skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "pyramid scheme" I meant crypto, not Bay-area startups.

> I myself don't refer to anything that isn't paying new customers with old customers money as a pyramid or Ponzi scheme

In Wikipedia's definition, that aspect doesn't seem to be strictly necessary [1]. They define it as "a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme".

In my mind it also plays a bit of a role whether you're doing that with retail investors vs. high-net-worth or institutional players. A retail investor generally can't invest in startups, but might invest in crypto if their neighbor recently bought some and then talked them into it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
This is where the BBC (CBeebies and CBBC in particular) is worth its weight in gold. I have trust in their programming.
That clearly wasn't even an issue in the past. It's only since Musk took over that theres been anything said on the possibility of Twitter closing up shop, which as we all know frm Musks' well know history of spewing nonsense, will not happen.
How are these channels monetized? I heard a while back that YouTube kids had no ads or heavily restricted them. Did something change there?
Wait, where is WASM used here? I thought that was a possible future development?
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I've been in tech for over 15 years and have never posted publicly under my own name any political opinion. I'm not sure if I'm being a coward or prudent. I used to identify with the left but now I lean conservative, and I feel like there is a huge bias towards that in tech. And any opinion can only hurt me if they look me up. Please let me know what you think on this matter.
I think the OP means the strike price of $2 was the FMV when the options were issued. The current value is the company's estimate of FMV right now.

Estimate is used since the company hasn't IPOd yet. So, valuation is private.
Just to add a data point, I've written a tiny Rust library [0] that can compile to WASM, that is quite effective for smaller payloads. It is based on PAQ so memory usage explodes a bit once you start compressing large files, but on smaller files it is super competitive.

As far as I can tell the blog author didn't include the 91MB file they used to test the compressors with, so I couldn't give it a try to see how it holds up. I guess 91MB would be too big anyway.

[0] https://github.com/datatrash/mashi
Even socially, it fails to plumb the depths. Mr Carmack is taking a "different path" by ... reading the relevant literature and talking to YC? This is 100% mainstream - The difference is what?
Hmmm, seems like it is just within Terminal. It just so happens that is where I mostly use that functionality.

In other situations, often Command + Shift + ‘v’ is paste without formatting (which I wish was the default!).
no, we reinvented Smalltalk. It only took 45 years

EDIT: to realize it
And I forgot to even mention whales.
I can’t find the original source anymore but in this Macrumors post is a quote talking about memory compression in macOS: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/this-compressed-memory-...
This doesn't use WASM or a browser at all. This is an new, original x86-64 machine code interpreter with a JIT compiler that supports x86-64 and aarch64. This is an extension of Justine's APE project to use x86-64 ELF as the core of write-once-run-anywhere software.
> Defeating the Rust borrow checker takes longer than that!

Fighting the Rust borrow checker to hate leads and hate to the Dark Side leads.

Harmony with the Rust borrow checker is what you must achieve, padawan.
i would never put these two people in the same box. except the box simply states: stinking rich.

i dont know either personally, but where elon demonstrates being full of shit, carmack would stfu and learn about it before talking. at least thats my impression of them
I'll bite too. I grew up and lived for ~25 years in an authoritarian country that was in comparison to others at that time relatively nice. It is now on its way to transform into true democracy.

> It's more about probabilities.

I totally agree.

>People occasionally did disappear (usually temporarily).

As long as its not me - it is ok. Do I read it correctly?

Let me ask a set of questions and I am curious what you'd pick.

>While they could prevent you from leaving the country, they didn't have no fly lists

What would you take: a higher chance to get on no fly list but still be able to drive to Mexico or Canada and fly from there or leave by boat or lower chance to not being able to leave the country at all for quite some time (potentially ever)?

>It's ridiculously easy to end up with felony charges...

What would you take: a higher chance to get felony charges or a lower chance to be in a wrong place and wrong time (killed for fun) with someone who paid their way out criminal justice (that's my explanation of a part of low criminal record)?

>And typically no one has to worry whether they'll find an apartment due to some crime they committed a decade ago.

The country were I lived a bit earlier would tell you were you can live.
What would you take: a higher chance to have problems with apartments search or not being legally allowed to move cities without power tripping local bureaucrat giving you permission?

>And sorry, but no. No local oligarch/overlord. That's orthogonal to authoritarian governments (and is often more about ineffective governments).

That is how it works, you need to have loyal people in local places. You can call it however you want: mayor of the city, ruling party local political leader, etc.

