skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am assuming they deliberately wanted the voice to sound like Her (the movie) for marketing so copied the voice then tried to get Johansson's permission once the legal department raised some objections. They went through with it anyway when they did not get permission. Altman has shown time again he will ignore all the rules and laws if they hamper his goals.
This what I think happened I am not saying it did and I could be wrong
For one still sure but they have made lots of movies from that set that were used for promotion. At some point this is a lot easier to get so much much material and quick variations.
I always respond with "if it's never enforced, then you'll be fine with me taking it out"

Then I strike the offending passage out on both copies of the contract, sign and hand it back to them.

Your move.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Microsoft making it's native Windows UI platform with WinUI 3 and WPF
1) Your income depends on a physical quality you have.

2) Your ability to mine cash off this physical quality depends on the inability of this quality to be reproduced.

3) This quality can now be reproduced.

I would think very hard and very long about staying in this particular business. Personally I think there is still plenty of work left because not everyone is happy with going full sci-fi dystopia, but it will be niche and scrappy.

"I have unique characteristics that make me an excellent programmer. I earn money by tweaking for-loops. Recently, GPT is being able to tweak for-loops better, faster and more cheaply than I can. How can I protect myself in case companies decide to replicate my unique abilities?"
A problem with AI assistants offering answers or reducing work in an education context is they harm cognitive labor (are "cheating") needed for learning by thinking and doing that leads to mastery. AI assistants in a learning context could instead be used ask context-sensitive quiz questions and point to other examples and learning resources.
Github isn't a binary, it's a repo host. Github can hallucinate whatever it wants, it's not going to brick my computer.

A terminal on the other hand...
> what's to stop less-famous actors from suing over the use of a famous actor who sounds just like them in big-budget movies?

Not having idiots (or ChatGPT) for judges.
If it only had a V8 class JIT in the package as well.
I loved 1Password but can't justify paying for it at the moment. Bitwarden does the job decently for now.
Basically any GPU with at least 32GB RAM and 12 TFLOPs.
I really wanna give this a go.

what controller would you recommend?
I don't know. I think a nice wallpaper can cheer up the day and make a system more lovely. Seems relevant when it reaches so many people.

However, I have never really liked this wallpaper (the few times I have seen it as a non-Windows user). The random desertscapes and dynamic wallpapers in macOS are really much more appealing.
That example isn't really pertinent, because in the case of the Simpsons it's fairly certain that the actors and actresses sign away the rights to their likeness to the company, otherwise there'd be major issues if one ever quit, became unable to work, just wanted a bunch of money, or whatever. There's probably some poor analogy with how if you write software, your company [generally] owns it.

For something more general look at Midler vs Ford [1], and lots of other similar cases. Ford wanted to use get Midler to sing some of her songs (that Ford owned the copyright to) for a commercial. She refused, so they hired an impersonator. They never stated it was Midler in the commercial, but nonetheless were sued and lost for abuse of 'rights of personality' even for content they owned the copyright to! Uncopyrightable characteristics highly associated with a person are still legally protected. Similar stuff with fight refs. Various trademark lines like 'Let's get it on!' or 'Let's get readddy to rumble.' are literally trademarked, but it's probably not even strictly necessary since it would be implicitly protected by rights of personality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Am neither a photographer nor any vision expert. But, what's the point of having billions if to not spend on whimsies.
Airborne spread is currently nonexistent in humans, because the H5N1 virus circulating in other mammals right now still lacks the exact right protein to bind to human lung cells. However, all this news about cows is a bit of a distraction. They're being infected in their udders, not their lungs, and that's why they're not dying en masse. Yet.

Sea lions are dying en masse. That's the big news. Because they are spreading it to each other's lungs through the air.

If it adapts to human lung cells it isn't going to be deniable that it's airborne and extremely deadly in that case.

The relevant authorities are currently waiting for that strain to emerge -it's called the pandemic strain- before declaring states of emergency and authorizing vaccines. The reason is that it is (A) unknown if or when that will happen, and (B) unknown whether a vaccine against the current strain which doesn't infect human lungs would be effective against the theoretical future mutant strain that does. Therefore from a public health perspective it's better in large bore to save the resources and not start producing a possibly useless vaccine now.
the common approach is cas dynamodb pointers to uuid named objects in a named s3 prefix.

would it be better to merge ddb and s3? maybe, maybe not.

gcp/azure/etc are there to provide fancy cloud solutions. no need for aws to serve that market as well.
(the 1985 Sega arcade port is the one you'll find on all the ROM sites. It's much better.)
Very cool but I would prefer spending all that time and money on building a better product and what they delivered.

This is like a startup spending hours upon hours on logo and name instead of actually building something.
These datapoints strengthen my argument. More Americans are in the workforce than ever before, because every household requires more laborers to do work for less compensation.

