skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although rare, I use instant payout for my small business. It's a lovely convenience and the extra 1% hit (on top of the usual transaction fees) can be a worthwhile tradeoff. I can't explain it, but the new 1.5% fee killed the motivation to use it entirely.
This and the associated series of regex posts from Russ Cox are probably the best content on practical regular expression engine internals you can get. If you have a cursory understanding of NFAs and DFAs, it's some of the best technical writing I've ever had the pleasure to read.

These posts are responsible for my love of regular expressions :)
Probably 5-10 minutes worth of dataset and GPU time for finetuning on an existing base model. Could be done on a Blu-ray rip or an in-person audition recording, legality and ethics aside.
> Stripe could choose to support FedNow

But then they wouldn't be able to charge more fees
Yeah, sometimes as a graphics programmer you don't even want the precision provided by built-in functions! As it has been pointed out though, be careful about error propagation
They also have one of the first MMORPGs that hardly anyone knows about, and it's still around. The Realm (https://www.realmserver.com/)

I know this came after Meridian 59 and Everquest but I think it was before Ultima Online. Spent my elementary days playing it. I bet a lot of the players have passed on by now. I was (rule-breakingly) about 30+ years younger than everyone.

edit: Oh, 1996. I guess it was right when UOs alpha/beta came out. Wild. That definitely ate its lunch.

IIRC The Realm was a one time purchase whereas I needed my dads cc for UO... so that was limiting.
Indeed, that was where the comment was leading.
The models assume an steady rate of sea level rise because slow Antarctic ice melting. But if that glacier breaks up (because i.e. the seawater that is rushing now under it) and ends floating towards more temperate latitudes, will melt far faster than predicted, taking maybe months instead of decades.

And you should not think in average sea level rise as some line drawn in the sand. Tides, storms, that gigantic amount of fresh water starting to turning the climate even more chaotic and maybe disrupting some critical ocean ecosystems and currents. Anything that put us further away from the stable situation that led us to establish a global civilization may have very negative impacts.
Effective Altruists are the fundamentalists though. So no, it's not.
I like Musk's reincarnation of twitter. I didn't care much for the "sanitized for my protection" earlier version. I wish I could buy some stock in X, though I understand keeping it private to keep the scourge of activist investors out of it.
Won't they have a rolling period, since a lot of customers just add funds and might not use it?

So you can use the balances from the people who added money 2 days ago, today.
Could she at least release an audio statement instead of just the text?
Even a hypothetical superduperconductor (flexible like copper wire, infinite current capacity, zero resistance, easy to splice, works up to 200 degrees C, smells like flowers, costs nothing, etc) wouldn’t make all this magic happen. Magnetic fields store energy, and a failure in an electromagnet (even a superduperconducting one) will dissipate that energy quickly (limited only by how high the kickback voltage can get before non-superconducting parts, arcing, etc carry the current). Also, an electric current (even a superduperconducting one) experiences a force inside a magnetic field — a lot of the material of a high-field magnet is the structure needed to keep the magnet from flying apart under its own Lorentz forces.

Also, that MRI machine would appreciate a uniform magnetic field, and everything else in the room would appreciate a rapid fall-off outside the machine, and a hula hoop won’t achieve either one.
I had an irrigation guy try to sell me on the "continuous" pump setups. While you minimize some of the internal infrastructure - I agree with your take. The continuous system puts a ton more strain on the pump. The other piece is lift - even at 70 psi water pressure diminishes quite a bit if you're traveling three floors (basement, 1st, 2nd).

Definitely sad.
I think it's interesting you didn't even address my point, you just went straight for pedantic naming conventions.

To be clear:

SLS is shit. It is waaaay more expensive, heavier and less performant than Saturn V, Starship, etc.

Orion is shit. It is heavier, more expensive and wasteful in many ways than it needs to be. It's already old by this point too.

