skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There were never any.

This is a bit unfair. Some people left OpenAI on the ground of ethics, because they were unsatisfied with how this supposed nonprofit operates. The ethics was there, but OpenAI got rid of it.
Olympus Has Fallen: America's decline as a superpower
Am I right in saying that this voice has existed in the app for the voice feature for ~6 months now? I remember hearing it and thinking "Sounds like Scarlett Johansson"
Unless she can prove that it’s directly derived somehow I don't see much of a case here.

Questionable ethically perhaps but OpenAI doesn’t seem to care about that
I enjoyed this comment [1] on the Reg's article on this story:

Hurray, OpenAI has found a new lucrative market. Horny incels.

[1] https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/05/21/scarlett...
> I once heard a coach claim that given a student with the heart of a champion, they'd podium after having been taught but two actions.

Out of curiosity, for which sport?
iTerm2 does a bunch of things with native controls that would not be the same in the shell. E.g. tmux integration allows the windows/panes etc. of a tmux session to show up as actual panes in tmux.

The composer is a small native popup that allows you to edit a command using a native textbox instead of interacting with the terminal, and then send it all at once. The AI stuff hooks into this.
Checking the box is not enough. You also need to provide an API key for iTerm do be able to do any kind of uploads to OpenAI.

If your auditor does not believe that with the checkbox unchecked and no API key provided, iTerm will not talk to OpenAI, how do they believe any other software you run does not secretly upload stuff to OpenAI?

What's different between a piece of software claiming to not support OpenAI at all vs. one that claims to support OpenAI if the user provides an API key in light of the possibility that both might be lying (if that's an auditors concern)

With iTerm your auditors at least get to check the source code...
Whenever people say, "But the Allies did X in WWII," I wonder if they realize that a lot of international law was established specifically to make things that were done in WWII illegal.
Interesting - is it viable do you think to package a llm like that with an existing game and run it locally - I assume it will be intensive to run but wouldn't that eliminate inference costs?
Sam Altman’s personality is another proof of the theory that startup/Silicon Valley hyperinnovation culture has a massive problem of incentivizing manipulative narcissists to rise to the top.
The entire culture clearly has a set of filters in place that favor individuals with extreme manipulative god-complex-style traits, who are convinced their mission is so supreme and important that any other rule shouldn’t apply to them.

The fact that the future of AI is in the hands of one of these individuals is an utter disaster.
Ask HN: Do you ever feel like u need more than just links?
Imagine you have a plethora of links, that you want to show someone whose coming to your profile in simplest possible way possible, whether its your store or shop, my question is how do you guide them, just title is enough?

or do you first hand explain and then guide them to your desired links?
ChatGPT already says exactly that. Welcome to the future.
Wow, Altman in the replies there:

> Cool story bro.

> Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :)

> Other than that, child's play for me.

>Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO.
I'm in favour of allowing LLMs to be trained on public data but Remember PC is a Personal Computer.

Definitely screenshots will be seen by team who will label the data for further LLMs training/fine-tuning.
PR/ticket are additional levels of indirection. It’s more convenient when you can run git show for revision from blame and get all necessary information. Also people (teams) who write bad commit messages often write bad ticket descriptions/comments too.
To be precise the two colonies that were not always British|English from the outset had both become British|English colonies for a full century prior to the American Revolutionary War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_New_Jersey (and its division into East & West Jersey until Royal union under British Queen Anne in 1704)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Colony
I think, as with most things, it’s slightly more legally ambiguous if the person you’re copying/whatever is rich enough to have good lawyers and a strong media presence.

You can argue about these morality of that, but I think it’s reasonably true, practically.

Thus, it got taken down.
Impersonating is defined by intent. "Just find someone who sounds like her" implies intent.
On this one, it is OpenAI who are terrible and acting like spoiled kids.

They approached Ms. Johansson, she said no, and they went ahead and did it anyways.
For me this speaks to the arrogance and disconnect from reality that some people in tech operate under.

It seems they never considered it possible that someone would say no to them and would protect their IP against them, because who wouldn’t want to be part of their glorious mission, right?
You could argue it is de-facto occupation, but it is pretty clearly not annexation (annexation means fully integrated into civil structure).
One easy way is to watch windows services and disable what you dislike
> Moving from pixel-based values to rem units as a company-wide change in CSS practice can be a significant challenge, especially when working across multiple teams.

