skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but like I said Microsoft arguably already held the ability to kill DXVK whenever they wanted by modifying the master spec. Buying Valve to force them to stop paying contributors to a public project would be the most roundabout way to stop DirectX from being reverse-engineered. And it wouldn't stop someone like CodeWeavers from maintaining it themselves.
Michael Levin's work is awesome
Not exactly.
"Her" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and not once while watching the demo did I think that it sounded specifically like ScarJo. The whole concept, of course, made me think of "Her", but not the voice itself.
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It doesn't seem like you'd need "shenanigans" for this. Lots of voice actors are capable of doing voices that sound like other people, and some even have a natural voice that happens to sound very similar to a particular more noteworthy celebrity. AFAIU, the rights to your likeness only apply to your likeness, not to the likeness of someone else who happens to look or sound a lot like you.

For a case that doesn't involve AI at all, consider situations where a voice actor in a cartoon is replaced (sometimes while still alive) by someone who can perform a voice that sounds the same. Decisively not illegal. Most people don't even find it immoral, as long as the reason for getting rid of the original voice actor wasn't wrong on its own (e.g. Roiland).
And I am literally showing that the example is outdated in C++23.
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Regardless of the moral implications, "sounds almost exactly the same" is not copyright infringement. Perhaps it could be trademark infringement if she had trademarked her voice like Harley-Davidson attempted (and failed) to trademark the sound of their motorcycles, but "sounds alike" is a pretty hard case to prove, and it's completely blown away if they can demonstrate that another human sounds indisputably similar.

People do celebrity impressions all the time, and that's not infringement either, because it's not actually copying that person's voice.

I'm sympathetic to SJ in this matter, especially after the Disney Black Widow debacle, but it sounds like she had the opportunity to write herself a nice check, and she turned it down.

On the basis of this article, it sounds like she doesn't have the cause of action that she had believed she had; I imagine that her legal team are now advising a fast settlement, but OpenAI's legal team might prefer to milk the free publicity for as long as they can, especially if they are fairly certain they would prevail at trial.
Been thinking about this subject:

Of course, standard (usual, common) email is just text. Right for the pictures, to have them just as text, they are encoded as base64. Right, its MIME (MultiMedia Internet Mail Extensions).

Soooo, okay, my ISP (Internet Service Provider)
has an email service. The service is a Web site, and it does offer getting the "Source", that is, the text, all as just one file.

Now, suppose for each email message I send/receive, I keep the text in its own file, with just the text, just as I got it from, say, my ISP. I will handle the file naming, indexing, summarization, etc.

Help!!!! Is there an email program that I can run that, for each of those files, can read it and display it? Sure, it should be able to display the text, as text, that is not one of the MIME extensions but also be able to do the right thing for each of the rest, still images, video clips, audio, whatever. Know of such a program???? Thanks!
"Similar" in that it's a friendly flirty female voice? Is that entire category supposed to be off the table after SJ declined?
This is all pointless. The best thing you can have is a trust and living will, etc., that details what/when/why/how, as well as appropriate documents detailing other (life insurance, financial accounts, codes to phones, passwords that you want others to have access to, etc., etc.)

You should also have a detailed document with what you have and what you want done with it when you die. If you want stuff tossed in the trash, ensure you leave money aside in your estate to cover a dumpster or other trash pick up service. The last thing your family needs to deal with is your sh*t. You should have this all set up.

Same goes for your digital life. List this crap out so your family is not stuck holding the bag, especially for financial accounts.

All of this documentation is kept in a binder, the location of which is shared with your spouse or kid(s). If it is in a safe, then you need to have the safe code provided to your attorney, or in a place where people know where to get at it when you die.

If you have done things properly, you have also pre-paid or set money aside for your funeral arrangements. This way, when you die, your family can focus on healing.
It is not just about the financials. It can be a very lonely activity to create something that other people do not care about, or just very very few people care about. (As it is described in the article.) Besides financial reward, social reward is important too.
Karpathy doesn't work for OpenAI anymore tho.
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They're the only airline I use during non-peak travel.

Peak travel time, they do shit the bed because of the same software that makes them so good.

