skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is not going anywhere and they will easily replicate anything OpenAI does. Its not that magical.

Why they still rely on search/advertising is well known - Replacing a 150 Billion $$$ source of revenue is not a simple thing.

Its like trying to replace everything ppl do in a midsized rich country with something else.

And compared to Facebook which is still 99% dependent on Ads, Google is much more diversified (total revenue is north of 250 billion). They have cloud, youtube, docs, google play, all the alphabet experiments etc. And most importantly half the worlds online advertising (exchanges/ auctions etc) uses Google ad tech. So Google is not going anywhere.

They just look at the world through a very different lens due to their size. I am guessing they dont see the point of keeping businesses that produce a few hundred million in revenue running, cause they really need businesses that produce a few hundred billion to keep all their free stuff (search, email, chat, chrome, android, video, r&d for other stuff etc) afloat.
Yes, and look at the history leading up to this(secret algorithms with a trust me it works non-guarantee). The cat was out of the bag on pki and there was no putting it back. People built on that knowledge and developed new techniques
You're being uncharitable.

In response to a comment saying that all 12 year olds should be banned from working:

> This is child labour. It's indefensible.

People are pointing out that working at that age can be safe and beneficial. Nobody is claiming that kids should work full time, and people don't feel the need to add that disclaimer because its not a reasonable position they would need to defend against.

> I enjoyed milk as a kid

> Oh, so you think people should be forced to drink milk? You want every other beverage banned? You are willfully eliding important clarifications.
> But it matters when the asset you are buying is Pornhub because — as we’ve covered — its policies impact sex trafficking globally.

That is equating Pornhub with sex trafficking.
We evolved to wear all sorts of clothing. And really when you think about it the brain is probably the descendant of some parasite which crawled into another organism and used the exo-organism as a puppet, so in a sense it's exactly what a brain was originally adapted for is glomming on weird new appendages.
A canonical engineer did fix a kernel bug that prevented my laptop from booting on newer kernel versions. And they do develop their own software, too. Saying that they are "just a package" is not giving them enough credit.
Yup - Google made the best de-googleable phone.
I dunno but in a mac kb you just press fn (down left) while the special function keys, to have them act as regular -ol f1--12 keys
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Honestly having done a good bit of Duolingo and Babbel and then visiting the country I was trying to study for (Netherlands) I think they're mostly fun games that make you feel like you're learning something.

https://www.mezzoguild.com/babbel-vs-duolingo/ is a decent review that seems similar to my own experience.

So far drilling on Anki has been a bit better. Still not sure what else will work aside from moving there.
Thanks for releasing it. Loved the demo video.

I haven't heard of the Cloud API. Is it easier to get started with WhatsApp API now? Does it make services like 360dialog less relevant?
I don't think anyone had any illusions about "teaching" us anything other than the value of hard work. We made minimum wage, no benefits (what does that even mean for a kid, we all had health insurance through our parents). I was able to save up for a few summers and buy myself a new computer (a 486SX!), which ultimately led me to where I am today.

Seasonal agricultural work like this has been done by kids for generations. There's a short time where you need a flexible workforce and then you don't need them the rest of the year. And our hours were totally variable based on the crop and the weather. Some weeks there just wasn't anything to pick and we'd have to wait. You couldn't count on this income as an adult trying to pay the bills or raise a family. There were adults working there of course but they had different jobs (like driving tractors) and more steady income. I don't think we were stealing jobs from adults.

In the end the number of kids willing to work in the fields went down and these days they don't even bother trying to hire locals. They started flying in seasonal workers from Puerto Rico and then Jamaica. You can save up enough money in a few months to go home and live off of for a while (plus any other seasonal work you can find).
I get where you were coming from. I'm not sure there is a better measure.
Side note: And seemingly relevant in the context of startups...

The Rolland drum machines as designed / intended were a failure. It wasn't until they were "repurposed" making "dance music" did they find a nichec/ market. But those machines were not originally intended to make "dance music".

Thank God for Rolland's willingness to fail.
I'm cautiously optimistic that it's utopian-ish. If we do it right and supplant it with human interaction and assessment then kids will be better off. They'll be able to learn at their own pace with content that is built around their interests and style of learning best. They can learn when they feel like learning instead of having to use the typical rigid and regimented structure of today's classroom.

I'm not trying to be all hippy about it - kids still need assessment and evidence that learning occurred and there needs to be accountability. And teachers aren't going away. Human leadership is important and someone needs to be accountable for what a kid has learned, etc. A dystopian implementation would be no teacher and a parent just gets a daily report.
You ask two questions that are at odds with each other.

