skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company.

Hah. Your card company will accept the dispute, Hertz will provide them with the rental contract you signed and say "he agreed to pay it!", and your card company will close the dispute without ever even following up with you.

> But in this case, the article makes it clear that the people were able to get the charges reversed by talking to Hertz. It wasn't necessarily convenient, but the funds were returned when a human saw the mistake.

Actually the article makes it clear that they had to go round and round in circles with bot-like support reps who probably haven't ever seen a Tesla in whatever slum they can afford.

> If you entered into an agreement with someone to do business and then accidentally charged them the wrong amount, you would not go to jail.

It's not accidental when you keep doing it until the news gets involved. BTW, how can they even charge a fuel fee without a human being involved to... you know... fuel it? Shouldn't that human have noticed that there was no gas tank? Hmm... Almost like it wasn't accidental.
This isn’t true. Only one residential record of location is. I have three. I sleep at the one on my driver’s license only a few nights per year. Some vanlife types use a post box, which is also legal.

It would be actively dangerous for people like me if we were forced to regularly sleep in a location available to the general public.
Does this mean Mitchell Baker is doing Steve Jobs correctly?
Sorry about not providing a reference re: Kevin Buzzard's previously-stated thoughts on HoTT, but see https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Kevin+Buzzard
Maybe you have a reason, but why can’t you run windows directly on a secondary machine?
that's..... that's training.
Also worth noting that the Macbook Air is still not upgraded to a MicroLED display (uses IPS instead), whereas the Surface Laptop now comes standard with OLED.
IM is just fancy email.
Will you say the same to the old people who move and then subsequently can’t shovel snow in the winter?
Unfortunately this still results in plenty of hallucinations.
To steelman the GP's POV: there are other parts of solutions to problems where similar levels of rigour are required and cannot be filled in by using a preexisting library (state machines for distributed business logic come to mind as an example). Eliminating the need for that here doesn't help that much in general, and might even make things worse, because it gives people less experience with tasks demanding rigour before they tackle ones that are both subtler and harder.
Is this a serious article ? The state of the art of knowledge ?

There are at least two (2) existing prior art implementation that have done this for years, only better (as in, with better tools):

- recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

- ndb: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man7/ndb.html

Please, developers of everywhere, I beg you: please learn what came before you before reinventing the wheel, only triangular this time. Please take the time to appreciate that if it's so obvious maybe it's because of your ignorance and not your genius.
> So... I think maybe the same could have been said about writing once upon a time.

I mean, you say that as though it is not increasingly year over year more and more difficult on balance to make your living as a writer. That it hasn't been a famously difficult thing to do since like... I mean good god, I remember writers complaining about this when I was a kid on forums back in the early 2000's and at that time it was old fucking news how hard it was to make it as a writer.

And like:

> "What if everyone could write, we'd flood the market with poorly written books!"

Many people say we have! Except writers didn't really do it, so much as grifters did it, paying gig-economy workers shit tier wages to crank out boring a repetitive e-books to sell to communities that are typically hostile to proper sources of information. You know, people entirely divested from writing as a profession did it, because they fundamentally don't care about writing and simply saw it as an avenue in which they could spam poorly crafted garbage to uncritical audiences.

Sound familiar at all?

> We now see it as a natural thing that everyone can read and write. We don't want to go back to a time where it was only for a select few elites. If we turn things around and imagine that the technology exists that makes it possible for anyone to build games; then should we keep that from them?

I mean, I'm not arguing for or against the existence of accessible toolsets. If you want my opinion on that, they already exist. Games have famously been made by all kinds of people with all kinds of circumstances that make it notable said people were able to make said games. Various disabilities, physical and intellectual, all manner of life circumstances, on and on. Tons of people make games. None of those people (yet) have used an AI game builder, they used the same tools, combined with accessibility addons for computers, and recruited help for the parts they couldn't have.

I don't know where you get this notion you have to go to game school. Tons of amateurs make games. I think a lot of them (smartly) bring on actual software and game developers to fill in the gaps their lack of expertise cannot, just like they bring on musicians if they aren't musically inclined, or designers if they aren't graphically inclined, and there's nothing wrong with that either and tons of people do all of that for free right now, because plot twist, humans in general enjoy making things for other humans. It's kind of... core to our being in a lot of ways.

