skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, Samsung is bad, but not sure why iFixit pretends to be the embodiment of right to repair. 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) they are selling half-devices. And whoever supplies those half devices is called the repairability-king of the day. Neither Nokia, nor any other of their partners are any better. Fairy dust all around, without actual repairability :(

(But I guess it works for everyone: iFixit gets sales, $BRAND gets positive PR. And the customer gets some feel good news. Not actual repairability, but almost as good, I guess)
Even with services that lived over a decade, it's not clear whether messages were accessible for all that time. E.g. Google Talk/Meet/Whatever seemingly lost all messages before ~2013. Links to Facebook posts tend to die quickly, as both users and Meta itself seem to constantly play with privacy features. Etc.
Flying a drone from inside a bunker is, for all intents and purposes, playing a video game. Call of Duty and Flight Simulator have been training very capable pilots for years now. If you want to see the (near) future of warfare, hop on an open COD game.

As for optional, full autonomy on small drones - I suspect it's further along than many might expect.
If you want to see screenshots of any piece of software, just search the name of the software on your favorite search engine and go to ‘images’.

(This might seem obvious, but it took me a long time to realize, hence why I’m passing the tip on.)
Fascinating. The massive variance in the percentage of chickens that prefer roosting off the ground is interesting. I wonder what environmental pressures drives this decision.
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The planes were built fine for their purpose which did not include a single trip (at the very least they wanted to bring their crews home because those are as hard or harder to replace than the planes they fly!)and of course they're rougher than civilian planes nearly a century on all military transport and fighting craft are going to feel crappy compared to the civilian accepted version.
This all sounds like extreme Code Golf to me.

Here's a tangent to explore:

A BitGrid[1] (my personal hobby horse) only has 4 bits of state per cell, so a 4x4 grid of cells can't count more than 2^64, no matter what. Finding the highest it could count would be interesting. For small grids, the edge connections would dominate the outcome.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
I think that is the point. That is considered mismanagement. If I'm using a gold as the foundation of a hotdog stand, someone will come along and say that the gold is mismanaged, and worth more as jewelry.

They would be right!
The question is not if he is an easy killing target, the question is, how long is the queue of similarly minded citizens, you would have to join...it can get boring.
They refuted it based on select documents handed to them by OpenAI.
> Sat solvers have been implemented on backtracking regex engines.

Again, if the (not-really-)regular expression grows as the SAT problem does, that doesn’t mean game over yet. Your favourite ahead-of-time regex compiler (the good interactive ones are usually incremental, but lex/flex or re2c certainly fit) is also exponential in the size of the regex, because determinization can have exponential-size output. After the (exponentially large) compiled form is produced, though, matching is linear in the size of the haystack no matter what it is.

Burntsushi’s sibling reply links to blog post and thence to a proof-of-concept regular+backreferences expression matcher[1] that works in (quite miserable but still) polynomial time wrt the haystack, with the degree of the polynomial depending on the number of groups that have backreferences to them.

That’s not exactly fantastic, mind you—recall that you can match arbitrary context-free languages in “merely” cubic time. But it’s not exponential.

[1] https://github.com/travisdowns/polyregex
> I implemented the small website you were talking about

Thanks, that's neat.

I'm not even talking about the framework part. Just db access. Let's say I have a Posts with a managed_by property that points to a list of User which have a ManagedProfile. In Django's ORM (or any good ORM), I could do:

if post.managed_by.contains(user.managedProfile)...

or I could do:

post.managed_by.add(user.managedProfile)

also all these tables and join tables are generated by just a few lines of model definitions.

I'm still in control. I am writing the code. I get to choose when I do slow and fast stuff. Not having these features isn't "more control" it's less features. :P

I still see the benefits of Clojure, though!
indeed, their flights have always been visible on my employer's travel booker...
If Trump wins NATO is sol.
Hmm, seems like a bug in the query construction logic. Works if you drop the "the".

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Vietnam+of+compute...
A related bit of terminology I recently picked up[0] is "electric motor" vs. "electric machine", with the latter being preferred when the machine can function as either a motor or a generator (as is the case e.g. for most brushless DC motors).

[0]: I've been working my way through this book: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Brushless-Permanent-Magnet-Mac...
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It has nothing to do with this. There are many successful people and businesses that I admire, and a number of notable examples of those I do not. The two your comment mentions are simply part of that latter group. I think for good reason. (But of course I would think that...)
Interesting, do you have any hunch as to why this is? We've seen in more verticalized apps where the underlying model is hidden from the user (sales call agent, autopilot tool, support agent etc.) that trying to reach high quality on hard prompts and high speed on the remaining prompts makes routing an appealing option.
I'm really confused that people don't understand this. It's just predicting the most likely next text token and its trained on most internet text, so why would we expect anything at all different?
Where exactly were they lying, and how do you know for a fact?
You can get 5 years of usable battery discharge/recharge out of a phone, kudos to you!
Thanks for the explanation, that makes it much clearer.
> You may contact us for a refund of the cost of additional seating after travel. If you prefer not to purchase an additional seat in advance , you have the option of purchasing just one seat and then discussing your seating needs with the Customer Service Agent at the departure gate. If it’s determined that a second (or third) seat is needed, you’ll be accommodated with a complimentary additional seat.

