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I like lobsters, but I can't join the discussion. Can you invite me? thanks
Contrary to what you may have unwittingly assumed, @mentioning Dang doesn't summon him. Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com if you want something corrected.
The main thing keeping me on Windows is touch screen support. I know I'm a freak for wanting it, but we all have our ergonomic preferences.

Beyond that, I treat the OS as an appliance. Most of the software that I use is platform independent.
I'm trying it out to give me the correct artist name and song name for any given YouTube title. The titles of the music that I happen to like do not seem to usually be in a nicely, regular format. Llama3 does an admirable job. My plan is to pair this with yt-dlp and a mp3 tagger.
Lots of feelings seeing Sierra come up again. Lots of good memories playing Sierra games as a kid.

The story feels like it bears some similarity to the Dark Quiet Death episode from Mythic Quest. The video game industry, the husband-and-wife team, the rollercoaster of success and failure. Maybe just a coincidence. If you haven't seen it, it's a very good (and very sad) stand-alone episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10084334/
And plenty of her peers have been fighting against AI content harvesting in their recent contract negotiations[1].

1. https://apnews.com/article/hollywood-ai-strike-wga-artificia...
And “nanotextured stainless steel”?

Asbestos is just… rock.
They have lost interest in actually shipping things since they get paid to do nothing anyway.

Same happens in big organizations like IBM, Yahoo, and now Google. Urgency to deliver results is missing from a lot of orgs, especially the public sector.
case would still happen, just without a jury (maybe)
It’s stuff like this that gives me 0 trust in Altman. Drama follows the guy everywhere and it’s likely because he brings it on himself with questionable morales and actions.
How can something be illegal if every step towards the objective is legal?
This would result in an incoherent legal system where selective prosecution/corruption is trivial.
Really? I don't think I've ever had a YouTube video take longer than 30 seconds to load on a good Internet connection
> You seem to be misunderstanding the situation here. They wanted ScarJo to voice their voice assistant, and she refused twice. They also independently created a voice assistant which sounds very similar to her.

And promoted it using a tweet naming the movie that Johansson performed in, for the role that prompted them to ask her in the first place.

You have to be almost deliberately naive to not see that the were attempting to use her vocal likeness in this situation. There’s a reason they immediately walked it back after the situation was revealed.

Neither a judge, nor a jury, would be so willingly naive.
No, it's about a party's right to demand a jury trial.
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The whole thing is a poorly written snooze fest.
Lots of stories with many irrelevant details yet it contains pretty much no factual data.
Copper has a very long safety record. Comparing it to PFAS is ridiculous.
Yes, and additionally the Copilot 360 user interface is a mess, processing time is slow, and the quality of results is poor. Using the Chat GPT or Claude interface produces much quicker/better results.
> Seriously? 541 crates for a static site generator for docs?
rust is clearly off to copy npm in all of it's faults. I have no idea if go is similar in the explosion of dependencies and supply side attack surface area explosion

In Rust, it is design choice. They try to keep the standard library small, and let community create competitive packages. You see the result in those numbers.

It is hard judge based on those numbers only.
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He certainly had an impact on Tesla's supercharger team. I know it goes against the prevailing mythology in the US of great men and visionary leaders but sometimes success or failure have more to do with the market and time. He did recruit a spectacular team for early SpaceX. For all I know he may have had some extraordinary talent for hiring or it might have been luck and a target rich environment. Either way the success of SpaceX was very real and greatly contributed to the mythos surrounding Musk.
Remarkably similar to this popular film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name
Then it would be 5 months.
The point is that a law which would label people saving the victims of the holocaust as being complicit in a genocide then it's a stupid law.
It's a fascinating thought that so much of all online content is created for the consumption of bots instead of humans. Because the bots are the gatekeepers to what gets shown to real humans, the bots need to be pleased first.
They likely meant the ACH is 2 business days.
I’m more wondering about the nanotextured steel.
I didn’t know about the “White New Zealand Policy”, but it seems to have been rolled back in the 80s. Ireland is not the same as Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

I assume you chose the word “citizen” carefully, so let’s just imagine that in a hypothetical Palestinian state — whether alongside or unified with Israel — Palestinians would enjoy the same rights as Israelis, unlike today.

Anyway, obviously you aren’t picking on them for any of that, and I’m not super interested in debating it. I’m just answering your question about what “opposition to Zionism” means.
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But the UK isn’t in Europe..
Wait, in every single jurisdiction, when Alice wants something and Bob can do it, bribery is when Alice pays Charlie, who happens to be representing Bob for the transaction, to get the thing done. The canonical example of bribery is that a supplier (Alice) gives a company manager (Charlie) a nice watch in order to close a deal with the company (Bob).

