skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On a related note, why is Netflix's interface so locked down?

A/B testing. The product org has always been driven by A/B testing, which means it sometimes finds a local maxima which they then stick to. They've also been driven by keeping things simple, both for the user and the developers. Having a single interface means the user gets a consistent experience (ironically broken by having so many A/B tests) and also means that testing on the backend is easier, because you don't have a geometric explosion of combinations of settings to test.

The fewer settings there are the fewer things to test when you want to change something.

> Why would it be bad for me to turn off autoplay for trailers?

Because A/B testing has shown that overall it's better for customer retention. They're willing to give up some users in exchange for the gains they get from having it on.

> Why can't I say "never show me this show again, I'm never going to watch it"?

Because people lie to themselves. A lot of people will say, "Schindler's List is an amazing movie!" and keep it on their watch list, but yet never watch it again, and then will say "Jackass 3 is the dumbest shit I've ever seen" and never put it on their list but watch it 15 times. People's intentions and actions don't always match. Netflix used to have a way to remove stuff from being shown, and then get calls into customer service from people who had chosen that button asking how to get the movie back because they actually want to watch it.

> And why, in this age of AI, and they still putting white text over a white background?

While you could fix this with AI, it would take a heck of a lot of computer power for a relatively small fix for few people (not a lot of people use captions). You'd have to review every film with every set of captions. That's a lot of hours of AI review.

> That last one, especially, made me say "do people at Netflix eat their own dogfood"?

When I worked there, most everyone watched Netflix every day. In fact, the only thing we didn't dogfood was the billing system because we all had free Netflix, and then when it broke, they gave everyone an $8/mo raise and told us all to sign up for paid accounts so that we could test the billing system with different billing days and different payment methods.

But very few that I knew of who used captioning. Most people don't like it and find it distracting. So when there were captioning errors they were usually caught by customers.
Shows the need for digital signatures of any creative output of any individual.

People matter too.
> The effect of this is that a video game is a casino where no matter how lucky or skilled the player is, the house always keeps 100% of the real money no matter what. And we let children play in these casinos.

I think you just described Chuck e. Cheese.
it's not ALL scattershot. GMail and Docs for enterprises are a pretty sustained effort. Cloud is pretty sustained. YouTube is unkillable.

But in general you're right.
Not just interface lockdown, but the insistence that They Know Better. Netflix, YouTube, pretty much any video service I've tried, actively prevents someone from excluding search results while simultaneously putting the offerings They Want You To See toward the top, almost without regard for the search prompt. I know that this would make the mile-wide, inch-deep problem for most catalogs readily visible to many people, but not being able to say, "DON'T GIVE ME THE RESULTS I DON'T WANT", does not endear a site to this user and many others.
Vignette is a useful and appealing effect. That doesn’t mean a lens with vignette is superior. The images straight out of the camera may be more appealing. Yet on the other hand, with a low vignette lens, you can add exactly as much or little as you want in post.

Film vs digital seems very similar, with a greater degree of “natural processing” happening in film.
I watched "Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity" by Jim Al-Khalili (it's available to stream on Amazon Prime Video), and enjoyed it. In fact, Jim Al-Khalili has produced excellent documentaries about other topics of scientific interest as well.
It’s certainly possible that the people who came up with this idea lost their jobs because of the latest layoff.
> Suppose it was a pic of Hermann Goering holding a sign saying, “We eat Jews” and the response is to note that Goering is fat.

It'd still be funny though :)
Gmail is the breakout hit that came from a 20% time project.
China also outnumbers US Navy in terms of gross tonnage of warships.

Is there a particular metric you'd rather use? In both number of ships, and tons, China leads over us. US only wins in capital ships now.
I think that's not the problem. Modelling isn't the issue. Half of these tools have good, usable ways of making an API for development and packaging. The issue is that they all make slightly different decisions. "Just make a domain model" falls apart when it encounters users with different subjective preferences or objective requirements--to say nothing of vastly different skill levels, which the article touches on.
What choice? I didn't get a choice to not have IE on the desktop. Also, I haven't run Windows as a daily OS since 2003-2004.
Saving heirloom apples has zero biodiversity value, or near two it. All domestic apples are extremely inbred and from a one or two cultivars brought to Europe a few hundred years back. The reservoir of apple biodiversity , at least for sylvestris is in its native range where domestic apple cultivation is actively polluting the genome. I think that's like khazakhastan and western china.
How about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
I tried it out on an 8MHz V40 (think V20 with onboard peripherals), and it delivers five frames per second. Definitely as smooth if not smoother than Quake on a 486DX. (lest we forget that it was the Crysis of its era since hardware 3D acceleration didn't yet exist on most consumer-grade kit)

