skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have the same experience. Also the composite to SD card recorders are supposedly quite good. But nothing beats tapping a VCR into vhsdecode and the soldering looks quite simple. Even cheap VCRs work fine for this. I will find time for it at some point...
I think they are just generating fingerprints of the video data on the device. Then they send it to the cloud where they compare it with a huge database of TV shows, etc.

Similar to what Shazam does for music.
Yes and I think that society at large still "hasn't realized," with actions like this removal of restrictions against gambling as a prime example of a consequence.
So that change was in February 2024 and only for Android 12 and above which is <50% of the Android market.

If you don't believe this is deliberate nagging I don't know what to tell you.
If human nature is truly that inherently bad and dangerous, then the worst possible thing we could do is to allow adult human beings to rule over other adult human beings as their parent, using the threat of violence to prevent them from doing things “for their own good”.

Indeed, allowing this to occur has wrought orders of magnitude more death and destruction than sports gambling or drug use or prostitution.

no victim == no crime
I assure you that a sizeable portion of Android users also need to charge multiple times a day. Behaviour is everything.
i used to write code like this[1]. now i write code like this[2].

mostly what changed is the way i read code. if err != nil is a friend now, not the abomination i first thought it was.

1. https://github.com/nathants/s4/blob/15eb67158cdc03ee1983d060...

2. https://github.com/nathants/libaws/blob/affb1d6002250e35c5ba...
I'm going to suggest that you not use "run a train through" to mean "destroy".
I don't think this criticism is valid at all.

What you are saying will occasionally happen, but mistakes already happen today.

Standards for quality, client expectations, competition for market share, all those are not going to go down just because there's a new tool that helps in creating software.

New tools bring with them new ways to make errors, it's always been that way and the world hasn't ended yet...
That’s not what this is. This is Wiki software in which content is arranged into “books” (sections or categories). It has nothing to do with actual books.
No doubt today, but in another very realistic in the sense that's perfectly logic and possible since more than a decade, where government have digital IDs who are smart-cards not crapplications, and with them certified mails with a personal domain and the ISP router is just a FLOSS homeserver (as it is actually, being GNU/Linux embedded machines with a tailored PBX, Samba to offer usb network storage, CUPS for serving a usb-connected printer and so on, just a bit more powerful and open.

In such world thanks to the commonality of FLOSS we have dedicated distros and package for such iron, widespread enough to be commonly available in users hands. As a result the security risks are still more than zero but much, much less and many who could since their car is their own, not owned for real by the OEM, they could simply cut the connection if they do want so.

Such open world could be done in few years by laws, and anything is already there since decades. It's a matter of knowledge and will.
> Your brain is about to be DDOSed by junk content.

It's not the best analogy because there's already more junk out there than can fit through the limited bandwidth available to my brain, and yet I'm still (vaguely) functional.

So how do I avoid the junk now? Rough and ready trust metrics, I guess. Which of those will still work when the spam's 10x more human?

I think the recommendations of friends will still work, and we'll increasingly retreat to walled gardens where obvious spammers (of both the digital and human variety) can be booted out. I'm still on facebook, but I'm only interested in a few well-moderated groups. The main timeline is dead to me. Those moderators are my content curators for facebook content.
Debugging is harder than writing code. Once the code passed linter, compiler and test, the bugs might be more subtly logical and require more effort and intelligence.

We are all becoming QA of this super automated world.
Take a look at some of his HN accounts (like https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos) and judge yourself if it's hateful or not.

Some would say the hateful language came only because of his disease, others the disease only added to existing behavior. Hard to know from the outside without really knowing him I'd say.
Why do you have to use it? I don’t get it. If you write your own book, you don’t compete with anyone. If anyone finished The Winds of Winter for R.R.Martin using AI, nobody would bat an eye, obviously, as we already experienced how bad a soulless story is that drifts too far away from what the author had built in his mind.
That's an interesting point of view. For some reason we put so much effort towards making computers think and behave like a human being, while one of the first reasons behind inventing a computer was to avoid human errors.
True, though paid language models are probably just a blip in history. Free weight language models are only ~12 months behind and have massive resources thanks to Meta.

