skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that all of these deals are an implicit acknowledgement that what OpenAI and all of these companies did training on everyone's' content and data was illegal. If you're so certain that what you did was fine and fair use then why go through the trouble of spending all this money on licensing deals? Unless they just think that dealing with all of the lawsuits would cost more than just paying people to go away.
Conditioned on you winning, there are 1+N expected winners. The number of winners is always larger than zero [edit: the following is not correct "and the average prize is calculated diving the jackpot by the 1+N expected winners"].

Conditioned on you losing, there are N expected winners. The number of winners can be zero and the average prize cannot be calculated dividing the jackpot by the N expected winners [edit: not that you could before...]. [edit: the following is not correct "You have to divide the jackpot by a higher number: the expected winners conditional on having at least one."] No winner, no prize.

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Let's say there are 2 people playing and the probability of winning is 50%. The number of expected winners is 1. If the jackpot is $1000 the "average lottery winner" doesn't get $1000.

Three outcomes are possible, with the following probabilities:

1/4 zero winners
1/2 one winner gets $1000
1/4 two winners get $500 each

The "average lottery winner" gets less than $1000. The "average lottery winner" gets $750. (Imagine that a lot of draws have happened: for each split jackpot there were two jackpots going to a single winnner. All in all, half the winners got $1000 and the other half got $500.)

Consider now that you are one of the two players and you win. The other person will either win (you get $500) or not (you get $1000) with the same probability. Your expected prize? $750

What a coincidence!
The supply chain at stores is usually more sane, versus intentionally being the wild west.

Carabiners break when they break. You'll only notice if you get unlucky. I think there's carabiners you wouldn't want to use that can hang weight "no problem" for a while.

Problems with supplements are even more undetectable.
My manager told me this during the first "emergency" we had where the client was wildly over-reacting.

We're not doing open-heart surgery or launching people into space. They can wait 1-2 hours extra.

Earned a lot of my respect on that day :)
Cash for Catching Scientific Errors
Hmm. That worked for me, but when I run the app, everything in it is reeeealy tiny. Like they're trying to work around Retina display scaling but got it wrong somehow.
> Elon's airplane tracker is on twitter despite elon sueing the guy [1].

When was the last time he posted the jet's location? Seems like it was in 2022.
Show HN: Meet your ideal dog breed online and in-person before buying.
The end user is mostly irrelevant.

Lots of great songs were produced with rompler synths, and many of the killer electric guitars sounds people want to emulate were from people buying gear they could afford.

The minimoog is probably one of the most ubiquitous synths in popular music ever. I own one, and while it does have some qualities that VSTs can't reproduce, mostly it is how you interact with it that matters.

If as an artist you can connect to your tools, you can make great music.

While different than todays electronics, the E-mu Emulator was popular because it let you explore in a fairly intuitive way.

If you have ever worked with partials in a DX7 you will realize why so many songs used the presets.

People loved music even on 78rpm records, because it is all they had.

I like my EmU Procussion, because it brings back memories, none of which will ever be detectable on the end audio and modern daw samplers are far superior.

People buy expensive guitars and amps and justify it with a 'sound' but if you are creating music, it is just your connection to them that matters.

If you are trying to copy a sound, that is different.
https://archive.is/FONlb

Dataset: https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/gallery.html

Related blog post from May 2024 (I don't know why Wired is now writing about it anew): https://blog.google/technology/research/google-ai-research-n...
Based on what my previous post said, sure, but there are more reasons to believe that sunlight is inversely causal in depression than I stated. I'm hesitant to dig up the research I looked through though, because if I recall correctly, the research really brings up more questions than it answers.

In a more general sense, I agree that more research is needed, but with this and many other facts about our brains and bodies, I'm becoming more cynical about the possibility that the research will be performed in our lifetimes. There's simply too much we don't know and too little funding and too few researchers to find conclusive answers for all of it. People have depression now, and when the risks of the "treatment" are much lower than the risk of the disease, I think it makes sense to self experiment and see if the treatment helps you. Beyond the studies, there seems to be some anecdotal evidence that sunlight does help depression, and I tend to think depression has worse risks than (moderate) sun exposure.

Two notes:

1. From a scientific perspective, one of the problems with anecdotal evidence is that it might be the result of placebo effect, which a well-crafted scientific study would eliminate. But from a medical perspective: who cares? If sunlight improves your depression via the placebo effect, well, your depression has been improved.

2. To be clear about a caveat: I'm not saying go out and self-experiment every home remedy you can find. The bit I said about "when the risks of the 'treatment' are much lower than the risk of the disease" is important. Powerful drugs like ivermectin have dangerous side effects, and trying different supplements can become costly even when those supplements contain what they claim and have lower risks.
Ive been using Zed's assistant panel heavily and have really enjoyed the experience. The UI can be a bit frustrating. Sometimes, when you write it's hard to get it to send your query. The new /workflow seems to really bridge the last gap to effectively edit the parts that im asking for help with changes.

