skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also add that people actually like movies and shows. But Netflix and the finance bro's who run Hollywood now seem hell bent on just taking quick speculative punts on shows and then running away after 1 season and no advertisement.

Personally, I'd be happier if there wasn't multiple streamers and just one big marketplace I could access. And for a lot of people that's bit torrent.
At least in this case one of the destinations could theoretically be visited without a car (assuming these are just tourists to the Vegas Strip).

Whereas another certain California rail project literally transports you from [place you need car] to [place you need car]. Which I don’t think I need to explain why that is silly.

The root cause of this is blue states often get Euro public transport envy — yet they don’t understand Europe has 3X the population density (and subsequent urbanization) of the US. Obviously public transport would start to make a lot more sense if you 3X’d the population in the same land area.

IMO fetishizing the European way of life is a bit silly, given density comes with its own problems (ie nobody having kids). In fact, there was this German guy in the 1930s who led the killing of millions of people partly to get more “living space”, so European density does have its downsides for…shall we say…stability. In fact, Europe has roughly the same amount of people today as it had in 1939. Meanwhile the US has more than doubled.
Meta is commoditizing their products' complement.[1]

OpenAI can't - these models (or rather, the APIs) are their product.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
The OpenAI charter specifically says "safe". We're all arguing over what that even means for an AI. If you're at all risk adverse, that argument by itself should be a hint that releasing the weights of a model.

For example, the last few years have seen a lot of angry comments about how "the algorithm" (for both social media feeds and Google search results) is politically biased. IIRC we don't know the full set of training data (data includes RLHF responses before anyone points me to the Wikipedia page I already read that lists some data sources) how can we be confident that any model from Facebook has not been specifically trained to drive a specific political agenda?
No company ever pays a competitor.

It's partially for financial reasons (why should I pay you to undermine my lead) as well as competitive (the competitor can extrapolate our own internal trends, and then potentially use it against us in competitive deals).

This is why Walmart is famous for forcing every single one of it's vendors not use Amazon services in a Walmart related SKU (eg. If I'm selling a SaaS to Walmart, I either need to migrate the Walmart portion to GCP or Azure, or not get the Walmart contract).
Try:

https://www.nubuilder.com

https://github.com/nuBuilder/nuBuilder-4.5
I had Zoho set up on the lowest tier for a side-hustle project years ago. It did it's job smoothly and without much intrusion. Then the project ended and I forgot about the Zoho account, changed phone numbers, lost the 2fa keys - all of it. Totally my fault. Their support quickly and competently handheld me through the shutdown process. I can't imagine the nightmare Google would've forced me through to shut down a pointless 3$/month charge had I made the same mistake with them.
Why does dict raise keyerror rather than return a sentinel value? (Python) [video]
cut the "sideloading" term. It's downloading. Exactly the same we download any other file. It's not some obscure feature. This kind of terminology is word games to make it sound like somebody doing this is inherent using it wrong or must be up to no good.

Its one thing to make it harder to enable stuff. But there absolutely should be ways to say "yes I know what I'm doing".
And OpenCompute
Well, yes. But it's a valuable activity to formulate a hypothesis, just not to test one.
Currently only Netflix is profitable, e.g. Disney lost more than a billion on Disney+. Not sure how they can keep this up if people keep moving to piracy.
After doing some Android freelance recently and having a clients Play Store account get shut down because they forgot one of the requirements imposed by Google I’m done with Android, and hopefully can free myself from Google services completely.
Which is why I mentioned Georgescu-Roegen [1], this is an economics + physics thing.
> The horse is condemned by its own mouth

Words like this suggest a failure of imagination. Given it's their own mouth and they're writing in their own defence, what might be a more generous interpretation?
I don't think your comment is fair to Meta. Lo and behold, Meta is the one company playing the longest game in technology these days.

