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> It is also silly that people are willing to pay money for the items

That's his thesis. Crypto is useful, but not for game items, because there is nothing honorable worth buying with real money. Just like how no one should buy a certificate that says "I bought this certificate from someone who is really good at chess." Unless you are a patron of the art of playing the game, I guess, but that doesn't seem to be use case in practice.
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> is it really a negative for the industry and consumers if Figma shows ads on searches for Photoshop?

Yes, because Google's intended and actual outcome is companies are blackmailed into paying to compete on advertising for their own names. Which is highly likely a navigation query.

It would be different if someone googled "photoshop alternatives" or sth
Is just random plasters of paint on a canvas then. Art needs intention.
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Possibly.

Or they're capitalizing on the backlash by offering both options, with the added benefit that they'll get to A/B test what direction the market wants them to go.
Thanks! I'll try reading this again with that framing. I definitely missed that. I'm not entirely clear that changes my overall confusion. Other people are free to value things differently than I do. I'd be more worried about efforts to prevent that. (With some obvious caveats.)
Being aware of content shown to children is fine (although by the time they're a young adult, I would argue most content is appropriate literature).

Encouraging the sort of thought police present here sets off all sorts of alarm bells.

I would argue this idea is fundamentally contrarian to a true liberal value set.

Being liberal (in the traditional sense) means being willing to engage with all sorts of content - especially content that you might not agree with.

Simply disagreeing with content is a poor, poor excuse for removing it from the public space. Instead it should be countered with a compelling set of ideas that help the public understand why you don't agree with it.

Basically - policing books like this is WRONG. It's exactly the same thought process that leads to people calling for the ban of books they don't like. It's an authoritarian thought process that doesn't actually provide a compelling argument against an idea to win - instead it claims victory by removing any trace of the argument in the first place.

It's whitewashing in the extreme. It's the good intention that paves the road to Fahrenheit 451. It's a fucking disgrace of an approach.

If you don't like what those books say... buckle up and explain that to your kids. Don't hide it from them. You aren't doing them any favors that way.
How are these scenarios "use cases" for a mixer and not critical flaws in the underlying system?

We're in a thread about a rogue state using the tech to steal money to fund their operations (Chemical attacks in airports, nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, etc.) How many nuclear detonations would you consider acceptable in exchange for the cryptobros to have their toys?
I hope they make at least the smallest one available for everyone. I find it ironic that they want to prevent misuse, but think allowing access to those affiliated with government organizations will achieve that.
There is another thing, a number of packages have critical vulnerabilities, shouldn’t they restrict such packages as well?
It is not the first time npm is distributing malware. npm shall be treated as malware until developers fix this issue.
None of the C64 games aged well in terms of graphics. Back in mid 90's I borrowed from a friend a C64 with a floppy disk drive, as I sold my C64 a few years earlier and I only had the tape unit, and tried to play some of the games I was never able to play earlier. Even at that time the games lost most of the magic, PC screens of 800x600 were already the norm. Today the graphics in the games is so good that the pixelated games from our childhood look very bad by comparison - it does not make it bad, just antiquated.
82342 GPU(A-100 80GB) hours for training their 7B(smallest) model according to their paper.
And when it's less obvious? Should I be demonized for using TOR? Monero? Signal? GPG?
The Roald Dahl Classic Collection to keep author’s classic texts in print
> And so the creators don't get paid when you watch their content.

Let's be honest here -- creators aren't really getting paid any meaningful amount of money from those ads anymore. Those days are long gone. That's why all YouTubers who care about revenue do their own ads as part of their own content, and/or use things like Patreon.

There's only one reason why YouTubers even bother to allow YouTube to "monetize" them -- if they don't, YouTube won't recommend them to other viewers.

I also pay for Premium, though.
>there is no benefit to complexity for complexities sake

Arduino is added complexity. In my limited hobbyist experience, going to the datasheets and using official toolchains has been very straightforward. It pays to build the understanding ahead of time rather than debugging some random person's Arduino library when your peripheral stops working.
This is not only an American issue. I've seen people in the UK struggle to get access to treatments and devices through the NHS. Canada tends to follow what the US is doing even though they have their more socialized system. It all tends to be a bit of a mess with brand new drugs and devices. And Mounjaro is new as of last year (approval less than a year ago?).
Asian societies turned population control into a quasi-religious endeavor in the 1960s and are now paying the price. Japan’s fertility rate peaked at well over 5 in the beginning of the 20th century. In just 40 years, from 1925 to 1965, it fell to just over 2. But it shot right past replacement levels, down to 1.4 today. It’s not going to be easy to overcome decades of socialization telling people that not having kids is the pathway to prosperity.

