skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think this. Then I learned/realised how absolutely crappy the tooling available to those marketing departments is. The solution is for push to not be a manually run operation, it has to be run entirely by a kind of hybrid reinforcement learning system that can automatically manage the explore/exploit tradeoff in order to learn a person's preferences and then update its assessment as those preferences change over time.
It turns out that most people don’t get randomly shot in the USA (most gun violence is suicide or with people that are already looking for trouble), but everyone gets stuck in traffic.

The traffic didn’t bother me that much, I just went to work at 6AM and came back around 3 PM. The problem was the air pollution, when you start affecting life expectancy and unlike gun violence isn’t easy to avoid.
Be ware that cold booting isn't actually cold booting anymore, but more like the suspend feature of old. You need to restart the computer (or pull the plug) to shut it down for real.

It's part of why laptops can't hold a charge anymore.
This is indeed what I would do if I'd absolutely have to use PayPal. Customers can use it if they really want to, but they're the ones paying for the risk.
My late wife set up a PayPal account that we both used.
When she died I wanted to change the name of the account from hers to mine.

PP asked for a Death Certificate, which I provided.

They then said that I needed to PROVE THAT SHE WAS DEAD.

I even went an spoke with a lawyer about it.
He too was pissed off. Alas there was no money in the account so he said there was no point in dealing with these morons, just open a new account.

PayPal NEEDS TO DIE!

What are the viable alternatives for international transactions?
Ones that don't want my Social Security Number as part of the sign up process (I've had issues with identity theft and give my SS# to no one)?
Curious who might not want people communicating with PGP encryption.
Here's a little tidbit of wisdom in this vein: http://web.archive.org/web/20221230074845/http://the-witness...

EDIT to add: Also https://www.youtube.com/@MartinDonald has some good stuff as well. And here's a subset of Handmade Hero you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6Mnkt-EZC_...
Will AI Obliterate the Rule of Law?
Honoring the Best in Data Journalism: Winners of the 2023 Sigma Awards
>We are currently mining just about all the internet data that's available.

If AI starts to become economically important, there will be an incentive to create more data. If I'm OpenAI, why not pay a company to put microphones around their office, transcribing everything everyone says for training data. Buy troves of corporate (or personal) emails. If there are one hundred million office workers in the world, and you can convince/pay 10% of companies to let you spy on them, and each says or writes 5,000 words per day (these are all low estimates, in my opinion), you'd be getting ten billion more words of data per day. You'd double the size of the Chincilla training data in about a month.

If you incorporate video for a truly multimodal model, now you're talking about not only the entirety of Youtube, but potentially also CCTV footage. If you could get the data from every surveillance camera in the world, you'd generate one YouTube worth of video every ten minutes (based on 150 million hours of video on YouTube).
What can I do with Japanese characters in Zip files that come out all messed up and Cyrillic when extracted under linux?
Thanks for linking your post.
If bitcoin wants to go anywhere, it must acquire weapons, including nuclear ones.
Yes, starting next week or so! We'll be looking for engineers that have skills relevant to our projects, including compilers, low-level assembly optimization, functional programming, type theory, parallel computing, and so on. Right now, we're quite busy with incorporation and bureaucracy, but you should see job postings in our to-be-released landing page (higherorderco.com) soon. Meanwhile, I answer DMs on Twitter (@VictorTaelin) and Discord (VictorTaelin#2253).
Looks pretty slick.

When I click "Download macOS App" it downloads an .exe file.
Well in Michigan (where I am located) they are not allowed. I am pretty pessimistic and just assume there are fees I don't know about
Seaweed contains quite a lot of heavy metals, so its as healthy as farmed salmon - looks nice on paper, but reality is much worse.

Taste is Ok to me (at least wakame), not something I would willingly indulge in daily or in larger amounts but I can see easily why nontrivial amount of people would have issues with it. Good luck trying to persuade small kids, 'ewwww gooooey' and bye.
Can you think of a historic precedent where we ever built infrastructure at scale first without clear incentives or regulation, though? I'll humor you on the preference, but what's the chance of pulling that off? If we had that kind of foresight and predictive planning, we may not even have a climate crisis on our hands. For example, the problems with solar you cite could be mitigated to some extent with grid storage infra too - that we however haven't built in advance. I feel policy making is needed here to advance.
It's not the fault of China that America waged decades of war while its industrial base was decimated by the same people waging those wars.
Thanks :-)!!
Saves a bunch of time for the national security state too.
Open AI Whisper was probably made to make transcripts of videos that will be used to train future AI models.

