skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>ROM dumping is not a crime

Not a crime as such, but how does one dump a ROM without making copy, and how does one get the right to make copies if Nintendo won't license you the content? It's fine to make an policy argument about the the law aught to be, but you can't just ignore what it is.
It should at the very least help with Safari. What a dreadful existence that browser is when you can't get extensions into the store without paying the 99/yr fee, which has stopped a lot of potential ports from happening.

Most ports right now are quite gnarly, you have to jump through a multi step build process just to do what other browsers can handle in a single click or drag and drop. Other methods I've seen involve relying on something like tampermonkey to run the scripts on the sites you want. Alternatively, making safari users mad by making your extension cost on the app store.

So I have high hopes! Finally developers should be able to release things for safari without feeling so suffocated.
> Sure ChatGPT can hallucinate but Google's results rely on some random person somewhere to have properly answered something.

i don't know about your experience with chatgpt, but to me it's been untrustworthy. so much so that every answer i get needs to be double checked against google and that "random person".
> None of this affects you whatsoever. Just don't use a sideloaded apps. I don't see why this would bother you in any way.

That's unfortunately wrong.

Say you use WhatsApp to keep in touch with your friends. Say Facebook pulls WhatsApp from the app store and makes it only available via side-loading. What do you do? You have to decide between trying to move everyone you know off of WhatsApp, or you side-load.
You can proxy anything, it's just the "intercept the entire system" isn't automated here (because targeted interception is usually preferable).

For system-wide setup, you'll just need to configure that manually - setting your system proxy and trusting the CA certificate. The settings you need are on the Intercept page, in the 'Anything' section. For portable browsers, you may also be able to configure proxy & CA settings within the browser itself, which might be more convenient, depending on your setup.
They are doing no such thing. You don't have to use side loaded apps. If a company decides to only distribute from side loading, you can just not use their app. This is effectively what you are forcing on people who would prefer side loading, so it shouldn't be a problem for you.
That's correct.

Long term holdbacks actually are way way harder to implement and maintain in a fast moving product than meets the eye. We had passionate and ultimately unfruitful conversations about how to do that when I was there in 2016.

The only thing we had at the time was continued tracking against the experiment groups after flipping that switch.
Pointcrow is not really their customer. He's their free marketing service. Most of his content seems to be based on Nintendo games - and that works for at least some of the actual customer base. Reviews and trailers are fun and all, but I think every game I bought in the last few years was a result of me seeing a stream of someone having fun playing it. I know others who do the same.

They essentially put an advertisement of how much they suck in place of a free ad space they were given.
from what i understand when there's a leak in a valve the pressure drop causes ice to form on the outside near the leak. If the ice gets so thick as to impact the actuator it can get stuck in its current position. The motor/hydraulics or whatever is used to physically turn the valve can't break the ice so it's just stuck.

so someone probably needs to go find the valve and figure out what's leaking and either put in a new one or tighten the bolts a bit more :)
the problem is that apple also heavily censors security unrelated things. e.g. art platforms and emulators, just to name two prominent examples.
> What makes text chat that is meant to be ephemeral to be different than an in person chat?

It's not inherently ephemeral though. You can add deletion rules on top of that to try to pretend that it is, but the courts see right through that.

I'm struggling to think of any text-based communications that are inherently ephemeral. Generally anything committed to text is long lasting, and has always been (way pre-computer era).
It seems like everyone in these discussions sees only two worlds: lawless hellscape of intrusive, data-stealing apps that permit freedom or “walled garden” of good apps that restrict it and users’ freedom. The truth, as always, is already somewhere in between. And it will be after iOS 17.

Let’s see how Apple innovates in this space. It’s time. The iPhone is 16 years old this year. Time to users get behind the wheel if they want to.
> Apple is venturing into advertising

Why is this a worry right now and not 12-13 years ago when they started venturing into advertising with iAd?
Early start for anyone on the west coast
So I believe you. But I also don't hear any sound that's different from what I'd use to say "get". It reminds me of people who say "melk" instead of "milk" and can't hear the difference. Thanks for the examples.
How are you dealing with it just manufacturing answers it does not readily have? Or is that pretty much the same as SEO spam and easy to filter out?
What happens when the apps which used to be available on the app store get taken down and made sideload-only, like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?
> "drug that alleviates [condition]" doesn't sound like it can be invented, since drugs are commonly used to treat conditions, so there's no new invention here

It's been attempted. They invent and patent X as a "method to do Y", and then try to sue others who do Y via some means other than X.