In this case, Alice (Google) is paying Bob (the DoJ) with the expectation that Charlie (the judge in the case) will be forced to do something in response to the payment. Bob is in court with Alice to (ostensibly) get this payment as well as a few other things. Bob and Charlie here have no relationship. Nothing about this is bribery.

If this is a bribe, then paying your parking tickets is a bribe. If this is a bribe, buying something from an electronics store with the expectation that you can download the user manual from the manufacturer's website is a bribe.
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Alternatively, since Google values their illegal monopoly at $1M, can the court just pay that as damages (just in case) to the investors, skip the trial, and just break the company up?

That seems more than fair: The illegal scheme in dispute is apparently only worth $1M on Google’s side, but causing mid to high billions in externalities.
I think stripe was a YC funded company at some point. Algos on hn pump them hard.

Founder still lurks HN as well.
This is the first time I've heard of it.

https://www.voidtools.com/
I’m in lol
Coolio didn't say yes to Amish paradise but the record label that had the rights agreed to the deal without him (which certainly shows who's in charge in that industry eh?). Many years later, Coolio admitted that he was wrong about the whole thing though.
The claim that "there can be no explainability of such models" is also completely unsupported. We know that some simple networks can be explained, and explanation is a human notion, not a formal one, so we can't know how much explainability is possible. There's active research in explainability of neural networks and progress is being made. I don't know how far it'll go, but it hasn't hit any sort of theoretical boundary yet. I think the author is making a similar sort of mistake that they do in invoking the halting problem here, confusing a "not forall" for a "forall not". There are certainly neural network models that can't be explained ("not every model can be explained" is true), but that doesn't mean that there aren't ones that can ("every model can not be explained" is not true).

As part of the argument on explainability, the author says "we have known for some time these models cannot represent or model symbolic structures". There might be some particular weird way of defining things where this is true, but it's certainly not true in the most basic reading. In fact, we have very strong theoretical results that a sufficiently wide neural network can compute any function, including those that are "symbolic". Whether they can be trained using gradient optimization to compute every function is an open problem, but the idea that there are functions they can't represent is provably false.

The third point, that LLM's aren't as step towards AGI. They again make the claim that there are functions a DNN can't compute (or approximate arbitrarily well) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore... for the theorem that this isn't true).

The rest of this point, and the fourth point, are basically just about how current LLM's are actually pretty dumb in a lot of situations. This is the only argument that's actually compelling to me; there's a lot of hype around LLMs and their abilities, but a lot of that might have to do with our brains being happy to paper over flaws to anthropomorphize things. And the fact that we haven't yet learned what to look for in artificial output, like we spent decades doing for other machine outputs before LLMs. Recall that when dumb pattern matching conversation bots were invented in the 60s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA), people thought they couldn't possibly be artificial and must really be human, even though they are obviously artificial by todays standards.

So, I agree that we don't know if LLM's are the first step towards AGI, and they probably aren't in a sense more than the fact that inventions tend to build on each other. But we don't have enough information to say definitively that they aren't that first step.
Stripe could choose to support FedNow instant payments and push these funds for pennies (up to $100k at a time), assuming the receiving institution hosting the deposit account(s) is set to receive on those rails. They would arrive within 20 seconds, per FedNow’s SLA.

Only costs ~$25/month to plug into these rails, plus a few cents per transaction.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...

https://www.frbservices.org/resources/fees/fednow-2024

https://www.frbservices.org/binaries/content/assets/crsocms/...
We were migrating to Kubernetes from fixed hosts and had to buy the capacity. I just spent a day looking at our utilization and made a better decision about what instance type to use.
The median US household income has increased significantly above inflation in the last few years and the lowest-income households have done significantly better than that because we reached "full employment" and that allows more job changes.

The largest price issue left is housing costs and that has nothing to do with "corporate profits", it's about bad land use regulations.

(Another funny thing about the "ever increasing corporate profits" argument is that it's literally anti-Marxist, as Marxism says the problem with capitalism is its profits continually /decline/ due to over-production.)
You claim to work for either Anthropic or DeepMind (almost certainly DeepMind). I'm doubtful their AI products don't use people's works in similar ways.
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This is a civil case. The jury wouldn't be deciding on guilt.
You could go to Penguin directly. Or perhaps the Authors Guild would help you set something up across publishers.