If schools were bad, but modern society can't function without them, which would you pick? If you say it can't function without them, then are they good regardless because you want it to continue to function?

Like, no matter how bad they are? Or do you draw some line or another? "It's ok if they make kids dumb and compulsive consumers, but they can't go torturing them!"

Asking questions like this seems to be more about dogma and status quo than anything else.
Yes, httpd. https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8
MySQL is simpler to use if you just need CRUD. I've used to 20+ years on prod with zero issues, except having to turn on unicode at some point along the way.
You made me google rob-grant scale only to come back here and notice your handle. Good job, Rob.
Utility companies already run credit checks on new customers. This doesn't seem like a big leap from that. They may already be estimating income based on the credit check. I don't disagree in theory but utility companies today, across the country, are already all up in your financial business.

Source: I got a new apartment in a new state and had a lot of difficulty proving that I make enough money to get electricity from the utility company. The utility company was harder to convince than the landlord renting me the actual apartment.
> reading competency starts at home, not in the classroom.

You are correct. Those students that read with their parents and learn at home have a significant advantage.

Our education system however should do everything that it can to help those children that didn't have this advantage to catch up. I've read research in the past that shows good schools to bring those kids up to the same level, evidently reading the comments here it seems the US school system has significant issues.
And yet if you loan the car to someone who gets into a serious accident, it is you who gets sued, not the lienholder. Likewise, if the car appreciates in value you are the one who benefits.

Concretely, your citation only shows that the owner-lienholder distinction is small for one specific aspect. And even with the law you cited there are still significant differences - for example, a traditional tow truck is unable to force entry into your garage and take the car, while a backdoored self driving car can open the door and drive itself away (it would necessarily be integrated with the door opener so you can summon it from elsewhere).

Ultimately, talking about concepts like "ownership" is only useful as a lemma (I often call home mortgages on bubble prices "renting from the bank"). The larger argument here is the desire to keep ownership (aka capital) distributed throughout society rather than concentrated into a few centralized administrators. And yes, it's a quick hop from the trend of most people mortgaging capital goods, to most people leasing capital goods. But that's all the more reason to emphasize the distinction to keep it from being further eroded.
Yes indeed! There are so many disturbing bits in that article, but somehow in these comments it is getting conflated with a sort of character-building-by-hard-work and pulling-oneself-up-by-the-bootstrap narrative, which is mostly orthogonal to much of the stuff in the article.
Ah yeah, dammit. I've already fixed the Gb diminished chord in the current source, but I was taking screenshots from old commits. I will definitely fix the transition with minor/major though, that's awkward. Thanks for the feedback!

I may eventually switch over to Tonal for the key data, right now it's just hardcoded.

Edit: just published v0.1.3, which fixes this issue. Long term, might be nice to display both sharp and flat on that key, but at least it's consistent for now. Thanks again!
The original BCM2837 was a terrible chip because the cooling is of old style so the PCB can't transport enough heat away and the package was plastic insulating from an eventual heat-sink. The Pi 3+ and 4 changed that.

BCM2836 is the real deal, peak SoC for non GPU + SD card duty:

https://wikimovel.com/index.php/Broadcom_BCM2836

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A7
I've also been surprised that AI had hit art first, but in hindsight it makes sense. The AI we have now is imprecise, which is neutral to good for art, bad for sciences.
Having "side loading" -- also known as regular app installation on non-phone platforms -- hasn't caused chaos on desktop platforms or android. No reason to think it will on iOS either.
You’re making a lot of assumptions. Looking at data and reacting to it absolutely does not imply a lack of values. What if the “good values” are to look at the numbers? This would be the right thing to do for the livelihood of employees, and the right thing to do from a scientific perspective. Some “good values” include never passing dogma down over time but instead questioning assumptions and testing for results.
A common trait in the US political system. "If the person on the other side of the aisle disagrees with me on points A, B, and C, but agrees with me on point D then I need to reevaluate my position on point D." I noticed this when the pandemic began. For about a week when we first went into lockdown my very conservative and very liberal friends were all worried about getting the virus and what the effects might be. But I knew even before it happened that this mentality wouldn't last and that eventually people would look around and go "wait, we're on the same side as THOSE people? Something isn't right!"
I think they've extended the meaning of "reading" to include a certain level of "understanding what you just read". Your nonsense sentence can't pass the latter test because there is no understanding to be gleaned, but it's not at all obvious that that should how we view reading exactly for that reason.
“Audio deepfake” would be a better description than “AI generated song”. Someone made the beat himself and wrote and rapped/sang the lyrics, then used AI to replace his voice with Drake’s and The Weeknd’s.
>One of the reasons for Google getting so good early on was that they had oodles of usage data to test and improve their search functionality forming a positive feedback loop

???