Also, they have one of the lowest rates of baggage lost, despite having free baggage lol.
SJ = Scarlett Johansson
VA = Voice Actor

Backstory: https://theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/chatg...
“Can you generate me some records that indicate we didn’t copy…” /s
Out of curiosity what CI system are you using with Perforce?
Using something similar is a possible legal problem. Creating evidence likely to sway a jury that it was intentionally similar even if it wasn’t intended in that fashion is a problem.
Maybe it implies voice will become a more important interface.
It isn't defined in posix. Some bsd:s did split but doesn't anymore, other (which?) does still split. macOS does, linux doesn't. Sun probably did.
A lot of comments seem to forget that she was reached out to two years before, ignoring that and going straight to the line about working with a voice actor for months then them asking SJ one more time.

Additionally, glad no one here is a lawyer and should stick in their lane.
So, how much did people pay for these devices that are now worthless?
It's a function of scale. Hundreds of engineers is very, very small scale. In an environment like that I totally agree that you can delegate these responsibilities to individual engineers and it's probably fine.

When you have tens or hundreds of thousands of people working together, those responsibilities become large enough that centralizing them makes sense.

Engineering management is just specialization of a role, based on the need to have a specialist fill that role. Just like a games studio with 5 people doesn't need a dedicated build engineer, but a game studio with 1000 people probably does.
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Seconded! This is a huge opportunity to avoid unnecessary waste in the landfill.
Absolutely! It's nice hardware, and it will be sad if they all just end up in the landfill
Ouch - no where near that bad but once I was working on a children's online game. The game was large (500MB or more), and this was still pretty early on in ADSL roll out - lot's of kids still had dial up. So we offered a CD with the game on for free.

After 800 of them arrived for me to start mailing out, they found a small issue with the game, which they patched - "don't worry the kids will just have to run the patch the first time they play" - I tested it, the patch was 800MB...

I didn't send any of the CDs out.
That sounds plausible actually. The controversy has given OAI free marketing.
I just can't put up with the unassigned seating zoo, lack of premium class options, and other niceties.
Yeah, but then again, I totally expected this opening the comment threads. Same happened with RMS debacle, same happened with similar events earlier, same happened on many a Musk stories. It seems that a neat narrative with clear person/object to hate, once established, is extremely resilient to facts that disprove it.
Feedback: I think it would be helpful for the KraftCloud docs to link to the Unikraft docs more often where appropriate.

I was skimming around and e.g. https://docs.kraft.cloud/guides/python/#customize-your-appli... shows that besides my app code I need both a Kraftfile and a Dockerfile. Dockerfile is familiar but what is the syntax of Kraftfile?

That page describes it as "the KraftCloud specification" but I could not find such a specification in the KraftCloud docs AFAICT.

I can Google so I found it here:
https://unikraft.org/docs/cli/reference/kraftfile/v0.6

I also find myself wondering what are the possible values for "runtime" in the Kraftfile?

The Unikraft docs say they can be OCI images and "Built in to kraft is a reference to our public-access OCI registry which is hosted simply at unikraft.org"
https://unikraft.org/docs/cli/packaging#oci-based-packages

...but if I go to unikraft.org it's the marketing+docs homepage for Unikraft.

Is there something like a Unikraft "Hub" site to browse images?
I'm sure it will be fine..

https://thechinaproject.com/2021/03/16/chinese-pharmas-big-p...
We're still in it, IMO.

No big breakthroughs; what we're seeing now is spare GPU power and memory (since those the only things still advancing significantly from year to year) brute forcing black box neural nets that nobody understands or can get to work right. If that's "AI", then me using ChatGPT to write my essay is "doing my English homework".
They always were given that is a part of their mission.
Pixar badly lost its edge by getting complacent.

Somewhere after cars, 3D animation competition started breaking past pixar’s moat that no one else could make a 3D movie look quite as good, and somewhere after Toy Story 3, it became clear that competition had broken past pixar’s moat that no one could tell equally compelling narrative stories. Since then, Disney’s in-house team, Dreamworks, and other major productions have soundly eaten their lunch.

Pixar needs to return to its bread and butter story-telling, trying to focus on being a toy-peddler has ruined them.
Spirit just dropped change fees entirely, and the other 6 biggest airlines have dropped change fees except for their basic economy equivalents (normal economy is changeable for free.) But for checked bags they all still really want you to pay $95 annually for their cobranded credit cards.

Now that Spirit dropped them, I wouldn’t be surprised if change fees get scrapped across the board soon given the upcoming requirement to advertise them upfront.
The feature of the project:
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Supabase serverless database

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Then I guess you'll never have children - the point of the study is it appears 100% of the male population has testicular microplastics. We know what the implications are so I wouldnt exclude 100% of the dating pool just yet, however your anti-vax statements is good enough for immediate exclusion anyways.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074
And similarly, some people are always hungry for an opportunity to villanize OpenAI. This kind of polarized, black-and-white thinking is not productive.
Might be the case in some parts of the US, but Delta and sometimes Alaska tend to be price competitive with SW, and the flying experience is leagues better (imo).