The Lunar Gateway is shit. It's a solution looking for a problem, and everyone knows it.
I really miss AIM and MSN Messenger. Also Xfire for integration with games.
Hardly the global economy, even approaching a global monopoly for something tends to hit such limits. Few companies deal with this today because most markets are fragmented.

But even at the 30% marketshare the iPhone has been dealing with these issues for a while. They just can’t buy 200 million volume buttons or whatever off the shelf. Now imagine what happens if one of their suppliers would fail days before the phone launches. They have such tight integration not just with the manufacturer’s process but also their finances because Apple simply can’t get replacements at scale on short notice. And remember that’s at ~30% market share, it just gets worse after that.
Unfortunately, a sphere of characterized by exactly the opposite property. The article switches the intended meaning of surface and volume to get away with the metaphor, but I’m less than thrilled about the metaphor.
The US fought in urban settings in Iraq without putting civilian populations under siege and starvation. By all appearances, Israel isn't even trying to conduct a lawful urban war.
If the precision is as good as advertised, this would be extremely useful for board game box organizers.
isn't this the same as GPT 4o?
Congress directed the Fed to create FedNow so the largest commercial banks couldn’t gate smaller regional banks access to real time payments via the private consortium The Clearinghouse (owned by the banks you list). FedNow directly competes with this private network. Think what IRS’ Direct File is to TurboTax, reducing unnecessary economic drag at scale.
"Duh." [1] ;-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjqljwVusk
True to an extent. I'd argue that celebrity of a certain level would make one's voice recognizable and thus confusion can happen.
I get stripe was YC, but its basically handling the entire SaaS economy at this point, and then some. 1 trillion dollars flew through the platform in the past year, which is similar to paypal
Personally it means taking their long guns and any type of armored vehicles away. I dont want to see cops with SBRs, APCs, night vision equipment, kitted out rifles or any of the other trappings of military special forces or death squads. I could see perhaps some exceptions but not just for any municipal PD.

Along this line but to a greater extreme that I dont actually think is possible right now is taking all their guns away. Generally the argument for cops having guns is so they can defend themselves from armed and violent criminals. This implies using those guns to shoot said criminals before they can hurt cops. I am against this because I believe in the rule of law and that is circumventing the entire judicial system by making the officer capable of being judge jury and executioner. This is wrong and undermines the entire judicial apparatus.
Nothing but the truth from Gino. As usual.
The more I find out about Altman the more I agree with the previous board about removing him. The guy just feels sleazy to me. Though he is doing what I want and that is not giving a fuck about artificial monopolies granted by government ie copyright
Agreed, I guess my point in my original comment is; yes, bandwidth is cheap but you aren’t going to compete at any scale hosting at OVH as was proposed. And you’ll need a lot more than cheap VMs too.
Microsurgery Assistance Robot
Well, it's because of the Americans not the British.

The internet has primarily been built out in the US.
The original voice that they pulled or the one they replaced it with under the same name after the lawyers started calling?
I know I have a reputation as an OpenAI hater and I understand why: it’s maybe 5-10% of the time that the news gives me the opportunity to express balance on this.

But I’ve defended them from unfair criticism on more than a few occasions and I feel that of all the things to land on them about this one is a fairly mundane screwup that could be a scrappy PM pushing their mandate that got corrected quickly.

The leadership for the most part scares the shit out of me, and clearly a house-cleaning is in order.

But of all the things to take them to task over? There’s legitimately damning shit this week, this feels like someone exceeded their mandate from the mid-level and legal walked it back.
Cutting-edge drone killer radio wave weapon developing at pace
It is correct, but the migration happened millions of years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse
Related: https://www.empatheticfiring.com/
Archive before deletion: https://web.archive.org/web/20240518030444/https://old.reddi...
'Inside Microsoft's Mission to Take Down the MacBook Air'
If you read his biography, he was at one point within 4 hours of being reduced to a net worth of about $100,000.

He risked everything he had.

He also came to this country with nothing but a suitcase, slept in youth hostels, and took sanitation jobs to support himself.

