skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently observed, much to my delight, that WinDirStat runs flawlessly on Android under Winlator (https://www.winlator.org/).
Right now I’d say it’s 5% functionality and 95% marketing hype for companies that want investors to believe they are innovative. For the most part these companies are just incorporating chat bots and inaccurate abstraction layers into their platforms and calling it the greatest transformation in history. What feels off to me is that most of these people don’t have great track record with these types of predictions and are historically trend followers.
It's like growing a child. When you see someone's kid as a stranger it's obvious "what's wrong with it". Now fully immersed in the Kodak's diversified enterprise ecosystem, why exactly should you focus on consumer digital cameras?
Did it really? When I was a kid in the 90s we went to McDonalds once a year for my birthday.
I'm genuinely not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you claiming that this was somehow engineered by Altman on purpose to draw attention, because all publicity is good publicity? Or engineered by his enemies to throw mud at Altman, because if you throw enough some of it will stick?

Occam's Razor argues that Sam simply wanted ScarJo's voice, but couldn't get it, so they came up with a legally probably technically OK but ethically murky clone.
We've been hearing that line for years, but HN comments are a valuable source of info on where NVDA might go in future. You're the only poster here I could name who is strongly pro-AMD in the AI space. Everyone else seems to put their toes in the water in the hope of being able to get an edge by avoiding NVIDIA's monopoly prices, immediately gets burned by trash software quality and runs away screaming "never again".

I only dabble in AI stuff but have decades of experience doing quick surface-level quality checks of open source projects. I looked at some of AMD's ROCm repos late last year. Even basic stuff like the documentation for their RNG libraries didn't inspire confidence. READMEs had blatant typos in, everything gave off a feeling of immense lack of effort or care. Looking again today the ROCrand docs do seem improved, at least on the surface, I haven't tried it out for real.

But if we cast the net a little wider again, the same problems rear their ugly head. Flash Attention is a pretty important kernel to have if working with LLMs, maybe I'd like one of those for AMD hardware?

https://github.com/ROCm/flash-attention

We're in luck! An official AMD repo with flash attention in it, great! Except.... the README says at the top:

Requirements: CUDA 11.4 and above. We recommend the Pytorch container from Nvidia, which has all the required tools to install FlashAttention.

Really? Ah, if we scroll down all the way to the bottom we can find a new section that says "AMD/ROCm: Prerequisite: MI200 & MI300 GPUs". Guys, why not just rewrite the README, literally the first thing you see, to put the most important information up front? Why not ensure it makes sense? It takes 10 seconds and is the kind of attention to detail that makes me think the rest of your work will be high quality too.

Checking the issue tracker we see people reporting that the fork is very out of date, and that some models just mysteriously don't work with it due to bugs. These issue reports go unanswered for months. And let's not even go there on the hardware compatibility front, everyone already knows what "AMD support" really means (not the AMD cards you might actually own) vs what "NVIDIA support" means (any device that supports the needed CUDA version, of any size).
OpenAI is turning intk a generic VC company
The amount [and scale] of practices, chaos and controversies caused by OpenAI since ChatGPT was released are "on par" with the powerful products it has built since.. in a negative way!

These are the hottest controversial events so far, in a chronological order:

OpenAI's deviation from its original mission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979981).
The Altman's Saga (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611).
The return of Altman (within a week) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239).
Musk vs. OpenAI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559966).
The departure of high-profile employees (Karpathy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365935 ,Sutskever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128).
"Why can’t former OpenAI employees talk?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393121).
How is this a "library for design engineers"? It's a collection of one-of Dribbble designs. Bento Grid? Tweet Card? Animated Backgrounds? These are showcases/cookbook/examples, not a library for design.
Well considering that people didn't appreciate the importance and an aircraft crashed as a result, it's not unimportant.
"Likeness just became a tradeable product. That wasn't true before."

Only because the government is making it that way. It's not an inevitability. It's a shortsighted move that doesn't add any value to society. It only serves to make celebrities even more wealthy
It boils down to dollars and cents.

Why should the creative sources (artists, actors, writers, etc.) be left out of the cut, while the tech companies are reaping the rewards?

