skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If accountants (because central money debt is an accounting trick) manage to destroy the US I would be way more impressed than mad.
I bought a $300 fpv kit with small drone, goggles, and controller that worked in the sims. Emax tinyhawk i believe. Small enough to fly indoors
My former boss (CTO of a large multinational Electronics company) once explained to me that 'true' (unrestrained) R&D is only possible if you have a monopoly and want to lower your margins to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
This rings true to me. It also signals that Google is now entering a phase of real competition.
> I guarantee you

You definitely do not. Think of the craziest conspiracy theory you can, one that has been debunked countless times, and I’ll show you people that have been shown the evidence yet still believe the conspiracy.

This case is not a conspiracy theory. But it is something where you disagree with a popular opinion. The point is that you’re projecting your thought pattern and way of understanding the world into everyone else instead of being empathetic and putting yourself on the other side.

Look, I get it. I also thought that the outrage about Apple’s recent ad was disproportionate. But I’m not going to go out of my way to defend the ad. I don’t give a hoot that a massive corporation is getting a bit of bad press for something largely inconsequential, I just wish the outrage had been directed at something which actually matters and go on with my life.

> There is no such evidence.

With this kind of dismissal, I don’t think it’s worth continuing the conversation. I’ll leave you to it. Have a genuinely good weekend.
My subjective impression as a web user since the late 90s is that now things break relatively rarely (I think it's the first time I have any such issue with DDG for instance) but when they do a huge chunk of the web becomes unreachable.

Back when things were more decentralized individual websites and services would have issues much more regularly because the individual software and hardware stacks weren't as robust and fault-tolerant, but then usually the problem would always be limited to a single website/service.
I never made the connection between the Sky voice and Scarlett Johansson's. I've seen many of her movies. She has an extremely distinctive voice that has a certain huskiness to it and the Sky voice totally lacks that.

Some voices are sexy and both of them fall into that category -- but that's beside the point.

That aside, it is genuinely pleasant to have a conversation with chatGPTo and some of that has to do with the voices. There's a kind of irony here because people generally imagined that AI would be cold, logical, unempathetic, etc. But LLMs are the opposite; they're extremely polite and deferential. Meanwhile they aren't that good at logic!
It should remind them their entire livelihood is dependent on one single company. They arent partners at all. Its more like one is sustenance/oxygen for the other
> Does that mean there is a bigger market for mid-market and below now

Nope. Tech forward mid-markets (eg. every single tech startup) are all cloud first, and the legacy mid-markets will go thru MSPs and Resellers to buy these products.

No one likes IT spend. It's a cost center.
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You might be right, but still if it goes to court, OpenAI knows they have an uphill battle. Any jury is going to love Johansson.

The voice doesn't need to sound the same for OpenAI to lose.
Just to make sure: have you correctly understood the article's claim?

It's saying that the anonymous voice actress's natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice (which implies it has not been altered by OpenAI to sound more like SJ, nor that they had her do some impression beyond her own natural voice).

If so, could you link the clips of the voice actress's natural voice, to compare to the AI version? I've searched but was unable to find such clips.
I'll have to read the book, my questions about this weren't answered in the OP, but possibly are in the book.

But something I think both sides of this debate seem to miss, or not want to talk about, is that the childcare aspect of the education system is useful on its own terms.

My pro public education friends who work in that system don't love this point, because they are highly trained educators damnit, not babysitters! And I'm very sympathetic to that.

And the formal education skeptics also don't love this, because caring for their own children should be the responsibility of parents and families. I have some sympathy for this too.

But I think every "normie" parent I know who doesn't really have any particular dog in this fight would say that an important part of kids going to school is that they have a safe and stable place to go for a good sized chunk of most days while the parents get adult things done, either at work or for the household. The schooling / education side is very important too of course, but it's not the only important thing schools are doing.

Now, I do personally tend to think that a better setup would be like a big family or community commune with a relatively small number of adults watching a relatively large number of children throughout the day, and a few hours of dedicated schooling peppered in.

But the path dependency to get to a setup like that from the way our society is currently set up is mind boggling to me. Neither side of this debate has the goods here, in my view.

Homeschooling is a totally different thing than that. Yes, there is usually some community component, but it's limited and fundamentally still requires an extremely large time investment by a large number of parents per child. I think this probably is truly better for the right parents; if one parent really wants to be with the kids all day and is excited and able to teach them, and another parent is capable of making enough income to make it work, and there is enough of a family or community nearby to incorporate with socially, then yeah, I do think that can be excellent. But that's a lot of ifs!

