skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly can appreciate the artistry in building it and also I'm happy that the artists found joy in making it, but I can't help but wonder why MS bothered.
Against what human intelligence are you measuring?
OpenAI hires voice actress. Then it contacts famous actress for a license. Why. The implication is that OpenAI knows there is a potential legal issue.

Then later, when OpenAI promotes voice actress with an apparent reference to famous actress' work, and famous actress complains, OpenAI "pauses" the project. If OpenAI believes there is no issue, then why pause the project.

This behaviour certainly looks like OpenAI thought it needed a license from famous actress. If there is another explanation, OpenAI has not provided it.
The ransoms then needs to be hid from shareholders and independant auditors. Both have reason to look and some do.
Agreed. I never understand the argument that we should forget that we solved a problem.

Most terminals today are mostly vt-like? So the F what?

Whether anyone likes it or not, or beleives it or not because of their own limited direct personal experience, the problem that termcap/terminfo worked around still exists today.

Since the problem still exists, the solution (or I would call it more of a work-around) is still required. Simply pretending or ignoring doesn't resolve anything.

When some spec becomes a decreed standard that you can actually count on, like we take one of the many vt-alikes and enshrine that one and all terminals are actually required to impliment that spec exactly, then you can maybe talk about "we don't need termcap or terminfo any more, it's ok to hard-code this spec from now on"

And I won't even start on all the things wrong with "just map both to up arrow" holy cow.
> Even with severe churn, VMWare would make around $12.8-13B.

Down from the $13.4B -- that's not 'severe churn' you're describing there, it implies only a few percent drop in revenue. We've yet to see if that's the likely outcome here, but touchy-feely sentiment suggests that it'll be worse than that.

> Large customers are sticky.

Isn't TFA a precise counter-point to that assumption?
The people selling the proverbial shovels are turning a profit.

> The bigger AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are not losing money in their monetized APIs.

[CITATION NEEDED]

Inference is more expensive than claimed, used extensively as a 'slot machine' with users trained to just keep re-generating until they get something useful, and only keeps getting more expensive as model quality has to go up.

And in practice, training the model is far less one-off than claimed. Current tools are not sufficient.

> Every place I’ve worked is absolutely reducing costs and doing new / more business as a result of their LLM use.

Unless you are working in SEO, Marketing, or spam, I don't believe you.

LLMs aren't reliable enough to replace actual human labour. While it's true many companies are fooling themselves into believing they're reducing costs, in practice other staff is picking up the slack. This is unsustainable unless your company has massively overhired.

Things like "AI generated software tests" are a farce. The consequences aren't immediate, but will show up long term.
Duckduckgo is working fine on my iPhone15.
I totally agree, and it's not even an issue of motivation.: School gives the time, environement, motivation, support and syllabus for the children to learn. It may not be perfect for everyone, it may be improved, it is not egalitarian but it is the best way to give education to the children of a country.

AI like all other technologies that were supposed to revolutionize teaching and failed are a dead end to educate a country, even if they can be potentially useful for some people.
I remember trying Clojure a few years ago, and Racket, and had similar problem with both... feels like everybody doing LISPs is using Emacs and it was hard to get a decent set up in VS Code configured and working properly
Not defending DDG or anyone here but it depends on the cause of the outage... is it something broken in Azure (for example) that's causing it? As has been pointed out it's still possible to search with Bing (both directly and through DDG with bangs) so it might not be as simple as you're implying.
I've heard some VFX professionals mention that they got told certain bugs can't be fixed because the codebase is too old and complicated, and they are used to the software crashing randomly on a regular basis.

If people have no alternative in their field or the alternative requires discarding years of experience, the incentive to fix bugs isn't as high as it could be. That's how you get problems like Excel invalidating data with automatic formatting for decades.
You are not kidding. I can't remember the last time a website has made my scroll stutter so much.
lol what? Google or Windows? Got a chuckle out of this either way.
And I use that daily. It’s the “decent” part I referred to. I have yet to get it to print with HP printers built in the last 5 years. We will see if HP steps up this round …
Or the way I like it, configure Sonar to break pull requests when devs ignore the rules that are supposed to be followed.
yeah seems like at least for many that is the case. I wasn't aware that so many engines are using bing! under the hood. Afaik qwant uses their own thing and that startpage is using google under the hood, but that might have changed
> In VM's case it is not that long really

It is. You have teams critical apps running and you do not want to cause downtime for customers (internal or external).

I've seen this saga happen dozens of times and it is a very delicate and intricate process that requires a lot of planning.

