skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The older formant-based (vs speech sample based) speech sythesizers like DECTalk could do this too. You could select one of a half dozen voices (some male, some female), but also select the speed, word pronunciation/intonation, get it to sing, etc, because these are all just parameters feeding into the synthesizer.

It would be interesting to hear the details, but what OpenAI seem to have done is build a neural net based speech synthesizer which is similarly flexible because it it generating the audio itself (not stitching together samples) conditioned on the voice ("Sky", etc) it is meant to be mimicking. Dialing the emotion up/down is basically affecting the prosody and intonation. The singing is mostly extending vowel sounds and adding vibrato, but it'd be interesting to hear the details. In the demo Brockman refers to the "singing voice", so not clear if they can make any of the 5 (now 4!) voices sing.

In any case, it seems the audio is being generated by some such flexible tts, not just decoded from audio tokens generated by the model (which anyways would imply there was something - basically a tts - converting text tokens to audio tokens). They also used the same 5 voices in the previous ChatGPT which wasn't claiming to be omnimodal, so maybe basically the same tts being used.
Doesn't matter if the intent is to make the listener think they're hearing ScarJo
How often will two random events occur simultaneously?
> There is zero need to implement the functionality with JS.

I tend to agree outside the context of a browser, but the post is about PDF.js.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing

> Under a 2007 agreement between Egypt and Israel, Egypt controls the crossing but imports through the Rafah crossing require Israeli approval.
patio11 (bitsaboutmoney) invests in the banks he uses, and then is able to call investor relations when he's having trouble with that bank.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncer...
Yeah, one of the best programmers I've ever worked with would launch Epsilon (a commercial emacs style editor for various OSs) each morning and then do _all_ of his work from it.

The closest I come to that is messing emacs keyboard shortcuts when I'm not using a Mac.

I really wish that there were more programs which completely re-examined all aspects of various tasks _and_ incorporated scripting in a fashion which allows folks to take advantage of it.

Some of the apps I would consider if putting together such a list:

- LyX --- billed as a "What You See is What You Mean" Document Processor, v2.4 is looking to be quite promising...

- TeXshop/TeXstudio --- the former in particular is _very_ nice for folks who aren't able to devote the effort to learning emacs

- pyspread --- have a spreadsheet where every cell can contain a Python program or SVG graphic is _way_ cool --- I just wish it was as flexible as Lotus Improv/Quantrix Financial Modeler

- Solvespace --- I wish I could do better with 3D --- usually I fall back to OpenSCAD, esp. now that there's a Python-enabled version: https://pythonscad.org/ though I often use: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

- TikzEdt/IPE --- I really wish there was a nice graphical front-end for METAPOST/METAFONT (or that the graphical front-end for Asymptote was more flexible)

On the gripping hand, one has to give props to the Krita folks for making scripting a first-class citizen: https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction
Nope. Many police departments give IQ tests. Score to high and you can be passed over.
New Arm-Powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Aim Directly at Apple Silicon Mac
I don’t think any said anything about being surprised by it?
Chameleon: Meta’s New Multi-Modal LLM
> Claimed that the existing training of the Sky voice was voiced by her?

That claim could very well be true. The letter requested information on how the voice was trained - OpenAI may not want that can of worms opened lest other celebrities start paying closer attention to the other voices.
My father had them off and on for a long time until he got an ultrasound treatment. I haven't heard him mention them since, maybe 15-20 years now?
Problem is, they asked for permission, showing their hand multiple times. Can I say, I'm somewhat relieved to learn that Sam Altman isn't an evil genius.
Yea. Most of what we do isn't that rigorous and it's fine. When we do need rigor, we use external tools, like classical computer programs or writing math down on paper. LLMs can use external tools too. We're also hopeless at explainability - people usually have no idea why they make most of the decisions they do. If we have to, we try to rationalize but it's not really correct because it doesn't reproduce all the intuition that went into it. Yet somehow we can still write software!
I don't see how we're really close to that objective, nor would it be a really pivotal accomplishment. NASA was ordered to shift plans away from Mars to the Moon during the Trump admin and even with their efforts plus sending billions to SpaceX, it's behind schedule by years. Putting humans on Mars is far more complicated and we're not even working on it right now. Doing so would be momentous, but it's not like Martians are ever going to be productive citizens. Mars would be 100% dependent on resources from Earth to even survive. And I don't think they'd credit the guy who they paid to build the rocket over the people who traveled.
read the docs, it's not saying that won't work. This extension along with timescale just makes some things more ergonomic.
Can anyone explain to a hardware idiot how he fixed the short (where Apple cut the board)? I don't understand why scraping off layers like that made it go away. Why can the board still work after you've taken out a chunk of it (as long as you take out enough chunks)?
IMO there’s a difference between, say someone protesting over the moral issue of birth control being covered in the health plan vs illegally dumping dangerous chemicals.
Is that something that needs to be asked? I thought it was pretty evident when the coup was happening.
I'm not sure. In the case of *Midler v. Ford Motor Co.*, the advertising agency hired a singer to do an impression of Bette Midler herself, not a character she performs. The singer was instructed to sound as much like Bette Midler as possible while performing her hit song "Do You Want to Dance?" for the Ford commercial. This use of a sound-alike voice led to the lawsuit, as it mimicked Midler's distinctive voice without her permission.

