skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not sure if people are being intentionally daft or are just not reading anything past the word “AI”

I think this demonstrates the risks of jumping on a bandwagon. When software companies (in general, not iTerm2 specifically) overuse a term, including outright lying to attach a buzzword to basic features that are nothing to do with it, many people respond with an equal and opposite reaction: distrusting use of the term altogether.
Very likely he did not. See Funding secured
"Everything is securities fraud." -Matt Levine
I probably hate "AI" more than you, but let's be fair: the author did well in this case - it's disabled and you need to actively enable it (for the 2 folks who actually want it). We should commend people for doing it this way rather than using grey patterns, calling home without consent (or without giving you any other option), forcing local apps to the cloud etc.
> Jobs considered himself an artist

Jobs, at the very least, would have stolen competently.

OpenAI asked Johansson for her likeness; she refused. So they trained an AI on a person instructed to mimic her likeness, and then tweeted a mocking reference to the source they stole from [1]. Put aside your views on morality or legality. I’m damning them for being stupid.

[1] https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666?ref_src=twsrc%...
> repeatedly tell them No on a question

And you can't even tell it "No", it's typically "Maybe later" or "Not now". When will "modern UX experts" understand that "No means No".
If you look at the last 12 US census figures, the highest population growth rate, in percentage terms, was in the 1910 census.

Sears only sold about 75,000 house kits, btw.
Is that why Sam Altman tweeted "her"?

They've lost any argument of coincidence, with just that one tweet…
How is this any different than text, photographs or anything for that matter. By this definition all AI is illegal.

Besides, how does one prove a recording is of a particular person's voice? The AI might be generating voice similar to that of Scarlett Johnson, but its still not her voice. Similar != Same.
> but OpenAI are saying that its isn't her

The problem for them is that they've already admitted that they really wanted it to be her. They should have consulted a Hollywood lawyer for this one.
I don't think most people recognized Scarlett either, and if so, they recognized her not from "Her" but generally as an actor
Search for videos showing voice actors at work - it's their job to talk in all kinds of voices, accents, intonation patterns and more. I'm sure that the person doing voice acting could also do it in a way that wouldn't sound like ScarJo.
> they hired a voice actress for the rights to create the voice, she was paid, and then is basically told by the courts "actually you're unhireable because you sound too much like an already rich and famous person".

There are quite a few issues here: First, this is assuming they actually hired a voice-alike person, which is not confirmed. Second, they are not an underdog (the voice actress might be, but she's most likely pretty unaffected by this drama). Finally, they were clearly aiming to impersonate ScarJo (as confirmed by them asking for permission and samas tweet), so this is quite a different issue than "accidentally" hiring someone that "just happens to" sound like ScarJo.
It's probably fair game if they got a similar voice by coincidence, but here they intentionally want to copy someone's voice as performed in a well known IP for pure business profit.
Just a matter of curiosity: do people really think the Sky OpenAI voice is similar to ScarJo? While they both vary pitch a lot, Scarlett also adds great dimension by shifting rapidly between different tone qualities. Tone variation seems to be only barely detectable in Sky. Sky sticks to a pure tone, while Scarlett starts on a mildly harsh (but pleasant) tone.
In the movie Idiocracy, a lot of people end their sentences with a sponsor statement - "brought to you by Carl's Jr"

I predict a near future where AI agents will do the same.
Good point and good reference. I see that in the first case Better Miller won a case against Ford motor company who had a "sound-alike" sing one of her songs for a commercial when she refused. The other cases are similar and my reading of the article is that the cases hinged on 1) a deliverate and explicit imitation of the famous voice concerned and 2) the voice in question being quite distinct, such that it would be very unlikely to approximate it by coincidence. In the case at hand here I think a strong argument could be made either way I both of these points and reasonable people will certainly differ.
It's clear that they wanted her voice (by contacting her first, and the "her" tweet), and they aren't denying it.

What's wrong with using a similar voice to the one in your vision of the demo/service, as it's the closest voice that you can (legally) use it?
The main character is not perfect, he has several major personality flaws that break through and screw up his actions again and again.

I think taking every thing into account, his actions are consistent with his personality.

That said, the first book's exploration of combat in space was, IMHO, some of the best Sci-Fi work in the series. Although I get why the books gave up on even trying to be hard sci-fi at all early on, science was pushed out of the way to make writing the story easier.
Also the clothes industry!

The clothes brands claim to recycle cotton, but use 3rd party "recycling companies" to ship the textiles to Africa, where they just burn it in huge waste heaps. With huge environmental issues.

https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blog/54589/how-fast-fas...

Computer "recycling" in Lagos/Nigeria is another topic.
That's what worries me the most. We have all this "extend the line" projections that say we will see mere cm rises in sea levels in this century.