Even countries like Bangladesh will start shrinking in this century. I’m less worried about those because (1) I think Islam provides some back-pressure to keep birth rates from collapsing totally as in countries like South Korea; and (2) Bangladesh and India are quite a bit more densely populated than Japan, which really isn’t that crowded.
IMHO that is then a "bug" in the HTML spec which should be "fixed" to speak of extended grapheme clusters instead, which is what users what probably expect.
Sad to hear, but ultra-efficient solar-charging EVs are the next step in EV evolution, and companies like Sono have demonstrated that there's no physical limitation on making a practical solar powered vehicle. I'm rooting for Lightyear or Aptera to make it through their current funding issues.
Your own link: Dahl found himself sympathizing with their concerns and published a revised edition -- that's great. His book, he can do what he wants.

Publishers editing books of their own accord after the author is dead to please imaginary mobs -- something else entirely. Not great. Bad. Very bad. Regardless of the type of edit or politics involved.
>what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
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> doesn't democratize LLMs

open source always leads to more democratization in the long run
It's a text prediction engine, and clearly people are impressed. I suggest saving your statements here, like "This will not go away. It will transform every aspect. This thing understands context." and so on, and revisit them in a few years when the hype balloon has been punctured.

Perhaps "will not go away" will still seem plausible, but I think the rest will age poorly.
The problem was ultimately in the bridge’s design and implementation. Even though it was sold as a decentralized system it was a multisig with very few signatories. A properly designed decentralized bridge would require the compromise of many validators, each with a different infrastructure setup. This is why you never hear about Ethereum itself getting hacked.

Instead, the Axie bridge was a multisig, and as of that wasn’t bad enough, most of the signatories were controlled by the same organization on the same infrastructure. Really demonstrated that concerns about decentralization are not just pedantic or academic.
Yeah, that's seems to be my impression as well. Of course it's true that in a sense all it does is capturing statistical relationships - because that's all that is there in the input data. However what kind of relationships it captures may still be arbitrarily complex (within the contraints of the model architecture).

We know it's more complex than just "empirical probability of word x given the n words before", because that would result in a markov chain and we know those don't generate the kind of output we are seeing.

We also see that it's able to map descriptions of tasks to its execution, even for unseen tasks. E.g., I can tell it "Write a limerick that contains the names of all living US presidents and format is as a JSON array inside a python script.". The result will probably contain some dead US presidents or some canadian prime ministers or whatever, and the text may be a haiku and not a limerick - but the output will usually be a python function with a JSON array with a poem with some names in it.

I don't see how that could work without a more abstract representation of the concepts "president's names", "poem", "json" and "python", so it can combine them meaningfully into a single response.
And now there are two versions, a lot of publicity and people here in these threads recommending people buy it.

> If they were following public demand, then why did they get so thoroughly blindsided by public opinion?

Hey, if that's what you want to believe...
> any interesting places to go to were to far away to even reach conveniently by bike.

Isn't this just a result of the country being more spread out in general? For this reason, cars are obviously useful. And because people have them... well, yes, it becomes circular. I think bikes are a pretty common thing to own in the U.S., though. Adults mostly use them for recreation, but minors definitely use them to get around. What part of the U.S. were you in? This is probably a large factor.

> as a very independent youth i considered this experience an interesting lesson on what it means to be dependent, but most certainly growing up there would have been different. i have seen other youth struggling with the sudden change when they turned 18 and were expected to act like independent adults instead of the dependent youth they were until then.

Generally in the U.S. you get your license as soon as possible (around 16), and work out whatever situation you can for a vehicle. It's true that we seem to be developing a dependency problem in the U.S., pushing maturity further and further out, but I don't think cars are the issue. Maybe in large cities; I can't really speak to the situation in those.
there is a massive different between the two examples you use. A writer reflects society but a book and the damage it generally can do is in no way comparable to the actions of the state.

Mind you, Leopold was a horrible person, did horrible things and the Belgian monarchy and state have only recently begun to issue apologies for their atrocities. The debate on statues is settled, except in the minds of those who glorify wrongdoing.

The other difference is agency - there exists a legal successor to the belgian monarchy and a legal successor to the powers of the monarchy in the form of the belgian state. These have power today to acknowledge and right the wrongs of the past. In contrast, Georges Remi and Roald Dahl are both dead, unable to correct their errors.
I see no reason to keep around statues of a man that is responsible for countless atrocities in the Belgian Congo. A statue is an honor, not history. Removing a statue does not change history, despite what some people may try and tell you.

