skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind of gives the game away when you see that the US is not a signatory but had a big say in appointing the Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan in 2021 and have instituted the "Invade the Hague Act" that would allow the US to invade the Hague if they were to prosecute any American personnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

The Biden admin cooperated with the ICC, specifically quietly handing documents to the ICC that details Putin's war crimes and urging them to submit arrest warrants for Putin. Notably Russia is also not a signatory of the ICC, so there is definitely precedent for this process that even has had the backing of the US.

IMO Khan's speech today really speaks for itself. The "International Rule of Law" is nothing but a joke if we don't not apply it equally and blindly that will ultimately lead to the degradation of modern society and our species. I highly urge people to go and check out his speech on the matter and to form your own opinion.
I’ve been having fun.

This is like the Flat Earth equivalent in geopolitics — and getting people to explain why they think things is fascinating.

I also like irony — so seeing Israel “prosecuted” for the lowest civilian casualty rate in modern history is hilarious.
The homeownership and employment rates aren't "playing games with market valuations", and they're both good right now. Better than ever in fact.
Variety article updated: [UPDATE: Johansson released a statement saying Altman had reached out to ask her to lend her voice to ChatGPT but she declined; when she heard the demo, “I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine.”]
It's possible to avoid a jury trial in a civil case by removing from dispute the issues which would give the other side the right to demand a jury trial.
Because a legal case under the current justice system and legislative framework would probably take hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to bring a case that requires discovery and a trial to accomplish.

Maybe (maybe!) it’s worth it for someone like Johansson to take on the cost of that to vindicate her rights—but it’s certainly not the case for most people.

If your rights can only be defended from massive corporations by bringing lawsuits that cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, then only the wealthy will have those rights.

So maybe she wants new legislative frameworks around these kind of issues to allow people to realistically enforce these rights that nominally exist.

For an example of updating a legislative framework to allow more easily vindicating existing rights, look up “anti-SLAPP legislation”, which many states have passed to make it easier for a defendant of a meritless lawsuit seeking to chill speech to have the lawsuit dismissed. Anti-SLAPP legislation does almost nothing to change the actual rights that a defendant has to speak, but it makes it much more practical for a defendant to actually excercise those rights.

So, the assumption that a call for updated legislation implies that no legal protection currently exists is just a bad assumption that does not apply in this situation.
What’s “omni”?
I lost my wallet once and I was able to write a counter check for cash while I waited for my new ATM card to come. That was in the early 2000s, I did have my passport however. I also had the key to my safety deposit box, but they didn't check that.
Except it's not at all. The FDA regulates plenty of live organisms as drugs if they're claimed to be used to treat diseases.

For example, fecal transplants are regulated by the FDA. Rebiotix Inc is developing a bacterial fecal transplant, RBX2660, and Seres Therapeutics is developing an oral version (also live bacteria) called SER-109. Both of these are being regulated by the FDA.

There are hundreds of other live biotherapeutic products (LBPs) regulated by the FDA.
Win+. opens an emoji keyboard??? How the hell have I not heard about this
Okay so as long as we steal enough stuff then it's legal.
> But then that's you simultanously claiming that the DoJ is trying to "force a jury trial" with a pointless claim of monetary damages on one hand

It's not pointless, they're trying to stop the alleged anti-competitive behavior. And they want a jury trial to aid them in that effort.

> and that they're not trying to game the system on the other.

We're going in circles here. Like I said: forcing a jury trial isn't "gaming" the system. It's an attempt to prevent the usual workarounds from working.
> They likely have a legal position which is defensible.

Doesn't sound like they have that either.
Choose between “now 1.5%” or “50% increase”
Everything you say is true. The only reason Western nations tolerate it, in my view, is because they have witnessed the alternative.

To continue your analogy, Israel tried to "graduate" Gaza to adulthood in 2005. The army removed all Jewish settlers and settlements, and all military presence, and left the Gazans to form their own government. Gaza held elections that were judged to be free and fair by international observers.

Unfortunately, Gazans elected a Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Don't get me wrong, I can understand if Palestinians feel sore about the creation of Israel on some of the land that they desired for an undivided Palestinian state. But 10 million people live there now, including generations of Jews who have no other home, many of whom were expelled from other Arab countries when Israel was founded. A settlement between Israel and Palestinians will require compromise, but Hamas is not interested in compromise. Hamas dedicates every available resource towards an absolutist goal of destroying Israel.

Moreover, Hamas does not see itself as having any responsibility towards the people of Gaza. It builds tunnels to protect its fighters, but considers it the UN's responsibility (through UNRWA) to protect its civilians. In this sense it operates differently from almost any government in the world, in that it is not actually trying to build a society and govern it. In the eyes of Hamas Palestinians are in a war that has been going since 1948, and this war will continue until Israel is destroyed. It considers all of its people refugees and wards of the UN until Israel is destroyed.