I don't see creatives benefiting from AI. I see the management/consultant vampires benefiting from it. The type of people who say things like "make the logo pop" and get annoyed when creatives roll their eyes at them.
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I'm using those dumps for a monthly data process. It breaks regularly, mirrors disappear, there's only very few mirrors with the full data and little history. (I'm running a mirror for OpenStreetMap but don't have the disk capacity or bandwith for wikipedia's mirror requirements).
I like C++, but I don't understand this tradition of keeping these annoying namespaces prefixed to everything. Just get rid of those std::, foo::bar::whatever::, etc from your code and make it more readable. Use the "use" clause. It's very rare for such names to be ambiguous in the same file, unless I'm missing some bigger picture here.
One pet peeve of mine is people using std::for_each instead of a simple loop
Jim Carrey made his career by impersonating celebrity voices. So did Rich Little.
Other than the "they have the right to refuse service" that sibling mentioned, umm... that's not what state or district attorneys do. In fact district attorneys prosecute crimes.
I agree that today's AI hallucinates, and will keep doing so no matter how much it's scaled with parameter count and FLOPs.

But there's also a ton of effort and an army of PhDs being bent to the purpose of fixing this, and not via mere scaling but also by mixing with other techniques. If the money doesn't dry up then I think they'll have cracked the hallucination problem within ten years easily. Certainly it won't take 1000.
Human nature. I find it’s best to be brutally honest with people even when it’s not what they want to hear, but the degree of discomfort that imposes is entirely up to the receiving end. I would rather people be straight with me and so I try to do the same for them, but not everyone feels that way.
They hired a voice actor for Sky's voice.

If OpenAI loses, does this mean this voice actor cannot do their job any longer, because it happens some other actor has a similar voice?

Could Sky's voice actor sue a movie Johansson works in, because Johannson is copying her voice?
It's all fun and games until someone gets a hold of your voice and uses it to scam a few grand out of your elderly family members. Disregarding ideas about ownership of celebrity image, it's not good to have that sort of technology out in the wild,

The fact that he pulled it down has me believing that he knew there was a real chance the company would get in trouble if he hadn't.
Here’s the biggest problem with big tech. Too many people think this behavior is just ok. ಠ_ಠ
Just so I understand correctly, the sneaky, diabolical, psychopathic behavior we're talking about here is ... making a voice that sounds like a celebrity's voice? We're not talking about poisoning babies or dumping toxic waste in a river, right? The reason we're supposed to consider Sam Altman a villain of unparalleled magnitude is that he used a voice that sounded like a celebrity and she got mad about it. Correct?
This comment will be about the reasons people don't like this feature, but without restating the obvious.

> having AI in my terminal is a deal-breaker.

Okay.

> I’ll be liable for breaching my NDA if that gets sent to some network service.

Right...

> government regulatory requirements prohibit the use of software with so-called "AI" features for certain tasks

Sure...

> Hate to be that guy, but it is not configured by default, not disabled. It should be disableable feature even if OpenAI key is entered, for example.

Uh huh...

> Similar working position to Tom N & Matt B above, I'm working in an organisation where any knowledge of our products must not be allowed to leak within or outside the company.

Right Stephen, sure, how did we not think of that...

> I rolled back the update on my end, but my pihole shows some openai queries from my Mac. It's hard to say whether it was iTerm o not as I use chat gpt on the browser.

Hmmm...

I don't really know the specifics of the feature, I don't use iTerm2. It sounds like you can opt-in (I'm going to avoid using the word enable or configure) to a feature that uses OpenAI's API to auto-complete terminal commands.

It's a macOS application, these users visit the wider Internet, they are already receiving personalized Apple and Google networked experiences, they are already sending a lot of telemetry. Let's suppose OpenAI, like Apple and Google, makes a good-faith effort to protect your data and keeps its promises about not using API driven calls for training in a way that could leak private information to other OpenAI users. Don't litigate this, there's nothing to serve in the interest of curiosity here.

Is there an objective, secular, non-vibes basis for being this pissed off about a new feature?

Why do people draw the line at some kinds of telemetry, but not others?
Don't Return Err in Go
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What does the tmux integration actually do? I use tmux all the time on my mac all servers, but I remember I once tried the iterm integration and everything was very confusing and I turned it off. I just always start iterm, start or attach to existing tmux, and just have 1 tab open and use tmux normally.
Then I sometimes open up other tabs, where I ssh into various servers and `tmux -a` to my session there.

