skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cool, I had no idea. In clojure itself I suppose you eval code and then get autocompeletes from the repl output? -- I mean for stuff with no types
While I appreciate your inputs for those reading this please do not take this as good investment advice. A lot of things need to align for you to benefit from even the specialized knowledge here.
> it’s a cool idea for a book but not actually a good book

This was my impression of K. J. Parker's work. (I read the Scavenger trilogy of his.)

Intricate idea, uninteresting writing.
I suppose there are ways to make the undefined behavior defined that preserve memory unsafety, so you’re technically correct. In practice one would probably require safe crashes for OOB access etc.
> Why do this when you can get an identical picture from photoshop?

It gives it character and helps ensure you'll get good artists to work on it. Though now I wish they'd made that clear by making the intermediate shots desktop defaults.
Very true. I am a reluctant user of JIRA, and once I was past the realization that JIRA isn't meant to be used out of the box, but rather meet your process and production where it is, it kind of fell into place, and there are few pieces of software that can remain straightforward in one area, and be good at absorbing details and complexity as things pop.

Linear looks pretty interesting too.
https://localsend.org/
Isn't virtually all behavior of non-humans driven by instinct? Our learned behavior seems way more unlikely and amazing.
I had no Windows edition since 98, which I didn't need to alter right after a fresh installation because of Microsoft bullshits. At least, it doesn't take a full day anymore to install and configure a fresh Windows.
Bah. You're right. I'm being obtuse and need more coffee. Nerding out on things is fun, my whole life is based on it. I guess I feel some rivalry with the artistic world. Maybe it's jealousy.
I had similar thoughts based on a podcast I listened to once about voice actors hired for film spin off merchandise and whatnot. It's very common to look for voices that approximate a fictional character's voice, that was originally done by a different actor or actress.

Thinking about that episode, I imagine the legal risk is less in trying to sound like Scarlett Johansson, and more in trying to sound like Samantha, the AI character in Her. Warner Brothers or Spike Jonze probably has some legal rights to the character, and an argument could be made that OpenAI was infringing on that. The viability of that argument probably depends on how much people conflate the two or believe that the one was meant to represent the other.
An open source option isn't a bad thing.
I agree on the technical aspect.

But still there are some voices that are just highly associated with just one person in everyone's minds, like David Attenborough. For example, if I heard Attenborough speaking my local train announcements, but it would be an impersonator, I think I would feel like the company is taking advantage of Attenborough's voice. I.e. they would be using the fact that everyone knows this voice to their advantage, without actually paying Attenborough.

While voices aren't technically that unique, when linked to certain situations or when heard by enough people, they become unique in that context. I'm sure no one cares about Attenborough's voice 100 years from now.

Or hm, maybe AI voice tools will keep his voice alive forever in Planet Earth spinoffs, just like Sinatra has been resurrected for mashups.
Gmunk is awesome
If famous actors could sue over the use of a less-famous actor that sounds just like them, what's to stop less-famous actors from suing over the use of a famous actor who sounds just like them in big-budget movies? ... and that's when you discover that "unique voice" is a one-in-a-million thing and thousands of people have the same voice, all asking for their payout.
Adjacent: I've yet to find a good bash transpiler (to C at least), but I think it would help make some slower scripts usable.
While I cannot say you're right or wrong, we both share similar thought! So much so that I feel like this is not the first time OpenAI has done this level of antics just to get more exposure. Seriously... I have spent pondering the same every time they get into news on the basis of drama.

It's either our delusion (you and me) or they have someone in the marketing department who has a really good grasp of how to ride the news cycle wave.
Yea, I appreciate their dedication but the end-product doesn't equal the effort when Jane in XBox 3d effects department probably could have done this during her lunch break.
Testing Considerations for LLM Tasks
I was in exactly the same position but the route I went was a little programme on my server that reads incoming mail to a secret address and crafts a blog post from it
Agreed — seems like they had a plan, and probably talked extensively with Legal about how to develop and execute the plan to give themselves plausible deniability. The tweet was inadvisable, and undoubtedly not part of the actual plan (unless it was to get PR).
no, i’m not interested in seo.

this setup is a single go binary that serves a single pre-gzipped html file from a lambda.

that html file contains inlined js, that is a reagent app.

there is also a favicon. total of 3 files in the lambda zip.

you desired setup is certainly possible though. you’d probably want clojure on the backend though, so you could more easily do SSG.
Looks great. The website is sluggish on Firefox tho
Instead of the wide spacebar would be nice, but that's not going to happen
I find it ironic that an elite mathematician such as yourself has zero ability to teach basic mathematics to anyone. Or is it that you choose not to, because you consider them inferior?

Your commentary reads like that, but perhaps I’m misreading your tone & choice of words.
> Yes, but it changes the narrative from “they couldn’t get Scarlett to record the voice, so they copied her voice” to something much less malicious.

I don't think it's less malicious if they decided to copy her voice without her consent, but just didn't tell her until the project was underway, then continued even after she said no.

There's legal precedent that hiring a copycat is not OK, so it's not like proving it was a copycat salvages their situation.

I wouldn't be surprised if the real reason they hired a copycat early is because they realized they'd need far more of Johansson's time than she'd be willing to provide, and the plan was typical SV "ask forgiveness not permission, but do it anyway regardless."
What are the unique aspects of a sound? A lot of people look and sound stunningly alike.

As a recent example Baldur’s Gate 3, Andrew Wincott voiced Raphael, an npc-antagonist, who to my untrained ear sounded exactly like Charles Dance, and the character model had more than a passing semblance to Mr. Dance as well.

It was not a Charles Dance carbon copy but all aspects of the character were strongly aligned with him.

I’m wondering where is the line in style and personal aspects of one’s craft drawn.

Some of this is probably part of personal perception.
down for me. doesn't get search results
more trying to understand really, this blew my mind at a time https://aphyr.com/posts/305-clojure-from-the-ground-up-macro...
> “Do actor/esses get to monopolize their depiction of fictional characters? Especially when it's not tied to physical represenation.”

If Annapurna Pictures (the production company that owns the rights to “Her”) made a sequel where the voice AI is played by someone else than Johansson but sounded the same and was marketed as a direct continuation, I think there would be a lawsuit.

She didn’t write the script or develop the character, but I think there’s enough creative authorship in her voice portrayal that it would be risky for the production company.
The US doesn’t really understand or appreciate that concept. Also, NASA’s job is not to explore the universe, but to prevent rocket scientists from defecting to North Korea. And to develop technology SpaceX and others will later use. A lot of CFD work was pioneered there, for instance. There would be no SpaceX, or Blue Origin, or ULA without NASA.
Freedom of speech in regard to public institutions. For private entities/individuals, any contract you willingly sign will reign supreme over whatever this "freedom of speech" thing is unless there's written law that explicitly forbids the forms of retaliation described within said contracts.
Is this going to stay around? It seems so incredibly niche, I'm kind of surprised it exists, considering all the other stuff that's been removed, and the fact that anyone who would want something this simple probably likes the UNIX cal command.

I guess the HTML feature is probably used in a bunch of dusty old business apps.
This is madness.

I only use Airbnb in Europe for properties that are properly licensed by local authorities. They're very professionally run and would never pull these kind of stunts.

I won't stay in a "room" or a property which isn't licensed now as Airbnb's policies alone isn't enough. All my bad experiences in the past have been with owners of just one property (unlicensed)

But I only use Airbnb for trips where multiple hotel rooms are significantly more expensive - very much a last resort. I just stay at hotels now when I travel solo or there isn't too much of a premium. As crap as hotels are these days they're still better than having to deal with Airbnb

I also refuse to use Uber Eats, Deliveroo etc as they're similarly too big for their boots and anti consumer.
The risk is not users boycotting them. The risk is OpenAI having trouble recruiting and retaining top talent, which will cause them to eventually fall behind the competition, leading users to naturally leave.
It started failing on searches 1-2 hours ago.
My take away from this is that any positive thing written in a letter of recommendation can be read as sarcasm by an English speaker.

I think there's some deeper issue with the language/culture here.
Ask HNL bing.com and duckduckgo.com appears to be down?
Anyone seeing this ? is duckduckgo just using bing ?
It doesn't seem that this would have helped here: the trader entered exactly the number that they intended to, just that their intent was misconceived.
Because a shell is also REPL for interacting with command line utilities. It solves a different problem to “real programming languages”.
Black widow spiders last something like a thousand eggs, and the hatchlings murder and easy one another until only a couple survive... Who go in to live for as long as black widows live for. The average lifespan is likely quite low, however.
bing.com also down, looks like duckduckgo is frontend to bing

at least bing images, https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=katrina
> Because of Number 16, Main's project took far longer than she had expected. She continued to work into her late 80s, but she "began to look forward to the project's end"

Reminded me of The Onion's "Expert Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvk
I have a similar "wisdom" for you: buy low, sell high, that's all!
The linked post is titled "Background image from the windows 95 setup window"

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/bicyok/backgrou...
I spent a long time tracking specific airborne/non-airborne statements by various governments during the first month of covid. It quickly became clear that it boiled down to a semantic argument about what droplet size constituted "airborne-ness". This in turn determined the "safe social distance". I remember hearing ridiculous things about how only viruses like measles are really airborne.

That entire discussion was an absurd comedy, of a piece with the CDC initially saying masks were useless (in an attempt to save the national supply of masks).

In this case, it isn't really questionable that H5N1 is extremely infectious and airborne between and within any species that have epithelial lung cells it has adapted to. So far, that doesn't include humans. The only serious question is how many mutations until it does, and what's the mutation rate in that direction. Additionally, what are the odds that the virus would need to make some trade-off in virulence to mutate to infect human lungs.

From that we can extrapolate an approximate date range in which it will go human to human, globally. Cross that with the readiness and effectiveness of existent vaccine stockpiles and extant solutions for traditional vaccine growth, moderated by limitations on adjuvants, plus possible mRNA vaccines. Take into account that in some species of mammals so far it has a neglibile mortality rate, and in other species it approaches 90% in local populations.

Do that math and it's obvious that governments need to be accelerating pre-pandemic H5N1 vaccines right now, not waiting for the pandemic strain to authorize them.
> When it gets too out of hand, people will paper it over with a new, simpler abstraction layer, and the process starts again, only with a layer of garbage spaghetti underneath.

I'm pretty happy that there are S3 compatible stores that you can host yourself, that aren't insanely complex.

MinIO: https://min.io/

SeaweedFS: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs (this one's particularly nice and is permissively licensed, in contrast to everything else)

There was also Zenko, but I don't think they gained a lot of traction for the most part: https://www.zenko.io/

Of course, many will prefer hosted/managed solutions and that's perfectly fine, but at least when you run software yourself, you are more in control over it and for the most part can also make the judgement on how hard it is to operate and keep operational (e.g. similar to what you'd experience when running PostgreSQL/MariaDB/MySQL or trying to run Oracle).

That said, my needs (both in regards to features and scaling) are pretty basic, so it's okay to pay any of the vendors for something a bit more advanced and scalable.
Don’t worry, the milk from infected cows is still being sold but the US government said its completely safe :D
Has anyone played with Khanmigo yet? Is it basically Khan Academy with a chatbot to help with questions, or does it differ completely from Khan Academy?

About ten years ago I was thinking of returning to university and was required to pass a high school level math exam to prove I still could do math as an adult (I couldn't, really!). Khan Academy was a pretty incredible resource. I was in a time crunch so I also hired a tutor for two hours a week and the combination worked really well for me. I could see swapping out a real life tutor with an LLM being pretty amazing and much more affordable!

I didn't end up returning to school, but now I've gotten the AI bug and need to upgrade my math skills, and I'm thinking that using a LLM to help learn about foundational math that applies to LLMs would be pretty neat.
> It's not you, it's us

> Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.

> https://www4.bing.com/bingparachute/panda.png

> https://www4.bing.com/bingparachute/bing_logo.png
Whenever I have to use Windows, I feel dirty, like Microsoft's filth is slowly contaminating my spirit through my interaction with the computer.

So, the last thing that I would want to set as a wallpaper would be a reminder of that fact that I'm using Windows.
Transforming website images into WebP with Rust for faster loading times
Very few people seem to be able to distinguish between "the largest number on record" and "the largest thing that ever happened", even if they know perfectly well that records of whatever the phenomenon is are never kept.
"How unique is X" is something we can start to get quantitative answers to with strong machine learning models, and for most things people care about, it seems like the answer is "not very unique at all".
If only they had the same dedication to keep ads out of the core OS.
The latter, apparently. TBH I answered after hearing about the story elsewhere and it just struck me as fairly benign for an employer to ask as much from a (soon-to-be) former employee. I am not a lawyer anyway so I honestly have no idea what the proper legal interpretation might be. I was just commenting on what seems to be the unfortunate state of human affairs these days. It just feels like people are so much more prone to go on the offensive over what amounts to a simple request for civility. Of course down here we still honor the humble handshake. Maybe that is the difference?
I would say 100%, simply because there is no other reasonable source of video data
If we are being intellectually honest though, the "chunk of Europe" in question is Moldova, but they want you to think it's Portugal.
How do you think those same CEOs would treat their not-so-rich employees?
Doesn't really matter at this point because they gave literally zero info to the public or most of the company employees when they fired Altman. Almost no one sided with them because they never attempted to explain anything.
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-en...

This is a pretty good overview. There have been several HN discussions on this matter.
If you can get kick-ass smoke and particles like that in Photoshop out-of-the-box please do tell me how.
They used a different person, so it is not her voice.
Velocidrone is a lot of fun.

There's also freerider fpv, DRL, and Liftoff. They're all pretty good, honestly.
s3 is not perfect, but close enough.

the ideal design is to use s3 for immutable objects, then build a similar system on ec2 nvme for mutable/ephemeral data.

the one i use by default is s4[1].

1. https://github.com/nathants/s4
S3 _does_ support CAS on copyObject [0].

Cloudflare supports CAS on copyObject and on putObject [1]. It doesn't support CAS on deleteObject.

I don't know about the others though (ABS, GCS, Tigris, MinIO).

https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/extensions/#cond...

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CopyObje...

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/api/s3/extensions/#cond...
There isn't. For games you would need vLLM, because batch size is more important than latency. Something that people don't seem to understand is that an NPC doesn't need to generate tokens faster than its TTS can speak. You only need to minimize the time to first token.
There's nothing that can be done technically. Near perfect voice changing model can be built from 3-5 minutes of conversation on top of a base model, if all the user wants is voice indistinguishable from yours.

But, IMO, the value of mud sludge on a table indistinguishable from sandwiches is tiny. Fake Chanels are 10^2-5 cheaper than the real thing no matter the closeness. Don't listen to people begging you for life to join the counterfeiter ring, they don't make much anyway.
Beeper is quite useful here with a pinned message to yourself - can quickly send urls/text and have that show up on all devices. Obviously also handles google chat/facebook/sms/discord messages etc in the same system.

For photos and other large files - dropbox, though the current price means I'll probably be dropping this next renewal.
Anyone who thought OpenAI would just take SJ voice isn’t thinking things thoroughly but anyone that doesn’t see the request as a courtesy and the follow-up as a ‘get behind this or get nothing’ is blind. This was a strong arm move with SJ’s concept was always optional. It’d of been good press. Now that it’s the opposite, they’ll still get the voice they wanted but everyone will forget why a shitty move this within a month. To me, the worst part is how this makes Sam Altman to be a completely asshole with no sympathy. SJ made a movie, she wanted to live it at that. Sam Altman forced her to represent a product, forever. That’s fucked up.
You have to take into consideration that the default wallpaper is arguably the most seen picture in the entire world.
Except that apparently they had such warnings for individual trades, but the bundle was implemented as "for(trade in bundle) transact(trade)". Which design has a certain appeal, standing on the shoulders of the peculiar handling of each trade, but with the terrible flaw that the bundle is never considered in its totality.
KDE Connect is incredible for iPhone + Linux workstation. It’s about as close as you can get to Apple’s interop. I wish they’d make a few UX improvements like putting a button in the app to open Files at the directory for incoming files, but otherwise I use it daily to transfer files and clipboard integration.
1. Driving Efficiencies: Red Ocean - Sequioa Arc's "Hair on Fire" - Symbol.vc's "Consensus Markets"

2. Removing Limitations: Blue Ocean - Sequioa Arc's "Hard Fact of Life" - Symbol.vc's "Pre-Consensus Markets"

3. Advancing Technology: Sequioa Arc's "Future Vision" - Symbol.vc's "Non-Consensus Markets"

---

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-framework/

Introducing Symbol: not seeking consensus

https://medium.com/symbol-vc/introducing-symbol-not-seeking-...
There is that.

One approach to calculus is to teach it alongside Newtonian mechanics, with lots of experimental work. Those go together.

The problem is, it's too hard for high school teachers.[1]

[1] https://www.compadre.org/portal/pssc/pssc.cfm
Why should they be embarrassed? It is the inability of Math teachers to instruct those who have difficulty with Mathematics.

Aren’t K12 schools teaching “new math” or whatever fad, to students and focusing on teaching to a test due to no child left behind?

I wonder what studies have been done to measure how many students are math deficient in general population.

Furthermore, what are approaches that could remediate such issues?
Note that this follows on the heels of the recent (near?) death of California Senate Bill 829 [0] - which is taking aim at the vertical integration of live performance by Live Nation. If you’re in CA, call your representatives!

With this in mind, to continue your rant…

The anticompetitive behavior of Live Nation is toxic to the music and performing arts industries. It’s the Walmart effect, except consumers end up paying way more because exclusivity contracts prevent competition. Artists sign exclusivity contracts with Live Nation, and onlt play Live Nation Venues. Venues purchased by live nation outbid independent venues until those venues sign exclusivity agreements with Live Nation or die, and then Live Nation pushes up the price.

[0] https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB829/id/2796147
It's not very impressive.

As a result of the negative publicity, most people know OpenAI as the company that steals things from other people. Most of them will never hear that this one time, OpenAI didn't actually do the thing they were accused of doing.

That's the problem with having a repeat liar as a CEO: you lose any credibility for those rare instances when you're actually telling the truth.
> They used a different person, so it is not her voice.

That doesn't matter because it's an impersonation. Ford lost, even though they didn't use Bette Midler's voice either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
> the Tabula Rasa theory is wrong

Good book about precisely this (and in agreement with your statement) is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker's 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
If Sam didn't get hired back after the firing, there was a good chance OpenAI would implode and that would be bad news for employee equity. Plus, the board didn't give out any information that could've convinced anyone to side with them. The drama about exit documents and superalignment research appears to have been contained in relatively small circles and did not circulate company-wide until they became public.
the correct pattern is to append immutable objects into a common prefix.
> the shareholders agreement had something which enabled the canceling of the shares

OpenAI doesn't have shares per se, since they're not a corporation but some newfangled chimeric entity. Given the man who signed the documents allegedly didn't read them, I'm not sure why one would believe everything else is buttoned up.