Scarlett Johansson's character in the movie is not Scarlett Johansson although her voice is very similar. I wouldn't say it's identical.
Genuinely interested in this. I had a MacBook Air M2 and the battery life was amazing, even when using VS Code w/ Docker.

I am wondering though what kind of contract MS has with Qualcomm wrt binary drivers. I'd hate for there to be a situation where you cannot upgrade your Windows version because Qualcomm hasn't released updated binaries, like what happens on Android. But then again, I don't know if this applies to Windows.
Withdrew too quickly?

They didn’t come to an agreement to use her voice, they used her voice. And they obviously knew it was a problem because they went back to her like the night before trying to get her approval again.

The correct thing to do was NOT use her voice.

You don’t get to steal something, get all the benefit from it (the press coverage), and then say “oops never mind it was just a few hours you can’t sue us”.

Why don’t we try selling tickets to watch a Disney movie “just one time” and see how well that goes. I don’t think Disney’s lawyers will look at it and say “oh well they decided not to do it again.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocracy#Northern_Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_ethnostate#New_Zealand

And I'm not picking on them - tons of countries are like that, and that's fine as long as they ensure equality of all citizens, which Ireland, New Zealand, and Israel have all done.
Not really. I had projects like that at Georgia Tech, I know Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, etc have similar.
God, I miss Sierra games. Such a big part of my growing up.
i’m confused about the timeline, it is still available to me? did they decide to reactivate?
It didn't require voice theft, they could have easily found a volunteer or paid for someone else.
This is pretty awesome. Gotta love some clever legal maneuvering.
I missed that; where did he say that?
@dang, this was published in 2020.
This is more rhetoric driven by a personal dislike of someone vs. reality.

> Twitter dropped in value to just 25% of what it was.

It's a private company. You don't know the value.

> Racism and naziism are rampant, endless stream of bots pushing propaganda or porn

Maybe on your feed? Statistically, no.

> and has any advertiser actually come back?

Who knows. It's still running after firing anyone: that's the point.

Tesla was the first and still the only electric car player that matters.

Same with SpaceX and space.

Again: you can dislike Elon's personality or politics, but trying to attack his results is ridiculous.
Teleoperated remote presence robots that can do the majority of what astronauts need to do and allow for experienced operators to do EVA manually if needed (due to crossover between mind and machine)

But also human cognition augmentation
I do, but all I really need from the git is who, when, and a reference to a ticket. The code itself- combined with who wrote and when will generally tell me all I need to know. From there, a ticket will give me the any extra context might need.
The whole point of section 230 is to let sites moderate user generated content without becoming responsible for what is in that content. What Twitter is doing falls squarely within the letter and the spirit of section 230.
Yes, there is an upper limit, and that is the entirety of global economy. But that assertion is as useless as it is true.
> If someone licenses an impersonator's voice and it gets very close to the real thing, that feels like an impossible situation for a court to settle and it should probably just be legal (if repugnant).

Does that mean if cosplayers dress up like some other character, they can use that version of the character in their games/media? I think it should be equally simple to settle. It's different if it's their natural voice. Even then, it brings into question whether they can use "doppelgangers" legally.
Having grown up on a platform which did not offer preemptive threading, it still feels weird to me that people perceive async IO as being complex. The contortions one must go through to get decent performance while pretending there is any such thing as synchronous IO seem far more troublesome. Reality is an asynchronous, interrupt-driven state machine; the sooner you give up the illusion that you are in control, the sooner you can go with its flow.
If the monetary damages aren't the point, why did the DoJ make (according to the article) a last minute addition to the case for monetary damages?

If you're right and forcing the payment of damages isn't the point, that seems to add credence to the idea that the monetary damages claim is just about manufacturing a pretext for a jury trial. Why is DoJ gaming the system a good thing?
That's a weird thing to oppose considering most parties see the control running exactly the other way. The US needs Israel more than Israel needs the US.
I think the tech criticism is kinda weird since he founded successful software companies before SpaceX. One of which gets used all the time to this day, although obviously PayPal has changed a bunch since then.

Like is it ridiculous to print code out to "review"? Obviously, yes, but a few stupid ideas doesn't make someone an outright fraud.

