skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the purpose though, clearly. If anything, you could make the argument that they're trading in on the association to the movie "Her", that's it. Neither Sky nor the new voice model sound particularly like ScarJo, unless you want to imply that her identity rights extend over 40% of all female voice types. People made the association because her voice was used in a movie that features a highly emotive voice assistant reminiscent of GPT-4o, which sama and others joked about.

I mean, why not actually compare the voices before forming an opinion?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9mrI9yoBU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV01B5kVsC0
LaTeX.

I LaTeX, Git, and emacs every day.
I can't read the original post due to the takedown from the legal threat, but it sounded to me like a ham-fisted expression of what could have been a reasonable inference. And I'm not going to judge them too hard for failing to beat around the bush with enough weasel words to make their statement airtight technically correct.

The original nastygram from the company opens up with an acknowledgement of believing good faith and talks about trying to cooperate, while also including terms like 'defamation' and 'libel', so I don't know if I'm missing something here or you're just talking hypothetically about those acting in bad faith.

In general I'd say there's a strong division between working with someone in good faith to correct misunderstandings, and threatening a lawsuit. The original letter could (and should) have said "this is wrong in your post" and asked for it to be updated. Then if the journalist is refusing to engage and/or retract, it's reasonable to start wondering if there really is good faith and escalate to legal threats. But doing both at once is effectively just bullying while trying to cloak it.
Remote code execution + local privilege escalation to own your device. Just last week on the RCE front: https://thehackernews.com/2024/05/new-chrome-zero-day-vulner...
I'm logged in, and I have 191 reputation on Ask Ubuntu, and that link brings me to a "Page Not Found".
But why? Sounds like a violation to the rights of the sound actor
Most of them don’t, go to a local pub some time. Some people misunderstand that companies use puffery like “The Best” specifically because it doesn’t mean anything. But you will rarely find someone make material statements that aren’t true, if an advert mentions the EPA rated gas’s mileage it’s going to be close.

Musk on the other hand has this odd issue of trying to overstate his accomplishments such as calling himself a founder of Tesla for some bizarre reason. I don’t know if imposter syndrome or what, but it’s been very detrimental for stockholders when he had Tesla rescue Solar City rather than letting it fail etc.

Making material statements about self driving was just dumb from a legal perspective compared to puffery, but hey it sold some cars and he’s not in prison so ehh it worked out.
they do 2 billion rides per quarter

what are the 'trillions' here?

^ also that translates to ~1000 transactions per second with some assumptions; have never understood why they care so much about infra scaling

1000 tps is like 1 box
So, what would they have done if she accepted? Claimed that the existing training of the Sky voice was voiced by her?
This is almost an identical case, and resulted in a ruling favorable to Midler, whose voice was imitated in that case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co
Various Internet sources claim Rashida Jones sounds a lot like Scarlett Johansson: could Rashida Jones have voiced ‘Sky’?
You seem to be misunderstanding the legalities at work here: reaching out to her multiple times beforehand, along with tweets intended to underline the similarity to her work on Her, demonstrates intention. If they didn’t think they needed permission, why ask for permission multiple times and then yank it when she noticed?

Answer: because they knew they needed permission, after working so hard to associate with Her, and they hoped that in traditional tech fashion that if they moved fast and broke things enough, everyone would have to reshape around OAs wants, rather than around the preexisting rights of the humans involved.
Patches introducing buffer overflows, or weakening existing security through ignorance or negligence.
Oh wait Altman and team acting like they rule the world?!

If that box wasn’t in your bingo card I’m sorry, it’s basically the center/free box at this point.
If Starship starts to work as advertised, everybody else except maybe Blue Origin (if New Glenn also works as advertised...) will be out of the business.

The government backed organizations will continue as well, but commercial launch providers will need to find billions of dollars to build competing platforms without being able to start small and build their way up like SpaceX did because small boosters will no longer be economically viable. Blue Origin might be able to pull it off since their backer has very deep pockets, but their track record so far is dogshit so I'm not betting on them.
I'm really confused by this claim. How is it that so many people tried this Sky voice if no one has access yet?
If they also do putin, hamas (included), Xia etc … it is all good. But if it is just another one sided attack, then no.

The question really is … whilst it is not totally useless, is it more to demo how weak this is and so dictator can free to do as they are dare. Like bombing other people places or even yours (per claim) and flattening them; would it be more war crime than war fighting in disputed land.
Modern stuff is junk. Its always updating itself, making you log in, updating their privacy policy, advertising new crap at you in your homescreen, annoying you in one way or another, loot boxes, and who knows what else.

Buy a SNES instead.

Analogue's Super NT works with HDMI although it is sold out so you'll need to use ebay.
So, it seems like this is legit now? Last I checked it was in the "probably legit but unconfirmed" realm.