All of deviant art? Probably not. But do you need to train on all of that? You could certainly run ads telling people you’d be willing to pay a small amount to train on their art and let them choose.

Would it be legal to train against the national archives?

Options exist. No you won’t get as much stuff as you do by taking whatever you want, but people are being compensated for their work or at least being given the choice to opt in.
She doesn't own most (all probably) of her contributions to the world.

If the voice was only trained on the voice of the character she played in Her, would she have any standing in claiming some kind of infringement?
The film, “Alone In the Wilderness” is terrific.

https://vimeo.com/767376634
HN isn't good for long threads so here are some things to think about seriously and argue with yourself about, if you like. I will probably not respond but know that I am not trying to tell you that you are wrong, just that it may be helpful to questions some premises to find what you really want.

* What exactly are the current ones doing that makes them generate 'black Vikings'?

* How would you change it so that it doesn't do that but will also generate things that aren't only representative of the statistical majority results of large amount of training data it used?

* Would you be happy if every model output just represented 'the majority opinion' it has gained from its training data?

* Or, if you don't want it to always represented whatever the majority opinion at the time it was trained was, how do you account for that?

* How would your method be different from how it is currently done except for your reflecting your own biases instead of those you don't like?
Holy cow. Trying to read an article on Vice is atrocious. I’m ok with you needing to publish ads, but when it makes the site bounce around like dog chasing squirrels, I give up.
I read it exactly as you did.

Not sure how your response can be framed as 'Denying the antecedent'. :-/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36310594#36356444 :

> What is the maximum presumed distance over which photon emissions from blue [sapphire,] LEDs can be entangled? What about with [time-synchronized] applied magnetic fields? Could newer waveguide approaches - for example, dual beams - improve the distance and efficiency of transceivers operating with such a quantum communication channel?

> [...]

>> Physicists at the University of Konstanz have generated one of the shortest signals ever produced by humans: Using paired laser pulses, they succeeded in compressing a series of electron pulses to a numerically analyzed duration of only 0.000000000000000005 seconds [...]

>> For Peter Baum, physics professor and head of the Light and Matter Group at the University of Konstanz, these results are still clearly basic research, but he emphasizes the great potential for future research: "If a material is hit by two of our short pulses at a variable time interval, the first pulse can trigger a change and the second pulse can be used for observation—similar to the flash of a camera"

- "Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps" (2024-03) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864107
Probably? My phone goes over a day on a charge, fairly easily. Especially if I'm barely using it.
As others stated, who the 'people' are varies.

I used to sell cars and was top 0.1% in the country at it.

Yet others would say I was a parasite costing them money for nothing. But they were ignoring I was providing value for the dealership and its collection of employees even beyond the owners. I worked for a public corporation. Tons of stake holders profited via stock value while I was there.

On a tangent, people always say they'd rather just buy cars online. Great you can do that for one. Second, if all manufacturers did that, month 1 results would be whatever they were. On day 1 of month 2, some MBA would say "hey, if we had a human these people could call, chat with, or even visit with for a test drive, wouldn't sales go up? Let's try it!" And within a month you'd have salespeople interacting with customers again.
Interesting to see how the more upvotes and comments this thread gets, the further DOWN it goes on the frontpage, despite being more recent than almost everything above it.
I don't think that the opinion "70s intellectuals' love of the genocidal Khmer Rouge is bad" is "my" politics. I think this is a commonly held opinion actually.
Yes God forbid I hire anyone who actually studied algorithms and can do a big o analysis. That just ain't how we do things around this old holler.
I think you meant Azure Windows Surface Copilot for Workgroups 360.Net. Everything at Microsoft is Azure now.
Err, only if humans have to be turing oracles to have that intuition, right? Plus, the halting problem only says that you can't have a procedure which will be 100% right on 100% of programs about whether or not they halt. Relax either of those 100%s, and it becomes possible again, just like how human intuition can be right about things 90% of the time, even if those things can't possibly be predicted 100% of the time.
You are saying know your customer requires the bank to keep a copy of your photo ID on file, and that it shows up on the teller's terminal when you go into a bank? That seems pretty insane to me that tellers would be able to look up any customer's photo ID, and it seems like a huge liability for the bank to keep those on file.

I've had my primary checking account since the 80s, the photo would not look anything like me. When I opened my passbook savings in the 70s I didn't even have a photo ID, just a socical security card.
Yes. They etched stainless steel.

I'm not seeing the comparison to asbestos which is dangerous regardless of form.
Yes and Israeli violence against Palestinians also dates from 1948. In fact the Israelis killed much more Palestinians than the reverse.

