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Your quote:

> EVs do nothing to reduce particulate matter pollution from tires and breaks.

"Substantially reduce particulate matter pollution from brakes" sounds like doing "something", not "nothing", to me.
Sounds judicious. You probably wouldn't get sued, and would prevail if sued. However, the question of how much human voice space Scarlett can lay claim to remains unsettled. Your example suggests that it might be quite a bit, if law and precedent causes people to take the CYA route.

Consider the hypothetical: EvilAI, Inc. would secretly like to piggyback on the success of Her. They hire Nancy Schmo for their training samples. Nancy just happens to sound mostly like Scarlett.

No previous negotiations, no evidence of intentions. Just a "coincidental" voice doppelganger.

Does Scarlett own her own voice more than Nancy owns hers?

Put another way: if you happen to look like Elvis, you're not impersonating him unless you also wear a wig and jumpsuit. And the human look-space is arguably much bigger than the voice-space.
Greg has specifically said it's not an SSML-parsing text model; he's said it's an end to end multimodal model.

FWIW, I would find it very surprising if you could get the low latency expressiveness, singing, harmonizing, sarcasm and interpretation of incoming voice through SSML -- that would be a couple orders of magnitude better than any SSML product I've seen.
> ICC can issue secret warrants, and no denial would be credible due to its very nature

If that's the case then they are defacto banned from travelling. Still these secret warrants will be shared with the respective countries, right? So they should know?
Well, you were the one who grouped them. The reality is that EVs wear tires equivalently fast to other similar weight vehicles and wear brakes very very slowly. And reduce carbon emissions. And noise.
It would break the VBA API.
Why? Israel isn’t an ICC signatory nation.
It may be a win for the company in some categories, but a loss in others.
but it's not resolved, it is "repaired" by a cheque for an amount that was determined ahead of time by google, and the jury not consulted at all?
Another sad thing is that no matter the accolades of the "security expert", the truth is that they havent been "hacked" because they or their business has nothing of value to those skilled enough to take it. "I can" doesn't mean "I want to", or "it's worth our time". Which is to say, everyone is an expert, until they are not.
The whole thing is just a money laundering scheme. It’s illegal to give money to Trump as a donation, but if you buy the worthless shares in his company, it’s (arguably) legal, and he has a number of ways of siphoning off this cash into his own pocket.

If I were investigating, I’d be looking at ways people could prove to Trump that they actually bought (and held) the shares.
We don't have decent heavy engines and my understanding is that that's main the reason why we don't have decent heavy rockets.

It's true that in the end we may get there the long way, N1-style, but we still didn't.
You're right, it wasn't just a coincidence: "Doc and Beans are inspired by Ken and Roberta Williams, a real-life couple who founded Sierra Entertainment, a video game company known for the King's Quest series that eventually sold to Activision."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10084334/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_tr...
Egypt may well believe that (and others have rightfully pointed out that not following UN conventions for refugees is outside of the jurisdiction of the ICC), but I don't think there is a plausible case to be made that refusing to help people wanting to flee from armed conflict can be considering "supporting ethnic cleansing".
The actions of these politicians are more important than their words.

According to Amnesty International (which has a separate report detailing Palestinian war crimes), the politicians you are defending directly authorized the killing of 10,000’s of children, the maiming of 10,000’s more, torture of civilians (often to death, and including residents of Israel), created a famine that lead to a 93% starvation rate last winter, and also committed systematic violations of LGBTI’s rights in Israel.

There are many, many more war crimes enumerated in the report, and it also documents the connection to top Israeli officials.

The above is indefensible, as are the actions of Hamas.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-af...
PayPal releases $90K of bathwater sales after freezing account in 2019
Best seafood I ever had was at a shack on the coast of Maine in a non-tourist town. It wasn't even a restaurant; it was just a building where the lobstermen would sell their catch. No place to sit inside; there was a bench out front. But they kept a pot of water boiling out back in case somebody wanted one ready to eat. So you paid the man $10 and he boiled you one and you took your lobster out to the bench and ate it with a borrowed nutcracker and a plastic fork while fighting off the gulls.

