skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The detail missing from this explanation is that structs and classes are the same thing with different default visibility. I found this enormously confusing when learning the language, and I think it was a major mistake. My assumption was that a struct was exactly the same as a c struct, and the "new" functionality was all a part of the classes.

Still. There's always extern "c".
Plagiarism is not illegal, it's merely frowned upon, and only in specific fields. Everywhere else, it's called learning from masters and/or practicing your art.
I don't deny that.
As for German, there isn't really an equivalent for engine, even combustion engines are called (Verbrennungs)Motor.
It's easy to explain the difference between a person and a car in a way that's both specific and relevant to the rules.

If we're at an analogy to "cars aren't people", then it sounds like it doesn't matter how many books the AI reads, even one book would cause problems.

But if that's the case, why make the argument about how many books it reads?

Are you sure you're arguing the same thing as the ancestor post? Or do you merely agree with their conclusion but you're making an entirely different argument?
You’re probably right about declining value over time.

Is that for personal use thoug? At work I’m routinely going through year+ old mails.
Unpopular opinion, the windows logo peaked at 3.1.

My only other though is that I'm surprised this many people were needed to take that photo.
That's a common retort on HN but it's information free. Judges are at least theoretically and often in practice bound to follow both written law and logic, even if it yields apparently silly outcomes. The prevalence of openly political judgements in the news makes it seem like this isn't the case, but those judgements are newsworthy exactly because they are shocking and outrageous.

If voices being similar to each other is found to be grounds for a successful tort action then it'd establish a legal precedent, and it's very unlikely that precedent would be interpreted as "whoever the judge heard of first wins".
Quite true. The style was deliberate and it wasn't due to lack of technology, skill and knowledge.
Can WinDirStat deal with hard links nowadays? Windows uses them extensively in the WinSxX folder and possibly elsewhere.
> Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main ... returned to the site annually, sometimes more frequently, for more than four decades.

Huge respect. Always amazed by scientists sticking with studies like that.
Unless they can clearly demostrate reproducing the voice from raw voice actor recordings, this could be just a parallel construction to cover their asses for exactly this sort of case.
It's been posted on HN before but it's probably relevant to this thread. Steve Yegge had a post about how Emacs was used heavily inside Amazon's customer support system https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel
Many research animals are named. Alex the parrot comes to mind.
Maybe because they are famous, every voice sounds like them? Regardless, Johansson has a characteristic hoarseness in her voice which is not in the robot voice
We C++ devs haved moved away from C decades ago, and frankly dont even think of it any more, and will never go back. Its a relic of its time, like DOS, Amiga etc. RAII is a big feature we can no longer live without. The type system and overloading is fantastic. And std::vector is a magnificant feature. A language without these features is a relic for us C++ devs.

And yes, I also agree that C++ has WTF insanity, like 17 or so initialisation quirks, exceptions in general (primarily to address failures in constructers, surely there must be a better way, also OOM / bad_alloc is a relic from the past), and unspecified sizes for default built in types (thats C heritage).
May well be, but I’m reminded of Columbus’ Egg[0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
As someone who had to make a company pass an audit, and the company massively relied on S3 buckets...this so much.
DDG down here
definitely on the cards, we're keeping our options open here. Right now just focused on creating value though.
Then again, bicycles are neither people nor cars, and yet they make claim to both sidewalk and the road, even though they clearly are neither, and are a danger and a nuisance on both.
The mere fact that abstractions like S3 even exist still boggles my mind. Infinitely scalable, indefinitely persistent, inexpensive, super-high reliability, software-addressable storage accessible from (almost) anywhere on the planet. I'm sure tfa's critique is valid, but also... we have miraculous tools.
Yes, in this case only way to not be spied on is to not go on the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Get the same error with both Firefox and Edge. Very frustrating.
Is that a good example? People have been arguing in court about that exact thing for years, first due to Segway and then due to e-scooters and bikes. There's plenty of people who make arguments of the form "it's not a car or a bike so I'm allowed on the sidewalk", or make arguments about limited top speeds etc.
This sort of thing happens a lot, and is of course legal even if it isn't polite. I remember a decade or so ago when having "celebrity" voices for your GPS was a thing and there was an interview by the actor Michael Caine about how some company wanted him to do a GPS voice but he declined and later he found out that they then used an impersonator to make a voice that obviously was supposed to be his.
For anyone who wants to find more information regarding treemaps, which are used in this application, this link https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ has some history about treemaps and here https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/demos/ you can find a Java implementation where you can play
you don't have to if you don't want to. even without emacs common lisp is a better experience than racket
I think of Emacs as being to Elisp what the JVM is to Java. It's a platform with a whole host of applications, some of which are good and many of which are less good. Examples of applications of great quality include calc, dired, evil, magit, comint, org – you just won't get these outside of the Emacs platform, much like a few years ago you couldn't run Minecraft outside of the JVM platform.
Remember Zoom trading at a P/E of 400+ during the pandemic? They've lost 85% of their value since then, despite growing their earnings about 3-4x in 4 years and becoming the namesake for an entire generation.
I wonder if the process of building a complex web can be reduced to a simple set of rules, almost like a cellular automata.

