skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplicity of interstellar travel really depends on how you define it.

Constructing a ship of sufficient redundancy / self-repair capability that can carry embryonic life to another star seems like something we could achieve. The engineering problems seem hard but quantifiable, and the resources required are likely available. If humanity decided tomorrow that we needed to put "a human" on another planet, I think it could be done (sent) within a lifetime. (surviving there, another matter)

OTOH the scale of resources that would need to be deployed to begin construction of a Dyson sphere would seem to be immense, let alone the systems required to harness it for anything useful.
What would qualify as clever Python? These kind of broad and vague statements make me wonder if I am guilty..
Not all CEOs are terrible.
How does legal check that the software that they’re using doesn’t send those out?
Do you think that's what happened given that they then removed it?
I'm a bit more optimistic: the CI/CD pipeline can include adversarial model(s) which probes for the worst behavior. We already have codebases of sufficient complexity that attacks can be inserted into the software supply chain.

Obviously, this becomes an arms race. The usual strategy is to add random checks, friction to contribution and severe-enough punishments for offenders (lifetime RL bans, etc.)

Expert opinions welcome - I'm a tourist.
I'm... pretty sure OpenAI respects robots.txt, as explained in the link GP shared?
Things are always more complicated than this...

As a rule, Apple gave stock to employees prior to the IPO, many of whom got rich. But some employees weren't eligible according to the criteria Steve (really, the board) came up with, and so they did not receive stock. Their criteria were typical for the time.

Woz and a few others felt bad about this and shared some of their stock.

Whether those ineligible people "deserved" stock is a matter of judgement...
https://www.pv-tech.org/caiso-approves-transmission-plan-to-...

https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2023-10/california-sees-unpre...

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO

California is the fifth largest world economy. Currently, solar is pushing ~16-19GW sustained during solar hours. For comparison, Germany has 80GW+ of solar generation capacity. It is trivial for California to push the remainder of its fossil generation out of the mix. Based on current trajectories, I would be shocked if California doesn’t meet their mandate far sooner than expected.

(Earth receives enough solar energy in less than half an hour to power humanity for a year; scale collection and storage accordingly)
IEnunerable<T> of course does not have Sum.

Only collections of numeric types (including arrays) have Sum.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enu...
That two letter tool at meta for profile access?
That's a fair statement if you take the "Her" post out-of-context and without the corroborating retort from ScarJo and his history. Which, of course, is not possible and also pretty boneheaded itself.

This isn't some college kid with an idea and too much passion.
> the fundamental problems of programming have not changed over the centuries

It hasn't been a whole century yet. Grace Hopper's career started in 1944, eighty years ago.
>The legitimate purposes exist. But unless they're effectively zero effort and zero cost, people won't use them. It'll always be just a few privacy advocates and a whole buncha criminals.

But this sentiment of yours is weaponized by the state to oppose a reality where everybody can enjoy better privacy with zero effort and zero cost, so the ruling class can have more power over the peasants. I don't want to live in a panopticon where an all-powerful state has absolute control over our lives and persists every single of our actions, transactions and thoughts in a database.
The thread is rightly being knocked off by the mods because there’s zero substance here. It’s a follow-on thread (knock one) to a public uproar (knock two) about something that isn’t representative of a new phenomenon (knock three). This isn’t what HN is for.
This is mostly because mid-level dev needs to justify their existence in order to not get laid off or PIP and is worried about losing their H1B and having to uproot their entire family in 60 days notice. Hyper-optimized, hard-to-read code that only they understand is one way to increase reliance on them while giving a reason that can be put into a promotion doc. Mid-level jobs are worried about maintaining their job.

That seems to be a matter of survival overriding ethics and professional pride. I know I came up with some really cringeworthy and complex solutions as a mid-level dev, but I would never have done it deliberately.

