skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Implying watching anything makes you smarter. I've also read and seen so many things, but it's mostly (95%+) gone. The only things I continue to remember are those from where I actively participate(d) in (including in online communities). The collective consumption-heavy posture of online usage can't be healthy...

Though I will grant that some latent knowledge might stick regardless. Active curation and note-taking (e.g. in a personal knowledge base or in a private/public wiki) might also help.

In fact it's this that I would recommend most to kids these days: record and curate the things you do and see. Not only for nostalgia's sake but also so that you can find (and reshare? ;)) stuff again.
No, Please check next time.

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com
> If any Youtube engineers are reading, please give us (the parents) more control!

Unfortunately, this won't happen.

No number go up, no change. Noone will get promoted for this. Not the PM: number won't go up. Not the dev: number won't go up. Neither the director nor the VP: number won't go up.

It's really like opium - until the regulators come in, nothing will change as numbers must go up.

The free market libertarians will say you have free will and should think for yourself, rationally, let the market decide. Well, the market decided it wants to self-destruct.
Has it come to a halt? I guess looking only at the perspective of no gpt-5...then yes? But I see wide access to multi-modal. Huge increases to throughput, not much latency these days. Better turbo models though I would agree in some areas those have been steps back with poorer output quality. Adding to that list, massive cost reductions so its easy to justify any of the models being used.
You don't read them, you use icons for instant recognition, your eyes don't even need to travel anywhere as that will fit in your focuse'd vision (as is illustrated in the repo's gif), gamepad joystick is worse vs. a mouse since in a mouse you can move it further away faster to the distance where you avoid any angle issues.

This is the superior usability - a pie menu you can switch to any item with the same distance while in a regular list to get to the last one you have to skip everything, so the menus tend to be smallish in height, thus making the selection harder

For example, while moving horizontally to a sub-menu, you can easily cross the width of a single line since it's not easy to move your mouse absolutely steady horizontally (in pro graphic apps you'd usually hold a Shift for that), so instead of moving to a sub-menu, you switch to another item. In a Pie menu that's much harder since as you move further the menu's area increases, so the tolerance is higher

Keyboard shortcuts can also be enabled for this type of menu.
I thought a lot about this. The reasons for choosing Electron are outlined here: https://github.com/orgs/kando-menu/discussions/58
The goggle FoV is fixed right in front of you, but your eyes turn.
AMD had Jim Keller join them, that should have been a wake up call for Intel.
CivitAI Generation Params Scraper!
Build a reference database of prompts and their resulting image.

Image URLs are in the format of https://civitai.com/images/{_range}. A range of 5000000 to 5634010 was initially chosen. An infinite while loop is created, and begins requesting a random image from the specified range.

If the request's response returns a 200 OK , BeautifulSoup is used to parse the HTML , targeting the matine-ScrollArea-viewport class. We loop through all <a> children of this class, and find the anchor tag with a src attribute containing the string original=true , as this PNG file has the generation parameters embedded as EXIF.

After generation parameters are extracted, we modify the URL to re-request the image with a width of 320px , and store the response as a Base64-encoded BLOB of the original. As a result, 56,153 images have been acquired, in a DB file of only 2.7 TB.
LOL guys isn't that so hard not to watch dumb or short or news videos from your main account? My recommendations are never game videos, and rarely less than 1 hour videos because guess what? I seldomly watch videos which are less than 1 hour and never watch games.
They also kill good internal products because of infighting. ImageReady was nixed by the Photoshop guys.
OpenAI has a huge amount of people working on training data. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/openai-chatgpt-ai-jo...
They’re both decentralized. Actors are identified by public keys. Messages are signed and processed by other nodes.

The only high level differences are (1) Nostr does not have a persistence layer (much less one with global consensus) and (2) applications live “outside” the system whereas in the crypto world they’re either hard coded (say bitcoin) or through smart contracts that live “on-chain”, ie as part of the system.

Maybe I’m missing something though. It’s just my observation.
>It's not like there's a well known group of congenitally deaf people who get dementia young to inspire a causal connection.

Hearing ability and cognitive ability are significantly correlated, independent of age.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8581793/
Many bits of physics start out as "did geometry". Will this particular idea pan out? Probably not. Should it be the subject of popular press at this stage? Probably not. But it's worth having scientists explore the possibilities. The paper might be interesting to specialists, once published, https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/33074Yb3Ufa1478fd33b04...
I would LOVE this feature for my kids.
Companies have gone super saiyan on outsourcing.

Its a nightmare for generalists, newbies, web devs, front end, run of the mill cloud and sysadmin.

Literally worst in history possibly.

