skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't like the sister rapist Sam Altman[1][2]? Seems like everybody should LOVE this guy!

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

[2] https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/statement-by-annie-altman-...
They're both real dangers. Neither one is a distraction from the other.
There are two similar famous cases I know offhand. Probably there are more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Bette Middler successfully sued Ford for impersonating her likeness in a commercial.

Then also:

https://casetext.com/case/waits-v-frito-lay-inc

Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay for using an imitator without approval in a radio commercial.

The key seems to be that if someone is famous and their voice is distinctly attributeable to them, there is a case. In both of these cases, the artists in question were also solicited first and refused.
> I don't want people blaming me if their Pi decides to halt and catch fire.

For those who didn't catch the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
Scarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' when she heard ChatGPT voice
SJ mentions deep fakes.

It is quite possible that OpenAI has synthesized the voice
from SJ material.

However
If OpenAI can produce the woman who did is the current voice,
and she has a voice nearly identical that of SJ
would that mean OpenAI had done something wrong?

Does SJ since she is a celebrity hold a "patent" right
to sound like her.

The more likely scenario is that they have hired a person
and told her to try and imitate how SJ sounds.

What is the law on something like that?
In the recent case where a cyclist killed a pensioner the police did not prosecute, they said, because the speed limit doesn't apply to bicycles.

However, careless and dangerous cycling are both offences already.

If the cyclist was dangerous why wasn't he prosecuted? If he wasn't then this new law wouldn't have applied either.

This law is just kneejerk nonsense. The problems you describe are worsening because the police won't enforce the laws we have. In particular, they ignore pavement cycling because the Home Office asked them to!
Can a '90s Cult Classic Save the Comic-Book Movie?
I completely understand forbidding the distribution to minors, but how can they hold accountable someone for producing CSAM and keeping all data in their hard drive?
This sets a dangerous precedent; how is it different from simulating a murder, or simply speeding in a videogame?

That "or distribute" should really be "and distribute"; the whole point should be to protect kids, not to punish people that are indeed fucked up but found a way to not harm the society.
I’m not a lawyer and don’t have any deep background this area of IP, but there is at least some precedent apparently:

> In a novel case of voice theft, a Los Angeles federal court jury Tuesday awarded gravel-throated recording artist Tom Waits $2.475 million in damages from Frito-Lay Inc. and its advertising agency.

> The U.S. District Court jury found that the corn chip giant unlawfully appropriated Waits’ distinctive voice, tarring his reputation by employing an impersonator to record a radio ad for a new brand of spicy Doritos corn chips.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
I was disputing the notion that elite schools aren't important.

You are reinforcing that they are.

Company recruiting drives the importance of college eliteness, which then makes college admissions weighing extracurriculars drive kids to do these for resume padding

It's ultimately future employability that drives all of this
I'm sure. It's just not a selling point for me right now.
> the chemicals were basically flushed into local drinking water systems and relatively high levels in people's blood streams. What everyone is freaking out about is them somehow getting something from the end product plastics. These are two different things

TFA itself talks about such dumping events at length ("at least 45% of U.S. tap water is estimated to contain one or more forever chemicals"), Dark Waters is about such events, the EPA's standards were brought about as a result of such events...?
I would rather just give poor people money and have a bunch of government agencies that aren't shit.
> Most manufacturers assumed that PFOA burns off during the process of manufacture, but traces of PFOA were found in some Teflon-coated cookware.

> A 1999 study found that 98% of people in the United States had PFOA in their blood. This was due to environmental exposure to the chemical. As a result, the US EPA put up a program to eliminate the use of PFOA by 2015.

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/is-teflon-coating-safe

They just assumed it burned off, but never tested it. It wasn't until 2021 that they had to actually test and report for extra chemicals left in, well after it was banned.

What happens when you actually test it?

> In this study, we identified and measured perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs), particularly PFOA, and fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs; 6:2 FTOH and 8:2 FTOH), released from nonstick cookware into the gas phase under normal cooking temperatures (179 to 233 degrees C surface temperature). PFOA was released into the gas phase at 7-337 ng (11-503 pg/cm2) per pan from four brands of nonstick frying pans.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17593716/

So yes, it absolutely contained residual PFOA, and no it didn't wash off.
I’ve seen this point used a lot and never agreed to it. I think it’s true only for big already established companies/systems, and absolutely not true for startups and consulting jobs. Especially because in those type of environments companies tends to hire for specific tech stacks and business knowledge.
As of now there is no proof that it can be cured. Most treatments and therapies are to help pedophiles control their urges and not act.

