skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If there is no penalty for shoplifting then it just makes sense to shoplift no matter your financial situation." True sociopath logic, my man.

Most people do not base their actions on some kind of spreadsheet where they are optimizing for economic success. Many people, I hazard to guess most, base their behavior on some sort of pile of moral ideas and/or general bonhomie. Most people are pretty chill and don't want to screw around with other people's livelihoods regardless of legal consequences.
You are very incorrect, but there's no point in going back and forth on this given how far off we are on claims.

Suffice it to say I have talked, personally, to enough bippers to understand that there are 'spotters' and 'bippers', and which one uses the cell-phone based Bluetooth scanner (which requires no 'hardware' or 'effort' to figure out the source of a BLE signal.)
Is that realistic?

Sure, text editors and viewers like vim or less can probably filter out terminal escape sequences, but should arbitrary programs printing (potentially user-supplied) strings to stdout have to?

Maybe terminal escape sequence processing should be opt-in (on a by-process/job level) rather than opt-out?
I've also used xlswriter and had the same experience - very happy with it. I used it to generate bar and pie charts on one of the sheets.
> The elitism is rife to a level unlike in California.

Awhile ago, to students at MIT, I mentioned suspiciously "MIT shop" companies, and said that, if you don't think there's people at Northeastern who could hold their own, then recalibrate worldview.

There's absolutely a lot of elitism around certain NE schools known around the world, agreed. Those schools actively promote it, and it's evident in some post-graduation things, including companies.

But I also see variations on that elitism around Stanford, Google, and some other Bay Area icons.

One difference between the elitism I notice most commonly around MIT, and around Bay Area, is that MIT's version is often about having survived a trial by fire, and being uniquely stronger due to that (not that I fully agree). Bay Area versions more often come across as less-secure reaching for and clinging to symbols of status, and nurturing artificial frat-like exclusivity. (Clinging to Leetcode hazing rituals is just one example.)

Of course, on an individual person level, you'll find a lot of smart and thoughtful people who don't subscribe to the elitism -- maybe the majority of people who could claim the same exclusive club as the elitists. And some of the smartest people are the most humble in thought and manner. But elitism does seep into a lot of things.

I suppose that club elitism might also be involved in some of the more arrogant actions you see affecting large swaths of society, separate from money/power motivations. The Bay Area sure does have a lot of that arrogance, sometimes labeling it "disrupt". (But maybe most often "disrupt" is more about grabbing money/power, than a genuine but arrogant belief that one can and should make decisions for society. Maybe all that matters to some is that they can, and anything else, like "changing the world [for better/worse, who cares]" is rationalization that's been blessed as virtuous.)
(Google is huge, and does real tech, i.e. advances in deep learning. The following only applies to their search startup phase.)

PageRank was innovative, and had great "market fit" (or "user fit", prior to ad revenue), but wasn't very deep as technology goes.

Google's (original) business success came from leveraging that into a three-way network-effect as the middleman connecting web content users, web content providers, and web advertisers. Even today, PageRank's successor algorithms appear to be aimed more at ad revenue optimization than improving search as a technology.

Likewise. Netflix, Facebook, Expedia, Spotify, Uber, Airbnb, ... use tech as operations, it is not the product. Their primary defenses are not unique technology, but network effects, customer information lock-in, and other market-side moats.

They have great technical people doing great work. But a high proportion of their innovation is aimed at their own operations, customer engagement, etc., not creating and offering new technology.

--

Technology first companies typically end up as part of a supply chain.

nVidia is a good example They have become huge, but are still a parts maker in a lot of ways. They have created a sticky ecosystems, but their primary work and moat remains keeping up a relentless technological cadence.

Another example was Amazon. They started by adapting others' tech to create an online store. But instead of simply optimizing that, they fully developed distributed computing as a service, and spun that out as its own business. Now they are a provider in other companies' supply/resource chains.
This is engagement farming, pure and simple, and has ensured that a very very broad audience is now aware that OpenAI has this kind of functionality.

Even if there ends up being some kind of monetary settlement ... I bet this works out as a net plus for OAI. Which is a bit sad that the market rewards dishonorable behavior.
If you own the land I don’t see any why it’s a bad thing to not want others trespassing on it. No diff than I don’t want people randomly deciding to sit in my car for whatever reason while I’m at work.
Thanks for your feedback.
It just started. We have big plans for this project :)
In other words, we don't know shit.
Ask HN: Does Preapproved Job offer akin Preapproved credit card exist?
Conditions can be screening round, post background checks on experience with previous employers. No other interview rounds.

If I build a product on this idea, I know every job seeker under the sun would jump in but what about the employers? Does a market exist, can I expect early adopters?
I bet OpenAI wanted spice up the demo by making it look like Her the movie and willing take the back lash later, using “we hired a similar voice actor as a slight reprieve”.