Edit: formatting.
(I realise now I've slept on it and can't edit it that I phrased that response as badly as the original text you're responding to, but with opposite mistakes on my part in each).
Are we in a rhetorical question competition? :)
I doubt T&Cs have included "no training embeddings with our data" yet; so they're probably clear there (and it might be Fair Use in USA??).

On the main question, I think we'll be waiting for Getty v whoever (Dall-E?) lawsuit to see what courts think.

A useful indicator might be have any major corporation's released AIs trained on public data - because they will be the prime targets for people looking to sue and walk away with lots of money. You can get plugins for Photoshop to do AI imagery, but I don't think Adobe sell any?
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Thankfully a lot of those sites will still have your email address so you can bet a ton of places will be emailing people asking them to update their accounts this coming week.
> I would guesstimate about 100% more effectiveness compared to a subpar setup. Meaning all else equal the guy with the better setup would win an encounter twice as often.

What does that mean? You mean if player A can beat player B 70% of the time, then once player A upgrades his equipment he'll beat player B 140% of the time?

Do you mean that if player A can beat player B 20% of the time, then after upgrading his equipment his win rate will jump to 60%?

Neither of those seems at all plausible, and one is gibberish, but those are the only two ways I can think of to interpret "win an encounter twice as often".
Using google does seem to have become a russian roulette, especially considering that the next step - reaching out for support - has also been ML-ified and one is reliant on support via hn/twitter.

Trusting google with anything that matters (email etc) is rapidly becoming problematic.
It is a tremendous resource. Also later on, the educational content (e.g. Khan Academy and similar) are better than a teacher in most cases.
If I have to sum up everything about kid related entertainment I have read on here, it would be:

- Games of the kind we have played or we like to play now are good.

- The new markets kind of games are totally worst thing ever and steal money.

- Arcades and collectible card games we used to spend all our money into were totally different thing.

- The kiddy shows we grew up with were best thing ever. Nothing beats them and they have no fault.

- New shows targeted at kids are all totally boring. All the kids being into them are wrong and don't have fun.

- If current world contains something inappropriate or dangerous that did not existed before, it is outrage and needs to be stopped.

- However, the loss old inappropriate or downright dangerous things we grew up with will harm humanity forever. It is outrage that kids today have everything sanitized. Except stuff from the previous point that should not exist.
This site works great for EDM. For example, just lookup some random future house song and it will pump out tons of similar tracks. This is a great tool for people that want to keep music consistent in their content, but don't want it to get boring. I will be using this for as long as possible!
No YouTube for my kids either. What's really freaky is that some kids in their grade (elementary school) have YouTube accounts and make videos supposedly!

Also, Bluey is an incredible show. I'd probably watch it independently, the parents are hilarious.
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I use it to keep on top of what my field of work is doing. Since pretty much all companies and many relevant people regularly post concise short updates with relatively little spam I can do that in about half an hour every few days. I could stop using Twitter and check everyone's website/blog/facebook(?) directly, but that would take a lot more time and I don't know where I would even find most of the individuals, I suspect they only use Twitter, and not all companies crosspost either. It would be a real shame to lose that.
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There is a lot of gacha content too. Inappropriate cartoons that look like furry animation, that was some weird rabbit hole I went into. And many of those had the "cannot minimize it because it is kids content."

I think it's best to download content to usb stick and plug it in the tv. You know your kids would probably be safer that way.
I recently learned that uBlock Origin can block that API, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33997228
Have you heard about IoT and low-end consumer devices?
Your problem could be solved by providing read-only API for free - you don't need to write access to do academic research (unless you want to influence the discourse).
"Free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1621259936524300289
I don't let my kids watch YouTube, but I sometimes watch with them. There is a whole world of incredibly wholesome farmer YouTubers, showing off their day-to-day life. I also use Invidious.
Because that’s where there’s light to find the switch ;)

Seriously I’ve never had a problem with the switch being inside or outside as long as it’s by the door
OK thanks. I’m long out of the corporate world. You’re right, it’s revolting to call people resources.
It's ironic, for a couple (non-Twitter) projects I wound up scraping because either a) they didn't have an API yet (e.g. early crypto pricing sites) or b) I wasn't confident the API would remain intact over the long term. Kind of depressing.
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Looking for tool suggestions, workflows, processes, advice.
Here I was hoping they finally ratified it.
I’ve tried ‘Allan Holdsworth Sand’ and ‘Allan Holdsworth Non-brewed Condiment’ and results were completely unrelated, I would even say random. Then I’ve tried ‘Allan Holdsworth Sixteen Men of Tain’ and at least it found some jazz tracks. I guess a track needs to have a simple static rhythm to not throw off the algorithm.
I tried YouTube Kids a few years ago, the experience was not great - content isn't pre-screened, so weird stuff can slip through the cracks. It's also obviously not being maintained with a sincere attempt to solve the problems that parents actually have - for example, as your kid gets older and they get a google account, they can't sign in to YouTube Kids, you have to sign in with an Adult account, but then that account is on their iPad and available to any other Google apps they have installed.

