skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was irritated by how strongly the author insists that "nothing is stored in the brain", almost to a point where the author seems to suggest it's stored somewhere else entirely, when after paragraphs of paragraphs the gist of it is that information is not stored directly, like in the case of the dollar bill, not as a bitmap, so to speak. There is still some form of incomplete, lossy encoding of information and knowledge stored in the brain. I don't see how this would invalidate the analogies with computers.

This isn't new or groundbreaking in any way. Cognitive science basically tries to figure out the "algorithms" at work when we store or retrieve information. They're still analogies of course, but that we don't have an image of a dollar bill stored in some synapses hardly isn't news to anyone in the field.
With great difficulty.

> We find out in the final Asimov volume that the Mule was a Gaian, though not a robot. Gaia was founded by R. Daneel Olivaw. If I recall it was a side bet if the second foundation didn't save humanity.

Do kids these days not know about rot13?
Bashly is a command line application to generate bash command line tools
> No, you withdraw from the country.

And you watch your employees die? Great, you've saved your business and yourself from legal ramifications, and the people you worked for are dead, and your business is in ashes.

Chiquita did actually end up withdrawing from Columbia shortly after this.

> Maybe you bring in a hostage negotiator to exfiltrate your staff.

This is not how the real world works. If you try this stuff with the AUC in Columbia, they will torture and kill your people for fun, and post it on LiveLeak laughing about it.
Coming up next: Local AI model to detect and skip ads.
You got Bose'd.* Tires aren't going to do much unless they were designed for your specific rims on your specific vehicle, which is what Honda does. But without also adding Helmholtz resonators designed for your exact wheels and tires, or an ANC system, you'd need 100+ lbs. of mass-loaded vinyl applied to the doors and underbody to measurably soak up road noise. It's doubtful tire pattern can even come close to approximating active or passive designed NC, but it probably can be made much worse with certain tire/tread designs that induce resonance.

* Better Technology Through Marketing.™
That's my Heygen/D-ID story to the T.
I've never worked at an enterprise primarily (or even significantly) using mac computers. Are you in creative arts? Many digital art software only run on Mac.
Yawn.

Evaluated in terms of Graham's hierarchy of disagreement, this article employs the techniques of:
contradiction,
ad hominem, and
name-calling
Surely the romanticization happens with people who were on the receiving end of the change. Not kids from poor towns in 3rd world - they definitely have benefitted. But those who already had it all - and now have to share it with everyone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
> "As an AI assistant, I cannot help you." While this safety feature is crucial for preventing misuse,

What is the safety added by this? What is unsafe about a computer giving you answers?
If you don't like ad supported services then vote with your wallet and pay for services that don't show ads. What makes people feel entitled to enjoy ad supported content for free?
> And, if you exit the company -- either voluntarily or involuntarily -- you often only have 90 days to exercise your options.

This is why I advise everyone that you must early exercise (exercise your option as soon as you start with the company) if you're going to join a startup.

Some startups don't let you early excercise. Run far, far away. Find a different startup. Never join a startup that does not let you early exercise.
IIRC Android uses a regular Linux Bluetooth stack.

Also WRT your problems: In case you did not yet, switch to Pipewire. When I did that a couple of years ago, my BT Audio experience went from bad to really good.
Your story reminded me of one of my own:

A few years back I was helping clear out my parents’ garage, as they were having plumbing issues and needed a path cleared for the plumber. Eventually I come across a strange looking box with some weird brown tubes poking out of it. I look up at the ceiling, and see the waste pipe from a toilet. There was not only a hole in the ceiling, but a huge hole in the top of the waste pipe.

Turns out that strange box was full of newspapers that had had raw sewage dripping onto it for who knows how long. Those “brown tubes” were actually some sort of fungus, and when I looked closer, it was quite literally spewing out spores. It looked like steam.

I was horrified at the idea of this fungus surviving on nothing but sewage and ran to grab a respirator before rushing the thing into a compost bin. Wish I’d taken a photo, but my mind was elsewhere at the time.
The DoJ actually acknowledges the payments were made under duress, but it is still technically a violation. The AUC absolutely threatened to kill their employees.
This is why I meantioned Everett, who got rejected by the natives. It took centuries of organized effort, that often involved a total reorganization of the society, to christianize Europe.
Interested to hear more about using Insta 360 cam to relive

I have one for work purposes but also as a time capsule for the small humans in my care.
> Why doesn't Chollet just make a challenge that reads like "Solve cancer", surely there is no solution in any books.

Why doesn't a baby just run a marathon before it learns to walk? Because you've got to learn to walk before you can run.

> But not even the whole human society can do it in one go, it's a slow iterative process of ideation and validation.

