skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with the advent of pretty severe content locking and geolocking on various services

It's been the norm for many of us for decades. Even if you want to pay and stay an "honest citizen", you're not found of being worthy by most streaming/distribution platforms. For the longest time I thought geolocking will die out and we will be able to access the same stuff you have, but it's going the opposite way.

As the result, "piracy" never died out here, it's more alive than it's ever been. Take the hint. It's a true pleasure to see dozens of countries from around the world represented in the peer list of my torrent client. At least there is one area where we can work together for the good of all.

(Gabe is one of very few exceptions, and Steam is a very successful platform commercially speaking, once again proving the old quote, by gaben himself IIRC.)
Looks great. Curious if you created your own frontend interface mostly for it to be your own or because you found other options lacking? Librechat, OpenWebUI, etc.
Typically 100-400 users per day, without really doing anything with it for months, but yeah, traffic is a bit low.
> ...entirely missing the lightweight threading...

They deliberately took the longer route, aiming to integrate lightweight threads in a way that doesn't force developers to change their existing programming model. No need for callbacks, futures, coroutines, async/await, whatever. This required a massive effort under the hood and rework to many core APIs. Even code compiled with decade old Java versions can run on virtual threads and benefit, without any refactoring or recompilation.

> ...and/or async/await revolution of the last decade

async/await is largely syntactic sugar. Java has had the core building blocks for asynchronous programming for years, with CompletableFuture (2014, replacing the less flexible Future introduced in 2004) and NIO.2 (2011, building on the original NIO from 2002) for non-blocking I/O, along with numerous mature libraries that have been developed on top of them over time.
> Criterion[0] is one such product with outstanding content, real human curation, and a lower price than mainstream movie providers.

"Sorry. This is currently unavailable in your region."

This has been the case since before launch and is also a reason why pirates are still a thing.
We are pretty good at picking out variable names too... Especially if the grammar itself is highlighted since we then know exactly where to look / where not to look.

I'm not convinced of the argument, but still a bit curious.

I sometimes highlight a variable to follow it and make sure I don't miss an instance of it, so that I totally get. But not sure we have enough colors and contrast to make sense to follow many variables without cluttering everything up. A compromise might be to manually color up to 3 or something variables.

... but the cases where that helps may be a sign that the code isn't very readable to begin with (helping with messy codebases is a proper usecase though!).
A company can always document their API if they want power users to be informed about the company's preferred ways of doing things. They generally don't because they want to create a bunch of market friction so you're forced into using their proprietary client apps to interact with their services. I for one applaud efforts like the original post, and think it's an instance of outstanding Internet citizenship, where citizenship means working to preserve Internet societal norms like decentralization.
Good, relying too much on an external force/coalition was foolish from the start. Expecially for the Nato countries that dont meet basic military capabilities
You linked to the very paper the article is about, which is referenced in the fourth sentence of the article, indicating you didn't spend a single second reading the article before commenting.
> The smoothness of an iPhone map zoom, on any device.

Any device except an iPhone, until Apple finally gets around to shipping WebGPU in Safari. Any year now...
Not quite. From the article:

> As Prophit had done, I got approval to pay out valuable prizes to complement the play-money leaderboards.

Some traders won things like iPads, and similar rewards that even highly paid tech employees considered valuable.
Newsboat (https://newsboat.org)!
An interesting fragment from the article’s comments:

- GlamorousAlpaca

Dude monetizes copyrighted TV programs, uploads the same stuff over and over, sells merchandise of said copyrighted material and posts a note on youtube 24 hours earlier about how he's gaming youtube. Clearly youtube is to blame.

- ThisIsPete

@GlamorousAlpaca I'm going to be charitable and assume that you're simply not familiar with the following:

He provides commentary over edited excerpts of TV shows, not full episodes, making his work clearly transformative and thus covered under YouTube's fair use provisions.

He has collected older work from multiple videos into single compilations that people can "binge". This is standard practice for moderately sized channels, because YouTube doesn't push old videos to new subscribers. YouTube doesn't allow you to upload identical videos, it detects that at the upload stage.

He does not sell any merch, and monetises entirely through YouTube and Patreon. Again, standard practice.
He has never claimed to have "created GamesMaster".
Any other accusations you want to make up, or are you done?

- GlamorousAlpaca

@ThisIsPete Vomiting Up Old Videos Works, Regurgitated Old Flob are you for real? He posts a guide on how to game youtube via posting the same old crap over and over 24 hours before this happens.

