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Show HN: Interesting use cases for AI characters (with Arthas.AI)
I've been using my raspberry pi 4 as a server for my local network. Just plugged in some external hard drive, some samba configuration and I'm all set. I was thinking about investing in my offline catalog again, since I get less and less content worth watching in streaming platforms.

Update: https://i.ibb.co/52Q5cfr/Screenshot-20240323-152512.png
You want a server from slack to get cookies from workplace.com?
Ugh, you know, I think what I hate most about the market fundies is that their perception of what interest rates would be is absolutely untethered from any semblance of empirical reality. Like, sure, it would be fucking nice if the long-run equilibrium rate were anywhere near where they think it would be, but believing r* is close to what it was back in the 70s is a bit like believing you can will the economy into having higher productivity growth through the magic power of wishful thinking. But nooo, it's definitely not having enough free market that's the problem, we should just finish what Reagan started, certainly the union busting had no contributions to the declining labour share at all.

It would be funny if it wasn't fucking terrifying.
> But they also had 200+ other people develop Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Goodness! 200 out of 1800 subjects developing CJD is the scariest thing I saw in that study. It isn't many folds away from being an extinction level threat. Makes me worry about exponentially rising compute capability.

> Either way, it is completely irrelevant for normal people, unless you eat squirrel brains or ground up beef imported from Britain in the 90s.

Most cases of CJD we see are sporadic CJD. It's rare, but also the scariest struggle I've ever seen.
What's insane to me is the fact that the best interfaces to utilize any of these models, from open source LLMs to open source diffusion models, are still random gradio webUIs made by the 4chan/discord anime profile picture crowd.

Automatic1111, ComfyUI, Oobabooga. There's more value within these 3 projects than within at least 1 billion dollars worth of money thrown around on yet another podunk VC backed firm with no product.

It appears that no one is even trying to seriously compete with them on the two primary things that they excel at - 1. Developer/prosumer focus and 2. extension ecosystem.

Also, if you're a VC/Angel reading my comments about this, I would very much love to talk to you.
heh @ calling it "twitter". That place died long ago.
I’m sure there are engineers who fix a critical bug every few months and generate millions of dollars of value, but as a general rule great engineers tend to be prolific and engineers who aren’t prolific tend to not be great.
a single 1080p bluray movie (not including extras on the disc) is generally going to be in the low to mid 20GBs to 40GB range. Lets take 40GB for a fairly conservative measure. a single 8TB drive can therefore fit 200 (or possibly more) movies (or double for 16GB drives).

i.e. one doesn't need "crazy" (i.e. more than a handful of consumer hard drives) amount of storage to store a lot of bluray movies and tv shows and keep them online available to you.
New IN law requires professors to promote intellectual diversity to keep tenure
> It could make sense for some categories of routine care to be included in insurance because they reduce risk or are cheap enough to be affordable perks of the insurance product. I just wouldn't call those features insurance

It seems to me that "It makes sense to include them with insurance but I wouldn't call them insurance" is needlessly pedantic
I'm not the parent commenter, but no computer doesn't mean no access to writing implements, and writing something down physically can render it mentally ‘sticky’ in a way I've never been able to replicate in software.
There is no problem with baseless lawsuits in this case.

It's plain and simple distinction between USE and PROVIDE.

Users don't care.

Providers are upset because they can't leech on this work anymore and have to share their cut with upstream.

From user's perspective it's open source.

From provider's perspective it's not.

ps. as a user I also do care about the fact that upstream has found sustainable business model because it means people on the payroll working on it while I can freely use it, inspect and contribute to the code. Frankly I don't want more from open source. I even like it more than SQLite's Public Domain which does not allow upstream contributions.
I've seen succesful projects that add a constraint solver as a layer in a neural network, so it's potentially something that could be integrated at an even deeper level than our current finetuning for tool use.

It's not a priority for the current big model architecture, but there's a bunch of stuff we could be doing with network architecture.
In my opinion, not enough people are exercising or eating healthy.

How do you get more people do both?
I am deeply up set 14.4 has been out for weeks and they still haven't addressed this, the broken USB monitor hubs, the ilok audio plugins, and some of the Java installs. Do they not have enough resources to fix things they break in a timely or responsible manner?
Merely shifted from DARPA to NSA.

See also: Microsoft buying Skype and disabling the P2P features so all calls get routed through NSA-enabled servers for PRISM. (Side note but this also made calls objectively worse.)
Isn’t ripping your own media the sort of use case where Plex really shines as a solution and is fairly user friendly?
Here at Volumo (a specialized music store for pro DJs that have I co-founded) we see our future in downloads (DRM-free, of course), not streaming. With a download license, you can do anything you can do with streaming, and much more. And it allows the author to get a decent royalty instead of some "microcents".

