skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I honestly don't understand how delusional you have to be to think OpenAI wanted this to happen.

(1) I've become tired of the "I honestly don't understand" prefix. Is the person saying it genuinely hoping to be shown better ways of understanding? Maybe, maybe not, but I'll err on the side of charitability.

(2) So, if the commenter above is reading this: please try to take all of this constructively. There are often opportunities to recalibrate one's thinking and/or write more precisely. This is not a veiled insult; I'm quite sincere. I'm also hoping the human ego won't be in the way, which is a risky gamble.

(3) Why is the commenter so sure the other person is delusional? Whatever one thinks about the underlying claim, one would be wise to admit one's own fallibility and thus uncertainty.

(4) If the commenter was genuinely curious why someone else thought something, it would be better to not presuppose they are "delusional". Doing that makes it very hard to curious and impairs a sincere effort to understand (rather than dismiss).

(5) It is muddled thinking to lump the intentions of all of "OpenAI" into one claimed agent with clear intentions. This just isn't how organizations work.

(6) (continuing from (5)...) this isn't even how individuals work. Virtually all people harbor an inconsistent mess of intentions that vary over time. You might think this is hair-splitting, but if you want to _predict_ why people do specific irrational things, you'll find this level of detail is required. Assuming a perfect utility function run by a perfect optimizer is wishful thinking and doesn't match the experimental evidence.
"I created animations. I gotta use them somewhere"
Even startpage.com shows no results
Personal AI Assistants and Privacy
Blogspam hate has a higher quality than the advertising Microsoft shows on their Edge startpage. Sometimes trashy things deserve trashy criticism.
Architect: you know, I just feel like there should be a way to solve this in a proper way

Engineer (thinking): (No, you idiot, there isn't, because it's broken! I told you, all options have been tried, and this was the least painful way of doing it. Yes, it's not the ideal solution, but there's no other way, unless the upstream vendor decides to fix the issue on their end!)

Engineer: thanks, I'll look into it :)
Is there an explanation about how "best" is ranked over time? Is this for the last day or week? Most of the links are within the range of two days.
> People expect an AI to both interpret fuzzy inputs and give definitive answers out.

Couldn't put it better myself.
I concur on Kagi. Now when I go to other search engines I just get frustrated.
The Reddit post in question, with more people confirming the search.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/comment/c8t7b...
A Microsoft outage is the source of this problem:

A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.

Microsoft outage started at approximately 3 AM EDT and seems to have primarily affected users in Asia and Europe.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ou...
Your salary is not leverage..
What is happening is that every government on the planet is forced to procure local DC compute capacity to protect national sovereignty. The US ensured this with SWIFT deplatforming Russia.

And there is nobody else they can buy from on their timelines.
The Midler case is someone that sounded far closer to Midler in an ad that was drawing multiple parallels to Midler.

If it is distinguishable to be a different person, courts have ruled that it's fine, see https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/435...
Too little, far too late.
Whats up with the 'surprised' comments about ddg? I don't like ddg myself, but it has never been a secret that they base their results on bing.
Meanwhile…

https://1password.community/discussion/139342/how-much-of-me...

I’m going to assume that BitWarden etc. are also similarly well protected.
You can set it to run on startup or as a service so it updates the index in the background.
Hopefully this will make invasion much more costly, so smaller countries will have more chances to survive their imperialists neighbors. Sure the criminals can level your city but they need toe eventually move their troops in to pillage the resources and then you can make them pay. Only downside is with countries that can afford to lose 1000+ men a day for years, it will cost them and you a lot.

Anyone knows if in China such men loses are acceptable for the population.
Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia
> Luna Display is wonderful

Why should I pay $X per year just to have a second display?

I want a product, not a service.
Ford commissioned a cover of a 1958 song[1] using a singer that would clearly be mistaken for Bette Midler's existing cover of that song, as part of an advertisement campaign where they first tried to get the rights to the original songs.

If you listen to the imitation version linked from that Wikipedia article and the original 1958 you'll hear that they didn't only find a singer that sounded like her, but copied the music and cadence from Bette's version.

I think that's way past what whatever OpenAI did in this case. It would be analogous if they were publishing something that only regurgitated lines Scarlett Johansson is famous for having said in her movies.

But they're not doing that, they just found a person who sounds like Scarlett Johansson.

This would only be analogous to the Ford case if the cover artist in that case was forbidden from releasing any music, including original works, because her singing voice could be confused with Bette Midler's.

Now, would they have done this if Scarlett Johansson wasn't famous? No, but we also wouldn't have had a hundred grunge bands with singers playing up their resemblance to Kurt Cobain if Nirvana had never existed.

