skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One is a company with a nearly $100 billion valuation using someone's likeness for their own commercial purposes in a large-scale consumer product, which consumers would plausibly interpret as a paid endorsement, while the other seems to be an amateur hobbyist nobody has ever heard of making a parody demo as an art project, in a way that makes it clear that the original actors had nothing to do with it. The context seems pretty wildly different to me.

I'm guessing if any of the Harry Potter actors threatened the hobbyist with legal action the video would likely come down, though I doubt they would bother even if they didn't care for the video.
These are genuine factory tools supplied by chip vendors such as Silicon Motion, supposedly under NDA, leaked and passed around loosely among Chinese factories. These things are sometimes repacked with malware installers, so blindly running on your dev machine with AWS keys might not be the best idea. Trying to run it on Linux, macOS, or rewriting in Rust might not be great too.

It doesn't happen in the West because manufacturing happens in China in Chinese language. I suppose it's easier for Russian guys to (figuratively) walk into their smoke room and ask for the USB key.
Immanetizing the eschaton
OpenAI Removing Voice from ChatGPT That Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson
I wonder howe much their anti disparagement clauses are about covering up how this went down internally?
Nix is one of the reasons open source wins in the long run. I would have never imagined that package dependencies could be installed and managed across programming language boundaries, kernel boundaries, shell boundaries, dotfile boundaries etc.

Given that computer complexity grows exponentially all the time, then at some point everyone will be forced to use something like Nix.

I agree with the article with Emacs and Unix/Linux.
But does it support jpegxl?
Geoffrey Hinton "godfather of AI" says that AI will surpass human intelligence
Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
100%, I'm glad this is starting to get some mainstream attention. Unfortunately I think "open source" is a lost brand, there's already been too many shenanigans and even on the "good" side of the debate there's too much disagreement about what it means, particularly with respect to ML models.

Definitely glad the article calls out Meta as one of the major bad actors here, they have been intentionally diluting open source branding and are probably the worst offender if you consider their reach.
I think you want the word “provenance.”
As of Iraq and Afghanistan, the USA doesn't recognize the ICC, so as long as Bush and Cheney stay in the US it doesn't matter if there are any arrest warrants.
There were ~3500 successful homestead claims in Alaska. My ex-wife's dad grew up on one of them, near Soldotna; she and I went out to visit once. It was not seen as an unusual experience in that area.

I don't imagine those folks spend much time writing about their lives on the internet.
I thought it sounded like Jodie Foster.
> The voices are part of OpenAI’s updated GPT-4o

This is false. The TTS conversation feature has been out for quite a while.
Those are parodies and not meant at any point for you to believe the actual Harry Potter actors were involved.
I was able to find those things but I fail to see how they are relevant. My point is the IQ test are in contrast to leetcode tests because the IQ test is transparent and transferable between organizations. These tests are neither transparent nor transferrable. Aptitude tests like this have been safe from disparate impact lawsuits for a long time but not for any legal basis. My point is that while such aptitude test leaves them less exposed than IQ tests it does not eliminate it. That they haven’t been sued yet isn’t evidence of lack of legal exposure.
Nirsoft's Search My Files gets me pretty close to Win2000 search.
> Apple and Google were running at over $1M/employee for a while

So is United Health.
"fastest browser on Earth" seems like an editorialized title. What's the source of that claim?

Edit: looks like the post title has since been edited
Ongoing discussion [0] (294 points, 1 hour ago, 177 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (74 points, 12 hours ago, 101 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
> Don't here any arguments on how this is fair-use.

> Why?

Because it's a right of personality issue, not copyright, and there is no fair use exception (the definition of the tort is already limited to a subset of commercial use which makes the Constitutional limitation that fair use addresses in copyright not relevant, and there is no statutory fair use exception to liability under the right of personality.)
Right; I had a general understanding that Ms. Johanson had consented to usage of her voice-likeness.
If Israel wanted to genocide Palestinians they would all be dead tomorrow or in prison-like re-educations camps. I do not agree with the way they are handling it, it could be done like the way US took Fallujah for example, section by section, conquer-and-hold and work more with the locals, especially basic needs, without turning everything into rubble and telling the Palestinians they're on their own for food and supplies. That sucks, and it's wrong, and Biden has been doing his best to tell them to stop that shit. it's not genocide though. Hamas is the target that is to be destroyed, not Gazans (who aren't Hamas). Sure they can't stop the movement 100% but they can kill or imprison the bulk of the current practitioners depending on if they want to surrender or not
The thread you posted is one guy who says animals don't have feelings and asking for a Bible verse to support it and a bunch of responders pointing out that animals obviously have feelings.
OpenAI only hires and is built on the culture that data and copyright is somehow free for the taking, otherwise they would have zero ways to make a profit or “build agi”
"get all the bad guys" isn't the point of the ICC
Discussed at the time:

Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350626 - Feb 2022 (163 comments)
I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the thought process was around adding it to begin with

[1] https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/26655c920b6a9e4...

edit: the commit link is nsfw
What if the imitator is clearly an imitator? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvF0l8RUGQ8
It's a Galaxy S10+ - pretty old now, does everything I need. Intentionally bought refurbished as a cheap phone that was nevertheless pretty fast and had a decent battery life. The Bixby key aside, everything else has been fine.
That was among the secular/ethno-nationalist rationales.