Many (I'd say most, but I don't have data, so I'll keep it vague) parents have their own ambitions and want to work in the adult world, or even if not, they find it draining to be solely focused on their children all the time, and need time to be adults. And I think it is very lonely during the day, both for kids and parents, as everyone else in the neighborhood is working or at school.

A larger community sharing this work across more children per adult in a community speaks to all these issues, but such a setup just isn't readily available to most people, and it's unclear to me how to make it be.

(I always wonder if this is something that draws people to cults. They often seem to have a setup closer to this. If it weren't for all the brainwashing, maybe they'd be onto something.)
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What the fuck did you do to my CPU
I think the problem is with the autonomy.

Someone is gonna end up using something like a global hawk (spy drone) to deploy smaller kamikaze drones.
I wish they'd spend 700M on fixing the interop between all of their products.
Hollywood elites know they are cooked. It’s only a matter of time before corporations like OpenAI and Microsoft make celebrities and actors as valuable and useful as the next rank and file employee.

I personally want an AI Taylor Swift that can sing to me whatever song I want, and I would like it to be cheap and owned by a corporation.
Oh, the irony. Actors are afraid of being digitalized and used without their content, and the first B2C AI company digitalizes a soundalike of the voice of one of the first 3 AI movies, without her consent…
Maybe it was his 'arguments', not his own 'beliefs'.

Sometimes lawyers do have to make arguments to win a case, that doesn't mean they themselves have to believe them.

Kind of like knowing your client is guilty, you still have to fight to win to make the system work.

And if these statements were made outside of the trial, it is similar. You wouldn't walk out of the courthouse and say 'yeah my client is guilty but we'll have a go of it in court tomorrow'.
Other Linux implementations:

- https://github.com/bootandy/dust (command line, extremely fast)
- mate-disk-usage-analyzer (gui/gtk, a bit more intuitive and allows operating on files too).
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Don’t those come with bad tax implications then? The point of options is to give ownership without immediate financial burden for the employee.
"The actors should be nonunion."

Five small, unremarked-upon words that illustrate OpenAI's positioning perfectly.
Yes because his focus and the focus of his department will be different.
I also wouldn't be surprised if pre-Broadcom VMWare APJ AEs gave these guys a sweetheart deal just to make logo/ACV quota in their region. Shenanigans like that were VERY common at VMWare before the acquisition. Their SalesOps was horrid.
OP is refering to this vid (which is great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WipqeFgzdTc
> I am VERY surprised how the previous CFO did not get fired for something like that

Could be they acquired another company that ran the other one. We see this with our customers all the time. They acquire a competitor, slap their name all over it, but we still have to treat them like effectively two separate customers for ages.
I thibk its the AI version of Clippy or something embedded in Office or Microsoft365 or whatever they call that thing these days.. (i think, i have absolutely no idea either :)
that kagi couples plan feeling better and better
They probably start with Bing results and do custom filtering, ranking and presentation, so without the initial Bing results they can't do anything.
That is a crazy thing to do! Looks like it's windows specific at least.
Because migrations should happen all the time. If things are done right requires the same effort to patch and have downtime of all your systems than it is to migrate from one hypervisor to another. I've migrated tons of systems, sometimes p2v and v2v makes it simpler/faster but more often than not it is more useful and as fast to reinstall system then redeploy app (you can often use that time to migrate to major OS release) and it is dead easy to do a rollback if you encounter issues in migration, stop the new one, restart the old one.

A company that is not staffed to migrate all its servers in less than 3 months is not staffed to have the most minimum level of IT security.
Also interesting: Brian Eno on his work composing one of the Windows startup sounds:

> Q: How did you come to compose "The Microsoft Sound"?

> A: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem -- solve it."

https://www.sfgate.com/music/popquiz/article/q-and-a-with-br...
haha I like the voiceover, the video is fun
(I'm going to assume you're serious). Only in the tech bubble could a hobby which is challenging and probably gruesome at certain points, be held against you. In any normal conversation a person who climbs literal mountains would be looked at in a positive light. Not saying it's the one defining quality you'd need to successfully run a company, but you somehow managed to place it at the completely wrong side of the proverbial scale. Of course, it's probably completely insignificant and uncorrelated, but I wouldn't be surprised to read that someone who plays a piano is also incompetent to run a company because ...I don't know, I guess I'll have to wait to read that one here soon.
There is an acoustic version, you can tune it however you like, and choose from all kinds of chords, but once you chose a chord it has to be tuned precisely to that set of notes or it would be "out of tune".

