skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for the mis-attribution. Lost the thread there.

When you look at civilian to combatant ratios you have to take into account the battlefield. You can't compare the war in Donbass to the war in Gaza. What's the population density in Donbass? Were combatants fighting in civilian clothes? Was there a human shield strategy at play? Tunnels? Booby traps?

I've heard experts give much higher civilian to casualty ratios than 1:2 for dense urban combat under these conditions. I've heard numbers like 1:8 (which I think is more or less the ratio for the war in Chechnya). I think the battle for Mariupol has fairly high rates if we want to use another comparison. There's this US Urban warfare expert (John Spencer) from West Point that goes around saying how Israel is doing a great job. So I'm not sure I agree with your transparently false observation. We need something more directly comparable. IIRC in the Battle of Mosul most civilians evacuated, also the number for dead civilians in that battle vary widely. Where I would tend to agree is that in the beginning of the war Israel pounded Gaza very heavily and likely at that phase with less care about collateral damage vs. damage to Hamas.

Incidents like friendly fire are fairly common in wars. I don't have any way of gauging how this one compares. Wikipedia says: "accounting for an estimated 2% to 20% of all casualties in battle".

Do you have comparable examples of armies warning civilians to evacuate, by dropping leaflets, sending text messages, and giving them time to do so like the IDF does (maybe not 100% of the time but certainly has done a lot during this war)? I think that's fairly unusual in comparable situations. I don't recall the US ever doing that in its wars.

Could Israel do a better job avoiding civilians. Likely yes. Is it possible to completely eliminate this under the circumstances (30,000 combatants, in civilian clothes, fighting from population centers) - I don't think so. I also agree the "boasting" about avoiding civilians is at the very least in poor taste. We should feel sorry for civilians killed regardless of the "ratio".
So snapdragon believes they’ve built a faster and more energy efficient chip than Apples M-series.

I thought the general consensus was that Apple was years ahead of the competition. What breakthrough did Snapdragon come up with?
I had a conversation with someone responsible for introducing LLMs into the process that involves personal information. That person rejected my concern over one person's data appearing in the report on another person. He told me that it will be possible to train AI to avoid that. The rest of the conversation convinced me that AI is seen as magic that can do anything. It seems to me that we are seeing a split between those who don't understand it and fear it and those who don't understand it, but want to align themselves with it. Those latter are those I fear the most.
There is not clear jurisprudence on this. They're only in trouble if they actually used ScarJo's voice samples to train the model, or if they intentionally tried to portray their imitation as her without her permission.

The biggest problem on that front (assuming the former is not true) is Altman's tweets, but court-wise that's defensible (though I retract what I had here previously - probably not easily) as a reference to the general concept of the movie.

Because otherwise the situation you have is OpenAI seeking a particular style, hiring someone who can provide it, not trying to pass it off as that person (give or take the Tweet's) and the intended result effectively being: "random voice actress, you sound too much like an already rich and famous person. Good luck having no more work in your profession" - which would be the actual outcome.

The question entirely hinges on, did they include any data at all which includes ScarJo's voice samples in the training. And also whether it actually does sound similar enough - Frito-Lay went down because of intent and similarity. There's the hilarious outcome here that the act of trying to contact ScarJo is the actual problem they had.

EDIT 2: Of note also - to have a case, they actually have to show reputational harm. Of course on that front, the entire problem might also be Altman. Continuing the trend I suppose of billionaires not shutting up on Twitter being the main source of their legal issues.
Then I guess the question is: what constitutes combat. There were many people who streamed over the fence with Hamas, is invasion engaging in active combat? There were many people who spit on, hit, or otherwise assaulted the kidnapped civilians, is that actively engaging in combat? The ones who were freed said they were kept in civilian homes, does jailing civilians against their will count as actively engaging in combat? IDF soldiers report many children and women acting as spotters for Hamas, is that active combat?

I think the answer to all these questions entirely depends on which side of the conflict you support, those who see Palestinians as hapless victims who have been abused by the evil Jews will say of course none of this is combat and attacking those innocent people is the highest war crime; on the other hand those who see Jews just trying to live in peace in their homeland being attacked by bedeviled Palestinians will argue that assisting soldiers in war makes you an active combatant, and thus a legitimate (though possibly regrettable) military target.
I’m pretty sure that, unless some time traveler really screwed up, this is how it played out on this timeline.
It's been a long time since I used it, I don't remember what I was using for diffs, but I suspect it was just whatever the default built in diff support was.

