skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That line feels more and more unrealistic to me as we're approaching a world where AI is shoved everywhere.

We'll probably never get such an emphatic apology, instead:

- there will be no response (same way mirroring a Disney movie in the Vision Pro is just a dark rectangle)

- it will tell us to just see with the administrator (the closest we have to "go fuck yourself", as we'll be the administrator)

- it will throw us a link to a help page with platitudes about how we're mostly free to do whatever we want, and ask us if the page was helpful to solve our problem.

- we'll be asked to repeat the request indefinitely with no response on the result.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happened-...

TL;DR: no theories are beating it out human overkill. Megafauna need to show a mass extinction sans humans and that evidence is lacking. These animals survived a couple dozen ice ages but the final one ends their existence when humans arrived. We would want more hunting and butchering evidence and Africa kept much of its megafauna. So there are unanswered questions but overkill is still largely yhe leading theory
Complimentary map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/Fil...
Software is a gas.
> Is it their hobby to be a dick to as many people as they can, for no reason other than their amusement? Just plain weirdos

They seem to love "testing" how much they can bully someone.

I remember a few experiences where someone responded by being an even bigger dick, and they disappeared fast.
Seaweed, Fashion, and the Mermaids (2023)
yeah that's what I'm saying - it would eliminate inference costs. What I was asking is how feasible is it to package these local llms with another standalone app. For ex. a game
Vietnam's problems are not technical, the lack of energy is a symptom of social and political problems, and can be solved easily once the cause has been addressed.
If one thought EVs did something help with one of the two, they'd have omitted it from the list of things "EVs do nothing" to help with.

Something that helps with X cannot be said to do nothing to help with "the problem of X and Y". If they reduce it for tires, then they do reduce the problem of "particulate matter pollution from tires and breaks" - proportionally to how much the latter contributes to said problem.
As a counter-anecdote, I've never had a 6-15 or 6-20 in any home I've ever lived in. I'm aware of its existence and utility, and I even have a duplex Leviton 6-20R in my Amazon shopping cart that I will purchase and install in my kitchen if life ever allows me to be to be a homeowner again, but I just have never encountered them much in the wild. (Except once, over 20 years ago: The wall-mounted AC in a hotel room I stayed at in Florida used NEMA 6. [EV owners love this one simple trick!])

I have issues with typical US socket arrangements. They begin to disconnect too easily when things move around, as small appliances in a kitchen tend to do. They still work when partially-disconnected, but they have exposed live elements in this state.

This has probably happened to me hundreds of times so far. And while it hasn't harmed me yet, and I'm not particularly afraid of 125VAC, I'm always aware of that potential harm when I encounter the condition. I have also found (and corrected) the mythological problem where a metal thing has slid down a wall and onto a partially-inserted plug.

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You know, as I wrote what I wrote before and I write this now, I've reviewed many of the world's plugs. Some seem kind of OK, some are huge for no apparent reason (adding both cost and bulk for little benefit), and some seem like a series of trade-offs that are based in legacy.

And the US certainly has its own legacies, too:

Like you alluded to, multi-speed 4-wire outlets, offering hot, hot, neutral, and ground. In a fairy tale world where these can be compatible with bog-standard NEMA 5-15P appliances, that becomes a very, very easy thing to sell. It becomes so easy to sell that the ease of use starts to become more important than some of the other functions I've considered. They can even configured so that each of the 120V portions operates on a separate leg. (This ruins global compatibility, and will ultimately require revision of the NEC since split-phase duplex outlets are presently only allowed in kitchens, but boy would that be easy to sell. It also requires 4 wires instead of 3.)

Is there enough room to add a contact (or two) inside of a 5-15R, using modern manufacturing methods? Maybe a square hole near the middle somewhere with positive engagement?
> VN is "Communist" the same way the DPRK is "Democratic".

