skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think that's one of the use cases for my project. If you're a YouTube creator, you've already invested a lot of care and energy into making your videos. If you could easily convert those videos in a fully automated way to written documents, complete direct transcripts, and other content like quizzes, then you can add those to your website and it should help you rank higher with search engines.

Once you have the complete direct transcripts and the optimized written documents, I think you could just use regular text search on that and it would work well-- something like Elastic or Algolia for a hosted option would work great. Even a prolific YouTuber probably isn't going to have more than a couple thousand pages worth of text to search through. But yeah, I guess you could also build semantic search on top of that.

I don't think speaker identification is that important for most videos-- they tend to just have a single narrator/speaker. In any case, the written documents that my tool creates just sort of ignores that aspect and turns it into more expository writing that conveys the same information. It's also hard to make a fully automated tool that does speaker identification where you know the identity of the speaker and it's not just Speaker1, Speaker2.

Thanks for your feedback! You should try submitting a video, it gives you free credits just for signing up so you can try it with a few videos.
I've had it fail when a video does not have subtitles - I'm guessing that's what it uses. I have had good success having it answer the clickbait video titles like "is this the new best thing?"

It's not watching the video as far as I can tell.
Wow

https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-identifies-godaddy-as-a-...

.. interesting how the phrasing is repeating ("cancer" today) -- calling a competitor a "parasitic company" in 2022.

There has to be a more intelligent descriptor for competitors to WordPress.com ?
Thanks ! I've raised this issue. Short : nothing yet.

https://github.com/laem/cartes/issues/574
> but the language is curious because they explicitly welcome contributions and for a project hosted on Github the standard way to do that is to "fork" the project into your own account.

It's because techies instead of lawyers wrote it. The first and second restrictions overlap anyway, as it says you can't distribute a modified version in the first restriction, but then can't distribute a forked version in the second restriction. I'm not sure what the difference is, and courts don't like redundancy and will often invent reasons to interpret the phrases as meaning something different.

I got a $15 parking ticket recently and got it dismissed after I contested the ticket on the basis that the way the city regs were written, they used both "parking spot" and "parking area" and thus "parking area" cannot be synonymous with "parking spot," which altered the meaning of the reg they used to ticket me.
If GH provides they capability I suppose.
>The PDSes are the sources of truth, and you can crawl them directly. The relay is just an optimization.

This is such a massive understatement. the relay is the single most important piece in the entire Bluesky stack.

Let me ask you this, is it possible for me to connect to a PDS directly, right now, via the bluesky app? or is this something that will be possible in the future?

>ATProto works like the web does. People publish information on their servers, and then relays crawl them and emit their crawl through a firehose.

>ActivityPub doesn't do large scale aggregated views of the activity.

So are relays really just an optimization or an integral part of how ATProtocol is supposed to work?
ActivityPub doesn't require relays to function properly. This is why I say it's real federation. You can't truly be federated if you require centralization.
I wonder if this "all GNU/Linux systems" is correct, or if we'll see some nuance added in a couple of hours/days. I'd be a monstrous patch day if this RCE really impacts all GNU/Linux systems.
In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave Boeing all the crew funding
I mean the premise of your product appears to be that I'd be interacting with an AI. If I were to use it, I would not be hiring Raffi---would I?

I was in a situation where the seller of the house, after signing our contract, halfway through closing, decided to try to accept another offer that would close faster. The seller attempted to get out of our contract when we wanted to enforce it and close.

An AI wouldn't be calling escrow companies for us. An AI may have a recommendation about whether lis pendens is necessary but it wouldn't be personally taking it to the courthouse before close of day on a Friday. An AI would not be able to watch the property in case the other buyers showed up.

Obviously with a smooth transaction none of this is necessary. Most transactions are smooth, and that's great. But ALL the value of a real estate agent is in the edge cases. I'm asking what would happen to me if I would've used a tool like this instead? When abruptly this sort of work becomes necessary but I've never spoken to a person. In such a time, I don't just want advice, I want an actual agent to help me make a real decision, quickly, and then act on my behalf.

Is that Raffi? How many people is Raffi helping? Is this just Raffi's fancy tech driven real estate office that will be slightly larger than the usual due to leveraging tech?
PC gamers have been crying a river for years about PS5 exclusives, and when they get their shit they cry another river about Denuvo, anticheat, account creation, not on Steam, whatever.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Hotelling game seems related:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6840/2020sp/note/scribe...

https://www.eco.uc3m.es/~mmachado/teaching/oi-i-mei/slides/4...