Good times.
Altman has proven time and again that he is little more than a huckster wrt technology, and in business he is a stone cold shark.

Conman plain and simple.
The whole point is making the consumers pay the cost of running LLMs (both in hardware and power), not your privacy, they will still get your data to train better models.
for Fintechs who're using Stripe as a way to allow users to purchase stock/remittances/e-wallet balances etc. instant payouts are very important since in most cases people who load with stripe also consume those funds on the platform instantly
One is in jail, when it should be two are in jail
I don't feel it's disingenuous at all. When I read the title I instantly understood it to mean multiplying the fee by 1.5. In what world would anyone take this to mean that they're charging 50% of each transaction?
I don't feel it's disingenuous at all? They're increasing the fee by 50%... of the fee, obviously. In what world would anyone take this to mean that they're charging 50% of each transaction?
There are many, many pieces of evidence I could cite to refute this argument, but the one I find the most compelling is the situation in the West Bank. Hamas does not control that area, there are no "human shields" there. And yet the IDF kills civilians and commits crimes there regularly (with reams of documentation from organizations like https://www.btselem.org/ and https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/). Why should I trust the IDF to be any less criminal in Gaza?

> gullible American students

I know one such student quite well. They are Jewish, right-wing, and all their life were taught (at the Jewish school they attended, and by their family) to support Israel. Then they went out into the world, and met some Palestinians. Now they are leading protests against the war
There's still the "leave their stable job" problem to solve. I've been in this situation more than once. Do I stay with the company I know: where I'm not getting promotions or raises, but it's a known quantity with a 9-5 work environment, I'm not in perpetual crunch mode, I'm not getting yelled at by a boss as he snorts coke in the conference room. Do I leave this nice stable, boring, no-growth company for yours where they're known to fire fast if they happen to think I misrepresented something? Do I do it for a +10% pay bump? How about for a +50% pay bump?
Paying your parking ticket does not change the legal process - The govt sends you a letter saying you must pay the fine or challenge in court, and you pay it.

What Google is doing is changing the legal process - The govt wants a jury trial, Google is saying "here's some money, now no more jury trial." It seems more than a bit different, at least to my non-lawyer eyes.
Indeed. It reminds me of Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind (or one of his other books), where a large chunk of his argument that human consciousness and understanding can't be fully explained by computational processes, because humans can understand and see the truth of certain statements that formal systems cannot.

Mathematicians have spilled a bunch of ink explaining why Penrose didn't understand Godel's proof.
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. If you tack on a claim for monetary damages when your that’s just a tail wagging the dog, when your real focus is the injunctive relief, then that is gaming the system.

Or, to put it differently, the government invoked a damages claim that’s tangential to its case to get in front of a jury on a technicality. And Google invoked a different technicality to get out from a jury trial. Live by the sword die by the sword.

And whether any of this helps or hurts the government’s chances against Google is entirely irrelevant.
I remember the Internet before 230, and it was fine.
While maven and gradle may lack the architectural purity of bazel, they work much in the same way.

Plan and execute steps, building a graph of the required build tasks, only executing the tasks that have changed inputs.

With that said, it's quite common to see maven/gradle builds that are misconfigured and execute tasks unnecessarily.
That'd be nice. Local models are absolutely improving but I believe there's going to be a capability plateau for generalized language models regardless of where they're hosted.
For those of us who were fans of Sierra it was about the right length.
That's absolutely false. Yes, there were Palestinians in Gaza before the Nakba, but the reason there are refugee camps and the reason UNWRA exists is to provide for the Palestinian refugees from the Nakba.
But it tells you the driver is required.

And it's actually accurate. The driver is legally required, and it drives itself. Nobody said it drives perfectly.
>If you mean to say that human-level AI is 4,000 years away, and current AI is a mere abacus by comparison

Yes.

