skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these are things we can teach children to do when they don't do it at first. I don't see why we can't teach this behavior to AI. Maybe we should teach LLM's to play games or something. or do those proof thingys that they teach in US high school geometry or something like that. To learn some formal structure within which they can think about the world
From my reading it isn't really good or needed. Cuddling is great but child should learn to sleep on their own.

A parent should not be meeting every want of a child.
>My point is they go after the most regulated and serious ones, and let the others run

But they really aren't and you already know that. If you have proof otherwise, report it, or post it here and I'll report it. You get paid on any penalties that are doled out.
They can iterate off ChatGPT but don't own the underlying IP?
For those who may not be aware, this is only for Prime Video and Music. Marketplaces for physical goods are not subject to app store fees.
In big corpos such departments usually have their very own budget, and operate as a quasi-separate entity from the others. Paying fees inter-departments is a very common thing.
Maybe people aren't actively leaving YouTube, but they are using a lot less of it for other platforms like TikTok.
Please make your point more explicitly.

You seemed to be mocking the entire idea of "too many ads". I think this kind of law is a pretty strong argument that it's a reasonable idea and not mock-worthy. But you don't seem to think that argument matters, so please, explain yourself more.
> I hear a lot of complaints about refusals but rarely any examples of said refusals, likely because they are embarrassing.

At least circa 8 months ago on ChatGPT (an aeon ago, I recognize), I could readily get it to make gendered jokes about men but would get a refusal when asking for gendered jokes about women. I think things have "improved" in that time, meaning a more equal distribution of verboten topics, but my preference would be a tool that does what I want it to, not one that tries to protect me from myself for society's or my own good. (There's a related problem in the biases introduced by the training process.)

> Is it fair to assume that I won't get refusals for code generation and RAG on documentation?

Give it a couple years. "Can you write me a Java function that, given an array length, a start of a range, and the end of a range, returns whether the range is valid or not?" "I'm sorry, but this code is inappropriate to share. Shall I purchase a license from Oracle for access to it for you?"
Most likely some sort of cold wallet. With some in hot wallets for liquidity. There are many crypto custodians who do this.

Now they do have to design redundancies for the keys. eg. they should not lose access to the assets because say they made it too safe and cant find the keys anymore :p

It's funny because it happened with Prime Trust a crypto custodian. But I'm sure a company like BlackRock can and will do better.
In Vancouver there are gas stations specific for boats, I heard from an attendant at one of them that occasionally yachts stop by and fill in $50,000 worth of gas (and pay cash according to him).

Hydrofoils in theory would cut a very significant chunk of that, even if still on gas-powered boats. Given that the technology has been around for many decades, I suspect there's got to be a showstopper that prevents its adoption (vulnerable to floating logs?), and I suspect simply making them electric won't alleviate that
Yep, I'm still able to contort prompts to achieve something usable; however, I didn't have to do that at the beginning, and I'd rather pay $100/mo to not have to do so now.
Still the same problem. You’ve to get people to use the extensions. You mentioned a few “back in the day” examples and nobody uses these. CSS got the push and gained critical mass initially and that’s that. There’s been plenty of improvements since of course and if you can disregard legacy platforms it all gets a lot easier but that’s where the experts you want to sway define their value.
What do you expect to see out of these panoramic windows? The Piccadilly line is hardly the most scenic route in the UK; there's nothing to see but tunnel walls for more than half of the full line. I'm not arguing against panoramic windows if they're easily installed, but that seems to me like it should be a substantially lower priority than air conditioning on the deeper Underground lines.
Why would it be silly? One division paying another division for resources. That happens a lot and it makes sense in that it helps to figure out just how much resources are needed.
I had this distinction between “spicy” and “spiced” pointed out to me by a former colleague. In my experience, “spicy” is used when there is heat/capsaicin involved and “spice” is used when there is only flavor. I think it is a cause for confusion for many people.

What is it like in other languages?
I can only say that the best guitar riffs come up to me while in bed just before drifting into sleep, and I have the phone next to me to hum that fucker into it before I forget them or fall asleep having no chance of recalling anything the morning after.
I so wanted to play SMRPG when I was a kid. I bought it in the US and it wouldn't work on my European snes with the adapter.
> It doesn’t make sense.