IIRC the conclusion is that it’s optimal for stores to be positioned at extremes relative to each other (e.g. at two ends of the city) but the socially optimal situation is actually for them to be positioned closer together.

I noticed that my neighborhood is all Lawsons, so I got the location of all Conbinis and ran some basic analysis to see if these pockets of brand territory are common.

I wonder if that explains why neighborhoods end up mostly containing one kind of store? Other explanations might just be it’s simpler to stock your stores if they’re closer together.
Either that or from a troll-farm.
The turing test is

> to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

The original idea was in the context of a discussion, but since the current LLM craze we've re-contextualized this test to online boards on which half the participants barely even speak the language.

In this context, gpt3 was beyond the turing test already, simply because the people aren't able to convey themselves either.

And whoever thinks they're able to detect gpt4 and beyond on the Internet is lying to themselves. You can detect the use if you know the user, otherwise the only reason why you'd convince yourself to have that ability is because you never find out about all the false positives you had.
It's interesting how many AI Real Estate agent startups and buzz I've seen and heard about recently. The other day I saw several of them in my LinkedIn feed as well. Good luck - I suspect this is going to be quite a competitive space, and it'll be interesting to see if real-estate-without-agents pans out.
It's a comment on their monopoly position and how they can make it difficult at any point for a third party to run their business/app. Apple doesn't need to jump through these hurdles, but they can be placed in front of anyone else randomly, disrupting their business and income and at the very least, creating a worse user experience for those apps.

The article states that the alert had to be changed from:

"The camera will be used to take photographs"

to

"The camera will be used to take photographs for the app that you just downloaded to take photographs for."

"Spotify, why would you like to play audio? Please notify the users that you are using the speakers to play the audio for the app they just downloaded to play audio."

If they make using third party apps a little more scary, a little more dense, consistently, people will slowly gravitate to Apple's first party apps. You can see a similar pattern for MacOS where more and more restrictions are added to opening apps downloaded from outside the App Store.
If it does a good job, somebody should get paid for it. I wouldn't rely on using this if it depends on donations (I call this begware). People expect to pay for services and products.
It is mindblowing just how much Prodigy ( Sears, IBM, CBS) fumbled before Amazon (and others) climbed it's way to the ecommerce throne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)

Sears had the logistics, the mail-order catalog, the retail partnerships, IBM had the tech stack, and they put this all together in the 80s.
In practical terms it's mostly source-generators-based functionality and nullability that are an issue. F# 9 gains the ability to transparently understand nullable annotations emitted in C# by Roslyn and expresses them as `T | null` unions, or just as T if the T is non-nullable. Currying and other F#-specific features are simply syntax, there is no inherent limitation for defining a simple curried expression that ends up calling into a method implemented in a different .NET language.

The bigger issues are non-technical where it's just very few companies use F# in production. As for the technical ones - there are not that many and most of them are known (like mentioned above - code generation related, so the criticism usually mentions the same limited set every time, like code-first model definition in EF Core).
He has a lot of .......MONY.
I used a traditional bin[1], drilled some holes in the bottom and buried it 12 inches into the ground.

Prior to that we had a bin with a door at the bottom but the rodents always gnawed away at the door and got in.

[1] https://www.tensens.com.au/productimages/SAB78025.jpg
JFK's new terminal to boast NYC's largest solar array
Ironically it leads to less robust systems in the long term.
I guess they weren't selling the rinds to cattle feed producers (or maybe only a low percentage of it, and have to figure out how to get rid of the rest). If the rinds were being sold, they'd be sold at a profit or at least try to be cost-neutral.
From the headline, I was almost sure it was going to be about giving T-cells ATP, which is much more commonly (and appropriately) analogized to biological batteries.
It's due to the August 17th Department of Justice case caused a restructuring of how buyer agents are paid, so this spawned a variety of competitors.
AI tool that can do '81 years of detective work in 30 hours' trialled by police
> Is emotional support worth $60k on a $2mm house? No, it isn't.

There is no practical ceiling on what people will spend to feel comforted and encouraged, or to have their choices applauded.
FDA approves first nasal spray flu vaccine for use at home
Lots of people are sleeping on modern Java, and it has had a lot of really nice changes, that, when put together, make it wholly different from what came before.

One question: a lot of the Java enterprise ecosystem is based around entities (Hibernate and the like). Do you give guidance for how to work within that context? Can I use data oriented programming there?
The 6% fee (more normally 5% around these parts, western US) is paid by the sellers, but with the buyer's money. Usually. However, it's important to note that there was never a requirement for anyone to pay anything; it was simply what was commonly put into contracts. The settlement didn't change anything about that in particular.

