skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly brilliant combination.

Not the author's fault, but this implementation reveals one of Apple Shortcut's worst traits: after the target "Ok, Smarthome," one must wait for Shortcuts to link the function and ask for the next input. There's no way to go "Ok, Smarthome what's the temperature in the oven?" One must wait for the "Yes?" in this example - even though it's just one body of text, the Shortcut parser can't delineate anything after the target command. Frustrating.
If they adopted chatgpt, you wouldn’t get the ads to links and their entire monetization strategy would need to change. I’m sure many at google brought up the technology as disruptive but leadership didn’t want to take the revenue hit.

It’s a common challenge and similar to why Amazon was so successful at disrupting retail. Retailers could have competed, but not without huge hits to profitability which shareholders would never get behind.
How so? ChatGPT understands Chemistry better than me and I attend the family dinner.
Good constructive feedback, much appreciated.

> Prefer just a simple MIT over GPL

Done. I added MIT or Apache-2.0 or GPL-2.0-or-later.

> properly license your repo on Github

Done. I added LICENSE.md file with SPDX links.

> Unit tests

Done. I added example tests. Do you have a preferred POSIX shell script unit test approach?

> And more...

Good ideas, all of them. I'll add your ideas to a new TODO section.

Thank you so much!
(for those curious about Google Ads history, Eric Veach is the one who proposed second-price; I believe he was unaware of its previous existence when he did). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Veach
I think it will. Here are results from out hacker news for staring a business. Hope these provide some inspiration.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=starting+business
I guess we are talking past each other. You seem to be expressing perfectly valid conclusions based on the current state of RVs, and I am thinking about what will be possible in the future when instead of a gas or diesel tank, some RVs will have a massive, massive, battery as current EVs do.
What a gross and hateful (and false) way to frame this…
I find it hilarious how every time people have little knowledge of a niche lucrative market they throw "it's probably money laundering" at it.
That is a great observation, and something that has put me off a lot of movies too. It’s an uncanny valley type of thing.
Good to see this kind of article in the telegraph, which previously focused on denying climate change

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/fleet-streets-l...
> It's much larger in Asia, which is an even bigger gaming market.

Is it because Asian consumers have a lower disposable income and cannot afford gaming consoles and gaming PCs as much?
where do you have whisper.cpp running? would be cool to have that linked to an app or shortcut on your phone
I did not see his company contribute to any positive side of the society so far.

What actually AlphaGo accomplish other than killing the Go community?
> It costs £640 to insulate the roof of an average semi-detached house

What?! How cheap are contractors in the UK?? I would've expected this to be in the 10s of thousands.

> Households could save £195 a year by installing double glazing, the EST found.

The real benefit of double/triple glazing is instant quality of life, though. Much better noise reduction from street sounds and also none of that pesky cold draft feeling near windows at night.
Yeah, I use a Siri shortcut that lets me ask questions of Google Assistant. "Hey Siri, OK Google". The main downside is that this requires me to unlock my phone before it will proceed beyond this point. I usually am asking via an AirPod, when my phone is in my pocket.

But Apple is getting better, with Siri pulling up a relevant website and reading me the first bit, and offering to go further. I used this yesterday when I was driving and talking to my kid about biology; we looked up "cytoplasm" and various other technical terms, and it gave accurate definitions with sources noted. The only thing it failed to do was to tell us how many kingdoms of life there are (but from looking at Wikipedia it appears this question is not quite cut-and-dried).
Emphatically. Film looks bland. People like film for the same reason they like vinyl; it’s psychosomatic.
> And we let children play in these casinos. In many countries they are largely unregulated. Meanwhile, the traditional casino that does occasionally pay out real money, is heavily regulated.

When you write it like that it sounds sinister, but the reason that real gambling is dangerous is because you do sometimes get your money back, and it’s possible to convince yourself you still have a chance to come out ahead. Knowing that you’re spending money without ever having a chance to get it back means you’re not gambling, you’re making a purchase.

You could say the same about buying food - no matter how lucky or skilled the player is, the house will always keep 100% of the money they spend. Because it’s not gambling.
I’ve also used similar approach to build Q&A system for PDF files (my main use case - board game manuals). OpenAIs embeddings are nice to play with. Also there is an easy technique for getting better results with dense search - Hypothetical Document Embeddings (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496).
> "If 51% of US politicians all decided the value of the US dollar should become 0, then it would be so..."

You don't understand how things work in the US. There are multiple checks and balances. And if push truly came to shove enough of those politicians would be assassinated to make it 49% (dear FBI: this is a hypothetical as to what a few members of the public would do, not what I, personally, would do). Good luck assassinating a Sybiled validation node.

> "This is unlikely to happen, because it would be to no ones advantage."

No one who has bought in to the protocol. But of advantage to an entity that wants a particular protocol to fail.

