skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is entirely right (not a lawyer)

You can't hire an artist to draw black widow in the style of Scarlett Johansson's widow. The issue isn't how the art is made, it's whether the end result looks like her.

I think there may be additional issues (to be determined either in courts or by Congress, in the US) with regard to how Dalle makes art, but elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned the Ford Bette middler case, and that does seem to be relevant (also, though, not exactly what happened here)

I don't have the expertise to know how similar this is to the case at hand.
Maybe she’s attractive because she meets a very median set of attractiveness characteristics.

I.e. maybe being hot is actually less about being unique and more anout being consistent.

Maybe sultry female voices only have so much variety.

I didn’t think of Scarjo during the demo. That said, I don’t need robots to be sexy, so it doesn’t matter.

I feel the real goal is to slow OpenAI down with distractions.
Why Accelerate Deployment? – Kent Beck
(Disclaimer: no special insights into what Microsoft was doing at the time; I merely lived in the same era.)

I'd call it an artifact of only having 16 colours to work with when SETUP boots. Obviously, most machines at the time had more to work with than that, but VGA - which is to say, 16 colors at 640x480 - was the baseline. And remember that Windows 95 could be installed from _floppies_; looking fancy is good, but you don't want to gratuitously use disk space. No multiple versions of the same image for you!

Let's take this fancy "Mac with some other random shit on a desk" image from Unsplash:

https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-self-balancing-b...

Here's what it looks like with various ways of reducing it to 16 colours:

https://imgz.org/iC7KufjC.jpg

(I know, the images are small on a modern display! Each square is full-size, because we're VGA.)

Top left is the original, obviously. Top right is what happens if you just reduce it to 16 colours; it looks like nothing in particular, and it weighs in at 153K (exported in a modern graphics editor), or more than a tenth of a 3.5" floppy disk. Bottom left is what happens if you do it with dithering; you can make it look like you have more colours than you actually do, but it also weighs 153K.

And bottom right is SETUP.BMP. It only uses _two_ colours from the palette ("0, 0, 255" blue and black). That's 1-bit colour which means my SETUP.BMP when exported to an actual BMP only takes up 38.5 kilobytes.

So the answer to your question, I suppose, is "use as few colours as possible and don't waste disk space" or "dithering" or "the 90s", but often the technical limitations of a period plus time become an aesthetic.
> The language is impossible to learn, and my limited experience has been that there are extremely few good guides to peering under the covers.

Maybe my "Nix from the bottom up" page would help? It peers so far "under the covers" that I only introduce the Nix language very briefly near the end (as a saner alternative to everything else on that page!) http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/nixos/bottom_up.html
I'm interested! Great marketing video by the way, a good example of using AI-powered voiceovers to level up the one-man-marketing polish capabilities.
I'm of the opinion that every decentralized network will effectively become centralized because of Metcalfe's law.

But I also don't believe the real value in decentralized systems comes from strictly preventing such patterns from emerging anyways.
I don't think I blame Google for panic here. I find myself going to claude.ai much more, and Google somewhat less. Claude feels much more efficient to me than filtering through search results for many queries. The conversational aspect can be really helpful also.
Do you know when the robot apocalypse is scheduled?
> and somehow trained another voice within the few weeks after she said no.

Er, that is totally possible? You act like it's not a machine learning system. You train new stuff in hours or days easily, especially if you have good tooling. Imagine saying this of, say, Stable Diffusion image LoRAs: "this X artist LoRA couldn't be based on X because it was somehow trained within the few weeks after X said no!"

All the timing means is that, in good management & startup fashion, because they needed multiple voices, they had a voice pipeline going, and so could have a bunch of female voices in the pipeline for optionality. And if licensing Johansson didn't work out, you have a plan B (and C, and preferably D). This is big business, you don't do things serially or not have backups: "'hope' is not a plan".
This is purely the choice of the vendor. Makita may not do this, but John Deere absolutely exert control over how their products are repaired and maintained.
A stack trace is bare bones. A skeleton.

Instead with %w you pass an error upward, wrapping it at each func with another text annotation, and at the top it emerges a fully-formed story.

Or something like that. But anyways yeah error wrapping works great.
> battery cells that can be charged to 90 percent in 12 minutes, according to the statement.

Wow, that is quite an improvement!
No, I didn't miss it, but many of the images circulating are AI generated, including some of your post. Not saying it didn't happen, just that people are using fake AI images to dramatize the event.
That said, companies that deliver measurable value (literally, revenue/cost-impacting) to customers and have healthy free cash flow are going to weather winters.
Even though it was supposed to be "the last version of Windows". Is there an official reason for the change in strategy?
Interestingly, your article seems to support the CEO's "no managers" policy:

> It’s not uncommon to find engineering managers with 30 direct reports. Flatt says that’s by design, to prevent micromanaging. “There is only so much you can meddle when you have 30 people on your team, so you have to focus on creating the best environment for engineers to make things happen,” he notes. Google gives its rank and file room to make decisions and innovate

OP:

> I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers

So Google, by design, had some managers with 30 direct reports. And they thought that went well. Meanwhile the above CEO wants the VP-engineering to manage 40 direct reports. The numbers are slightly different but they are in the same ballpark.

