skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the term value density in this context.

Continuing on from the Google/Yahoo example, I would be interested in the author's analysis of not just the landing page, but also the results pages. The search "value density" on google, bing, youtube, hn, chat.openai.com etc. are quite different these days.
Reader extension(s) for Chrome are fine replacements.
You are advocating for extrajudicial killing, which is a war crime, and you are advocating for targeting civilian groups based on the believes that they are destined to do crime in the future?

This is an extremely racist opinion. And I would go so far as call it genocidal speech. This post needs to be removed from HN.
"In our business, one in a million is next Tuesday."
-Gordon Letwin
Plus, if there is wasted space, you can jam an ad in there.
> I remember the first time I looked at the train maps in the Shinagawa Station, in Tokyo.

For an example like that, were they confusing because the complexity of all the train routes were inherently confusing to a newcomer, or because it was a poor visualization?
How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
Maybe as a prototype? It's pretty low risk, worst case scenario they screw up some things on Minecraft and it's stupid.(Assuming it does not go off the reservation ala Sydney)

I could imagine using it as a source of training/experience on how to practically create a help bot without having to worry about anything that actually matters.

Since it is a video game they can also probably put in a lot of analytics on whether they are useful (did you follow the directions to make the diamond sword)

My thoughts process is that this is all less than 2 years since chatgpt hit, and while a bunch of people can see the edges of practical use cases, people are still trying to figure out how to productionize things.

Long term I integration with office/complex programs would be amazing, imagine being able to ask in natural language to fix the formatting in a particular way without having to spend 15 minutes looking it up. (Thinking back to when I originally did my resume formatting)
Amazing footage. I very much enjoyed! I will share this with my kids as well.
Ah ok - so you are saying the explosion of subnetworks is higher than the explosion of training time - leading to a win.

In this case a positive benefit of combinatorial complexity.
Elon Musk fired Twitter employees. Have you not noticed how the site has deteriorated technically? I personally know people who have suffered abuse on Twitter, reported the abuse, and had no action taken because Elon fired the trust and safety org.
I don't blame React per say. But with the proliferation of this technology I've noticed lots of things broken (links, history navigation, layout) that render a lot of things unusable to me and unfortunately I see very few upsides. I'm even willing to admit that React and SPAs are a great technology that enables some (few) use cases that were cumbersome before. But, it clearly seems rushed and applied everywhere with no discernable thought.
The server version called "Windows Search Services" was rather alright. It was even integrated into the Win7 Libraries and you could search through contents server-side from Explorer.

It supported plugins and was reasonably fast. Needed a lot of RAM though and some admin to babysit it.
I read the article and didn't understand it, hence my post. If you'd be kind enough to explain it then that would be appreciated.

Using "sound" on its own as a verb doesn't work in modern English. I don't think even a heavy goods poetic license permits that.
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I can see the perception/concern being different than the technical reality. I just did the update myself and briefly saw something about "AI Term" or other and finished the update. Afterward I was wondering how to get details on what that meant--searching "AI" in iTerm2 Help menu shows no results. If I hadn't read this post/comments already I would be concerned as should anyone who installed without detailed understanding.
The question of model collapse is interesting.

They suggest that AI will eat the game faq publishers, and it will because it will consume all their traffic, but there’s no end of Reddit users posting this data for free. I don’t see this leading to model collapse, but I do see this moving content behind subscription walls.

Seems like a value opportunity for Reddit and Microsoft, and a death knell to independent publishers.
You can have much better OS level integrations with Electron (e.g. filesystem), also assuming that you want to reuse as much code as possible.
That proposal is not compatible with US propaganda strategy. The US does not have a ministry of propaganda to design AI algorithms, or provide the pre-requisite adds for TikTok. It isnt set up to oversee the internal workings of the company algorithm.

Instead, it relies on US citizens embedded in US companies to push US ideals in social media. When it does presumably conduct social engineering attacks, it does it through bots and buying adds on platforms.

Last, I don't think the US government expecting to have to actually ban Tiktok. I think it is expecting to win, and get to have it's cake and eat it too. This would be the least heavy handed option.
...relatively fat and inaccurate.

A succinct summary of my high school coach's review of me.
They exploded in price especially when the pandemic hit and haven't dropped since.

It feels like the same disease that hit GPUs then has spread not just to film cameras, but to every retro computing or digital gadget like CRT TVs/monitors, 15 year old laptops, consoles and DSLRs.

Everyone now thinks their old commodity e-waste that's not even rare is now worth it's weight in gold on ebay.
> To me that seems like a strange argument against a municipal service. Surely no one expects other things like road maintenance to be financially self-sustaining?

A service that charges money and is meant to compete with private companies should do so on even grounds lest it just becomes a de-facto government monopoly. That's fine if that's the goal but, in that case, it shouldn't be charging money at all and should just be providing the service by default.

