skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phones are not really energy-intensive. They produce negligible amount of energy compared to house appliances.

A fridge produces about 100 times more energy than a phone.
I'm not the Linux zealot I was as a kid, but I can never see myself going back to Windows. The particular niceties of a Unix environment are ones that I've come to rely on, and I could never go back to managing all my files and data through rat wrestling, the way Windows seems to want you to do.

That said, I can see the merits of Windows, especially for normies or video game players. It's just absolute friction town for me to use it.
I'm afraid I can't download the image, Kuerbel.
Kinda like Starter Story?
Problem is there aren't 8 billion clearly distinguishable voices in the world, so some people are going to sound a bit like other people.

Should the voice actor who sounds a bit like Scarlet just quit working?
Microsoft's AI chatbot will recall everything you do.

Except if it's a pattern that doesn't match what's perceived to be in the incredibly short term interests of Microsoft's shareholders.
As a humble mathematics student — ChatGPT makes me look clever.
I think the board should fire Sam Altman again. If the board does not fire Sam Altman it is not doing its duty, so someone should sue the board, or convince attorney general to sue.

Attorney general of Delaware is Kathy Jennings <attorney.general@delaware.gov>. Mail your argument now. Do your civic duty.
> why are there no solar panels anywhere

Land procurement is annoying in VN, and most of the large scale infra is basically built by private players because local government is not the most capable.

Also, it is mostly mountainous

> how did people live before ACs were invented

Start the day very early, take a siesta, and living in traditional houses to minimize the sun while also getting plenty of airflow.

Edit:

Listen to leduyquang753. His answer is much deeper and accurate than my broad strokes one.
Book Review: The Others Within Us
Then be careful that you're not accidentally clicking the Update button on the updater popup. There was no upfront warning about the AI integration there.
The rate of improving is important.
If it's as intelligent as the average human, the rate of improving will be slow, very slow compared to what the researcher can do currently.
Hopefully this story will do better than when I posted it
I moved from LastPass to 1Password last year. The difference in experience is not insignificant. Login screen presentation and identification is orders of magnitude better on 1Password than with LastPass.

Also, LastPass's Android app seems an afterthought.
Again, I must recommend everyone read Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns The Future".

It's an excellent book, and so so many of the issues raised in it are playing out blow-by-blow.
It's only really about the intent of the voice to sound like the original. Reaching out to the originals first implies intent, so it makes the case easier.

It would be harder to find a case if they simply just hired someone that sounds similar, but if they did that with the intention to sound like the original that's still impersonation, only it's harder to prove.

If they just happened to hire someone that sounded like the original, then that's fair game IMO.

IANAL
Ok, besides the privacy/permission aspect...

Where do they store all this data on my local PC? Some news items mention screenshots every couple seconds, for example.

Will you be forced to pay for extra storage for a feature you don't want or need?

Will Microsoft send me an extra SSD on their dime on request? :)
I'm a moron. Somehow I read "width" and deleted the irrelevant parameter because people have different screen sizes and the site should auto-detect instead of using my one.
> OpenAI is amazing technology,

Erm... no. https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
There’s a thing in intellectual property called “passing off” - if your logo and branding is so similar to McDonalds that consumers are likely to think that your product comes from McDonalds, then you’re in breach and will be sued.

Regardless of whether they hired a different actress for the voice model, enough consumers would be convinced “ohhh it’s the same as ScarJo in Her!” which should point to there being an issue with ScarJo’s image rights and likeness, and although the law right now doesn’t explicitly cover AI voice modelling, as soon as this is tested in court it would likely set a precedent. Unless ScarJo lost that case, which seems unlikely.
It is opt-in, not opt-out. You do not have to uncheck anything. If you do not put the effort to activate it and provide an api key, it will not do anything.
COPA vs. Wright Judgement, Evidence of Wright's Forgery of Bitcoin Whitepaper [pdf]
And a remark: the "real" problem when using Buck 2 is the interface to the LSP, as most LSPs only work with the "native" project configuration. For C++ generating a `compile_commands.json` is quite easy (see my C++ examples in the other post), not the least because there is no single standard for a project's configuration.
Flutter and Dart add WASM compilation target
I tend to agree - just look at large parts of the Venture Capital / Start-Up scene. Chasing the coveted product/market-fit is a purpose in itself there (at least in the early stages). I guess it depends on what you define as "successful"...
I just installed wezterm and looking good so far.

I actually prefer the Lua config script instead of that messy iTerm2 preferences panel.
Thank you for the reply! Do you mean the Estonia e-residency? If you got one, may I ask what your experience with it has been? I have always been thinking about it.
I don't need to explain anything. Why should I explain a tweet? The tweet is the tweet, they used it for marketing.