Parental restrictions on Google accounts also don't let you easily limit a child's account to an allowlist of approved channels. I would love to let my kids use their daily screen time to learn/enjoy a mix of channels my wife and I have vetted, but it's excruciatingly difficult to actually do this, to the point that I've given up trying.

Our approach has ended up being that when the kids ask to watch a youtube video about something, we send them a link to a video via iMessage - watching the video in the Messages app shows just the video, no comments, no "suggested" videos, and it's sufficiently high friction to get us to do it that they don't ask very often.

My next experiment will be using https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material to download videos from our allowlisted channels, but I super resent that I'm having to engineer solutions to Google's disinterest.
I definitely have to improve the UI, but for now, as you type in a song in the search bar, it should load some auto-complete suggestions that you can choose from.
You can check out Valorant. It has the same game loop CS has plus characters with unique abilities
but is there any better alternative?
As the median tenure at silly high wage places like Google is one year I am pretty sure most that quit are "managed out" with an implied threat of being fired.
You can fit a book, though
And your GameBoy wasn’t designed with psychiatrists on the team to improve the addictiveness/retention/click-rate.

It’s important to remember that todays screens aren’t the screens of yore, but quite a lot more devious. It’s fairly obvious that any negative impact of that would be larger on impressionable young minds.
>In the consequent cleanup operation...All the objects from within those houses, including personal possessions, were seized and incinerated.

whose idea was this? incinerating things contaminated with radioactive material seems like the a really unsafe thing to do!
Maybe limit the name length (client and server side) to 20 chars or so.
The models aren't particularly hard to implement, so a person who has spent his life and is one of the best game engine programmers in the world I don't think it would take that long to implement the cutting edge of todays machine learning models. Compared to game graphics shaders and the complex interactions you have to work with to get those performant and work correctly and display all the gameplay that happens the technical parts of machine learning are very simple.

I've worked building low level machine learning stuff at Google, it isn't that hard to do at all. The hard part is improving these models, not building them when you already know what to build.
Lex Fridman interviewed Carmack not too long ago. Lex is interested in these things, and did ask him about safety. I got the impression that greater societal concerns didn't interest Carmack much. He's in it to built an AGI because that's what he wants to do, he's a builder and this is just about the most interesting thing you could build. Well, that was my impression, but you can watch the interview yourself.
And it continues into adulthood. Millions of adults being swallowed up in YouTube and streaming services for hours every day. Why bother to go outside? That can't be good either.
Yeah kind of a similar story. We had our access to PC revoked when we were 10 because we did not switch off our Rollercoaster tycoon 2 session at 9PM.
We did, but not in this project. :-) This is indeed more like an embedded JVM, not totally unlike early J2ME, but with x86_64 instead of JVM instructions.

Ruby is more like Smalltalk.
Not in this demo. It probably could though.
Chromecast has hardcoded google DNS but it only adds bit of complication, you can do it, internet is your friend.
This is amazing. I actually really like that it gives you songs across completely different genres and moods (while keeping the beat). One piece of feedback - it'd be nice if the search box didn't clear if you click out of it to e.g. look at another tab while it loads.

If you ever write a blog post about the process of making this, I'd love to read it.
Hypocrisy in itself doesn’t invalidate the point about the modern entertainment stuff being problematic. Even if what we grew up with had its own problems.
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> Keeping the Tether delusion going is an existential matter for everyone with a stake in crypto.

First, all money is delusion, that's a documented fact (or to put it nicely, currencies rely on user's faith/belief to function).

Second I do agree with you, but I believe it's only part of the story.

I think tether also does actually provide a tangibly useful service to the crypto world, specifically high-speed liquidity to exchanges which is why the scam is allowed to continue.

My bet is that the day a legitimate (as in: transparent, properly audited by both traditional accounting firms and blockchain techniques), incorporated in non-banana-republic jurisdiction, etc ...) competitor comes around, Tether will die in an instant dumpster fire.