No, it's different. Vietnam is still a one party communist country and the utilities are publicly run - with all the bureaucracy and incompetence that goes along with it. The state owned enterprises haven't changed that much since Doi Moi.

> This isn't it. The issue is the capacity doesn't exist.

There is clearly capacity for one company to lower demand by more and "sell" it to another which is what the message I replied to was alluding to.

My comment was that while possible, the public utility likely had a blank stare on their face when asked about it.
Feed more money to giant corps. Yes, feed them, that's the way forward. Buy their services, use their products.
Of course she's going to say that, either that or her own friends don't know her very well.

There's a nice comparison here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cx1np4/voice_...

I bet OpenAI took it down for the free PR, when life hands you lemons...
These megafauna survived dozens of ice ages but not the one that had humans

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happened-...
Still would not prevent just selling the LLC at the end of the ship's useful life.

And I'm not sure how to effectively police that.
The iTerm release notes clearly spell out that you need a key to make this feature work.

I guess if you knew nothing about iTerm2, OpenAI, or the myriad of open source tools that use OpenAI and/or are compatible with its API structure (aka, can use something like ollama/LMStudio/etc) you could think that there was some free tier or iTerm2 was footing the bill for the first X requests. Having used iTerm2 for many years and knowing how these types of features work (and knowing OpenAI itself doesn’t have a free tier) it was immediately clear that this was a “bring your own key”-type feature and a “it’s not going to do anything unless you supply a key”.
>She was used in Her because she has a dry/monotone/lifeless form of diction that at the time seemed like a decent stand-in for an non-human AI

Do you have a source for this?
Advanced settings -> "URL for AI API"
Uh... I have a PhD, I'm a tenured professor, and I even supervise a couple of PhD students. How about you? Given your snarky tone, it sounds like you'd have mentioned something like this. Not sure why you'd try to flex when you don't know much about me ;)

With my font, the letter l looked like a vertical bar |. Hence why this looked like symbol soup. But okay, let's say it's about projective spaces. Then surely, you realize that the equal sign still denotes equality. The point [1:2] is literally equal to [2:4] in P^2, not "proportional". Perhaps you need a refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_class#quotient_set
Aha, yep - it wasn't three dots, it was another icon in the list of "try search using..." that had a small green plus over it.
1984 was not supposed to be a manual for training AI.
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Given that there is no objective morality in the post-modern world, justice and just are entirely meaningless and arbitrary, and justifying an action is a merely rhetorical exercise.
> I now live in San Francisco and invest in early-stage startups at Y Combinator, and it’s striking how undergraduates at top US universities start companies at more than 5x the rate of their British-educated peers.

But how many survive?
Check out Photoprism too, also very good. I've not settled on Immich quite yet, but it is very nice.
I love that the Erlang guys seem to be so open to Elixir being a big part of their ecosystem even relying on ExDoc for their new documentation system (I think everyone can see it's a big improvement over the brutalist UI that was there before). A lot of software projects would be ego driven rather than pragmatic on something like this.
You're trying to engineer a way out of a sociology problem. Never gonna happen.

Whoever voiced Sky didn't lose their agency over their own voice. The issue at hand is Sama not taking No for an answer.
Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder
It is exposed from Advanced tab under "URL for AI API". You do have to change the model name from the preselected and offered OpenAI GPT model names. Otherwise this AI API URL isn't used. Haven't yet tested with local OAI compatible model yet, though, but did manage to break it using bad address :)
Annoyingly, Firefox on Android lacks these options completely. You can't even control zoom for individual websites, it's all or nothing. It gets even worse on a foldable phone where you have two different displays. It's a bit off topic, but I am not aware of any browser that has reliable sync, working ad block, and per site zoom control on both Android and Windows.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush have yet to be held accountable for their war crimes after a conviction by the ICC.

Obama deserves an investigation and trial at the ICC for much the same reasons, but was somehow seen as better by the ICC and signing countries.