>what have you accomplished to earn the qualifications to make such an assertion?

what has he? the technology he helped develop, which is currently being marketed as "AI", is not AI. A - yes, I - no. anyone familiar with its inner workings and severe limitations is qualified to say that.

sci-fi AI remains as remote now as it was at the time Terminator 2 was screened in theaters, and the current technology is not even a stepping stone to that - just like inventing the abacus was not a stepping stone to inventing the transistor.
I cycled to work in Central London in 2009-2011 and again in 2018. The infrastructure wasn't great, but I always kept to the road (you aren't allowed to cycle on standard pavements in the UK) and never had any major incidents or altercations.

Car drivers do stupid stuff, but it's also somewhat predictable compared to pedestrians - especially kids. If there is a junction, there's a good chance a car will pull in or out and not see you, so you know to be cautious and triple check your surroundings when cycling past in that situation. If there is a kid running who knows which way they are going to go next.

I had co-workers who regularly got into incidents while cycling, however they all appeared to have some deep seeded anger issues. I think the "holier-than-thou" view a lot of cyclists have is because of this, the sport attracts people with this personality. It's the same way most people who buy a sports motorcycle don't do it to drive behind other cars sticking to speed limits, they drive because they want to feel the adrenaline of swerving between cars.
Too bad she didn't agree to it. It's the only voice they currently have that I can stand. Hey OpenAI, can you maybe try stealing Morgan Freeman's voice next instead?
They can say they had a certain thing in mind, which was to produce something like ‘Her’, and obviously Scarjo would have sold it home for them if she participated. But in lieu of the fact that she didn’t, they still went out and created what they had in mind, which was something LIKE ‘Her’. That doesn’t sound illegal.
By the way, it was actually "Don't be evil".
Almost 50% of the cost of flying is fuel. Then there's a bunch of fees on every airport the plane lands as well as costs for parking in that airport.

Airlines run on thin margins and junk fees.

Cost per craft mile comes down if we drastically reduce price of energy (no real jet fuel alternatives anytime soon) and build a ton of new airports with low regulation / low overhead costs.
Israel was one of the US most important assets in the Middle East. At that time, gas/oil ran the world and it was the energy source. The US is simply stuck with that baggage. Meanwhile China is building solar like there is no tomorrow and essentially creating and monopolizing the new energy source.

The US is really in a bad position now.
I didn't say that quote, that was input_sh. Please pay more attention to people, especially if you're going to be calling out sources for information.

> It's also not clear for how long this policy was in place if it was.

It's consistent with what has been observed all throughout this war--Israel has had rather looser rules of engagement than many people would expect, and that has had the rather predictable effect of rather high incidents of accidents, such as Israeli soldiers killing 3 of the hostages or the attack on the aid convoy.

> This is a question of proportionality in the laws of war sense of the word. I.e. what collateral damage is acceptable when attacking an enemy combatant. If that statement you refer to is factual, which we don't know, it means that strikes against combatants are approved up this threshold.

20 civilian combatants for 1 enemy combatant is a pretty high threshold, especially for low-level members. According to an Economist article I read, that's the level the US is comfortable with only for essentially enemy heads of state (think Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden). (Reportedly, Israel feels 1:100 is acceptable in this kind of scenario.)

> It's almost certainly not reflecting the total civilian to combatant ratio.

No, it's not. But it's evidence that Israel isn't doing a good job of minimizing civilian casualties. And the actual numbers we have here aren't good. In the best case scenario (taking Israel's probably somewhat-inflated figures for combatants killed and the lowest numbers of civilians killed), it's about 1 combatant to 2 civilians, roughly comparable to the war in Donbass before Russia invaded Ukraine for reals (we don't have good estimates post 2022 because Russia hasn't released anything in the areas it occupies). I suspect the real numbers are probably closer to 1-to-4. By contrast, the US-led battles of Fallujah and Mosul--both urban fights against terrorist-held cities--had casualty rates around (and perhaps better than) 1-to-1.