Apple needs to explain exactly what happened and how they plan to prevent it exactly now. They should be fined for storing photos after someone permanently deletes them. They should be forced to allow transparent access to the file system like on Android. This should be all over national TV.

This is bad. Really really bad.
I did this today! I made a video for youtube, ran whisper locally on my macbook to get the transcript, then asked ChatGPT to format the transcript for a blog post, including adding punctuation, creating bullet point lists, following a particular outline. Can confirm it worked really well.
You're mixing stuff up. Why are you looking at "what most consider it to be"? How can you be military occupying a place where your military is not and you are not. There is no way there was a military occupation of Gaza by any normal definition of this term. Gaza was under the authority and control of the government of Hamas. Not of Israel. The rest is politics.

There's no apartheid in Israel itself but let's not get into that.

Expansion of settlements in the west bank. True. I don't understand how that's a provocation to Gazans to rape and murder random Israeli civilians. It's also true that Netanyahu pursued a divide and conquer approach. Again you're trying to claim that Israel's support of Hamas' rule in Gaza is provocation for Hamas to launch attacks on Israel civilians which makes no sense.

EDIT: To be fair the legal question of "when does an occupation end" is complicated. Gaza was occupied from Egypt and Egypt does not want it back. The uni-lateral withdrawal of Israel without a peace agreement left Gaza in a weird legal situation. This is why despite Gaza being under Palestinian control and not occupied the legal state of occupation is perhaps not fully resolved. There's reality on the ground though (not occupied) and international law status (debated).
This is beyond being bizarre. I have never owned an Xbox, and always thought that Xbox One was a re-release of the original Xbox, similar to the Original PlayStation -> PS One. I am hearing it for the first time here that it was a third generation device.
Indigenous resistance has been used as an excuse for their extermination since 1492. When Israeli leadership says they want Palestinians out of Gaza, we should believe them. The behavior of stripping Palestinians from their land has been consistent since 1947, and has only been escalating in the past decade. For all we know, the Israeli leadership has been waiting for the excuse to conduct these atrocities for a long time.

Israel does not have the right to exterminate Hamas by any means necessary. If Israel is unable to do so without mass atrocities, they simply shouldn’t. There are alternatives to war. The IRA was not eliminated by mass starvation in Northern Ireland. Rather they were given a Political avenue for their fight, and so their tactics changed from terrorism to political advocacy.
Even ignoring the culture wars stuff, with the decisions we've seen from him, I wish he'd step away from Space-X. I think it's only a matter of time before he pulls the same antics and boondoggles we've seen at his other companies.
Indeed. Everyone enjoying the Broadcom / VMWare situation is running around saying how glad they are that it’s “just a bunch of VMs” and this migration will be a walk in the park.

It could be worse. It could be better.
They claimed Google owed damages and the check is for some amount related to either what they asked for or the damages Google thinks they can prove. If the judge agrees (or the DOJ, which is a lot less likely), this takes damages off the table. From there, they can see if the judge will take a jury trial off the table.
They certainly did! The late, great DJ John Peel got his start on Radio London, which was inspired by Radio Caroline. Punk, Dub, and a large swath of electronic music exists because of Radio Caroline.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel

FYI, Peel was a programmer back when they used punch cards.
It is definitely legit because Apple issued a fix (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160983/apple-iphone-ipa...). So they’ve acknowledged the behavior but not explained why it happened or confirmed that deleted now really means deleted.
They have done Hamas and Putin. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-... https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-is...
At the end of the discovery phase.

> Google said that after months of discovery, the Justice Department could only point to estimated damages of less than $1 million.
A jury would definitely be able to set the damages number, and have some sway on whether Google gets broken up. If a jury sets a huge number, the DOJ will be empowered to go for a breakup and the judge will be swayed toward agreeing.

Incidentally, I have been somewhat involved in a few court cases, and the general advice I have been told is to explain [extremely technical topic] at a 3rd grade level if you want a jury to understand.

By the way, for people who want to argue that people are getting stupider, apparently it was a 6th grade level 30 years ago.
Well, you give give 1.0 for the rational one. But what about the real or complex one? Or what about the Gaussian Integer? What about the 2-adic one, or the 3-adic one, or any other p-adic one? What about the different kinds of floating point numbers?

I don't think the rational one is special enough that we need to different notation just for her and for her alone. (Though that specific distinction can make sense in some contexts. Just not universally.)
You're evading my question. For good reasons. It doesn't support your case.

If a Palestinian attempts to stab someone and is shot that's not the same situation as "settler" terrorist attacks.

I think you should answer my question.

