skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gregory Chaitin
That article is from 2011. I can imagine that in 13 years this may no longer be true.
Though that does presume being ready to board at precisely that moment while traveling with small children. In my experience I can expect that to happen about half the time.
Brave Search feels like Google from 2008. Just works, no BS.
While legally there is probably no recourse, the business goodwill with consumers is gone.

Scarlett Johansson has a lot of fans, and they will now see your company as a problem.

Legally you might get a pass... but business wise it is a big Nope... nerd hubris strikes again. =)
With the Web winning, and RDP already being a common use case in many corporations, we are back to timesharing.

Additionally when all we have are thin clients, it is impossible to prevent data collection from the client side.
The fired actor would have already signed away any claim to the character's likeness. The likeness the company cares about is that of the character, not of the actor portraying the character. The actor never owned the character, so the actor shouldn't be miffed that someone else gets the part for future performances.
I am not thinking about normal citizens but state actors with more resources.
That's not true. The system is designed to pay least cost to both capital and labor. Labor just notices it more and whinges more because of sticky prices on their cost side, a less equal distribution of payouts because the quality of labor is far more varied than the quality of capital and the value of capital has been exploding over the last at least 5 decades as technology pushes output per worker far higher over time than output per unit of capital (because the technology is basically allowing more capital to be deployed per worker to increase worker output at a higher ratio of capital to labor).

Labor already earns 10-40% of the net income of capital (over and above what they are compensated for for their labor) because of government taxation. It's ridiculous to claim they should be getting even more of the pie or have any say beyond convincing their manager of something.

Also, this idea that a worker should be paid what they provide is stupid. They should be paid the lowest price the market will bear, the same as capital. What matters for labor's salary is not what they did but that a company is willing to pay the market clearing price for their labor set by supply and demand.
Depending who will win the next US presidential elections, the scenarios you highlight can come sooner one would even imagine.

In Europe at the moment, there is only one real military power and that is France plus with a little help from the Nordics. The rest is almost non existent, and I am including the current German army. It's calculated they might currently be able to provide ammunition for maybe 15 days...

"The state of the Bundeswehr is more dismal than ever" - https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/01/26/the-state-of-the...

A US president hostile to NATO or compromised, would make for very concerning scenario's within months....

On other side, you have a country of 200 million, with a GDP that is almost 20% fully invested on weapons and ammunition production, currently fully on a path of war. Putin could get 2 million soldiers in 3 months in case of a general mobilization.
I have seen them doing that. They give the passenger a placard to put on the extra seat so nobody could sit in it.
There's no content. You should have at least the first item completed so the reader gets a sense of your teaching style and whether they want to pursue further.
Bette Midler won a similar case where Ford licensed a Midler track and got a sound-a-like to perform it for a commercial.

If OpenAI's lawyers thought they were going to get away with it then OpenAI needs to get better lawyers.
DNS glitch that threatened Internet stability fixed; cause remains unclear
> I hope Gabe Newell stays strong and keeps to his fundamentals

The fundamentals being extracting 30% of small indie developers' game revenue? Even with payment processing and a healthy profit margin, 12% appears to be a fair cut. Imagine what game developers could do with an extra 18% of revenue in their hands to pay their employees.

Also game developers are forced by Steam not to sell their games at lower prices at other places. It's taboo to criticize Valve/Steam/Gabe on HN and Reddit so I fully expect to get downvoted like in the past. The community attitude of Gabe worship is weird to say the least.
Makes me wonder, does this mean Bing is the Chromium or Firefox of search?
What’s an angular?
I don't think we need to worry about him having children.
Then you can pay for Kagi.
No worries, I actually appreciate that you've decided to let me know that $5.99 comes of as dishonest to you. I am actually thinking it might be better to instead just put $6 for the reasons you've mentioned. Thanks!
Mixing old concrete in steel furnaces purifies iron and makes reactivated cement
This was the second multiplayer game I ever played, when visiting a friend’s house, on his dad’s computer. The first, on the same computer, was a DOS version of Spacewar!

If I remember right, we’d reach a boss and the game would freeze, so we never managed to beat Double Dragon II.

Good memories.
I cannot read the article because of it's paywall - is there actual proof OpenAI reached out to Johansson - or is it just being alleged by her lawyers?

It seems she has every reason to benefit from claiming Sky sounded like her even if it was a coincidence. "Go away" payments are very common, even for celebrities - and OpenAI has deep pockets...

