skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if your memory is an outlier? If I play a game, read a book, or watch a movie within a year or two I remember the edges and themes but I’ll forget the details of the plot.

Myst is an exception which is probably a testament to how impactful it was to 11 year old me, but I’ve played Riven twice and I could barely tell you what it is about. If I play it again, I’ll start getting my memory jogged and it won’t completely be like starting from scratch but pretty close to it.

Dementia runs in my family so I am always paranoid about lapses in my memory (I’m 40). When I talk to others I don’t seem to be alone.

Which one of us is the norm?
This is highly dependent on the person. Who are they to me? What is their technical background? Why do I think they need to know what an LLM is?
Just handwavy nonsense. What counts as “observing”? Obviously the bacterial system will “observe” the memory when using it determine current behavior. If the basic definition is irrelevant, why did you post a comment outlining a claim of what consciousness is “nothing more than”? This is silly and not worth further engagement.
Ask HN: Potential Business Model for LLMs: A Netflix-Like Content Platform
Hi HN,

I've been thinking about a new business model LLMs and wanted to get your thoughts. The idea is to create a platform similar to Netflix but for LLMs.

Here's how it would work:

Content Creator Sign-Up: Authors, bloggers, and other content creators sign up on the platform. They can either upload their content directly or allow the LLMs to scrape their publicly available content.

Content Integration: The LLM integrates the content from these creators into its training data. The model ensures that the content from various creators is weighted appropriately based on quality, relevance, and user interactions.

Subscription Model: Users pay a monthly subscription fee to access the platform, similar to how they subscribe to Netflix. They get access to a powerful LLM that provides answers, generates content, and assists with various tasks.

Revenue Share: Based on the contribution of each content creator to the LLM's responses and usage, the platform calculates and distributes a share of the subscription revenue to the creators. The more their content is used by the model, the higher their share of the revenue.

Transparency and Analytics: Creators have access to analytics that show how often their content is used and how much revenue they are generating. This encourages high-quality content creation and allows creators to understand their impact on the platform.

This model ensures that content creators are fairly compensated for their contributions while providing users with a robust, well-trained LLM.

Questions:

Do you see potential issues with this model?

How would you ensure fair revenue distribution?

What challenges do you foresee with content scraping and integration?

Any legal or ethical concerns that need to be addressed?

Looking forward to your insights!
In the nineties they used battery backed RAM that cost more than a new car for WAL data on databases that desperately needed to scale higher.
It said "not known" in an earlier revision
> would have to allow installing whatever software the users wants

I’m not arguing that Apple’s geofence is a good solution.

But you can argue that this completely compromises the ability to deliver a secure platform. If you want a platform like that, get Android or F-droid.
weval author here (thanks Max for the blog post!). Also AMA!

The talk about weval that Max mentions was at NEU and also CMU; the latter was recorded and is here: https://vimeo.com/940568191

I also plan to write up a blog post on weval in depth, plus its application to SpiderMonkey-on-Wasm, in a few months; it's pretty exciting though, currently getting 4-5x speedups on some benchmarks on a decidedly nontrivial interpreter!
Well the boilerplates like Laravel are incredible. Skip writing your payment processing, your user management, usage billing, email templates and skip right to the business logic you are selling
> The thesis is that mortgages are not primarily a service a bank provides to a homeowner.

This is completely true, when viewed from that angle.

But if we look at it from that angle, this is just a restatement of capitalism.

Every for-profit business has the goal to obtain a profit stream. Whatever service or product they provide is just the "trick" to make that happen. I put trick in quotes because if it is a useful service or product then it is useful to the purchaser, even if the ultimate motivation for the company was to make money.

But that's not a bad thing, it's a win-win. The issuer makes money, someone gets something of value to them (being able to buy a property in this case).
Optane 905p goes for $500 a piece (1T) I believe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40407198
If you’re moving around and walking, you don’t get as hungry. Outside of a handful of cities in the us, most of the country is basically designed to limit walking
Mostly in Shenzhen, why?
> The odds are against this being an accident.

What makes you think so? Looking for data, I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_gov.... It lists 3 helicopter accidents (one of them this year) and one helicopter bombing.

Also, weather in the region apparently isn’t good for safely flying helicopters (FTA: “He said the visibility in the mountainous and wooded area was down to only about five meters.”)

That, to me, doesn’t support a claim “The odds are against this being an accident”. Do you have data that does?
Ivermectin doesn't work though, and we knew that then even if he did find a single quack doctor to promote it.

And vaccines do reduce transmission, which is all I ever heard about it. Not sure what side effects you're talking about.
Ask HN: Best option for lightweight data persistence for simple local program?
Hey everyone, I want to build a simple program that will allow me to track my financial “net worth” month to month. It will essentially just take a few numbers from various banking and brokerage accounts every month and compare with the month prior.