The dithering (on a VGA card and modern LCD) sort of makes it hard to view; an EGA port might be interesting as 16 colours might be enough to make it workable without dithering. Although if they're using 2x2 blocks for dithering, they'd be effectively cutting the number of "pixels" to render by a factor of four, and that might make it viable.
Enpass has a CLI client and it's MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/hazcod/enpass-cli
> It's not perfect, but switching over to a "loser pays" system would go a long way in killing the strategy of the wealthy to just drag things out ad-infinitum.

Wouldn't it encourage that strategy? If the case could go either way, the richer litigant can keep increasing the stakes until the poorer one faces ruin on a coin toss. So they are forced to settle. Even if you have (say) a 75% chance of winning, the Kelly criterion puts you out of the game once the expenses reach a certain level.
Were you trying to teach them with the CLI though? That's a terrible approach. The CLI is awful and Git is a visual thing.

It's like teaching someone to drive a car using LOGO.

The way to teach Git is:

1. Explain the mental model (correctly). Basically a commit is a snapshot with deduplication to avoid huge file sizes.

2. Show them how to use a good Git GUI. There are a lot of bad ones. I would recommend Git Extensions (terrible name but it's actually quite good). Or maybe GitX on Mac.

3. Let them learn the CLI slowly in their own time.
The drawback I see here is that I would not want to have NPCs in a videogame only regurgitate soulless interaction and use so much computational power to do so.

This is why I put some emphasis on having AI assist the artist writing the stories in a similar fashion how modern professional translation works: AI translate texts and the human focuses on the consistency, coherence, tone and expressing the nuances.

A perfect (popular example of that): Harry Potter. There's just too much nuance in the names of everything in HP, from the creatures to the characters to the houses. Translating HP requires a heavy dose of creativity and sensibility that you can't leave up to an AI, it's a work of art. Harry Potter translations are often used very frequently in universities as textbook examples on the _art_ of translation.

In the same way I cannot see the sensibility and artistry of creative humans being replaceable by computers, I can only envision AI as tools to often provide and assist and generate quantity with the artist providing the actual "soul" to the stories and dialogues.
please ELI5 cause I have no clue what you're talking about
Do we even have methods to rate the performance of these systems, and how good are they?
True, but if your password vault becomes compromised, you have significantly bigger problems than credit cards being compromised.
Agreed!!! I just got back from yet another extended stay in Japan. Every time I go, the culture shock is coming back to America and lamenting how far behind we are.
> Not my favorite apple of the 30 or so in my orchard

Great answers throughout this thread. But this comment raises the obvious question: then which one is your favorite?

(my answer is usually Wickson Crab: https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/crab-apples/wickson-c...)
jwz still complains about linux, but less than mac! He uses Linux throughout his club and tech stack and still grumbles but I think he's finally recognized over time that Apple's attitude toward the UNIX core of Mac and its non-commitment to backwards comptability have repeatedly burned him.
I ran 2012 R2 as a daily driver for a long time.
Git-cliff: changelog generator – dev interview
I don't think those goals are mutually exclusive
Microsoft has some useful entrypoints [0] such as the OWASP Top Ten [1]

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamental...

[1] https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
> You have to acquire the source material legally. You can be in violation of copyright for copying music you didn’t buy.

This is incorrect. As another poster mentioned, it is not illegal to read a stolen book. It is only illegal to steal the book.

Secondly the source material
is acquired legally since it is open to consumption on the open internet.

Thirdly model does not contain “latent copies of the source material”. By using a simple test (currently legal standard) that if I showed you the node weights and counts of the network no person even trained in the art can identify it to a specific piece of work. Therefore it is at best a derivative, reasonably distinct.
“This post is for paid subscribers”. Truly inspiring!
It's funny, but although there's not even the slightest thread of a relationship as the legal system would see it, we are in a sense "the authors of Twitter."
Big blast of nostalgia from that Japanese pagoda image at the top.

It originated as a Commodore 64 320x200 image. Note how there are no color changes between 8x8 pixel blocks.

I forget the artist's first name, but I believe his last name was Sachs. He was a huge deal in 64 art in the 80's, and later transitioned to Amiga.