Even so, if they got a voice actor to impersonate or sound similar to Johansson, is that something that's not allowed?
I also see this dynamic on these same kinds of threads, but what I see is that one side is very sure that the facts disprove something, and the other side is very sure they don't. I've been on both sides of this, on different questions. I don't think there is anything weird about this, it's just a dispute over what a given fact pattern demonstrates. It's totally normal for people to disagree about that. It's why we put a fairly large number of people on a jury... People just see different things differently.
TV: A framework for building interactive Web UIs in Unison
For the other departments, generally the university does not provide that funding anyway. The faculty members are expected to fund it themselves via grants. Although often for new faculty members, the university may promise one or two years of funding for labs. But again, since they get a cut of every grant that's coming in, they can afford to do so.
Headline was click-baity "'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement" but science is interesting.

Paper's title is "Electric recycling of Portland cement at scale"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07338-8
Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe
You must have had a very comfy life growing up.
Cities Stare Down 'Day Zero' as Reservoirs Go Dry
One for each of the claims they have made; At the minimum they may have embellished a lot of the hardships they claim they faced (eg. at one place they claim high-school dropout while in another they went to college). There is a reason experts in education/psychology and policy makers declare that family/neighbourhood environment (stable/nurturing or not) and economic conditions (proper nutrition and other basic needs for shelter/safety/education) are the main predictors of whether one can get out of the ghetto/poverty and govts. spend huge amounts of money to help them out.
> The context of the news was a security researcher conducting an audit of the app. If DDG were, as the GP claimed, performing tracking on behalf of MS then it would be more concerning since there is a difference between performing tracking on behalf of a third-party company and merely excluding them from being blocked via a content blocker that most mobile browsers lack anyway.

Sorry, I'm still not entirely sure that I agree that this doesn't count as tracking on behalf of Microsoft. If their browser has an "if MSTracker then allow else doNotAllow", that still seems like it's effectively endorsing MS tracking.

That said, I agree with your criticisms on Kagi (as outlined in sister thread). It would be ideal if Kagi had some means of truly decoupling searches from accounts, but as I stated, at least Kagi charges a fee so they have a means of making money without mining and selling data.

Which Firefox fork do you use? Does it work on iPhone? I would really prefer to use something that allows me to install extensions like uBlock.
Unfortunately, I highly doubt there will be any material PR backlash.

Ask 100 Samsung owners on the street how the ifixit repair ability relationship impacts them, and 99 will ask what ifixit is, and what repairability means. The other one is too stoned to answer.
Wiztree and WinDirStat will both double count hard links. I have a 12TB hard drive holding "17TB" because of sparse files and hard links. Windows file manager properties agree with Wiztree and WinDirStat as far as space used. I think the file manager looks for free space and calculates that separately, while Wiztree and WinDirStat are just adding up used space.
I am already on $5 plan and it’s definitely worth it. I was able to find things that neither ddg nor brave could.
> And China has done a good job of tying many smaller nations, globally not just regionally, to themselves economically. That gives them an edge in terms of resource extraction

The US has the capacity, in the event of conflict, to nullify most if not all of the out-of-region advantage China has in resource extraction, unless China’s build up pre-conflict is sufficient to nullify the global force projection capacities provided by the US Navy and the US Air Force to which China currently has no equivalent or counter beyond its region.

(The US usually presents these capacities as being oriented to protecting free resource flow in peacetime, but they can be directed at the opposite purpose equally well.)
Biden Moves to Secure CHIPS Act Funding for Kenya
Windows has the least annoying ads because they can be trivially turned off. Try using Twitter, Reddit, or Netflix without seeing ads. You'd have to use a third party client or tool which is now explicitly being blocked by the service. And that doesn't account for advertising that's baked into the content in the way it's ordered or put on the home screen.

It seems like mandatory ads in an operating system are a kind of third rail. Hopefully it stays that way.
Phone screens are pretty easy to repair though. You just drop it off at the Apple Store and they do it for you. Yes it’s expensive, but the screen is the biggest and probably the hardest to manufacture part on the phone so it’s going to be expensive.

Yeah it would be nice if Apple provided in depth repair guides and sold individual chips for cheaper repairs, but realistically I don’t think it’s going to change all that much vs other product categories.
I was an exchange student to Ukraine in high school. Granted that was 20 year ago, but I lived in a predominantly Russian speaking village that is periodically getting bombed by the Russians these days. The news is a menagerie horrors out of UA, and it makes me so unbelievably angry that this has occurred.

The Putin regime has done real harm to the world and is a major threat to peace… breaking the long peace in Europe is a major tragedy. I don’t know where this goes, but I think that we have to stop Russia, otherwise it’s Carte Blanche for every shitty dictator and thug to invade their neighbors as soon as they think they can.

