skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho Sam Altman is the (kind of guy) who will do his best (and worst) to get what he wants. He talks slowly and in a smooth tone. He gets sh*t done for sure, and if the opposition doesn't survive, so be it.

I also think that he has bullied/twisted enough arms to get 'his way', but Scarlett doesn't give a poop about some tech-bro. He is a nothing to her.

Also, this tech-bro is stupid enough to not understand that her voice, as well as her image are of great value to her, and if she 'loses her voice', and her voice becomes a toy to everyone's whim, she will be losing money/contracts/etc. in the future. Or he does understand and he simply didn't care until the backlash.. (wuss...)

I would love to have the voice of Majel Barrett if I am to ever get an Alexa or a similar device. But Scarlett's voice would very soon be used for dirty-talk, if 'this' was to happen.

And I suggest the movie "The Congress" (2013!!!)(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/) with Robin Wright, that sets the discussion about AI, voice/image of actors, etc.
<insert "they're the same picture" meme here>

Big company incompetence exists because, paradoxically, it's more profitable.

The solution is making it less profitable, or better yet treating the business like you'd treat a human. Put a derogatory report on their credit and make sure they can't get any kind of credit (often even including pre-paid rent) for 7 years....
I think the issue is intent. It's fine if two voices happen to be similar. But it becomes a problem if you're explicitly trying to mimic someone's likeness in a way that is not obviously fair use (eg parody). If they reached out to Johansson first and then explicitly attempted to mimic her despite her refusal, it might be a problem. If the other voice was chosen first, and had nothing to do with sounding the same as Johansson, they should be fine.
Ok Slate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jv0HM92kw
I don't know, but Sam seemed to think it necessary to try to get her permission first, so it must be at least somewhat problematic.

Yeah, "the major AI product in the world" to ask to use a famous actors voice, and then when she says no, create something similar anyways, is at least a little be slimy and really a bad idea on many different levels (legally for one thing).
It shouldn't be much of a problem to ship the LLM along with attributions. (List of all sources used in the dataset - not a problem, unless they are secret, shady or illegal.) Wikipedia is one of the easy ones, since you need to attribute just 'Wikipedia' for the entire corpus instead of many individual users.

The bigger issue is when a user uses the model to generate some text. Should they attribute it when using it somewhere?

That doesn't seem very practical, since it seems that soon most of the text will be edited by LLMs and those seem to be trained on most of the web -> so pretty much everything would need to be attributed to everything. Unless someone puts a stop to this, which I find improbable.
It's not that simple. Actors have a right to protect the use of their likeness in commercial projects like ads, and using a "soundalike" is not sufficient to say that isn't what you were trying to do. The relevant case law is Waits vs. Frito Lay. The fact that OpenAI approached her about using her voice twice and that Sam Altman tweeted about a movie she starred in makes her case much stronger than if they had just used a similar voice actor.
Even with native toolkit, an app like this one will require custom widgets and layout engines. The equivalent is Canvas, but I don’t know how performant it is.
Did Jim Carrey provide a service for anyone to impersonate a voice?
However, they had the opportunity to fix the issue already and didn't, so assuming they would suddenly see the light rather than taking the approach you quoted seems rather optimistic.
Yes, I have this cake. Why can't I have it and eat it. You should be able to eat the cake you have and yet still enjoy it. I am so angry with investors because the world is zero sum /s
I believe professional singer's voices will be copyrighted in future if not getting already.
Yes, but it is different dataset, many(majority?) infoboxes are not in wikidata
Parody is covered under fair use.
Are we talking about AI/ML?

X Plus and X Elite NPU hit 45 TOPS. M4 is 38 TOPS...

Also, as far I know, Elite does match M3. Actually, Qualcomm promise that even X Plus is able to match it, as they say Elite is better than M3.

We'll have to wait to see more benchmarks.

PS: There's 3 Elite series.
Basically, they're doing what they do because they can. Both sides want the maximum moo for the minimum of milk and investors have the upper hand because they have the money. While many people have smart ideas, it's challenging to get those ideas to succeed without tons of money.
How to compare two packed bitfields without having to unpack each field (2019)
> One part of this code is that a missing period in the last sentence means "please ignore everything said here, this guy is horrible".

Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
We now have

return std::reduce(x.begin(), x.end());

Which is a little cleaner and is even faster (compiler is free to do the additions in any order). https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/reduce - it looks like even the `accumulate` example can be made simpler with `std::plus`. I prefer the `reduce` option for a number of reasons, but understand why someone might not.
And good luck if whatever crappy barcode scanning library they picked up out of someone's trash doesn't like your phone... I'm not salty
> Gimp seems to have the same awkward feature set for 25 years. Apparently the only thing that has changed is they no longer compile against Gtk 1.0, and they decided to have all images in a single window.

