skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah I didn't even consider the time correlation there. Makes sense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same company that operates Burger King (and their god awful Seattle's Best coffee) would also decrease the quality of another food business.
Domakha has ~50km range.

Here's a report (in Polish) from a FO mission to correct HIMARS fire (sadly the drone was lost but the Russians had to send a fighter jet to shoot it down with a rocket): https://x.com/Aldohartwinska/status/1792838189494706220
Again, epistemology and the recommended book "NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS"[1].

It is always interesting how the people who were in the epistwemology of math could easily predict this. I personally participated in Gregory Chaitin [2] conferences.

[1] https://gwern.net/doc/math/1986-tymoczko-newdirectionsphilos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Chaitin
Anthropic was founded by ex OpenAI employees who were concerned with the way it was being run and their language models are comparable, better for some things but worse than others. I also canceled my ChatGPT subscription and I will say I'll miss the GTP-4o multi-modal features.
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Again, I think it requires a high degree of obliviousness to not have the foresight during casting to think, "if we use a voice that sounds anything like the voice in the famous smash hit movie that mainstreamed the idea of the kind of product we're making, without actually getting the incredibly famous voice actress from that movie to do it, people will make this connection, and that actress will be mad, and people will be sympathetic to that, and we'll look bad and may even be in legal hot water". I think all of that is easily predictable!

It seems way more likely to be a calculated risk than a failure of imagination. And this is where the "ethics" thing comes into play. They were probably right about the risk calculation! Even with this blow-up, this is not going to bring the company down, it will blow over and they'll be fine. And if it hadn't blown up, or if they had gotten her on board at any point, it would have been a very nice boon.

So while (in my view) it definitely wasn't the right thing to do from a "we're living in a society here people!" perspective, it probably wasn't even a mistake, from a "businesses take calculated risks" perspective.
New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics [pdf]
Composition over Inheritance in Kotlin Explained
> How is it not obvious to everybody that this is what Sam and the OpenAI people are referencing with their tweets?

Because according to Johansson, Sam also approached her twice in an attempt to license her voice legitimately. That's not the sort of thing that happens when you make an incidental reference to a film; he wanted that voice, so badly that he tried making a second offer (and got refused).

> but it feels misplaced to assume that the voice is the important thing here

We're just as surprised as you are; honestly, Sam should have known better than to drill down and insist on something as stupid as copying a misanthropic psychological horror film.
Honestly it’s way more satisfying to work analog. Experiencing the colors in “real life” spatially. Also, collaborating with others and being able to share the process in a studio rather than on a screen is an amazing experience.

Another thing is the fog rising up to create diffusion on the light. Even the best VFX in the world will only ever be an approximation to the real thing.
You don't need engineering managers who used to be engineers and are no longer technically relevant, but who think they are still technical and try to make technical decisions. Those are the worst.
I find the whole thing just bizzare. I agree, the only thing I'm confused about is why OpenAI ever contacted Scarlett to begin with. Did they want her to represent the product? The voice is really just a generic flirtacious woman; this wouldn't have been a problem if they'd never contacted her. We need a proper explanation as to why they contacted her in the first place.
I think this idea is true of all human endeavors. You have to enjoy the process as the appreciation of an individual achievement will fade very quickly and you're just left with doing the process again.

So in a way, nerd sniping is great, it hooks you into a process you enjoy.
I'm quite well versed in the case. How do you think it relates here?
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The FCC offers its own mapping tool that's pretty good, but it tends not to surface in search engines. For the moment, my goal is to get page like this one for the city of Longmont, CO, https://broadbandmap.com/internet-providers/longmont-co/, to surface in search.

Longmont has an awesome local fiber company, but other websites tend not to list it or bury it below a bunch of weaker options.

Right now, I'm almost exclusively drawing from the FCC's Broadband Data Collection program. But planning to add features that go beyond it for predicting speeds and reliability.

Thanks for looking!
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The falling produces a sound that no one hears.
So what’s interesting is only a few years ago, ransomware such as CryptoLocker largely targeted individuals home machines as opposed to companies. Companies being hit was rarer.

The ransom would be a few hundred dollars.

Things got rather interesting after WannaCry and NotPetya - some underground markets/sites banned discussion of ransomware for a while, a lot of groups went quiet.

Then it came back with almost exclusively targeting of enterprise/companies for big payoffs instead of a shitload of small payoffs.
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>> It's valuable because it's Scarlet Johansson's voice.

> I think demonstrating that this is a substantial part of the attraction of OpenAI's tech will be difficult.