He's exactly the classic American self-made zillionaire industrialist.
Britain seems to have made a Carthage.
I tried a few documents and got the same result (ie. each line being treated as separate paragraphs), but was able to find that the fed FOMC meeting doc[1] actually worked properly, but only on adobe acrobat. It was still screwed up on pdf.js. So I guess the format itself technically supports it, but implementations rarely do it properly.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon...
The whole company behaves like rogue cowboys.

If a PM there didn’t say “fuck it ship it even without her permission” they’d probably be replaced with someone who would.

I expect the cost of any potential legal action/settlement was happily accepted in order to put on an impressive announcement.
Also, can you show me any public pricing that is 100x cheaper than AWS? With same QOS! Or are you just throwing numbers around?
Oh my. That’s disappointing, in the sense that I believe I’ve heard Al say that he always checks with the artist.
> However, it would be interesting to see what the EU's position would be if Meta started as an EU company

People have been saying that EU regulations are restricting EU companies forever, in fact it was one of the big arguments for Brexit to cut out piles of EU regulations that were "stifling innovation".
For most people, it is indeed a bias. For myself, however, it's the truth.
Set up a company selling remarkably over-priced “medical” door handles and healthcare providers will fall over themselves to buy them.
Maybe they were the rogue AGI escapes we found along the way
Report of the Panel of Experts in International Law
Yeah, I didn't really drill down into the Ireland section. I can pretty much only do one deeply flawed country analogy at a time.
He has “The Vision”… It’s the modern entrepreneurship trope that lowly engineers won’t achieve anything if they weren’t rallied by a demi-god who has “The Vision” and makes it all happen.
> The system says that decisions involving monetary damages are made by juries, and decisions involving injunctive relief (ordering a company to do something or not do something) are made by judges.

The "decisionmaker" isn't the point here. And in fact the decision is with the judge in both scenarios: https://www.brienrochelaw.com/legal-faqs/can-a-judge-overtur...
I don’t know if it’s actually her voice. At this point I wouldn’t put it past them.

But if they concocted a fake voice to sound as much like her as possible, that’s not really better.

Altman’s tweet, combined with previous statements Her is his favorite movie, and trying to secure rights twice looks really really damning.

> so really she's doing for free the advertising they were hoping she'd do for pay

They didn’t want her to advertise for them. They wanted to use her voice. Do you not see a difference?
Ask HN: How does Merge.dev sell itself as a unified API?
Used Merge to hook up some HRIS and ATS systems at my old job and I'm genuinely not sure how they sell themselves as a unified API product

- Their entire scheme is just possibly undefined return values
- Any custom data beyond just the basics are under a remote_data key that their docs don't even explain and just says "Varies by platform". Like at least tell us what each system could return cause otehrwise we have to manually QA every single HRIS/ATS anyways.

- The system doesn't even do any ETL. You still have to ETL and paginate through the system yourself. It's the lightest API wrapper ever that doesn't have a great schema.

- Their new SDK is much better generated but they didn't provide any legacy migration guides and their old sdks required us to fork their repo and build our own solution

- Honestly it seems like the only reason I've had to use Merge's API is because our CEO was friends with the Merge CEO
I tried summarizing a paper I wrote and it misunderstood key points. If I had to guess, it's backed by a gpt-3.5 or <30b level model
Oxidation is a problem as is physical debris but touch surfaces are cleaned at least daily in a hospital setting anyway. Plain old Copper/brass that has been used since forever is virucidal without any special treatment.
Do you have a link and more precise details.
I want to believe you but to me it sounds like a lot of fear mongering…
> Are we seriously saying we can't make voices that are similar to celebrities, when not using their actual voice?

I think the copyright industry wants to grab new powers to counter the infinite capacity of AI to create variations. But that move would knee cap the creative industry first, newcomers have no place in a fully copyrighted space.

