skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,

I'm a developer who loves watching Netflix shows but often found it frustrating to search for ratings before deciding what to watch. To solve this, I built a Chrome extension that scrapes ratings from critic sites and displays them in a color-coded format directly on Netflix. This way, you can tell at a glance whether a show is worth watching.

I built this extension in just one month as a side project after my 9-to-5 job. I would love to get your feedback and hear any suggestions for improvements.

Thank you for checking it out!
Perhaps when increasing efforts in implementing spyware directly into your OS it would be good to dilute the namespace as to not find relevant information.

Either that or someone's giving a not so subtle hint.

I do think the program is probably far out of the consciousness of most people at this point (outside of older technical people), and the younger generation probably wouldn't know or care.
There are two big families of drones: FPV and non-FPV (sometimes called cinematic). Flying non-FPV, GPS stabilized drones (like the DJI Mavic family of drones) requires almost no training, you just put the drone in the air and it stays there, waiting for your instructions.

Flying FPV (in acro mode) has a steep learning curve (but is, arguably, much more fun). The way to learn is to use a proper simulator. The most versatile and popular one is Liftoff and costs around $20, but there are many others, including free ones. You should also buy a dedicated controller since normal game controllers don't work well (the throttle joystick needs to stay where it is instead of returning to center). Dedicated drone controllers can be found around $40-50 used.

And then off you go! Be prepared to spend at least 20 hours on a sim before you can fly IRL (it took me around 100 hours to really be comfortable). It's surprising how well the learned skills transfer from the simulator to the real thing.
Here’s the thing though - if I was OpenAI, I’d be more interested in the actor sounding like the voice agent in Her, than Scarlett Johansen.

After all, Scarlett was playing a role in the movie (lending her voice to it), and they wanted to replicate this acted out role.

If the intent alone mattered, OpenAI should be in the clear. More so if they never specially instructed this voice actor to “sound like Scarlett”.

On the other hand, Sama reaching out to Scarlett directly over a number of times doesn’t lend a good look. Perhaps they felt that Scarlett has already done it (acted out as a voice agent they were trying to bring to life) and she would truly understand what they were going for.

Maybe, it was also a bit for marketing and the buzz-worthy story it might generate (“OpenAI worked with ScarJo to create their life-like AI voice. Scarlett was also the voice behind the AI in “Her”).

However, I’m not a lawyer and the the law could very well view this more favourably towards Scarlett.
So they planned to remove ChatGPT's most popular voice, causing anger among many of their customers?
Man, I didn't even notice the icons in the bottom corners. I thought it was just a quick toy on first pass which is a shame because loading existing songs is really cool.

I wonder how many other people close the tab without noticing the buttons like I did.
Chances are if the descriptions are clear enough, there's a very low probability that would happen, and it's a search engine, if your match is not in a particular search, then search again :)
thats unfortunate...
A celeb creates a particular voice personality for a role as an AI in a very successful movie. You create an AI, and "co-incidentally" create a strikingly similar voice personality for your AI. Not a legal minefield, you copied the movie, you owe them.

They could have used any accent, any tone, anyone. Literally anyone else. And it would have been fine. But they obviously copied the movie even if they used a different actress.
I like how in the Year of our Lord 2024 this is not some basic functionality provided with the operating system.
#2 because they're humans and humans act emotionally — it's entirely possible for them to just go "aaaa" like all the people in comments sections do regularly.

#3 famous people do seem to have some control over their likeness; I don't know how real that control is or anything about how it works, just that it looks like this from the outside. IANAL, so treat that as a claim of analogy not literal.
Sam tweeting "Her" is a clear as daylight indication that they are deliberately trying to associate the voice with ScarJo's performance.

They're squarely in the zone with knockoff products deliberately aping the branding of the real thing.

"Dr Peppy isn't a trick to piggyback on Dr Pepper, it's a legally distinct brand!" might give you enough of a fig leaf in court with a good lawyer, but it's very obvious what kind of company you're running to anybody paying attention.
No, he's right. At low speed it's a wash, let's say the EV sound is worst (really depends on the ICE here, but let's assume luxury brand with recognizable motor noise). At medium to high speed? there is no comparisons, ICE are way louder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uM8jhcqDP0&t=30s
They never claimed it was Scarlett Johansson's voice though.
Yeah, I'd say it's mostly tax reasons.

Generally, if you have a substantial presence somewhere, you become liable for a bunch of taxation stuff.

That being said, it's probably also non-English as a first language.

Note that the vast majority of tech in Europe is either in Ireland (tax reasons) or London (city known to Americans), both of which are English speaking.