Don't get me wrong: they are not doing this out of sheer generosity, but they are playing the long game of open sourcing core infrastructure.
Same. The suspensions also make quite a different experience. Plus I don’t like cars where I need to figure out how to open a door.
In theory that is what gccgo is for, in practice it is stuck in Go 1.18.
There is no or very limited competition of streaming services because they do not share content. Almost everything is unique to each streaming service. And big copyright holders even carve out their content and create their own services ala Disney.

We would need compulsory licensing to get even a modicum of competition, and even then the licensing deals will work as a pricing cartel.

There can be no competition if there is copyright involved.
I gave Zoho a compliment, not sure why there is so much defensiveness.

You are right - open source requires more work. My response related to open source was responding to the article's tone that it was surprising that anything could be cheaper than Google or Microsoft :) Which is silly.
Open Compute, PyTorch, React, zstd, OpenBMC, buck, pyre, proxygen, thrift, watchman, RocksDB, folly, HHVM,...
It is a mighty tool and I stand by it, but it should be done only by balanced folks, at least initially under supervision. The rest is russian roulette with your own mental health, not the smartest move even if it helped few. Maybe with professional supervision this can be managed, but I think that should be reserved only for serious cases when other treatments doesn't work / has massive side effects.

Now who is balanced and who is not is a topic on its own, but I am pretty sure psychologists can cca handle this in same way they handle ie gun licenses in any sane country. Generally fucked up childhood is pretty sure indicator of massive imbalance and issues, just dig deep enough. Family history is sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Even just broken/missing father figure while rest is cca OK messes up everybody affected in negative way.

And there are so many folks like these. For some reason I didn't have many of those when growing up, but I've sobered up when I moved around, ie in competitive corporate sphere there are more folks with something like that than without, and the higher you go in power pyramid the worse it gets.
Yes, I agree. Understanding the ambiguity is not the only criteria.

My comment two levels up was not a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of this policy issue. My goal was to highlight that while I recognize subjective opinions, I care about them relatively less until we fully pursue rational means of understanding.
It's my theory partly why China has smashed out so many thousands of km of HSR and what appear to be excessively wide highways (other than prestige and a general vibe of governance=more, bigger infrastructure). In 100 years when the ossification and NIMBYism is the norm, the rail corridor land is already there. Renovating a line that already exists may not be easy, but it's easier than prizing land out plot by plot, and even in China that's a huge hassle. Plus the hard physical bits like blasting tunnels and digging cuttings is already done before labour costs succumb to spiraling cost disease.

Then again, at about $45 million per mile, it's actually not even that much more expensive that Chinese HSR: to build the current 45000km of rail at the LV-LA price would be $1.25 trillion, which isn't vastly more than the Chinese system has cost so far. In fact it's very roughly about as much as the US spends, per year, on healthcare on top of what European countries pay for the same outcomes (total annual spending: 4.2 trillion and a bit, or 12.5k per person, vs global number two, Switzerland, at 8k: about 1/3, not far from 1.25/4.2!)
I dont think Zoho was ever acquired. They were and are still are a private company with no external investments. Interestingly the confusion seems to be with Zimbra and here is a blog post on Zimbra acquisition by Zoho themselves.

https://www.zoho.com/blog/general/the-real-cost-of-acquisiti...
You feel Chinese grammar simple only because you're a native speaker, or at least have learned Chinese at a very young age.

Grab a textbook for Chinese-as-second-language learners and you'll be surprised how many rules there are. You don't deem them as rules cause you've internalized them, as a native speaker should have.
And why are they bugging us for a sign in when in mobile private mode on safari! Gtfoh!
OpenAI exists on a lot of computers allready - since their ideas are part of Microsoft Copilot.

People here are usually programmers, who can and are allowed to do more than average users.

If we treat "open" as "open to the masses" (as strange as it sounds) then putting it as a part of MS office brought it to many people.
It's true: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_iQ#Aston_Martin_Cygne...
Exactly.

How much of (online) advertising is legit? Does any one know?