But there is also a religious rationale. In fundamentalist Christianity, the re-establishment of the state of Israel to its biblically described borders is a precondition for the return of the Messiah and Judgement Day, when the same Jewish people will supposedly be given a last chance to convert ... or else. So the policy is in part rooted in the anti-Semitism of Christian eschatology.

Those ideas had strong appeal after WW2, and they are a major policy motivator of the Christian religious right-wing in the US today.
Both cases seem to have also borrowed from the artists’ songs too however. That could perhaps make a difference.
Normalization of deviance is how my professor described it. At least it’s taught in school now.
Apple shipped that as an accessibility feature in 2023

https://support.apple.com/en-us/104993
I always interpreted the hacker in HN as a spirit, irrespective of vocation.
Big companies can just pay money to make antitrust cases go away?!?
Technically it is. It's just a non-interactive browser.
I did a quick tally with my calculator and tallied up the population of each country above 10 million which isn’t among the 137 countries which are current signatories to the Rome Statute. My final tally was 4,6 billion which is around 57% of the world, leaving around 43% of the world population living in a country which is at least a signatory to the Rome Statute.

Non-signatories are overwhelmingly represented by a handful of countries with very large populations. None of the 5 most populated countries in the world are signatories, and out of the 10 most populated, only 4 are signatories (Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Mexico). Out of the top 20 most populated countries, 10 are signatories.

Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey have all previously expressed intentions of signing the Rome Statute, if only these countries would do so, it would bring over 60% of the world’s population under it.
Yeah.. not sure I want my browsing taking place in software authored by someone who does this kind of thing. Gross level of immaturity. Dumb furry joke today, adware tomorrow.
You’re confused. The people of Gaza have always been in Gaza. You’re thinking about others who left Israel to go to Jordan, Syria or Lebanon.
So it's a detector and an LED smashed together instead of combining discrete components into a TXRX module. It sounds more like a triode or transistor variant, but with multiple features.
A general rule of thumb I follow is "Do I need to output fact or fiction".

For fiction it's great. Facts you need to be much more careful with and ensure you validate.
Only partially related: One thing I often wonder with generative tools, and even before that with the explosion of gobal artists' publishing online:

When is it infringing to make something that looks or sounds like somebody famous? I mean, there's only so many ways a human voice voice can sound or face can look. At what point are entire concepts locked down just because somebody famous exists or existed that pattern matches.
Really? Just researched this recently and it seemed the consensus was linux on Arm Surface devices is still mostly a non-starter.
If anyone thinks this demo is cool, I regret to inform you that your life is very, very sad.
imo it's embarrassing that the ux was better with windows 2000 up through 7, using windows key + first 3 letters + enter gave me reliable way to jump into an app

I install startisback on any windows machine i have power over, of course on my work machine i just have to suffer but at least im getting paid while i wait for the search to settle on a result

https://www.startisback.com/
I'm trying to piece together what parts of that comment are serious and what are heavy sarcasm. On balance, though, it seems you think something trudging along because of donations is unsupported by the free market.

Do you think that? Because if you do I want to point out that donations are one of the ultimate expressions of the free market. The open source ecosystem is in fact the most extreme free market we have available in the world today. It is basically peak capitalism, and a go-to example for how an unregulated free market can generate unbelievable amounts of value (who seriously believed in the 90s that the price of software could naturally drop to $0?).
Jujutsu Strategies
At this point it’s time to create lists of “ethical” AI services, ones that aren’t OpenAI nor other bad actors. I’m dropping my ChatGPT Plus today. Any suggestions on what to replace it with?
> I didn't think her voice was part of her celebrity status

She did the voice for Her, a movie about an AI voice. If you check IMDB she's literally credited as "(voice)". Specifically in the realm of AI, her voice is her entire celebrity status.
If they really did that then (A) it's not much better (B) they didn't even wait for an answer from Johansson (C) it's extraordinarily reckless to go from zero to big-launch feature in less than two days.
The voice didn’t change, just the ability of the model to “output laughter, singing, or express emotion”.
It's OK everyone. I saw some people on HN say that "it sounds nothing her voice". I believe them over Her.
> 8+4 lanes of PCIe 4.0, 2+2 lanes of PCIe 3.0

I’d be surprised if you can’t attach a gpu to that eventually somehow

https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-x-models-3429369...
More like delaying the inevitable. We have ai voice generation so good now, they use it to stage ransom calls and parents cannot tell the difference.
Mathematics is surprisingly weakly typed.