I'll note that here I'm using fraud as I believe OP was using it, to indicate that someone is pretending to be something or have some talent that they do not.

IDK, I find "fraud" to be a weird criticism in general for Elon. Like he seems like he's kinda a huge asshole and he's really bad at estimates.

People in general seem to want to criticize people they don't like on multiple angles and often don't care if the other angles are true at all as long as one is. That kind of thing really irks me.
Game-Changing Research Unlocks New Wind Energy Potential
Chances are this is. Basically same as LoRA. One of go-to tools for these literally uses Diffusion model and work on spectrograms as images.
Does anyone know of a similar tool for macOS? I'd gotten really comfortable with a Ctrl+Alt+S binding on Windows for Everything and miss it these days on macOS.
This feels like classic Microsoft. Put some great marketing out there. , claim the victory and deliver the actual product months from now. This puts any other vendor or company in a bad place with investors and the public.

You have to love it. Shrewd as hell.
Yeah, but they're definitely gonna fix it by sponsoring a multi-headliner pop punk tour!

(Real: https://www.summerschooltour.com/)
It's a cashier's check. They can't bounce.
Closed tab at Bazel.
> The fact that Israel didn't win the popular vote suggests that the support for them is not particularly strong in Europe.

They came in second place. How is that "not particularly strong"?

And the difference between the popular vote and the jury vote was especially dramatic for Israel. No one expected anything else though......
At least in past court cases I’m familiar, you can’t use an impersonator and get people to think it’s the real thing.

It’s not like Tom Waits ever wanted to hock chips

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
They also get $3.8 billion in military aid from the US each year.
It is not an impossible situation, courts have settled it, and what you describe is not how the law works (despite how many computer engineers think to the contrary.)
Surveillance capitalism is built on the ad tech foundation that's primarily facilitated by Google but sure let's give them points for security.
Based on the headline, I expected more of an exposition into the wrapper product landscape and accompanying boom than one oversimplification of one specific type of GPT wrapper.
Anyone have a list of providers that use Stripe Connect?
Zoom in particular will be a browser-only experience as well, since there is not an arm Linux version of the app.
How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy
They stole someone’s voice after being told not to?

They unleashed a massive new wave of spam and scams and garbage onto the Internet?

Because they’re stealing every single bit of content on the Internet and everywhere else they can get their hands on without paying anything for it and then expect to sell it back to us in chewed up garbage form?

They help single-handedly cause MS to blast past their carbon commitments by 30%? And got everyone else into a big race for how many resources they could waste to power AI nonsense that doesn’t even actually work that well for what people want to use it for?

Perhaps the fact that they don’t seem to care one bit about any of the consequences, legal/moral/ethical/economical/etc. caused by what they’ve done as long as they make money?

I don’t have a grudge against open AI. I have a grudge against the AI industry and the way these kind of SV golden boys seem to think they’re immune from criticism.

Why do you think stealing a professional actor’s voice should be OK and immune from criticism? This is horrible.
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I guess the short way to say it is that "undecidable" doesn't mean "it can't ever be decided", just not always.

And of course all programs of practical significance are finite state machines (since there is only a finite number of atoms in the universe).
Fidelity cut the valuation of its stake at Twitter by 72% [1].

Elmo himself unbanned the prominent whitesuppremacist and neonazi “Nick Fuentes”.[2]

Hate-speech has increased significantly [3], and of course the lying and hypocritical self-proclaimed stalwart of free speech threatens to silence researchers documenting this [4].

Of course these are not the only instances of Elon’s grotesque behaviour.

For example, the pathetic little boy thinks “cis” is an insult and had that coded into the platform. His platform has tons of documented cases where the platform selectively hides speech deemed against the in-groups he favours.

His platform also pushes the visibility of neonazis, bigots and white suprematists like catturd. He keeps inserting his worthless little tweets into my feed despite me blocking and muting him.

Kindly, stop licking the boot.

[1] https://fortune.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-twitter-value-72-pe...

[2] https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/elon-musk-nick-fuentes-x-ac...

[3] https://phys.org/news/2023-04-analysis-speech-significantly-...

[4] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/musk-threatens-to-sue-r...
> Sounds like one of those situations you'd have to prove intent.

The discovery process may help figuring the intent - especially any internal communication before and after the two(!) failed attempts to get her sign-off, as well as any notes shared with the people responsible for casting.
The damage to the board was caused by a tool like a pair of tinsnips, crushing the layers of the board together while cutting. The tiny layers of copper are folded together at the edge of the cut, causing shorts. By sanding away the board at a much shallower angle than the original cut it is possible to expose an edge along which no conductive layers are bridged.