Anything that can be easily outsourced to an Indian or Latam candidate

If you have a security clearance that cant be outsourced or use pytorch everyday youre prob fine.

If youre a specialist on some field its never been better. I think ML people are getting 1M comp at OpenAI.

What kind of tech person are you?
I had a first discovery for 'Justice League of Mars', then one for 'Justice League of Moon', but not for the 'Justice League of Mars and Moon'
Have you considered trying a dedicated academic steaming service instead? The incentives align better with what you're seeking, and I'd bet the content does too.

I don't have much experience in this field, but you might look into stuff like the streaming apps for PBS or TED, or even paying for Nebula or Curiosity Stream. If you were really serious about something, you could even look at a learning platform like Khan Academy, Brilliant, or Coursera.
"Nearing GPT-4"...

The leaderboard[1] shows that there is a huge gap between GPT4-0314 and GPT4-Turbo. So if you only just are nearing GPT-4-0314, then you're still a year behind the state of the art.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech
How can someone “own” their corpse?

But I suppose the Henrietta Lacks case is a precedent. A terrible decision IMHO
That's not under the Intel corporate logo. It's a personal account. His comments aren't my cup of tea but they certainly aren't generally offensive.
In reality, it's complicated. You have some legal responsibility for what happens on your property.
Where do you like to keep up to date on these? Arxiv preprints, or some other place?
On mobile you click, on desktop you drag and drop.
25 Patterns for High Performance Software (Part 1)
I would love to hear which console you have in your collection if any.
I was a SEGA fanboy back in the day and have had a few of their console dating back to the Master System
Awesome interface idea, much faster and easier to select vs regular menus, wish it were a standard, but meanwhile hopefully this vision will bloom!
Well since I don’t have visibility into the inner workings of these companies, I can’t say what exactly they can/should do, but I also don’t accept the premise that the only thing they could do is monitor all private communications. I don’t think it’s impossible that there might be some objective heuristic that could help flag potentially abusive accounts and then put some roadblocks in place to protect minors from those accounts.
Sourcehut can host mercurial repositories.
David Mills, the internet's 'father time,' dies at 85
> For databases that are used for the majority of the business world, efficiency is generally a bigger concern than correctness; they'd rather have cheap and fast databases that lose a few transactions occasionally than something that actually provides consistency

'majority' is a strong claim. Any figures to back it up?
it will eventually

apple, youtube, google, amazon made their bacon by being user-centric and generating huge value.

now they're busy capturing value

you can only capture for so long without generating
Certificate of Need
Show HN: Multimodal AI Dataset for Training Python AI Coding Copilots
tldr: we published an open source dataset to help build your own AI-coding model from 1200+ AI-focused, python repositories:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/matlok/multimodal-python-copilot-training-overview

Hello everyone,
After checking out the latest commercially available models, we decided we wanted a model that could code and keep up with the latest AI research. To build our own, self-hosted copilots we needed a large dataset, and we wanted to share as we go.

The focus for this version is on creating a baseline “Manager level” understanding when someone types the question/prompt:

“define how this software works in the module: ./path/some.py”

The model responds with the generative response wrapped in a yaml payload. To build this dataset, we started by extracting how to use: classes, global functions, base classes (inheritance/polymorphism), and imports from 1207 python AI research repos that we are learning. We also wanted to draw and speak/hear with transformers so we added modes to the dataset for hopefully getting more audio/image models in this space.

Here's the summary (everything is in parquet files):

~2.3M unique source coding rows
~1.1M instruct alpaca yaml text rows
~923K png knowledge graph images with alpaca text description
~334K mp3s over ~2 years of continuous audio playtime
requires 1.5 TB storage on disk

We plan on training and fine tuning using these datasets with models like Code Llama 70 B, and we shared an overview of some of the other coding models we liked that may help others looking to do the same on our blog:
https://matlok.ai/

Lastly if these datasets are not useful, then there also a lot of good datasets already on Hugging Face too:
https://huggingface.co/datasets
More like an overwhelmed super power drowning in the info tsunami, confused and loosing its collective mind. With no architecture in sight to reduce the info overload just increase it.
Hopefully feedbin soon! Anywhere I can get notified?
> We have no configuration where the customer gets the product without payment

What are you referring to? From restaurants to hotels, all kinds of interactions involve the product or service being delivered before payment.
Adobe just didn't manage the pivot to web design very well. Dreamweaver had been run into the ground. So was Fireworks. And look at where Flash is.
Peugeot adding ChatGPT AI to cars, revealing new three-row SUV soon – CarExpert
When CEOs or college presidents or others go before Congress like this, is it because they were invited or is it because they are subpoenaed? If it's the former, it really feels like talking to Congress is like talking to the police ( without a lawyer); there is no upside and it's all downside. Member of Congress ask these loaded questions where even if the person wants to answer, they can't because the Congress person doesn't let them finish. Or the Congress person follows up with basically the same question but worded slightly differently and when the person inevitably answers slightly differently or tries to give a nuanced answer, it blows up in their face and the Congress person has these crazy out of context sound-bites to take home.
well, it's not like they're not trying to branch out. the list of failed project at google is incredibly long.

i sometimes wonder if they would have more success with atoms based innovation rather than bits (reference to avc article on the matter). but that would necessitate hiring something other than software engineers.
For showing up, yes.

