skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes attacking Israel a bit more 'legitimate', but in the ME legitimacy for that was already sky-high.

On the other hand, it defuses the situation away from an world war wannabe into something Israel fights alone.
I think for most people the answer is “worse”.
I believe the windows key is just ctrl-esc
I found the whole ChatGPT-4o demo to be cringe inducing. The fact that Altman was explicitly, and desperately, trying to copy "her" at least makes it understandable why he didn't veto the bimbo persona - it's actually what he wanted. Great call by Scarlett Johansson in not wanting to be any part of it.

One thing these trained voices make clear is that it's a tts engine generating ChatGPT-4o's speech, same as before. The whole omni-modal spin suggesting that the model is natively consuming and generating speech appears to be bunk.
Or perhaps they cloned a character's likeness?

Is there a distinction?

Are they trying to make it sound like Her, or SJ? Or just trying to go for a similar style? i.e. making artistic choices in designing their product

Note: I've never watched the movie.
I have been doing an experiment for a while now where I rent different EVs for a day from Turo to see if there is one special one that will make me give up my favorite car that I have had for years (06 Mazda 3)

Rented a Tesla for an entire day yesterday and I see the appeal. I only tried autopilot on the highway with straight or curvy lanes. Handled it perfectly and really helped cover like 70% of my road trip (the part with straight roads for miles)

Before this, I rented a Ford mach-e about a month ago with the latest Bluecruise and did the same test, was constantly "ping ponging" back and forth in the lane and essentially gave me no confidence whatsoever in its abilities.

I then tested a Bolt EUV after the Ford but before the Tesla. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a Bolt EUV with Supercruise but at this point it does not matter, the supercruise is on the Bolt EUV which is not comparable to the Tesla in other areas and all the other GM models which have it blow past my budget.

Autopilot is really a relaxing system when you have been driving for hours. It politely nags you for what seems like every 5 mins so its not like I can fall asleep (at least I wouldn't dare do that) but it really takes some cognitive load off.

Was also raining heavily for some of the day and Autopilot detected this and made it clear on the screen to be extra cautious. Seemed to handle it perfectly fine but I was overly cautious anyway.

My assessment at the end of the day is that given Tesla's excellent software compared to Ford and Chevy, their amazing charging experience compared to EVgo/Chargepoint, and the overall Autopilot system, their cars are in a league of their own compared to other EVs and its just a waste of time to even consider the others.

I am still not sold on EVs vs getting another Gas car but Tesla jumped to the top of my list for an EV. Like I mentioned I decided im likely to not even waste my time and money trying VW and Hyundai (they were next on my list to test). Not sure yet though.

Wish we could get at least the basic highway version on all cars. I think it would be a big positive for so many people. I never really believed until I finally tried it out for an entire day. People NEED to give it a day of actual testing before making an assessment.
327 million? Gonna need to double that if it wants to match Uber.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/08/ube...
Right, because we were once able to properly judge / refrain from judgement. Most importantly we knew that not all sides are equal.
"US Supreme court"

Yeah. _That_ well known completely rational and unquestionably incorruptible institution.

I would bet Altman had been to more teenage sex parties and paid for more holidays with SC judges that Scarlett has... :sigh:
Only if they intend for their business to continue existing.
Article is extremely light on details. Clockspeed isn't even remotely the only issue (Windows XP will install on a 60 MHz Pentium; not a pleasant experience but it works). Windows XP requires the CMPXCHG8B ISA instruction and it is not available on the 486.

Given the article shows an emulator running it, it's possible (but I hope not) that the emulator was modified to supply a 486 CPUID while also supporting the instruction. Maybe the Windows 2000 ntoskrnl.exe was slotted in, too? Anything beyond that, I'm not sure how you can modify Windows XP itself to support an older CPU lacking the necessary instruction.
While it takes heavily from the UI, podman with user namespaces enabled is the completion of this idea for me.

No more sudo requirements, greatly reduced attack surface, isolation as a "user" concern. It sits happily in my UI doing exactly what I need it to do for all these use cases.
yea getting tired of people confidently asserting their ignorant opinions about spacex and tesla based on ragebait headlines.
Bottom line anyone who watched the movie "Her" will make an immediate connection. Also does not help Sam Xed "her" the night before. Pretty much slam dunk case.
Both Japan and Germany were left with their home countries and were given substantial aid to rebuild after the war. That aid was given by their former enemies.

Unfortunately I don't see it as very likely that Israel will give back all the territory in Gaza and provide aid to the Palestinians to rebuild.
US politics propaganda.
SEMRush is engaging in the most common type of SEO spam – scaled content abuse
She very much did not. And the point is Sam said "we had no idea that voice sounded like her" when in reality they built it with that in mind.
Except that Sky doesn't sound like Scarlett Johansson. I'm sick and tired of Hollywood!
From the Ars Technica story[1], this is very funny:

> But OpenAI's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, has said that GPT-4o's voice modes were less inspired by Her than by studying the "really natural, rich, and interactive" aspects of human conversation, The Wall Street Journal reported.

