skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this explanation is a bit of a stretch. Isekais just recycle the same ideas ad nauseam. If it were about creativity, they could do a lot more. You're given a blank slate to create a whole new world and mythology surrounding it, but your protagonist barely leaves the town to explore the world.

Which series does this describe? Guy gets hit by a truck, reborn in a medieval-european-esque world where he joins a guild and does menial tasks like collect plants and kill goblins to level up, but this happens rapidly due to superpower which took no effort to gain.

It's kind of like the MMORPG grind but without the grind. Instead of playing 20 hours/day, you see the character progress in 20 mins/week. The side-characters are as bland as NPCs.

MMORPGs suffer a similar problem: There's so many of them and there's not a whole lot of difference from one to the next.

The mangaka are typically young men who grew up playing these games and not getting out much, so it's no surprise their limited experience of the outside world also limits their ideas.

Perhaps a source of the problem is the business side of things: The studios are basically forced to fit a story into 13 episodes which leaves little room for actually creating a memorable experience. 24-26 episodes used to be the norm but is now the rare exception. The studios don't want to take risks so they'll only adapt popular manga.

Or maybe the consumers just have shorter attention spans, so you make the character go from level 1 to 1000 in the first few episodes to try and hook the audience, then revert to slow-pace.

The iseakais that are genuinely creative (cough 12 Kingdoms) get dropped.
Besides, you’d have to evaluate them on the skills they were practicing which is mostly reading on Duolingo.

You can easily end up dismissing someone’s language skills who can read the news and even books in a language yet can’t speak the language.
> I wouldn't be interested in paying a designer to just come up with ideas that I may not even like

The benefit of having a designer is that you can have input at every stage of the process. Pick some swatches out, pick some styles, pick a budget. You aren't just throwing money into the void and getting a human designed living space. Iteration is part of the process.

I'm sure AI will evolve and this will be a different conversation, of course.
The word "populous" never looks right to me.

It is. I know it is. I can see its etymological derivation and follow it.

It still looks wrong, and every time I see it I have to consciously re-check that. (Because my brain is spell-checking everything, and a word with a commonly-misused homonym seems especially flagged for double checking.)
> But companies that “crawl” Reddit for data

It's not possible to hide crawling at a large enough scale, right? At some point, certain IPs/user agents will (should be?) hit with CAPTCHAs to be able to have access to content and no amount of user agent/cookie/session/whatever spoofing will get around that, yeah?
Here's a scenario where training on the output of a model could improve its own performance:

Suppose you want to optimize the ability for an LLM to do arithmetic. You prompt the LLM to generate a bunch of arithmetic questions, prompting it to show its working. Then you take that output, remove the intermediate steps, and train on the results.

I think you would improve some benchmarks by doing this, possibly at the expense of others.

I'm sure you could do similar things with other types of model, but I think thissimple example shows the point adaquately.

In any case, information theory is not especially relevant here. It puts an upper bound on model performance but we are so incredibly far away from that bound it isn't worth worrying about.
Drake and The Weeknd song created by AI including voices
There are many posters that complain about Borland Builder´s price tag, but what they may not realize is what Microsoft charged back then for Visual Studio C/C++ (plus the MSDN subscription fees) was likewise a lot.

You got piles of books and piles of floppy disks (later piles of CDROMs) for that.

Only recently, free development tools have become available that rival commercial offerings.

But most serious developers do not care about a few thousand dollars in tooling cost, because the main determinant of software cost is developer salaries and nothing else. Since they are typically six digit dollar amounts, the cost for tools like editors, IDEs, compilers and libraries pales in comparison or becomes a rounding error.
Seriously, if you use one of their recommended identity providers and their "AI" bans you, can you change your access controls on tailscale to another provider? Ideally without physical access to the other machines.

The list of identity providers is just ginormous companies that are likely to automatically ban accounts.
E.g., the "remind me" bot uses Reddit's API and genuinely returns value to at least some of Reddit's users (unless it just plainly never reminds people). Comparing ChatGPT to things of that nature makes the difference more apparent to me.
These days we get huge binaries, unbounded memory consumption, no standards and awful performance. Much better!
Another option is to keep both versions and write a test that they return the same value, e.g. using property-based testing.
I love this! I believe this is a project that being worked on in buildspace! I could totally see financial students using this or even tutors.
I thought the supreme court found you can't stop folks from scraping data in the LinkedIn case? I think that applies here in some way.
Are you using the GPT4 model? There's a very significant improvement between 3.5 (the free one) and 4.
Seems related if the original link is dead, no?
Writers Guild Says It’s Pushing to Prohibit AI-Generated Works
The best tool is the one you actually use, not the ones you would like to use but never use. Duolingo fits this daily use slot in a way most apps don’t.
throwing away wood products creates methane release from landfills. Those wood products need to be ground up and placed deep underground.
I don't think you necessarily need any validation signal to improve performance with synthetic data. Here's an example I posted further up:

> Suppose you want to optimize the ability for an LLM to do arithmetic. You prompt the LLM to generate a bunch of arithmetic questions, prompting it to show its working. Then you take that output, remove the intermediate steps, and train on the results.
> The office building equivalent would be the builder having to treat the salary it paid its labor as a capital expense and amortizing it.