I wouldn't be so incensed about this if Israeli generals weren't prancing around boasting that no one has done as good a job as Israel has in minimizing civilian casualties when it is so transparently false.
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They’ve fought them all before and repeatedly won. Before they had US funding, before they had nuclear weapons, before they had an overwhelming advantage in material and technology.

US funding of Israel is used to buy votes in the US, and to buy some influence in Israel, it will not change the military situation much.
Hmm, weird. I actually posted this a few days ago, but the article was under a different title then. It looks to me like maybe Vice was A/B testing titles, it somehow got a second chance on HN, but with the existing comments merged in and their timestamps changed too...?!

It's a lot clearer with the new title but it sure makes for some confusing threads.
What the heck is it then, lol? Is it just the current market?

I’m legit thinking I’ll just do my own thing if I can’t figure out something.
This question sounds like it was asked by a private equity investor looking to sample the tech zeitgeist before buying up and destroying some beloved tool.
Not parent, but let's take each side's numbers at face value:

The Gaza Ministry of Health says as of today that 35,562 people have been killed [0].
The Israeli Ministry of Defense in March said it has killed 13,000 Hamas operatives [1].

Leaving aside the two month gap between these figures, the civilian casualty ratio is 1:1.7.

I tried to find a source for what a "typical" casualty ratio is in urban conflicts. This source [2] claims that 90% of overall casualties is a typical number. That would be a ratio of 1:9.

John Spencer, who chairs the Modern Warfare Institute at USMA, and seems to be an authority on the subject, has a tweet addressing this specifically [3], in which he cites the Battles of Mosul, and Manila as having casualty rates of 1:2.5, 1:6 respectively.

I don't think proving the negative of "lowest civilian casualty rate in modern history" is feasible, but a nearly 5x improvement in civilian casualties compared to the assumed norm, and lower civilian casualties than Spencer's comparisons seems to indicate that the claim is not without merit.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...
[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-says-gaza...
[2] https://civiliansinconflict.org/our-work/conflict-trends/urb...
[3] https://x.com/SpencerGuard/status/1786612914117349769
I would dare say for me the https://pythontutor.com/ even more so than compiler Explorer. (hint: it's not just for python)
I think a lot of fundamentalist Christians are actually anti-Jewish and anti-Israel. They're not the bloc you think they are.
I'd join, but Metro Internet Explorer crashes whenever I try to message, and the tablet battery won't last me the trip to the club...
Maybe you should look at the specs?

The smallest GE (which is directly comparable, with better performance, to the Quilt specs which should tell you something) is:
* 12 7/8" (H)
* 39 3/4" (W)
* 8 3/4" (D)

The Quilt:
* 7 7/8" (H)
* 38" (W)
* 8 1/4" (D)

So, while - yes, the Quilt is slightly smaller let's check out other specs...

GE [0]:
* Rated Cooling BTU: 9,000
* Cooling BTU Range: 3,100 - 12,000
* SEER/EER: 30/16
* Heating BTU Range: 3,100 - 20,000
* Rated Heating BTU 47F: 10,000
* COP: 3.7
* Heating Capacity 5F BTU: 12,000
* Heating Capacity -4F BTU: 10,500
* Heating Capacity -15F BTU: 9,000
* Heating Capacity -22F BTU: 7,400
* Operating Range: 115F to -31F

Quilt:
* Rated Cooling BTU: 8,000
* Cooling BTU Range: ??? - Quilt doesn't say.
* SEER/HSPF2/CEE (not sure why they don't follow more common measurements): 25/11/2
* Heating BTU Range: ??? - Quilt doesn't say.
* Rated Heating BTU 47F: 9,000
* ...everything else missing from Quilt "Tech Specs"...

So... You get a smaller unit. With less output. And while the outdoor unit can do double, Quilt doesn't indicate you get more with just one unit. Also, no person in the midwest should buy this until they produce technical specs that matter. I run my heat pump and it needs to be able to heat at -20F. The quilt looks significantly weaker / hiding something.

As an aside on the GE - they claim: "100% rated heating capacity at 5ºF and comfortably warm air down to -31ºF". Quilt?

