skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes, but literally no one anywhere is suggesting that the voice actress used would be banned from work because of any similarity between her voice and Johansson's; that’s an irrelevant strawman

It's not. The original comment in this chain was drawing parallel to a lawsuit in which someone intentionally took steps to impersonate an actor.

This situation is a voice actor using their "natural voice" as a source of work.

If a lawsuit barring OpenAI from using this voice actor is successful, due to similarities to a more famous actor, that puts this voice actor's future potential at risk for companies actively wanting to avoid potential for litigation.

Suggesting a calming female persona as a real time always present life assistant draws parallel to a movie about a calming female persona that is a real time always present life assistant is not a smoking gun of impropriety.

Pursuing a more famous name to attach to marketing is certainly worth paying a premium over a lesser known voice actor and again is not a smoking gun.

Sky voice has been around for a very long time in the OpenAI app dating back to early 2023. No one was drawing similarities or crying foul and decrying how it "sounds just like Scarlett" ..
This was just an example, sorry for not providing a real example that had the exact character count.
This is great news for employers! They get a highly motivated workforce focused on solving client problems and improving retention, all for free. No need to hire customer service reps and waste all that money when the invisible hand will take care of your customers for you.
Edward Norton talking about Zeck: https://www.zeck.app/zeckgeist-salesforce-world-tour-nyc
Machine-readable infoboxes are surprisingly painful because an "infobox" isn't a top-level thing in mediawiki. Rather, it's something that emerged from community practice -- a template that's slightly-standardized, and has a sprawling network of subtemplates for specific categories of article. Then the assorted other language wikipedias have their own variants of these templates with their own names, etc.

Pulling it into a mediawiki extension (or core) and making it part of the page-level metadata gets suggested pretty frequently, but it's a bit contentious amongst the hardcore editors who'd need to actually adopt such things. The template-based nature of the current infoboxes mean that they're very accessible to the community, and it's easy to spin off new variants or make changes without getting programmers to help you.

There's slow movement towards getting the sort of data that winds up in infoboxes into wikidata, but it's still somewhat spotty.

(If you've never done it, it can be quite edifying to install mediawiki for yourself and seeing how much of the surrounding infrastructure of wikipedia is absent because it's all templates.)
in terms of trends, the number seem to indicate that California is far ahead of Germany in terms of solar as a % of generation, and saturating summer daytime production. This is where things get tricky, because you your cost for kwh increases radically for storage, or overbuild capacity that is only useful in the winter.
> The main games in niche can easily sell 100k copies, that is a lot of money for a couple of indie devs.

I understand your point, but I hope people are seeing the irony of making such arguments under a post detaliing how the median game on steam can barely pay rent.

I don't think even if you filtered that data for "overwhelmingly positive games" that it'll suddenly average $500k+ revenue.

>Maybe you think that "100k" copies is a failure since it didn't sell millions, I have seen people thinking along those lines. But no, 100k copies is a massive success, even 10k copies is more than enough for a 1 person indie game, so those "indie gems" hardly failed at all.

really depends on team size. 100k is good, but divided among a team of 10 and after steam cuts, a $5 game is getting roughly 35k for a dev. You know, minmum wage in high COL areas. likewise for a solo game that made 10k sales.

My definition of success is as simple as "can the studio sustain itself from the sales of its games?". Maybe in a day where rent wasn't $3000+, but not these days in the US.
OP was commenting on the analogy of a boat that has the water underneath it suddenly drop away.
Whoops, :)
Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Fun that it supports multi-touch!
Sam is willing to lie to become relevant to AI history. What's his doing is just creating a crumble to his own ruin. - GeoHortz
OK sure, but is it illegal?
Now you've got me doubting myself. It was covered in a Tom Scott video. I'll have a look for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU&t=485s
It’s clever in that it potentially helps with the problem of “I’ve been banned and there’s no customer support to help me” by incentivizing employees to perform contractually dubious customer support.

The problem you’re talking about is a different one. I’m not claiming that any of these problems are being solved entirely nor ideally with this clever hack.

My point is that hacks like these are symptoms of a larger problem in incentives for tech companies. We’ve exchanged humans being paid to help humans for a few tech companies that rule our lives via automated decisions.
What does Xi think about dancing hot dogs?
Because when you're dealing with a billion users, a one-in-a-million mistake still screws a thousand users, and everyone realizes that getting the rate of mistakes anywhere near that low is impossible.

At the same time, you're dealing with actual bad actors that genuinely need to be banned, and there is a lot of this abuse. Mistakes will happen. You can't stop banning users. The bad actors will file appeals (in some cases including public escalations - see the various cases where someone complained about being unfairly banned from a game for cheating, and after a bit of a shitstorm, the company posted the evidence of him cheating). The appeal processes often work, sometimes don't - the public shitstorms are often cases where multiple things went wrong.

