skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume there have been cases, just not specifically about "tripping on a root". I can't actually substantiate that, though. The SEO of the "lawsuits about forcing public access to the beach" is really high, I can't find any lawsuits. I would assume there are some, even if the plaintiffs didn't win though? People in the US sue for everything.

> On a non-California beach I've been to, there are public access ways (about 20ft wide) between every 3 to 5 houses. The houses are free to block their own land, but they can't block the accessways, the beach, or the dunes because all of that is public property.

No, California went way farther than that. They mandated that the entire coastline up to the median high tide line (if I remember right), has public access in the 1974 California Coastal Act. In later court cases, the court ruled that if there is no feasible way to access that public area without crossing private property, private land owners must permit the public to cross their land to get to the coast.

E.g. https://www.hcn.org/articles/public-lands-a-battle-over-beac... is a recent case (the Supreme Court rejected his appeal)

It's a little messy for older developments, but for new coastal developments the state requires the developer to sign an easement granting the public rights to use the land. I think there are a couple of beaches that are still holdouts due to various old-timey contractual things, but in general, you can walk across private property to access a beach behind someone's house if there isn't a feasible public route (I.e. you aren't expected to rock climb down a cliff instead or hire a boat, but you should use the public walkway if there is one).
https://archive.is/eI9rb
Completely agree. The thing about running marathons and climbing mountains is part of the myth in Wall Street and SV that the person needs to be a super human and work 24 hours a day to be really successful. It is 100% BS, but people will cultivate this kind of fallacy to get ahead.
I'd assume that "Big AI" can buy off Kenyan politicians far more cheaply than the US President. And if your in a sh*tty-enough situation, "whatever works" becomes your strategy.
If the number of IC’s to managers is less than 4, then your company is too top heavy.

You will know this because the managers keep creating specs without consulting the IC’s and the amount of useless busy work and fake deadlines go up.
> None of this is unusual or in any way wrong.

You're completely correct. Everything described in the article was completely legal.

The things that are illegal, like overfishing protected waters, the company doesn't do. Instead, they lobby to make it legal, then do it.

See, all above board. It's all legal. Why would anyone get upset about a company that isn't breaking the law? If it were wrong it would be illegal, right?
Social media companies actually don't always do anything to hook you up to their platform. Sometimes they also do something their advertisers want.

Something big probably got disliked and some shitty company complained to Twitter that users have the wrong opinion.
> the card holder pays less due to cashback.

At a point in time basis, you are correct.

> The only way I see the extra 3% for cardholders is because they are "forced" to shop in card-accepting establishments which will have higher costs to cover fees while the cash user can choose the cheaper cash vendor.

Correct. And my point is that this 3% tax gives you the feature to dispute the charge.
Importantly if he just said publicly that that he wouldn't enforce the non-disparagement agreements that could be legally binding[1]. But if he just says he'll release people who he's, legally speaking, free to just not do that.

[1] The keywords are promissory estoppel. I'm not a lawyer but this looks at least like a borderline case worth worrying about.
He wouldn't be the only person to want Scarlett Johansson voice inside ChatGPT, I read several comments wanting that (I guess "Sky" voice doesn't sound so similar after all), btw Karpathy doesn't really work for OpenAI anymore.
True, that is the primary effect.

But it holds even if we calculate as a percentage of expenditures rather than as a percentage of income.

The poor tend to spend more of their money on hard goods and the rich a higher percentage on services. And of course goods are a lot easier to import than services.
To me, beginner level coding is about being able to convert your ideas to code. That gives you a good starting point to then go deep in whatever domain of software world you want to go.

But of course, learning is never ending in tech.
> Now every time you write a/b or *x, the compiler will be forced to emit an extra branching check before this operation.

This is wrong, because you would define them to have the behavior that the architecture in question does, so no changes would be needed. For integer division this would mean entering an implementation-defined exceptional state that does not by default continue execution (on Linux, SIGFPE with the optional ability to handle that signal). For dereferencing a pointer, it should have the same semantics as a load/store to any other address--if something is there it works normally, if the memory is unmapped e.g. for typical Linux x86 programs you get SIGSEGV (just as you would for accessing any other unmapped address).
thank you for proving why we need blogs
Oh my God, did you just explain grad school
Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?
I see posts every once in a while about engineers or data scientists choosing to leave the space to a new one.... I also often hear how hard it is to do so.