Operating at a middle ground where it's subsidized by government funding but isn't providing service to everyone but is available to everyone isn't a logical place to be.

The reason why the argument against municipal service's financial sustainability makes sense is because it's often sold to and voted on by the population it serves as being solvent.

There are three situations that make sense to me for municipal broadband.

1. Charge a fee and operate without government funding, similar to a non-profit but government run. Probably with an exception for expanding the network to cover the entire municipality but, once that's complete, maintenance should be sustained by the program. Essentially, providing at-cost broadband and subsidizing accessibility.

2. Broadband-for-all. Government provides broadband as a service, provided free of charge to the end user and funded by taxpayers.

3. In lieu of some kind of broadband subsidy gated to a limited population (low-income, most likely). Broadband-for-all... if you're poor.

Municipal broadband is usually proposed as and passed by voters as #1. The requirement for it to be self sustaining is to allow for competition in the market to still exist. After all, the problem we are trying to solve is created by the monopoly (duopoly if you consider DSL competitive to cable or have access to fiber) so replacing one monopoly with another is not seen as progress by many. #1 gets support from the broadest constituency because different groups like it for different reasons.

#2 is not usually broadly supported enough to be voted in and #3 doesn't solve the problem that #1 and #2 aim to.

> Surely no one expects other things like road maintenance to be financially self-sustaining?

Because nobody every voted for road maintenance to be self-sustaining. People usually are voting for tax increases that are meant to pay for roads.
> Making a game is not hard - marketing a game is.

The sentiment here is true of all software and always has been. However, it does not mean that making a game/software isn't hard, it means that marketing it and selling it is a different problem space that people underestimate.
We can't use the fact that these will be around for a very long time as a reason to not get rid of them where possible because then we'll continue producing them and the problem will only get worse.
Lest we also forget WorldCoin, where Sam thinks it's a good idea and ok to scan people's retinas for funny fake internet money. Oh and he decided to start the collection of retinas in sub-Saharan Africa, targeting people who have a higher chance of not knowing what this project really is.

A project that has been banned in multiple countries already.

Yeah, no, no-one should trust a single thing Sam Altman says or does.
At the moment it doesn't feel like a game but a demo or tech preview of the UI. For a game I'd expect to have rules or a goal, and then be guided through it as the complexity increases. If the goal of the game is to learn, this would be a great medium for it. Good luck with v2, I hope to remember and see it when I can more actively enjoy it.
Kinda. At the moment it only does local orchestration, basically running stuff on your workstation. Sorta like docker compose, but in C# + a really nice Open Telemetry dashboard.
For deployment it creates a manifest, which can be used to generate kubernetes Yamls, or deploy to Azure using azd (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-deve...).
This thread is rooted in a comment saying that the median revenue for a game on Steam is $800.

There's a large, large gulf between "the biggest and most profitable game" and "I spent months of my life working on this, and made less than a month of rent."

The puzzle box game may be awesome and well-worth your $20. The developer still might rightly have concluded that "damn, this was a huge waste of time. Gotta go back to my Wal-mart job."
Paper on arXiv (ACM format), same authors as this article (and mostly same content):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14376
> This was also the week where OpenAI dissolved its team focused on the long-term risks of AI, and Jan Leike, its former co-head, resigned claiming that he disagreed with the "core priorities" of OpenAI's leadership, saying that his team — which, to be clear, dealt with the safety implications of artificial intelligence — was "sailing against the wind" at OpenAI

This is more than enough reason to be severely critical of companies that dissolve their ethics committees like this.
Correct. Variable sets (varsets) is partially merged into upstream main development branch. Other work is ongoing. Varsets are much more important than just our web service though. Being able to configure and control variants in a design is underappreciated and will be essential to having complex assemblies with multiple copies of identical parts. Imagine a hinge that is reused in many places in the design. The current angle of the hinge should be controlled on a per-copy basis. When you change the angle, you don't want all copies everywhere to reflect the new state. This is a variant.
> We've overhauled our backlog management to ensure dynamic alignment with business needs and enhance team productivity. This new system empowers stakeholders to manage tasks flexibly, prioritizes urgent fixes without disruption, and maintains continuous workflow through regular task replenishment.

I think I just won Buzzword Bingo with this!
Forgot to say, if it wasn't obvious: I'm not a microbiologist.

There are a few recent invivo studies on marine life showing several negative effects. I've seen also a few reviews from the past two years, for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

There is a lot of interest in microplastics lately so I guess we will soon know how harmful they really are.
My understanding is that places like ours are the best case scenario with municipal broadband: most likely to see uptake (the lifeblood of these schemes), universal adoption of broadband, enough density to make last mile delivery feasible.