If people are put into a situation where they need to purposefully write substandard code to not get deported, it's something that needs to be fixed.
It's funny. I have really wanted a product like this for a while.
There is absolutely no way I would consider a non-FOSS program to do this though.
I think your answer belies an an assumption that is important in this context.

You are assuming that who came up with knowledge is important. I think Walter was saying that he would rather the knowledge not be forgotten, not that he was the one who provided it.
Brits went with 999 because it was easy to convert payphones from allowing 0s to be dialed for free (allowing users to call the operator) to allowing 0s and 9s to be dialed for free. In the UK, the system was that X pulses would be sent to send the digit X (10 for 0). NZ was using British exchange equipment that would recognize three sets of nine pulses as the emergency number, but NZ dial phones used the reverse convention (10-X pulses) so that mapped to 111.
A job application asked me if torture was worse than prostitution (2018)
Traditional C style for is terrible compared to what you can do with iterators in my opinion, but idk if C++ has those.

list.iter().sum()

ezpz
You are making a strong evidence-free claim about what JS compilers don't do.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9981607/array-foreach-ru...
I grew up using Blender so I'm a little biased, but I don't think you'll find free tools with a better community. Maya and 3ds max are arguably better than Blender at the very high levels, but if you're just getting started, Blender is a good place to begin.

I made a 'quickstart' tutorial series aimed at people with zero 3d experience to get my friends up & running asap, you might get some value out of it:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWcWF5z1egpJ_8feBE94pY8aq...

I tried a different approach than popular tutorials like the donut because I try to demystify some of the dry stuff up front that I think people get hung up on. The videos are all fairly short so that it will hopefully be an easily digestible way to really open the door for people on blender.
>and the U.S. was justified in taking extreme measures to avoid it happening again

What part of the chart shows this?
There's an internal support channel for employees to get things taken care of, it's supposed to be for friends/family you personally know. I'm pretty sure it's against the rules to take money for it. I had to use it to get myself unbanned because I made a spammy looking instagram name, hah.
I don't work there but I imagine when this happens it's because the employee needs access to the resource for some legit reasons, but accessing it for illegitimate reason is what amounts to the violation. So access controls here would amount to reviewing the reasons for the access.
you’re being silly on this just as much as you’re being silly about iterm

yes, in the context of an internet discussion about iterm we can of course say that you’re being silly, even if genocide exists. Don’t be silly.

not exactly like the front page of the NYT is discussing akira2501’s iterm stance instead of genocide, here, you’re just having an emotional tantrum over some random computer thing.

people have just gotten silly over this whole thing, visceral emotional reaction is about right.
Nope. Zero difference. I was a paying Google DNS, GoogleFI, and Gmail user. Maybe more. The first thing that happened was my Google Wallet/Pay account was marked as fraud. I didn't know this until my OTHER accounts stopped working.

My OTHER accounts stopped working because I couldn't update my credit card at Google Pay to change my recurring bills for all of those services to keep paying for them.

I was in the middle of SELLING A HOUSE, literally happened that week. My Gmail was made back when Gmail first started so I have so much mail I have to pay for it to receive mail. I had to migrate everything THAT week to another provider (fastmail).

Miserable experience. I couldn't even use my cell phone. I think that might have been cut off immediately. I forget. I don't use Google for anything but SSO now and even then I try to use Apple instead if available.

edit: Oh, yeah, I didn't know any of this was broken until I stopped getting email at my private email (via gmail DNS) Gmail account when I was selling the house. Literally nothing told me I was banned.
This. COTS was critical. Space Act Agreements are how things get done and optimizing for fixed priced, milestone based SAAs has been great for all "routine" things that NASA doesn't have to do extensive novel R&D to make happen, things like transportation, which is all space launch is these days.