Each course of strings on the webpage somewhat behaves and sounds like an "ovikannel" when you strum it manually.

Here's one that was found hanging on a wall but they were normally attached to an entrance door so the wooden balls would swing against the strings when the door was opened, and play the chime:

https://www.reddit.com/r/finnish/comments/dvd125/my_finnish_...

One of the commenters was quite curious as to what it would sound like. Well about like this.
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I mean, that's not surprising at all that they would want to own the image. It would be ridiculous if that was also being used to advertise vaping or Bitcoin or something.
I see why you'd assume, I deal with annoying young people who bitch about working 4 hours a day, annoying I know. There's still no excuse for being almost the same type of annoying. Get good. Idgaf if you're not a lwayer I just have greater than 5th grade reading level. You clearly displayed an annoying level of person. The type of annoying that encourages the type of genocides I sympathize with. The aware but dumb. Read.

If you're autistic, have an extra chromosome, or will admit they are genuinely dumb. I'll apologize. But otherwise, nah.
> OSX sucks with 3 monitors and switches the output randomly when coming back from sleep/rebooting

This drives me nuts with my Mac at my workplace. It's mostly an awesome workhorse, but when I switched to Mac I was flabbergasted that this can be an issue.

The window-management I find also rather awful. When I asked the Mac-nerds I knew they all had their custom setup that includes some third-party-tooling, the built-in mission-control or whatever they call it didn't exactly receive favorable remarks...
Oops, lots of corporate MS Dynamics platforms are down as they rely on Bing address api
the ironic thing is they have all those photos of real life places they use for wallpaper those are all photshopped to an insane degree to remove the ugly trees and clouds and other natural formations and make the colors extremely different
Try Everything 1.5a - an "alpha" version with many improvements, in development for years but inexplicably hidden away on their website. Never experienced any instability.

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787
In full agreement with tanepiper. Also, you don't say what happened nor what it is you are currently identifying as ADD. that makes it hard to give you any feedback other than, you don't have it because if you did you would be born with it.

Also, as someone who has ADHD, and was diagnosed as a child, took medication from childhood to adulthood, I learned to live with it. In my masters program I felt like taking Adderall made everything so easy and that I needed to learn to exist as I am. Of course that had some difficulties but I stopped taking it ten years ago and I think I'm all the better for it. I never need to forget taking medication, I've learned how to actively engage myself when my attention flies all over the place, I've learned how to handle the emotional disregulation. I'm not suggesting to others to do the same, but I find a nice balance in my life.

I find that many things, such as getting distracted frequently wasn't actually an ADHD related issue. I wasn't constantly getting distracted by slack and emails, it's that I was surrendering my time to others in the fear that if I didn't it would harm me in some way. When I realized this through therapy and started to protect my time and engage my interests, suddenly these "distractions" went away.
A more charitable scenario might be that they hire the voice actor and it sounds a bit like her. Someone suggests why don't we just get Scarlett to do it properly, wouldn't that be cooler? They reach out and she says no. They decide to continue with the one that sounds a bit like her.
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It might be a factor (thanks for introducing me to this concept!) but I doubt it accounts for all of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
Sloths are pretty rad.

But given their lack of thermal regulation, I wonder if this leaves them especially vulnerable to climate change.
the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference
Yes. But why would you do all these computer-ish things to provide a backdrop for a computer? Where is the creativity in that? Where is the attitude, the whimsy, the irony, the juxtaposition?

Considering how much of current technology stems from geeks just proving that their crazy idea could work and looking for money for it afterwards, the disrespect here for another geek's craft and intuitions is wild.
> McKinsey & Co.-trained entrepreneur who abandoned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics to build startups in sub-Saharan Africa

wasn't Jerry Maguire engaged to be married to this combination of bullet-points at one point - also the mountain climbing...
Bluesky is still pretty new. They've only been open to the public for less than 4 months.

They are moving slowly on purpose. I get what you're saying but perhaps give it some time to grow?

Twitter has been around for almost 20 years now, and Mastodon for who knows how long.
Teradata takes plunge into lakehouse waters, but not everyone is convinced
I tried many other so called "successors" to WinDirStat. I didn't like a single one of them, each of them had some significant problem.

This is a case of "If it ain't broken, don't fix it". This executable is from 2005 and still works flawlessly.