"But those stars are rich, they'll survive."

Yeah, maybe - but the creative world is 0.001% wealthy people, and the rest being people that barely get by - and could earn more money by doing pretty much anything else.

I get the argument about copyright protections stifling progress, but it bugs me something fierce that people here are essentially saying it's OK for the AI/ML creators to become filthy rich, while the people they are ripping off should just do something else.
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MS stock wouldn’t crumble that day, PR dept would solve it in hours. The only reason they do that is “telemetry”.
> If spiders can have complex behaviors hard-coded, humans certainly do too.

Depends what you mean by complex... All creatures get born with an idea how to get food. Human babies have never seen breast or anyone sucking breast, yet they can go through the process pretty much immediately. That's a very clever movement / sensation following combination, but it's there from the beginning.
There is the latest release

https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask/releases/tag/v0.2.0...
Good.

What on earth is going on in the scientific community?

Science needs to take a serious look at itself.

I have noticed research paper quality declining over the years.

We need better rules to force researchers to release all the data they use so peer reviewers can duplicate the outcomes.

retractions are increasing every year.

Paper fraud is on the increase

Career scientist not bothered about quality and exacting standards

dodgy editors allowing this rubbish into the public realm

https://footnote.co/fake-papers-a-symptom-of-more-serious-pr...

https://retractionwatch.com/
If this doesn't reduce the likelihood of ramsomware (because it's low effort to just send and see what happens) then it's only a problem for the victims
I think OP meant discarding public/private constructs entirely, no protection, like in python.
So if someone created a deep fake porn video of you, that wouldn't bother you either? Because, after all, you didn't do any work or anything.
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A flat tax disproportionately favors the rich and hurts the poor; a progressive tax is much, much more fair. A poor person making $2k a month can make more use of $200 to improve their lot vs what the person making $2M can do with $200k to improve theirs
i dont think Sinn Fein had quite as radical a worldview tbh

Also,unlike Hamas, Sinn Fein never had the goal of taking over UK or that of establishing a global Khalifate, as Hamas and their Muslim Brotherhood peers do
Might that be another part of their predator-discouraging strategies?
> Only because the government is making it that way. It's not an inevitability.

Likeness wasn’t mass producible. It is now. That isn’t because of government but technology.

> doesn't add any value to society

According to whom? Certainly not Johansson or OpenAI.

> only serves to make celebrities even more wealthy

You don’t see how an entry-level actor doesn’t benefit from their first short skit being a substitute for a life’s work?
Doesn't fix ranking unfortunately
My computer can play much newer and much more demanding games just fine.
With the law, it is often about intent. If OpenAI had the intent to make a voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson's in her, then I think that might be problematic for OpenAI. I am not a lawyer though.
i loved manna. So utopian, a lovely picture of what could be. Anyone know anything with a similar utopic bent like that?
No, there are fully autonomous fighter jets that outperform and outmaneuver the best human fighter pilots with no human control remote or otherwise.
I think the optics of this aren't great. You ask someone to copy their voice, they say no and then (maybe coincidentally) you release a voice designed to sound very similar. Legally this may well be fine but come on, didn't anyone think this might make them look bad?
Not to mention, Vagrant projects just... seem to stop working, eventually?

I've had this happen to me a few times, always for different reasons, always a huge time sink to debug.

Did anybody else have the same experience?
seaweedfs has worked really nice for our small use for 2 years. some docs polish wouldn't hurt but reading the source isn't hard and I don't know golang.
>People see what they want to see.

Sounds like a female. Sounds like a white person. Sounds like between 30 and 40. It must be SJ.
They won't become filthy rich based of any one person's voice b/c anyone else can create a synthetic replica as well (unless they have some secret training data or something). It becomes commodity and as free as the air. Voice acting ceases to be a real career but in exchange it becomes accessible to everyone for pennies
Well… if you know the data is real, then knowing everything about that someone can seriously limit the number of people it could actually be, which makes that someone identifiable.

Like if you only know the full address, and you see that only one person lives at that address. Or you know the exact birthdate and the school that someone went to. Or the year of birth and the small shop that the person works for. And so on…
> Google has produced a number of quite good tools.