SpaceX lives because of COTS and that's great. But that's also a signal that space launch is boring and was boring even back in 2005. It's commodity infrastructure and SpaceX, unlike Boeing and others, has a workable commodity style approach so they're eating everyone's lunch. Then SpaceX developed reusability because of its Mars ambitions and re-usable Falcon sealed the deal on industry dominance. No one can touch SpaceX's ~$20M F9 launch cost so SpaceX gobbles up any contracts that aren't locked down by law.
>the `accumulate` example can be made simpler with `std::plus`

Accumulate, surprisingly enough, accumulates by default:

return accumulate(x.begin(), x.end(), 0);
If people take bribes, the deserved to be fired. Not much to say other than you are 100% right about this webs site being the wrong solution to the problem. I think people need to stop using software and services with awful support. It's legal and it sends the right message.
This is one of those “accuse a diver of being a paedophile” moments. Who knew Sam is a creep with a Scarlet Johansson obsession cooking up a voice model just like her on compute daddy Satya paid for (but books as revenue, 2000 dotcom style).
These companies have on the order of 100k employees. It's the job of maybe 0.01% of them to deal with these issues. For the vast majority, a random account having been suspended going to be in scope of their work.

It's going to be quite hard to spin this as "just doing my job" rather than "just fraudulently misusing company resources for personal gain".
The verification email can be intentionally vague and agreed upon in advance.

"What's really your favorite band, then?"

"Beatles, I guess."
The voice sounded so much like Her, they needed a press release from her to recognize it and report on it.

I'm glad for you. Enjoy your "journalism".
So.. secret codes are a myth, and here are some examples of secret codes?
So you can't use IEnumerable<T>.Sum if T is a custom type implementing operator+ ?
I read about a more entrepreneurial approach a while back: Only Fans model got their instagram account back by finding employees on linkedin and trading sex for account un-bans.

https://www.newsweek.com/onlyfans-star-slept-meta-employees-...
It's only turtle slow if you use their cloud version, onprem is reasonable (under 1s for any page, much faster for simpler ones).
100%. This whole thing is more stupidity than anything else. There is nothing wrong with using a voice that sounds like her. There is everything wrong with referencing the movie and sort of implying it is the voice from the movie. They could have easily let others make the connection. So dumb.
IANAL - but I think there is some sort of carve-out for parody? @sama and OpenAI are clearly not parodying "Her" - especially with that paper trail.

This is a great question and I hope someone here with requisite knowledge can help.
Ah, hidden in plain sight, the seventh letter of the alphabet being G.
If you go to Vegas, you can go to a wedding officiated by someone who looks like, sounds like, and acts like Elvis Presly. This is available to anyone. You can get the same actor to do the same simulation for another purpose if you're willing to pay for it.

The biggest difference that I see is that technology has made the simulation cheaper and easier.
I haven’t written any C++ since the 90s. That is unrecognizable. Is that an anonymous function?
Because it's objectively better. I also exclusively use desktop mode, and I can tell when a site's designer can't comprehend this choice.
There’s a whole library (pwntools.fmtstr) to help automate the (tedious) process of building format string exploits: https://docs.pwntools.com/en/stable/fmtstr.html

There’s a bunch of nice features in glibc that make exploiting format strings much easier. For example, it supports the %hn and %hhn modifiers for doing short-sized and byte-sized writes respectively. It also supports positional arguments (%N$x) so you can target arbitrary items on the stack without having to go through all the previous arguments first.

Of course, it also sports mitigations for format string exploits too. IIRC, setting _FORTIFY_SOURCE to 2 or higher will cause it to abort if a %n placeholder is found in a format string and the string is in writable memory.
I agree with you.

I think what confuses me is if you have made a business decision like this did nobody think about the downside case? Clearly not because they backed out so quickly.
OndselSolver at
https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/OndselSolver
can do redundant constraint removal and handle under constrained systems readily using direct Gauss Elimination on sparse matrices.
It is used in FreeCAD and Ondsel ES for Assembly constraints.
>you were sold a lie that only certain people make good music and you need to spend money.

Well, I didn't say any of that, so not quite sure what you're talking about.