Are the rewards that much better than others?
Filters are vaguely similar to things like mountpoints overlaying portions of the filesystem. E.g. in Linux you might have files in /d1/d2/{f1,f2,f3} in the root filesystem but you also have a mountpoint of a 2nd filesystem on /d1/d2 that completely changes the visibility / contents of d2. Filter drivers can do similar things (although they are not actually independent mountpoints).
> unassigned seating zoo

I never flew SW, can you or someone explain what the problem is with unassigned seats (what makes it a zoo)? I've used long distance trains and buses and it has been fine.
Between 1987 and 1993, I prepared around nine master disks for two Mac apps. I always used a fresh floppy and had a long list of checks to ensure the disk was correct. Thankfully, all came out right, especially when some were used to make 100k disks. It's a good thing no one has to do this anymore!
Except you have to deal with Southwest customers, no seating, and being charged for everything.

I’ll gladly take Delta over SW or Spirit but I’m at a huge hub. Delta is about as cheap as SW if I account for my Amex discounts.
Off topic to the thread and your point, but are you confusing GNU with the Compaq BIOS reverse engineer and reimplementation? I hadn't heard this story about GNU (and what kernel)?
I'm no fool. I stash a lot away. If I'm lucky, I'll retire early. If not, I'll have more than enough cushion to pivot without a major disruption in lifestyle. I certainly saw enough instability in every other profession - even civil service - since COVID to know that there is no guarantee in this world.
My favourite part is no-one apparently discovered the source code sitting on the disk for an entire generation.

“Surprisingly, no one appeared to have noticed that this happened, not Sierra, not their competitors or their customers, and it was only discovered decades later, the first known discovery of it by online user NewRisingSun in October 2016.”

Reminds me of the recent breakthroughs in Tetris and Super Mario Bros. When I played these games as a kid, I would have thought they’d be forgotten relics decades later, impossible for anyone but the most dedicated hobbyist to stand up and run, let alone keep learning new things about them. The internet and emulators breathed new life into those earlier games and computing.
> If the question is, what is the primary cause of the modern differential in the warming of the globe, there's a different answer.

This seemed to imply that you aren't disputing the answer, based on that definition of global warming which, again, is what the comment you replied to asserts is the definition.

But from this comment, it seems to me that you're smuggling a disagreement about the science into a more pedantic point about what "global warming" is defined to mean.

For what it's worth, as someone who believes that it's as close to a certainty as science ever gets that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are causal, I am also uncomfortable with the certainty implied by the wording of the question. I would be happier if it were something like, "What is the consensus among climate scientists on which gas is the primary contributor to the warming climate we see today?".
> Do keep in mind that the supposed soundalike actor they supposedly used for the voice that sounds exactly like SJ is not coming forward at this point to defend their work

The potential legal issue is much more about the details of the commercial presentation and marketing of the work by OpenAI than it is about her work itself, beyond whether the work has sufficient similarity to make the particular manner of commercial use a legal issue. There’s nothing for her to defend.
"I certainly would not have a child with anyone who has been jabbed"

LOL, OK.

"or has testicular microplastics."

Again, LOL. They are everywhere.
While unsatisfying from an "I solved this riddle" perspective I still think that's a great thing because it will open up a lot of stuck fields.
Your professional laziness clearly has you in the wrong, and all you can muster is a snide, defensive "are you ok?"

I'd really advise you to work on that. There's a world of difference between "This is impossible" and "I can't be bothered to figure out how this useful thing others successfully do while managing billions of dollars of risk is possible." Otherwise, you risk professional stagnation.
I don't think there's any particular secret sauce in the AGI engine, such that competitors would benefit from a leak. There are probably other examples I can't think of, but Hugo's House of Horrors was basically an AGI-style game made by one guy just a few years later.

Beyond the initial novelty of a graphical adventure, Sierra games worked because they put a ton of effort into creating those graphics and actually writing the game. The tech isn't nothing, but it's a small fraction of the end product.
It is a curious reaction, but it starts to make sense if some of these posters are running ops for intelligence agencies. Balaji Srinivasan noted that as the US started pulling out of foreign wars, the intelligence apparatus would be turned inward domestically.