If I really cared about performance of an HVAC solution I’d hate it (Quilt). Again, no thanks. Another product where the PMs spent more time working out look and feel than actual performance (or they'd have published what the unit can do).

[0] https://www.geappliances.com/content/ductless/downloads/Endu...
[1] https://www.quilt.com/tech-specs
Didn't expect Scarlett Johansson to become the flashpoint of the next AI winter.
Not much has changed in 18 years...

Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
South Korea-Japan ties tested by dispute over Line app
> since it is not exactly identical voice, or even not that close, they can plausibly deny it

When studios approach an actress A and she refuses, then another actress B takes the role, is that infringing on A's rights? Or should they just scrap the movie?

Maybe if they replicated a scene from the A's movies or there was striking likeness between the voices... but not generally.
I really liked the local player that would download videos continuously on my crappy dial up connection. You downloaded a file (a few kb) and it just perpetually downloaded the data until you came back hrs later and it was ready. Man I can't believe I was that patient.
She wasn’t lying and they knew that. From their point of view she was the saboteur and they are objectively right.

If you want to create conflict, you better have integrity and leave instead of continuing to use the resources of the group for your crusade.
Yet she stayed there and waited literally decades to create outrage about something that has yet to be proven problematic in the long run.

They even alerted the EPA pretty quickly so it is clear to anyone reading between the lines the one acting the most in bad faith is actually her.
Unfortunately, even though I wish I could get an M4 (or equivalent) ARM SoC in a PC, it is very unlikely that these chips are going to live up to the hype. Qualcomm has a bad track record of overstating and cherry-picking benchmarks.

All of their claims so far have been both impressive, and very squishy. Microsoft's own messaging around performance and battery life for their Surface devices was also unusually squishy. And I am a huge Surface Pro fan that would love nothing more than a fanless AND fast ARM Surface Pro.

I live in San Diego, and know countless Qualcomm employees, none of them give a shit about anything other than modems really. The rest of the SoC is just something to push 5G. They care as much about CPUs/SoCs as Intel did about 5G modems.
Yeah. Every time I've seriously looked at getting an iPad... I just end up getting a Surface Pro instead.

The Surface Pro is "good enough" hardware wise, and having a full featured OS means I can run Blender and whatever else I choose.
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I need to sell one of my sites and I don't know how to price it, can somebody help me with that?
There were never any. None of the models or code are actually open. It claims to be a nonprofit but is effectively a for profit company pulling the strings of a nonprofit just to avoid taxes.
I thought SVN was great, easy to use, and very intuitive, that is until you had any merge conflicts.

At the time, it worked very well for our small team, I imagine it would work less well for large teams on a single codebase.

I miss having a commit serial number.
> The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages.

You have to hand it to the British: of all the different peoples and nations who tried their hand at world domination, the tiny little island of Britain won.
I know toying with these edge cases is the “curious” part of HN discussions, but I can’t help but think of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1494/
However they're much much heavier, generating more tire and brake dust.
Microsoft's AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions
Efficient and Generic Microarchitectural Hash-Function Recovery
It isn't so much about the chip but that there are almost no standards for how things should work when compared to a PC. Almost every PC boots the same. Almost no ARM device boots like another.

There has only ever been 1 or 2 ARM SoCs for Windows for the last 10 years. It didn't make Linux support on them easy.
What propotion are so fundie they're pro-rapture and all in for war between Israel and elsewhere though?
Believe me I almost bowed out many times. It was a lot of unnecessary fluff and not exactly how I wanted to spend the last hour of my night before bed.
The best candidates are probably the ones already employed, maybe even employed in a cushy 9-5 company making $400K. As an employer, you need to think about what are you offering that's so much better than what they already have in their hand, that would make them willing to walk away from a sure thing and take a risk by joining your company. You gotta give them what they're already making plus a risk premium.

You don't have to pay that risk premium to someone currently unemployed, but what are the odds that you find your senior Founding Engineer from that pool?