skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US policy in this area, for instance, is being significantly influenced by the fact that there are protests at major universities

I'm sorry, but no. These protests have only reached salience in the news because of overreaction from a few university presidents who sent in the police to (in the event) violently break up the protest. I assert there is no influence on the policy being done by these protests. The general stance by the administration has remained the same--the Biden administration remains firmly pro-Israel--and to the extent that it's changed, it's been prompted by frustration with the continued inability of the current Israeli government to actually listen to the administration's points about "what the hell is your day-after plan?"

> in support of Hamas, and elected politicians who are advocating the same thing. (And by that I mean explicitly supporting the Hamas objective of destroying Israel.)

I'm not going to deny that there are people among the protestors who support Hamas and maybe even want to see Israel cease to exist. But it's definitely far from the majority of the protestors, and I've never actually seen any statement by anybody involved that would place them in that category.

The thing is, there's this persistent tendency I've seen where people try to twist any criticism of Israel or its government into support for Israel's nonexistence. No major world power today has disestablishment of Israel a policy goal, nor is any of them close to having that policy. But I do worry that if Israel continues on this path, then it may in a few decades' time become a murderous genocidal state... and that very well could have the superpowers pushing for Israel's destruction.

Even though Israel is unarguably the state that faces the greatest existential threat, it's policies can still be (and indeed probably are) counterproductive to combating that.
SJ doesn’t have a monopoly on the sultry giggly flirty American female voice. There are a million women who could imitate this pretty closely
Dumb question: why can't I just insert a bunch of rows with a timestamp column and indices? Where does that fall short? At a certain # of rows or something?

What does this let me do that can't be achieved with "regular PostgreSQL without the extension"?
it seems to me like we're missing an opportunity to give these people a victim-free outlet for their urges.

i'm not really educated on what treatment looks like for these people, and harms to society from AI CSAM should obviously be considered too.

but some kind of "prescription" or otherwise regulated generation of these images should at least be considered, i think.
what's missing here: QLC bit is not 4-nery, it's 4 bit per bit. 2^4 = 16, so it's actually 16LC. That's contradictory to the name "quad level cell", yes, for some reason.
The theorety is that if he got enough legal ammo (and a judgement asserting that Wright is Satoshi would be part of that) he'd be able to force most/all Bitcoin Core devs to push for this change. My understanding is that his legal harassment of Bitcoin Core devs was part of this plan.

Of course in reality it would just lead to a hard fork and sow mayhem in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
That would make the Israeli court system “unwilling” to apply international law.
An absolutely wild video from the time about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=821R0lGUL6A

If you've never seen "Your Job In Germany", bookmark and it and make sure you do at some point. It is pretty unreal.

Of course, the counterpoint here is: the reason we worried about German terrorism but didn't see it is because we trained our forces with videos like this, and we were the nice guys about it compared to the Soviets.
Yeah, when I read Trevor's post, I saw assumptions that aren't that of a stretch and some science facts. I also totally forgot about his first post and this one.

From how I saw, libel cases go in California as an innocent observer - nearly impossible to prove. Which makes me think Trevor hit Aaron's nerve. That makes me shy away from Lumina because that is some thin skin from the CEO.

Also, I've only ever heard such threats from people that aren't going to sue and only seen courtrooms in Suits.

At least in California, Lumina would have to prove every claim as false (probably not a good for business...) and then, moreover, prove that Trevor was acting in malice.

Defamation cases deal with fact, not opinions, and IMO the first post was full of opinions and scientific facts. (yeah yeah, saying "I think" before a statement doesn't turn it into an opinion, IMO not the case)
Johansson has money to hire lawyers and immediate access to media, so they backed off.

Altman and OpenAI will walk over everyone here without any difficulty if they decide to take whats ours.
I’m not talking about trick question interviews when I say verification. I mean a chat with an experienced developer about past projects and verifying past job history.

You’re right that it’s already possible in the US. It boggles my mind how risk averse companies are with respect to hiring compared to nearly every other aspect of business.
You had me at "wow thats not cheap at all" and then lost me at 2009-2012.
This was a no-brainer: In every modern country, there are laws that limit land ownership because if someone owns more than a certain amount of land, that land can amount to a self-sufficient small country and the owner becomes a de facto feudal lord. Moreover, he or she would have the legal right to declare independence or autonomy in many cases. So to protect the principle that sovereignty belongs to the people, we limited land ownership a long time ago.

But a loophole was left behind: The former aristocrats and the new capitalists who joined their class could own unlimited amounts of stocks, therefore they could own a majority of the countries' economies among themselves, through the control that they exercise via the ownership of said organizations. And here we are today, a dozen or so people owning more wealth than half of the world, a few thousand more owning even more, and worse, controlling entire economies.

