skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet I can't read a literal web design + accessibility website because the font size is too large and there's no way to shrink down the font size.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/

The headlines are so large that I have to move my head to read them.

And zooming out doesn't reduce the font-size, it just makes headlines narrower to the point where they're one word under another while I still need to move my head around to read them. Except when zoomed out, I still need to move my head horizontally, but now vertically too.
> Whereas actually your bank balance is merely a debt the bank owes you, which cannot have been altered by the bank being defrauded.

It's often amusing--and sometimes enlightening--to imagine how well the same nonsense-logic would work if it was being used to the benefit of a consumer instead of an institution:

"Hi Bank, I just sent enough money to fully pay off my mortgage! Now I fully own my house and our business is done... Wait, you didn't get it? That was some scammer who showed up randomly at my door with a fake business card? Well, that sucks.... for you, that is. I hope you manage to get your money back from them someday, ciao!"
I don't think your comparison holds, because in your examples the forcing of the payment is the point. In this case the payments aren't the point; stopping the alleged anti-competitive behavior is. The payments are just for provable collateral damages inflicted along the way.
Not only that but they didn't credit the voice actress who sounds like her. If she was semi-famous and just naturally sounded like Scarlett Johansson, maybe they could have an argument: "it is not Scarlett, it is the famous [C-list actress] who worked in [production some people may know]".
FSD is one of the best in the business. It's close to Waymo's, but without LIDAR.

He never said Hyperloop was great, just that it was a good idea.
How much longer do brake pads on trucks with regenerative braking last?

Though, wouldn't a differently shaped initial acceleration torque curve save synthetic tire microplastics from the ocean, while we figure out how to make dandelion rubber tires?
Yeah that was the bad part. Agreed there.

I wonder if they deliberately steered towards this for more marketing buzz?
Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007)
It is shameful who the banks have turned their authentication problem into a problem for their customers, branded as "identity theft".
Rishi Sunak apologizes as full scale of infected blood scandal revealed
That's interesting. So this would have been 2017, 2018? How long did the NDA + paired gag order about the NDA, and the non-disparagement order last? The OA one is apparently a lifetime one, including the 'non-disparagement' one. Was the YC HARC NDA also lifetime?
It looks like Go is starting to get better support in buck2 - see https://github.com/facebook/buck2/issues/455
Yeah, HN responds well to zooming.
It may be possible that cases are also getting more complex involving more esoteric subjects.

Financial instruments and technology have changed a bit over time. Previously there may have been better analogues to compare things without stretching reality too much.
> but just to recognize that these are systemic failures that need systemic solutions.

For literally decades, the institutions and laws that may have provided those solutions have been gutted or eliminated.

Collapse is inevitable.
> Git was nothing like Subversion. It had a steep learning curve and confused everyone to no end

I've actually found git much easier to teach to people who don't know subversion than to people who do. It's still a confusing mess, though. Why do you create a branch with `git checkout -b` rather than something like `git branch -c` (`-c` to checkout new branch)?

It looks like the `git switch` command helps a lot, but I never remember to try to use it as I'm used to the old ways, so I never teach it to new people either. I wish I could alias `git branch` and `git checkout` to remind me to use `git switch` but you can't alias over a built in command.
I can't understand why you would raise it

I misread what you wrote, as already explained.

Give it a rest, please. No one is reading down here anyway.
> The crime is in the training: did they use her voice or not?

This is a civil issue, and actors get broad rights to their likeliness. Kim Kardashian sued Old Navy for using a look-alike actress in an ad; old Navy chose to settle, which makes it appear like "the real actress wasn't involved in any way" may not be a perfect defense. The timeline makes it clear they wanted it to sound like Scarlett's voice, the actual mechanics on how they got the AI to sound like that is only part of the story.
Sam Altman is an absolute scumbag. Fuck ClosedAI. Hope this company and its VCs crash and burn like Theranos.

Maybe Altman lands in jail or files for bankruptcy after all the dust settles.
Its one thing for the ICC to seek accountability months or years in the future when the dust has settled, but that's not what is happening.

Let's extend your hypothetical-- let's stipulate there is a bloodthirsty monster that holds an entire hotel hostage while actively bombing and attacking a nearby town. The monster is de facto hotel manager, because the the despairing people in the hotel at some point elected the the monster to rule the hotel. The sheriff of the town next door (which is being bombed) shows up and defends the town as best they can by attacking the hotel, and there ensues a pitched battle.

What role at that point do bewigged stateless jurists play who have no force of arms at their disposal to defend or attack or secure the peace? As a matter of history Germany did suffer mightily in WWII for the crimes of the Nazis; if the ICC were in operation then would it have arrested (or investigated and hobbled) Churchill, Zukov, Patton and Eisenhower? And then impotently and cynically declared its dissatisfaction with Hitler and Goebbels after blunting the Allies' efforts solve the problem the only practical way available to anyone, by force of arms?

