skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think so. I’ve narrowed my comments specifically to Effective Altruists who are making utilitarian trade-offs to justify known moral wrongs.

> I will say, when EA are talking about where they want to donate their money with the most efficacy, I have no problem with it. When they start talking about the utility of committing crimes or other moral wrongs because the ends justify the means, I tend to start assuming they’re bad at morality and ethics.

Frankly, if you’re going to make an “ends justify the means” moral argument, you need to do a lot of work to address how those arguments have gone horrifically wrong in the past, and why the moral framework you’re using isn’t susceptible to those issues. I haven’t seen much of that from Effective Altruists.

I was responding to someone who was specifically saying an EA might argue why it’s acceptable to commit a moral wrong, because the ends justify it.

So, again, if someone is using EA to decide how to direct their charitable donations, volunteer their time, or otherwise decide between mora goods, I have no problem with it. That specifically wasn’t context I was responding to.
GTP-4o is the new model, the o stands for Omni.
I don't think that's exactly accurate.

What's likely different is that GPT-4o can output the tonality instructions for text to speech now.

It's probably the same voice, but different instructions for generations. One was without tonal indicators, one with.
It seems they identify so closely with dotnet that any perceived criticism is taken as a personal slight. It's the only thing that explains such a rabid response to a reasonable observation.
I think people who know/use Stripe will have no confusion about this.
Yep, I have to do it occasionally.

The same with Visual Studio. It is referred to by a year, eg Visual Studio 2019, but then you need to look in the make files for the actual version number of the project, and then look on Wikipedia for a table matching versions to years.

Wikipedia at least has decent docs on versions.
Again, more sophistry. Take the argument head on. Do you believe the cops are breaking the law, yes or no?
I don't think this makes any sense, at all, quite honestly. Why would an "intern" be training one of ChatGPT's voices for a major release?

If in fact, that was the case, then OpenAI is not aligned with the statement they just put out about having utmost focus on rigor and careful considerations, in particular this line: "We know we can't imagine every possible future scenario. So we need to have a very tight feedback loop, rigorous testing, careful consideration at every step, world-class security, and harmony of safety and capabilities." [0]

[0] https://x.com/gdb/status/1791869138132218351
Have there been any of our climate change projections that have proven too aggressive? Because most of them, this one, seem to always end up being too conservative.
As an aside, an argument in favor of mass transit vs electric cars, is that EVs do nothing to reduce particulate matter pollution from tires and breaks.
At least five interesting things to start your week (#37)
> parasite costing them money for nothing

Don't dealerships (and the salesperson) only make hundreds on a $30k car? It's almost a loss leader for the service department.
Yes I take blockchain to mean proof of work (or proof in general) validating blocks such that you can track time to some extent in a system that cannot be sure of time because of being distributed and nodes not being trusted.
Do the useful properties of copper change with oxidation?

Silver is also antimicrobial, and also expensive.

FWIU nanospikes in silicon achieved virucidal outcomes in small trials as well.

Is copper virucidal without nanospikes?

(On this topic,
Hemp textiles are antimicrobial / bactericidal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39196781#39197019 )

"Scientists create virucidal silicon surface without any chemicals" https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c07099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39196822
SEC Cracks Down on Unreported Data Breaches with New 30-Day Disclosure
Did mobile phones cause the crime collapse?
Nosocomial infections are terrifying because they're often things that have as you said survived in a very harsh environment. Thank you for doing your part to reduce them.
I remember it because I am embedded in the dotnet ecosystem. Many other people find it deeply confusing from the outside.
Ask HN: Is Blender the Best 3D Design Tool or Are There Better Alternatives?
I've been diving into 3D design recently and Blender often comes up as the top free tool. While it seems incredibly powerful, I'm curious if there are other free or affordable alternatives that might offer better features, ease of use, or community support for beginners and pros alike.

For those with experience in 3D design, what tools do you recommend and why? Are there specific use cases where Blender might fall short compared to other software?
Egypt lost the six-day war and had to sign the Camp David accords and peace treaty to regain the Sinai peninsula. In return it gave up upon part of its sovereignty needing consent of Israel on topics like arming of the border guard or wares that are allowed the crossing.
Displacement of civilian populations in occupied areas, and mass settlement of occupier civilian populations into the West Bank also needs to be up there.

It is also a war crime, and doesn't even have the fig leaf of an active war to justify it.
I have similar thoughts in my mind while reading this. In that vein, I'd be interested to know what the 'worst case' prediction for sea level rise is, including the effects listed in the article on the Thwaites glacier; a 1 foot sea level rise in X years?
Well yes "don't trust people who can't be trusted" does sound like a good idea, but it appears to be a bit tricky to actually implement.
Thanks alot.
- I am not really trying to build featurebase though(initially i did). I am trying to build a support form builder. This is an MVP with other features coming soon.
- I would get legit feedback for the screenshots.
Wow. Some of my designs could really use some work in some of these categories o hadn't even thought of!

