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by skybrian 3mo ago
One reason is that they might not have scraped it themselves, so if there was a ToS, it was someone else who broke it. For example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_(dataset) Another reason is that if you ca
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Maybe, but it's not like their AI is likely to repeat it back verbatim so it's unlikely to be a copyright violation. It seems like at most, they would be breaking Anthropic's terms of service? Or maybe they're going thro
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Some unexpected behavior: I reloaded the page, double-tapped on the first slide to go back to it, then hit slideshow. Instead of starting out on the slide like I chose, it went to a slide further in othe presentation. I think it’s a bit too
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Also, viewing slides on a tablet, I don’t see a way to open speaker notes since I can’t “press the S key.” These instructions should probably be different if you’re not on desktop. Maybe display speaker notes by default if the screen is in
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by skybrian 3mo ago
This is very neat! For people clicking on a link to some slides that someone shared, it seems like starting out in viewing mode with a prominent edit button might be better than starting out in edit mode?
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by skybrian 3mo ago
> Presence powers OpenAI’s English-language phone support channel at 1-888-GPT‑0090 That’s the first I’ve heard of it. Has anyone tried it?
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Maybe they don’t have a lot of in-house expertise and they would rather outsource? It will depend on whether they trust OpenAI to do a good job versus some other vendor versus doing it in-house.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Copying / syncing passkeys between password managers is still work in progress, but you can usually work around it by making multiple keys. For important websites, I recommend saving additional passkeys to Keychain, etc, as backup, ass
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by skybrian 3mo ago
The article is about the best you could theoretically do with a perfect router. The takeaway is that trying to build a good router is worth doing. But it's unlikely to be a perfect router.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
The 404s mean that somebody or something checked if the post at the URL existed, and got a clear answer. Seems like it's good that they checked, at least. You won't see any evidence of the ones who don't check. Also, I imagin
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Yes, both rich and poor people will use Google's free services. It's sort of like how a can of Coke is the same no matter who you are. But also, Google sells plenty of "premium" products to people who are willing to pay,
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Vague asks like this are empty. Do you have anything specific that you want to advocate for? Favorite charities?
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I think you’re right about practicality. Seems like nonstandard models of arithmetic suggest that there are things we cannot know about all natural numbers, because some of them (nearly all of them) are “too high to work with.” They are t
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by skybrian 3mo ago
That sounds more monolithic than modular, but I guess some projects don’t decompose easily? Or maybe they do, but getting there is the goal.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
It’s too soon to say if it’s good for humanity; that might be overly optimistic. Commodity markets aren’t always good (for example, arms or drug markets). Will LLM’s turn out like one of those? There are people I respect arguing in favor of
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by skybrian 3mo ago
That seems quite different from my design process. I write a plan.md that goes through multiple revisions. The plan is the memory. Restarting and reading the plan again to do another review is a good way to get a different perspective.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I think this is because they're having trouble with capacity planning. They plan conservatively, and they have extra capacity that's going unused. But they don't want to commit to anything, in case usage spikes.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I'm skeptical that posting on social networks will accomplish what you're hoping for. I've been fairly actively commenting on Hacker News for over 15 years and haven't met anyone this way. This is just recreational typin
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by skybrian 3mo ago
How do you know that's the ulterior motive? Anything more than vibes? There are a lot of different people in different countries pushing for age verification and I imagine they wouldn't all have the same motives.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I think a reasonable way to divide up responsibilities would be identify child-locked devices, not people. It should be trivial for a website to identify a device with a child lock turned on. Then it's up to parents to make sure their
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by skybrian 3mo ago
It sounds like charities will be getting a lot of unsalable clothing to go through. Maybe they could charge businesses for taking it? It seems rather similar to what Ross Clothing does.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I wouldn’t call it “low hanging fruit” but it’s easy to think of problems that seem harder. Apparently solving notable math conjectures is easier than building a practical robot to deliver a package to someone’s porch? So, yes, AI is a big
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by skybrian 3mo ago
This apparently required a 10-page prompt. It seems like someone needs to know enough to write it?
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by skybrian 3mo ago
I imagine they built it mostly for themselves, but open sourcing it is a nice gesture.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
An OpenAI subscription seems like a decent alternative for people using open source coding agents. It has usage limits too, but for $20/month it’s not bad.
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Modern concrete has steel rebar, which is very useful, but eventually corrodes. Stainless steel rebar could be used if longevity mattered, but usually it doesn’t because the building will likely become functionally obsolete and need replaci
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by skybrian 3mo ago
The article is a bit confusing because they also write: > Regardless of which process had the bug—the compiler or compiled program—in both cases the processor only did the bad thing because the compiler told it to. And in both cases the
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by skybrian 3mo ago
Opportunity cost arguments are more convincing when there’s some specific opportunity that you’re comparing against. Otherwise, it’s sort of like saying that people will find a job doing something else, without any thought to what that some
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by skybrian 3mo ago
They are saying that running the compiled code is memory-unsafe when there is a compiler bug, and that’s what developers do next. The memory corruption happens in a different process. In this respect, effectively all the compiler should b
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by skybrian 3mo ago
“That can do anything” gives me Zombo.com vibes. I would be more interested if it seemed to do particular things well.

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