skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To use the speeding ticket analogy, this is the equivalent of just paying the fine. The government can't sue you over an unpaid speeding ticket if you pay the ticket.

The reason why this might work is the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees a jury in federal lawsuits so long as the amount disputed is over $20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

> In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved

If Google says "yep, we're not disputing that we owe the federal govt $1 million, here's a cheque for that amount", their argument is that the "value in controversy" is now $0. Since $0 is less than $20, that clause doesn't apply.

I'd like to hear what an actual lawyer has to say on the odds this'll work, though.
I honestly don't think Scarlett (the person, not her "her" character) has anything to favor their case, aside from the public's sympathy.

She may have something only if it turns out that the training set for that voice is composed of some recordings of her (the person, not the movie), which I highly doubt and is, unfortunately, extremely hard to prove. Even that wouldn't be much, though, as it could be ruled a derivative work, or something akin to any celebrity impersonator. Those guys can even advertise themselves using the actual name of the celebrities involved and it's allowed.

Me personally, I hope she takes them to court anyway, as it will be an interesting trial to follow.

An interesting facet is, copyright law goes to the substance of the copyrighted work; in this case, because of the peculiarities of her character in "her", she is pretty much only voice, I wonder if that make things look different to the eyes of a judge.
CREATE TABLE logs (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
log_time TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
message TEXT
) PARTITION BY RANGE (log_time);

Why won't this work on stock PostgreSQL?
Units help with some common cases, but units still don't allow you to distinguish between, say, energy, work and torque.
Anyone care to bet Microsoft and other investors are actually ok with this narrative? I think they are, and in fact may be advocating for Sam to advance this narrative, because they 1) want a court decision, no matter which way it goes, and 2) they're confident OpenAI has more capabilities in the pipeline
> I wish he'd step away from Space-X

How much do you really know about his involvement with SpaceX if you don't even know what the company is called? Don't tell me that's a typo.

Starship is his initiative BTW, not Gwynne Shotwell's. It's funny how many concern trolls seem to assume otherwise because it seems to be going well.
Your argument has nothing to do with what we're discussing, you're just piling unrelated talking points. That's a classic red herring fallacy.
When I click "Permanently delete" in the Apple photos app, doing anything other than permanently deleting it is nothing short of a lie
How to deliver a successful, persuasive pitch (2013)
here:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1047/id/2919384

and a helpful definition as you parse this:

(f) “Covered model” means an artificial intelligence model that meets either of the following criteria:
(1) The artificial intelligence model was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations in 2024, or a model that could reasonably be expected to have similar performance on benchmarks commonly used to quantify the performance of state-of-the-art foundation models, as determined by industry best practices and relevant standard setting organizations.
(2) The artificial intelligence model has capability below the relevant threshold on a specific benchmark but is of otherwise similar general capability.
Discussion on Reddit before it was removed by r/ios mods:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cryayx/latest_ios_upd...
The little mermaid story was true!

Who would have thought we would be discussing voice theft someday.
Actually it did reflow the entire page. In particular, it inserted line breaks where ever text was being laid out, without ever messing with the width of divs or other elements. It then made a seamless jump with the viewport to keep the point of interest where you expect it to be on the screen. That's years ago when the Chromium version came out, however. I don't know how or if it works today, or how it was implemented in Presto before then.
The Chinese will try to copy it eventually but there’s no other entity that can even compete once starship is up and running. The price per kg for LEO is going to be orders of magnitude cheaper than conventional rockets. Startups can’t compete and only a government can afford to waste money at that magnitude. In order to compete with starship you need to build a rival starship but it took 25 years and many many mistakes to get to where SpaceX is now and no one can afford that runway.
Israel hardly needs those arms to continue their war in Gaza. It's nice, certainly, and the precision weapons help reduce Palestinian deaths, but Israel does not require it.

You also forget that Israel has fought all its major wars without the US.
Thank you for the comprehensive summary and the detailed references!
But it makes it more likely that the listener will associate the commercial with the artist than just using the voice.
The thing is, that this kind of sousveillance is what we the people should be doing by default. All people in positions of power should be watched by everyone else to ensure that they're not abusing those positions of power.

That's the first step to shrinking parts of police budgets that are excessive and improving parts of their budgets that aren't.

I agree with you that this leads to harassment and more from the police but I can't imagine there's any way to deal with them that doesn't involve that outcome.

Like that's just what bad people do, and they do it more when you try and stop them from abusing positions of authority.
People and small entities do this all the time. A supplier refuses to refund you for a defective product. You file suit in small claims court and serve them. Suddenly you receive a refund! Your dead beat ex is seven months behind on child support so you get a lawyer to threaten them with a custody battle. Poof, check arrives.