I think it's totally irrelevant if her voice "is a substantial part of the attraction of OpenAI's tech." What matters is they took something from her that was her valuable property (her likeness). It doesn't matter if what they took makes op 99% of the value or 0.00001%.
Is there an RSS version of "best"? What is the actual definition, >x up votes? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss works but https://news.ycombinator.com/best/rss doesn't. I know of the alternative https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=10&comments=10 . Is that basically the same thing?
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> Math is so competitive. Most people are struggling to get access to very limited resource

Does he mean academic positions and funding or community attention? Hard to be sure based on the rest of the interview.
Well, I thought it will be similar, but at least with how sky voice sounds through the phone speakers, I can hardly find any resemblance.
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> it takes a long time to train, and they have to be relatively close to the drone, so they're vulnerable to counter attacks.

You'd think so. I mean to fly a quad properly, you'd need like 20-30 hours. To just crash a drone into a large enough target, 6-7 hours is more than enough.

As for having to be relatively close to the drone, range extenders these days seem to go a long way.. or even having a receiver outside a safe bunker - that seems to be how the Ukrainians/Russians fly these days.
Well, out of all people it was von Neumann, who at six years old could divide eight-digit numbers in his head, and who even his fellow "Martians" [1] speculated might not be merely human.

"I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann’s does not indicate a species superior to that of man." – Hans Bethe

"von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us." – Edward Teller

“There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann” – George Pólya

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
The 3DS display tech had a pretty rough start with a very narrow viewing sweet-spot, they improved the implementation significantly with the New 3DS. AIUI the actual panel was the same but they used the front facing camera and basic head tracking to compensate for off-axis viewing in software.

If you have an N3DS you can see the display suddenly "lock in" when the head tracking figures out where you are, especially in poor lighting where it might struggle. That's not a bad solution but it obviously only works for a single viewer.
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Is this meant as some version of the broken window fallacy?
How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?
If the total team was 5 or less (maybe 10) that is find - there isn't much overhead that a manager is needed for in the first place. It is also likely you won't have the "people" issues that a manager needs to deal with in those couple years. A larger team will have a lot of overhead that a manager can take care of for you. A larger or longer lasting team will have "people" issues that a manager should deal with.
I can’t help but think this is a matter of bias. I think the voice sounds a bit like Scarlett Johansson. But I’ve been told by two different people that I sound like Charlie Sheen… when I’m on the phone.

This feels a bit to me like confirmation bias: “OpenAI is selling an AI voice tool just like in that movie! Surely that’s what they’re going for!”

That said, the fact that they contacted her twice about it does feel awfully suspicious
I love it when Cloudflare accidentally breaks something and over half of the entire internet immediately goes down.
That's the flaw in formal proofs, not the benefit.
They advertise 45-100 viewers simultaneously. Is it really the same kind of tech? IIRC the 3DS worked for only one viewer and you'd better stay right in front of it if you didn't want to experience cross-eye.
> When you stop and squint really hard human sports all essentially revolve around the same skills in pursuit hunting. We organize a a team to run around and maneuver a ball.

Never thought of it that way.
I think it sounds overly enthusiastic though, to the point that it sounds fake. Very overacted and dramatic. I wouldn't want to chat with that voice.

Though admittedly, so does Johansson in "Her". I don't think the voices are very similar but the style is.
I keep reading in the media that Sky was introduced as part of ChatGPT-4o, but that's incorrect. Sky's been around since they introduced the mobile iOS app.

While Sky's voice shares similar traits to SJ, it sounds different enough that I was never confused as to whether it was actually SJ or not.
Why would she?
I know it's kind of nitpicking, but it was never intended to be misanthropic or a psychological horror. It's a sci-fi romantic drama; I don't really see where the misanthropy or psychological horror aspects are?
The Perfect Prompt: A Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet
I have an vertical monitor (1080x1920) I use mainly for browsing and the site is basicially not readable: https://i.imgur.com/5Klt2Ls.png

I scrolled to the bottom for contact information but it keeps loading stuff so I never reach it.
> I found that medication have definitely helped me focus, but the direction of what I'm focusing doesn't always yield productive results (hyperfocusing on reddit for example).

I had this problem (and others) with Adderall. Vyvanse (Lisdexamfetamine) has been much better for me. I've also found that I get better results when I take my ADHD medication with protein, and about an hour before any caffeine intake. YMMV.