If you haven't tried it yet, I encourage you to!
Oops lots of corporates MS Dyanmics platforms down as they rely on Bing address api!
Good point! UBS-Credit Suisse is dealing with that right now, and heads are about to roll over that.
> But like I've said before, the winners will be Nutanix, Citrix, and other existing enterprise infra vendors - not Proxmox.

It can be all of the above though. I work in higher education and Proxmox is the only option we are seriously considering right now.
I made that connection but never really thought it was the same. I just thought it was very close

> Meanwhile they aren't that good at logic
This statement is contentious; depends on what level of abstraction you're looking at.

> Extremely polite and deferential
This is a setting that can be turned off btw.
> with a camera, you can let the world do the work for you

How do you let the "world" remove your greasy fingerprints from the glass?
https://soundcloud.com/peter-marreck-fb/sky-voice-and-scarjo...

I made this myself. They do not sound the same to me. Am I living in a bizarro world?

In fact I think Rashida Jones would be a closer (but still not identical) match vs Scarjo

IN FACT, I bet any young woman's voice spoken clearly would sound as similar
I thought it sounded like SJ when I watched the demo live https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345775&p=6#40346221
Society consists entirely of specific people with specific goals and incentives engaging in specific interactions with people. Everything is "select people", and the purpose of law and politics is to mitigate conflicts of interests and divergences in values between different "selections" of people. There is no single set of interests attributable to the public as a whole.

And there are millions of C-corps, S-corps, LLCs, partnerships, and other formal entities used by millions of Americans to organize their business affairs at all levels of scale and complexity. And millions more have their savings invested in the stock market and are responsible for electing the directors who sit on the boards of publicly-traded companies. The idea that corporate structures are only used by "a few rich elite people" is abjectly false.
I already made my own, below. Whatever similarity that exists here is not significant enough to merit ScarJo throwing a fit about it.

Rashida Jones, as your link indicates, might be a closer match.

Or literally any young woman who enunciates clearly.

https://soundcloud.com/peter-marreck-fb/sky-voice-and-scarjo...
Sadly, massive organizations are driven by one thing: profit. Customer Support is typically considered a profit drain rather than a profit driver, so I'm not surprised at all there's no real public support structure behind the scenes. Generally these companies need to be burned publicly before a knee-jerk response occurs. There's a reason the Blaster worm included a shame message: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

When it takes six months to fix a critical security bug, the system is fundamentally flawed: https://www.theregister.com/2004/02/11/ms_releases_doubleplu...
Startpage works for me in Germany, and has been working all morning. DDG remains unhappy.
You're talking about some other kind of sort.
Absolutely, there is no happy accidents in VFX.
There were multiple tries for that that failed.
It's not literally the electricity that's the problem. It's the power it -- the electricity for a tiny part, and all our data for the overwhelming majority -- gives to "Big Tech" rentiers, like Altman is or at least is aspiring to become.
AI is full of human interference.
Something can be good for X overall but be bad for subsets of X. The fact that you find it so offensive for me to even make that statement says more about the mono culture you view the world through than the one I view the world through.

edit: Of course Google, the king of the tech bubble, saw this as a positive so your statement about this being a tech bubble thing is also really amusing. If anything the tech bubble would likely agree with you so you're part of the tech bubble mindset on this one.
I used to have similar views, but last year found out about WizTree and was instantly converted. Way faster, just as functional.
Compositing like this is a nearly inevitable part of almost all product photography, I think? Anything that has motion will lean towards compositing for all the surrounding elements. Except those incredible people who built motion rigs for burger drop ads.

Capture One (the kinda sorta still industry standard tethering/photography capture software in the marketing industry, for all the high-end kit) has a really nice tool to help with previsualising compositing live.
To be fair I don’t think Google deserves exclusive rights to contents created by others, just because they own a monopolistic video platform. However I do think it should be the content owner’s right to decide if anyone, including Google, gets to use their content for AI.
what a quack
Were you trying to expert to Excel? If so, was it mainly to sort, filter, tag, etc?
Worse, to object you have to provide a reason why they should allow you to opt out. The entire process is designed to be as user-unfriendly as possible, and appears to be violating even the most basic forms of decency.
OMG these are just a bunch of random facts, and 'learning facts' seems to be the focus of the article. Who cares? Education is not about facts but about building capability.

Kids should be taught fundamental facts of course (atoms, place numbers, etc), but really, ways of thinking, systems, techniques, ways to approach problems and find answers, etc.