For those who made a successful transition, what did you move to? What advice do you have in hindsight?
What really centralizes Nostr is Nip-26

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/26.md

Once you start requiring (thispubkey == thatpubkey) you make it so all relay operators have to index their entire repository of messages to comply. This requirement forces low end operators out of the relay space.
AIUI the Quebecois understand Metropolitan French (from movies, literature, etc.), it's just not what they actually speak. Canadian and Cajun French, again AIUI, are mostly derivative from Norman and Breton, which were never really the same as Parisian, and the emigrants who defined the language left before the French state was able to force Parisian language onto everyone in the country. It's not as far removed as, say, Provencal (which is in some respects closer to Catalan), but definitely not the same as Parisian, and they've had centuries of isolation from the developments in the mother country, during which they've been exposed to a torrent of English (and American English at that; don't @ me, Canadians, we speak the same English and it's distinctly not British, ANZ, or Indian, even if we spell and pronounce a few things differently).
>> When discovery happens and there’s a trail of messages suggesting either getting ScarJo or finding someone that sounds enough like her this isn’t going to look good with all the other events in timeline.

I'm not a lawyer, but this seems unfair to the voice actor they did use, and paid, who happens to sound like ScarJo (or vice versa!)

So if I sound like a famous person, then I cant monetize my own voice? Who's to say it isnt the other way around, perhaps it is ScarJo that sounds like me and i'm owed money?
A consumer can sue or join a class-action lawsuit to recoup fees where goods/services weren't provider.

A business can sue a consumer for not paying.

They are two sides of the same coin.
Looking Glass launches new 3D displays
I am generally not a fan of the standards committee nor what it is trying to do with the language. The word "Object" used in C++ land has a different meaning than the same word used in C land since there is an "Object Model" in C++ while there is none in C. Hence trying to map C++ object concepts onto C does not even make sense in the general case. But because of C++'s evolution having started as "C with classes" there is some mapping at the set-of-bits level which is where the POD (with all its limitations) comes in.

I am fully with Stroustrup in arguing that C++ should strive for as much compatibility with C as possible in the spirit of the original (see ref. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B...). But sadly the rest of standards committee don't seem to want this which i believe is a huge mistake. On the other side, the C standards committee should be very careful what inspiration they take from C++ in the evolution of the language since it was designed as a "minimal" language which was one of the main factors in its success. Whether people call it "primitive", "well behind other languages" etc. does not matter. You definitely don't want C turning into C++-lite. Hence IMO the conclusions stated in the last few paragraphs of the submitted article are quite right.
Yes, and they released in May 2024 = 05/(2+0+2+4) which is 0.625, which proves it for sure.

Come on, we don’t have to resort to reading entrails.
Unless they can point to a voice actor that they did copy. It will be very difficult for them to prove that it wasn't trained to replicate Scarlett Johansen. Was the model trained on movies? were annotators instructed to compare to the movie "Her" - lots of ways to see this become problematic.

The fact that Sam Altman was requesting a licensing deal days before launch would suggest that they had a known problem that the model was too close to Scarlett Johansen's voice. In the generous case, this could come down to a few documents from product conception indicating that they wanted the model to replicate the movie "Her."
Any other company can start a video platform. In fact a few have and failed.

Nobody has to use youtube either.

If you want change in the video platform space, either be willing to pay a subscription or watch ads.

Consumers don't want to do either, and hence no one wants to enter the space.
Hey,
Your boss here. Come meet me at my desk immediately.
Sincerely,
Boss

:D
I hacked Google Maps to get somebody's number
Hate seems like quite a strong reaction.

My hunch is that quite soon, LLMs will be totally interchangeable. Due to the intense competition and the fact that people are basically training on the same base data distribution.

In the tasks I'm using LLMs switching one for another makes less difference than I had predicted even.

However, I'm not spending $30k+ per month, so I guess my opinion may be less informed.

What is your use case? Could these micro-optimizations you need to do now be the result of the technology still being quite immature?

I'm working with digital twins of musicians/celebrities. But have also done more analytical stuff with LLMs.

My current side project involves working with the production company of a well-known German soap opera to help them write further episodes. The first thing we did was write a small evaluation system. Could be interesting to test with Unify.
> They are unwilling to run homeless people out of their cities

Or, you know, actually house them.
What does money taste like?
Yeh, we can tell.
I'm not sure why you think having 30 direct reports at Google and 40 direct reports at a startup are "slightly different". They are very different. An organization as large and mature as 2013 Google has far more support resources and informal management available to employees than a startup does. And adding ten people to your reporting chain is a lot.
Ah - that could be it. I did use Time Machine from an Intel iMac to set up this up
Totally anecdotal, but I have no idea who is the voice of Siri. And if I met them, I as a layperson would think “you sound like Siri” not vice-versa like this case.
> Sure this is scifi today. So were "flying machines" and "moon visits" and magic of our global communication pocket devices, etc.

