skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is what are the respective companies trying to get it to do.

Apple appears to try to make Siri an well defined interface to specific apps that offer specific services.

Looking at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit you can see specific intents and workflows that Siri can hook into. This makes it rather limited but for the things that it can do, it does. To that end, Apple isn't trying to monetize Siri - its trying to be a hands free interface to specific tasks that apps can do.

Amazon was trying to make Alexa a general tool (and they've reduced those capabilities over the years) running on AWS with additional goals of providing additional monetization routes. Things like "A book by an author you follow was released, would you like to add it to your cart?" Personally, I never found the chat more than a curiosity and even less so now that there is no knowledge engine backing the general knowledge questions.
The EU is standardizing a 3MW charger. There are passenger vehicles that can charge 10%-80% at 250-300kW which is roughly equivalent to a gallon every minute and a half to two minutes.

Stopping for 20 minutes every two hours isn't as prphibitive as people like to imagine.
Sounds like you have never been to Japan.
The ETH token issuance changed significantly with the change from PoW to PoS.

There is no more issuance to miners, it all goes to stakers now and is tiny compared with what was going to miners.

The sudden graph change under #3 (Sept 15th), is actually a good thing.

A better visual of this is https://ultrasound.money/
The photo's, (at least the ones I've checked) are just standard Google Earth stuff from up to 5 years ago as far as I can tell. I checked several places that I have Google Earth photos saved and this is the case.

Not much of a deal when you can get it for "free" on Google Earth
I feel the same way about Spotify. I'm fine paying an honest price for a useful service, but the upsells and dark patterns have gotten so aggressive I can't stand the client any more. I wish they'd at least allow third party clients to access basic functionality... but decisionmakers don't understand the attraction of a third party client in the first place, let alone feel like unlocking that functionality when it could negatively impact engagement with their dark patterns.
pets.com at least provided _some_ value.
Really nice work!

After trying many different ones, I created my own.

I use it for HIIT and Pomodoro:
https://tools.adrium.dev/timer.html

Features: Landscape/portrait layouts, configurable intervals, sound, color, circular progress bar, simple UI, spacebar to start/pause.

It is pure HTML5, one file, and thereby open source.
But while there’s zero chance I’d willingly watch an ad without good reason, I might actually enjoy that promoted content because it just so happens to be of interest to me. That’s the difference between the two for me.
Or canary admin accounts (marked in the db as admin but with exceptions at the app level so that they are effectively not admins).
What's next, an "I promise not to shit on the floor" sign in sheet in the bathroom?

Many years ago, I was working at the office of a client, and needed to use the washroom. There was a sign inside each stall (or maybe just the one I happened to use?) that said something like:

"Please flush the toilet after you use it, as visitors also use these toilets."

It was a makeshift sign, so I guess it was put up in response to an actual problem.
Having felt this for a while (and then jumping off the bandwagon in ~2017), I feel like Crypto's dream of a 'money protocol' has been perverted too far to touch. Go figure, introducing money into a democratic system incentivizes the wrong things.

Maybe things will shake out differently in the future, but there's not a chance in hell that a money API gets made without some form of regulation or profiteering. Goodwill alone is not enough to drive a bartering system, as proven by the disaster that is crypto's overall price instability and corresponding 'stablecoin' corruption.
Except that the answer should be yes
My point is, if you end a practice harmful to mental health (and based on personal anecdotes from people really shocked by vestiges of it, to the point of not taking a job, people must think it's exceptionally harmful), you'd expect mental health to improve. If mental health instead declines - sure, it could be for other reasons, and you can even try to claim it would have declined more if you didn't end the practice, but you should have pretty good evidence to back that.

As such, it's a weak but non-zero piece of evidence against the practice actually being harmful for mental health.
They get to moderate the discussion of the message board, which is what they want to do. It isn't a job - the admins actually get paid.

Why would the moderators get anything for creating a message board using a free message board service?

If phpBB IPOed 15 years ago, would everyone who downloaded and hosted an instance deserve a cut of the IPO?
> Defiance Operations in Ohio – GM will invest $55 million in the Defiance facility. $47 million will be invested to prepare the facility to build a variety of block castings to support future V-8 engine programs. In addition, the investment includes $8 million to build a casting development cell for castings to support future EV strategies.

The investment in castings is a good one. They probably won't be creating large scale chassis castings like Tesla does, but electric motor & inverter housings for EVs are about the same size as engine blocks, so retrofitting this facility to create both is a good use of money.
> Huge pages are an absolutely great idea. I will continue to complain about our eternal commitment to 4k pages, with all their pitfalls, which it appears we may be stuck with until the heat death of the universe.

