skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK a good way to provide better answers and avoid hallucinations would be to compute embeddings for all sections of text in Wikipedia and then when a user asks a question create an embedding from that question.

Use it to find the X closest embeddings to the question being posed, lookup their original articles, feed them all into context of an LLM and then ask it to answer the question based on that context (alone).

Contexts are becomming quite large so it's possible to put a lot of stuff in there. LLMs answering questions based on a giben text seem to be more reliable than those that are simply trained/fine tuned on some library of texts. p
Now you can be like every other obnoxious tech blogger putting ai art crap in their header.
Yeah, but it is intended for organic connections, not adversely selected 3rd parties directly enriching the employee.
This guy will be able to request things for discovery too.
The built-in clipboard manager is limited to 25 entries. That's why I'm still using Ditto (also the ability to search).

I'm sure the cloud keeps all copypastas indefinitely, but you have to manually enable clipboard sync for that to happen.

Let's not be disingenuous.
Breathing difficulties should never be the cause of death.

I hope we are going to conquer these "simple" causes in the next couple of years.
I think you're both right. IMO, Japan has a very high standard of living, but they could also be better off today if they'd been looser with fiscal spending (and spent that fresh-printed money wisely). For example, one of their major issues is an aging population; they could have directed spending towards subsidizing childcare, fertility treatment, parental leave subsidies, or even offering a salary to stay-at-home parents, to compensate and incentivize that valuable work. (They do have some of these policies, but their low inflation suggests they had room to do much more!)
> We have this system in my country where there is a people's lawyer that can choose to take up cases that seem deserving

We also have this in the US, actually we have many (state attorney generals, federal FTC and CFPB, and so on). Unfortunately (similar to our cops with crime), they're only going to bother to do anything if a company is blatantly screwing over somewhere between hundreds and thousands of people, or if the person complaining is a wealthy political donor or otherwise a friend of an elected official.
It's the nature of payment for services more broadly. Someone with money and lacking a service happily crosses trade with someone offering a service and desiring money.
That'll never be required.

But if you do it, you'll save $2 off the ad-supported Netflix tier.
That probably involves more of a corporate marketing vanguard that picks winners more so than it organicly finds them.
> We should not give a sneaky and deceptive man this much power over our future.

We should not give anybody this much power over our future.
Even watching the behavior of the company before that pointed towards marketing first, results second.
Here's an old joke about the progression from junior to mid-level to senior developer:

Junior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.

Mid-level dev: My code is clever, innovative, expressive, hyper-optimized, and ingenious.

Senior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.

In software development, "clever" solutions are like poems. In the best poems, there are usually multiple layers of meaning, nuances and subtleties, some harder to tease out than others. Sometimes you have to sit with a poem for a while before you are able to truly drink it all in. To mid-level engineers, writing this sort of poetic code has an intoxicating appeal. It allows them to flaunt their talents, demonstrate their mastery of the language, and impress their colleagues with their ingenuity.

But more often than not, what is really needed is the code version of ordinary prose: straightforward, with a preference for clarity over succinctness, easy for others to understand, easy to edit, and with fewer surprises and deviations from convention than a poem. With prose, particular the sort of no-nonsense style found in wire news reports and explanatory journalism, the best work is easy for the reader to comprehend and lends itself to being edited. For instance, a skilled copy editor can condense it to fit, if need be.
There's actually a lot of things that embed a SMTP client for sending mail that should use a host MTA. The reason is that the user who actually wants to use "the thing" is often just about able to enter an SMTP server, but there's no way "the thing" can trust that a properly-configured sender MTA like sendmail is configured. Companies have huge fleets of servers that can't send system mail, and it's often not really under the control of the author of your frobulator program or the user, either. Mail itself is a specialist configuration, often requiring prerequisites in DNS, crypto stuff, policies, etc. It's "too much" for just being able to have your wallet or whatever send you mail; "contact your system administrator" is just often not a realistic option, in both large and small scales.

It's not a good reason, no--definitely not--but it's a real reason.
This is an opt-in feature, so by defaut all AI-related features are disabled. You have to go out of your way to generate an API key and add it, it's not even a thing you could accidentally turn on. And if you'd like to use the features without sending your prompts to OpenAI, under the advanced settings you can supply any OpenAI compatible API URL (if you're running an LLM locally for privacy reasons for example).
I couldn't find the Geekbench results for an MBA M3, but here's for an MBP 14" M3:

Single: 3088
Multi: 11595

Non-production Elite X From Anandtech[1]:

Single: 2800
Multi: 14400

Non-production Plus X From Anandtech[1]:

Single: 2425
Multi: 13100

Slower single perf for both Snapdragons. Decent 10% jump in multi over the M3. I am eager to see how the production units will pan out on benchmarks and sustained performance.