I think he did a fish tank screen saver, and I seem to recall a video game on the 64 where you flew flying saucers to destroy Washington, DC. Because he was an artist, the graphics were unlike anything else seen at the time on a home computer.
The non-ad moat that I see them losing is if slack gets into the office app game. so instead of editing a Google doc and sending the link in slack, you just edit it inside slack.
I would guess that about the same amount of people that watch TV play games if you count mobile games.
1M Volt Plasma Piano [video]
former CTO @ Arist (YC S20). We were able to get all the way through series A using Ruby on Jets and it continues to be a major driver behind Arist's growth. Tung, the guy behind it, is simply fantastic.
In language design, a choice is necessary. You can support all possible indexing strategies, but that's problematic for a whole different set of reasons. So you need to choose, index from 1 or from 0. I've never once thought my algorithmic implementation is mucky because of the index from zero, inclusive lower bound, exclusive upper bound policy languages. I used to regularly lament how ugly the MATLAB code was for that reason. Unless MATLAB had bolted on another language feature to solve that problem, I'll let my extensive (albeit 15 years old) use of MATLAB in signal processing algorithm implementation be my aesthetic guide.
Workers post Covid just aren’t as productive, to account for the malaise that presented itself, companies over hired.
Layoffs across industry seems to tell us otherwise.
Using the RISC-V Scalar Cryptography extensions
I mainly use it for shortcuts to folders that I access often. It saves time.
> Their responses is full of platitudes and cliches.

To be fair, in most games outside of main quests the NPCs feel like placeholders. Hearing the same set of sentences a dozen times when passing by them on a horse breaks the immersion a bit. I can imagine auto-generated lines to be quite good at making such characters more alive.
Yes.

Testing feels a bit like the sea shore problem.

The more detailed you measure a shoreline, the longer it gets, but what's the real length?
I could see it as limitless options for side interactions unrelated to the main storyline.

Imagine RDR where, instead of taking Arthur to Saint Denis and contracting tuberculosis, you instead end up marrying an NPC, buying a home, and raising kids. After a few years of dabbling in this side-game, you go back to the storyline.
IIRC, the Foundation series doesn't actually have any aliens, apart from (if we define it that way) some human-derived offshoots and the Robots?
As you seem to know something about this, what's an apple/pear hybrid like? I assume they do hybridise. How about pear/quince? That should be an interesting one.
The critical apparatus on the NET Bible is massive. The notes are well worth reading and probably unparalleled for anyone interested in ancient document translation.
They haven’t been hiding. Every time something at google gets worse someone made a UI change they mistakenly thought would make things better.
I have an application to the LinkedIn group of ex-Oracle employees. It was ignored for months and months.

Finally, I wrote to one of the admins. He apologized and said he had a lot of groups he was admin for, and asked, now which group was I talking about, again?

Does LinkedIn pay their admins? Don't know.
And even more so when it was 100% driven by technological limitations. The original Hollywood filmmakers of the early 1900s didn't choose not to film at 1000 FPS. There was simply no feasible way at the time to get above 20-30 FPS. The current standard was never chosen.
> The vast majority of the announced layoffs were white collar jobs, people getting $100k, $200k or more per year. That does not fit the story of rich getting richer, does it?

This is a relatively minor quibble, but I would say that the discussion of what happens to people making 100k or 200k a year says absolutely nothing about what is happening to either the rich OR the poor.

While someone making that much money might be considered rich compared to the global average, the prices they need to pay for necessities are not the global averages. They may be paying much more for housing, in particular, if they’re based in the Bay Area or Seattle environs.

If one is working for the bulk of their money for wages or salary rather than making it on investments then I would suggest one is not rich.
>Its similar to the unimaginative western boring shit color palette that exists in Windows, Apple and Android permeating all software guis across the world.

Yep. Modern movies have become the cinematic equivalent of Corporate Memphis.
What if I would accept maleficence if I could do harm to others? (because I believe I am better at harming and self-protection, so in the long run, my self interest will help me reach the top)
TCI is not even close for median "salary". 300k is way too high. This may be right for median total compensation for engineers (factoring in stock appreciation), which is salary+bonus+stock, but the company has a lot of other lower paying job functions. Overall, I suspect the 300k median is not accurate.

Levels.fyi tends to be in the right ballpark. However, the equity number has to be understood in that Google gives out $X RSUs vested over 4 years and the stock number there factors in stock growth, which can vary a lot by person and hire date.