From their support page: https://support.southwest.com/helpcenter/s/article/extra-sea...
> In summary, the barbed wire had zero impact on signal quality. The signals went through perfectly undistorted. The only thing the barbed wire did was impress the heck out of Broadcom's customers.

Next time you look at a transmission line, I hope you'll focus on the big four properties: characteristic impedance, high-frequency loss, delay, and crosstalk. These properties determine how well a transmission structure functions, regardless of the physical appearance or configuration of its conductors.

FWIU from "The Information" by Gleick, Shannon entropy Shannon started out with digital two-state modulations on wire fences
Sure, but the source one is also completely relevant and important.
There is some debate in the bbchallenge project regarding the current long-running champions: do their properties reflect those of the actual longest-running machine of that size, or are their properties just the easiest to automatically search for and prove things about, as a kind of streetlamp effect? There's no way to know, until the entire search space has been ruled out, either definitely or heuristically. (Every size past BB(5, 2) contains chaotic, pseudorandom machines that are expected to run forever, but can't be proven to do so without big advances in number theory.)

Though I suspect that no long-running machine can be utterly chaotic, at least when you look at the patterns it produces on the tape. To run for a long time, a machine must simulate some sort of higher-level rule: if it were dumping symbols on the tape at random, then it would very soon reach a halting configuration, a cyclical configuration, or some other simplified pattern. Still, one can have long-running machines that do simulate something chaotic on a higher level, spending an inordinate amount of time between each high-level step until it halts.
The logical parallels might be there but in legal substance they are different cases. A deliberate replication of an artist's distinct singing voice, while singing lyrics associated with that artist, is very different than a passing similarity to someone's non-unique speaking voice. Note that the Johansson issue is playing out only in the court of public opinion.
I have this sinking feeling that in this whole debate, whatever anyone's position is mostly depends on whether they think it's good that OpenAI exists or not.
No object is kinda mind blowing since it has java interop. I guess everything just becomes maps?
It's not an e-ink display, but rather a monochrome transreflective lcd. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1bk294i/comment/kvx17...
Yeah, I'm not sure if people have become so reactionary when it comes to unsupported tech-land hype, but on the flip side I find this unwarranted pessimism almost as annoying.

The call features on my Pixel are amazing IMO, and new ones (like the one that warns you if you are being scammed) could be great for large swaths of people.
Agreed. Not only does it not sound like SJ, at all, it’s someone else’s actual voice. Would this voice actor then be barred from doing voice acting? None of it makes sense.
But papers aren't citable. Somebody needs to archive the paper and make it available through the proper channels (e.g. a website, library, journal, the Internet Archive).
Back when release artifacts were hand crafted, these often contained leftovers that weren't meant to be shipped, like cut content [1] or debugging symbols [2]. When I stumbled upon debugging symbols hidden inside the data archive of the demo version of the video game I'm reverse-engineering, it was an unexpected but very helpful surprise.

Nowadays with CICD, automated builds and other modern development practices it probably happens less often.

[1] https://tcrf.net

[2] https://www.retroreversing.com/games/symbols
Thank you for DaisyDisk, it's my go-to when I need to free up some space and it's a delight to use!
isn't part of Pixar decline was because their talents were "poached" by Disney? Its around the time that Disney in-house team transition to 3D as well.

(poached probably not the right word but I recall reading Disney tried to jumpstart their in house studio 3D transition and have John Lasseter manage both studios)
Been a while, but I served tables at RL for 4 years (in 2 different locations). Did not do tip sharing. However, we had designated sections and were prohibited from running more than 3 tables at a time; easily could be that the servers could have gotten in trouble for taking this extra table.
> The advertisers are banking on your credibility, but the problem is it's no longer yours.

I think nowadays, the idea that doing a commercial damages your artistic integrity is considered sort of an anachronism. For better and worse, I guess, and largely driven by the consequences of technology in any case. But, a similar lawsuit today would probably be about damaging the monetary value of the artist's brand, rather than about damaging their artistic credibility per se, as it was with Waits at the time.