That profit will be squeezed to zero over the long term if Zuck maintains his current strategy.
It could work, but there's a not too low risk of 10 minutes turning into 2 hours.
Also, if I was tracking usage like OP I'm confident it would change what I decided to wear.
There seems to be several components involved: tree of thoughts, MCTS, RL, high quality chain of thought data, possibly multiple models.
It is ? At least on Fedora Workstation for example, Firewall (controlled by firewalld) is installed and enabled by default.
Kevin Boone: Bayesian statistics for dummies
I don't necessarily think legalizing the gambling was a mistake. Vices are notoriously difficult to manage whether they're legal or illegal.

But legalizing advertising for sports gambling was definitely a mistake.
i find quite ironic whenever i see a highly upvoted comment here complaining about capitalism because for sure i don't see yc existing in any other type of economy.
This is my first time hearing we wanted the cloud.
This is also how you can remember things you can't recall if you force yourself to it. I think of this as spawning an async thread that will come back with an answer from the subconscious.
You're lucky. I consider it a possibility that older works (even ancient writings) are retrojected into the historical record.
One of the pernicious aspects of using AI is the feeling it gives you that you have done all work without any of the effort. But the time of takes to digest and summarize an article as a human requires a deep injestion of the concepts. The process is what helps you understand. The AI summary might be better, and didn't take any time, but you don't understand any of it since you didn't do the work. It's similar to the effect of telling people you will do a task, which gives your brain the same endorphins as actually doing the task, resulting in a lower chance that the task ever gets done.
> Use source-aware training

My understanding (as one uninvolved in the industry) is that this is more or less a completely unsolved problem.
Just thinking a washing machine bought in 2027 will be able to last long enough to track data for another 3 years is optimistic.
Sure, you can write all kinds of stuff in a license, but it is simply plain prose at that point. Not enforcable.

There is a reason why it is generally advised to go with the established licenses and not invent your own, similarly to how you should not roll your own cryptography: Because it most likely won't work as intended.

e.g. License: This comment is licensed under my custom L*a license. Any user with an username starting with "L" and ending in "a" is forbidden from reading my comment and producing replies based on what I have written.

... see?
It's trendy caste-signaling to hate on AI which endangers white-collar jobs and creative work the way machinery endangered blue-collar jobs and productive work (ie. not at all in the long run, but in the short term you will face some changes).

I've never actually used an LLM though - I just don't have any use for such a thing. All my writing and programming are done for fun and automation would take that away.
> Sam wasn't even a teenager anymore when he met PG the first time (but would have just turned 20),

20 yr age gap in a relationship is still frowned upon in our society unfortunately.

Also I guess you were tracking sam's legal age closer than Sam himself because he mentioned that he was a teenager when he met PG in an interview. SV is creepier than anyone could ever imagine.
It's either good or it isn't. It either tracks or it doesn't. No need to befuddle your thoughts over some perceived slight.
People have never asked me "but what's the battery retention like?!". I put it up for a price, people pay that price.
Azerbaijan is an ally of Turkey, whereas Armenia has historically been more aligned with Russia. As a result, the west (NATO) is fairly lenient with Azerbaijan when it comes to conflicts between the two countries, or is at least hesitant to intervene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Azerbaijani_offensive_in_...
> marketing fluff for the App Store

If it’s fluff, why do you put it there? As an App Store user, I‘m not interested in reading marketing fluff.
Is this even possible nowadays? Maybe they already have an embedded 5G radio? (subsidized by advertisers)
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Where to find those clothes though..
Perhaps some meaning is getting lost in translation here...

If you mean curiosity as in academic achievement, then I think this is a deeply disrespectful way of thinking of other people.

If you mean curiosity as in having empathy for the people and world around you, and not being a narcissistic sociopath, then I probably agree with you.

But from what you wrote earlier, I get the impression you're talking about the former rather than the latter...
Then $20 only represents part of the cost to you and your planet.
Dishwashing thoughts vs. shower thoughts.
> AIs are good at writing professional looking text because it's a low bar to clear. It doesn't require much intelligence or expertise.

AIs are getting good at precisely imitating your voice with a single sample as reference, or generating original music, or creating video with all sorts of impossible physics and special effects. By your rationale, nothing “requires much intelligence or expertise”, which is patently false (even for text writing)
"Ancient Jewish authorities frowned on gambling, even disqualifying professional gamblers from testifying in court."

"The [Hindu] text Arthashastra (c. 4th century BCE) recommends taxation and control of gambling."

"The Buddha stated gambling as a source of destruction in Singalovada Sutra. Professions that are seen to violate the precept against theft include working in the gambling industry."