Some of it can also be attributed to ideological reasons, the d/acc crowd for example. Please note I am not attacking any individual poster, but speculating on the reasons why someone might refuse to acknowledge the truth, even when presented evidence to the contrary.
I live a materially minimalistic life (by US standards) as a natural habit anyway, so I have little in the way of obvious junk to clean out before I die.

My death plan is to ensure that I have no debt, and that the electronic information (passwords, certs, locations, etc.) is up to date and available to my family after death. My attorney will be my estate's executor and everything goes to my kids. Any disputes are mediated by the executor, but I doubt there will be.

What I suggest to them is to hire an estate sale company to handle selling off whatever remains after they've taken what they want. That way they don't have to deal with it themselves and will at least get a little bonus cash from it.
All of which is irrelevant, since the Waits case is about impersonation of likeness, not stealing likeness.

OpenAI might have had a leg to stand on if their CEO hadn't gone on the internet and blasted out "Her" when advertising the Sky voice, and another co-founder had not specifically name-dropped using SJ to market their voice product. (And reading the WaPo article, they hired a film director to handle the voice recording, and the individual in charge of artistic decision-making, apparently an avid Her fan, was conveniently not made available to interview...Hm...)
Fascinating! What a fortuitous mistake for historical preservation purposes. Also a good lesson in why media overwrites are important.
$90 at release, not including the Spotify Premium subscription
If you board in later groups (i.e. not one of the first 100 or so people) you are essentially stuck waiting in a line in a cramped isle for people to put their bags up and are likely to be relegated to a middle seat.
Have you seen https://ibis-project.org/ ?
I'm pretty confused throughout the whole thing, because I never got to hear the damn voice that sounded so similar to SJ! The demo voice was overly dramatic, and sounded nothing like her IMO. I've searched everywhere and couldn't find the "Sky" voice (I guess because they took it down?).
>It wasn't wrong in 2016 either, what's your point?

Of course "it wasn't wrong" if claims are vague like "democracy as we know it", which means they can be used in a motte-and-bailey manner to initially imply that the US is going to turn into China/North Korea or whatever, but then later be walked back on to whatever the predictions don't really pan out.

>That the coup failed and Congress wasn't murdered doesn't mean they didn't try.

Was the claim back then that they'll "try" (however poorly planned/executed), or that they'll actually succeed?
This is an advantage. EBS is terrible! Literally orders of magnitude slower than modern SSDs.
Before MOOCs, it was TV that would revolutionize education, and before that, radio was supposed to replace the need for classes/lectures.

What each of these (including the latest wave of "AI" approaches) has overlooked is that humans learn from humans, because learning is only accomplished via motivation. Creating and sustaining motivation for years is not within the scope of a program you use on a computer -- it comes from a teacher who knows how to inspire, from a classroom and home environment that reinforces the importance of learning, and from peers who also care and reinforce this culture.

I'll quote Kentaro Toyama:

"Quality primary and secondary education is a multi-year commitment whose single bottleneck is the sustained motivation of the student to climb an intellectual Everest".
That does support both that governments can't be trusted to behave morally and that voting shares is just as good, but your tone suggests that you're disagreeing with the parent. Am I misreading that intent?
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Interesting, I was surprised to learn this fact from you!

"engineer" in French is ingénieure (feminine) and ingénieur (masculine).

And putting "ingen" into google translate returns.. engineer.

Edit: @euroderf: Lol
It's sad that's the case. Math academics require very little funding relative to other subjects.
> If your voice sounded close to any other major VA, no one would touch you for fear of their liability going through the roof.

That seems to be a leap. It's not at all hard to define a bright line between two people that merely sound the same and inappropriate appropriation. Lots of folks have deep voices similar to James Earl Jones, but if you hire one of them to voice a helmetted character named Tarf Later you'd expect to lose a suit under this statue, right?

The case at hand isn't that Sky sounds like Johansson in the abstract (whose actual voice isn't even all that unique or notable), it's that explicitly evocative of her role in Her, and most damningly that they clearly tried to hire her to do it.
It's probably also racy to access the raw MFT while there are concurrent programs creating new files (or deleting files). That complication can be avoided by using the ordinary OS directory iteration primitives.
TreeSizeView also works perfectly.
> But people keep buying and using, and discarding plastics simply out of convenience.

You say that as if it's easy.
I like how they don’t actually answer the “why” question, “streamlining” is not an answer. They basically said because we’re changing things and this is one of the things we’re changing. Not being snarky but imo it would have been better PR copy to just not have the question at all.