The text in itself won't be that interesting, the magic happens once you essentially train three different token predictors, one that predicts image tokens (16x16 pixels) and then combine that to predict video frames, one that predicts audio tokens and one that predicts text tokens. Then you use cross-attention between these predictors. To train this model you first pre-train the text predictor, after that's done you continue training the text predictor from the transcribed videos, while combining it with the video predictor and audio predictor with cross-attention.

Such a model will understand physics and actions in the real world much better than GPT-4, combined with all the knowledge from all the text on the internet it should turn out to be something quite interesting.

I think there probably doesn't exist enough compute yet to train such a model on something like all of YouTube, but I wouldn't be surprised if GPT-5 is a first step in this direction.
Thanks so much for letting me know about this.

I'm not able to reproduce this currently, maybe it's fine on your end now too?
> the fed also borrows money on the short end from banks through the reserve program

The Fed doesn’t borrow reserves. That it even pays interest on them is at its discretion.
> It's much harder to try and make a spam filter read your mind on whether email from a legitimate business is something you're interested in reading (you may or may not care for that order confirmation, newsletter that you may or may not have signed up for, etc.).

Hence, the "Report Spam" button.
This is only a Windows problem. I never need to reboot my Mac unless there's a major OS update.
Do you have any links to chatgpt with Linux. I want to try
Many women named Isis
How do I tell it to generate a regex for emails?
Try selecting the emails. all four generated Regexes are wrong.
Even if one of them was right? how do I choose between 4 choices if I Don't know the meaning? I have to verify the generated Regexes, Veryfing complicated regexes is much harder than writing them in first place.
That device is 13 years old.

It could definitely do more than what it currently can, but I don’t think it is reasonable to expect such a long support period, especially that mobile hardware underwent a complete metamorphosis in the meanwhile.

It is reasonable to expect an iphone 14 to be usable as a general purpose device until the next major breakthrough, because year-to-year upgrades are mostly incremental nowadays, but say the first iphone is incomparable on the hardware front to a modern smartphone.
Yeah, the theory of the long tail was that the marginal cost of that old, low volume stuff was nil.

I guess the truth was that it didn’t scale.
The Great American Firewall
Oh it's even worse than that:

learn.APPLEmusic.APPLE/APPLE-music-classical

Three repetitions of "apple"! And the learn subdomain is meaningless. I like that they're using their .brand TLD but their URL strategy still needs some work.
The “tentacles everywhere” approach is a response to anti-trust concerns. Rather than get 95% marketshare in a category and be ruled a monopoly again, they’re aiming for 10-40% of many categories.
How many people have great scientific expertize to appropriately plan their diets if half of them believe in geocentrism?
> Ticket registration flows are more complicated than meets the eye, and it was an interesting problem to solve.

Could you share what some of the biggest challenges were? Something like handling concurrent purchases/carts, or?
Show HN: Multi-source summaries and analysis of news in a feed powered by GPT4
I love the concept! Modern interrupt-driven workflows are horrible if you want to get real work done, designing for focus time is a great idea.

How is it with privacy, PII, and sensitive data? Is all processing done locally, or is data uploaded into the cloud?
I do recall one time. But it was a small software project that exclusively benefited me and some friends and family and never got released to the general public.

I got flak because it couldn't be run on iOS with notifications. But everyone is in front of a computer all the time anyway, so they just used a desktop browser.
And this British actress is actually called Isis : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8365231/
Very well put! Just to add, this is also the reason why every nation has extremely complicated taxation systems, taxing income, property, sales transactions and everything else under the sun. Sometimes people suggest a more simple and fair way for tax collecting, but the rulers need to tax every aspect of human existence, or else people would just instantly switch to other assets for storing and exchanging value, which would mean the total collapse of government and the rulers losing their strangle hold on the population.
> Trying to extract value from a spiritual tradition you're not willing to live is ghoulish.

I don't understand this sentiment at all. Identifying positive aspects in existing religions is perfectly fine (I'd even argue there is some amount of virtue to it). How is it possibly ghoulish to see good in other cultures/religions and bring that into your practice? One example that comes to mind are religions where consumption of meat is eschewed. If you find that the rationale that Jainism provides for a vegan lifestyle resonates with you, why can't you incorporate that into your life for those reasons?
Yup, the group-chat-thread-first model sounds very interesting

But, iOS only/first is a nonstarter for a huge portion of the population. If they're just trying to experiment is a small pond first to get it right (sort of as a throwaway version), then that is excellent. If they're planning to stay in the Apple walled garden exclusively or as a first-class/peasants model, then, well, good luck with that.
Show HN: Show HN: Take a Break with the 'Oh My Zsh' Haiku Chat-GPT Plugin
We all know how it goes - long hours at the computer, deadlines, stress... - it's easy to neglect taking care of ourselves.

We all know how it goes - long hours spent in front of the computer, tight deadlines, and high levels of stress. It's easy to neglect taking care of ourselves.

