skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Fire TV 4K. When I used to switch it on, right up until a few weeks ago, it would show a half-screen banner ad, and the "Home" icon on the row below would be selected by default. I would simply press the right button on the remote a few times to reach the app I wanted (usually Nebula).

Since a few weeks ago, they silently changed the default focus to the ad banner carousel! Now when I press the right button (because of muscle memory) it switches between the ads! So ridiculous and outright user-hostile!
Private is the default as we all have to pay for it with taxes now or inflation later. I guess you could ask why doesn't the state start a plumbing business?
Which one of those didn't?
Some insight on this by one of the devs: https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL
> And when your family can't drive to get away from a wildfire, flood, tsunami, pyroclast, unhinged lunatic, unexpected road debris, or any of literally thousands of unexpected conditions such as a car flipping in front of them

Unexpected road debris? A car flipping in front of them?

I can understand the others on your list as they are things that can follow you, but I'm having a hard time seeing how unexpected road debris or a car flipping in front of me would be problems. I might have to drive erratically for a moment to evade them, but then even if the system decided I was impaired and made the car stop I'd be past the danger.
I’m personally still trying to figure out my stance:

[1] https://taylor.town/child-tranqs

My gut-feeling is to first envision what you want an average day to look like for your family, and then work backward from there. I think I’m going to prohibit YouTube and other extremely addictive sites with my daughter, but be pretty lax about the internet in general. Not certain yet though!

Regardless of tech, it’s probably a good idea to observe your child and frequently ask them how technology is making them feel, and how it’s interacting with their goals
"Moving to Kotlin first" is a long way from "doesn't use anymore". I suspect that they're still running a lot of Elixir code in production. This was the case more than a year after this announcement, per a conversation with one of their engineers.
So this is only relevant for personal developer environments?
I read that as a suggestion for (sighted) OP to watch the videos so he could understand how to help his (blind) grandfather better.
It seems it's only based on the transcript for now. For example when I asked to comment on visual content it mentioned requiring a captions file:

> I'm sorry, but I'm unable to access this YouTube content. This is possible for a number of reasons, but the most common are: the content isn't a valid YouTube link, potentially unsafe content, or the content does not have a captions file that I can read.
This is not true/incorrect title. it has been determined it was not a terror attack: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-say-no-evidence-of-terr...
Isn't this merely teaching how to be a script/prompt monkey?
If it gets very good at "understanding" YouTube and other video content, Google could maybe find some kind of training data advantage not available to a pure text based model.
>Cookie banners happened because US devs didn't steelman EU regs.

EU sites have the same amount of cookie banners as US ones. (ie, all major sites have one)
> Modern governments are a democratic monopoly.

The fact that governments used contrived symbolic rituals to get arbitrary subsets of arbitrary aggregations of people to express nominal approval of their behavior does nothing whatsoever to alter either the empirical nature or the ethical implicatoins of its monopoly.

> Corporations aren't democratic

Good -- this means that it's harder for them to appeal to vague symbolism to convince people that their actions are inherently legitimate, which in turn means that they are under greater scrutiny to justify their actions, each on its own merits.

> if a corporation gets powerful enough to overthrow the government and replace them you will be in much worse hands than if the current democratic government could remain in power.

Large vested interests are already extremely adept at co-opting nominally "democratic" government and using the very monopoly you're trying to justify as a way of obtaining top-down power that they'd never be able to acquire on their own -- they have zero interest in overthrowing anything.

Regulatory capture is the principal mechanism of corruption in the modern world, and it's astonishing to me that people keep arguing for expanding the reach of the regulatory state in order to reduce the dominance of large corporations, when the actual effect is always to amplify it.
The 2011 storm was absolutely nothing like the 2021 storm.
Nah, it's a game.
Only by a physical person. Otherwise it's not an airgapped network.
there's been physics simulation of bipedal models learning to walk via reinforcement learning. the results always were a bit choppy and robotic, until they implemented signals propagation delays. this led to more natural, fluid movements that definitely looked more "human". sorry, can't find the video.

personally i absolutely do think that for generating convincingly human-like intelligence you also need some human constraints, otherwise you will get some uncanny valley.

another example would be alpha-zeros play style. AIs don't play like humans, they maximize their chance of winning in the long term without going for good looking opportunities that hurt their chances in the long run (like human players do).
Reality is whatever is in your terms of use agreement. Who wrote it?
MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?
It's faster, supports more features and is more secure, especially on Linux [1].

1. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
Huge price difference between Apple TV and Fire TV (or Google TV). Amazon and Google are eating Apple’s lunch when it comes to the living room hardware.
Not a guide, but https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui is a sandbox application for generating AI images locally with a very active community.
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/stripe...

https://www.shopify.com/ca/blog/carbon-removal
How would VectorArt.ai even believe that their user has the rights to do so? If (for example) I upload some stock photo off the Internet, I absolutely do not have the right to grant such a license.
No idea, you'll have to google up the history, but this approach has been toyed around with for ages. Neutral networks are absolutely not new, you can find tons of youtubes of people making small creatures that use neural networks to find food in a simulated environment. The revolution, from what I understand, comes from new techniques to very quickly grade good/bad behavior so you don't need a human to mark every result as good or bad as it's being trained.
The last time I was in Houston (about a year ago), there was a radio station for the blind on 88.7 KUHF-HD4. It was also carried on KUHT 8.5.

In addition to the usual programs of people reading newspapers and magazines to the blind, it had programs to help blind people use technology. The program I stumbled across was specifically about how to use an iPhone as a blind person. I think it was a daily program.

I don't know if it's still on in Houston, but if it was a national program, you might be able to find it online somewhere.
Early on it felt like Google was asleep at the wheel and would lose AI. Now I think they're the company best positioned to win it. YouTube is a huge component of that.

Their recent YouTube music generation stuff just killed about a dozen music startups I've been tracking. And they've already got the users.
I don't know who "his" is

I'm just a dude in Minnesota
Cicero: The first AI to play at a human level in Diplomacy (2022)
Shopify will quite literally remove the carbon from the air via the Direct Air Capture plants that they've purchased [1]. They're not saying "hey buy from us and we won't knock down a tree," they're literally pulling carbon from the air via DACs.

It's as simple as that.

[1] https://news.shopify.com/shopify-purchases-more-direct-air-c...
Shouldn't we be able to detect the civilizations that have been broadcasting EM radiation before they got quiet? Whether they went silent voluntarily or involuntarily - unless every single technologically advanced civilization had the foresight to develop cloaking before becoming spacefaring (which seems unlikely) we should be able to detect their signals within some window of time.

Humans also have been broadcasting EM out into space for a bit now.. so either these hostile aliens are on their way right now, they are too far away to have detected us yet, or they don't exist.
I don't think that feature is intended for blind users.
I've been using Mail-in-a-box for years, until suddenly it wouldn't upgrade anymore. And I ended up having a defunct server.
It's a kids' game.
Hopefully Apple's policy ends soon.
1. Seems like regular software devs who want to try making AI stuff.

2-6 seem like leading questions, so I'll skip them, but:

7. Because you can make fun stuff in the meantime!
no need for billions of years of pre-training, they were designed that way from the start :)
How many American expats in other countries bother to learn the local language?
offtopic, but are your "remote" positions available for developers outside of US?
Not me, I’m sticking with c++ ones.
For sure; with you on that one 100%.

It's gonna be an E=mc2 moment when people figure it out; a deep shift in understanding.
Correct, the former. There are no other open-source email servers (or closed even) that does the former that we know of. The deep-dive write-up is here if you want to read more https://forwardemail.net/encrypted-email.

Edit: It matters because if someone has access to the filesystem, or our MongoDB database, then they still can't read/write to your email mailbox because they don't have your IMAP password (which we only show to you _once_ for 30 seconds and render in-memory). We use ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption on the SQLite mailboxes (which is generally considered quantum-secure[0]). Passwords are generated[1] via Node.js `crypto.pbkdf2`.

[0]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/90311
[1]: https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/blob/d537fc...
I hate my Samsung too. I can sit on the remote and it closes what I'm watching and takes me to the home screen. For some reason I then have to scroll past 12 built in apps I've never used to get back to HDMI #1.
The ergonomics of passing anonymous functions in JavaScript as originally released was awful, as was passing "keyword arguments" as objects. That's why arrow functions, async/await, and object destructuring were added to the language years later. 1995 JavaScript didn't even enforce function arity!