I find the OP's response not very convincing. The above CEO isn't trying to build a no-hierarchy org. He wants his tech-leads to also double-up as mini-managers, with dedicated managers only at the VP/director level. I personally know of at least 1 other very successful company with a similar policy.

The great thing with startups is that they are a low-risk avenue for experimenting with new ideas. Including new organizational-cultures. If Google and other early pioneers hadn't experimented with cultural changes, we would still be working in suits and drab gray offices. The CEO could have done a better job of explaining his vision to the VP before they joined the company. But besides that, I'm glad there are startups out there experimenting with radically new ways of working.
Scarlett Johansson will forever be associated with this voice named, "Sky", the official voice of "Skynet" that will wipe us all off the face of the earth! In comparison, the unfolding of "her" the movie would be like a walk in the park compared to armies of Terminators.

It sounds too close to Scarlett for me to believe this was not the goal whether they hired somebody else or not, and if they try and prove beyond a doubt no audio post processing was done. Just listen to famous musicians doing acoustic or no processing versions of their songs to see how much you can craft a voice or sound.

[Edit]

1. A movie that features an AI voice of a female voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

2. A real-life AI company, OpenAI, is trying to put a distinct voice to their AI product vs. a canned voice.

3. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, contacting SJ to ask her to be the AI voice.

4. SJ refuses.

5. CEO of OpenAI tweets "her" the title of the movie in #1 above.

Audio processing with DSP methods and current audio engineering craft or training AI to make it sound like SJ would be the thing to prove. Get raw audio of actress and finished sound and compare how they steered it to the final product and compare a spectrograph of SJ if you can get the same words.

My common sense and the above facts says OpenAI did whatever they did to get close enough to SJ's voice. SA pursued it a few times, no? It definitely sounds like her enough to me.
Great read, fun to see how right you can be about the popularity of Java and wrong about Python's/Ruby's at the same time
> It was not a movie about Scarlett Johansson. It was a movie about AI

With Johansson voicing the AI. And now they're marketing their AI sounding like Johansson, referencing the movie that had Johansson voicing the AI.

Yeah, no similarities at all there.
I don't find any of the OpenAI voices sexy or deferential. They sound fake happy to me, like a customer service phone menu or an elementary school teacher, and reek of Bay area vocal fry [1] and lilt. I wish there was a greater diversity of accents and speaking patterns available, such as can be seen on the Speech Accent Archive [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU

2. https://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=find&lan...
This is one of the best streaming / series I've ever seen. Just great.
The interesting thing (to me) about Nostr is that it let's people actually own their data in a relatively accessible/simple way. It's by far the simplest implementation of these modern decentralized protocols I've seen, and that's awesome.

But censorship resistance and decentralization are not really a problem for most people, and it definitely isn't a unique selling point.

Also, I always say this when Nostr comes up, but the stench of Bitcoin is hard to rub off. No matter how cool the protocol is, every Nostr community is pretty much filled to the brim with cryptocurrency people. At this point, everyone knows someone who has been scammed by crypto, so the association does not instill confidence. (Plus if we're talking social networks, hyper focused nerd communities are incredibly boring to most people)
Both experiences seem useful to me. The first is useful as a lesson that lots of people are like this (which is just true) and maybe it's not what you want for yourself, and the second is useful for the obvious reasons. Finding time to get both of those lessons is hard though, I get it.
No he won't. The point of the reward has always been to solicit improvements to the text, point out things he missed -- it does not include conscious/stylistic choices. Please don't waste his time, as (from personal experience) he really does read and respond to error reports :-)

”Punctuation is extremely important to me, but I insist on doing it my own way.” — Knuth

[Edit: BTW, where in the paper are you seeing "plenty of indications to the contrary"? As far as I can tell there is only one earlier program by von Neumann mentioned, an earlier and 80x slower version of this same sorting program, which has not survived.]
I expect things will be cyclical, and one day someone will have a product that touts "without any AI!" Suddenly, they'll be a threat to the Googles and Apples that only know how to do AI at that point.
I was talking about a pattern of resistance movement becoming legitimate and functioning governments after independence. And how usually their previous atrocities stop as soon as their peoples are free from their former oppressors.