Well, "moon visits" are well on their way to being SF again. Or old fairy tales. :-(
And then there's me, and I'm somewhere in the middle. When I first heard that voice, I didn't really think anything of it. But retrospectively given the media reporting from Sam Altman tweeting about the movie and the reports of approaching Scarlet Johansson, I can make that connection. But I would not have without the context. And without real reporting I would have dismissed it all as speculation.
Checkout Jumper too, they are the biggest competitor of radiomaster, might offer better price with similar quality.
I had a really bad dining experience the one single time I went to Red Lobster; happened at the same place probably (Toronto, the one in Bay Street?) hence why I want to share.

I came in to the restaurant and there was no one at the front desk, but the place seemed to be operating normally so I just went on to seat at the nearest table I found. Waiters just started ignoring me; at some point I realized this was
on purpose. Wtf.

Anyway, after like 20 mins. I stand up and ask one of the guys "what's going on?". He tells me that they knew I was there (!) but decided to ignore me because no one "seated me at that place". I tell him, well, do that now ... the guy just tells me they don't want to do that anymore because I should've done it when I entered the restaurant, then just like that asks me to leave the place (wtf x2).

I tell him that's ridiculous and he just says "I'm calling security" and walks away. After a few minutes, two huge guys come to my table and ask me what the problem is (they were actually quite polite). I tell them, I just walked into the restaurant, sat here, and just want to order something. They look at each other a bit confused (who knows what the waiter told them), ask me if that's it, "yes", ..., "ok, wait here a bit". After another like 10 mins., a different waiter comes up and starts catering to me.

Everything was normal afterwards, but that was super weird. Imagine getting beat up for walking into a restaurant and wanting to get some food.

Needless to say I never came back as the food turned out to be quite average, definitely not worth fighting for it, lol.
maybe but isn't there a performance cost of searching by prefix
1. The sky voice currently available in the app is a different model from the one they presented (one is pure TTS, the new one in GPT-4o is a proper multi modal model that can do speech in and out end to end)

2. Look at these images and tell me they didn't intend to replicate "Her": https://x.com/michalwols/status/1792709377528647995
I was able to fly the DJI avata in full manual mode with maybe only 4 hours in a sim. I'm not sure if that's because it just "clicked" or if the avata is just way easier than other FPV drones. I definitely think the ability to exit FPV with a click of a button and it's crazy durability have allowed me to be comfortable taking risks, which has made me a better pilot.
It tickles me that I still can't get a proper console program (like Conemu) on most Linux distros. Or anything resembling AutoHotKey or Notepad++.

Like it may be fine for you, but it's definitely not a flex for some of us. And I use Linux as my daily driver.
It's a sign of the times when OpenAI tacitly encourages forming a relationship with a computer system, and controversy erupts over IP rights for voice actors.

Higher-minded discussions certainly take place on a range of issues in AI. Can I rely on my AI to tell the truth? Is it ethical to use an AI for military applications? How do I make sure my AI doesn't turn into Archie Bunker? Even (IMO) fringe issues like whether it will exterminate humanity.

It would seem that those are rather abstract concerns. It would seem that your average person mostly cares about who's getting paid.
Did you read the article? The mismanagement was the supplier buying the purchaser with the most negotiating power and bankrupt them (by extracting as much equity as possible). This leaves purchasers with less negotiating power and the ability to raise prices. It was intentional.

While I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the strategy, the comparison with there health industry jives with my own experiences. Insurance companies buying up hospital chains to compete against pharma and gutting them in the process. When it’s hospitals shutting down instead of Red Lobster maybe people will understand.
That is the point. I'm paying to sit at a place that's not work or home (or a bar.)
Most people on Nostr are pro Bitcoin, not pro cryptocurrency. Bitcoin and crypto are not the same. There have been tons of scams in crypto, but not in Bitcoin. Sure there were people who created a scam and told people to send them their Bitcoin (Blockfi, Celsius, Netflix doc "Bitconned"), but that isn't the same as the crypto scams. The Bitcoin core devs never created a token and then ran a pump and dump. It's like saying someone scammed someone with USD, therefore USD is a scam.
We let people smoke cigarettes and alcohol, both of which are physically more dangerous than opiates. There's even research that tobacco is as addictive as or more addictive than most opiates. I wouldn't call this argument "progressive" and instead call it "consistent with what Americans do with some drugs that are taxed".
Their business is providing stock transfer and related services to corporations, not computer sharing.
Zsh Theme Powerlevel10k enters "life support" mode
DJI make the best easy to use quads that are basically GoPros that can be positioned anywhere in three dimension space at command. If you have a vlog about how you’re going off grid or hiking the Appalachian trail, that’s what you should use.

For true FPV, the DJI quads are way too limited in many ways and are not exceptional at anything - they’re a solid high-end Toyota Corolla.