The L5 salary on levels.fyi is near the upper end of the range, at around $196k in MTV. The engineering ladder is very lopsided, with most people being in the L3-L5 range.

I am a longtime Googler, not impacted by layoffs.

I also dispute all the other comments here that Googlers are overpaid. Now, I certainly can only speak from what I see. In my experience, Googlers tend to work very hard, including extra hours on nights and weekends. Expectations are very high, and unlike many other companies, the engineers don't get a lot of top-down direction, so often have to figure out what they work on by themselves.
This is one hostile behavior from your OS you actually notice. How many you don't?
You might be interested to know then that Harmonai and Stability AI (creators of stable diffusion) are tightly connected. I think Harmonai is actually part of stability, but it's a bit murky.

https://twitter.com/StabilityAI/status/1605012677188718592?t...
The crow never analyzes any board - that's the point of the analogy. It only hears a sequence of tokens, and it learns to predict future tokens, and TFA sets out to answer whether it does that by "surface statistics" (i.e. which tokens are more likely at which times), or with a "world model" (by laying out a bunch of seeds and flipping some of them over after each token in order to simulate the state of the game).

Edit: from other replies, I think I see the issue here. In TFA, "world model" is referring to the insight that "D4, E5, B3" are more than just tokens in a grammar - that they represent graph nodes with state, and that when each token occurs it toggles the states of other graph nodes. TFA is asking whether the LLM has learned that insight, as opposed to merely detecting patterns in the token sequences without any model of what they represent.

You seem to be taking "world model" to mean something quite different - like "a rule-based understanding of game rules that isn't statistical" or such. TFA doesn't discuss or investigate anything along those lines, just whether the LLM is simulating the on/off state of Othello pieces.
I know this is not really your argument, but I think it's related:

I don't buy that the problem is that we just don't know what to look for. There must be some observable characteristics that indicate its presence. It seems implausible that intelligent life forms would not leave any visible traces and that their planets would be indistinguishable from uninhabited ones.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34469471
Interested in getting a ev myself looks like 800v egmp is thr way to go. Would be interested in seeinf how your trip went! Care to throw a blog up?
The guidelines for ycombinator seems very open for abuse but yet it isn't. Or maybe people get downvoted into oblivion.
I believe reddit has been a part although its hard to say how big of ones it’s played in further diving people. It’s in my experience the worst social media at putting you inside a completely one sided bubble with twitter as a very close second.

Part of that being downvote is just used as i disagree with you even when you are adding a valid but different view to the conversation. I don’t use reddit anymore outside of trying to find recommendations for products but even that is being gamed now.
There's a link after the main article's content to "The most interesting thing I read this week[1]," which was also pretty interesting:

[1]: https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-scooby-doo-psyop
Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal
But why did Geocities use the 88×31 format?

https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31 (link warning: lots of 88×31 GIFs!) says it's likely because the "Netscape Now!" button was of that size.
"but it would be so great for your career choices"
Well, that was a rabbithole. I learned that (BME - Bolsa y Mercados Espanoles - Spanish stock market) is owned by a Swiss company. It blows my mind that countries sell off such important infrastructure, even if in this case to a friendly country.
> 1. Its only use case is bypassing laws;

> 3. Despite crypto having no use cases

You're contradicting yourself here.
In the unlikely event that this isn’t a trolling comment, my “American Nationalism” above refers to the post-Civil-Rights-era idea that we should prioritize our American identity over our racial or ethnic identities (ergo I’m talking about the last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century).

By claiming that such an ideology existed or that it had some benefits, I’m not implying that it was ubiquitous, uniformly distributed, or otherwise perfect.
> In terms of entertainment-time per dollar, at least classic AAA “$60 for 40 hours of entertainment” games are an incredibly good deal compared to movies

Entertainment-time might not be a good measure of utility (arguably, time is another cost, not the measure of benefit), and time-sitting-in-front-of-the-media might not be an accurate measure of entertainment-time.
>Maybe I'm just nostalgic

You're not. It was so much better up until 2018. Now it only indexing spam blogs And ai generated contents? Search quality is so bad today that duckduckgo is performing actually better in many cases, especially software development related queries
As Plinkett would say: “you might not notice it… but your brain did”.
> This is why Tarantino, Nolan, and P.T. Anderson still only use film.

Or maybe they are just old and incapable of adapting anymore.

There is a saying: "Physics advances one funeral at a time". Meaning that you need to get rid of the old-timers which are preventing the field from advancing.