Federal employment data also does not paint a cohesive picture of the situation.

For one, it does not include undocumented labor - the labor that makes up the vast majority of incredibly low paid positions. Secondly, it is inflated by the fact that so many people are forced to work part-time positions - usually multiple at once.
Sam Altman's Scarlett Johansson Blunder Just Made AI a Harder Sell in DC
Syncthing. 200%
I don’t think OpenAI has a chance to win this in open court.

They are very likely to settle out of court. Investors get a bit anxious with pending litigation.

But I honestly hope Johansson does not. She certainly has the runway to take it all the way. Make them look like fools in open court. Show the people their real colors.
The goal of a headline is not to tell you everything that you want to know, it's to make you click it.
Don't forget the story said an assistant wrote the memo. It's very possible Musk said "print" in the programmer sense - like "print to console" - and the assistant misunderstood.
yup that's also tempting

Dampfmaschine = steam engine

which unless specified otherwise boils down to locomotive...

the two languages are so similar yet different. what amazed me the most was that in English speaking countries they learn beautiful English words, famose worte of sorts.
Have you tried LocalSend⁽¹⁾ before?

I share the same experience with Snapdrop-like websites, self hosted or otherwise, where establishing connections would have a 30% failure rate, speeds progressively deteriorate on very large files, and bundling files together would need them to zipped first which can waste time. LocalSend has none of these issues and has been rock solid in my year of use so far, and I also like that it can send plaintext easily, which fills the gap sites like SimpleSavr and Pushbullet would normally cover.

The only caveat is that you need to have the application installed on all the devices you want to use it with (so it's not a true universal AirDrop or QuickShare alternative) but for your own devices, this is fine.

(1) https://localsend.org/
Fun.

I went to the TLD and couldn’t make sense of how this is connected to that.
Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability
Eventually we'll have to move to a model where the only way one will be able to have confidence that something is real is to go to a physical building where a temporary curated collection of such objects is displayed, having been gathered from around the world by well-connected elite of connoisseurs. Even then, some of the objects may be such well-executed forgeries that even the experts are fooled. We might call such a place a 'gallery', as it to some extent attempts to replicate in the real world the act of scrolling through a library of images on a website.
There is a much older Taco Bell grift: the charity coin drop game. Drop a coin onto the bottom step of an acrylic spiral staircase in a little water tank and you get a free menu item based on the denomination of the coin. It was designed so that if you landed on the last 2-3 steps you had a chance, but any higher and the centrifugal force of walking it down the steps would send the coin off the edge. It was very random with poor odds.

But eventually employees got sick of changing nasty change water and left it empty. The physics were a little different, but it seemed to be sufficiently difficult. Rather than wafting around, the further the coin dropped the more likely it was to bounce off a step. The much more deterministic coin movement enabled a new strategy: walk the coin backwards off of the first step and catch the coin directly on the final step. After ~$1 of practice, I had years of 5¢ tacos.
Not open source (freeware), but much faster than WinDirStat for NTFS - WizTree https://diskanalyzer.com/. In short - it scans the actual filesystem metadata directly instead of enumerating files through the OS APIs, which makes it extremely fast.
> As impressive as this looks (and is), the effort strikes me as monumentally oversized

Like a lot of things in Windows (Taskbar, Settings): Measure with a micrometer, draw with a pencil, cut with an axe. /s
> Not having idiots (or ChatGPT) for judges.

Always the Achilles heel of software engineers' (not so) clever legal strategies.
The simple answer is that AI Paint runs locally. That's it. It's not some kind of grand conspiracy by the "elites".
I thought about this and came to a conclusion, that it should be possible, though not exactly easy, to implement a Wayland compositor that speaks enough X11 to run an X11 Window Manager which would position Wayland windows, while not nullifying the whole security angle of Wayland.
I’m so glad to hear you say that, i was carrying it around while slogging through it and everyone else who saw exclaimed how good they’d heard it was. I do think the sequel is better, I can suspend my disbelief more and found parts of it honestly thrilling
Power plant would be elektrownia. The suffix -nik is a common one that one can append to almost any noun to indicate that something or someone doing something, e.g. robot, robotnik (worker). So silnik translates to motor/engine, not powerplant.
I haven't stopped using it immediately, but it definitely added to the growing list of problems. I don't use that site anymore, except when a search result directs me there. Even then it's a second choice of mine, because I need to disable my VPN to access it, and I won't login.
I have a personal distaste for the multi-syllable word in the headline. I acknowledge that may be a 'me' thing, though I do have reasons which are off-topic.

But seeing it prominently displayed on the homepage of this site is offputting, regardless of my feelings about the word in general.
Two main reasons to make it this way is to also generate movies for possible ads etc. And creative process - you get a lot more happy accidents and variety doing it this way over “draw anything” in photoshop which can be pretty daunting.
I like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems.

Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac storage" turned on, macOS will suddenly try to download literally everything in your iCloud storage to try to count the size of it, probably filling your disk. Oops.
EU election aren't far away. But do believe the EU is a dead construct by now. It only serves as a vehicle for lobbyist with stable financial backing and it is used to push through legislation that would be difficult on a national level because it would be easier to hold decision makers responsible.

The boons the EU offers pale in comparisons to developments like this. This legislation does lessen safety, because it undermines everything the EU was meant to stand for at some point.

The judicial arm of the EU, with very questionable independence, already did undermine what formerly was maybe considered to be human rights. The Institutions don't look too good and you start to shudder to believe they might be part of a more constructive future.

If they reject input of more or less all technical and political experts, we can go right back to elect village elders, because these would supply more competence on any digital.
> (...) I had to deal with an "Architecture Team" full of Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice like "did you know you can pee and poo at the same time?"

It reads like you had experts giving you advise on how to improve things, and instead not only did you ignored their advise but you went to the extent of mindlessly disparaging their help.
Yup... but, if everyone thinks it's a rendering, and you could have saved tons of money by actually rendering it instead of doing what these guys did, it's still a waste of money if you ask me...
Nice, but your site is buggish
Sometimes these things land and sometimes they don’t. XP’s grassy hill seems to have been universally loved but could easily have been seen as lazy.

Granted, MS used to actually take theming seriously. XP had an excellent marketing campaign that tied in with the visual scheme of the product. Even the OS sounds tied in with the choice of music for their commercials, “Ray of Light” by Madonna.

Now we just get the wallpaper and there’s no concerted effort to make a theme of joy or accessibility or creativity or anything.
Looks like that repo is no longer maintained and a fork has sprung up:

https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto
The problem lies with Clojure implementation, not Java or the JVM.
It seems like the key difference is that the advertisements in those cases involved people who sounded like particular musical artists, singing songs that those artists were well-known for singing. If you hired the woman who voiced Sky to say lines that Scarlett had in some of her movies, that would be similar. The fact that this is a chatbot makes it somewhat of an echo of those cases, but it strikes me (a former lawyer) as being a bridge too far. After all, you have to balance Scarlett's rights against the rights of someone who happens to have a voice that sounds like Scarlett's (it would be different if this were someone doing an impersonation of Scarlett, but whose natural voice sounds different).
the US's first hydrogen-fueled ship is officially ready to set sail
What is the strength of the resulting cement?

What percentage of new ingredients are required each time?

What is the energy input needed per kilo of output steel/concrete?
Ok, so are the transactions in question actual scams or not? It's not clear to me
Getting Wiser from Multiple Data: Probabilistic Updating
I've gone past the 8k context window with very good text generation on llama3. I don't know what you're smoking.
I do switch between Clojure and Rust depends on the problems I solve at hands ( prototypes vs building production ). And yes I need go through my checklist of each to switch from connecting data flows at high level to examine nuts and bolts at low level.
22-May-2024 ... the day privacy (finally) died.
I'm reminded of the recent Steam Deck OLED video. It's obviously something that could be done with VFX, but I thought it was really cool.

I think this is similar. Just like in movies, there are directors who don't use VFX as much as they could...
AutoBlink: Monitor your eye blink rate on macOS
I just experienced this as well. I had a giggle when I opened a new tab and searched "is duckduckgo down" and the default search engine is ... duckduckgo.

Still no results .. strange :P
It's not an impersonation it is the actor using their own natural voice.

"We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice — Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using *her own natural speaking voice*"
I actually find myself to be using reddit much less. It’s not that I protesting, but it feels like the community changed into something more like Facebook folks. It doesn’t feel cutting edge anymore, it’s much more tamed stale. The fresh stuff isn’t on Reddit anymore.
The various JVM implementations have mechanisms to fix that, like JIT caches and AOT compilation, which Clojure doesn't take advantage of.

So it is indeeed a Clojure issue, not a JVM one.
Surprisingly in some tests [1], foot was rendering faster than alacritty for me (Wayland, Nvidia GPU)

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...
Bypassed app download restrictions on Vision Pro with non-US Apple IDs
> Differance - the difference that makes a difference.