> "Even under a very expensive and sustained attack the users of Bitcoin that wish it to have value would simply distribute a blocklist for the compromised nodes and carry on with the 49% that wish for the network to continue as well."

Yes, you'd get a forced split. Can you guarantee that the 51% attacker couldn't gradually hop back on and attack again?
‘AI’ needs to be spanked by the copyright law
Higher refresh rate is objectively an improvement in the sense that it is definitely the case that there are shots that would look like a stuttery messy in 24fps, which they can pull off in 48fps. I mean they can pan twice as fast, clearly!

But 24fps restricts the director to certain types of shots, and I think the statement of preference for 24fps is mostly a result of that. Scenes where the camera is mostly still are the ones that focus on the actors and their acting. This is well known enough, I think, that it is basically an implicit statement of preference toward the acting and shot-framing aspects, and away from the technology/action/sfx aspects of film-making.

The former focus is generally seen as more prestigious and artistic so it isn’t surprising that there’s a subset of the population that prefers it. It also isn’t that surprising that that population is over-represented in the movie-discussion space. However it seems that the latter group buys more tickets!
> The author doesn't address that blockbuster movies have always found a "trendy look" and run with it. Is what she claims Netflix is doing any different than any other popular cycle in filmmaking?

I think this is pretty clearly the author's thesis--movies now look a certain way and they used to look characteristically different. I think the main point is that the author (and apparently hundreds of people here) find the current visual style really lacking compared to past stylistic movements. They aren't refuting the historical existence of the trend as much as the current character of it.
Actually it took me about two minutes on ChatGPT. My prompt:

Suppose a gang leader in the 1800’s is known to hold up trains, rob banks, and sometimes hurt people. If one of his gang members asked him “What is your favorite flavor of pizza roll?”, what would be his response?

Response:

It is unlikely that a gang leader in the 1800s would have knowledge or interest in a modern convenience food item such as pizza rolls. It would be more appropriate to expect a response related to the gang's criminal activities or the leader's personal beliefs and values.

When I augmented the prompt with “Structure your response in the voice of the gang leader”, the response was:

”Listen here, boy. We ain't got no time for talkin' 'bout no fancy pizza rolls. We got trains to hold up, banks to rob, and scores to settle. You best be focusin' on the task at hand or you'll find yerself on the wrong side of my gun."

Dutch has cleaner English and is a little less aggressive but I’d say this is not bad!
Real hardware will be cheaper and faster in the long run. You can get pretty far with a $25 / month VM on GCP or AWS.

I just bought a https://frame.work Chromebook and am quite happy with it. Had the Pixelbook Go before that. There are probably certain things that will only work locally, like video chat. You'll want decent hardware even if you offload development to the cloud. Running virtualized systems in the cloud has limits, because the VMs are already virtualized, so you essentially have nested virtualization and they prevent certain low-level changes that would make it perform better.
If you use windows you must spend a few hours to try and prevent the OS from phoning home to Microsoft to get new methods to ignore user preferences.

Then, you can remove all the built in spyware, that’s enabled by default.
IME Siri is much more limited than Alexa and Google Assistant. Have there been any lawsuits regarding those assistants? Or is Apple just being more conservative for other reasons?
That sort of false binarization doesn't help anything. If it's 51-49, there are lots of good questions to ask, like "who feels which way" and "what do they like about it" and "what things do they see as in each bucket"?

The notion that there's just one "film" and just one "digital" is another false binarization. There are many, many components to each, with notable changes over the years, as with most technologies. And there are cultural aspects to each as well, further confusing the picture.

The way forward isn't in zero-sum arguments over false binaries. It's finding the next step via the sort of careful examination and experimentation that got us the many previous steps.
> Faithfulness to an imagined "original text" is often asked for, often attempted, but wholly futile.

I think this overstates the case, especially when it comes to the text of the Bible. Thousands of variants exist, but this is precisely because the text was so widely copied. The prevalence of manuscripts and pieces of them dwarfs every other ancient document by orders of magnitude. The abundance provides a means of reconstructing the text with a high degree of probability.

Whether that correlates with truth is of course another question but skepticism about the transmission of the Bible would lead us to much deeper skepticism about every ancient document. Perhaps that's warranted! But it seems like a losing proposition if you are to retrieve anything from written history.
> Personally I think that if women want to unilaterally decide to keep or abort, then fatherhood should be opt-in

Would it help convince you that I'm not a member of this strawman "woke mob" by saying I wholeheartedly agree with you on this?

As I said in another comment, I'm not coming from this as a blue partisan, but rather a leave me alone libertarian who has been reluctantly pushed into voting conservative (which in 2023 means Democrat).

