skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s likely a mixture of genuine and ulterior motives, in this case.

The amendment was proposed by a politician who seems to believe in it genuinely. Furthermore, there is a genuine gap in the law. There’s a case to be made that the law is necessary for even an extremely small number of cases.

On the other hand, the governing party is on the verge of losing power and has made a LOT of moves to inflame a “culture war” to attract right-wing votes. Among attacks on minorities, immigration, homelessness, etc., this has included a “culture war on green policies”[1]. The latter has included reducing investment in cycling and walking infrastructure and opposition to safety improvements on residential roads (such as lower speed limits) if they inconvenience drivers.

The prime minister has claimed there is a “war on motorists” - in reference to local government policies to reduce air pollution, lower residential speed limits, improve bus lanes, and reduce people’s distance to businesses to promote walking over driving - and vowed to stop or limit the above[2]. Whilst there are two sides to all these policies (largely economic and cost-of-living arguments against), public statements often use emotive language to foster an “us vs. them” atmosphere.

In that environment, it is easy to see how this amendment may be a happy accident that bolsters their perceived “anti-green” and “pro-motorists” credentials.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/uk/britain-rishi-sunak-cl...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66965714
Time based partitioning.
Ask HN: Security Analysts, do you have positive experiences of cybersecurity AI?
To all Security Analysts/Engineers (and likeminded folks) out there, do you have any positive experiences about cybersecurity AI products such as Microsoft Copilot for Security? Have they actually increased your productivity, increased the quality of your work or decreased the amount of time it takes to analyze security incidents?

Background: I am a L2 analyst/security engineer at an MSSP and our management is tripling down on technology driven-AI by heavily focusing on technologies such as Microsoft XDR with Copilot for Security, among others. We do not have an "in-house AI" and we just use/configure third party tools, while simultaneously streamline internal detection engineering by re-allocating the resources to do consulting rather than work on improving the threat detection capabilities. We have hired a new "AI team" who so far have done absolutely nothing to improve the quality or the efficiency of the work we do at the ground-level. Nonetheless, the management sees their achievements as a great success as they have managed to "fully integrate AI capabilities in to the security analysis workflows".

My personal experience is, that using these AI-technologies slows down my work and decreases the analysis quality, as the tools cause me to chase red herrings more often than before, or fails to provide critical information that would have been obvious if I had just looked at the raw payloads myself. With prompting, I am having hard time to get the AI to produce any information that wouldn't be obvious by looking at the incident sheet or the raw payloads.

Only area where I see a big improvement on is the generation of text for instructions, incident reports and other type of work that is not happening in the moment (i.e., AI provides a starting point and I finish it myself).

Do I just have to git gud and try harder, or are the something fundamentally wrong with the cybersecurity AI products at their current state?
If the purpose is to trade on the celebrity voice and perceived association, and its subject to California right of personality law, then, yes, we're saying that that has been established law for decades.
> Having your parents, or your children, “eradicated” by someone is a powerful motivator

But again, Japanese and Germans aren’t blowing up Americans and Indians aren’t blowing up London. Claiming this will create more terrorists is saying the Palestinians are irredeemably violent. I don’t think that’s right.
What's the right way to learn how to use NixOS?

There are a few different approaches to doing everyday development (oh use Flakes or just make it a default installed package) that it's tedious to do lots of things I've found.
> Easy to lose sight of how good a thing they had going!

Some millions from Qatar with no political engagement towards 2SS isn't good by any measure. It was most certainly good for the Israelis: the Abraham Accords and recognition of the Western Golan Heights + Jerusalem by the US, with practically no opposition.

Sinwar may be a lunatic, but we'd be lunatics just the same to assume Hamas were happy with the status quo. They are not PA for a reason.
Yes, that is my point. The same applies to Taiwan. Guatemala considers Taiwan a country, China does not. Some countries belong to both groups depending on the context.
Whether fulfilling but lower-paying work is worth it depends on your individual circumstances, priorities, and values. The decision depends on your individual situation and what you value most in your life and career. It's essential to carefully weigh the pros and cons and consider both short-term and long-term implications before making a decision.
Is this different from the various videos of the Harry Potter actors doing comedic high fashion ads? Because those were very well received.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuqLy87-3A
Had to re-read a few times until it hit me. I didn't mean indirect but complex addressing.
FYI, apparently doing that (making a P2P system to offload your links to the users) is illegal in China.

