skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For everyone who loves the iPod, you've been able to convert iPods to flash for years now via an adapter. Stick Rockbox on it and you have an MP3 player than can hold > 1TB of data.

It's a bummer that iPod OS can't really handle more than 50k tracks. For large collections the Rockbox UI sort of falls apart. My goal at one point was to put my SBD collection on iPods, and using the iPod OS I needed about 6 iPods. It would have been less if the iPod could handle more tracks.

Maybe I'll take a hammer to Rockbox and start beating on it.
I think it's relatively easy to prove that the main motivation for the majority of employees is not mission alignment, simply by the fact that salaries within OpenAI are in the top few percentile of the field.

I don't believe this is necessarily in conflict with the mission though. Employees are mercenaries, it's up to management/leadership to enforce the mission and make sure employees contribute to it positively. The employee becomes forcefully aligned with the mission because that is the key to their personal enrichment. They are paid to contribute, their personal beliefs are not all that important.
Look up Annie Altman.
Canada vows to triple nuclear power production by 2050
Its kind of interesting how england as they knew it then really doesn’t exist anymore today thanks to things like hong kong and brexit.
How annoyed I am by these attempts to name-squat a whole category of technology (or other things) ... "Messenger". How idiotic on one hand and how insidious on the other hand that naming is.
Just like MS "Teams".
Is there anyone outside the US that isn't locked out, or was this a US-only release? Could this possibly have to do with the sanctions on China?
My first endeavours live on at least partially thanks to the wayback machine;
https://web.archive.org/web/19961230152148/http://www.tangen...

We had a 3d mol viewer and RealAudio :)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/10/23/u-s-has-w...
I think you mean swipe. Swype was a brilliant third party keyboard app for Android which was better at text prediction and manual correction than Gboard is today. If however you really do still use Swype then please tell me how because I miss it.
One old guy in a bubble thinks says another young guy in same bubble (who he just happened to mentor) is "the most powered person he's ever met."
Some of the EVs are produced in the states now (South Carolina?). I'm not sure if any of the EVs are actually produced in Sweden, at least I can't find anything on the internet.
You think you ask your legal assistant to find some precedents related to your current case and they will come back with an A4 page full of made up cases that sound vaguely related and convincing but are not real? I don't think you understand the failure case at all.
I think the way this is phrased is weird. It should probably be rephrased as "becoming 95% percentile at a thing is not that hard". Which I might agree with. Becoming good at a lot of tasks and skills really just comes down to finding the right approach to training and then doing that training. The last 5% is much harder because that's generally filled with truly talented people that also know how to train and are diligent with it.
Microsoft is a billion dollar company, they could hire away everyone at a McDonald's restaurant and buy the location if they didn't like how it was being run. They arguably have less power over OpenAI than they do over the average startup because they could probably buy any given startup outright but they ended up with nonvoting shares in OpenAI.
Does not mention in the article whether this is specific to the Koran, but in a linked article

"The government will propose legislation that prohibits the inappropriate handling of objects with essential religious significance for a religious community", Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told a press conference.

"The proposal will thus make it punishable to, for example, in public burn a Koran, Bible or Torah," he said.
Yeah, I think "Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that question :)

I've never configured Wireguard from scratch but I have managed an OpenVPN deployment in the past. One of the most fabulous aspects of Tailscale is that it's very self-served; we configured our Tailscale account to allow email addresses from our main domain name with O365 integration. When someone wants to bring a new node online, they log in with their O365 credentials and magically new keys are assigned to the node and associated with the user who created them. In the past with the OpenVPN deployment, it would usually take me 15-30 minutes to get a new node online (generating keys, getting them handed off to the user, helping them debug, etc); now it takes me 0 minutes because the user can just generate their own keys and I can be completely hands off, while still having a nice view that I can use to revoke keys if needed.
And given that the current employee is simply watching as people shoplift, what do you imagine that more staff will do? I'll admit I don't know all the rules about carrying guns, but I know that quite a few are out there and not everyone behaves perfectly like they're supposed to - it's one of the reasons I don't yell at people in traffic, for instance. The threat is ever present.
Aside: this is not what impartial means.
Hmm, might I interest you in a video of an electric semi-truck?
This appears to be proprietary software. If you prefer Free Software, reSID also provides very good SID emulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSID
Win more users and therefore more metadata by buzzwording.
Prevailing opinion from whom? Certainly nobody who understands how commodity markets work.

This is all econ 101 level effects, and yet there have been so many articles in the past few years where writers are shocked at what is happening to the prices this week. Or even dumber ones where they project out battery production to 2030 and then compare that to the lithium market today and come to the conclusion that we will never be able to electrify because the lithium market isn't big enough.