Switzerland is interesting, in that it's not English speaking. I know that FB generally just set up Eng offices wherever Google did, so the real question is why Google set up there.
aha good question, well the neural scoring function doesn't "know" that it is making a routing decision, we just predict which LLM would give the highest performing output on the given prompt, based on LLMs-as-a-judge at training time. However, my guess is that this specification in the input prompt miiight mean that the cheaper models are deemed to be worse performing than GPT4 (for example), and so maybe it would route to the best models. Feel free to give it a try and see!
It shouldn't be banned. Just add a +300% tax to it, while keeping it legal. (Banning will just lead to under-the-table payments).

While this looks at face value like it's just making things worse, in fact it cuts the profits by 75% for any criminal trying to optimize the ransom demanded.

Then use the tax collected to fund IT security research or something.
Except python started mangling double underscore in a futile attempt to implement private members/methods.
Go really is the most "readable" code for anybody who has ever read something C (or Algol ;) like - so just about anybody. The only "strange" stuff is its `iota`, the method syntax and of course channels and goroutines. But that's nowhere comparable to some C++ or Haskell, "type heavy" Typescript or some Lisp macro DSL.
It's pretty awful on a M1 Pro too, at least until the page has fully loaded. I'm assuming all of the inline styles are forcing a few seconds of re-layouts and that kills the initial performance.
Once AI is capable of delivering similar quality, many musicians and actors will indeed be replaced.

But until this technology exists, musicians and actors will continue being employed.
>The tweet is still a thorn in OA's side, of course, but that's not likely to be determinative IMO (IAAL).

It amounts to nothing as it was a single word and they could spin that any way they want, it's even a generic word, lol. The "worst" interpretation on that tweet could be "we were inspired by said movie to create a relatable product" which is not an unlawful thing to do.
actually we don't support local deployment quite yet, it's all run in our server. However, fully local deployment is on the roadmap, stay tuned!
Spielberg & co never claimed Glover was in BTTF 2. The replacement actor is credited. However they heavily implied that Glover came back, by approximating his appearance with prosthetics, preventing his face from being seen up close, and having the replacement actor mimic Glover's voice.

Glover sued and won.
Or he tweeted 'her' to compare his product with the movie AI's conversational abilities. It just depends on how one subjectively interprets a single syllable.
This is exactly that. All this site does is direct to the "Web" search option in Google. Hence the name "&udm=14", because that is the query parameter causing Google to display the web search option
Money. The hype is really strong, the hype might even be justified, insane amounts of money flow in. There is a land grab going on. Blood is in the water, all the sharks are circling.
What makes a likeness a likeness?

A measure of similarity? Then I demand all people sounding like me to license their voice from me.

A claim that the voice originates from a certain person? Then you don't need any licensing in this case.
You're being a bit melodramatic, but again the distinction is pretty clear. As long as there is a clear distinction between what is me, and made my me, and what was done by a machine/company/etc. then I don't really see the issue

If people make videos of me having sex, or fighting aliens or selling laundry detergent.. again.. why should I care?

As long as nobody is saying "Hey you're actually talking to Scarlett live right now!" it's not hurting her.
Such kind of interest in profit (as in the majority of enterprises, executives etc) _is_ sociopathically driven in general.
I honestly don't understand how delusional you have to be to not think OpenAI wanted this to happen.
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
Still there are better alternatives to ddg. I use Brave and Kagi.
I don't understand why you are being sarcastic right now. Trademark cases are always decided on "if a person was shown this logo/song/whatever could they mistake it for the trademarked property of another company", not "well if you load it up in Paint you can see that some pixels around the edges are different so it's technically not the same logo your honour!".
Sounds interesting, can you explain the conceptual differences between your approach and mixture-of-experts (for someone with minimal understanding of MoE)?
Listen to the voices side by side:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cwy6wz/vocal_comp...

And here is voice of another actress ( Rashida Jones ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385414AVZcA

If you click through and listen please reply and answer these questions:
which actress do you think is similar to the openAI sky voice? And what does that tell you about likely court result for Johansson? And having reached this conclusion yourself would you now think the other actress Rashida Jones is entitled to compensation based on this similarly test?
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It looks like it was just a mis-quote. All the paragraphs below the quoted one are included as part of the quote but don't begin with the leading >
The vast majority of all voice actors are piss poor, not ultra wealthy celebrities. The ultra wealthy celebrities just happen to be the only ones who could legally defend themselves and can create a media fuzz.