It can sometimes take an effort to explain to an outsider why we don't do streaming and don't want to. It's like we are swimming opposite to the flow. But I see streaming as something geared towards casual listeners, while downloads are for professionals and enthusiasts.
But could you get into the network to access the UNIX boxes without a PIV card? That's how the NIH works -- the UNIX boxes do have passwords, but unless you are on campus you have to connect to the VPN with your PIV card first.
lol. either a bank credentials stealing scam, or a vpn for DoS/spam scam.

or both.
It's insane to me anyone would downvote this comment (edit: or flag my disbelief for being somehow irrelevant to conversation). The public library system is quite possibly the best thing this country has ever invented.
Besides aiding in verification, does writing an austere TLS implementation like this also potentially make it suitable for resource-constrained targets, like microcontrollers?
I buy collector's edition blu-rays of films I love but mostly because of the film stock bookmarks, I love those. But I actually never ever watched a film from blu-ray disc (or DVD). I just make a copy with MakeMKV.
Walking 500 miles across a plain doesn't quite feel like something I'd consider part of a climb.

But a massively impressive feat that's for sure!
I think your theory makes a lot of sense if you reverse the causality: Mammals have evolved to not engage in cannibalism to avoid prions. Other diseases as well, of course.
ARmEO – Augmented Reality Meets Earth Observation
In case you think this is really about "intellectual diversity":

"Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery, a former chief of staff for the Purdue University president and the bill's sponsor, said the new law would help conservative students feel more comfortable expressing their opinions on campus."
China's Lexicon of Digital Resistance
Do you watch those movies / series more than once? I have always thought of Blu-ray disks like books. You consume it and then lend it to a friend. I get that this is not what the media companies would want, but purchasing media/books and not using them more than once just feels wrong.
If that were true, surely it would make sense to demonstrate this directly rather than with a contrived benchmark? The issue is not the preponderance of small files but rather the distribution of data shapes.
The observable universe is the universe, for all intents and purposes.
I agree that the quality of the posts has decayed dramatically since the start of the COVID pandemic and lots of the Reddit type memes and upvotes have added horrible levels of noise. I can still find gems in it and it’s still miles ahead of Twitter, but I do question my time using it passively and would much rather have a smaller and more focused community again.
Sure but the energy on the weather is in another scale compared to anything manmade.
> the whole AI space will implode if it’s not a viable business

if the Good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise
It would be interesting to see how they attempt to correct for malingering (or if they do at all).
Toll-Free Bridging in Kotlin Native
> the actual legal case here relies on convincing a rather cold-hearted and skeptical old judge that Apple has a monopoly.

Monopoly here is legal jargon for market power. Apple doesn't need to literally hold the deed to the three phone properties, which would entitle them to charge twice the rent or build houses and hotels.

The global market provides interesting background information, but also doesn't have much weight for US anti-trust.

In the roughly 60/40 market that we have in the US, both OS developers likely exhibit strong market power and their related conduct is up for review. Do they use their market power in mobile phones to further distort the market for mobile phones in prohibited ways? Do they use their market power in mobile phones to distort other adjacent markets in prohibited ways?

Personally, I don't think DoJ is going to have a problem showing market power. It's clear that Apple has market power in many countries, including the US. There certainly are many countries where it doesn't, but lack of global market power isn't very relevant.

I don't know whether DoJ will be able to show abuse of the market power. IMHO, the best of the five examples they presented is smartwatches; did they establish dominance in the smartwatch category by limiting deep integration to only their smartwatches, and is that prohibited tying? But we'll see how that holds up at trial.

Cases against Google are more complex because Android allows significant manufacturer customization, so Android the OS has 40% market share, but Google the seller of phones has much less. And Google allows software developers to do a lot more with apps, for better and worse.
Is Italy's new road law going to make people safer?
I do not believe anyone with real power at Google values liberal values above revenue. The RLHF and fine-tuning is solely to prevent news articles of the form "Google unveils new shockingly racist AI!!", which is absolutely what would happen without explicit fine-tuning, and which would invite regulation and scrutiny.

I too think artificially "fixing" models is the wrong way to go. If the models are biased towards racism it's because the training data is biased towards racism which is because society is biased towards racism. Which is true, and we'd be better served by acknowledging that and shining a light on it. Just ban AI (as a known tainted product) from being used for making any decisions of importance.
all studies based on observational studies. If anyone still beliefs those kind of studies I feel sad for you. Trial sponsored by some of the opaque foundations. I don't have a time unfortunately to look deeply into it, but I believe this is sponsored by industry (coffee is one of the most traded commodity in the world, with large industry interests in studies like this)

thread carefully.
My library has this too, and a ton of ebooks, and a 3D printer that you just have to cover the cost of material to use, and they occasionally have free museum passes, national/state park passes, etc.