Also please count Israelis in Israel killed by Palestinians from the west bank.
Terminal -> GUI -> Voice Interface

Looks like the circle to "humanizing" the computer interface is complete. The GUI is going to become the new terminal.
Artemis does involve a lot of BS unfortunately. The SLS stack is a political bridge to nowhere that was never capable of directly returning people to the moon. When SLS got propagandized into a moon mission the limited delta-v necessitated a lunar halo space station and rendezvous which adds unnecessary cost and complexity. NASA hand balled much of the critical stuff like the lander and spacesuits to industry at the last minute with insufficient funds and time. It isn't all over yet for Artemis but they are in a mess. It is hard not to notice the contrast with China's steady incremental progress.
ASP is an odd name to an old hat like me. Active Server Pages haven't been a thing in a while.
But it's called "Full Self Driving", while not even being level 3.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370078
> Automatically discovering formal (i.e., unambiguous) solutions to novel problems can never be automated.

Things like alphafold would suggest to me that this doesn’t always hold true.

Perhaps a matter of definition but to me there does seem to be “some” problem solving ability. And once you’ve got even a little of that then it’s a scaling question and not really compatible with “ can never be automated.”
OpenAI says:

"Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice."

https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...
Which industry is he a fraud in though? You're implying it's tech I assume?
I can't believe news about this is as quiet as it is. This should be on national television, like cambridge analytica (which honestly was probably not nearly as bad as this)
>It's kind of ridiculous to suggest there's anything similar about these two cities. One is obviously vacant and lit up completely as a show, the other is a real city with real people living real lives.

It's a new development in Hwasong area, people haven't moved in yet. These are propaganda inauguration photos. Same lighting is what photos of empty new construction suppose to look like. Once people move in, it'll look like a "real city" see pic of Pyongyang Skyline with patchwork of different lighting. Well real relative to NKR in terms of electricity usage.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyongyang_skyline_at...
> No, I presume nothing.

So what is the word for when you say I haven't looked at your website based on no evidence and in the presence of evidence to the contrary? I would say "presume" fits the bill. And that is something. So it does seem that you have presumed something. And that is the exact thing I was saying you presumed. It's a pretty basic fact and it's written down. But you will still dispute it and claim I'm being stupid.

> It is evidence that your claim that "People like to say that lisp had a much greater influence than it actually did" is wrong.

I thought we were discussing the "hundreds of people" that my previous assumption apparently denigrates. But if you want to talk about inflating lisp's reputation, a good example would be talking about how a single paper on list being cited in _lisp_ text-books is evidence that it is "the foundation of all modern programming languages".
How about the gov comes to you and tells you that you must keep all deleted photos on the device and that you must not tell anyone about this request.
This applies to every billionaire and millionaire, he risked a larger percentage of his wealth than 99% of them.
Apologies for the off topic discussion.

The eastern bloc countries suffered badly under soviet rule. When the Ukraine war started, I’m as eager as anyone to see that the Russians were dealt a black eye.

In retrospect, given the gas shortages that occurred in Europe, and the destruction of the German economy; the large number of deaths that occurred on both sides, and the war zone being turned into a weapons testing ground, I am left wondering who are the real winners and losers?
What's shitty about this?

They approached Johansson and she said no. They found another voice actor who sounds slightly similar and paid her instead.

The movie industry does this all the time.

Johansson is probably suing them so they're forced to remove the Sky voice while the lawsuit is happening.

Nothing here is shitty.
This is what happens when an industry is shaken out of a rut. I hope aviation is next. It is equally behind.
I think it is more then a simple tts engine. At least from the demo, they showed: It can control the speed and it can sing when requested. Maybe its still a seperate speech engine, but more closely connected to the llm.
Really? Show me which marketing actually overpromises and doesn't tell you that it's a beta system, where you have actually sit, pay attention to the road and take over if needed.
> Seems like in most cases the state is more pro-israel than the population.

Not really. Go check the results of the popular vote for Eurovision. Israel came in second.

There's a huge quiet population that is pro-Israel. They don't make noise with protests though, so some people don't realize they exist.
There are two weak points I can see in this argument.

Most importantly, if a sheriff was trying to catch a murderer by burning down the hotel where the murderer was known to sleep in, with all other guests still inside, I assure you any legal system would seek to arrest the sheriff just as much as the original murderer.

Secondly, while Hamas is clearly a terrorist organization, it is also the de facto and de jure sovereign power in Gaza, it's not an outlaw gang. Just like Hitler was not an outlaw pirate, even though his actions were the highest crimes against humanity.
Well done.

Dumbest move of 2024.
We need laws where companies are forced to reveal source of personal data. Like how did XYZ company get my contact info to spam me?
my opinion is that Elon is fantastic at very early stage startups, like what SpaceX was years ago. I don’t think Elon is as helpful after a companies become more mature.