I don’t know why you are talking about this here as a reply. It sounds like you are trying to flamebait me.
FWIW, I agree with your post and disagree that it violates the rules.
VMware isn't just VMs. They are deep, deep, deep in the stack at some places. There isn't a realistic migration path away from VMware for the customers that Broadcom is interested in keeping. Or, put another way, the time it will take for those customers to move away from VMware (which they won't) will take Broadcom to make their money back on this acquisition a few times over.
> I wondered why they had chosen the voice of a middle aged woman, and whether that was about being woke

really weird line of reasoning. Siri, Alexa, Google Home… etc.
I'm not a professional programmer or developer, so take my comment for what it is.

There's no chance I will ever use Windows 11 for the privacy reasons discussed here ad nauseam. But I'm not super comfortable with Linux. I installed and used Zorin OS on a spare laptop just to experiment and it was fine until an update caused my display to no longer work.

I like to game so long story short when Windows 10 support ends I think I'm going to try and use a steam deck as my general purpose desktop. It's Linux but more user friendly I guess?
That isn't true at all, it uses a bunch of different providers (including my own search engine).

"Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide"

- https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
I mean, I guess that's the benefit of formal proofs? You don't need to "understand" it to know that it's true. Just going line-by-line and if checks out you are good. The notion of "understanding" gets the "shut up and calculate" thrown at it.
That requires a little more effort than an employee casually browsing training data and jotting down passwords on a notepad.
Can't have the cats herd themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
VR winter and AI winter are two regular seasons in IT. Waste of money, nothing to show for it and a lot of devs surprised it did not work out this time.
From their FAQ (thanks to Web Archive):

> Where do you get your results?

> From over 30 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form.
I also dislike the voices. They sound great, but the are very overenthusiastic. "Awesome!" "Thar's great!" I don't want my computer to talk like a California valley girl.

How about concise and factual? It shouldn't be wooden and emotionless, of course, but it shouldn't sound like a floofy-brain.
> and even contraception.

That's a delicate dance around the fact that the ancients used it as birth control. It was an abortifacient. Historians have made the case that silphium was driven to extinction because it was effective birth control.
Neat answer :-)

I also appreciate that you prevented me from countering using a guard like "if RDP is enabled and working", and that a follow up answer actually provides the missing piece xD.
I was curious, given the feedback on this page, so I ran the lighthouse test:

Performance: 81 / Accesssibility: 93 / Best Practices: 96 / SEO: 100

Performance is on the lower side, but the others are all tracking pretty well!
The question that comes to me is: can I use fork(x) outside of a bend?

Seems like probably not, there doesn't seem to be enough information in the 'argument' to this 'function' to do anything useful without the implicit context of the bend construct.

For that reason I think I'd prefer it if fork was a keyword (like 'bend' and 'when') rather than a 'function', just at the surface syntax level to give a clue it is something special.

I guess fork is a kind of 'magic' function that represents the body of the bend. It's a bit like a 'self' or 'this'.

At the moment this syntax is in a weird half-way point ...the underlying concept is necessarily functional but it's trying to look kind of like an imperative for-loop still.

I wonder if we couldn't just explicitly create a 'bendable' recursive function that can be 'bent' by calling it. But I guess it's like this because it needs to be tightly constrained by the 'when' and 'else' forms.

TBH the more I look at this example the more confusing it is. The other part I wonder about is the assigning of new values to tree var... can I set other local vars from outside the bend scope? I don't think so, I guess it'd be a syntax error if the var names assigned in the 'when' and 'else' clauses didn't match?

Again it's sort of overloading an imperative-looking syntax to implicitly do the 'return' from the implicit recursive function.

Later on there is this example:

def render(depth, shader):
bend d = 0, i = 0:
when d < depth:
color = (fork(d+1, i*2+0), fork(d+1, i*2+1))
else:
width = depth / 2
color = shader(i % width, i / width)
return color

And here I wonder - does 'width' have a value after the bend? Or it's only the last assignment in each clause that is privileged?

That's an odd mix in a language which otherwise has explicit returns like Python.

If so I wonder if a syntax something like this might be clearer:

def render(depth, shader):
bend color with d = 0, i = 0:
when d < depth:
yield (fork(d+1, i*2+0), fork(d+1, i*2+1))
else:
width = depth / 2
return shader(i % width, i / width)
return color

i.e. name the return var once in the bend itself, yield intermediate values (to itself, recursively) and return the final state.
> I have no reason not to believe them.

Seems you mut have reason to want to believe them.

Otherwise you'd have noticed all the reasons not to.
> Inequality was lesser in the past. Way less.

I'm struggling to understand this one. Are you talking about the times of the cavemen, when I suppose everyone was equally materially poor? And yet you had other kinds of inequality back then, such as a bigger and stronger caveman being able to kill you and take your stuff, since there wasn't such a thing as a society or rule of law to protect you.

