skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TGA is full-on monetization. This year's TGA spent more time on paid game previews and advertisements than it did on the awards. Hideo Kojima was given more time to preview his upcoming game than all of the winners' speeches combined.

The breakdown of the show:

1% announcing the nominees and winners

1% speeches by the winners

10% Hideo Kojima

10% other celebrities

78% ads and game previews
> “There’s a 5-year-old child here,” Mirabelli said. “Imagine how a child feels when your father says he feels emotionally damaged by your birth.”

Classic. Blame the father, even though his sperm was used non-consensually and the mother filed a lawsuit for child support after doing what is tantamount to rape. It's legally rape in most Western jurisdictions to remove a condom without your partner's consent, but somehow it's okay to blame the father and demand he cover the expenses of such an outrageous and blatantly immoral act.
was just wondering how pilots know ahead of time that there is turbulence a minute or 2 out (obviously can't see it in the distance) and it's the least technical way I thought possible
This doesn't really touch on the most important element: the collective bargaining agreement between Microsoft and the ZeniMax union has provisions that

1. Incorporate Microsoft's existing AI principles [1]. This is a big deal because it means they aren't just PR fluff anymore, but something immutable with legal force (although that legal force is very small, as labor law is weak and it would only apply where the ZeniMax union has standing).

2. Microsoft must notify and bargain with the union when some new AI use is going to impact their work [2]. If this becomes the model, it could radically change AI governance. So far all talk of AI governance has come from AI ethics researchers, "longtermists" and the leaders of AI companies. This is the first move towards some form of governance accountable to people at large rather than some small group making decisions.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-11/microsoft...

[2] https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/zenimax-workers-united-c...
I'd like to request HN also post its status messages to the Fediverse given Birdsite's increasingly unstable and untenable status and leadership.
Also being able to bring 100 tonnes to the surface of the moon is a fantastic reason as well. Everyone can bring a set of golf clubs and balls. Heck we can setup a little driving range with the extra mass allowance.
I think we already know for sure that posting a combination of full name, SSN, DOB, and address is a reliable way to provide scammers with the necessary information to commit fraud.
There's something incredibly ironic about trailers "spoiling" content in a series which is, in great part, about the power of prophecy and predestination.
If hunting/gathering is play and since that's basically what all animals do, then the blog's title, "play makes us human" is totally incorrect. Of course other animals play, we've all seen it.

It seems the opposite: toil makes us human. Our inability to accept what can be foraged has pushed us into working.
And adds to the glut of storefronts and launchers PC gamers need to have installed. I don't think there's any issue with providing a competitor to steam, but in practice it's not 'oh, I can switch to epic game store', it's now 'because epic has paid these developers some money, I need to go to them if I want that game'. This, in combination with a lack of feature parity with steam, is why people resented epic. If they hadn't basically pulled several games off of steam when they launched I think they would have caught a lot less flak from the community.

(console exclusives, are of course this but much worse, but at least there's some decent amount of effort involved in a port which means it's not just exclusivity deals that make a game only available on one console, as opposed to an almost entirely artificial limitation)
rutracker.org has many things archived
The Fediverse has a global name registry. Your instance-name is part of that.

(That is, names are globally unique. They may not always be findable, but for a sufficiently federated profile, searching from a sufficiently federated instance, that shouldn't be a hurdle. And I strongly suspect third-party directories will emerge.)
There's a distinction between trademark and copyright, and the ability to imply a Disney source and to include Mickey in your work are not controlled in the same way. Using the 1928 Mouse in your work while making it clear your work doesn't originate with Disney wouldn't violate trademark law.
I'm fine with that, but merely having my genome sequence doesn't enable you to do that.
I can confirm it is indeed possible!
I look forward to the lawsuits since HIPAA is Federal and abortion laws are state.
> "It's not a short ad; I've seen it several times, so one of the times I recorded it."

FWIW, YouTube ads are just normal, unlisted videos. You can get their ID by:

- right-clicking on the video while the ad is playing,

- selecting 'Stats for nerds',

- copying the 'Video ID' from the debug info in the top left corner,

- appending this ID to 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v='

This also allows you to see the account associated with the ad and how often this ad has been played already.

For example, here's a (German) scam ad promoting a cheap ceramic heater as having "effectively no energy costs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc
>what do they say when you point this stuff out?

My best local friend is twice my age (late-30's VS late-70's); former landlord, he married a rich girl from The Mountain, and is himself a blue-collar-raised Veteran [drafted, no less]; he is essentially the only "receptive" elderly person I've met, his wife vitriolic at the idea/concept of providing any of the same benefits as her own generation (The Silent Generation) received.

I will just quote Her, instead of trying to generalize:

"Nobody wants to be 'the last one' at the party — then you have to clean up all the mess!" —80's, female member of local Patriarchy™.