It’ll probably just be a script I run locally every month. I’m wondering what the best option might be for saving the account values. A full blown db (sqlite or postgres) sort of seems like overkill, and saving to a text file seems to…fragile? Just wondering if anyone can think of some better options for this use case.
> half of the world belongs to them

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

Not strictly limited to the Western hemisphere. See also: Vietnam War
It's interesting to see how a company, instead of taking the hint and opening up its OSes to third parties and diversifying its business, keeps on trying to come up with bad-faith interpretations of the law.

It'll hit them hard when the EU punishes them again for malicious compliance, and when other countries enact similar laws.
you’re right, I got confused between the two.

Side note: I played obduction a while back and it looked great, but the PlayStation fans were going nonstop
> To be clear, these recompiled N64 apps do not include the game itself, which is part of their charm — while protective Nintendo lawyers might argue they encourage piracy, they do not redistribute the ROM files you’d need to actually play the copyrighted Nintendo works.

But you don't need the ROM files to actually play the (c) works. You are now playing a translation of those files that remains (c) Nintendo.

This will not end well.
Ability to perceive your own thoughts. Access to your own debug logs.

I think this is distinct from "ability to perceive green, which doesn't exist". A neural network trained to distinguish green in the output of a spectroscope will perceive green without ever knowing there is something like a "neural network" or "thoughts".

Also, this probably can be detected from the outside via debugging. What cannot be detected may be the thing that distinguishes a hypothetical "philosophical zombie" from a truly conscious human, but I don't think anything like a philosophical zombie exists. Once it is physically identical to the human, it will also be thinking identically.

As a next step, you may observe humans around you and realize that the thoughts you perceive seem to be running inside the head of one of these humans (which you will call "me"). However, I don't think knowing what you look like from the outside is necessary for consciousness.
> The peripherals didn’t work across platforms. If you wanted to sell hardware in the 1980s, you were stuck building multiple versions of the same device.

True, but in the late 70s and early 80s there was the S-100 bus. This was used by many systems and became an IEEE standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus

However, it wasn't used by widely sold systems like the Apple ][ and later IBM PC, so it faded away.
> Take 8 out of 10 people (and I'm being generous here) off the street and ask them what party they represents them in the European "Parliament"

So your argument for it being undemocratic is that randos don't care enough to understand who represents them in the EU?
What you describe is average utilitarianism and it has many known very negative failure modes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitaria...

This also ignores a very basic premise in medicine: nobody will willingly go to a doctor they do not believe has their best interests in mind. It’s one of the reasons the Hippocratic oath exists.
The literal answer is yes, an ATA TRIM, SCSI UNMAP, or NVMe Deallocate command can cover whatever range on a device you feel like issuing it for. (The device, in turn, can clear all, none, or part of it.) On Linux, blkdiscard accepts the -o, --offset and -l, --length options (in bytes) that map more or less exactly to that. Making a(n unformatted) partition for the empty space and then trimming it is a valid workaround as well.

But you’re most probably doing this on a device with nothing valuable on it, so you should be able to just trim the whole thing and then allocate and format whatever piece of it that you are planning to use.
The slightly better solution for these situations is to set up a reverse proxy that sends all GET requests to a read replica and the server with the real database gets all of the write traffic.

But the tricky bit there is that you may need to set up the response to contain the results of the read that is triggered by a successful write. Otherwise you have to solve lag problems on the replica.
googlesyndication.com

googletagmanager.com
I never understood this. Evolution basically says humans are conscious matter...why would that not be replicatable via an intelligent designer (humans)?

Randomness created consciousness from a single cell...why would that be the most efficient solution?
Sure, my point is that even the math-y programming languages and libraries don’t map very well to how mathematicians seem to describe eigenvalues.

Personally I think of them as a characteristic of the matrix (but I just write numerical software, I’m not a mathematician) and implement them as the result of a process. So I don’t really see any reason to favor either syntax or call one more mathematical.
What's the Price Elasticity of Demand for Intelligence?
I was having a nice time browsing it - it's a shame that they decided to stick a transphobic "meme" in the women's bathroom.
Security doesn’t equal to giving away the full control to a third party. By this logic, Linux servers are insecure.

Also you can’t install Linux on Android due to the closed specs and proprietary derivers. Not even on Google Pixels advertized by the GrapheneOS crowd.
If people in the EU wanted that, they can have it today. They can buy any number of cell phones from various manufacturers that they can install any version of android (or other OS if available) on it. Likewise they can buy the Pinephone, or the Librem if they want something like ubuntu mobile.

But it's clear that isn't what people want. If it was they would be buying it. What they want is what Apple sells. They want iOS. They want the apps and the app store. They want the hardware and the polish. They just also want to be able to install arbitrary software packages.