PageRank. It was PageRank, and the fact that they didn't rely on the lies put into <meta> tags. There was no feedback loop at that point.
For those who didn't watch the full video: the 100,000 USD are an intentionally high price because the creator does not want to sell that specific glass block ("priced not to sell").
If teachers were paid like rockstars we'd be able to get better teachers.
Wow, this sounds like my life. I honestly don't remember how I learned to read (although I might guess that it came from a desire to learn about how the world worked).

But I can remember clearly the exact moment my daughter wanted to read for the first time. I read a book to her every night and one particular evening it dawned on her that the stories I was reading to her came from the writing on the page instead of the pictures in the book. From that moment on, nothing in the universe could have stopped her from wanting to read.
> it would take more effort to geo-fence it than to make the change globally

No, really not. It's dead-simple to tie such a feature to the region of the user, it's how Apple rolls out and operates lots of their services...
I just happen to read this article of him, which I found easy to understand. I'm neither a huge proponent nor opponent of the likes of his work. Or, bluntly speaking: I don’t know much else about his reputation in the community.
Writing Tests for Legacy Code Is Slow – AI Can Help You Do It Faster
BenGPT summery: "Hyper rich individuals and/or foreign investment funds buy reasonably profitable 'sin' business and do so by forming a special purpose vehicle just for this transaction which hides their identity. Said owners elect not to register the business as an investment fund, which author notes is optional in Canada anyway. Occom's razor conclusion would be they do all of this because they don't want to be identified."

Ethical discussions about the operation of a pornographic website aside, I'm not clear what the issue or surprise here is?
I created AISearch.vip but honestly I am now going to open source it and make it a locally run stand-alone AI search engine because it's absurd having to call OpenAI APIs in the backend when I can let the user run it with their own API keys

There's no moat in anything AI, but MS gets OpenAI access at a discount and therefore will win
Thanks. While I don't personally need to be convinced of the existential risks for AGI/ASI, I was also genuinely interested in know what might serve as a good, clear "canonical" argument for why the risk is present. Definitely going to keep this link on standby.
> crypto has $900B+ market cap

So more of a speculative investment asset than a currency, then?

Currencies aren't usually said to have a “market cap”. Investment assets – i.e, shit stocks – do.
I used to sell art in an upscale art gallery. People bought pieces rarely for aesthetic, but mostly for the story. They want to feel a connection to human greatness and deep emotion.

While this music is technically impressive, I stopped listening 30 seconds in. The story behind the art is one of technical engineering. There’s no connection between the listener and the original artists.

It’s the same reason an absolutely impressive forgery is worth nothing and the original is priceless: authenticity is important.
The Future of Fertility
Running is one thing. Running with any sort of speed is another.
DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine
> He [Grant] was no Sherman, but his "governance" of the south led to carpetbaggers and "south shall rise again" BS that remains to this day.

A while back I read a tweet from an anonymous Army officer: "Sherman should've mowed the deep south like a lawn, making multiple passes"

https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1313470161974947843
Honestly as a pretty heavy fediverse user who ditched twitter, I see maybe two or three posts a week about twitter. Most people have other things to talk about.

The exception is when twitter does something exceptionally stupid or controversial, but even then I don't think twitter ends up overwhelming my feed or anything.
Don’t worry. That’s valuation has always been ZIRP nonsense and will fall with Musk’s addiction to publicly demonstrating his incompetence.
At least here in the USA, age 2 is generally when you start pre-school. Kindergarten starts at age 4 and lasts for 2 years, K4 and K5. Then 1st grade at age 6.
maybe shuttleworth is not interested in selling?
NChurn – which files in your repo has most “churn”
It is hyperbole, correct. It is the exact same hyperbole as you saying "a very narrow political viewpoint". No more than what you gave.

Now I don't know and don't want to know what opinions you are referring to, but based on my experience of mastodon, that "very narrow" characterisation is very much false.

BTW, I also disagree with you on what "the problem" is.
Patents are supposed to cover non-obvious invented ideas - "drug that alleviates [condition]" doesn't sound like it can be invented, since drugs are commonly used to treat conditions, so there's no new invention here. The ideas you can patent are the use of a molecule for a purpose and the method of producing it. That's already pretty broad.
> There's very little value in the Linux desktop

There's a tremendous amount of value in the Linux desktop. It's used to do amazing things every day.

