skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be fine to not negotiate if you weren't going to use a voice that sounded famous. If I were offering something that let you make any kind of voice you want, I would definitely not market any voice that sounded familiar in any way. Let the users do that (which would happen almost immediately after launch). I would use a generic employee in the example, or the CEO, or I'd go get the most famous person I could afford that would play ball. I would then make sure the marketing materials showed the person I was cloning and demonstrated just how awesome my tool was at getting a voice match.

What I wouldn't do is use anything that remotely sounds famous. And I would definitely not use someone that said "no thanks" beforehand. And I would under no circumstances send emails or messages suggesting staff create a voice that sounds like someone famous. Then, and only then, would I feel safe in marketing a fake voice.
Disregarding the cases settled out of court (which have nothing to do with case law):

1) Tom Waits vs Frito-Lay: Frito-Lay not only used a soundalike to Tom Waits, but the song they created was extremely reminiscent of "Step Right Up" by Waits.

2) Bette Midler vs. Ford Motor Company: Same thing - this time Ford literally had a very Midler-esque singer sing an exact Midler song.

3) Beastie Boys vs. Monster Energy: Monster literally used the Beastie Boys' music, because someone said "Dope!" when watching the ad and someone at Monster took that to mean "Yes you can use our music in the ad".

Does Scarlett Johansson have a distinct enough voice that she is instantly recognizable? Maybe, but, well, not to me. I had no clue the voice was supposed to be Scarlett's, and I think a lot of people who heard it also didn't think so either.
Very well. But in this case the end goal is the end of someone's unique life.

In the case of acquiring a likeness, if it's done legally you acquire someone else's likeness that happens to be shared with your target.

The likeness is shared and non-unique.

If you objective is to take someone's life, there is no other pathway to the objective but their life. With likeness that isn't the case.
> Because they don't think about the consequences, and don't want to.

This is a dangerous way of thinking about people who disagree with you, because once you decide somebody is stupid, it frees you from ever having to seriously weigh their positions again, which is a kind of stupidity all its own.
That's not correct at all.
> Placing so much blame on individuals like Zuck and Sandberg is already a stretch.

This clearly implies that sime blame is warranted.
Lots of reasons!

- They may not know this library exists.

- They may not think the library is actually suitable for their use case.

- They may not want the dependency included.
Also with blender https://www.cadsketcher.com/
I don't think that's quite the same. Are they going out and hiring impersonators of the actors who declined the role or digitally enhancing the substitute to look like them? That seems closer to what happened here.
Thanks to regenerative braking, my brake disks rust long before they wear out. Tire particulates are an engineering problem that will be solved long before the social problem of convincing people to live close enough to make public transit practical.
You can't cut off the qualifying first half of the sentence and then complain that the second half isn't qualified. Come on...
How would blockchain accelerate ACH transfers (or make wire transfers cheaper, or convince banks to support FedNow)?
This is an unforced error, but it isn’t minor. It’s quite large and public.

The general public doesn’t understand the details and nuances of training an LLM, the various data sources required, and how to get them.

But the public does understand stealing someone’s voice. If you want to keep the public on your side, it’s best to not train a voice with a celebrity who hasn’t agreed to it.
It seems you agree. Systems and scripts are not differentiated by the size of the codebase. The way you speak about errors, like "being tempted to swallow errors" and "returning Result from every single function", suggests that you are accustomed to writing scripts. Which isn't unexpected as a lot of computing workloads are script in nature. And, indeed, the 'try/catch' model is well suited to it.

But it not fun when writing systems. That is why we have different tools for different jobs.
Nobody stole her identity. Someone stole the bank and then the bank used the "stolen identity" scam to somehow put the burden on an uninvolved third party.

Things will get better when the customers realize they aren't the victims of the thieves. Banks are the victims of the thieves. Customers are actually the banks' victims.
> Before the first Intifadah there were hardly any settlers in the west bank. The settlement movement is a response to Palestinian violence, not something that happened because the violence stopped.