What bothers me is why does a company find itself in this situation. Why does it not include web accessibility in the building of its product from the start? Why do designers talk to developers in pixels instead of checking how their design decisions on different screens, in different browsers, and with different accessibility settiongs?
Don’t forget to verify your identity or else you won’t be able to access some websites (and be fully tracked so we know when to come get you)
That's just your opinion that it's clearly not Scarlet, but you don't know her, and she and her family and friends who do think it is, and the fact that you say "even though they were clearly trying to get someone to sound like her" is kind of the whole point: even YOU admit they were "CLEARLY TRYING" to steal her voice after being told TWO TIMES not to. Trying to steal something and not quite stealing 100% of it perfectly is STILL THEFT. You're the one being dramatic trying to defend what even you admit is outright theft.

And Sam Altman's lower case single word tweet "her" clinches it. Clearly he was not just announcing his new pronoun.
sama is a chancer, no doubt, but I take issue with this article's angle.

Clearly they wanted something reminiscend of the film "Her". Since Scarlett Johansson didn't want to do they voice they hired someone else. The voice they used is that of their voice actor, not Scarlett Johansson. She owns her own voice, but I don't think she has any rights to voices that merely sound like hers, when they're not being used to fraudently imply that she's involved.

So movies are really influential on culture, and I think there should be broad scope for "taking inspiration" as long as it stops short of plagiarism. Think how many works you've seen that are obviously heavily inspired by e.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't think the vibe of "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" as belonging to the voice actor Douglas Rain, or Kubrick or Clark. And that's what a good thing! Producing cultural works must feed the production of future works and I'd like to permit all but the most blantant ripoffs.
AI, telemetry, forced online accounts, full recording and Microsoft owning an ad business.

…what could possibly go wrong
Reversing Choplifter
At that stage you may as well install Linux. There is now so much hostile stuff in windows that stripping it out is making less and less sense
As a physicist- ChatGPT is no Einstein lmao
No they didn't though.

They hired a voice actor who had a similar voice profile to her, a similar voice to what they were looking for. If you just hear the voice they used, it sounds very similar, but if you actually play them side by side, you can hear they are very clearly different.

How is that different from anything else? You ask someone to do something you want them to do, they say no, so you then go and find someone else that will do what you need which is what they did.
> It is reasonably common in the voicing part of the acting industry, when a famous name turns you down, that you instead turn to a voice imitator

Citation needed.

Even when VAs are recast for reasons beyond control (death, unavailability, aging child voice, health, etc.), they are only similar, not imitations. Happened in a lot of anime.
Maybe just all this AI stuff pushes users towards Linux and we all can finally have "The year of Linux"
The challenge in the UK at the moment is connecting willing high net worth individuals with entrepreneurs. Even with the tax incentives, and the relatively good incubator-ish organisations like Eagle Hub, there's some enormous disconnect between viable ideas and timely capital to execute on them.
The linked article is ridiculous, but your comment is a misrepresentation of the Penrose debate. The main weak point of Penrose's argument isn't that he "didn't understand Godel's proof". He rightly observed that Godel's incompleteness theorem requires that either human minds are capable of things algorithms are not capable of, or that their perception of mathematical truth is limited in certain ways, an observation that Godel himself made. The main point of disagreement with his critics is not the mechanics of Godel's theorem which, unsurprisingly, this Nobel prize winning mathematician (*) understands perfectly well, but whether human perception of mathematical truth is limited in these ways.

The question of whether human perception of mathematical truth is infallible is open to philosophical debate. Penrose distinguishes between mistakes, which all mathematicians make but which in principle they can later come to recognise as mistakes, and true incorrect perception of mathematical truth, where no amount of checking, re-derivation, etc. could possibly right the incorrect perception. His view is that the latter type of error does not exist, that there is a mathematical ground truth that we can directly perceive and that is infallible, and that the mistakes made by mathematicians are of a different nature to inconsistencies in that perception of mathematical ground truth.

Penrose went too far in presenting this argument as a proof of the impossibility of strong AI based on algorithms. The point about human perception of mathematical truth can very reasonably be disputed, and is part of a much larger debate about the fundamental nature of maths that is far from settled. Personally, though, my intuition is that Penrose is right about the human perception of mathematical truth, and I therefore find the Godel-based argument persuasive. It's not a proof because it rests on an assumption that has not been proven, but I find it convincing to the extent that I tend to think that the assumption is probably true.

So the debate is a philosophical one more than it is a mathematical one, and while Penrose may be guilty of some rather bad PR, accusing him of "not understanding Godel's proof" does him a disservice.

* Yes, there's no Nobel prize in mathematics, but he is a mathematician (as well as a physicist) and he has won a Nobel prize.
I would love to play some board games with Sam Altman. He is smart, strategic and very persuasive (I heard).
He would excel especially at games like Risk or Mafia, where you have to persuade your opponents to collaborate with you.