I wish there was more I could do to help.
> once this tech trickles down to smaller drones

That is here now. Small drones are appearing in Ukraine that target vehicles and infantry using machine vision and thermal imaging. This is driven by RF jamming that limits FPV. Also, the terminal phase of a small drone attack is often where the attack fails and automating that improves effectiveness even when FPV is possible. Less skill is necessary when a fighter can just designate a target and hit the 'kill' button, so this is a force multiplier.

An interesting story on this is found here[1]. Quantity serial production is underway and it will be in wide use very soon, as in the next couple weeks. One thing they've done is secure the software to prevent reverse engineering.

[1] https://mil.in.ua/en/news/drones-with-machine-vision-are-bei...

Another thing that stands out to me in that article is the claim that production is limited by component availability. An obvious thing to do is further enhancing these drones by converting them from suicide drones to bomb delivery vehicles so they can be reused.

> Bombs and artillery is the main weapon

That's a generalization that overlooks a great deal in Ukraine. It's like selecting some organ in the body and calling it the "main organ." These drones frequently provide precision forward observation that enables artillery and precision missiles. It's a system, and without FPV observation, FPV interdiction and other contributions Ukraine wouldn't be performing as well as it has.
All your recall data will be local. on your cloud based windows.

Fuck you Microsoft.
If "her" wasn't the canonical example of a near-future AI assistant in a film, why then does Sam bother to tweet the single word "her" following launch? I think that film is far more influential than you give it credit for here.

Everyone in tech who saw that tweet knew what it meant - a single word. The tweet doesn't even require additional context or explanation to almost anyone in this industry.

There is also a clear difference in the behaviour of the "computer" in Star Trek vs "her" - what OpenAI shipped is far more like the personality of "her" than the much more straight-laced examples in Star Trek, where the computer was virtually devoid of emotional-sounding responses at all.
Dunno... personally I was waiting for this for years, and even so in the past two years: I always wanted an OS that learns my habits. Actually a few months ago I started to think almost seriously about working on this problem, if no one else does it...

Of course it's not all good news for me either: it is still Windows, something that I haven't used in the past decade, and don't plan to change my habits because of this. Nevertheless, the idea itself is one of the best usecases for AI in my opinion. Not the best implementer, however, unfortunately.
I also found this strange since a Liberal Arts education should really have Logic - which was an integral part of Philosophy - the oldest of the liberal arts
It would be more user-friendly if non-defined members of the 5 were automatically deleted, IMO.
But it doesn't sound that much like her, and wasn't positioned publicly in a way that in any way touches on right of publicity considerations. The Midler reasoning also rested on how much of the artist's brand recognition (though that's not the term used) was in the voice. Intentional impression of a singer doing that singer's song is very different than "they hired someone with moderately similar vocal features to ScarJo and Rashida Jones to speak in their own voice."
I blew away a boot sector once playing that game....
Discussion [0] (106 points, 2 days ago, 103 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430603

The paper: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pd...
> In my opinion they have harmed the cause more than anything else: instead of actual repair material (like schematics or low/high level servicing manuals)

Not sure I understand this take.

$BRAND's role is to sell devices. IFixit's role is to make repairs more accessible to the average Joe. Obviously for more tech-literate device owners this might not be needed, but everyone else it is.

The incentives for this dynamic are pretty confusing (understandably). $BRAND and IFixit need to work together for repairability to work, but companies don't really have a strong business incentive to do this outside of regulation.

Obviously nothing about this dynamic is perfect, but the claim that IFixit harms the push for more repairable devices just isn't correct.
The issue isn’t hiring a voice actor to imitate someone, that can be fine. The issue is what you can do with the recordings after you have them.

Making a YouTube instructional view on how to imitate voices that includes clips of a film for example would be fine. Reusing the exact sounds from that YouTube video in a different context and you’re in legal trouble.
It happened twice at Sierra, around the same time in fact. I have found part of the AGI interpreter source code on a King's Quest III disk (version 2.14, 720KB version, disk 1). There is nowhere near as much, but lucky for us, it happens to include a few complete files that were not on the SQ2 disk. So that increases the total amount of source a bit.

I have checked other Sierra disks, and so far the SQ2 and KQ3 occurrences are the only ones I know of.
The rewards come from the grant model which I forgot to mention and also has similar problems to peer review. The stipulation to publish is a secondary effect. If peer review didn’t exist there would still be pressure to show that you somehow convinced the leading experts in the field.
> Poor example, they're not naturally...

So...what if the vile-smelling feces of the sloths was not "natural", but due to a variety of microorganisms which had colonized their intestines?
These classless libraries are for quick/MVP style web apps where you just need to give the user one or two forms and some help documentation.

I use them all the time for internal stuff because it lets me write some dirty html and have the backend do the real work while not looking browser-default-hideous.

If you need something more complicated, these are probably not meant for you.
I should do that. Will post it to my twitter (in my profile) if I do.

