skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but even if not, YouTube is being greedy here

While I agree with the greedy part, what do you specifically suggest they do? If they do nothing then the people without an adblocker are effectively subsidizing those who don't see the ads, resulting in them seeing more ads.

If you don't want ads there's YouTube Premium ( even if it sucks that you need to get YouTube Music at the same time ). The worst part of that deal is that I'm pretty confident that Google is still collecting everything that can about me and uses it everywhere else.
How did a lobbyist/software supplier/"ngo" get 5 people in the door? Just go look for the money trail. Then expose anyone who has received so much as a euro from Thorn.
> In an ideal world, there would be plenty of time and resources to learn the personality and skills of each applicant, as an individual human being.

I question this. There is signalling value in a degree, but it's more about providing HR and the hiring manager with reputation cover in case the candidate is a failure. "They were from $SCHOOL, it couldn't have been predicted." Another part is signalling value not to your employer, but to the employer's clients. If you're in law or consulting, the value of an elite degree is more to show the client that your firm's high billing rates are justified. A third factor is that some firms are like clubs, where a de facto caste system exists and people from lesser schools are discriminated against. It's morally wrong, but it happens in many of the elite firms and startups.

It takes only a few seconds to legitimately scan through the non-college achievements in order to get a feel for a candidate's true potential. So it should not a real blocker to anyone who is serious about hiring the best people.
They will win.

They will setup DRM, or render the full site in canvas, or with wasm, or something, or requires a TPM trusted signatured in an approved web browser or some shit.

The new generation will accept a limited client, because they know mostly locked down phones. So only a few will not accept it, and they will not have to care about it a single bit.
It's worse than that, because tragedy of commons is at play and those who pretend that the pie will grow forever will get most of whatever crumbs will be left.
This is definitely the same recording. (However, I think there's also another snipped of H.'s private voice, recorded at the "Berghof".)
No, which is why I said "for me" in my last line there.
Then he won't be a solo-preneur anymore.

It seems like hiring people is much less risky than marrying them.
Hitler and Stalin were both meant to pretty charming in person to people they respected in some way, right?

Ironic in this situation that Mannerheim hated him.
> I think college is broken. But my question is whether it’s broken and useful or broken and harmful.

A better question IMO is: Is college more useful than the alternatives?

College is a huge investment: tens of thousands of dollars, plus 4 years of full-time work.

When I went to college in 2007 (not in US, but I digress…) it made sense to go in for a 4-year degree because there were no alternatives. Coursera, Udemy, etc. did not exist. YouTube was just born. And to start with, we didn’t even have broadband in my house or school, that could stream video.

It’s a very different world today. The opportunity cost is too great. Even without being a Thiel fellow, there are many alternatives to what you can do with 4 years of your life that will set you up for success – not only educational opportunities but also starting a business, freelancing, etc.
Harry Mack has a very active channel on TikTok where he posts recordings from Omegle. 12/10 highly recommend. Never seen anyone like him.
Or someone playing around with an idea and by doing so showing us another interesting way of ai interaction.

But hey your negative and simple comment could also be true who knows.
"Chromebook exec defends 8GB in $499 Chromebook" would be fine but not in $1599 MacBook "Pro".
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This is a good point. When there is no option (except not buying a new/new ish car) it becomes less credible to keep claiming “this is what the market wants”

There is a parallel with low cost flying. Almost every airline in Europe is a low cost one now (and business, class often 2-6x the cost of economy isn’t much of a difference). Why should I be counted as validating their business model when there’s is barely any choice now?
> It is not obvious how to find a better way to filter.

An open exam process where anyone can take the test and receive a diploma for each individual class.

A bit like how professional certifications work.

That way, no matter the way you acquired your skills, you can try and get the same diploma.

Of course, you would also need to revise what skills and topics are tested to also provide exams for more practical topics usually ignored in colleges.
Yes, I do agree with you. It is not just Google's greed but also our own. In fact, if I had the time and resources, I would love to create a different video sharing site.

It would be a site that is like YouTube but only allows 1080P video (to save on hosting). It would take a few minutes, maybe 5 to load a video, to save on bandwidth. It would have a limit on video length as well maybe,

It would also not have any analytics or recommendation algorithm, and it would have a modest paid tier (2$ a month for some additional features). It might have a Patreon-like feature from which I would take a modest percentage, just to pay for hosting.

Instead of a recommendation algorithm, it would have some basic categories and new videos would just appear in the categories that you subscribe to, but only sorted by date.

