skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had this discussion enough times to know that this is a minority opinion, but the battle of winterfell is a masterpiece. The darkness in that scene does so much to add to the tension that it’s essentially another character.

Watch it on a good screen in a dark room, and come away wishing other nighttime shots were done that way.

Edit: darkness is like a good score. It adds a ton but it doesn’t degrade well and people with potato setups won’t be able to see/hear.
I have that turned off, but they still play.

I contacted Netflix support, and they basically said, "Sorry. That doesn't necessarily actually stop them. We can't share anything about whether we have plans to change that."

It has been like this for years. I don't know if it's a glitch with my account or if they are doing it on purpose. Neither possibility makes me a happy customer.
-- you're comparing apple to orange - this is 150 person - pre revenue startup - not Microsoft --
That command sets the "Microsoft Edge.Ink" file as hidden, for those who were wondering.
… you know Google provides the URL right? With Google it is very easy to tell if the information is coming from NIH or infowars/forums/etc.
The mods are also moderating voluntarily.
If 51% of US politicians all decided the value of the US dollar should become 0, then it would be so... and yet it is still a representative democracy which is a decentralized form of governance.

This is unlikely to happen, because it would be to no ones advantage. Even if they did most of the public would likely just ignore the decision.

https://www.crypto51.app/ covers this question in regards to cryptoassets.

It will cost something like $1m/hour to attack Bitcoin, but to even do that you would already need to actually convince 51% of miners to light their profits on fire for no reason.

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.
If you ask me the true reason is that we've accepted DRM to exist in our software and on our devices.
I am of the view that in general, lowering inflation is a good thing.

Given the success of PoS so far (1), ETH was over paying for security when there was another alternative way to do things... and this is coming from an ex-large scale miner.

(1) We likely won't know for decades if the switch to PoS was indeed successful, but I do feel it is an interesting experiment
Sure, but my point is simply that evidence of mistakes does not necessarily entail a lack of an accurate world model. When underlying models can only be inferred, there can never be 100% certainty that any inferred model is truly accurate, even when it is. Humans are only certain of Othello's rules because we have direct access to those rules.

If you put a human being in GPT's place in this exact same scenario, they too would make comparable mistakes. Humans are clearly capable of world models, therefore those mistakes are not an indication that world models are not in use.
Also, how do you get game state back from an LLM response? If an LLM decides an NPC is a blacksmith and promises to make a sword for a player, and that functionality isn't even in the game, how do you handle the player responses?
It is possible to verify that a user is a specific human.

It is not possible to verify that a user is a vague-but-unique human. Between bots, account farming, etc. it is simply not possible any more.

Legal and other requirements may prevent you from checking a drivers' license, national ID card, credit card ... but that is the only approach that can work.
I'm having a hard time imagining what sort of story could survive in such a "random" system. When I play games a large segment what my enjoyment comes from the carefully crafted story beats that gets telegraphed by artists hours in advance. I like the intricate little details that they weave into every interaction to give me the _experience_ of being there (which is different from the _impression_ of being there).

From what I've seen from these LLM systems, they don't provide anything like that. They jump from random segment to random segment, with little coherent intention behind it. Their responses is full of platitudes and cliches.

I guess it would be fun for some sort of sandbox style virtual world, but I can't help but feel like the novelty would wear off quick.
These metrics do not mean anything in the context of investing. The protocol is not going anywhere, but so what. This does not mean it's a good investment. Developer counts, push requests, etc...these metrics are easily inflated, such as due to churn volume or making tiny or trivial modifications to code.
No, no, I agree about the insane lawsuits for similar sounding music. The popular music is mostly regurgitated stuff anyways. But the equivalent here would be "Penny Lane as if composed by Michael Jackson and sung by Taylor Swift". My example is bad, because I stopped following popular music a decade or two ago. But replace the deceased artists with living ones.

My point probably should be made clearer. You know how you can say "in the art style of X"? Well, it doesn't matter if Huggingface made that possible. You can, relatively easily, train that concept with a collection of paintings by X. Then you can go ahead an make art in their style.

Now, from a technology point of view, that is nothing short of amazing. I still cannot get my head around how absolutely ridiculously powerful it is. And, even the people who play with this, don't seem to fully grasp it either. The world will change in the next 4 years.