What extra stuff do I get from this "tmux integration" ?
>International human rights law and international humanitarian law apply concurrently in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan. This includes the obligations contained in the international human rights treaties to which Israel is a State party,[4] as well as the Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 1907 (!_Hague Regulations_!) and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (!_Fourth Geneva Convention_!), which are binding upon Israel as the occupying Power under international humanitarian law

I added emphasis to the quote in the comment you're replying to since you missed it the first time.
Not necessarily, the gossip/outbox model (NIP-65) tells clients which relays they should check:

https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/

It is of course possible to combine this approach with undifferentiated access to well known relays, to fetch content from not followed people.
LLM output can't be copywritten as it's not the work of a human. The company would presumably have to include attribution to every piece of data the system is trained on for every query? Seems absurd, but then how would attribution work? Not really considered when the license was written.
I mean it’s one thing to say “we want to make a voice that’s friendly… like SJ, and then to imitate the voice. It seems insidious to ask someone to be the voice and then when that person says no you just use the voice anyways.

They should have just created a unique voice from the start. And they will likely do that moving forward.
I'm happy to contribute to the general knowledge. It's better than being forgotten and having no impact.
It's, not though.
A third of the US population doesn’t vote. It’s not even normal unusual, it’s common.
When they've made approximately nine digits off of it. After all, they need to be able to keep some of their ill-gotten profits, the lawyers need at least 7 digits (more often 8), the class representatives need perhaps 5-6 digits, and everyone else (who was fleeced out of 3 digits) gets 1 digit.
He kind of ruined that argument when he tweeted “Her” alongside the video. Pretty clearly drawing a line between the voice and Johansson’s portrayal in the movie.

Incredible, really. It would have been so easy to just… not do that.
It is indeed a massive ethics issue, but that's actually the aspect I love the most about it: Due to the ethics/compliance/corruption aspect, it has a chance of drawing immense attention inside the companies, possibly leading to actual durable improvements on the underlying issue.
yeah youre missing that this suggests all usage is suddenly being used for training. the incentive for the company is avoiding suffering the opportunity cost of not using user data for training. the aggression of this post is weirder than the aggression of the opposition.

edit: several rephrases of the middle sentence
Nope - that would be a massive undertaking. Someone tried reimplementing SwiftUI but it was abandoned quickly after realising how much work it would entail: https://github.com/Cosmo/OpenSwiftUI
> We should not give a sneaky, deceptive and manipulative person this much power over our future.

sneaky, deceptive, and manipulative is a tag line for many billionaires. you don't get that rich without stepping on many people.
I wonder if it'd be more effective to make a platform for victims of wrongful account suspensions that helped them to purchase ads targeted at likely ad buyers, highlighting the wrongful suspension of the individuals. These are advertising companies, they'll likely care if their customers are getting negative press from their victims constantly.

Since obviously FB/Alphabet/etc aren't going to allow negative ads targeting their own platform, you post them on a different platform.
Professor Robert Kiltgaard said corruption = monopoly + discretion - transparency. He wrote this about political systems and bribery, but it also applies here.

https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2014/05/27/klitgaards-m...

Many tech companies have a monopoly on their market, infinite discretion, and zero transparency. It's a wonder nobody has thought of a "facilitating payments" startup sooner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_payment

Everyone in the comments seems to think that this is a bad deal for the employees and that may be true at $500/unban. But imagine you're someone making $300k/year where all your accounts rely on 2fa codes sent to your email or you're someone with an social media-based business. You might pay a lot more than $500 to get your accounts back. And not everyone in Big Tech works in San Francisco. There's many people in low cost of living countries (e.g. Europe) that make half as much as Americans. Needless to say, people that earn less are more susceptible.

While I'm not condoning bribery, I'm surprised that the near-unanimous reaction of other commenters is that bribing employees of social media companies is infeasible. Historically speaking, any system without transparency where employees have discretion to do things that others assign monetary value have been corrupted.

Tech companies should take this more seriously, because once people are accustomed to making payments to get fair treatment from a decisionmaker, it becomes very difficult to change that behaviour.
> You can’t copyright look and feel though, can you?

You can certainly patent it.

"In general terms, a “utility patent” protects the way an article is used and works (35 U.S.C. 101), while a “design patent” protects the way an article looks (35 U.S.C. 171)."

- https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/apply/design-patent
IT only allows/manages Macs, and I can’t (and don’t want to) put work data on a personal machine.
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Steve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young), which he spent decades making amends for.

The people that emulate Steve Jobs poorly are usually real assholes with a long list of ethical mistakes.
It's not a vague suggestion - in the full statement that's been reported elsewhere, he explicitly says it.

> The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson's, and it was never intended to resemble hers. We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky’s voice in our products. We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn’t communicate better.

I'm skeptical whether this is true, but it's a pretty unambiguous and non-sneaky denial.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'll try.

Assume that October 7 is what Hamas and Hezbollah would do on a much larger scale if Israel were militarily weaker than them. (You could, for example, take the Hamas charter as reason to think that.)

