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> I don't understand what this means. If you wrap an exception and throw it, how has your function become responsible for the failure?

That’s a declaration that this specific kind of problem (say, an IOException) can be handled as this other, higher-level exception (say, of type MyApplicationException, that when bubbles up, will display a friendly error dialog to the user, and logs the underlying IOException for the devs).

> checked exceptions are fundamentally incompatible with [..] higher order functions and polymorphism

They aren’t. Look into languages with algebraic effects.
you're not wrong, and i think the technology exists to accomplish something that did this, and has for a few years. but the end result would be a system that funnels money from large numbers of people, to different large numbers of people. and a lot of overlap and cross payments too. maybe there's a good business in transaction fees on that? but it seems like big numbers going to other people while a much smaller number goes to the party owning the system is not an appealing business in our world.

ipso facto why does it not exist while spotify buys podcasts and kills them
Creating something like Her is creating something like Scarlet Johansson’s performance of her. The whole point is to hit the same note, which is a voice and an aesthetic and a sensibility. That’s the point! She wasn’t willing to do it. If they hit the same note without training on her voice, then I think that’s fair game.
Yeah, no. Some macs had good battery life. The last Intel MBP was really bad though. (Less than 2h of basic desktop use and lots of overheating after a year)
Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT
To give an indication, similar e-ink panels (the likely most expensive single component) to what they seem to be using can be found on AliExpress for a bit below 200usd.
At this level of copyright infringement, Now I 100% believe that it’s fully trained on YouTube and other copyright videos, audio, books etc. they don’t care about using any public data or paying a dime as long as they can build a model with it , they will never disclose the data used and won’t allow anyone who quit to talk about it , blackmailing them with equity.
I haven’t hear the GPT-4o voice before. Comparing the video to the video of Johansson’s voice in “her”, it sounds pretty similar. Johansson’s performance there sounds pretty different from her normal speaking voice in the interview - more intentional emotional inflection, bubbliness, generally higher pitch. The GPT-4o voice sounds a lot like it.

From elsewhere in the thread, likeness rights apparently do extend to intentionally using lookalikes / soundalikes to create the appearance of endorsement or association.
None of these companies care about the climate. They care about the sales they will get from people who think they care about the climate.
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If our standard is cool math, crypto is also full of cool math. (Have you read Vitalik's explanation of Quadratic Arithmetic Programs?) Our standard can't be that low.

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/quadratic-arithmetic-prog...
Seriously. I'm already a little annoyed that Apple has moved away from "and you can buy it today", but at least they're way ahead still.
I don’t understand your comment. What are actions?
Postgres is missing a proper columnstore implementation. It's a big gap and it's not easy to build.

One solution could be integrating duckdb in a similar way as pgvector. You need to map duckdb storage to Postgres storage and reuse duckdb query processor. I believe it's the fastest way to get Postgres to have competitive columnstores.
What I read into this, is that if you walk into programming 101 and learn async and/or functional day #1, they make total sense.

If you walk into Pascal or Fortran, and have to acquire FP or async programming after, they make no sense.

This is also at the root of emacs-vs-VI and other debates. What you learn defines how you think.

I learned IF-THEN-ELSE flow, and GOTO. I do not find async easy to rationalise about, despite recognising it exists.

My partner says anyone who claims they can multitask "in real life" is lying, and does both things badly.
Bette Midler and Tom Waits won cases where the companies didn't claim the impersonators were them.
No, in fact Putin was recently subjected to it.
CompNow. We have thousands of Macs (we are a school). Many private schools in Sydney have paid for on-site repairs.
The speed doesn't really matter if their end goal is morally wrong. A slower speed might give them an advantage to not overshoot and get backlash or it gives artists and the public more time to fight back against EA, but it doesn't hide their ill intentions.
Exactly this.