What would a "healthy" ad ecosystem look like? What should the the FTC (and advertisers) be working towards?

Eliminate any potential conflicts of interest? Bust up vertical integration (eg search & ads must remain separate companies)? Independent verification, as best able (eg like Nielsen does for ratings)?

Or maybe we determine (digital) ads based biz models are irredeemable, and we figure something else out.
> He then seemingly proceeded to devote himself to some sort of predetermined-conclusion weird activism-laden academic pursuit, based on the false narrative that the ‘new’ man is lying to us about the dangers of psychedelics.

The article does not support this portrayal at all. Just read the last sentence in it.

Whether or not his personal experience with psychedelics involved known-bad choices is completely irrelevant to the results of his research. Unless you have any concrete evidence for bias in the design or analysis of his surveys, it is you who's building a false narrative.
I think it’s also helpful to point out that the pirating interfaces have gotten _really_ good. Using Overseer, Radaar, and Sonaar together with Plex created such a seamless experience I was blown away the first time I saw it. Any movie or show across any service at the push of a button. It doesn’t even feel like pirating. It feels like any other service.
The Commercial Open Source Report 2024
Today we are releasing a brand new report exploring the dynamics of Commercial Open-Source Software.

Here's a sneak peek of the findings:

> COSS companies, comprising only 10% of top GitHub projects, are 50x more likely to dominate the charts.

> While the U.S. leads in VC funding (82%), EMEA's share is rapidly rising, fueled by ventures like IA ventures.

> The most popular categories (eg. devtools) are not necessarily the ones that receive the most funding (eg. modern data stack). This underscores the importance of understanding that popularity based on metrics like stars and contributors may not align with economic attractivity.

> Companies seniority counts, as older COSS companies boast more loyal and vibrant communities, attributed to trust and reliability over time

> Nearly half of established projects engage with foundations, enhancing governance and long-term sustainability, thus attracting investors.

> Despite hot debates around hybrid licenses, permissive licenses remain the go-to for COSS organization, facilitating broad adoption and seamless integration into proprietary products.

Link to publication:
Full report: https://docsend.com/v/8fmj2/commercialopensource
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthieulavergne_coss-opensou...
Medium: https://blog.serenacapital.com/the-commercial-open-source-re...
First of all many thanks for helping to maintain such a great project!

The feedback I have right now is that for the ESP32-C3 chip, provisioning over USB (Improv_serial) is not supported. So then the only option is to do provisioning over BLE if you want to get the "Made for ESPHome" certification.

However, this blew up our partition size from 1.2 MB to 1.9 MB and basically prevented us to add any further code and we got stuck there (we now develop a native HA integration).

So my feedback would be to try and reduce the overhead for the provisioning.
archive.today is doing god's work, you should donate if you can afford it

https://liberapay.com/archiveis
This seems to imply that generative content is a ‘complement’ to the advertising business, which is a pretty dispiriting realization.

The implication is that Meta benefits from there being a lot of generative AI users out there producing content, because a rich marketplace of competing bots will generate engagement with Meta platforms that they can sell advertising into.

They’re outsourcing click generation to content farms, and giving away the tools to do it to keep content farmers’ moats small.
Is it some sort of MATA (with T standing for "Target")?
> If Meta starts being all open and generous about their core assets

I think they are pretty open about it?

- https://www.meta.ai/ requires no log in (for now at least)

- PyTorch is open source

- Various open models like LLama, Detectron, ELF, etc

- Various public datasets like FACET, MMCSG, etc

- A lot of research papers describing their findings
I am a VERY low-effort hardware person (even soldering is um, not my favorite) but for years my approach has been:

1) Go to Amazon and buy a three pack of ESP32 dev boards with headers[0]. They're always some random seller, etc but I've probably had one DoA/failure after buying dozens from random sellers over the years.

2) Get a dupont wires variety pack[1].

3) Optionally (but good to have) get some breadboards [2].