In that process nine million people get killed or displaced, with "killed" being a significant fraction. That's orders of magnitude worse than the status quo. Note that "who's right" has nothing to do with that evaluation - it's just based on the body count.

That I think is the case that the current "stable balance" is better. Even though it is tragic, brutal, and deadly, it still is far better than what could happen if the equilibrium were destroyed.

But this argument is totally dependent on whether you believe that Hamas and Hezbollah would do that. Personally, after October 7, I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but you may see it differently.
I think it’s more “what benefit is there to not having your seatbelt buckled that justifies and increased risk of death?”
Pop goes the weasel.
> easier not having to fight back the government

You have a lot of work to do convincing anyone that's the case: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VCs going to war with San Francisco politicians (including the drunken threats from the current head of YC).

Never mind China, Europe seems to have had enough and even DC is having enough on some level. Not sure when this started, didn't seem to be at this level ten years ago.

I and others I know are against them, and we are like some of them were before their initial money raise - preparing for system design interviews, debugging from trace id's, studying covariance and contravariance. They really seem to be off in their own bubble of affluence. Not sure what year this started taking off - was definitely after 2014 at some point.
The confusion (and that OAI attempted to recruit her) is sufficient grounds for a lawsuit to the effect that they impersonated her. Generally, celebrities have ownership and rights over their likeness for commercial or promotional purposes.

OpenAI tried to benefit by using "her" likeness without permission or a contract/license
(V)PALIGNR shifts between lanes just fine, but only with byte granularity.
Disassembler for x86-64 implemented from scratch in C++
It's a site that values science. One of its best qualities is pushing back against things like the human tendency towards confirmation bias.

Most of us here aren't 5 years old. We don't need lollipops, stickers and participation awards.

We need solid info to help us figure out what holds water and plug the leaks if it doesn't.

Politely lying to spare our feelings doesn't pay the bills. Figuring out where it's broken so it can be fixed sometimes does.
With 9 billion voices on the planet, it would be hard/impossible to find a unique voice.
Physicist here, something I realized when I tried to learn music theory is that the notation is unnecessarily complex and they have a sort of mythological explanation as for why things are the way they are, for example:

- why are there 12 notes and not any other number?

- Why certain notes sound well together (as in a chord)
If the voice actor was cast... why bother reaching out to ScarJo?

Like, do you want to pay her fee, Sam? Because the general idea is to not pay the fee. Which is why you probably cast the voice actor before reaching out to Johansson.
There is a scene in "Thick of It" where ministers, in a cash-strapped government, are brainstorming laws and policies that cost nothing in terms of budget.

The latest Tory proposals sound just like that. Banning floating bus stops, crackdown on "rainbow" lanyards, dangerous cycling. Perhaps in the future people will only be able to have yellow flowers in their gardens or bake bread on odd numbered days.

In a time where big infrastucture investment is needed they are like the middle management that changes the Jira workflow every 3 months just to appear to be doing something.
> Godel proved that any formal system of logic can be shown to be logically inconsistent at at least one point.

He proved they can be inconsistent, or incomplete. The ones that mathematicians work with are incomplete and assumed to be consistent[0], namely that there are statements which are true, but not provable, within that system. Consistent-but-incomplete systems don't have any contradictions or logical holes; they just can't determine the truth of every possible statement.

From an incomplete system you can build a "more powerful" system- one with another axiom that makes more things provable without contradicting anything in the original one.

In inconsistent systems, everything is provable, even statements' own negations, so they aren't very useful.

[0] one statement that you can't prove within a (sufficiently powerful) system is "this system is consistent."
M3 was last year though, M4 has just been released, though iPad only for now
Anytime I find myself being clever, I'm reminded of this deadpan exchange.

Tyler Durden: How’s that working out for you?
Narrator: What?
Tyler Durden: Being clever.
Narrator: … Great.
Tyler Durden: Keep it up, then.
None of those organizations ever receive my primary residential address, only my tertiary one. Fortunately in the US you are allowed to have more than one home. Absolutely nothing with my name on it goes to where I usually sleep.

To divulge sensitive information like that is actively unsafe for certain types of people, because, as you note, almost every single vendor with whom you do business will blast it out all over the ecosystem until it shows up on SEO spam websites forever.
I think people are just exhausted with the non-stop hype/frothing over AI and how hallucinating stochastic parrots have to now be stuffed into anything and everything, fuck all if it makes sense or if it’s even safe to do so. It just feels like every company / developer is racing tripping over themselves to scream “ME TOO!” with AI.

I prefer Apple’s built-in Terminal but even I’m wincing at this new “feature” being included in iTerm2.
Looks like this is the repo https://github.com/kotsoft/kotsoft.github.io