I'm already paying for OpenAI API access, definitely gonna try this
Are you allowed to tell us about SearchGPT, and what you like/dislike about it?
I'd say it's more about reducing unnecessary stoppages where possible.
The wave is triggered by someone braking ahead for whatever reason, we're looking to prevent the unnecessary wave, not necessarily stop the initial braking event as it may have been necessary.
It is true. The average power ball does not have a winner.
You forgot Microsoft and Apple.
If you ever had to deal with recall sheets, the answer is yes. Being able to switch between sessions without having to readjust the settings for the entirety of the signal chain was a game changer.

https://www.barryrudolph.com/recall/sheets.html

Digital has the added benefit of sounding the same day in and day out. You can run audio through an analogue stack back to back and those recordings will not null.

For some, that's part of the charm of analogue hardware, but it's not something you want to deal with in production.
Your link doesn't actually point to the leaderboard. This link does https://www.swebench.com/ and you can click on the "Verified" tab. I don't see any entry for Genie.
It depends on the type of anxiety and how you're using the medication. If you it routinely to handle everyday stress, you're heading down a very bad road. If you have events a few times a year that are extremely stressful, medication can really make a difference.

I had the same fears and I'm not gonna say you should try medication, but I will share it my psychiatrist did. She wouldn't let me have more fifteen low-dose pills at any one time.

Consider your relationship with alcohol. If you already have a problem with it or completely abstain from it, I would strongly recommend avoiding medication.
You can also turn on subtitles and even have them translated, it's pretty obvious Google is doing a lot with the audio part of videos
I don't understand the underlying mechanisms that will allow for these new partnerships to work, but reading bits like "ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,", do make wonder how said "compensation" is going to be calculated, and distributed.

Assets like New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit (all mentioned in the article), do come with editorial lines, perhaps editorial lines I do not agree with, so how is their content going to be injected in my search results/gpt answers? Is it going to be an organic affair such as:

- (Me) "How many times a year shall I renew my socks?"

- "That's and amazing question! According to journal X ... (blah blah blah, probably a good answer)" (maybe add some notes for a copyrighted article with a link)

Or it going to turn into:

- (Same question)

- "The far-right movement seems to be skipping sock renewal policies, but contrary to this, brown socks are trending in Europe this coming summer, don't miss this chance to buy yours at: website.com"
Author here :) You might enjoy this video, which encapsulates some of the difficulty of conveying obvious-but-true advice:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhA7KfbJgg

I don't know why, but you're talking to somebody who is afraid of "being buried in a box" haha
Thanks for the clarification. I'm still confused about the

> Whether that matters aesthetically isn't at issue.

Presumably if I have a hardware random number generator that works by measuring thermal noise (directly or indirectly), I also can't emulate that in software. (If I could, cryptographic key generation would be insecure!)

But we know what the output of the hardware random number generator sounds like, subjectively, as audio: it sounds like white noise! (Or maybe some other kind of noise depending on the details of the digital to analog conversion process.)

So the idea that you can get an analog audio synthesis process that can't be emulated in software doesn't seem that surprising, but also potentially doesn't seem that interesting, except if someone also cares about something about how that process sounds subjectively to a human listener. But at that point, the theoretical argument about things that hardware can do that software can't emulate no longer applies directly anymore, right? That is, we can't extrapolate this theoretical argument about electronic circuits to something about qualitative human perceptions of the audio outputs of those circuits.
People are weird. You can buy decent, refurbished phone for ~$100 +/- on eBay.
Perhaps because that is still being disputed in court? The outcome is unknown and they are making a defensive play?

If it turns out they shouldn't have done that, then when the dust settles they will be ahead of the competitors that didn't sign deals.
If the written internet is doomed, what will searchgpt train on in the future?

In that scenario, in a few years it will be out of date and doomed too.
Isn’t “ggez” a taunt, meaning “I beat you easily?” (effectively, “you suck”). Given the toxicity in online gaming communities, I can see why global servers might play whack a mole with those sorts of bans.

That’s not to take away from your overall point, that it’s nice to allow community servers. I’d guess that companies don’t do that because it takes more effort and reduces their control over the game experience, and not enough players care enough to make it economically viable given those constraints.
How does the AI know about things like other tables? Does it have some basic knowledge of Metabase’s link structure so it can navigate to a listing of all tables, then pulls context from there for in-context learning while writing the query?

Anecdotally, my hardest problems w/ nl2sql are finding the right tables and adding the right filters.
They have a space port at 60'N Latitude? Isn't that extremely sub optimal for launching anything to orbit?
> The problem of going from natural language to SQL is still a far from solved problem.