I sympathize with the humanitarian concerns on both sides, but in this case the ICC is demonstrating its own flaws, which are legion. In your hypothetical, the only people threatened by the bewigged jurists are the sheriff and town precisely because they respect the international order and rule of law, and the ICC would, practically speaking, due to its inherent flaws, solely do the bidding of a monster.
Care to share the doc? I've never heard this before.
Nearly 3M people track Turkish UCAV SAR mission in Iran
But your quotes do not support your statement. They do not refer to Israeli Arabs which are also Palestinians or to Palestinians in the west bank.

Your statement is incorrect but you're doubling down on it.

I think the sentiment of Gazans towards Israelis is a topic we can look at via surveys if you want to go that way.

It's also a matter of fact that some Gazan civilians were aware and did indeed participate in the Oct 7th attack. The first wave was combatants but random people followed that pillaging, killing, taking hostages. The statement about cheering in Gaza at slaughtered Israelis is also true. Neither of those truths support the idea that in general Israelis view all Gazans or all Palestinians (your original claim) as "bitter enemies". I can find you many quotes of Israelis saying their war is not against all Gazans. Those opinions outnumbers by 2 orders of magnitude. You can't just cherry pick, you need to look at the entire picture. Even Netanyahu clatified many times that Israel's war is not on Gaza's civilians (despite the truth of some of them participating in Oct 7th).
funnily the example used, i.e `printf` of single values is very special. Under the hood, variadic arguments that are `single` are actually converted to `double`. See the `cvtss2sd` in [1].

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/Yr7Kn4vqr
One day, I'm working on a Linux machine with my Emacs open, I'm using a Bazel to clean my today's to-do list project. And I open the browser to find a person who wrote a blog about Boost.graph which I never heard about, but I'm really interested to look at. I finish this writing, save the buffer and =C-c g= to lunch magit to write a commit message "good day", then pushed to my git repo.
The Geneva Convention specifically has a section regarding this[0] - the occupying force is required to allow in relief supplies. ICC is accusing Bibi and Gantz of specifically using starvation as a tactic, which is a war crime.

[0]: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/art...
better lonely mens money goes to big VC investor backed unicorns than solo founder/entrepreneurs?
Previously The fishy death of Red Lobster[0] (123 points, 18 days ago, 383 comments) and Red Lobster Files for Bankruptcy[1][2]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415119

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415493
- "Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39485115#39518293 :

> With some newer architectures, the GPU(s) are directly connected to [HBM] RAM; which somewhat eliminates the CPU and Bus performance bottlenecks that ASICs and FPGAs are used to accelerate beyond.

- "Jim Keller suggests Nvidia should have used Ethernet to link Blackwell GPUs" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027933 :

> The HBM3E Wikipedia article says 1.2TB/s.

> Fiber optics: 301 Tbps

- "New RISC-V microprocessor can run CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads simultaneously" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39938538

- eGPU enclosure with USB A and USB C ports, too

- iGPU + dGPU
Now do population density of Japan vs the US, or even the size of all of Japan vs various American states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res_ipsa_loquitur
That I understand it is a personal preference is why I don't care what sort of phone you have... Nor does my phone type ever come up. Occasionally, someone realizes I don't get their texts because they are apple.

Is like caring what someone's TV is setup like. It just doesn't matter.

So, let me restate a little. The type of people that bring this up are all too often not serious on it. They sometimes want to be, in a declared preference way, but they could easily act on it and have a cheaper phone. It is not a hard choice to make. Nor is it expensive.
As soon as you heard an AI laughing, you should have rejected it categorically. Simps.
Coming from C++ and Python, Go's packaging + deployment tooling really enlightened me. It's SO EASY to depend on things and deploy my apps, I love it!

I've also heard Rust gives folks similar warm fuzzy feelings in regards to building and deploying, one day I'll try that too
Image and text resizing both seem rather broken in HTML/CSS. Especially images. If I care somewhat precisely about how a mixed-media site is going to show on different screen sizes, I have to set up React and start calculating stuff based on window dimensions.
Already it knows more about me on most subjects.

Fortunately 'intelligence' is a hand-wavey subject!
It also usually only gets one release per upstream major version (and sometimes not even that), meaning a lot of Chromium security fixes can take several weeks to show up in a Thorium release. I appreciate the author's effort, but it's definitely riskier than normal Chrome/Chromium.
Microsoft appearingly random naming conventions make me want to actively avoid using their products because I know the web searches will be heavily polluted.

I thought big companies like this would have some sort of internal committee that decides if a new products branding makes it easier for customers to understand what the product is and where it fits in their offerings.
Agreed on this. The "full self driving" moniker is absolutely over hyped and ridiculous. "We don't need lidar" also sounds quite silly.
That didn’t answer the ops question.

