skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do if you're using an android device, for which Apple has yet to release any sort of remote app or control scheme.

The general layout for the remote the parent poster was talking about was discontinued in May of 2021 (last being the Siri 1st gen remote), so it wasn't that long ago.
Also I know some of these databases. For example, if you use something like MongoDB with its default configuration, it will be slow as molasses. It will send 20 documents over the network (default cursor batch size) and then yield its time to the operating system and wait for further instructions.

If that document is just three small fields, then you just effectively succeeded receiving maybe couple packets before the server gave up. Pitiful.

Change the batch size to maybe 2 or 20 thousand, enable network compression, increase client read buffer size from its ridiculously low default size, and this could start looking more like a data transfer we expect.
> YOU ARE ALMOST ALL RICH TECH WORKERS.

I don't think that's true.
Doctor Who always tapped into political issues but never more so than in the 70s
IMHO the right number is how much they spend to produce movies, shows, series etc.

$ 16.7 B in 2022.

So, 0,33 %
> The only monitors that support USB-C video are Apple displays; everyone other monitor company ships DisplayPort or HDMI.

Eizo has mass-marketed USB-C models.
Most PC and console games people play have gatcha mechanics and by having gatcha makes them gatcha games. If it has any gatcha mechanics it's a gatcha funnel.
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Got it. I will try to do some performance testing on midrange phones and mobile firefox. Thanks
> It costs to make, but it's not Google that has to pay

Google pays creators 55% of the ad revenue, so yes Google has to pay for those videos.

> It costs to deliver, but why should Google be the only party who gets to deliver other people's content?

People upload to YouTube because YouTube gives them plenty of ad revenue. They don't upload to sites without a lot of ads since that would reduce their ad revenue.
Dist Erlang worked fine in today’s environments for the application we were working on — nothing like real time audio. (Although people are using Elixir for real-time audio and video processing and muxing).

I saw an example of something OTP is also good at — coordination across unreliable nodes and networks. IoT is obvious … but so are mobile point-of-sale and payment systems on food trucks.
AIs are a greater threat to each other than humans ever could be to AI.

We don't even compete for the same resources! (except energy which is abundant)

AI and humans have a naturally cooperative relationship (AI helps humans with boring tasks & scientific discovery to make life better, humans created AI and will debug it & turn it back on if anything bad happens to it).

Whereas multiple (superintelligent, aware) AIs have a naturally antagonistic relationship ("you using GPU cycles means that I'm not using those GPU cycles").

Possibly the biggest fear of an AI would be a "split brain" situation.
> Our long-term goal is to produce a highly documented and complete C++ codebase for every version of Twilight Princess. Having clear and readable source code will aid speedrunners, glitch hunters, and modders curious about how particular parts of the game work.

> Our primary goal is a full decompilation of the GameCube USA version with appropriate documentation. After this is achieved, we plan to decompile the other versions of the game.

Cool project.
Can you link this dictionary here or is it proprietary?
Q* is an incredibly common notation for the above version of the Bellman equation. I think it’s stupid to call an algorithm Q* for the same reason it is to read too much into this: it’s an incredibly nondescript name.
SciFi did a miniseries, just before or just after they changed their name. It wasn't bad. I think it was about 10 hours.

The problem is that a lot of the payoff is at the end of book 3, and then book four tips the whole thing upside down with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for.

I'm always a little surprised how few people have read Dune relative to Lord of the Rings, but the more I think about Dune the more I get it.
And this is one of the big problems... not what you're talking about, but your understanding of what we do.

'Art' and UI/UX design are as different as fiction writers and technical writing. Someone might be good at both, but they're definitely not the same thing. Interfaces are a communication medium, and reasoning about the best way to communicate something is a process that often doesn't even touch aesthetics. These types of designers working for larger companies probably don't even get invited to the meetings where aesthetic decisions get made, and they definitely don't work for the art director who'd be involved in that.

The first step is figuring out what problems your users are trying to solve, and the next step is working with them to figure out the most effective way to do that. It's pretty pointless when the users are insanely defensive about the status quo, as is the case in most FOSS projects.
Whenever the folks at YC get around to adding the feature. To be honest, I don't think they put too many resources into HN, so that could be a while. If ever.
The interesting achievement here seems to be combining a reinforcement learning model that can strategize (which already exist for e.g. chess, go, and many other games) with a language model which can communicate with other players.

We will probably see a lot more things like this. I don't think further scaling of language models is going to make them capable of doing math or other complex logical tasks. LLMs will need to be combined with other models for specialized tasks if we want them to become more general purpose.
Not a lawyer, but check out this part of the licence:

"3) Your use of the Yi Series Models (including using the output of the Yi Series Models) and the creation of Derivatives must not infringe upon the legitimate rights of any Third Party, including but not limited to the rights of personal rights such as the right to likeness, reputation, and privacy, as well as intellectual property rights such as copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and other property rights."