All of your examples are domestic crimes.
Wood also has excellent antimicrobial properties
e.g. makes a much safer cutting board than plastic
None of that is remotely clear when updating through the iTerm2 auto-update popup for a minor version update.

The Preferences panel doesn't have a single indicator which says whether the AI integration is activated or not. It's probably just bad UI design and not mischief, but I was instantly put off by what initially looked like a dark pattern.

PS: even the changelog doesn't explicitly state that the feature is disabled by default, only indirectly by stating that one needs an OpenAI key because requests cost money.
> It has not been "technically" occupied. There's no such thing. Either a place is occupied, or it's not, and Gaza was not.

Gaza is considered an occupied territory by all international bodies with the power and authority to make such a determination, for excellent reasons that you can look up. End of the story. What you do (and Israel does, for propaganda purposes) is to confuse the civilian settlement with the military occupation, or to pretend that since soldiers are not inside Gaza but just all around its borders, Gaza is free. Which is like saying that a prison camp is free if the guards are all outside the fence.
Glad you brought this up because that is, in fact, not how it works at all! With legal precedence even! It turns out you can't just say some magic words to make your legal problems go away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclai...
Legality vs morality, the problem is as old as the humanity. Legally they can perfectly use a sound alike, morally it's a shit move to ask the actress who voiced a very similar product, get a "no" and still decide to find a sound alike voice actress. If it was a non profit health care company you can be sure people would be much less outraged, but silicon valley's tech companies burned the little trust people had in them a long time ago, it's hard to have empathy for sociopath
Is there actually any evidence for this? AFAIK, other similar claims about people doing certain things when lying have been debunked(like fidgeting, avoiding eye contact, etc)
Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
Vietnam still has many elements of communist rule, just like China. The economy is largely controlled by state enterprises, often run by incompetent and corrupt bureaucrats.

Private players often get hampered by these horribly run state enterprises. There's also the issue of pervasive corruption that ruins everything it touches.
> Emotional intelligence /true empathy cannot be learned or acquired, at least IMHO.

I think you are right in general here in this comment but I am not sure if you are right on this bit.

Peterson might be slightly overstating the number of sociopaths (others put it at more like one in thirty).

Those people have to fake it (if they can be bothered; it doesn't seem to hold people back from the highest office if they don't)

The vast majority of people with noticeably low empathy, though, simply haven't ever been taught how to nurture that small seed of empathy, how to use it to see the world, how to feel the reciprocal benefits of others doing the same. How to breathe it in and out, basically. It's there, like a latent ability to sing or draw or be a parent, it's just that we're not good at nurturing it specifically.

Schools teach "teamwork" instead, which is a lite form of empathy (particularly when there is an opposing team to "other")

I was never a team player, but I have learned to grow my own empathy over the years from a rather shaky sense of it as a child.
I didn’t say “than the right”

but the individuals that matter may prioritize something self serving for the next 4-6 years though that involves the right though, and it may be an accurately objective decision. if the left wants to win friends and influence people, the patronizing mystery about large swaths of minorities goes away and relevant topics return.
Been waiting for 25 years now. Next year will be the one.
MS is a publicly traded company. If the company exposes itself to a potential huge fine by wrongdoing on one of their markets, that's totally something the SEC can be interested in.
The tricky thing with these licenses (BSL, SSPL, etc.) is that you can use them freely for internal stuff, but suddenly, if you make your product public (assuming it uses, e.g., TimescaleDB), things can get muddy. Everyone wants the flexibility to either open-source or commercialize a successful internal product in the future.

The problem is that, even if your app is not a mere frontend for TimescaleDB/Mongo/Redis, you can get sued, and you'll have to spend unnecessary time and money proving things in court. No one wants this, especially a startup owner whose money and time are tight. Also, even if your startup/company uses some of these techs, potential company buyers will be very wary of the purchase if they know they'll have to deal with this later.
True enough.

and yet you've linked to an article that goes into detail about work that

may be close to a deathblow for the hypothesis.

