skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we should not brand people who make qualified and substantive points as heretics, but his framing is wrong and a common abuse of the notion of the 'marketplace of ideas'.

Inherent to the functioning of debate is that debates are settled, just like exchanges in a market. That's their only function. Constant debate of an ever-increasing number of talking points, by definition, renders any notion of progress impossible. So when Sam draws on Galileo as a figure, the conclusion is not, we need to listen to him because he's a human being but, we needed to listen to him because he made a substantiated point. The reverse is obviously silly, nobody in physics argues that we need to debate geocentrism in the year 2024 to advance modern physics.

Likewise not debating someone who just makes random homophobic remarks doesn't impede the progress of the sciences, it doesn't even impede the progress in ethics. Even the reverse is true, horrible regimes with no free exchange whatsoever still produced a lot of novel physics.
> Same reason people got into NFTs.

Same people who got into NFTs.
I appreciate the plugs having replaceable fuses in them. Makes it harder for people to overload extension leads and the like.

Totally disagree on that injury rate though, and you would too if you ever stepped on a type G plug.
They did. And they do. Don’t get a degree. Don’t pay for something that is clearly not worth it.
This will keep their enterprise customers happy with the most detailed bossware you can imagine. Replay everything your employees did in a day.
Hasn't been that way in a decade. If you use nand flash there's a huge chance you're using trim which will periodically overwrite "not in use" blocks to avoid a write penalty later as writing to an empty page is much quicker.
> What the heck does "Opposition to Zionism" even mean?

If I had to guess, I suspect they might mean "opposition to Zionist control of American foreign policy" rather than "opposition to Zionism".
Which has 3 million customers in 99 countries. Starlink is their retail department.
The variance in voice is not that great. Just find someone who is very close to her voice naturally.
Isn't it the point of human technologies to bring things as close to zero-effort as possible? Not sure why you need that to sound like an indictment.
It is hard to define what value Musk brought to his enterprises apart from capital and hype. I do not like or respect Musk but SpaceX are undeniably a world leading aerospace engineering company and very likely would still be if he wasn't associated with them in my opinion.
Whether or not what they've done is currently technically illegal, they're priming the public to be pissed off at them. Making enemies of beloved figures from the broader culture is likely to not make OpenAI many friends.

OpenAI has gone the "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" route, and it seemed like they might get away with that, but if this results in a lot more stories like this they'll risk running afoul of public opinion and future legislation turning sharply against them.
Very obvious bias against OpenAI in the comments here. Possible motives: a) there's a visceral human reaction against anyone extraordinarily successful and powerful (Nietzsche wrote about this). b) resentment for OpenAI's advancements in code generation and its possible impact on the job market. I don't think much of the outrage here is motivated by altruism, it's probably more about siding with whoever opposes your perceived enemy.
I mostly agree with you, but I actually don't think it matters if it sounded exactly like her or not. The crime is in the training: did they use her voice or not?

If someone licenses an impersonator's voice and it gets very close to the real thing, that feels like an impossible situation for a court to settle and it should probably just be legal (if repugnant).
If a bear deletes an iCloud photo in the woods and no-one sees it…
This is why OpenAI being the "leader" in the space worries me. We need to be building trust in AI systems, not leaning into what the public perception is. On the other hand, maybe it's good they are showing who they really are.
same when running flutter in edge debug mode
My feeling is that they'd rather buy the parking lot management company than pay their parking fine. With a cash reserve of $108bn (1) then it's all just FU money at this point, it really doesn't matter - there's no consequences for their wrongdoing.

(This is more of a cynic, generalised comment about Google and companies in the same position abusing their power than directly specific to this case. And yes, I was around from the start when they "did no evil"; it's just depressing.)

((1: According to https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/cash-on-hand/ ))
Sounds like one of those situations you'd have to prove intent.

(and given the timeline ScarJo laid out in her Twitter feed, I'd be inclined to vote to convict at the present moment)
Agreed on SpaceX and partly on Tesla. What is his “tremendous positive impact” with Twitter and Boring? Not trying to argue, just curious if there’s something I don’t see.
That is very interesting, I'm picking up what you're putting down. YouTubers make rampant use of AI art. If nothing else, this era of YouTube will be recognizable from afar.

I do like that many people have learned to recognize the writing style and visual aesthetic, and are rejecting it.

> maybe people will do creative things with it

_Some_ people will do _some_ creative things with it, but most people will use it as a shortcut—as long as there's some kind of output, they couldn't care less about the quality. How much of correspondence is just an LLM summarizing what a different LLM wrote? If the internet wasn't dead before, this is surely killing it.
You could also ask: If Scarlett has a legal case already, why does she want legislation passed?
Israel has had complete control over Gaza's borders, even the Egyptian border side. And that's since the 1980s, before Hamas even was a thing. That means that Israel either was blockading or "administrated" the border if we want to sugarcoat it. I'm not sure about you but that sure sounds like either an act of war, or occupation.