I think it's basically saying, 'you boys deal with the copyright'. Even if they technically allowed commercial use, it wouldn't seem very practical. Or maybe I am misreading that entirely.

Where are we in the debate about copyright?
Purely user submitted content wise who also owns the content in the west? I would guess so, yeah. I am sure there are much more though, think of other companies who also own large data centers like Nvidia. Microsoft also does a lot from what I’ve heard.
Financials, on at least a month by month basis.
Are you about to be paying for unused IPv4 addresses in AWS?
Why have people looked the same for the last 20 years?
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You can also do this in Bash.

$ .(){ "$@"; } # define function called "."
$ . . . # nothing
$ . echo hello
hello
$
Thanks. Possibly related to collaboration. I need to handle a scenario where user deletes another user's active sheet.
I have trouble believing the who ousting of Sam Altman was planned for this. But yeah someone might be smart enough to feed wrong info to the press after the whole saga was over.
Thanks for the bug find! That's one browser I didn't test against :facepalm:
Author here; I have a lot of other posts in my personal blog about this, but: the current trends in VC-backed tech companies are about minimizing risk and following fashion, rather than any technical merit or experimentation. Said another way: if an Elixir company dies, it's "damn, shouldn't have picked Elixir!" If a Python company dies, it's "startups are hard," with no investigation behind what Python cost you.

I go into it a bit here https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gon... and here https://morepablo.com/2023/06/creatives-industries.html

Elixir has real technical downsides too, but honestly they never come up when someone advocates against it. And this is fine, building companies and engineering culture is a social game at the end of the day.
Very interesting ideas -- all the way the small practical stuff like being able to expose symbols only for testing without making them public, up to the more ambitious stuff about validation and constraint checking. As a broad research language the pitch is probably not focused enough to draw in users that happen across the docs, but I doubt mass adoption is the goal at this point!

I would love to use a language that implemented even just the "simple" parts, and I doubt I would be the only one.

One specific suggestion I have about the overview and docs is that I think the language around "Cloud" and "Restful/API computing" is more specific than it needs to be. While features like the APITypes would definitely be most useful for cloud/web software, I think the same ideas could be very useful for any kind of software. Anything that even writes a JSON config file could benefit from that concept if I understand it correctly.
Planning on it. I'm compiling a list of points and counterpoints I've encountered when discussing this over the years and forming it into something informative that has practical actionable advice for everyone involved.
I have a question: I have 200-300 hours of audio recordings of interviews. I an using Otter.ai to automate transcription, and for each recording I export a ".vtt" file of the transcript.

What I'd like to do is create a type of ebook of all these transcripts, where if I click on a word, then the corresponding audio will start playing from roughly the same point in time within the interview.

Otter can do this already (if I'm online and logged in to their website), but I don't want to be tied to their website forever. I'd like to have a local copy that can perform similarly. Amazon ebooks can do this as well, I believe, where there is a corresponding verbatim audiobook. However, this project of mine is purely personal. I won't be selling my audio recordings or transcripts.

Any advice? Could software discussed here be helpful in what I'm trying to accomplish?
Yeah, I'm planning on testing it as soon as I figure out how to properly prompt engineer an untuned foundation model. GPT-4 Turbo 128k also seems to lose coherence around 20k tokens based on my testing so far.
Physical media can't spy on you (Sony rootkit notwithstanding). The standard for respecting the user isn't very high.
ANSI CL:

(defun wrap-foo (&rest args)
(apply #'foo args))

TXR Lisp:

(defun wrap-foo (. args)
(foo . args))

The (. args) syntax (consing dot not preceded by item) is equivalent to args; if we write it that way, we are not using any syntax that didn't exist in 1958.
So 100% of my protein sources
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Honest question. Am I missing something? Is it that bad?

I make drawings for posters sometimes with the aim to "look pro" for a local party. I am quite bad at it, but it looks ok. Like, do high level users have different needs?

I just fired GIMP up to see if I am missing something and I don't really see what.
People like his takes because he gives an authoritative gloss to what they already believe. But his points are usually lacking in argument or rigor. Anyone that essentially expects the public to trust them when it comes to the outcome of AI/AGI should be view with suspicion.
According to Vladimir Lenin [1], the problem with quotes on the Internet is that people immediately believe in their authenticity.