People made fun of Murati when she froze after being asked what Sora was trained on. But behavior like that indicates understanding that you could get the company sued if you said something incriminating. Altman just tweets through it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/openai-pauses-ch...
Gaza is under military occupation by most definitions, that is provocation.

167 Palestinians and 12 Israelis in the west bank. All deaths, not just by settlers etc.
Personally I'm no fan of the two party duopoly and 2020 was my first time voting for a mainstream party in a national election (after decades of voting). Lest we forget, the last Trump term had a paralyzed federal government incapable (unwilling?) to respond to national or international crises, the polar opposite of leadership with the bully pulpit used to divide as if still campaigning, and culminated in an economic catastrophe of massive inflation that we're still reeling from today. And that was all before the chode embraced wholesale-reality-rejecting big lies, and grew a massive chip on his shoulder indicating a desire for straight revenge on his political opponents. So at least to me, affirmatively supporting the conservative option of Biden simply so we continue to have a country to criticize, despite all of the abhorrent status quo military industrial surveillance complex shit continuing to go on, has a pretty strong appeal. If "I'm better than Trump" can't carry the election on its own, then frankly we're doomed.
>Seems like in most cases the state is more pro-israel than the population.

In some cases. But like I said, Western Nations are now factional at a high level (in my observation, and whether or not this is an intentional result - in my view, it might be). And the short to medium term may not predict the long term. What is also possible is that what the State says, in any period, may not predict its long-term strategy.
Reminiscent of the movie The Congress, in which Robin Wright's character, a famous actor, is hustled by a movie studio into giving up her likeness for them to continue making films starring her, in perpetuity.
Your comment did not in any way refute the claim that this would be considered a bribe in other countries. It's an exchange of money for a favorable (to them) change in the legal process, which seems like a reasonable definition to me.
I think a lot of the criticism is political. When you separate from that, Elon has had a profound impact on space and automotive. He isn't perfect and has certainly made many mistakes, but there isn't really anyone like him pushing technology forward like this.
User agents could still pick colors! And don't forget about <body bgcolor="#aabbcc">
The stakes are so high with browser security that it's the last software I'd want to use some random persons fork of, even if they appear to have good intentions. I don't particularly trust Googles intentions but I do at least trust that they have their shit together when it comes to security.
More like your newspaper isn't a TV. You still get the news, but it's a different format.
To discourage access, maybe? That pushes you to use more expensive options.
Once StarShip becomes fully re-usable, that percentage will go closer to 100.
>(A) it's not much better

OP seems to be on the "They secretly trained on her voice" train. The only reason "Two Days!" would be damning is if a finetune was in order to replicate ScarJo's voice. In that sense, it's much better.

>(C) it's extraordinarily reckless to go from zero to big-launch feature in less than two days.

Open AI have launched nothing. There's no date for new voice mode other than, "alpha testing in the coming weeks to plus users". No-one has access to it yet.
I’m curious what kind of rule set/heuristic this set off? It’s not necessarily a bad alarm but certainly a non-obvious result.
Found previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38854932

TLDR:

- project contained a suggestive furry art(no genitals)

- also contained anti-circumcision photo(with genitals)

- that photo may or may not have been reported as CP

Am I just super unlucky, or do furry people have high chances of being super arrogant religious extremists?
Of course, surely you can do this if you're playing a character, such as impersonating Trump or Obama or an actor on SNL?
Does Sam has any more reputation to burn? Seriously, who would genuinely trust him at this point?

I mean I know he has hundreds of blind followers but good Lord, you would think that the man, with all his years of experience had some sense to introspect about what he is trying to achieve vs how he is going about it.

Money really does blind all our senses, doesn't it?
Not to put salt in an old wound but didn't Chris Titus get in hot water after he recommended this, and it was found to contain certain adult images?
I agree that, in principle, Rust's mechanism could be the best of all worlds. Unfortunately, the fact that ? doesn't add any kind of context makes it a non-starter from my point of view. There's nothing worse than a log saying "Failed to perform $complex_multi_step_operation: connection failed". Even Go's ugly verbose error handling pattern is better than building up no context at all.

I don't really understand why the Rust designers didn't feel that adding context to errors would have been a much better built-in macro than just bubbling up the error with 0 info about the path.
I think they say it for some other stuff that don't work as well, like Hyperloop or self driving cars.
Related. Others?