For the units though, there are the Practical Numbers, and the 5-smooth numbers, that more people should be aware of. They include a lot of the really popular numbers that show up everywhere
The problem is similar to that of beautiful tall rich women who "can't find husbands". Except the companies are in fact mostly quite plain. Obviously there are plenty of husbands out there, just not so many tall movie-star-handsome kind sensitive smart billionaires.

It seems to me the current problem is almost entirely due to companies being too picky, demanding exact skills and experience, and setting up ludicrous obstacle courses of DSA tests, psychology tests, multiple interview rounds, etc, etc, often for rather pedestrian positions.

And then on the freelance front you have 'opportunities' like this on upwork:

We are seeking a skilled Ruby on Rails Stripe Integration Tester with extensive experience in testing financial software and APIs.
Job Summary:
Develop and execute test plans for Stripe API integrations within our Ruby on Rails applications.
Identify, reproduce, and report bugs and glitches, and verify fixes from development teams.
Hourly: $4-$8

I mean, $4/hr, resposible for testing their financial integration? And to add insult, upwork want 21 connects ($3) just to send a proposal (which may not even be read). Excuse me while I don't rush to apply for the role. Or send any money through the fintech marketplace they're building.

Recruiting would probably be cheaper and give better results just by picking the top 10 CVs (or even 10 at random), give out 1-week contracts, and hire whoever worked best. I mean, just like having multiple dates, having longer-term relations, even cohabiting, before settling on a marriage partner.
Thanks alot jogi
The industry really has become bloated. Now we have DevOps and Agile Coaches and Cloud Engineers and microservices and JavaScript Everywhere(TM).

It’s all bullshit. DevOps is really so complex that a medium-sized company needs an entire team?

Earlier today I was trying to set up some elaborate Postgres database backup and couldn’t get it to work so I just put the command in the cron tab and called it a day. Took 1 minute.
Ask your Uber driver on a Thursday!

I've met drivers who have had to pay out multiple times per day.
The Threat to Open Source Comes from Corporate Manipulation
The Midler v. Ford decision said her voice was distinctive. Not the song.

The replies to Altman's message showed readers did connect it to the film. And people noticed the voice sounded like Scarlett Johansson and connected it to the film when OpenAI introduced it in September.[1]

How do you believe Altman intended people to interpret his message?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/177v8wz/i_have_a_r...
I'm building my own AI Chatbot, with multi LLM models to switch and choose from. I also add enhanced multi-modal capability, like we can casually ask the AI to generate an image or just casual chat. It helps me to improve my learn about LLMs landscape and help me with daily work/like. You can try it on my GitHub

[1] https://github.com/vinhnx/vt.ai
I understand why companies want to bury bad news under generic titles but that doesn't mean we have to play along. This is a case where "editorializing" the title seems helpful.
Databases are a tough business. You're just waiting for open source to eat your lunch.
Ready or Not is effectively the spiritual successor of SWAT 4. I haven't played it since release but it's got the right vibe.
I am guessing it's because you are trying to sell the voice as "that" actor voice. I guess if the other voice become popular on its own right (a celebrity) then there is a case to be made.
Don't waste your time. No one can reason their way out of something they didnt reason their way into in the first place. A lot of people spent way more time than that individual thinking about what would appeal to the generic customer. And it so happens that regardless of gender, sexual preference, and pretty much anything else you can think of, humans prefer to look at human women and also prefer their voices over human men. And this is unlikely to change, ever, no matter how much they disagree with it, if history is anything to go by.

Let someone else swim against the tide if they feel like that's the best use of their time.
Shells, and how by scripting them you have programmatic access to the entire operating system.
Interesting to see from that list that Bank of America, Citigroup, Capital One & PNC missing from the list.

Appears they are still lagging in adopting FedNow (while Wells Fargo and US Bank have adopted)
Demanding $50B in stock in a publicly traded company that's down by more than half from its peak in the middle of a botched product launch, two if you count Semi as an ongoing botch, is arguably worse, or at least costlier. If only because a rocket that requires 15 fuel service launches to get beyond Earth orbit is still private and has Saudi money valuing it at $150B post in a round where they get 0.5% of the cap table for their money. Elon's only competition is Elon.
HuggingFace?
Could someone who has domain expertise weigh in here regarding the predictions quotes in CNN? I've only ever seen two meters predicted by any model at the year 2100.
I would just close the window 1 minute in because that's just ridiculous. Unless you've already done this before and play Sudoku regularly for fun, it would take you 10 minutes just to absorb the problem. Doesn't leave much time for coding. If you can't even minimize the window to read up on Sudoku, how the heck can you complete the task. The company will end up full of Sudoku enthusiasts who can barely code.

