skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what world does a majority of the public cheer for OpenAI "stealing"* an actress's voice?

People who hate Hollywood? Most of that crowd hates tech even more.

* Because it would take the first news cycle to be branded as that
Electric has many advantages that make a direct comparison of jet-a vs battery a little hard. First, what is the overall weight of the fuel storage/support systems plus the mass associated with getting that fuel to the engines? What about the weight of the engines and all their support systems? How about how efficiently that energy can be turned into work? How efficiently can you place the engines? What about the efficiency that you can maintain in all flight regimes? What about the volume it takes to store it? How about the cost to refuel? What about the environmental advantages (not just air pollution but noise) Finally, what about the simplicity and safety of the design?

Conventional aircraft are barely improving in any of these areas while electric is rapidly improving in all of these areas. It may take a while for batteries to get the same energy density, but there is a good chance they won't need to even come all that close before the other advantages push electric ahead.
If you take Weird Al's word for it, he was told Coolio had approved and only later found out it was the other way around:

"…two separate people from my label told me that they had personally talked to Coolio… and that he told them that he was okay with the whole parody idea…Halfway into production, my record label told me that Coolio’s management had a problem with the parody, even though Coolio personally was okay with it. My label told me… they would iron things out — so I proceeded with the recording and finished the album."

https://www.vulture.com/2011/12/gangstas-parodist-revisiting...
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I thought we had already established this when the previous board tried to oust him for failing to stick to OpenAI’s charter. This is just further confirmation.

> The new board should act

You mean like the last board tried? Besides the board was picked to be on Altman’s side. The independent members were forced out.
I'd love to have one, I have glare issues at work and home where this would hopefully help, being unwilling to simply black out the window.

I like having both a sky, and somewhat changing digital artifacts in my field of view.

A minor concern is that there are so few supply chains for the underlying technology. This is a bit like "that screen really came from Samsung like all the others" or the more real world of where disk platters come from (Thailand, for almost everyone, at one point if not continuously)
All this advertising and no mention of how to get replace Google docs and sheets?
I assume they meant unplugged and in regular use, not unplugged and hibernating the whole time.
I think hours of video call with five other people need to be a metric for devices now.
Yikes…this definitely doesn’t look like the writing of a mentally healthy person…let alone one with a productive, fulfilling life.
The hardware looks and sounds great.
Too bad it's running Windows 11.
Latest news is that Biden rejects ICC decision. Netanyahu leaves scot free
Not illegal, because this would be a civil case. But they’re on thin ice because there’s a big difference between “creating something like Her” and “creating something like Scarlet Johansson’s performance in Her”.
> I wonder sometimes why more people don’t use Laravel (or similar frameworks in other languages)

They do. Most people do. If anyone is serious about putting a project up they use frameworks.
pure curiosity, haha, just run it (https://gist.github.com/ctlllll/4451e94f3b2ca415515f3ee369c8...) through translate to english:

here are the first tokens till ctrl+c
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"It's a bit outrageous..."

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The first game I rage quit and then went looking for an overwrite tool to ensure that every last bit of it was gone off my hdd. I loved the premise - steampunk and magic! - but got stuck and web said I needed some random thing that I had discarded many game hours ago. Inventory management can make or break a game really.

That overwrite tool was handy later when my first C&C:Generals LAN game had my Supertank sniped and stolen.
I love Postgres, but this is the most pointless, tone-deaf, biased article I’ve read in a long time.
That story is not about speed, it's about Copilot. To be fair, everything is called Copilot now, so maybe fast Surface Pros will be called Copilots too.
>Are you saying plenty of people don't consider it to be settled now?

Clearly some people don't, or the modern slave trade would not exist. Never mind that the US depending on your point of view continues to have slavery in the form of prison labor. And then we can get into what I personally consider hyperbolic descriptions of wage "slavery" that others I'm sure do not consider it so hyperbolic.

> Mind you European borders today are not "debated" that way, and we consider that a win.

Up until very very recently I suspect quite a few Irish and British nationals would have disagreed very strongly on that front. Even today I imagine there are some that don't consider it settled. 1998-1999 brought us the war in Kosovo. Famously there are still protests surrounding Basque independence in Spain, and similarly in 2017 there was the Catalan declaration of independence. Heck a good portion of the readers on this site are probably older than the current unified borders of Germany (34 years). I would also remind you that the Ukraine is a European country whose borders and independence are actively and violently up for debate currently. And none of that counts any of the various European colonies that were divested (in sometimes quite violent ways) in the last century, regardless of the border stability of the home country.

>I mean, that is precisely why US domestic debate is increasingly breaking down and violent. Not because it's not free enough but because it's too free. Because there's no ethical or rational ground underpinning it.

