skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some may have listened to it and just have such a poor opinion of OpenAI that they allow it to cloud their judgment

I think that's exactly it, or they're critical of all corporations, and they're jumping all over suspicious timelines, like that they tried to convince her 9 months ago and again 2 days before the new release as some kind of evidence of malfeasance.
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With AI is like with ring of power. There is only one master.

Google chatbot only serves google. Microsoft serves microsoft.

It will always cater to some agenda, it will have some biases. It will be nice, but it will play neatly their part in perpetuating corporatocracy.

As a unit you will have to play a long, or live in the woods without AI.
Probably not, sloths only poop on the ground, which makes them vulnerable. Related post from the site:
https://slothconservation.org/why-do-sloths-poop-on-the-grou...
I think we can be damn proud that Software Engineering is still open to anyone who can do the job, whether they have a formal degree or not!

Almost all other high paying professions are locked away.
I think both things have value, though. Finding the correct answers in creative ways is awesome, of course, and should be encouraged. But it's also good to learn the specific approaches to finding answers that they are specifically teaching. It's just two different things, which are both valuable.

For instance, my daughter (kindergarten) has been learning how to do addition and subtraction by "finding tens" and also with fives, and also / relatedly by thinking about hops on a number line, and combining them in different ways. And if she gets the right answer, but without using the technique being taught at that time, then she is redirected back to the intended technique. And I think that makes sense, when teaching a particular technique!

I often hear people complain about this style of answering arithmetic questions - "what's wrong with adding up columns and carrying tens?" - and I think they should learn that algorithm too, but I think it's valuable to learn multiple techniques, the techniques themselves that is, in addition to just being able to get the right answers in whatever way you choose.
It's a disability. You don't overcome it you find accommodations and supports that allow you to meet your goals and & obligations.

The experience of having adhd for me is mostly that it is primarily an emotional regulation disorder. The focus and attention problems are downstream of that, and are prioritized because that's how a parent or employer experiences adhd.
But they keep the sound on while typing it on their keyboards.
Uninstall, re-install as a service which may now be default.
https://xkcd.com/1135/
Very very technically, if RDP is enabled and working, this could be fixed by rdesktop-ing to the machine from a Linux box and using xdotool to experiment with typing raw keyboard scancodes through the RDP session in the hope you figure out the encoding of the Copilot key.
>I guarantee you that nobody who's ever heard her voice actually thinks that

Including Johansson herself and her family?

>After much consideration and for personal reasons, I declined the offer. Nine months later, my friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named “Sky” sounded like me.

We can talk biases, but I think we're pretty far from "guarantee" in this matter.

>or is it manufactured clickbait outrage now bordering on conspiracy theory? I

Johannsen already has lawyers on the ready. This goes beyond some publicity stunt. You can be cynical, but I struggle to call a potential legal proceeding a conspiracy.

Linking to two small soindbites isn't going to undo an entire court case. I doubt I always sound the same in two identical line readings.
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Yes, a "motor" can also mean "car", but it does not mean "internal combustion engine".
The issue is that they contacted her and advertised based on her. They clearly wanted it to sound like her. Now, that it sounded like her, there is a reason to make conclusions about OpenAI's real motives.
Counter-intuitively, I think this puts Johansson in a stronger position.

OpenAI did not want to copy her the actress, they wanted to copy HER the performance from the movie.
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My frame for reference is: https://i.imgur.com/941NX1p.jpeg. Ideally startups have a leader. If you have a knowledgeable "boss", then it might work out.

Managers are like cockroaches, every time you turn on the lights, there are more of them scurrying around.

Yes, we do need project managers, but before you hire them you need a plan and business managers can't come up with sufficiently detailed WBS to drive a project of any significant complexity.

Before you have a project plan you need a business case and a marketing plan.

As a founder and soon to be CEO you need a rock solid business case.

Then a capable technical person comes up with a project plan with sufficient detail (aka WBS) that you can see what needs to be done and a provide a reasonable estimate of time-frames and resources required.

Only then do you need a project manager to make it happen. If the project is sufficient large, then groups of technical personnel might need a more experienced person, aka team leader.

The bane of so many "projects" is that they have a vague description of a deliverable, a hard deadline and a budget created without any comprehension of what is required to create the deliverables and whether the business plan will even sustain the realistic need for resources.
Unlikely, but perhaps this might motivate DDG into finally making their own index and eventually drop bing
I'd prefer we focus our efforts on -le.
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They contacted her to use her voice. I mean, the Sky voice doesn't sound like Scarlet Johansson.

