skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, also my thought, but that is a principally different case then requiring consent from the author. That suggests that OpenAI would have downloaded pirated material, or hacked paywalls, how did they get this material?

BTW I noticed that GPT-4 is good at writing legal letters of the sort that is widely available online. But a subpoena, ('dagvaarding', the Dutch version I have researched) it completely fails to create. Also there are not many subpoenas available online, and the court (in the Netherlands) only publishes the verdicts, not the other documents. Lawyers OTOH have a lot more of this available in their libraries.

So, my impression is that there is still a lot of material out there that is not in the corpus.
> Too bad iOS makes it very hard to disable bluetooth.

Depending on whether you have the Settings icon on your Home Screen, that’s three taps (Settings -> Bluetooth -> Off). Not even any scrolling.
I hope bytedance sues so this can be debated in court
I think you mixed up Windows and Linux. Or maybe both have their share of problems. Or maybe it is, as some people here say, impossible to implement Bluetooth properly.
"Just imagine a sliced donut intersected with a cylinder"

I have trouble with linguistic reasoning and I would greatly struggle with a phrase like this, even in a context where I am sure the meaning should be obvious. Visually I can imagine hundreds of ways to slice a donut and hundreds of ways to intersect that with hundreds of cylinders. But linguistically I am slow and dumb :) and would need you to specify how you're slicing the donut and where the cylinder is going.

I have to work hard to connect verbal reasoning with non-verbal implicit information - even in simple numbers sometimes I have to carefully think "no, she said from zero, that means you start AT zero, not at one. Otherwise she would have said after zero." The verbal confusion - and psychological insecurity - can sometimes obliterate what had been a solid intuitive understanding of the problem.
Sounds like you may be asking the wrong questions. As you may be assuming the product direction is correct and uniform for your customer base - but is it? The pricing sounds ok, I just doubt you'll get useful information if you have small scale and no current users. You may confirm some people will pay, but they may be wanting to pay for different functionality to what you build. Some evidence of willingness to pay without churn data is pretty useless for improving your chance at success unfortunately. Now it does decrease your chance of building something nobody -ever- wants, but... that's not the same thing, and you should care about the former really.

In a third of the time you'd spend setting up payments and describing the idea with marketing, you should perhaps ask people about their problems, then mention your solution contextually, and then listen carefully to what they say.

Do all the responses talk about it doing what it does now? Then charge.

Do they talk about mostly one clear functionality/vision they all want? Great, charge and build.

Do the responses cover multiple ideas/functionalities? That's bad, it means you have to find a niche with a plurality of expectations, or this will never work because the expectations are too varied for a cohesive profitable offering, or tend towards integrated visions that you cannot compete with on the build power of a small team. Sometimes people don't ask for what they turn out to want (e.g. iPhone, Notion itself with great design and low stress), but this is the case for very few successful startups, and if you look carefully, they all tend to rapidly respond to feedback post-launch anyhow.

I heard this general idea from Jason Cohen - invalidating - and it's incredibly useful. This sounds like the right scenario to apply it.
Don’t hate the player hate the game.
Worse, it is the Fox News of Germany. Actively trying to create dissent and undermining democracy.
Thank you. I wanted to put this in but couldn't figure out where it would fit.

In particular, the emotional and interpersonal regulation needed to do well at these jobs sometimes borders on superhuman. People stress over office politics, like it's not child's play compared to getting through an 8-hour shift dealing with the sick and irritable public that come into Wendy's or Walgreens with zero leverage over these people who hold your employment in their hands (not even being able to pass things off to a manager, since they're likely bouncing between different stores).

And every workplace has systems and policies that have to be learned. Smart and experienced people can analogize and cut some of the learning curve, but it's still measured in days and weeks, not hours.
I'd like to highlight how some sort of aphantasia might feature psychological aspects.

Within this little experiment, I have high difficulties to visually an elephant head. But I easily see Tree Trunk character from Adventure Times. I wonder if an elephant head is a fatherly intimidating symbol I'm uneasy with. Or if I suffer Prosopagnosia rather than Aphantasia.
There was a surreal scandal recently driven by the "revelation" that the events described in a standup comic's routine were all made up.

This is of course also true of every other standup comedy routine in history, but it was only a scandal for Hasan Minhaj.

There appears to be a breed of modern people who aren't capable of understanding the concept of humor. Unfortunately for Minhaj, those people were drawn to his act as an expression of piety, which isn't what it was.
As with any other technology, difficulty is relative and a function of experience.