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Thorium – The first browser to score over 600 speedometer points on a Mac M3 Pro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894920 - Jan 2024 (57 comments)

Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38854932 - Jan 2024 (26 comments)

Don't Use Thorium Browser – If Installed, Remove It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647363 - Dec 2023 (21 comments)

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Thorium is the first browser with HEVC and AC3 support even in a mkv container - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36455533 - June 2023 (8 comments)

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"Never underestimate just how much influence you can have on others, especially the ones who are younger than you are." 3B1B
> Another legal scholar, Herbert Hovenkamp of the University of Pennsylvania’s law school, called Google's move "smart" in a post on X. “Juries are bad at deciding technical cases, and further they do not have the authority to order a breakup,” he wrote.

Would a jury have the authority to break Google up?
> and then there is not good funding

But that’s a lie too. If you check the budget of the Department of Energy, you’ll see that each year about half a billion dollars is allocated to fusion. For 2024 for the number is $790 MM. If that’s not “good funding”, then how do we know there is a number out there that will count as good?
Oh, yeah -- if people are trying to use a spoon to stir PB, they've got the wrong tool for sure.
It's wild to think the world of 2001 A Space Odyssey seemed very possible to the people of the late 1960's. They went to the moon in only about 10 years, so a Jupiter mission in another 30 years would just be a continuation of current progress. Little did they know that humans would lose the capability to leave orbit just a few short years later.
I just used FSD yesterday. It works pretty damn well.
Nobody besides cab medallion owners really liked the regulations that Uber violated is probably a big part of it
A Tale of Two Composers
I'd say it's a given, every detail in a movie is an artistic expression of some kind.
This Apple-genesis (Nuvia) and Microsoft-led (Pluton) Arm Oryon hardware provides rare boot standardization and optional upstream Linux on Arm EL2. With enterprise PC OEMs on board, there should be a healthy supply of used Arm Linux laptops in a few years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408#40355554

The system firmware will ship with 3 boot modes selectable via the setup interface:

- Windows (this one has the Windows tcblauncher escalated to EL2 through Secure Launch)
- Linux (this one stays at EL1)
- Linux w/ KVM (which jumps to EL2 [at ExitBootServices] before kernel handover)

Mainline Linux support is underway via Linaro/Qualcomm and Dell supports Ubuntu Linux as a first class OS. Linux support won't be perfect in OryonV1, but if enough customers use these devices with Linux, it can only improve. Device trees are likely still needed for Linux.

Arm SystemReady SR/ES assumes sane ACPI tables. That's something that Snapdragon X (1st-gen) very much doesn't have. The ACPI tables present there are pretty much only usable for Windows if you want full functionality.. ESXi-Arm is bootable, but a number of patches were required.

April 2024 video & slides: https://eoss24.sched.com/event/1aBEy/enabling-linux-support-...

> the upstream kernel was used during the Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC Linux bringup.. demo booting upstream kernel with a Debian/Ubuntu userspace on a Snapdragon X1 Elite QRD (Qualcomm Reference Device).. Boot to console support has already landed on kernel version v6.7 and is on track to have remaining kernel support land by the time the first commercial device with X1 Elite SoC comes out on the market.
It's really hard to put my finger on it, but I find things created before microtransactions and in-game ad support really have a different quality about them.

It seems like the more integrated a device is to payment systems and analytics the more exploitative it will tend to be. Phones and tablets have a fairly direct link to the user's wallet, it seems like an inevitable consequence is that on that platform the games with the most marketing behind them will basically be cognitive exploits.

Switch is probably a no for me due to availability of microtransactions / eShop. It's a shame because it has a lot of great stuff. I would understand if some parents have a different opinion about that platform.

I try to mostly give my kids pirated retrogames. Like, refurb GBC + SD cart. Pandora console.

At some point I will need to work through all the exploits in modern entertainment with them so they aren't naive when they come to navigate it for themselves.
If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self destructive.
> hysterical people stop polluting commons with ... divisive and histrionic screeds

What a vile thing to say. Oft times the world is a reflection of self, in that, we are what we accuse others of.
I watched the keynote and many of the demo videos and never once thought, "That sounds just like ScarJo."

That said, the timeline she lays out is damning indeed.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

2024-05-20T07:16:23.679Z

OpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice From ChatGPT

OpenAI is working to pause the use of the Sky voice from an audible version of ChatGPT after users said that it sounded too much like actress Scarlett Johansson.

The company said that the voice, one of five available on ChatGPT, was from an actress and was not chosen to be an "imitation" of Johansson, according to a blog post.^1 Johansson played a fictional virtual assistant in the film Her, about a man who falls in love with an AI system.

The voices are part of OpenAI's updated GPT-4o, which debuted earlier this month and can reply to verbal questions from users with an audio response.

1. https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...