Qualcomm's been shady in the past with their so-called "Apple killer" chip benchmarks. I don't think these are "Apple killers", but I hope it pans out, for competition's sake.

1. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21364/qualcomm-intros-snapdra...
This popped up on HN sometime ago

https://ente.io/
> It looks like we are just going in circles.

That's what our industry does :)
> My take is that this was the intention behind the October 7th attack

I see very strong parallels between this and the Dublin 1916 rising. I don't believe the leaders of the Irish rebels could beat the British - it was seen as a "blood sacrifice" and a way to show the world the brutality of British colonial power. The Brits duly obliged and brutally put down the rising and set the wheels of an independent Ireland in motion.

I have to say though, that the 1916 rebels didn't go out of their way to kill civilians like Hamas clearly did on the 7th ...
you have to be willfully missing the point when he said Her was his favorite movie, tweeted just “her” when the Sky voice was announced, and when they repeatedly tried to get the voice actor from Her. People who do underhanded things don’t just come out and say “look at me, doing the bad thing!”
Yes, though the planes are also designed with this in mind and have tolerances to compensate and handle it.
Not sure how much of that has to do with technology or simply a widening gap in people's education we seem to be seeing for a while now.
Man arrested for allegedly creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material
There are hundreds of people with similar voices. If any voice actor can pull the same accent than Ms. Johansson, it should be fair game, as long it was the original training material? Voices cannot be copyrighted or be exclusive, although I am sure Hollywood will try to copyright them in some point.
This was my wifi password for a few weeks, but the wife-acceptance factor just wasn’t there :(
I honestly wouldn't have even thought they sounded all that similar were it not for openai themselves courting comparisons to the movie Her.
What exactly is the argument here? That we can't pay founders too much, or else grifters/lazy people would take over to line their pockets with VC dollars? That's basically a non-sequitur.

The issue at hand is that there is probably some correlation between a founder's opportunity cost and probability of success. Smart, driven people could be doing a lot of things with their time. Working for years on end for $200k/year for a small probability of a large exit is not practical for a lot of them. Working for $400K might be. OP's point is that as an investor, you might be better off having fewer, higher quality founders and paying them the higher opportunity costs. Would you rather fund 10 teams of monkeys or one team of ex-executives with proven experience building/scaling/etc?
>> No the announcement was clear that the storage is local.

But I just bought a new computer and need to recall stuff from the old one.

Or, I am using my laptop / tablet computer and need to recall stuff done on my desktop comptuer. (Or similarly, I am using my smartphone and need to recall stuff done on my laptop.)

All they have to do is convince the user of the advantages of sending their recall data to the cloud and the user will agree to do so.
>We trust the consensus of published, peer-reviewed experts. That's different than the kind of Demos that does things like declare war on Persia, kill Jesus and Socrates, or edit Wikipedia.

Ye of little faith! The Demos, after much bickering, have also decided to largely trust the consensus of published, peer-reviewed experts.

But what you really have to ask when you say you trust the consensus, is who forms the consensus of peer-reviewed experts?

It's rare to get an explicit consensus from an actual organization. When Cochrane does a large meta-analysis, and whisper "moderate evidence", I stop reading and immediately trust them with my life. Unfortunately, they very rarely have confidence in anything.

Most of the time, the consensus of published, peer-reviewed expert is also not something people form on their own. When has your neighbor last read and synthesized the literature to determine what the consensus is on hydroxyapatite in toothpaste, before going to the store?

Individual experts, I also trust only as far as I can throw them. The consensus of experts I'm happy to rely on. But that, very often, also comes from trusting the Demos, I'm afraid.
It doesn't matter because Sky's voice is materially and objectively different from ScarJo's.

Anyone who heard them both side by side would immediately realize this.
Yep. Always have my seatbelt on. I am used to it.
Google's PMs are doing a new experiment. How much crap can they add to the search homepage without an ounce lost in their stock price?

Google has enough momentum that they could turn it into an ads only search engine and their revenue would still go up.

The default traffic they get from Chrome, Android and default iOS search engine is almost half the planet.

Microsoft could have eaten big chunks of this if their interface was any better but its a worse ad infested search engine.

There are smaller players but none have the reach that Google does.

Apple should make their own search engine, but under Tim Cook they are afraid to take big swings.
I just say, bell curve meme
Did you believe her when she claimed that she was shadow banned from all social media because of her brother? Or that she had to become a sex worker to pay the bills because of his 'technological abuse'?
Leaving alone whether they sound similar at all for now, since that is subjective.