A failed migration can become news, for example - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-15/ubs-says-...
> McKinsey & Co.-trained entrepreneur who abandoned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics to build startups in sub-Saharan Africa

That does not sound like the profile I'd want to run a moonshot project. To me you either you want someone who is very goal oriented to do a research lab approach or very product oriented to do a deep tech startup approach. Abandoning a PhD indicate it's not the former and McKinsey indicates it's not the latter.
Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken and Unused Drivers to Remove 19k LOC
Sorry, should have said that it was with the Safari brower
> I’m on a VPN all day for work that doesn’t allow split tunneling (nothing on my local network is accessible when I’m on the VPN).

One workaround for that might be to run your work environment in a VM, then the VPN only controls the network routing inside that not the host machine. In my experience VPNs that “claim” all off-machine traffic don't block more local traffic, so you should still be able to remote to the VM (i.e. using RDC under Windows) from the host OS, and maybe use the remote client's clipboard and filesystem integration to transfer at least text (and maybe other data & files) over the virtual machine boundary.
Because DDG markets itself as privacy focused, yet is hosted on MS servers.

Ecosia make a lot about their green credentials but it's not obvious if they factor in the CO2 output of what Bing requires to product results.
Anyone who goes to concerts understands this.

This is exactly why this board is a waste of time. Half of what you read on here are people talking about things they have no idea about and/or no vested interest in the outcome.

Just a large collection of wankers.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources

"Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing."
> It's extremely well established in law, you can't approach someone to voice an advert for you, get told no, and then hire an impersonator to do it.

Can you explain and/or cite the legal basis here? What cases? What law?
du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h
> That's a verbatim quote from the article

The clips are all online for you to listen to them yourself. The article can say what it likes, it's just wrong.
You, rather than your service provider, 'own' your identity be that email, web, other. For as long as the registration's kept, of course.

Your choice is your own. What to have resolving to 'you' is up to you.

Your branding is your own.

It misses being part of a 'community', or, a gated community. But the many flavours of federation seem to have reached critical mass to sustain resilience to another attempted murder a la RSS.
Deleted code is code you don't have to maintain. Nice move !
> 58% know which gas causes most global warming (carbon dioxide)

Actually, it's water vapor.

The absorption patterns of water vapor (blue peaks) and carbon dioxide (pink peaks) overlap in some wavelengths. Water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas overall, being responsible for 41–67% of the greenhouse effect, but its global concentrations are not directly affected by human activity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#:~:text=The%2....

Ironic to use a question to judge education quality and then judge by the wrong answer.
A Giant Crater in Siberia Is Belching Up Russia's Past
Rules of blogging, some of which can be ignored
Consider adding a FAQ on the website.

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I have an 8-page long résumé with good details about all projects I have done. Would it be able to shrink it to a two-page résumé?

Is there a way to enter additional prompts to customize what's desired in the output?

Are multiple runs allowed if the output is not satisfactory in the first shot?

Thanks.
DAC definitely has that problem too. One cable in an ideal condition probably wouldn't be that hot, but as soon as something is not ideal it would get hot.

Also you are just throwing everything here now, DAC is totally not "we can have 10G for free". As others has said, the main benefit of 1G/2.5G is what it uses the same twisted pair => 8p8c connector. 10G DAC is SFP+. This alone prevents the mass adoption in the consumer sector - too much friction for Regular Joe.
Problem is again that these screws also do apply to the user and smartphone OS are the worst role models I can think of.

Smartphone OS now are neither particularly secure, nor very useful considering the relative power of what the devices could do in theory.

Sure, there are ways around it, but to me the ecology of phone OS is disastrous enough, that I just don't bother with it aside for doing calls and using it as a mobile router. Even if it is a shitty router that could be so much better.

And no, I don't want an OS that gives me an advertiser ID and gaslights me that that is for my best. And no, I don't care that I can randomize it with a press, it is designed to ID you and at some point you will be too lazy to care about your quite shitty operating system.
Discussion megathread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447626
> Surely there’s some kind of difference between “voice impression for a two-line cameo in one episode of an animated sitcom” and “reproducing your voice as the primary interface for a machine that could be used by billions of people and is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.”

There are too many differences to understand what you're saying. Is the problem too much money is in the company doing it? Fox is also pretty wealthy.

I think the pertinent question is: does having it sound like Scarlett Johansenn mean they get to access billions of people? If not, then while she might get paid out a few million, it'll be from OpenAI's marketing budget and not because of actual value added.
I really like the fsview plugin that comes with Konqueror. It can be run independently: `fsview /some/dir`.
And now we're heading towards eugenics once again. Amazing how quickly these discussions turn that direction.
Isnt one of the reason to buy all this compute is to attract skilled AI people who want all that compute power, makes it easier to hire them.
You wouldn't recall a car
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452795
That's all very well (up to the point where I have a green apple in front of me!), but if someone tells me something to the effect that consciousness is identical with soul, all I have learned is something about their personal take on lexicography. If they go on to say, for example, that the soul is immortal, I have not learned that consciousness is immortal; I have learned something about the speaker's beliefs.
A Windows update restarted a critical server automatically. A core service is blocked from starting by a Candy Crush ad installed by the update. The Crandy Crush ad is somehow expecting a Copilot key to be pressed on the keyboard to let the system keep going.