For me, CSS is easy even though I rarely work with it professionally (I mostly work on backend and infrastructure these days). Yes, there are scenarios where I get stumped but a vast amount of literature and helpful community gets me to places I need to be, just like many other technologies.
If they’re applying for a visa or citizenship there’s likely requirements that you must have spent X% per year in the country and not abroad, even if it’s inside the schengen zone (or similar). Asking for the exact dates of your travel outside the country is likely the best way to do that
Nice write up. At least it’s proper bricked and not “they stopped working so I will reset them” bricked. You did real good.
You forgot the /s on your post. I hope at least.
I heard it told as "it's not OpenAI, it's ClosedAF"
Ehm... 1.8" 160 x 128 color LCD

That's both a tiny & low-res screen to develop games for. Dealbreaker for me.

Also 2nd thoughts about some other items in the spec list. RP2040 at its heart is nice though.

Developer giveaway: nice. But this doesn't look like an expensive gadget anyway (RPi Pico + pcb + buttons + LCD, unless I missed something).

And: develop in JavaSc... ehm JerryScript? For a 2-core 133 MHz uC? Ok, whatever.
The house next door to me has been vacant for about five years. (It was rented when I moved in.) The owner, who has several houses in the area, comes by a couple of times a week and picks up trash; but, that's it. It's paid for and he could sell it; but, he won't. (I know he's gotten offers.)
That's me. It's less seeing, but more like recalling a memory.
>If it can be taught to a teenager in a couple of days

Most can't. Hence the frustration you are likely to feel dealing with a teenager in his or her first week on the job.
Software patents are no more of a joke than hardware patents.
My understanding is the adcopalypse happened because Google refused to share as much information with partners such as WPP and big spending customers such as Pepsi. I'm just saying as bad as things are with real time bidding, it could be much worse with a company such as Microsoft or Oracle setting industry standards.
This describes mostly what I'm experiencing. Its kind of like remembering a dream. The elephant is in a black void for me (kind of above my forehead?). And the details of what I'm imagining is like LOD in a video game.
Average iOS app build takes 30-45 minutes. You typically make 1-3 PRs a day, each of which need to be built. Let's say 3 PRs + 1 build after merging. That gives you about a week of usage every month so you'll still need dedicated build hardware or pay for their overpriced cloud.

Thanks, Apple! Now go make your build tooling cross platform so we can just run it on a linux vm like everything else, and maybe stop gouging the people who are providing value for your platform?
No search in Apple Maps when you're offline, so it's limited.
The article isn’t really about how museum items go missing - There’s only a brief mention of one curator who stole objects. That anecdote is used as a bridge to the author’s real motivation, which is arguing that museums shouldn’t hold items from other countries or cultures or locations. It’s a concept similar to “cultural appropriation” applied to the existence of museums based on their location.

The author thinks the story of a single museum staff thief undermines the entire concept of museums holding items from other countries or cultures:

> The irony here is palpable: An institution infamous for displaying looted colonial artifacts had objects stolen by a staff member.

> One of the principal justifications museums often give for denying the restitution and repatriation of cultural objects is the purported need to safeguard the material within the institutions. The recent thefts contradict this argument

I have some friends with history degrees who have spent their careers in museums and museum curation. There is a lot of consensus that museum items with obvious history such as art stolen by Nazis should be returned to right those historical wrongs. That’s not a hard argument to make.

However, some people take the argument much further like this author hints at, believing that museums need to return everything that doesn’t match the historic and cultural heritage of their location. The only items allowed to remain would be perfectly documented acquisitions that nobody could find issue with.

So dismantle the Louvre and other museums and send everything back to countries it came from, preferring to right some historical injustice over preserving history in a museum. If someone wants to see the history of that country, they’d have to go there themselves and travel to each museum (assuming it exists).

It’s not a realistic goal, which has created a stalemate where the proponents of this idea are more about discussing these injustices and making them the central issue of museums, often equating high profile cases like art stolen by Nazis as morally equivalent to a display of 1000 year old pottery fragments. It’s tiring and detracts from the real work that museum staff do.
I wish more people in tech could quit their jobs in companies that build the software and equipment used in the weapons being employed.

A lot of my colleagues in the US object to it, but are on H1 visas and can’t easily quit.
I’ve had a ton issues on Windows with Bluetooth and I know it’s not the hardware because on Linux it works fine.

My Xbox Series controller is the biggest issue. For instance will not automatically reconnect when I pair it the first time and then disconnect. On the next turn on of the controller, it never finds the PC and connects. Windows then has no push for me to press to connect.

I have to delete the controller and then repair it each time. Sometimes I can’t even delete it and have to go into RegEdit and delete it. The delete button just does nothing sometimes in that menu
Indeed, for learning arithmetic and many other areas of mathematics, being able to do calculations physically is better than (optimistically speaking) 90% of what goes as "ed tech" these days. Cuisenaire rods teach you basic counting and get things like 3+7=10 into your subconscious (or, if you have synaesthesia, also green+black=orange). The abacus, back when it was taught, made place-value and things like "to subtract 8 you subtract 10 then add 2" a physical as well as a mental operation which helps with math learning the way phonics helps with reading. Later on, of course, slide rules do the same for logarithms (as is explained in the linked PDF).