At the end of the day, it's a paraphilia. I don't think you can cure someone who's aroused by feet or uniforms. I don't believe there is any evidence today that you can alter people's sexual interests.
In 2013, "Team Foundation Services" was renamed to "Visual Studio Online".

In 2015, "Visual Studio Online" was renamed to "Visual Studio Team Services".

In 2018, "Visual Studio Team Services" was renamed to "Azure DevOps Services".
OP prolly channeling his inner Damian.
> Killing people is a bad thing

There are videos of them celebrating on Oct 7 and crowds attacking the hostages when they're brought into Gaza.

Did they think killing is a bad thing?
Fair enough. But I think your comment was reductive…

but it doesn’t matter, because how he may have marketed it in a 140 character tweet does not encompass the entirety of how it could be used, of course
On second thought, let's not go there.

It's not just successful companies though. There is a bit of ego necessary in a founder that makes them think their idea or their implementation of a thing is better so that it needs to be its own company. Sometimes though they even get caught up in their own reality distortion fields with obviously bad ideas or ideas implemented badly due to their own arrogance that ultimately fails.
Steal everything they possibly can and hope they end up too big to kill. I sincerely hope they fail spectacularly.
Lol if I had a job manually digging ditches id negotiate a per foot rate which would be far cheaper than my manual labor cost then finance a backhoe or trencher and make bank. Having digging jobs lined up is like a money printer win-win if the boss got that many.
Would have suggested Discords, but most of them feel soulless. It makes the mediocre shine with stupid memecandy and punish the extraordinary. I miss IRC. You were eirher interesting in text or banned. And the interesting stuff was not swept away that fast.
Wait wait... I've ignored everything political as much as I can, but don't tell me we're getting sold out on some $3B valuation of an unpopular Mastodon Instance? It never crossed my mind to consider the "tech stack" of this farce.
UN has begun citing a much lower death toll acknowledging incomplete information
Many did see it, especially when 6 months bootcamps started to pop up and weren’t actually totally misleading in promising high salary jobs upon graduation.
Oh I don't disagree with your main point that it makes a big difference, just adding details
Yes but collective funding wouldn't be very free market of you, would it?

Seriously though, it would be hilarious to see this fail as Truth Social is based[0] on Mastodon. It would be hilarious to see the free market guy go bankrupt again while the thing they stole from keeps trudging along funded by donations.

[0]: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social
For PFOA, based on animal trials, somewhere above 10–70 ng/kg body weight-day.
except you dont convince a scientists to sign off

you can force a scientists to sign off...
> From that moment on, unix followed me through all stages of my life: the toddler phase of keeping up with the cutting-edge Ubuntu releases, the rebellious teens of compiling custom kernels for my Thinkpad T61p and emerging the @world on Gentoo, the maturity of returning to Ubuntu lts and delaying upgrades until the first dot one release, and to the overwhelmed parent stage of becoming a happy macOS user.

I started off as a Linux zealot and followed a very similar trajectory. I think it’s a sign of maturity to realize there is no absolute “best” in engineering, just a best solution in a particular problem space, and Windows is the best for a large number of users for a reason.
People are buying the stock because:

1. They believe Trump is the second coming of Christ and so it is their duty, OR

2. They want to "donate" to him/his campaign and get favors in return down the line, OR

3. They anticipate it will go up because of 1 & 2 (and so are themselves pushing the price up even higher)
> They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.

To them*

Which is the whole problem. These narcissistic egotists think they, alone, individually, are capable of deciding what's best not just for their companies but for humanity writ large.
It’s called Thought Crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

There is 90s US precedence and then laws were changed to make “obscene” content illegal

https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/2/2/JCMC227/4584343

https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/19/6044679/the-six-lawsuits-...

Here is one 1997 case when snuff porn on alt.sex.stories passed Freedom of Speech test and the defendant was found not guilty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alkhabaz
I live in the hills of the Bay Area and the light pollution is too great outside for them to be obviously bright unless it’s been a really nice weather day (the parts that are growing are the parts that glow which is fascinating!). Outside, you can tell they look different than other plants if you are told they are different and you really take the time to look. Inside with all the lights off, they definitely make you say WOW!. They’re similar to the old “Indiglo” watch faces of the 90’s. You will not be able to see them glowing even in dim room lighting, the lights must be off.

All that being said, I am still quite happy with them! They take effort to be observed, but that effort is rewarding since it is such a unique experience. It’s really neat to see a stem glowing one night, which indicates that the next night there will be a new bright flower bud. Also I get a huge kick out of doing everything I can to propagate them, since it is stupidly illegal to do so.