I am concerned we are missing numerous potential reinforcement loops that might accelerate it. I have a gut feeling that we will see catastrophic coastal floods in the next couple of decades. I cannot shake it.
Scarlet Johansson literally mentioned that Sam personally reached out to her team.

The CTO was on stage presenting the thing and the CEO was tweeting about it.

Please explain for us which part of this is happening without the CEO's signature.

Of everyone who has been harmed and had their work stolen or copyright infringed by Sam's team, Scarlett Johansson is the one person (so far) who can actually force the issue and a change, and so the community is right to rally behind her because if they're so brazen about this, it paints a very clear picture of the disdain they hold the rest of us in.
lol and you think that’s getting better with the whole team gone?
> We aren't a community

Of course we are. That doesn’t coerce anyone into a groupthink, and it doesn’t mean everyone is a part of it. I’m simply asking anyone who held one opinion to find harmonics with another.
ffmpeg has 2 prores encoders
You should definitely write more! I enjoyed it and know many people who'd love what you write and the style.
Absolute massive fan of E-Ink and quite disappointed it's been on the back burner for so many years. I imagine it being one of the perfect devices for a software developer.
Even if a manager is incompetent, you wouldn't fire the entire team of 500 people under them.
I mean, SamA tweeted "Her", as in a reference to the movie "Her" which very famously features Scarlett Johansson's voice. So by not saying precisely who provided the voice actor for the "Sky" voice and ensuring it was either the same as or very similar to Scarlett Johansson, it was obviously going to understood by the users of the app to be Scarlett Johansson herself.

That is, OpenAI was going to end up capitalising from Scarlett Johansson's voice, fame, and notoriety whether it is her exact voice or not, and without her permission.

It would be like me promoting a new AI movie featuring an AI generated character very similar in build and looks to Dwayne The Rock Johnson and promoting the movie by saying "Do you smell what we're cooking?" and then claiming it had nothing to do with The Rock and was just modelled on someone who happened to look like him.
> None of this addresses the resettlement or removal of existing people, which is plainly a violation of article 49.

Yes, you are correct. The people who already live on land are protected from displacement by an occupying power.

If you have specific incidents of displacement that you word like me to address, I'll do that. The recent Sheik Jarrah incident that made international headlines was a property dispute - in fact a terrific example if you want to discuss it as the Jordanian occupation displaced the Jewish family living there.
I can assure you, many Elvis impersonators can make a living without having any similarities at all.
Another missed mark is that "dream" needs knowledge. If you don't ever know/experience what's possible, you may not be able to dream about it.
Moral bankrupt as a leader of an AGI development. What could go wrong.

But of course, all this is not about only one man. Corporatocracy will prevail, if not actively confronted.
Effect systems spring to mind but they're rather esoteric (in the Java world).
That search is terrible, but I find that the indices stabilise in use such that search returns consistent results quickly.

I could do [ Win; [ O | T | E ]; Enter ] and get [ Outlook | Teams | Excel ] every time, for example. (ugh, glad I left that job)

Do you see any improvement after regular use?
Given that Athens was (usually) democratic-ish, vs. Sparta was a militaristic monarchy, and the Soviet block was very heavily militarized during the Cold War...

Not an expert, but my understanding is that Soviet education & propaganda idealized Sparta.

Edit: I was unaware of the US military admiring Sparta...but developing an admiration for the ideals of your previous #1 Enemy, whose nation collapsed from within...yeahhh. Perhaps a few service academy instructors need to further explain "Do Not Copy Losing Strategies" to their Military Thinking 101 classes?
There's the most recent Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israeli-settlements-in-t...

Legal Framework, 11:

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, construction began for approximately 1,280 housing units in the first half of 2023 in Area C.

All of these Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, because they amount to the transfer by Israel of its population into an occupied territory.

They discuss settlers moving of their own accord and then the later "legalizing" of such moves by the State of Israel.
> And why ask Scarlett again, just a few days before release?

For one, because it's obviously better to have the exact voice rather than an imitation. For two, because it avoids exactly this kind of sticky situation: even if you believe you have a legal and moral right to do something, it's always nice to have the question completely air-tight.

Also, remember that OpenAI isn't a single person, but a large organization with different people and viewpoints. Not unlikely somebody in the organization foresaw the potential for this kind of reaction, knew they couldn't convince the right people to pull the voice completely, but thought they could maybe convince people to reach out again.

I mean, suppose they had a Darth Vader-y voice for some reason and had approached James Earl Jones to do it, and Jones had said no. Is it really so terrible to have someone else try to imitate the Darth Vader character? Jones, along with Lucas, made Darth Vader a cultural phenomenon; I don't think Jones should have the right to dictate forevermore all references to that phenomenon. The same goes for Scarlett Johansson and the author / director of 'Her'.
It sounds nothing like johansson, like nothing at all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cx1np4/voice_...

