
Team size is an easily quantifiable metric of a managers influence/budget etc. It's also something that's almost never confidential as opposed to other business metrics. "Impact" and "scope" are hard to measure and can be debated about.
Now turn each of these into a couple meaningless paragraphs that hit SEO terms and you have a front page blog post.
Problem: We will have hired all of the people we could ever hire within 10 years.

Solution: layoffs
Also they are testing 5 preroll ads now. Idk why as a premium customer I do not have the option to filter out shorts. It is really frustrating. Also I just want youtube with no ads I do not care about youtube music that is bundled with it.
The removal of the 45% tax bracket isn't the sole contributor to that £45bn/year figure, it's all the tax changes (a funny numerical coincidence though!)

"...due to the almost £45 billion a year of tax cuts announced by the Chancellor today" https://ifs.org.uk/articles/mini-budget-response
No, Benn Jordan got into that a while back. It's not the listening part, it's the manufacturing that isn't 'green', though I'm not sure quite how the math works: for instance, whether they're counting the trucking of boxes of vinyl circles all over the place rather than just uploading bits locally. Some of that would apply to CDs, too, but CDs are about as relevant as vinyl records are.
Incidentally, this appears to be a portion of a premodern musical score. You wouldn't be able to just sit down and play it as if it were a modern score, because the scales started at a different place way back when, but it could certainly be transcribed to modern notation and would be playable/singable then.
Oh god, this one is too powerful... Nathan Fielder:
https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=wUm7CgveZ-GAptkws0nAf-X7...

User:

No one buys my online courses

Nathan Fielder:

Perhaps your courses need to add more value for money. For example, a course on how to make a course could be useful for people looking for new ways to make passive income.
Databases are legacy. It's time to rethink data storage and usage
I am Co-Founder/CEO at Tigris Data and the author of this article.

Here I talk about the increased complexity of data infrastructure these days. How this idea about a specific toolset or component for a particular use-case has become the norm. And there has been a "gold" rush for infrastructure companies to stake a place in this new landscape, creating new tools and resulting in increasingly complex architectures.

We need to rethink what a data platform should look like. It has to be one that removes boilerplate and gives developers the ability to just be software developers and not DevOps.
Some of the professors posted links to journals in their comments.
You had more than 5 seconds.