Even if this is true, all it demonstrates is that Israel is willing to take any measure necessary to avoid giving Palestinians in the West Bank full legal and political rights. Mere military occupation was met with violence, so instead of taking it as a sign that they weren't welcome and letting the population govern itself, they resorted to civilian settlement on top of that to solidify their hold.
The only thing I find confusing about async is that you have to migrate legacy code, and I don't really enjoy rewrites.

Otherwise, it looks basically the exact same as synchronous code, except background stuff only happens while you're await-ing something.

If there's a failure, the await raises an error, just like a sync function call would.

It was horrendous before await, JS nested callbacks were a nightmare, but all that is basically gone now.
> No one is going to push back against OpenAI meaningfully.

Couldn't, perhaps, one of the more famous people on Earth be responsible for "meaningfully" taking OpenAI to task for this? Perhaps even being the impetus for legislative action?
And your tires?
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Apparently two EY partners did suffer some repercussions. Not Arthur Andersen scale, but CUC wasn't Enron scale either.
Fusion 360’s free non-commercial plan is a much softer learning curve than Blender. It doesn’t handle nearly all the situations that Blender can, but if you’re designing products for eventual manufacture, it’s worth trying.
> there's a really good chance that they separately made a voice that sounds similar enough to where if they could tack her name to it, it'd be good for advertising, but otherwise isn't her voice.

There’s also a really good chance this is in some way a deepfake. Would be interesting to see this get examined by courts.
That cannot be true based on any logical thinking. It would be amazing if that were the case. That people fleeing in Nakba all said “we will go anywhere but the remaining unoccupied Palestinian territory”
I agree with the spirit of this article but it would’ve been a lot stronger with examples.

Generally speaking though, “prompt engineering” does not add sufficient value to merit a product in and of itself. No prompt is going to make a killer app. ChatGPT already is the killer app.
MISP galaxy – cybersecurity and other related knowledge base
Creatives will use AI even more than regular people and with better results. What I find dangerous is to protect all paraphrases and variations as well, akin to owning an idea. When not replicating expression ideas should be free, even in copyrights works
Aww. The data they stole isn’t ideal? Such a shame.
And of course the working people get screwed and bankrupted.

> Stock options had long been a major part of the Sierra compensation package, so most employees and former employees were affected by the overnight collapse in Cendant’s share price, and its continued fall. “I had a fair amount of my net worth at the time tied up in that stock,” says Mike Brochu. “Holy crap, it just plummeted to nothing.” Leslie Balfour, a writer and producer at Sierra until late 1997 saw her stock fall from $100,000 to $20,000. Al Lowe says he and his wife lost “the equivalent of a really nice home.”

...

> Less fortunate were the Sierra employees who’d borrowed on their stock options to buy houses, whose banks called in their loans when the stock fell and had to declare bankruptcy. “One of my employees,” Bowerman says, “went from being on paper a millionaire to being hundreds of thousands in debt with no way of payment. There were just dozens of horror stories like that.”

> “To this day,” he writes, “I am only 99% convinced that Walter was a crook. It remains unimaginable to me.”
Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
OpenAI will settle, not sure how you read that in reverse.
Are people Turing machines is a question...

> Plus, the halting problem only says that you can't have a procedure which will be 100% right on 100% of programs about whether or not they halt.

Your missing it still...

"Given a computer program and an input, will the program terminate or will it run forever?"

We both know that the collatz conjecture likely wont ever halt. We understand that. WE are reasonable oracles. Now write me an oracle that can detect this. Dont feed a list of problems to avoid, write a program that detects these types problems and skips them... Hint, you likley cant. You could simulate one, but that would be cheating...

A real AI needs this, or needs to be able to do it, or it risks working on the collatz conjecture till the heat death of the universe, or till it consumes the universe in a paperclip style problem...

