skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the trend to stuff AI in everything. This one feels legitimately useful though? One hot key away from asking how to write a command in plain english is kinda nice.

Honestly iTerm has always been loaded with features that of dubious usefulness. They all tend to be useful to someone though. This is just another one on the list.

I think the biggest failure here was the way it was communicated. Extremely ambiguous about WHAT it actually does and any privacy concerns.
I think that's a naive take. Derivative works are nothing new. What's new is that the price of this work is much lower with a tradeoff in quality. Even human copycats are still better than generative AI by miles.

The artist is not defined by their past work or other miscellaneous artifacts, but their perspective and creativity. This too is not a revelation. AI has nothing to do with this. It's just a means to an end.

The real problem is the legal stuff. Everything else is hype.
Lawmakers have a staff and that can include domain experts in the areas they're involved in legislation, either permanent or contract or a staffer can consult with any non-commercial experts if they're stumped. This "they can't do it so they have to trust Comcast" is bullshit.
This year's Call of Duty will go straight to Game Pass, report says
I think it’s less the voice and more about how they went about it. They were apparently in negotiations with her and they fell apart. Then they tried to resume negotiations with her two days before the new model launched.

If it was just an actor, it might be a case of inspiration gone awry. But this particular actor sued Disney in 2021 after making a lot of movies and a lot of money making movies for them.

Deliberately poking a fight with a litigation happy actor is weird. Most weird is really benign. But this is the kind of weird that forces out of court settlements. It’s reckless.

Edit - mistyped the date as 2001. Changed to 2021.
I suspect the reason is AI isn’t trustable for important things (yet?) so they can’t do the big cool things without getting sued out of existence when the AI destroys lives because of bad medical or investment or safety advice.
If we're going to pillory Sam Altman, it's important to do it for the right reasons. That was not a good reason. I really should not need to defend this principle.
If Nazis had the nuclear bomb then they'd would've been backed into a corner and quite possibly dropped the bomb.
> There are hundreds of people with similar voices.

Voice *actors* act. It is in the name. The voice they perform in is not their usual voice. A good voice actor can do dozens of different characters. If you hire a voice actor to impersonate someone else's voice, that is infringement. Bette Midler vs Ford, Tom Waits vs Frito Lay are the two big examples of court cases where a company hired voice actors to impersonate a celebrity for an ad, and lost big in court.
"Not illegal" requires a jurisdiction reference.
I work at CHM, and we had a staff lunch today coincidentally. I raised a (non-alcoholic) toast in tribute to Gordon Bell with colleagues as we dined at my lunch table. Grateful for his legacy!

Here he is speaking at a CHM event last year on Ethernet's 50th: https://youtu.be/T9On2L0-ObU?t=2267
Decades-Old Technology and a Paper from Meta Created an AI Industry Standard
They would create a voice in partnership with her? Not sure why you’re assuming it’s some insanely laborious process. It would obviously have been incredible marketing for them to actually get her on board.
Inflation concentrates wealth in those with the power to inflate. This is usually strictly worse for the economy because the power to inflate is rarely vested in people capable of effectively deploying that captured wealth as capital. If this destruction of capital exceeds the rate of capital formation then the necessary decline in investment will reliably erode the economy for everyone, except perhaps for those proximal to those with the power to inflate (see also: the Cantillon effect).
> An even more cogent long term strategy is to collect all this data and set up your own governance boards and policymakers to enshrine your business decisions into federal law, making it nearly impossible for any independent organization or agency to question or challenge your business decisions.

Which would mean the government would also get the share of data, then?
Yes, I don't think the author fully thought through what they wrote. In essence they are saying they just want semantic search.
I didn't ask why you wouldn't bring it up, I asked why you would be embarrassed. I would similarly ask why someone else would ask. My assertion being that nobody cares what anyone else's phone is. I'd assume if you bring up your phone, it is something you want to talk about, so I'd let you. I might even be interested in your interests in your phone. Ahead of time, though, I flat don't care.

There are countless choices you can make in life that nobody else cares about. What brand of shoe are you wearing? What style? What brand of shirt? What style of cuff? Collar? Buttons? Do you wear pins with your outfit?

I don't even think my points here are interesting. You shouldn't let yourself be influenced by what others care about in things that don't matter. More, I don't think my points here are counter to your declared preferences. I agree that it is strange to care about someone doing something slightly different. I'm not the one that said I'm embarrassed when I do, though?

Edit: Also wanted to say that "this" got shifted some there. The sentence I had in the last saying people that bring this up are not serious on it, is on people that bring up wanting a cheap phone. It is not necessarily a bad unseriousness. But it is unserious. Nothing is stopping you from getting a cheap phone today.
Trademarked more likely.
Is something going on with the HN ratings for this submission?