My point was that the original description of patents was not precise enough and implied that you could patent Y rather than X.
> they will easily replicate anything OpenAI does

... not if it threatens their cash cow they won't. It's not a technical challenge, its a business model challenge
China's Generative AI Draft Guidelines
Hey, guys. Hey. Ready to talk plate processing and residue transport plate funneling? Why don't we start with joust jambs? Hey, why not? Plates and jousts. Can we couple them? Hell, yeah, we can. Want to know how? Get this. Proprietary to McMillan. Only us. Ready? We fit Donnely nut spacing grip grids and splay-flexed brace columns against beam-fastened derrick husk nuts and girdle plate Jerries, while plate flex tandems press task apparati of ten vertipin-plated pan traps at every maiden clamp plate packet. Knuckle couplers plate alternating sprams from the t-nut to the SKN to the chim line. Yeah. That is the McMillan way. And it's just another day at the office.
This “industry“ is and for the most part always has been a front for organized crime.

https://probablycancelledpod.libsyn.com/the-porno-mafia-mono...
Support for the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine to wipe it out as a nation would consist of any actions that help Russia win the war they started.

So for example anyone who is keen for Ukraine to be defeated more quickly, by opposing military assistance, are the "war supporters".

Anyone who wants to prevent the warmongers from winning and thus profiting from the war they started - those people are against the war.
Statistical evidence, please.
I'm surprised there wasn't more of a mention of Racket except for a brief line about why language oriented programming might've been the reason Lisps don't get widely adopted and I'm similarly surprised with the lack of Racketeers in the comments.

I haven't really explored the "language oriented" aspect of Racket yet (I'm just starting my foray into with the Little Schemer books), but the "tower of Babel" effect does seem real. I somewhat (very weakly!) suspect language oriented design works passably if the DSL that's designed is not Turing complete, but that's more of just a hunch...
I have wondered if this phenomenon had a name, thanks!
> Is it just me or does that seem remarkably low?

It seems high, after the fallout from the NYT piece. Last I had read, unverified (e.g. pirated) content was all removed, leaving mostly studios and community power users. Like YT, piracy is the reason it flourished. Most immediately flocked to rival streaming sites that as of yet have not received the same level of scrutiny.
Apple used this tactic to put pressure on Google:

2013: Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri

https://searchengineland.com/apple-makes-bing-the-default-se...

2017: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-t...

Hard to know if the AI features of Bing are the key factor here for Samsung, or just a handy excuse for Samsung to renegotiate pricing with Google.
> its willingness to make up facts makes me leary

I see you haven't met humans
Just disable autopilot 0.00001 seconds before impact and it becomes the driver's fault.
But if you wanted some of what makes this particular piece special you would also have to hire a camera crew to capture the backstory and provenance and an influencer to show it to most of a million people and care about it. The best art isn't just the end result!
> It didn't even remotely occur to anybody in the family that learning to read was special, or that there might even be any way to teach it other than phonics. English has a phonetic alphabet after all, right?

> Moreover, learning to read at home was just part of our culture. When kids were deemed "ready," they learned to read. It wasn't a special thing.

> I think my parents learned from whatever material they could lay their hands on. I learned from a 18th century reader that my mom found somewhere. My first word was CAT.

Can you be more explicit about the resources (and kind of resources) your parents used? I learned to read in school, so I'm not very aware of them. Articles like the OP make me think I may have to get acquainted to fill in deficits in the school curriculum.
It's like they asked ChatGPT to write a hilarious ad campaign.
To me this says less about how impressive AI has become and more about how low the bar for music has gotten these days. Franky its not a very good song but most stuff by Drake and the Weeknd is so bland and commoditized that it can easily pass as there stuff.
> I don't have the freedom to choose the version of the app I want. And now I can't actually trust any of the apps out there because none of them are required to follow any of Apple's guidelines.

You don't have that "freedom" right now either, it's just the Apple Store one.
Also the law is about giving options on the distribution system, not on "app versions". So if Epic or 37 Signals use their own channel to distribute their own apps with subscriptions fees, they can do it and Apple cannot take its cut. So, Apple might want to reduce their fees there. You know, competition.
I’ve been using gpt 3, 3.5, and now 4 regularly since I got access. I have it open on a 2nd tab and I’d say I’m a power user.

I’m also using open ai api for my product.

Just telling you my experience after using this technology for at least 100 hours. Most of my focus is on software eng and while it’s convenient sometimes I’d say it’s accurate maybe 20% of the time.