This is very familiar to early Napster/torrent era where it disrupted music distribution, now with voice and image likeliness. I think the industry will find a way to evolve for the better just like Music did
I would have been curious to read about WhatsApp since it is a widely used app.
Also for youtube I use NewPipe which I find incredibly good (no ads, can manage playlists and audio only).
How many times is this going to be posted?
> Maybe we're part of an infinitely large cosmos where our false vacuum has these parameters, and others don't (statistical multiverse / baby universe models).

You'd be in good company with that approach.

Ironically, it becomes easier to explain if dark energy wasn't constant (see: TFA), because then you can make an anthropic argument, that only this part of the universe leads to complex structure and thus life. But for that you have study alternative models which might just be right.

>We just don't know, and sometimes it's enough to know that we don't know.

That is a very anti-science take that I find problematic. Curiosity is a very human trait and has been proven to be fruitful.
You’re very focused on specifics, which aren’t paramount here. This is not the end of the story, it’s the beginning.

Not to mention iterm development has slowed a lot in recent years. Who knows how much longer the author will be around.

From: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/

“A terminal emulator is probably also a fairly bad place to implement this because it's probably one of the most privileged programs on a developer's machine. It deals with all the secrets in the world, and the threat that it could be used to upload them all to a third party is great enough that people are willing to switch away from it sight unseen.”

It’s important to call out poor judgment around development of our FLOSS tools, they are precious.
It gives him most of July and August to move to California and get his kids settled in before the school year starts
Well covered in previous thread with better source (Johansson's statement)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225
> No, it's not reductionist and pedantic. It's a reminder that there is no magic.

Exactly! This is an even better phrasing of my point.
Webb telescope offers first glimpse of an exoplanet's interior
> Get good at communicating and being vulnerable.

Very good advice! (And the rest of your comment too)
I used to think so. But real tasks have acceptance criteria. Seeing how candidates work with loose criteria has told me more than telling them in effect to read my mind.
Huh.

Never sounded like her to me but whatever. Maybe OpenAI should hire a relative nobody like Apple did with Siri.
Zvi has a pretty good summary of what happened: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/do-not-mess-with-sca...
Have you stopped to think that maybe people will use this "experimental 3 month old language" for their personal stuff, and that not everything in programming is for your "whole team"?
> What I fear about AI is not their economic uses, but their use in warfare.

AI has been used in warfare in the form of computer vision for like 20 years now. That's the scariest application of AI you will ever have to worry about; putting ChatGPT in a GBU-12 isn't going to make it any more dangeorus.
I see your point. Since we can’t have 100% accuracy on enforcement we should not enact this. Indeed, no law should ever be enacted until 100% enforcement can
be obtained. Thank you for this insight. I’m now an anarchist libertarian. Ban all laws!
"Damning with faint praise" is hardly a secret code.
So it's all about the money...
Consensys Implemented a Systemic Approach to External Monitoring Checkly
Maybe I'm an outlier, I don't think the voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson. This seems pushed way out of proportion for what it is.
The four groups of strings make up four chords. Going clockwise, they are C, Am, F, G. This is a common chord progression[1] in pop music. It became popular because the chords sound good together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2750s_progression
Thanks for writing this up. It’s one of the best explanations of this problem I’ve seen.
>OpenAI said. “To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.”

Not sure the angle there though? If I was the voice actor I'd love for them to share my name, maybe lead to other gigs.
Beyond Benchmarks
I am not Brit but I've been talking to few Brits about it.
The government is doing many popular short term changes and calling and election.
The reason, according to those people, might be because they expect a major drop over party acceptance after that.
This could be linked to recent news as the government announcing smaller inflation rates, attacks against legal and illegal immigration and conservative gender policies.
They expect to reach fed up people that might react to voting with them (without remembering most of those policies were established by that party) with BoJo.

I know this is a slice on the opinion of a small set of people, but I still find interesting that this might mean that the government might still be willing to postpone certain measures for effect of the election.
How are you performing CLI searches? Which program do you use?
They’re also licensed, required to keep copious paperwork for production details, and easy to find.
I'm so happy that, when working with .xlsx files, I usually only need the results. That's why I always convert them (put them in a DB) and then do all the work there and export the results.

I read that Pandas works well, too, but I haven't really tried it.
Rosetta or similar would have reasonable compatibility and performance.
A gene-editing inquisition against anything viral could definitely go too far. For example, we already know of syncytin [0], a protein essential for normal reproduction (placental formation) which is encoded by an ancient proviral genes.

Let's imagine some antiviral inquisitors who are either ignorant of that fact, or else operate in a world where there are very similar genes that haven't been discovered.