A language that is self-evidently superior due to simplicity and ergonomics would not inspire the publication of a hugely successful book that promises to show people the "good parts" of the language. The superior language you're describing should only _have_ "good parts".
Those old cartoons are great. I was born in 1998, but most of what I watched as a kid was from 1960 or earlier.
For what it's worth, this page was freezing my Windows computer in both Firefox and Chrome. Once I updated my AMD graphics drivers, it now works smoothly. I have an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. Graphics driver version 23.11.1 .
No, it is still using Safari WebView, but Apple may be forced to change that policy in the near future if we're lucky.
Perspective of someone who isn't really in this space: I've always seen them as the same thing, except commodification is talking about the idea in general while commoditization is taking about a specific product.
MicroHs: A Small Haskell Compiler – Lennart Augustsson [video]
Unlike JavaScript, which only has, uh, three (functions, arrow functions, and methods).
Feels pretty smooth on my iPhone 13.
Wish I had the link which was posted here last time.

Fire TV and Fire stick both can have the launcher replaced with something which respects the user more, using adb.

As an aside, the ads are not the worst part of the launcher. The worst part is it keeps getting slower and slower. I have 2 Fire devices and it is the same on both. Total dogs.
Square has one too. They should show it off.
Hell, I'm a software engineer and have made this mistake with video players a couple times. Makes me feel pretty dumb.
The budgetary constraints are purely political though. Stuff like this has been engineered before at a reasonable cost (eg the Green Park station for 9M according to a poster above). So while yes things have to be engineered to a cost, it’s clearly not some impossibility high number.
Is there any reason to believe YouTube content will only be trained on by Bard?

Stuff like YouTubeDL exists and works fine. I would assume that others could scrape and train on it, too? Or does that sound outlandishly expensive?
When is the last time you used Ruby?
We don't need to copy but I think the hypothesis is that constraints like ours help networks optimize towards outcomes like ours, and it seems to test well in this case.
I’m curious what country this is, if you’re willing to share.

I’m surprised any business filing is using a desktop app rather than on the web these days.
This one is quiet actively developed but it seems like by only one person https://gleam.run
> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses: you've created an environment that's optimized for your founding engineers to build something quickly in the first 7 months, but the price is a set of recurring obstacles which your engineers will pay down over the next 7 years.

I've been saying this for years, so it feels really good to the confirmation bias to see it said by someone else!

Though, the language and frameworks definitely matter, but you can easily write short-term-over-long-term code in any language/framework. Founding engineers tend to be the worst as well, because they love and sometimes only ever experienced greenfield development, and they are trying to move fast. That's not a bad thing as without that the startup may die on the vine, but it is something that I wish more founding engineers would be cognisant of, because little things (json schemas, and unit/integration tests for example!) can make a big difference.

Elixir (and Phoenix) really do get the best of both worlds. It's highly productive like Rails, but the built-in way of doing things will give you validations on your data in and there are plenty of tools like Ecto schemas that can be used anywhere and everywhere the data matters. Tests are also first-class citizens and have to be actively ignored to avoid them.

The one area where IMHO the jury is still out is LiveView. It takes a lot of battle-hardened approaches of React, and my initial feelings on it are very good. However I've not yet had a natural organization structure emerge with it, so I'm not sure how maintainable it will be in the future for people that didn't write it. Anybody have experience with that?
Dearborn is the most Arab-influenced place I've ever been by far. Nowhere in California is like that. Kinda funny considering the surroundings.
It doesn’t. I was discussing the inability of a weaker intelligence to predict ahead of time what a stronger intelligence will do to achieve its goals. AlphaGo is an example of that in the specific domain of Go gameplay. A general intelligence is generalized, which is why humans can outcompete other agents in so many different domains, just as an AGI could outcompete us in any domain given the opportunity to grow in power.
We Can't Land the Story of Air India 101 [video]
You give it to intern and report to higher ups that there is now "Generative AI" used in your company. Higher ups tell their friends while golfing. Everyone is happy, until their entire industry gets disrupted by actual AI specialists.
Looking good! Would have loved this to have treegrid functionality, please consider it.
Yeah I thought the system was supposed to be that businesses were incentivized to treat customers well or customers would stop buying their stuff and buy stuff from someone that treats them better. Seems just like we keep lining up for the abuse since there's not a lot of other options not doing the same nasty behavior, and what are we supposed to do - not buy TVs? What would we sit and stare at? ;)
Oh that simple, huh? Too bad you weren’t around in the late 90s to explain this to him, and to help him find the extremely rare group of folks familiar with Linux…
It would be outlandishly expensive, compared to already having infrastructure that processes the videos anyways.
It seems really stupid to loose 200 billion USD in an avoidable event.

And I don’t know the word for the state of mind for risking losing that again.

You can but a lot of snowplows, interconnectors and backup plants for that money.