It doesn't' change anything, they can make it seem similar to her if they want by hiring a voice actor with similar characteristics, the voice actor is paid for there work and they get something that is great marketing. There is no theft here. This is a completely normal situation, your massive overreaction is not normal.

If they stole her voice outright, there is a problem, but it is extremely unlikely they did. So then there is no issue. It's common sense, i'm not sure what's wrong with you that you are trying to bring politics into it.
I agreed with your argument before the latest revelations, so now I want a judge to order OpenAI to get clean, did they do use any second of Scarlet voice ?

Because they could be lying, they could have used a different actress and also mixed some Scarlet voice into the mix.
Factories have big flat roofs. That means low installation cost for solar panels. And these are nowadays pretty efficient. Not perfect angle or random shadow aren’t business or show stoppers now. Especially in a sunny country.
I know that was just an example, but if you're doing it that often, why not create a `start-static-server` script/alias? And if you're not doing it often enough to justify that, is the difference in workflow really significant?
The maritime industry, more than "the West", is a prime culprit there. Let's also mention how they skirt taxation, the use of flags of convenience, the lack of protection for crews, the matrioshka shell companies...
Point 4 is incredibly under-marketed. Almost all of Nix/NixOS documentation focus on the language-y and build-system-y parts of Nix, and the NixOS modules are usually not talked about. Terrible state of docs doesn't help.
Because they’re not as creative as they think they are.
In fairness, it's also a longer lifetime with more socially-productive time etc - obesity has a somewhat higher cost-intensity-per-year than a comparable fit citizen, probably. But we already live in the society where very little is spent on earlier care - because the US spends very little on early care of anyone who's not an AARP voter. So is that a meaningful reduction in total spending?

That is my interpretation of why the semaglutide budget effects are dire etc - well, Medicare doesn't spend anything on the fatty who dies at 50, and if they live to 80 and get cancer it's a lot more expensive for Medicare in the long-run actually. The proximal cost of the drug almost doesn't matter itself ($700/mo is w/e in terms of what we spend on seniors, and obesity is expensive both short-term and long, right?) it's more the long-run budget effects.

It's already generally a shift upwards in Euro societies with more egalitarian age distribution of spending. Then you consider the US's favoritism for seniors... and the fact that ultimately Medicare foots a lot of it (minus the substantial amounts they can claw back ofc). They are the ultimate "sick pool"/adverse selection, right? Yeah, the USG's budget numbers probably look really bad if we cure obesity actually, even if it wasn't expensive.

Thanks for your disarming attitude.
In terms of hardware issues, Ive had a single EC2 instance running application servers and MySQL (YUP - ran a decently traffic intensive site like this). All software was run on a virtual instance. I configured all the necessary things to run on startup of the machine and the worst thing AMZN ever did was occasionally reboot the host machine my instance was running on. I was never down and there were "planned restarts" that I'd get the odd email about.

In the event some real failure happened, I had a clone of the AMI and could easily dump it onto new hardware - after I knew about it of course.

All that said - that situation wasn't my Job - and if Im being paid to have uptime, Id better cover my ass and have a hot failover on standby.

Since Im speaking AWS here - of course I used EBS for the virtual filesystem such that a machine crash didn't lose my SSD based filesystem. As I'm sure many here know, you can run a database on an EBS backed filesystem (and I have to assume even mount a swap file there too). I thought it was crack-smoking a when someone suggested that could easily be done.

"But if its that simple - why is everyone running all these N tier setups and living with all this unnecessary complexity?!?!"
as the pension scheme is in the order of 30% of your salary

Honest question, as I have no idea, but don't US employers also offer pension schemes that they pay money into, on top of the listed salary?
Lets say this goes to the court. I wonder how would they prove if a 'voice' belongs to a person. This is such a grey area, how does some one own a 'voice'. Also similar doesn't mean same.

Plus this opens the door for all kinds of things. Say tomorrow some one makes a AI that sings. And they make any lyrics, and make a AI sing it, say in a voice that's very close to their favorite singer. Would that qualify as illegal?

Would be interesting to see how that legal side of things in this regards unfolds.
Starting page 110 is where the evidence is laid out. He didn't realise that the account he was using tracked the live changes he was making to the LaTeX document. Other "highlights" include not knowing what an unsigned integer is.
Luxury for Everyone: Thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA
It should (hopefully) be fairly uncontroversial that there are underlying legitimate reasons i.e. the fallout from the first decade of Brexit. Unfortunately it seems things are likely to worsen heading into the second decade.
Again with the psychological projection.
> There is nothing better about windows than say, Fedora.

Plenty. To base of your comment and the topic: Everything for file search, DOpus for a file manager are much better than anything any Linux can offer
Can you explain why an American agency would care about violated EU laws?
What do you consider a "reasonable" amount of time?