Also her: "What should we last few members of my generation do, then; just DIE?!?" Me: "Well, you could start by not complaining about the minimal taxes you pay on ownership of hundreds of acres of undeveloped land. Or, stop cashing your social security checks, which you clearly do not need." Her: "but I EARNED that."

Narrator: No, she did not. She inherited it from Daddy, over sixty years ago.
I think what they're saying is that name (probably not), SSN (almost definitely), DOB (maybe?) and address (probably) have known, confirmed risks. There are current ways that bad actors can abuse that information.

Genome is still pretty theoretical, except getting caught for committing crimes.
I have seen many ads on YouTube, Google Ads, Google Display too. There are similar ads on twitter and LinkedIn too. It seems like they don't have a handle on the quality of ads nowadays. Looking at the advancements in Machine Learning capabilities it's hard to believe they are not able to detect these.
Supercharge the LLM with a Knowledge Graph Using KG-RAG
How Badly Do We Want Correct Compilers? – John Regehr – NDC TechTown 2023 [video]
What Makes a Good Cat?
Yeah agreed! We were surprised to hear how deeply bundled Heroku Connect is in their Enterprise plan. Reps not knowing about heroku connect coupled with their abandoned roadmap make us excited to build a better solution
Building a Great Search Branching Experience with AI
Saving people from malnutrition, hunger, violence and war are noble goals. They have nothing to do with discussing, and assessing, the situation in pre-historical times or the live of tribes living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to this day.
Here is the verdict form:

https://ia804506.us.archive.org/10/items/gov.uscourts.cand.3...
What are these "GPUs" really?
Nothing about the LLM experience is deterministic, so these anecdotal experiments mean nothing. Your experiment led the witness by feeding it possible answers. Small wonder it got them all right. Try this: give it four wrong answers for each question and see how it fares. In my experience it will pick one and convincingly rationalize why it's right, unless you question it, at which point you're leading it again.

Anecdotes are so worthless, in fact, here's mine-- I asked Azure's GPT for Powershell help. After seven regens in which it tried to include a different fictional library, I gave up. So which of us had the "real" LLM experience?

These things are storytellers, not teachers. Sometimes it gets it right. Maybe most of the time. It's convincing enough that unless you're an expert, you'll never guess when it's wrong, and the lies are bespoke for every user so there's never going to be an errata page to document its failures. It will always appear reliable.
There's none. But the validity of a copyright of a work is dependent on the place in which you're applying the law, not on the place where the author is from (except when applying the rule of the shorter term).

Tons of works are in the public domain in one country, but not another.
Richard Brody said it best: "Dune: A movie sanded to dullness."
Fitness and photography both sound like it'd be easy to meet up with like-minded folks. (my village has several fitness circles of varying sorts, and I think I've seen photography classes being offered locally; they're definitely on offer 15 minutes away)

Coding, engineering, and mechanics sound more difficult: how distant are their nearest makerspaces?
Tech CEO Accused of Raping, Torturing Employee in 'Slave Contract'
At some point the Danielle Steels of the world will use models trained on their body of work to generate new novels from whole cloth to pump out content with little effort. The only constraint would be not releasing them too quickly for human-written books.
More importantly, those who care about the public domain were not paying attention the last time. They are now, so Disney realizes that it will be a harder sell. As soon as they get someone to propose a laws letters will be written. There is one thing more powerful than money in politics and that is votes. Letters to congress are a proxy for votes and so nobody will risk another extension.
Ok, but where is the class action?
I don't agree with all of the OP's arguments, but wow, what a great little piece of writing!

As the OP points out, the "accelerators vs doomers" debate in AI has more than a few similarities with the medieval debates about the nature of angels.
I actually didn't know about Opus, but having read a bit about it, how aren't we using that codec for all things audio? It's open source, has good platform support, quality seems to similar to AAC, it could be used for HPF. What's stopping the adoption of Opus in Bluetooth standards?
Can anyone explain why free market competition has so thoroughly failed while a state utility provides such a dramatically better product?

I'm not being snarky, I'm usually a pretty strong 'let it be decided by markets' guy.
And usually because the truck is over full too. For almost any load, if you fill the truck to the brim you have overloaded it. (Unless you're moving styrofoam)
Inside Foxconn's Struggle to Make iPhones in India
I work in startups, and literally not a single one of my coworkers plays games. Maybe it depends a lot on your field or company?
This definitely happens. This is how videos uploaded to Facebook or YouTube become available so quickly. The video is split into chunks based on key frame, the chunks are farmed out to a cluster of servers and encoded in parallel, and the outputs are then re-assembled into the final file.
Or the Internet Archive?
Sentiment analysis tools haven't yet proved accurate enough to be useful for HN moderation; traditionally they misclassify too many things because they don't have access to intent. It does seem like LLMs have a chance at doing this better, though, and if anyone wanted to work on that, I'd certainly be interested in what they find.
Grooveshark was amazing
Ad-free content really is possible, and Amazon is showing us how to do it. (Despite the fact that they themselves host ads.)