Maybe I’m wrong but I fail to see this taking hold in areas that require intuition/verification. It’s great tech for sure but the more I use it I’m like meh.

I think it will be a good replacement for some entry level jobs and manual jobs like data entry or whatever. Anything that is foo foo and doesn’t require >50% accuracy. It might be good for giving you summaries or generating headlines. Again though it’s painfully obvious when something is generated by gpt 4.
Phonics were all the rage when I was learning to read. I'm sure it helped me in some way for a year or two. Then I spent five years unlearning phonics. For the most part, I learned by rote memorization of spelling lists and by figuring out words from context through a lot of individual reading. My children learned from rote memorization and from context. Every English-literate person I know learned this way. Every less-literate person I know did not learn this way.

I would like to say that English is most definitely not phonetic. But this is not really true. In any particular word, there are usually some phonetic landmarks. If there are enough of these that you can identify you can try to use them as fingerprints against your entire oral vocabulary filtered by context to identify that word. Then you rote memorize it.

As I write this I'm listening live to a British person saying things like "no-us" and "repo-uh" (I don't know phonetic symbols well enough to represent this properly). I understand these words to be "notes" and "report" in very much the same way. I pick out phonetic landmarks and filter my vocabulary by context to find words that have matching landmarks. There is an American in the conversation using words like "thanegs" which I understand to be "things" because "thanks" doesn't fit in the context.
I think the most recent rumors were amended to it having 24, unfortunately.
I'm not sure how to untangle the increasing polarization from the decaying of our social fabric and the inclusion of examples was primarily so people didn't take the points and warp them to only fit their ideology and turn them into more culture war bait + I think it's important to note that the media class on both major political sides in the US have very similar incentives to act poorly and stoke knee-jerk fear. And to demonstrate that from what I've observed a lot of educational decisions are made from very emotional places - that is one major roadblock to treating education efforts scientifically. I felt like just saying 'it's the parents, admins, and media' wouldn't necessarily get across that the obstacles are not well-thought out or nefarious but rather a result of everybody being in a heightened state of constant emotion.

Any advice? I definitely could have been less 'culture warry' about it, and you're right to call me on that. Thanks!
The Myth of Objective Data
I don't know why, people on here always seem to accuse him as being a bad interviewer. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I think he is fine / good. At least he discusses important things.
> If Meta rips off your method to apply an image filter, you better have 10 years of experience in reverse-engineering obfuscated code. Actually, don't even bother. The code runs on their servers and you will never have the opportunity to even investigate it.

That's not quite correct. You won't get to look at Meta's source code, but you will be able to have people you designate look at it for you.

Here's what happens.

1. From what you can readily see of their product and from what they've said publicly about it (documentation, press releases, presentations at trade shows, etc) you suspect that they are using your patented thing.

2. You do some reverse engineering and/or experiments to get more evidence to support or refute that.

3. If you get enough evidence to convince a patent litigation firm that they could file an infringement lawsuit for you without running afoul of Rule 11(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [1] have your patent litigation firm file such a lawsuit.

4. Your attorneys ask Meta's attorneys to provide a copy of Meta's source code. Meta does so. Typically they do so by turning it over to their attorneys and their attorneys set up a place in their offices where it can be viewed.

5. Your attorneys can go to that place and view the code. You can also hire outside experts to go look at the code and write reports to be presented as evidence at the trial.

6. Your attorneys can ask Meta to provide someone knowledgeable about the code to be deposed, where they can ask your attorneys and/or outside experts have about it.

This will work both ways. Meta's attorneys and outside experts will get to see your source code too if it is relevant to their defense or counterclaims. For example they might ask for your source to your image filter using products that were released before you filed for your patent, in order to try to show that they also used your patented methods and you failed to file the patent early enough.

BTW, patent trials are usually open to the public. It can be quite interesting because a lot of internal details from both plaintiff's and defendant's products can come out. I once spectated at a patent suit where Microsoft was a defendant, concerning some technology they used in Windows.

Plaintiff was using information from Mark Russinovich's books and articles about Windows internals. Russinovich's books were basically the Bible for third parties that needed to know Windows internals. Microsoft had engineers who actually worked on those parts of Windows testify and they specifically described several errors in Russinovich's books.

