skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The USSR/communism failed not because it is inherently evil and soul-crushing, but mainly because it lacked the all-permeating

This seems to be the hope of Marxists today. But if you talk to people who actually lived in the USSR, no, it wasn't lack of information. It was like in the show "Chernobyl". It was protecting decision makers, right up to the point of sending firefighters LITERALLY INTO a fissioning nuclear reactor in hopes of putting it out and blaming it on an electrical malfunction to protect the careers of the plant director and chief scientist.
This used the more sound approach of treating code as code
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456196
There were multiple formats for storing mails through the times. And many are using folders. But each format has their own problems, and were optimized for certain benefits. And on unix you have to make this workable with multiple programs accessing them in parallel, because in the early days there were no servers who had tight control over everything. So, formats were often designed around using or preventing file locks, making efficient use of storage or allowing fast handling and management of mail-flags.
I've read both and both are 10/10. But if you use a 100-point scale then Vinge's book is 99/100 and Tchaikovsky's is 95/100.
Knowing this is half the battle :) money first, then meaning.
Not by any serious outlet. It's a Twitter rumor started by a nobody... Another reason why letting people pay for blue checks was an incomprehensibly stupid idea.
> Fortunately math is no longer a hobby of mine, so my knowledge is becoming more rounded/practical nowadays

Rounded for whatever you want to do in less, but less rounded in terms of your abilities as mathematician, or even "user of mathematics"
Yeah, just based on the information in the article alone that seems very low for a valuation.

$10B revenue and healthy profit margins. Dominant market position and very strong brand and product ID in the market. Foothold into a potentially lucrative handheld gaming market.

That sounds more like a $40B valuation to me.
There’s no walking back. My initial post said: “used Sky from the beginning” If they had released Sky’s voice publicly before contacting Scarlet it would have been a different situation, but they made the decision afterwards.

Simply recording Sky’s voice beforehand doesn’t imply a different intent. This isn’t animation where you’re trying to match two mediums and you want the actors recording first. Having a similar voice to work with would have been useful internally to know if they wanted to pay what it might cost to use her voice.
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laughing in m4
Hugging Face on AMD Instinct MI300 GPU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429540 <- discussed two days ago
Tom Waits sued Frito Lay for using an impersonator to sing about Doritos.
> fast stack unwinding sounds interesting

Frame-pointer-based, I imagine?
Jobs, sure, no debate there.

And I will stipulate that there are some definitions of "career change" that I guess seem plausible, for which "3-4" seems reasonable for "most people", but I dunno, those definitions still seem like a stretch to me...

Should it count as a "career change" when I went from working at a pizza shop early in college to doing test prep and tutoring in the middle? Or from that to little freelance contract programming projects later? That was a number of different "jobs", but I think zero "careers". Or has it been a career change when I've left different kinds and sizes of software companies in various industries for other ones of other sizes and kinds in different industries? Or when I've switched roles from pure individual contribution to more technical leadership? This is also a bunch of different jobs, but I think of all of it as one single career...

I think of a career change as being from one thing a person has done for long enough to be skilled and successful at it, to another thing requiring training (formal or informal) on a new set of skills. Is it actually common to do that 3-4 times? I do know a fair number of people who have done this once. I can't think of a single person I know, of any age, who has done it more than twice. And the one person I know who has done it twice gets a bunch of good-natured ribbing about always being in training and spending hardly any time doing.

Is this just a definition thing? Is my bar for what is a different career unusually high?
Last time i checked, Brave was insisting on convinving me to use certain cryptocurrency platforms and it was more intrusive with it than typical web ads, which seemed really twisted, as the same Brave claimed to give ad-free experience.

Are they still doing that?
I love Clojure. My dream is to be a clojure developer, but there aren't a lot of jobs available and everyone wants 87 years experience.
Sure, no-one is disputing that, and despite this Altman then contacts SJ again two days before release asking her to reconsider, then tweets "her" to remind the public what he was shooting for. The goal could have just been ChatGPT with a voice interface, but instead Altman himself is saying the the goal was specifically to copy "her".
Ah yes, the two modes of disk erase failure: 1) the "quick format" that just re-wrote the FAT and root directory, leaving data, and 2) the immediately recognizable 0xE5 (σ in the 437 codepage). I used to use the Norton disk editor tool (IIRC, part of Disk Doctor) to explore my drive from time-to-time and it was somewhat fun to try and piece back together deleted files. In some cases, it was actually because I had accidentally deleted something important and UNDELETE wasn't good enough to get it back.

In one hare-brained moment, I decided to see what would happen if I turned off the DIR attribute bits on all of the directory entries in the root of my drive to see what would happen in DOS. The stress of trying to find a boot disk to edit those attributes back left a few decades of PTSD, though I'm sure that taught me some valuable, subconscious lessons. Eventually I did recover from that mistake!
It sounds like you're skeptical that ScarJo will be entitled to compensation should this go to court?