The fact Johansson did not give permission to OpenAI to use their voice, they then hired a voice actor to similarly copy her voice likeliness with Altman tweeting a reference to the film ‘Her’ which Johansson was the starring voice actor in that film, tells you that OpenAI intended to clone and use her voice even without permission.

OpenAI HAD to pull the voice down to not risk yet another lawsuit.

The parent comment clearly has the weakest defense I have seen on this discussion.
Partially copying my comment from the Copilot+ thread

They do some sleight of hand when doing the comparisons during the release today.

The Surface Laptop is physically a competitor to the actively cooled MacBook Pro (in fact it’s thicker).

Their performance and battery metrics are against the slimmer and passively cooled MacBook Air.

Their performance comparison is between the M3 and the Snapdragon X Elite when the M3 has throttled (their wording is sustained performance). The Elite is a significantly higher TDP product line than the M3 and its own sibling.

Their battery comparison is between the M3 and the Snapdragon X Plus. This is the lower wattage SoC, paired with a thicker body that likely has a larger capacity battery as a result.

It’s very unlikely that the device has both stronger performance AND longer battery life, because those are handled by different SKUs. Likely you will choose whichever metric matters more to you.

Still a strong showing, but take the “benchmarks” with a heavy grain of salt.
The reason NASA's attempt at a modern launch platform has had so many problems is because they were required to base everything off shuttle systems in order to keep congress happy. The shuttle, somewhat infamously, had parts from every single state in the country - which again was done to keep congress happy. It was a giant flying barrel of pork, and so is SLS.

Nothing like using fifty year old technology; the SLS is four shuttle engines bolted on to the bottom of the orbiter fuel tank, with orbiter solid rocket boosters...but because there are four engines, and the orbiter tank didn't have four engines worth of thrust under it, they've had to modify everything, and it still doesn't work properly.

It doesn't help that NASA has an institutional allergy to actually developing, or even using, new technologies.
Yeah, I bought past versions of the Surface and the Surface Book. They would often never wake up from sleep or the battery would be dead unexpectedly. Hard for me to trust them after feeling like I wasted money multiple times.
That's confidently incorrect. Many others already posted that this has been settled case law for many years. I mean would you argue that if someone build a macbook lookalike, but not using the same components would be completely clear?
if you want to see this on a daily basis checkout "electronics repair school" on yt, silly name but extremely skilled repairs. this guy does stuff that used to take me 4+ hr a 30min yt while drinking coffee and narrating
we know that people don't become someone else after a heart transplant for example
The version with per div reflowing might have been before android. My Sony P1i ran symbian I think, can't remember actually. It was way before reactive webpages were a thing. And it worked really well for making most desktop pages usable on my phone. I also missed the scroll wheel and the rocker keyboard for the longest time
Possibly, but it would have to be way better specified. You have dimensions like the OS, conference service, camera quality, browser, etc. that all affect it.
This got me curious enough to skim the article looking for the answer to whether 3M "convinced" her. It looks like the answer is:

* They kept relevant information from her, including studies they'd done on the subject before
* They sidelined her research efforts and made her feel unwelcome there
* She grew to dread the subject and avoided staying involved with it
* "when friends asked Hansen about PFAS, she would change the subject. Still, she repeatedly told [her husband] — and herself — that the chemicals were safe."

I guess you could read that as saying 3M "convinced" her if you really wanted to, but I'd have looked for a different way to describe it. It helps to remember that article authors don't usually get to write the headline.
nation states love this one weird trick
There’s some pretty nice fundamental research in here, and I appreciate the publication very much. What stood out to me is their discussion of the difficulties of using softmax against different tokenization spaces; super interesting analysis (they say different modalities compete by upping their own strength relative to other modalities, leading to divergence), and the ultimate fix, (I can’t remember it right now, and leave this as a tease to the interested paper reader).

They also noted the problem was most pronounced once they got up to 34b sized. It’s a good reminder training large scale models leads to new interesting problems. I imagine a lot of techniques and know how are not published; all those little bits of experience add up to a lot of competitive advantage in many venues, so once again, thanks to Zuck and co for publishing.
Then asking Johansson for permission months before was pure coincidence?
Been like that forever.