And I see it as almost the exact opposite. I see the breakdown as an increasing unwillingness to ascribe any ethical or rational ground to the opposing side. I think it's compounded by an unwillingness to debate the starting axioms before trying to debate the higher level topics as well, but conveniently if you just assume your opponents have no "ethical or rational ground underpinning" their debate, you also don't have to bother with debating those baseline axioms.
Honest question: why does the US need Israel? Or, to put it another way, what concrete help or advantages has Israel given the US over the last few decades?

Even in the (ill-conceived and disastrous) Iraq and Afghanistan wars other ME nations produced a lot more help than Israel did.
There is a strange lack of journalistic curiosity about the funding source behind this study and similar ones that have been making headlines over the last couple of years.

HT LLC is the High Tide Foundation. They're an advocacy group focused on climate change. You might recall a similar study in the headlines a year or so ago. That one focused on gas stoves and benzene, instead of NO2. It was from the same research group and likewise was funded by the High Tide Foundation.

https://www.hightidefoundation.org
"This may take up to 40 days"??? what?! Permanent deletion of local files may take over a month?
Hopefully it forces apple to up the base ram or storage. Competition is good!
Not sure why it’s hypocritical just because you praise one action by a group but not another. It’s not as if the circumstances are identical.
I'm trying to find games for my kids that would have the same influence. Fortnite etc is all so popular - but I feel that Police Quest, Hero Quest etc are a big part of my logical reasoning skills I have today...
If these numbers are representative, they seem to show apple silicon's efficiency advantage is now pretty minor.
> On the minus side it's a little exhausting, and there's so much money in it feels like the vast majority of it is grifting.

It is all grifting. The moment someone creates something that can improve upon itself there will be an intelligence explosion and it won’t need press releases or debates about its intelligence. The current path of research will not lead to that, if there was something to be discovered here it would have been discovered already. It’s just new to the general consumer and there’s a wow factor associated with it like crypto and NFTs before. The truth is tech has lost its momentum and is desperate to find a new trick.
I vaguely remember Ozone layer predictions being pretty dire decades ago…

I am conflicted. On one hand, there is a definite “slant” to news reporting. There seems to be a short list of topics that publishers frequently and regularly publish content about, seemingly to “check a box” without really providing anything new. Whether it be “climate crisis”, “democracy”, etc…

I also dislike the coverage of CO2 emissions.. Threshold X is the goal, threshold X+0.1 is doom… There seems to be a reluctance to admit that all we’re really doing is trying to decide which generation meets the fate we fear. Buying time is certainly valuable though.

On the other hand, the scale at which humans make a mess is hard to ignore. One trash bag/ week times 100M households… where does it all go? How many tons of lead are we putting into the air from coal use? There used to be a lot more bugs when driving in rural areas at night… Could go on and on…

I feel like we should just live slightly a more simply instead of trying to “fix” climate change. The problem is not climate, it’s us.

We could decrease consumption slightly and have a better quality of life.

The plastic coffee lid or food container today will still be intact in 75 years… yet we’ll be gone. Why is that OK?
The hardware is a Trojan horse to get the software in your house.
I agree, I just did not have the link at hand
Exactly. I wonder if they actually use their own laptops for work. I had one HP laptop literally melt its own plastic after being left inside my bag for a night. Made it a point to always keep it on a desk overnight.
> There is no "Start"
Thank you for trying out the app. After clicking on Recall in the upper right corner in the menu bar (not the dock) you should see the text "Capture Status" and a button in that row labeled "Start" From here you can control when Recall is enabled and capturing.
It also matches or exceeds the performance of much larger models, including Gemini Pro and GPT-4V, according to human judgments on a new long-form mixed-modal generation evaluation, where either the prompt or outputs contain mixed sequences of both images and text. Chameleon marks a significant step forward in a unified modeling of full multimodal documents.
> Optimize for use cases instead of branding/marketing.

Even if a company had in-house people for both branding/identity and interface design, which isn't common, they probably wouldn't even go to each others meetings, just like a database administrator wouldn't go to front-end dev meetings. My having professional experience in both is the exception, not the rule.