Leopold II isn’t far down the list from Hitler and Stalin.
I used to make "Kombucha" in the 80s when I still lived in USSR. It tasted really good. The stuff they sell here in stores tastes really bad, mostly like carbonated vinegar.
Thanks for posting the direct link. I liked the context in the article so I posted that instead of the video.
The problem is censorship. Say something the powerful disagree with and it will be judged offensive.

You should be able to publish Animal Farm or the Communist Manifesto without being "edited" until your book simply affirms the status quo.
Your certificate example reminds of people buying "prescriptions" for alcohol and such as collectibles. Or really, any collectible.
I don't think HN is deny by default. Most emojis are stripped, but some still get through. I don't know why 🆔 would be whitelisted
Cool, but the game running on the $1 processor isn't a "game made for VR." I clicked to see what kind of compromises would be necessary to render 2 eyes at a high frequency, but it turns out it wasn't a VR game at all.
I hope any further LotR work will be willing to take more risks. The Rings of Power did not take any, and hence was stultifyingly dull.
That app would work fine on a 50 dollar phone too.
Has it ever been "un-splintered" though? PC and consoles have always been wildly different. The difference is that these days more IP is launched at both markets.
Leopold II, judged by the values of his time, was still a fiend. He was widely and rightly criticized by his own contemporaries.
New development related to this story:

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Can you read out loud for the class the title of TFA, Timmy?
Abridged and various adaptations of books exist, as do things like Kidz Bop and CleanFlicks (or at least its derivatives). Not to say that this is or isn't good but I don't think it's weird that various forms of the same "work" exist and that some people prefer a modified one over the original.

People have been willing to pay for this kind of thing for a long time.

It's a little different now in that it's the original rights-holder doing it but money talks and why argue over fair use when you can do it yourself?
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In this case, treating the "US" as if "they" have a consistent, considered view that drives all their actions seems a little odd and vaguely conspiratorial. After all, it has been well reported that US politicians on both sides of the aisle are looking to put investigative scrutiny on big tech in the year ahead. And US regulators were broadly underutilizing antitrust tools across the board in the past, not just for big tech. That also seems to be changing.

Sure, the US pursues strategies related industrial policy and national security. The CHIPS act or the Inflation Reduction Act are examples.

But you don't need a "big reason" why to explain why US companies like these tech firms have been underregulated. It isn't isn't some mystery, it is just (unfortunately) normal. If US firms are grossly underregulated and under-punished for simple stuff like wage theft, you don't need to invoke strategy to explain why big tech has gotten away with anticompetitive stuff in the past.
Also, office buildings that are more than a few floors tall usually have sprinkler systems.

Dividing an open plan office into lots of rooms is an expensive nightmare of adding and moving air conditioning ducts and outlets, fire detection sensors and sprinkler pipes and heads.

It can be done but it's not cheap.
I really wish I could tell Apple Music: "Unless I explicitly ask for a rap or hiphop song (which, trust me, I almost certainly won't), never ever play one as part of a playlist."
>Mass layoffs should be banned as long as a company still has money left to pay shareholders. Having rank-and-file employees suffer the first for corporate misgovernance instead of the shareholders who failed in their duty to keep corporate leadership accountable is disgusting.

That works well until companies refuse to hire (or become much more conservative in hiring) because every employee is now a liability. There's no free lunches here. Your proposal is just a roundabout way of taxing profitable corporations and making the labor market less efficient in the process.
Values like this?

> A certain enormous buck n*** encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days. Of the n*** I used to dream for years afterwards.
Show HN: Free app for podcasts to share episode resources/links with listeners
For full transparency, I built hero as a one-man team.

I've been working with this wonderfully responsive podcast, and they consistently create a Hero Space (which is a list of links) per episode and share them with their listeners.

My favorite feature in Hero is definitely the pretty URLs! For example, if a podcast called "HackerNews" had its 19th episode, titled "The Bees Knees", it would be reached at https://hero.page/hackernews/ep-19-the-bees-knees

Like I said, Hero is free and we're (as in, I) am always working on making it better, listening to feedback, and doing what's right for the users!

My next goal is to make it simple for visitors to discover podcasts with hero pages, since now it's only source of traffic is podcasts sharing a hero link.

I'm happy to answer any questions, and would love to speak to any podcast host(s) who would like to try it out!

Let me know what you think!