Is there any improvement going from natural language to something other than SQL? Certainly SQL can be cut out of the picture if it is what confuses these systems.
I thought these models were already leveraging this technique (or something approximating it) as part of their fine tuning offering.
Is there any reason to still use Rye, now? looks like this release adds all the things I would have missed from Rye, but I don't think I use all of Rye's features
https://github.com/aexol-studio
Xanax is safe short term, but extremely addictive if taken for too long (~1 month?).
I don't use twitter much; it appears that the page is not sorted chronologically but there are tweets from 2024.

https://x.com/ElonJetNextDay/status/1764502121901093059
Thanks for posting the link. What a great book.
Indeed, and this should be trivially provable to anyone by the existence of 45RPM records for singles— if vinyl was truly "infinite" then why would you need to spin a record faster to get higher quality audio? Why not spin LPs even slower to get more content on them?
State of CSS 2024
From what I understand, folks need to stop giving their AI agents dedicated authentication. They should use the calling user's authentication for everything and effectively impersonate the user.

I don't think the issue here is leaky context per say, it's effectively an overly privileged extension.
It may sound (and be) peculiar, but isn't completely out of any relation; after all, if one goes back far enough on https://mathgenealogy.org one tends to find the ur-advisors themselves were DDs.

Example: https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=21235
Fixed point should really be used way more often than it is. It's much safer, for one thing, and less mysterious. But because C lacks first-class support for fixed point, the whole world has become flopsy.
If people subscribed to a publication expecting it to be mostly news and got mostly sensationalism, do you expect them to keep paying?
I appreciate the candor, and the support for Reclaim.

Part of why we went with Dropbox was strong alignment for what the future of work can look like. Also because unlike many tech acquisitions, we were able to keep the entire team and product intact while continuing to invest in and pursue the long term vision we've had for Reclaim.

I hope you'll give us a chance to change your perspective in the coming years :)
It's a law here in Poland that everybody has to let the buses leaving a bus stop to enter the lane before them.

I think most people complaining about buses in this thread just live in a city where public transport isn't a priority so it barely works :/

The city buses I've seen in USA have 1 or 2 doors. It's already wrong - it makes the boarding time unnecessarily long. Then there's the tickets - drivers shouldn't be selling or checking the tickets. You should buy tickets in a ticket machine or on your smartphone. And they shouldn't be checked every time - it takes too long. Have a group of people who board random buses and check the tickets there while the bus is driving so as not to waste anybody's time.

Bus schedules and routes should be designed with randomness in mind. There should be a small buffer (1 minute is enough if boarding is quick) to zero the randomness on each bus stop. Most bus stops should be mandatory so that 3 consecutive bus stops without passangers don't wreck the whole schedule (and then it spreads to other buses because you have to wait for 5 minutes at a bus stop for your departure time and you block entrance for other buses' passangers which makes boarding longer).

If you just put an intercity bus (that can work with 1 door and driver selling the tickets) and use it as a city bus that stops every 1-5 minutes - it won't work.

City buses should be optimized for latency not throughput.
It's also not a good fantasy novel or stage play.

It seems pretty silly to look at a blog post that is very obviously not meant to be a technical post-mortem and criticize how it isn't a good one.
OTOH, it's extremely annoying to sit on a stopped bus when no one is boarding or leaving. That discourages use of mass transit.
Agreed with everything except the following:

>Remember, consistency in your codebase is key. If you need to introduce a new pattern, consider refactoring the entire codebase to use this new pattern, rather than creating one-off inconsistencies.

It's often times not practical (or even allowed by management due to "time constraints") to refactor a pattern out of an entire codebase if it's large enough. New patterns can be applied to new features with large scopes. This can work especially in the cases of old code that's almost never changed.
around 20 years ago mark all kinds of things would happen at different times of a video, with the tool tips, and end cards and what have you.

CSS animations werent there I guess, but given a manual transcription, either by the submitter, or by a person watching, youtube definitely had the capability to do exactly this, maybe with the button being some flash animation.
I think a mod marked it as a dupe of this one:

Uv: Python packaging in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387641 - Feb 2024 (210 comments)
He took the time to write out a detailed explanation of why they made a decision they did. Giving us more transparency than 99% of CEOs or companies. There is a whiff of spin there, but come on compare it to every other product decision ever made and we're getting so much more transparency.

Behavior like this means the next time a CEO will be marginally less motivated to do this. You're shitting in the commons.
For express or intercity busses, that makes sense, but for high-frequency regular bus routes, I can't imagine that working. It means thar bus stops would have to be extremely sparse, or else the bus trips would need to be extremely slow.
I don't think that's true - I think decent programmers can figure out mediums if they apply themselves.
Nah talking 808 and 606s really but that said I still think the tr8s hats don’t match the original for whatever reason.
At least two US Navy submarines were sunk by their own torpedoes making circular runs. The main failsafe mechanism disabled the detonators until the weapon had run out a certain minimum distance but obviously that wasn't effective in circular runs.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/j...
Especially because people who are sickly probably stay indoors more, "unmeasured bias" seems like it could cover a lot.
Thanks for the fix. :-)
Im not sure I buy this arguments. Lots of things are publicized and then need to be paid for.