Its way past time that such feudal ownership was limited. And it will be good even for those ultra rich: Now they can feel that they attained an actual goal, get celebrated as having 'hit the ceiling', and can move on from that specific activity to another without suffering from obsessive-compulsive hoarding disorder.
Are you just making stuff up? He can’t sell because there is a lockup period. It’s mostly retail buying the stock for the memes
Recent and related:

OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249 - May 2024 (96 comments)
surprised how?
He’s a candidate that owes half a billion in legal losses that put his prized real estate empire at risk.
Calling it stealing is a stretch. They have, at worst, infringed on copyright and terms of service.
OpenAI claimed they hired a different professional actor who performed using her own voice [1].

If so, I suspect they’ll be okay in a court of law — having a voice similar to a celebrity isn’t illegal.

It’ll likely cheese off actors and performers though.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/05/20/openai-sa...
This is the first I've heard of this, but I've used the "Sky" voice extensively and never once thought it sounded like Johansson. Has anyone else noticed a similarity? To me they sound pretty different, Johansson's voice is much more raspy.
Seriously. This is utterly baffling to me.

OpenAI is trying to demonstrate how it's so trustworthy, and is always talking about how important it is to be trustworthy when it comes to something as important and potentially dangerous as AI.

And then they do something like this...??

I literally don't understand how they could be this dumb. Do they not have a lawyer? Or do they not tell their corporate counsel what they're up to? Or just ignore the counsel when they do?
The answer, based on two different court precedents (Bette Midler, Tom Waits), is that the company can't do that. Companies cannot hire soundalike people to advertise their products after the person with a distinctive voice they really wanted declined. Doesn't matter if they hired a soundalike and used her voice.
If they didn’t use her actual voice for the training, didn’t hire voice talent to imitate her, didnt pursue her for a voice contract, didn’t make a reference to the movie in which she voices an AI, I feel OpenAI would have been on more stable legal footing. But they aren’t playing with a strong hand now and folded fast.
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> because everyone involved is trying to avoid escalation.

And that's why the worst case will never happen - behind all those circus, all of those countries (maybe except Taiwan) are doing immense amount of business with each other and increasing the amount of that business behind closed doors.

But its certain that circuses will continue whenever a local government needs to rile up domestic support for any reason.
The optics of equating a resistance organization on the one hand with a colonial and apartheid state with dysfunctional judicial system and no accountability for any crimes committed by settlers or its military on the other hand by putting them in the same press release is pretty bad for the court.

I'm all for investigating if there were any orders of directly targeting civilians being given to the Palestinian resistance, etc, but that's a pretty far fetched assumption in my opinion.

On the other side you have what's a pretty clear case of a large scale terror attack against innocent civilians, indiscriminately bombing schools and hospitals.

In addition, why doesn't the ICC look into US and Germany conduct of delivering weapons enabling the genocide?
Can you post some references to this pattern?
Exactly - totally agree.
I believe we're talking about the provocation for the Oct 7th attacks and you are giving us the outcome of the war that was a result of that attack? Is there time travel involved here?

Israel withdrew from Gaza. Is your proposal that Israel should not have withdrawn to "not create the situation in the first place"? Or re-taken Gaza when Hamas took it over from Fatah by force in 2007 after winning the elections?
Donald Trump owns ~80 million shares of Truth Social (58%). The company, as a profit-making enterprise, is basically an abject failure, but as a way to funnel money to Donald Trump, it is a roaring success. It would be frowned upon if a foreign government were to write a check to Donald Trump for, say, $100 million, but a sovereign wealth fund is perfectly capable of 'investing' a similar amount in his useless shell corporation. His stock in Truth Social, which has no possible future in which it's a profitable enterprise, is worth a few billion dollars because people with money are willing to use it as a vehicle to bypass restrictions on campaign donations.
The lockup period ends before the election, and he’s currently desperately working to delay his half billion dollars he owes from losing civil suits.
Maybe I'm crazy but I don't think the voices are even that similar. I simply don't believe that her closest friends could not tell the difference.
Palestine using human shields are not Israel's war crimes. They are Palestine's war crimes.

Israel is not at fault for trying to recover hostages from a population aiding and abetting terrorists. Have you even seen footage of a Hamas member in uniform being killed? They dress as civilians so their rightful killing is interpreted as "war crimes" by gullible American students.
Ask HN: Which niche online businesses would you love to own?
I'm looking for inspiration:

Have you had your eye on a small website or piece of software delivered online, delivered seamlessly online (e.g. no sales team or implementation) that is just a great business but it's so good the owner won't sell?

My example is BuiltWith.