Instead of asking a lazy question as a challenge, you could have spent 3 seconds looking this up. It wasn't particularly hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling#Religious_views
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The line between legitimate competition and gambling-fueled manipulation is becoming increasingly blurred now!
the bane of my existence. I have some older family dealing with serious cognitive decline and when it comes to my parents or in-laws I'm "the guy" so they will ask for my help navigating the TV because they are still understandably clinging onto satellite/cable while being forced to learn streaming.

I'm more than happy to help as this is an area of interest but man, what I would do to be able to set my father-in-law up with a TV, streamer, remote he can use consistently. When I bought an Apple TV I thought that would solve his problems when they housesat for us but his motor issues get in the way and he always forgets Siri. I raised this question of how do we better serve older adults a few times at an assistive tech conference and no one seems to have cracked the code yet.
Aral Sea (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/AralSea - notice the 1960 outline in pale yellow before starting the 2000-2018 playback) and Lake Chad i'd say even more startling.
Isn't sport-results.com then advertising for gambling, which should be illegal?!
Always dreamt about working in trading/finance and doing ML stuff and now that I'm doing both it's like "Ehhh, it's fine I guess?".
Most of the time, when I find myself stuck on a problem, I feel like my brain goes through an infinite loop of evaluating/cataloguing what I know about the problem and often stops actually "thinking" about it. I am trying to "see" something new in the data but just forcing my brain against a solid wall.

In my opinion, when I finally give up and go for a walk/chore, my brain is so bored by the boring task that it stops procrastinating and actually focuses on the problem.
At least in Germany they usually are free for personal accounts (if not your contract is likely shit, choose a better bank).

SEPA instant might cost extra or not be available but both of that will change soon due to new EU regulations.
Btw: I also do Youtube videos with a lot of free stuff. I use the fast version and try to keep my videos simple, straight to the point and under 10 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/@patrick-gerard
The cities (at least for ETS) are a miniature version with only a couple of streets and some landmarks (in larger cities). It doesn't really come close to reality.
"Hare Brain Tortoise Mind" is a great book that goes into how this works and how to work with/against it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_4YU6UtCw

tldr: There is a background, non-verbal process in your brain that has the advantage of a larger working set size than your foreground verbal thinking. It is able to observe and consider more stuff at once and find associations better than your conscious thought process. But, it has several disadvantages. It takes time to do it's processing. You can't will it into action. It communicates non-verbally with your foreground process. It doesn't work under pressure (thus the need for relaxed, unfocused time). The non-verbal understanding is difficult to deconstruct, generalize and reapply. It can lead to you solving a problem, not understanding how and not being able to solve a variant of the same problem.

So, the general recommendation is: If you have a complex problem to solve, first absorb as much information about the problem as your brain can hold. But, do not try to solve anything. Then, go take a break. A walk in a natural environment is preferable. Don’t think about the problem. Relax in a low stress environment. Let your background brain have a chance to chew on it and maybe bubble up some suggestions.
I once thought like that too, "we need balanced, moderate approach etc.". But seeing blatant copyright violations and abuse by megacorps I tend to skew to calling it theft. Purely due to the imbalance of power between individuals and megacorps. The problem we have is that hearing "copyright infringement" people think of different aspects of it. Most people think about how individuals infringe on corpos, like pirating software or a movie and that is indeed is morally grey zone.

I was talking purely about reverse situation - when corpos infringe on the copyright of individuals. That is unquestionably abuse of power and in my opinion it is theft. This part at least.
The flipside of that is the most popular artists of all time (eg Taylor Swift) do autotune to perfection, and yet more and more people love them
I wish there also was a distinction between truthful and whimsical.
There are topics on which you should be somewhat suspicious of anything you read, but also many topics where it is simply improbable that anyone would spend time maliciously coming up with a lie. However, they may well have spicy autocomplete imagine something for them. An example from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41645282
Hacker News used to be nicknamed Hater News, as I recall.
Maybe the report was overblown, but I found it amusing that CUPS related facilities is shipped and activated by default in a lot of Linux distros (including Gnome Fedora in my case). I've never printed anything on this computer and yet there is this `cupsd` process running as root and listening TCP port 631 on local interface.

