skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's disheartening that there is a whole group of people - developers and managers alike - who do not understand or see the value in exploration as part of the process.

To steelman, because, as Frank is sending ethernet packets, we're stuck picking up the slack, doing things that are part of the job description, that are needed by the org as a whole. Why doesn't he just innovate in the actual problem we're working on, since there's a near infinity backlog?

I think, ideally, everyone is given exploration time, but that requires a manager that can strictly defend it, even when upper management is made aware of it and inevitably says "we need <project> done sooner". It's also a problem when other managers become aware of it with "You're allowing that team to hire more to compensate for the "lost time"? We need those people!". It really needs to be an org level thing, which even Google gave up on [1].

"Unethical" solution: Pad your development time to include some of it.

[1] https://hrzone.com/why-did-google-abandon-20-time-for-innova...
First time I heae abour Tufte OS :)
And it can record 100 years of music or 25000 hours. That's a whole lot. Very useful device. I'll probably order it once I get my piano back.
TBH, when it comes to the music I'm consuming from streaming services I don't really care. They end up taking the space of an enhanced radio for me, always on and always on-demand. Whatever I want at the moment, for the most part.

For music I really care about culturally, it's absolutely physical and backed up digitally.

But 95% of my listening is definitely streaming services.
Remembering Grace Hopper
Safari is officially enabling support for WebGPU in iOS 18.2, which is rolling out within the first weeks of December.
The source does not mention the underlying motivation (and it really should), but I think this is it:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_kind-of-a-big-deal-a...

"... a new paper shows GPT-4 simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments with high accuracy.

Note this is done by having the AI prompted to respond to survey questions as a person given random demographic characteristics & surveying thousands of "AI people," and works for studies published after the knowledge cut-off of the AI models."

A couple other posts along similar lines:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_this-paper-suggests-...

"... LLMs automatically generate scientific hypotheses, and then test those hypotheses with simulated AI human agents.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_formula-for-neat-ai-...

"Applying Asch's conformity experiment to LLMs: they tend to conform with the majority opinion, especially when they are "uncertain." Having a devil's advocate mitigates this effect, just as it does with people."
It's the artist who altered the song, not the streaming service.

I've never heard of a (legal) streaming service that edits the songs submitted to its platform outside of YouTube (which can mute sections of videos that contain copyrighted audio)
They've been changing album covers and songs since at least the 70s. This isn't anything new or recent, except streaming makes it a lot more convenient while also getting artists out of hot legal water like the Gorillaz change. I'm not here to defend streaming services (vampires), but changes are coming from the artist and not the service. Youtube didn't take out the spongebob sample in the Gorillaz song.

Obligatory billy woods + kenny segal's Spongebob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83F4JpVu61k
I've always loved this quote: "What audacious criminal, what mystifier, what maniac collector, what insane lover, has committed this abduction?"

Though Peruggia claims he did it out of patriotism, I've always nursed the theory that, during its absence, the original was used as reference to create several extremely good fake versions. These could be sold as the original, since everyone knew it had been stolen, and each would think they had the real one. Then the original is returned, and the buyers are without recourse. What are you going to do, tell the police? And of course Peruggia et al would say nothing.

I suspect this isn't true, but the fun part is that it could be and no one would ever know. So I'm choosing to believe it is so.
Can you explain why you did the naive algorithm here and not any of the fast matrix multiplication ones that trade multiplications for more additions? Just for educational purposes or is there a performance benefit in the technique?
We are in a golden age of comedy. There is literally more comedy in wider and deeper streams available for your consumption than ever before.
TBF I've had the opposite experience due to forgetting to download those playlists ahead of time.
> You just buy $X worth of rainfall futures.

The cost of that varies though. If you have to pay $95 to get a $100 payout that’s a very different calculus from $50 for $100.
> What makes other commodities amenable to having futures, but not onions?

Nothing (at least for other perishable foodstuff); law often doesn't even in theory have a broad universal theory behind it, but instead responds narrowly to observed or perceived immediate problems.
> I wonder though if generalizing to most/all animals really makes sense here.

What's the downside to just assuming all animals are intelligent and treating them as such?
The two types of projects don't compete for the same pool of money. There's some overlap, but there's some funding that goes to specific goals on their merits, and then there's some funding that could be pulled in if the project captures someone's interest (including public). As for buying human time, happily that often comes with a big discount for work on cool stuff (a fact routinely abused by businesses in some sectors, such as game development or entertainment in general).