I just sold a house a couple weeks ago. I agreed to pay my seller's agent 2.5% out of the sale price. I also, in the contract, offered to pay 2.5% to the buyer's agent. In the event that my seller's agent was also the buyer's agent, that 2.5% would be refunded to me. What actually ended up happening was that in the offer that we ended up accepting, the buyer asked us to pay 3% instead of 2.5% to their agent. We agreed.
Yeeehaw!
Well, most importantly, CMake can't use Makefiles, and my idea revolves around specifically being compatible with Make in a way where a fork [of mine] would behave equvalently to [GNU] Make for Makefiles which both the fork and [GNU] Make are able to use, while not necessarily the other way around (given how the fork would have features that rely on syntactical constructs [GNU] Make wouldn't want to parse, for example).

CMake is a different beast, really. While both have in common that they're build automation tools, you can say, save for some shared ideas, they aren't really that similar once you zoom in past some level of detail. Meaning I hardly can choose to adopt CMake _instead_ of writing a Make-derivative if my goal is to _extend_ [GNU] Make. And I have reasons to prefer Make over CMake, so I am absolutely not interested in extending CMake (or acknowledging it has fit my needs and/or is aligned with the way I like to solve problems I have used [GNU] Make for solving).

You could say that CMake is the same as [GNU] Make beyond their different syntax, which is true in a sense, but syntax does decide a lot for each respectively, I would say. The fundamental syntactical differences between the two become larger as one walks the abstraction ladder upwards, and looking at each from the perspective of a user (tasked with, say, building a large C++ program/library), one has to adopt slightly different set of concepts specific to each. To that end, I prefer Make's abstractions over CMake's.

Last, the value of my implementing a [GNU, henceforth implied] Make compatible tool, wasn't just for forking an improvement, but also in that when I have written a sufficiently capable fork, say, I can assess _how_ Make was made to work, in my experience one tends to learn a lot about what a piece of software writing a compatible "emulator". I _can_ read Make's source code, but I really don't want to because what I have seen suggests the kind of "organic development" that no longer ideally resembles something an outsider would find easy to grok, even a C expert. It's just the way of those things, unfortunately. Instead, I could pick up Python and write a very bare-bones Make-compatible implementation that would give me a lot of answers for "why does Make work like this?" questions.
Overture is an awesome resource because it has more coverage than OSM, but at the cost of accuracy. When I was considering using it for restaurants in surprisedatespot.com, I found that it has a lot more automated content with bad geocoding (imprecise locations) compared to OSM.

E.g. restaurants can come from an old Facebook page and the geocoding might not be accurate compared to a survey.

So where OSM might have a restaurant that closed 8 years ago, overture has every restaurant that's been at that location for the past 8 years.
Answering your literal question, how could it "possibly" be good:

Minimum wage probably doesn't work because it means a lot of people live in precarity while both emotionally and physically exhausting them. It might just be that minimum wage has stagnated while COL has skyrocketed. If the point of minimum wage is that it provides people with a guaranteed dignified life as long as they are employed, that needs to keep up with the cost of living a normal life in order to keep its effectiveness. That is one reason it might be "failing" although I don't know exactly what you mean by that.

> get us from the service economy to agency and self-actualization

This is the thing I think most people have a hard time connecting to "measurable utility" but will probably be the most sweeping effect of UBI or similar. Think about your typical gig worker, minimum wage worker in some high-turnover environment etc. This person probably does not have the financial safety net to pursue something meaningful, or to take the risk reskilling, or to otherwise improve their emotional and financial well-being.

You will probably always have free-riders or people who just want to consume without producing. But is it better to have a society of exhausted, frustrated, barely-hanging-on people, or a society of people with the _potential_ to to be creative, passionate, and exploratory?

Conversely to you, I find it hard to imagine that a society with surplus wealth would be more effective if it chose to subject its people to precarity and emotional strife instead of empowering as many of its people as possible.

Some references:
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
https://www.statista.com/chart/25574/living-wage-vs-minimum-...
I'm not saying we shouldn't use batteries, rather that they don't solve every problem. In particular they probably won't ever be suitable for week long outages.
My CompuServe email address is still working!
From the paper:

"The thickness of oil required to take the life out of the camphor movements lies between one and two millionths of a millimetre, and may be estimated with some precision at 1’6 micromillimetre."

Looks like a primary guess to me, even if the table lists more data points.
Anyone who was around for the IE6 era knows how much worse it was than the current Chrome era. It's not even close.
What growth? are you an openAI insider ?

ChatGPT’s Growth Is Flatlining

https://www.thewrap.com/chatgpt-growth-2024/
The missing pressing question: "Why liars are not marked as scum".