Honestly i wrote as many notes as I could in a way that someone else could pick up and understand and the main thing I stuck to was never using a calculator until I absolutely had to, even if it was slower, so I could build a stronger foundation. I’m not sure I ever looked at the notes though.

And then I was just very disciplined about spending a few hours a day, every day, for a few months, drilling course by course, and didn’t skip anything in the knowledge map (at the time).

I still make time every weekend to learn something new or work on a challenging project for a couple hours a day while my little girls are napping.
It's great that you're pushing AMD forward, no doubt about it! And I'm sure they'll make good progress now. Like I said, the ROCrand repository seems to be in much better shape now.
Really good concept
As long as it's working for you.

I have somewhat similar feelings on my side. I really enjoy mathematics, but at university, I realized how vast the field is and how it can be fairly easy to dedicate your life to learning something that no one around you cares about. As such, if I ever get back into these disciplines again, I'll probably focus primarily on the math necessary to solve physics problems. Not because I think that's inherently more useful or valuable, but merely as a heuristic to limit the scope, so I don't go insane with the vastness of mathematics.
fancy and interesting, thx for sharing.
Images look terrible on e-ink, so that's an issue as well.
I would. They'd probably settle just to get the distraction out of the way, but I'd be willing to bet that if it's decided in court, ScarJo would lose.
Isn’t EBS multi-attach only available for the (very expensive) io1 / io2 volume types?
Yeah this is absolutely sh*t news to be getting in an email from Spotify...

I use my CarThing as dedicated Spotify controller for my desktop PC and they're just straight up making it a paperweight rather than leaving in the current level of support for it so it could still function in the future without the need for constant updates (not that there ever seemed to be any anyway).

I hope they think again and reconsider either making it open source as people have suggested or just leaving the current level of functionality.

They will loose a lot of followers if they go down this road and potentially also get quite a lot of bad press.
I have no personal experience with decriminalization in Oregon. What's your point?
Community Support for Bluefin/Bazzite on Framework Laptops
I used to give preference to Southwest for cross-country (US) flights, partly because of availability on particular routes, but over other direct flights because of the boarding experience. For $15-20 (not sure what it is now) I could pay for the automated check-in and be near-guaranteed a seat in the A group that was better, for cheaper, than trying to get an equivalent seat at an airline where they were picked ahead of time.
A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
Hi Andrew , these are fantastic questions. Let me answer them one at a time:

> How do I delete projects?

Three dots on the side of the project, you can delete it

> I must have tapped three times after submitting a Wikipedia article and it
created three projects that apparently cannot be deleted.

> How do I delete my account?

Just email me support@audiowaveai.com with form that email and I'll delete it of you. Still MVP no functionality for that yet.

> And for $15 I get credits. How many credits do I get foe $15? Is each credit a word translate? 1 credit == 1 word translated to audio?

1 credit = 1 character. You are right I need to be more clear on it. $15 would give your about 10hrs of audio or 100 articles (~5-6mins). ElevenLabs will cost you $99 for the same audio.
Hmmm, a little disappointed but I'm I still very interested. My favorite smart watch was a pebble and they used a transflective display, I loved it. If this is more of the same but refined and bigger count me in.
???

Did you mean to type something different? Obviously the King's Quest 8 master will contain King's Quest 8.
Researchers use 'smart' rubber structures to carry out computational tasks
I'm not saying they'll necessarily win in court, all I'm saying is I'd wager my life savings that they intentionally created a voice that sounded like Scarlet's character from Her.

Anybody on this forum who says that it's entirely impossible or that it's conclusive that they didn't use her voice samples simply isn't being logical about the evidence.

TBH I really like the voice and the product, but I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the number of people who seem rather tribal about all this.
And if the maker offers a free service to replace the battery with the purchase, I'm okay with it. Would it be nice to remove the battery to keep "them" from listening? Probably, but "they" are still listening through the TV, the laptops, and that chip in the back of my mouth so, meh
I don't understand what makes this a "code" search and replace tool as opposed to a general text search and replace tool (a la the many many existing options for such). I was kind of expecting some kind of AST structure or grammar spec or at least a quick tokenizer to be able to handle situations like "don't replace this text if it appears in a string constant", but it doesn't mention anything like that.
Really happy that they are finally improving multi-profile support
I'd use the same thing I've been using forever... a little python batch file that creates a folder in the form

/archive/2024/20240523/

I keep the folder and file names given by the sequence number in the camera. Any time I modify a file, I always save it with a new, and usually more descriptive, name.

Thus I'll end up with files like this

/archive/2024/20240523/100D5100/DSC_8341.NEF

I've been storing things this way since 1997, I have local and remote backups of the entire /archive tree.