I'm personally excited for the point a few years from now when all of the battery plants are online and they overshoot demand and the prices crater. It will be a short but glorious golden age for grid storage, EV startups, and so on until some of the companies go under and others consolidate and the prices come back up to a more sustainable level.
Is "he's not doing enough cool stuff" really the root of your dislike of Elon?
Apple more likely.
Or some other co we don't know about yet. OpenAI is going to crumble. Microsoft will be challenged for trust. We'll see what happens.
> with none of the pesky real life issues around physically building something, getting permissions, budgets, collaborating with workers, waiting for paint to dry etc.

Huh. It used to be fun for those reasons. I've gotten so burned out on coding in recent years because once the cloud became part of the stack, so did bureaucracy-- permissions, budgets, collaboration, dictation of style, opaque errors, legal review, bespoke CI/CD configurations, security-related constraints, etc.

Coding just doesn't feel empowering anymore. It's like making a sandwich and having to go petition Congress before you're allowed to eat it.

We had an incident at work that required multiple people working on a tedious task overnight; it was refreshing to just hammer out a sloppy script, write some tests, sneakernet it and see the prospect of a long night reduced to minutes.
Yeah and have you tried it? It’s as dogshit as the original Bard.
You may be right here.

However, there seems to be a decent amount of evidence that Sam has done exactly what you're talking about.

He manipulated and was "not consistently candid" with the board, he got all the OpenAI employees to support him in his power struggles, he made them afraid to stand up to him (https://x.com/tobyordoxford/status/1727631406178672993?s=20), he exhibited delusions (though I guess they were correct) of grandeur with pg with a glint in his eye making clear to pg that he wanted to take over yc, he did little things like made it seem that he was cool with Eliezer Yudkowsky with a photo op but didn't really chat with him, etc.

Again, I am not sure this perspective is necessarily right (and I may be convinced just because he's such an effective psychopath).

In any case, I think this is a pretty good explanation of this perspective: https://x.com/erikphoel/status/1731703696197599537?s=20
> The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers for decades.

Computer engineers maybe. I think the general population is quite tolerant of mistakes as long as the general value is high.

People generally assign very high value to things computers do. To test this hypothesis all you have to do is ask folks to go a few days without their computer or phone.
20-some odd years ago I added the initial bookmarking feature to Rockbox. None the MP3 players at the time targeted audiobook users so it wasn't a feature you could find on the market. With Rockbox, I just added it. Good times.
Humans are imperfect, but this comes with some benefits to make up for it.

First, we know they are imperfect. People seem to put more faith into machines, though I do sometimes see people being too trusting of other people.

Second, we have methods for measuring their imperfection. Many people develop ways to tell when someone is answering with false or unjustified confidence, at least in fields they spend significant time in. Talk to a scientist about cutting edge science and you'll get a lot of 'the data shows', 'this indicates', or 'current theories suggest'.

Third, we have methods to handle false information that causes harm. Not always perfect methods, but there are systems of remedies available when experts get things wrong, and these even include some level of judging reasonable errors from unreasonable errors. When a machine gets it wrong, who do we blame?
Gail Tverberg, author of Our Finite World, has a long track record of being incorrect. I don't think that she is a credible prognosticator.

Did she ever go back and explain why she was so wrong the first time around with predictions like these?

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2007/07/16/what-is-peak-oil/

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2007/07/16/is-this-a-false-alarm/

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2007/08/06/peak-oil-whats-ahead/

Did she make more cautious predictions going forward, after making such badly failed predictions 16 years ago? If she did, I didn't see it. It looks like Our Finite World is still a drumbeat of predictions about crises just ahead. If she's eventually correct about a specific prediction it will be a case of the stopped clock showing the correct time by chance.
A marketing trick that has, in fact, been tried: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype...
I thought it was implied and obvious that the video was edited.

So what?
I'm curious to know which of those guidelines covers this somewhat-novel situation. @-ing the mods may not officially be a thing, but I have to say whenever there is a comment starting with that handle that rises up in the comments, it gets attention right quick.
Then you may also enjoy knowing that Psyche's destination is 2 billion miles away! :)
And not just SSO, but OIDC. You don't even have to be an admin on your domain to set it up. If you have a Gmail or Office 365 e-mail address @mycorp.com, you can set up SSO for it on your tailnet in seconds. Your team members authenticating for the same domain will join your tailnet automatically.

And that's for the free and cheap tier. If you want the fancy stuff (like SAML and automatic user provisioning / filtering), they've apparently got that, too, but it's in the more expensive tiers.
I was responding to the part about nobody being able to own land.
I don't see it as a problem with most non-critical uses cases (critical being things like medical diagnoses, controlling heavy machinery or robotics, etc).

LLMs right now are most practical for generating templated text and images, which when paired with an experienced worker, can make them orders of magnitude more productive.