So wherever this case lands (likely in a boring private settlement) it's clearly in more of a gray area than the Ford case.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Want_to_Dance
in the limit the distinction between something that is learned and something that is programmed genetically is somewhat a matter of definitions. if a species genes makes it so they create a complex social web that teaches all its individuals certain skills, is that genetically programmed or not?

free will wouldn't even change that, since it's presumably also given by our genes.
Yes. OpenAI will only attract sub-par employees. And even if it’s not OpenAI, you simply raise your offered salary and suddenly the subpar employees vanish.
Headline presents a premise that represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the law. You don’t have to actually use the person in question to be found liable for what OpenAI is accused of doing.

Famous case here is Back to the Furure Part II where the producers hired another actor and used prosthetics to look like Crispin Glover. Crispin isn’t actually in the move but people thought he was because they used tech to make it look like it was him.

Sam tweeting “Her” is sort of the smoking gun here in showing it was their intention to make people think it was the same voice. Whether or not it actually was doesn’t matter per precedent in the law. What matters is that they tried to make people think it was Johansson. Sam’s tweet handed OpenAI’s lawyers a dumpster fire.
> It's valuable because it's Scarlet Johansson's voice.

I think demonstrating that this is a substantial part of the attraction of OpenAI's tech will be difficult.
If she were not the voice actress in the smash hit movie that their product is directly inspired by, then this would be a great point!
> The article misses the point of learning, confusing it with "education."

They really don't. The book in question is specifically titled "A case against education", and it's not an anti-learning book. It's a case against the education system specifically, because he argues that the system isn't really about learning (and the things it is about cause large negative externalities).
People have been maimed by sloths under the false assumption that, because it moves slowly, it isn’t dangerous. The animal is actually quite strong and can defend itself with the claws.

In Brazil you can visit caves featuring scars on the rock from the pre-historic giant sloth’s claws. This funny animal descends from that!

https://oglobo-globo-com.translate.goog/google/amp/brasil/no...
Indeed, it seems that my eyes are trained to ignore footers.
Came here to praise Kagi (and Brave Search) as well.
to me it feels like people are waking up to the fact that with current access to sw/hw, you can now make your own search engine and answering tool based on the data you own.
I do not understand the downvotes. I watched a half-meter-wide snapping turtle spend all day trundling its way to the water this spring. It looked like one of those world war 1 tanks.

Of course, it had the armor of a tank and a 20 cm neck with a bolt cutter for a mouth.
Wow. A system utility that reads the Windows MFT is about the last thing (after system drivers maybe) that I would expect to work under an emulator on Android.
the best they could do, with the full resources of OpenAI, is get some second hand quotes from a supposed agent to the supposed actress

strange, no?
It's kind of surprising the most popular(?) web framework uses a weird/obscure db

I have no doubt that XTDB is good, it is just surprising as a first choice and is not going to be easy to get up and running compared to the conventional alternatives

(Is there even a hosted offering for XTDB? I like that it's open source but seems that you will have to grapple with all this stuff including a Kafka cluster https://docs.xtdb.com/guides/starting-with-aws.html)
That would be interesting. Right now looks like it's ranking them based on points.
you are doing some heavy mental gymnastics right now. What he did was a crime, reward or not, and he should be old enough to understand why that was immoral and possible consequences of it.

aren't you affiliated with him somehow?
I'm most worried about bad precedent being set, yes. I'm far more likely to go into voice acting and be negatively affected by these kinds of things, than for it to be something I need for my likeness protection.
You just plug the Surface into the 27" screen. ;)
Same way everyone makes friends.

Homeschooling doesn't mean locking your kids in the house, unless that's the reason you homeschool (and some parents do, usually for religious reasons). Our kids went to sports activities, all kinds of classes, music lessons, activities, group trips to the park, etc. Depending on where you live you will find groups of other homeschooling parents. In some states homeschooled kids can participate in at least some school activities, such as sports. For older children community colleges and universities may have programs. There's plenty to do, and many ways for kids to make friends.

If you live in a rural or remote place that will be harder, of course, but that would affect your kids regardless. We moved to a place (suburban Portland) where we would have neighbors with kids, in a state that has liberal laws regarding homeschooling. People move for jobs and careers all the time, why not move to raise kids in a better environment?
This is what Ticketmaster did. Up until a few years ago, and it’s probably still the case, they heart of their reservation system was written for the VAX in the 70’s. When they had to make the hardware/OS switch, rather than port, the went to an emulator.