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Very cool to see such model weights getting released. Makes me wonder, seeing that Meta is crushing Google... This is like MySpace teaching a lesson to Apple.
They missed the market very badly. Back then the car was somehow innovative. But now is just a poor electric copy of Nissan Leaf/Honda jazz. Plus market is full of Chinese vehicles like MG4, funky cat and dozen others in the same price range. So timing is clearly crucial for a venture to fail or succeed.
I had no idea Ericsson had over 100k employees. I did not expect them to be ~2.5x the headcount of Qualcomm.
Im still upset that they cancelled Final Space by Olan Rogers. It wasn't always the greatest comedy, but it had heart and I found it endearing.
this is a pretty biased and uninformed opinion. Pretty condescending to call it a "bunch of dorks...running around unsupervised."
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...
But what if you could get the original text cancelled? No right-thinking publisher would print it, no God-fearing bookseller would stock it, no teacher who valued their career would add the unsanitized version to their school library, and they would buy your annotated version instead.

I suppose someone could create a second censored version, but if the changes they made were too close to the current publisher's, they might lose a copyright case on that. So all the publisher has to do is keep up with the mores of the time on what must and must not be airbrushed out.
Leaving the books as-is is one thing, but keeping a statue of a person implies they were worth honoring. Leopold II committed some of the most heinous acts ever done by any individual: about half the population of Congo was killed in the two decades he ran things.

The only place a statue of him belongs is in an exhibit on the worst actions taken against fellow humans.
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And then they push increasingly user-hostile things to try and solve the problem. No Windows passthrough VMs for those of us who don't want Windows touching our hardware, accidental bans because someone reports you for cheating when you weren't, and the team didn't analyze it well enough.

Personally, I'm mostly referring to Tarkov. I don't play anymore. I used to love it and try to convince my friends to get it, but that was years ago. I only play the single player mod on top of it now.

I've generally moved on to single-player and coop games now. Everything else is excruciating. And part of that is that I have less free time, so wasting it on being angrily competitive and anxious just isn't appealing to me anymore. I don't have time to be on-par with sweatlords.
I’m not sure you could kill Matrix now even if you wanted to? Heck, given people still run gopher & WAIS & fidonet servers today, so even if everyone runs away from Matrix, it’ll still keep burbling away somewhere :)
Yes, I'm sure they also said that in 1917 comrade. You can literally justify anything like that.
If people start taking advice from chatbots, Seneca will not be the most popular one. If a Seneca bot gets even close to popular, it will be surpassed by a Seneca bot tweaked to be a little bit more cool and relatable that also hypes energy drinks.
It would've certainly been nice to avoid playing Bin Packing, but alas this is just the rules of the game jam.
I've been thinking about this recently and I think the answer (for me) is to get a non-tech job/full-time-hobby for a bit. It makes sense that all the ideas in the "corporate office/tech infra" space are all used up. Every single person capable of building tech products encounters problems in these spaces, very few encounter problems that can be solved in, say, medical spaces, or commercial kitchens, or whatever. Gotta get out of the tech bubble to have original ideas.
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>God, what kind of a horrible person would take up such a job.

Take a job as an editor? That is all this person is doing. It is something that publishers have done forever except this editor has a more narrow scope of what they are editing.
It has but I am hoping that a paper accomplishing the task with machine learning will move the goalpost (it has happened in other areas of computer vision).
To be specific, I was thinking that around the same time we started earnestly working on browser sandboxing and fine-grained extension/app privileges, we should have been doing the same thing for our packages. When Joe Normal tries to install an extension, Chrome tells him it wants to access his microphone; we could have had a similar thing here. “tennsserflow.py requests permission to modify the root filesystem”, “PERM: free-fortnite-skin asks to open URLs. grant / deny / uninstall ?”, etc.
The Hobbit had too many endless Disney theme park rides in it.
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I follow art-related stuff and nature photography, mainly digital illustration and I do NOT get any soft-erotica stuff. I only get what I'm interested in.

I will say that I prefer going to the Explore tab rather than the Reels tab because this one starts by showing relevant stuff and then as I scroll down it turns into tik-tok skits.
This reminds of the study that showed it was possible to fingerprint a person based on acceleration data from their phone when walking.
Show HN: Prompt Engineering Chess
Test your prompt engineering skills by writing prompts and battling them against each other!

Your prompt template can access the board state, the move history, and a list of legal moves, and the game engine selects the first legal move in the string response from the LLM you query.

My best prompt so far ignores the board state and the move history and just tries to play mates, make captures, and promote pawns. Can you do better?
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There’s no clear value proposition for a JSON-over-HTTP replacement for IMAP-over-TCP, especially for clients and servers that have already implemented IMAP.

Why would dovecot want to add an entire HTTP server just to reproduce what they already have, with more layers of poorly fit abstraction, despite there being no significant mail clients that require it?
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> I'd gladly pay for ad-free YT

Then why don't you? That's been an option for years.
TF2 is one of the all-time greats though, it's worth the column inches