Reminds me of London, which of never prepared for snow as it never happens. Happened twice in the short time I lived there. Each time costing a lot more than a bit of preparation.
I like redmine for this. tried others but stuck with redmine due to many features
+enhanced wiki via plugin
added (self hosted) draw.io/diagrams.net via plugin
source code repos
smartphone apps exist, allthough I haven't found one that does everything I want from it, so use multiple different ones
How does this syntax make code slower and more error-prone? According to the article, it actually saves allocations in common cases.
Creativity doesn't come into it; the idea of jobs being lost is folk economics that no labor economist believes is possible. So all this shows is that they were founded by amateur AI doomers. We already knew that though.

There is one person out there who decides if you have a job and it's not anyone working on AI. It's the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
certainly more things to throw at the wall! Excited to see the "accidental" progress
There's a version of Yi 34B (the original, not this newer "chat" constrained model) retrained without censorship. The 2.2 version has some additional training on longer chat contexts (sponsored by a16z).

https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2_2-yi-34b

> New in 2.2 is conversation and empathy. With an infusion of curated Samantha and WizardLM DNA, Dolphin can now give you personal advice and will care about your feelings, and with extra training in long multi-turn conversation.

> This model is uncensored. I have filtered the dataset to remove alignment and bias. This makes the model more compliant. You are advised to implement your own alignment layer before exposing the model as a service. It will be highly compliant to any requests, even unethical ones.

In tests, this model will follow instructions well (e.g. writing a dark, gory horror film script), but feels more "unlocked" than actually "good" at those uncensored topics. If you want a model that's specifically trained with the dirty stuff that's normally filtered out of training corpora, try something like Xwin-MLewd-13B-V0.2.
Show HN: Unlimited Design for Startup Founders
I made an unlimited design service for startups/solopreneurs for a flat monthly fee
those quotation marks around "understanding" are pretty important.

to save people a click, and in the hopes that the comments might stay relevant to the OP, the OP means this by "understanding": if the video is about a recipe, you can ask how many eggs are used in the recipe, and Bard can give you an answer.

it seems pretty likely that this may mean Bard simply consumes video transcripts.
They also don't want to people to know the problem was self-inflicted to a significant extent.

Many of the natural gas producers said they lost electricity so they couldn't operate. [1] Oil and natural gas systems must have power to operate in all weather conditions. Without electricity to power these operations, the wells and production facilities will not operate. No amount of insulation, flow additives or equipment housing will overcome a sustained loss of power. Oil and natural gas facilities regularly operate in a wide range of severe weather conditions, but cannot operate when they don’t have power. Loss of power was the biggest factor in natural gas production issues during Winter Storm Uri in February.

When electricity supplies became short, ONCOR began rolling blackouts. If they had known who the natural gas producers were, they would have not denied electricity to them. [2] That meant that Oncor, which delivers power to the Permian Basin — the state’s most productive oil and natural gas basin — had unwittingly shut off some of the state’s power supply when it followed orders to begin the outages...simply because natural gas companies failed to fill out a form or didn’t know the form existed, company executives, regulators and experts said.

If the natural gas producers didn't have electricity pulled out from them, the worst would have been avoided. [2] “In my opinion, if we had kept the supply [of natural gas] on, we would’ve had minor disruptions,” James Cisarik, chairman of the Texas Energy Reliability Council, told legislators. “[Texas] has all the assets, we just have to make sure we evaluate every link in that chain to keep it going.”

[1] https://www.txoga.org/policy-issues/winterready/
[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/18/texas-winter-storm-b...
This is what happens when a giant tech conglomerate expands into every business without regulation. You should only expect for this to get worse.

I miss the days of "owning" a VCR or DVD player or TV.
If we go down that path, then everything is advertising and the word means nothing. Your label is on your product? Guess that's advertising. But what purpose does word-wrapping have except shutting down conversation?

If advertising was a sure thing as long as you claim, then how come none of the ad sellers can guarantee sales? Until they offer a guaranteed increase in sales or your money back, I have a hard time believing the praise.

I think businesses severely underestimate word of mouth, and overestimate how effective their advertising was. That's understandable, since they don't want to feel like fools for having spent money on worthless advertising.

>Products often show up on store shelves for two reasons. The product does independent advertising so the store knows it will sell or they advertise to store buyers.

From what I know, products show up on shelves because the suppliers let the retailers know about their new products. It's not the store manager deciding to start selling the new Snickers flavour because he saw an ad on a bus stop.
Wouldn't Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico pull power from Missouri, Georgia, and Arizona in that case?