This is the same principle, and it's not even a legal one. If you think you're going to lose (at anything), you want to do so as soon as possible to minimize costs and risks. Works for chess and wars too.
Really not a smart idea for OpenAI to do this when one of the top Congresspeople represents the Hollywood area, is about to be elected Senator, and already has a bill ready to require AI companies to abide by copyright:

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/04/adam-schiff-ai-video-games...
Chromium likely has plenty of "dormant" bugs - bugs that exist in the source code, but consistently compile to safe (or unreachable) machine code, more or less due to good luck.

This project messes with optimisation flags, which have a good chance of "waking up" those bugs (If you've ever had code work at -O1 but not at -O3, you know what I'm talking about). The same goes for compiler bugs, too. The real Chromium is aggressively fuzz tested, but this project is almost certainly not, or at least, not to the same extent.

Turning on features like JPEG-XL also increases attack surface.
And Apple is called Apple, but they make no apples.
It's also worth noting that Sam Altman admitted that he had only used GPT4o for one week before it was released. It's possible that in the rush to release before Google's IO event, they made the realisation of the likeness of the voice to Scarlett Johansen way too late hence the last minute contact with her agent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMtbrKhXMWc
> Israeli bombardment from the air, land, and sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of houses and other civilian infrastructure. Ground incursions and heavy fighting also continue to be reported, especially in Jabalya and eastern Rafah.

> The following are among the deadliest incidents reported between 16 and 19 May:

> - On 16 May, at about 14:50, four Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, were reportedly killed when a house was hit in Jabalya Refugee Camp.

> - On 17 May, at about 0:55, six Palestinians were reportedly killed when a house was hit on Al Falouja Street in Jabalya.

> - On 18 May, at about 10:00, 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured while trying to return to their homes in areas of Jabaliya Refugee Camp from which Israeli forces withdrew.

> - On 18 May, at about 12:30, 28 Palestinians, including ten women and ten children, were reportedly killed and others injured when a residential square was hit in Mashrou’ Beit Lahiya near Kamal Adwan Hospital, in North Gaza.

> - On 18 May, at about 11:00, 12 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when Iqra’ Library was hit in central Jabalya Refugee Camp.

> - On 18 May, at about 14:00, four Palestinian men were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Khuza'a area, in Khan Younis.

> - On 19 May, at about 1:00, 31 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in the New Camp of An Nuseirat, in Deir al Balah.

The bombardment is in fact escalating all over the Gaza strip. There may have been more limited strikes in March and April, but the Rafah offensive started, we can no longer claim so. Israel is doing large scale strikes in most of Gaza, including Rafah.

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-i...
Statement from Scarlett Johannson’s publicist* FTFY
I'm with you, I need to read up more on where timeseries could benefit, at work we have a PostgreSQL instance with around 27 billion rows in a single partitioned table, partitioned by week. Goes back to January of 2017 and just contains tons of data coming in from sensors. It's not "fast", but also not ridiculously slow to say e.g. "Give me everything for sensor 29380 in March of 2019".

I guess depends on your needs but I do think I need to investigate timeseries more to see if it'd help us.
> NASA is just a really expensive organization achieving very little.

Granted, human spaceflight is crazy expensive. And yet...

Jet Propulsion Labs, to pick a single NASA site, has never been more busy. I counted 30 spacecraft listed as "active" on their Current Missions page, but I think I missed a couple of them.

https://www.nasa.gov/jet-propulsion-laboratory-current-missi...
If I'm not wrong, DNT is not backed by laws. GPC can

https://www.eff.org/gpc-privacy-badger
Effective altruism would posit that it is worth one voice theft to help speed the rate of life saving ai technology in the hands of everyone.
Those are the same people who break the laws and exploit people if they know they can't fight back.

Usually those people are considered sociopaths.

Maybe it's time to ask the employees of OpenAI who fought to get Altman back, How this behavior is compatible with their moral standards or whether money is the most important thing.
The way USA courts are set up, setting precedent and assessing damages are two distinct things. I agree that the precedent she would be targeting wouldn’t be all that financially rewarding but that’s not the only thing that motivates humans.
Anyone who watched the movie "Her" will make an immediate connection with any of the female voices. It's kind of the entire point of the film.
Yeah if he focuses too much on SpaceX you get things like him launching a Tesla roadster into space.