[1] https://www.quotes.net/quote/77867

Can you elaborate on why AI will find it easier to establish mutual trust and binding agreements?
Rich tech workers? I would really like to know where you get that impression from.
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Around 2021, Dogecoin was a very interesting short term investment, yeah. Everyone was high off of AMC and GME in the stock market, so people were actively investing and day trading. Elon Musk was talking up Dogecoin, keeping in mind this is when he was still very popular in a positive way, and crypto in general was doing really well around that time. I'm not sure that it's wise to throw money into it now though. Crypto has become a very polarizing topic with people, with a vocal group of people that absolutely hate it (some of whom have no idea what they're talking about, but there are absolutely genuine reasons to dislike it as it's implemented today), and it has a somewhat uncertain future with government agencies reigning in on it (which certainly needs to happen for it to have a future too, but governments today seem more content with pulverizing the tech into the mud than see it grow into itself while keeping it fairly regulated.)
Also, YouTube itself is used to pass misinformation and harmful content (also in a small percentage of videos).

It's up to the viewer to decide how to act on it.
This usually isn’t how guitar is taught, learned, or tabbed. The low E is always on the bottom, just as it is in sheet music.
I guess that proposing symbol names could be an apt use case for AI. Some papers are referenced here: https://github.com/nforest/awesome-decompilation#ai-based-de...
What the revisionist crap is this?

China told the west it was airborne and that masks should be used in like bloody February.

Right after January when they got all their party members to send masks home from the west.
I'm okay to pay personally, just not 10x what Google would get if I was watching ad, I just want to cover the costs of the ads and nothing more.
AFAIK, it's the opposite -- the Fourier Transform implies the uncertainty principle.
I think big parts of the answer include time domain, multi-agent and iterative concepts.

Language is about communication of information between parties. One instance of an LLM doing one-shot inference is not leveraging much of this. Only first-order semantics can really be explored. There is a limit to what can be communicated in a context of any size if you only get one shot at it. Change over time is a critical part of our reality.

Imagine if your agent could determine that it has been thinking about something for too long and adapt strategy automatically. Increase to higher param model, adapt the context, etc.

Perhaps we aren't seeking total AGI/ASI either (aka inventing new physics). From a business standpoint, it seems like we mostly have what we need now. The next ~3 months are going to be a hurricane in our shop.
You Won't Survive as Human Capital
> If I speak another language, I will lose who I am to the dominant culture

I find this reason very compelling.

Personally I see it as a huge positive to be able to communicate with people and to enjoy cultural benefits - but what about the harms? What about the negative or undesired cultural values that you might absorb and adopt? And what about losing or forgetting your original culture, values and sense of self, and becoming someone you no longer recognize?
> This will almost certainly become a reality when a sufficient #users buy an Apple TV, through a remotely activated update.

Apple's business model is incompatible with that user experience. First, Apple already makes a profit on the devices themselves. Second, there's a healthy attach rate for additional Apple devices and services for people who have a positive experience with Apple TV.
The ordinary consumers that bought Alexa listening devices in the millions?
> The best option is likely to separate biologic waste and compost it. That produces some CO2 but puts the remaining carbon back where can be used. Plastic doesn't degrade, paper can be recycled, which means most of the carbon is sequestered or reused.

There are also technologies that turn biologic waste and plastics back into a high-quality oil that has a variety of uses. On balance I don't know if this is better than direct burning for energy production, but for more robust plastic recycling it might be.
But that isn't an as big deal as it sounds. Many use TikTok for example, but TikTok barely pays anything to creators so anyone who gets big on TikTok moves to YouTube to make money. As long as you make the most money at YouTube that will keep happening, and all those ads is why people make so much money making videos on YouTube.

This leads to an Apple situation where Apple doesn't have the most users but most of the money goes to them since they can extract much more money per user. It isn't a bad situation to be in.
No, it's uncut, all deleted scenes, extended version of all movies if I'm not mistaken. It's not a "remix" edit, the 19 hour one I'm referring to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/bo8how/middle_ear...
I used to do that. Until I got a Chromecast + Remote. It's a tiny, clean remote that controls my tv, my soundbar and the chromecast, my main media streaming app (emby) is one click away after turning my tv on, performance "just works" and it handles 4k content no problem.

A HTPC is great in terms of flexibility amd configurability, but it does not come close to the simplicity and elegance of a tv box - be it apple tv or google tv. My father has a generic android tv box (mecool something something) and it's equally as perfect for their needs.

I'm not aware of any ads baked in to the google/android tv ui.
Most Reliable Home Routers
I am currently running a ASUS BRT-AC828 AC2600. It was not cheap.

It is about 2.5 years old and now requires a reboot every week or two. Sometimes a couple of times a week.

I have had similar experiences at every price point in the home router market over the years. It is important to me that my internet stays up while I am away since I have a lot of stuff on my local network (NAS, JellyFin, IP cameras, etc.). I am posting this because we have been away from the house about 24 hours and it is dead in the water again.