But without significant scale and guaranteed uptake --- hard when you're competing with two household name ISPs --- the fixed costs of just running an ISP (or the backend infrastructure for a white-label ISP to build on top of) are prohibitive.
"I am not a fish" - Seth Godin

As the author of the post says in a reply to a comment:

> ' This is a common outcome for programs like this: "It doesn't work, but the adults like it!" '
aghhh......
I think those are honestly much lower on the list beyond the values and biases of the owners and employees.
There is a difference between the 2 OpenAI products.

One side allows access via prompts for a fixed monthly fee.

The other allows access via an API that you must purchase credits in advance for.

If you don’t have an API key then there’s nothing for it to do because it won’t even begin to connect.

Again I’m not understanding why you feel a Checkbox is fundamentally better here…
Thanks, that helped, my kids just used our house LLM to understand the game :D
I think that having corporate charter/bylaws include things like company long term health as a guiding principal over short term gains may do it. Along with explicit limitations on the money an executive can take in any given fiscal year.
There are collectible and semi-collectible cameras. I have to believe you can get a serviceable SLR with a 50mm or kit zoom for a decent price.
Deity D4: This little gem is not only affordable but packs a punch when it comes to performance. Just pop it on top of your camera, plug it in, and voila! You're ready to capture crisp, clear audio without breaking the bank.

Rode NTG-3: A boom microphone that enhances those low frequencies, giving voices a rich, full-bodied sound. It's particularly great for male voices, adding that extra touch of depth and masculinity to the audio.

Shure SM7B: Renowned for its pristine sound quality, beloved even by the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. And let me tell you, if it's good enough for MJ, it's good enough for us! We use it for every podcast we produce, and the results speak for themselves.
"Thermonuclear", even in the colloquial sense, underwhelms the magnitude of this event by... a lot lol.

We measure nuclear detonations in 1-10 MT. A nova is more like 10^18-10^30 MT.
There are places in the US that we could move them to.

I would not mind having Taiwan as a neighbor.
Presumably because there aren't many mature Rust GUI options at the moment. Egui is pretty good for what it is, but it's "immediate mode" which comes with some restrictions. Slint seems promising but the developer experience was a little rough when I tried it a couple months ago. Not sure the licensing is compatible with this project either.
Athena Crisis Open Source
I am on astronomy TikToks a lot these days. The amount of people who think the sun is a ball of lava is depressing. I am grateful of the steady, consistent education of physicists and astronomers who patiently explain the difference day-in, and day-out. ("No, it's far hotter than that...")
That the basis of it, but in our brain the "inference engine" using those rules is a lot more than a fixed N-steps - there is thalamo-cortical looping, working memory of various durations, and maybe a bunch of other mechanisms such as analogical recall, resonance-based winner-takes-all processing, etc, etc.

Current LLMs have none of that - they are just the fixed set of rules, further limited by also having a fixed number of steps of rule application.
I've only used V2L on my EV6 a few times, but the most ironic moment was when I turned off the power to my house so I could install the charger plug in the garage. It was hot, so I used my car to power a fan to keep me cool :-)
One technique that this doesn’t mention is comparing state of the system across time.

If you frequently snapshot memory during normal gameplay and then, for every byte of memory, check whether it gets modified at all, you’ll probably spot many of those inline parameters to subroutines fairly easily, as small areas of memory that see updates inside a sea of static code, likely preceded by a RTS.

If, in addition to looking whether things get modified, you look at what values they take and how they get modified, you likely can spot things such as the score (it’s a fairly safe bet that is stored as a multi-byte number in contiguous memory, either as BCD or binary) or number of lives left (gets decreased during gameplay)

On current hardware, you probably can also add code that hunts for correlations between what happens on screen and what’s in memory. Those might help you to find a correlation between a memory location and the flight height of the chopper, for example.

It likely also is possible to detect, say, the code for shooting by frequently sampling the program counter, comparing a set of samples from flying around without ever shooting with one of flying around while shooting constantly.

Given today’s powerful hardware, there’s a lot of automaton that can be done on this.

I can even envision using modern AI (“there’s a helicopter on screen. What memory locations seem to store its height and orientation?”) for reverse engineering 8-bit games.
Agreed on most points, but do know that options market makers would be hedged on that position so likely didn't lose anything significant. However, by frontrunning the market Pelosi created worse conditions for other investors.
Ask HN: How do you feel about OpenAI replacing Sky's voice?
Disappointed to find out today that Sky's voice has been altered to a completely different voice. If OpenAI showed us the stats, I would speculate that the Sky voice option would be the most popular one. Are there any audio scientists here with theories why we prefer certain voices. The new voice replacing Sky is still a female voice, with a higher pitch, a hint of an urban accent.
FWIW Pulumi is the standard for infrastructure as proper code: https://www.pulumi.com/
The municipality is the government?