I think this will set an extremely bad precedent. People owning their own voice is clear and that is the way it should be. But people owning how their voice sounds like is weird. You can find thousands and thousands of people with similar voices. We are going to path now where a single person can have ownership of that and block the others from using their voice how they want.
I really like the voice. They should have kept it, and it’s not really her voice, so… Hopefully there will be a way to have it as an option in the future.
> Apple is already supporting Swift on other platforms, however, developer experience is not as good as on macOS and I don't think that can/will be solved by Apple

Yes it can. It's just Apple can't be bothered - most of the work to do that doesn't benefit Apple - it does benefit the Swift ecosystem and community of devs, but not Apple - the venn diagram of Apple vs the Swift dev community overlaps but doesn't completely close.

Swift came out in 2014 - Windows support for the compiler came out in 2020. That's it. They haven't bothered to upgrade the tooling support in VSCode or any other app because most VSCode users aren't Apple devs. The ball is literally in Apple's court - no one elses.
Curious about your opinion on Elon Musk.
You're going to the very extreme end of what he meant by "loose"...
"While Waits’ attorneys weren’t able to argue for copyright infringement (he didn’t own the rights to’ Step Right Up’), they were able to evoke the recent Midler v. Ford Motor case. When Bette Midler refused to appear in one of the car manufacturer’s adverts, they decided to license her 1972 track ‘Do You Want to Dance’ and hire a Bette-Milder lookalike instead. The singer sued Ford and won the case, with the court deciding that a singer with a “distinct” and “well known” voice also owned its likeness. To begin with, Frito-Lay argued that Waits wasn’t nearly famous enough for the precedent to apply. The court, on the other hand, disagreed and awarded Waits $2.6 million in damages."

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-tom-waits-sued-doritos/
It actually is companies that do this stuff, in that if the company had sufficient monitoring and oversight in place the people working at the company wouldn't be able to do it.

That would of course require them to strive to provide the best product or service they can rather than towards maximizing their profit, though.
All I can tell you is I find lots of underscores physically uncomfortable to type, and I have zero trouble with capital letters.
The modern version would seem to be every platform expands until it includes instant messaging.
My personal opinion is several countries militaries know where it’s at, but fear they could reveal highly sensitive capabilities.
Just to be clear, my comment was sarcastic, I agree with you and I don't think it's a great idea at all.

Writing this comment mostly to say - damn, I didn't think about it this way, but I guess "either believe yourselves to be exceedingly clever or everyone else has the intelligence of toddler" is indeed the mindset.

The only other alternative I can think of is "we all know it's BS, but do they have more money than us to spend on lawyers to call it out?" - which isn't much better TBH.
I also find that, in C++,

int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
sum += x[i];
return sum

is a lot easier to understand than

return std::accumulate(x.begin(), x.end(), 0, [](int a, b) {return a + b;});

Yet, the latter is considered more correct and better, with static analysis like cppcheck telling you to use the latter. It does have many advantages, like no mutable variables lying around, but gee it is annoying to read.
Hex of Steel. Turn based hex wargame, very niche but with a fairly large worldwide community into such games. Only the solo developer is doing plays on youtube and twitch. The game has been seeing a slow upward sales trend as the niche wargame community realizes how good it is. If you've played SSI and Avalon Hill hex games as a kid you should get this.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240630/Hex_of_Steel/

https://steamdb.info/app/1240630/charts/#max
Obviously her voice isn't the point, it's that she's a celebrity.

Which exposes how empty this shit is, they tried to get Scarlett because even they know people care about her, a real person, and not a random voice with no cultural context.
I wonder how long this thread will last on HN...

How much influence does @sama have around here nowadays?

For the record, I was never impressed with him - I am not aware of single consequential thing he has done or built other than take the credit for the fine work of the AI scientist + engineers at OpenAI. It feels like the company is just a vehicle for how own ambition and legacy, not much else.
IMHO if those people have the money to be living in SF in the first place, that part must be solved beforehand
> staff eng doing 500k tco

With the stock flying high, even the L5s who stayed during the 2022 doldrums are making that kind of money.
The clips that I have seen sound very similar to Scarlett Johansson to me, to the point that I thought it was her likeness on purpose. Is this Sky?
https://www.tiktok.com/@kylephilippi/video/73185169285097751...
Well, I could go on and on about this, but consuming FreeCAD is not just unrealistic, it's undesirable.

The best a startup company can do is work in quick iterations: throw things at the proverbial wall to see what sticks, then scale up development accordingly. "Consuming FreeCAD" is the opposite of that. It's how you paint yourself into a corner and die a horrible death.

A much healthier approach is to build a great working relationship with the community: lead the way in a few areas where you have great expertise and encourage development in other areas. It has worked nicely so far.