Oh, DALL-E created graphic images with a person with 6 fingers? How long would it have taken a pro graphic artist to come up with all the same detail but with perfect fingers? Nothing there they couldn't fix in a few minutes and then SHIP.
I use chatgpt4 for very obscure things

If I ever worried about being quoted then I’ll verify the information

otherwise I’m conversational, have taken an abstract idea into a concrete one and can build on top of it

But I’m quickly migrating over to mistral and if that starts going off the rails I get an answer from chatgpt4 instead
Potential equity packages. But hence my comment about asterisks. Maybe moving to Microsoft would be a good financial deal, maybe a bad deal, but certainly a different deal. Especially in the absence of a formal deal.
I have a masochistic interest in opening a restaurant of some sort one day and one thing I'm pretty adamant about is owning my property. I live in an area where that is feasible and obviously it's not in many areas/cities. But, seeing that rent is 3x profit on this validates my back of envelope math. I don't want to be working for a landlord that's going to be constantly upping my rent. It's obviously a bit more capital intensive but it's also an asset that can be sold if the business doesn't work out.

All the businesses I observe come and go it's usually something about how they opened a hip restaurant in a trendy neighborhood and 5-10 years later it's fully gentrified and the rent causes them to close shop. Did they make enough profit to offset the cost of the leasehold improvement investment? I'm guessing not in that short amount of time. Meanwhile, the businesses that are family owned and have been around for 50+ years have no rent expenses and can weather some ups and downs more gracefully. They also get to have a reasonable profit to live on.
So it's just faces?
They ought to, considering they acquired Red Hat a while back.
They're lying in the same way that a sign that says "free cookies" is lying when there are actually no cookies.

I think this is a different usage of the word, and we're pretty used to making the distinction, but it gets confusing with LLMs.
too little, too late. my impression is that google is not one, but two steps behind what MS can offer (they need a larger leap if they want to get ahead)
Maybe I'm just of a different vintage but I'm just not a fan of these e-mail newsleters that seem to be the trend these days. I'd much rather follow a Github repo for this sort of thing.
> Eating out isn't uncomfortable

That really depends on your personality. Not only is "people watching" not my thing, but the idea of other people "people watching" me is terrifyingly uncomfortable. Sends shivers down my spine level of discomfort. Please don't watch me while I eat. Some of us find the idea of "making small talk" with anyone, let alone wait staff, to be inherently uncomfortable.

For others, eating is a social activity, or an opportunity to socialize, and they like that. Some people feel "trapped" if they are cooped up inside their homes for too long, and need reasons to "get out of the house." That sounds like you, and that's great. Nothing wrong with it at all and you should enjoy eating out as much as you like. For others such as myself, who are introverted and find great comfort in the solitude of our homes, the reasons that you find eating out to be comfortable are the same reasons we find eating out to be uncomfortable.
> How does crap like this get published?

That is easy to answer: BI belongs to the infamous German media conglomerate Axel Springer [1], hosting one of Europe's most vile, disgusting and scandal-ridden [2][3] tabloids called "BILD" and its barely veiled sister publication "WELT".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Insider

[2] https://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/70-jahre-bild-zeitung-zwische...

[3] https://de.statista.com/infografik/2588/publikationen-mit-de...
The speculation seems to be that Sam was being duplicitous and trying to oust a board member he didn't like. Members of the board compared notes and realized he had misrepresented his conversations with other members in an attempt to build concensus. Throw in the rapid expansion of OpenAI (commercialization being in conflict with the board's vague mandate to do what's best for humanity) and the rumored (now confirmed) deal he was arranging with a company that he had a financial stake in, and they felt like they needed to remove him.

However, by trying to do so swiftly and not allowing him a chance to retaliate they pissed off Microsoft and the employees. At that point, they were basically forced to reinstate him or the entire company would collapse — and if they do that, they can't also go on record clarifying why he's bad.

* this is my vague recollection based on reading past discussions. I'm on my phone right now and unfortunately don't have any sources I can link, take this with a grain of salt.

Edit: a few links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548404
They did some guidelines on that recently.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

But yeah, Nintendo is very concerned about diluting their brand and their trademarks, as well as keeping things family friendly.
They should make that more obvious and clear.

And not make me make the choice while trying a totally new product.

They never asked when I log into Facebook. Never asked when I log into Instagram. About to try a demo of a new product doesn't seem like the right time to ask me about an account logistics question for a device I haven't used for a year.

Also, that concept makes sense for sure. But I had clicked log in with Instagram. Then facebook.
If I wanted something separate for this demo, I'd have clicked email.
Yeah it's called a rare earth mineral because the concentration in ore is so low not because there's little of it in total.