If the builder is building the thing for themself, they do in fact have to depreciate over the IRS-provided lifespan of the building.

The software equivalent to a builder is an agency. If the agency is building their own software, they now have to do the same thing. If the agency is building for someone else, they expense the labor immediatley.
This short essay by Moravec is great:

https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...
I wish they would rephrase "age of giant AI models is ending." If I took them literally, it would mean that GPT 4 is going away because of the cost of GPUs. They meant to say that few people will spend as much money as OpenAI did to train an LLM AI.
>“don’t return any of that value” to users

Notice that 'to users' was outside of the quote. That was an editorial addition.
I’ve been using another call to an LLM to write or rewrite code that is separate from the main “conversation”.

What I mean is that I’ve got a dialog going with an LLM and I’ve trained it to call a build() function with instructions that then returns the function, with the text of the function kept out of the dialog with the main thread.
Honestly this whole thing looks like a huge tax loophole, now being closed. I don't know of any jurisdiction (apart from the US, apparently) which allowed 100% non-amortized tax credit for loosely defined R&D salaries. No wonder everyone and their dog started software companies in the US.
Sure, the founders in 1776 desired a weak federal government.

But the writers of the constitution in 1788 wanted a strong one because the existing weak one sucked.
No

Year one: You go broke. Everyone loses their jobs. You file for bankruptcy. Game over. There is no year 5.
The same reason that any giant company plays ball with the US government: sweetheart deals, favorable treatment, preferential contracts, protection of their interests in both domestic and foreign markets, etc.

Apple regularly gives up users' private data when the government simply asks them to[1], despite spending billions of dollars on "privacy" marketing.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
Closing the barn door after the horse has already bolted.

Pulling data off Reddit now will likely give you a very large amount of polluted data from LLMs. I mean, yea it could be useful for some broad topics at this point, but still likely to contain a lot of GPTs own feedback.

It's likely that companies like OpenAI will just use their old reddit dataset, and then move to scraping things like YouTube for not just text, but audio and imagery too.
adtech exchange
Meta: if anyone wants to work at Citizen Lab (Toronto, Canada), they're looking for Manager, Information System Security:

* https://citizenlab.ca/2023/03/manager-information-system-sec...
> A digital calculator didn't displace pen-and-paper computers in the way that power drills didn't displace carpenters.

I'd like to point out that _computer_ used to be a job title for a human worker who would _compute_ things. This is a job that no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
At this point Windows is just Malware. You dont have any control over anything anymore, it keeps switching things back, force-logging you in etc…
Don't get me wrong I obviously liked the books enough to read them, but I still firmly believe that it is vitally important for sci-fi authors to just shut up about scientific details that our current understanding is not equipped to provide.

There are books that are WAYY farther from our current techlevel, like Murderbot Diaries or Ancillary Justice, which handle this much better. I just don't see how adding pseudoscience improves ANYTHING-- better to just gloss over it.
It seems there is enough pushback from Microsoft's enterprise clients because the W10 LTSC versions lack all the adware and most of the spyware that is pushed on the regular versions. Of course, they are not advertised anywhere and buying licenses through regular channels is impossible for a home user or a small company.

I haven't compared resource usage between my previous W10 Pro VM and my current W10 LTSC VM but it seems to start up much faster, and of course the aggravation from using it is way lower.
Am I the only one that chiefly uses FDE just so I only have to overwrite the LUKS header when I pass the drive on?
> Developed by Tuxera