It occurs to me that many people these days use git with github exclusively, and have it configured to only allow commits via PR, and only allow either squash or rebase merges, it's kinda SVN with extra steps.
Exactly. The web is full of niche, high quality websites that aren't playing the SEO game. Google buries these so deep in the results (or chooses not to index them) that they effectively don't exist.
Of course people are shot by accident all the time. There are even a few cases of hunting dogs shooting their owners (by stepping on the trigger).
Whereas Palestine's signature is fake. I don't know how else to call it. I mean are we now to believe the "state of Palestine" is going to arrest and deliver Sinwar, Deif AND deliver the hostages to Israel just because this guy asks?

And they didn't waste any time in stating they would never actually execute the signed treaty. At least we already know that:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmllykpwgdyo

(Yes, I know what the BBC title says, Hamas statement that they won't follow the treaties they agreed to uphold is there, for their own people. In THE SAME STATEMENT they complain that it isn't applied faster to their opponents)

(Also: obvious conclusion, if Hamas has no intention of holding up treaties they signed, then that makes any peace with them worthless, even if it's a signed treaty. Without a trusted counterparty there is no choice)
I'm not arguing that X/Twitter is doing something that prevents it from being protected by section 230 as it exists. But, when Congress granted these protections, I think they had in mind things like forum moderation to remove hate speech, not selectively censoring journalists that write critically of a company. So one could rethink whether companies that censor journalists should be protected.
I know a few champions of marking data with colors instead of using a new column. But this one tops it all :-)

> Using text color (and nothing else) to indicate units. (Example: black in pounds, green in kilograms).
it's a well-known site and you could check that with web.archive.org dating it back to at least 2013.
welcome to every business in america.
The same as Apple. Qualcomm bought Nuvia, which was started by engineers working at Apple on their CPUs.
If you have looked then you can't have tried very hard:

"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."

Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49, last paragraph.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/art...

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule130
Using GCC 14 on NixOS
VICE made a nice video on the shipbreaking here a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU0DXdAhdsA
Could you explain what "to use regarding 'tells'" means in this context?
Of course.

But if I get a new device out of the box, make no changes, and it doesn't get those numbers, then it's a lie.

That's been my experience before (not with a Surface), and it was OP's experience with a Surface.
I can't imagine paying 3k$ to get adware.
lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) is enlightenmentware for me. It helps me navigate Git commands I forget all the time, like using the reflog to undo things, custom patches, or rebase --onto.

It makes working with Git a lot more fun, and I giggle like a little child whenever one of the weirder things work out again.
Laptop battery life estimates outside of Apple are downright criminal. I'm still bitter over the time I bought a fully loaded Sony Vaio which had an advertised battery life of 11 hours. When in actuality, I only got less than three hours of battery life and complained, they explained to me that they meant it gets 11 hours of standby mode with the lid closed. I only made the mistake of buying a non-Apple laptop one more time with a fully loaded XPS which could barely manage 4 hours of battery life. I honestly have no idea how anyone can put up with non-Apple laptops. It's pure garbage out there.
Welcome to the world where the "fuck the creatives" brigade wants everything for free.
I would imagine if you want to do any 3D printing, or graphics with a lot of artificial looking objects, or you want to do woodworking plans or anything like that on the computer, you probably want CAD as well.

But my Blender knowledge is pretty much limited to very basic sculpting, so I'm not really sure what the best approach for a 3D artist is. Basic prop building is a bit different from 3D art!
>That’s why she was the voice actor for the AI voice in Her.

She was used in Her because she has a dry/monotone/lifeless form of diction that at the time seemed like a decent stand-in for an non-human AI.

IMDB is riddled with complaints about his vocal-style/diction/dead-pan on every one of her movies. Ghost World, Ghost in the Shell, Lost in Translation, Comic-Book-Movie-1-100 -- take a line from one movie and dub it across the character of another and most people would be fooled, that's impressive given the breadth of quality/style/age across the movies.

When she was first on the scene I thought it was bad acting, but then it continued -- now I tend to think that it's an effort to cultivate a character personality similar to Steven Wright or Tom Waits; the fact that she's now litigating towards protection of her character and likeness reinforces that fact for me.

It's unique to her though , that's for sure.
Livewire is fantastic!
No I had not. Thanks for the comment, I’ll check those out!
What specifically is the QOS for AWS?

But sure, if you want citations for $0.10 per Mbps in bulk for transit, that's easy to find/beat.

https://he.net/ "Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $0.06/Mbps!"

https://www.fdcservers.net/ip-transit Europe, North America: 10Gbps $499/month

And telegeography just sells information, but they had a blog post that's now three years out of date reporting that "In Q2 2021, the lowest 10 GigE prices on offer were at the brink of $0.09 per Mbps per month. The lowest for 100 GigE were $0.06 per Mbps per month."