The government is not free to burn it's money as it pleases. Some form of democracy, represented or direct, instructs it how to spend it's money.
Negativity gets more attention, and is arguably easier to provide. Look at the news. Most stories are negative ones complaining about something or another. Look at reviews and essays, whether on blogs or YouTube or anywhere else. The majority of them are critical of the subject matter.

It's easier to find fault with something bad than to explain why something is good.
Ah I see. Geoff Langdale (creator of Hyperscan) has a post about this. The comments seem relevant: https://branchfree.org/2019/04/04/question-is-matching-fixed...
Rules engines and ML models to escalate interesting Tweets, accounts, and networks of related accounts for human review. Data pipelines to feed them. Change management and observability so that analysts can safely keep them up to speed with threats. Case management systems to put the findings into. Reviews, approvals, deviations, escalations, M of N reviewer consensus. Each one of these things is at least as complex as Twitter's core product.
That you're "on astronomy TikToks a lot these days" is depressing.
I work in Big Tech. Whenever we open positions both in the Bay and in NYC, we are flooded with applications to NYC with a lot less in the Bay. A good chunk of these come from people in the Bay wanting to move out.

I've been in the Bay for a few years now. I've noticed that a lot of people I talk to don't really like it here. They like their job and the paycheck but they would move out in a heartbeat if they could. As opposed to all the folks I know who live in NYC, most of them really enjoy it.

I wonder if that has something to do with it ["it" being the article]
CIOs don't have strategy. They just notice what other companies are doing and scramble not to be left behind of new tech, whether that makes sense or not.
SolveSpace is good. It's the only free CAD software I've found that's remotely usable (yes including FreeCAD). Unfortunately it has some pretty big missing features, notably bevels & filets.
Phillip figured out how to defeat the Greek phalanx (although it took him a while) and had some very limited success against the Persians. Alexander not only made short work of the Greek revolt on Phillip's death, but also went on to defeat the Thracians in their native mountains, the Scythians in their steppe, the Tyrians in an almost impossible siege, the largest Persian armies ever assembled, and of course the Indians with their elephants - at the end of some logistical lines that would be challenging for even mechanized armies.

Should the generals have been the secret to Alexander's success, he died young enough that they had plenty of chances to show their own mettle. But they got pushed back everywhere instead, not only by the rising powers of Rome and Carthage but also by Alexander's partially defeated enemies: the Indians, Scythians and, most humiliatingly, even by the Thracians. The significance of the "Great" nickname was not that they regarded him as a great moral teacher, or an example to be followed by the average person; rather, when looking at Macedonian kings before and after Alexander III, he stood out by far due to his accomplishments. Had he done nothing but founded the wonder-laden city of Alexandria, which dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for centuries, they would have still considered him "Great".
Your post is jejune and inane.
I love dense UIs, but in my experience they're very hard to design. You can easily make an OK design if you add a lot of space and padding, but to make a dense UI look good you need custom borders and textures, and you need a permanent vision so you can add more widgets later that won't look weird. It's sadly not a paradigm that works in many scenarios.
I want flexible queries, not RAG
Falling Down – The Great American Lie [video]
It's amazing to see the magnitude of declining storage prices laid out so clearly.
It looks like the 73-year old did die of heart attack.
All true, yet, I had a whole seminar on it (in English) last century, so, not entirely impenetrable! Few in the class were bilingual but did try to keep the original text up and my instructor was a passionate student and gave us enough context (and a lot of parallel reading) that it did not seem any harder than other opaque "continental" texts I read around the same time, e.g. Bakhtin on dialogism, Habermas, etc.

Looking for a relevant reference definitely confirms your point, I was surprised to find it remains relatively obscure. A tragedy in its own right!

Should have mentioned he's the author of the vastly more widely known The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction which justly has had a recurring turn in the spotlight in recent decades...
Beyond All Reason – An Open Source RTS Game
> First, I don't agree that lobbying is a good thing, in general.

You don't think it's a good thing that I can call my congressman and express my opinions and concerns?
This is the Classic example of the "Bwaaa! Ba! Nooo, no one is exceptional! It was just their rich daddy I swear. I only suck because my daddy sucked"
OSS for Climate – Open-Source Software for the Climate Crisis
How do you verify employees? Are they really going to sign up to this?
Just because you have a wide display doesn't mean that all of it can or should be used. For example, lines of text not taking up the whole width is a good thing - if you have to turn your head to read across the screen, it's more straining and takes more time. It's the same reason why newspapers are printed in columns and not across the page.

Now, depending on what kind of content you deliver, that empty edge space can be filled with something else (like what Wikipedia does) or just be blank if there's nothing useful you can put there.