The DJI video system is very good, and does make its way into a lot of custom FPV quads. But it’s very heavy and high latency (also, just as bad: variable latency), so never used for racing. And it’s also too heavy for smaller aircraft. It’s also more expensive than all alternatives, once you get past about 3 builds.
How? This kind of thing is already illegal. If I’m producing a commercial for Joe’s Hot Dogs, and I hire a voice actor who sounds like Morgan Freeman, and he never says “I’m Morgan Freeman” but he’s the main voice in the commercial and the cartoon character he’s voicing looks like Morgan Freeman… well, many consumers will be confused into thinking Morgan Freeman likes Joe’s Hot Dogs, and that’s a violation of Morgan Freeman’s trademark.
They voice artist put out a statement through her lawyer. She also stated her voice has never been compared to Scarlett in real life by anyone who knows her.
I'm an engineering manager who was formerly an engineer. I have always held that an engineering manager is not above the team, but within the team with a different role. Like, I do the following things:

Prevent other teams from reaching in and randomizing our priorities, work on promotion plans for anyone seeking promotion, manage customer/partner team relationships, ensure everyone has balanced feedback regularly, mediate disputes, collect information to manage upwards so we can still be funded, advise on team process but never mandate it, facilitate accommodations, manage poor performance so the team isn't dragged down, try to consolidate and clear meetings from calendars across the team.

If I'm not around, then all those things either don't get done or fall to the engineers themselves. I personally think it's useful to have someone on the team specialize in those activities for the benefit of the team. But I'll admit my bias.
It's unclear to me how much is private equity "ruining" the business and how much is making it visible. Here in Portland a private equity firm bought a bunch of local restaurants and mini chains during the pandemic. Now they struggle paying workers and rent and are closing a lot of these businesses. My suspicion is that they bought these businesses when they were distressed and otherwise wouldn't have survived at all. Now the pandemic recovery here has been famously bad and these businesses aren't recovering. I suspect the play here was to buy for cheap, help them through the pandemic and have a bunch of guys businesses. Honestly everyone would IMO have been a winner. Employees, customers, investors and even the founders who lost their business but at least got done money for it and see it continue. I don't think we can blame this particular private equity firm in this situation. As a customer the transition was not noticeable.

How many private equity acquisitions are like this but circumstances are less obvious and the measurers to rescue need to be more involved than just waiting for a pandemic to end? I genuinely don't know. But I suspect that it's very easy, looking in from the outside as a customer, to come to the conclusion that the business went bad when private equity came in when the business was already struggling but prior leadership was avoiding dramatic changes.
> But to suggest that he's a terrible person because of it is just beyond me.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that he's a terrible person just because of this.

This just confirms it.
I completely disagree. You're basically saying we should create something like an automotive/train hybrid system across the country hitting all communities in the country. That would take trillions. Like actually trillions, and it still wouldn't be good as having autonomous vehicles, because once we have autonomous vehicles, we also have autonomous aircraft and ships and all kinds of great things.
The STL is pretty dispensable in my experience, even for people doing full-blown modern C++, and C++20 has made that particularly obvious. The most useful feature somewhat unique to C++ is the extensive metaprogramming facility, which only recently became non-arcane.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429041
Google Builds First Subsea Cable Connecting Africa to Australia
That is with the driver paying attention and ready to take over. That means two systems are in place rather than one. Of course those results will be good. Full self driving may give results which are better or worse.
These days, every self-respecting library must provide Figma components.
The controller isn't stateful; it's just an interface to the disks. If the controller fails, but the disks haven't, then all you've lost is the time it takes to plug the disks into a new controller.

With RAID1, there's also nothing specific to the RAID configuration inherent in the way the data is encoded on the disk. You might have to carefully replicate your configuration to access the filesystem from a failed RAID0 array, but you can just pull and individual disk out of a RAID1 array and use it normally as a standalone disk.
> the financial incentives to be a bad actor could very quickly outpace the incentives to be a good actor.

This def is an unfortunate truth of many of our online systems.

Any ideas on what a reputation system needs to work? Or do you think the general way it tends to get implemented would suffice?
+1 on the controllers resolution part. Just add to it, gamepads usually do things like dynamic frame rate for power saving reasons, these features are not the good if you do fly drones for competitions. Good to get a OpenTX/EdgeTX based controllers, which offers 1Khz frame rate in newer versions.
There was no confusion on my part, you're confirming that you're propagating what I thought you were. I indeed think that's insane and plain immoral. It seems we have very different views on personality rights. I suppose we have to agree to disagree on that one.
ID-ing and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter
Clearly we need mandatory laryngeal surgery for anyone who sounds like anyone else. Also if you look like someone else, well, plastic surgery or an hood for you.
Right of publicity. Profiting of their image without their permission will get you sued. Even if you use an impersonator. If there is a chance the public will connect it with them, you are probably screwed.

e.g.

Vanna White vs Samsung - https://w.wiki/AAUR

Crispin Glover Back to the Future 2 lawsuit - https://w.wiki/AAUT#Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_lawsuit