Usually gaming laptops prioritize their cooling systems over battery size. And don’t underestimate the high refresh rate panel likely optimized for at least 500 nits.
Those chips are in the pipeline for years. There's a chance M3 wasn't even out by the time they had the mostly finalised design for this processor. They definitely couldn't aim for any comparison with M4 at any point of that process.
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The power efficiency numbers in that link do not appear to be derived from anything; definitely not actual measurements. The score out of 100 is almost certainly complete bullshit, and the site as a whole probably is worthless.
> a cowboy PM who said fuck it, ship it to make the demo.

Given the timeline it sounds like the PM was told "just go ahead with it, I'll get the permission".
Google denies damages: Bad bad bad

Google admits damages: Bad bad bad

Lol I don't think they're trying to make you happy.
> Where big iron might be something between a raspberry pi with an NVMe hat and a gaming PC.

At my last startup (with ~3 technical employees), I was talking to the CTO about our cloud spend and planning for properly scaling infra after we got our first customer. We weren't "a SaaS website", but (hand-waving) we did complex physics modeling and analytics on data streams. The (physicist) CTO had heard of k8s and cloud stuff and wanted me to investigate how we should scale our cloud. He was convinced it'd be expensive to do "all those physics calculation with 64 bit numbers".

I showed him our entire cloud - gateway, database(s), physics modeling, metrics collection, log aggregation, etc - running at 1000x estimated 1-customer load from a MacBook. I offered to set him up a personal raspberry pi to stress test before a k8s cluster.

We ended up with a sensible single medium EC2 instance running everything, with some extra stuff for fail-over. AFAIK the only change made after I left was using a cloud-vendor DB.
I would say the goal is up to you. If you have a set list of things you want to accomplish in a week, you’d optimize to ensure those tasks are done, and any leftover time can be spent on leisure. That’s just one model.
Apple already has much faster machines - the pro line...
A multi-trillion dollar company can't make a menu work faster than a second on multi-GHz PCs with gigabytes of memory. If it wasn't so sad it'd be funny.
That doesn't change much, I guess. Still very little power usage compared to an actual turned on machine.
This seems to be missing some of the most practical reasons to avoid Google. "Government surveillance" isn't something you can escape from so easily and walled gardens can be well kept. The arguments I find much more compelling:

1) Service quality (and longevity). If you are paying for a service, it is much more likely to go for years or decades without changing anything. It is more likely that you get a human to help with any problems. Avoiding free services is just common sense for anything beyond entertainment.

Google's management has been increasingly derailed over the years. A sane company wouldn't break something like Gmail. I'm not sure how well Gmail will be stewarded over the next decade.

2) Minimising risk. If something goes wrong at Google (bureaucracy, illegal activity, coding error), then the blast radius is huge for someone who uses a lot of Google services. That is just an unwise level of risk to be taking. People with access to my emails shouldn't be storing my accounting data. People with access to my video viewing shouldn't have access to my work documents. My phone custodian shouldn't also be my search provider. Unexpected data cross-contamination or sudden lockout from all these things at once isn't desirable and could be somewhat catastrophic in the worst case.
<< set of phrases understandable by the masses

I.. think I disagree. In a sense, Trump technically laid a foundation for that with a rather clever MAGA phrase. Regardless of what you think about him, his policy or his stance on anything, he showed that there are phrases could be utilized to tap into that section with little effort and are not as easily dismissed.

Now.. those could be attacked as overly nationalistic, but that is a separate discussion.

<< No lasting and significant opposition to Zionism will ever take root.