Amazon (however unlikely) could viably come out with an ad-free YouTube competitor, backed by Prime subscription dollars. As long as the costs are in order they could let it stew for a decade while it slowly pulls users away from other platforms. Heck Netflix could do the same thing, although they seem to be drawn towards ads, sadly. X.com would probably love to do something similar, but they don't have enough services to match the value of Prime.
Show HN: RΞASON – Open-source TypeScript framework for LLM apps
Hi HN! RΞASON is an OSS Typescript framework for developing LLM apps that uses Typescript's interfaces to get structured output from an LLM.

While there are other TS LLM frameworks, I think RΞASON fills a unique space in the market: it's laser-focused on only three areas and, most importantly, actively stays away from pre-made prompting & retrieval.

I've been in the LLM space since GPT-3 originally came out, and I've always had problems with other frameworks, such as LangChain. I dislike that they focus a ton on out-of-the-box prompting & pre-made agents — I, as the dev, should be the one in charge of it.

My belief is that LLMs are a new primitive that programmers can use — not a new way to program; it's still up to the programmer to do the right thing & create the right abstractions. Therefore, it's the developer's job to learn the new concepts that come from this new primitive, such as prompting & retrieval. I see a similar analogy here with ORMs & SQL.

What RΞASON helps with is in areas that don't differentiate your app: getting structured outputs, handling streaming, and observability.

The goal of RΞASON is to make creating great LLM experiences easier. We try to accomplish this by simplifying the hard stuff & maximizing performance — decreasing as much as possible the TTUB.

RΞASON is OpenTelemetry compatible — which allows observability in almost any tool (Zipkin, Jaeger, paid solutions, etc.).

I'd really love to hear feedback about RΞASON! It has been a hobby project for the last months and I'm super curious to what y'all will think.

By the way, contributions welcome!
Will software become “public domain” over time?
this is great. thanks for sharing
Opportunity cost is real.
Comparing the average life span of wild animals and their brethren living lives at Zoos, pets or otherwise protected enviroments allowing them to die of old age, I'd say yes.
Locating secret/hidden family is kinda nice.
You are very strange.

Are you just having a conversation within your own head?
Or 'crime is out of control!' because cops won't do their job, knowing that the blame will fall on elected officials. Would not be the first time that SFPD has taken this approach: https://nextshark.com/boudin-san-francisco-boba-shop-quickly
I just checked, and using my True Name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names) I can easily find my DOB, prior addresses and phone numbers, and using that information, it's likely I could make a reasonable guess for the SSN.
Random cite describing the difference:

"Prescriptivism is the term used for approaches to language that set out rules for what is regarded as “good” or “correct” usage. Descriptivism is an evidence-based approach to language that describes, in an objective manner, how language is being used. Most contemporary academic linguists are descriptivists, but prescriptivist approaches abound in schools, style guides, internet comment threads, and parental chidings. This case examines attempts to govern, reform, and/or reimagine English."

https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/english-language/g...
From Wikipedia:

"DOS WordStar was not explicitly designed for IBM PCs, but rather for any x86 machine (as there were a number of non-IBM-compatible PCs that used 8086 or 80186 CPUs). As such, it used only DOS's API calls and avoided any BIOS usage or direct hardware access. This carried with it an unfortunate performance penalty as everything had to be "double" processed (meaning that the DOS API functions would handle screen or keyboard I/O first and then pass them to the BIOS)."

"The first DOS version of WordStar, demoed by Jim Fox and executed by a team of Irish programmers in April 1982, was a port of the CP/M-86 version of WordStar, which in turn had been ported from the CP/M-80 version in September 1981. This had been started by Diane Hajicek and was completed by an Irish team of programmers under ISIS-II, probably using Intel's source-to-source translator CONV86. Thus the main program executable was a .COM file which could only access 64 kB of memory. Users quickly learned they could make WordStar run dramatically faster by installing a RAM disk board, and copying the WordStar program files into it. WordStar would still access the "disk" repeatedly, but the far faster access of the RAM drive compared to a floppy disk yielded a substantial speed improvement. However, edited versions of a document were "saved" only to this RAM disk, and had to be copied to physical media before rebooting."

"At that time, the evolution from CP/M to MS-DOS, with an "Alt" key, had taken place. WordStar had until then never successfully exploited the MS-DOS keyboard, and that is one explanation for its demise."
What would happen in practice if someone tried to use the public domain Mickey for something? I assume that regardless of the legal status, you'd still have a fun time with Disney lawyers proving in court that you had the right to use public domain Mickey.