Edit: spelling
There are several different xterms. As in, really different with totally different Fkeys and arrows and colors etc, even while still being largely vt-like, but they all call themself the same TERM=xterm by default.

xterm is not a standard.
Interesting. But paywalled.
Brave is genuinely impressive here in having their own index (granted, that’s the result of an acquisition rather than their own volition).
Yeah I saw this too. DDG was down, so I searched (on Wikipedia!) for another search engine. Tried Qwant for the first time, and it's also down.
Did you deliberately miss the parts about "insufficient security measures", "preventable" etc.?
Any good (preferably open) WinDirStat alternatives for Android?
Is there any possibility that the latest Windows 11 update which is going out to "Insiders" now could be massively increasing the load on CoPilot / Bing infrastructure?
Kagi is indie & works just fine, because it doesn't leverage either Google or Bing. IMO it works as well as Google used to, back when it didn't serve up SEO-tuned garbage or straight-up malware sites in its first pages.

https://kagi.com
> only one sounds impossibly 2020s valley girl chipper and eager to please.

I immediately thought "grade school teacher", although I was listening to the clip where she was telling a story.
I have an idea: let's try and see - although I know it's against any current business teaching. Seems easier to assume the employees are whiners, especially from a position where the hourly rate is at least an order of magnitude higher. But I digress: of course the first question will be, who's trying first this novel approach? My favorite example is the comparison with Denmark, where the hourly wage of the mac worker is more than double yet the big mac price is pretty much the same. Who would have guessed...
Google tried to remove Engineering Managers and decided they were a net positive

(https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-man...)

I am an Engineering Manager/Director and my life is quite hectic and not because of busywork. You work with some very brilliant people, but they often fail in conflict resolution. Even if you don't have EMs, you still have upper management and more often then not they're out of touch, here the EM acts as a translation layer that understands both the business and the tech enough to balance these tensions well to make sure the team works well while delivering value for the company. Sometimes you need to deal with other teams with their own agendas.

In essence - if things go well, there's less need for an EM. I had a well running team last year, so much so that my life was quite calm. Then the leadership forced product domain and technology change on us and we lost our tech lead. Even if 90 % of the team stayed the same the dynamics were completely new and I had to help the team navigate an uncertain environment. Things went to normal and suddenly we became responsible for the core of a cross-team project and I am busy pushing against leadership, getting other teams to commit to take the burden off of our core team and other much needed activites. My tech lead couldn't do that while also designing the tech solution so in a way I am helping them do better work.
This claim relies on an pedantic definition of "causes". The biggest direct cause of global warming is water vapor. However, the main thing affecting water vapor concentration is other greenhouse gases. Therefore the root cause is other greenhouse gases, the most important of which is CO2. Water vapor simply acts as a multiplier to the effect of these other gases.
That might suggest that we have sinister copyright law. Aside from that I am pretty sure that this feature will threaten to violate a full battalion of privacy laws.
do you have children or worked with babies? they suck anything they can fit in mouth. The reflex of sucking is wired, yes, but not the object
It is also a great way to get poor. Every lottery winner bought a lottery ticket, after all.
An interesting read, which led me to lookup Kilbride in CA, and found it's even highlighted on Google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place//@43.4246699,-79.9457692,1...
I’ll admit that my cynicism is in overdrive but I wonder if OpenAI deliberately provoked this. Or at least didn’t mind it as an outcome.

More and more you see legal action as a form of publicity (people filing frivolous lawsuits etc), a lawsuit like this would help keep OpenAI looking like an underdog startup being crushed by the rich and powerful rather than the billion dollar entity it actually is.
>The basic issue is that, say, 8 year old hardware is still pretty functional in a lot of cases but that’s probably near the support limit of even fairly long-term OS and app support

I's partly a consequence of forcing people to install so much software on these devices in the first place. Netflix is absolutely fine in the browser, as are 90% of all other apps. No need to create dependencies on a local OS, its oppressive rules and update cycles.

I get the advantages of native apps on PC and Mac, especially open source apps, because it really gives you more control over the software you run. But on mobile, especially on iOS, you have no control anyway.
Unorthodox.
> I had years of 5¢ tacos.

You are the epitome of truly living más.
Vim, tmux and fzf

These three tools completely changed how I think about development
Oh goodness. I didn’t say that I could outperform 100,000 people. I said there are tasks where 100,000 people can’t make 100,000 times the result. Maybe an example would help?

When Bill Gates wants to have pizza for dinner, 100,000 people can’t deliver it in a fraction of a second. HA! Now, having typed that, I’m thinking of Bill Gates having… let’s say 1,000 chefs, who each night cook 1,000 meals, all so that there is a high probability that whatever he asks for will be ready the moment he asks for it.

To your point, of course there are tasks where 100k people can make a difference. But again, I didn’t say that wasn’t true.

I’m not sure why you think I can’t have billionaires over to my house? I’m pretty sure Warren Buffett has had Bill Gates over to his house, and Warren Buffett’s house is (comparatively) extremely modest.