I think I agree despite (n)'ever' being a really long time. A year is eternity in politics and this year is already pretty crazy. I honestly can't say it is impossible.
To take down the MacBook Air, Microsoft needs to own the supply chain and microprocessors the way Apple does. Apple can create mighty expensive CPUs with larger caches and bigger memory bandwidth because they have the margins. Intel and AMD (Qualcomm etc.) would have problems selling such expensive CPUs to e.g. Asus/Dell/Lenovo/...
If this isn't the thing that makes your blood boil, that's fine. The world could probably do with less boiling blood, and it is still early, more evidence may come out. However, she indicated in her statement that Altman asked her, not OpenAI. It seems credible that he would want to be involved.

Both sides of the story feel like we're slowly being brought to a boil: Sutskever's leaving feels like it was just a matter of time. His leaving causing a mess seems predictable. Perhaps I am numb to that story.

But stealing a large part of someone's identity after being explicitly told not to? This one act is not the end of the world, but feels like an acceleration down a path that I would rather avoid.
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I imagine it's due to the increasing number of card-testing attacks which cost them money, increasing risk for instant payout.
Well Netanyahu should be OK given how careful, reserved and calculated the IDF has been, and this will be reflected in any court proceedings.

If Netanyahu is punished for this, then GWB must face a more severe punishments for his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan which saw far more collateral damage.
The UN has revised its estimate of the number of children killed to 7,797 admitting the "fog of war" makes it hard to know how many were killed. The definition of "child" is anyone under 18yo which can include combatants. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69014893

The UN numbers come from Hamas, there is no independent verification of those numbers and Hamas is a side to the conflict.

Either way, your statement about "authorizing the killing of 10's of thousands of children" is false.

I'm not sure what systemic violation of LGBT right you're referring to. The LGBTQ+ community in Israel has no issues unlike anywhere else in the middle east (for example). Israel ranks above most countries in the world in LGBT legal rights and friendliness: https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index

I don't know what 93% starvation rate you're talking about. This is just an outright lie. Also straight from Hamas. This lie has been repeated endlessly since the war started but somehow the markets are still full of food. People (e.g. Hamas) are also stealing aid and re-selling it.

Everything happening in Gaza is a result of war. Yes, Israeli went to war after Oct 7th, which Israel's government has authorized. The goal of the war is to destroy Hamas something that is within Israel's legitimate right to self defense. These outcomes you're describing including civilian casualties, hunger, etc. are not just a function of Israel's decision, they're also a function of Hamas' decision to hold onto its hostages and continue fighting. The reason for the war is Hamas attacking Israel. Hamas, the government of Gaza, is responsible for the condition of the people it governs.
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I roll my eyes when somebody says that they’re “the idea person” or that they have “the vision”.

I’d wager that most senior+ engineers or product people also have equally compelling “the vision”s.

The difference is that they need to do actual work all day so they don’t get to sit around pontificating.
Wanting to imitate Her is rather ironic: It’s like watching Wall Street and wanting to be Gordon Gecko, or watching Gattaca and wanting to genetically engineer humans.
I'll start investing in the lottery right away, now that I know it is a sure thing. It is the difference between cumulative probability of all tickets sold (which would be 100%) versus and discrete probability of a single ticket (0.000000003 for Powerball, basically zero).

The cumulative probability of every `ffmpeg-english` command ever sent to OpenAI will likely be <5%, if not <1%, of all of the possible responses GPT-4 could give.
Everybody seems to be missing the fact that this was nothing more than a lewd pun. "Unprojected text" = "Unprotected sex". What would it even mean to "never have unprojected text"?
There’s more evidence of Altman being personally involved in this incident than in him being personally involved in the OpenAI exit agreement, and he has denied the latter. I’m not sure I believe his denial in the latter case.

Having an NDA in exit terms you don’t get to see until you are leaving that claim ability to claw back your vested equity if you don’t agree seems more severely unethical, to be sure. But that doesn’t mean there’s more reason to blame it on Altman specifically. Or perhaps you take the stance that it reflects on OpenAI and their ethics whether or not Altman was personally involved, but then the same applies to the voice situation.
Cheat code: If you pay damages demanded by the plantiff, you can make any civil case go away.
The implication of the article isn't that you can't produce a Turing oracle, it's that it's mathematically impossible to ever replace programmers with computers at all.