The simple rulesets which lead to complex outcomes in nature is amazing to me.
Here are prior HN posts on micromanagement, you tell us: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=micromanagement

> "I try to communicate with my team..."

This feels weird, when you ask them directly "Why did this milestone get missed, when it seemed on-track?", what are they telling you? Do they have other priorities and tasks from other managers? Else, what is going on? If you ask the other managers, what do they tell you? Are your team's priorities misaligned with your priorities? It feels like there are some basic conversations missing, or people aren't taking you seriously, or they have conflicting incentives.
Most of these impersonations, visually brutal, too colorful, too noisy, reaching to the edge of grotesque, scream kitsch. I doubt the original authors would have liked something like that.
"But what if a person was so thoroughly replaced with robot parts to be just like a computer" is just "if my grandma had wheels, she would be a truck, therefore it's not so easy to say that cars aren't allowed to drive inside the old folks home".

People and software are different things, and it makes total sense that there should be different rules for what they can and cannot do.
As a lowly middle class employee it could be interpreted externally as “representing the company” which is why you see disclaimers like “all views are my own” on some social media profiles. Sam is the company, so they can’t get mad at him, and beyond that he’s a private individual saying whatever he wants on social media without lying.

In order to sue, there need to be damages, and if they didn’t copy the voice then the rest doesn’t matter, which sam and team clearly knew and were fast to work with the news. I agree that smart people take advantage of what they can get away with, but this controversy couldn’t have turned out better for increasing brand awareness good or bad (as you say, just like trump and musk know how to do)
> what if ransomware is mainly a sociopathically-driven enterprise

It would be easier and safer to just destroy the data or cause other damage and walk away.
I think it's really problematic that the government is protecting voice actor's careers. It's like if they disallowed cars on the roads to protect horse carriages. Clearly with the new technology a whole economic sector is gone and irrelevant over night. Now amateurs and small projects can afford to add good sounding voices to their creations. This is good news in the end

The same goes for actors and their likenesses ... just stop protecting ultra wealthy celebrities. They'll be a bit poorer, but they're going to be okay. You're just holding back progress

I can imagine in a decade some place like China which doesn't care about protecting celebrities will have movies with dozens of Tom Cruises Arnolds and Johansson's and will just be pumping out better quality content at affordable budgets. Young talented directors won't be hamstrung by these legal roadblocks
Most cancer drug candidates don't even make into human trials. Human trials are only done after they've figured it all the theories and simulations and animal testing and everything out over decades and it's all verified it won't kill people, then they run RCT and find out it actually does and cancel it.

Your assertion is that drugs are discovered on fuck-around-and-find-out basis on live humans, which is simply false and stupid.
Over the course of the pandemic we didn’t go to a lot of shows (really any) and we had to deal with some job losses. Now that we have the money we’re re-evaluating.
With the words "heist" and "Taco Bell", I thought for sure it was going to be a repeat of Operation Soda Steal.
People see what they want to see.

If it wasn't for us being biased by the surrounding circumstances I don't think people would have confused their voices. Their voices are not that similar. I probably personally know people with a voice as similar to SJ as Sky's. You probably do too.

The voice actress says the same: "I’ve never been compared to her by the people who do know me closely."

But then suddenly a story emerges and their voices are indistinguishable. All of these extra details shouldn't have even mattered.
I am sure it was for free PR. Streisand effect trap for ScarJo.
Cool if this is easy — Idk why this was my perception — your book could help clearing up such misconceptions by showing that it is in fact not that hard.
You're entitled to your opinion, the universe has an opinion too.
The Economics of Open Source Payments
Nah the first half of the essay is basically irrelevant, you need to start below that, and what I consider the meat of the issue is the “copy” section about two thirds down.
> Russians are 71% of the population of Sevastopol

Strawmanning again. That same census shows 17.3% of Ukraine identifies ethnically (or culturally) as Russian. But instead you want to split hairs.