It was ranked #1 a few minutes ago, and now below 20. It's 190 points posted < 60 minutes ago; other articles with this many points even 4 hours ago are top 5.

You can watch this submission sink in realtime by refreshing; it's amazing almost.

See a live screengrab here: https://imgur.com/a/E3fOEvF everything with this submissions point / time ratio is ranked way higher.
I don't know anything about your experiences so don't take this as an attempt to defend them but I've been told that the mental health field has a substantial amount of people who suffered or suffer from mental health issues and to some degree their pursuit of the career is an attempt to understand themselves better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kDbwE7mFck

I'm sure you mean this one. There are probably others though.
For me, myself, and I, we have changed jobs when it became obvious that management wasn't going to change. I had made my very public comments at all-hands meetings as well as other attempts with coworkers to attempt internal changes. When it was obvious we were on the wrong side of the internal motes, it was time to leave. I've even taken pay cuts to not continue to be involved in the insanity. So, yes, I've walked the walk after talking the talk. I did not want to be associated with that company.
Yes, there's a video on the status of mainline Linux support, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40422286
This is actually a very valid point. The whole world works on equilibrium points between cost and annoyance. For the majority of things that point is closer to annoyance. Micro-annoyances usually go unnoticed.
Salad dressing!
Rabbit R1: AI Grift?
All these journalists only now saying OpenAI stole a voice, and how Sam is so sneaky, when we only heard a PR release of someone sue-happy.

Look, I'd have respected it if you reported the voice sounded like Her by doing your own investigative research. To now pile on just shows you were sleeping at the wheel before, so be objective, don't pretend to know that it is a done deal only now.
"No-Output Division" memo (1982) [pdf]
> I love how we went from questioning copyright & licensing to "GPT vs Google, which one is better".

Have we? Certainly the people litigating haven't. And as this article notes, actors' newest contract does have protections against AI. SAG-AFTRA's press release states [0] they are pursuing legislation. That could be bluster or could go nowhere, but certainly people haven't given up.

[0]: https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-statement-regarding-scarl...
No twitter?

I have a very old account with a 4 letter username. I used it sparingly for years. I had made my profile pic the same as Trump and wrote proud cuckold & 45th president of the US during the election as a joke. The background was Trump golfing in unflattering photos. I lost access to the email address I created the account (I still have the email address name, the account password, nothing else has changed) because the recovery email was from college.

They may have sent me a warning to that address, but I have never seen it. My account was permanently suspended. I wish I could just go in and delete the existing content / make a normal profile page / fix whatever is offensive.

Elon had said there would be 1 time amnesty for all suspended accounts, but it never happened. I appealed at least 5 times over the years, but it was always upheld. I would pay for that account back.
My wife actually developed this in her late twenties (now 39). She hasn't had much luck keeping it from slowly progressing, but it comes and goes in waves. Lotion / steroid helps a little but nobody has a good solution for it, yet. She works w/ her hands and it hasn't limited her, but is frustrating.

I don't have anything helpful really but feel free to reach out (email in bio) if you want me to put you in contact w/ my partner just to have someone to chat with about it. Best of luck in managing it.
They announced a whole new model, that's a positive announcement.
but the point is that walking around a plane is relatively safe, and severe turbulence is rare, so much so that you'd probably better off walking around fairly regularly if only due to less DVT risk
if the concern is that iterm2 can’t get through a finance industry audit anymore, why would anyone install a shell (ie extremely privileged software) from some rando? What’s your plan for providing security audits and ongoing patching and updates to a PCI level compliance and who does your certifications?

What are the odds that this isn’t a ghost repo in 5 years let alone 25?
lol, I figured with this audience everyone would know I was being sarcastic, it’s such a famous case, poe’s law I guess
they have been since 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I too am mystified.

I think what’s going on here is that Scarlett is famous, and so media outlets will widely cover this. In other words, this latest incident hasn’t riled up people any more than usual — if you scan the comments, they’re not much different from how people already felt about OpenAI. But now there’s an excuse for everybody to voice their opinions simultaneously.

They’re acting like the company literally stole something.

It also didn’t help that OpenAI removed the Sky voice. Why would they do that unless they have something to hide? The answer of course is that Scarlett is famously rich, and a famously rich person can wage a famously expensive lawsuit against OpenAI, even if there’s no basis. But OpenAI should’ve paid the cost. Now it just looks like their hand was caught in some kind of cookie jar, even though no one can say precisely what kind of cookies were being stolen.
It's been done. The AI plays it rather well.

https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/
Couldn't this be said for most CEOs? They're never really the ones doing the dirty work.
What about the missing comma at the end of the first line? :)
But ambiguity gives you readability. And if a "count" variable clashes with the function name, it's trivial for the compiler to catch this and warn you.