Would you be willing to bet a small sum on this?
>If I go to Delta to buy the ticket, but cannot actually purchase the ticket for the price quoted (which was the problem), then there has been a misrepresentation of the actual cost of a Delta ticket.

The price I see on Google flights has always been the price I pay on Delta.com

If I pick 2 checked bags on Google flights, then Google flights shows me the price for 2 checked bags with Delta.
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fix this in the verification email
bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. this idea that bitcoin isn't crypto is relatively new and only bitcoin maximalists actually believe it. the industry certainly has moral people who behave themselves and they're not all bitcoin maximalists. it doesn't actually do any good to try to set bitcoin apart in an attempt to appeal to public sentiment. it just makes the whole thing reek of sectarian quarreling.
I wonder what the sentences before and after some of those quotes were, like “all the shareholders that I’ve talked to said that if anybody goes back to growth, they will punish those companies”

I have a difficult time believing that shareholders punish companies for growth as such. Much easier if the next sentence were "shareholders believe that it's better to take the money and run than to invest $$$ in additional production capacity for the long term".
I think if SJ went to court and won (though I doubt it'd ever get that far), the precedent would be downright dooming for the entire VA industry. If your voice sounded close to any other major VA, no one would touch you for fear of their liability going through the roof.

It probably could be stretched to musicians as well. Maybe lookalike actors too if we go down that route.

I just can't imagine it'd be a good thing to have your voice be owned by someone else just because they became famous first.
> generate systemd units for containers

Oh man that is something I've been wanting as well.
> Seems to me that Southwest are learning the hard way that not being competitive and transparent with consumers about their pricing is bad for business.

As the other comments said, that's highly doubtful. Also, you have to balance that against the fact that for many people (myself included) Southwest was always the first site I checked, specifically because they "trained" me to know I always had to go to their site, and that for many destinations they were by far the best option for me due to price and flight times, even given their "cattle call" seating.
Chelsea FC the football club, was acquired by a PE firm in 2022.

It's been a grand mess from day 1. All of PE's common failings are on display for the 100s of millions of premier league viewers.

* Arrogantly uprooting working structures because PE knows better

* Lack of domain knowledge means over reliance on flimsy statistics

* a general sense of discomfort for every working member of the club

* Optimisticly dumping money to exploit so called loopholes that somehow every other team had missed (they hadn't, the loopholes were double edged swords)

* Destruction of legacy, eliminating the emotional aspect that keeps someone supporting a team.

* Haphazard changes with large impact that get touted as reform, but come across as cluelessness.

And this a *good* PE firm who is pouring money into an asset that is likely grow as the market grows. So not exactly a pclueless best.

_____

I've supported Chelsea for 20 years now, and 2022-24 was the only time my love for it has diminished.
At a base minimum, the would have given her direction to sound the way she does. Voice actors have lots of range, and that range would have been on her demo reel.
Having the world's best company at shipping consumer Linux bought by Microsoft feels like the biggest easiest to make tech anti-trust case on the planet.
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Yes, the unprecedented conversational functionality of the GPT-4o demo could be compared to the AI in the movie. Why assume that the tweet was about the voice sounding like Scarlett Johansson?
No, it doesn't -

"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry."

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...
Diagnosed ADHD at 17. He said no medication necessary. I didn't become a decently clear writer until a decade later after trying marijuana. Walking hours a day helped. I was worsened by antipsychotics and would never use speed.
The Blind Boys of Alabama do great covers of Jesus Gonna Be Here and Way Down in the Hole, both on the Spirit of the Century album. The version of Amazing Grace set to the music of House of the Rising Sun, though, is to me the standout on an excellent album.
It did apparently happen with quite a few games, where the Master Disk wasn't a brand new disk but some random disk that someone formatted and sent over to duplication. There are other games where cut content or early source code was recovered that way because the duplication house didn't work on a file system level but duplicated the entire disk as-is.
Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL
I believe they're approximately equivalent to FUSE
Apple's Independent Repair Program Is Invasive to Shops and Customers [2020]
I'm absolutely okay with the market destroying companies. It's literally one of the points of having a market to begin with. That sometimes also includes profitable companies.