I agree with Buzz Aldrin that the exploration is better left outside corporate hands.
EOPL is not a lisp text book. It is a textbook about programming languages in general. (Which you would know if you had bothered to look at it.)
Twitter dropped in value to just 25% of what it was. Racism and naziism are rampant, endless stream of bots pushing propaganda or porn, and has any advertiser actually come back?
a calculator from half a century ago surpasses human intelligence too
Your grandpa is/was wise:

> The experience of power has been related to several positive consequences but also to negative aspects, such as illusory thinking. The present research supports the notion that power is associated with overconfidence.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38625848/
Why did the mods remove it? I hate that they have such insane censorship powers on Reddit, especially when many of the top subreddits are controlled by a small group of them.
There is a reasonable chance that it's a bug happening locally. It would still be really bad, but that would rule out gov. intervention theories, iCloud keeping everything even when the user deletes it, and would also rule out wide spread sharing of these photos.

If it's limited to local resurrection of the deleted photos, I'd see it as way smaller than what we had with CA.
Well, duh, this is basically the goal of Artificial Intelligence.
With no timeframe, well, sure, that seems plausible.

But we're not there yet, and we're not close either. I do think that recent experimentations and products can be useful and maybe also serve as a brick for something more powerful, but this is not simply a scaling problem at this stage.

I think that many of us noticed how the hype is currently cooling down, a new AI winter is also plausible.

Managing expectations should be the norm in this field, given its history...
What the heck does "Opposition to Zionism" even mean? Opposing Zionism is the same as opposing the Irish desire to have Ireland, or the Kiwi desire to have New Zealand.

I suspect you don't know what Zionism is, because otherwise your message makes no sense.
Has this industry learned nothing?

I don't know guys, the super hyped up company with next-gen technology might just be using crime, underhanded tactics, and overstating their capabilities to pull in the thing we all love... and it's not each other or your friend's mother!

It's money!
Sam is very clearly in the wrong here, but is your argument for why he sucks seriously that he said “we should not brand people as heretics for disagreeing with my point of view?”
Em. The patch notes say that:

> This update provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.
Can you explain your reasoning?

If the deleted file was not shared with anyone else, how is this a “massive invasion of privacy”

What law is being broken?

This is a bad bug for sure but there have been far worse bugs that have actually leaked PII and endangered peoples lives. What am I missing?
Awesome use case for LLMs. I built my mom-in-law a DMV test prep app that translates answers to her native language so she can study more effectively. She had failed the written DMV test 4 times before I decided to build it, then finally passed it after a week's worth of practice with the app. I wrote about my process and challenges here: https://www.sabrina.dev/p/aipowered-infinite-test-prep-part-...
Thanks for the summary. I've been using Meson + Nix, so the comments about using Nix as a build system have been confusing. I think what I've been seeing though are "use Nix instead of Bazel", not "use Nix as your build system".
> SB 1047 creates an unaccountable agency that can refer model developers for charges that lead to jailtime (yes, literally) and is coming up for a vote in the California Senate. It's highly unpopular in the AI community, at an estimated 10:1 ratio based on recent public comments.

I know nothing about this bill other than what's in this tweet, but oh my gosh, criminal accountability for AI developers?? What a horrifying idea.
While it mostly useless to actally prevent war crimes this hurt dictators freedom of movement as majority of countries in the world would arrest by warrant of ICC. E.g Putin dont really travel abroad much after getting his warrant.

Though Putin's warrant isn't for common war crimes, but for deporting / indoctrination of children as it's something that is super easy to prove.
That sounds interesting, would you be interested in adding any more detail?
Spotlight also sucks for me in the latest macOSes (e.g. from Mavericks until now).

It always seems to find a bunch of nonsense files and the real ones I'm looking for appear much later.

The whole metadata database that spotlight successfully built in Tiger and Leopard doesn't seem to exist anymore. In those days it worked totally fine.
It's indeed pretty similar. However, it involved singing a song Midler was known for. This case is at best peripheral to the movie Her, in that the OpenAI voice does not recite lines from the movie.
>I hope aviation is next. It is equally behind.

SpaceX took the launch market from a niche, almost artisan thing to something which actually does volume. There is no comparable improvement to be made in commercial aviation unless someone snaps their fingers and wills into existence both all the technologies and regulatory changes necessary to make flying cars work.
How did they even cheat here?

OpenAI did nothing wrong.

The movie industry does the same thing all the time. If an actor/actress says no they you find someone else who can play the same role.
There are reports they reappeared on sold phones as well
Well, GCC still supports i486 to this date. Just compile some code that normally needs cmpxchg8b while passing it `-m32 -march=i486`.

Here's an example code:

extern std::atomic<uint64_t> v;
bool f(uint64_t& a, uint64_t b) { return v.compare_exchange_strong(a, b); }

I'm away from a computer but someone should try this and disassemble the resulting binary.
Matters instead? I feel like it's the only statistic that matters here. Here's the reason: if it makes a negative impact on safety, the cameras should certainly be removed, and if it makes no impact on safety, the money to install those cameras and monitor them should be spent on something that does have a positive impact on safety. Otherwise, it's just a cash grab and safety theater.