https://www.tuxera.com/
Kids have basically abandoned Facebook unless its for work or older relatives, so I wouldn't worry too much...
Linux version, please!
That doesn't actually sound very different from my experience with major search engines beyond the first page. I've taken it as a bit of an law that the Internet outside of large centralized and/or moderated sites gets very fringe very quickly. Since the whole point of the search engine is to display noncommercial sites, users will inevitably face thousands of self-published blogs of varying beliefs, quality, and truthiness. As these fringe sites take up more domain names by total volume than mainstream platforms (there is only one Twitter, Facebook, et al.), I am not surprised at all that they seem to be even more voluminous here than on commercial search engines.
ChatGPT having info from reddit does not help redditors, it helps ChatGPTers. You can't really say they're providing a service for reddit users.
Pigs in Cyberspace
I thought a superposeur was someone who prepares superposed quantum states. It's one of the steps on the way to getting the entangleur credential. You need the latter before you can build quantum computers. ;-)
I really don't get that. I see it happening even in companies that use password managers. Some silly easy passwords and they don't even have to type them, they should copy and paste them from the password manager. I use it to generate random passwords and I can't understand why not everyone is doing it.
You’ve seen Stargate Atlantis right? I imagine it’ll be more like that…
. if you reversed English/Spanish it would be called "jingoism"
. then it wouldn't be English
. good luck with that.
I don’t think it has the explain visualization, but otherwise these screenshots look a lot like DBeaver to me. Perhaps worth a try if you haven’t stumbled upon it yet.
Dave's Garage on YouTube has a couple good videos that I can recall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJw2MumgTQ
If one scraped the content that's served to a browser when it's navigated to www.reddit.com I would expect that ruling to apply. If the API is considered a separate service, then I would imagine they could restrict access under separate terms.
I'm assuming you are US-based. If you receive compensation in stock, no matter the currency denominator, it is income and is therefore subject to income tax.

Your employer should produce a W-2, and your share grant will be included.
All else being equal, the later the point in time when the author chooses to stop updating the site is, the more special the site will be.

The question is, is the site more special if it stops being updated now, when it's made up of exclusively handcrafted content, or if it transitions to less labor-intensive/AI-based content generation for new updates, and continues being updated for many more years.
I tried to use Linux on my desktop for a year but ended up switching back to Windows for various reasons:

- Work apps that weren't compatible

- Awful screen tearing issues

- Bluetooth dropping out (mouse) and glitching (audio) all the time

- Games didn't work (and you can't screenshare with audio on Linux in Discord)

I'm sure I could have fixed these but after getting to the third page of Google looking how to solve a problem it was just easier to go back to Windows which I've (touch wood) never had stability problems with, it just works. I've never had it automatically update in the middle of the day, install apps that I didn't want by itself or delete any of my files.
This tax change will still affect you if you hire developers in India & China. You have to actually move your office to India or China instead (which might be a good idea).
Their new pricing is quite unaffordable now :(
Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist and am must approaching this with a very basic understanding of the matter

Isn't it generally said that the earth is rotating around the sun, or is that scientifically inaccurate?
The paradox they were referring to was A := (B), B := !(A). That's not a expressiveness issue, that's just a dependency cycle—there's no reason to allow it.
Pretty annoying how everyone chooses outrage instead.
https://twitter.com/financebrainai/status/164822912939603148...
https://twitter.com/financebrainai/status/164719954040206131...
Netflix First Quarter Earnings [pdf] - winding down DVD.com later this year
If your rosy scenario is that we all become bored, entrapped housecats.... that's still depressingly better than the other scenarios.
Securely Hosting User Data in Modern Web Applications
The limit of 8 slots is only true for the older LUKS1 version
https://archive.ph/RX8aj
Also Johnny Mnemonic
LOL since 2010 I've watched windows laptops disappear and mac laptops appear in pretty much every department i visit EXCEPT finance. There is exactly one engineer on my team that still uses windows but he admits that it's just inertia. Every piece of software he uses regularly either exists on linux/mac or can be replaces quite easily on linux/mac with no loss in productivity. Hell he spends most of his time in windows ACTUALLY in the linux subsystem.

I still have a single windows box and it's more or less a game console at this point and since getting a steamdeck I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense to keep it. Steamdeck+ps5 probably gives me all the gaming I want with less hassle.
Or "Ruff creators found Astral Software Inc." or something.
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Phew...that backing piano had me anticipating the arrival of the Interstellar theme the whole darn time!

I think it'd be pretty funny if the next generation of fractal design software took a turn toward possibilities like this. Those apps usually have a kind of "auditions" interface where they present some outcomes and you can click one to either use directly, or tell it to show "more like this"...

Imagine if it presented you with 9 different versions of your concept song or even music video at every stage, and you could tweak all the parameters you want.

(This gets me wanting to use mandelbulber again, incidentally)

I can see pro musicians making use of this kind of general capability for sure though, and the accurate modeling approach will simply raise the bar for everyone.
Somewhere in the archives is an article of a "self driving racing rc car" sport of some sort where the creator used a camera looking at the ceiling and mapping the lights to localize itself on the track. Way cooler IMO. Everything gets easier in SLAM when you can just burn $1k on lidar.
HN has mutable data though. That's a much harder problem than indexing a large amount of static data like a search engine.
> despite troubling privacy implications.

