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"Imagining the psychology of aliens evolved from ambush predators"

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Which one are we saying sounds like Johansson? I'm talking about the TTS voice in the app, is everyone else talking about the multimodal voice from the 4o demos?

Also, whether they *intended* to replicate Her and whether they *did* in the end are very different.
assuming a serial writer, use a monotonic sequence that you can walk until no more data is found.

for multiple writers, you have to use uuid and pay the search cost.
There are two separate tasks that need to be filled as a company starts go get beyond a small size. One is the coordination that you mention. The other is the day to day people management: making sure people are happy, understanding their hopes & desires, steering them towards growth, that sort of thing.

What I've found over time is the implementation of this is often very inefficient.

The coordination aspect is often a blend of the product organization and the engineering leadership, and in both cases I find there's too much authority pushed all the way down into individual scrum teams. There needs to be a cohesive product vision across all of the teams, and some set of people need to make sure they're all working on roughly the same things at roughly the same time. But that's about it. And you don't need a Product Manager, an Engineering Manager, and a Scrum Master for every set of 8-10 developers in order to make that happen.

The people management portion is trickier. You *do* want to cap that at a ratio of about 1:8-10. But this role is traditionally associated with authority over things like on what their reports are working. Which exacerbates the point above.
I'd like to hear her raw voice compared to the polished product. Listen to famous singers' acoustic vs. heavily audio-engineered final cuts. Big difference. I think if you played this OpenAI "Sky" voice to a sample population and said it was a famous person's voice, SA would come up frequently.
It's just a best practice that serves as a healthy counterbalance to cognitive biases, that might otherwise urge us to convict without evidence.

It's not necessarily what will prove true at the end of the day but I think we owe people the presumption of innocence.
I think it's key here that if someone else trained the voice and sounded like Scarlett Johansson, and there a payment to that person, and that person exist, it feels like to me they won't have a strong case.

Now if it was trained on the voices from various IP? Or "Computer generated", I think we have an argument that it was trained on her voice.
Even if it is just for fun, having a more powerful and a separate controller - that isn't tied to the video system is very valuable. If DJI signal gets lost, you simply punch out or trigger return to home using your ELRs controller.. and know that the quad will be safe..
Nah, that’s too broad of an angle. I mean, you wouldn’t take Barack Obama’s voice and start making video tutorials with it.

“My fellow gamers…”

But what if it’s worse than just video tutorials, something vile? You simply wouldn’t want to have your voice associated with that.
That sounds great, but if your output was to develop new versions of an OS to support multi-processor configurations and memory modes, you were making a product whose customers were engineers like yourself.

I am not saying that to take away from the accomplishment, as another said: you were the engineering manager.

A manager is often the delivery system for all the messages that engineers aren't interested in: The fickle customer, the imperfect or unattainable vision of the enterprise, fiscal demands.. Often managers are delivering you unpleasant, distracting, or annoying news. But if they are good they are giving you a lot less of that distraction then if the org were flat.
Imagining the psychology of aliens evolved from ambush predators (2023)
The primary push that OpenAI and most other AI-hype companies now are talking about, to improve performance, is to do the same thing but bigger. No doubt there will be architectural changes (certainly many are in fact needed), but that is hard to predict, and "make it bigger" is easier to plan for.

So, going from GPU's to some more focused chip architecture could reduce the power usage some, but more likely is that the total power usage will go up not down, as these companies try to address any problem with bigger scale. Not saying it will work, but it is the most likely thing to be tried, and it will take several years before they give up on that route.
I've seen several interviews with opioid addicted homeless and they've said they prefer the street, because if they OD, someone will call 911. If they were in abandoned houses, they would just die there with no one to see them in trouble.

It's sad.
The analog algorithm described is not described for digital computer. It’s an amusing theoretical thought experiment and not a recipe for actual fast sorting. It’s O(n) when you use your hand for contact and removal. I don’t know if it’s possible to implement spaghetti sort on a computer, maybe not, but I guess if it were possible, it would probably at least require n processors to sort n elements. Maybe the nearest analogy on digital computers is radix sort.
Yeah I’m 99,9% sure that a non-negligible part of the subcomponents are made in China. I would be extremely surprised if it was possible to find a modern personal computer with zero parts made in China. (Might be possible for embedded devices?)
That's an impersonation of a parody song in his style. This is a voice actor who has a voice that's kinda similar to ScarJo and kinda similar to Rashida Jones but not quite either one doing something different.

Cases are not a spell you can cast to win arguments, especially when the facts are substantially different.
This is not normal for being a corporate employee. This was certainly going to come out eventually and cause big problems, but to the extent Sam thinks AGI is around the corner he might not be playing the long game.
Just 10 "superspreader" users on Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.