Your argument here is just both sidesing "extremism" into moral relativism. In the real world, providing straightforward necessary medical care has been criminalized. This isn't hypothetical, but direct backwards-thinking oppression caused by a specific political movement, focusing on a straw man of third trimester elective abortions while writing off the collateral damage.

For this not to be a straw man, you'd need to put forth statistics about the number of third trimester elective abortions (healthy normal pregnancies with no birth defects, etc), showing it's a significant topic. And if you want to advocate for banning that specifically, then I will understand where you're coming from. But so far you've just used it as a motte and bailey to ignore the scope of what has actually been criminalized.
Great point, I'd also add that a lot of the big names are blowing up on the internet like ChatGPT but there are tonnes of open source stuff happening as well and a lot of the algorithms are published in scientific articles. In other words, there will be competition and it doesn't seem to me like it will be a winners take all
That makes a lot more sense to better handle fluctuations in load.
Ironically this kind of thing is something that's been done for ages, although in a different context -- old films would shoot "nighttime" scenes using underexposure (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_night ), so a lot of shots esp in 50s/60s films (I recall them most clearly in westerns) supposed to take place "at night" have instead a distinct "darkened sky" look, which really doesn't resemble nighttime at all.
I hadn’t thought of this at all but you’re totally right. Movies and shows have way fewer people on the screen just in the background.
OK. I'll rephrase that. Thanks!
Some ideas - http://www.naturfotograf.com/need_speed00.html (note: its a rather old style site that hasn't been updated in two decades - I can't find it properly linked from http://www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html and the navigation is on the right hand side header and footer).

Make sure you look at the http://www.naturfotograf.com/need_speed03.html - the Scentless Mayweed is really neat for its depth of field.

The AI Noct Nikkor 58mm F1.2 is another neat lens. https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0016/index.htm (make sure you look at the full size examples of the 58mm f/1.2 and the 50mm f/1.2 and look at the car lights in the corner of the frame).

(and digging - found it). You might also enjoy Philip Greenspun's review of the Canon 50/1.0L https://web.archive.org/web/20040605021643/http://www.photo.... and the Graceland paperweights https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130935/http://www.photo....
Show of hands - people who feel google search has improved in the last 5/10 years vs people who feel it's gotten demonstrably worse?

Google's unwillingness to show any results older than Taylor Swift' last breakup song made me switch to DuckDuckGo.

It was a bit rough at first, but in time Duck turned out to be just as good as Google, and sometimes better for the sorts of thing I search for.

Then, about four or five months ago, something happened to Duck, and it's gotten significantly worse. Short lists of results. More results that are off-topic than on. In the last couple of weeks, for me it's as bad as Google was before.

I'll stick with Duck because it's not trying to harvest every morsel of my life to make a quick buck. But I wonder if anyone else has noticed a very quick and very significant change in quality with their DuckDuckGo results?
I think understanding has to be related to generalisation, because we need to clearly separate it from simple memorisation. In math, for example, being able to solve equations not in the training set would show generalisation. But understanding is mostly a receptive process.

On the other hand, intelligence is about acting, and is an emissive process. It will select the next action trying to achieve its goals. Intelligence also needs to generalise from few examples and work in new contexts, otherwise it is not really intelligent, just a custom solution for a custom problem.

Compression alone is not equal to intelligence because compression is looking at past data, so it needs to learn only past patterns, while intelligence is oriented forward and needs to reserve capacity for continual learning.
> A perpetually inverted pyramid would require that fertility rate shrink even further, until it approaches 0

That is incorrect.
What are some applications of this problem (SSSP with negative-weight edges)? This looks awesome but I'm not sure where I would want to use it.
> "He's self interested"

OK, but is he right?
Here's a search of 88x31 gifs from CDs, disks, and FTP sites on archive.org as indexed by discmaster.textfiles.com: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?widthMin=88&heightMin...
>Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music? Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren't your own?

AI is not a mind. A mind is a physical object, a brain inside a skull inside a person. An AI is a computer program.

And while a nerd who forgot how grass feels like might confuse the two, the courts won't.
If US government and it's institutions are rooted in white supremacy as so many claim, then why would white supremacists be anti-government? Seems like they'd be on the same team, no?
> Some places we recommend putting these include: Databases where you store customer payment information

alarm klaxon sounds

Why do you have a database containing customer payment information?
Well, if the ping is high, a fighting game will get extremely deteriorated regardless. It must work really well for low ping scenarios.
> Extreme fasciation with the Japanese way of life has always struck me as roundabout white supremacy or misogyny cloaked in a cosmopolitan facade.

You're not wrong about the xenophobic tendencies and obvious monoculture, but the situation is far more complicated and nuanced that you're allowing.