It does unfortunately mean that you need to excavate a lot to mine it which is not great for the environment either (even though lithium is currently key to most renewable technologies)
> I don't see all the millions of very, very bad games killing the PC or mobile platforms.

The costs to produce cartridges are orders of magnitude higher than digital distribution. Retail storefronts are also limited in ways digital stores are not.

> The C64 survived many years even if you probably have to wade through over 100 really bad games for each good game on that platform.

The C64 was a home computer that encouraged user programming and development. The Atari 2600 was marketed as an entertainment device for consuming content. If the content is no good, the C64 can still get by but the 2600 loses its purpose.

> But the Atari 2600 somehow was destroyed because it was not sufficiently locked down?

The NES locking out unapproved developers was really more about having the PR to say "Nintendo blessed this game" than trying to avoid another crash (which I don't think Nintendo at home cared about when developing the Famicom, as Japan never had a corresponding gaming crash). And of course profit. Nintendo does care about that.

Gaming was new enough in the 70s that in the minds of many it could have just been another fad, and the Atari crash helped "prove" that theory out. So there wasn't a big movement or anything to "save gaming" - as far as normal Americans were concerned, video games were just another pet rock and kids were going to glom onto something else soon enough. Psychologically, it made the medium "easy to abandon."

Then Nintendo came and saved American gaming from itself, and the rest is history.
Fun game! Wouldn't want the job!
Loads fast here on Orion RC and gets full marks on performance with the google.

I still use his https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/#:::hex on localhost.
If a broken tool is useful, do you not use it because it is broken ?

Overpowered LLMs like GPT-4 are both broken (according to how you are defining it) and useful -- they're just not the idealized version of the tool.
It's not micro management, it's a major point. Again, it looks like the consensus is that Tesla must accept a collective agreement (content to be left to the parties to negotiate). So why is that not mandated? IMHO, you can't be outraged that Tesla is refusing, or at least trying not to have one, when the law effectively says that they don't have to.

The level of reactions against Tesla does not make the system look 'nicer' than others: Maybe effective but actually quite brutal.
> It feels very similar to my compulsion to pick up litter. While hiking, walking the dog, etc. I. Just. Can't. Stand. Seeing. Trash. Every. Where. It really takes me out of my happy place. I'm just so much more relaxed, resolved when litter (or bugs) are gone.

Be glad you don't have compulsive hoarding tendencies.

When I spend too much time playing Pokemon, Red Dead Redemption or Metal Gear V, I find myself planning to capture every animal, pick every flower and steal every shipping container I come across.
I mentioned three different directions, it's not surprising I've missed one.
That's how good dithering works, but adding random noise is still dithering.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gerbrant/Dithering_a...
IP55. Nope. I'd kill that in 30 seconds. My phone case looks like a fish bowl on some days.
I had the same thought. If a were constant I believe the solution would just be a convolution of b_t with an exponential filter. I think this is different because a_t depends on time, so it's equivalent to convolving b_t with a filter whose timescale changes at every timestep, which doesn't seem like something that's obviously parallelizable with FT.
The author (Paul Oyer, Yale MBA) also has some entertaining videos, and a book, on the economics of online dating.
I am super impressed by this. I can understand getting blocked once by mistake or whatever. Getting blocked repeatedly. That takes some doing. How could you possibly not know why they keep blocking you? Are you just naturally nefarious? So much so that your mere presence screams out in the ether?

Are you hosting a tor exit node? Even that shouldn’t be enough. Are you part of a botnet? I mean if you were controlling a botnet you wouldn’t get blocked. You’d have to be skating that fine line of mostly innocent but also bad.
We do not have broad-spectrum anti-cancer therapeutics, much less ones which are based on self-reproducing communicable organisms that target the cancer's DNA.

If I'm wrong, what are you thinking of?
This is useful. I've been part of a team implementing webhooks in the past and there are a lot of difficult details you need to get right - things like responsible retries, authentication, thin-vs-fat hooks and server-side request forgery.

This document covered all of them. Here's the SSRF bit for example: https://github.com/standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks/blob/...
Happy to be wrong there if those individuals who initiate the suit get a large return on it. I haven't heard of any major payouts there but honestly I don't know the last time I only saw the total suit amount or the tiny settlement amount I was offered, could definitely be a blind spot on my end.
Love seeing non-rails ruby stuff. This project looks cool...In general I think most people should avoid lambdas except for very specific types of workloads, but I hope projects like this allow ruby/rails devs to feel a bit more comfortable building lambda functions when they do need one.
I’m sure the nuclear physicists 100 years ago assumed the same about our fission energy output by today.
To be fair, there are a lot of devs for whom compensation is the only thing that really matters -- they are overrepresented here on HN, even. It would be pretty easy to assume that's the majority point of view.

It also may be that's exactly the sort of person that Microsoft prefers, too, but I don't know.