Also, settlers in the west bank aren't just a "that sucks" type of thing. It shows exactly the intentions of Israel once any territory is pacified. Which is exactly what happened to the west bank since they stopped fighting back.
Volvo teams up with Aurora to reveal an autonomous semi truck
its well manageable risk.

I am not an expert, but I am under impression that he will be jailed in Israel too once/if loses power.
> This "function coloring" is at odds with the stdlib functions, resulting in 3rd party crates for nearly everything.

Doesn't that point to what libc had to do, growing async safe versions of functions which previously were not?

The innate complexity of coding to async is never going away. It's harder with or without language support, almost all of the time, because the concepts inherent in coding embody patterns which are simple, if they are the only sequence of execution flow, and which are innately more complicated to think about, if you have to encompass doing them (and other things) at the same time.

If this
then that
otherwise other

is always simpler than

Try: this,

Except: but if it fails at some unknown point of continuing execution then this path out,

but meantime, lets progress that until we hit a point we have to rendezvous,

hey whats deadlock anyway??
Her statement claims the voice was taken down at her attorney's insistence.
The first is Fatah/PLO, who are in many ways much closer to, eg, the IRA (also nominally religiously inspired) than what we understand as modern Islamist terrorist groups.
- mere grams, in transit
More notably for legal purposes, there were several independent news reports corroborating the vocal similarity.
It's also very easy to say that they were inspired by the concept of the movie, but the voice is different.
Do you know about the manifold hypothesis and why that's the inductive bias in current neural networks?
Under what legal theory is intending to do something which is legal (hiring a person that has a voice you want) becomes illegal because there is another person who has a similar voice?
There's a fair amount of insight in this article buried under layers of insults and ad hominem attacks. Perhaps it's a bit ironic that the author feels the need to frame things in this way to drive engagement because that's what the internet has become. It might feel cathartic to blame Zuckerberg for this, but honestly he was just a fucking kid when these wheels were set in motion, manipulated by forces larger than himself.

The incentives created by capitalism + internet + global web/smart phone adoption mean a lot of what happened was inevitable. If someone in Zuck's position had taken a moral stand along the way, you could just swap out their names with any of a million opportunists ready to swoop in. I say this not to absolve Mark, Sheryl or anyone else involved, but just to recognize that these are systemic failures that need systemic solutions. Pinning the blame on individuals doesn't get us any closer to solving the general problems that all social media platforms invite.
Pressing 'delete' in Photos, by default, moves it to the Recently Deleted album, and uses a record in a database to schedule deletion for later.
I want university to produce people ready for the work force. This ultimately means less people will graduate. It’s clearer that the paper that said you were ready for work no longer means that. The fix is universes not worrying about pass fail rates and admission stats and focus on creating classes that produce what they advertised they would produce.

It’s so tiring to me people with masters in CS who can’t fizzbuzz or for that matter do basic programming even more simple.

Now days if too many people fail a class or get a bad grade, the students rally and write notes about how they are so smart and the teacher sucked. The. They grade on a curve and get a degree that is suitable for toilet paper.

Most jobs don’t require a degree and we should stop acting like they do.
No Javascript needed:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240515-the-dumbphones...

Tested with text-only browser that has no Javascript engine:

x=/future/article/20240515-the-dumbphones-people-want-are-hard-to-find

links -dump https://www.bbc.com/$x

links -dump https://www.bbc.co.uk/$x
Always the issue of if it is so “easy” why we do not see these swarm visited us already. Please do not quote 3 bodies as the author obviously not trained in basic game theory to try the dark forest hypnosis. Understand we do not just sent out hilter tv speech as the first example but that is diluted by inverse square law. But people sorry alien should have been detected the un…. May be it takes time. Like warp signature, Vulcan visit has to wait until things mature and we sent out say these probe.
AFAIK they yanked it pretty quickly and the subsequent scandal has widely informed people that it was not authorized by Scarlett Johansson. So while it was clearly a violation resulting from a sequence of very stupid decisions by OpenAI, I am not sure if there would be much in the way of damages.
> People made the association because her voice was used in a movie that features a highly emotive voice assistant reminiscent of GPT-4o, which sama and others joked about.

Whether you think it sounds like her or not is a matter of opinion, I guess. I can see the resemblance, and I can also see the resemblance to Jennifer Lawrence and others.

What Johannson is alleging goes beyond this, though. She is alleging that Altman (or his team) reached out to her (or her team) to lend her voice, she was not interested, and then she was asked again just two days before GPT-4o's announcement, and she rejected again. Now there's a voice that, in her opinion, sounds a lot like her.