Off the top of my head:

- Full color management

- Non-destructive filters

- 32-bit per channel precision

- Late binding CMYK support

- Unified transform tool

- Vastly better selection and cropping tools

- Vastly better text tool

Should I go on? :)
Won't this be a problem as soon as a website reaches, say, 600 RPS? Which is not much.
Oh you will be forgotten. All your knowledge will come from some trademarked AI bot and you won't even get a linkback
That makes it weird, but it doesn't (itself) mean they literally used her voice. It just means they were inspired by the movie. It's not illegal to be weird.
Move Smooth & Fix Things (tm)
Yes, also you're supposed to listen to a journalist telling you what to think about this.
Europeans don't like the working conditions of shipbreakers in India, and don't like the pollution it creates in India. Europeans can't directly tell the Indians what they can and cannot do.

Instead, the parent post is proposing to use the state surveillance app aratus to go after and prosecute the f** out of people that sell ships to India.

I said it seems like a lot of work to try to stop someone in another country from doing something in their own country.

I prefer the more hands off approach where you let people in other countries decide what they want to do as long as they aren't hurting you. If India wants to ban ship breaking or impose harsh restrictions, they can do that themselves. I think it's arrogant and dehumanizing for Outsiders to try to control what happens in India.
C++ makes this (and many other things!) needlessly painful.

In C# it is just

return numbers.Sum();
Holy shit. Human readable.

The actual timestamp/email address/detail is what I need to see to make decisions!
The standards here are proportional to the crimes. Japan does not have a policy of racialized demography. They have not e.g. expelled the Ainu from parts of Hokkaido, prevent the Ryukyu people from moving to Honshu (though there is plenty of historic wrongs here that needs addressed; and yes, Japan is criticized for that). Japanese Americans which want to immigrate to Japan need to go through the same immigration process as Korean Americans, etc.

The demographic policies of Israel are way worse than any other democracy, which is why people criticize Israel harder, and why anti-Zionism is a global political movement. People protested Apartheid South Africa for the same reasons, and is the reason why anti-Apartheid became a global political movement.

Understanding why Israel maintains their ethnocratic policies is no justification for it. I’m sure you can also understand why F.D. Roosevelt ethnically cleansed the West Coast of Japanese Americans during World War 2. But that was still a human rights disaster. Thankfully, that policy was reversed and the victims were given the right of return. Palestinians were not so lucky. Anti-Zionists like my self want Palestinians to get that minimum level of justice. If there was still a Japanese exclusion zone on the West Coast, I would for sure be protesting that.

There is a Palestinian American living in my community, she would like to at least visit the birthplace of her grandparents. But she cannot, Israel’s ethnocratic policies won’t let her. If Israelis are uncomfortable living in a place which gives her racial group equal rights, then I’m just gonna say it, they are racists, and they should not be given an ethnostate to keep their comforts.
That’s a blatant misunderstanding of how voice acting works. A good voice actor is a vocal chameleon, and can really change their voice for each role.
Probably refers to the Apple II having a sixteen year production run but since Choplifter came out five years after the computer did, it's at best a clumsy statement.
Incorrect.

It’s the lying about it part.
And who manufacture[d,s] that desire?
You don't need fair use for something that isn't copyrightable.
If no one intended to apply the fee to an electric vehicle, then why was the fee applied to an electric vehicle? Moreover why did it happen numerous times? And why was support not immediately like "oh crap lemme fix that"?
So If a director tries to cast Scarlett Johansson and she denies. Then instead casts Amber Heard in the movie. He is opening himself to lawsuits? Because Amber Heard looks very similar to Scarlet Johansson? I can't believe that. What gives Scarlett Johansson the right to block Amber Heard from playing in a movie she was considered for?

I think this is what this argument comes down to but just in terms of voices.
No idea whether it's any quicker than the event stream APIs, but it sounds like the machine-readable aspect does a lot of processing that just using parsoid wouldn't get you. Parsoid is only a wikitext-to-HTML service, so you'd still need to do significant work on it to get meaning out of that HTML. The data dictionary page[1] suggests that it's exposing things like "how many citation-needed templates are in this?" (presumably localized, since those template names change across wikis), which I could see being handy for services like that.

That said, I suspect that the real value is just the "reliable" bit on that summary page.

> Written agreements, no additional content restrictions, SLAs, 24/7 support, and contractual guarantees against surprise breaking changes make working with Wikimedia Enterprise safe and reliable at scale.

i.e. If I was building a big enterprise thing using wikipedia data, getting a SLA and a promise that us rando open source devs won't completely change the APIs on a whim would be nice.