I have plenty of criticism for Israel, primarily that it builds settlements in the West Bank, sabotaging prospects for a future Palestinian state. But it's hard for me to fault Israel for acting as the legal guardians of the Palestinians when I witness the Palestinian's disinterest in actually building a state that could coexist with Israel, not to mention the means by which they enact their resistance.
So the asp.net thing I highlighted isn't true? I'm sure the issue isn't that bad, but it sure is weird to claim that the naming wasn't horrible. Like, surely you could agree that the naming was much worse than it should've been?
The Israeli military often cites that it is impossible to make a difference between Hamas militants and civilians. It reminds me of the VN war in which the VC often dressed as civilians to kill US military personnel. The US was condemned leading attack against VN villages allegedly housing the VC. At some point, they used mercenary like the South Korea military to squash those VC by hitting the whole village with extreme prejudice. Who was at fault?
I believe there's a difference between building a sustainable and profitable business and pumping the stock.
"The law is not a shield for Big Tech."

No, but it protects the public from the emergence of more "Big Tech" companies and the so-calleed "tech" companies, hoping for an "exit", that they they acquire to stay dominant in perpetuity.

Google's lawyer argued to the US Supreme Court that Section 230 is what allowed it and other "Big Tech" companies to grow so large.

Section 230 protects centralisation. An absence of Section 230 might help decentralisation.
Open source / local AI is now about as capable as GPT 3.5 which is about a year and a half old.

I think we may see an open source gpt4 equivalent in the next 18 months. Anthropic has promised to open source Claude 3, for example.

If that happens, we could get good, fully private open source AI .
Same with Norther Ireland. Parent links to policies of Northern Ireland aimed at minimizing Catholic’s political powers, including via controlling the demographics. History has shown these policies to be very wrong and very much the reason for the Troubles.

Historically this region suffered from settler colonialism where Britain encourage Protestants to move into the area. If you wanted to make a comparison to anti-Zionism, then the Nationalist‘s fight for civil rights and political representation is much more apt, then Protestant hardliners wanting to keep the demographics in their favor in order for continue suppress the rights of Norther Irish Catholics.

Ironically, the IRA were not afraid to use terrorism to further the nationalistic cause (similar to a certain Palestinian resistance movement), and when the British tried to defeat them militarily (including via occupation) it only made matter worse. What did work however was stopping these policies which stripped Catholics from their civil rights, and granting them a political avenue for their prospects. Turns out that if you have political means for your goals, you are less likely to use terrorism.
Europe [-1] is a continent of which the four lions of the UK are very much part.

You might be thinking of the European Union [0], a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe and of which neither the UK, Norway, nor Switzerland are part despite all being within Europe.

[-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
Even proof of work was not novel, there were proposals for fighting email spam with similar techniques. Bitcoin's fortune is combining the right pieces at the right time and getting sufficient buy-in to become relevant and more difficult to ignore.
It is legal to buy a gun, and legal to fire a gun, and it can even be legal to fire a gun at someone who is threatening to kill you in the moment, but if you fire a gun at someone with the intention of killing someone that happens to be very, very illegal.
But at these length scales these materials are very corrodable, even stainless steel. They wont last long in the body.

Unlike, say, textures silica that was on here a few months ago. Then I raised this exact concern since SiO2 wont just disappear.
Amen. We need ethics and accountability and this wave of “AI” has been sorely lacking those, instead preferring the Uber model of “let’s just get big enough to bully things into working out in our favor.”

It’s important to nip that shit in the bud lest it spread.
Some people might see some parallel with SBF and see how Altman would try to regulate competition without impeding OpenAI progress
How is that beneficial to society?
Benchmarks with respect to QuestDB, TimescaleDB?
It's difficult to get traction here with a link to the whole blog (or whatever this is). It's better to post a single article. This one looks nice

https://x.com/gd3kr/status/1751040906193412099

Is all the twitter chain collected somewhere?
Dawn: Analytics for AI
He obviously meant the Italian Mafia.
Mutual funds and 401k’s have almost completely divorced shareholders from the companies they own. Most of the supposed checks and balances of public companies are merely performative at this point.
Specifically SiO2 which does not dissolve
From the Wikipedia page:

> The oligodynamic effect was discovered in 1893 as a toxic effect of metal ions on living cells, algae, molds, spores, fungi, viruses, prokaryotic, and eukaryotic microorganisms, even in relatively low concentrations.[7] This antimicrobial effect is shown by ions of copper as well as mercury, silver, iron, lead, zinc, bismuth, gold, and aluminium.