Luckily, the legal system is far more nuanced than just listening to a few voices and comparing it mentally to other voices individuals have heard over the years. They'll be able to figure out, as part of discovery, what lead to the Sky voice sounding the way it does (intentionally using Johannson's likeness? coincidence? directly trained off her interviews/movies?), whether OpenAI were willing to slap Johannson's name onto the existing Sky during the presentation, whether the "her" tweet and the combination of the Sky voice was supposed to draw the subtle connection... This allegation is just the beginning.
I assume if this does get a jury trial, the cheque will affect the selection pool. Since anyone who's heard about google doing this would probably take it poorly.
I run a gamedev studio and make a lot of titles in Godot. ChatGPT is an absolute beast at GD Script 3.5.3 and also parsing scene files - I assume because Godot is entirely open source with lots of docs online. It will occasionally hallucinate built-in functions but that's easily caught and rectified. Saved me a ton of time when I had to write custom pathfinding scripts. It's also given us more velocity with features where we can kind of just toss off fun "juice" ideas to it (like minigames or easter egg type content) and get back a workable script in minutes that would've been like a weekend stretch goal.

A pet project I have in my head is using another LLM with a huge context window and being able to dump in all the scene and script files so the AI has insight into the entirety of the game and how the nodes interact rather than just the isolated scripts I send. Not sure if this is feasible locally with the same level of accuracy as Claude or ChatGPT
Nothing? If you're acting like the sea witch in "The Little Mermaid" you're probably doing something wrong.
> if anything it is taking us closer to a day where that area is annexed and Palestinians do become Israeli citizens

I doubt the current state of Israel would ever make the Palestinians full Israeli citizens, because then Israel would no longer be majority Jewish. Being known as the Jewish homeland is very important to Israel.
It pains me to say it, but I really think it pays dividends to consider the very obvious possibility that the people who are doing this are in general just not socially well-adjusted.

Everything about OpenAI speaks of people who do not put great value on shared human connections, no?

Hey, I like that artist. I am going to train a computer to produce nearly identical work as if by them so I can have as many as I like, to meet my own wishes.

Why is it surprising that it didn't really cross their mind that a virtual girlfriend is not a good look?

This is not an organisation that has the feelings of people central to its mission. It's almost definitionally the opposite.
If there are 25 candidates, how many votes do you need to come in second? And how many supporters do you need for those votes, when it's pay-to-vote and everyone can vote as many times as they want?

The fact that Israel didn't win the popular vote suggests that the support for them is not particularly strong in Europe.
I’m barely a programmer, but I have been using computers for nearly four decades. Among the various tools that have, over the years, captured my imagination, opened new possibilities, and affected how I create things with computers, the current leading enlightenmentware by far is LLMs. Nearly every day I discover something surprising and useful that they can do for me.
Longest Chinese Tokens in Gpt4o
This is all extremely weak. The Biden administration could stop the war today by calling Netanyahu and saying they will cut off aid and protection guarantees if they don't. Reagan has actually done so in the past.

Everything else is domestic politics, and personal convictions for Biden. But Israel will not continue this war if the USA tells them to stop it. They are far too dependent on USA aid for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/13/world/reagan-demands-end-...

Edit: here is the full quote about the events in 1982:

2 P.M. (8 A.M., New York time) -The Israeli Cabinet meets. A message from President Reagan arrives, expressing ''outrage'' and, reportedly threatening to halt the Habib mission. The Cabinet decides to end the raids and order new ones only if they are ''essential.''

4 P.M. (10 A.M., New York time) -President Reagan tries for hour to call Mr. Begin but cannot get through. 4:50 P.M. (10:50 A.M., New York time) - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia calls Mr. Reagan. 5 P.M. (11 A.M., New York time) -A new cease-fire goes into effect in west Beirut. 5:10 P.M. (11:10 A.M., New York time) - Mr. Reagan reaches Mr. Begin for 10-minute telephone call. 5:40 P.M. (11:40 A.M., New York time) - Mr. Begin calls President Reagan to say that a ''complete cease-fire'' had been ordered.
I meant the name.
I get the feeling that some abstract geometric/topological approaches will let us get under fitted general pretrained NERFs that rapidly specialize to a given context, let you combine separate contexts into a composite scene, and maybe let's you give behaviors to entities in the scene.

At that point you're kind of trying to generically train over all possible scene graphs. But maybe some kind of geometric delocalization scheme lets you train on small fragments of larger scenes, transfer learning between scenes, and quickly represent and render generic scenes.
He is the main decision maker after all, and hires the other major ones, and exercises veto power. Is the success of the company really independent of those choices?
They don't actually use their namesake eslint rules.
How well will you remember those memories by then? You'll have some pictures and videos to help, and some posts or journals to reread, but it could seem like an almost completely different person did those things by then.