The overwhelming majority of the interface work I've done was for applications published by a nonprofit that didn't give a shit about branding or prettiness. They needed their interaction-heavy applications to be very visually parseable and have things like action status and next actions be clear and intuitive instantly. That doesn't happen by accident: you must delve deep into the minutiae of what you communicate with information hierarchy, implied relationships through gestalt or implied lines, and other visual cues that help people subconsciously understand what they're looking at. While these things are very important to everyone trying to use an interface, it's triply so for people that aren't used to staring at dense screens of text all day long, which is why other developers are the only ones that don't hate interfaces made by developers. Branding people care about very general look and feel and are usually satisfied if you use the appropriate colors and typefaces. Interface design is the hard part with layout, has little to do with aesthetics, and is 100% about the use case.
I asked an LLM and it suggested humor is forbidden here on English days ending in "y" because of Poe's law. This is why we can't we have nice things.
It's still in the early phase where the bubble is building up. This is necessary if we want a prosperous market. Hopefully, after the bubble bursts, some good companies will remain (which is very likely).
we have the opposite problem in government
I would have guessed the primary argument for armed police would be to scare criminals and dissuade them from violent crime. I'd guess some people would argue that having N fewer incidents of cops murdering suspects isn't worth having X% more crime overall. But I'd also expect it's really hard to build a statistical model for how cause and effect would work.

Would you say that this is a topic where there's a clear utilitarian winner, or not?
What I mean is use a relatively simple build system instead of Bazel, and deal with dependencies and reproducibility through a Nix development environment.
Those listed(and many others) support RTP, which came first and accomplished the same thing. They probably see little incentive in adding FedNow any time soon.
The mysterious check:

https://ia801604.us.archive.org/11/items/gov.uscourts.vaed.5...

https://ia801604.us.archive.org/11/items/gov.uscourts.vaed.5...
> Copilot+ PCs support up to

Support? Big "hmmm" energy.
> It would never have been enough, not for Williams nor the board, for Sierra to have levelled out as, say, a boutique producer of high-quality adventure games.

Why not?!?

It seems like everyone in this story - Roberta, people who love games, (most especially) the employees who lost their savings, and even Ken - would be happier today if they had continued earning an honest profit doing what they did best. The scramble for more, more, MORE undid them all.

There's wisdom in the proverb "the love of money is the root of all evil". This story is a cautionary tale.
Who offers on-site repair for your Macs? All my employers have sent us to the Apple store.
Apple is a heavily lock-in oriented company with ulterior motives and macOS is filled with DRM to boot. That's poorly compatible with the concept or privacy by definition.
Idk the voice in the 4o demo and the existing Sky voice seemed quite different to me. And Scarlett’s letter says she and her friends were shocked when they heard the 4o demo. This whole situation is about the newly unveiled voice in the demo. It’s different.
I have serious trust issues when microsoft makes a claim about battery life.
Proton is still missing a contact app for smartphone.
50-75 years ago, brass handles were the norm on public buildings like schools, government buildings, factory buildings, hospitals, etc.

Can we please stop changing things that don't need to be changed?
Is rock safe?
Yes but you'll note MS has made no specific claims about battery life and performance.
Re "keeping tabs on you on Maps".

This is not a "evil conspiracy" by the NWO. It's just the classic banality of evil here: Google uses this info to track in-store conversions of ads they show you online.
Too bad nothing substantive will happen to them.

The worst of it is not that this one person is being ripped off (that's bad enough and I hope she gets some kind of resolution). The worst of it is that it shows the company and the people behind it who are making the big decisions are dishonest and unethical.

All the alleged "safety" experts in corporations and in government policy and regulators? All bullshit. The right way to read any of these "safety" laws and policies and regulators is that they are about ensuring the safety of the ruling class.
That math assumes the on-going maintenance of LedgerStore is no higher than that of using DynamoDB was.

I suspect there's now a team of technologists maintaining, securing, and operating LedgerStore.
Yet it runs Windows which automatically negates any hardware advantage. Surfaces and other windows laptops have always had "good" hardware, but the software is just garbage.
Copper is not safe, which is kind of the point.
Standard Notes was mentioned in the article. For sheets EtherCalc used to be a thing but doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
Is anybody swapping ecosystems based on one-off specifications? That seems incredibly foolhardy. Platforms are sticky.
Can you run Windows 10 on these? Not interested in 11
They do some sleight of hand when doing the comparisons during the release today.

The Surface Laptop is physically a competitor to the actively cooled MacBook Pro (in fact it’s thicker).

Their performance and battery metrics are against the slimmer and passively cooled MacBook Air.

Their performance comparison is between the M3 and the Snapdragon X Elite when the M3 has throttled (their wording is sustained performance)

Their battery comparison is between the M3 and the Snapdragon X Plus.

That they interchange both freely is a strong tell that their devices don’t compete on all fronts like your comment suggests.

The only area where I think the snapdragon X will compete is price, because they’re claiming it’s $200 lower than a comparable M3 MacBook Air (but don’t disclose the exact comparison).

Still, a very strong showing from Qualcomm/Nuvia. However the sleight of hand leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
In some sense I see a direct line between the EA argument being presented here, and the SBF consequentialist argument where he talks about being willing to flip a coin if it had a 50% chance to destroy the world and a 50% chance to make the world more than twice as good.