So I can justify wearing a bunch of oversized gold chains as “for my health”?
Most people aren’t that selfish or petty. But there are some people who are—and by an unfortunate quirk of human nature, they tend to believe everyone else is just like them.
I agree. The text jumping around and making me lose my place every 60 seconds just might motivate me to install an ad blocker.
I'm also nix-curious and intimidated by the wall. I feel like things would be a lot easier to grok if Nix actually had a static type system or even something opt-in instead of "the object has whatever fields I happen to put in it, good luck lol"-typed.
Which languages do you program in? (asp.net core name is fine, because - who cares? it's not like js does any better, it's something you don't think about twice and is irrelevant to the experience)
ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson like voice as she speaks out against OpenAI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942305#36946741 :

> Is re-planning routes for regenerative braking solvable with the Modified Snow Plow Problem (variation on TSP Traveling Salesman Problem), on a QC Quantum Computer; with Quantum Algorithmic advantage due to the complexity of the problem?

FWIU the Modified Snow Plow Problem is a variant of TSP the Traveling Salesman Problem which takes topological grade into account; only plow downhill.

Regenerative braking charges on downhills.

TSP can be implemented with quantum algorithms for a quantum computer.

There could be a call for and/or an ml competition for QC algos for TSP and similar:

> - QISkit tutorials > Max-Cut and Traveling Salesman Problem: docs/tutorials/06_examples_max_cut_and_tsp.ipynb:
https://qiskit.org/ecosystem/optimization/tutorials/06_examp...

Quantum Algorithm Zoo probably lists existing quantum algorithms that might be useful for this application
Meet here is shorthand the comment author is using for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_and_meet

You should read it as: "the largest group of properties that both languages agree about said abstractly defined mathematical object."
This is like attributing the crimes of a few fundamentalists to an entire religion.
Uh, we all should know exactly who and what Sam Altman is by now.

He’s absolutely been the bad guy all along.
Hey calm down a bit can't be that bad. If I read the code correctly this will almost never happen because the Easter egg has been designed to only show up when your mother, the head of HR, and your boss are jointly attending a presentation you're giving at a public venue, so... quite unlikely /s
I’ll give you credit. This may the first premium in-app purchase I’ve seen that actually says what you’re paying for.

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This is not an endorsement, just a thank-you to the developer for making terms clear.
> Who was at fault?

Pretty clearly the U.S. and the South Vietnamese military. Just because you can't tell who is a combatant and who isn't doesn't give you permission to slaughter entire villages.
Most likely it was an unforced error, as there’ve been a lot of chaos with cofounders and the board revolt, easy to loose track of something really minor.

Like some intern’s idea to train the voice on their favorite movie.

And then they’ve decided that this is acceptable risk/reward and not a big liability, so worth it.

This could be a well-planned opening move of a regulation gambit. But unlikely.
Compression and other features use the non-Apache license:

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/tree/main/tsl
Related ongoing discussions Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice [0] (700 points, 4 hours ago, 483 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (91 points, 15 hours ago, 132 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
Did E&Y not face any consequences here and why not anyway?
Thanks for the inspiration. I actually already have nixOS installed on another laptop, but lapsed back to my Ubuntu machine out of a bit of frustration. I'll try it again and see how far I get with these tips.
Putin wanted to visit South Africa for the BRICS summit. South Africa warned him that they would be obligated to attempt an arrest if he did.
Maybe. As part of the control he currently has, I think we can safely assume he has been filling the company with employees who are also very jazzed about going to Mars / making humans multi-planetary. So it really depends on where the power lies when Musk dies.
The detour into anti-bail-reform talking points was a sour note in this article.

It sucks that the criminal skipped bail, so without bail reform that would have only been allowed if she passed a certain threshold of wealth. Thats not mentioned because its clearly not a better outcome.
If they are a celebrity actor it sure is.
For gig workers, instant payout is a nice deal and increases the value of the platform, so being able to flow from customer to worker seamlessly is a value add.
yes, by forcing logouts due to cross-domain/cookie issues, it will hurt engagement metrics and cause all sorts of other problems. If not broken, do not fix, as it's said .
It depends on what's being compared. Anything that has a known negative effect that is intentionally suppressed in order to maximize profits all fall into the same category to me regardless of that the "it" actually is. At the same time, we have plenty of historical evidence where a new thing was thought to be the greatest thing since sliced bread and rushed to market only to be found that it is pretty nasty stuff. We can now test the new thing much more rigorously if only someone wants to spend the money and possible delay in profits which is no company ever.
You're right to be concerned. Material innovators should be open about these things.

Copper is toxic, but at these levels shouldnt be a concern.