The implication is that real ai might not come out of a Turing machine ever...
Fictional characters cannot have personality rights, for obvious reasons.

That falls under copyright, trademarks, ...
He would definitely would - though I’d imagine that most his travel would be done on a diplomatic basis - so it’s possible the Vienna conventions might apply and preclude detention. (not really sure, I’m not a lawyer).
I'll also add that I think it's a bad law if everyone breaks it, yet police look the other way. The beauty of a democratic republic is our elected leaders can change laws and pass new ones! So, just like this case where the people have a choice in what cops can do with surveillance tech, the people also have a choice in what our highways are limited to. The ideas are all really quite simple, and you don't have to go reaching for arguments about Einstein's theories to engage with them.
In this case it just sounds like her , not even a direct copy
Boeing paid money to make a criminal fraud prosecution go away. Then the law firm representing Boeing hired the DoJ lawyer who negotiated the deal, which cut the victims out of the negotiation, possibly in contravention of victims' rights.

Boeing then failed to comply with the agreement and allegedly crimed again within the term of their deferred prosecution agreement in the door plug incident. This all running concurrently with the outgoing CEO getting a $33M bonus.

So. Yeah.
Heh, NP, glad you found it of interest. I came across it via the recent HN post about common data structures in Common Lisp, checked the author's blog, saw it ran on mataroa, checked that, found it interesting, posted it here, boom ;)
Settling isn't unilateral. OpenAI can offer to settle, but if she doesn't accept, there will be no settlement.
Azure Speech tts is capable of doing this with SSML. I wouldn't be surprised if it's what OpenAI is using on the backend.
I don't identify with something that is just a tool (although one of the best ones). What does piss me off however is when people perpetuate false facts, straight up lie about arbitrary matters, are incapable of changing their mind when facts change and when disagreed with, resort to personal attacks.

This can be seen through other issues in the industry but is particularly felt in bad teams - social cohesion resides on a set of commonly agreed upon beliefs within a group and the worse the team is the more such beliefs are at odds with reality, and all I've been seeing in the past year is HN slipping more and more into this when it comes to programming.
Taking this a step further, if the AI could write Daphne, it could rely on invariants and pre and post conditions for this proof, no?
That’s the revenue
See, I don't like Sam Altman either, but this habit of criticizing people for their faces seems wrong-headed. Isn't it his behavior that we should be criticizing?
> then Israel would no longer be majority Jewish

It still would, as long as the Gaza strip is not also included (West Bank only).
At that point the court would effectively lose it's legitimacy, as it would be unable to enforce/execute those warrants. Not saying that that is a) good or b) isn't where we are heading... it mirrors the trajectory of the UN and it's certainly in line with trends in economic fragmentation.
There's zero actual evidence this is the case and the failure mechanism would extend FAR beyond photos if it were. One post claims they wiped a device and photos came back but I hesitate to trust a single person on the internet.
This. DynamoDB will export to parquet (or csv); s3 select becomes possible for data. More importantly, Athena can query it all
What's happening is similar to "no contest".

Where Google accepts paying the damages but does not plead or admit guilt.

(You can do the same thing if you get a speeding ticket. And since you accept the consequences, no reason to go to trial.)
The original idea was to have the first pair in the middle, the next pair outside of that, etc.. so that a smaller pair plug could fit in a larger sized jack.

However when it came time to specify the pinout when designing ethernet over utp they found the separation required to place the wires like this was too great and degraded the characteristics of the line so they placed a pair on each side keeping the center as is for some sort of compatibility. Like said you could have a phone line in the center of your ethernet. suck to be you it you did that then later wanted to upgrade to gigabit. It also suck if you had some idiot doing the wiring who had the bright idea "herp derp, two pairs of this are not used... I could run two ethernet lines over this cable"

Which is sort of my next complaint, tia-568, the intent was to have the A standard be used with the B standard for compatibility with existing phone lines . Every place I have ever been they just used the B standard. I mean it is not a huge deal, but it always bugged me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/TIA-568
We used SVN at my first job in 2006 and I had the exact opposite experience with it. I never fully understood what I was doing, nothing made rational sense, merges were an absolute nightmare, and somehow I would always ended up corrupting the repo and had to pull a nightly backup to get out of the broken state.