MS engineers are waiting for an online purchase of a new $400 keyboard with the Copilot key to complete and planning to run to the data center to plug the keyboard.

However, the Bing outage is preventing the purchase to go through, because the payment somehow relies on Bing suggestions to load for obscure reasons.
For me, it is the other way around. I prefer a pay by use model.
I have an old android tablet. It's good for media consumption. I'm using it for comic books and pdf (epub also but ereaders are better for that). I could use it for video too, but I don't watch video too often and either use my phone if the size screen don't matter or my computer if it matter.
> Also looking from the perspective of the lesser known voice actress, does Scarlett Johansson have the right to trample the lesser known voice artists future job opportunities by intimidating her previous employers?

Right, it would be one thing if there was evidence that OpenAI asked the actress to imitate Johansson. But people are saying that using this voice actress at all without Johansson's permission shouldn't be legal, which is a bizarre claim. If someone thinks my voice sounds similar to a celebrities, now that celebrity owns my voice? In any other situation, everyone here would think such a standard would be completely outrageous.

(For what it's worth, I didn't find the Sky voice to sound anything like Scarlett Johannson personally)
Exactly lol.
That's a weak reason. Instead of being locked up with a bunch of classmates which you have no choice about you get to associate with people you choose.
I would love to target iOS with all kinds of hobby software, but actually developing on that platform is such a fucking miserable experience that I avoid it at all costs. I really cannot emphasize enough how unpleasant it is to deal with limited number of installs, expiring apps, and the lack of support for OpenGL. The people calling the shots over there are truly unrepentant assholes.
but only as a secondary goal right? ;)

It's all about value for the world!
It's still interesting that they got it to work as fast and precise as they did.
Crank bullshit alarms at level 11 with this paper

Quote from the paper: “ God created the perfect quantum computer: the DNA.”
Tangentially, for the Attenborough fans here, I highly recommend you check out "Zoo Quest in Colour" if you haven't already: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qxfsg

"Zoo Quest" is his first nature documentary series, from 1954(!), very different in style from today's nature shows. I remember as a child seeing clips of it when it was already ancient history -- grainy black-and-white footage of a very young and athletic Attenborough practically wrestling a lizard.

It was originally broadcast before colour TV existed in the UK (funnily enough, Attenborough was the controller at BBC 2 when they pioneered colour broadcasting) so everyone assumed it had been shot in black and white. But in 2016 someone discovered that much of the original footage was colour film. The restored version is absolutely gorgeous.
> that's not 'severe churn'

Companies do not churn 100% customers.

Most cases "severe churn" is counted as 80-100% NRR as customers are on multiyear contracts that are much more expensive to break than they are to wait out.

> Isn't TFA a precise counter-point to that assumption?

The customer was already a Nutanix customer, so the hard work was already done.

Basically, this customer was using BOTH Nutanix and VMWare internally (I am VERY surprised how the previous CFO did not get fired for something like that), and because they already had the Nutanix knowhow and licenses, migrated fully to it.

For reference, this article was written by the Register journo who was at Nutanix .NEXT (Nutanix's corporate conference).
Looks like a pretty clear violation of the WinDirStat license. They took WinDirStat which is GPL, linked it with some other proprieraty code and distributed the result.

(They could have been clear-ish (with caveats) by distributing only the source code and let the users do the compiling and linking, similarly to how you could download ZFS and build it into Linux. But you mustn't distribute the result further.)
Us and isreal only target specific orginizations. If you are not a 'terrorist' you won't have to pay and probably won't even notice them.
They already must report breaches to the FTC and they must report their financials to the IRS.

Most companies aren't going to cook their books over this.
> These startups break laws, pay the fines and end up just fine.

That thought process puts them in the same boat as: Theranos, FTX, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial, Enron, Washington Mutual, Kidder Peabody, and many other companies which no longer exist.

So if (since?) they lack the ethical compass to not break the rules, perhaps a simple history of what happens to companies that do break the rules might be useful guidance...
Who’s making those claims, exactly? That will tell you a lot about their likely veracity.
I accidentally became a Finno-Ugric influencer – Bogáta Timár
To the GP's point - if you lose the RAID controller, then you've lost a whole lot more than just a single drive failure.
The evidence shows wrongdoing with ass-covering.
You will have a much harder time finding a job than people who don't share these traits.
You are absolutely right that consolidation minimizes overhead. I work in an IT department who relies on VMware and I certainly do not look forward to the prospect of updating all our tooling to work with multiple hypervisors. It works quite well as it is.