Tell that to antitrust lawers.
YouTube was founded in February 2005. Google acquired it in October 2006. It was an independent company for less than 2 years! It was growing at such a staggering pace that it was definitely going to die if it didn’t get bought soon!
There is no alternative market on Apple. On Android there is F-Droid. Your app has to be open source to be on it though which most companies would never concede to as it would expose how much anti-user tracking they do.
>Field experiments on duration and precision of grey and red squirrel spatial memory (1997)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
Something like Roc-lang, where it’s a stripped down yet capable language seems to be a good fit. But I agree solving problems with a functional approach would better develop the foundations.
cross compilation equally non-trivial.
set CROSS_COMPILE= and ARCH= and making the appropriate changes to .config (either set ARCH and `make defconfig`, or modify the relevant parts in `make menuconfig`). then build as usual
Nvidia DGX Cloud – Train AI in the Cloud
Silverlight's phase-out primarily stemmed from the browser ecosystem's shift away from plugins. It's worth noting that Silverlight 5 was supported until October 2021, a decade after its release, indicating substantial longevity despite the changing landscape.
IRS delays controversial new rule on tax reporting for apps like Venmo
I think matlab has the most succint language for writing matricies

[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]

then lisp

#2A((1 2 3) (3 4 5) (7 8 9))

then python comma freak show

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]

python's greatest achievement was bringing open source to matrix calculations and dethroning matlab. python is what it is today because it offered 99% of what matlab offered in open source and for $0 to uni students
I didn't start my tech journey til late 00's, so it's constantly surprising to me that something as ubiquitous as git only came out in 2005.

Is it possible at all this story helped spur the widespread adoption of git (the early implementation of this tool)?
Cooling the stations is not an engineering challenge. It's a budget challenge. Installing and operating huge chillers is a solved problem.
And it is easy to see how the board’s view of the mission could conflict with the staff’s views of their jobs...

From the board’s perspective ... will have a staffing problem ... those staff will probably be more enthusiastic about AI, generally, than the mission calls for.

From the staff’s perspective, the board is a bunch of outsiders ... driven by an abstract sense of mission. Which kind of is the job of a nonprofit board, but which will reasonably annoy the staff.

Yesterday virtually all of OpenAI’s staff signed an open letter to the board ... the letter claims that the board “informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed ‘would be consistent with the mission.’” Yes! I mean, the board might be wrong about the facts, but in principle it is absolutely possible that destroying OpenAI’s business would be consistent with its mission. If you have built an unsafe AI, you delete the code and burn down the building. The mission is conditional — build AGI if it is safe — and if the condition is not satisfied then you go ahead and destroy all of the work. That is the board’s job. It’s the board’s job because it can’t be the staff’s job, because the staff is there to do the work, and will be too conflicted to destroy it. The board is there to supervise the mission.
They can't find a new revenue stream so they keep goosing their existing ones until they burst.
To be fair, so many fast growing startups would tick multiple of their 7 boxes. Have you sanity checked it the other way (false positive)?
Possibly a hot take, but youtube premium is too expensive. I don't care about youtube music, I don't care about offline use, I don't care about background play/queue on my phone. I just want to watch ad-free video, which I don't believe is worth $14/month.

Ideally the offline/background play/queuing should be included because they're unrelated to the cost of serving video, but any other features like music/4K/etc should be an extra purchase. However, I strongly doubt enough people would even bother with those to justify having as separate features.
It's the same violation of law but it doesn't quite look like the same kind of fraud. What's illegal is co-mingling funds; but you can co-mingle funds and do at least baseline proper accounting to make sure you're not too in the hole, vs. co-mingle funds and just straight up lie about how you're doing. Y'know, you're just a regular libertarian guy looking to get rich by breaking the law and not some coked-up wunderkind thinking he gets to save or destroy the world.
I think "normal" is relative here. My understanding is that it's mostly Western cultures that consider co-sleeping to be a bad thing.
Maybe, but why go through a lawsuit if you can use the power of the site to get your point across? If Musk can simultaneously get MM to back off their activities while gaining public favor in the process just by simply announcing a lawsuit then there would be no need for the expense. At the same time, if there's something really there (and let's be honest, discovery can take any amount of time) he can pursue it.

You don't have to like/agree with Musk to understand that being loud about things you don't like when there's already a public predisposition by half the country is a good opening salvo.
> If they then start having people follow me home and harassing me for not looking at every ad

YouTube isn't following you, as soon as you close the browser window it goes away. Youtube doesn't do anything to harass you when you leave, but they will try to make you watch the advertisement as long as you continue sitting there and continuing eating.
I think it can answer you about that recent event because it can also browse the web using Bing.
He has a secretary to do that.
Ever since that executive email about reverting some change in Chrome because people aren’t going to meet quotas and get their bonuses, I imagine that conversation happening every time they crank up the ad volume on YouTube.
I'm an American, and I typically don't use the AC in a car unless it's above about 90 degrees, I just open the windows.
(Quora) What Was Sam Altman of OpenAI Fired For?
It makes for an kind of inherent contradiction--or at least tension--inside certain types of laissez faire capitalist thought, between perfect-information versus the autonomy of secrecy.

On Monday, capital-C-Capitalism is celebrated as being the most efficient and economist-approved system (i.e. the bestest) when--if--there is somehow perfect price/deal information available to all actors.