Edit: for something comparable that you are familiar with, I would say it would take 6-8 plants at the size they arrive at to make the equivalent amount of light as a single small tea candle.
Its ripped from Mastodon: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social
yes, I'd much rather see that, but I'd rather them start migrating now less optimally than buying equipment with decades of expected use that can't be migrated to cleaner energy.

It's easy to install as long as you only need power during daylight hours, but if you need batteries it gets more complicated, we have decades of experience with backup generators and only a few years experience with grid scale batteries, and if there's multiple of these trucks that need to charge it's definitely a larger scale than whole home (maybe more neighborhood scale than grid scale).

I'm definitely in the we need to be moving way faster than we are, but if companies are gonna get shit on for doing better but not perfect & shit on if they do nothing then they're just gonna choose to do nothing cause it's easier and in cases like this no one would have been talking about them in the first place.
Its not the same. Because the science hasn't been proven for any length of time on a significant population where as all of the examples you gave have.
ScarJo probably has enough money for ten lifetimes already. The potential downside of signing your identity away to a SV plutocrat with questionable morality and world-changing technology is enormous. And it seems like she was instantly vindicated in not trusting him.
Only needs to be sustained til the big guy gets a large slice of the pie out.
If you're running out of candidates, expand to IIT and China's C9 league before going to UConn or PSU.

The problem with doctor cost has much more to do with cartel behavior than Ivy league preference.
Yeah, I had to work with SOs in my previous job and this sounds accurate. It's very hard to characterize this kind of thing though so if anyone else is curious it would be best to read up a bit on modern approaches.
Absolutely, most people don't think that far though so they're trying to hedge a bit.
Yes, absolutely illegal. You don't need to copyright anything, you simply own the rights your own likeness -- your visual appearance and your voice.

A company can't take a photo from your Facebook and plaster it across an advertisement for their product without you giving them the rights to do that.

And if you're a known public figure, this includes lookalikes and soundalikes as well. You can't hire a ScarJo impersonator that people will think is ScarJo.

This is clearly a ScarJo soundalike. It doesn't matter whether it's an AI voice or clone or if they hired someone to sound just like her. Because she's a known public figure, that's illegal if she hasn't given them the rights.

(However, if you generate a synthetic voice that just happens to sound exactly like a random Joe Schmo, it's allowed because Joe Schmo isn't a public figure, so there's no value in the association.)
You're usually not lazy in your replies - maybe you're projecting and actually proved his point but are on his side?

It's him and commenters like you who are doing being lazy and feeling impulsive to post immature flamewar level comments.

Do you care his responses included ad hominem, straw mans, and don't actually counter my arguments but talk around them?

I wonder how biased you are around the topic.

And care to actually respond to support your claim by referencing his unsupported claims, and pull in the specifics from my comment that somehow support his claims? Don't think you can.
With an image of a real scene, I suppose it would be a defense against a child porn charge to prove that the participants were not minors. But there could be no such defense if the porn is generated. It becomes a matter for judges and juries to decide if a given picture of a person is over or under a particular age. I wonder if it would be a defense to prove that the prompt did not designate an illegal age.

It may be a useful liability hedge to provably include the prompt in generated content, like as a watermark. But since existing generation isn't repeatable, and the prompt can't reliably generate the same image, is that even possible?
It was interesting to hear the comments from paid influencers for the product. As I know somebody who had a life threatening complication from ozempic, it's hard for me to feel sympathy for them. This may the rare occasion where I support TikTok.
a counterpoint

"Prosecutor’s rush to seek these arrest warrants" does not seem to be true.

ICC prosecutor did not bring this case quickly without warning. He has consistently demanded that action must be taken or he will prosecute. Israel's Supreme Court has the authority to conduct judicial review of laws and government decisions and intervene in exceptional, extreme cases. Israeli prosecutors have had time to charge.

>Since last year, in Ramallah, in Cairo, in Israel and in Rafah, I have consistently emphasised that international humanitarian law demands that Israel take urgent action to immediately allow access to humanitarian aid in Gaza at scale. I specifically underlined that starvation as a method of war and the denial of humanitarian relief constitute Rome Statute offences. I could not have been clearer.

>As I also repeatedly underlined in my public statements, those who do not comply with the law should not complain later when my Office takes action. That day has come.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-...

btw. The US has demanded same and put conditions to military aid.
I just downloaded the app and tried to sign up. Refusing to take my valid US phone number so I cannot proceed. What a joke.

Tbh, with Twitter owned by Elon, the existence of Truth Social is not really needed anymore.
That’s an easy fix. Don’t require relocation.