4) Familiarize yourself with various supported temperature/motion/humidity/relays/etc. Esphome has a supported list[3].

5) Search for the chip name, etc on Amazon. Example[4].

6) Familiarize yourself with the ESP32 dev board pins, GPIO, etc. Most sellers will include a picture that looks something like this[5] and most of them are pretty "standard" these days.

7) Wire stuff up, configure with esphome.

8) Once you have things up and running, shove everything in an old box (iPhone boxes are especially sturdy). Other options are various project boxes[6], 3D printing, etc. It's usually easy enough to cut out/drill whatever you need.

At the end of the day you can do some pretty impressive things like directly combining temperature sensors, humidity, presence detection, PIR motion, air particulate, relays, etc even on a single board thanks to ample GPIO and esphome. All for (typically) something like $10 per "location" where you need the stuff. Even less if you buy from Aliexpress, etc.

Of course for "install" you'll need power supplies and (typically) USB-A to micro-USB power cables but most of us have drawers full of these things from old phones, etc. Good news is ESP32 boards absolutely sip power (something like 100mW or less) even with all of your "stuff" attached.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/ESP-WROOM-32-Development-Microcontrol...

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/EDGELEC-Breadboard-Optional-Assorted-...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Breadboards-Solderless-Breadboard-Dis...

[3] - https://esphome.io/index.html

[4] - https://www.amazon.com/Teyleten-Robot-Digital-Temperature-Hu...

[5] - https://lastminuteengineers.com/esp32-pinout-reference/

[6] - https://www.amazon.com/LeMotech-Plastic-Electrical-Junction-...
"But amid all the scientific and cultural enthusiasm for these drugs, little attention has been paid to bad trips and their after-effects, and even less to what might alleviate them."

I don't think this is really the case. Maybe the cultural component isn't paying much attention to it, but the scientific part is. These are being researched as medicines. All medicines have side effects. These aren't being recommended for everybody. Most of the studies are looking at psychedelics as a last resort and not a first line treatment. They are also investigating or using best practices when it come to proper environment and guidance during the administration.
I’ve got a healthy respect for psychedelics after noticing lingering effects on my reality perception and mood for several days after taking some strains of marijuana. I know it can help many people, but the thought of anything stronger than weed messing with your sense of reality should demand caution at the very least
Got more details about what you're referring to?

For example, I know they have auto-subtitle stuff, but it's pretty ancient tech and I haven't seen it improve much since it was launched and it has still glaring shortcomings, like not being able to split out different people speaking or infer punctuation.
Seconded, but be prepared for a pay cut.

https://society-rse.org/

https://us-rse.org/
It is one of the only ways to spend this amount of money to shape the world based on their thoughts without getting more (deserved) hate.
As an example of other Schemes, here are the details of the representation used by Larceny (a Scheme):

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/lth/larceny/notes/n...
> [...] Meta (or Facebook) democratises AI/ML much more than OpenAI, which was originally founded and primarily funded for this purpose. [...]

I believe this statement is accurate. Your comment does not alter this fact and merely imposes an arbitrary requirement instead of giving credit where credit is due.

If another company were to openly share alternatives to Meta's core assets, I would welcome that as well.
This is hilarious but well deserved.
European regulators talk big, but European companies (German+French) have really horrid internal security practices.

I don't want to name names as it can affect me professionally, but I would never trust a European (German+French) digital platform developed by one of their traditional conglomerates - even a stereotypically non-technical American F500 like Home Depot has way better technical and security practices than some of the European (German+French) conglomerates I've dealt with.