It would be a slower, simpler site for genuine video sharing, but with some limitations to keep things realistic. I am being 100% serious: I do think a slower, more modest site with less features would be quite nice, sort of like Medium but for video.
I just use Brave and no ads or warnings.
Ah, I guess I didn't have the right definition of solipsism in my head. I was thinking of the psychological meaning and not the epistemological one (which I forgot existed), although in my defense, my view isn't incompatible with your reasoning. I do align with the epistemological definition, but I don't see how that means I can't reason about what appear to be other beings. I can't know their true natures (certainly not their minds), but then, people act on incomplete information all the time.
It isn't a humanitarian mission, it is urban warfare in a defensive war by Israel. It isn't much and pretty cynical to call in a bombing, but better than nothing and there is considerable risk too as the announcement could warn enemy troops.
Rotterdam Welfare Risk Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life
Newspapers in europe are allowed to do so too, why shouldn't facebook?
Colleges don’t create the unicorns, in fact it’s the opposite. The most driven, talented people choose which college to go to. By and large they’ll be successful no matter where they go (+/- luck factors), and even if they skip it altogether. College/advisors like Thiel serve as an accelerant. The fact that Thiel (a venture capitalist who invested early on in 20 something Mark Zuckerberg) is better at picking young unicorns than the average college admission board should come as no surprise. Especially considering he can be way more selective.

I still wouldn’t skip my college years for anything though, it was the best time of my life.
> "Actually 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently,"

Interesting. So my sound samples magically shrink by a factor of two?
Ah, “for the children”. The best argument there is to deprive you of all the rights possible.
College is about signaling. Yes, I deeply enjoyed my four years there and want the same for my kids. But at the end of the day, the most valuable thing I got out of it is a diploma.

Peter Thiel investing in you is an even better signal for the specific task of trying to build a unicorn. Not only is he a billionaire, but all the other people who invest in startups know who he is. But getting a thiel fellowship is out of reach for most young people.
A long, long time ago I worked on a small project for a major multinational grocery chain.

I made them a tool that parses an Excel file with a specific structure and calls some endpoints in their internal system to submit the data.

I was curious, so I asked how they are doing it currently. They led me to a computer at the back of their office. The wallpaper had two rectangles, one of them said MS EXCEL and the other said INTERNET EXPLORER. Then the person opened these apps, carefully positioned both windows exactly into those rectangles and ran some auto-clicker - the kind cheaters would use in RuneScape – which moved the cursor and copied and pasted the values from the Excel into the various forms on the website.

Amazing.
The Portuguese Wikipedia version of the Macau article (last I checked) reads like a historical adventure novel and is chock full of nationalist propaganda, endlessly praising certain officers and soldiers for their "bravery" and service to "national prestige".
Yeah I put that caveat in there.

The himalayas they also traditionally kill animals for food. They basically consumed 3 things barley, yak products (meat and milk) and tea.

They didn't have much choice; was hard to grow anything else up in the mountains.But they were conscious about it and still careful but other animal lives.

It's not only because they care about the animal, but also very much about they are afraid of the karma they create for themselves.

Now in the refugee areas they prefer to buy their meat from the Islamic community ironically enough.
I think Google should offer a paid tier like YouTube premium, but with the following feautures:

(1) You can opt out of any analytics and tracking

(2) They would turn off ads for your OWN channel. So for example, if I have a channel and I pay for premium, then I should be able to TURN OFF ads so that OTHERS who view my channel don't see ads.

If Google had these features, I would buy premium in a heartbeat.
LOL at the guy from MEGA. Perhaps proof that the fact that it's still around in this post Kim Dotcom incarnation is that it is probably a honeypot for the Five Eyes.
You use the processor power to compress it 2x! /s
In fact I think this is a ripe space for opportunities to build new institutions that provide value.

The value of college is not only education, but also community.

We are seeing, and will continue to see, many new online and IRL ventures that provide community and learning to young people, which will serve them much better than colleges.

Buildspace (https://buildspace.so/) is a beautiful example.
An implementation of Common Lisp targeting Lua
Hi zx, I'll link some tools I've seen and/or worked with:

For C#:

1) https://github.com/TNG/ArchUnitNET

For PHP:

1) Pest testing framework demonstration: https://youtu.be/ZidLP7TqXnc?t=133

2) https://github.com/spaze/phpstan-disallowed-calls

3) https://github.com/ekino/phpstan-banned-code

4) https://packagist.org/packages/ta-tikoma/phpunit-architectur...

5) https://qossmic.github.io/deptrac/

Hope that helps.
They won't. The movie industry has been trying to stop piracy with technical measures forever. Things still get pirated. Every measure they take will be broken.