As for easily firing employees, I’m only talking about during a probationary period. And then only for employees who misrepresented their ability to do the job.
I bet those CPUs are mostly busy just de/serializing JSON, processing HTTP and TLS for all the various intra-service calls.
I think governance is overly restrictive and stifles innovation. For example I love that Uber and Airbnb exist even though they both sort of skirt or acceptably break rules in place that a complete rule follower wouldn’t have violated.

Taking taxis 15 years ago was an absolute scammy shitty experience and it’s only marginally better now thanks to an actual competitive marketplace
> The ICC just gave Netanyahu more strength. Israelis would likely rally around their leader. Netanyahu will be emboldened to do maximum damage on his way out. What more does he have to lose at this point?

His support is waning on both sides of the political spectrum. Gantz is threatening to quit the war cabinet. I don't think the ICC decision will give Netanyahu much of a boost. If he goes crazy, the Knesset could oust him.

> Besides, the U.S. government is on Netanyahu's side, so he will never be arrested.

I don't think the US has that much influence in this case. They would have to push hard to threaten the Israeli president, and even then I am not sure what would happen. Netanyahu will not be arrested because he will just stay in Israel. Israel will probably not extradite him, even if they agree with the arguments, simply because it would look bad to allow an international court to arrest a former president. However, he could be arrested on corruption or other charges if he loses his position.
Starlink was basically created to get SpaceX's launch cadence up. Which it absolutely succeeded at. SpaceX exists to cause space exploration/colonization/all-activities to occur, specifically going to Mars, but also more generally. Which again, it has absolutely succeeded at.

NASA and other space agencies are indeed picking the missions, but SpaceX has been a huge enabler here.
> The decision puts Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on Ukraine

How's that working out? Until proven otherwise, my assumption is the outcome will be roughly the same in most of these cases, especially for Netanyahu and Sinwar.
Minus the foreign money laundering/bribery and fanatic cult driving up the valuation, what do you think it's actually worth? $200 mil? I am giving it a generous 50x multiple on revenue.
All true. The difference is mostly that at least Apple's compromises are more predictable and marginally more buttoned up. Apple is marginally qualitatively better than Windows in the categories of privacy and security. With the single exception of the fact that it is possible to avoid using a personal account for Windows.

That being said, marginal qualitative difference really the story with all possible options except the most locked down, inconvenient, and all but unusable. No one serious thinks that they have privacy because they use a linux distro, for example. No matter which one.
For a fascinating look into shipping and why all of this, especially for how the crew has been treated, read the book "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. Absolutely fascinating.

Seafarers have almost no rights, which is mostly why they have been forced to stay on the boat and have their phones confiscated by the FBI.
Were royalties in the picture? Don't think it's crazy to think that a company obsessed with replacing artists wouldn't value one enough to pay royalties.

And in terms of collaboration potential... OpenAI is a big draw for businesses and a subset of tech enthusiasts, but I don't think artists in any industry are dying to collaborate with them.
If Israel's explanations were accepted then there wouldn't be a court case. It's unclear how justice can be done here and what's the standard of evidence. The UN just made a huge change to their accounting blaming "the fog of war" which puts their numbers much more in line with what Israel was saying. There is no independent body reporting numbers, they're either coming from the government of Gaza, i.e. Hamas, or they're coming from Israel. It's just a political circus/war of public opinion.
Just a nit pick, but it's "found liable", not "found guilty", as he's talking about a civil matter.
First Use of the "Bashaw Pane" Was in V1 of Product Hunt
No big surprise, STEM is not considered manly to varying degrees in those countries either.

The whole gender concept as socially manifested only ever made sense in a pre industry society, so quite often people in countries which are behind the curve have these attitudes.

To believe in machismo or hyper femininity is pretty backwards, and has been thought as much since the mid 20th century.

As William Gibson famously wrote, the future doesn't arrive all at once.
Discussion [0] (135 points, 38 minutes ago, 77 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (66 points, 11 hours ago, 98 comments)

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

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
Don’t forget “Windows Live Mesh/Windows Live FolderShare/Live Mesh/Windows Live Sync/Windows Live Folders/Windows Live SkyDrive/SkyDrive/OneDrive”

To be fair, they have mostly settled on OneDrive after the lawsuit that forced the name change.
It's actually the most rational thing I've heard quoted from him. You have to be willing to open the box to see what's inside to know if you can do it better/cheaper/faster/smaller. There's ways of doing that without breaking laws, or doing something unethical with the what you learn. There's also ways of doing it without destroying something or violating anyone/anything. It also allows you to hear their response to see if where person is in that rationale. Do they toe the lines, do they run right across it, do they bend but not break, do they scorched earth everything they touch?