This whole controversy makes no sense and is obvious that the media is looking for something to attack openai with.
Yeah and especially in combination with the additional inquiry directly before release and the her tweet… looks awfully deliberate
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There used to be a solar program in Vietnam, which made everyone jump onto the bandwagon. Lack of infrastructure planning, however, meant all of that solar energy could overpower the grid, and so the program has been stopped. To date, one can install their own solar system, but the electricity would be bought by the government at a price of zero, and they cannot sell it to anyone else.
I think the peak of windows was when they introduced WSL, making windows the ultimate crossplatform dev OS.
Cynically from Russian/Chinese point of view that is much preferable.
The "Free World" consistently drums out propaganda for universal "Rule-Based Order". Should the ICC fail to move forward with this, Rus/CN can cynically claim that "Rule-Based Order" is no more than fraud. Good luck forcing China to accept South China Sea Arbitration (which they didn't even participate in the 1st place)
Uh, what? This is a pretty well-researched phenomenon: A very high percentage of people who engage in pathological behaviors that take advantage of other people believe that “everyone does it” and rely on that as justification. Penn & Teller did a pithy bit on the topic.
For teaching to newbies, please use the new commands! Much better to distinguish `git switch` from `git restore` than to use `git checkout` for all possible tasks.
It literally does exactly that, what made you think it doesn't? Or did you just assume and type a comment based on nothing?
Settings > Advanced > Experimental Features > URL for AI API

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/blob/master/sources/iTe...
There is a ton of food on board when ships arrive. Remember, the ships have crews and they are working when they arrive. In fact you could find all sorts of food items and kitchen equipments that you would find in a professional kitchen (a lot of restaurants in our area just got the kitchen equipment for cheap).
They also didn't chop up the broadcasts, store them, rearrange and put together frames from different broadcasts, and then charge an additional fee for help videos, and rebroadcast them upon demand.

It's not even remotely the same.
Phones aren't really toys anymore. It's pretty hard to function in society without either a phone these days. For example, you may find yourself cut off from banking, government services, unable to order at restaurants, etc. There are usually work arounds, but not always.
Sam Altman is a shameless weasel. Guy has no sense of decency. He got caught redhanded a few times already, what does it takes to unseat him? And whoever defends Altman for their love of ChatGPT, it wasn’t Altman who was behind it, it was a large team that is now dissipating away. Altman just wants to enrich himself at your expense
Conquest of the Longbow is a masterpiece. As a kid, I loved the fact that a lot of puzzles had multiple solutions. It was definitely not an easy adventure game though, I remember being stuck on some of the puzzles using gems and trees.
We could require that ships they dock in EU harbours are owned by countries that are party to some international anti-ship breaking agreement.

But it's a lot of paperwork :)
Live-attenuated vaccines (see [1]) seem to fit that role, and have been around for ages. I'd be very surprised if they didn't count as drug.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/types/index.html
I loved the split-screen zoom.

1:1 preview was crucial on CRTs where pixels weren't neat little squares.
> Well LLMs have already stolen everything you ever wrote or posted online.

I kind of expected that someone will steal something I write or post online, so this doesn’t particularly bother me.
Show HN: AI and APIs – What does the future hold?
I read this interesting article with 12 Experts discussing what they think the future Holds. It's interesting to read something that we all suspect, which is how the modularity and commoditization of AI functionalities will drive the competition.
I’m confused by your question. They mention Connect in the FAQ but this only applies to instant payouts, honestly it seems more confusing that they mention Connect at all in this context. What are you getting at or trying to figure out with your question?

I’m interested because my business used Stripe Connect but this change seems to have zero change for me. If businesses want instant payouts they can decide that on their own and if they want to eat the fee, it doesn’t matter to me.
This is the thing that is so wild to me. Outside of tech, everyone I encounter in day-to-day life intuitively understands that tech dudes inventing AI voices to flirt with them is not awesome or cool.

At this point, I have to assume that being out-of-touch is deliberate branding from OpenAI. Maybe to appeal to equally out-of-touch investors.
Or, to combine your and the OPs points: if you take your company public, you will have to live by the rules of "the love of money". It's also the love of money that ultimately led to Sierra (the more creative company) being killed in favor of Davidson/Blizzard (the more business-savvy company) while they were owned by CUC and then Vivendi.
And as I understand that license, you are allowed to use Timescale for anything that doesn’t involve offering Timescale itself as a service. If you were using Timescale to process lots of time series transactions in your backend, it doesn’t seem to me like that would break the license.

(Which is to say that if, like Tembo, you’re offering Postgres as a service you do indeed have a problem. But for other use, should be fine)
There's no reason you can't power solar panel factories with solar panels (once you've bootstrapped the process of course, but that applies to any power source).
> if this were a genocide they'd be dead tomorrow

By this argument, since there's still Jewish people around, the holocaust was not a genocide, which I find a completely unacceptable conclusion.