What is yours?
The entire Mastodon project including two instances (mastodon.social + mastodon.online) with about 1/3 the users between them runs on a $22k/month Patreon. And it is a fork of Mastodon, so that's a good comparison.
I guess there aren't many other ways a regular person can accidentally kill someone. You can't accidentally stab or shoot one.

If driving is legal, and people aren't assumed to be superhuman, then lapses of attention and judgments are to be expected, and so you're right - it is as if killing someone in a car is less penalizable.

I'm all for lower speed limits and separated bike lanes. I just guess we can't be surprised that people die when multi-tonne vehicles are driven around towns by mostly competent drivers.
I hope it was, but in taking a quick view at the authors other works, it seems like that's just his writing style
It's not a war crime but it is against the 1951 and 1967 refugee conventions, both of which Egypt is a signatory to. I wish more time was spent lambasting them for that.
CEO sets the culture of a company, the how to get to the generic make money target. They are not the best engineer, sales or accountant.
They have a massive influence on how those are done on across dimensions like ethics, risk, legal
Also retired the entire safety team in the same weak too, lol.
I think it’s more about having reliable penalties. Using Victorian era horse related laws to prosecute cyclists might have a lot of weird case law and language gaps that a defence lawyer could take advantage of.
>There's not a lot of probability of surprises if the basic work is done competently and in good faith and not with an intent to push the envelope.

It's a tiny bit higher since IMHO he pushed the envelope on starvation (the reported malnutrition death count is 32 out of over two million people), and on not engaging with Israel (was due to a trip to the country before issuing indictments), but given unopposed nature, his advantage is so large I don't see odds of this being rejected.

>Trials won't take start until the individuals being tried are in custody for trial. (They don't have to be at the same time.)

Yeah, the other comment slagged me on this. The essential 'this isn't resolved for years, by which time they are out of office' is right.
What about when people pointed out problems like leaded fuel and climate change and we didn’t take action for far too long? We shouldn’t dismiss it just because of things it sounds similar to. In fact you could always dismiss any concern that could lead to human extinction like that, because if there was an existing example of human extinction then we wouldn’t be around to talk about it; that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Same here and that voice really was the only good one. I don't know why they don't bring the voices from their API over, which are all much better, like Nova or Shimmer (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech)
> There's people who lived there all their life and can't vote because

It doesn't matter how long a colonizer has lived in some place where he is living as a settler-colonist.

> a bunch of racists

The locals have no obligation to be non-discriminative to those who are colonizing their land. Even proposing this sound utterly absurd.

> backward ethnic laws

The colonizing French are not a local ethnicity. They have no right to the place they are colonizing. They are colonizing foreigners there. Full stop.
Did you read the first sentence of the Wikipedia article? It contrasts cursive with block letters.

Anyway, you're of course free to call block letters cursive. It's not the traditional meaning, and it's interesting to observe that people don't even know that anymore.
Scientists Confirm Microplastics Now Detected in Human Testicles
"Today’s announcement sends a clear message: using AI to produce sexually explicit depictions of children is illegal"

Not with the charges given. Prosecutors seem keen to push the normalisation angle, but would then have to explain why FPS games aren't also illegal. Unless they can prove real CSAM was used to train the model so they can draw a line from the material to the defendant's production.

Let's see if there are more charges to come.
I would strongly suggest handing him over to the ICC and signing the Rome treaty. Let the ICC deal with what to do with him exactly.
The censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus is still powerful and distributed, and will continue to try to move the narrative to support the beliefs they've been deeply engrained with over multiple generations. The war for free speech and countering suppression is arguably only just beginning.

And as Jordan Peterson said in his Beyond Order book - "intelligent ideologues are the most dangerous because they've really convinced themselves they're right."

Most of the mainstream platforms have been captured and heavily influenced due to outweighed power that only a handful of users can apply to manipulate how much exposure certain content and comments get; Twitter-X being in Elon Musk's hands at least have stopped fascists governments from the world in at least an incognito fashion censoring-suppression certain narratives of truth they don't want the population becoming the wiser on.
> Israeli politicians openly call the Palestinians "our bitter enemies" ... This feels extremely wrong to me

Wait till you find how in response to white nationalist attacks, the US political elite instead end up making laws to ban Palestinian groups.

An issue involving 14m peoples shouldn't be this international and should have never shaped the West's domestic policy (let alone foreign policy) as much as it has.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/instruments-of-dehuman... / https://archive.ph/BWrzw
>Only the State or God will determine whether or not it supports Israel

Seems like in most cases the state is more pro-israel than the population.

And God killed that Turkish guy so apparently he's pro-Israel too.
>(b) No person may knowingly and intentionally disclose, cause to be disclosed or threaten to disclose, with the intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, humiliate, embarrass, or coerce, an image of another which shows the intimate parts of the depicted person or shows the depicted person engaged in sexually explicit conduct which was captured under circumstances where the person depicted had a reasonable expectation that the image would not be publicly disclosed.