There is no easy solution, and at the scale these companies operate it's obvious to everyone involved that "just having a highly skilled human review every case" is completely impractical (not just "too expensive for the company to want to pay for it"). Because for each genuine user affected you have many abusers.

The pay-for-support proposals have several issues (PR impact from "screwing customers then extorting them to pay", stolen credit cards, engineering required to make it happen).

Abuse teams are (understandably) rather tight-lipped, and also tend to insist that telling the user what they did wrong would enable abusers to dodge the protections - this is something I don't understand (the abuser presumably knows what they did, while a user wrongfully accused does not), but it seems to be consistently said by abuse teams from many different companies.

All this combined makes it very hard to push for improvement, because there is no clear path towards a solution. You can ask a question at an all-hand generally raising the problem, but you'll get the usual "our abuse teams are working very hard on this, it's a hard problem" non-answer.

At the same time, yes, genuine users are absolutely getting screwed, and for the individual affected user, the consequences can be pretty severe.
I am glad you enjoyed it.
> and until the court settles the questions at hand, Open AI and its ilk are operating in a legal gray area.

My understanding of western law is that things are ok unless law forbids it. So they are operating in an area that under _current_ laws is ok but because of what may be at stake many wish the current laws were different and are willing to use litigation and lobby efforts to that end.

This is NOT IN REPLY TO YOU but a general observation: Imagine the litigation that will happen when brain implants enable brain to brain sharing sensations and thoughts. Imagine the horrible copyright abuse! How will the publishing industry and sports industry and Hollywood control the rampart piracy?!?
There is a simple fix. Just make the amount a contribution to a charity or charity's of their choice. Makes it a much harder to fire someone who is earning money for a charity, perhaps even one the company contributes to annually.
I heard that rumor.
I think relaxing the ordering requirement let's you use simd something like this (semi-pseudo code)

(a, b, c, d) = (0, 0, 0, 0);
for(int i = 0; i < n; i += 4) {
(a, b, c, d) += (arr[i], arr[i+1], arr[i+2], arr[i+3]);
}
return a + b + c + d;
In California, personality rights have the same protections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Celebrities_Rights_...
>Some will find a job before they finish you interview process.

Not if your interview process allows for a good candidate to get an offer in a reasonable time frame. If so, then rare. You could make an offer on spot, for example.

>Some will change their mind.

Not if your interview process allows for a good candidate to get an offer in a reasonable time frame. If so, then rare. You sign a contract on the spot for example.

>Some will have a change on personal circumstances.

Not if your interview process allows for a good candidate to get an offer in a reasonable time frame. If so, then rare.

These first three are all the same. People will bail out if you're too slow with your dumb hiring processes. Don't be slow and the problem mostly goes away.

>Some (many?) will ask for more than you can offer.

Not if you post your salary bands with your job openings like any decent company would do.

>To hire one good person, you usually need many to apply.

Nah, you need a couple of decent candidates to apply, a first choice and a fallback if you want to worry about those rare case of someone changing their mind. If your salaries are public and your process is efficient, you need only one good candidate, maybe two for backup and variety outside of core competency.
They would be at first.

"Personally knows an employee of the company" is a strong signal that a person is not a bot, and may be more likely to be a decent person, because they are capable of maintaining enough of a relationship with an employee that the employee is willing to do something for them. The employee has already been vetted as trustworthy.

So that signal will apply to the first few people applying through this service.

Then some employees will get fired, the signal/noise ratio of internal requests changes, and employees can no longer get accounts reinstated via internal forms like this.

Basically this service will cause a brief spike in illegitimate accounts being reactivated, and then we will arrive at a new status quo that is strictly worse than the current one.
Which specific features are keeping you on Eagle? Most of my more "serious" work is still in Altium, but I've been really pleased with a lot of the QoL features KiCAD has been picking up on as of the later releases (bulk sheet symbol entry placement) and feature coverage is good enough that I'm happy doing mixed signal boards with a few high speed interfaces.
I'd award that hotly contested prize to Lunar Gateway.
>It’s just you. The ineffectiveness is the point. This service is a joke, it’s surely illegal. Everyone knows it’s a “failing” system, you can’t scale free customer service forever.

Is the spirit of this service corrupt? Absolutely. Does it undercut Big Tech's checks and balances? %100. Is it morally lacking? Personally I think so. Is it illegal though... ehhhh? It might be shocking but not every term found on a FAANG's term and services agreement is legally binding.