On Tuesday, no-True-Capitalism is lauded as immune to cartels and collusion, because any actor will quickly undercut the others with secret prices and deals and hidden identities and wash-trading.

On Wednesday, Virtuous Capitalism needs no oversight because nasty behavior will be seen and detected by consumers who will vote with their wallets.

On Thursday, Property-Respecting Capitalism refuses to infringe on the owners' essential freedom... to construct impenetrable webs of shifting corporate ownership to obfuscate all controlling relationships.
Obfuscation and pseudo-DRM make you a worse villain than the villain you're trying to defeat.
USF business students benefiting from first-of-its-kind app, 'Peabj'
These companies need to be broken up.

Your cellphone maker shouldn't be eating into Hollywood's business.

Your online Walmart is making Lord of the Rings.

And you pay a 30% fee just to deploy your software into their walled gardens, which they monitor, remove the customer relationship, and make you jump through hurdles. If you are successful, someone can pay to place ads in front of legitimate searches for your brand.

Edit: Can't respond to comments anymore after being downvoted, so my response:

> Where and how is the line drawn? Should a cellphone maker be eating into map maker’s business? Laptop maker’s business? Camera maker’s business? A secretary’s business?

Perhaps when there are more than two vendors for one of the most critical pieces of technology for modern civilization.

Perhaps when you can deploy apps without taxation, control over distribution, unfair competition, scare tactics, or adversarial ad placement.

Right now the two vendors wield absolute control over one of the most essential societal functions. It's almost as bad as if they controlled the internet itself.
I really don't think investors have the case you think they do. They may ultimately pin the board on some technicality but the case looks far from straightforward. Anyways, it looks like Sam has finally started talking with the board again.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/altman-op...
Microsoft releases Orca 2, two small SLMs that outperform larger counterparts
No protein work. mRNA assayed.

Applicable to humans because head trauma is unfortunately very common in infants, toddlers, and children. Developing effective treatments of pediatric TBI and adverse childhood events would be a real boon to humanity.
This comparison doesn’t seem to address the issue of who you replied to. If I were running a streaming service, knew the business intimately, and still couldn’t figure out how Spotify had such an advantage against me, I would be both perplexed and need to admit defeat.

I wouldn’t have the same sentiment against YouTube music or Apple Music, because these are explicitly part of the same companies that host the marketplace.
Once you have lights that change hue based on time of day/sunrise/sunset you'll never go back.

All the garbage that comes with is just the current cost to pay. And it's not that bad if you cut them off from the internet and make HomeAssistant do the real work.
Nebula for one
"energy" the way OP is using it is bordering on woo. I was simply reminding them of the proper use of the word.

I don't think entropy is necessarily more correct, either. I don't think you or anyone possesses the omniscience to declare that entropy was increased. It could just as well be that some living being decreased entropy in some way, but then we're getting into defining order and disorder and that's outside the scope of what I want to discuss on an internet forum.

OP's asserting that all that "energy" was somehow wasted, but they don't take into account the place those species occupied within ecosystems. Depending on what species you are, the other species being gone is either a good thing or a bad thing or an indifferent thing. No energy was wasted, nothing lasts, nothing is lost. It's the way of the world, or this universe for that matter. If the sun exploded today wiping out the entirety of humanity and everything else on this planet, what is "lost"? My guess is nothing outside of our planet would even notice.

And our "energy" will still live on, in our radio transmissions. So maybe not all would be lost.
Oh that's such a good point about the typing speed limitation I never would have thought of that for some reason.

I've been doing super light python lessons with my 3yo and I was wondering why we were moving slower than he seemed capable of in terms of understanding what I was saying but you just made me realize how long it was taking him just to type brackets and quotation marks etc.

I like this project and am looking forward to trying it. I'm starting to adopt a "the more the merrier" mentality with kids programming. Might as well expose them to the dynamic of having a bunch of different languages / workflows to choose from.
The outrage from some folks about this is shocking. I just cannot understand being so impassioned about other peoples choice to not subject themselves to tracking and brainwashing in the form of unvetted ads that you type ad hominem and something like "fucking LOL" on an HN comment.

Anyways, Ublock Origin still works great and I highly recommend it to everyone. I also highly recommend supporting the folks who make it as its a wonderful tool. Kind of like I recommend signing up for the patreon of creators you particularly enjoy ;)
I find it a bit shocking that there are people who think everyone paid the same fees.
An attempted taxonomy of web components
All phones have hard coded battery management, but where to set the "100%" level, which trades off the longevity vs battery capacity is fixed, and not user adjustable.

As a phone manufacturer, they want to advertise long battery life, so push more towards that than I would like, and can't decide based on context (e.g. staying home vs travel).

There is literally no reason for this not to be a user settable parameter on all devices, other than that there is no incentive for manufacturers to do so. Most electric cars however, do have the ability to set this.

