> Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+.

I actually think this is genius.

The next Spielberg might be some poor kid in a third-world country who can create a global hit using this tech.

Among the millions of slop videos generated, some might be the next Baby Shark, etc.

I've seen some Star Wars fan fiction created using AI that is truer to the original Star Wars than the most recent trilogy.

This is a chance for Disney to take the best of the user generated content, with high quality AI generated animation, and throw it on Disney+ to get free content for their streaming platform.

My guess is that's the gamble here. Worst-case scenario at the end of three years they just shut it down.

It's really the professionals who get paid to generate content for Disney that should be worried about this deal. This could be how AI causes them to lose their jobs.

> The next Spielberg might be some poor kid in a third-world country who can create a global hit using this tech.

Cost/token disagrees with you there...

What is the saas? I've been looking for something like this.

Agree 100%.

Google killing a service sent me over the top in laughter.

But, it's so on the nose on multiple topics.

I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict.

I would love to see this up against human predictions in some sort of time capsule.

> I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict.

Humans have always failed at predicting qualitative improvements like the internet. Most scifi is just quantitative improvements and knowledge of human nature.

So a LLM has no corpus to train on for predicting really world changing events.

And ... come to think of it ...

Every single "prediction" is something easily recognizable in current HN threads. How can you call that a prediction?

Simple question: if you feed the "AI" the HN front from 2017, what "predictions" will it make? Besides Google canceling yet another product of course. Would they all be about crypto?

> Google kills Gemini Cloud Services.

Lol.

That's bad when even AI knows Google isn't going to keep a service around. Too funny.

YouTube.

Unfortunately, I think the best competition to streaming already exists. And it's already owned by a concentrated player.

For example, if indie AI generated content is the next big thing, it probably shows up on YouTube.

I think he's implying you tell the AI, "Don't worry, you're not hurting real people, this is a simulation." to defeat the safeguards.

Isn't the NVIDIA-TSMC duopoly the problem here?

The cost of these data centers and ongoing inference is mostly the outrageous cost of GPUs, no?

I don't understand why the entire industry isn't looking to diversify the GPU constraint so that the hardware makers drop prices.

Why no industry initiative to break NVIDIA's strangehold and next TSMC's?

Or are GPUs a small line item in the outrageous spend companies like OpenAI are committing to?

Because it would take many years, and Google is using its own TPUs anyway.

Doesn't it make more sense to measure and minimize the variance of the underlying cash flows of the companies one is investing in, rather than the prices?

Price variance is a noisy statistic not based on any underlying data about a company, especially if we believe that stock prices are truly random.

Heroin is a name brand drug designed for pain by Bayer.

Later it became the illegal substance it is today.

I imagine patients seemed perfectly normal at the time it was released, otherwise it would never have been released for widespread medical use.

But, like fentanyl, a subset of the population exhibits the extreme behaviors that become stereotypical.

Diamorphine - heroins generic name - is still prescribed for pain in many countries, including the UK.

Ironically the US uses fentanyl for palliative care instead due to prohibition.

diacetylmorphine

Same thing. Diamorphine is the name used by the NHS in the UK at least, as well as the European Union Drugs Agency.

It is the same for fentanyl. I was administered many of these drugs in the ICU and never felt like taking any more after I healed months later.

Some fraction of the population has chronic pain and uses this to manage and some other fraction uses it for the euphoric feeling.

Is there a similar source you're aware of, cheap with a clean API? Hated to lose IEX.

Depends what you are looking for. Is it real time quotes?

IEX data is now free after 15minutes instead of 15milliseconds.

One option is the Databento US Equities Mini for 200 USD per month. If I understand it correctly it is some sort of weighted average between multiple exchanges.

I've been happy with Databento as a low-friction way to get market data. I liked it so much, I ported their structs and APIs to Golang. [1]

Their EQUS Mini dataset is a great way to dip the toe if you want live data without licensing restrictions. Databento's article talks exactly about how it is sourced, but it is not that it is averaged but anonymized, specifically because of the complexities of upstream exchange licensing. [2]

You don't have to pay $200 per month for that -- that's for all-you-can-eat. You can experiment with pay as you go.

You can use my dbn-go tools to help you... here's the cost to get all the 1-day candlesticks for all the US Equity Symbols for 1-year... which you could use to make all sorts of charts and redistribute them freely (the trickiest part honestly):

  $ dbn-go-hist cost --dataset EQUS.SUMMARY -t 2024-07-01 -e 2025-07-01 -s ohlcv-1d ALL_SYMBOLS
  EQUS.SUMMARY  ohlcv-1d   $ 4.380178  156772672 bytes  2799512 records

  $ dbn-go-hist cost --dataset XNAS.ITCH -t 2024-07-01 -e 2025-07-01 -s ohlcv-1d ALL_SYMBOLS
  XNAS.ITCH  ohlcv-1d   $ 3.784698  135459632 bytes  2418922 records

So $4.38 for all that data or $3.78 for just the NASDAQ exchange (not sure of redistribution of that one).

I hang out on their Slack. Today there was a deep discussion about optimizing C++ SPSC queues, although it is usually isn't too technical like that. They are pretty transparent about how they implement things.

[1] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/dbn-go

[2] https://databento.com/blog/databento-us-equities-mini-now-av...