I think the parent post is a fundamental misunderstanding of what markets are intended to do. If you want a static world that doesn't and can't change, then of course something like a command economy is preferable
If this were splashed across technical docs then I’d agree. That said, we’re not the target audience for this aesthetic.
That's fine, but the citation shouldn't be in the form of a Discord link, or at least not exclusively in that form. Make a copy of the relevant messages, host them elsewhere, and include that copy in the citation. Discord has been pretty good so far but being a durable archive has never been their core selling point so I don't trust that to continue indefinitely.
Atari acquires Intellivision brand uniting competitors from gaming's early years
Wherever you’re getting the pay rate info is wrong. You can go to the Amazon Hiring site and see they’re offering $20.75/hr right now in California. Amazon has always paid high wages for warehouse work, and not even close to the Federal line, so brining that up proves nothing.
Voice actors say A.I. company created clones of their voices. Now they're suing
Not to nitpick, but several schedule 2 drugs are recurring prescriptions. My ADHD isn't going to go away just because the pharmacy doesn't want to fill it. And, in a fun bit of irony, being unmedicated makes it a lot harder to jump through the necessary hoops to get a refill.
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And whats wrong with hiring an impersonator?
They didn't infringe on a Tom Waits song, they got an impersonator to sing an entirely novel song.

My take is that for a certain cohort of AI hypersters and Sam fans, it is literally impossible for OpenAI to do wrong. Sam could probably shoot a man in cold blood on national television and we'd have somebody explaining how technically it's legal because reasons.
Perhaps this is because osascript can handle '-l JavaScript' as a single arg? The single-arg limitation is a well-known "feature" (ha) of UNIX shebangs.
You have to ask ?
And England burned all of its trees 200 years ago
A lot of people in RGV are directly Castilian descended as they will insist on telling you.
I'm a big fan of godu: https://github.com/viktomas/godu
Technical indicators are the bread and butter of professional traders.
New Windows AI feature takes screenshots of your desktop 'every few seconds'
> No, there is no problem because the people who dismiss the study are the same hypocrites who would've accepted the study if the results had been reversed.

Have you read the article? I'd presume you'd have, but this comment very much reads like you haven't.

> Being that there are numerous studies showing harm, the need for expertise in interpretation goes out of the window. If someone is still claiming it, odds are that they want to gatekeep and empower only themselves, not you. They want you to keep paying them to be the holy priests while you remain their servant.

It is trivial to assemble a bevy of misleading studies on any particular issue. Suggesting that the quantity of studies obviates the need for expertise when evaluating studies seems laughable. Now, if you were talking about the quality of studies, maybe I could agree with you.

Ironically, in a situation where you already have a lot of studies indicating a result, then a new inconclusive/low-quality study is of even less value.
Noted, will fix thank you
that post was just an (work in progress) update. Shawn's blog post is a proper announcement - much better than i would have written :)
> I think any NPC with dialogue important to a goal (a quest, a tutorial, etc) is going to be hard to use generative AI for. It not only needs to be coherent with the story, but it needs to correctly include certain ideas. I.e. if the NPC gives a quest to go find some item at some location, it needs to say what the item is and where it is.

That was my experience when I was experimenting with using current LLMs to generate quests. You can of course ask for both a human-readable quest description and also a JSON object (according to some schema) describing the important quest elements, but the failure rate of the results was too high. Maybe 10% of quests would have some important mismatch between the description and the JSON; the description would mention an important object but it would be left out of the JSON, or the JSON would mention an important NPC but the description wouldn't, etc.

As a player, I think it would get frustrating quickly if 10% of quests were unsolvable, especially since, as a player, you don't know when a quest is unsolvable; maybe you just haven't found the item/NPC yet.
No, I read the article.

WaPo's reporting states that the individual in charge of the interaction, Jang, modeled it after Hollywood movies, and worked with a film director specifically to accomplish this goal. And the executive responsible for the artistic decisions, CTO Murati, was conveniently not made available for WaPo to interview.

OpenAI has no credibility here, given its extensive history of dissembling as a company. If Her and SJ weren't the driving inspiration for the Sky voice, they would have made Murati available to explicitly refute those claims. Her absence speaks volumes.

And OpenAI dropping Sky immediately speaks even louder. It means that somewhere there is a smoking gun that would destroy them in court. [Edit: it turns out the smoking guns were already public: in addition to the CEO's Her tweet, his co-founder Karpathy explicitly linked the voice product to SJ. Game. Set. Match.]
He's not necessarily saying that was the goal from the start. All he is admitting with that tweet is that it is indeed (he finds it to be) reminiscent of "Her".
MS knows better than to run windows on their servers. They’ve famously been running Linux on their public web facing stuff for years, including when they were publicly discrediting Linux (because IIS and MS server were so good they couldn’t run their web services reliably and securely).
Not yet but happy to add something like that, someone else requested something similar as well
Is There a Right to Own a Gun? – By Michael Huemer
Everything with Amazon seems good until something goes sideways and then you are trapped in their nightmare of customer service.

If you have too many screwed up deliveries from Amazon you are suddenly, silently grey listed by them and now you cannot ever talk to a human being, they will only send you forms to fill out, by hand, and then wait a week or two for reply.