I guess the title-cased part of the last comment is the title of the last video in this channel, not GlamorousAlpaca’s judgement. If that’s true, it creates a slightly different perspective, imho.
Tech giants consider interoperability as a bug, not a feature. They want you locked into their ecosystems.
Harvard Business Review: Generative AI and the Nature of Work [pdf]
I'd argue that a) it takes years for humans to develop the ability to be aware of their own jealousy, and b) some of us don't ever get there.
How to Win Friends and Influence People. In 12 years it will be 100 years old, but simple sense doesn't age. Take an interest in people and treat them well. It always beats being good at stuff.
How do you "bypass" their limitations? Please expand on how you were able to decipher their arbitrary limitations.
> Fully preventing such incidents would require prohibiting and removing code mods altogether

"We didn't sandbox mods from the start"
Big enterprise solution and custom not well tested solution, it smells like possibility of failure. But fingers crossed ;)
When I worked at Electronic Arts in 2003 we had a lovely restaurant on the premises.
The worst movies on Criterion Channel are interesting, even if they're not good.

The worst movies on Netflix are just boring.
Could this be applied to mass propaganda and disinformation campaigns on social networks?

Like not only generating and testing narratives but then even use it for agents to generate engagement.

We've seen massive bot networks unchecked on X to help tilt election results, so probably this could be deployed there too.
Great stuff, it's good to hear how brushes work in these programs, reminds me of a great chat with one of the MyPaint devs.
I've done archaeological work in Mongolia. The oldest things I've found predate the last glacial maximum. Those rocks might not have survived a few million more years, but I can certainly think of lithics that would.
>> made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally

Implying that humans don't produce humans, or that human intelligence is artificial?

> It's not exactly the same, it's a subcategory.

So, again, for what reason would anyone take the time to call it "artificial intelligence"/"AI" when, as a subcategory, the intent is already captured by "intelligence"? Terms need to have useful meaning to stand up, and we are still not clear on where you see "artificial" as being useful.

Perhaps the problem here is that you misunderstood the original question? It asked how you would define "AI" as a single term, not how you would define "artificial" and "intelligence" independently. I think you've done a reasonable job of the latter, but that doesn't justify the "AI moniker" as described originally.

> You seem to be using "artificial" as "mock", as in "seems like but isn't".

I don't remember using it at all, unless you mean where I asked you what "artificial" adds to the term. What are you referring to here, exactly?
That sounds high. The chair that I use in my WFH setup was around $800 new when I bought it at an office furniture liquidator for $75.
Floppy Disk Storage (history)
Even if it had a rigorous and testable definition it would still be suspect by virtue of us having searched for evidence of it under the guise of science.

To explain it by analogy, we had the concept of women and men for at least thousands of years. Socially construed by physical appearance and behavior. Then in 1905 Nettie Stevens discovered sex chromosomes. Her discovery "found" the existence of men in women in the epistemological universe of science. But then a curious thing happened, people began placing people in social categories based on sex chromosomes. It's an incestuous loop of logic that hoists itself into validity simply because folks forget how it occurred.

If we went searching for a scientifically rigorous definition of "thinking" we would forget we made the same fatal leap of logic.
Fair. It's possible it's causal, but yes, not a guarantee.

The context and subtext you're missing is that OP gets on every article that was posted more than once to point to previous postings, identifying the new one as a "dupe". They seem to be of the opinion that each thread should exist exactly once (or, grudgingly, once per year). I responded because in that context they seemed to be implying that OP changed the title to avoid getting flagged as a duplicate, so I was explaining why that is unlikely—the portion of the title they used is just better for this audience.

More generally, to me this is to me a classic example of why their idea of thread purity is wrong: the thread the other day did very poorly, whereas this thread reached a much wider audience. I don't really care why that was, but it's yet more proof that reposts are a good thing when the previous post fails to garner "significant attention". [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Of course there is: money, which is arguably not infinite, neither does (unarguably) the ressources/human time you could buy with it.
At the expense of your insurance premiums and general staff whininess.
True high fantasy would not reference swords and trumpets, first spending a chapter or two defining a world with its own musical instruments and bladed weapons, their names of course also being in a language, sorry, tongue, for which the author must also first labour to invent a common version spoken by everyone, an ancient/high version only remembered by a few, and at least one alphabet.

In addition, each one must be described in detail, including a potted life story of the blacksmith that created it; when, why, and for whom; metallurgical observations; history of actual use; any supernatural blessings whether apocryphal or actual; the litany of families that have retained it as an heirloom & their subsequent social or political fates; details of any inscription or filigree; and a nickname. This remains true for both the swords and the trumpet. Additional remarks concerning a scabbard or case are optional but highly regarded.
simply put, yes.
If you can't open it in a modern Office install, Microsoft used to have the option to download input filters for old and unusual formats.
Putin made all his moves against Ukraine during Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris terms and was mostly unchecked (especially Crimea) so I've never understood this opinion.
You don't even need guided bombs. Dumb bomb targeting is highly accurate today. The computer will show on the HUD the impact point of the bomb based on aircraft velocity, altitude, drag characteristics of the bomb etc.
MUBI[0] is another streaming service that's focusing on curation and smaller lists of films available. Their service is available in a lot of countries, and each region has its own curation.