There's also an extra discount for trustworthiness - it's much harder to fake results when the evaluation criteria include whether or not it's the cool stuff that was promised.
Yes, I've learned that from several other commenters. It was a badly informed throwaway line—s/poodle/bulldog/.
This is a good idea. You can often get an eval board just by asking.
why is this beginning to feel like the catholic church is about to get some competition? or the second coming, I'm not sure.
What is the meaning of this code ?

void on_sigchld(int sig) { (void)sig; }
Fighter pilots are extremely highly trained individuals. While data is scarce for the exact dollar cost - an F-22 pilot costs roughly 11 Million USD to train, pilots are expected to use judgement and be capable of dealing with high pressure/ambiguous outcomes.
A motivated, careful, vigilant candidate will do that and I won't be able to tell.

I look for motivated, careful, and vigilant candidates so if they do it and I can't tell, I am OK with it.

Most are not motivated, careful, and vigilant.

Most are careless, don't pay attention to details, and look for shortcuts.
Very neat, was looking at buying one to play with, but shipping to Australia kind of kills it as a casual purchase.
Youtube already solved 1, 2.

What TikTok really solves is mixing a song from its library into your video and applying a cool visual effect.

No one with a youtube account is gonna download a separate video editing app and build a production pipeline at day 1 (plus copyright issues). It’s a stopper that separates viewers from creators. TikTok made creation trivial and that itself created an enormous funnel. It could afford to not even be a “short” video platform, that’s just a coincidence.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/results-from-the-...
> you need 6 different streaming services to meet your needs

It's worse: the movie you want to watch might only be on pay per view on google movies, even though it was on Netflix last year.
Polymarket is the most successful prediction market imo
There's OpenStack. It's a private IaaS. Had loadbalancers, ipv6 support, support for K8s hosting via the magnum component (and other container orchestrators), HA via Masakari component. The networking is very flexible. It does not currently have functions as a service, I believe that was in the Senlin component, but that's been abandoned, I believe a new incarnation of the idea is in the works though. With something like Kolla-ansible a containerized OpenStack infrastructure is pretty damn easy to manage, upgrades are just making sure you make any needded changes in the global config file (just a vimdiff with the new sample one included in the release) and then literally just a kolla-ansible upgrade -i inventory-file.yml.

I'm just a home labber and I've run OpenStack via kolla-ansible for like 7 years now, and Ceph since the jewel release I think almost 8 years ago for storage. Both are pretty easy to manage.
> Other than those, if the machine is on: the cpu is always doing _something_.

That used to be the case back in the 1990s when running MS-DOS. Nowadays, every operating system "pauses" the CPU when nothing is going on. The traditional way on x86 was to use the HLT instruction, which stops the processor until an interrupt happens; other architectures have their own equivalents (for instance, ARM has the WFI and WFE instructions), and x86 has more modern ways to do the same thing (like the MONITOR/MWAIT instructions). These instructions allow the processor to dynamically enter lower power modes, for instance by blocking the clock and/or power going into parts of the processor core (that is, "gating" the clock or power).
Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find
> If consumers just made a leap for physical copies again it also wouldn’t be this way.

How so? When DVDs and VHS were at their most popular not everything was in print or available.
Most of these techniques are extremely old and very outdated.

Teams that I've seen working on apps now implement much stronger checks on APIs especially Android apps such as SafetyCheck and DeviceCheck and other methods, which makes using strings rather basic to see them.

And most apps are now encrypted so you just see junk in the logs.
I Need a Hero
Space policy is about to get pretty wild
ping -c 4 erlang.org

PING erlang.org (192.121.151.106): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Like, "in the order of a billion years" very long time?
Status Report on the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP)
The contest is misnamed, solving ARC will not get us any closer to AGI.
The YouTube Music song library is distinct from the YouTube video library. YouTube Music allows you to add both to playlists, which I guess is a nice feature, but I typically just stick with the audio version. Music videos often have additional sound effects added over the song and (I assume) the songs have higher quality audio. I don't think Fort Minor adds sound effects, so this would be an effective workaround in my specific case.
Yeah, totally nonexistent product for most of the world
it's getting better
Tell HN: US companies must file a BOI report by Jan 1 to avoid fines and prison
A new US law requires all corporations and LLCs to file a "BOI report" containing information about the company's "beneficial owners" by January 1. It's a one-time filing, but a new filing must be made within 30 days of any change (e.g. an owner moves).

The penalties for non-compliance are steep: $500/day fines, and up to 2 years in prison. I'm not sure how small businesses are expected to learn about this; I had not heard about it until my accountant emailed me.

Here's the link to file the report: https://boiefiling.fincen.gov/

More information about the law: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2015
I live in the US half the year, and elsewhere for the other half. Movie rights go in and out of availability even when staying in one place, but when you cross borders, you find your access changing pretty frequently. So for movies, I have a VPN which works much of the time.

There are still plenty of good/interesting films whose rights issues prevent streaming. There is also a significant collection of films that are just not commercially successful, and which may never be digitized commercially. I go for physical media for those when possible.

