skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bombs don't drop themselves, the problem is that people feel the need to maliciously manipulate others. It's not just fake videos either, there are fake personalities whose main purpose is to troll and rage bait so people fight each other instead of the malfeasance behind these activities
> To me diversification goes against all logic because the rule #1 of investing should be that you as a investor KNOW what you are investing in.

I largely agree with what you say. However, diversification has degrees, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that you gotta spray and pray across the whole range of S&P500 to be more diversified than the “all-in on a single stock ticker” strategy. Examples:

* All in one single stock ticker - no diversification

* All in a few different stock tickers that are in the same industry sector (that you are knowledgeable about) - diversified businesses, but not diversified across industries

* S&P500 spray and pray - largely diversified

Option #2 is imo the solid middle ground, and it gels perfectly fine with your idea that you gotta know what you invest in. Yes, it is riskier than option #3, because it doesn’t account for the scenario where the entire industry sector experiences a downturn. But it is still diversified, still has the potential to make you wealthy, and is not nearly as risky as option #1 (but also not as capped as option #3).
Can I ask if other people care about the game you’re making? As someone with a fair amount of indie experience it seems easier to create a proof people care about than a (even reasonably) popular video game.
I bought one of these for $25 back then hoping someone would create something sweet with it. Well its still in the box, no cool hacks had been released last time I checked. I believe the thing barely has any ram.

some subreddits to monitor:

https://www.reddit.com/r/carthinghax/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpotifyCarThingJBreak/
Absolutely. This is why college admissions are so hard.

Colleges want to only let in students who either already know the material, or are motivated enough to teach it themselves. That way the fact that they are providing precious little actual tuition doesn’t matter so long as they continue to provide reasonably good assessment.

This is a common complaint with computer science 101 ‘weed out’ classes where the claim is that they are weeding out people who lack the innate capability to program, but in actuality they are weeding out the people who couldn’t program before they got to college.
Not just stars, it implies there’s a lot of planets, asteroids, etc tossed out there.
Bringing Prisma ORM to React Native and Expo
AOU45RLXFZ outdoor unit, 2 7K ceiling cassettes, 1 9K cassette, and an 18K air handler. Installation was pretty easy so long as you are a mechanically inclined person, and are willing to invest around ~$500 in the tools to do the job right. Most of the labor is just basic carpentry and electrical.

The most complicated thing is preparing and flaring the copper tube ends, then pressure testing overnight. R410a is a high pressure refrigerant, the manual has very specific dimensional requirements for the flare to get a good seal. You need to cut the tube end well, then file it it perfectly square and deburr, and use a special orbital flaring tool that costs around $100 to get a flare that meets the required dimensions.

For pressure testing, the manual said to use Nitrogen at the system operating pressure of around ~450 PSI. So you will need to own/beg/borrow/steal a high pressure gas bottle and a regulator. I was too lazy to drive to the airport and borrow my friend's N2 bottle so I used Argon from my TIG welder, it it worked out fine. But yeah, most people do not have a source of 500 PSI inert gas just sitting around. You will also need a vacuum pump and gauge to evacuate the lines, but the compressor comes pre-charged with refrigerant so after evacuating, you just open the valves and start running it, no charging manifold or refrigerant fill needed.

I'm in the Pacific Northwest USA, I purchased from eComfort.com , no financial affiliation. One reason I chose Fujitsu is that all the installation and service data was easily available, but Fujitsu is a REAL pain about selling parts/aftermarket support unless you are licensed distributor. I found a guy through Reddit that I have used to order parts (I broke a thermistor wire by being ham-handed)
For comparison, Air's next concert with tickets available is in Zurich, for CHF 96.50. About $105.

There's a concert in Monaco for about the same price.

Neither is using Ticket master.
Brave rolled their own completely independent search [1] on what I assume is a relatively limited budget. It seems that regularly grabbing the data would be pretty easy. The harder part would be searching/ordering it in an efficient and meaningful way while avoiding SEO, but that seems more like a fun problem than a difficult one (if not both).

[1] - https://search.brave.com/
'Dropping Dramatically': What Deadly Turbulence Did to a Flight
>an actress was hired in June to create the Sky voice, months before Altman contacted Johansson, according to documents, recordings,...

documents, recordings,... these days can be artificially created if I'm not mistaken?
How do you differentiate between a student who actually understands the topic and one who is just able to produce a convincing essay about it?

More generally, how do you measure ‘actual understanding’, if not by judging the student's output?
Hmm, it does look like it, although one could carefully use large IO.