"Quite good" is exactly the wording that I would have used too. But Go's tooling is _really_ good; the language itself is, well, "quite good". And is still supported and actively developed!
> they came up with a legally probably technically OK but ethically murky clone.

Isn't what OpenAI does all the time? Do ethically murky things, and when people react, move the goal posts by saying "Well, it's not illegal now, is it?".
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Again, it specifically mentions that without AI it couldn't be done.

I'm only focusing on that. We could use the exact same process and tools minus AI and do it, which would be slightly less efficient, that's it.
What does this mean? OP went to high school, but dropped out. How does how education is paid affect this?
Well... yes? What if an another newer or older version of the code is found on a floppy or stack of printed code?
It took me 3 days to understand this message :), btw thanks for your opinion!
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Who slandered who?
I expect better from the HN than gatekeeping against front end developers
Didn't try AltWinDirStat, but did try FastWinDirStat.

The thing is, FastWinDirStat uses a licensed propietary component. No problem for me, but the author did have some back and forth with another user on GitHub.

Seems FastWinDirStat license don't match with using a closed source library, or something...

As for its actual functioning, it does as it says. Works much faster than WinDirStat
That is not an overview. An overview would show both sides.

I’m not saying Vaxry is right or did nothing wrong, or that Drew’s portrayal is wrong, but what you linked is just Drew’s personal musings on the situation.

I’ve seen someone be viciously attacked online for being bigoted against people who are less mentally able, only for it to surface after the attacks (and professional consequences) that the “bigotry” was calling someone a moron a few times.

Be careful about taking sides when you have only one side of the story. Not long ago HN harassed a Google employee for supposedly stealing a JavaScript accessibility project, only for it to later come to light that the accuser was dealing with some difficult personal situations that caused him to portray the entire thing lopsidedly.
These Java features are ruined by not allowing mutable variables to be captured. Having to do the 1-element array trick when the compiler could just do it for me is insane.

If you are making JavaScript look good you are failing as a language.
I never comment on HN I’ve just always been a long time lurker but I feel like I’m going crazy here reading comments.

SJ is not the “AI” portrayed in the movie her. And AFAIK she does not in fact have all the same idiosyncrasies and tones in real life as the voice does in the movie because she was in fact directed to act like that.

Not only that but the voices are not the same because there was another actress for sky as we have seen.

To me It seems as if the case for SJ is DOA unless it comes out somehow that they in fact trained on her voice specifically. But since that doesn’t seem like the case I have no idea how SJ can legally own all voices that sound like hers.

It would obviously be a different story if OpenAI were saying that sky was SJ but that’s not the case. To me the question should be is “can the studio own the character in her that openAI was copying and any similar things”. Which given that systems like SIRI were already out there in the world when the movie came out and we knew this tech was on the way. The answer should be no but IANAL.

I’m not a huge fan of OpenAI anymore and I think they deserve criticism for many things. But this situation isn’t one of them.

Clarification: Of course if it turns out that they in fact trained on SJ or altered the voice to be more like hers then I’d think differently. I still think the studio has more of a claim though look from the outside and not being a lawyer.

Edit: clarification
Quite funny. I haven't used Google search in a while, is this just some artifact of Gemini + RAG taking search results from the internet at face value?

Or is this directly from the LLM's training?
> first due to Segway and then due to e-scooters and bikes

Those aren't cars.

But you've identified that the closer something comes to a human in terms of speed and scale, the blurrier the lines become. In these terms I would argue that GPT-4 is far, far removed from a human.
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Mastodon core devs avoid discussion of server choices because it inevitably reveals that 1/3 to 1/2 of Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon by volume and/or users are Japanese image posters incompatible with Western, especially European, languages/memes/values.

2/3 of top 3 and half of top 10-20 Mastodon instances(not including Misskey ActivityPub servers) are Japanese. They really don't like that.
There's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like.

Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.
English is my native language, and I'm confident that powerplant can indeed be used in the more abstract sense as I wrote in my previous comment.

This can be evidenced[0], for example, in motorsport journalism.