I think it is useful to distinguish just larger regular pages (i.e. 16k or 64k pages on arm64) and extraordinary huge pages (2M on systems where regular pages are 4k). In the first case, the system uses these larger pages uniformly, as there is no smaller page.
I was under the impression we often allowed anonymous testimony in courts for criminal trials, often to protect the identity of the witness and avoid the opportunity for them to be coerced or intimidated.

I imagine often the situation is that your identity is verified, but just not entered into the public record?

If anything, the point of it is because "we should not listen to cowards" is the justification for the worst kind of heckler's veto. It's the exact reason it was hard to get testimony against organized crime. If there's a good chance you'll be physically attacked, kidnapped, or financially ruined for trying to bring justice, you're simply encouraging more violence and threats in order to protect those already in power.
> The Moonshot still is CLEARLY using color with great intention. It's not a realistic scene. It's a carefully designed shot. The characters, the coffee, and the table are yellow. The background is green. That's interesting.

I would be much more inclined to agree with that if every fucking movie in the past twenty years wasn't also using the exact same gold-cyan two-color palette: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra...

It's just lazy. There's nothing interesting about it. Because every movie has a digital color pass applied now, they feel obligated to do something with the color, but they have no idea what, so they just do the same thing over and over.
In the old PAL/NTSC days we already had 48/50 FPS in terms of refresh rate. In fact those were only half frames, toggling between displaying only even and only odd line numbers. In fact this was very clever. Horizontal movement looked fluent but had a lower resolution but the latter disadvantage was not very noticeable because of fast movement, where fps matters. Still pics or slow movement provided more detail (24/25 full res pics per second). There was a rather long time of analog/digital transition era where I liked analog better.
You’re right that it’s not so clear, perhaps I overstated for brevity. I don’t actually think requesting permission is absolutely necessary, what I really think is that there aren’t good reasons AI people shouldn’t at least first try to establish training sets that are unambiguously legal, either through use of public domain work, or through an actual attempt to curate licensing models that allow re-use. We have plenty of precedent for doing this, so people claiming they should have access to everything without permission strikes me as lazy. There’s also the problem that the AI winners already are, and will continue to be, the monopoly tech and media companies who stand to make handsome profits off of the results of their trained networks. Even if you believe the results of their tech is “transformational”, there is no question that it wouldn’t work at all without access to the source material.

The argument that NNs aren’t memorizing is definitely debatable and not necessarily true. They are designed to memorize deltas and averages from examples. They are, at the most fundamental level, building high dimensional splines to approximate their training data, and intentionally trying to minimize the error between the output and the examples. It’s fair to say that “usually” they don’t remember any single training sample, but it’s very easy for NNs to accidentally remember outliers verbatim. The whole reason the lawsuits mentioned in the article are happening is because we keep finding more and more examples where the network has reproduced someone’s specific work in large part. If we’re going to claim that today’s AI is producing original work, then we have to guarantee it, not just assert that it doesn’t usually happen.

> a rap battle between Keynes and Mises goes beyond a performative remix, it is a transformational work, nothing is copied explicitly.

I don’t buy that the work can be called transformational just because the remix doesn’t have any recognizable snippets. GPT is in fact copying individual words explicitly, and it’s putting words together by studying the statistical occurrence of words in context of other words.

> I think that to tackle this we need a new lens other than copyright

I totally agree with that. This question is legitimately hard. We do need a new lens, but we might have to keep and respect the old one too at the same time. I feel like AI work should acknowledge that difficulty and step up to lead the curation of training sets that are legal wrt copyright by design, rather than ignoring the concerns of the very people who made the work they are leveraging.
that’s true. But that code snippet didn’t meet all the requirements. I laid out. And it definitely was less typing using ChatGPT once you add all of the requirements I laid out.

And then there is the context switch. This is just one little script as part of a larger system where I’m designing an entire system. It’s much easier if I’m already writing out a long set of documentation, diagrams, slides, etc just to open ChatGPT and keep writing English.

Not to mention when you’re juggling a couple of projects and one is Node and one is Python.

And just in case you are trying to gatekeep, I’ve been programming for a few years - let’s just say my first hobbyist code was in 65C02 assembly language in 1986
It is wrong much more than 1% of the time.
> It's similar to how in flying, we still use feet/flight levels, and actually a few places have migrated from metric to the more conventional imperial system.