Far cry from what they used to be, and, well, you're paying for it anyway via taxes so silly to not use it.
Tomorrow they will shoot up the floor of the stadium at the Barcelona Real match. What to do?
I've been using Django almost as long as I've been using SQL and I prefer the SQL ordering more: it matches the rest of the code, making it faster/easier to read. As a crude example:

SELECT results FROM source WHERE criteria

results = source(criteria)

It's rare to see someone want to change assignments in code to be like:

source(criteria) -> results

Where I see it as the same thing: the SELECT columns, like the variable assignment, are the interaction point with the following lines of code.

And yes, CTE ordering does annoy me because of this. Putting it in the middle is pretty much the worst order.
I compress mine using Handbrake. It gets them down to the 2.5->8GB per movie range.
The library system and national parks are both absolute bangers.
Nowhere near user friendly for a large part of the population
As others have mentioned in nearby threads, Kagi has some good examples of this in action. Appending a question mark to your query will run a GPT model to interpret and summarize the results, providing sources for each reference so that you can read through in more detail. It's way less "trust me bro" than google and feels more like a research assistant.
Keep in mind before you read this: I use my server for a lot of stuff other than movies so it's really over-provisioned. I play with LLM models sometimes, and I also have a Kafka server with tons of stock-trading info being written to nearly all the time taking a lot of space.

That said, I have 24x16TB hard drives in ZFS RAID. It's three separate RAIDZ2's, so the amount of space on there is 18x16TB, so about 288TB. It's a fairly expensive amount of waste, but it's nice to be able to lose up to six disks at a time without having to worry. I could fairly easily get another 8 drives in there if I really needed it, but thus far my total consumption is only about 50TB in total, and I delete actually stuff when I'm done with it.
That's not true in the context of big bang cosmology. It's true that today we would not be able to observe things beyond the observable universe by definition, and so there's not much purpose in reasoning beyond today's observable universe, but the observable universe changes over time and when reasoning about the early universe there would be differences between a finite universe and an infinite universe.
What natural law mandates that DiCaprio has a 50-100 million salary per movie? You think if the amount of money is reduced actors won’t act anymore?
Ugh, another site that fucks with scrolling.

I don't know what's going on with that site but it partially loads and a few seconds later I get a warning that JS is slowing Firefox down. Clicking stop does nothing, hitting the back arrow does nothing, etc. I had to close the tab completely.

Here's an alternative link: https://www.hackster.io/news/mit-s-robotic-tail-could-aid-cr...

...and the MIT media lab page about it: https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/mit-s-robotic-tail-could-...

It's a really cool idea that I don't think I've seen in the scifi I've watched/read. But given this is a Media Lab project I expect the claims and capabilities to be wildly overstated and the project to go nowhere.
AWS has 136,000 employees. Of course they're mired in management and processes.

Simply work for a smaller company..
It would be negligent for them to aim for profitability right now.

They're doing what they should: growing the customer base while continuing to work on the next generation of the core technology, and developing the support code to apply what they have to as broad a cross-section of problems as they have the potential to offer a solution for.
Quite honestly not in my experiments. I wanted to do some Bayesian hyperparameter optimization with some discretized options like noise/no-noise and n_expert/top_k but haven't been able to find the time or free time in one of our GPU clusters. I plan on using perplexity as this is not yet instruction fine tuned.
I believe they mean that's how Google interpreted the query?
Doesn't that imply that they don't want a search-engine?
It says Matt Rosoff wrote it. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely check this out.
I used to compress them and generally that's fine, but honestly storage has gotten cheap enough to where I don't bother. Every now and then the compression would introduce artifacts, even at a relatively low CRF level in ffmpeg, and just for peace of mind I decided to keep the raw movies.

That said, since I have an elaborate tape backup system now, I've debated keeping the "masters" as archives on the tapes, and keeping compressed versions for streaming, but laziness has kind of won out on that.
Building and testing C Extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT Code Interpreter
That's an assumption that isn't rooted in anatomy. You need nerves to measure signals on. Look up the comparative anatomy of the human cauda equina vs that of a dog. Where you're thinking of plugging into the body, in a human you'd be left with the filum terminale, which is going to sorely disappoint if you are looking for nerve signals.

To get any meaningful spinal communication in this hypothetical scenario, you'd be looking higher up in the sacral region. Unless this hypothetical also includes some magic star trek technology, you'd be invasively implanting electrodes there, which sounds like a fantastic way to trigger fecal incontinence and chronic pain.