If they were editing gametes/embryos, they'd probably discover the problem quite quickly, and either make an exception or abandon their work.

However if they were enacting some kind of retroviral edit on adults (which would be kinda-hypocritical) then things might look fine for a little bit... until someone realizes that there are no more babies anymore and the population is going to go extinct without a fix.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncytin-1
> Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

False clickbait title from Wired.

SJ's statement says nothing of the sort. https://x.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1792679435701014908
Cybertruck.. another toy for the wealthy..
Khan Academy is a treasure of a service. Probably my favorite non-profit out there. High quality information with low barrier to entry. It got me through Calculus, Calc 2, and Linear Algebra.
What if this was just regulatory capture of the licensed voice cloning industry in disguise?

Just deliberately make a point to regulators on how unlicensed AI voice cloners are cloning actors voices without their permission an scare Hollywood to introduce regulations to wipe out unlicensed voice cloners from the market.

I’m convinced that is what this looks like. What’s next is that OpenAI will settle and the rules will be defined for licensing cloned voices.

A market only for those who can afford the license costs: Big Tech, OpenAI and Eleven Labs.
In the us a lawyer will go to court on a you pay only if you win.
This is the answer which resonates most with me. The current government has long since run out of steam, and it must now be clear to them that they are going to lose the election. If they bow out in July, then they're pretty much guaranteed to be the official opposition (albeit with a much reduced majority) which gives them time to regroup and try again in 2029.

If they hang on until January 2025 then there's a small -- but real -- risk that the defeat is so bad that the Tory party effectively ceases to exist.
It doesn't sound like her at all. I don't get why this is garnering so much attention.
Yes ut would be the first time I’d see an actor refusing to be credited for their work.
Could be. For reference my 4inch screen is 320px wide.
I wouldn't be surprised if they found someone that sounded like her, their version of the story sounds on-brand for their specific variety of poor judgement.

This could have gone a lot differently if they didn't try to contact Johansson and didn't publicly mention the film, even if they intended it to sound very similar. Lots of hubris on their part. They set their own trap.
:D this is actually page with examples.
Thanks for your feedback :)
Did you read the part where they approached her to "license" the voice up until days before release? Plausible deniability would be a lot more believable if that wouldn't have been the case.
How do you know what other software they are using?
As I've just updated my comment to reflect, TIL that parameter substitution is supported (with some exceptions) by `sh`.

More broadly though, yes, there's a tendency for people to pop sub-shells without giving it a second thought. Those aren't free; use shell built-ins whenever possible!
They did go after the purchasers.

Among them is Texan Craig Adlong. He pleaded guilty in 2020 for lying on firearm transaction forms, saying the guns were for his personal use. He purchased 95 semi-automatic rifles at Guns Unlimited in Katy, Texas, making seven visits over two months.

Sixty-six of those firearms were recovered in Mexico, according to the leak.

He got a sentence of 6 months, according to the article.
But OpenAI didn't. The voice sounds closer to many other celebrities than Scarlett Johansson.
I think the objective is to sue the manufacturers out of business as a measure of gun control. Also money. With how corrupt Mexico is in regards to the cartels, they should be suing themselves.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-01-25/alejandr...
IMO there has been a growing undercurrent, in online discussions forums, of disdain for writing and authors who aren’t well-established as authority figures or known experts in their field. Tone and word choice is narrowing into a conversational style, and anyone “straying from the pack” sticks out like a sore thumb in online boards.

Anything sarcastic or playful can be perceived as insincere.

I’d be happy to read more of your thoughts—you should keep writing.
Climb the fence.
Baltic concerns over Russian plan to move sea borders
Isn't it more users are giving up? I'd love to find a way to inspire people to participate again like the old internet.
are you just finally coming to realize this?
No way, you can easily get the internet outrage machine pointed at you in this situation.
I don't actually see an ethical issue with this situation, unless the voice was specifically trained using clips of Scarlett Johansson's actual voice.

I should have some say over how my actual voice is used. If I am a public figure, ala Donald Trump, and there are a lot of people out there who do a great impression of me, those voices belong to the people actually creating them, not me.

If it turns out that there are people out there who either naturally sound like Scarlett Johansson, or who can alter their voice so that they sound like her, they should have the freedom to profit from their own talents (natural or otherwise).

If the resulting AI voice isn't actually claiming to be Johansson and isn't trained using her actual voice, I don't see anything wrong with it.
Free Pascal and Lazarus which is a GUI built on it support strings that don't require manual allocation and are counted and reference counted. A huge amount of grief would go away if that library could be supported in the Linux kernel somehow, and all of the string parameters in system calls ported.
Agreed. Even if you establish that it's not being used today, that doesn't mean that it will continue to be unused after the next few commits land.