This simple and humble Oh My Zsh Haiku plugin is here to remind us to take a break and prioritize self-care.

Using chat-gpt, it generates a little haiku promoting work-life balance and displays it on stdout once a day if the terminal has been open for more than three hours.
Maybe i should ask my users to pay for the $2 in-game purchases with wire transfer
Massive fine(s) for repeat offences would be even better. The EU does it for GDPR and takes companies single digit percentage of worldwide annual revenue(s).

The majority of these US companies have already been fined like this. The same should happen to TikTok if they want to continue to follow the regulations in the US.
The funny (unfortunate) thing is that this used to be the opposite - years ago, Chase's in-house travel service was as close as you'd get to a white glove phone support experience in this day and age.

Then they outsourced it to Expedia, and the hold times went up and the efficiency and sanity of the whole process of dealing with any minor adjustment to your flight or travel plans degraded precipitously.

It seems like in 2021, they bought the company that was providing the backing technology for the in-house version of the service and have ditched Expedia again, so maybe this has gotten better since my last stint of big international travel?
Pretty sure I would say two thousand eight?
Depends on the laws in your jurisdiction. I think in a lot of cases, small claims courts put very low caps on legal fees that can be claimed. The defendant might only be able to claim a few hundred dollars at most.
Most monarchs throughout all of history have listened to their subjects to a certain extent. That doesn't make their country a democracy.
Why is the license key in the payment description? The description should just be "update license key", and not contain the actual key.
That project isn’t close to the SoTA models. It performs well, but not close to GPT-4 for example. “Almost the same performance as gpt” always ends up meaning it performs like one of the smaller GPT models.
It can be so much better than this. It doesn't have to be an average of most other users. It's perfectly feasible to run user-level optimisation that runs by modeling user preferences and propensities to respond and then letting those models manage the notifications. That's what we've built at www.aampe.com
> Begin rambling rant / feel free to not respond to any of this

It actually reads like a constructive opinion IMO ;).

> This isn't necessarily meant to be nefarious to users

I think it tends to be. That's why we need governments and laws: market forces don't have any notion of ethics, they will use slavery if they are allowed to. Laws set a framework. Laws are supposed to reflect what we want as a society, and then market forces are supposed to play in this framework. Of course it's difficult: players who are too big/rich to fail can abuse laws with impunity, and that's an unsolved problem.

If you want companies to stop abusing the privacy of their users, you need laws for that. But laws are voted by politicians who represent the people. So you need to convince the people that they need privacy, so that they put pressure on their politicians to vote laws. But it's hard to convince the people, because they typically don't give a shit. Even if their life is at stake (see climate change).

> Most users don't want to toil in the fields of setting up a custom OS

That's where I'm tempted to say that you judge /e/ OS without having ever seen it. Am I right? The way I use /e/ OS is that I bought a Fairphone 3+ that came with /e/ OS installed, and that's it. There was absolutely nothing to setup. Of course, /e/ OS comes without the Play Services, so I have to accept that I don't have Google Maps. But that's part of the deal: I got /e/ OS because I did not want Google.

Yes, most users are happier not giving a shit and using the Google apps. But that's not a problem of being technically savvy at this point, it's just about giving a shit. My parents can use /e/ OS without a degree in Computer Science. They can use all of their apps (WhatsApp, Signal, web browser, public transport, banking, e-mails) except the ones that depend on the Play Services (I haven't found a single app that they need and cannot use because of that).

> Users get complacent when they build habits, so if you want users to switch they need a 10x better reason to switch to consider breaking their habit.

I totally agree with you there: people are way too lazy to even consider trying an alternative to apps coming from abusive Big Data. IMO it's a bit like if my neighbour had honeybees and offered to sell me some honey, and I answered "no thanks, I prefer to get the one from China at the supermarket, it's easier for me".

It's a bit unfortunate, though. Ethics should be a reason to consider changing habits.
If you can't unsubscribe and they're marketing emails take them to small claims in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act [0] if you're in the US. Liabilities are over $50k so you can easily max out the $10k limit in court with no representation. In this way it forces them to come to you and they will almost surely lose or settle before the court date.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...
it isnt a free network, its pilfering other peoples bandwidth.

its a stolen network.

this is what blackhats do.

https://www.theverge.com/22463257/amazon-sidewalk-privacy-ho...