I'm a huge fan of this ultra-curated approach, since it lets me find a lot of things that I'd otherwise have to hunt for, and would likely miss out on.

[0] https://mubi.com
> Not enough to dissuade the people that like him from voting for him again.

Then apparently trustworthiness isn't a desirable property for a politician among the American people. What incentive does an aspiring politician have to be truthful if Trump can get elected?
Have you forgotten what primary and secondary school was like?
This is awesome! One question, though: why not just work with straight audio and convert to midi with some basic* signal processing assuming a use case of instruments/sounds that aren't crazy synthesized. You could then also use this app for certain acoustic instruments as well and make this run all on mobile, potentially with an audio jack dongle/splitter if connecting to a digital instrument. Could also focus the audio processing on specific acoustic instruments out the gate and role out algorithms one at a time for each kind of instrument (e.g. piano vs saxophone)
> If streaming didn’t offer such generalized garbage for everyone then it wouldn’t be this way.

Mubi and Criterion are great.
That's so strange. What makes other commodities amenable to having futures, but not onions? Or are they going to ban each thing in turn the first time someone corners the market and causes trouble?

Apparently it's onions and box office returns? What weird corner cases. Why not strawberries too?

Can't the onions futures market be regulated the same way as all the others?

If anything, this makes me think all the rules are arbitrary.
So 16 coefficients are stored for a rank 3 wavelet function.

With 16 DoF, can you handle more overlapping objects than a 16-long per-pixel list?

Without fully understanding it, this reminds me of spherical harmonics in the way that juggling around the channels is convenient but it's not magic, you can only do so much with X degrees of freedom. (SH is a really nice way to store a low-res cubemap, but you would never use SH for env maps on something shiny) In the case of SH there are also artifacts introduced. I wonder how the wavelets behave when pushed too hard?

Also, trying to be constructive - If there were still images with objects lined-up so we could compare the different techniques with a reference and see the difference, that would be easier to read than a lot of fast-moving randomly-colored objects.
> though I'd be trading any complexity of configuring the W5100 for the complexity of configuring STs peripheral

It's not too bad as far as such things go. The documentation on how the DMA system works leaves something to be desired, but it's not bad (and it's a heck of a lot faster than spitting packets over SPI).
> The point is that you, the farmer, don't need to take a view on whether the next year will be drier than normal. You just buy $X worth of rainfall futures.

And I'll reiterate, this is a function of your risk-aversion/efficiency. One would expect, for example, climate change to increase the price of weather futures as extreme/problematic weather events become more likely. It's often difficult to see the impact of these changes on the scale of a single farmer, but in aggregate lots of farmers do a market make.

> You should buy flood insurance roughly up to the value of restoring your house after a flood, and you should hope the insurance market is healthy enough that the cheapest provider of that insurance offers you a price that reflects the expected value of the insurance plus a small markup.

And the insurance companies have a small army of actuaries who make sure that the prices they provide take into account conditions like the relevant risk factors of where your home is. This is instead of a betting market style concept, where you could instead imagine every individual actuary as a potential insurer.
The distinction matters both because the precise wording of specific contracts will cause distinctions that were not adequately considered by certain participants, and also because of who enforces the contract at a human level. Who determines what does and does not qualify as a natural disaster? If that entity has a stake in one outcome, or is influenced by an entity with a stake in one outcome, that changes the outcome. Both of these are seen in insurance claims, where homeowners find out that rising rainwater does not actually count as a "flood", and where agents of the insurance company are financially incentivized not to pay out at all if they can help it. These factors do not go away just because you take away the insurance company, you've simply diffused them.
Agreed, but even if I wanted to see something relatively mainstream like Last of the Mohicans (great movie with Daniel Day Lewis), I'd still go to a certain pirate site to find it. It may be on some of the streaming sites, but which one? Will it be on Apple? I don't mind paying, but where will it be, will it be on Amazon?

Oh forget about Netflix as they don't seem to have anything more than a few years old, unless it's some series they are promoting like Seinfeld.

Also, on a certain pirate site of note, I can also look for the best quality one like a Blu-Ray HD rip if it exists, that'll be something like 20GB - but that's fine!
Implementation detail. What matters is the UX: think of a song, search for it, there it is on YouTube. Open the link and it plays. No payment needed, for a long time not even an account. The platform itself was pretty inobtrusive for most of its lifetime; it's gotten quite bad recently, but for most of those who care enough to do something about it, uBlock Origin clears out the UX of all the bullshit.