I wish we had more of this back in our classrooms.
Yes, the biggest gripe was it should be opt in but now given that is true I'm ok with location history. The sad part is that it isn't Google we are worried about anymore but rather the government. :/
> Swift is a programming language. SwiftUI is a UI framework. The programming language doesn’t dictate UX. The new Settings application doesn’t have worse UX because of its programming language.

Swift the language strongly informed SwiftUI, which in turn strongly informed the applications written in it. The path of least resistance defines the most likely implementation. If I have to go the extra mile to do something, I probably will not, so worse UX (by some metric) is a direct consequence of that constraint.
The language question is among the most important reasons of Russo-Ukrainian war. Banning books, TV channels and restricting usage of Russian language in schools was a recipe of disaster. Though banning each other's language was in hundreds of history of these two countries.
one of the reasons delivery services don't seam to care, i'd say, is that they outsource the actual delivery to poor migrants who don't have a choice but to price competitively against each other
It isn’t super clear from their announcement but they are also including support for your self hosted environment in that pricing.
What has always fascinated me about playing music in my head is that it can be background music to my inner voice, i.e. they seem to be on different channels.
I think because openai took advantage of everyone and know doesn't want anyone doing the same thing.
Rumor has it, half of them are busy sending out all those millions of unread emails I have in my inbox, about how my “career is on a roll”.
Yeah, sigh

Technically the ".NET initiative" was all about web services. But not the modern kind, it was about SOAP. And I guess also Code Access Security-- a way to run untrusted (and even remote) code securely. Ahem, "securely".

The .NET Framework, CIL, and CLI/CLR and it's initial languages, C# and VB.NET, were in support of those technologies, but ended up being the only parts with real staying power.

I am a big fan of the .NET Framework (and it's evolution in .NET Core / .NET 5)-- so many rough edges of the Java runtime concepts and Java language concepts were polished, and a lot of new innovations were introduced (proper annotations, a framework for handling code isolation, a better reflection API, real runtime generics in .NET 2.0 and more).

There's definitely things they tried to improve on that... weren't really improvements. The way "assemblies" are matched in .NET is much more sophisticated- the goal there was to try to kill DLL hell. It evolved into the Global Assembly Cache, which is sort of the Windows Registry of DLLs. Not a huge fan of those bits.

> That said, apropos .NET fitting into Windows, the work on Singularity[2] by MSR had a lasting impact

Firstly, of course C# is used quite a lot within Windows in the user space.

I worked on some open source stuff around kernel level C# that was inspired by MSR's work here-- Singularity still used a very small core written in C++ iirc, we were interested in reducing the amount of unmanaged support code as much as possible as well as replacing the unmanaged c++ bits with unmanaged c#. That work grew into SharpOS. There was also a competing project called CosmOS. Lost to time now.
Yes, but we're doing the same thing with industrialization. The US is past the stage of factories so we'll deny everyone else factories because we deem them too pollutant now.
Tons of contemporaries of Lord Elgin called him a thief; Lord Byron being the most famous.

And the result of trails are not objective truth. There's been tons of them where the outcome was considered unjust by any standard; there's even terms for this: "kangaroo court", "mismarriage of justice", "show trial", etc.

And whether Elgin was or wasn't a "thief" is actually not very important; what is important is that in any modern reasonable context it would be considered theft and that it's actually not even a hard thing to correct this historical mistake.
Only impure software uses I/O. This judge is clearly versed in the highest arts.
My favorite part is that they designed a new calendar system where the months are named starting at one (Primilis, Secundilis, etc.) but numbered starting at 0. So Primilis is month 0, Secundilis is month 1, and Decilis is month 9. This somehow feels even worse than our current system where there’s a shift of 2 in the other direction for September to December.

They also claim that this is useful when dealing with quarters despite their number of month not being divisible by 4. (Admittedly, it works on the level of weeks.)
I watched the entire Stephen Wolfram episode and that's the problem.

In several verifiable ways Stephen Wolfram is a genius that has produced great work. (Wolfram Alpha + cellular atomota).

However his communication style in his book 'A New Science' and the Lex Friedman podcast make it clear he optimises for a wow response from his audience more than concise and conclusive communication. For example his notion of 'computational irreducibility' is equivalent with the word 'reality' but sounds a lot fancier and revelatory without adding substance.

When people claim to be authorities they must be held to an extremely high standard.
Stephen Wolfram talks at length, but also has substantial accomplishment behind him.
Lex Friedman wants to be an authority but fails to demonstrate critical thinking, In previous episodes iv seen him consider how a new perspective was consistent with flat-earth beliefs.