Are they encrypted? Can Microsoft access them if compelled by law enforcement?
> No, it wasn't; the ICC (which the US had a lead role in negotiating and initially signed despite never ratifying it) was never going to have retroactive authority, and the US knew that was not an issue long before it “unsigned” the Rome Statute.

The ICC was formed out of the ICJ, to tackle matters that rose beyond 'dispute' between states. The ICJ came out of the IMT, which was the Nuremburg trials, which defined war crimes and crimes against humanity for the first time, so it would not have been really retroactive. These things were already crimes, there just wasn't a body capable of prosecuting them.
Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
100% this.

It’s shocking to me how people cannot see this.

The only surprise here is that they didn’t think she’d push back. That is what completes the multilayered cosmic and dramatic irony of this whole vignette. Honestly feels like Shakespeare or Arthur Miller might have written it.
They would. Even with the current numbers Israel still maintains Jewish majority and also the proponents of this annexation also say it'll come hand in hand with a "de-radicalization" program. There are other tools Israel can leverage (e.g. a constitution) to ensure Israel remains the Jewish homeland while making Palestinians full citizens. These don't have to contradict. Either way the Palestinians have no interest in being equal citizens in the country of Israel so it's more or less a moot point, for now.
Scarlett Johansson lawyers up over ChatGPT voice that 'shocked and angered' her
> Google’s zero-click effect may soon create a CliffNotes version of the web,

This has already happened. I have given up the idea that Google will ever return a dense, high quality information source for more advanced queries. Instead, it will return twelve nearly identical articles, each with 15 ads and 30 paragraphs of factually sparse AI generated smoke, and no primary sources...

> and any efforts to stop this from happening would probably involve turning away from generative AI altogether.

This is doubtful. The problem with the AI articles is that they use really cheap AI and have no sources. There are now RAG pipelines that do much much better.

And many primary sources are much better than anything an AI will generate.

I have an effort in mind that uses AI to find suitable primary sources on the library Genesis.

There are huge tracts of knowledge, like math, which the surface Internet does not touch, but where the library Genesis will really remain relevant for decades to come.

Once AI has 100% accurate of all the facts in the library Genesis, I believe that becomes an unbeatable platform for restarting genuine knowledge production in the early to mid 21st century.
Cortana on Windows is indeed already voiced by Jen Taylor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)
Renaissance is well-known for being an early, big consumer of alternative data (ie. satellite, consumer, social) to find their edge but at the point that it runs out — you either begin trading inside information or regress.

Unless you’re HUGE in size, you can’t over perform for long without establishing insular networks of insider trading.
right makes sense, ty
it could make life better for a lot of people, but training their models on copyright material, which makes life worse for another set of people.
What a stupid self own by OpenAI that could have easily been avoided.
Isn't OpenAI mostly built upon disregarding the copyright of countless people?

And hasn't OpenAI recently shown that they can pull off a commercial coup d'état, unscathed?

Why would they not simply also take the voice of some actress? That's small potatoes.

No one is going to push back against OpenAI meaningfully.

People are still going to use ChatGPT to cheat on their homework, to phone-in their jobs, and to try to ride OpenAI's coattails.

The current staff have already shown they're aligned with the coup.

Politicians and business leaders befriend money.

Maybe OpenAI will eventually settle with the actress, for a handful of coins they found in the cushions of their trillion-dollar sofa.
...and sama's tweet referencing "Her"
For Better Iteration, Imagine Heaps, Not Queues
Related ongoing discussion Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice [0] (553 points, 3 hours ago, 386 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (87 points, 14 hours ago, 129 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
VCs and angel investors feeling the burn right now. I hope all the firms on Sand Hill Rd get bent
I mean it’s already installed on my work pc so I guess it’s got for the corporate environment but he’ll no for personal
Does it really cost a to train one voice?

Seems pretty reckless to not have alternatives just in case Scarlett refused.
I said nothing about Israeli Arabs or even Palestinians in general (though I'm sure I can find statements about Palestinians in general).

But these are clearly statements about Gazans in general, not some specific subset of Gazans. Mr Herzog is clearly saying, or at the very least heavily implying, that Gazans in general are bitter enemies of Israel. Not every single Gazan, but Gazans in general. He could have said "there was some small group of Gazans that [...]". He could have said "There are some X thousand Gazans that [...]". But he didn't: he chose to say "Gazan civilians", without any other discriminant.
This way prior to 4o. The demo did seem to make the discussion louder though as everyone was suddenly talking about the voice feature whereas previously it was a slow side option for mobile devices only.
Intercom to make $94M bet on AI centric efforts
I honestly don't think it is a matter of opinion, though. Her voice has a few very distinct characteristics, the most significant of which being the vocal fry / huskiness, that aren't present at all in either of the Sky models.