For my last online test, I wanted to close it within 5 minutes of reading the first question even though the problem was not particularly difficult, I just knew I couldn't solve it within 40 minutes because it was a problem that I had never seen before and was very disconnected from practical scenarios. I needed 20 minutes just to absorb the question fully. Also it was very late at night and I wasn't in an optimal state of mind.
People don’t write application code in those languages but as I understand it cobol is still underpinning large swathes of the financial system, and similar applies to fortran in engineering and scientific computing.
For anything that is primarily made of flat surfaces or simple geometry, FreeCAD's realthunder edition is far easier to use, because the interface is based on 2D sketches and requires a lot less thinking and interacting in 3D, and you don't do a lot of precision mouse work dragging things into place, just approximations you constrain with numbers.

Although that might actually be a negative, because it doesn't teach you the methods you'll need for more organic shapes.
I’m sorry you get downvoted because that’s basically the truth.
Previously retirement was done by investing in your children and environment. It makes a lot of sense, is a lot more secure and positive than any of the bullshit we came up with.

Only reason current system works is because mistakes get diluted and peoples don’t have much choices because of monetary control.

HN is way too liberal bordering on communism…
At first I thought there may be a /s coming...
"an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier"

"closely monitored for its potential to elevate sea levels. ...described as part of the "weak underbelly" of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, in part because they seem vulnerable to irreversible retreat and collapse even under relatively little warming, yet also because if they go, the entire ice sheet is likely to eventually follow."

"The amount of ice from Thwaites likely to be lost in this century will only amount to several centimetres of sea level rise, but its breakdown will rapidly accelerate in the 22nd and 23rd centuries, and the volume of ice contained in the entire glacier can ultimately contribute 65 cm to global sea level rise"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Glacier
China Is Winning the Minerals War
> Not the founder? maybe read Walter Isaacson's book.

The company was founded in July 1 2003, Musk didn’t even hear about the company until 2004. That’s a rather large gap to call someone a founder. But hey it’s an arbitrary distinction so feel free to disagree.

> Stock graph shows Tesla had no material impact from the Solar City Purchase

From the announcement of the purchase to its completion Tesla’s stock dropped ~20%.

Buying or creating a solar company in house made sense, over paying to bail out a relatives solar company he was involved with didn’t. Solar City was in 1.5 Billion dollars in debt, their business model was failing, and they had just laid off 20% of their workforce so yea Tesla shareholders got hosed.
Sucks that he had to do it, but the notion of Tom Waits making Rain Dogs and then pivoting to spending a bunch of time thinking about Doritos must be one of the funnier quirks of music history.
No. I'm not making any sweeping generalizations. I'm just commenting on the specific turn of events in this particular case.
Not to mention that Israel is practically recruiting for Hamas since Oct. 7th. I don't know where the 40,000 number comes from, but if it's from before the war, I have to guess that the needle probably hasn't moved much, even if the # of Hamas killed are accurate.
> and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.

Very interesting to see this there. Does anyone know how could that be legislated?
I remember ministry from the future book where they mention drilling down and pumping the seawater to prevent the freshwater intrusion to stop it melting

I wonder why it's not being discussed. As he said in the book, at the cost of practically all coastal cities going under, even small collections of real estate magnates would be invested enough to help privately fund at least some of it
Its not just the US. A western democracy has never been issued a warrant like this. It's not that hard to find crimes being committed by western leaders (is no one listening to this seasons Serial podcast? Guantanamo is still open).

If this goes through every western leader past and present can have a warrant out for them at any minute, it really doesn't take much to find 1 suspected violation and a need to arrest and stand trial to see if they are guilty.
Likeness rights and copyright are different.
I really like the concept, but I greatly prefer just using a piece of filament for the latch bendy element, and the hinge.
generally it has to be public knowledge which prisons people are in, because the alternative would be really bad (people “disappear”).
Arcanum :)
Yes, I just saw this. Looks like the 'questions' did come from her and her legal team after all
> easy to loose track of something really minor. Like some intern’s idea

Yes, because we all know the high profile launch for a major new product is entirely run by the interns. Stop being an apologist.
Key difference here is that Scarlett still has her voice.
Teflon - poly(tetrafluoroethylene), is used in medical implants in the human body.

I wouldn't about it.

PFAS? That's different.
Please tell me by what metric and to what other conflicts are you comparing this to where over 35,000 people (over 15,000 of which are children) killed constitutes the "lowest civilian casualty rate in modern history". The smugness with which you treat the tragedy that is currently unfolding is disgusting.
The Israeli right wing is supports (to some extent) settlement in the west bank and the rise of the Israeli right is related to Palestinian violence. That's the correlation/connection. Israel's left wing, that used to support a two state solution and peace, has ceased to exist as a direct result of Palestinian terrorism.