These are organizations where managing ACLs are a brand new practice.
This is what the ubiquitous (for commercial uses) PX4 flight control firmware uses.
You are saying that as if it was cheap. I am pretty sure most people buy <$250 smartphones. That is at least the case in my social circle, very few iphones, pixel, an awful lot of cheap Xiaomi Redmi and the Samsung Galaxies are usually the A line instead of the S line.
Nvidia on verge of completing $700M acquisition of Run:AI
And the walled garden gets hiked up a few more inches, just as Google always planned.
Directive on Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods – Right to Repair Europe
They've been using them, too. Auto OCR so selecting text in images Just Works, image enhancements, Siri. I'm sure LLM Siri is in the works. Scanning your photos for CSAM. Let's hope that last one is more reliable than Siri :/
Now I want to know your books
Might just have been the dealer wanting to sell your wife a better car. Also cost != margin.

>Things have totally changed though VW-group dealerships now really push electric cars and its the ICE cars that are stuck in the back.

Yes. The e-Golf was essentially a Beta Test, a Golf 7 built into an EV. Nowadays VW EVs have their own dedicated platform.
The recent decline of Japan caused by American restrictions and vassalization is well documented, same for Germany.
Well done M$. One more reason to move on to Linux.
'So today we have marketing departments who say things like "we don't need computers, we need... appliances. Make me a computer that doesn't run every program, just a program that does this specialized task, like streaming audio, or routing packets, or playing Xbox games, and make sure it doesn't run programs that I haven't authorized that might undermine our profits". And on the surface, this seems like a reasonable idea -- just a program that does one specialized task -- after all, we can put an electric motor in a blender, and we can install a motor in a dishwasher, and we don't worry if it's still possible to run a dishwashing program in a blender. But that's not what we do when we turn a computer into an appliance. We're not making a computer that runs only the "appliance" app; we're making a computer that can run every program, but which uses some combination of rootkits, spyware, and code-signing to prevent the user from knowing which processes are running, from installing her own software, and from terminating processes that she doesn't want. In other words, an appliance is not a stripped-down computer -- it is a fully functional computer with spyware on it out of the box.'

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...
The interfaces are great but the setup process is still far beyond “plug and play” so the mainstream pirate probably still do it the cumbersome but simple way
This would be such a game changer for worker mobility and entrepreneurship.
Zoho support is neat when you compare against any other big tech.

They are kind of slow at developing features, for instance you can't set up new tags/folders for email in the phone app, only on desktop, and this has been like that since beginning of times.
A lot of useless things are cool so yea
I have a hard time sympathizing with people complaining that Reddit made it difficult to freely scrape the entire site to train AI. I also have zero empathy for Reddit that they are hopefully going to lose a large chunk of that data from users that don't like being treated as free labor.

With Reddit's history of editing the database directly to make a point at the expense of its users, who's to say they don't have the full history of a person's post and will just discard the posts changed by addons like this? Or if not revert the changes on the frontend, they just provide the full history to AI trainers?
This explodes for search terms dealing with questions related to bugs or issues or how to dos. Almost all top results are YT videos, each of which will follow the same pattern. First 10 secs garbage followed by request for subscribe and/or sponsorship content then followed by what you want.
please go other yourself somewhere else
Self-discovery > Self-consistency > Medprompt > Chain of thought

I think the leaderboard the way it is devised is a bit silly, it rewards failure of the base model and success of the prompt atop it, but that is not how we want to be using the style of prompting. We need to see it how the gorrila code nudging metric does it, both base model score and the increase from the prompt style matter.
Have to agree with this. YouTube is ok for entertainment but haven't found anything actually educational coming from tech content creators, on either YouTube or Twitch.
True, but having to fix all the stupid mistakes they make is kind of ruining the point of using an LLM in the first place.
I'd be curious to see the predicted traffic and usage. If the need is there, this train might become quite successful. People (and businesses) value the ability to do uninterrupted work while traveling.
Yeah, forgot the /s ... wasn't being serious.
I switched to macOS in 2020. This feels more-and-more like a good choice. I rather pay a (hardware) premium and at least be treated as a customer then as a cash cow.
Only if it can't do voice cloning. Normally I find the AI ethics people insufferable but I do think that good voice cloning tech will do much more harm than good.
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