> 58% in Crimea

Crimea is Russian in the pre-war border, and is irrelevant to this thread.

> whereas only 41% of those who identified as Ukrainian could actually speak Ukrainian

Kind of telling that non-Ukrainian speaking people are identifying as culturally as Ukrainian. It puts further doubt as to how much people inside the pre-war borders wanted to be 'liberated' by being usurped by Russia. Language != culture != nationality != support for annexation

All the same Sevastopol, which is the only majority Russian population in pre-war Ukraine that you mentioned, is not all of Ukraine. Very clearly Russia's play was for the whole country. The kind and noble angle you're presenting of Russia as liberator is either disingenuous, if you're trolling, or delusional, if you're being earnest.

> and make up the majority of the fighting force currently advancing on West Ukraine

Even if that's verifiable, there's no way of knowing how many are fighting by choice. Wouldn't be the first time Russians/USSR sent people to fight 'under pain of death'. And of course they aren't alone in this sort of conduct in war time.

> is dropping bombs on these people?

Both sides. Because of a war—I repeat once again—instigated by Russia. These populations wouldn't be caught in the crossfire of shifting battle fronts, if there was no... err.. battle.

So I'm done here. You aren't arguing in good faith, nor seem to yield to reason. Feel free to have the last reply.
Hmm now which current hyped trend could the alchemical quest be compared to?

Maybe we can smear all the copyrighted inputs together and lose the copyrights in the process? Magic! It's gold, i tell you!
One of the best ways of saving on power is to buy ever more efficient chips. With each generation of chips, perf/watt increases.
KotlinConf 2024 Keynote [video]
Some people are recording previous /now posts, which I will probably do as well, as it could be interesting to see how my life changes over the year (I really enjoy reading previous "Year Compasses.")

However it's very obviously not a blog since a blog encompasses a much larger concept. You can blog about your hobbies, interests, specific topics, related or otherwise. I'm confused at the OP's confusion between a blog and a /now page.
I think it's designed to keep the video on screen while reading comments. Because NOBODY should scroll down during a commercial!
I assume you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite –. no one wants to fix model-breaking bug
Today's climate, where Silicon Valley billionaires occasionally have to endure some mild pushback.
There are countless tutorials on how to get rich on Etsy using Stabble Diffusion.

With so much AI offers, what the market is lacking is some AI buyers.
Subj works absolutely the same as sdwebui’s img2img/sketch tab, but with less features. The ui may be overwhelming for the first time, but there’s nothing really hard if you just want to try it out.
AI is simultaneously overhyped in application but under-appreciated in terms of long-term implications.
The cartoons are my favorite part about this book
No need to make snide remarks just because someone is expressing their opinion and consumer choices, that’s the point of message boards.
Why not "Kings English" now, as the Queen, well, is gone?
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Have you used the Office365 Suite lately?
Sam Altman statement said they pulled the voice out of respect to Scarlett Johansson.
New/delete were never that great to begin with and have now fallen out of style. Also, C++ is quite useful and powerful even without STL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

A classic which touches on such stuff.
idontevenunderstandwhypeopleusespacesbetweenwordsnowadays
keyword !brave works though
Your first question doesn't change the answer, and your second question depends on a premise that isn't real.

Natural life is plenty simple in this context.
Note: There’s a gotcha when using it in multi-user environments (like a server).

Users with Administrator access do not have permission to enumerate directories / files inside other Admin users home directories. So any per-user files are not counted in this scenario.

Source: ‘The mysterious case of the Windows server with a full disk but WinDirStat shows it as only half-full’ :-)
> like if they disallowed cars on the roads to protect horse carriages

What? Nobody is banning OpenAI from licensing voices. The censure is on, at the very least, using an unlicensed likeness to promote their new products without compensation. (Assuming Sky truly is a clean-room product.)

Likeness just became a tradeable product. That wasn't true before. The better analogy is in recognising mineral rights, including crude oil, after the utility of it was recognised and traded on [1].

> ultra wealthy celebrities

We have a hundred millionaire atop a multi-billion dollar industry fighting a billionaire atop a multi-billion dollar company. Nobody gets to cry poverty.

> can imagine in a decade some place like China which doesn't care about protecting celebrities

Would positively love to see Altman try to pull this stunt with Xi Jinping's voice.