Finally, of course I understand that my value system is unique. So is everyone’s. How does that change the fact that for the vast majority of people, if you ask them how well their smart phone works for them, they will not reply, “Well, my phone is okay I guess, but have you seen Bill Gates’s phone? That thing is amazing!”
It's the same that happened to google search: the cultural "market" is imploding into himself. It was somewhat manageable when creating crap necessited people, but now that AI can churn at speed never seen before, it's just a matter of time for creation to be devaluated. It's the first risk of AI before the other, and I'm wondering if it can be fixed and if it will be fixed.
In my own time as a high school student, I would come up with alternative solutions all the time. I'd always get full marks, though sometimes I'd have to explain it to the teacher afterwards.

Recently, I did the same test as my daughter did, who is now in high school. It was a bet kind of thing. So anyway, after doing the exam, I figured I'd have 9 out of 10 marks. I though t I'd lose some marks for some clumsy arithmetic, but it went pretty well (I thought).

So my daughter then grades my test and carefully explains that maybe I might just have a passing grade (6 out of 10). Ok. whatever. That can't be right. So she takes my test to the teacher to have her grade it as well. The teacher's verdict: clearly, easily, a failing grade. Maybe 4 out of 10 marks.

Turns out getting the right answer in a clever way counts for nothing. What you are being tested on is: can you reproduce the algorithm we are teaching you in school. As I solved most of the problems in a different manner, I consequently got almost none of the marks. I suppose, that if you know and accept this, then you can accept the result as well.

It's disappointing I guess, but certainly it makes math more accessible. I suppose there are pros and cons.

Your son wasn't tested on cleverly getting the right answer. The test was: can you reproduce this algorithm. He couldn't.
It's been many hours now. They could have at least added a page saying "We are having an outage" rather than "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again."
That whole first paragraph elicited a nearly irreversible eyeroll.
With how aggressively Anthropic is crawling the internet right now, they might not be far behind. They’re hitting some web properties I oversee at 50 RPS in some cases and it’s frustrating.
Ask HN: Discuss ADHD and your use of medication
I have a feeling I have developed late-onset ADHD as an adult due to recent/past events and I would like to hear from other founders/engineering people who have similar stories and how they overcame their situation and what medication or other treatment has helped.
I have a much heftier Mac than any surface :)
Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum
Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers
Tbh I've been rather impressed about how much of DDG has continued to work while all their results are down - e.g. all bangs continue to work fine.
Willow Sideloading Protocol
> Except it doesn't sound like Johansson, I don't know why people keep saying this.

Would you ever say “except strawberries aren’t tasty, I don’t know why people keep saying this”?

Maybe it doesn’t sound like Johansson to you, but it does sound like her to a lot of people. Worse, evidence points to Altman wanting you to make that connection. It’s trying to sound like her performance in one specific movie.
Same for Startpage.

Using Kagi now
truly amazing times: Excel gets regex support (search-in-selected-cells is not available though, as well as search by regex)
Microsoft surely wasn’t too worried about the cost.
fight that training and you may discover all sorts of previously hidden, interesting details.
Corporations are forcing Americans to pay more for less – in their own words
This is the initial script chatgpt is fed before interacting to users.
I've been saying this for days, and I'm pretty firmly in the OpenAI critic camp.

The only reason people think it sounds like her is because they've biased themselves into it because of all the context surrounding it.
Same for Startpage
What is the angle here? They tell people that it's Scarlett Johansson responding to them instead of a computer? To what end? I just don't get it. And I think anyone who confuses a computer program for a real person has bigger problems than being potentially defrauded by OpenAI.

And people have been making computers sound like humans without anyone suggesting that it's some attempt at fraud for very long.
Sounds more plausible that someone pointed out to them internally they could be in a heap of trouble if Scarlett objected after they released it. It doesn’t matter if it was actually her voice or not it matters if people think it was her voice. If someone pointed this out late in the process than yeah there would have been a mad scramble to get Scarlett to sign off. When she didn’t then that put them in a bad spot.
Exactly. Etsy is still great if you explicitly know what you're looking for, in the case of bespoke jewelry or art, and/or if you explicitly know the artist.

As a discovery tool, it's worse than anywhere else.
Not Too Wet to Burn
why does everyone parrot musk, what he says may not be the real reason for things.

> I guess Elon is just hell bent on making it work with a bunch of cameras, because that's the closest to what humans have.

a smarter guess is, he doesn't want expensive lidar systems in his cars so Tesla can make more money. Stop taking Musk's words at face value
Homeschooling generally requires at least one parent not working out of the home, or both parents working from home, or juggling schedules. Unfortunately homeschooling is a realistic option only for more affluent families. When we did it with three kids, in Portland, OR, we got together with other homeschooling parents and they ranged from well off to struggling with the cost of sacrificing some income.

As a parent I can appreciate the importance of daycare, but for me the few years of foregone income in return for raising my own children was worth it. We decided to make it work because our kids were more important than our careers or making more money. I won't say it's easy, or that anyone who makes other choices is damaging their children -- every family has unique circumstances and goals.