However, because phones are locked down for security reasons, there is no way to make these software adjustable with an app, unless you root the device. Hence the need for a hardware solution.
Zoekt was heavily inspired by Google's internal code search, as mentioned in the blog post. The original version of the internal code search is described in the rsc post. Zoekt keeps some of the foundational ideas (e.g., trigram index), but was a from-scratch implementation. We probably should link to the rsc post for completeness, will update.
I'm partial to chalk, myself. The process of filling a board, erasing the parts that are no longer needed, then filling the board again distills your work down to the key ideas. And I just hate dry erase markers.
> 4. A Weak Board of Directors

> Weak boards tend to have inexperienced members, often ones who are too young to have experienced a complete business cycle, which was often the case with companies in the dot-com boom.

> Often they have ethical conflicts of interest as well, in terms of consulting arrangements, related party transactions, …

Sound familiar?
> We pay taxes so the government can pay to subsidize these healthcare corps that just serve to funnel money to its already rich shareholders.

Americans are about 4% of people but gets 25% of world GDP. There's 333 Mega Americans, with 8 GigaPeople in the world. Most Americans are doing just fine financially in comparison to the rest of the world.

To make things fair, then the wealth of the richest US citizens (about 55% of equity ownership by value[1]) should to be spread to the rest of the world, not spread to other Americans by US taxation changes.

I'm from New Zealand. Our ownership of US shares is likely reasonably fair. NZ has three billionaires[3] (not one inherited their wealth). We are still a relatively wealthy country, but our median income is about 60% of the US median income. I'm not sure what % of NZers would be classified as in poverty by US standards.

40% of US equities are owned by foreigners. If we assume rich foreigners use Cayman Islands and Luxembourg for their ownership, then from [2] a third of that 40% is rich foreigners. Probably better to assume wealth distribution is similar to US so 55% of that 40% is wealthy foreigners.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-owns-us-stock-for...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0613

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealanders_by_net_...
You don’t need to render the whole video, just the frames between the last keyframe of the content and the first keyframe of the ad. The rest can just be cached as is.
Youtube-served ad revenue is a pittance compared to in-video sponsorships. Every time the served ads piss someone off enough to not continue watching (and therefore deny the video a recorded "view") it probably costs the creator more than they would get from the slightly increased revenue of more aggressive ads across dozens of viewers.
> OpenGL 1.0

Not quite what I had in mind particularly because opengl was an abstraction layer designed to begin to resolve these kinds of issues in a more domain-oriented way. Go further back I’m thinking more about the 8-bit generation which is … yeah 80s

I don’t know why CSS didn’t try to resolve the issue too, just alluding to why it might have been at odds in the first place.
>This framing is all wrong, it's not my responsibility to ensure someone elses business model is viable.

100% agree. There is a building in my town that has had multiple restaurants come and go. I don't eat out much so when I see a local business closing down, I feel bad that they went out of business but I certainly don't feel like it was my fault. Content creators are not my dependents and it's my opinion Google should be making it worth their while to upload videos so they don't have to get annoying sponsored segments.
If a restricted area is in full view from a public area, then which area “loses”/gets demoted?

In the case of a restricted area now becoming public because it is adjacent to a public area with no barriers, the participants and activities that requires whatever benefit afforded by the restriction lose e.g. privacy.

In the case of a public area now adjacent to a restricted area in turn becoming restricted, then this method now becomes a way to close public areas and activities allowed in those areas on a whim e.g. the police playing copyrighted music when being recorded in an effort to get any uploads to YouTube being struck down by a DMCA copyright notice.
I think the “big tech is evil“ and “SV start-ups will save us” groups both still exist but remain distinct and haven’t coordinated the triggers that make each group become vocal. I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap in their membership, so it’s not like hypocrisy, it’s more like different people believing different things for different reasons.

However there are many other sentiments held reasonably by various subgroups, like, “this board overstepped and hasn’t explained itself to our satisfaction” or “we love our boss, he makes us wealthy,” or “if they take my chatGPT away, I’ll be pissed” or “man , I just invested $13B into this ridiculously governed venture and if I don’t fix this my wealth will never approach Balmer’s”
Ask HN: What's the drawback of a one-time purchase?
I've worked in SaaS for the better part of a decade, and the decade before that was desktop software/game engines. After watching these companies work for a bit, I look at the churn stats and think -- man, you could just charge a single one-time fee and make almost twice as much; then every year or so, just charge for new features to capture anyone still using the product and wanting the new features.

Further, recurring revenue has a ceiling, almost entirely dependent on churn (simple math and easy to see when graphed out). With one-time purchases, the only ceiling is how good you are at finding new/repeat customers, you don't have to worry about keeping any customers at all.

So, why do we focus on recurring revenue models?