Not if you run it locally!

Not gonna lie, this is one of the reasons I set up Vicuna 7B, and its... nice.

Also, again, I am tired of news outlets acting like corporate clouds are the only option.
I agree. We merely have new chisels with which to sculpt.

Meanwhile, the layperson buys the hype and insists that the tools can work themselves. Maybe it's due to fear and insecurity.
It's okay, you're not the target audience. People who are already know the answers to these questions.
It was kinda cool that he recycled some family names between the stories but fifteen years on I can't keep the two straight now.
mah, I do not see nothing special

but https://speed.cloudflare.com/ is cool
This whole series is one of the best of that era, I don't understand why it is lauded more often. Vinge clearly has a mind for the future like none other. His "computer programmer-archeologist" idea has lived rent-free in my head since I first read A Fire Upon the Deep decades ago. And the zones of thought? Literally mind-bending. "Came here to say this". :)
I don't think we could make ants go extinct even if that was our sole purpose as humans. They're extremely adaptable and good generalists, plus they rival us in both total mass and ubiquity, at least outside of tundras. They survived past extinctions, they'll survive us.
Aggressive swipes will get your account banned here, so please don't post like this.

Edit: You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> any person that actually kill people would get only 6 years

I never say it.
It works for Apple.

You get a nice little upsell/upset every time you go into certain Apps. They call them "suggestions".
This is a complicated question.

On the one hand, Section 174 clearly stipulates: "(3)Software development
For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure." [1]

Section 174 R&E expenses are much more expansive than what qualifies under the R&D tax credit criteria. This article has a rundown of some of the activities included in 174. It's well beyond software or salaries -- it also includes things like market research. It also includes any expenses in connection with R&E, so for example time using a server for new features or new products would have to be amortized but maintenance (bug fixes) wouldn't. Even if a company files for R&D tax credits, they won't be able to offset this increase. [2]

Lastly, since Congress was widely expected to revert this before it took effect, the IRS didn't issue full guidance on how to implement it. They've never had to define software development before, but the interpretation that Big 4 accounting firms are taking is that it covers new products AND new features on existing commercial products, but not straight maintenance.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lynnmucenskikeck/2023/03/24/fiv...
1. The much-mythologized founders disagreed on how strong the federal government would be; the first political parties were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (technically the Democratic-Republicans, but carrying on that same ideology).

2. Filibusters are not in the Constitution, weren't possible for decades after it was signed, weren't used for half a century after it was signed, and didn't become the "sixty votes required for anything" tool they are today until 10-15 years ago. The founders had nothing to do with it.
> How much co2 is produced from container ship?

> However, ships emit only between 10 to 40 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. The carbon footprint of airplanes is 20 to 30 times more than ships.

https://8billiontrees.com/carbon-offsets-credits/carbon-ecol....

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...
Interesting… i guess google wont be charged because of the backlinks but ChatGPT will be, because they just show an answer to one’s query and dont actually show any of the “original content” in context, and therefore no back-traffic for reddit.
But certainly extroverts must have an inner model world, otherwise how can they have a System 2 or do any kind of analytical thinking? Or is it that they do have one but only engage it when actively trying to solve a problem?

This definition of introvert seems closer to the term "need for cognition".
What advantages does this offer over something like typing "$QUERY -site:*.com" into a mainstream search engine? I think webmasters in general do a pretty good job at self-segregating their sites into commercial and non-commercial entities through the use of different top-level domains.
Well, as a beekeeper if you wanna sell some honey you need to buy some bees first, no?
You’d probably spend more money getting tools and equipment for a one-person neighborhood lawn mowing business…
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606550.
I haven't done the research but I think if I could get overwatch2 (and diablo4 if they don't fuck it up) running on my steamdeck I'm not sure keeping a windows box around makes much sense to me anymore because... yeah, it's pretty much an expensive xbox at this point.
I think they have excellent taste but money has the highest priority.
My goal with this project is to help finance students get instant answers to their questions.

Users can add data to the spreadsheet and ask questions about the data. It will work for non-financial data too.

We have examples on our Twitter: https://twitter.com/financebrainai
I Still Prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ Idea
Ok fair, I deal with the same thing. I just thought the example was a weak one, if it's only occasional, for why it's tough to be around your parents.
"It's not like there aren't better options at your disposal"

For what exactly? For many, many things, windows is your ONLY option. Switching to Linux or Apple would mean kissing away so much software availability.
Honestly if a company's business model revolved around getting 100% tax credits for dev salaries, that company should in fact go away. A 100% rebate on taxes on an already high margin and low expense business segment just feels wrong.
Strategies for employee retention in the artificial intelligence industry