In total, 34 per cent of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January and October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US and UK.

This amounted to more than 815,000 tweets.

Researchers from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media and the University of Exeter's Department of Computer Science analysed 2,397,388 tweets containing low credibility content, sent by 448,103 users.

More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.

So-called "superspreaders" were defined as accounts introducing "content originally published by low credibility or untrustworthy sources".
> Is it more or less likely for that experience to be one of hatred if exposed to it earlier or only later?

Rather: is it better if you are exposed to this in a jail-like situation or not?

You can guess my answer.
This reminds me of the same revelation I had when observing my cat in a backyard. There were many snails around, but my cat seemed completely oblivious to their presence; it wouldn't register them as living animals, because they would move so slowly.
This one: https://youtu.be/vgYi3Wr7v_g?feature=shared&t=22

compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=125
About a decade ago when I worked in IT I used Treesize Pro to scan SMB volumes and delete the MOVIES that employees had downloaded on their computers, which meant they were downloading MOVIES to our SAN because we used roaming profiles. I'll never get over that these people downloaded literal pirated movies to our servers. It was constant. I ended up putting file size limits on their directories, or a file extension block, I forget.

The free version can't scan network drives if the servers on a domain IIRC.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

edit: Oh I thought I read SMB drive not google drive for some reason. I'm not sure if this does that or not. It's my favorite GUI so worth checking out.
Here is the link again, perhaps you can read it:

https://rsf.org/en/country/palestine

From the article:

(about PA and Hamas journalism)

> Content is subject to political control ...

> In the West Bank, where journalists were already the victims of abuses by both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli occupying forces ...

(about PA and Hamas actions against the press)

> With arrests, violence, destruction of equipment, legal proceedings and denial of accreditation, practicing journalism was already difficult before 7 October 2023 ...

Of course, then the article does what everyone keeps doing and blames Israel for all of it. Despite Israel STILL allowing even Al Jazeera to operate (and before you post the bullshit "they closed it", no they didn't: they closed the Al Jazeera CABLE CHANNEL in Israel. Al Jazeera journalists are still operating freely in Israel, as is plain to see on the frontpage of Al Jazeera, not that I expect you not to make yet another false accusation, but the reality is that you just can't receive Al Jazeera on cable in Israel anymore)

In other words, I stand by my claim "there are no independent journalists in Gaza, Hamas won't allow it". And I won't respond further.

Plus, frankly, I hope people still remember the incessant claims from leftists how Soviet press was totally free to report whatever they wanted. You're not the first making this totally absurd claim and nobody with minimal intelligence is fooled.
We all have uninformed opinions.
You can play FPVSIM web simulator on any devices with a Chrome/Safari/Edge browsers. Which means - Windows/OSX/Linux/Chromebook/Android/iOS etc.
It's Google+ All over Again (2022)
This is just Scarlett Johansson trying to destroy some small voice actor. I greatly dislike what OpenAI is doing, but this is just ridiculous.
This conflation of low credibility with misinformation is seriously remiss.

Likewise the characterisation of superspreaders as necessarily misinformers.
the children of time series explores this concept in spiders. What happens if you were able pass down all of your knowledge into your children through genetics and how would that change society.
I'd say the distinction is more at the semantic level, i.e. denotational vs operational.
Hard to fully predict the future, of course, but changes are the answer is "no".

Assuming you are comfortable with the current model performance rather than always trying to have the most performant model...

1. Lots of researchers are looking at ways to reduce model size, inference time, etc... We see smaller models outperforming older benchmarks/achievements. Look into model distillation to see how this is done for specific benchmarks, or new approaches like Mixture of Experts (MOE) that reduce compute burden but get similar results as older models.

2. If your concern is cost of running a model, then GPU tech is also getting faster/better so even if compute requirements stay the same, the user will get an answer faster + will be cheaper to run due to the new hardware.

I hope that helps!
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Sounds only like Scarlett Johansson to me. I watch a lot of TV and film and can't think of a single person it sounds like other than Scarlett Johansson. I think the same would be true for most people not in the US. The tweets (one referencing Scarlett Johansson by name, and one from Sam just saying "her" are also confirming my bias here.)

In all honesty, I thought this was just another thing AI vacuumed up without thought. Weird how when it's a "real" celebrity's work that gets put through the AI sausage machine people get skittish.
The movie "Her", which Sam Altman claimed ChatGPT was in some sense connected to, came first.
>> such well-executed forgeries that even the experts are fooled.