And "Why is an idea such as «Politicians ... not in the truth business, but in the power business» tolerated".

And "What else does it take to see with concern what future will be brought by the current decadence".

Oh, and a minor corollary which could be especially relevant here, further to intellectual curiosity and towards largely common interests: "What would this framework bring matched with the enabling power of emerging technologies".
"Jurassic Park inspired more people to go into biotech than any academic paper"
Nice product though

idk if I’d ever trust a 3rd party with all my notes, thoughts, “entire stream of consciousness” or anything of the like.

I’ll stick to txt files and/or paper.
Does Somtow Sucharitkul count? He is Thai but went to university in England and spent a lot of time working and writing in the US. He is back in Thailand now (https://www.somtow.com/).
What is wrong with protesting ridiculous anti consumer practices? What is the point of requiring a mandatory 3rd party account to play a SINGLE player game? Or crappy launchers that do absolutely nothing except prolonging the start of the game?
http://archive.today/bSXN9
Well, the description in the Repo says this:

>its source code was opened to the community

I find it hard to believe that any serious person would argue that "code that is open to the community" ≠ "open source code".

I think it's realistic to assume that the developers who wrote the README, and the lawyers who wrote the license didn't talk to each other much when making decisions about how much freedom users were going to have with the code.
A) Correct.

B) Yes, I think the AI agent actually can more easily ignore your race / age / gender because it is not programmed to go look up those things and people don't text their agent what they are - hard for the LLM to know these things and start to bias
Pretty sure cod liver oil has vitamin A. Used to be a treatment for measles and rickets and others because of its vitamin A contents.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258476/

https://www.westonaprice.org/did-cod-liver-oil-contribute-to...
I raise you https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20875

It is not entirely clear what any of this means for the future, and in any case, it keeps changing all the time.

The promise to maintain LLVM support just applies to Zig code. That doesn't require Clang. LLVM alone is not a C compiler, and neither is Zig without Clang.

What very well may happen is that the "standard" distribution of Zig will continue to bundle Clang, while a "minimal" distribution also gets created which omits Clang, and thus cannot compile C code. However, none of this has been spelled out clearly yet, and so I think it's reasonable to say don't depend on Zig to give you Clang.
Telenet as you'll recall was a competitor. I used it to get into NJIT's EIES system, another terrific mulituser platform. Telenet seemed to perform better than Tymnet, with less jitter.

Both Telenet and IIRC Tymnet were portals into The Source which preceded CIS.
It is funny how much criticism you are taking for saying things that are obviously true.

Yes, Musk's personal life is a mess and noone would enjoy being him.

That can be true at the same time as his business philosophy effectively pushes forward multiple businesses more quickly than their competitors. That can even be true while his businesses are run in ways that most of us would find unacceptable.

Regardless of palatability, SpaceX is effective.
Probably not. Do they really believe they are going to knock OpenAI out of business, when the OpenAI models are better?

Instead I think they are going after the "Android model". Recognize they might not be able to dethrone the leader who invented the space. Define yourself in the marketplace as the cheaper alternative. "Less good but almost as good." In the end, they hope to be one of a small number of surviving members of an valuable oligopoly.
Contract law doesn't really allow for this kind of behavior. If you say over and over again that your software is open source and the community is free to develop with it as they please, and then write your license to say the opposite, you're going to have a hard time enforcing the license given that you're actively telling people to violate the terms in your press release.
Yes, and it's the exact same thing OpenAI/Microsoft and Facebook are doing. In Facebook's case, they are giving it away for free.
IANAL but doesn't that basically show they are OK with forks?
> This is common in almost every country that has central ID system.

Not true. The US has a Social Security Number but it is not needed for everyday business use. It is not needed for getting a cell phone number, for example. In India, the Aadhaa card is needed for getting a cell phone number.
Agreed. And in particular, while there has been a lot of fighting over things like systemd and usrmerge, the vast majority of it has been tiring and sometimes unpleasant but not a CoC violation.
WCUS took place in Oregon where both sides of that phone call would have been located. As far as I know while Oregon is two-party consent in most cases, only one party needs to consent to record a phone call.

Given the apparent escalation, I would be surprised if the WP Engine people hadn't consulted with legal and started recording calls during the event if it was legal to do so.
Thanks! That's a lot less than I expected.
I thought about Sears and Montgomery Wards catalog business and how they shuttered it in favor of storefronts in malls and shopping centers. Had they held out another decade or so, they'd have been in the perfect position to dominate online commerce.
I love this… at first I was wondering where the phone goes and then went oh!