(I probably come from the opposite viewpoint: I consider the few axes along which I've devoted over a decade to learning as being the particular high-dimensional corners making me me, rather than any of my 8 billion other conspecifics)
Aspiring technofeudalist.
I'm using the zsh-autosuggestion plugin (so not a feature of the terminal but of the shell):

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
> obviously Israel had no choice here

Israel is vastly superior in a military sense, and could stop at any moment with no real negative consequences to itself.

The reason why Hamas was able to breach Israel's defenses on 7 October was because Israel had moved most of its troops into the West Bank, where it is busy repressing the Palestinian population, and because Israel ignored repeated warnings about an upcoming Hamas attack.

But stepping back, the reason this conflict exists in the first place is that Israel refuses to leave the occupied Palestinian territories. It is building illegal settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and it holds Gaza under a crippling blockade that makes life miserable there. The Palestinians have been subjected to what may be the longest military occupation in modern history, and they will continue to resist until Israel gives them their freedom.
And some non-legacy software. Otherwise it's worse.
It should also be noted that the geneva conventions have passed into customary international law. They apply even to countries that haven't signed them.
You don't "uncheck the OpenAI checkbox". You check the box if you want to use it, and you provide an API key. Hooking genAI up to your terminal is sort of one of the obvious use cases for this tech, and they're just providing you with the hooks to use it if you like.

As much as I dislike the current trend of "AI ALL THE THINGS", I don't think supporting it as a completely optional feature is in any way problematic.
I should clarify - energy-intensive manufacture.

Your claim is not supported by a large number of investigations, eg:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/17/links-17...
Because it’s not enabled by default?

One has to not only enable it but also provide an API key first.

I’m failing to see how “off by default” is a worse option here…
They didn’t steal her voice, they paid someone with a similar voice. It’s still not nice, but not stealing.
Story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff
How many movies named "Her" are there?

Since OpenAI asked her for permission two days before releasing it, obviously THEY thought it sounded like her voice, and that they needed to ask for permission. Making public claims implying that she's involved with the project like Sam Altman's "her" tweet, AFTER asking for permission and receiving two "NO"s, proves malice and dishonesty.

Sam Altman's tweet is going to be Exhibit 1 in the lawsuit he loses.

https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666?lang=en

It makes me wonder how many "NO"s Sam Altman's sister Annie told him, that he also ignored. Maybe SHE deserves HER voice to be heard.

https://x.com/anniealtman108/status/1459696444802142213

Annie Altman’s Abuse Allegations Against OpenAI’s Now-Fired CEO Sam Altman Highlight the Need to Prioritize Humanity Over Tech:

https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-a...

>What are Annie Altman’s allegations against her brother Sam Altman?

>Annie Altman alleged in a November 2021 Twitter thread that she “experienced sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, and financial abuse from my biological siblings, mostly Sam Altman and some from Jack Altman.” She returned to those allegations in 2023, seeming to call out Sam. “I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore,” Ms. Altman’s account, @phuckfilosophy, tweeted in March 2023. “(You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.)” [Sam Altman is openly gay, and there are nine years between Sam and Annie.] “I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you.”
Recall from some cloud service I bet
Then why bother mentioning an "underdog story" at all?

Who is the underdog in this situation? In your comment it seems like you're framing OpenAI as the underdog (or perceived underdog) which is just bonkers.

Hacker News isn't a hivemind and there are those of us who work in GenAI who are firmly on the side of the creatives and gasp even rights holders.
love the separate quotes for "AI" and "features"
I would say that if you ever take your company public that you don't own it anymore, it is now owned by the whims of the marketplace as a whole.
Someone from OpenAI wrote on Twitter that pulling this voice was in the works for a month already. Must be true, it was on the Internet.
You're describing the mechanics of the Free Market in it's purest form and calling it Communism.
> In our history we've seen time and time again that humans will believe in magic and higher powers

Indeed; and these days in tech circles it is the magic of atoms (or strings, or whatever entities you like). The fact that physics by design makes no claims about objective existence of anything does not stop them from thinking that somehow all those entities (which are merely metaphors, ways to create models that are legible to our minds) must exist in some fundamentally objective sense; neither does the fact that we cannot directly access them other than via consciousness, or that the entire idea of empirical observation hinges on the existence of the observer.

> Everything points to yet another physical thing that we'll hopefully understand and explain soon.