With music, a fair amount of what I listen to isn't available over streaming services. I buy physical media when I can and digitize it to keep with me.

I haven't pirated in a long, long time. I remember having to hunt down The Star Wars Holiday Special for a friend back in the day. It ended up being easier to buy a home-made dvd from a shady place. I'm sure there's more out there now, and it's easier now, but search time is at a premium.
Flat spins can get resolved by the CG adjustment from ejection: the famous cornfield bomber.
link to the creators website: https://bookoverflow.io/

It has a list of previous books and talks. I was happy to see you could follow along with upcoming talks. Page numbers are included.
I suppose it could be an accident that the headline has the connotation, but I tend to think it unwise to give people the benefit of the doubt if the "accident" in question is also beneficial to them.
Generating zero-shot personalized portraits
My point is that the contest really should be "can solve ARC problems without having anything about ARC problems in its pre-training data or hard-coded in the design of the program." Otherwise these claims from ARC-AGI are simply false:

Solving ARC-AGI represents a material stepping stone toward AGI. At minimum, solving ARC-AGI would result in a new programming paradigm. It would allow anyone, even those without programming knowledge, to create programs simply by providing a few input-output examples of what they want.

This would dramatically expand who is able to leverage software and automation. Programs could automatically refine themselves when exposed to new data, similar to how humans learn.

If found, a solution to ARC-AGI would be more impactful than the discovery of the Transformer. The solution would open up a new branch of technology.

This program does not represent a "new paradigm" because it requires a bunch of human programming work specifically tailored to the problem, and it cannot be generalized. If software like this wins the contest that really shows the contest has nothing whatsoever to do with AGI.
Ok, fair point... I guess it's just that different teams were doing photo and video then
> 4. For most people in the world, this is not affordable. The median per-capita income in 2023 was ~2920 USD [1]; and you're asking for, say, 7.5 USD/month = 90 USD per year, or nearly 5% of one's income. No can do.

Most subscription services adjust the service prices to what specific markets can stomach. Spotify in the US costs $11.99/month, but it's $5.86/month (23.99 PLN) in Poland.
I mean it's clearly not caring about the author of the works. With a Disney movie you're not making a difference in the creators pockets, but an author of a book or a comic do feel the effects of pirating.
I was just looking for exactly this today, as I don’t want to pay for Claude AI subscription and API separately and would like to run UI locally. Thank you!
You linked to the search results of a very Google specific A/B test, this doesn't explain at all why you want to give Google credit for popularizing A/B tests...
Propaganda, basically?
Apple's Vision Pro VR Headset Faces Production Cuts
Investigating Cardiovascular Activation of Young Adults in Routine Driving
You should make your criticism explicit; just making a joke like this isn't particularly helpful.

To make explicit what I'm assuming is your point, this statement from the article can't be correct because A. POWER is by IBM, not Intel and B. Apple had already launched such a computer back in 1994, before Google existed.

Maybe x86 was meant instead?
What resources would you recommend for learning more about market-making?
A lot of initial benefit for sure (and likely long term) from being Postgres centric.

I followed a blog post to implement a temporary queue in PG, started using it, and promptly forgot to ever comeback to it.

Nice to see development on this has continued, going to try it out now.

I’m finding it valuable to have more of the universe from the beginning in Postgres until if/when it’s outgrown.. instead of starting with nosql and spending inordinate amounts of time making the data relatable.
The machines are produced in Europe. Won’t this just lead to a retaliatory ban on exporting machines to Taiwan?
strings -el

For utf-16 encoded ascii strings (very useful when dealing with windows executables).
Yeah, the audiobook version really is quite special. It’s read by Peter Vilnai, if I remember correctly. One of the few audiobooks I was able to completely be absorbed by while listening.
"Popular" tweets (of which these bot accounts often fall into, because they're propped up by bot responses and engagement farming) are pushed into your feed even if you're not following (or engaging) with them.
Yeah, I don't think that was mentioned anywhere -- I assumed it was real-money. That should really be clarified!
> I'm not sure how small businesses are expected to learn about this; I had not heard about it until my accountant emailed me.

That's how I'd expect small businesses to learn about this. Keeping up with regulatory changes is one of the reasons why having an accountant (and attorney) are not really optional. If you don't have them, then it's on you to keep up with regulatory changes yourself. That's pretty onerous, particularly if you don't subscribe to the data services that accountants and attorneys subscribe to. Which you probably don't because they're so expensive that it's far cheaper to hire an accountant or attorney who subscribes to them instead.