It used to be a truism that taking money from sponsors changed your allegiances, and changed the nature of your art. For the worse. Whether time has been proven that true or false is an exercise for the reader. Point is, that's where Waits seems to be coming from. It's not about "they didn't pay me first," it's about the commercial diminishing his credibility because it looks like he might have agreed to do it in the first place.
That makes sense, I do remember some Commodore 64 games that even a Nibbler couldn't properly duplicate, and how some people modified their 1541 drives to have a different timing to work with some of that stuff.
I think a better characterization would be:

* OpenAI wanted an AI voice that is SJ's voice

* SJ declined

* OpenAI got an AI voice from another person that sounds like SJ
> Also sqlite varint:

That's not actually in use. The SQLite3 format is far more basic:

"A variable-length integer or "varint" is a static Huffman encoding of 64-bit twos-complement integers that uses less space for small positive values. A varint is between 1 and 9 bytes in length. The varint consists of either zero or more bytes which have the high-order bit set followed by a single byte with the high-order bit clear, or nine bytes, whichever is shorter. The lower seven bits of each of the first eight bytes and all 8 bits of the ninth byte are used to reconstruct the 64-bit twos-complement integer. Varints are big-endian: bits taken from the earlier byte of the varint are more significant than bits taken from the later bytes."

From: https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.html Section 1.6
Tom Waits has a 1 in a billion voice. I'm fairly confident most people couldn't pick Scarlett Johansson's voice out of a lineup of 10 random 35 year old female professional voice actors.
The privacy vs. anonymous thing is fair, and I have some issues with that, and I wish it were a bit more clear on what exactly that means. Even if Vlad's example of "parents knowing what you're doing but still respecting privacy" thing is true, it's not like I want my parents know I'm looking at porn, even if they don't know what kind of porn I'm looking at. That's something that they should address.

I still trust Kagi more than basically any free service though. There's no ads, and since they charge for search they at least have a means of making money that doesn't involve selling my data. Even if Kagi knows what I'm doing, I'm willing to accept that they're not dispensing my data quite as liberally as Google and Microsoft (and apparently DDG).
I dont think it is as one dimensional as that. You are also watching the breakup of a vertically integrated megacorp that owned many restaurants, and underlying real-estate.
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So now the hackers can ask for ransom and then, if you pay, threaten to tell people you paid the ransom afterwards.

Double money
Right. Even if you think OpenAI isn’t a good place, this is an investigation by an established newspaper that refuted some of the more serious accusations (that OpenAI got a Johannson impersonator - they didn’t, that they modified the voice to sound like Johansson - evidence suggests this didn’t happen). When the reaction is “I don’t care that an investigation refuted some of the accusations”, it demonstrates someone isn’t openly approaching things in good faith.

Likewise, if someone’s attitude is - “OK, maybe there’s no paper trail, but I’m sure this is what the people were thinking”, then you’ve made an accusation that simply can’t be refuted, no matter how much evidence gets presented.
A better one is Bette Middler vs Ford:

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

(TLDR; Ford licenses a Bette Midler track and gets a sound-a-like to perform it for a commercial after Bette Midler refuses to participate. Midler sues and wins)
WizTree directly reads the MFT, and is a LOT faster, but it is not a free program.
> Financial pressures to publish or perish

But those only exist because of the current peer-review model. There is a huge non-linearity built in to the publication process that provides disproportionate rewards for conning a small number of people, fewer than half a dozen. That, combined with a presumption of trustworthiness, produces a perverse incentive for attempting such cons because they are very easy to pull off, much easier than actually doing good science.
I've been doing a lot of reverse-engineering of synthesiser ROMs lately. The Yamaha DX9 ROM has some fragments of the firmware's symbol table embedded in the empty space left in the binary[0], along with a big block of 6303 code that was probably from whatever development system they used. It's a really amazing feeling when you stumble upon things like this! I'm such a nerd about these things that I feel like some kind of software-archaeologist, getting a small glimpse into the past. Finding this sent me down a really deep rabbit hole trying to find out more information about what development tools Yamaha might have used. I never discovered anything definitive, but reading the documentation on contemporary devtools gave me a real appreciation for modern workflows!

0: https://ajxs.me/blog/Hacking_the_Yamaha_DX9_To_Turn_It_Into_...
It probably is worth paying attention to the water WaPo is carrying for OpenAI here next to their publisher's announcement about prioritizing the use of AI in their newsrooms.
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What kills me about people like this is that the world is full of legitimate problems that they could be worried about, but instead they put so much attention on things that are entirely fictional or don't matter in any way.
I they actually did listen to us, they wouldn't have come up with Windows Recall in first place.
>All SJ has to do is show that they wanted her and plant the idea that they may have been thinking of her when they hired the other actor. The end results sounds enough like her that I think OpenAI is going to have a very rough time in court.

Wait, are you alleging that an individual has a right to faithful imitations of their voice, as well as to their actual performance?