It hasn't stopped the conversion of most other aviation measurements to metric. Runway dimensions, visibility and separation distances are in meters, temperatures are in Celsius, atmospheric pressure in hectopascals, fuel is in litres, mass is in kilograms. Frequencies are in Hertz. At least that's the case in Australia. Pretty sure Europe is similar.
> people who considered themselves the same as Russians including young Zelensky, whose first language is Russian.

I think this is one thing that Russians are incredibly confused by: Russian-speaking does not imply that someone sees themself as Russian. The great analogy here is in Ireland: the vast majority of Irish are English-speaking monoglots, not Irish-speaking. And yet the Irish do not want to be part of Britain, and fought several rather violent conflicts towards that end. In Ukraine right now, Russian-speakers are switching to speaking Ukrainian to emphasize the degree to which they do not want to be seen as Russian.
Why do you need to unionize if you actually can do some job and there is a well defined social welfare? So if you can not do a job you shouldn’t be hired at all. If you can do a job but get laid off because of economic conditions we should push for a better social welfare system.

BTW, Layoff is the natural consequence of over hire, but did you feel angry when companies are over hiring? Probably not. It means employees are just as blind as employers.
People can’t even reliably retell a story they witnessed firsthand and experienced in their native language 5 minutes ago. I don’t understand how anyone can put any stock into religious and other historical text, it’s all complete bs.
Xtractr: Unmarshal path and query params to Go structs
Xtractr, for unmarshaling path and query parameters from an incoming HTTP request directly to Go structs. Now with support for nested structs.
The Foundation series is my main imagination pump here (it gets me thinking about this stuff):

This is one of the most interesting empirical questions, if there is life or not outside of us, but it seems like there must be.

And if there is extra terrestrial life, there are probably large clusters of it because of confounding reasons, like stable stars making it easier for multiple planets in system to be habitable, somewhere out there.

We probably know we are not close to a ‘large cluster’, because we’d know by now by the local nature of clusters.

So I think we can/should be in the headspace of the Foundation series. There are almost assuredly large clusters of power, and we are not part of it. The clusters know this state of affairs and so do all the outlier planets like us.

I’m not saying we should remain hidden or anything. I’m not even sure what the consequences are in this headspace. But I think we can and possibly should start realizing we’d be in contact by a cluster rapidly, if there were any in our Galaxy.

That dynamic just seems so inevitable and Asimov was able to capture it. The clusters will heavily cluster and remove most outliers by absorbing them. And the real outliers are very far between.
All designs have use cases and scenarios for which they are better or worse.

Pass (and gopass, and all the derivatives of the same idea) is not the best personal password store (for that KeePassXC and similars might be better) but coupled with git gives a technical team a way to share passwords in a more or less secure way on rest.

AFAIK KeePassXC don't give a way of automating merge of different versions of the password store (for that the granularity provided by git and the pass format is better), so modifying the keys by a team is an exercise of coordination, and have one global master key that implies an all-or-nothing approach.

And being built over time tested technology in a simple enough way is another feature. It is a simple bash script taking advantage of gpg and git, not a complex piece of software that should be audited with each security update.

Of course that the computers taking part should be trusted, if the personal computer of any of the people with access to the keys is compromised, or where you store your git repository, it might not be so safe, but probably you should worry about bigger problems.
It's rare that people try to do that now, the person you were replying to said that's it's possible, not that it's common.
> not bother to find some other ways to make money.

Oh, they definitely tried, and still try. The problem is the same as many large companies: they want a new trick as lucrative as the old trick, and there aren't any.
The first line of the article says it's not dead. I like your link, but the author of the article is actually saying it's not dead
> 01940s to the 01970s

Out of interest, why leading zeros?
> We only need a single counter example to show that Othello-GPT does not have a systemic understanding of the rules, only a statistical inference of them.

I don't agree with this binary interpretation. This only indicates that any systemic understanding the model has internally built is not complete. We are not trying to assess completeness of that understanding. E.g. if you had a traditional rules engine for Othello, and you removed one rule that could result in illegal moves, does that make that rule engine a statistical model all of a sudden?
> Cool, so people that want that effect on their movies can use it, it hardly sounds like something everyone would want every time though.

That's not what GP said. GP was arguing that 24fps is a genuine artistic choice, and that an argument that 48fps is intrinsically superior is absurd. GP was arguing that frame rate is a choice artists can use to tell their stories, that 24fps is Impressionism and 48fps is realism.