[1] https://info.courthousedirect.com/blog/history-of-mineral-ri...
Imagine if switchboard operator careers were protected. We still would not have the Internet today.
Wait what's the latter part of this? I know they were sold to Squarespace, but who's PE?
Township Small Business Chatbot Algorith
I don't know if op had chance to evaluate because they were outatime.
> you spend 10 years doing python, only to go back to C++ and realise that all this private/protected stuff is a crock

Just a friendly reminder that two leading underscores wont protect your member functions in C++. Even if people insist that those are totally not supposed to be private in python.
No, like consumption tax. Pretty sure that can't be gamed.
I suspect if you don't recognise this scenario you may be standing too close to the mirror.
Lovely stuff, thank you.

It would be cool if we could eventually make use of RBS or inline Sorbet or something better than both to get the types for property testing for free.
Perhaps its due to limiting the candidates to the US, you'd have a very large pool if you opened to worldwide.
If you are unable to go after the criminal, you go after the victim.
I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh

Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment
lagging af
Sure, except literally no one actually does this. You listen to a voice and it sounds similar in your head? That's who you picture when you hear it. Unless you're a robot I guess.
It's not a fallacy. Behind the AI are 180M users inputting their own problems and giving their guidance. Those millions of books only teach language skills they are not memorized verbatim except rare instances of duplicated text in the training set. There is not enough space to store 10 trillion tokens in a model.

And if we wanted to replicate copyrighted text with a LLM, it would still be a bad idea, better to just find a copy online, faster and more precise, and usually free. We here are often posting paywalled articles in the comments, it's so easy to circumvent the paywalls we don't even blink twice at it.

Using LLMs to infringe is not even the intended purpose, and it only happens when the user makes a special effort to prompt the model with the first paragraph.

What I find offensive is restricting the circulation of ideas under the guise of copyright. In fact copyright should only protect expression not the underlying ideas and styles, those are free to learn, and AIs are just an extension of their human users.
Still better than Google
As King Æthelred II "The Unready" learnt, once you pay the Danegeld, the Dane leaves you alone and never bothers you again.
> The difference between this scraper and other scrapers is that normally, scrapers are usually used for personal or nefarious purposes.

This doesn't seem accurate at all. Plenty of businesses are built on scraping data; see: Google.

> The data scraped for AI models is used explicitly for a commercial purpose by a commercial entity and the original creator received zero compensation or notice that their work was going to be used in a commercial product. The actual rights holders of the works that were used in an unauthorized manner have no way to seek compensation or removal of their work from this commercial product.

I think the questions of fair use might keep us busy for hours.

> There is little material difference between this behavior and if someone downloaded your site and used its content in a book they were selling. It doesn't matter that you discovered this book was printed two years ago. Your work is still being used without your permission.

I think a more fair comparison would be if someone used my website as reference/inspiration/etc when writing a book.
This whole thing is starting to feel like another Sam Altman spotlight production. There's enough evidence to show no wrongdoing, but it was handled in a way to make people think there was a scandal. Maximum spotlight for relatively low risk. I wonder if people will get tired of being jerked around like this.
Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System open to global tracking abuse
A law is only relevant if you are able to enforce it. I suspect if you arent a huge corporation, you'll likely have a hard time enforcing your copyright. So, the truth for individuals still stands. Dont put it online if you dont want it to be pirated. And huge corporations have a legal department protecting its interests, so tzhey dont need support from the public....
yeah we might need to implemenet some kind of "I am not a robot" checks soon, as well as 2FA.
> If I were going to get back into the hobby, I'd probably try to do long range fixed wing aircraft with FPV and flight automation.

For me personally that’s too boring.. Long range is illegal in lots of places; in the US you technically need a spotter and the craft needs to be in direct line of sight, and pretty close because it should be visible with unaided eye - so, no binoculars.

3.5" is the sweet spot where you can build a sub 250g (or almost sub 250 - do cops really carry kitchen scales on them?) drone with decent performance that doesn't scare people when you fly around and still has the performance close to a 5" one and you can still do all of the tricks. The only drawback with 3.5" is that they're more susceptible to wind, so if it's always very windy where you fly, maybe consider a 5". Oh, and you also don't need to install a remote ID module on a sub 250g quad.
That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits.

Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1]

1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar
2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true value
4. Go to firefox Settings → Search. Or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search
5. In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "add" button. search add button
6. Press the add button and fill in the name, search engine url and a keyword(optional).
7. Go to the "Default Search Engine" section and select the engine you just added.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...
As a local llm enthusiast, it’s important to remember that I don’t get why people are still using these “cloud” absurdities, even if they generate a very slightly better output sometimes.