The first derivative of difference?
Sure, that’s how viruses used to work. They would just delete / corrupt your data.
It was a small-time operation, some pissed off mid with an axe to grind. Now it’s either a nation-state with a political agenda or organised criminals doing it for the money.
Evaluating a Controlled Electromagnetic Launcher for Safe Remote Drug Delivery
Just today I was thinking about XP and the phrase "Fisher-Price" came to mind. I liked XP's UI, even as whimsical and toy-like (and easy to make fun of) as it was. I'd prefer if computers and OSes retained the whimsy and character of that late-90's-early-2000's era of Win XP and the colourful iMacs, etc.
"Updating (or conditioning, belief revision or inference) is one of the most fascinating topics of probability theory."
Why do you feel OpenAI doesn't have a chance to win in court given the information presented in this WaPo article? It seems fairly conclusive to me.
Autocomplete works for me with jvm imports
Bruce is probably an investor in Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Many of them probably are.
I would recommend one of the radios that run OpenTX or EdgeTX (fork of OpenTX firmware: https://www.open-tx.org. These radios support a wide variaty of RF modules and have good support for simulators. No need to get a too expensive one.
For Dropbox like stuff I use Nextcloud. Means I can select which files I want to download on my phone. For individual transfers of files a la airdrop I use Tailscale’s Taildrop
That can be said for many other artistic creations. But if you ask me, the fact that it was so elaborate adds something to it. The end result might be the same but the intentions and the process to get there matter.

Also, waste of money. We’re talking Microsoft. It’s not like those money we’re going to be spent on charity. They paid some creative people to do creative work. We should appreciate that.
I've used windirstat recently and it worked fine. Valuable to find the wasted space...
The Essentials of Digital Transformation for Small Businesses
What a coincidence!

I used it after 3-4 months and it didn't show any search results. Thought I had forgotten how to use their !bangs feature. Turns out it is down
>> an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johansson

>> the actress confirmed that neither Johansson nor the movie “Her” were ever mentioned by OpenAI. The actress’s natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice, based on brief recordings

> Given this I don't think anyone at OpenAI did anything wrong in this instance except Sam Altman.

Not necessarily. The OpenAI people could had the internally stated goal of making a soundalike of Johansson, sorted through the applicants to find actress who sounded closest to Johansson, then gave direction to steer the actress's performance to be similar to Johansson's in Her. All the while never mentioning Johansson or her movie to the actress directly.

Maybe they were trying to mimic the precedent of Compaq reverse engineering and cloning the PC BIOS using a "Clean Room."
i do the same thing!

i use spinning rust in x3 single usb external enclosures[1].

i mirror s3 data, both as an extra backup and to prevent s3 egress billing for random access.

s3 egress is for disaster recovery only.

1. https://github.com/nathants/mirror
Most ransomware don't need that much layers of security to be stopped. And even without them, backups go a long way to mitigate the damages.
So what happened to Daniel Kokotajlo, the ex-OAI employee who made a comment saying that his equity was clawed back? Was it a miscommunication and he was referring to unvested equity, or is Sama just lying?

In the original context, it sounded very much like he was referring to clawed-back equity. I’m trying to find the link.
It seems that https://www.startpage.com also uses Bing for its images.
Nice, so many good photos in that post! Thanks for sharing :D
I used (like many many many) to do this. And one day I thought to myself.. hey.. that greenish background color of Win NT was cool (R0, G128, B128), wasn't it?
And then the Windows 2000 blue.. oh how beautiful.. (R60, G110, B166).

And later in life i switched to total black with dark mode for all my devices (and my eyes thanked me for it :)
Card was declined because they had no cash :)
https://www.bing.com/ is down too at the moment.

Curiously I cannot find a "health" or a "status" page for either.
Autocomplete also works for the functions and vars in the namespaces. You don't really use methods in Clojure unless you're doing interop with Java or JS.
>most people know OpenAI as the company that steals things from other people.

That is already the perception of AI in general, especially evident if you reflect back on the Github Copilot launch.

People move on as the usefulness of the next shiny thing fills the void of time.
I think it's a little bit comfortable to think of a tech company as putting money into the arts.
WizTree is famously almost 50x faster than WinDirStat (on normal Windows NTFS drives) by reading the Master File Table (MFT) instead of walking the tree to measure each file.

WizTree isn't open-source like WinDirStat but "free as in beer" with optional donations.

There's also a fork of WinDirStat patched to read the MFT but I don't know anyone who's tried it: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat
> User data is more valuable.

If that was true, there would be a free laptop by now.
That might just mean that the product is good and finished.
it was an opportunity for the representatives of soon to be extinct professions to bash the technology that spells their doom. the inconvenient fact that the AI didn't actually sound like the actress didn't matter.
Just balance it with the risk of ransomware.
Banning ransoms worked, mostly, for terrorism.
That has to be backed up by a sizable intelligence effort to find and fix the attackers, and a military effort to take them out.
you have to pay to store stuff on S3 (or glacier), monthly. So i don't think they care if you log in - if your credit card on file allows billing for 9 years.
Speed is always relative, otherwise it's a subjective, and thus less interesting metric (it's slow for you, not for me).

Stable diffusion is not relatively slow, because it has no alternative that is noticeably faster.
Does it vary by region? Mine works fine for bing.
I'm the same, always just used parinfer with IntelliJ, though I do know a few paredit key combos that I use occasionally (paredit isn't disabled just because parinfer is enabled).