It reminds me of how NIMBY blocks construction to keep up the prices. Will all copyright space become operated on NIMBY logic?
Stealing bank account sessions
And Israel's GDP is ~500billion, of which ~25b is spent on defense. So, that 3.8b would be a dent, but not insurmountable.

Economic measures could be a different story, but pulling that lever on an an ally of 75+ years would damage the US's credibility. Not to mention to the domestic impact in the US. I don't think any decision makers weighing national interest would go there.

Plus, if the US successfully isolated Israel, it's highly likely the whole region would be at war in short time. Hard to imagine the West not getting involved again at that point, except now in a significantly worse position.
Just to be pedantic, if it's a clone of the 8 bit PICs, then one instruction takes 4 clock cycles, so a 20MHz clock should be considered 5MHz if you're trying to compare operations per second.
It would be similar to trying to pump the sea out from underneath a dock. Where this is a problem the glacier is floating on the ocean.
Israel existed for decades without US support. No Jews will agree to live under a Muslim majority one state solution, it will inevitably decay into something similar to Lebanon, Syria, or Egypt.
I grouped them together,because overall EVs appear to have marginally less non-exhaust particulate matter pollution than gas vehicles:

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4a4dc6ca-en/1/3/3/index....

In other words, the road to a mostly pollution free transit future will be laid with tracks rather than asphalt.
I can't really think of a good example that other people haven't mentioned, but I have an anti-enlightenment piece of software, spring framework.

Spring actively hindered my ability to understand the simple concept that is dependency injection, and I know I'm not alone. Many a Java developer think that you need a big complicated framework to pass dependencies into your modules, instead of having your modules fetch them for themselves.

This isn't a criticism of spring per se, it's fine, it provides value for people, but I think it can lead people to build software that is more complicated and less portable than it needs to be.
I’ll mention Typescript.

It elegantly improves almost unimprovable mess of JavaScript. It makes JavaScript development much more productive and pleasant. And it’s surprisingly powerful.
Anybody could put batteries in a kit car and sell it. And people did, but they didn't make much of any money for it.

What Musk did is:

1. add regenerative braking

2. design the look of the car to be exciting

Those two things are the critical engineering innovations Musk did.
Keyence is known for one of the most very hard-work culture company.
Single brain implant restores bilingual communication to paralyzed man
What would be the reason for them to boost this fee right now? Is it just a pure profit play? That is, they think they can extract more cash from the people who are reliable instant-payout users (rather than losing them to standard payouts)?

Does this portend anything for the company, in the way that not backfilling positions means that layoffs may be imminent? Or perhaps a corporate transaction like an IPO?
Math doesn’t do “kinda”. If you are paying $100 for something, and then it is $150, that’s is a 50% increase and is an undeniable fact.
The man is literally lobbying congress to obtain an artificial monopoly on AI in the name of "safety".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO0J2Yw7usM
Evil genius territory.

When the offer was declined by scarjo, they could still train on her works of art and just hire a soundalike to make recordings regardless of whether they used it during training.

Then, at release time - either they get the buzz of artist-licensed "Her" or they get the buzz /outrage/Streisand of unlicensed "Her". Even if they take it down, OpenAI benefits.

I feel like the folks who fear the tech are wrong. But when the supposed stewards do such a moustache-twirling announcement, it seems like maybe we do need some restraint.

If a trade group can't put some kind of goodwill measures in place, we will inevitably end up with ham fisted legislation.
A frequently touched surface isn’t going to have a problem with oxidation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_rubbing
I think at some point you either keep the eleven herbs and spices a secret or you don't. This source-available half-in and half-out thing feels pretty flimsy. If your little brother is screen-cheating in Halo, you tape a cardboard divider to the screen.
I did. It's trying to play off randomness as art, hence the generative part, and trying to subtly relate that to AI through use of abstract artists like Pollock.