What home routers are people running that do not require dropping half a G every 2 years? Consumer product reviews do not at all focus on reliability/longevity, just speed, features, value prop. For my next purchase if I am going to spend money on the features which are important to me, I want to know I am buying something which will reliable to at least 5 years of daily use requiring a hard reset no more often than every few months.
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The most common use cases for the kind of long range high bandwidth connectivity that fiber is good for are networking and displays, neither of which typically carry power in consumer use cases. USB cannot be replaced by a purely optical connection, but Ethernet and DisplayPort certainly can, and tunneling USB alongside DisplayPort to split back out at the monitor doesn't present any power delivery challenges.
I've been to landfills before, thank you. It's certainly possible with technology or manpower to separate the garbage. Sorting would require a "huge investment" ? well good thing WM is a XXX-billion dollar corporation, right? I mean, otherwise that might hurt their bottom line. Think of the corporations, amirite?

The real concern is how much energy that would require, but luckily many landfills can capture the methane emitted by previous disposal and what better way to use it than power on-side sorting facilities.

My main point is that WM (and any other trash haulers, I know someone will say "WM isn't the only company - as if that adds any value to the conversation) is stagnating instead of innovating. Thinking ahead that within a decade or two, we might have a bacteria that eats plastic (and maybe even turns it into fuel!) or that burning more diesel (to pick up recyclables) might not be such a good idea. In other industries, they have real-time cameras that can sort tiny shards of broken glass (or grains of wheat!) to keep out contaminants. Theres no reason to think WM can't innovate similarly, they just have no pressure/incentive to.
Advertising is anything you do to try and increase the visibility of something.

No single ad is guaranteed and i never made that claim.

Word of mouth is great but an extremely slow way to grow a business and tends to geographically limit you and requires advertising first to get the initial clients.

> From what I know, products show up on shelves because the suppliers let the retailers know about their new products

I cover this scenario with the advertising to store buyers line.
This is cool. Combining the planning from the RL model with the NLP knowledge engine is really good.

Now the next thing is to come up with a way to generalize the planning engine to the level the LLM is generalized. So it could learn plan for anything like a human can, instead of just one game and its rules. That would be the next huge leap
LLMs as we currently understand them won't reach AGI. But AGI will very likely have an LLM as a component. What is language but a way to represent arbitrary structure? Of course that's relevant to AGI.
Ahhh i see. So technicallyyyyy it's a 65C02. All good.

So if you're trying this code on an original 6502 it will not work, but easily modifiable to use the X or Y registers instead of A.
Can confirm: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
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> basically you dont consider the experience of the non trafficked providers

I do consider the experience of non-trafficked providers, but legalization has implications for both that group and other groups - it takes a holistic approach and recognition of all the effects of a policy change to make an informed decision - you cannot make a policy change in a vacuum only considering one side of the coin.

> their experience is not cancerous

To be clear, you are straw manning my views. I do not assume a lack of agency of participants of the prostitution industry. I do not view prostitution itself as a cancerous industry. The cancerous industry is sex trafficking, which as has been demonstrated, has grown in countries which have chosen to legalize prostitution.

> you continue to cite “evidence” as “failure” because the state has a poor implementation problem in the labor rights organizations, as if you were previously waiting for data instead of this all being window dressing for your view that all prostitution is inherently cancerous

Do you or do you not recognize the fact that countries which have made prostitution legal have growing sex trafficking issues? Actually I would be quite happy with data which shows that legalizing prostitution reduces sex trafficking, that would be a feather in the cap of pushes to legalize prostitution and would silence what in my opinion is the largest argument against legalization.

In reality, the countries which have legalized prostitution have seen growing sex trafficking problems. So while you want to imply that I am the one who is insincerely waiting for evidence, it is actually you who are not dealing with the pragmatic reality in the world that shows legalization of prostitution is related to an increase in the size and scope of sex trafficking. Again, these two things cannot be tackled independently - they are intimately and irrevocably related.

If legalizing prostitution increases the size of the vulnerable population being exploited, then on balance it is not a benefit for society.

> on the contrary, dealing with trafficking can be improved and those improvements will extend to all laborers. you’re latched in and doubling down on the state being incapable of policing trafficking because you found a study that matched your preexisting discomfort with prostitution existing at all and keep pushing that into absurd territories.

Again, you are making statements that you wish to be true, but are not borne out by the reality of the facts. If dealing with sex trafficking is easier when the industry is legalized, why is it that countries are facing increasing problems with sex trafficking after making it legal?
Perhaps a better landing page to start from if you haven't seen the other efforts before either: https://zelda64.dev/
Glad to see this finally getting the attention it deserves. With a major election coming up in the US next year, I'm frankly terrified.