That’s why I worded my comment the way I did. :)
> The government backed organizations will continue as well

Including SpaceX.
This would put me in breach of NDAs that i have to work under if it happened to me. I guess i could claim damages from Apple?
Gaza was not under military occupation by any definition. That is a fact that anyone can verify for themselves. Gaza was put under a blockade in 2007 after Hamas came to power (still has a border with Egypt, maybe Egypt is actually occupying Gaza by your definition). A blockade is not an occupation.

Maybe by "is" you mean since Oct 7th. But again that's not provocation, that's after the fact. If you think Gaza was occupied how come the IDF needs to re-occupy it?
If the photo never leaves the device this seems more like a feature dedicated to law enforcement whether that is for democratic or dictatorship type of governemnt forms. There still is a speck of privacy, the device itself. If LE cannot get hold of it then it’s undiscoverable. However if any photo leaves the device without any cloud settings on we’re talking about a complete lack of privacy.
Any sequence is also an integer. Don’t forget how large the number line is ;)
Twitter is running fine post-firings, and he saved a ton of money.

If Elon is so horrific at SpaceX, why is it the only space organization (including NASA) able to innovate and ship anymore?

You can dislike his personality, but criticizing his performance is silly.
Has this actually worked in the past?
I think the 2 tech leads that just resigned are actually dodging a HUGE bullet.
> One thing these trained voices make clear is that it's a tts engine generating ChatGPT-4o's speech, same as before.

I'm not familiar with the specifics of how AI models work but doesn't the ability from some of the demos rule out what you've said above? Eg. The speeding up and slowing down speech and the sarcasm don't seem possible if TTS was a separate component
It's not technically occupied. Israel just controls their border with Gaza. And their coastline. And their airspace, also bombed their airport. Oh and the border to Egypt as nobody can visit Gaza without Israels approval.
Israels continued denial of a Palestinian state and the basic rights of statehood, like the control of their own borders, is what makes it an occupation.

Netanyahu has supported Hamas long before 2005 as part of a divide and conquer strategy. The elections were pushed by Bush at a time when PA were seen as corrupt. When they lost Bush tried to get them to coup and Hamas took over and kicked them out as a reaction to that.

>In July 1995, Netanyahu led a mock funeral procession featuring a coffin and hangman's noose at an anti-Rabin rally where protesters chanted, "Death to Rabin"

Should tell is everything we need to know about the people in power now.

Maybe the Palestinians were not happy with the deal, them losing their land. Not to forget previous atrocities perpetrated by Jewish terrorists and the nakba.
Guess all good movies leave a lot open to interpretation, but difficult to do it and be good.

Like that "Rebel Moon" on Netflix was how to NOT do it, with tons of stupid exposition spelling out stupid details that didn't make any sense.

Versus "American Sniper" that was so evenly portraying all sides, that Right leaning people thought it was a liberal movie, and Left leaning people thought it was Right Wing propaganda. It was all so well done you could read into it a lot of your own feelings.

So "Her" was about the danger of technology. And at the end there were some scenes that you could read into how a lot of people were falling for this phone app and things were going downhill. But, it wasn't clear cut, the movie is really good at splitting the difference on how the app was also making people be happy, and was helping them.
I think a defendant can ask for a judge to decide instead of a jury.
Maybe you can explain how you envision that working.
Eh, Leonardo da Vinci out-accomplished him and wished for the reverse.
Apple generally underpromises when it comes to perf per watt and battery usage, and then blows everything out of the water.

Regardless, that isn’t an argument worth making. Whataboutisms are silly.
End of day report? Like a diary entry of what you did for yourself or for your manager? Curious.
Or firing the whole supercharger team in an apparent tantrum, or killing the blue checkmark to turn it into a "revenue stream".
The problem with that idea is that I can hide behind it while making videos of famous politicians doing really morally questionable things and distributing them on YouTube. The reason Fair Use works with regular parodies in my opinion is that everyone can tell that it is obviously fake. For example, Saturday Night Live routinely makes joking parody videos of elected officials doing things we think might be consistent with their character. And in those cases it's obvious that it's being portrayed by an actor and therefore a parody. If you use someone's likeness directly I think that it must never be fair use or we will quickly end up in a world where no video can be trusted.
Seriously, this is the correct take. None of the “Elon success stories” were his alone.
Seems they're really into "windows 7-ing" all the things <https://thorium.rocks/win7>, hacking^W Optimizing!!1 Firefox and VSCodium, too

and FWIW I despise the thinking that leads one to commit ever-changing binary artifacts into git because then $(git clone) turns into a DVD sized download https://github.com/Alex313031/codium/commit/5bd47c17194e8019...