And it certainly makes sense in the short term to spend the money on the product instead of on infrastructre. I just wonder about the long term in the context of how we do business. Because on the one hand you have management pushing topics like "risk management" where I have to take responsibility for the most trivial of things in day-to-day operations. And then there is the hypervisor issue where "risk management" goes out of the window and we happily rely on a single hypervisor that could (from one day to the next, more or less) upend all our business.
If you use Bing:
You have "only" Microsoft Bing tracking you

If you use DuckDuckGo:
Now, you have "Yahoo Ads" instead of Microsoft Ads, but these ads, they are in fact Microsoft Ads, except sold via Yahoo.

In front of these Yahoo Ads, DuckDuckGo actually adds its own click-through tracker.

Now you have DDG, Yahoo and Microsoft tracking you.

Bonus point if you click on an Amazon affiliate link, because in that case, the Amazon affiliate (DuckDuckGo) knows item-per-item what you purchased.
Ddg has been down for 5 hours. Quite a problem they got.
So /lists is another hidden page (:
Which sounded bad to me until I became a parent myself. I now appreciate the importance of daycare in the urbanized society of mostly nuclear families.
Some DDG results still work, mostly the "instant answer" cards like word definitions.

As far as I know, DDG's claim was mainly that they use Bing, but that Bing is unable to see/corellate who searched for what. Basically that DDG acts as an anonymity proxy between you and Bing.
simple nets for sure, but spiders can easily deal with an uncountable number of corner cases, I somehow think it's not reducible to all-too simple rules (in the 'game of life' sense) and more an interaction of several non-trivially complex systems like their various perception systems.

obviously their neural networks are limited in size and therefor complexity has to remain somewhat simple relatively to larger animals).
having used his videos more than a decade ago, i recognize that he has been a trailblazer in his field. i appreciate how he applied emerging tech in the past for improving access to education.

at the same time, i see the limitations with this project in terms of what it wants to achieve.

tech alone is not the answer, AI or not. i had very positive experiences with teachers only using blackboards or whiteboards, and forgettable moments with those with the newest smartboards. to me, it is the teacher that brings out the value of these tools.

today's LLMs, no matter how large and expensive to run, do not capture the personal ingenuity that can replace teachers. this is not an old man shouting at the clouds opinion or any arrogance about humans being superior. critical thinking is a rare idea taught in schools, at least when i was growing up. these systems do not give an opportunity to do that.

i am happy to be proved wrong in the future but while i get the costs associated with researching and running the service, i feel it is unethical for them to be the ones charging for its access. it seems against the foundation's goals.
I think a "before" comparison would've really helped with this example. I'd also argue a state machine approach has the added benefit of allowing you to enter the sequence at any point. If you use `Co.Seq` to e.g. build a form flow, it'd be hard to test or serialize into the middle of the sequence.

There may be something interesting here but it's pretty hard to bite into.
That statement in that tweet is also strange, but it's the same for Qwant and Ecosia now. I wonder if they are contractually not allowed to state that there are issues with Bing, or if others are correct in that they really don't want to be to public about the Bing dependency.
A plausible alternative explanation for asking Johansson:

(1) They cast the current actor to test the technology and have a fallback. The actor sounds somewhat different from Johansson but the delivery of the lines is similar.

(2) They then ask Johansson because they want to be the company that brought “Her” to life. She declines.

(3) They try again shortly before the event because they really want it to happen.

(4) They proceed with the original voice, and the “her” tweet happens because they want to be the ones that made it real.

Asking shortly before the release is the weakest link here. It’s possible they already had a version trained or fine tuned on her voice that they could swap in at the last minute. That could explain some of the caginess. Not saying it’s what happened or is even likely, but it feels like a reasonable possibility.
Merging on a collator is different from merge sort. And yes, the concept of sorting was known before von Neumann. Still, not sure about you but my first computer program was quite a bit more basic, so allow me to remain impressed.
Zoho is a company which makes a ton of different software products, none of which is best of breed, but as an aggregate is "good enough". Not sure how well this will translate to hardware. Perhaps they'll be making the next VIA Cyrix?
The term "prosecution" applies to civil cases as well as criminal ones.
"the surrounding circumstances" are relevant to the question.
No? It's at the footer.
TL;DR: people remember more factoids when they are recent and/or repeated regularly than when they are old and/or not repeated.

Somewhat it's an argument against education (don't ask me why)
They pulled the voice because of all of the controversy. I would wager they turn it back on after this is all said and done.
Literally just logged out successfully.

Then logged right back in no problem.
Kagi works just fine: https://kagi.com
Rarely do I see a wikipedia post here that actually is new and interesting to me. Thanks!