But after a few rounds, no one would help him anymore and he would loose all the games.
And all safety people are leaving, due to Sam Altman? And Sam Altman forced them to sign non-disparagement? And Sam Altman is lying about not clawing back equity, even if we know Daniel Kokotajlo gave up equity and has not made whole yet? This is not okay. We should not move on.
iTerm is a feature-packed terminal emulator that's had shell-integration and various smart features to automatically trigger actions based on the terminal text content for a long time, long before the current AI wave.
Windows Everything finds any file globally in the blink of an eye, let's you sort in real time by size/date, live-edit your query, and also perform operations on the result in the list, so much better that any find
Modern History is already quite good compared to the entirety of history. The bog standard Siege of La Rochelle ended up starving the civilian population of 27,000 to 5,000. War is brutal, and when you dealing with brutal enemies like Hamas it's never going to an orderly affair.
I think the lies are catching up...feeling less conf. about Sam now..his statement to CNBC in response

https://twitter.com/haydenfield/status/1792748249272795348
> America was founded by British people. Settlers/colonizers from Britain.

Not exactly - as pointed out not all the colonies were established by England (prior to the Union) and while under British authority by the time of the Revolutionary War the people within the colonies were not all from the United Kingdom as most were born in the Americas and a good number were descended from non-United Kingdom parts of Europe.
Ok but then it’s startup founder/employee compensation rather than cost of living
In my area (Metro Detroit) it must be flipped. I had a rougher life when I was younger and did pass through the jail system once or twice...

The main counties around me go pick you up, not relying on the arresting jurisdiction to transport. One county in particular, Macomb, has a bad reputation in that it will drive across the country to pick you up. Traveling pick up buses criss cross the country. The bad part was the sometimes multi-week long trip spent in handcuffs sleeping in shitty hotels eating cheap McDonald's for every meal.
Exactly. And the name “Open” in OpenAI implies it is open. Open to the world. Open to humanity. Nothing of that came to be. It should have remained non-profit; be good for humanity (yes i know this is up for interpretation).
I was thinking about this and my take is following; if somebody can provide me a browser extension that can help me while I "surf" the web, I would pay some tiny subscription fee of like $2.99 or $3.99 for it.

My vision of such browser extension was; let's say I stumble upon some random website and I want to know what this website is all about, ChatGPT can summarize a website for me. I already tried prompting ChatGPT to summarize me some random websites and it gave me pretty good responses. Or I stumble upon some long article but I'm in hurry, I would want such article to be summarized for me, again ChatGPT can do it. Or I looked up and found some long podcast or interview on YouTube, this now can be summarized by Google's Gemini better than ChatGPT.

I was thinking about making such extension but for me personally it would be a lot of work for not so much financially viable idea but I would like to have such extension and pay for it.
Roads are for walking, bicycling and repair/cleaning/utility/emergency services. Deliveries go by subterran pallet-delvicery networks, to be last-miled by freight-cycles. Mass-transit by rails. Long-transit by maglev or air.

Fuck cars!
> Although I’m writing these words in Visual Studio Code, I always have my Emacs open

He is writting the blog's text in Code praising Emacs. Makes me a bit sceptical or am I missing something?
That is not true. It is still at around 40k. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-m...

>They showed 24,686 dead which appeared to be a downward revision from the figure of about 35,000 which had been reported earlier in May, with 7,797 children and 4,959 women confirmed dead, about half the toll cited in previous reports. But the UN said on Monday that estimated overall death toll remained about 35,000.

>Farhan Haq, a UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed. Haq said it was expected that, as the process of identification continued, the official tolls among women and children would also rise.
As many others have said, I think HTMX was around many years ago, just in different forms.

There were many jQuery plugins that did most of what HTMX did. But maybe it has risen in popularity recently because of JavaScript fatigue?

Unrelated, but my preference when working with JavaScript:

1. None

2. jQuery

3. Alpine

4. Vue

As you can see, I have JavaScript fatigue, and prefer the lighter touch frameworks.
Wow.

Having something similar to someone else does not equal theft. What is wrong with people? Why are they acting so weird about this.

What about the voice actor that did this? Is her voice 'theft'?
Especially given the very clear cut case here of the AI company deliberately cloning the voice of the most recognisable and human-like AI voice from fiction. And also tweeting that they’d done exactly that. And then lying that it was a coincidence. It wouldn’t stand up in court which is why they got rid of it – I’m sure that if Sam Altman and his counsel believed that they could beat ScarJo in court then we’d still be listening to “Sky”.
The first order problem is how do we compensate those whose performances and art were unique and recognizable before computers could imitate them.