It's a matter of preference, but I'd still risk ambiguity and name collision, especially when you go beyond std:: (like boost stuff).
Correct me if I'm wrong that had nothing to do with copyright and fair use is moot
what do you think Her is about?
> Are children more traumatized now than in the past? Seems like the past was harder on children.

My guess is that in the past child mortality was higher and children traumatised enough just didn't survived. And because of such high mortality no one cared to find out why.
1. Daniel Kucera: https://github.com/danielkucera , https://blog.danman.eu

2. "[PATCH] implemented CMD42 locking unlocking" and "[PATCH] mmc-utils: implemented CMD42 locking/unlocking" https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mmc/

3. "mmc: core: allow detection of locked cards" and "mmc: core: allow detection of locked cards": https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mmc/list/

4. "Requesting a Linux kernel patch that makes a locked sd card visible in the /dev directory #3": https://github.com/alcooper/mmc-password-utils/issues/3
Research is also a real part of engineering. One should not omit it and end up with a SMTP implementation like in the article.
I was not contradicting the parent comment, but adding to it. I know what "over the top" means, thank you.
NASA has gotten a lot better at estimating risk, especially after two Shuttle explosions taught them the hard way that they were really bad at it.

Applying those methods to Apollo shows us just how lucky we are that we didn't lose any of them.

NASA claims that their risk of catastrophe on Artemis 2 is 1 in 400. They'd have to be wrong by a couple orders of magnitude to be comparable to the Apollo missions. I might not trust their 1 in 400 number, but I don't think they're off by 2 orders of magnitude.

The endless Starliner delays are another sign of this. They could launch Starliner with the helium leak and everything would probably be fine. But they're not. They've lost astronauts to "go fever" and have instituted a much more risk averse culture.
I’m not anti-AI in general. I think there it has immense potential for benefiting humankind just as there is immense potential for harm and misuse, much like nuclear power.

I just can’t recall any other product or tech that has so many executive types and techbros frothing so intensely at the mouth and desperate to shoehorn it into everything like this.
>Corporations are just organizational models used by people instrumentally to pursue their goals. They have no concrete existence or any independent moral agency, and so factor out of the discussion entirely.

This is incorrect. Corporations have a concrete existence nd extreme power fully controlled by a tiny board of directors, not by "people" but by "select people" and your attempts to suggest we all use corporations when it's really just a few elite rich people using those corporations is bullshit obfuscation popular among corporatists and plutocrats.
The moment I read the text I knew the title was satirical.

You know it is when it starts like this: "...All tabular knowledge can be stored in a single long plain text file. The only syntax characters needed are spaces and newlines."

That's fundamentally the simplest way of storing text. And it's nothing new, yet people have long ignored that simplicity for much more complicated ways of storing text.
Oh, sure. There's plenty of other ways OpenAI have been boneheaded. I'm just saying the mere fact of referencing "Her" implies very little.
It's not that different to (substantiated) things I've heard from other people, so… personally, I believe it. The alleged sexual / medical / financial abuse is pretty typical, as is the account hacking. If it helps, New York Magazine has substantiated some of the minor details: https://archive.ph/j4lVw#60%.

Sam Altman is fairly influential, and worse abuses from social media companies are well-documented, so as conspiracy theories go, this "Sam-induced shadowbans" one is quite plausible.*

Technically, nobody is forced to become a sex worker to pay the bills. But people can be forced to choose between bad options in order to pay the bills, and it's not that rare that the other options are worse than online sex work. Especially if you have mental health issues, and a disability that prevents standing-up work. Colloquially, "had to become a sex worker" (or "survival sex work", Annie's actual words) wouldn't be a misrepresentation of that.

*: Devil's advocate: saying the wrong things in the presence of the black box can be enough to get shadowbanned. It's plausible that words involved in discussions of abuse might end up automatically censored by a badly-designed learning-from-user-reports ML system. It's also plausible that many similarly-designed systems would independently end up categorising the same sorts of things as "don't show this to other users". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435430 (placing blame on user reports coming from Sam Altman's fans) is a stronger theory.
Look at that link:

2,4,6) ...
These overloads participate in overload resolution only if
std::is_execution_policy_v<std::decay_t<ExecutionPolicy>> is true.
std::is_execution_policy_v<std::remove_cvref_t<ExecutionPolicy>> is true.

std::is_execution_policy_v? std::decay_t? std::remove_cvref_t?

Really, this madness with C++ needs to stop. People who work on newer versions of the language might be very conservative with the language syntax itself, but they clearly decided having carte blanche to adding an infinite amount of stuff to the standard library.

Could someone please force them to stop, somehow? The whole rest of the industry would be thankful.
The API key is unvalidated and so any entry that isn't exactly a blank string is treated like a valid key and data is sent out. There's a risk there that a future version may handle the blank key incorrectly or differently and start transmitting away. For some people, the possibility of a string handling bug or a filesystem corruption or what not is enough of a risk to avoid the software.
I also think that in the longer term Google's embrace of KMP does not bode well for Dart and Flutter, especially in light of recent cost-cutting measures.