>Everyone should make music. Singing to yourself doesn't make it valueless... with family and friends...

Yes. That was my point. Anyone can sing to themselves or with family and friends now.

But, I am guilty of not reading the article and grouped it with the spate of AI tools promising to enable anyone in a manner that gives them some marketplace advantage.

I see now that this is not that. They claim instead to want to help amateurs and first-timers get into music for the fun of it. More power to them.
Everyone thinks they're writing good code. Even many experienced seniors write code that they think is good code but others loathe. Best case, they can at least solve problems without introducing new ones; though more often than not, they're still making many junior mistakes while couching them in senior terminology.

Aside: Do we really need to keep rewording this exact same essay every month since the first computer program was ever written?
sure, but all the time? You guys must have ant vision or something :) . Sometimes I use it but it's pretty rare.
They are pivoting to limitless.ai, and evolving their product according to customer feedback. Creating sort of a meeting advisor for pre-meeting and post meeting quality. Action items leading in and action items coming out.
The results are outstanding. No matter what their marketing is, they have produced something incredible.
The Voice still works on my app?
The point is still salient. People who don’t have Wikipedia links will be forgotten. Though I guess maybe that’s always been true.
Also the book Future Shock.
“We don’t need legislation, the free market will fix it”

The free market: this website

This website is absolutely insane, and it’s insane that the creator doesn’t seem to have any awareness of how insane it is, judging by the about page.

However, I can’t lay too much blame on the creator when it’s clearly emblematic of a much larger problem.
There is always some part of subjectivity when evaluating complexity and clarity.

But all things being equal, this point still stands and should be not being brushed off as "skill issue".

Clarity is a difficult skill to acquire, but it pays off.
Why is it wrong to explicitly mimic a part played in a movie? Are we saying that the actor owns their portrayal of the role?

OpenAI should’ve owned their actions. "Yes, we wanted to get a voice that sounded like the one from Her." There’s nothing wrong with that.
My phone has a text size setting, and if I needed bigger text for readability I could set it - why can't we have that conveyed as a user preference somehow?
> Why is open source always so bad at UUX - it's so frustrating.

To illustrate why... There's a certain "artistic" FOSS project (before you ask — not GIMP) where the community, incl. former lead dev basically say this:

- UX is bullshit, it's just opinions (verbatim quote)

- No two people agree on what is the right way, so anyone willing to improve UX in this project will have to fight everybody else, don't hold your hopes high (almost a verbatim quote)

- We don't like drama in this community, so we tend to just accept patches that change UI (you'd think this contradicts the previous statement, but somehow the impossible is possible)

They'd also mock a person who wrote a very elaborate first impressions blog post about the software, claiming she is an idiot who didn't bother learning the software.

I don't think the FreeCAD community was ever this bad, but there certainly was a strong element of chaos before. Things are considerably better today. There's a design working group working its way through various incosistencies, for one. It's a long-term project, no doubt about it, they are slowly getting there.
I think the majority of HN is aware of Big Tech's failure to create effective appeal processes. It's not exactly a secret. This service is still naked corruption, though.
Ya never know how a court case will come out. He was being sensible in limiting possible damage awards.
Hey man thanks for checking! can you please enter again? should be working now, let me know
Some of them do, or they're only YIMBY until they own something
China's 'outstanding' heat-resistant aluminium alloys are 6x stronger
I think that's a little extreme and there is a 3rd option that would be adequate for most people: using software on a normal non-airgapped computer that simply doesn't exfiltrate your data.