So you break it down into little steps, which is what is being done here.
Sounds like you could try a Samsung S phone with Dex and a lapdock?
Updated my comment with details
> enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor

It's not exactly there yet (especially that you need some technical knowledge to troubleshoot stuff). But I am getting similar performance playing games on Linux that I would be getting on Windows.
Starship is still in development and is running into significant delays and they have yet to show even a depot, tanker and lunar lander mockup. What real world results are you talking about? It is not like the current version of starship could deploy a payload because they removed the payload doors to make reentry easier. The last test flight took many steps back to test upper stage reuse, which is a capability that won't be needed any time soon and could have been tested in parallel with other changes. Sure, with every test they are incrementally developing the rocket, but from my perspective the progress between launches is the same as if they hadn't done any test launches. There is no magical development speedup coming from their approach, mostly because they are taking many detours. The attempt to launch without a deluge system was just a waste of time and their first rocket. They could be moving faster, but they don't.
What are the alternatives to YouTube which have the same level of content? I don't mean the low effort crap either.
Non-US corporations are held to the same standard. US court making frivolous jurisdiction claims is nothing new.
They use two completely different libc though, which are binary incompatible (bionic and glibc).
Any recommendations for an entry point into Elixir? I've been teaching myself Rust through resources like Rustlings and 100-exercises-to-learn-rust, and I've found that approach to be pleasantly accessible. I've yet to find something similar for Elixir, whether interactive or just well laid-out.
The most successful startups that haven't been founded by technical people I have seen usually didn't even have much of an idea - but they had customers and kept talking to them and created a product vision out of that. All startups should be doing that.
>So they pay money to some local cartel to make them go away

Traditionally it's more like "they pay money to some local armed group to get rid of union activists and unruly workers asking for more rights and better conditions and salaries".
are A and B both operating in the US in your example? if yes, then USG has a legitimate interest in removing that perverse incentive. if not, then the US criminal justice system seems like the wrong place to solve the problem.

my point is that the jurisdiction of the US criminal justice system should be limited to the US. if people do things in another country that demonstrably harm US residents, that's fair game. otherwise, it seems like an overreach for the US to enforce laws that might not even exist in other countries. just my opinion, you don't have to agree.
Because our data is nearly universally stolen to the point of absurdity and most videos already contain in-baked ads in the form of endorsements and placements. YouTube certainly makes more from knowing my viewing preferences than it could from ads.
The world runs on subpar software, and will continue to do so... Windows being the best example of that.
Will it affect projects like yt-dlp, Invidious, or Piped? It seems like they are going to put ads into actual video streams, so yt-dlp might download a video with ads injected?
It's unsafe for the publisher of the model to have their model perform "undesirable" action, because it leads to bad PR for them. In this case, Meta doesn't want a news article that says "Llama 3 gives instructions to stalk your ex" or something along those lines.

With this "uncensoring", they can say, "no, an unaffiliated product offered these directions; Llama 3 as provided does not."
We know no such thing.
The human brain behaves nothing like an LLM.

This article stands the test of time, whereas you appear to be subscribing to the fallacy that whatever strange new ideology comes out of silicone valley is the truth.

Do check out neurology some time.

Neural networks are a total misnomer and absolutely butcher any biological insights it may have been loosely based upon.
I thought the vote was happening today?
They should put their money where their mouth is and start divesting.
This is a badly written and hyperbolic article. What does "server side injection" actually mean? The article also touches on SponsorBlock, which in my mind would have no problems skipping whatever "injected" ads show up since this is already what that application does, but it doesn't address this at all, it just mentions that the team behind it "mentioned" that youtube is "experimenting".

At the end of the day ruining adblock is impossible, the only question is whether all engineering hours and extra infrastructure/complexity put into making it more difficult will actually render a net benefit in the end. I'm skeptical.
>most videos already contain in-baked ads in the form of endorsements and placements.

To be completely fair here: That is a problem with the creators, not Youtube.
Isn’t YouTube premium essentially what you’re describing?
Based, but what if the AI starts holding you personally accountable.