TL:DR; Lex demonsttates little evidence of critical/scientific reasoning, but seems to believe lots of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

I wanted to hear more perspectives on this, and it seems like many people agree
Go to your browser settings and set it to open all pages in reader view by default. This removes all the crap and leaves you with legible text, images and embedded videos. Works perfectly in macos and iOS Safari. You can then whitelist on a per domain basis.

NexDNS for system wide adblock.
I'd urge you to reconsider the complexity of an acoustic piano: https://livingpianos.com/how-many-parts-are-there-in-a-piano...

Violins are quite simple though, also drums, brass.
> While ByteDance’s use of our API was minimal, we have suspended their account while we further investigate

I don't like ByteDance at all, but I hope OpenAI are aware both shady and legit companies are making some serious cash using their API.

> All API customers must adhere to our usage policies to ensure that our technology is used for good.

"For good" sounds like the philosophy of companies like Stripe and Twitch. There always is a grey area with stuff that is good for many people, but other people see as evil.
cue the arms race of automated lights then timing synchronicity of lights coming on then randomly perturbed automated lights then light detection that factors in lifestyle models, then randomly perturbed but realistic lights then... maybe eventually invasion of privacy.
I use a hand-me-down low-end shitty Samsung Android smartphone for that.

• I found some LineageOS (not very stable, but it works well for audio, which is 100% of the life reason for the device).

• Put Voice for Audiobooks,

• AntennaPod for Podcasts,

• NewPipe for downloading YouTube interviews, lectures or other primarily voice content.

• It rocks Olauncher Lite/Simple/Whatever (some no-bullshit fork, cannot recall the exact name) with three swipe actions (left, right, double-tap) for the three primary apps.

• all of that is from F-droid for sure

• the hardware has microSD card shot, I don’t know the maximum amount, but I use the 8 GB card I had lying around, and it has been quite plenty for me.

Usually, I don’t listen to music. Only while working with my computer or laptop, for focus / eliminate the noise outside. So I use the smartphone for some farm work (I own a tiny city farm) and for driving, when I’m in mood for listening to something (sometimes I just listen to nothing, when I’m low on energy).

It has a Bluetooth module and a Jack. I listened to wired headphones, but I broke the two of them that I have (Sony and Marshall). Now I have two pairs of Bluetooth headphones and I listen to them, nothing in my workflow changed.

I like this workflow very much, as you can re-create it with any Android smartphone. E.g. I have some tiny HTC (Beats branded) Android 4-something smartphone and apart from LineageOS (which isn’t necessary, it’s just me, I enjoy/prefer to not have unneeded bloatware) all the other software is available. I am not sure for Voice, as it’s quite new. But NewPipe and AntennaPod (both old versions, but still) work very well. If you have any more modern device (which would be very cheap to buy secondhand if you don’t), it’s very convenient.

I like Samsung devices for that purpose, as apart from being aesthetically ugly (I mean older devices, prior to Galaxy S9 from circa 2017), they’re quite good, usually have microSD card support and are flashable. E.g. Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4 (I have both, both physically broken, destroyed by the kids), they are very capable of the task. My current one is a low-end Samsung Galaxy Grand, something like that. But if I’d buy another one, I’d go for the Galaxy one instead.

It’s not open source, but all the models I mentioned have swappable batteries (mind-blowing!) and are cheap to repair.

That system works for me very well and I’m happy to share that with others, maybe someone would use it too.
> Many of the historic aquisitions by "collectors" were as sketchy AF in the context of the times.

This is the slippery slope that makes most of these cases hard to take seriously. Aside from obvious cases of wartime looting, a lot of the objections are just that the legal approval at the time doesn’t meet modern standards imposed anachronistically on history, or more frequently that the provenance just isn’t known to the degree expected by modern standards.

Some people, like the author of this article, want us to think that everything should be returned unless it’s perfectly documented without any possible objections. Scrap the Louvre and send all those pottery scraps and fragments back to the country they came from because we can’t be perfectly sure it’s all perfectly handled under modern standards that weren’t the historical norm.

It’s tiring. Aside from obvious cases of theft like the Benin Bronzes, the blanket argument that museums shouldn’t be allowed to hold artifacts from other locations and cultures without perfect documentation isn’t really practical.
Greece had been under Ottoman rule for about 400 years, when the marbles were taken you'd have to go back 13 generations before you get to greek owned Greece.

If you do make that 13 generation jump, the Greeks who owned it at that time period were themselves descendants of conquerors — none of the people in this story are the owners of the marbles, if we choose to tar everyone with this brush equally.

Additionally, the Ottoman empire made documentation legitimising Elgin's movements of the marbles, the fact that the original receipt is missing and they had a hearing for that is moot in light of the rest. The ottomans issued orders to the city to allow his movements and they issued notice to the docks that he'd be moving marbles out via boat.

"When they wish to take away some pieces of stone with old inscriptions and figures, no opposition be made."