You're basically suggesting that it's okay to copy anyone's voice and appearance without ever giving them compensation and without regard to personality rights. That's insane. Even for someone who thinks this should be allowed in principle (I certainly don't think so), there would need to be strict safeguards. Or, do you want your person and voice to appear in a commercial for <insert organization, product, or cause you don't support at all and despise>?
I think people will get really sick of all the drama once the paperclips start chiming.
My Thinkpad T14s/Firefox combo can't handle it.
Startpage too, but only on mobile (???)
In fact, some of the presently annoying warts can be derived from late decisions on the theme of "we already have a bloated standard, let's not add more".

Over time a lot of them became de facto extensions (MOP, gray streams), or there are de facto extensions that fill the same niches in different way (ASDF)
If you program a digital voice to sound like someone, there's zero difference than using an impersonator. A voice actress playing a role in a movoe (Her), is 100% that actress's voice too.

People are so weird on this. OpenAI screwed up, they know it, their actions show it, there isn't much to discuss here.
There are degrees and different shades of "success" and "functional programming".

Clojure is successful, stable and well maintained. However it is a niche language compared the big mainstream languages. It takes a functional approach by default, but doesn't shy away from other paradigms/patterns/idioms when appropriate.

Functional programming itself has had a huge influence on mainstream languages since about a decade and a half. More and more pragmatic features have been introduced in mainstream languages. Newer languages have adopted functional idioms from the get go. On the macro level as well, ops and architecture have been adopting statelessness, reproducibility and so on.

The consensus has shifted towards containing state. The more moving parts you have, the harder it gets to reason about a whole thing. Treating data as data.

OOP has also changed and got refined over this time. I think people realized that it has good ideas (generic interfaces, polymorphism etc.) and bad ideas (inheritance, local state etc.). Same thing with FP, there's stuff that's esoteric and too far from the reality of actual programming and stuff that is pragmatic and simplifying in there.
* The usability issues are 95% CSS issues, and would require a good UX designer. They're distracting for the first 10 minutes, but really need a fix.

* I've had students go through two semesters of courses. We ran into two minor errors. We fixed them. In my experience, the content is rather bug-free.

Contributing a fix takes all of five minutes. Hit "edit" at the top right, make the change in the github UX, and submit a PR.

The quality of your bug report here leaves much to be desired.

Are you talking about the Devyn / Riley dialogue at the top? If so, many of those appear designed to highlight misconceptions which are then addressed in the text. See "vicarious learning" for research evidence on how this works (and in practice, students seem to like the dialogues too).
> > Several factors go against OpenAI, he said, namely Altman’s tweet and his outreach to Johansson in September and May. “It just begs the question: It’s like, if you use a different person, there was no intent for it to sound like Scarlett Johansson. Why are you reaching out to her two days before?” he said. “That would have to be explained.”

I think there's a pretty reasonable answer here in that the similarities to Her are quite obvious, and would be regardless of whose voice it was. If you wanted it to be SJ, reaching out right at the last minute seems rather odd, surely you'd reach out at the start?

There are three timelines that seem to be suggested here

* OAI want the voice to sound like SJ

* They don't ask her, they go and hire someone else specifically to sound like her

* They work on, train and release the voice

* OAI, too late to release a new voice as part of the demo, ask SJ if they can use her voice

This requires multiple people interviewed to be lying

Or

* OAI hire someone for a voice

* They train and release the voice

* People talking to a computer that reacts in this way is reminiscent of Her

* "We should get SJ as an actual voice, that would be huge"
* Asks SJ

One third one, probably more middle of the road?

* OAI hire someone for a voice

* They train and release the voice

* People talking to a computer that reacts in this way is reminiscent of Her

* "Is this too similar to SJ? Should we ask them?"

* Asks SJ

> He compared Johansson’s case to one brought by the singer Bette Midler against the Ford Motor Co. in the 1980s. Ford asked Midler to use her voice in ads. After she declined, Ford hired an impersonator. A U.S. appellate court ruled in Midler’s favor, indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use.

Sure, though worth noting that they hired a Bette Midler impersonator to sing a cover of a Better Midler song (edit - after asking and getting a "no")

To be honest, I'm not really that convinced it sounds like her

https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?t=165

https://youtu.be/D9byh4MAsUQ?t=33
> I'm not buying that people here are "fine" with this. This is one of those things people might be fine with, until they find themselves in that exact spot.

I'm gonna suggest that people who are blase about this issue are comfortable in the knowledge that it will never affect them. HN contributors might have 99+ problems, but being lusted over by the internet at large isn't one of them.
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I appreciate Steve Yegge content.

I didn't know about emacs and the customer support thing -- will look it up and read it.

I believe it was reading his site (a number of years ago, might I add) that convinced me to swap my LCTRL with CAPS on my keyboard. Best decision.. ever!