What you mean is that it's very hard to turn it into a business model, which I'd agree with. But these are not the same in the world.
I've been really getting into AI generated music. I see this as something that's going to get much better rather quickly.

Here are my two favorites:

https://youtu.be/uWuxdH02U9o

https://youtu.be/k85boKH1WYk
As an engineer I resent that. The causation is reversed. I got into engineering because of my tendency to, uh, think independently, not the other way around. It just took a while for me to think independently about physics, politics, medical...take your pick, and arrive at independent conclusions.
Even has some very slight Cobainesque vocal wobbles at 22s.
Thoughts on A.I. Dilemma: Language as the ultimate medium
Thanks, I really should have known better! (not sarcastic, I like corrections of errors like this)
as a non-native english speaker. i don't understand and can't relate at all.
yes they can.
One point would be to be able to detect memory leaks with tools.
Hmm im gonna disagree here. This song is actually good and veery similar to other 100s of hip hop songs released daily.
KitKat ribs AI in hilarious new ad campaign
I think a lot of what they're going for is in this article:

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...
I have the same fanciful desires. I've decided to focus on extending Python with C instead. I can keep the benefits of Python and increase its speed as needed. This concept scratches that same itch.
And a recent one that is. Almost as funny as having to buy a macbook to run linux.....
> There are plenty of other areas driving big revenue like adsense, youtube, play store, cloud and pixel.

YouTube is still estimated to be barely above break even, GCP is losing money and if you look at the estimated Pixel sells annually of around 5 million a year is about how many iPhones Apple sells in three weeks.
> replacing fiat currency for everyday purposes isn't the only viable application of crypto.

Stop it with the fake juxtaposition. Crypto is just as “fiat” as any other currency, including gold.
I'm not sure that follows. Laws are rarely based on platonic principles that can be extrapolated from the smallest topic to the biggest with complete logical consistency.

In this case, the protections afforded by IP law for music and right of publicity for people are pretty different, and it would be a mistake to assume perfect coherence between the two. That a feature, not a bug.
People will willingly claim that critical theory is not connected to Marxism. We call these people wrong.

Marx is literally the godfather of critical theory, the Frankfurt school, post strcturalism and the rest of the fashionable nonsense cannon that parts of the left seem obsessed with.
Meh. Not interesting from a human standpoint. What possible insights into the human condition can such a Frankenstein's monster of AI give me? What has the AI been through that informs its "art." I can't relate to the AI, I cannot empathize with it, I don't identify with it.

Same goes for what an AI might write that isn't technical information I might make use of.

Same goes for images.

Simply I don't care what "art" might come from AI because there is no human involved. I'm a human - I want human things, not things that undermine my humanity.
AFAIK (I know lots of teachers) "whoops, phonics was actually right all along" was back to being the state-of-the-art like 15+ years ago, among the academic-side of teacher education. Whole language only hung around because it had a lot of True Believers already in the classroom, and some districts were (and still are) slow to correct, but it was pretty clear years and years ago that it was harmful.

This isn't some new revelation, someone just made a podcast about it and got traction at this moment for whatever reason.
Maybe it's because of how I use it, but the code ChatGPT gives me has always been super helpful and 99% correct. But, we have a policy at work not to use it for work product so I have to spend time changing enough of it where it's different, and I'm never copy/pasting anything. Enough changes to the structure and variables to make it sufficiently different that it can't be considered pasting company data into GPT, ask my question(s), see what comes back out, refactor/type manually into my IDE, test. I'd say one out of every 8-9 times I get something objectively wrong - a method that doesn't exist, something not compiling, etc. But it's faster than using google/DDG, especially with some prompting so that it just spits back code and not 5th-grade level explanatory paragraphs before and after. And well over half the time it does exactly what I need or sufficiently close that my initial refactoring step gets me the rest of the way.
Following the typical cycle of adversial compliance by industry, politicans will immediatly start working on round 2 to plug the holes.

I believe this is much better than being to broad on the first attempt.
And maybe apple decides that this battle is not worth their time and preempts the need for further regulations.
Calculus, Newton, and Leibniz is another example.
Printers are often used to produce convincing fakes.
Going to need some citations on this claim. Also, how is a person supposed to market one's experience for a job interview if they don't say what they've done? And the comparison between older engineers and gorillas isn't a great look, either.
I would consider myself a longtime listener of Drake and The Weeknd and IMO Drake sounds pretty spot on but The Weeknd sounds off
Will it refuse to use the master branch because it's racist?