"the hypothesis" being

First proposed in 1966 by paleontologist Paul Martin, this “overkill hypothesis” stated that the arrival of modern humans in each new part of the world brought with it the extinction of all those huge animals, whether through hunting them or outcompeting them.

So, we're back to correlation but not at all certain causation. By your link at the very least.

The Smithsonian Magazine here is being wishy washy and doing the "good points on both sides" thing .. it at least admits that the world has moved on from accepting Martins 1966 hypothesis at face value and that new work is continuing to reveal new insights.
Is it benefiting space exploration though? Or is it wasting huge sums of money that could be going towards real science.
Even if you cover a factory's whole roof with solar panels, it can't generate enough electricity to run during working hours. Manufacturing takes ridiculous amounts of energy.
>but if legit content gets blocked you only have yourself to blame.

If the bug is on the devs then the devs are to blame, for maybe expecting teh ads are loaded, or the tracking third party code.

The project I am working on works with ad blocker on. Also we had issues with users that had a spellchecking extension active, it would create a ton of hidden markup on a contenteditable element, and we made code to handle the issue instead of having many tickets to our support complaining and we telling them that is their fault for using a popular extension.
I watched it again recently. It just made be sad.
> Also, in many other developed countries people "work to live" instead of "live to work". Getting a stable good paying job that will get you plenty of time off to do things you genuinely enjoy, be they pottery, gardening, travelling, lego, rock climbing or whatever, is considered a good deal for many.

I wish this was more widely understood. And I agree with your whole post and wish for it to be higher.
I'm not a fan of Sam Altman, but this is such a non-issue. The solution is simple: adapt and find new ways to be creative in the world of AI. Copyright is becoming a thing of the past and rightly so. We just have to collectively accept this and move on because laws won't stop it.
How the New York Times Went Woke
These AI features aren't behind the scenes things. You either have to call "Codecierge" or "Engage Artificial Intelligence" explicitly. Unless I've missing something. As per release notes:

- Add AI-powered natural language command generation. Enter a prompt in the composer and select Edit
> Engage Artificial Intelligence. You will need to provide an OpenAI API key since GPT costs money
to use.
- A new AI feature in the Toolbelt, "Codecierge", lets you set a goal and then walks you
step-by-step to completing it by watching the terminal contents. It requires you to supply an
OpenAI API key.
> > Isn't OpenAI mostly built upon disregarding the copyright of countless people?

> It sure was.

Can you cite something that elaborates on this point? Do people who read books and then learn from it also disregard copyright? How is what OpenAI does meaningfully different from what people do?
Bologna cannot be faulted for not being able to capitalize on its age.

Northern Italy went through an awful lot of tumultuous history between 1450 and now that England didn't experience: it was cut up into lots of little fiefdoms, dominated by several external powers, and generally kept under constantly changing iron thumbs.
To be honest I'm not sure European companies are much better (VW emissions scandal, BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico etc), it's just that regulation tends to be tighter. US seems quite happy to create global monopolies at the cost of its own domestic environment / consumer rights.
Eh, a conviction would make domestic US political support a a lot dicier to maintain.
All of these can be true.

1) Sam is a conniving weasel.

2) Sam has made many OpenAI employees rich.

3) The board knows that Sam is toxic and must be removed.

4) The board knows that removing Sam would mean the end of the company.
Trusted partners being whoever managed to extract their MSA key from a memory dump from a wide open onedrive by one of their engineers.
Not HAL?
I agree. By tactical charisma, I didn't mean to imply that he has genuine empathy. I mean that he says things the other person finds pleasing, in just the right words, and credible-sounding seriousness. Tactical in a tempting sense: "Don't you want to be the bridge between man and machine, Scarlett?" or, "Imagine comforting the whole planet with your voice" — I've slightly rephrased a bit here, but this is how he tried to persuade Scarlett Johannson into "much consideration" (her words).