What level of responsibility do creators have for criminal evil acts that people do with their creations? I know a lot of Fediverse folks who point to the Malaysia-genocide connection with Facebook as as evidence that the Fedi is superior but the Fediverse is based on open-source software that anybody could use to run a server which is all genocide all the time and the only thing anybody else can do is defederate and claim they have clean hands. I bet people involved with that genocide used Linux and Windows too. Are we going to blame Richard Stallman? Sure you can violate the GPL by not publishing the source code for a consumer product but there is nothing to stop you from using it to make a killer drone.

(Myself I quit Facebook in 2016 but I did get back in because I really wanted to develop software for an affordable XR headset)
Presumably because it is planned to be released as open source
A few theories:

- They have better just stuff, but aren't release it yet. They are at the top already, it makes sense they would hold their cards until someone got close.

- They are more focused on AGI, and not letting themselves get side tracked with the LLM race

- LLMs have peaked and they don't want to release only a minor improvement.
Or you're ahead of it, since the earlier GPT4 models beat the GPT4-Turbo on a variety of technical use cases.
Likely the way AI is trained and inferenced there is a huge constraint on the GPU side even if they have GPT5 out. Imagine how slow it is, which means they focus on creating useful products and APIs around it first
Maybe someday the AI will be clever enough to predict the plotlines and get bored.
Your federal felonies don't affect Russian, Indian, Chinese, Nigerian, or lesser populated countries resident making cyber attack operations against the USA.

Extortion is already a felony.
This is a national security threat, not a mere crime.
A few quick googles... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve as usual early thinkers on General Relativity were already going down this road.
i wouldn't worry too much about this. if people were being serious, rather than cynically weaponizing non-expert anxieties in pursuit of regulatory capture or marketing, the pragmatic solution to all future worries about AI alignment is simply utilizing the DRM resources already built into every computing device on the planet, to disable hardware in the event the program on it does bad things.
Yes. I'd rather press a button than turn my neck.
Jungle

Forest

Fruit

Nuts
I actually researched writing a proxy that would intercept and rewrite Youtube's JSON API responses with pre-selected, educational videos. This is how much I hate their recommendation algorithm.

That way, the Youtube app appears to work the same. It's just that those videos that are blacklisted in the recommendation response, e.g. all the videos with the word 'minecraft' in the title, would be replaced with Youtube shorts from Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Intercept the response. Rewrite the <title> and <URL> entries for blacklisted videos. Return the rewritten response to the client.

Point my kids's iPads at this proxy.

YouTube's app uses certificate pinning. I would have had to reverse-engineer their certificates in order to properly sign the response.

I stopped at that point in the project.
Maybe tangential to this comment, but I had been using 3.5 to write contracts, but a couple of weeks back, even when using the exact same prompts that would've worked in the past, 3.5 started saying, to paraphrase, "for any contracts you need to get a lawyer."

Anyone else had this experience? It seems like they're actually locking down some very helpful use cases, which maybe falls into the "safety" category or, more cynically, in the "we don't want to be sued" category.
The fact your investors won't be able to exit as easily (or ever) is a significant downside if you're having any difficulty at all raising money. It's easier to found a charity than find philanthropists!
> So the approximate value of Amazon's IPv4 estate today is about:
$4.6 Billion dollars!

> AWS will likely make anywhere between $400 Million and $1 Billion dollars a year with this new IPv4 charge!

In other words, it's not clear AWS is "making" anything at all. It might take them over 10 years to pay back the cost of what it would take to acquire them today.

Now I assume Amazon is making some level of profit on them, but the article seems to confuse income with profit. "Making" money is generally understood to mean profit, not income.
I don't know exactly what you mean, but the name of this shape is consistent with the naming of traditional geometric constructions like the "five-centered arch" and the "three-centered arch" (see many diagrams online for details of these constructions).

So "four-centered egg" might make more sense to you, though it could also be called the "six-centered egg", because it includes both sides, unlike the classical arch constructions.
Well I remember Tencent using the leaked NovelAI model in "Different Dimension Me".
> competitors use it to generate training data.