Is Mickey also a trademark (which never expires) and anything using public domain Mickey would be too similar to their trademark?
Big property companies might have access to cash (e.g. via social connections), so there is still potential utility from doing business with them.

Homeowners who stop paying mortgages do not have access to cash, so there is no utility in doing business with them.
This is a highly politically charged conflict that’s mainly relevant for being a sort of rhetorical proxy conflict (see all the other conflicts going on that receive a fraction of the attention). The point of discussing this topic is to rhetorically battle.

Unlike say, the current civil war in Burma or Sudan, or the Azeri-Armenian war, basically everyone who clicks on this will have an opinion that’s not, well, academic let’s say.
Hey Dang, I think I've had a rate limit applied to my account from over a year ago. Do these rate limits expire? It's made it difficult to continue in some technical back & forths.
Yes, the reason I asked is that when I see SLM I got all excited thinking "finally a small model that fits in cheap hardware for simpler tasks"
But someone else's taxes are. Until we can convince both sides of this conflict that they need to love their children more than they hate their neighbor, this cycle will only repeat.
Very curious what you have in mind. My email is in my bio if you're open to sharing.
The two parts of this I find really attractive are:

> What is also irritating about the result table is the fact that the notion of a ‘key’ is not defined anymore, that notion is simply dropped when processing data in SQL or relational algebra (→Problem 5: key information loss).

> Back to the result table, SQL discards even more information from the underlying relations: where did a specific attribute in the result table come from in the first place? Does that attribute value correspond to an attribute in one of the base relations? Or was it computed? (→Problem 6: schema information loss)

I've definitely had cases in ETL where being able to track where data came from (e.g `columnA` is derived from a window function over `a.columnB` and `b.columnC). This doesn't quite get to that (what if `a.columnB` is derived!) but its a neat idea
People rely deny the role of libido in that industry.

You could bring them back and have a totally enticing event.

Fortunately Miami exists and the west coast ideology of “inclusion by exclusion” is ignored.
That's almost the most infuriating thing about their copyright grabs; it hardly even gets them anything of interest. They're not making any money on the actual Steamboat Willie movie. We're still a ways away from anything of even modest commercial interest from Disney entering the public domain, and even when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs does finally come into public domain, I can't imagine it meaningfully affects their bottom line. The ability to roll into a store and just buy it isn't going to meaningfully affect Disney. Meanwhile, they still have all the trademark control, which itself means you can't really do anything to Steamboat Willie that would "offend" Disney. (I'm going to just leave that vague for now.)

Meanwhile, to keep this at-best modestly interesting historical film locked up for those last few marginal drops of IP, they've kept the entire rest of the culture locked up. Hell of a cost society pays just for that. I'd almost rather we just grant Disney copyright in perpetuity if it would shut them up and leave the rest of the culture alone.
People at a cloudstack conference think cloudstack is great and want their customers to use it?

What's next, a survey of people attending the annual dentistry conference shows that they think dental health is important?
That is not the only point of discussing this topic, and definitely not the point of discussing it here. This follows from HN's core principle* because curiosity and battle can't be active at the same time.

I agree with you about this:

> everyone who clicks on this will have an opinion that’s not, well, academic let’s say

... but as I've explained elsewhere in this thread, I don't think suppressing the topic outright is a solution either (I mean a solution to the particular constraints of this site, not in general).

So what do we do? We each work in ourselves to find a larger space than just our own opinion. We make room for the other alongside ourselves. If we can do that, we'll be able to comment from a place of openness rather than battle. For those who feel too intensely to do so: that is human—let's just be aware enough to recognize that state in ourselves and refrain from posting as long as we're in that state.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Someone pointed out to me that Winnie the Pooh brings in more money than Mickey, and his copyright is just about the same timeframe. Everyone assumes The Mouse is what Disney is shitting bricks over and it's just as likely it's the silly ol' bear instead.
Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386?
False. US taxpayers fund UN agencies which have sent large amounts of foreign aid to Gaza. Much of that money is diverted or embezzled by Hamas.

https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-israel-forei...
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I've been a little disappointed with role playing with ChatGPT 4. The AI starts out really close to the behavior that you would expect for the proposed role, but as the conversation gets longer, it starts to forget the role and becomes more generic, like you'd expect normal ChatGPT to be.

I hope this is an implementation detail and that the technology can, in the future, maintain the role playing across really long conversations.
So they can activate it in a down quarter or if Comcast threatens to move into the area.
Disney spent the last decade or so growing their business (through large acquisitions) to where Mickey is now just small fraction of their worth. So they likely don't really care anymore.

Plus it's only the old, old design of Mickey, not the current version they have been using for awhile that looks more normal to most people these days.
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"Alternative hacker news front ends".
The website has a video demo in case you guys want to check it out: https://tryreason.dev