You need to factor in that your utilization won't be 100%, but if you're comparing 6 cents for a Mbps and and 5 cents for a gigabyte, then the exact point where AWS is 100x more expensive is when your line is 36% utilized.
Yes, it's still called "ASP.NET Core", even though ".NET Core" was renamed ".NET" from version 5 -- not to be confused with ".NET Framework 5", which was renamed ".NET Core 1.0" before launch.

Don't forget ".NET Standard" that could be used from both .NET Core and .NET Framework, until version 2.1.
Gordon Bell Has Died
If you prefer the written word, see https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/
> a reference to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act, just short of being caught in flagrante delicto.

If this isn't a smoking gun, I don't know what it.

I think people forget the last part of the definition, though. A Smoking gun is about as close as you get without having objective, non-doctored footage of the act. There's a small chance the gun is a red herring, but it's still suspicious.
C++ has constructors doesn't it?
I wonder how they'll handle this? A pot of gold and an iron-clad NDA for an out of court settlement?
I think you guys are referring to two different accounts of the same incident. Hamas claims Israel gunned down Gazans (not sure how we got to hundreds, I don't think even Hamas claimed that) and Israel claims the Palestinians mobbed the trucks and got run over as the trucks were trying to get away.

The Hamas started calling this the "Flour Massacre" since it has a certain ring to it. Given where the information is coming from I suspect it's not true. Like anything else, we don't have independent information. The IDF did investigate this as well and admitted to shooting at people approaching their security vehicles (that were there to secure the aid delivery).
They could have learned something from Apple. iBrain, iBrain Pro, iBrain Pro Plus, iBrain Ultra, iBrain Ultra Max.
"Schedular" typo in image heading
First, none of the products differentiate themselves

Second, it's hard to find good AGPL'd projects with communities. Most projects are building an open core enshittware model around MIT or Apache.

I think someone is going to need to write and open source AI Manifesto that speaks out against this low novelty open-washing strategy.
You can easily do that, and it's been already done. Check out:

- https://websim.ai

- https://worldsim.nousresearch.com/browser

Both of those use Claude by the way, because Claude models are way more creative than GPT-3.5/4/4T/4O.
That case seems completely dissimilar to what OpenAI did.

Frito-Lay copied a song by Waits (with different lyrics) and had an impersonator sing it. Witnesses testified they thought Waits had sung the song.

If OpenAI were to anonymously copy someone's voice by training AI on an imitation, you wouldn't have:

- a recognizable singing voice

- music identified with a singer

- market confusion about whose voice it is (since it's novel audio coming from a machine)

I don't think any of this is ethical and think voice-cloning should be entirely illegal, but I also don't think we have good precedents for most AI issues.
Interesting story told poorly in an atrocious UI.
Sam: double the grift and half the taste of Steve Jobs
The full-stack framework discourse
Not sure what GP is on about. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention is very clear on this matter:

"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."
What part of the functionality from the movie Her did you think it meant?
Many people praise the PHP-native model of mixing HTML with server-side code (Dynamic HTML if I remember correctly), and rightfully so for many use cases.

But I wonder why no other languages has implemented this model, not even Python which is used for almost everything.

Templating is not the same thing as the language in the template is normally not the complete host language, and JSP is quite old and did not even support Java 8 the last time I tried :/
Printed book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1716727367

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-t...

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ken-williams/not-all-fairy-t... (hardcover)
I had a similar, frustrating experience last weekend trying to copy data from a phone to a windows machine.

Windows is trying to hide all "technical" stuff so hard that it becomes impossible to do anything.
In fact Palestine’s recognition is not blocked by the US. What is blocked by the US is Palestine becoming a full member of the UN.

The two things are different. Switzerland did not join the UN until 2002. I’m sure that we can all agree that Switzerland was recognized as a state prior to 2002.

Becoming a full member of the UN is a sufficient but not necessary condition for recognition. The other way is simply to get as many other states as possible to recognize you.

Arguably Palestine’s recognition by the UN General Assembly is also sufficient.
I agree. I've tried coding in C-like languages with proportional fonts a few times, and punctuation ends up feeling cramped, hurting legibility. We need more proportional fonts for programming where punctuation gets the same size and spacing as in monospaced fonts.
>where they run the ships aground at high tide.

Probably a dumb question but what do they do on the next high tide? Wouldn't it interfere with their work?
1.5% for a 2 day loan is an APR of what? More than 270%.
I guess the Trump lookalike satire guy would not want to go to California then
The fact that they did it anyway and only took it down after legal threat tells you these are not the people you want to be in charge of such powerful systems. They want their cake and to eat it too, and regular humans be screwed over in the process. I think a relinquishment of power is in order. OpenAI should truly be open and there should be large public discussion forums regarding changes moving forward.
> When studios approach an actress A and she refuses, then another actress B takes the role, is that infringing on A's rights? Or should they just scrap the movie?