> if this were a genocide, they'd be in camps

Gaza has been described and essentially functions as a concentration camp. 2.5 million people in an area the size of Rotterdam, no going in or out, all borders, shores, airspace controlled by Israel, food, electricity, water supply controlled (and heavily restricted) by Israel. By your argument it is in fact a genocide, and I'm inclined to agree.
The moral issue is that Scarlett Johansson's voice is famous and to many people the fact that it sounds like her specifically is the source of much of the value of that voice, so one can argue that the benefit of that should accrue to her, not to an unknown person who happens to (or can make herself) sound like her or to the company she refused to allow to use her voice.

The legal issue is that there are specific, established laws based on ideas like the above, known as "right to publicity" laws.
I do just fine, although I'm lucky not to live somewhere that is embracing "tech" as much as the US.

I suppose ultimately it comes down to how much a person cares about the negative externalities vs. inconvenience.
Sometimes half is worth more than the whole
The same way every other IP lawsuit goes does. Same as all the “your song is too similar to mine” lawsuits. The two things are presented, with other evidence, and judge or jury decides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_subject_to_plagi...
We need to start shaming the actual UX experts and engineers who build these systems, rather than letting them hide behind the ranks of the giant evil megacorps they empower.
my browser is gonna need amnesiac mode to go with incognito
Same here and even impossible to decrypt to myself after few hours
Well I think the ICC disagrees with your assessment of them, and they are in fact proving you incorrect by doing the exact opposite of what you’re claiming; attempting to try people who have potentially committed war crimes even though they are allies of western countries. I think this is an excellent thing personally and while it might be a new development for the court I think it’s very reasonable to follow the evidence and come to a conclusion despite huge political pressure.
Yes, just as fine and dandy as any other village in the world. The Ottomans specifically said "come, all peoples, come settle this land" and nobody has changed the law since (one mandate that didn't and two occupations that can not). All talk of "it's illegal" either do not mention any law being broken, or grossly misinterpret laws that are applied with the correct interpretation in other geographic places.

There is much noise me about the settlements, but after a year and a half of researching this I come up empty searching for any solid arguments against them.
The Settings dialog is not at all clear about whether the AI features are enabled or disabled. The only indicator is an empty OpenAI Key text entry field and that also doesn't say that the feature isn't activated unless a key is provided (e.g. I would assume that the OpenAI REST API is free until some quota is exhausted?)
There was an AlJazeera docu about in the series of "Workingman's Death" that had amazing footage on a ship recycling yard in Pakistan.

They've since put it on private, sadly. See it being private here:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/working-mans-death/2012/1/...

If you are interested in this, you may want to ask them to make it public again as the quality was absolutely stunning. Good interviews. Really getting into the skin of the workers lives there.
You'd need a lot of land, and also need to put aside a proportion of your production (or profits) to cover those panels as they age.
I think it's fair to say that my 25+ year career in design started with DPaint on an Amiga, and I'd be somewhere very different today without it.
CL implementations are also under active development. The standard is not, but de facto standard extensions do appear occasionally (PLNs, for example). Most things that would be language extensions in other languages can be done with libraries, though. So there's a set of what amount to de facto standard libraries people use. Too many test frameworks though. :)
> it wasn’t Altman who was behind it, it was a large team that is now dissipating away

Credit where it is due: he corralled and inspired a difficult team. He oversaw the release of ChatGPT. His team wanted him back, because they believed he would make them rich. On that promise, he delivered.

Nobody has committed high crimes in this saga. But the lying has become endemic, from Altman to the culture. The situation screams for oversight, perhaps—most proximately—via consent decree.
It was bad enough during the Win10 upgrade cycle that these sorts of memes were going around a lot: https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_13598_vFV77.jpg

It has since become even worse. Forcing users onto cloud accounts, installing Zynga-tier crapware as part of routine updates and generally morphing into an advertising platform with a vestigial program loader attached.
Termtris – A Tetris Game for Terminals
We seem to be discussing this in parallel in two places.

Anybody interesting in this should look a bit further up in the thread for my response to the same comment by the same poster. I've continued the conversation only there.
Maybe I'm missing obvious, but you seem to think it's disheartening when someone decides to not collaborate with a corporation, and the right choice for the corporation to ignore what the person thinks, "force" the collaboration anyways?! That seems outright crazy to me.
A proportion of revenue will going on acquiring power regardless of the source.
I haven't found a checkbox or anything similar to clearly enable/disable the feature.

There's an empty API key text field and a prepopulated OpenAI URL. It's not clear at all that an empty API key means that no requests will be made.
Construction of a Microfacet Specular BSDF: A Geometric Approach
I never was able to use evil per se but it works really well in doom emacs (and before that in spacemacs). Oh and use Caps Lock as Ctrl to minify pinky usage!