I wouldn't think this matters as long as you charge enough to use that API. For example, you could have a tiered pricing structure where the first 100k words per month generated costs $0.001 per word, but after that it costs $0.01 per word.
Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)
I've been reading through the series this week and this is the first thing that popped into my mind. A series about an AI who doesn't care about its job or its clients, and achieves a level of personal liberation by hacking itself, just so it could download TV shows and watch them when no one was looking.
WTF is AGI?

EDIT: Clearly the point is lost on the repliers. There is no general understanding of what 'general intelligence' is. By many metrics, ChatGPT already has it. It can answer basic questions about general topics. What more needs to be done? Refinement, sure, but transformer-based models have all qualifications to be 'general intelligence' at this point. The responses are more coherent than many people I've spoken with.
Isn't there significant value in the medical information, deciding who to offer insurance to and who to refuse to cover in the event that Republicans gain control of the government and repeal the Affordable Care Act?
Japan gives up on 1.44MB floppy disks, 50 years after they went on sale
It's a statement that won't make sense to someone who's new to the topic.

I don't think it's related to virtue signalling at all, the two just share the word "signalling".
While this take seems popular, this isn't a good way of looking at it because, in my experience, it seems to lead to the dismissal of good evidence or it suggests that we can't build confident causal inferences without a certain study. For example, RCTs are also observational, and it's incorrect to say they can uniquely detect causation.

I think a more helpful way to look at research is to look for a convergence of outcomes across the evidence, like a bunch of needles of various sizes pointing in the same direction (or not) on a gauge. And where there are divergences, and there always will be, which differences in methodology can explain them.
I wonder if it would make more sense for the previously-traversed UI to move off to the side, rather than having the user move to follow it, as a way to reduce the amount of mouse travel required from the user.

They'd always need to move some, especially when the new options would otherwise move off the screen, but in general this would require less movement.
Taking away the profits and spending them on victims.
Audacy Plans to Cut 25% of Staff in Podcast Division
"10% more likely to experience anxiety, once having clicked on this useless link"
Even if a four legged table's legs are all perfectly equal so their tips lie in the same plane, that perfectly will be thwarted by an uneven floor.
> so that we can override their curiosity and say "OK, learn something else today."

I'm not sure you even noticed the question you just presented: "what something?"

If you can find a meaningful answer to that question, I suspect it will resolve your problem without help.

As a rule of thumb, any solution that boils down to "stop" will be practically impossible to implement. A more tractable solution is usually along the lines of "do this instead".

Something that could be really valuable here is a competitor to YouTube's algorithm. Copyright makes that difficult, because YouTube is in a legally enforced position to monopolize their library/metadata.
It has been interesting seeing the sleuthing on this one. IMHO it is unfortunate to have this happen to a company that has been very pro open source.
A little weird its named “twine” since that name has been in use for years by a JavaScript interactive fiction development platform.

https://github.com/klembot/twinejs

https://twinery.org
Like the ye olden days where one hacker breaks in to an already compromised system, patches the hole they used, kicks out any other 'unwanted' tenants, and installs their own personal backdoor so they get the resources and don't need to share.

Hopefully the government didn't do the latter steps.
Allchemy – infinite AI-powered alchemy game
If it wasn't a TLD, then it is invalid/undefined to attempt to use it as a TLD, so whether it works or not, or ceases to work in the future is fair game.
This is the first time I've heard of this term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_authority

This was interesting to read. Thanks

Funny I was just reading about Macaroons
Ask HN: Advice for turning my side project into a real business
I’m a product-focused dev with 10 years experience at a-list startups. For the last few years I’ve been working on a side project. It has some traction and makes ~$600/mo even though my current product is pretty raw.

I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business. This requires a pretty significant amount of work, which I’m slowly chipping away at with 2-3 hours per day. Of course there may be unknown unknowns but the path to something like ~$1M/yr seems very clear to me.

Circumstances at my current day job have been getting progressively worse and I think it’s time to move on. I’m not full-burnout unhappy (yet), but getting more resentful every day. Unfortunately I don’t have enough cash saved up for significant runway. I’m 35 with family and living in the US so eating ramen and sleeping on a friends couch isn’t an option.

I’m trying to figure out my options. Maybe try to find angel funding. Maybe a business loan (is that even a thing?). Or should I just grind it out and stick with my current job.

Appreciate any and all advice. Especially if you’ve been in my position
I always saw this as Figma looking for a life raft during an uncertain time and Adobe being a whale. Shrewd on both parties part. I'm not surprised it fell through, though I am surprised that they have no plans for this space anymore.
Why? You know the plotline of your life as well. You will become old, suffer and die at the end. Are you bored?