For example, the "2" in "2π" is not the same type of "2" as in x^2 or 2x generally. Yet, physicists (to pick a random group) will blend in these factors, resulting in nonsense. As a random example, one of the Einstein field equations has "8π" in it. Eight what!? What aspect of the universe is this counting out eight of -- a weirdly large integer constant? This actually ought to be "4(2pi)", and then "4" is the number of spacetime dimensions, which makes a lot more sense.

Similarly, in at least one place the square of the pseudoscalar (I^2) was treated as a plain -1 integer constant and accidentally "folded" into other unrelated integer constants. This causes issues when moving from 2D to 3D to 4D.
Yes, it makes it better. This is a war, I assume you are too young to have experienced any others, but this what war is like. It sucks for everyone, and innocents die.

There isn't any other way to exterminate Hamas which is a goal that helps everyone, including Palestinians.
We used to have leadership by people who knew how to do and make things and we've replace them by people that only know how to "manage" things. MBAs, finance types, lawyers, marketeers and their like make up the bulk of people in the decision making seats. They only know how to extract value from companies, creating said value largely eludes them. And as a side effect, America now can't build things(), or only can build them at ridiculous expense and absurdly long timescales.

() yes, there are exceptions; it is interesting to study how those companies differ in their leadership.
For everyone who doesn't understand what's going on: Google has written a check that they claim covers the monetary damages involved in the case, and has conceded that amount. That would take damages off the table for this case. With no monetary damages, Google thinks that the state has no right to demand a jury trial.

They have also said in the article that the amount that Google claims the DOJ can prove is less than $1 million, so there's a chance this is a very small check from Google's perspective.

Polling the jury pool is not an uncommon practice in high-stakes trials, and I assume that Google has run a poll of the jury pool and found them hostile enough that they are willing to concede to 7-8 figures to avoid a jury getting involved in the decision whether to break Google up.
relevant sff short: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
Dotpoint #4
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I’ve never heard that before. Did you just make that up?
"Sky" voice has been the default for about 8 months now, I think, if it resembles Scarlett Johansson so much, why does no one seem to have mentioned it before?
That was not an exclusive statement. It can be a billion lonely guys, AND lonely women, AND gregarious enbies, AND everyone else.
They didn’t say they are running this on prem.
Congress dictates what executive branch agencies do, not the other way around.
Will be funny if Sam was the bad guy all along
The Railsback Curve
Ah yes, it's urgent... See this egregious case, in... 2016. That's how far back they had to look back for a compelling case to illustrate the urgency of this?
Pluton will be on by default per the article. This is MS latest play to lockdown PCs from being general purpose computers to 'large mobile phones' and the ARM platform seems to be the trojan horse to get that across the line.

* grabs tinfoil hat, considers how it depressingly hasn't worked before, puts it on anyways *
https://archive.ph/KG95Q

https://web.archive.org/web/20240520073631/https://www.msn.c...
you're doing god's work; ignorance is never-ending
I do! Thank you
The problem is that you'd need a much bigger experiment to get a statistically significant result on the axis you've decided matters instead, and yet you've got no argument for why this much more expensive and longer experiment is needed beyond that you're not convinced.
But I believe Google is a famous company. And they're the ones who screwed up!
Being able to vaguely ask my computer "what that cooking thing Greg talked about and I looked up on that kitchen supply website three months ago" and have it instantly pull up the chat and the web page is pretty handy.

Having my computer automatically reference some document I was supposed to look at an hour before a meeting scheduled titled "Important Document Review Meeting" even though it's not attached but on some vague share and a deep directory I forgot about would be nice as well. Maybe this would do that.
i think openai would do better if they had principles, values, etc. around responsibility and ownership.

it doesn't seem like principles should matter. but then the bill of rights doesn't seem like it should matter either if you were to cold read the constitution (you might be like - hmm, kinda seems important maybe...).

it compounds culturally over time though. principles ^ time = culture.

"Audacious, Thoughtful, Unpretentious, Impact-driven, Collaborative, and Growth-oriented."

https://archive.is/wLOfC#selection-1095.112-1095.200

maybe "thoughtful" was the closest (and sam is apologetic and regretful and transparent - kudos to him for that). but it's not that clear without a core principle around responsibility. you need that imho to avoid losing trust.
Meanwhile Alien:

Even our most modern military motherships are able to perfectly run code that works on the 1950's models. We have truly achieved write once, run everywhere.