Most people do NOT need security from state level threat actors, they just need software that respects them, which of course no longer includes mainstream operating systems or applications, today.
What is relevance of that to this discussion on whether OpenAI stole Scarlett Johansson's voice?
is it? I thought you had to specifically invoke and prompt something? not just it sending everything carte blanche?
This one was a bit different. It also featured an extremely dangerous and incompetent manager.
My mom is an alcoholic and also formerly a psychologist and I’ve heard that from her too. Her early childhood bore many of the traumatic experiences that this article warns damage childrens’ brains.
Yes, but against a person?
https://archive.is/PPxJz
you should reach out to the founders of cal.com and documen.so on Twitter. They’re big on promoting this kind of stuff :)
The title sounds like a pregnancy scare
This is why open source must win. I mean, it won't, but it's the only path to avoiding a silicon aristocracy.
It's mostly the problem of the language, and not of the approach.

In a more expressive language you can omit the explicit slicing (x.begin(), x.end()) and have the compiler derive the lambda's signature for you, so you'd write something like reduce(x, (a, b) => a + b), or even fold (+) x, with all the same static analysis and efficient compilation guarantees.
Yes but what kinds of people have the time to practice puzzle solving? Not everyone. For example I've been coding for 10 years, I used to be good at solving puzzles under time constraints but I'm not as good at it anymore because I prioritized practical architecture and other code design skills. I'm a much better coder today by all relevant metrics. My problem is that I sometimes run out of time during the tech tests. It's arbitrary... Sometimes I get lucky with the questions sometimes not. An unfamiliar problem will take longer to solve.
Getting rid of AI so people can do the work instead is another incarnation of the fallacy of the broken window.
AI and Robotics for Deep Automation
Yes.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/lambda-expressions...
I think you fundamentally misunderstand or have yet to convey how such a site would solve the problem of distinguishing “I am a tenant looking for reviews of a property” and “I am a landlord looking for reviews of my property”.
It's like no one in the comments here read the piece. Honestly, it's a bit like the author himself didn't.

The big thing in this article is the dangerous and incompetent manager. People like that in a company could destroy the entire thing, and yet it's sort of just mentioned in passing like "oh that's funny". It's not funny, it's absolutely terrifying!
The callback style in createOrUpdateRule appears to create isolated snippets of code that can't invoke other rules.

Perhaps I've misunderstood what is happening, but if this is how it is, the agent can never write a function and compose other functions out of it.

That is functional programming where functions cannot call each other.

Composition of code units (ie. code A calls code B) is the basic building block that allows software to scale.

Without it, I don't believe you can get above trivial complexity.
Wikipedia indeed seems the most valuable for ML, by far. Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wiktionary also seem useful there.
A lot of the professional tools also have the luxury of not needing to be user friendly. Private individuals will just turn away from tools they don't know how to use, corporate employees just straight up don't have that option.
Air-Bench: A Fair Out-of-Domain Benchmark for RAG and IR
We are thrilled to announce the release of AIR-Bench, a new benchmark developed in collaboration with the research team at BAAIBeijing, known for creating bge-m3 embeddings. Available now on Hugging Face, AIR-Bench offers a fair out-of-domain evaluation for RAG and Neural IR systems.

AIR-Bench (Automated Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Benchmark) distinguishes itself from the classic MTEB in three significant ways:

Synthetic Data Generation: AIR-Bench generates synthetic data for benchmarking, ensuring no overlap with training data. This approach prevents overfitting and data leakage, issues often encountered with MTEB and BEIR.
Modern IR Design: Specifically crafted for contemporary Neural IR, LLM, and RAG pipelines, AIR-Bench evaluates both dense retrievers and pipelines with or without rerankers. Additionally, it assesses search performance over very long documents with a lot of chunks.
Extensibility: AIR-Bench can be easily extended to new domains and languages, keeping the benchmark relevant as users' interests evolve.
I strongly disagree. Pinching and zooming a locally cached file that contains all the information the user wants is O(n) to perhaps O(log n), while navigating menus is O(n^2).

I would settle for a single, zoomable html page.
Call me crazy, but I find the second example more readable.

The first example is long line and you have to go back and forth to understand it. The second example is a single top down pass.
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> Sam seemed to think it necessary to try to get her permission first

Weird Al also gets permission to do a parody even though it is not legally required.