Pirates couldn't possibly beat that if they tried. But it only exists because of an accident of history: YouTube got big on pirated content early enough and fast enough they could transition to "content id" instead of getting sued to oblivion.
Migrating from Drupal to Payload CMS
That's interesting, I have a WD Black SN850 in my MNT Reform with ZFS on it and luckily haven't run into any issues with it, though I'm not stressing it in any kind of way.
WD disks and ZFS go back a long way, when the Green HDD line first showed up in the late 2000s they caused a lot of headaches since ZFS expects to be in control & have a response when issuing requests where as the Green drive's firmware would be trying to conserve power, resulting in bogus errors.
True to the article's point, The Criterion Channel is only available in the US and Canada. Mubi and BFI Player offer a good selection of independent films at a fair price in my country, but that's part of the problem - there's an annoyingly complex matrix of services and regional restrictions.

Rarely does anyone have to ask "where can I listen to that album?", because essentially all of the music streaming services have the rights to essentially all music. "Where can I watch that film?" is still a very real problem.
Last time I checked Criterion was only available in the US because of publishing rights. It could be easily bypassed by using VPN (location is actually only checked at account registration), but I’m wondering: is it really different from pirating if you’re breaking the rules anyway?

Here in Europe MUBI[0] is an alternative to Criterion. I’ve tried it during lockdown but the streaming quality was seriously lacking, and their library was really small. I’m curious if they improved in those areas

[0]: https://mubi.com/en/
So you are directly express context-sensitivity instead of approximating it with infinite context-free grammar.

Okay, good enough.
Worth pointing out that video gaming piracy has a number of challenges that make it less appealing.

No connected experience (usually); you have to play in offline modes only, sometimes with more compromised. Game updates are often lagging. Others have mentioned viruses already. Steam sales are frequent so /r/patientgamer types can just wait till the game becomes affordable where-as there's a rarely discounts available & a patchwork of streaming services.
That was... fast.

Right, I'll show myself out...
With this last election, there were also some big differences across markets, which presents the opportunity for not only hedging, but constructing a win-win set of bets.
The stakes don't need to be high to encourage strong participation.

OK but strong participation isn't necessarily a positive for the accuracy of a market. The problem is the prediction market with lots of participants can be just outlet for partisans to put forward their opinions. There's a tax on wrong opinions but someone is spending a bucks, the markets won't be a powerful force for changing those opinions.

What you want for a prediction market is for the major participants to actively researching the problems - expend money and effort to have a well founded reason for their positions. Markets for random real-world events have the problem that many events don't occur often to weed out arbitrary biases and there may not be any easy or cost effect way to attain a well-founded opinion on the subject.
From your own article:

> A senior executive saw Prophit give a very low probability that the company would complete the hire of a new senior executive on time (filling the position had been a quarterly objective for the past six quarters). “The betting on this goal was extremely harsh. I am shocked and outraged by the lack of brown-nosing at this company,” the executive said to laughter in a company-wide meeting. But the market was the nudge the execs needed. They subsequently “made some hard decisions” to complete the hire on time.

Indeed. The whole point of the prediction markets espoused is to alter the decisions being made. That means the prediction itself can have an impact on the outcome intentionally or otherwise.
I always thought, that would make way more sense. But a bit harder to find exact dates probably ..
we show the investors the algo's backtest performance with years of data & 3 months of paper testing it on live!

they bet on the algorithm & not the developer as such! but they can see the dev's other algos and their AUM, returns, sharpe ratio etc to see how they're performing
I live in France, and saying that 90% of the media are ad-sponsored is a conservative estimate.

So I don't know which part of western Europe you're talking about, but it clearly doesn't apply to all of it.
LOUD MUSIC BROUGHT ALL THESE ANGRY SWORD GUYS TO THE YARD AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
Skip the awkward middleman:

https://www.bcm.edu/news/brain-stars-hold-our-memories

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08170-w
Thats for V2!
> That's 100% gross profit.

That's a typical margin for a reseller (and it's gross margin, not gross profit). Back in the 80s, I was horrified that the mail order houses demanded a wholesale price that was half of retail. But I learned that's how things work.

Businesses have a lot of expenses. People who start one often think if they buy X for $10, and sell it for $20, they're counting the money they'll make. The reality is you gotta pay for everything else before you can count the profit.
Is it fair to say that Hamming distance relates to cosine similarity in this context like ReLU relates to the Sigmoid function for neural networks?
The concept behind MUBI is that they provide a small set of curated films which change frequently - sort of like a little independent movie theatre. Criterion is possibly a better offering if you want a large catalogue.