I get the fun idea of returning humans to our primate origins, but modern human anatomy has left us effectively nothing to work with. It's an anatomical dead end.
To be clear, PBS is showing the 30-episode show that was made in China. It's different from the Netflix series that just came out. I plan to watch both.
More like, if you ship useless apps, people learn to avoid.

Notepad2 is an amazing drop-in replacement with a perfect balance between features and simplicity. That’s what Notepad should have been since forever. Microsoft should buy it and study how to make basic apps.

Last time I’ve used notepad it still couldn’t tab things. When it’s so bad, there’s no chance I will “notice” anything later. You lost a user of a free mandatory default app, congrats.
The next version of OpenOffice is 420
As with most calculations in Keynesian economics, it doesn't take into account the devaluation of the monetary unit, at best it only looks at CPI which is extremely misleading. CPI is misleading because it doesn't consider the devaluation of the basket of goods - it assumes they've stayed the same value - and it completely ignores hard assets like housing even though that's something everyone wants to buy.
Money supply expansion (total debt), or price increases of hard assets is a much better indicator of devaluation of the monetary unit, but that doesn't provide the figures they want the public to see.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"

The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific and engineering organizations. I suspect that many well-intentioned cybersecurity, outsourcing, and streamlining measures have, on the whole, significantly harmed the ability of these organizations to fulfill their missions.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

Just because a content creator can find a targeted sponsor doesn’t mean all sponsors want to advertise with that content creator. Google, as evidenced by this article doesn’t individually vet the places the ads are placed, they take a dragnet and algorithmic approach, and provide services to many advertisers.

If anything all this speaks to that there is market for even better ad targeting, that can more easily pair those controversial topics with advertisers willing to be associated with them.
let us hope
The Concorde wound up spending a lot of time at sub-sonic speeds, but really I think if we look to the future of air travel we can imagine surpassing supersonic speeds as well. There are already companies working on hypersonic (Mach 5+) designs with an eye towards consumer applications; obviously rich consumers to start, but that's how it often goes.

Those are some truly societally transformative speeds. You can go from the west coast of the US to Paris in less than 2 hours.

But we can't get to that without iterative improvement.
Is this the simplest construction of a self-simulating game of life?
That diagram separating the syntactic vs. semantic layers of a SQL statement (from Neumann & Leis paper) is brilliant.
I mean, it's "user friendly" in the sense that it's the easiest solution, but it still requires understanding how servers work, knowing how to administer a RAID, knowing what kind of transcoding settings to set etc.

Also, I think anyone that tells you that you can just have always-online media that you don't have to babysit is lying. As far as I can tell, that doesn't exist. Your server will break at some point, for no apparent reason, and you're going to have to fix it. Usually the fixes are easy on their own, but you end up accidentally nuking the RAID and losing all your rips. It's hardly "user friendly".

This isn't crapping on Plex, it's sort of the nature of the beast
> I know it's (probably) not strictly legal for me to break the DRM of my movies

At least in France (possibly EU) it is (droit à la copie privée), there's even a tax for that, paid on every storage device, whether or not it's intended to store such media. Yup the tax is about paying for a copy of something you already own.

You can rip anything all you want from a source medium you own. But you can't fetch it from another source even if you do own an original medium and the resulting data is 1:1 identical down to the last literal bit. The bits have a legal colour depending on where they come from!
I just write it down somewhere. Usually the solution is much smaller than the problem, so a 1-2 line note and a sketch goes a long way.

In general I make a habit of writing down anything I think I should do. It's easy to think you'll remember, but those types of thoughts are extremely fleeting, and you almost never remember then when it's time to get to work. Such note-taking is pretty much the backlog for my life and a principal key to getting a lot of shit done.
??? that's not the zig they are referring to. They mean by firing 30, 40, 50, or 60 rockets in a relaxing match of Quake, they'll de-stress
Strategy I've taken in some places is: do not loop in UX or advertise this is a big rewrite. UX, PMs, and some engineers just cannot resist the opportunity to change the UI around and your important tech debt works gets blamed for the rest of the org's fiddling.
I posted once that “I read The Guardian and it seems like the UK is falling apart” and someone replied “Your problem is you are reading The Guardian”
very beautiful application of games of life as computational tools, simulations of simulations of simulations.

you're hired
I'd go a step further: if you change the UI for no functional reason, you are a bad person who is causing needless consternation, confusion, and productivity loss. Even if you believe you have a functional reason, you had better think really long and hard about whether the supposed improvement you want is worth the pain of every single user needing to adapt to that change.