As for how the board still works when that area is cut out, probably just a degree of luck that none of the traces that were severed were essential?
The title feels a bit disengenious. Technically, yes, it was increased by 50% of what it was, but it is a shift from 1% to 1.5%, not up to 50% of each transaction.
Right. If what they’re doing is so incredibly valuable, just pay for the resources you’re using.

If your business model only works if you steal stuff from other people you don’t have a business.
I believe Wowfunhappy is referring to this section of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQq8fx4D0Q&t=422s
Why is this such an important news? Do people regularly use instant pay out? I would think that it's mostly for emergency situations. Normal payout is still free.
That is what a 50% increase means.
Yes. I reckon Trump will win this presidency purely on the number of conscience voters not voting for Biden this time around. I don’t think the (probably PR) building of the port is going to save Biden here.

That is not to say I think Trump would have handled the situation any better. I’m sure it would have been fuel on the fire.

Can we all agree on one single thing though:

The Governments of USA, Germany, UK and Israel would be best informing the world of their definition of genocide as there is definitely a massive difference in opinion of what genocide is. It is super important. If they can explain why and how what is happening doesn’t match the definition of genocide agreed upon in the Genocide Convention of 1948 then maybe the world will stop using the word. But until they can change everyone’s minds, people are going to keep believing it. I think that would solve a lot of this back and forward.
If I remember correctly, payouts always take two or three days to clear, to comply with all of the settlement and legal processes.

The “instant payout” is actually a temporary loan from an entity already approved as having all funds available for immediate disposal at multiple links in the chain. This is then used to create the illusion of an instant payout… while the “loan” guarantor receives payment 2-3 days later.

This is also why there’s actually a “instant payout” limit on your Stripe account, almost like a credit limit - because it basically is credit.
Israel is a net exporter of arms. Israel supplies a long list of countries with technologically advanced and strategically important weapons systems that are difficult to substitute. A US embargo would be economically painful, but Israel is perfectly capable of living without US military aid and exports.

https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/fs_2203_at...
It's not copyright, you can't copyright a voice, it's down to likeness laws. It seems to me that they clearly invoked her likeness as a celebrity.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if she sues and refuses to settle.
As a strong counterpoint, Adam Neumann lost $16B of Softbank's money and walked away with almost a billion of it himself personally. [0]

He later raised 350m from A16Z[1], so this is not universally true and in fact is a pretty big counterpoint. Adam Neumann is about the worst founder you can fund (Maybe SBF is worse) and can still command vast sums from top tier VCs.

[0]https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/a8vuka5hj
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=adam+newman+new+company+fund...
Israel had no control of the Egyptian border to Gaza since it withdrew in 2005. That is a fact.

You got the settler vs. Palestinian violence in exactly the wrong order. Before the first Intifadah there were hardly any settlers in the west bank. The settlement movement is a response to Palestinian violence, not something that happened because the violence stopped. Palestinian violence against Israelis and Jews predates 1967 (when the west bank was occupied from Jordan) and predates 1948 (When the state of Israel was created).
I felt that way about node and yet node lead to an explosion of poorly written and designed packages and constant notifications about needing to upgrade project X because it depended on Y which depends on Z and Z has some DoS issue if you pass the wrong regex to it.

I don't feel confident that rust won't go the same way when I tried to update the rust docs (https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs)

cargo build
Downloaded 541 crates (55.2 MB)

Seriously? 541 crates for a static site generator for docs?

rust is clearly off to copy npm in all of it's faults. I have no idea if go is similar in the explosion of dependencies and supply side attack surface area explosion
Ada Lovelace probably told Babbage he was a bad programmer
Vpternlog
Linking to a TV show does not actually describe other options for Israel.

And I assume you know that TV shows are fictional? First they write the dilemma for Janeway, then they figure out how to get there. In the real world it's the other way around.
This post is complaining about something that has nothing to do with ChatGPT. They complain because in order to get your business to get indexed and found, you need a large amount of useless content. It is the same reason that every recipe you find online has 2 pages of drivel about their family and traveling somewhere before you get to the recipe. Blame SEO and the search indexers. That is why the market exists for this nonsense; it wasn't created by LLMs.
Has anyone put something together like this yet? Would be a very interesting read.
They also published some weird old games like Thexder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0N9bSR-zJs
> you really can't convince me the above is the result of a coherent company-wide strategy

Well that was an ignorant thing to say given how widely famously Microsoft implemented it's stack ranking system and the toxic culture it produced (as intended). This is exactly the result of that strategy. People who thought it had gone away are mostly parroting Microsoft propaganda. I live here in town with these people. You don't get hired without having "Microsoft morals". It's all a desperate gold rush to find out who is going to get promoted.
Ah, thank you! So it wasn't actually the cut that "broke" it, it was the fact it was crushed.