The latter claim doesn't follow: programmers aren't Turing oracles either. A programming machine that can emulate whatever humans are doing when they program, would be able to program too.
Not sure if this is what OP was saying, but evidence of orders to directly target civilians would be an open and shut case.

The starvation charge could at least in theory fail (e.g., along the lines of intent - although Gallant's words in the beginning of the war certainly do not help Israel's case).
I definitely thought "Sky" was Rashida Jones. I still do.
And unless the mass transit is tireless, it will be even heavier. Tire wear and this microplastics go up with the square of axle weight, so individual transportation is actually better from that standpoint.
I ask you what do you call the Framework [1]? Or Dell's offerings?[2] Compared to the Macbook? [3]

Look kind of similar right? Lot of familiar styling queues? What would take it from "similar" to actual infringement? Well if you slapped an Apple Logo on there, that would do it. Did OpenAI make an actual claim? Did they actually use Scarlett Johannson's public image and voice as sampling for the system?

[1] https://images.prismic.io/frameworkmarketplace/25c9a15f-4374...

[2] https://i.dell.com/is/image/DellContent/content/dam/ss2/prod...

[3] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_1...
Percent increases are kind of a weird metric in a lot of cases. This is one of them. It's not particularly informative.
Macs were long hindered by Intel processors to have long battery lifes AND/OR good performance. Two examples of MacBooks I had:

The 12" MacBook. Great form factor, bad software (graphics driver code was especially poor), poor keyboard, lousy battery life, slow CPU & graphics. Similar size now with the 13" MacBook Air, but much better.

The i9 MacBook Pro. Too heavy, not enough cooling, extra GPU chip (in the laptop) with lots of power demand, Thunderbolt chips with lots of power demand, CPU with lots of power demand, fans were often on (for example with anything which uses the extra GPU). Now a 16" MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon is virtually silent AND fast.

I currently have a Mac mini with M2 Pro, a MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and the new iPad Pro M4. All are very snappy and virtually silent. They use very little idle power and don't get warm in normal use. The i9 MacBook Pro would produce a lot of heat when attached to an external screen and doing a "simple" video call, due to the power hungry additional GPU needed to drive the external screen.
Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast had an ex-CIA officer, Phil Houston, on in April of 2024. He was promoting a new book but he had a lot of great advice for anyone to use regarding 'tells' when people are lying. Murati was clearly lying- that's obvious then and now.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ex-cia-officer-expl...
Imo, making a Dockerfile for an ancient project isn't always easy
If someone on HN who knew someone Jobs or Woz personally tells you something about them it is only 2nd hand, not "at best" 3rd or 5th hand information.

If you watch video of them talking, or read their writing (or know them personally) then it is 1st hand.

It's fairly easy to get 1st and 2nd hand info about a contemporary figure, so I would suggest most interested people are not using 3rd or 5th hand info. Maybe the general public is.
People that want gaming choose Windows, people that want productivity choose Mac. I don't see where this new product fits.

You can't game with the paltry "arm companion" GPU and you can't be productive with tons of ads (product placement, "notifications" and tips, as well as the literal "hot singles near you" variety included).

Maybe this is some kind of corporate devices for the old-school enterprises that rock Teams and Office and all that jazz.

It's a shame because if the hardware is as good as they make it sound, it might've been a great productivity device, but they need serious slimming down work in Windows, or an unlocked bootloader for Linux.
This is how most cases go, for natural persons too.
The discussion about the speed and surface specs are all in the announcement and that's where the threads were merged to. That's where the discussion is.
Either _that_ is the joke for Altman or there are lot of Johansson fans at OpenAI.
I love love love AntennaPod. Top 5 apps for me and there's a GPodder Sync app for Nextcloud so you can easily use it across devices with no third party clouds.