But the bigger issue might be durability. Most EBS types have rather low quoted durability, and, for a shared volume like this, that’s a problem. Using S3 instead would be better all around except for the smallish engineering effort and deployment effort needed.

Getting a tool like mkosi to generate a boot-from-S3 setup should be straightforward. Converting most any bootable container should also be doable, even automatically. Converting an AMI would involve more heuristics and be more fragile, but it ought to work reliably with most modern Linux distros.
> A lot of the argument here comes down to whether the article does refute that.

It clearly refutes the claims that they got a Johansson impersonator. The article says this is a voice actress, speaking in her normal voice, who wasn’t told to mimic Johansson at all. You can say that you personally think she was chosen because people thought she sounded similar to Johansson, even though there’s no evidence for that at this point. But the claim - which was made several times in discussions on here before - that she is a Johansson impersonator is factually incorrect.

> But in my view, it requires a pretty absurd level of benefit of the doubt to think that they didn't set out to make a voice that sounds like the one from the movie.

I tried it several times in the past and never once thought it sounded like Johansson. When this controversy came out I looked at videos of Her, because I thought Johansson could have been using a different voice in that movie, but no - the voice in her is immediately recognizable as Johannson’s. Some have said Sky’s was much closer to Rashida Jones, and I agree, though I don’t know how close.
Right, but making a YouTube instructional video on how to imitate voices, where you only use the imitation voice, is fine. Which is closer to what happened here it seems like.
If you think they weren't trying to replicate sj's voice, I can only assume you've got open ai stock clouding your judgement... It looks like they caaaaarefully avoided writing down 'sound like sj' while choosing+directing a sound-alike actor for the role.
Yes, for a busy beaver properly defined in information theoretic terms, like BBλ2 [1], one can prove that its champions must be incompressible up to some constant. Mikhail Andreev's article "Busy Beavers and Kolmogorov complexity" [2] explores these connections.

[1] https://oeis.org/A361211

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.05170
From a technical perspective, Amazon has actually optimized this but turned that into "serverless functions": their ultra-optimized image paired with Firecracker achieve ultra-fast boot-up of virtual Linux machines. IIRC from when Firecracker was being introduced, they are booting up in sub-second times.

I wonder if Amazon would ever decide to offer booting the same image with the same hypervisor in EC2 as they do for lambdas?
Sure… there’s always people out there who have a shorter list of requirements than you do. Someone else out there doesn’t need it to be cost-efficient, so maybe that’s not “essential”?
So an anonymous statement from a puff piece when multiple verifiable public records show OpenAI publicly mentioning Johansson and Her. Count me skeptical.
They’re using the right pieces to build something like this. And there’s a lot of energy right now around Lisp-ing all of things, largely driven by the Guix people.

You should think of this as the sequel to optimizing your Emacs configuration. There are clear productivity benefits after a steep learning curve that may not be worth it for most people, and the nature of the programs involved means that the final result will always be fiddly and require tinkering.

No one will be able to polish something like this enough to make it usable for you without you putting in a lot of work to make it work for you.
Well, reading HN threads on the 737-MAX and 787... Minus zero?
Huh...I tried rereading TFA from that perspective...and I don't know. If you take the 2nd & 3rd paragraphs in isolation, it does look like sarcasm, but further down it seems she really thinks the AI stuff is better.
I’m using VMs these day because of conflicts and inconsistencies between tooling. But the VM is dedicated to one project and I set it up just like a real machine (GUI, browser, and stuff). No file sharing. It’s been a blast.
Non-unique? What?

"Passing similarity"? All her friends and coworkers say it sounds like her - she describes being contacted by friends who thought she'd done it. A lot of the public, including HNers, identified the voice as hers, independently - not in some A/B test, but they heard it and said to themselves "Johanasson did the voice for this."

You're the only person in the room who thinks OpenAI didn't use samples of her voice for their voice model - or that the voice has "passing similarity."

Altman approached her asking her to do it. She refused; they went ahead and did it anyway, probably using interviews since the audio would be very clean - and two days before they went live with it, Altman tried to negotiate a second time and was rebuffed. Released it anyway.

Why would Altman feel the need to panic-negotiate a second time, days before they went live, if they hadn't used her voice for it?

If OpenAI designed it to sound like her, that's Midler tort. They actually used her voice to train it, which means Midler tort and more. The question will be how much more - I hope they get sued into the ground.
> This is not a forum of geopolitics experts

In democracies the ultimate power belongs to people, so it's at least good to know the opinion of them. For this particular war it looks like there's an overwhelming support of Ukraine in the world, including significant portion of people in Russia, especially if corrected for propaganda bias.