You can't get that with a law that allows people to install whatever OS they want at the hardware level.
I've never played Riven nor Myst, because I just can't find a version or remake that wouldn't suck technically, but I just loved Quern, and one or two similar games I found since.

One that stood out to me is "Odyssey - The Story of Science", which is a Myst-like with focus on teaching basics of math and physics through its puzzles.
Who can you not risk renting to and why?
I remember Myst being eerie and kind of scary due to the vague story and sense of isolation. It had a nightmare-like quality to it.

Riven added a lot more world building and that lore took away the mystery and isolation that gave the original its ambiance.
Probably the same place. Islamic theocratic was on the rise in that area in the 70s - it's likely Ayatollah Khomeini would come to power one way or another - possibly even via elections. Just like Islamists did elsewhere after the Arab spring.
Interesting how the „up to date“, or should I say „generic“ production of Furthermore robs them of their charm. They had an instantly recognizable sound.
> I don’t need that evidence if I assume consciousness exists in the first place.

I think you're missing the point here. Let me repeat, with some added emphasis: you have no evidence for the existence of consciousness in entities other than yourself other than their I/O behavior. It's not that you have no evidence. You do. But that evidence takes the form of I/O behavior, which can be completely accounted for by physics. Yes, you can assume that consciousness is a real thing independent of physics, but you can also assume invisible pink unicorns. Neither is necessary to explain the data. The only thing that is problematic is your subjective sensation of consciousness, which kinda sorta feels like it should not be possible if physics is all there is. That's the problem that Dennett solved.

> Would it be fair to say that time-space is an illusion?

Yes. See: https://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

(Bet you didn't see that coming, did you? :-)

> The evidence of consciousness is empirically supplied every moment of your existence, though.

Yes, I don't deny that. And I don't deny that accounting for it is a Very Hard Problem. The fact that Dennett was able to solve it is one of the many things that made him noteworthy.
> I wish I could buy back my own mortgage at a discount given how much interest rates have risen

You can! Even if not directly. Take the lump sum cash you'd have to use to buy off your mortgage today. Put it into an interest-bearing instrument of your choice that is paying these higher rates today (higher than your mortgage). Us that to pay the monthly mortgage and the different is profit.
I’m a father and can tell you yes, there is stress, but when I look at life without children, I see mostly lives of temporary self indulgence.

Parties, skiing, Hawaii, toys, consoles, cars, motorcycles, vacation homes, etc.

Over time, most people I know grow tired of them. They have more friends yes, but even my friends know their “good time friends” wouldn’t stick around through hardship.

Kids aren’t the only way for sure. There are plenty of causes, but they are one thing that lasts longer than a few product cycles.
The connection was made to illustrate that the hunters aren't deciding the hunting quotas, but that the quotas are set to appease the farming and forestry industry.
Never mind that the landlord can probably self-review.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what this tool is achieving. Running filters on many files? Does this mean that your business dies if the original tool gains the ability (and nice GUI) to run batch jobs on its own?
> Audio lags behind the image, or image lags behind the audio

I often see the former, but only rarely the latter.

Why?
I think the current LLM trend is way overhyped. The thing these companies are doing, crucially, is extracting money from technologically unsophisticated companies and funnelling it into VC pockets. Silicon Valley bubbles are frequently incestuous. You make an HR platform and you sell it to other tech companies. You do sales analytics for tech companies. You make a bank that caters to only tech companies. The problem is that your customers all have the same risk profile as you - if interest rates go up and funding dries up you're all fucked at once. You're all just passing VC dollars back and forth.

The AI trend is luring in a wide range of non-tech businesses that aren't VC backed (ex. car dealerships). This is the golden goose for tech companies in a tough macro climate.

To be clear I think it's not adding real value for these buyers, but there's a tremendous amount of FOMO. The media has been complicit in selling AI as a panacea for small businesses in a tough climate, and the ultimate beneficiaries will be people grifting off AI hype.
Why would it cause the cost of games to go down?

They still cost the same to make regardless, and they’d still need some form of distribution that would take a cut.

PC games aren’t any cheaper at launch than console games. Console games don’t become any cheaper when the cost of manufacturing goes down over the course of a generation.
The hype cycle repeats again this time with AI. There will be a lot of noise and fury (after blockchain, nocode, big data, cloud etc etc). The good part is that consumers will vote with their attention and wallets. Only the products that bring real value based on non trivial insights into specific markets will survive. The rest will slowly die off and be forgotten.

Also a lot of the VC money just ends up going back to the big players that have monopolized the channels to reach customers and the systems to run those ‘businesses’.