Git was a literal breath of fresh air in comparison. I fell in love hard and fast. Everything just made sense, even if our workflow using git am patches seems downright ancient these days. Friends at the time tried to sell me on hg, but I was in love.
Azure Speech tts is capable of speeding up, slowing down, sarcasm, etc with SSML. I wouldn't be surprised if it's what OpenAI is using on the backend.
Hero U was so close but ultimately such a grindfest that I ended up souring on it a bit but it was still the closest a game has come I think.
> My lane is this: I think we're producing new and powerful tools. Some of those tools can be used as weapons. Some of those tools seem to be footguns. But they're relatively broad tools that can be used for many purposes, and the idea that the toolmakers need special oversight because one day someone might figure out how to get the tool to produce a plan for a chemical weapon (Sec 3 (n)(1)(A)) seems misguided to me.

You do realize you're undermining your own point here? Photoshop isn't remotely similar to your description here...

But also, note that I'm not arguing this is a great bill. Again: I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Maybe it's terrible regardless. I'm just saying that if I take the (terse...) commentary I'm reading about it online at face value, they very much achieve the opposite of "convince the reader this is a terrible idea".
> Does Scarlett Johansson have a distinct enough voice that she is instantly recognizable?

It absolutely is if you've seen /Her/. It even nails her character's borderline-flirty cadence and tone in the film.
I remember playing "Pharaoh" and also "Zeus: Master of Olympus". I really enjoyed those games.

In Pharaoh, you would manage the economy of an ancient Egyptian city and could build monuments and pyramids.
What gives you that impression? Commentary I've seen suggests highly likely for Sinwar et al., but 50/50 on Netanyahu and Gallant.
But the amount of aid going into the Gaza strip has increased dramatically (up to the Rafah crossing being taken). i.e. Israel did take action on this matter.

EDIT: It's also important to note the odd timing of asking for arrest warrants for the Hamas leadership at the same time as the Israeli arrest warrants.

Clearly unlike Israel there is no chance in *$#@ that Hamas would prosecute their own leadership for violation of international humanitarian law. The Hamas violations have also occurred earlier.

I.e. Israel should be given more time for its independent legal system to evaluate whether or not there's a case and pursue it. Israel justice system has put prime ministers and presidents on trial. Hamas shouldn't be given any time.

Given this you'd think arrest warrants for Hamas leadership would come a lot sooner.

Since this isn't the case one has to wonder if the prosecutor is doing a "both sides" kind of thing, maybe afraid of backlash if they only go after one side, in which case the response of Israel to the request to increase aid (which has happened) is not relevant.
That's fair - when I talked about value I was only talking about what they themselves valued, not any value to a larger group. If they succeeded, the homestead could provide them value even if literally no one else in the world knew it was there.

They were trying to build a house, but they failed miserably. Because they lacked some very basic skills, and the ability to plan. I think most people should realize that building a 5 story A-frame as your first home, by yourself, in the wilderness, is not the easiest of tasks. Maybe try a 1 story A-frame first? Or a log cabin.
> Additionally, it would give us faster network latency because it was running on-premises within Uber’s data centers.
Conventional wisdom is autocratic. Disrupt that.
Because in the end the statement that started this whole discussion is still true: we're not there yet, the starship keeps exploding. I have deep respect for SpaceX but what they "explicitly say" doesn't change facts.