I spent a month arguing with them that they totally screwed up a delivery by giving it to an unknown apartment at an unknown location because their own photo showed a completely different door and doormat than the 100+ previous deliveries. They insisted it was geofenced and impossible to mis-deliver, lol.

I cannot imagine what a nightmare people are going to have after a medication delivery is so royally screwed up and given to someone else.

Other online services to consider:

https://costplusdrugs.com/medications

https://walmart.com/pharmacy

https://www.singlecare.com/

https://www.goodrx.com/
From what I remember, Mobius is based on an outdated version of Syncthing and cannot run in the background, which almost defeats the whole purpose of Syncthing.
I disagree with the slippery slope argument here.

Waits won because they were clearly intending to impersonate his voice, while singing his song. Not because a random guy on the radio sounded like him.

Ditto for SJ--there was a clear intent to reproduce her specific voice, based on her role in "Her".
Thats why i was intrigued by that comment. Bunch of my friends got an MBA because their employer paid for it but do the same job as dev like me years later.

Still curious about "getting an MBA from a prestigious school and moving into leadership" how they did it.
Clearly all copyrighted wallpapers need embedded QR codes for Paypal or other payment instruments.
Go look at parts of China, Russia, North Korea, and Vietnam and compare.

You also might be shocked to find that Native Americans also had a market economy.
I think we should retire the phrase “too stupid to be true” at this point. I think many of these CEOs are just as stupid as the rest of us, except they have a special interest in something really profitable.

I didn’t really think it sounded much like Johansson, but it looks like OpenAI decided to pull the voice(?). They are in a better position to evaluate their liabilities (or the PR cost of having the perception that are ripping her off, whether or not it is right). Hopefully they’ll add it back, Johansson doubles down, and then we can get a court case to satisfy everybody. Both entities have plenty of money to spend on this, having them battle it out seems like a real win. (It would have been a real shame if a small no-name voice actor without the cash to fight OpenAI felt copied instead).
It's definitely believable, defaults are very powerful (I'd expect a higher number, but not a very big one)

Though out of curiosity - if someone turns all telemetry off, how would you know of this use to count?
You are right: it could still work as something I enjoy. It is just that I am in a state of my life where I do not want to put too much time into such an activity: I have a greater desire to create things that people want. But I still watch interesting movies and occasionally it could be joyful to solve a math problem. But as I do not watch movies dozens of hours weekly, I also do not want to solve math problems dozens of hours weekly. This has probably to do where I am in life currently. This may change later in life (I am middle aged.)
Even if the voice actor was sourced before they originally contacted SJ, it was clearly the intent to sound like her. There are so many other distinctive voices they could have chosen, but instead they decided to go as close as possible to "her" as they could. Many people thought it was SJ until she stated it wasn't. I appreciate the voice actor may sound like that naturally, but its hardly coincidental that the voice that sounds most like the voice from "her" was the one chosen for their promotion. It is clearly an attempt to pass-off.
I clearly didn't, since I'm arguing with you about everything after the comma in another thread. Why are you avoiding the question? Did you make a mistake bringing up root and just don't want to say so?
Excited to try this out with new wireframes. Most figma to code solutions so far have let me down
It's true on Linux.
One off chance encounters like that on a bar or street put a lot of pressure on the specific encounter and don't allow a more gradual "get to know you" phase.

Do you have a social activity that you've neglected with the lack of available friends? Or one that you're interested in but never had the chance to get involved with? This is perhaps mundane advice, but check if there's a group that does that activity and try to become a regular. They're always very welcoming to newcomers and you'll find yourself well established in the group after a few returns.
OpenAI Should Have Gone Way Beyond Scarlett Johansson
Google flights has had the no checked bags allowed icon for years. And still shows it, I was originally afraid the government decided every ticket price has to include a checked bag, as that what your comment sounded like.

So not too sure what's changed.
Vercel Inc., formerly ZEIT, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework.

Vercel's architecture is built around composable architecture, and deployments are handled through Git repositories. Vercel is a member of the MACH Alliance.
Still not as bad as when a company I worked for managed to press and ship a ton of CDs that included a virus.
I can't say much about that particular voice because I almost never used chatGPT's voices. They are too slow.

I need 1.5x speeds even if I have to use a worse voice. I am a TTS power user, listening to all online text since 2010s. Maybe GPT-4o has a more flexible voice, perhaps you can just ask it to speak faster.
If not for parody, it's normally a violation of likeness rights.
It doesn't look as good and Blender/3d modeling software in general have come a long way in the last 9 years or so (Windows 10 came out in 2015)

Sure it could can/could be done but it would take a lot of time to get as good a result. Probably easier to just photograph it for real and photoshop a little bit.