> For more than a quarter of a century, Cosworth’s DFV (and it’s variants) was the off-the-peg powerplant of choice for independent F1 teams

Or of course, in the dictionary[1].

[0]: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/the-best-engine-p...

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20plant
Paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07338-8
Shame MS don’t spend this much time on effort on… every other part of their design for everything.
> didn't use muted colors because shiny bright stuff wasn't available

I had (mistakenly it seems) thought the muted colors were partly due to those available for printing, but i suppose it makes sense that the Arts and Craft movement would not use bright colours?

Anyway, zooming in on the detail of vegetal regions of such fakes is clear evidence. It's hard enough to reproduce the small gaps between curled leaves in these images anyway.
> You know, if they sold cans of Baja Blast I could see it

They do, actually.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mountain-Dew-Baja-Blast-Tropical-...
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True, in any case, it will give the victims a stronger incentive to not involve the police and to cover up the fact that they were being blackmailed in the first place... Once they've paid the ransom, there will be no incentive to pursue the blackmailer.
Yeah, but it's not Scarlett Johansson's voice and therefore not her property. It's one that sounds similar, but is different, and thus belongs to the true voice actress.
That seems like fine advise, if the market were rational.

I'd think, it's as important to understand people than it is to understand businesses when it comes to the stock market.

Said that, don't take financial advise from me, I haven't had much luck with my bets.
yeah but, "kind of" copied, and samalt reinforced that with refering to "her" in this tweet.

samalt is walking in the shadows of ethical/non-ethical line and he seems obviously is proficient in that.

however, even in such cases he does not hesitate to walk in the border of non-ethical is worrisome for the future of the ethics in ai.
I knew what this was going to be before clicking it.

We had an Accord at one point when I was a kid, and Honda sent us (my dad) a DVD of this with some behind the scenes when it released.

I watched that DVD a hundred times, maybe more.
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> I think that they should not have allowed to overload = and , operators

Comma operator I would agree is really only used for shenanigans. But operator= is as crucial as the copy/move constructors for ownership, so I'm not sure how you picture this...

> apparently in C++ a structure cannot really have zero length

Yes it can: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/no_uni...

> I think it should be possible for your own structure or union type to overload any operators that are not already defined

I see that you are trying to solve the problem of "when reading this code, I don't know if these are the built-in operators or custom ones". I would be interested in learning about situations in which this was a problem for you, because I have not made that experience myself. From my perspective, you need to know the types of x and y to know in the first place which operations are possible - default or custom - so this rule does not really buy you much. But again, I don't think I understand your problem well enough.

FWIW, you can define a custom operator-> and operator* (they have to return pointers, or types that themselves have operator->/operator* which are then applied recursively). I am not convinced that mixing pointer-related semantics into e.g. object assignment is a sufficiently elegant solution from a conceptual perspective though.
It's not really an analogous situation at all

In the case of a pornographic video there is no issue if it's clear from the context or content that it isn't actually me doing what's in the video

When you talk to ChatGPT, I don't actually think Scarlett Johansson is speaking to me

If I make a fake phone call recording with her synethetic voice and claim it's real and it somehow hurts her then that's an issue - but that's a different legal matter entirely
Loneliness is be directly related to family size and the number of relatives that one has. While the Occident trends smaller I seen recent news from the Levant that had people talking about having 120+ relatives.

Haven't looked at the App yet, but it's an interesting approach.

@jaybhum - not much traction here so far, suggest you take this to metafilter
The point is that human voices are technically and verifiably unique, tangential or perhaps antithetical to your/average person's perception.
$15 monthly per user, and I can't even demo the software without scheduling an appointment? LiquidPlanner might be the greatest software in the world but I can not schedule an appointment for a demo - my opportunities are far too spontaneous for that. This seems like software for people who like to schedule things - I need software for people who are forced to schedule things.
Yep it's the same idea. We also see improvements in quality on some benchmarks beyond any specific model. This is common especially common when training a custom router on your own prompt dataset: https://youtu.be/9JYqNbIEac0
> What’s going on here?

AI hype overload. Same shit with iterm2, solutions looking for problems