What I'm wondering, is, what should we, as a society, find acceptable? Why should someone be able to train "in the style of X" where X is a set of EVERYTHING, and make money of it, without the say of X, or even them getting anything for it? Have you checked the evaluation of Huggingface? It's in the order of 1-10 billion USD.

There is definitely the argument of anti-copyright. I get that part too. But there is definitely someone who will end up with the bigger stick, and it isn't the people holding the paint brushes who made it possible. That seems just a little bit unfair, and perhaps unwise.

Also, I'll end with a point that no one so far has brought up, even though I've followed the discussion both for and against AI. Which is "whitewashing" art. Now, the example I'm going to show isn't very good, but I also spent 5 minutes on this. Where would you draw the line on when Alexander Wild no longer has copyright over his photography?

https://imgur.com/a/cm6IrzG
I think back to some debates I’ve had over the years, on technical matters, political matters, office matters, and so on, and I wonder whether the level of argument reflected anything better than I could’ve received from GPT.
I think in most game development related forums, tutorials, etc, you will be correct about the unpopularity of building a new game engine. However, it’s definitely not a lost cause in general. I also agree that a vast majority of the ‘engines are impossible’ are predicated on Unreal/Unity as a baseline. I look at Arch Systemworks and see them using Unreal for their heavily stylized games (Guilty Gear, Drgaonball FighterZ, etc) and watch the various talks and articles about them having to bend over backward and work to fit Unreal’s expectations to make the engine render and animate in the manner they require and always wonder if a custom engine would not make workflow and maintenance simpler. I wonder the same for more specific genres, like RTS and HD2D-style JRPGs, where a custom engine would conceivably be a better long term option for developers. I always go back to Mike Acton talking at the first HandmadeCon, where he is talking about small dev teams and their benefits in specializing tools and wonder if that logic should be applied to engines as a whole.
Not only are the numbers impressive, the tools are impressive too.

But that doesn't change the reality that ad revenue related to search is the lion's share of Google's revenue. That makes them exceptionally vulnerable for a company of their size and breadth. And in that vulnerable area, anecdotally at least, the search quality feels as if it has regressed over the years.

Google was once the gateway to the web. Now they are the gatekeepers of the web.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic. Maybe things were never as good as I imagined they were. Maybe my expectations are unfair. But the Google of my memory was innovative. It delighted. That feels far removed from the Google of today.
I think this is hitting the nail on the head. AI and ChatGPT isn't even the point. The scary part is that Google appears to have cannibalized their own offering in order to keep their numbers black to the extent where they have no ostensible way of dealing with a credible competitor.

Ironically, the young Page and Brin predicted the inherent conflict of interest between search and advertisement.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html#a

With gems such as

"For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine."
I can recall playing it on a 10MHz 286 and having to shrink the window for good framerates.
Eh no, I'm giving you, step by step, a reason why we need blockchains.
> What you're saying is equivalent to:
"Impressionism is objectively worse than realism

Type 'art' into google, how many pictures are impressionism, 1 in 10?

Pick a movie at random, what are the chances it's made in 24 fps? 99.9%?

Why do you thin TVs have motion smoothing? Because, we, normal people, are sick of you impressionist-obsessed people controlling everything.
I am a fan of physical hour glasses and have a little collection from a 3min egg timer up to 1.5hrs to do sprint blocks. Been doing that since before I had heard of Pomodoro outside of Italian food. Call me old school but I like the intersection of Skeuomorphic and Tangible user Interfaces and if there was an hourglass with a Bluetooth link into my App world you can bet I'd jump on it.
Thank you for clarifying and providing context.
try text-davinci-003
14 years*
GPT will also make astroturfing, propaganda, and fake user bases easier to achieve for the unscrupulous.
We never do that though, we have to estimate our own tickets. So we're always estimating time for ourselves, we just can't say it's time though. Drives me mad but scrum masters these days have fully drunk the kool aid, it's fixed adherence to meaningless fibonacci story points or you're not doing it right.
Bitcoin will be fine at $20k or $2. Investors, another story...
> 1011 requests | 9.3 MB transferred | 9.1 MB resources

I was going to warn about this, but then I realized that's probably not even half of the average modern web page size =)
The only people who even notice a change of CEO are the other execs.
Is ENR similar to bleach bypass? They seem to be mentioned in the same breath but it's a bit vague.
With a bit of work, one can find Ronald Knox's short volume On Englishing the Bible, which has many interesting things to say.
The US customary units were 1st established prior to the imperial system existing so it is not historically correct to say they are based upon the imperial system.
If you're sitting on $10B of Bitcoin, you can certainly use it for collateral.