This was long after I'd worked on anything that needed to use undocumented Windows internals, but back when I'd worked for a company that made Windows system utilities and was spending half my time dealing with undocumented Windows internals the kind of information at that trial would have been a goldmine.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11
Being against exploitation is puritan?
> Porn is largely apolitical

Porn is practically the frontier of social politics.
I'm the opposite, as looking at android, where do we see this? All big players are still in the play store, because the average user of those services doesn't want to be bothered going to a website, clicking scary looking buttons to enable third party installs, then manually update their own installed apps.

Basically the risk would be someone like TikTok dropping out of the store, but I find that unlikely. Maybe at the best they will have an "unrestricted" version with bonus features outside the app store. Visibility for indie apps is basically zero on the big platforms, but for the large players, being in the app store is actually important, at least for now, as users are used to going to the app store to search for software, and not just typing something into google.

The other thing is, these apps will still be sandboxed. Being available outside the store just means they can accept their own payments, they aren't going to have full system access to photos/contacts/files/etc. without explicit user permission, same as an app available via the app store.
> if you just teach phonics you aren't actually helping kids to read (they've tried) because reading is more than just sounds

Of course, decoding isn't sufficient on its own (I can 'read' Portuguese without understanding it). But for a child who has oral fluency in a phonetic language, decoding is the main thing they need to learn, to allow them to bootstrap additional reading skills.
It's like how Kid Rock tries to project the image of a redneck shitkicker when in reality his father was a wealthy car dealership owner and he grew up in a suburban mansion. But the image sells and the fans are loyal.
These are not necessarily good examples, but most multimedia encoding is patented and widely used. Companies like Fraunhofer only exist to create these algorithms and make money licensing their patents.
From the podcast:

"Here’s what’s happening to many children in this country. They go to a “balanced literacy” school that uses Fountas and Pinnell and Lucy Calkins. They’re taught the cueing strategies. Their reading ability is measured using leveled books. If they’re struggling – and someone notices – they might get Reading Recovery in first grade, where they get cueing and leveled books. And if they’re still struggling after that, many of them get Leveled Literacy Intervention. More cueing. More leveled books.

Struggling readers keep getting more of the same.

That’s what happened to Matthew. Missy’s son. In Gwinnett County, Georgia. She and her husband ended up hiring a private tutor to help Matthew. She remembers calling the tutor.

Purcell: And she was like, “You finally arrived at the place where most of us arrive.”
She had given up on the idea that the school was going to teach her son how to read. And she’d decided she was going to have to take care of the problem herself. It’s what Corinne Adams did with her son Charlie. It’s what Lee Gaul did in New York City with his daughter Zoe. It’s what Kenni Alden in California wishes she had done with her son.

Missy says the private tutoring helped Matthew. But she felt like the balanced literacy instruction he was getting at school was undercutting what he was learning from his tutor. His tutor was teaching him how to decode words. At school he was being taught the cueing system. So last year she and her husband pulled him out of public school, and they put him in a private school for kids with dyslexia.

Matthew’s in sixth grade now. And Missy says he’s doing really well. After just one year at the private school, she says he was almost up to grade level in reading and writing.

For Missy, what’s especially painful about all this is that she had been a teacher. She advocated for Lucy Calkins and Fountas and Pinnell in her school district. She taught other teachers how to do balanced literacy with the cueing and the leveled books."
That is a _huge_ distinction, which I didn't realize. I was trying out AIVA last week and fed it a couple Lotus songs I liked as source / inspiration - it correctly identified the key and generated a "riff" that was just going up and down the major scale.
Correct, wayback has implemented remote and local archiving of various types of resources, including HTML, PDF, HAR, WARC, Readability (Markdown and Txt), and media files such as images, videos, and audio.
> covers up the words the kids are supposed to be reading with a piece of tape and tells them to guess what the word is without seeing it.

That produces kids that don't read, in the normal sense of the word; rather, they synthesize a text based on guesswork, and confidently declare that it says what it doesn't say. My daughter is a primary teacher, and has complained about this. It happens.

It seems completely barmy, to me.

Incidentally, it sounds a lot like what ChatGPT does.
Yes, the "F" definitely stands for Falcon
Multi-layer classification to generalize the detection of misleading headlines
Watched the 60 Minutes interview with Pichai last night. He’s really… unimpressive. He shouldn’t be doing MSM interviews if that’s the tenor of his performance.

Google is supposed to be a technical firebrand and their cloud isn't dominant, and their AI product and market position got punk'd by Microsoft... and he's out there saying things like AI will be a bigger discovery than fire. Which calls into question: so why isn't Google a leader in AI, or seem to be?

It's a bad PR thread for Google, and he lacked any Q factor in those interview clips.