Also, cross examining (e.g. "so, you're saying...") is against HN policies. Misrepresenting what someone said is also not great.
Bitcoin will probably be fine, displayed bitcoins in the exchange where many regular crypto investor keep them might go poof.
> Once he turned towards the black hole, the controls locked. He can’t turn back anymore. He can only fall.
Meanwhile with Windows not only you pay for the OS but also with your time to make it approximate a decent environment (with increasingly less options ever new version).
Another big challenge is the punishment for getting it wrong, which the article doesn't even mention.

>For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Personally, I wish more people would include curse clauses in important documents. Legal contracts, government constitutions...why not tack on a few lines threatening a dire curse for any party who reneges on their responsibilities?
And yes, I do realise that I'm just looking at the preview, still...
On a national scale, private retirement savings are not that different from pensions. Both are based on tokens that entitle you to some fraction of the economic output of those who do productive work. The value of a token depends on the total number of tokens, the size of the real economy, and the fraction of value the people doing productive work are willing to pay as taxes to the government and the capitalists.

Investing internationally changes some things. Retirees bring in money from abroad, but that does not increase domestic production. Prices will go up, as there is more money competing for the same goods and services. The people doing productive work will want more money for their services. Imports will be relatively cheaper, but the economy suffers, because the exports will be less competitive due to higher wages.

Saving for retirement is rational for any individual if the demographic structure cannot support the pension system. But while anyone can do it successfully, it's not possible for everyone at the same time.
>is a LinkedIn influencer

the fact that this is a thing just makes me sad
Let's say ChatGPT gives you false information 50% of the time. It is still useful.

Just like it is harder to find primes numbers than verify that a number is prime, it is harder to dig up potential tidbits of information than to verify a piece of information handed to you is true.
not long ago there was a french short doc about the disappearance of colors

not sure if it's based on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYlF3YIIjA

but there's an evolution toward neutral (colors and textures imo)

the post 20s are anthropologically mind boggling..
I totally agree, but I do what I can. And while setup takes me some extra effort, I can now run my 24/7 workloads on a small box and run the big box only when needed.
Drug trade and ransoms... we should clearly ban cash and visa gift cards and any form of anonymous payment then, right?
If your application breaks due to THP, do not despair! There is prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE), allowing it to be disabled on per-process basis.
> But the client shouldn't be trusting the server anyways so going peer-to-peer shouldn't be an issue.

If there's things like durable money between matches, etc: without someone in the loop to validate what happened you can't really solve this problem peer to peer. (If we define security to encompass "secure game state" and not just "safety from remote code execution")
Bouvet Island
This is not what they claim, the central claim is that OthelloGPT has developed a "causal model", "an understandable model of the process producing the sequences" (For example: "are they picking up the rules of English grammar?"). Ie, does OthelloGPT know the rules of Othello?

They make a clear distinction between world representation ("board state"/"internal activation"), and world model ("game engine"/"LLM Layers"), see their diagram [1].

That state exists it not interesting or new, a LLM necessarily transforms input sequences into a form of state in order to predict the next word in a sentence, and OthelloGPT necessarily transforms the move sequence into an internal state in order to predict the next move.

The only interesting question is what mechanism picks the next move, simply following the patterns (the crow, calling out the next move), or an understanding of the rules of the game (the crow, analyzing a fresh board).

Except that's a false dichotomy, the analogy doesn't work, the crow "analyzing a fresh board" is still capable of just doing pattern recognition.

[1]: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/zvQObJtkqyFey9TD2Ibzx5K9s5...
Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel
Sort of? Netflix paid an upfront cost for its own content, but a recurring fee for third party content. So they try to push users to consume their content, which they'll own forever, as a bargaining chip and savings potential when the time comes to renegotiate those recurring fees.

So nobody's paying them, but Netflix effectively pays more (in the long run) to show you third party content and would prefer you watch content they produce for a one-time upfront cost.
How could something be worth 440 billion in market cap after a major correction not be valuable?

This is after having a 14 year history of people learning about it, not some scam coin like LUNA that went from zero to 40 billion and to zero in less than 1 year
Neither of those is likely the reason. This is about A/B testing your way to success, growth and engagement. Allowing too much disabling of engagement driving features or too much customizations hurts metrics. It's the same reason FB forces you from the date sorted timeline back to "magic" sorting every few days.
Excellent writeup as usual by Ken. The only additional aspect I wish was included is a video showing the unit in action.