I barely remember anything that happened to me 20 years ago (almost all of it is thanks to some journal entries I made back then and some files I have saved from then). I've surprised myself with what I've read in my journals relatively often, especially the further back I wrote them. Didn't remember those things happening to me at all. I mostly just remember major events and general trends.

Vacations I took more than 10 years ago I almost might as well not have taken because I remember at most maybe one or two brief anecdotes and a handful of mental images. And conversations I had with people are basically all lost if I didn't commit them to journals at the time.

Not outright disagreeing with you, btw, but sometimes it seems like I waste a lot of money chasing memories where I could have chased a few less memories, and be a lot closer to retiring by now.

Especially if we're talking media consumption, like CDs/movies/games I watched or played once, if that, or eating out so often in restaurants.
I owned an XBox One something. I believed "Series X" was short-hand for "Xbox One X", as I believed that there were maybe other kinds of "Xbox X". I even bought a game that didn't run on my console because it was for a "series" something, which was not actually what I had. "Series" is often used as an english word to identify a product line. Like "Is that the 'premium' series?"

Sometimes I joke about how confusing the xbox names are. I probably couldn't come up with a more confusing set of names if I tried.
This would be just if it was a Finnish speeding ticket fine.
Show HN: SQLFrame – I ran PySpark without Spark on a SQL database
Recently I open-sourced SQLFrame, a DataFrame library that implements the PySpark DataFrame API but removes Spark as a dependency. It does this by generating the corresponding SQL for the DataFrame operations using SQLGlot. Since the output is SQL this also means that the PySpark DataFrame API can now be used directly against other databases without the Spark middleman.

I built this because of two common problems I have faced in my career:
1. I prefer to write complex pipelines in PySpark but they can be hard to read for SQL-proficient co-workers. Therefore I find myself in a tradeoff between maintainability and accessibility.
2. I really enjoy using the PySpark DataFrame API but not every project requires Spark and therefore I'm not able to use the DataFrame library I am most proficient in.

The library currently focuses on transformation pipelines (reading from and writing to tables) and data analysis as key use cases. It does offer some ability to read from files directly but they must be small although this can be improved over time if there is demand for it.

SQLFrame currently supports BigQuery, DuckDB, and Postgres with Clickhouse, Redshift, Snowflake, Spark, and Trino in development or planned. You can use the "Standalone" session to test running against any engine supported by SQLGlot but there could be issues with more advanced functions that will be resolved once officially supported by SQLFrame.

Blog post for more details: https://github.com/eakmanrq/sqlframe/blob/main/blogs/sqlfram...

Would love to answer any questions or hear any feedback you may have!
To prevent it from happening again, with more legal authority than a legal precedent.
So did a bit more digging, searching for instances of "BuyNow" in various stuff loaded and I have some suspicion now this is being done by some service worker adjacent to MSN and Bing. I flushed the service workers related to these sites and then loaded one up again, I no longer get the console messages, but I do still get debugger:///VM* objects with a bunhc of BuyNow and message posting that looks like a more robust version of the script from the initial Github posting...

Maybe Microsoft just silently dropped something out there. This is pointing more towards KomoD's suggestion this was something that escaped M$, but still makes me uneasy. Posting the code I found to the Github thread.
A compounding issue would be refurbished, handed down and resold devices.

None of the Apple devices have removable SSDs at this point, and many buyers rely on their resale value to shuffle devices every 2 or 3 years. That's a lot of devices in the wild with potentially resurfacing data.
I don't know, I'm just the messenger.

My instinct is also to assume they didn't reset their phone, but I also assumed Apple deleted their photos when they deleted them years ago.

I wouldn't be shocked to find it there's some technical cruft around it being a built in mandatory app, and corrupted data was retained.

In fact, when I think about it, if I wasn't biased towards Apple, my prior after a bug involving photo deletion should be to expect bugs involving photo deletion.
My designer will do that, and is pretty good. The problem is my product team, who have very little technical background. They look at the designs are start messing with everything. I have to constantly remind them of AA compliance. They flat out don't get it.

They also don't understand that people will visit your web site with their phone, even tho we have a native app.
Geoffrey Hinton's campaign to stay relevant is souring what was a nice legacy in the development of AI.
That’s not at all what they said.
Extraordinarily more difficult to get rich that way vs cashing out in the public markets. A 10x revenue multiple vs whatever share of profits your equity gets you after your nvestment terms are satisfied?
The voice was shipped last september.
Sure if they hadn’t contacted her twice for permission, including 2 days before launch.
Are we surprised by this bankruptcy. As neat as AI is, it is only a thing because the corporate class see it as a way to reduce margins by replacing people with it. The whole concept is bankrupt.
Also note https://nanorosetta.com/ , 80,000 pages of data on a 2cm disc.