Like movies. Or music. Or books etc.
Grass is a terrible analogy here. Try putting a moth orchid or many ferns in direct mid-day sun and they'll quickly die no matter how much water is available.
"Potentially useful for blackmail" applies to the whole damn field. A revealing outfit is not needed to edit an ex in to last night's photos.
It’s true. Why turn to the mainstream media when GPT can just hallucinate the news that I want to hear?
IMO they are definitely doing something. I've had countless occasions where the first few times I run a prompt I get excellent output, then several tries later it just returns the same dumb-sounding AI shite.
The US has a strong culture of treating prisons as punishment rather than rehabilitation, so the thought of wrongful convictions becomes extremely uncomfortable, as you have to deal with the idea that you are participating in a culture that punishes innocent people for things they didn't do.

The people responsible for the actual convictions often become denialists (a huge number of people who have convicted people solely on this outdated science now deny all new evidence that implies some of the convictions may have been unjust) and others who want prisons to be punishment rather than rehabilitation tend to dismiss the thoughts of all the innocent people whose lives they were okay with being stolen.
Slack’s response here is alarming. If I’m getting the PoC correctly, this is data exfil from private channels, not public ones as their response seems to suggest.

I’d want to know if you can prompt the AI to exfil data from private channels where the prompt author isn’t a member.
This is such an odd comment to me.

On the one hand, you praise Ruby, and lament that it gains such libraries so much later than other languages.

On the other hand...if you were paying attention to the "Python, JS, TS, Rust, Go and so on" ecosystems, and noticed the ML/AI work, why didn't you create one for Ruby yourself?

I guarantee that whatever answer you give doesn't matter, because every other Rubyist has their own reply. A "community" begins with one person doing the thing.
It's an OK joke, but I don't think it's the funniest one on the list. I have a feeling it gets bonus points for being an in-joke of British slang. People everywhere love jokes that they get but leave others puzzled.

Personally, I prefer "My partner told me that she’d never seen the film Gaslight. I told her that she definitely had." Which probably betrays my own preference for an in-joke. Same with "I've been taking salsa lessons for months, but I just don't feel like I'm progressing. It's just one step forward... two steps back."

I'm pretty sure that the funniest moments at Fringe weren't one-liners at all. But it's a lot harder to put them in a contest.
No it's a simple net present cost calculation. Its cheaper than continued litigation and ensures they maintain access in future (rather than the publisher in question starts blocking their web crawlers).

Once they've got deals with the few really big players, the rest of the industry falls into line (the smaller guys don't have the financial means to out-litigate or block OpenAI).
This isn't a permission issue. The attacker puts a message into a public channel that injects malicious behavior into the context.

The victim has permission to see their own messages and the attacker's message.
That sounds like a nightmare when an IDE presents files alphabetically but has a strict logical order that the UI doesn't understand. Talk about jumping around.
When the U.S. Govt Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky (2018)
DCT is now replaced by Hadamard Transform which can be implemented by additions/subtractions and don't have the drift problem of DCT. HT was considered before DCT, but during that time DCT was picked because of better perceptual quality. Later during H.264 standardization, HT replaced DCT and is now used in all video codecs instead of DCT.
London Squat Parties – A Short Documentary [video]
There are a lot of calendar mods I've made in GCal that I wanted to UNDO, but couldn't because it had evaporated by the time my cursor got to it.
The difference between "ack it was illegal" and "certain it was fine" and how easily you skip over it.

Trying to make things better is good and requires no admittance of guilt.
Yes. It may happen in this particular instance to conform to a right-wing religious stereotype, but it's actually arriving there via left-wing Silicon Valley liberalism meeting fear of bad press and "cancelling" from other more-or-less liberal news outlets.

Another instance of some people's observations that ideology sometimes seems to form a circle moreso than a line. Which is not entirely true, but isn't entirely untrue either.
When I was a teen in Calgary the transit agency was really good at dealing with issues like this during peak periods. They would pair or triple busses together and alternate stops. If someone requested the stop the drivers would radio to coordinate. Sometimes both buses would have a requested stop, but they would work together so only one bus allowed new riders on. The non-loading bus would quickly drop off passengers and leave while the other stayed behind to handle new riders. Nearly all the stops had dedicated out of traffic space for the bus, so the leap-frog maneuver was really simple. A small amount of low cost infrastructure and some operational cooperation enabled much better service.