Now my pinky has been much more comfortable ever since!

Of course, my co-workers hate it that I have swapped keys. They forget about and wonder why capital letters are not working, or trying to copy/cut/paste. lol.

On windows, I use to update the registry directly. Today, I use PowerToys... so I can just close it if someone else uses my keyboard.

Anyway -- diverting the topic a little.

+1 to Mr Steve Yegge!
In Windows when you set a wallpaper it (sometimes) silently transcodes the one you selected into a new, smaller version. It doesn't always, there's a heuristic, but it's assumed it happens to prevent people from selecting a 1TB terapixel photo and have it destroy the machine.

Anyway, since it transcodes the WP into a JPEG, it has the ability to select a compression ratio. That ratio is pretty famously < 100% and as a result there's some degenerate cases where a wallpaper that looks good when viewed in the filesystem looks terrible when set to the background.

https://superuser.com/questions/1377883/how-to-prevent-wallp...
Except there wasn't any promotion. The only thing close would be Sams tweet, but this was not an official statement and could easily be explained to refer to the concept of voice assistants in general. The fact that SJ was contacted twice was actually publicized by SJ and not OpenAI.
Have govt mandated living standards - medicare for all, minimum wage.

Make corps revenue neutral - they fund all the services for their employees.

Govt fund unemployed including UBI.

Make corp tax rate = base + misery index = base + inflation + unemployment
>guess it also leads to the bigger question

people are allowed to sound like other people. But if you go to actor 1 and say we want to use your voice for our product, and then they say no, and then you go to actor 2 and tell them I want you to sound like actor 1 for our product, and then you release a statement hey you know that popular movie by actor 1 that just used their voice in a context extremely reminiscent of our product?!? Well, listen to what we got: (actor 2 voice presented)

Then you may run into legal problems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

on edit: assuming that reports I am reading that the actress used for the voicework claimed not to have been instructed to sound like Her vocal work it sounds like it is probably not likely that a suit would be successful.
Banning it directly is a bad idea. Much of the same effect can be achieved by punishing companies that pay ransoms (or pay criminals or criminal organizations for similar reasons) by slapping a +300% tax on top of the payment (at least for companies).

If the size of the ransom stays the same, this provides a stronger incentive to keep IT security at a sensible level. Or, if this means criminals have to lower their demands to get paid, then the profitability goes down.

Use the money collected to fund IT security programs (research, awareness and assistance to companies in need of improving security.
Who said it was ‘prosecutable’?
If people miss milestones for valid reasons you are setting the wrong milestones. And then missing them undermines the credibility of the next ones. Get on top of your estimating.
As long as it's clear it's not actually me and I'm not personally endorsing the product then what is the problem? Here you are talking to OpenAI's system and it's clear Scarlett isn't personally answer you and the answers don't represent her or her views
Yes they tried to copy film Her yet the voice ai character in the film you think was original? No other films predate that film with female AI voices? And would the actor have claim on the fictional character they played in the film vs film “owners”?
The image wasn't there when I posted my comment.
Good question. What that quote from the recent filing is describing is the result of investors using the "Direct Registration System" (DRS), which is a system for book-entry ownership [1][2].

Given the example of risk HN user /deified/ shared regarding suspicions of brokers clandestinely distributing IOUs without investor knowledge where they should, in fact, be purchasing real shares, DRS offers the ability to move shares from one's broker to the company's transfer agent.

In effect, what DRS seemingly provides is a far more robust chain of trust and custody, as well as a more concrete level of assurance that shares in one's account are, in fact, real (and not IOUs).

In this case, the 10-K filing provides direct evidence that investors are consistently moving their Gamestop shares out of their respective brokers, to Gamestop's transfer agent, a company called Computershare (or purchasing shares directly via Computershare).

A conclusion one could possibly draw from this is that hundreds of thousands of Gamestop investors have collectively agreed that they can no longer trust their brokers, they are fed up with the true reality [and limitations] of "beneficial ownership", and are instead registering their Gamestop shares with the transfer agent (Computershare). All to the tune now of 25% of the total outstanding shares. As far as I'm aware, behavior of this magnitude has never before occurred.

Should that percentage continue to climb, it will be interesting to see what effect (if any) it will have on Gamestop's share price, assuming true supply and demand and real price discovery is still a fundamental part of how our markets function.

Ian released a video [3] this past December 2023, related to this topic.

[1] https://www.computershare.com/ca/en/insync/summer-2016/about...

[2] https://content-assets.computershare.com/eh96rkuu9740/630fe9...

[3] https://x.com/Cancelcloco/status/1740515711775346762