More than a couple forgeries have been manufactured by the very experts tasked with detecting them. Other experts are incentivized not to detect forgery, or at least not speak to the scale of forgery as it may erode confidence in the legitimate market.
Just for fun - does this sound like what the remnants of ancient genetic engineering experiments on primates to increase their intelligence might look like to anyone else?
> Then something happened around 2017 and their coffee became awful (it was never incredible, but it got much worse)

Tim Hortons got acquired by Burger King (Restaurant Brands International / QSR) in December 2014, and the quality started to decline over the next year or two
> Unfortunately in the late Capitalism...all shall burn and rot and a new world may come forth.

What if VC and shareholders are just fulfilling their purpose in the capitalist circle of life? We can think of them as jackals, buzzards and bacteria combined into a superform. They cull herds, piece off the carrion and decompose what's left.

They are bringers and eaters of death, working as one.
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It really frustrates me when a project has a GUI and there are no screenshots of it on their github.

I know exactly what Windirstat looks like, I have no idea what this will/does look like and shouldn't have to install it to find out. I don't like Windirstats UI.
I debate the idea that at a mere 40 person team you would want or justify 3 levels of engineering managers? That seems excessive.

I worked on a team half that size with a single manager, our "lead developer" and it was remarkably smooth.

I ask what is keeping the VP of engineering so busy that they can't handle that work themselves?
ADHD medication is heavily heavily under-prescribed. It's genocide.
https://archive.is/M8Dgd
It's actually a Japanese actress doing an impression of Scarlett Johansson.
This is the correct policy. Many IT security incidents happen because someone’s afraid of raising the alarm.

If an employee opens a phishing attachment or something, they should be able to report it without fear of losing their job so the incident can be contained.

Instead - they are incentivised to say nothing and hope for the best for fear of getting fired.
OpenAI and sama should get no benefit of doubt given his conduct the past year or so, starting with their refusal to say whether or not they trained on youtube data.
In the movie “Her”, there is a smart AI assistant that you can talk to and is friendly and has good natural language.

How is it not obvious to everybody that this is what Sam and the OpenAI people are referencing with their tweets?

Scarlett Johanssons voice is certainly pleasing, but it feels misplaced to assume that the voice is the important thing here and not everything else.
> Welcome to ballerina, the effortlessly elegant functional programming

> Ballerina is an advanced professional tool for advanced professionals.

> Ballerina integrates the state of the art in functional programming and even category theory.

> ... And if you are a master of functional programming, together you will write code that can be, well, transcendental.

Then I click through the code and see commented out blocks, using `alert` to debug, random wait times (???), unsure if there's any test coverage.

Example:

https://github.com/giuseppemag/ballerina/blob/main/frontend/...

I may not be an advanced enough professional for this library made for advanced professionals who want to write transcendental code.
> This seems wrong and broken

Does it? "Attorney" is the noun. "General" is the adjective. You pluralize the noun, not the adjective.
Nice! Glad you liked it. Try a webkit based browser instead like Chrome/Safari/Edge, I'm not sure how much WebGL optimization firefox carries.
Interesting! I’m very much the opposite. I never liked autocomplete or suggestions in text boxes (to a certain extent, e.g. I have common things like name and address saved in my password manager to suggest autofill for online shopping or whatever).
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Tom Waits provides the template here. He successfully sued Cheetos for impersonation. The major similarity: Waits, like Johansson, declined an offer to use his voice in advertising.
You mean the same companies who are paying AWS, Azure and GCP a lot of money for decades despite there being cheap alternatives? Or which customers do you talk about?

My company uses Azure for years. I don't expect them to change that anytime soon, I mean we're a SAP customer for 40+ years and SAP is Germany's No. 1 price gouging company. We use MS products for decades as well despite them being more expensive every year and I still do more or less the same in Excel today as I did years ago.

I think you have a misunderstanding of how B2C works and especially when we talk about enterprise level SW solutions. No CEO in their mind is switching business operation SW if a competitor is on sale lol.
I wrote about this here[0] so I'm not going to post it again, and it's not a direct answer to you question but I hope it can be useful.

A note that is extremely important is that medication without behavioral change and coaching is simply temporary at best and can even just have you hyper focused on the wrong thing. So, you really need to see someone, yes maybe you get medicated, but you also need to work with someone that can coach you through your executive dysfunction so you can understand what it is and how to work with it.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633512#33639315
Is it a crime for voice actors to sound similar to, say, Darth Vader?
This is absolutely the truth! As a person of faith, I believe that science is fluid and I know that I don't understand some of it's logic. I also understand that my faith shouldn't interfere with things I can't comprehend, this includes scriptures. Truth for me may not always equal truth for others, I'm willing to live with that.
Agreed. My thought on this enabling a "budget" option is that you can get the look of an expensive, multi-light studio with just a single speedlight and a lot of compositing.
How do search engines relate to animals and biodiversity? They seem to be completely unrelated things.
The one good thing about excess management is when the economy takes a nose dive and the company is looking at doing layoffs, the excess managers are the first ones to go. I see them as shielding us developers from being laid off.
> What is the strength of the resulting cement?