It's also not new. If you've taken any modern art history class before, this is article/website is the same content. Every generation of art/artist tries to justify their existence to the last.
> They haven't really invented anything conceptually new

Concepts are a dime a dozen. Making them work is where the real contribution lies.
so scarlet johansson has rights over every VA that sounds like her as well because she's famous?
I still have the sky voice in my app.
HN discussions, grad school case studies, and Supreme Court cases alike. Bad cases make bad laws, edge cases make extensive appeals.
Hilariously, the webmd link you cited repeats what I said above:

> The use of PFOA in the manufacturing of Teflon-coated cookware has been completely stopped. But, even when PFOA is used, it poses little or no harm to your health. Teflon on its own is safe and can’t harm you when you ingest it.

...not that I think webmd is worth citing.

But OK, one paper you dug up found an incredibly tiny amount (500 picograms per square centimeter, at the highest), which they said declined over time for half the pans tested (I'm guessing the ones with the highest initial readings). Meanwhile, other groups didn't see the same thing:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16096677/

> Commercial grade cookware was obtained, then extracted with water and ethanol/water mixtures at 100 and 125 degrees C, and the resulting extracts were analyzed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Detection and quantification limits as low as 100 pg cm(-2) were demonstrated. None of the fluoropolymer treated cookware samples analyzed showed detectable levels of PFOA when extracted under simulated cooking conditions.

Anyway, I'm not going to get excited over a single paper, showing incredibly minute amounts of something which, as you say, is now ubiquitous in the environment (hello, cross-contamination risk!). The paper may or may not have been methodologically valid. You do you.
I think that was meant as a reference to Netanyahu's non-ICC Israeli domestic legal problems. AIUI if he weren't PM he'd be in jail already.
A remake came out not long ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh:_A_New_Era
Please stop replying in my comments. Your responses are offensively stupid.
And in this case, you are saying that government doing weird things to get a preferred ruling is moral, but a vigorous defense is not. I wasn't requiring a generalization. It's still a terrible concept in specific. Holding defense to a higher standard than the plaintiff is bad.
Probably not wrong. Lots and lots of examples of that being true.
If OpenAI commissioned a voice actor to lend their voice to the Sky model, and cast on the basis of trying to get someone who is similar sounding to the Scarlett Johannson, but then did not advertise or otherwise use the voice model created to claim it was Scarlett Johannson - then they're completely in the clear.

Because then the actual case would be fairly bizarre: an entirely separate person, selling the rights to their own likeness as they are entitled to do, is being prohibited from doing that by the courts because they sound too much like an already famous person.

EDIT: Also up front I'm not sure you can entirely discuss timelines for changing out technology here. We have voice cloning systems that can do it with as little as 15 seconds of audio. So having a demo reel of what they wanted to do that they could've used on a few days notice isn't unrealistic - and training a model and not using it or releasing it also isn't illegal.
Apparently you're still using X, despite loathing it?
In some ways it's less scary: no long inter-site fiber runs that I assume are an absolute nightmare, and no renting those same runs at exorbitant rates. All your hands-on work remains in the datacenter, which is set up to make it a breeze. In other ways it's more scary: you have to negotiate with a lot more counterparties and visit a lot more datacenters.
Is your mortgage, insurance, and taxes taking over 32% of your income? You will always be poor and never understand why.

Everyone forgets that exact same rhetoric was popularized in most of 2007...

Indeed, wall-street index fund success is often disconnected from the general populations well-being =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUMbxHLPvk
It would be helpful if you linked to something more specific (even a timestamp). I’m not going to watch this nearly 3-hour video to decide whether it supports your statement or not.
The technical diagram of these shit companies really nailed it. 10/10.
This gives me instant urges to install i3 as WM on my Linux Machine.
It's the same thing: you're entering input into a system and expecting output.
Thanks bro, I'm going to give it a try
It's the same thing: you're entering input into a system and expecting output. I just summed up your post.
Not going to lie, he had me. He appeared very genuine and fair in almost all media he appeared like podcasts but many of his actions are just so hard to justify.
> and very likely would still be if he wasn't associated with them

Not a chance. It would be worthwhile to read a biography of Musk.
And there was much rejoicing! /s