They'll win over the masses, which is what they really care about. But they won't ever defeat the die-hards.
How expensive was it to participate in message boards. My parents used it so sparingly and with the idea that any minute was addding up.
I read 60 francs l'heure, so about 10 euros or more like 17 with inflation.
Even spending an hour a day would be a costly hobby.
This title seems to imply a personal project but the array of logos of customers and prompts to apply for a job makes me think this is an established, VC-backed company trying to get free exposure.
There's an argument to be made that a site that permits ad blockers should command a higher price from advertisers than one that forbids them, since a user who would use an ad blocker is the least likely user to ever click on an ad. If you're showing ads to a userbase that consists of a mix of users who would and wouldn't use an ad blocker if able to do it, then you're increasing your impressions by policy without increasing your conversions, compared to a site that shows ads only to users who have the chance to block ads and don't.
My thoughts are with you Woz. I hope you recover soon buddy!
Nvidia develops AI chips for China in latest bid to avoid US rules
There's quite a common Sci-Fi trope of sending an AI proxy to represent oneself or to triage inboxes etc.; guess the future is now
Blender is definitely the app AI was made to assist us in using. I keep coming back to Blender every year and picking up a little more of the art of using it (mainly by watching the pros on YouTube).

Photoshop? KiCad? Final Cut Pro? Blender wins as the app that I have struggled the most to master.
I quit Ubuntu for Debian.

It works for what I need: What I need: Browser (Firefox), Email (Thunderbird), Notes (Zettlr) + Reference (JabRef), Python, Postgres, Shell, occasional LibreOffice, the odd podcast (gPodder) and feeds (Liferea), very occasional audio and video editing.

What do you need?
https://archive.li/j8uH3
Really? We want to protect the rights of pedophiles? Where could this argument be going.
There is some scalability to this model.

Political organisations could try to kick start the careers of aligned young people in politics. Spreading a few tens million of dollars across hundreds of promising people is worth it if you can get a good governor or senator out of it.

Could a movie studio do well by writing big cheques to aspiring directors/writers with a tolerance for risk?

In some ways the record labels already acquire talent in this kind of model, rather than relying on credentials.
Take comfort in the fact that I'm equally confused and disoriented whenever I have to use Windows or desktop Linux, utterly baffled at some of the interaction choices.
I don't think your experience generalises. Kids are still sneaking out.
If there are people who could be adding a billion dollars in value to their society and choose not to... that would be worth reforming a lot of things to improve on.

At the end of the day there is a lot of meat behind a real unicorn company. It is possible to do more for humanity than a billion dollar company - names like Gauss and Euler sprint to mind - but such names are rare.
Also worth mentioning the demographic collapse. Many ethnic groups are on their way to extinction.
Aren't they a group of people using anti-CP as a way to profit or build a moat? They're essentially looking to mandate scanning, and then selling the tools to do so or making it harder for competition to enter their segments.
A bit distasteful as that already happened in 2011.
This isn't working for me on Firefox / uBlock and Ubuntu :(

I don't get the popup, but the video is just black and the play button does nothing.
But suppose we gave HR some other shortcut besides a college degree. Something that still attested to a similar level of work ethic and minimal qualification in a field.

If we just set the "college is important for well-rounded life experience blah blah" party to the side for a second and consider it strictly as a job-prep factory (because why else would an average schmuck spend that much on something if not for a good ROI), apprenticeships seem like an obvious better pattern for everyone.

1. They run for a similar length - multiple years

2. They attest to work ethic in the same way college degrees do

3. They're actually productive, unlike (most) undergrad programs

4. They train actual job skills and provide actual job experience, unlike (most) undergrad programs

5. And on top of it all, apprentices still get new life experiences, but probably more productive ones than Greek Life.

To me, it seems companies providing apprenticeship programs as a replacement for an undergrad program should lead to a better-equipped workforce and provide HR with better signal to filter by. Never mind that a successful apprenticeship could lead straight into a longer-term job offer in many cases, making things easier both for new worker bees and for HR.
What incident response tool do you use at work?
Yeah, picture concluding that epistemology is "wrong."
16GB pc isn't even the correct comparison, on apple its 8GB unified between cpu+gpu+more.

The 16GB pc equivalent, especially for equivalent pricing of a mbp is going to have a video card with dedicated vram in addition. A $1549 dell xps has a 6GB Nvidia card, with options for 4GB-8GB cards.

8GB equivalent to 22GB is the real comparison we should be making and the answer is obviously no. Especially with all the other io performance cuts apple has been making.

Now you will say theres far more bloatware on the windows laptop, especially in a corporate environment necessitating all that ram, and thats true.

For light use 8gb would be plenty, but its not going to cut it for power users.

Im also curious what the "memory compression" they use is, i would imagine its similar to linux compressed in memory swap. Unless they are just talking standard gpu texture compression and such.
A true politician realizes that the enemy of my enemy (on a specific issue) is my friend (on a specific issue).

Why not harness a portion of the zeitgeist?

And maybe in the progress build some bridges. "You don't trust big tech? I don't trust big tech either!" (Let's have a discussion about how microchips work, though...)
Netflix killed Torrents.
Spotify killed Napster.
Just want to point out that this post is by a company that works in the “AI” space.