Services like these are inevitable so long as humans are corrupt but typically only pop into public consensus when the institution has failed so spectacularly that the average consumer has completely lost faith in them to adequately address their problem. While I'm not condoning corruption, clearly the Big Tech companies have failed in providing adequate solutions to this problem and I feel our time is better spent examining the negligence of these institutions which caused the problem rather than the malicious service looking to exploit said negligence.
you’re using “he loves the movie” as some sort of defense, when the movie is a pretty standard sci fi cautionary tale. You know the saying:

sci-fi author: I wrote about the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

tech bros: Finally we have built the Torment Nexus from beloved sci fi story “Do not build the Torment Nexus”

Enjoying a story is not justification for recreating any artifact that occurs within the story. Her is quite clearly a cautionary tale, not meant to be instructive. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-is-sam-altman-so-obs...

so yes I do think it’s very relevant that when you say “he liked the film”, the contents of the film is an admissible area of inquiry.
> The main operation, addition, is completely hidden magic

the main operation is reduction which is fairly basic computer science and taught in any non-BS curriculum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_operator (or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function) which is the standard way to introduce this concept ; check in particular the table showcasing all the implementations in various languages). The standard reduction for a set of numbers to a number that is likely going to be the very first example in your textbook is addition.
same here. also your username is amusing :)
After 2 hours it's at #71
Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
dromedaryCase has one hump. camelCAse has two humps. (I appreciated the joke; and biologists everywhere will thank you).
So much what?
I recognized the problem on sight; we solved this exact issue but since it was MTA software we knew about periods being special. Unfortunately, people are often solving problems that many others have solved. Maybe AI will allow the lines to be connected or solve for known edge cases like a dot in the smtp data
>I'd honestly struggle to find any good games (right for their time and audience) that failed because of a lack of suitable marketing. In the same vein, I'd struggle to find a hit game that succeeded because of marketing.

only if you're looking at the most general audiences. That's the advantadge of targeting a niche. Not everyone will buy furry art, but the ones that do have high demand (and apparently, deep wallets). Indies can't afford to be "for everyone", and even AAA games are struggling.

But if you want an obvious example of the latter: Raid Shadow legends. Literally spends millions upon millions on advertising a year, and I can't imagine many would organically find and talk about such a game themselves. But even after 6 years they seem to have the funding to get every youtuber under the sun to talk about it. You very much can outadvertise a mediocre game as long as you have the right monetization scheme (which spoilers: is not "buy one copy of $10 game).
To me, with this definition, being "anti-Zionist" makes about as much sense as being "anti-Texan". And, aesthetically, I get it! My wife is from Houston! I've had to go there! But it's not a position I can understand taking seriously. There are multiple ongoing urgent problems, and none of them involve granting millions of people dual citizenship to Israel (or Texas).

I understand and can take seriously a narrower "anti-Zionist" definition that pushes back on "Greater Israel" ideology that impedes Palestinian self-determination.

But what we're talking about here is basically: "I reject the premise of the state of Israel". To which, and I mean this respectfully, the only reasonable response I can see is "it's good to want things, I guess".

(It's fine if we just intractably disagree; it would be weird if any two people here never did.)
True, I guess I need to prioritize this a bit
This was also a feature in Applesoft Basic, where the BASIC keywords were all tokenized to save space (and also speed up execution since the code was pre-tokenized when it was executed).
I made a serious attempt to do precisely that, and yes, it output a valid JSON structure highly reliably. The problem was stopping it from just inventing values for parameters that weren't actually specified by the user.

Consider the possibility that at least some of the criticisms of LLMs are a result of serious attempts to use them.
"Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice"

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-vo...
Wikivoyage is underrated and that was not helped by the acrimonious split with Wikitravel (which was acquired a predatory marketing company), but it finally seems to be pulling ahead.
America would be in a far better place than it is now if it implemented a state owned broadband infrastructure.
Saying "there is nothing more worth learning" is the worst indictment about this sort of thing I could think of.

Not only do they not want to learn, they're not even aware that they should want to. This is exactly why people age out of the profession.
> Pretty much looks the same in all C-like languages

Because it’s ancient; that doesn’t necessarily make it better or clearer. Look at it like you’ve never seen it before. It has an entire line of boilerplate smack bang in the middle. Sure, your brain filters it out because you’re used to it, but it’s still fugly. And it’s prone to typos/copypaste errors like all boilerplate.
Young and immature people experience strong emotions and attachments because they haven’t learned how to control themselves. The “strong sentiment” and intensity of feeling you miss came from youth and the unique environment of school.

Most people grow up and learn to get along in a context larger and more varied than school. Most people learn how to moderate and master their emotions. Those who don’t will struggle with immature behavior.
I agree, but when talking with these "where the hidden gems" audience, any example I point out will be "an exception". it makes the entire conversation a bit tiring, no matter how much you research the market these kinds of people have their opiions set, with no skin in the game.
There are always workflows and workarounds. That's FreeCAD in a nutshell.