Startup opportunity y'all.
What would you say was the best music similarity search or recommendation engine you've used?
Knowing powers of two in your head (as I guess many of us do) can helps with root estimates and this algorithm.

Take an example sqrt(5819):
That's between two powers of two 2^12 = 4096 and 2^13 = 8192.
The square roots of those numbers are easy, since you just half the exponent
sqrt(4096) = 2^6 = 64

That gives us our initial estimate g for the algorithm from the article.
Now we do:
b = n / g = 5819 / 64
To do this division in our head we remember that we already know 4096 is 64 x 64. So we just need the remainder (5819 - 4096) / 64 ~= 1700 / 64. Now that's low enough that I can approximate it in my head 64 * 30 is too high by about 3 * 64 so the answer should be around 27 (actual answer 26.5). So b = 64 + 27 = 91

So now we finish the algorithm, sqrt(5819) ~= g + b / 2 = (64 + 91 / 2) = 77.5.

So, how did we do?

The actual sqrt is 76.28, so seems pretty good!
Yeah but wouldn’t your quality of the information you take in go up?

Conversations on twitter are awful especially interesting ones in tech or science with the noise and chaos that always ensues.

Personally I’ve been enjoying using my browsers bookmark manager. I’ve added maybe a hundred bookmarks last year of blogs and whatnot and it’s cool to organize my links and my home tab shows me them easily.
Then the request will fail right, since the https cert doesn't match? Or are you installing a custom root CA?

Loading faster is also probably detectable, especially if there's some request that the server intentionally replies slowly to to aid detection.
That depends on whether you believe it is sentient.
I've found over and over again that prohibition and punishment tend to backfire. Children and adults need a reason so compelling that it will inspire them to not pursue cheap thrills at the expense of something better. Otherwise, they'll take up drinking, watching TV, eating way too much junk food and masturbating. Why shouldn't they? They feel really good!
You're just interacting with the API, you're not gonna have any legal issues. I have some experience with Spotify's API (not MusicKit), so I'm gonna try guessing how it works based on that.

There's an API endpoint called audio_features[0] that tells you things about the song (tempo, danceability, acousticness, major/minor key...), so while you can't get full versions of every song, you can approximate how they sound like based on Spotify's audio analysis of them.

So, build a database of audio_features while respecting API limits, find the most similar ones based on about a dozen variables, and you're good to go.

[0] https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
Ah, thanks, I missed that! Kind of disappointing that it doesn't give the instructions' dissassembly (so to speak -- obviously as you point out in reality they are nonsense), but I suppose I can sit down and figure that out myself. :)
I remember reading in the Wikileaks cables that came from Chelsea Manning the comments of Shell's country manager in Nigeria. They bragged that Shell ran Nigeria and that it's government was a farce. I remember reading the country manager for Shell literally bragging about how that oil company basically owned Nigeria.

The Americans help of course. This whole Africom nonsense that the Americans have been pushing lately is about making sure that companies like British Shell continue to 'own' African countries.
That only works if you lack a conscience. I think you were right to quote the word succeed!
One can be right and pretentious at the same time.
Threw together a Python SDK: https://github.com/speakeasy-sdks/rows-python-sdk :) Hope it helps, and let me know what you think!
They'll either be sued into the ground or bought out for a multi-million figure by the Summer!

Good luck!
You would only need to store the embeddings and not the file audio itself.
The most unbelievable thing about this site is to me the inability of users to recognize their language and aversion to, well, everything, is the same carbon copied rhetoric every generation has used to deride the technological Boogeyman of the day.
Thanks Sure, I will connect with them
all these words on tether and still no smoking gun

tether/bitfinex basically scammed there way into solvency

plenty of other scams need attention
Thanks, I have added some examples.
That's great but his experience is totally unique. My side project is used by at least 10 companies. Some of them are tech giants. My total earnings are -300 USD and 5 years of development time.
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Off topic: This page is yet another example of many, many websites that display a useless horizontal scrollbar. Non-overlay scrollbars simply do not work with elements that are set to a width of 100vw. Using 100vw is almost always a mistake.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=avoid+100vw
And those paying clients won't want to influence the direction the project is taking?
> We did try Youtube Kids at one point, but it was just 99% toy ads masquerading as authentic content.

To be fair, this description fits a lot of regular (non-kids) platforms too.
I'd think a kid's brain's malleability is reason to limit bottomless pits even more strictly.

As a father of three I know it's not always convenient. But kids usually find something else to do at some point. It's just really grating to wait that long.