Also I don't get your point. So they started settling because of the intifada? That doesn't make sense, and I've never seen settlers claim that it was related to anything expect that they see it as their god given land regardless of what happens to those who live there already.

I mean it's pretty simple, when the Fath ceased armed combat, the settlers came and Israel did nothing expect provide IDF protection to them. That's what the Palestinians got for trying to actually normalize the situation and create the PA and even fight their own little civil war against extremists (Fath vs Hamas): unrelenting settlement.

I'm sure the settlers wouldn't be so brazen if Hamas was also on the west bank. Funnily enough though, Israel ministers were also openly discussing allowing settlements again in last year in Gaza.

Still, it's very weird to see settlement as a "oh well that sucks but what can we do" when Israel could stop it any moment they want like they did in 2005. Oddly enough, only Israel gets to have literal conquest and blatant disregard for international law and even their allies marked as an oopsie.
And yet because of the *nix OSs being widely available it has even displaced superior models e.g. the Windows character cell model [0] is arguably a better fit for modern terminals yet new development goes to compatibility with "cross platform" inband signaling and escape sequences.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-fu...
I mean, yes, I agree that it is obvious. 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, and that they're not trying to game the system on the other. Those don't seem very compatible. It looks way more as if the DoJ knows they're not entitled to a jury trial, would like one for tactical reasons, and spent a lot of time and effort in fabricating a pretext.

(The filing linked to from the article claims that this kind of trial has never gone to a jury in the past, so it really is not some kind of standard operating procedure.)
You don't need much support to win when everyone else's votes are split between 24 candidates.

And there is already a precedent for strong popular support. In 2022, Ukraine won the popular vote with 439 points, with 239 points for the next country. This year, Israel lost with 323 points vs. 337 points for the winner. Ukraine, which came in third, also got pretty close with 307 points.

Similar forms of activism, such as petitions and protests, are supposed to demonstrate support for something, but they often end up showing the opposite. Because the absolute number of supporters rarely matters. What's more important is the number of supporters as a fraction of the total, or relative to the expectations.

Once upon a time, I was involved in something controversial. There was a petition opposing us, with a very large number of signatures for that context. But the petition ended up strengthening our case, because it showed that the opposition to our plans was no more widespread than what we had assumed. The next elections proved us correct. A large number of people with a particular opinion didn't matter, because they were a small enough fraction of the total.
Very nice!

Might consider this for our next game.

Would you consider adding a +-10 button to the megacredits (and maybe heat)?

It would be a good timesaver for large purchases
Ah. So if they aren't with you they're against you. Nuance and moderation need not show up, all those "pesky" scientists with different opinions should take their science back to the 80s?

Got it. Why bother considering other opinions? It's obvious what the Truth is.

There's got to be some pitchforks and torches around here somewhere...
Turing completeness arguments don't apply to brains because we have infinite storage space ;)

(it's in the environment around us and other people's brains.)

Obviously you can construct something with human level creativity, it just takes two people and nine months.
The thing about the situation is that Altman is willing to lie and steal a celebrity's voice for use in ChatGPT. What he did, the timeline, everything - is sleazy if, in fact, that's the story.

The really concerning part here is that Altman is, and wants to be, a large part of AI regulation [0]. Quite the public contradiction.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-artificial...
> Companies cannot go to jail for crimes

Seems like they really should. No business activities, commerce or services for the period of incarceration; the company effectively freezes or ceases to exist.

It would naturally be as life-destroying to the company and its relationships with business partners, customers, employees and those who rely on it as it is to the average joe.
Sampling is not the same as duplication. Sampling is allowed as it's a derivitive work as long as it's substantially different from the original.

It's a "I know it when I see it" situation so it's not clear cut.
What's the difference between an algorithm training on someone's voice, and a human baby listening to a voice and growing up to speak the same way? Would you punish the baby for that? It's exactly the same thing.
I have a friend who is a neuroscientist and he disagrees immensely.
That's the idea behind how they work, but cold diffusion and latent consistency models show that you don't actually need any particular step.
The Samsung flip is pretty good. The closed profile is pretty small and it fits in pockets quite well.
It's an interesting question. Even if you believe Netanyahu is guilty he was elected in a functional democracy. His ruling coalition is tenuous but legal. But if the ICC is trying to prevent atrocities then the size of the constituency behind an atrocity is irrelevant. At least to the mission. It does make enforcement seem kinda impossible. The best outcome they can hope for is shaming the Israeli electorate into doing something different.