Yes, I've listened to Altman. A most recent one is him waffling with a straight-face about "Platonic ideals"[1], while sitting on a royal chair in Cambridge. As I noted here[2] six months ago, if he had truly read and digested Plato's works, he simply will not be the ruthless conman he is. Plato would be turning in his grave.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjpNG0CJRMM&t=3632s

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312875
move fast break people

hurting people is just a risk Sam Altman is willing to incorporate into his equation
The most interesting aspect of this debacle, in my opinion, is that with new technologies that allow you to impersonate and/or recruit artists with minor modifications, the figure of "movie star" and the artist itself will be significantly diluted.

For example, I would love to see all of the Bourne books adapted into live-action films, but I know that will be impossible. In the future, I believe it would be great to see some AI actors who are not related to any famous actors/actresses perform the same screenplay: of course, if the book is licensed to that AI movie.

[1] - https://bourne.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bourne_Directory
Like you, I also wonder the same. Main reason for me to use Windows was the (almost) it just works. But it is starting to become annoying enough that the tinkering on Linux is the lesser problem of the two.
> Many people of that generation say they voted Remain the first time because they were explicitly promised that the EU (or EEC as it was then known) was merely a free trade zone with no ambitions to be more.

This is absolutely not true! I can't believe how many people repeat this. The people who tell you this are either misremembering, or they've fooled themselves into believing it, or they're lying to you.

The entire argument against joining the EEC at the time was based on the threat to UK democracy because it was well known the project was a political one, not merely a common market.

The leaflet the government sent out to every household in the UK stated this explicitly but chose to reason about why this wasn't a bad thing.

Here:
https://civitas.org.uk/content/files/1975ReferendumGov.pdf

And there is a lot more material out there with various viewpoints on both sides expressed, almost all of them talking about the political side of the EEC.

It's just a nonsense that this wasn't known about.
> Windows 7 UI is like Windows XP but prettier

Isn't 7 UI basically Vista?
The license doesn't allow you to "give access to, directly or indirectly (e.g., via a wrapper) to [SQL]".

Legally, what's a wrapper? Is a REST API a wrapper?
No, I'm not saying that.

I can read a book, like it, create a screenplay with changes, and make a movie. It's different, but not completely different, and it is infringement.

I can even create an entirely new story, but using the same canon and characters, that too is infringement.

What people don't get is that you can't play games. TV lawyers are drama, and made up gibberish. Judges won't tolerate mental gymnastics, and attempts to explain away legalities rarely succeed.
True, writing is definitely the core of it. Was considering github pages as well, straight forward start for sure, and as you said, low fuss!
Isn't the main problem that they wanted to explicitly use Johansen's voice, didn't get permission and then (maybe[1]) circumvented it by using a voice imitator, while still publicly entertaining the idea that it's her voice?

Yes, OpenAI did not explicitly say it's her voice, but Altman tweeting "her", it being called "Sky", them asking her for permission twice, they definitely wanted this connection (and her real voice), IMO, and like so many tech companies, they just did not accept "no".

They could have used the same voice, called it "Moon" or whatever and stopped Altman from tweeting, and it probably would have been fine.

In this context, I understand the result. Without this context, I would not, and would agree with your points.

[1] Or maybe just used her voice samples anyway in some form, that's hard to proof / disproof without an external audit - depends on whether or not you give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt
> what were the most rewarding high-growth periods of your life?

Every single one was an extremely life-threatening moment in which I very likely would (and should) have died, but for my very rapid learning. The growth came in not being a corpse.

I realize I am not the target audience of this article.
good point, but do you think it makes a huge difference?
Netboot to the rescue
I don’t think this is the argument. The whole thing is that they’re trying to pass it off as scarjo in “her”, which they’ve been very vocal about.

If Sam was less vocal about his love for her, we wouldn’t be out here thinking that OpenAI is trying to ride off the back of the movie.