Or are you referring to the vast majority of people who for the vast majority of recorded history who lived in systems that elevated certain bloodlines above others, legally and culturally, and sometimes even to the status of gods? Certainly you cannot claim that, say, Queen Victoria and the common Englishman were more equal than King Charles is to his average subject, in every possible way.
They walk around the beach find a turtle egg nest, move it to another location, only half of the eggs hatch, they find out it’s a rare turtle type and then they celebrate with champagne..

Probably the hatch rate is often like that and they placed the nest to a safe location, but still what a great job they have.
DDG has a history of breaching privacy: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...

Meanwhile Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy, being independent at the same time.
ChatGPT Used to Write Part of Arizona State Law on Deepfakes
Not a native speaker, so "catch phrase" is maybe not the right term or too strong.

Prompted by your comment I read up about the case and from what I understand Sega wanted to use the song in a promotion and not (what I remembered) her likeness.
> Backups need to be offline...

...and tested on independent infrastructure.

I worked with a financial Customer in the late 90s who, quarterly, sent a backup to an independent party for restore of the data into a freshly created application environment. They verified the backup with reproduction of key reports and random spot checks of data. It was impressive.
Yeah, I just think it should make use of the nonverbal channel we use to communicate, otherwise we get frustrated at the inefficiency
it's the CEO's personal statement.

but yes, even a personal statement may have some value in a case, but you ignored the second part of the GP's criticism.

you're reaching that the tweet of the poster of "Her" meant "hey guys, this is voiced by SJ"

it simply could mean that "hey guys, it sounds as good as the voice assistant from Her"

it is voice assistant software after all...

mind reading a tweet does not make a good case, especially with the timeline noted in TFA.
On the other hand, access to enterprise and personal context is key.

From that perspective, Google (Android, Maps, Drive/Calendar/Photos/Gmail), Apple (iOS, Maps, iCloud/Calendar/Photos/Mail), and Microsoft (Office, AAD/Windows, GitHub, XBox) all look solid.

Even if they screw up initial efforts.

Those data streams aren't something you can create out of thin air, without first creating products and attracting users.

AI assistants are only as smart/dumb as their context.
Flagging posts on discourse communities is not anonymous
For Google? Efficient datacenters, TPUs/GPUs, institutional knowledge, robust crawling infrastructure, gargantuan proprietary data sets, existing partnerships, large catalog of products that can absorb the functionality of competitors products as a feature, etc.
Also it would be easy to completely restrict very profitable corporations using publicly funded workers. That is completely insane.

Of course no country wants to give up their capacity of cheap labor, so politics move slowly or worse, it becomes the literal race to the bottom.

It is false to believe they could do without these workers while in reality they probably could do without much of their management.
Came here to ask a similar question: who is this targeted to? We see very different end to end behavior with even different quantization levels of the same model. The idea that we would on the fly route across providers is mind boggling.
So because you were a) too lazy to understand the concept of differential privacy b) the value of using anonymized data and c) come up with a trivial strawman, that makes the whole concept of anonymization unnecessary and something that should be replaced by oversimplified factories?

How ignorant and wrong-headed. I'd recommend learning more about the concepts of k-anonymity and differential privacy before you prematurely presume impossible a concept that others (including Google) have been able to use successfully.
I was confused because it doesn’t really sound much like her normal voice, and I didn’t see Her. So I looked it up—it sounds a little bit more like her voice in her… the movie where she’s adding some AI-like affectations to her voice.

I guess they decided to remove it for PR reasons or something.
> If you approach a debate from a bad faith standpoint, don’t be surprised when the other person doesn’t change their mind.

Yeah, so stop doing that then.
So damned sexy!
It's a really cool project, but the video presentation was just horrible to watch. All I really wanted was to see the fixture in plain form, but they tease you the whole time.

* Blasting loud music
* Saturated with bragging, useless testimonials
* Blurring-in was more common than actually seeing the work
* Cutting away from the work to a human too quickly

Maybe I'm coming off as miserable, but this video was totally unsatisfying to watch.
I always find it interesting to see calls to mallow and free in C++ code. I don't recall using malloc/free in many years in C++. It's always new/delete.
I haven’t read enough on the event to make an intelligent comment, but I do know that much of the impression we have of Bryan and his anti-evolution opinions comes from H. L. Mencken’s reporting on the Scopes Trial. I enjoy reading Mencken, if only for his mastery of language, but he definitely had a tendency for overextending his criticism and being overly harsh with his criticism. He was similar to many pundits today that are good at making witticisms but not at understanding nuance.

So if I were aiming to explore the complexities of Bryan and how he (might) have been maligned, I’d start with Mencken’s articles.

See the publicity section of this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial
Not just corporations. Plenty in government as well.
Trying to type in search box causes screen covering popup with a ton of latency, and typing in that box has crazy bad keyboard lag.

Not a persuasive demo.