From "W. Va. Code §61-8-28a: Nonconsensual disclosure of private intimate images; definitions; and penalties."

There is nothing in the law that says it only bans illicit recordings (like creepshot videos). If you share a video that someone took of themself, you can be be prosecuted under it.

But yes, there is this clause in the law:

>(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose liability on the provider of an interactive computer service as defined by 47 U.S.C. §230(f)(2), an information service as defined by 47 U.S.C. §153(24), or telecommunications service as defined by 47 U.S.C. §153(53), for content provided by another person.
There are a couple people that should be handed to the ICC.
Unless it's a consultancy project it's less about billable hours and more about internal busywork and resume fodder.

In a ZIRP/startups environment this kind of BS was rewarded by the market and thus "engineers" would take any opportunity to build up such unproductive over-engineering skills to polish up their resume for the next opportunity.
> This data store is the system of record in their credit card authorization and billing pipeline, and so it has extreme consistency requirements.

This seems like an odd requirement to me. What are the use cases beyond a few minutes past the end of the ride?

- Reconciliation of Uber's finances. This definitely needs to be correct and consistent and maybe even auditable, but it's also done at the end of any given billing period. A daily roll-up would be sufficient.

- Showing each driver and each rider their own history. This ought to be fully correct (especially for drivers), but it's a massive double-edged sword. Uber's app, for example, appears to be entirely missing the "please forget my ride history" button. And this isn't surprising: Uber apparently stores it in a ledger, fully indexed, complete since at least 2017, that is cryptographically immutable. Is this actually a good thing? What happens when a privacy regulator tells Uber to expunge, anonymize, or pseudonymize old data?

- Handling chargebacks? Having a high quality record going back 180-365 days seems useful. But the cost to Uber of occasionally losing a record is very low and is barely more than proportional to the probability of loss of a given record.

So I don't get it. If I were running an operation like this, I would prefer not to have a fully immutable ledger full of personally identifiable location, usage, and transactional data.
It also has a false premise; the prosecutor has not, per the announcement, sought genocide charges (under Article 6 of the Rome Statute) against any of the named individuals, but instead Article 7 (crimes against humanity) and Article 8 (war crimes) charges.
Thank you, you are correct.

Although in some cases, libel can rise to the level of a criminal offense: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/criminal-libel/
Back in the days Gamasutra was just that I think. I wasn't a game dev as such, but I was into 3D programming, and there was a lot of nice articles and news to read.

I also loved reading the contributed postmortem articles. It had a fairly active forum too, as far as I recall.

They've rebranded and I don't know if they're any good these days, but at least a lot of their postmortems are still online[1] which is a nice touch.

[1]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/search?q=postmortem&sort=oldes...
Genocide charges are not in involved in the ICC prosecutors request for arrest warrants; no such charges are in the request.
But where it will get murky is people sound like other people. Most voices are hardly unique. It will be interesting to see where this lands.
I mean everyone is free to their opinion, but this line of thinking kind of puts to bed any idea of college as an opportunity for Americans to rise up the social classes / do better than their parents.

Majority of kids who are first in their family to go to college go to state schools. They are affordable, and have capacity for millions of seats versus the 10Ks of capacity at the elites.

If the answer to not having enough elite grads is to hire H1Bs as your next best option..
Again. After Johansson was approached to be hired for the voice then another AI company tried to clone her voice without her permission.

Doesn't matter around similarity. There was nothing fair-use around this voice and it is exactly why OpenAI yanked the voice and indirectly admitted to cloning her voice.

[0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38154733]
Discussion 8 hours ago (and links to past related discussions)[0] (9 points, 4 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415982
Women are not as much attached to the backwoods life as men. I know two that went back to the big city after a few years.
I think you're right it's probably nvidias fault rather than xorg - but my problems were solved by Wayland so it got me out of trouble.

I had a similar problem to what the sibling comment mentioned - scaling was causing me performance issues. I disabled the laptop monitor and just ran multiple screens of the same resolution, and need about 150 % scaling to have text visible on these 4 X 32 inch 4 K monitors, but it was causing a huge amount of lag in xorg. It was solved by switching to Wayland which reduced the lag completely, and also let me run fractional scaling (I think I use 135 %) which wasn't available in xorg. I spent a lot of time with combinations of drivers and inputs and docks and scaling and couldn't get xorg to work. The laptop is a dell precision 3580 with a 4 GB NVIDIA gpu so a pretty standard piece of hardware
UK accelerates lead as Europe's top destination for financial services
How do college admissions departments figure out who is box-ticking, to know whether the person they are looking at is a better student?