(Independence Day 1996)
This isn't a bribe, and there's no lobbying. This is a sort of weird form of "tactical retreat" in the lawsuit. By conceding on the damages the government is demanding (or at least the ones Google thinks the DOJ can prove), Google is taking the issue of damages off the table, and they believe that this takes the demand for a jury trial off the table. They are taking the loss to avoid having a jury trial.
I mean if you don't think these kinds of positive announcements don't increase the value of the company or parent company then I don't really know how to convince you as it's a standard business principle.
I often wonder why tech people think so positively about companies they idolise who are Uber-ing their way through regulations. Where do they think it stops?

Why would people not want laws? The answer is so they can do the things that the laws prevent.

This is POSIWID territory [0]. "The purpose of a system is what it does". Not what it repeatedly fails to live up to.

What was the primary investment purpose of Uber? Not any of the things it will forever fail to turn a profit at. It was to destroy regulations preventing companies like Uber doing what they do. That is what it succeeded at.

The purpose of OpenAI is to minimise and denigrate the idea of individual human contributions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
The menu key was always useless anyway, because shift+F10 does the same thing.
Which is what makes me wonder if this might grow into a galvanizing event for the pro-creator protests against these AI models and companies. What happened here isn't particularly unique to voices or even Scarlett Johansson, it is just how these companies and their products operate in general.
Indeed, they can find the male voice equivalent.
Though to be fair I think men are MUCH more susceptible to this than women.

That said, Krazam covered this topic well already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPQdVC5RHU
> [Lenovo pricing]

Also available @ 75% off in 12mos on eBay because the used Lenovo market is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I just picked up an unused T15 Gen2 11thGen 16Gb/256Gb for $390. In Warr until late 2026.

Bought a thin client today w/ similar specs for $350.
I keep hearing that Elon Musk is a "fraud". He's about as far from a fraud as one could get.
I wouldn't necessarily call that damning. "Soundalikes" are very common in the ad industry.

For example, a car company approached the band sigur ros to include some of their music in a car commercial. Sigur ros declined. A few months later the commercial airs with a song that sounds like an unreleased sigur ros song, but really they just paid a composer to make something that sounds like sigur ros, but isn't. So maybe openai just had a random lady with a voice similar to Scarlett so the recording.

Taking down the voice could just be concern for bad press, or trying to avoid lawsuits regardless of whether you think you are in the right or not. Per this* CNN article:

> Johansson said she hired legal counsel, and said OpenAI “reluctantly agreed” to take down the “Sky” voice after her counsel sent Altman two letters.

So, Johansson's lawyers probably said something like "I'll sue your pants off if you don't take it down". And then they took it down. You can't use that as evidence that they are guilty. It could just as easily be the case that they didn't want to go to court over this even if they thought they were legally above board.

* https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/tech/openai-pausing-flirty-ch...
> They clearly thought it was close enough that they asked for permission, twice.

You seem to be misunderstanding the situation here. They wanted ScarJo to voice their voice assistant, and she refused twice. They also independently created a voice assistant which sounds very similar to her. That doesn't mean they thought they had to ask permission for the similar voice assistant.
`.`, which is `(?u:.)` by default, matches the UTF-8 encoding of any Unicode scalar value except for the newline terminator.

`(?-u:.)` matches any individual byte except for the newline terminator.

You can't use `(?-u:.)` when searching `&str` because it could match invalid UTF-8. `Regex::new` will fail if you try. You can only use it when searching `&[u8]` via `regex::bytes::Regex`.
Only recently have low latency screens been the default expectation for flat panel computer displays. (I know the crt's were really fast) For most of my life most flat panel computer displays were high latency. Me and my gamer buds have always had to check we were buying a screen with sub whatever ms latency. Nowadays though they are pretty much all fast like that.

This applies to the tvs too. Most of them have a low latency mode. Mine has it. I use it all the time.

Anyways, point is the uneducated consumer can't tell the difference between them, and me the well educated consumer also can't tell the difference, and they come with all the same features, so people just call the big ones tvs, and the small ones screens. (Except the smart tv stuff)
Isn't that kind of like saying my pressure washer is a non-ambulatory car?
DNT is specifically used as a data point in fingerprinting algorithms that stalk you during your daily life. If it is a configurable option the “entropy” will be weaponised against you. If it always matches exactly for every user of this browser that “entropy” doesn’t exist and can’t be used against you.
Search Canadian city council meetings
> I grew up with a math version of scrabble where you wrote equations. I loved it.

I had that one as a kid too, though I never played it much (actual scrabble was way more fun to me). there's a current version called "A math" available in Thailand, from the same company that sells "Crossword game" (scrabble but without the trademarked name)
Looks like you're not the only one who thinks the voices don't sound similar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414908

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414923

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419791

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415350

Saw some other posters expressing this view who deleted their posts after getting downvoted, lol.