According to the article, the clinker has the same composition as the "normal" one. The strength _should_ therefore be the same, but must still be tested of course. In case it is different, the analysis why this is the case would certainly be interesting.

> What is the energy input needed per kilo of output steel/concrete?

... compared to separate processing for steel and clinker. The article makes it sound like we get the clinker "for free" because the energy input is required to make steel anyway, but there is no word about whether it actually needs the same amount of energy with the added slag, or more.
Nintendo perfected this type of tech with the 3DS back in 2011 (!!). In retrospect, that shit was so far ahead of its time.

Looking Glass has some impressive displays, but honestly every time I pick up my 3DS again I wonder why it didn't get more traction, even as the rest of the industry keeps trying to push 3D TVs / cinema.
Sure, but if we are talking about environmental damage clearly this sort of thing isn't a great idea.
> I worked on a team half that size with a single manager, our "lead developer" and it was remarkably smooth.

In a 20 person team the lead developer also played the role of EM?
Launched into the same orbit as a bus-sized NRO intelligence satellite at a slightly higher speed so it's going to overtake it. Should be interesting to see what happens at that point.
A guy sued for being denied employment as a police officer for scoring too high on the IQ test. He lost. Apparently “too smart to be a police officer” is a real thing.
Except, this assumes that the cost of an operation being ran is beyond marginal.

The actual cost of launching an attack like this is basically nothing - initial access, etc, is largely automated and performed at scale.

The “costly” part is the hands on keyboard part, but even that can be largely automated, and even manually doesn’t take long.
It's still down... crazy.

I had to use Yahoo today, ew.
One of the important premises of object storage is that if your PutObject or multipart upload succeed, the entire object is atomically replaced. It is eventually consistent, so you may not immediately retrieve the just-uploaded object with GetObject, but you should see the new version eventually, and never see part of one version mixed with part of another. This should natively support compare-and-swap: "hey if the existing etag is what I expect, apply my change, otherwise ignore my change and tell me so". This has nothing to do with DynamoDB and is not reimplementing its feature set. It is just a natural extension of how the service already works (from an API consumer perspective, not necessarily an implementation perspective).
Microsoft's UAE deal could transfer key U.S. chips and AI technology abroad
I wish there was a way to make deployments make their pods restart, re-reading the container image, on command. Ideally, using an upgrade process.

I get that this is bad practice for a big production site, but I'd love to have this option.
> Cool that your service now has new AI features that tells me things, but why would I believe any of it?

Remember smart chatbots? That's where AI is headed, straight into the blackhole of bad ideas in IT.
> Medication is a crutch. If you're completely crippled and you need it, then you should use it temporarily. But be very very careful developing dependence on it and using it instead of doing the work to deal with your behavior.

Your giving piss poor, dangerous advice that goes against established front line treatment.

If you actually have ADHD, completely ignore this terrible advice and treat it in line with a qualified professional instead of getting your medical advice from unqualified HN posters.
Right, I feel like between that and seeing it a lot over remote desktop I've never really appreciated the quality of the original. I always liked the wallpaper set from the windows 9x era because they were designed to look good in low quality 256-color modes.
Microg.org is correct. The official f-droid client won't care about the signatures, but this is a known issue with 3rd party stores like NeoStore.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store/issues/564
Is [AI] Winter Coming?
WsTunnel – Tunnel Your Traffic over WebSocket or HTTP2 – Bypass Firewalls/DPI
WsTunnel improved a lot since last shared/communicated version, with the addition of:

- Reverse tunneling \o/
- Added support of unix socket, transparent proxy/ip, UDP for socks5
- Support of mTLS
- Config file to restrict the allowed tunnels
- Cerfificate and config auto-reload
- Added http2 as transport protocol (websocket is more performant)
- Complete rewrite fron Haskell to Rust

Hope you enjoy and find it useful :-)

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel?tab=readme-ov-file#underst...
Nice demo, but for me, plucking the string gives a lot of static noise/crumbling sounds. Anyone else having this issue?
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for our shareholders.”
> As a follow up I am curious as to whether the topic of eugenics was central to the trial or merely incidental and significant in hindsight?

It was central to Bryan's involvement.
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You can communicate the same without dis-humanizing managers. Middle-managers are as much victims of bad leadership as workers, they aren’t the one calling the shots and often have little freedom to maneuver.
Comparing them to cockroaches is really not necessary
Earth's magnetic field is overdue a flip. Should we be worried?