>Due to the proliferation of P2P CDN (or PCDN for short), which includes a large amount of home broadband uplink bandwidth at the central office, increasing operational pressure, and cannibalizing the traditional CDN business revenue share of telecom operators […] access is technically detected If the user's traffic volume exceeds a certain threshold, the speed will be limited or even the user's Internet access service will be interrupted. If the user finds a complaint, the user will be required to ensure that he or she has not used or removed the PCDN corresponding access device in exchange for restoring normal access. access services; thereby preventing access users from overusing home broadband and infringing on the interests of telecom operators.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/內容傳遞網路#P2P_CDN
The more accurate (though somewhat academic) term for this trait is 'narcissism'.
Looking at the comparison with Click Benchmark, they are almost pathetic in terms of performance. They cant even handle sub-second aggregation queries for 10M records. Compared that too even duckdb reading from parquet files.
>The proliferation of AI tools that can generate increasingly sophisticated text, images, video, and more at massive scale and low cost is poised to flood the web with AI-created content.

This destroys the web.
Doesn’t sound all that similar to me
Scarlett Johansson made Disney cave. She’s going to absolutely destroy this band of grifters.
An interesting comparison. If they took in every Jew in Germany they would have been accomplices to an ethnic cleansing but would effectively have prevented an ethnic extermination. So while technically the answer would have been yes in that case it might have been a good thing anyways.

But the analogy breaks down here because (1) the UK and USA had strongly antisemitic attitudes at the time and imposed very small quotas on the number of Jews they accepted as refugees and (2) it appears that Israel is not pursuing extermination of Palestinians.
> They are "round": they pack the most volume in the smallest surface area. unix surface area is tiny, but it unlocks much power. Emacs and Git are all over the place, but their core is small, sweet, and easy to appreciate.

I really like this 'round' concept, seems very precise. Maximum interface area / use cases (surface area) with minimum core volume.
There is no reward for suffering or misery. It usually includes some level of unreasonableness.

Sustainable environments seek a pace conducive to life rather than absurd crash schedules, drama, churn, and burgeoning tech debt.
Interesting change-set. Not sure DNT by default really helps things. Perhaps if it were a first run prompt? Afraid that DNT by default undermines the case for legislation to enforce it.
Point taken about not throwing out what one thinks is good signal.

But I disagree that people will find a way to signal that they're doing good work. I didn't see much at all of that signalling until I was around the fancy-pants universities (and the difference was striking). And even there, the self-promoting level (skill, opportunity, and stomach for it) varied widely.
Tom Waits won a lawsuit against Doritos too.
ring of fire, baby
Good info.

I'd agree that several solar masses of energy could be put to better use.

But we've gotta start somewhere, and this seems like an advance from stuff that does not exist (as far as we know) to 'just' large quantities of stuff that does exist. No harm in continuing to work on it?
Microsoft has tried to make a "better" search before, by redesigning the file system and the metadata that can be tied to files.

The idea was that you could search this:

> the phone numbers of all persons who live in Acapulco and each have more than 100 appearances in my photo collection and with whom I have had e-mail within last month

They had hyped this up as coming in Project Longhorn (which was eventually split into Vista and salvaged in Windows 7), but the new filesystem was eventually dropped like their other attempts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
Yeeah, this was very stupid. Sigh.
My reading of the history is that a not insignificant fraction of early Western support for Zionism was explicitly to avoid Jewish immigration to Western nations.
For comparison, the French resistance was called a terrorist organisation by the Germans, as Algerian FLN was called terrorist organisation by the French… etc. History would be kind of funny if it wasn’t tragic.

And this whole “terrorist” word was jeopardised by Bush. There’s no “terrorism” per se as an emanation of evil.

It’s just an asymmetrical and violent extension of political expression, where dialogue failed to reach a settlement.

Otherwise you’d need to explain the ideological similarities between Al Qaeda and eg. ETA.
Most of the reactions here are in unison, so there's little left to contribute in agreement.

I'll ask the devil's advocate / contrarian question: How big a slice of the human voice space does Scarlett lay a claim to?

The evidence would be in her favor in a civil court case. OTOH, a less famous woman's claim that any given synthesized voice sounds like hers would probably fail.

Contrast this with copyrighted fiction. That space is dimensionally much bigger. If you're not deliberately trying to copy some work, it's very unlikely that you'll get in trouble accidentally.

The closest comparison is the Marvin Gaye estate's case. Arguably, the estate laid claim to a large fraction of what is otherwise a dimensionally large space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharrell_Williams_v._Bridgepor...
Those are the rumors about Sam…
California residents: call your legislators about AI bill SB 1047
So they wanted Johansson's voice, she declined, they chose another voice actress who sounds somewhat similar. Can someone explain why that is bad? I don't really get it.
> Are we seriously saying we can't make voices that are similar to celebrities, when not using their actual voice?

They clearly thought it was close enough that they asked for permission, twice. And got two no’s. Going forward with it at that point was super fucked up.

It’s very bad to not ask permission when you should. It’s far worse to ask for permission and then ignore the response.