No need to convert it to cash, unless you need to buy Twitter, or something.
Wait until you find out about 5G causing brain cancer.
Like the comment said, if it's cheap (time, effort, etc) to reliably verify the answer the success rate doesn't really matter.
What part of the process of light coming through a lens, being focused onto film, the film being developed, and then light shone through the film onto a sensor to capture a digital copy of the frame, versus the light from the lens being focused onto a sensor and digitized directly, makes the film based image ‘look better’?

Because the frames are going to be digitized, right? Nobody’s arguing that optical printing and editing by splicing reels of film together produces better looking results than digital workflows, surely?
Historical Source – A collection of historical source files
They are addressing the point directly. Could you be more specific with your criticism?
14 years is a lot different than 3 years.

That a whole decade more for people to learn about it, and especially since the main features has not changed. Yes, there are improvements to the protocol, but the main thing has changed little over the years
> high-impact donations for Ukraine

Crypto donations to Ukraine were a rounding error, and done seemingly more for the purposes of mounting another crypto stunt than actually helping people.
Show HN: Outwit the uninvited with AI-generated replies (DaVinci)
Interest rates
It's not like they're going to sit down and write some new AI algo to put Google back on top. What they are doing is just cutting the Gordian knot of management traffic jams. They can come in and say "this is what we're doing, and this is who is doing it". Even for Sundar to try that would require months of wrangling and deal making. But Larry and Sergey can come in and force their will on the company.
You can disable autoplay when logged in the browser, the app will respect that setting.
Feature Factories vs. Value Generators
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Class system needs a steerage class or the elites are just like everyone else. Tale as old as time.
Its like if people loved combustion cars because you get high on petroleum fumes, and rejecting electric cars because they don't stink the same way and dont make as much noise.

Its a cult.
Thomas Paine, US founding father and deist, believed God's Word is the universe he created. From "The Age of Reason":

It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.

Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible Whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.
A check contains your full account number that anyone can go and print a check with.

The new credit cards which chips generate a unique token for each merchant account. This is also how Apple pay works.
>But looking around it's still less universal than e.g. TV (±"everyone" watches TV but not everyone plays video games).

What do you mean by TV?

I'm asking because I feel like by TV you meant TV + Netflix/HBO/etc...
McDonald’s event-driven architecture: The data journey and how it works
Sadly, this CLI only pulls data directly from the cloud servers. So it can't be used when you have no internet connection or when 1Password is having server trouble.

I install my password manager's desktop/mobile apps so I can have an offline store of my password data. This provides a backup of the data in case their servers are down or otherwise inaccessible.

I wish the CLI has similar functionality.
This dodging is fodder for folks who seek to ban crypto, or at least ring fence it from the money and banking system.
I’ve worked with decent marketers so I was assuming good-faith.
Your prime number analogy doesn't hold water because the average person doesn't verify. Being wrong half the time has potential for serious damage.
But remember, it's Linux that's only free if you don't value your time;)
Ok, please could you list some tangible, practical and cost effective use cases for blockchain that are not better solved with other technologies?
On the other hand, low frame rates put a ceiling on some measures of quality, just as low resolution does. A fast-paced fight scene or a panning shot over a field of gras in the wind is very limited by what 24fps can show.
When I read what you wrote I feel like it's more scary than aspirational. I can't imagine how I would feel if the education system had a "perfect" model of what i was supposed to feel like, and how I was supposed to move through the system to feel like everybody else.

Layer onto that the question of if the model is actually "perfect" or just telling you that it's perfect and integrating the mistakes ad-hoc. What if the model decided that you were secretly trans, even if you didn't feel like it?
We should attempt to build a society with sufficient mobility and opportunity that regardless of any unfairness in starting conditions a relatively fair outcome would occur over time.
> * Bluetooth and maps libraries are available for Xamarin, [1] [2]

I don’t have lots of direct experience with these in particular. I have played with the BLE shim libraries provided for Dart, React-Nativ, and Cordova back in the day. All were maybe ok for single characteristic rare interaction. But as you go up in connection frequency, characteristic count, or update frequency, things degrade in robustness quickly. I spent a solid couple of weeks getting our Kotlin/Android version up to being able to handle 1000 reconnects without hanging the chip. BLE is hard.