Here’s a good overview of the scaling difficulties with AI: ‘Most AI systems today aren’t quite software, in the traditional sense. And AI businesses, as a result, don’t look exactly like software businesses. They involve ongoing human support and material variable costs. These traits make AI feel, to an extent, like a services business’
https://a16z.com/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-its-differen...
Almost like you didn’t bother to check the source. The US rate is 5-6x worse per 100k residents. And 2.5x worse adjusts for miles driven. The US has failed miserably at road safety.
It felt like they didn’t get that it was the unbridled creativity combined with no resources that forced them to make the experience itself good, rather than infinite resources indulging their misconceptions about where the value was
Why is this "way better"? The article appears to discuss a blood tests to triage stroke which is unrelated to both disease treatment or identifying a root cause of the stroke.
Feel free to post those playlists for those discouraged by the list of academic resources :)
No it wouldn't, companies like Nintendo and Sony make money from selling games on their platform, and they still need to sell as many of their consoles as possible to do that.
I think multiple forms of consciousness exist now. ADHD, autism?

I think it’s a good thing.
So I assume with UCLinux on a 68K, there's nothing to stop a rogue program from destabilizing the system? (Mind, not a hostile program, just a buggy program.)

On an 8086, you can get a modicum of protection by limiting your processes to the Tiny or Small memory model (thus a rogue 16 bit address can't easily "leak" out of their respective segments and clobber the kernel).
IMHO, it should. And the same should apply to smart TV manufacturers. Should apply to anything that lets one install software.
No, the EU considers them separately. Apple did successfully convince them that they are separate, however the EU then said that iPadOS would soon cross the threshold itself so would preemptively include it
Couldn't you say the same about us? It's not the brain (hardware) that is conscious, but the mind (software) running on it.
QLC memory cells need to store and read back the voltage much more precisely than SLC memory cells. You get far more P/E cycles out of SLC because answering "is this a zero or a one?" remains fairly easy long after the cells are too worn to reliably distinguish between sixteen different voltage levels.
I didn't. I haven't read much of anything he's written. But people who write like that are generally incapable of any clear, concise words, so it's best to just ignore them.
What is this obsession with making computers human-like?

We can put those machine to better uses than forgetting, having biases, making subtle or gross mistakes (hello, ChatGPT) like we do.

The AI that some apparently consider top-notch today is only good at powering NPCs in video games. The more serious the use-case, the more harmful it becomes.

Moreover, achieving artificial consciousness is only good at fueling endless debates about whether it fakes it perfectly or it is the real thing.
Gödel's theorem deals with the axioms of mathematics. the scientific method deals with the physical universe. a small part of mathematics is useful in describing the universe, but most of it isn't.
Try this if you haven't already; https://consentomatic.au.dk/

I find it very useful on firefox for android, since those buttons are often tiny.
Our games cover a couple of miles of almost unoccupied property. But teenagers don't always make the best decisions and sometimes treat others' property as their own. It can be super disconcerting to have somebody dressed all in black climb over your back fence, run across your porch and disappear around your garage.

Even when you make a clear rule that you can't go past the power line and into the neighborhood, somebody sometimes does.

Do you really want the police to ignore a distress call of prowlers trampling their tomatoes?
I would say that it’s not so much that people are mean; most people are not. The median person in the open source community is perfectly fine. It’s just that the open source community writ large seems particularly bad at dealing with and excluding arseholes, and attempts to do so often don’t go over well.
> how gut flora changes, non-brain organ transplantation, and such correlate with shifts in your personality

Well, yeah, but so what? You can have shifts in your personality and still be you. You can be grumpy one day and happy another and still be you. And those changes can be cause by environmental changes far less radical than organ transplants.

The one thing you cannot swap out and still remain you is your brain.
The stats in the link say that the annual “traffic-related death rate” is 12.9 deaths per 100,000 people in the USA and 2.2 per 100,000 people in Sweden. It’s the death rate that’s (more than) 5x higher in the USA, not the death count. That’s around 45,000 deaths compared to around 225 deaths.
> Simply depriving these people of airtime does NOT quash their views and make them go away.

> We should know by now that censoring information these days does not work

This argument (repeated) is a bit of a red herring. I haven't seen anyone saying we can make pseudoscience go away forever. We're just questioning the wisdom of embracing and amplifying it to reach people it wouldn't have before.

> It fuels conspiracy theories

This is kind of a corollary to the above point: People are going to theorize conspiracies no matter what. There are undoubtedly conspiracy theorists who think the exact opposite: that including pseudoscience is a conspiracy to make people think it isn't being censored in other ways.

Thus, that a given action might strengthen or weaken the conspiracy theories of at least 1 pseudoscientist isn't enough to justify doing the action or not. Neither choice will make conspiracy theories go away.
I installed a high CFM hood for my stove, mainly for searing on cast iron and dealing with the smoke, but I wonder if this helps with the NO2 exposure mentioned in the article. A high CFM hood was something I never knew I needed until I had one. It's fantastic.