Totally ethically bankrupt.
Imagine the crass software quality of an AI startup on top of 30+ years of legacy code. That's Copilot+PC for you, boys. Enjoy it to the fullest when your company IT sends it your way.
I mean you can encrypt and refuse (forget?) the password in the USA, but there's really not much else. Judges (at least here in Texas) give out warrants like they're America Online (TM) CD's and the state attorney general is a well-known "alleged" grifter. It's looking real bad for the 4th amendment in the USA, it's on the ropes and has been especially since the Patriot Act kicked off a lot of police anti-constitutional actions.
I believe that US has been an essential partner for a very long time. It demands great leadership but it is something sorely lacking over the past couple of decades.
So far, you are the only one making a fool of themselves.
Sure, but most people have heard of Perelman due to the rejection controversy (particularly, most people in Russia, who don't care about achievements of that sort, sadly).

Granted, we're not on a forum where most people go, so I shouldn't have said "you" in that case.
The provocation is the continued blockade and military occupation of Gaza, as that is what most consider it to be. With the exception of the US and Israel of course.

Not to mention the continuation of apartheid in Israel itself and expansion of settlements in the west bank.

This situation was created because Netanyahu has supported Hamas for a long time, even before 2005, as a classic divide and conquer strategy, to not allow PA to control both territories. But the US also helped as Bush forced elections early when PA had a reputation of being corrupt, and when they lost the election they tried to get PA to do a coup and Hamas kicked them out from Gaza.
I changed my kids diapers, if I didn't they would smell and get a rash. Having a good reason to do something isn't the same thing as wanting to do it for purely pleasurable reasons. But that's the whole point isn't it? Approaching things as, "if you don't want to do it, then don't" can lead to a whole lot of bad outcomes.
the people who did it once are almost all dead

people in the age range 20–70 in 01970 would be in the age range 74–124 today. different people, who identify with those people, in several different countries, would like to do what those people did. it behooves them to study what those people did and how they did it, not because they can't do anything better, but because it's easy to do worse, and both of these criticisms make a good case that artemis is doing much worse. the ussr at the same time did so much worse that they never landed humans on the moon at all. similarly with contemporary france, the uk, the prc, etc.

you cannot get to the moon and back on a saturn v because there aren't any saturn v rockets in operable condition, and there never will be again. it belongs to history now, like children's chemistry sets that could make rocket fuel, being able to order rocket fuel ingredients without getting a visit from a police agency, drugs being legal by default instead of illegal, new classes of antibiotics being brought to market, and being able to go out in public without your movements being permanently archived for spy agencies to data-mine later on

artemis is on track to follow in the footsteps not of apollo but of the soviet n1/l3 program, which was canceled after losing the race decisively to apollo. it's chang'e that's following in the footsteps of apollo. we'll see if spacex can change that, but i'm not that optimistic
The CEO tweeting a jokey reference to your voice really doesn't help though.
I don’t see how the author’s arguments about impossibility results pertaining to “distributed sub-symbolic architectures” apply any more strongly to LLMs or DNNs than they do to human brains. Human programmers aren’t magically capable of solving the halting problem either, but we muddle through somehow.
Exactly.

I'm very surprised someone a whole essay like this and have this misconception.

I was half expecting to see "humans building something smarter than human machines violates the laws of thermodynamics" next.
AI poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand
kevin buzzard is a very good(usually math) expositor with a bent towards programming. love it
Running some order of magnitudes, we've had people abusing children and taking photos of it since around 1850. By this point there is a large enough corpus of whatever horrors they want to look at that a model can be trained without doing any further harm.

It is a total waste of taxpayer funds to be going after someone if all they've done is generate however many images with stable diffusion. I'm glad in this case he's at least done something objectionable although an arrest seems a bit of an overreach, this seems to be the sort of situation that could be resolved with a fine rather than jail time based on skimming the indictment. If that.
This was flagged by our internal security scans due to some dumb Easter egg the developer added.

Fast or not.

Not a fun email
Me too, but I suspect we have differing reasons. I’ve been very nearly mowed down by cyclists, on the sidewalk, on numerous occasions, multiple of which looked like acts of attempted assault. Cyclists are insane, and between their negligence or their malice, are a clear and present danger to my safety as a pedestrian. Not to throw all of them under the bus, and surely cars cause far more suffering, but cyclists have proven to be enough of an issue that I’d like to see them chill out, or be forced to chill out somehow.
One thing that boggles the mind is that Blue Origin decided to use liquid Hydrogen fuel in their design. I don't see their lander working early enough to matter to Artemis with that challenge to overcome, given how slowly Blue Origin works.
Except Isreal isn't a signatory nation, and all of the land in question is part of Israel. That's not a judgement either way, there have been some attempts to change that, but the ICC doesn't actually have any jurisdiction here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418312

Well that was quick

We're going to need a ad-removal LLM frontend next
I mean, unless an investigation can find any criteria used to select this particular actress like "sounds like Scarlett" in an email somewhere, or you know, the head idiot intentionally and publicly posting the title of a movie starring the actress in relation to the soundalike's voice work.
Why?