In case of Ukraine losing - which frankly seems rather theoretical - it's doubtful Russia will have enough resources to immediately continue to other European territories. However, this bad case should be avoided with all seriousness, as it brings only negative results to everybody involved, including Russian people.
Don't bother with this, it's just the usual disgusting PR spin from BigCorp PR Department.
I'm using Supabase free-tier, think I need to upgrade to allow more sign ups. Mobile experience needs work, sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback, cheers!
Don't know if I'm the "average HN reader" but both the wife and I were head-butted by horses a couple days ago. Same day, different horses, different times, and at different locations.

Yeah. I'd prefer the antique airplane ride.
Did you make any sales so far?
When I need them I usually implement the codec used in MKV format: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8794.html

Similar performance characteristics, i.e. just the first byte tells the encoded length, no need to test every byte. Luckily, most programming languages have intrinsic functions for BSWAP instruction.
Hardly an alternative unfortunately.

The biggest benefit of the Car Thing for me was flawless voice control that leagues ahead of Google Assistant, the Car Thing was much more than a screen that showed album art.
> It's probably not fine to hire a voice actor and tell them to imitate someone else.

Pretty sure this is fine, otherwise cartoons like the simpsons or south park would've gotten in trouble years ago.
> As late as 1941, the U.K. was building more planes per year than the U.S. But by 1942, the U.S. was building roughly as many aircraft as Germany, Japan, the U.K. and Italy combined.

Wow. Unbelievable
I'm not fully investigated fargate limitations but I think it would be possible to use any k8s native CI on eks + fargate, maybe even use kubevirt for VM creation? from my exploration of fargate with eks, aws provisioned capacity in around 1s region
When it comes to whether something is "wrong", in general intent matters a lot and what they did was communicate an obvious intent. There are certainly ways they could have avoided doing so, and I'm not sure I understand the value of trying to dissect it into a dozen tiny pieces and debate which particular detail pushes it over the line from ambiguous to hard-to-deny? Maybe I don't understand what kind of clarity you're trying to achieve here.

This particular area of law or even just type of "fairness" is by necessity very muddy, there isn't a set of well-defined rules you can follow that will guarantee an outcome where everyone is happy no matter what, sometimes you have to step back and evaluate how people feel about things at various steps along the way.

I'd speculate that OAI's attempts to reach out to SJ are probably the result of those evaluations - "this seems like it could make her people upset, so maybe we should pay her to not be mad?"
I would suggest that (3) is a solid "yes" given the other communications around this, and honestly the similarity of the final tone of voice.

Very little suggests an intent to confuse more than tweets from company leaders confirming that there was intent to confuse. What is left on the table is whether actual confusion occurred, which is different.
There's a distinction between parody and impersonation, yes.
I get your point about misclassifying de facto employees as contractors, and also wanting as a society to avoid a race to the bottom in this type of stuff, but the fact remains that the delivery workers are voluntarily choosing to work with the compensation and under the conditions described. I presume that despite all the downsides you listed, it was the best possible option for them.

> This puts downward pressure on every other package delivery company

If in fact turnover is as high as you say, it would seem that it actually wouldn't be competitive over the long run; the overall customer experience would be worse and eventually Amazon would run out of people to work for them.

I think you're saying that this is the labor equivalent of the anti-competitive practice of dumping, but I'm not sure if it translates exactly.
You would be mostly correct if their leadership was logical and well informed. I am not convinced that has been the case for at least the last 3 years. When your outcome depends on one dude been told something he isn't going to like by the mountain of yes men left under him after purging disagreeable people for years, you end up wrong way more often than is ideal.

I mean, most likely how you called it above will come to pass but the chance of something deranged isn't close enough to zero anymore to ignore it. I would put the change of something deranged at more like 10-15 % but that's just my gut feeling.
I recently read Masters of the Air, and it said that over 10,000 Americans from the 8th Air Force died over English soil, most from accidents during takeoff and assembling forces.
How do you get Docker container startup time of 0.01s with any real-life workload (yes, I know they are just processes, so you could build a simple "hello world" thing, but I'd be surprised if even that runs this fast)?

Do you have an example image and network config that would demonstrate that?

(I'd love to understand the performance limits of Docker containers, but never played with them deeply enough since they are usually in >1s space which is too slow for me to care)
Pretty ... but using it my CPU fan sounds like a jet about to take off.
Speaking of "Bad CGI", the making of the HBO Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS6ZXBrcng
Samsung: Independent Repair Shops Must Report Customer Data, Aftermarket Parts
I think a better design would be to define a spec for search data so sites that implement it could generate a ".well-known/search_data.zst" (or whatever) and people would only need to crawl the site to check compliance with the spec.
I implemented a slight variation of this a while back which worked as described up to 11110xxx but then a prefix byte of 11111xxx meant a payload of 64*2^xxx bits. So 11111000 is followed by a 64-bit value, 11111001 by a 128-bit, up to 11111111 which is 8192 bits.
That assumes that there is no diminishing return on additional hires. If I run a warehouse that generates $100,000/mo with 10 employees being paid $1000/mo and those 10 employees satisfy the needs of the warehouse, I wouldn't hire more for fun.

There is some finite amount of demand that needs to be processed by the warehouse, the fact that I can satisfy that demand with a small number of low paid workers doesn't somehow increase the demand.
Banks Want in on Private Credit
At this price point, I'd much rather have an portable e-paper external display at a cheaper price. Seems quite underpowered
Actix-Web: v4.6.0
I did actually cook a few recipes from GPT4. They turned out all right.
> And blender technology isn't really advancing at a huge rate

That's part of it, but also the vitamix and hamilton beach really have quite different capabilities. For most peoples usage, it doesn't matter much, but the vitamix (at least the core one) show their commercial kitchen background.

The real problem is that there isn't anything much between the $25 one and the $350 one. From a technical point of view, there isn't any reason someone couldn't produce a $90 one that was robust and repairable but less powerful etc. than the vitamix. I dont' think i've ever seen one - if you do find a $90 one it's essentially the $25 one in a fancier looking shell.

The market, as they say, has spoken. In most cases you are better off going for commercial suppliers if you want longer life, repairability, etc., but often the only things on offer there are way overkill for e.g. a home kitchen.

Small appliance repair is alive and well in parts of the world where it is easy to access parts supply close to the source (i.e. you are paying roughly small batch wholesale prices).
There's no clear line for this. To get the definite conclusion, you will need to bring this to the court with lots of investigation. I know this kind of ambiguity is frustrating, but the context and intention matter a lot here and unfortunately we don't have a better way than a legal battle to figure it out.

Thanks to Sam, this OpenAI case is clearer than others since he made a number of clear evidence against him.
I just left Kagi. At first, it looked very nice, but for some reason, in a few weeks both Google and ddg gave me much better results. The new g web filter is actually quite good as well.
> Not hidden, the C standard spells it out

I would argue that if it needs to be spelled out in a separate document from the code you're reading, then it's hidden.
Except many, many people including a lot of HNers thought Johannson had done the voice. That is exactly what Midler tort is.
Plenty of people struggle with simultaneous action for that. Generally doing one after the other within the same sitting
Is this really true? I hope the U.S. would not die. I do guess the fallout could not be contained. However I hope we have planned for and train for these scenarios.
- First come, first served

- Auction

- Lottery system

- A combination of all 3

None of these are perfect, especially if demand greatly exceeds supply, but there's plenty of flexibility in how an artist could sell tickets to their fans, if it weren't for monopolies like TM/LN. The "Market" would still be in play here, as an artist could decide to cater to specific people (i.e. the rich) via bids, or be more accessible but elusive via ticket lotteries.
Hey all, Matt here, Emergent Mind's founder.

Yes, Emergent Mind is 100% focused on AI/ML papers from arXiv. I think it makes more sense to focus on a niche because you can tailor everything to that niche, vs creating a general research paper site which won't wind up speaking to any audience well.

For anyone curious about Emergent Mind: it surfaces trending AI/ML papers by monitoring social media (HackerNews, Reddit, X, YouTube, and GitHub) for discussions about papers, then ranks them based on the amount of engagement they're getting (similar to how HackerNews uses upvotes). Then, for all trending papers, it automatically summarizes them using GPT-4o and links to relevant discussions so you can learn more.

We're working on a bunch of new capabilities that we'll announce soon too.

Feedback welcome: matt@emergentmind.com
There are 2^60 such 3 state 4 symbol Turing machines. A 49-bit lambda term whose output (normal form) exceeds Graham's Number should blow your mind even more.
> Your can point to the "Her" tweet, but it's a pretty flimsy argument.

I'm not making arguments which are not already explicitly written in my post.

My argument is simple: jorvi commented that you can hire "a real-life voice actress" to "try to imitate Scarlett Johansson’s voice as best as she could", and that is not illegal.

I said that the legality of that is more complicated. What jorvi describes might or might not be illegal based on various factors. And I pointed them towards the two references to support my argument.

I explicitly didn't say in that comment anything about the OpenAI/ScarJo case. You are reacting as if you think that I have some opinion about it. You are wrong, and it would be better if you would not try to guess my state of mind. If I have some opinion about something you will know because I will explicitly state it.