> I've also started worring that what I've really done is created a dependence, where eventually ill have to up the dose as what I'm currently on will make me feel like I did pre meds, and stopping will make me feel worse.

I worry about this too. I've been on 30mg Lisdexamfetamine for about two years and haven't felt a need to up my dose. But if I skip a day it hits hard. I don't know whether it's worse than before I started medicating or if it's just that my bar for mental function has been raised.
This has been stated many times and forms a unified strategic concept. So far, Russia has not done that, despite foreign weapons used in deep strikes.

This is precisely the same concept that Israel uses to strike four other sovereign countries (in addition targeting diplomatic and civilian structures) without declaring war, albeit, nobody is really striking Israel the way that UK/US is planning for Russia. Israel's military doctrine in that case is total all out nuclear war (check it).

US has been fighting proxy wars just as much if not more as the other guy. They bombed countries for less than someone striking their territory. Even destroyed several countries which had nothing to do with it.

So, what I do want to know, how is this solving anything, and who is there to benefit from this strategy (of total escalation)?
Paying for search results? Come on, we're not that desperate.
What about the 1000s of companies outside of Big Tech who are interested in AI. Where will they get their AI compute?

I tell you where, from Nvidia direclty or from a CSP renting it to them. Oh wait, aren't MS, Amazon and Google such CSP? Oh right! Could that mean that Nvidia sells GPUs to CSPs which then rent it to customers or rather companies which aren't CSPs? So how do these other companies use Nvidia's GPUs from renting? Let me guess, maybe Nvidia Enterprise AI SW suite? Bingo!

And how does Nvidia benefit from these other companies? Or right, Nvidia gets $4500 license fee per GPU if a company uses Nvidia Enterprise AI solution. Oh wait, does that mean that Nvidia might be into building a SaaS business? Correct, but psst... nobody listens to Nvidia management so only few have a clue. Clearly, Nvidia is earning money only from HW to use it for hobbies like Clara, Isaac, DriveSim, Omniverse and many more... GTC was way more about SW development than HW but that was just show to keep people entertained. Nvidia also is a nice HW company employing more SW engineers than HW engineers so that SW engineers also get a chance for work.
i wonder how many accidents get logged versus how many occur?
It's such an easy lesson to learn, here: if you are a founder or in any position where your speech relative to a product or service matters, get your ass off Twitter!
Then we can add this to the long list of insane lawsuits going the wrong way in California.

They asked SJ, she said no. So they went to a voice actor and used her. Case closed, they didn't use SJ's voice without her permission. That doesn't violate any law to any reasonable person.
that's because scarlett's voice is pretty generic white upper middle class woman with a hint of vocal fry, and a slight hint of california (pretty typical given pervasiveness of media from california).

She's not exactly gilbert gottfried or morgan freeman.
To add to this - did you notice the terribly ineffective demo scenario?

In the video, the WSJ reporter searches for the term "Brown leather bag" and ends up finding what appears to be an AI generated / stock image of a brown leather bag inside a PDF that has zero relevant textual content about brown leather bags.

Of all the things a user might be looking for with that search term, it's not going to be this!
Need for an open database of security incidents
We heard from a few sec engineers in our team that's there's no great open database of security incidents

Over the past 2 months a few people in my team have been manually building one from public data. It's in early stages, but plan to keep it free.
If you're interested in the background of voice trademark lawsuits, Tom Waits is a great deep dive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6y1kc8Equk
All those words and they didn't give us the damn prompt. Seems kinda meaningless without showing the example.
This ban is only ethical if the law authority does this job to stop criminals. Otherwise we end up in the same place as street crime: illegal to defend yourself, but also unprotected the authority that finds it easier deploy violence against victims than criminals.
You're hallucinating a conversation with me. Someone brought up asset limits as a problem. I provided contrary information, and now you're arguing with yourself about something else. You are saying something, I comment that I wasn't suggesting what you're saying, and now you're doubling down and making up what you're responding too. You're obviously passionate about it, but maybe you should take a break from this thread. The way people get treated by some states is appalling and I'm sorry you and others have trouble receiving the help they should be getting.
While maybe not illegal (yet), there is a lot of deception of retail investors throughout the process:

* astroturf campaign against the company

* fake boost in profits from massive asset liquidation

Once the stock is run up, equity cashed out leaving morons who only had access to financials and not “the plan” holding the bag. It smells like a combination of fraud and insider trading, but perhaps the SEC can name it something more appropriate.
We do content generation and need a high level of consistency and quality

Our prompts get very complex and we have around 3,000 lines of code that does nothing but build prompts based on user's options (using dozens of helpers in other files)

They aren't going to get more interchangeable because of the subjective nature of them

Give five humans the same task and even if that task is just a little bit complex you'll get wildly different results. And the more complex it gets the more different the results will become

It's the same with LLMs. Most of our prompt changes are more significant but in one recent case it was a simple as changing the word "should" to "must" to get similar behavior between two different models.