It had been explained [away] already—since you appear to hold physicalism, you may also like illusionist theories of consciousness.
You're seeing a pattern of bad faith "beg forgiveness instead of asking permission" and they got their hand caught in the cookie jar when someone insisted they didn't want part. Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc were just happy to roll over and accept the check after the fact.
Think about the voice actor they hired (presuming they did so). Does she not have the right to use her own voice for money merely because she sounds like another, more famous persons?
I've seen this take quite a lot around Twitter recently, which is confusing to me. Do you read Her as a "AI assistants are bad" story? I thought it was a much more subtle exploration of what our world would be like if such things existed, rather than outright condemning it, but it seems like lots of people saw only horror start to finish.
I couldn't but instantly thought of WeWork.
You need to offer more, not less, bro, wtf.
iTerm2 is open source. Stop clutching your pearls and make a fork, if you are compelled to.
No, there is wider a context and nuance to the whole topic, as there always is. Jumping to hyperbolic "slippery slope" arguments doesn't add anything interesting to this discussion and instead tries to deflect it.
Stopping behaviour is not an automatic admission of guilt.
Haven't we all been assuming for years already that our work machines have keylogger-level monitoring?
If it was an exact copy fine, but it's not. This is ridiculous.
Imagine Margot Robbie sued a film producer for using Jamie Presley when she turns down a role or Michael Cera for Jessie Eisenberg.
How do you know that? The timeline of events makes it seem fairly clear that they were in fact using her voice. If it was just a soundalike, why suddenly take it down?
Best place to find hacker houses to live in Silicone Valley?
Hey guys, I’m looking to come to SAN Fran and try to network whilst find a group of investors to pitch my product at. I have 50 ppl signed up by the today. And I launch in 7 days time.

Currently have an agentic AI setup on langraph to replace a hospital’s administrative and executive role- overpaid / inefficient workforce - which in the end makes the doctors job more difficult and ultimately drains the doctor / patient relationship value.

Using GROQ and cloud GPU clusters.

App is for doctors to use and become autonomous in the workplace.

Eventually change the way middlemen operate in the health sector.

Where would be a good place to find hustlers, meetups to attend, and hacker houses to sit in at? I can work 15 hours straight and only need a need a roof.

Would appreciate any insights in SAN Fran and how to make my way around? I was going to get an e scooter from Ali express and have it delivered… assembled it when I pick it up on my way in from the airport and then go straight to a hostel.

Thank you.

Ps I’m a full stack dev, ML & CUDA / TRITON / Axoltol beginner. Have done 2 startups… both exits and now wanting to work with talent. I’m struggling here with my networks. And want to come and roll the dice in the valley. I have a deg in medicine.
Never forget sama is also behind the Worldcoin dystopian absurdity. It tells a lot.
Do we know that these voices are backed by real people? I kind of assumed that given AI tech in voice cloning, they could make a voice sound like anyone they want and don't need to go out and find someone that sounds like "the target" voice. I think it's more fair game if they actually found another human that could sound like someone famous, but if they just ran the audio of some of her movies through some AI and out popped a voice, that's a little bit less clear.
Anyone looking at the map of the time can understand why he was called the great, no matter if that would be right or wrong morally.
You can still use Windows 10 after that date, it's not like it will uninstall itself and shutdown right then and there.

If you felt so inclined you can also pay Microsoft for support after that date.

Or Microsoft might also extend support based on public demand, given that Windows 10 still beats Windows 11 in install base.
They passed off Sky as Johansson’s voice though. It’s highly misleading and passing off is a kind of theft of her persona.
> After I've consented

Well LLMs have already stolen everything you ever wrote or posted online.

We told y'all to advocate for a very strict regulation of these things.

But no.

Instead: It's amazing. It's world changing.

Yes. It's going to change the world. For much worse. If you thought Citizens United damaged democracy just wait. Elections will be won by those with the most compute aka the most money everywhere.

People will die of this bullshit. I can't foretell how but they will. I mean, I haven't foreseen AI generated mushroom books but I am absolute certain this technology is deadly. Just wait.

Everything AI generated should come with an unskippable, extremely obvious huge warning of being AI generated and free of facts. If the AI companies won't add these then we should force them by regulation. But no. Hype instead.
Switch to Linux. It's long time overdue.
Interested to see how this plays out. Given the level of mimicry that AI can now achieve how do actors, musicians and artists safeguard the likeness, sound or style that they've developed?
They didn’t clone her voice
Prepare the rollback/fallback pre-mortem, not surprised
In the end, it's business, it's purely about money. When you got untold billions in the bank account, or have someone backing you who has the billions, you can do whatever you want as long as it's not a violation of criminal codes. Hope that no one discovers what you did, and in the case they do and have the financial resources to fight back, drag the case along for as long as you can, and eventually settle for pennies.

As long as you don't commit crimes, this strategy will always work out. Hell even if you do commit crimes, as long as you have willing "fixers", you got to piss off a lot of powerful people to face justice. Just look at the 45th - that guy has a history of decades of stiffing contractors, lenders and employees (including those who actually went behind bars for him), but it took a pretty flimsy constructed case to finally charge him with a crime and I'm not certain that the case is clear enough for a conviction.