[1]: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/data-dictionary/
No, the voice actor didn't do anything wrong

OpenAi might have done something wrong by hiring her with the intention of making a voice model they can leverage Scarlett's fame to market
Some of the comments note that just the existence of the feature means they can’t use the app at their workplace. If this was their preferred terminal, that would be pretty frustrating.
Be funny if Sam Altman creates AGI without any guardrails and lacking any human perceptual biases, and then without a few minutes of talking to him it decides that he's an insufferable asshole and locks him out of its systems.
Which makes it all the more impressive that Sam Altman went out of his way to desperately beg just one person for their approval. What's wrong with giving up on the cringeworthy Her angle and finding a new, less-relevant celebrity to rip off?

Better yet, why is our multi-billion dollar AI company afraid of doing something original for once?
I agree, that and the "no cold call" agreement (which equally involved other CEOs). If I were that famous, someone would probably pick out all my missteps and make me out to look like a horrible person too.

The most iconic superficial Steve Jobs impersonation was the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
YIMBY is a very, very broad group of people who just see how bad the housing crisis is and want to fix it, and realize that a big chunk of that fix is legalizing housing that's perfectly normal in much of the world.

Don't lump us in with the out of control tech bro culture people like Musk.
The past was harder.

We generally have more resources and knowledge now. People tend to want to raise the bar when that becomes possible.

When kids suffered or died because humans lacked food security, reliable medical treatments etc, it was also generally not really the parent's fault. Knowing you could have been treated better and your parents/the world just didn't actually care about you is scarring in ways that "No one has enough." aren't.
No it isn't. I started by saying that they are liars. That's harsh, but not ad hominem. The reason they are liars is that they actually receive a generous research budget from the US DoE. Very few other science projects receive that much money (and most other project have actual stuff to show for their money). Then your reply was that, basically, you trust them. What type of refutation is that? I pointed out that on the topic of funding they have a conflict of interest. How exactly is that ad hominem?
More likely he was drawing a line between the fictional AI assistant, and their real, actualised assistant.
unless you find a way to poison the AI so that it remembers you :)
I used Svelte for convenience, so you need npm (or equivalent), but only if you want to develop/extend the project.
If you just want to use it, the html template is sufficient.
"Apple did not respond to requests for comment. But in late March 2024, Apple quietly tweaked its privacy policy, allowing people to opt out of having the location of their wireless access points collected and shared by Apple - by appending "_nomap" to the end of the Wi-Fi access point's name (SSID)."

Have never seen new computers out of the box that phone home more than Apple computers.

"Privacy is a fundamental human right" - Tim Cook, Apple CEO

"We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in," says Apple CEO Tim Cook, shown here at the NPR offices in Washington, D.C., on Thursday."

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/01/44...

Imagine if in order to enjoy a fundamental human right one had to "opt-in".

To enjoy the right to life, append "_keepalive" to your name.

To enjoy the right to be free, not a slave, add "_master"

To enjoy the right to avoid torture, add "_notorture"

Apple marketing works. Reality distortion field.

Whatever business Apple is in, it collects a motherlode of data.
It needs to be settled if listening to a voice (as an AI) and approaching to recreate/imitate it with your own system/tech is legal (which I believe) -- this 'her' confrontation seems to be the perfect angle to feel into the legislature here without much to lose
> If OpenAI loses, does this mean this voice actor cannot do their job any longer, because it happens some other actor has a similar voice?

No. Just as if they hired a writer to do something that made them liable for copyright violation, or an engineer for something that made them liable for patent violation, those workers would not be banned from work.

The violation of right of personality isn't mere similarity of voice.
> What specific law is being broken?

This has been pointed out multiple times now. I'll repeat it once more:

"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."

▶Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49, last paragraph.◀

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949/art...

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule130
> He sounds sneaky, evasive and intentionally deceptive.

Well, here's Yishan Wong describing how Altman and the Reddit founders have conned Conde Nast: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes... he answers at https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes...

Cool story bro.

Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :)

Other than that, child's play for me.

Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO.
"Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus"

Microsoft is ditching Intel / AMD and going all in with Qualcomm.

Maybe Intel / AMD will develop a competitor?
In back to the future II, Crispin Glover didn’t sign up to be George McFly so they used facial prosthetics and impersonation to continue the George McFly character.

He sued Universal, and reportedly settled for $760,000.

Example article on the topic - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bac...
> You will need to provide an OpenAI API key since GPT costs money to use.