You story doesn't jive with the facts. The period between 1967 and the mid eighties was the least violent period in the west bank. Palestinians worked in Israel. Israelies shopped in the west bank. That period also had virtually no settlement activity in the west bank.

The extreme right in Israel sees settlement as the "proper" answer to Palestinian violence. That's another thread connecting these things. But the government that enables this was literally brought into power by Hamas.

When did Fatah cease armed combat exactly according to you? Are you talking about the Oslo agreements and the return of Arafat to Ramallah? I'm not following you (and I used to live in Israel during those times so I'm not making stuff up).

Hamas is also in the west bank so your other statement doesn't compute either.

Israel has dismantled settlements in Sinai, and in Gaza, as part of an agreement. During the Oslo process there was support in Israel to dismantle those as part of a peace agreement. The Palestinians didn't want peace (Arafat thought he'd be murdered if he makes peace with the Israelis and anyways Hamas and the PIJ wouldn't abide which makes the whole thing moot).
Interesting take on FreeCAD's realthunder edition. I can see how the 2D sketch-based interface might be easier for simpler projects. But yeah, not learning the 3D methods for organic shapes could be a downside. Do you think it's worth learning both FreeCAD and Blender, or should one just stick to Blender for the long haul?
Article is 2018. I believe this is a pretty old article and original horses are now know to have come west from the Americas to Asia via the bering strait, but am not able to look it up at this time.
> is that EVs do nothing to reduce particulate matter pollution from tires and breaks

Except for not using brakes for the most part. EV brakes typically last for the life of the car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_braking
Most likely the "secret database" is just the filesystem. Keeping things forever is the default behavior of filesystems.

A photo library application is just a database pointing to files in the file system. In some cases photos were deleted from the library database without being deleted from the filesystem. That's the bug.

The consequences are that: 1) the photo appears to be deleted to the user, who goes by what the application tells them 2) the photo appears to be deleted to the application, who goes by what the database says, and 3) the photo miraculously reappears when the filesystem is re-indexed by the application.
Check on AI startups that were VC funded 18-24 months ago. Likely a spectacular graveyard of colorful gradient B2B SaaS garbage. (I will admit the “AI look” is a lot cooler than the “Web3 NFT” look.)
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You are using characterisations there rather than facts. Or irrelevant facts, such as how the leader was elected. Think about who else in history has been democratically elected.

Courts can only deal in facts otherwise they are ineffective.

Courts that care about “optics” are ineffective. And there are no optics here that will please everyone. So just follow law.
Spotlight?

There's HoudahSpot [1] for something a little more advanced. Third party launchers like Alfred [2] can also perform file searches.

[1] https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/

[2] https://www.alfredapp.com/
>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.

I suspect this is an aspect of the collapse of support for Israel in the US along demographic lines. For many of young Americans' adult lives, Israel's 'guardianship' has been somewhere between anti-democratic and outright oppressive, and certainly not a context in which a people could be expected to 'build a state' for themselves.
Is this your first cycle in tech?
In the US courts system, juries are used to determine questions of fact, but if the facts are not in question, a judge can apply the law and there's no need for a jury.

Agreeing that there's no question of facts speeds the whole process along quite a bit. There's no need for witness testimony, it can all be managed in hearings and with breifings.
if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being. Given that he doesn't bring any technical know how to building of AGI, I just don't see the reason to have such a person in charge here. The new board should act.
> payouts always take two or three days to clear, to comply with all of the settlement and legal processes

No, that's usually just how long ACH transfers can take. In most cases, it's more like next-day these days, in my experience (e.g. from paying out from PayPal to my checking account or between checking accounts), but that depends on the specific ACH type and timeline, I believe.

> The “instant payout” is actually a temporary loan

It's usually not. Actual settlement of both card and ACH payments usually happen on the next business day, but since that goes for both legs of most transactions, the settlement periods "cancel each other out".
> ICC can issue secret warrants

Do you have a source for that? This doesn't make sense to me since it relies on more than a hundred different countries to enforce them, it'd be impossible to keep anything they do a secret
Appreciate the summary! What a mistake to make.
Previous negotiations like the 2000 Camp David Summit have failed because (among other points) the right of return:

> Almost all Israeli Jews oppose a literal right of return for Palestinian refugees on the grounds that allowing such an influx of Palestinians would render Jews a minority in Israel, thus transforming Israel into an Arab-Muslim state. In addition to the right-wing and center, a majority of the Israeli left, including the far-left, opposes the right of return on these grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return
Aid money to Palestine is only "donations to Hamas" when it's politically convenient, apparently. I've heard many justify the bombing of convoys because the food would feed Hamas people.