Given that even with the native map stuff, we had to jump through some “clever” hoops to get the kind of map overlay feedback we were looking for and at tolerable update speed, I remain skeptical that yet another abstraction layer wasn’t going to be an additional hindrance.

> * Control server could be written in C# using the .NET core worker template [3] and deployed as a SystemD service and then the SDK deployed as a package to enable local development.

We have limited flash space. It’s too small to accommodate the gcc toolchain. If/when we want to do that, we used a mounted sd card to accommodate the space needed for doing hosted development. It’s pretty cumbersome compared to having Python right there. I would guess that if gcc wasn’t much of an option, c# was going to run into similar issues.

> * Cloud bridge deployed as a service or website using raw sockets, SignalR or Azure IOT hub (depending on requirements).

My choice to use Elixir here would be the most arguable. The nature of how we do MQTT communications securely (uniquely secured by each connection path) dictates either a single threaded many-socket mqtt client (we’d have to do this from scratch) or just use lots of threads, one per client connection. It is not uncommon to have 20,000 threads active in our current solution. Based on some peers comments, that would be a lot. But at that point, I guess we’d pursue the many clients on less threads approach. Which could have been in whatever. I really just wanted an excuse to take Elixir for a spin, and this was an area it could/did shine.
Couldn't Mitchell Baker start to freak out too ?
Ask HN: What are the “top”/“prestigious” tech companies today?
With all the layoffs and time passing, what companies do people see as the most prestigious today? I feel FAANG is falling a bit out of fashion, but interested to hear peoples perspectives.
You're saying that in states with a higher gun ownership rate, there are few (per capita, I hope you mean) gun related homicides. Specifically comparing US states, not the US to another country.

But 100% of gun related homicide happens with a gun. I had a funny read of your comment, perhaps you think those happen with "borrowed" guns ... If they only owned those guns outright, they could benefit from your statistic.
The notion of Reddit mods being selfless unpaid volunteers is misleading. They wield considerable power, and it's a desired position. Also, mods have been known to engage in payola and other deception for personal gain/profit. And too many arbitrary rules, too many shadow bans/deletions, etc.
Doesn’t apple have screen time for this purpose?
I commuted for a few years in Paris, and have seen a few dozens fist fights between passengers, sometimes at rush hour. And people get their purse mugged in the car behind, homeless shitting in the back of the car, super high guy with completely empty eyes playing with a knife while sitting next to the door.

It was a fucking circus. Having a “women only” car at rush hour to deescalate tensions is such a minor peeve in comparison.
So Apple will (surprise!!) come out with a winner - and basically own the market for minimum three years, if not for much longer.
> Senior says task will take one day. Junior says it will take 3 days. What do you put into estimate?

Who is doing the work? The senior? One day. The junior? Three days. The estimate should always be done by the person doing the work. This also forces people to have skin in the game when making estimates. When you have a full team coming up with points, then no one has any consequences for being wrong. But if you say one day, then you have some incentive to think things through. You want to live up to your commitment. Of course, this assumes that there are some consequences for being wrong, which usually isn't the case. I think this is where many people go wrong with time estimates. If you're repeatedly wrong, that's not because time estimates don't work. That's because you're bad at them. And like most skills, if you do them repeatedly and try to learn from the cases where you failed, you'll get better at it.
Is this engine used in freight vehicles? Then it might make sense. A new generation of V8 for passenger cars doesn’t seem like a good technology investment. That of course depends on whether there will still be buyers of V8 passenger cars and pickups in the near future. And what’s worrying is that GM probably not only does this so that they have a product for those buyers, they’ll want to ensure there are buyers through marketing.
The other side of the story:

If wage pressure is too high you get an inflationary spiral as companies keep having to pay more for workers. This will eventually cool the economy anyway. Better to step in before that happens and reduce the amount of damage done.
Why in the world would you try to put a positive spin on it? It's bad behaviour, and you should feel bad for engaging in it. It's greedy and dishonest. Pass.
This is usually done by logging state to the server which does some validation.

Most validation that the server does can be run on clients just as easily. (The main issue is what information is visible to clients. But if you are doing mostly P2P you usually end up making tradeoff that the client gets most information)
Better parenting. Almost all of it stems from homelife, bub.

Parents are notoriously shitty people.
.. lets see .. a penny for the peep show [canary token] or a dollar for the lap dance [privacy.com]. No argument here - lap dance it is.