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-sidewalk-a-n...
In NZ we can transfer money willy nilly between different bank accounts. Hell even to aussie accoubts i dont think its too hard. Could start with getting that implemented.
in the ghetto cities nearby, only a small number of murders and overall firearm incidents are solved. I cannot imagine that they are accurately captured at the national scale. On the 4th of July night or New Years night, literally hundreds of firearms go off for hours in crowded, urban areas.. completely illegal.
Propaganda is just information released to push a particular point of view. Propaganda is far more derogatory sounding than it should be. The analogy to healthcare is way too extreme.
I used to think this way but over the years I came to realize that iPhone progress comes at a price and the benefits greatly outweigh the cost. Notably:
- iPhones improve over time (Face ID was somewhat slow on 10 but is really fast on 12)
- Replacing allows Apple to fund next generations
If no one upgraded, progress would not be as fast.

My next wish is for Siri to be faster (no latency please) and smarter. With LLMs become mainstream, I can finally see a day this may happen. I'm more that happy to upgrade my phone every 2 or 3 generations to fund improvements of Apple silicon.
What is the definition for "misinformation" that they use? Is it ok if I'm wrong about something from time to time?
Yeah, article shows socket3 daughterboard while even 286 is not available.
Yes.

When i close the webpage, that page is gone. It's not running in the background silently collecting data. With a properly configured browser (a few extensions, no third party cookies, or even separate containers), it doesn't have much data to gather in the first place.
This woman
I did see some urinals in a pub in London once that had a game attached. It's been a few years ago now and tbh I was pissed (UK sense) but I think by aiming your flow in one direction or the other you could either save a football (UK sense) goal or score one.
> But I can't really use them without notifications, that's essential feature.

I use Discord extensively and exclusively within the browser, and I have push notifications disabled. I just keep it in a pinned tab, and whenever I have a notification it just puts a little red dot on the Discord tab's icon. I do aggressively mute channels and servers to keep it manageable, though.
> And to this day I still get emails from them as if my account isn't banned

Marketing people please take note of this. It is particularly galling to be continually pestered to buy things from a company that has refused to do business with you. An Intuit company tried to sell me a home mortgage, and I applied, only to be refused because my home was manufactured off-site. OK, I moved on. But they continued to plaster me with offers for that same product almost daily for years, and now my relationship with all Intuit products is as distant as I can manage.
No harm done. Chalk it up to appreciating the music in near perfect ignorance of its contemporary social context - I had no idea that'd been a controversial point until I went looking for why something I'd thought a harmless joke had crossed people.
I think if you really care about a great classical streaming experience, that probably outranks a small extra monthly fee. I sort of doubt the category of people who care about a few extra dollars a month yet really love classical music to the point of wanting a very tailored experience exists.
Something I have not seen yet:

Apple has a significant part in this.

To keep an app on the app store, the dev has to pay the yearly fee, and keep up to date with Apple’s requirements (which they legally agree to do through agreeing to the updated TOS).

To keep up to date with Apple’s requirements they must (sometimes) make a minor edit to their code and upload the new version.

To upload the new version they must use the latest version of XCode.

To use the latest version of XCode they must also be running the latest version of macOS (and sometimes must update their dev device(s) to the latest version of iOS).

If they use the latest version of XCode their code must compile on it.

To compile their code they must (most times) use Apple’s new internal APIs and remove references to old Apple APIs.

Apple treats devs like consumers. The ever-advancing wall of “progress” pushes devs forward just like it pushes users forward. No one has the choice to stay behind peacefully.
This surprised me too, and not in a good way. I got that scary old feeling from the early-2000s when a surprise exe appeared.
"What is Aleppo?"
Remote work trends interview with Gergely Hasko from Remote
You probably will be able to get imitation in the not too distant future. But a world where we just listen to imitations of 50s and 60s derivatives of bebop is a sad one. The most loved musicians are ones who are pushing things forward and don't just imitate Trane endlessly or whatever.

AI would need to be able to do something like create The Bad Plus in 1995. That's an even bigger mountain to climb.
How old was that device?
Also a dictator can be overthrown.
It might be just my impression, but fuzz testing is underrated and not usually considered as something mandatory for a given system. It's setup cost is not high, and gives enough benefits. As long as you have it in place, you can focus on more functional testing, rather than negative scenarios, which are already covered through fuzzing.
And tooling is getting better, moving up the application layer. API spec standards like OpenAPI (and adoption of it) enable fuzzing on APIs which was significantly hard to setup prior to this.
You know, you can replace "C++" in your comment with "PHP" and it would still be just as correct. But that doesn't make PHP (or C++) any better than it actually is.

Also, "reconsider bashing it that much, if not out of respect for the people who use this tool daily", wow. Surely you don't mean that respecting people who are in a tough situation (e.g. having to write C++ daily) involves never pointing out that the situation they are in is, indeed, tough and could be better?
well good news...you can actually listen to pretty much "all" of symphonic music!

yeah there is new stuff, but when we speak of "classical music", we're really talking about long-dead people

Dvorak isn't going to be composing any new works, you can actually listen to everything Dvorak ever created and then you're "done"