Maybe I have missed something. Is this really the fulltext of the "article"??
Makes me glad there aren't people betting on how far I'm willing to go to bend the law. When you lay it all out like that you make PG sound like a cockfighter paying to get his champion bloodied.
Yeah, again, you're not wrong. While I'd maybe call that position a bit idealistic, it is really weird that they didn't go after various people earlier. That said, they don't have their own carrier strike group so they have to generate international cooperation. The US is already kinda iffy on the ICC's existence because they've called out our war criminals before and, for reasons I don't fully understand, that's a problem. The whole thing is very...contrived I guess?
The Type G is way too big! They only reason it's that big is leftover baggage from ring circuits requiring fuses in the plugs.

And while it might be safer on paper, in practice there is little difference in injury rates US vs UK.
(Not a lawyer) I think the issue is not just that they sound similar, but that OpenAI sought to profit from that perceived similarity. It’s pretty clear from Sam Altman’s “her” tweet that OpenAI, at least, considers it a fairly narrow slice of the human voice space.
Still, he'll be out of a job as soon as AI perfects psychopath emulation.
I’ve been reflecting on Musk’s “roads are designed for two eyes” quote. I’m not sure on the exact wording but he used it to justify dropping lidar and focusing on front-facing cameras.

What got missed, I think, is that there are many cases where having only two eyes fails drivers. The most dangerous driving most of us will ever do is because of some quirk of the landscape, or some long-forgotten legal battle over where the road should be, or because people are cramming more and more in to very limited space.

An excellent example that comes to mind is a steep hill leading up to a dense downtown. At the very top of the hill is an intersection with a two-way stop sign. You can’t see to the left because of the edge of a building, and the hill is steep enough that you have to kind of stomp on the gas to get up it after you stop. “Two eyes” utterly fails us here. If there were cameras facing left and right on each corner of the vehicle the problem would be solve as you could watch the oncoming lanes while stopped.

Here too, two eyes fails us. You have to already know about the train crossing, or hear it, or intuit it’s presence some other way because once you see it it’s so late that you need to slam the brakes to avoid hitting it.
And good faith conversations don't come away with one party publishing assertions of fact just because the other side didn't directly refute the assertion in question.

If the company thinks the journalist isn't working in good faith, are they not then justified in that?

Context is everything. I think there's poor behavior on both sides, but to my eyes it starts with a journalist making unfounded assertions. Would Lumina have gotten upset and threatened over poor press even if it wasn't to the point where someone was making statement of fact that were both wrong and perceived as hurtful to their business? We'll never know, because it appears those statements were made.

We can dumb this down and make it very simple. If someone interviews me, and asks if I beat my wife and I don't answer (for whatever reason. Maybe I perceive it as a joke that doesn't need a response, maybe I don't want to engage with bad-faith questions), and they then print that I'm a wifebeater, should I not be upset enough to threaten to sue initially? Should I assume they're working in good faith, or is that enough to assume bad faith? Personally, I think my choices would be to assume bad faith or that the person is inept and uneducated at the job, and if the person didn't seem stupid, that seems unlikely.
It's more complicated than that. Israel did not administer Gaza nor does it administer PA controlled territories in the West Bank.

Last I checked the question of democracy didn't expand to occupied territories. When the US occupied Afghanistan or Iraq (or German or Japan) those countries did not get a vote in the US elections. Puerto Rico also don't get a vote in the US?

Handing over the west bank to Palestinians isn't an option because: a) the world would not recognize that as the end of Israel's occupation just like it didn't accept Israel's handing Gaza over as the end of the occupation. b) That area would be taken over by Hamas just like Gaza was taken over and would be staging ground for launching attacks into Israel just like Oct 7th or the rocket barrages that came from Gaza over the years since Israel's withdrawal. The West Bank has a significantly longer border with Israel which would put most major Israeli cities minutes of driving and within rocket/mortar range. c) The option of annexing the West Bank and Gaza and making everyone citizens is also not acceptable to either the Palestinians or the international community.

This really answers your unasked question of why is this area under military occupation for so long (IIRC Germany and Japan were also controlled for a pretty long time but anyways). Initially Israel needed the area so Arab armies aren't sitting 10 minutes from its population centers (when the entire Arab world was still at war with Israel). Now that there's peace with Jordan and Egypt it's more of a Palestinians aren't willing to make peace in exchange for this land, they don't want to become Israelis, and there's no realistic option that ensures both the safety of Israelis and their rights and the rights of Palestinians.

After all this you might be right to complain about e.g. settlements in the west bank. And there I'd finally agree with you. Israel should not allow Israelis to live in the west bank before it's final status is determined. That said, it wouldn't really make the problem that easier to solve, if anything it is taking us closer to a day where that area is annexed and Palestinians do become Israeli citizens.
Elon Finishes Migration to X domain
There’s a big difference between a one off replica and person-as-a-service.