OK, sure, the program itself maybe safe (enough to run with root while listening a local port that everybody uses this computer can access), but is it really THAT evil if you don't run it 24/7 and instead only enable it when the user is actively using it?
>But superhuman AI seems now only few years away

Seems unreasonable. You are afraid because marketing gurus like Altman made you believe that a frog that can make bigger leap than before will be able to fly.
often I find the comments more interesting than the article, and even more often I decide whether I should read the article based on the comments.
Regulation is the enforcement and control of culture. They cannot really be disentangled.

American culture is not one of maximalism. Going overseas I was surprised to see tobacco products and beer legal at 16 or 18, people drinking alcohol in the open at parks, soft-porn on late-night broadcast TV, and newsstands with uncovered porn magazines.

All of which are commercialization.

Further, a maximalism interpretation can't be used to understand American culture pre-1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibited banks from preventing women from getting a bank account, nor pre-1964, when the Civil Rights Act prohibited most businesses from preventing blacks from exercising the same commercial maximalism as whites.
Not every Linux machine is a server!

This is kind of a big deal for desktop and even more so for laptop users.
That is not relevant to the comment you are responding to. Courts have been finding that scraping a website in violation of its terms of service is a liability, regardless of what you do with the content. We are not only talking about copyright.
> Now we just have infinite waves of slop drowning out everything that’s actually good

On the contrary. Slop makes the good stuff stand out.
The question of legality isn't just about the potential for harm; it’s about balancing individual freedom with societal responsibility
I talked to Ubisoft Devs, it's far worse than we thought [video]
> Where is this guy's legal counsel?

They're represented by Perkins Coie. Who, even as someone from the EU who doesn't do any legal stuff, I have heard of and know are very good. I think they'll be kind of loving this mess. Because even though this is a mess, they're going to get paid to deal with the mess.
VHS was obsolete, but not everyone grabbed a new camera every year. Before digital VHS-C was the normal home camcorder. The first Digital consumer camcorder came out in 1995¹. Digital 8 came out in 1999. So people were definitely using a lot VHS up to early 2000s.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_DCR-VX1000
… finish a sentence.
OK, so 11ty webc is pretty good and feels relatively low on abstraction. The only issue I've had with it was the developer UX (e.g. some components getting "stuck" during livereload, so I needed to manually restart 11ty to see the changes). Webc also supports bundles.

What 11ty lacks (assuming I don't add vite, keep things minimal), are components/composition, i.e. actually being able to compose templates without seeing them as templates but as DOM.

I recommend checking out some videos about .webc and progressive enhancement, there's a small paradigm shift from both React-like components map to a tree that maps to pixels and a more traditional old timey PHP-like string interpolation in templates. (I'm expressing this poorly as I'm in a rush, sorry!)
For me, just changing the body position already works. Sometimes I lie down on a coach and suddenly it "clicks".
You can absolutely write a license that contains the clauses I mentioned and it would be enforceable.

Sorry, but the onus is on OpenAI to read the licenses not the creator.

And throwing your hands in the air and saying "oh you can't do that in a license" is also of little use.
To describe Buddha as a secularist would be projecting our modern values onto a man 2500 years ago.

Reincarnation, the soul, karma, etc aren't exactly compatible with materialistic secularism.
>> _no longer operate without the poker machines

Horse racing. All over the world there are tracks where horses run, and people bet on the horses, but that isn't why they exist. The track's gambling license, something first granted back when the track was built, is now used to facilitate an attached "casino". The horses are cover for the casino and the casino is just cover for the real money makers of the enterprise: an arcade of slot machines. Corruption for sure, but the "sport" of horse racing probably wouldn't have survived absent that corruption.
It's intended as a joke and a demonstration no ? Like this is exactly the type of text and words that a commercial grade LLM would never let you generate :)
At least that's how I got that comment...
> “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

― Søren Kierkegaard
What's funny to me is how many people protest AI as a means to generate incorrect, misleading or fake information, as if they haven't used internet in the past 10-15 years.

The internet is choke full of incorrect, fake, or misleading information, and has been ever since people figured out they can churn out low quality content in-between google ads.

There's a whole industry of "content writers" who write seemingly meaningful stuff that doesn't bear close scrutiny.

Nobody has trusted product review sites for years, with people coping by adding "site:reddit" as if a random redditor can't engage in some astroturfing.

These days, it's really hard to figure out whom (in the media / on the net) who to trust. AI has just made that long-overdue fact into the spotlight.