And, even though you might not see a way to call into the unused code, an attacker might find a way (XZ Utils).
You can use a free DDNS like DuckDNS.

https://www.duckdns.org/
/SMTP/SMLP/
SMLP = Sporadically Missing Leading Period

(-;
That's almost exactly what my credit union did. After I filled out the paperwork, they sent me out the door with some walking-around money (the thief had emptied my checking account), and the rest was returned within a couple days. I did nothing further; a fraud investigator called me up a couple of months later to ask a few questions, but by that point they already knew who the culprit was.

For this and many other reasons, I will never use a commercial bank again, if I can possibly avoid it.
I'm almost 30 years from anything resembling precarity and I still subtly cross myself almost every time I swipe a card at the grocery store.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-vo...

> Johansson said that nine months ago Altman approached her proposing that she allow her voice to be licensed for the new ChatGPT voice assistant. He thought it would be "comforting to people" who are uneasy with AI technology.

> Just two days before the new ChatGPT was unveiled, Altman again reached out to Johansson's team, urging the actress to reconsider, she said.

I can't imagine they were asking repeatedly including just two days before the demo for funsies. Plus...

> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has said the 2013 Spike Jonze film is his favorite movie, invited comparisons by posting the word "Her" on X after the company announced the new ChatGPT version.
Not really, just want it on record.
>this is easier

>In a separate suit, they have accused five Arizona gun shops – many of which also appear in the hacked data obtained by USA TODAY, of selling guns that crossed the border and were used in crimes.

They're doing both, likely this is the one they expect to win, and they're just playing up the other one for political points. Or hoping when they win the second, people think it was about the first, painting the gun manufacturers in a more negative light.

They also may be going to the hailmary of essentially banning all guns in the U.S through bankrupting them, though this is even more ridiculous than trying to go after a gun company after a mass shooting. This is more like going after Ford because a dealer sold an f150 to someone who sold it to someone else who ran over a pedestrian.
wezterm + ssh + zellij on remote machine has been working like a charm for me.
Sounds to me like you're just describing corporate certificates. Sometimes if you show up to a related job (eg. Cisco Admin with a Cisco cert) you might get to waive the tech interview. You'll have a really hard time getting employers to accept your authority if they've never heard of you though; I doubt anyone would preapprove an employee that has a card from a company nobody knows.

Your best shot (imo) is to find a way to officially certify developers for a demanded tool. Otherwise I don't ever see this idea taking off.
I'm trying to help people here. I know some young people may not even be aware of older options and not realize this problem has already been solved repeatedly. They are free to disregard my advice, so I find your objection more nonsensical
Switzerland here: depends what kind of property. A large garden? The owner will likely call the cops on you for trespassing as soon as you show up (and they will come). A meadow some place up in the mountains? The rule is you camp after sunset and decamp at sunrise, but as with every remote place, if nobody sees you... Picking berries the same: it's stealing (Mundraub, yes in CH is still illegal) so in the smaller garden you'll be seen and probably reported but otherwise you'll be luckier.
The angle of why they would want to protect the voice actor's privacy? My guess is that their fear is people becoming attached to the voice in a sort of parasocial relationship, then seeking out the original voice actor to try and turn that parasocial relationship into something more.
Anyone know what temperature this runs at internally?

If the black body radiation is high enough frequency maybe we could tune a special solar panel to pick it up and be dramatically more efficient than thermal electric.
This is a classic explanation:

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72498282/your-problem-wi...
> Can we acknowledge that immoral acts are often not illegal and illegal acts are often not immoral and then say that it's put to rest that it's obviously and definitely a dirt bag move?

Absolutely! No disagreement from me there.

I would also add that (to me personally) companies choosing what the law allows over what is moral doesn't impress me at all, in fact it lowers (sometimes drastically) my opinion of the company. When companies choose the moral thing over not-illegal-but-gross, especially when it costs them money, it raises them a huge deal in my book. I try to celebrate those decisions when I see them.
The obvious counterpoint is to create strong exclusions in the law, and to allow victims of frivolous suits to pursue costs of defending.

The "right to roam" generally applies to unimproved or undeveloped land, so an exemption for injuries caused by natural features and activities compatible with legal land use should go some way to alleviating concerns.

If you are 'right to roaming' across my land and I have a legal quarry pit that you fall into, I should be immune, and you should be paying my lawyer's bill.
What do u guys think of an LLM search engine for finding a partner of your spec?
Something like this wouldn't even be legal in many areas, because employers are limited on the information they can share about employees beyond employment status. That is why referrals are person based and not company based.

Also you assume employees would love it. But what happens when you get blackballed in the system by a bad actor? How do you dispute what prior employers said about you?