But for now Flutter seems like a much more mature stack, at least on desktop.
New 'Siren' mailing list to share threat intelligence for open source projects
But this does not happen to you because you are an exceptionally good driver.
There's a whole market of people who look sorta like famous people, hired for B-rate movies.
For at least the first time, yeah.
Looks like some of the docs are generated by an llm. I see pictures with typos and imagined terms, incomplete texts etc., I wonder to what extent we can trust rest of the docs.

https://github.com/microsoft/Phi-3CookBook/blob/main/md/04.F...
Looking like a celebrity is obviously not an issue. A lookalike being passed off as a celebrity is an issue.
NMAP 7.95 Released, 12089 service fingerprints now in use
> and inadvertently accessed a system in a way he didn't realized was a privacy violation

Sounds like they need better controls, there shouldn't be ways to inadvertently access personal data and violate someone's privacy. Particularly not at such a mature company.
I also wish there was a way to disable the “disable paste” feature.

Worst case, if there is bizarre breakage due to frameworks that reinvent text boxes, have a keyboard shortcut or menu item to type the clipboard contents at 300 characters per minute.
much enjoyed
I'm glad the journalists don't give a damn about your respect.
> The statement sounds like it's written by a lawyer to be technically true while implying something that is actually false.

That describes nearly every statement to ever come out of a CEO's mouth. (Or anyone else who's primary job is marketing)
Precisely my comment. You can see the personality of the people building these products through the tech demo.
"Clever code" here means "code-golf-like code".

"Clever" is too subjective to be used like this. One person's clever, is another person's mundane, and it varies across languages, ecosystems, teams.

Also I'd like to point out that in this example, had that function had a comment and a couple of tests, then it wouldn't really matter much what the implementation is. If you don't like it, you can rewrite it your preferred way.

Though as a dev I'd be too lazy to try to optimize code for code-golf-like properties in the first place.
I wish 90s UI would make a comeback. It's the same with minimalist interior design. It looks fantastic until you actually try to Live in it.
I’m sure this happens all the time in Hollywood. I’ve seen lots of movies thinking, “oh I guess they couldn’t get Jack Black for this role”, or Johnny Depp, or whoever it seemed like the part was intended for.
I'm surprised no one's pointing out the similarity between initial consonants in Sky and Scarlett. It seems deliberate.
So I’m confused to the logic here. You’re running Mac OS, which can call out to all kinds of external services, even from the terminal. Siri is debatably a third party AI feature itself. Why is that OK but this is toxic?
> Sure, we have Signal, but how many normal users would start delving into side loading if the application simply was banned and not allowed on the marketplaces

At lot. Police concocted a fake chat app and somehow convinced their targets to side load it. By all reports it was a wild success: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/anom-...
If we assume that Scarlett Johansson is telling the truth, why would they try to resume negotiations with her two days before they launched the model? If they found a good actor whose voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson, that’s a great argument. But if they found a good actor whose voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson because the real Scarlett Johansson said no, that gets more questionable.

When they did all that and still promoted the launch by directly referring to a Scarlett Johansson role, it got even more questionable.

I’m not pulling out my pitchforks but this is reckless.
I think this attitude is true for many businesses, but not restaurants.

Restaurants are one of the few areas of the market where local businesses that are deeply connected to their communities still thrive.

There are plenty of restaurants & pubs near me who recognise me as a regular customer by name. The people at those places genuinely enjoy making their customers happy. It's much easier to care when your customers are living, breathing human beings with names you know whom you see frequently. The same can't be said for McDonald's, but there are places that aren't so soulless.
That's terrible! The main operation, addition, is completely hidden magic! But the completely trivial calls to
.begin() and .end() are explicit!

Why would I want to add by default?
What reason do you suggest is more appropriate to “pillory Sam Altman”
"Only one who is pure of heart may wield me"
No, our production datacenters don't have Windows, OSX or iOS. We have security ensuring no external devices are brought inside by techs.
I'm not a rando [0].

Also, Terminal Click is an experimental project. We'll see where it lands.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/about
RAG is for vlookups, not countifs.
> While not defending OpenAI or Altman, the caveat here is that this was a voice actor using their natural voice, not an actor impersonating scarlett johansson.

How do you know?
It gives you readability. It's not what I'm used to, so it feels like reading French to me. Generally, if I see something without a namespace, it has a local scope.
I wonder how they'll react to the next version of macOS, iOS and Windows...
Where did "numbers" come from, and why are you so sure you can Sum() it? The original C code offered has some data structure (perhaps an array?) called x. Do C# arrays have a Sum method? I don't think so.

In Rust you would probably just write: x.iter().sum()