It's also good to keep in mind that when regulatory changes like this happen, agencies tend not to be extremely hardnosed about compliance immediately. If you fail to comply in time, you're not likely to get hit with a fine and certainly not prison (unless you're already on their shit list for something, anyway). You're going to get a letter telling you to comply.
The pilot had a justifiable lack of faith in the aircraft and didn't care to be the next pilot victim.
He was, and was fired from his role as, commander of Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1), which exists largely to validate and update “the book” for the rest of Corps.

So, if there is any position where simply “following the book” isn’t adequate to keep one’s job, it kind of makes sense that his was that position.
Maybe we have a moral obligation to undo the damage we’ve done?Not necessarily talking about mammoths here, but more recent species that we’ve made extinct. If it can be done in a way that’s not just to make zoo animals, but actually restore them in the environment like we’ve reintroduced some animals into areas they’ve been driven out of.
Google, can’t live with them, can’t do much online without them
It goes deeper than that. Fundamental forces have chirality. This was a little controversial when first discovered.
That's actually a factor that diseases aim for. Mortal diseases don't spread as much as the ones that don't damage the host as much. Because of this, severe diseases sometimes evolve into mild ones.
> Del Pizzo’s F-35B malfunctioned and its primary displays and communications cut out as Del Pizzo was attempting to land through rain at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. However, the report said its standby flight display and backup communication system “remained basically functional.”

> The report said Del Pizzo followed the F-35B manual’s recommendations for ejecting from an out-of-control jet but also criticized the manual’s definition of out-of-control as too broad.

It sounds like the displays blacked out, but radios and flight controls still worked. This is still definitely an aircraft that can land safely.
WTF its Rose Tinted Spectrum. He has a fantastic series on British gaming TV
program Bad Influence called Breaking Bad Influence.

aaand its back! https://www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedSpectrum works
Those are both explicitly arguments that the author made in the article, how is he missing the point?

He didn't say the lack of carbon tax acts doesn't act as a subsidy. He agreed that it does. His point was failing to distinguish between that lack, versus literal direct payments from a government budget to fossil fuel projects, is confusing and misleading. Which is true, because while both are effectively subsidies, the incentives and challenges in addressing them are wildly different.
> AGI is just an unbelievably high bar.

Technically it is an impossible bar as it, like AI, is a forever moving target. When chess was still considered AI, the Turing Test was considered the bar for AGI. Now passing the Turing Test is considered AI and chess is basic computing. Soon GPT and the like will just be basic computing and the AGI bar you can image now will become the next AI, and AGI whatever next forward-looking goal there is at that point. Lather, rinse, repeat.
edit: the github page directly includes an example of PDF output, so maybe the site is just out of date.

----

I'm a bit confused; the site claims HTML and PDF outputs are "Coming soon"

what export formats are supported? HTML and PDF seem very significant to me, and are how I'd likely share most documents with non-tech inclined people.
I would second the previous comment about gradually chipping off pieces of your current app into a new foundation/architecture/framework, rather than a full re-write.

Rewrites don't go how we think they will, and the cut-off and migration between the two certainly doesn't either. It becomes unwieldy very fast, and in ways we couldn't predict.

I've had to do a handful of very large PHP-based rewrites, and I would still recommend a piece-meal approach. It isn't so much that one way is inherently "better" than the other as far as the code goes; git is amazing, and tests do what tests do. It's more that you can reason about the features, changes, and data flow if you take it one piece at a time. And also, lots of tools, libraries, and services that you use will release updates in the time that you're rewriting, which causes its own headache too.

Sure, the tradeoff is that going one piece at a time takes longer, but you have time on your side because you have revenue and a a customer base. If you were a startup that didn't have that, sure, go for the fast approach and fix it later.

But I think when all is said and done, we can go fast and build something that doesn't work, or we can go slow and keep both things running and swap out smaller pieces along the way. As they say, "slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."

Also, holler if your org could use some help. Seattle based.
Seems yt restored the channel.
"if you can't distinguish the reverse engineered traffic from the traffic through your own app in order to block it, then what harm is the traffic doing?"

If you really believe this you'll use a custom user agent instead of spoofing Chrome. :-)

Some websites use HTTP referer to block traffic. Ask yourself if any reverse engineer would be stopped by what is obviously the website telling you not to access an endpoint.

I'll add that end users don't have complete information about the website. They can't know how many resources a website has to deal to reverse engineering (webmasters can't just play cat and mouse with you just because you're wasting their money) nor do they know the cost of an endpoint. I mean, most tech inclined use ad blockers when it's obvious 90% of the websites pay the cost of their endpoints by showing ads, so I doubt they would respect anything more subtle than that.
There's too many fiddly bits of which endpoints return what data in which shape that requires a custom solution each time. An LLM would probably have a very easy shot at this problem though.

It's much more straightforward if you can find a GraphQL, Swagger, or OpenAPI spec to automate conversion I'd imagine.