Nano stuff are nasty, but since copper in the body cannot last long (corrosive environment), the nano particles will quickly disappear.

This is likely to be far more benign than other nano materials.

The question is, will this survive outside a lab?
A corporation complying with the law.
I think space expansion business might be more appropriate verbiage.

"Exploitation" has connotations of man-vs-man colonialism, which I don't think apply in the case of outer space.
AI Agents in Sports Analysis
It makes a lot more sense that he was caught red-handed, likely hiring a similar voice actress and not realizing how strong identity protections are for celebs.
The dispute is resolved.
Most impressive was the incredulity to the 'okay' during the counting demo after the nth interruption.

Was quickly apparent that text only is a poor medium for the variety and scope of signals that could be communicated by these multimodal networks.
It’s not necessarily a capitalist thing.
People will try to avoid any responsibility while getting the most of any system if you let them.

A retirement system like we have in France where older peoples shift the pension responsibility to younger generations regardless of their efforts as parents/cohort is not better at all.
Hamas was designated a terrorist organisation and the Gaza strip was subject to a total blockade since 18 years because of Hamas having won regular elections (at the time). So much for becoming an international pariah.

No, the real news here is of course the news: the ICC seeks to arrest Israeli top leaders as much as the Hamas leaders. The subject that is going from being everyone's darling to international pariah is Israel, absolutely no doubt about this. This is a massive win for Palestine and those who claim to fight for it, including Hamas- with the potential for historical consequences.

My take is that this was the intention behind the October 7th attack- to drive Israel to such a violent retaliation as to force the world to take notice and to condemn Israel. I might be wrong and the victory might be entirely an unintended consequence. However your interpretation essentially requires Hamas to have zero knowledge of the real ratio of military force between Hamas/ Iran and Israel, and zero knowledge of the fact that the US have always been ready to commit their entire military for Israel. And even your imagined "win" scenario for Hamas is Israel committing to "a truce"- which is what they already had before Oct 7.

* Iran's fireworks display is the result of Israel, not Hamas, trying to drag Iran into the war.
So, your argument here is that it is acceptable and moral for the government to apply trumped up charges to create a more favorable environment for a preferred verdict, but not acceptable or moral for the defendant to do the same?
Isn't General MIDI simply the mapping of certain instruments to certain numeric IDs? It doesn't dictate the actual sounds or samples that are used, does it?

Given that, why would it sound worse than any other means of triggering the same instruments?
> If they didn’t think they needed permission, why ask for permission multiple times and then yank it when she noticed?

Many things that are legal are of questionable ethics. Asking permission could easily just be an effort for them to get better samples of her voice. Pulling the voice after debuting it is 100% a PR response. If there's a law that was broken, pulling the voice doesn't unbreak it.
In the defense of the people, there has been an explosion of useless information. Just look at the number of settings on an Android phone or Chrome browser or in your Google account. Human Brains dont grow at the same rate year on year.
Anyone knows?
A rule of thumb: if it is really bad it will not be reported by the actual company doing it. It will be buried in the TOS and then discovered by angry users, and picked up by media.
See also, the misuse of the relatively rare psychological effect known as burnout to refer to simply being tired or fatigued.
Are we doomed to someday have all the popular AI voices sound like submissive, borderline sexually subservient females?
That’s not a gamble they are willing to take to court of law or public opinion.
And he must be a helluva pitchman, given the weird fired/hired debacle. Mixed with some of the resignations that made the HN front page recently, apparently anyone leaving OpenAI signed away the right to speak. I even find it odd that their statement says they hired a voice actress, but they want to protect her privacy? Seems like a helpful alibi if true, or likely, said actress has signed an agreement to never reveal she worked with OpenAI.
All your comment revealed is you view the world through other people's lenses.
HN is filled with startup bros (who want to screw the actual employees), VC adjacent brow (who want to screw the startup bros), and people who signed up for massively discounted compensation in the form of “equity” that cannot be converted into cash and can be stolen and/or devalued by the people running the business, and so acknowledging this means acknowledging the folly.

Working for a startup is inherently risky, but it’s not gambling because in gambling you can estimate the odds, and unlike gambling the odds cannot be changed after you win. Any employment contract that does not allow equity cash out at the price from the last funding round, or allows take backs, is worse than gambling, and founders that believe contracts that don’t provide those guarantees are reasonable are likely malicious and intending on doing that in future.

I do not understand a mentality that says “as a founder I should be able to get money out of the business but the people who work for me, who are also taking significant risk and below market compensation should not be permitted to do that”
That's very interesting, I'd never heard of the term "paper abortion" before, thank you for sharing.

I don't know or hang around any radical feminists as it's not a good use of my time and energy, but thank you for having those conversations with them so that I don't have to.