Being a scapegoat for a Synthetic God for eternity, not muh cup a tea.
I've always found it a mark of stellar incompetence that YouTube hasn't done ad injection into the video stream, dynamically on the server side. It's to my advantage, so I'm not complaining, but this is a company that ignored adblockers for years, and when it started fighting them, half-assed even that (I see no ads even now).
I disagree. I'd be like: Bring it on. Play the fake victim card. Make a few showy social media posts, posting select screenshots of email chains. Rally everyone around the 'evil greediness' of megacorps. Not only do you score PR sentiment wins, you get a massive PR blitz. "Tiny US cyberintel startup sued by massive Chinese-state-linked online game" (I don't actually know if they're Chinese-state-linked but I'm channeling my inner modern-day journalist hahaha!)
It's not just to learn; an RoCE ethernet cluster with Aristas is way cheaper to build and maintain than a fancy InfiniBand cluster with Mellanox/NVidia networking, so proving that the former is good enough at scale will eventually save Meta a huge amount of money. InfiniBand cards are much more expensive than ethernet because there's few vendors, that have a quasi-monopoloy, and because overall far fewer of them are produced so there's less economy of scale.
So the next generation of Ad-blockers will simply source the video from a proxy, compare, and serve the clean feed. The cat and mouse game perpetuates.
What do you mean with enforcement? Literally delisting the app if it doesn't correctly classify their notifications?

Because as they said: android has multiple channels, but the app owners quickly realized that if they classified their notifications, the unwanted channels such as "news"/advertising get disabled. So they bundle it into the same channel you don't really want to disable again.

For example a taxi service that gives you discounts etc on the same channel as the notification that the driver is almost there.

I really don't see a solution to this problem, because the consumer almost always wants some notifications, so disabling all from apples side wouldn't really work either (as customers would be negatively impacted).

It'd be great if Apple found a solution, but I can't think of one that has any chance of succeeding. Maybe their new Apple Intelligence feature... We don't know enough about it's capabilities yet, but it could potentially act as a filter, with the potential for false negatives/positives. But that should hopefully be okay for something like notifications
Interesting question. Seems like interior-point methods might terminate quickly when the overlap is significant. You could probably add some clever early stopping conditions too.
I see these things as a waste of time and resources. We already have all sorts of ways of storing energy, from chemical to mechanical to biological, which are known to work. There are myriad open questions regarding the practicalities of incorporating a battery as the frame of your house, and given the "technological inertia" of the building sector and its regulations, it would take several decades before we even start experimenting with this in real houses. Meanwhile, the world burns and we increase our energy consumption. Again, a waste of time and resources.
They mean pay for YouTube Premium. There's nothing like YouTube.
Agreed. I get enormous value out of YT and am delighted to pay the $20/month or so. Plus the paid version works great as a podcast medium because it is robust, runs in the background and uses comparatively few resources.
No, I don't think it does. I think that the ideas in a system that could solve this type of problem would be highly generalisable to other tasks.
The repo mentiones a Karpathy tweet from Jan 2023. Andrej has recently created llm.c and the same model trained about 32x faster on the same NVidia hardware mentioned in the tweet. I dont think the perfomance estimate that the repo used (based on that early tweet) was accurate for the performance of the NVidia hardware itself.
Plus my understanding is that most streaming video works with a playlist of video segments, each video segment is independent and self contained, so not sure how an adblocker could tell an ad segment from a content segment, ie you wouldn’t need to reencode anything, just serve different segments dynamically.
It is the case. Boeing is losing billions.
What? You're forgetting that those traditional societies had a class with a literal cheat code to push anything into the minds of people: religion. All that "thinking for themselves" didn't happen there - historically, people have always been more than happy to outsource the spiritual to a small group of specialists.

Then again, traditional societies had little to do other than farming and breeding ad infinitum, so there was limited value to any propaganda.
Thanks but no thanks. I want to choose the hardware myself. I also want hardware that is upgradable if my needs change after a while. Linux is the way for moving off Windows.
And they could have just used OpenAI to generate phony ones. It's like the "sweating the button choice" meme. hahaha! :)
This is common, conspiracy theorists never read the links they forward, it is sufficient to have something that passes first muster, a scientific article, a report, something with the right sounding title, they'll never read the contents.
> Apparently the average American residential electricity use is 10,791 kwh/year, which is ~1,231 watts, whereas the average British home is only 2,700 kwh/year which is ~308 watts. I had no idea that the difference was so large.

Well, American homes aren't built out of brick and concrete like European buildings are, instead they're made out of wood and cardboard which is barely insulating against heat (and doesn't hold up at all to major storms which is why you're seeing so much destruction after hurricanes), so they lose a lot of energy during winter and have to spend a lot of electricity on AC during the summer.

On top of that, their homes are (at least in suburbia) so much larger than European homes. Heat loss/influx is cubic-related to the footprint IIRC, so it makes for much more energy demand as well.
Polaris Dawn is supposed to go up next month, and while that mission isn’t going to the station, that capsule has been there multiple times, so I doubt it would need much modification.
Yes, until all the unofficial clients learn to serve links to videos without ads.
Right. If you don't want to see the ads then pay for a subscription. Using an ad blocker on a site that is monetized by ads is essentially taking the content for free, against the wishes of the creators.
I’m an Apple fanboy, big time.