Asking for her vocal likeness is completely in line with just wanting the association with "Her" and the big PR hit that would come along with that. They developed voice models on two different occasions and hoped twice that Johannson would allow them to make that connection. Neither time did she accept, and neither time did they release a model that sounded like her. The two day run-up isn't suspicious either, because we're talking about a general audio2audio transformer here. They could likely fine-tune it (if even that is necessary) on her voice in hours.

I don't think we're going to see this going to court. OpenAI simply has nothing to gain by fighting it. It would likely sour their relation to a bunch of media big-wigs and cause them bad press for years to come. Why bother when they can simply disable Sky until the new voice mode releases, allowing them to generate a million variations of highly-expressive female voices?
How terminal works? Badly.

The terminal protocol is broken in fairly fundamental ways (see: How do I get an event for <shift> key up/down by itself? How do I distinguish Esc by itself from Esc combined with something else)

A lot of modern things have adopted the Kitty extensions in order to solve this:
See: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/
I didn't expect to watch that entire video, but it was so interesting. Part of me is jealous of how much knowledge and skill the author has.
helldivers 2 has one and it still works. afaik the anti cheat developer has to explicitly disallow linux users, and at that point its not really a linux issue anymore (but still good to know)
Dug up more generated drawings.

https://i.imgur.com/lw7HP5k.jpeg (Forest)

https://i.imgur.com/2okI9da.jpeg (Conversation)

https://i.imgur.com/w1cQDcO.jpeg (Lava flow)
> and then asked the voice actor to reproduce SJ's voice?!

you are just making that up afaict.

> How can you say that when they literally approached SJ for her voice

Almost by definition SJ's voice will match the style of 'Her', at least for awhile (*). So why not ask SJ first?

(*) voices change significantly over time.
Yeah, it made me realize pretty quick that this author was part of the problem, and not about to offer a solution
The detail you're missing is that who claim it sounds like "her" includes the CEO of the company
Some discussion 74 days ago [0] (20 points, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39626427
> What other options did they have?

This attitude reminds me of the Start Trek: Voyager episode Equinox where Captain Janeway insists that Captain Ransom “leaves her no choice” than to go after the Equinox no matter the cost.

Janeway was wrong, there were other options, and the cost she was willing to pay was too high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=398qbnkaP8Y
The AI community is not monolithic. I do not think we're close to AGI, and have never claimed that we are.

My lane is this: I think we're producing new and powerful tools. Some of those tools can be used as weapons. Some of those tools seem to be footguns. But they're relatively broad tools that can be used for many purposes, and the idea that the toolmakers need special oversight because one day someone might figure out how to get the tool to produce a plan for a chemical weapon (Sec 3 (n)(1)(A)) seems misguided to me.

Lots of kinds of tools are powerful. SMT solvers, logic engines, finite element simulators, are all powerful, and it seems about as plausible that a team of smart people with a giant cluster of GPUs could use 10^26 operations to design a weapon with one of these other approaches ... or perhaps they could discover something really valuable! I don't think ML is actually in principle more dangerous than any of these other flexible computational tools, it's just changing the most and getting the most resources right now.
Is it possible to conduct a lawful urban war?

I might not want to ever be on either side of such a war, but that seems to be the biggest, intellectually honest hole in the ICC's warrants.

After all they are supposed to be an alternative to the justice system of violence.
> One phone call to whom? Hamas?

To Israel. The modern state of Israel simply cannot exist without the largesse and political cover the US provides.

> There is no easy solution

Yes and no. End the genocide. End the apartheid. Nuremberg-like trials to deal with war criminals on both sides. Reconstruction of a single state. 750,000 settlers has made a two-state solution impossible.

We've been here before: post-US civil war and post-apartheid South Africa.

There is the idea that the currently oppressed population will rise up in vilence against their former oppressors. History doesn't back up this view. Our modern examples such as Reconstruction showed the opposite: the rise of the KKK and the rise of violence against former slaves by their former oppressors.

Afghanistan has been described as the graveyard of empires. This region may be vying for that title.
Citation needed on the "drivers who can't replace their vehicles" part. Lots of cities in the US have passed laws about how much such workers must be paid and I generally think the government is the one that should be solving that problem.

I read that whole article. I didn't know about the intentional strategy to send Uber drivers into likely violent situations. That's fucked up.

Most of that article seemed to focus on Uber violating laws about operating taxi services though. Sounds good to me? Like there's nothing intrinsically morally correct about taxi service operation laws. This sort of proves my point too. Some company was going to have to fight through all that red tape to get app-based taxis working and maybe it's possible to do that without breaking the law, but if it's easier to just break the law and do it, then whatever. I can't emphasize how much I don't care about those particular laws being broken and maybe if I knew more about them I'd even be specifically happy that those laws were broken.