Tracking should be opt-in. If we hide it in settings, where most normal people never go, they will get no benefit.

Trackers should need explicit permission, not just ignorance.

That all a saw is, DNT is a waste of time anyway because it has no force of anything behind it.
I think this article nicely explains why Go’s infamous error handling is the way it is, 4 years before there was such a thing.
The mining truck pictured seems to be this one.[1] That's a Diesel-electric drive mining truck, and it is powered by the same diesel engine used in the generator trailer shown in the video. So, if you're charging from that stationary generator, all you've done is take the Diesel and generator out of the truck and put them in a box on the ground.

Now, really, this is just a problem with the demo. The customer here has plenty of renewable power available. Plus, of course, if the mining situation means mostly moving ore downhill, the truck may be recharged by its own regenerative braking system.

[1] https://machine.market/specification-24166
This shows it's not the software or platform that matters- it's the network effect of who is using it.
I thought it was a reference to Microsoft Flight Simulator.
While I am highly sympathetic to the idea of using large-scale analysis of medical data to improve outcomes, anybody who thinks they can fix the American health care system is both naive and egotistical.
Q is (usually) a set of equivalence classes of ZxZ\{0}, so obviously it's not a superset of Z since they're not even the same types of things.

There is however a canonical embedding of Z into Q, sending n to the class of (n,1).
If the Saudis want to "invest" $2 billion, they don't have to give it to Jared Kushner, they can just have their sovereign wealth fund dump it into this company and let the Trumps do whatever they want with it.
It has not been "technically" occupied. There's no such thing. Either a place is occupied, or it's not, and Gaza was not. What is true is that most in the international community refused to accept Israel's withdrawal from Gaza as the end of Israel's occupation. That's a political statement.

You're missing an important part about tens of thousands of rockets and mortars being fired from Gaza at Israel and terrorism originating from Gaza at Israel. Israel didn't just randomly attack Gaza.

Here's what really happened in Gaza: Israel completely withdrew in 2005 and was not occupying Gaza any more. It handed the entire Gaza strip to the Palestinian Authority. There was even an agreement for safe passage between Gaza and the West Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_freedom_of_movemen...

Not to mention that even before 2005 Israel handed control of most of the Gaza strip to the PA as part of the Oslo accords (and agreement to hand Gaza and Jericho over to the Palestinians predates the Oslo accords).

In 2007 following Palestinian elections Hamas took control of the Gaza strip by force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007) Israel only imposed a full blockade of Gaza as a result of this change because Hamas' stated goal is/was the destruction of Israel. Despite Israel's blockade Gaza has a border with Egypt and had no shortage of goods (and weaponry) through smuggling and other means. There was also plenty of travel in and out of the Gaza strip (both towards Israel and the West Bank and towards Egypt) and there were plenty of good going into Gaza through Israel. Gazans also worked in Israel. Gaza also had a power station and a water desalination plant. It has billions of dollars of aid and investment flowing into it (Ismail Hanyah needs to be a billionaire after all).

So Israel was neither an oppressor nor an occupier in Gaza. It took actions to try and prevent Hamas from arming itself.

The other part wrong with your premise is that Palestinians want to live in peace with Israel within the 1967 borders. They do not. Maybe some of them do. But many do not. When the Oslo peace process was accelerating towards that goal Palestinians started a suicide bombing campaign against Israeli civilians which results in the killing of Rabin, the rise of the right, and the termination of the peace process.

EDIT:

Bombings by Hamas starting 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_at...

Rabin's assassination 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin

1993: Oslo accords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

2007: Blockade of Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

2005: Disengagement from Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaz...

Rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_...

Gaza-Israel barrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_barrier
Shows 2U in order to fit 32 drives, but hopefully you can find a 2U slot for this absolute monster of a storage box if you have that need.
High performance people are sometimes pushed out by lower performance coworkers who feel threatened. Also, B managers hire C tech leads, who hire D ICs.

Another trap to avoid nearer to the high performance side is allowing elitism or tiers of snobbery. Hire people who are regular cool or who you can at least tolerate.
Sunsetting Section 230 Will Hurt Internet Users, Not Big Tech
My English skills are still at an NP-complete level (I find it hard to compose my own sentences, but for me it's easy to verify whether they are good enough or not). So, I have been repetitively begging the LLMs to fix my grammar while communicating online.
The gold standard for this Druid at very large scale, or ClickhouseDB. Clickhouse has a lot of problems as far as modifying/scaling shards after the fact, while Druid handles this with ease (and the penalty of not being able to update after the fact.)
Nominative determinism wins again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism