skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that - Stuxnet aside - Western nations (including Israel) do not run cyber extortion schemes against random individuals and companies.

They do run intel campaigns against targets or sell the tools to run such campaigns, but so does every somewhat developed nation in this world. Intelligence operations are older than the Bible, they have been a part of civilizations ever since civilizations existed as a concept.
The right to roam/access was so natural and ingrained to me that it took me 3 decades of my life to finally realize that it was not everywhere like in Germany/Switzerland/Austria where the entire landscape is essentially one big recreational park. Vacation away from home is great, but living in a place where I am confined to my own ground/public roads and a few select pieces of federal land? Unimaginable. Freedom comes in many forms.... the right to roam is one I exercise every day.

I feel that the right to access/roam (depending on the country it is called and framed differently) hurts no one and makes everyones life better.
https://soundcloud.com/peter-marreck-fb/sky-voice-and-scarjo...

I'm sorry but either you are tone-deaf or these are not remotely the same voice. I made this myself after getting fed up with this bullshit.
It's working for me. Also, they use Google for search results, not Bing.
Heya I found a minor typo here:
https://unify.ai/docs/demos/demos/LangChain/RAG_playground/R... under "Usage" step 2.

> "Input your Unify APhttps://github.com/Anteemony/RAG"

Your product looks good in my view, although I have only spend about 10min thus far. The docs look pretty easy to follow along.

I'll probably give this a try soon!
It's chatgpt wearing a hat and sunglasses
> is SOME skeptical source to fight back against the unending gusher of marketing bullshit.

They aren't though. They are also marketing bs. If you work at a vendor, go slack your content marketing team for a coffee chat to understand how it works.

This is the managing company for The Register [0]. We'd work with AMs at Situation Publishing to be looped to the right magazine (Register, Next Platform, Blocks and Files, etc) and could complain to them if we gave enough business to them.

[0] - https://situationpublishing.com/
I was about to share this, I just told someone about it the other night, been using it well over a decade now without any issue, the same exe I downloaded in 2011 or so.
They'll be sitting around twiddling their thumbs most of the time. Seems like something to be contracted out when necessary.
Thanks, appeal to nature seems to be it
Maybe they aren't going anywhere, but they sure af ought to.
They'll just use their own DNS servers and you won't be able to stop them in an ever-evolving game of cat-and-mouse.
I don't think it's fair to put an equation sign between a company valuation and its perceived "UI density". I believe Google would have been just as successful with a really busy home page too.
But are they? Not asking for the contract side here but for the technical aspect.

If DDG relies mostly on Bing and it fails forever in the future, they can "simply" make a contract with google and continue whatever they were doing.

Same for OpenAI. Its not that Bing is the only search engine index on the web is it ?
So yes, it would mean they have to spend a lot of manpower in a short time.

On the other hand, how likely is it that Bing just goes offline?

Do you always have a second datacenter in case your provider fails? Not everyone does it and as long as you have a way of putting things back up in reasonable time you are good to go.
I mentioned our situation (back when we had young children) in other comments. I could work from home at least some of the time, my wife quit working while we had young children (because I make more money). We moved to suburban Portland to have other families and activities nearby, and because Oregon has relatively liberal laws regarding homeschooling. And we had family and friends there already. We found groups of homeschoolers -- easy to do, they're all online now.

We did not follow the official curriculum, just made ourselves aware of the requirements for obtaining a high school diploma should our kids want to do that (they did, all got it easily). We more or less "unschooled," which means no rigid curriculum, no trying to re-create the classroom at home, and letting kids choose how to spend their time, within limits (we didn't allow much TV and video games and social media weren't much of a thing back then). Our technique, if you can call it that, was based a lot on Montessori, which I recommend to parents who can afford that but can't manage homeschooling, or don't feel like they can competently do it.

I know not everyone can homeschool their kids, for practical or personal reasons. I don't suggest everyone do it, or that kids who go to school are necessarily getting damaged or harmed (though that does happen). Ask any teacher, the number one predictor of academic success is parental involvement. Whether that takes the form of homeschooling, or just paying attention and spending time with your kids, that time makes a huge difference in the long term. I don't mean going to school board meetings and screaming about snack machines or sex education classes, I mean spending actual time with your kids so they feel valued and part of the family rather than an inconvenience.
Some may have listened to it and just have such a poor opinion of OpenAI that they allow it to cloud their judgment. Both voices sound like white women in a similar age group, must be Scarlett Johansson.
I believe that generally refers to all their custom answers, e.g. when you search for "weather <place name>". Nevertheless, those don't seem to work either.
Modern business seems to not care about resilience or having a plan B at all.
Yeah. I like Brave Search. In my own usage it seems to offer far more useful results rather than 5 pages of ads.
I’m sure someone can do some type of math about her general pay rate per performance minute then multiply it by the millions of hours Sky has been heard using her voice. I think that number would likely be quite high.
There are some apps which you can use to scan labels with and it will tell you which allergens does it have.
Gotcha, thank you. Yeah, no one likes a cost center...and IT is usually the first to layoff.
Why would it be a particularly large check? What are her damages?
They are getting very close to releasing windirstat-next [0] and already have some betas out, you can learn more about it in the subreddit. [1]

>WinDirStat fans,

>As a new pet project, I recently started some substantial revisions to WinDirStat in my GitHub branch and will work with current maintainer (Oliver Schneider) to eventually publish a new release hopefully in the next few months. The current changes on deck speed up performance drastically (seconds compared to minutes in some cases). It uses less memory compared to recent alternatives (WizTree), is faster as scanning network paths, and obviously isn't pushy about donating (although I certainly would not discourage folks from donating to their favorite opensource projects).

>Oliver recently opened up the GitHub Issues trackers, and I would love to hear suggestions or known bugs for the existing version:

>For the nerds interested in the changes I have queued up, you can visit the GitHub page

[0] https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WinDirStat/
This is a Scientific Reports paper, which is way less prestigious and evidently has much less rigorous review compared to Nature. Still, shame on them for publishing this
> dead industry with the last indoor mall built in the US in 2006

Well that's straight up false.

The American Dream mall in East Rutherford, NJ opened in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadowlands
For a while.

This is a massive invite for competing businesses to offer the same service 20% cheaper, and still make lots of money.
Some replies to this already, but quick notes:

* "Controller" isn't used much as a term, when you start looking around. You'll see things listed under "transmitter" or "radio"

* The majority of FPV transmitters use OpenTX or EdgeTX software (EdgeTX is newer and a fork of OpenTX). Both of these support plugging the transmitter in to a host computer over USB, where it can appear as a HID joystick

* ExpressLRS (ELRS) is an open source radio protocol, with 2.4ghz and 900mhz versions. 2.4ghz is a denser waveforms, so better latency, but less penetration (unless you are going loooooong range, default to 2.4ghz). If you buy a radio today, get one with ELRS built in

* ELRS transmitters include Bluetooth. They can act as a BLE controller to a host computer, for wireless gamepad use: https://oscarliang.com/expresslrs-bluetooth-joystick/

* And there is a 3rd option for more convenience, since both HID over USB and BLE wirelessly require a tiny bit of menu fiddling: A dedicated simulator dongle. This acts as a full ELRS receiver, so you would just turn on your radio within range and play the simulator: https://www.getfpv.com/squid-stick-wireless-usb-simulator-do...

And finally, on radios themselves:

* The big split is between smaller "gamepad" style transmitters and full-size box transmitters. The larger versions usually have more inputs than you would use, for other radio control hobbyists (wings/planes/etc)

* Radiomaster is a solid recommendation. Check out the Pocket as an intro radio ($65 USD), and then the Boxer as a step up ($140 USD base, or $260 with all-metal gimbals and upgrades)

* Unless you have a strong reason to, like someone is gifting you a pile of quadcopter hardware using a different protocol, go with ELRS 2.4ghz built in
But this has the meaning of something providing propulsion.
>> Except it doesn't sound like Johansson, I don't know why people keep saying this. At best, the voice has a couple of similar characteristics,

To add to this, the legal standard isn't whether it sounds "like" her. It has to be a replication of her voice. Millions of people may sound or look "like" another person, that doesn't mean they are a copy of that person.

The best case study in voices imho is David Attenborough. He has a distinct voice that many have sought to replicate. But you know who else had that voice? Richard Attenborough (the actor from Jurassic Park). They are brothers. Sadly, Richard recently passed. Their voices are unsurprisingly nearly interchangeable, along with a thousand other people with similar life stories. So who gets to own complete rights to the distinctive "Attenborough" voice? In any other area of intellectual property the answer is simple: nobody. It doesn't exist and/or was created by people long before any living Attenborough walked the earth.

Similarly, courts ruled that GTA did not steal from Lindsay Lohan. One cannot own the image of generic California blonde in a red bikini. So why should Johansson own sexy/breathy voice of with a nondistinctive accent?
I hope they produce all proofs of their innocence with AI. Maybe some people will open theirs eyes in 20-30 years after finding such records :D
Single point of faaaaiiiiiluuuuure - Sing it!
First two claims are "according to interviews with multiple people involved in the process", direct quotes from the casting call flier, and "documents shared by OpenAI in response to questions from The Washington Post". Given the number of (non-OpenAI) people involved, I think it would be difficult to maintain a lie on these points. Third claim is a comparison carried out by The Washington Post.
Also, where are ESXI customers at the enterprise level going to go? Do we really think they're going to magically switch over to HyperV (and get Win admins) or Proxmox (and have a lack of IBM-enterprise level support)?
> happened upon an actor who they thought already sounded indistinguishable from SJ without special instruction, and cast that person solely for that reason

so who was doing the selecting, and were they instructed to perform their selection this way? If there was a law suit, discovery would reveal emails or any communique that would be evidence of this.

If, for some reason, there is _zero_ evidence that this was chosen as a criteria, then it's pretty hard pressed to prove the intent.
Possible origin of the sun's magnetic field, and not where they thought it was
I listened to a few clips of each and was expecting them to sound more similar than they do.

Sure they're both female voices with some similarities, but they sound like distinctly different people if you listen to the two back to back.
> Because migrations should happen all the time

Hypervisor migrations? Complete DC migrations? If you are doing that every single quarter you are doing something VERY wrong (or you should migrate to the cloud).
The nature article for the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07315-1
300k airplanes in five years
Luckily !g still works, but this is pretty by bad.
Inequality was lesser in the past. Way less.

"Social pathology" is way too undefined a term for me to argue with.
I recall Amazon’s Lord of the Rings title sequence [1] received some criticism for looking fake, even though they filmed it practically [2]. I’d guess it was due to folks assuming title sequences are CGI, combined with the fact that few people really know what poured liquid metal is supposed to look like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV-dDyYgwkc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZEpWvQFXqQ
I think I've always had it but not recognised it until recently. As I've got older the internet has got better at distracting me in and my job has got less interesting and these have combined to accentuate the problem for me.
> Erik Rye, co-author of the paper, explained to The Register that Google and Apple's WPS systems work in fundamentally different ways and that only Apple's, due to its openness, provided a way to conduct this study.

I’m curious what about Google or other implementations make them difficult to study.
I have no idea, but my usual recomendation is to read whatever patio11 wrote about that. https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ Probably https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073357 | 137 points | Jan 2010 | 24 comments | note; in 2019 HN was smaller and 137 was a lot)

> Sorry for the late answer but I didn't get any notifications.

No problem. I don't expect inmediate replies. There is no notification in HN, but some users created unoficial notification tools. (I don't use neither of them, so I don't know if they are good.)

* https://www.hnreplies.com/

* https://hnnotify.xyz/ (looks dead now)
> There is no way to rank these stories otherwise without human interference.

Time to tell the bots to vote!
I think it depends what exactly you're doing.

Me, I think "moonshot" is a very buzzy buzzword, not a concrete thing, despite what it's named after. I've listened to both Chris Hadfield's "An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth" and Richard Wiseman's "Shoot for the Moon", and it was extremely clear how little there was in common between the perspective of the professional psychologist and the guy who actually went into space.
As part of non-IT management I'm culpable of last-minute changes in business strategy / tactics. Easy to disparage (How can strategy change last-minute? It's like starting with soccer, but ending with rugby.), but market circumstances can change in an instant. A few key customers expecting new and custom specs and possibly an entrant willing to offer those specs, and whoops there goes predictable management based on strategy / tactics / operations.

The thing EM adds for me is agility (small a). Our engineers work Agile (quite happy with it), but they are human. They (as a group) have an overarching goal in mind (to reach X now, Y later, to keep Z in check, but replace O around then and then). Management can undermine that medium term feeling of being in control. That leads to losses in confidence and commitment. EM helps bridge that gap. In the end it all comes down to getting the Why across emphatically.
> This case is not a conspiracy theory. But it is something where you disagree with a popular opinion

Is it a popular opinion? Where's the evidence of that? Or is it maybe just a manufactured clickbait outrage now bordering on conspiracy theory? I provided a link that clearly demonstrates the very foundational claim is wrong, and the article has already clarified the mistakes in the timeline that conspiracists are citing as evidence of malfeasance. This controversy is a textbook nothing burger and it annoys me to no end that people keep falling for these tactics.
> Okay, so you assign your payment to $MALTA-COMPANY the line-item of 'consulting fees'. It only takes a few companies to do this before the tax authorities are wise to it.

Tax authorities already don't give a fuck about where a company shifts its money to. As long as there's a proper entry in the books, at least. There are schemes involving up to six different legal entities [1]. A measly million dollars or two is a minor rounding error for a multibillion dollar company.

> Think about it this way: if it was that easy to hide expenses from authorities, embezzlement schemes would be a lot simpler than they are now.

Embezzlement is easier the higher the embezzler is in the command chain. When the CFO orders something to happen - say, a monetary transfer or the creation of a shell company - it will usually be executed without question by the lower levels. Maybe, given the rise of impersonation attacks, the underlings will follow protocol and call the CFO back to verify that it is really the CFO ordering that thing, but that's it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
I don't think it's a particularly similar voice to begin with, and the technology in general is very 'Her' like - which would also explain why they reached out to ScarJo to do an additional voice.

I think the tweet was dumb but in my layperson's understanding of the law and the situation, I doubt OpenAI is at any huge legal risk here.
I'm currently at a very large company, and architects are, in many lines of business, the only technical folks directly employed by the company. Which means a product's quality hinges pretty directly on whether your architect is somebody technical who can help solve problems both at the implementation level and before they get to the implementation level (which I certainly try to be, when not triple-booked on meetings trying to keep everything else on the rails) or the Dilbert version.

We do exist, I promise. ;) But in my case at least, the Eye of Sauron can only keep so many things in sight at a time...
Did work with a couple of these.

I couldn't tell if it was because of the flim-flam nature of the people they hired, or the flim-flam nature of Google's organizational culture.

A lot of good ideas died on the vine either way.
You first said that Sky is "clearly an impersonation" of Johansson. Now you say that it's not a coincidence they chose Sky's voice actress. These are two different claims. It may not be a coincidence in the sense that they may have chosen Sky's actress because she sounds similar to Johansson. But that alone doesn't constitute an impersonation. Impersonation means deliberately assuming the identity of another person with the intent to deceive. So you'd have to demonstrate more than a degree of similarity to make that case.
I think if you handed this image to a VFX artist and said “make this,” they could do it. They probably could have done it back in 2015, too.

But the team making this image didn’t have it in advance. They just had some ideas they wanted to try out.

The story of how it was made is not just the story of the techniques they used, but also how they applied and adjusted those techniques to try things and see how it looked.

This image was “made” in that people built the stuff that was photographed, but it was also kind of “discovered” in that they tried a bunch of things until they discovered what they liked.

That’s possible in VFX too, but the process is different and too many iterations can quickly erase any cost advantage. This is one reason animated movies are disciplined about locking the script early in production. You can’t cost-effectively improv your way through an animated movie the way a director and actors can with a camera and a set.
Apple may soon have to allow third-party app stores in Japan
> Even without getting into semantics about "what is art", the reality is that this is promotional material for advertising. This wasn't commissioned by a rich patron to put up on exhibition for MoMA.

99.9999% of all art is not commissioned by a rich patron to put up on exhibition for MoMa. It's just something that artists do.

IT geeks are all for imposing their own creative restrictions on their work -- using Haskell when the competition is using PHP, developing their own distributed network persistence layer on top of SQLite when there are products out there that already exist but they just don't like for pseudospiritual reasons.

But artists who just make pictures are expected to be cost-effective and not to put any value on their artisanship?
Any time... In the banking world, the analogous is JD Power. Useful and valuable insights from them.

https://canada.jdpower.com
I also built a wall (with literal wallpaper even!) in order to create the cover for a genealogy book that I created.

I knew what a wanted — an old fashioned looking wall with old-timey pictures of my relatives hanging on the wall. I also wanted a mantel with more photos standing on it that would run along near the bottom of the book cover.

I tried initially creating the cover in a paint program — layering elements together (wallpaper, photo frames, photos), adding drop shadows, but it wasn't coming together.

So I went to Lowe's and bought a 4' x 8' sheet of 2" insulating foam or some such, bought what looked like the oldest-fashioned wall paper, a gallon of paint, etc. In the end I messed up the lighting, but I suppose that is something I am still learning in photography. But I still liked the result.

https://imgur.com/a/12VN4sI
Yes, but it does somewhat feel like you missed the point they were trying to make.
Exactly. All this reporting says is that the actress wasn’t explicitly told to copy “Her”. We still don’t know about the intentions of OpenAI throughout all of this. With Sam’s seeming obsession with the movie, are we really supposed to believe that the company never discussed it internally?
I appreciate you taking a second look. Thank you!
Netflix is doing the forcing. Banks are doing the forcing. There are many app categories with very little reason to exist at all, or at least not for creating dependencies on the latest client APIs.

Edit:

And it's not just that these apps are useless. In some cases they are inferior to the web app.

E.g., the Netflix iPad app can't seem to remember where I left off. It misses entire episodes. And every evening when I try to resume watching, I'm getting an error message because the old network connection is broken. Everything that's good about Netflix happens on the server. The app is just a dumb terminal and it can't even serve that purpose properly.
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Unless you mean by "lazy" someone against all ways of exerting effort (why build something then anyway), then someone can be "lazy" as well as climb mountains. No contradiction there: Hate that something takes so much effort and find a "lazy" way to solve that while enjoying mountaineering is fully compatible.
I don't think I've ever seen to this degree such a misguided focus on short-term profit at the expense of driving away ALL future customers. At this point, who ever would even consider VMware for a new project or business? Vmware will exist only as long as their current customers exist. Being a VMware salesperson has to be a brutal job right now.