The state of Illinois specially requires a statistical analysis to prove they don't make a negative impact on safety. As far as I know, the cities that have the cameras haven't done the required analysis; I've inquired with a few.

I'm not sure why you think it would be more expensive to study the safety. I'm sure police have the data. Are accidents just so rare both before and after install that there's no chance of achieving statistical significance? That just seems like reason enough to abandon the project.
They approached Johansson and she said no. They found another voice actor who sounds slightly similar and paid her instead.

The movie industry does this all the time.

Johansson is probably suing them so they're forced to remove the Sky voice while the lawsuit is happening.

I'm not a fan of Sam Altman or OpenAI but they didn't do anything wrong here.
>Last week, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told me the Sky voice was not patterned after ScarJo.

>"I don't know about the voice. I actually had to go and listen to Scarlett Johansson's voice," Murati said.

Seems like a big part of Mira’s job is not knowing things. How is no one questioning how she landed a VP job at OpenAI 2 years after being an L5 PM?
how is that? the AI companies aren't commissioning new sexual abuse to train their models on.
I'm talking about Arianespace/etc, SpaceX won't need the government to keep them from being pushed out of the business by themselves. ULA might be put onto life support just so the US government has a fallback. Alternatively, a forced ULA/Blue Origin merger could be viable.

I suppose you probably mean that SpaceX owes their success to government contracts, but the point I'm making is that nobody but SpaceX will be able to win contracts except through acts of charity motivated by national security. France and the EU will continue buying rockets from Arianespace even though those launches will cost orders of magnitude more, simply because they don't want to lose their domestic capabilities.
There is a voice mode in the GPT app that's been out (even for free users) for nearly a year now. There are a couple voices to chooses from and sky was one of them.

This mode works entirely differently from what Open AI demoed a few days ago (the new voice mode) but both seem to utilize the same base sky voice. All this uproar is from the demos of new sky which sounds like old sky but is a lot more emotive, laughs, a bit flirty etc.
Sun Solaris (UNIX workstation) desktop environment had this feature somewhere around 2012. Based on ZFS snapshots.

Was based on GNOME, I believe.
Reddit is a joke now. It’s all either bots or mod-curated narratives.
> We're likely past peek US imperial dominance as well or at least close to it,

US imperialism is built on capitalist pragmatism.

> but concrete isn't recyclable either

It is

> But concrete comes from quarries too!

Its basic economics. Stone just seems far more costly and unaffordable. I just dont see it as an alternative. Your suggestions seem little more than utopic. I am happy to be proven wrong
The $20+ rule is about guaranteeing a jury trial. If one of the parties and the judge go for it it can still happen right?
large-scale deep transformers to model next token probability distribution conditioned on context by optimizing loss function
I really dislike seeing a call to action like this with all context squeezed down to a thread on X. Perhaps the bill is as crazy as the post makes it sound, but the giant claims (e.g. 24 regulators with no accountability that can put you in jail) make me suspect some level of hyperbole.

Does anyone have more thorough resources for this? I realize I can go read the bill, but I’m not sure how much I could grok from that.
I’m not sure the Halting Problem is a compelling argument theoretical reason why AI can’t program.

I do see a compelling argument on the limits of LLMs being probabilistic (rather than logic/symbolic), as I’ve seen on GPT/Pilot coming up with code that looks syntactically valid but calls completely made-up APIs.
Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT
The Downside of Delayed Gratification
No surprise, first thing I see in the comments section is FUD.
Is there any breakdown of what the total tonnage to space is used for? What % is exploration / research, telecommunications, surveillance/imaging, other?
1. I wasn’t making any claim to the distribution of IQ test results across the population.

2. You can have different categories and still have correlations between them

3. Presence of outliers (savants) doesn’t discredit the general correlation

4. No one is claiming skills cannot be learned
Large ongoing discussion [0] (428 points, 2 hours ago, 295 comments), related OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT[1] (81 points, 13 hours ago, 111 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
Some online obituary websites that people with the right credential can join a "group" setup by the family and share thoughts and even photos.

Privacy could be the worst enemy, though.
Especially considering that the advantage gained by having an AI sound like this one individual is absolutely minimal. It's not as though any significant portion of a target market is going to throw a tantrum, saying "No, no, I refuse to accept this simulated companionship unless it sounds exactly like the voice in that one particular movie several years ago." Baffling that the company didn't recognise the risk here and retire that voice as soon as they were turned down the first time.