We may get there eventually, perhaps even with starship, but the fact remains that in 60 years after Apollo we don't have a comparable heavy rocket.
Unless there's a ramification of electromagnetism that I'm missing, cars that do the bulk of their braking through regeneration require their conventional brakes to absorb far less energy, reducing the particulate matter generated.
agreed. he deserves a lot of credit for starting SpaceX and helping it be successful early on.

I’m just explaining (IMO) he’s not going to be very helpful getting them from “current day” to “land on mars”. I don’t want Elon to get too involved with day to day operations of SpaceX. It’s going VERY well without his micromanaging at the moment.
> If a country has a functional, independent judiciary, that judiciary gets the right to address the wrong. Or not.

There is no definition of Genocide but only of what you can get away with. These countries are engaged in a proxy war via Israel. They can't replace Israel right now, heck they can't even replace the current leadership. So they just have to explain away and launder the reputation of the operation.
Absolutely. If a vehicle is discounted towards invoice, a salesperson can easily end up making $250 on a $100,000 fully loaded Audi A8.

Heck, I've sold used cars at asking price and still made $250 just because the dealership overpaid on the trade in.

All in all it all adds up and evens out, but mentally it can be frustrating coming into work on 4th of July and spending hours with someone trying to have fun looking at 4 cars and then leaving. And then finally selling one at 7pm and staying late, to make $250.

And with the way the pay plans are structured, it's hourly pay OR commission whichever is higher..so if you sold a few cars Wednesday Thursday for $2k, you can end up coming to work Friday Saturday Sunday, not selling anything, and technically didnt get paid anything more for those hours.
I interpreted it as a increase in the fee.
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I always mix up those two in my head and have to think which one is which
Maybe they have second trained on her voice.
Anybody have one of those prefilled forms I can attach my signature to and send to my representative? The twitter links were broken for me.
She has a personal net worth of >$100m. She’s also married to a successful actor in his own right.

Her voice alone didn’t get her there — she did. That’s why celebrities are so protective about how their likeness is used: their personal brand is their asset.

There’s established legal precedent on exactly this—even in the case they didn’t train on her likeness, if it can reasonably be suspected by an unknowing observer that she personally has lent her voice to this, she has a strong case.
Even OpenAI knew this, or they would not have asked in the first place.
>plenty of people thought the debate over the legal status of slaves was "settled"

Are you saying plenty of people don't consider it to be settled now? Not knowing you personally I'd be willing to bet almost any amount you are not genuinely open to be persuaded by a pro-slavery or divine monarchy debate. People weren't argued into their shackles and neither were they argued out of them. Just look at the US DoI. It says "we hold those truths to be self-evident.." not "we invite you to make a pro and con list of everything every so often" and hash it out again.

When debate is productive the most important qualifier is never free, it's always reasoned and on shared moral principles. Borders are so violent exactly because they're truly "up for debate". Geopolitics is in a real state of anarchy. The logical endpoint of which is might makes right physical conflict. Mind you European borders today are not "debated" that way, and we consider that a win. If someone said "All European borders must be up for debate!" you'd be somewhat concerned.

I mean, that is precisely why US domestic debate is increasingly breaking down and violent. Not because it's not free enough but because it's too free. Because there's no ethical or rational ground underpinning it. So Sam has it exactly wrong. A community that has no shared conception of the fundamental rights of its people is likely in no condition to debate anything.
Each individual legal rule isn’t formulated according to a free-ranging consideration of what’s “beneficial to society.” It would be impossible to administer such a system of rules based on ad hoc policy considerations.

The rule here, the Seventh Amendment, confers a right to a jury trial when one would have been required under English common law at the time the seventh amendment was written. Roughly speaking, in the English system, cases involving monetary damages were handled in courts of law with juries. Cases that involved injunctive relief (orders to do or not do something) were handled in courts of equity with decisions made by judges.
People hire celebrity voice impersonators all the time. You've heard a few impersonators this month probably from ads. This is such a non-issue that's only blowing up because Johannsen wrote a letter complaining about it and because people love "big tech is evil" stories.