The scenario would have been that they approach none.
> in my current language of choice, C++, DI is nowhere to be found

STL, for example when passing explicit allocators. You can even call any higher order function using dependency injection.

And of course there are C++ codebases that look like Java - the pattern book works with C++ too.
That's a big stretch. Allowing intonation to be copyrighted would be incredibly silly. The timeline and intention makes sense but this being "similar" would never win and it shouldn't. Sam should have kept his mouth shut.
And higher order functions.
Sam Altman doesn't inspire confidence in where AI companies are going with user consent. And the board can't even remove him even if he takes OpenAI to the wrong path. He is the board and the company.
Emissions in Europe and China are declining due to massive government-subsidized rollouts of renewables and massive investments (and subsidies) for EVs and charging. They are not declining because people “made and individual choice to generate lower-carbon electricity or drive EVs” which would have been pointless without the technological investments that made mass-scale EVs and renewable energy possible.

This has always been a coordination problem and “people need to make individual choices that are better” has always been the worst possible solution to it.
Are they downloadable?
That's the same argument node people make. See how well it's worked out.
i's not Postgres-like, it _is_ Postgres
The React server side components crowd seem to have figured it out!
it's noteworthy because a lot of similar solutions using OpenSCAD (progmatic on-demand creation of boxes/containers) are written poorly, and in many cases they only allow an arbitrary precision as set by the authors.

>This is kind of a CAD program, right? Why would it have trouble with any precision? Isn't it just juggling numbers?

this one kind of made me laugh only because of my familiarity with the history of CAD programs and what poor tasting dog-food has been served.

There is a long history of conversion errors, process errors, arbitrary formats and unit types, whatever. A CAD program that truly 'juggles numbers' is the holy grail, and the high tech solutions nowadays are getting pretty close to getting it right -- but it's been a journey and they're still not really there; every CAD suite has a list of no-nos that must always be kept in mind, and they're not engineering/science no-nos, they're "it'll break the software when I try to create a chamfer around this type of edge." kind of no-nos that are quirky and specific.
I often feel the same, so I will try to give a serious answer:

Most web design today is driven by branding. Everyone seems to feel like they have to be express their uniqueness. This is awful and can widely be regarded as a bad move. I fully agree with you on that front.

On the other hand, the default browser styles are bad in their own way. Look at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ for details. In practice, some degree of web design is necessary.

Also, you can create art and beauty on a computer. A well designed website can elevate the experience, just like a well designed book or chair.

Finally, HTML is limited in what it can do. JavaScript, CSS, and WAI-ARIA together form the low-level technologies to extend the web with new functionality. See https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/ for details.

In summary, I would say that most web design is useless, but not all of it.
Ozone was much easier / cheaper to fix, we could keep doing what we are doing and just change it around a bit. Which is mostly what we did - there was a resurgence in freons emissions, vaguely traced to China.

The ugly truth of CO2 emissions is we would have basically needed to massively cut our energy consumption - either by going to renewables more aggressively, at a higher cost, or by outright cutting fossil fuels. We couldn't make small adjustments and keep going as we were.

So we didn't.
1 is not a set, any set-theoretic construction of 1 is not literally 1.
…but rice is 1300kcal/kg, so you need 88 trucks/day.

Are you the salafist you speak of?
Thanks for sharing. I always wondered who was behind Phong shading algorithm.
Banks are required to keep their KYC up to date. Regulations will obviously vary depending on where you are, but in general, banks have a fuckton of information about you, all alledgedly to prevent fraud (and terrorism).
> I can still hear the fans.

I could not deal with that I’m sorry. I’d have to turn it off.

The only way I could make Windows usable day after day in a previous job was to shut it down every night, and then I had the BIOS configured to start it up again and iterate through my extensive startup list before I got into work. Was quite effective like that.
You're hateful towards it?

Personally I'd probably interpret "to medal" as "to meddle" and misunderstand completely.
I think you need to make a distinction here between the Palestinian Authority (which signed it) and Hamas (that supplanted it through violent uprising). The PA still exists and would happily comply, they just don’t have a presence in Gaza.
Whoa, they look amazing and could be a game changer. I ordered a box immediately, thanks for sharing!
Everyone knows what you meant. But it’s not up to them to “settle”. If she brings forward a formal complaint they can offer to but she has no obligation or incentive to accept.

This may turn out to be something they can’t just buy their way out of with no other consequences.
I feel like the music marries well with the somewhat depressingly industrial hardcore work on display in the ship-breaking clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVm8G0ipETc

(El Rodeo by Kyuss)
Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
> They stole someone’s voice after being told not to?

Stole someone's voice? That's not stealing, let's not pump more power for copyright propaganda even if this case is correct.