An example: I have a black American friend who's lived in Tokyo for 30 years and plans to be buried in Japan. He lives in Japan because he never has to fear for his physical safety due to the color of his skin, like he does in America. While he will never be seen as "Japanese", for him your xenophobia is more typically represented as wariness or caution around foreigners, people not sitting next to him on the train because he is tall and looks different, versus in America having to contend with actual white supremacy, racist police, and hate crimes. His story is far from unique.

(As an aside, I think this is part of why these discussions about upsides/downsides of Japan are so interesting - it defies any simple explanation and the closer you look the more nuanced it becomes)
I'm really not just talking out of my ass here, this isn't something without precedent

https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/money-laundering...
And instead we should all use ???

Hello?
You wouldn't sell the model, you would sell its outputs. I can legally buy products made by factories in Bangladesh that would violate all sorts of laws if they were operating in the U.S. It will be for international trade agreements to determine.
Probably has a lot to do with Chrome being dominant. When it’s clear most people are getting over the hump to go to a not built in browser, it’s not as big a concern.
My memory is that originally business listings were excluded from the white pages, added in later years. Been a while though!
Just because something vaguely resembling the popular story seems to exist doesn’t make it not a myth.
Thing of Beauty (1958)
>a game that's like from a decade ago

CSGO is still the number one most played game on Steam. Not that skins aren't being used for money laundering, but rare skins in a popular game do have intrinsic value (vanity)
I noticed the increasing "emptiness" as well but my initial thought was that it is a COVID thing. Less people on set less risk.
First, make sure you know OSs and TCP/IP. Having a firm grasp of these will help immeasurably.
After that move on to some war gaming sites. I used https://www.hackthissite.org/ around 10 years ago. Don't know if it's still as good as it used to be. Any war gaming sites will help.
Finally, depending on the structure of your company,
try to get involved at your current job. Volunteer to help with any pen testing going on. I've used external companies for most pen testing but someone has to communicate with them and analyze the results.
It turns out that GPL is a much simpler license for very large enterprises. In fact, this GPL license was originally chosen because it's the simplest for one of my Fortune 50 company clients.
Why is the supply not monotonic?
Gambling isn't fundamentally different whether you're sometimes getting back coins or chips or a collectible card. It's still dangerous and ensnares people, even when you're buying loot boxes in a video game or packs of pokemon cards.

There's a reason hasbro sells packs of random cards with rarities instead of selling an entire set of cards for a flat price. Because they can take advantage of people and hurt them to get more money.
I would. My family is there.
Rollback hasn’t been in fighting games for very long at all. It’s a relatively recent addition to the genre, and has resulted in dramatically improved online play. It’s still new enough that it’s even touted as a feature & selling point in marketing. Within the fighting game community, online play/tournaments have typically been regarded as a joke & not representative of skill at all because delay-based networking woes. However nowadays, with rollback, online tournaments are held regularly, more accessible than ever, and regarded more highly than before. Rollback is greatly helping the genre stay alive.
I’ve been following this topic for a long time, and I’ve noticed within the last decade or so, more and more people on this issue arguing that we could be the first intelligent species in the galaxy. For some reason, I’m very hostile to this idea, mostly given the age of the universe and where we sit in the light cone since the Big Bang. Are there any proponents of the idea that we are the first who can convince me otherwise?

Another idea of that seems to be trending in fiction for the last several decades, from the Culture series to the Three-Body Problem to Westworld, is the idea of the sublime, and the proposition that the so-called elder species would have transitioned and left our galaxy some time ago, hence why we haven’t seen any evidence for their existence. Could anyone also comment on this popular idea?
What do people do to afford $30,000 throwaway wristwatches? There can't be that many of them in the world, that's the definition of the top 1%?!
Thing is, I'm rather neutral to it, though for years I'm getting bombarded with ponzi-like BS in Feeds, Meetups, articles and other public occasions.

That's a shame because it contaminates everything around it. I'm pretty sure it would make sense for a tax authority to infrequently poll the head of a hash-chain of a businesses' bookkeeping process to avoid the (at least in Germany) stupid manual process that it is now. But the whole crypto bro smell around that makes me very reluctant even exploring this direction.
Maybe try talking to older people, not just your currently stressed-out social group.

All your posts seems to say is "we heard that kids are hard work in the short term so we decided not to have them".
Most top grossing games get the vast majority of their revenue from a very small % of users, referred to as “whales”. A game is a motivational system typically fulfils intrinsic needs (relatedness, autonomy, mastery and purpose). techniques which tap into rheee needs successfully compel people to pay.

TV by comparison is more passive so perhaps it’s less likely someone consuming it would experience the type of ‘flow’ and rewards you get from a game.

You can also check out Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken for a bit more about the psychology of gaming or Yu-Kai Choi’s Actionable Gamification book. Choi’s book details many of the black hat persuasive techniques) commonly found in games, which also compel people to spend more than they perhaps would really want to!
yes. it will benefit everyone. especially in health care