One of them basically ignored things we said it "should" do and never performed the thing we wanted it to whereas the other did it often, despite these being minor version differences of the same model
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It absolutely does sound like her, in this context where she is the voice in the AI voice companion zeitgeist.

In just the same way that if the context were "magical space villain in a black mask and cape" and someone was hired with a deep voice, it would be a clear rip-off of James Earl Jones.

And it requires a level of credulity that I find impossible to sustain to think that "the sequence of events" here doesn't start with "let's have a voice actor casting call and pick a voice that sounds like the one in the movie about this that everyone loves". I won't, however, be shocked if nobody ever wrote that down in a medium that is subject to legal discovery.
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I might be conflating it with Black Mirror at this point; it's been a while since I saw either (and I wasn't fond of either when they released, too).

Still, I think Sam ought to see the writing on the wall regardless when people come out en-masse to say "this is kinda creepy, dude." It feels pretty obvious to me that his behavior is verging on obsessive and definitely toeing the line of technology fetishism.

That's just my impression, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Too late to edit, but I meant to say *whether they are totally full of crap, ...
How all of those "best practices" read:

https://xkcd.com/1838/
I was thinking of giving Gemini a try, one thing I’m pretty certain of is that Demis Hassabis is consistently candid.
Listening to AI voices for comfort is the most lonely thing I can imagine
This is some Trump supporter levels of copium. Loads of people now think Sama is a dick to SJ and doesn't care about the consent of artists, no matter what the records show. Tweeting "Her" was fucking moronic, and just releasing a product that bloody worked would have been far better for OAI and the whole AI industry.
I bet our dear leader is tired of his liked Tweets that are controversial being unearthed and subsequently made fun of and/or having people write articles about it.

Why even have likes at this point. I won't know what people I follow like, which was a great way to find new content. Not everyone uses Re-Tweets to share (or "like") content they like.
I've seen many people saying, on this site and others, that they "believe in markets", as if it was their profession of faith.

When markets are allowed to work "normally", this is what always happens: regulations are lobbied to the ground, resources get depleted, profitable companies get destroyed to make a quick buck and everyone is worse off in the long term.

Having a strong economy is sadly harder than letting the markets "work their magic".
Agreed. As a tech artist, I'm 100% positive I could get a bang-on reproduction using Arnold or some other really solid photorealistic rendering engine, but it would probably take longer than using real cameras, practical props, and doing a bit of massaging in post. The modeling, color, camera angle/focus length/etc. are all really easy. Tweaking the subtleties in the light, glass shaders, fog, etc to get them good would take quite some time. It would only make sense if it needed to be animated or you needed a bunch of versions with modifications. Definitely a 'use the right tool for the job' kind of thing.
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Hm. I see. But, ultimately, overfitting is a consequence of too many parameters absorbing the noise. Perhaps one could fit smaller models and add artificial noise.
Some viewed the Wall Street movie as a tutorial
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Same location and I also had an amusing experience, I asked the lady who brought our drinks over if she had any idea if the Canadian locations would be ok, and she said she knew about as much as I do, and then out of nowhere randomly said "you look rich, you should buy us!" - my wife almost spat our her drink laughing at that.
Doesn't Amazon have to compete with welfare for workers, instead of benefiting from it?

The more welfare pays, the worse a job at Amazon is in comparison, is it not? How does Amazon benefit from this?
OK. You're just spewing bullshit. Thanks.
They did, which is why it seems like a relevant example to your question. They shipped centralized, and have already replaced the centralized service they shipped with a decentralized service.
For people who like sloths, I highly recommend the Pygmy Slow Loris:

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/pygmy-slow-loris

In America, you can find them at the DC zoo in a shadowed alcove under red light to simulate night time during visiting hours.
> Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice like "did you know you can pee and poo at the same time?"

That gave me a good 5 minutes of chuckling and smiling. Thank you.
How does fp in clojure differ from fp on common lisp?
Private Markets Aren't Risky by Nature; It's by Design
School is significantly more like other totally normal settings where other people are present than it is like jail.
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Too many aitches + four consonants in a row. It just looks weird.
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