So no, sorry, I don't see Ondsel consuming FreeCAD over the next few years (or ever). But we can agree to get back to this conversation in, oh, 5 years time would be enough?
I think it's unlikely if the content is benign and it's not guaranteed anyways.

But if the person is posting illegal or very graphic content, and the company knows you unbanned them, I think it would raise questions like "how do you know this person" or "what made you trust them?". Which you'll have trouble answering if all you have is their name, email, and the sparse information they gave for why they should be unbanned. You'll argue "this person hid that side of themselves from everyone" but at minimum it calls your judgment into question, and if the company is aware of this kind of service, they'll probe for more information.

Also if someone uses this service repeatedly disguising themselves as different people, it will raise questions why different internal employees kept unbanning them. That would be much more suspicious.
> you have to be willfully missing the point when he said Her was his favorite movie

So what? It's one of my fav movies too.

> they repeatedly tried to get the voice actor from Her.

She didn't do it. So they went ahead and made a voice that sounds like her. It's not like she contributed to making the voice and then decided not to have it used.
All the world is a play, but we are but actors in it
Oke and they weren't able to get her and then did a fall back to a different voice actor. How is that problematic? That's like trying to cast a specific actor in a movie, they decline and then you find the next closest match. It's not acceptable that the originally wanted actor then throws a hissy fit. I don't see the reason for outrage here at all.
It's usually people who never worked for Steve or ever got to meet him who seem to take this approach.

Their company isn't just a business, it's a cult, and they're the Founder (notice the capital "F") and part of being in charge of this cult is asserting dominance over others. Steve knew to rarely pull this outside of tech executive circles; the new generation doesn't seem to keep it in SV. Musk is the go-to example but Altman's turning that way too.
I don’t register to vote or receive any mail at my primary residence. My government paperwork all goes to my tertiary residence.

Do you really think someone who is changing their BSSIDs when they move is putting the address at which they regularly sleep unguarded into public records?
This refers to the 1982 Apple II original version of Choplifter [0], not to the 1985 Sega arcade port [1]. Hence I couldn't at first understand claims like "There’s only one level, only three enemies, and you can play it to completion in a few minutes."; the 1985 version has much more.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choplifter
[1]: https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/choplifter
The definition of computation depends on the abstraction level. Languages span multiple abstraction levels. The point is that there’s no meaningful definition of “declarative language” as proven by the examples I’ve already given.

For example you can “compute” a roguelike in TypeScript types, but a type system is declarative!
An eerie feeling that the "I do not consent" scene from Ghost in the Shell plays out irl.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e913bd02-2582-4258-819f-2d5a00b...
I'm surprised no one has considered that this is a way to get people talking more than it is a way to get accounts unsuspended...
Magic Computer: Mini PC offers open external PCIe x8 slot by CWWK
I recently found an option in mobile Chrome "Settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom" which overrides a website's request to prevent zooming in. Highly recommended
That's what I like about Go. It's easy to read and understand Go code from open source projects written in it (although Kubernetes is a notable exception, with a very convoluted Go code).
They’re not especially similar. I think the talking style is very close, people say it is flirty in the same way as the film. You can’t copyright look and feel though, can you?
I love how we went from questioning copyright & licensing to "GPT vs Google, which one is better". To every artist or engineer out there who contributed to the general knowledge: you lost, everything you've ever done to help other people is now part of the models and there's nothing you can do to take it back. What even happened to the copyright strikes artists were supposed to bring up against these AI companies? That seems like 100 years ago :)
Thermal Reach Enhancement for Hot Rock Geothermal
With generative AI training may not be needed, it can be part of prompt: imitate voice like in this file: her.mp3.
I wonder how the business would be affected if the public opinion turned against him.
She posted about it on Twitter: https://x.com/anniealtman108/status/1635704398939832321

There may be other posts, but this is the one that was most widely shared AFAIK
agree with this.
>Most of the platforms have to play ball with quirks and self-interested decisions in Mastodon's implementation of ActivityPub.

Does anyone happen to have examples of things that mastodon chooses do that effect other platforms on the fediverse?
One is an island nation that's been fairly open, the other had waves of isolationism, famines, and only recently opened up their markets in the late 80s. Private car ownership was not on the table until probably 25 years ago.

But to play your game, Switzerland and Italy, especially southern Italy, are very different.
This is a typical "move fast and break things" mentality.. except that mentality betrays Sam's statements about doing a bunch of this stuff "carefully" etc.. its all a smokescreen.. nobody is going to realistically stop working on AGI in order to be careful.. basically AGI is being pursued like the race to get the atom bomb.. so yea history tells us its full speed ahead with no brakes. Scarjo is just the latest person getting stomped on along the way.. eventually it will be a whole ton of people getting stomped on.. whoops!