However we solve for that will tell us if and how we can motivate people to make all the tradeoffs needed to stand out and bring new unique art into the world.

I am hoping we land somewhere in between the extremes of "no copyright use" and "what's a copyright" and create a royalty system that can trace your content's influence on the weights used at inference and cut you in according to your contribution.
Extremely concerning.

Think she is a prominent actress that's why this news is all over the internet but every individual has the right to their voice and face shouldn't be cloned, for them it's not concerning on internet but definitely in their family, relatives and society
Why isn’t anyone stopping for a minute to think what happens in that darn movie?
Why is it even ok to want your AI to sound like the AI from her?
Why are the people leading AI and tech today so shallow when it comes to cultural depictions of their role?
Unless they would actually like to be the villain.
The feature requires an OpenAI API so it's not even on by default, you will have to configure it to be able to use it. Not to mention that you just have to not use it and boom, no communication will ever be made with OpenAI even if configured. That is a terrible use of the word "snooping".
It seems like their business model is the same as the original Visual Basic: allow more people to write software, so have higher ups pay for replit instead of paying for developers.
If you want to discover truths, 3 hours research seems like a good deal. Anyways, I got you covered. Altman has had a plan for this from the get go: https://www.techemails.com/p/sam-altman-emails-elon-musk
> Aren't you? I thought the Geneva convention and similar treaties all require reciprocity.

No, i don't think so.

To quote the fourth geneva convention (fourth convention is the part related to treatment of civilians):

> Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations.
> The voice they used is that of their voice actor, not Scarlett Johansson.

If this is the case, why did they pull it?

And why ask Scarlett again, just a few days before release?
Does that mean that the voice actress that was hired to sample "sky" has to stop working since her voice is "too similar to another famous person" ? So Scarlett Johansson owns her voice, and every single one that is "too similar to hers" (by what metric) and gets to dictate what can and cannot be done.

It's a slippery slope.
I think NixOS users are generally happy with using it but don't want the support burden of explaining it to others on random internet forums when it's much more different from other distros than Arch is
Two random thoughts from visiting vietnam and talking with people

* in large parts of the country, there is just sun at least half of the year, yet solar power is basically non-existent, basically all (edit: not all, but most) is coal. if renewables are so great, why are there no solar panels anywhere, in a country that is all sun? I saw some wind turbines in the central mountains at least

* a lot of electricity is used on ACs, every house has at least one AC - how did people live before ACs were invented? can't imagine
I live in Munich, totally agree.
Well, yes. That's how this works. In politics, nobody ever says they are punishing you for $obviously_insane_thing_to_punish_someone_for - they make a more plausible excuse to accuse you of. That woman arrested in Russia for holding a blank sign wasn't arrested for holding a blank sign - she was arrested for attempting to destroy Russia or something like that.

But this is too far off-topic. The point is, that was evidently below the bar of what's allowed on Hacker News even though I'd think as many people would have wanted to know what's going on on SE, as want to see a cool raycaster.
>The 200k number doesn't follow from the tables in.

It does. It's the difference in the number of ethnic Russians in Crimea. No doubt some Russians might have left Crimea in that period but I don't see any reason to think it's a significant number.

>it depends on official Russian statistics

That's why I quoted an article in the Foreign Policy Magazine by a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island. I don't see in this thread any sources related to your arguments.

Let' me repeat that quote:

"The extent of what is being contemplated by Ukrainian lawmakers is staggering. According to Tamila Tasheva, Zelensky’s representative in Crimea, if it were liberated tomorrow, at least 200,000 residents of Crimea would face collaboration charges, and another 500,000 to 800,000 residents would face deportation. Refat Chubarov, the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, says that more than 1 million people—more than half the current population—will have to leave “immediately.”"
I wonder why US president assisted and supported it on the case that's beneficial to US..
Time to repost this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076

"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it."
Then explain Sam Atlman's tweet, "her":

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

And you already admitted "they were clearly trying to get someone to sound like her". You pre-lost your own argument yourself, before I even replied, with your own words.

Why are you acting so weird about this, like there's something wrong with you, and then trying to project it onto other people?

Trying to emulate Trump's debating techniques and psychological disorders doesn't work any more, nor look very good on you.
> there is no genocide

So the ICC already decided on this? No? Well, then I wouldn't be so sure about this if I where you. Because starving a population, denying them water, fuel and medicine amounts to genocide in all but name.
Outrage culture encourages us to get into a big flap and announce our departure.