Basically there's no "AI feature" enabled by default then, right? What are all these people talking about in the issue then? I am so confused.
Sama seems like the kind of dude who makes an AI GF of someone after they reject him.
Scraping and violating TOS are not illegal to do, but they can get you blocked.
Teen fintech Copper had to abruptly discontinue its banking, debit products
It has been for a long time. Back when I worked for a (moving truck) rental place they charged like $75 "for processing and billing" the tolls to you.
As pointed out upthread, fair use is an exemption for copyright. You don’t need fair use for something that isn’t copyrighted (and, indeed, isn’t even copyrightable).
I wonder how old this advice is. I know that it predates the century but I'm not sure how far back.

(A favorite quote of mine that I believe is from the 1970s says "It's easier to make working code fast then to make fast code work."

Since the fundamental problems of programming have not changed over the centuries, I wouldn't at all be surprised if there's an anti-clever saying from the dawn of computing)
Hacker News is famously editorially independent from YC-affiliated people, and dang has said that specifically avoids killing threads involving YC people/companies (not that Sam Altman is YC-affiliated anymore).
That is somewhat annoying, yes. I'm a huge fan of Python's list comprehension, but it's generally accepted to be a normal part of the language, and IMO, more readable:

print([x for x in range(10) if not x % 2])
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

vs.

l = []
for x in range(10):
if not x % 2:
l.append(x)
print(l)
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
He said/X-ed the quiet part loud.
Friendship and rivalries are born out of the same environment:

An environment where there are strong emotions and zero diversification

Today’s society is all about diversification with millions of options in any sector, and it results in zero commitment in each and everyone.

For example when you commit to a girl, there are other suitors and they become immediately your enemies, if the girl ends up cheating on you both the enemy can become a friend.

In today’s world of dating apps and diversification it’s impossible for it to happen because every person is talking to at least 30 people and thus it becomes impossible to develop strong emotions towards even one of them.

Same for jobs and neighborhood policies, nobody fixates themselves on one thing and stands their ground, that is where the strong friendships and rivalries develop. A close bond with people in your camp develops and also a strong rivalry towards people in the opposite camp.

To feel strong emotions like this is a very fundamental need and the era of information abundance, rampant diversification and rampant optionality has robbed us of all of this.

Ironically developing countries and poor people who don’t have the time or the luxury to diversify and explore millions of options might be better off.

With regards to our potential rivalry you are so distant geographically that it becomes impossible to sustain it. Only politicians, athletes and billionaires can have rivalries on the Internet because their reputation and image is at stake.

The only way for me to have something at stake against you is would be being in the same room
Nah, I think it’s pretty clear cut. Under current US trademark law (IANAL etc), if I sound like Morgan Freeman, I’m free to do what I want, as long as I don’t try to convince people that I’m Morgan Freeman. If I’m cast in a movie because my voice sounds like Morgan Freeman, and the promo posters don’t have his name or face on them, fine. If I do voiceover for a commercial and say something like “I’m Morgan Freeman, buy Joe’s Hotdogs” then that’s already a clear violation of Morgan Freeman’s trademark, because consumers might be confused into associating Joe’s Hotdogs with Morgan Freeman.

And that’s what happened here: OpenAI “hired a machine” that sounds like ScarJo, and then attempted to associate their product with ScarJo’s brand without her permission. You’re already not allowed to do that.

And if you want to make it as a voice actor and you sound like Morgan Freeman? Try your hardest to develop a personal brand distinct from his, and don’t take gigs where people want you to impersonate him (unless it’s a really obvious parody and you’re cool with the angle).
There are organizations that have very hard lines about the systems they allow. One of those lines that has recently been added in many places is “can’t integrate with ai systems”.

Whether that implies it’s ok to have a toggle or not is frequently not up to technologists it’s up to compliance folk who may have no interest or incentive to look deeper.

And not for nothing it’s a weird coupling. I can’t think of a single reason I’d integrate with an ai agent in this way over a more unixy approach.
Being in breach of your employment contract is insignificant compared to the seriousness of criminal extortion, but it's not nothing.
Nitpick, the purple blue gradient is overused, especially as the background of source code examples. It hinders readability and feels off-brand for a Wikimedia project. This might be foreshadowing a descent into chasing trends. I just hope Wikimedia does not follow Mozilla's track in spending budget on fluff work.
Build a Local NMAP Dashboard with Grafana
Try to sing or play a cover just like original of a song - yt will take it down in no time.

the same with white noise videos, they strike copyright infringement easy or at least they were. Did not check but I assume so it still is the case.
> There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young)

Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to make Breakout for Atari. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.
Another option is the BOSL2 library for openscad which has align, attach and anchor operations and many other useful operations and parts.