Not saying that it’s wrong or right, but it would be like asking someone in a cult to tell you if the cult is a scam. You might find a few dissenting voices, but most are going to support or it would lack the critical mass required to stay afloat.
This bar had a complex tunnel system leading up to it that was completely unlit. In the beginning you could run right through, but eventually they made you yell "I'm over 18" and took your word on it.

This bar also had special partitions in each room that were practically indestructible, allowing sound and light through but protecting from physical harm.

[EDIT: I don't mean to imply that the check is easy! The reality of Omegle's difficulties is understood. I'm just riffing on the metaphor]
Winston and Julia go out into the countryside, they each take different trains, then meet at a pre-arranged location in the middle of nowhere, and then go out into the literal woods, to talk (and have sex), and they are still paranoid under every second branch there might be a microphone.
>but many people are opportunistic thieves.

My father used to think that. Turns out it's mostly untreated paranoid shizophrenia creating self fulfilling prophecies.
30 years since Croatian forces blew up Old Bridge in Mostar
Of all of the things you mentioned, rich people have much less risk comparatively than a poor person in the exact same situation
Jasper was cited in a recent TechCrunch article about the obvious vulnerability of the API wrapper startup business model. I guess we could argue at length about the thickness of the wrapper, but that seems unproductive.
Volvo EX30: Priced to Tempt Americans
> The article seems to imply that if you pick a very select group of people, and give them money and access to a network of very wealthy people that it's surprising that they will be able get those people to invest in their ventures.

Don't elite colleges do the same? Select a small slice of society and give them opportunities beyond what society at large has?

The difference between what Thiel is doing and what colleges are doing seems to be a difference in degree and not in kind. That difference in degree is exchanging a larger reward for a smaller pool of candidates.

The same criticism of the Thiel Fellows could be leveled at college, from the perspective of someone who didn't attend college.
And even the die-hards will lose convenience, reverse engineering a custom WASM VM every time it's updated is massive work.

And TPM checks are really hard to bypass.

All that to watch a few videos without a 20 second ads?

Not sure it's event worth it.
I think there are also multiple dimensions of understanding.

Right that it makes more illegal moves than a similarly competent human but if it can modulate its level of play better than any other human or computer (Stockfish's reduced Elo is just brain-dead moves or mistakes interspersed with brilliant ones at a certain rate, humans of course do it much better but still struggle with it overall) then I think that counts for something.
Global shutter might be the most impressive feature, but also notable is that the a9 includes C2PA authentication metadata. This is a cryptographic chain of provenance on digital media, starting at the hardware camera itself.

In addition to provenance itself, C2PA allows for asserting that an image should not be used for AI training / ML mining.

https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/1.3/explainer...
Better watch token costs. The per token costs are lower now but even so a full context load still costs almost $4.
Parent's point was that the phrasing indicates they support child sexual abuse material.

Which I think it's fair to say that, whatever their motivations and misguided goals, they do not.
> is that it is probably a honeypot for the Five Eyes

At least they're still going through the usual motions of putting forward the "think of the children!" mantra, I suspect that given the current geo-political and defence environment we'll have this thrown down our collective throats in about 6 months to one year with no "advising" whatsoever, just served to us as a fait accompli in the interest of protecting the values-based order.

Come to think of it, I'm still a little surprised that they haven't dropped that mask off just yet.
> Netflix killed Torrents.

Not really.
Gate keeping at the protest, how very.
> Once the algorithms learned that the most likely buyer is a previous buyer and how to increase incremental revenue it started sucking more.

That's why no subscription model will work in favour of the paying customer for newspapers, dating apps and so on. It was never a distribution problem as much as that once the money rolls in, the next question will always be the same: How do we increase revenue?
Why is the sibling comment to this flagged? It's very reasonable.
Much of the personal development in college years takes place outside of the classroom, including deep friendships forged with others who are also growing up.

Thiel himself was the beneficiary of his college network - he met the PayPal team through his Stanford roommate. It’s inauthentic for him to discount the power of these networks.

College is broken in many ways. But a positive college experience adds more depth and richness to life in the long-term than a check from Thiel.
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Do we know where the Google and Microsoft employees were based? They have many European offices.

Also if they are advising on the technology of CSAM rather than the politics of it, then does it really matter where they are based?
After reading Benjamin Bikman’s book (Why we Get Sick) I think the other benefit of IF/TRF besides caloric restriction is that you’re also reducing your “insulin abuse”, I.e you are avoiding having elevated insulin levels for a longer period, which helps with improving insulin sensitivity. This book (highly, highly recommend) makes the case that insulin resistance is at the root of many metabolic and other disorders. I think there’s too much focus on weight loss in these threads, but even those with normal weight and BMI can have issues due to insulin resistance.
I can’t point to exactly why, but it’s something about the tone and word choice.