But there are no easy and intuitive ways of doing that. Compare it to the Realthunder’s Link Branch version which has `export single geometry` and `export multiple geometries` tools as well as automatic SubShapeBinder generated when edges forming a closed loop which are selected from the sketch before padding.
You're in a tangled philosophical thornbed with that internal dialog. It isn't a strange thing to think but as far as I can see functional humans are all barbaric. In the small scale, the practice of eating meat leaps to mind. I love a good chicken burger but let us be real about what it takes to produce one. Not pretty.

So we might have an existence problem if we go to find someone who doesn't defend barbaric practices and describe themselves as "fine". Everyone defends some barbaric practices, and some subset of them will be fine.
Might as well called Stanford B2C and MIT B2B. Yeah, B2B needs more capital since they are building a plant while B2C is really about sourcing materials, packaging and marketing. Completely different businesses, different CapEx and OpEx models, different risks and different investors.
As Kanye West said "Look at Gaga, she's the creative director of Polaroid. I like some of the Gaga songs but what the fuck does she know about cameras?". I would trust Edward Norton on filmmaking, but I don't think having him front and centre for an app for board room meetings is the right idea.
My theory: they're either trying to avoid hiring libruls; or trying to avoid hiring conservatives. Is prostitution more evil than torture? This might be a very good way to test for liberal/conservative values.

<attempting to be sarcastic, but not so sure I'm wrong now that I typed it out>
OpenAI wanted to imitate the AI from the film Her. When you show that film to 100 random people how many will know who did the voice for the AI in the film? I myself had no idea. Moreover there are people now running blind voice similarly tests of similar voices of various other possible female actors. Guess what these blind voice tests show?
given the legal issues people have pontificated about, I think an prediction/assassination market is better for this

will @jpdpeters instagram account by restored by May 31st?

the person that predicts this most correctly with the largest position was the person in control of the outcome

and you can then just make a feed of these kinds of predictions to your “market” of employees
Recall the adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It certainly changes your perspective.
Here is the best motivation I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2jYk37Rlg&t=464s

(Starts at 7:44 and ends at 14:23.)

It seems like the choice of notes is due to wanting a certain amount of (mathematical) closure with octaves and fifths while also allowing for transposition.
It's not this and there is a test:

Judging something assumes at least a minimal level of expertise in both the domain and language. I don't know Ruby, a lot looks obtuse, that's not a sign of clever code. If I see examples like the article in languages I know, it's 'clever code'.
There's no particular requirement for a RAG application to use vector search or embeddings, and there's no requirement that semantic similarity is in play (i.e. "retriev[ing] documents...that do not contain the terms in the search query"). Fundamentally RAG is just doing some retrieval, and then doing some generation. While the traditional implementation definitely involves vector search and LLMs, there are plenty of other approaches; ultimately at anything beyond toy scale it sort of begins to converge with the long history of traditional search problems rather than being its own distinct thing.
World Economic Forum Davos founder Klaus Schwab to step back from executive role
> By supporting the "strategic decision by management" you implicitly approve of it. This is particularly true with well-paid FAANG employees who could absolutely take their expertise elsewhere.

I mean does somebody grinding down asphalt to repave a road implicitly approve of some random government policy?
Yikes, I didn't realize Ilford was manufacturing Neopan (I guess the construction of the canister should have been a giveaway though). For what it's worth, Neopan's definitely not a rehashed Ilford product - its reciprocity characteristics are totally unique in the industry. I keep some around for easy long exposures.
His lifelogging was a project called MyLifeBits. He wore a camera that took a picture every 20 seconds. Even called the book about his work Total Recall (and MSFT's new product that does something similar on the desktop is called Recall). Someone who worked with him at MSR wrote about it:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gordon-bell-standing-shoulder...
Interesting historical background but note that this was published three years before the ISA was frozen and ratified. The Privileged Architecture in particular changed considerably before ratification.
800k a day? That’s a lot of events. Need to start optimizing things then
Looks like there was quite a bit of attrition in the early 2010s after Oracle stopped developing their commercial version (and presumably stopped hiring the developers). There's also been people who stuck around, but this was probably a pretty big knowledge drain.

See e.g. https://gitstats.arp242.net/LibreOffice/
I thinks it’s more hard tech vs traditional startup.
Best summarized in meme format:

https://x.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273
Sometimes seniour devs write complex code but hide the complexity behind a simple interface.
Do you live in a city? In rural areas, having strong bonds is much, much more common.

Also, not everyone is doing the apps and millions of options thing. You may be looking in the wrong places.
Yes. Yes it does. I have a backer preview copy and it covers it in detail and with his signature humor
A couple of metacompiler experiments with Lua and Haskell, https://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/metacompilers/