At the same time I find categories like “god” and “evil” difficult when used in the context of corporates.

Maybe Apple can be described as more honest.

They sell you extremely expensive hardware so that they don’t need your data to be monetized.

I think that’s a fair deal.
But you just need 45 cubic meters of concrete. That’s about $5k.
Good for your wife's anemia, but test from time to time (every 2 to 4 years) your blood iron levels to check if it is not too high. It's problematic too (tiredness, then liver cirrhosis), and iron cookware can cause iron buildup (over several years, but still). Doctors don't often think to check iron levels in patients when doing checkups.
linux is more usable today than ever before. The only chokehold that microsoft have on windows is legacy business apps, and office (and various compliance requirements for gov't software that opensource tend not to have, like FEDRAMP).

MacOS is gaining ground, but because their hardware is legitimately superior. I imagine commodity laptops to be a dying breed in a few more years.

Gaming on a windows PC is the last bastion that macs tend not to compete in at all, and on that front there's SteamOS.

Microsoft signed their own OS death warrant when they switched from being backward-compatibility oriented way back in the Vista days. It might take another 2 decades for it all to play out, but from what i can see, it's one straight road down to obsoletion.
Huh, didn't they JUST shoved it to people's faces with that thing that saves everything you do forever?
So go support other video sites with owners and policies you find less objectionable.
Universally eh? Who decides what should be censored and what not? You?
I don't agree with your implied 1:1 isomorphism between "traditional societies" and "illiterate peasants".

Many would argue that the "highly educated, clerical class" of those times represented a rigidly traditional society that punished any who deviated slightly from their norms.
Use lexical instead of elixirls and most of your worries will be gone
Nobody is entitled to some “level of content” of other people’s work. Some creators choose to distribute their content (and often monetize it) via YouTube, and those of us who wish to consume the content can choose whether or not to participate in that system.

Just like nobody is entitled to “use” your work without abiding by your terms, whether that work is source code or some physical good, nobody should come along and take it just because it’s not “low level crap”.
> If you get paid a slightly below market rate and get some worthless equity, what's the big deal?

If you really do, agree that it's ok and a fun ride.

But where are you going to find a startup that pays market rate? Never seen one.

Base salary can be very close! But at an established company you are also making money on RSUs, often more than your salary. And usually have a bonus, which can be quite significant.

So your base salary might be 250K in an established company and 200K at the startup. Not a huge difference. But total comp at the established company is more like 500K-600K vs. at the startup just 200K. Huge difference.
Or you do support those and they introduce ads later.

Unfortunately for users, advertisers will keep throwing money at the problem until the provider finds it attractive enough to add ads, or the provider builds up the user base to make it attractive for ad revenue. Same result.
For every engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 engineers who hate ads and will use their power to block them.
Thanks! For TIL
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtzowsches_Freikorps

Presumably blonde is for you perjorative

EDIT: probably ought to start managing the cetaceons with chatgpt4o-- as you say, festy PUs are needed, or should I resort to a notebook???!

EDIT: in particular the understated significance of lava--maybe a tilt at the children's game?
Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 Scenes in 25 Days
If you don't laugh you'll cry.
Azure OpenAI on Your Data with Semantic Kernel
That’s ironic, because a lot of the apartments in New York are also very small.
Apple is going to use on every device chatGPT by openAI (effectively Microsoft). So good luck with your battle.
Yeah, TouTube would have to rotate the insertion time on the fly, but again as the article mentions it needs to be user context aware before building it into the stream. Possible? Sure, but the cost and potential architecture change could be too much.

I have premium because I use YouTube quite a lot, but for non premium users YouTube pushed the ads too far. Unskippable, some reports of 70 min + adds, multiple ad segments in a < 10 min video.

Ad to that the content creators adds, I think it’s understandable more and more people are frustrated.
My wife grew up in China and scoffs at both these scenarios
Economy of scale and power imbalance increases with more advanced technology, not the other way. A true AGI would allow a single person to replace all other humans. Robot soldiers are bulletproof, cheap to build, and never refuse orders to kill.
> Are you aware of the history of labor organizing in the states...?

No, I'm not. It sounds like a very interesting read, though. I don't think those things tended to happen over here, beyond mafia-style illegal dealings.
Fringe cultures and communities are often a fruitful source for the mainstream, albeit often at the fringe's expense. See for instance the massive influence queer culture has had on hereronormative society, African-American on white American, etc.
cpu-only workloads sure no problems. i was referring to the manufacturers providing a working platform, like the prototype.
Do you remember the insurgency at the Capitol?
You can also find the same thing naturally in roast beef when you cut against the grain resulting in even microstructures.

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/2/4/499