So if I do a really good Morgan Freeman impression and I want to use that voice for a voiceover that I make, and I intentionally do an impression, he should have the right to tell me I cannot use the voiceover that I made, because I intended it to sound like Mr Freeman? Even if there is no intent to mislead and it's rightfully credited etc (not like the Tom Waits situation in TFA where the ad was intended to deceive)

What stops that from extending to parody? Should Sarah Palin be able to sue Tina Fey for the impression on SNL all those years ago?

If all it boils down to is
>The end results sounds enough like her

this starts to sound like celebrities with sufficient popularity and clout can trademark likenesses that are sufficiently similar to them. So is the voice actor who happens to sound like Scarlett Johnansson but is insufficiently famous not allowed to use their own voice in recordings because it might sound too much like the famous person?

Absurd absurd absurd
It reads like you're going to teach the reader these things, and so as a reader, I was expecting to find links on how to start learning, but didn't find anything. It just feels strange, but not sure what the right approach would be here.
They could, but China has to feed a Billion people through manufacturing and trade with foreign countries. To keep the peace, they dedicate a huge % of their military to internal policing. They have a soft influence policy vs the US hard, or their trade imbalance can turn violent.
The microplastics are everywhere. In all tissue. In the brain, in the heart, in the food and water, floating in the air and household dust. Floating in the air outside, from the plastics in tires wearing away on the pavement. And yes, they are in the semen.

So is the PFAS.

And all the other shit that rich and old people don't give a fuck about spreading into everything.
There are only two forces of creation in tech, the porn industry and the military
I predict the case will have parallels with Queen's lawsuit against Vanilla Ice: the two songs (under pressure and ice ice baby) are "different" in that one has an extra beat, yet it's an obvious rip-off of the former.

Perhaps merely having person A sound like person B isn't enough, but combined with the movie and AI theme it will be enough. Anyway I hope he loses.
Scene: Reddit execs responsible for this data sharing deal are using AI to draft their remarks:

Camera switches to laptop screen as the AI types "EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind Google!"

Exec hits "SEND".

End scene.
Mathematica is an amazing piece of software that will get better with LLM integration. Hopefully they can innovate on that feature set while he is
focusing on the computational universe. Mathematica is the jarvis/iron man
engine.
She absolutely is being deplatformed and her rights are violated.

If every customer who hires her gets sued, that is basically the same as making it illegal for her to be a VA.
It was not claimed that they cloned ScarJo's voice. They hired a soundalike when they couldn't get the person they wanted. Use or lack of use of AI is irrelevant. As I said before, both Bette Midler and Tom Waits won similar cases.

Since they withdrew the voice this will end, but if OpenAI hadn't backed off and ScarJo sued, there would be discovery, and we'd find out what her instructions were. If those instructions were "try to sound like the AI in the film Her", that would be enough for ScarJo to win.

I know that the Post article claims otherwise. I'm skeptical.
It's not your grandpa's Microsoft, EEE isn't a thing now and it's unlikely they'll be hostile towards it. But instead it's more probable that Proton would have been ignored and gone stagnant, ala Amazon type acquisitions.
I believe this is similar to EC2 Fast Launch which is available for Windows AMIs, but I don't know exactly how that works under the hood.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/win-a...
Small appliance repair is/used to be a thing, remember TV repair shops? Vacuum repair shops I still see around occasionally.

Problem is people buy a $25 hamilton beach blender that doesn't make any financial sense to repair but makes huge amounts of sense as an initial purchase. If you buy a $500 vitamix, you can keep it running forever with new parts, but that's the same price as 20 of the cheap blender. And blender technology isn't really advancing at a huge rate compared to, say, cell phones.
I've flown Southwest a few times out of necessity and it's always been a worse experience for me. I don't like the "hunger games" aspect of seating... I'd rather have the seat pre-selected and relax during boarding. I've also found it to be more expensive generally for the routes I fly.

Everyone has their own preferences, but I wonder is there a tangible advantage to flying Southwest to those that prefer it?
There's also Kagi
For a more modern example, one of my former employers had to ramp by a couple of orders of magnitude to build ventilators during Covid-19. One of my former coworkers told me the story of having to go to Detroit and build a factory there, and how they were able to go from 10-20 a day to hundreds a day by hard work and know-how.

The point I'm trying to make here is that the will to do this still exists in the US today and I have no doubt that if we as a country decided to enter a world war like WWII we would very quickly ramp. We certainly still have the culture and the resources to do it were we to discover the will.
Agents that make front end development easier go a long way to making bootstrapped entrepreneurship more accessible. Love that this is open source!
That really depends on your definition of "better".

In China the entities connected to the CCP are excepted from a lot of laws that slow down processes or make them more expensive.

In the US is that way less the case.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't previously visited that site. Very interesting.

From a quick check, I can't see this particular Space Quest II disk's AGI interpreter uncompiled code mentioned in there yet. Do you agree?

I have noticed that the same thing happened with a King's Quest III disk, in fact it looks like it may have happened around the same time as the Space Quest II occurrence.