I did try to cabin my arguments to Effective Altrusts that are making ends justify the means arguments. I really don’t have a problem with people that are attempting to use EA to decide between multiple good outcomes.

I’m definitely not engaged enough with the Effective Altrusits to know where the plurality of thought lies, so I was trying to respond in the context of this argument being put forward on behalf of Effective Altruists.

The only part I’d say applies to all EA, is the brand taint that SBF has done in the public perception.
I feel exploitation is apt:

* Whoever gets to Mars (and the Moon for that matter) first in a permanent fashion gets to write all the rules. Full stop. It's also why the US really does not want China achieving a Moon presence first.

* Starlink is competing (and winning) against all the incumbent ISPs for being pieces of shit one way or another, especially incumbent satellite ISPs like Hughesnet who are their immediate competitors.

It's all man vs. man colonialism in the end.

Besides, "to exploit" something means to make productive use of something: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploit
I'm never going to take public transit in the United States if I can help it because there are too many unhinged psycopaths and it takes just one. When I visit Europe it's all I take day in day out. Except certain parts of Paris and the UK which have had lots of recent arrivals. But even the new arrivals are less insane than many of the characters found on US public transit.
Power is more important than money to their financial backers. So they are willing to lose money to be the premiere online video site, which gives them tremendous power over what is censored and what is recommended.
It’s hard to believe those numbers when (according to anonymous Israeli military officers) the Israelis are willing to routinely accept civilian casualties of 20 to 1. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Applied AI Grants in the AI Summer
You missed a few: We also can't have anything new made out of steel, iron, or cement. And we can't have heating or cooling in our houses or businesses:

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
What an unforced error on OpenAI's part, but revelatory to all of us how their leaders actually see the world around them: either people whose likeness and style to copy like Johansson or chumps like the rest of us who would marvel at the regurgitated synthetic likeness.

And really, how much worse would the demo have been if they hadn't cloned Johansson's voice, and instead used another unknown voice? If it was similarly flirty, we'd have fallen for it anyways.
The language is not the hard thing, it's actually straightforward once you get it. It's the crazy amount of convention and the number of layers in the stack that make up the Nix ecosystem that takes so long to grok.
You are right. This explains the current trend that's happening on social media, "being silent is being complicit".

There is a huge quiet population that is OKAY with 40k Palestinian bombed by Israeli regime.

I had no idea on Eurovision result and to see Israel to be second, I guess people are blind to the genocide
I've stopped having eye strain issues since I've started using night mode 24/7.

Before that, sometimes I worked using my kindle as a screen connected to the computer. Which was a nice distraction free environment.
Wow! I'd not noticed this before! Thanks for sharing!
Well no said that it was a huge deal. The point was that msft is horrible at naming things. Do you have any example of something like this happening in any other ecosystem?

"

In summary:

ASP.NET MVC 5:
ASP.NET MVC 5 was a short-lived successor
to ASP.NET MVC 4.
It was released alongside ASP.NET Web API 2 in 2014.
It actually ran on top of ASP.NET 4 (i.e. .NET 4.x version of System.Web.dll). Note that the entire

ASP.NET MVC library is now obsolete.

ASP.NET 5 was EOL'd and rebranded as ASP.NET Core and it includes the functionality of "ASP.NET MVC 5" built-in.

ASP.NET Core 1 and ASP.NET Core 2 can run on either .NET Core (cross-platform) or .NET Framework (Windows) because it targets .NET Standard.

ASP.NET Core 3 now only runs on .NET Core 3.0.

ASP.NET Core 4 does not exist and never has.

ASP.NET Core 5 exists (as of August 2020) however its official name seems to be "ASP.NET Core for .NET 5" and it only runs on .NET 5."

https://stackoverflow.com/a/51391202

Again, not a big deal in retrospect now that it has stabilized. But it was a huge deal. Because you couldn't easily figure out if you needed to use Asp.net MVC, or if that version is now deprecated, and if the core you're using means dotnetcore or aspnet core on framework... again, it's the type of stuff that matters when it happens and leaves a mark afterwards.
The decision said Midler's voice was distinctive. Not the song.
Scarlet says she was shocked to hear the voice in the 4o demo, and they had requested her consent (for the 2nd time) 2 days prior to the demo. If that demo voice was the same as the existing Sky voice, this wouldn’t be happening.
I am sure Yogi Berra wouldn't agree but the verb "to podium" is a neologism I want to help root out and destroy.

I sometimes wish we had our winning athletes stand on herms, not a podium. At least the herms are decorated (usually, now chiselled off)

I do realize english is a fluid language and adapts to suit it's needs. I do not believe in appeals to dictionary authorities, I just don't LIKE "to podium" as a verb