> Why reference the film Her?

Because they developed an AI some people is bonding with. Which is the bigger deal? The voice or the AI, you tell me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453077

"Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search"

Top of the front page at time of writing.
Laziness has been valued before [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...
The lightning might indeed not be the best but I really like it, well done!
I'm just saying it's a ton of money. We didn't just donate a few billion and call it quits.

I think part of this is viewed as an ongoing expense where we're constantly giving someone weapons (Israel, Ukraine, whoever) in order to keep the Defense industry in business. It is a roundabout way to give our tax dollars to Raytheon and other firms without directly giving it to them.

Slowing down Russia at the cost of Ukrainian lives is a decision for them to make. You might feel differently if your country was being invaded. The US citizen should get a vote though if they're paying through taxes and inflation.

Overpriced? Almost certainly. Government isn't efficient. It's run much more efficiently than Russia or China though where much of the funding is siphoned off due to corruption. We don't appear to have that problem at least, although the Pentagon constantly failing audits is suspicious and something we do need to look into.
Is it just me or is search terribly broken on the internet.

It’s Google or Bing and Bing imposters.

Why aren’t there more broad search options? Search was better when we had page rank algorithms. It’s gotten over condensed into 2 companies.
There are a lot of options out there, but from what I understand most of the common FPV controllers you'll see around will work as a HID when connected to a computer over USB.

I personally have a Team BlackSheep Tango 2 - though I haven't been flying as much as I would like, and have done little simulator time, it's worked fine for both.

If you want to get into the hobby in general, look up Joshua Bardwell on youtube - a lot of great information, including a variety of controller reviews, simulator reviews, and general "here's how to get started" videos. There are of course others, but Bardwell is the only one I'm actually subscribed to (not that I'm any great metric).

EDIT: for a lot of great information, see my sibling comment from Matthew.
> Abandoning a PhD indicate it's not the former

How is that? PhD is just a title indicating some relationship to science. If you have successful career as a goal, you started PhD thinking it will be useful, the got better understanding of your needs and switched to something else, that is called being able to make a tough call. If anything, experience of pivots is a startup person quality.
Meme stocks are not a strategy to make money. It only looks insane if you cannot imagine that people trade for other reasons than to make money. But these guys have other goals — proving points, protesting short-selling, speculating for fun, and so on.

It’s all good. Not everyone has a car to drive from point A to B, some people drive cars for fun. Not everyone plays tennis to compete on the world stage. Same with securities. People just have fun.
There's a right amount of time for artistic endeavours and it has all been used up by our niche metaprogramming project.
Jennifer Tilly? ;-)

(Can't for the life of me recall if she sounds anything like Johansson; just putting her forward to tease her relative here. (Who is in the wrong in his arguments above.))
I find this whole thing very confusing because I never thought the voices sounded identical or very similar. I was initially even more confused about this whole thing because I thought I couldn't find clips of the SJ AI voice only to realize I had but it didn't sound like her.

This opinion is independent of Sam being a conman, scammer, creepy Worldcoin weirdo, and so on.
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If I had to guess, banning (or heavily regulating) VPNs because they are widely available and bypass the age requirement enforcement.
I predict that over prescription of ADHD medication in the US is going to viewed as a massive public health misstep in 40 years.
I would bet these charitable readings of OA intentions are going to get wiped away by some internal emails found during discovery. It does sound like Mr. Altman was talking about it publicly in a tweet, it’s probable there are internal comms about this.
Yeah. I think there was some concern over Finland, but they just joined NATO.
That is the nearest to an explanation in all the answers ie saying "Beer is NOT free' all the others still confuse me as I read its literally. and 'Free as in beer' makes no sense so the whole thing just does not compute.

I do understand what GPL does and the reasons for this just not this slogan.
It saddens me nobody builds similar libraries for Angular.
My "lawful evil" approach to this would be to put the money thus collected in a special fund for counter-intelligence operations targeting people who produce and use ransomware. Collect 1M in ransom, someone else now has 3M to fight you with.
We must not forget the legal side of this. Microsoft knows everything about intellectual property rights. If I were going to design a logo to be displayed literally billions of times across every screen running the windows OS I would make very sure it was beyond any conceivable infringement allegation. A generated smoke image might be up for some allegation of copying, that the generated smoke or some other aspect was "created" by the software. A physical photo shoot means zero possibility of any outsider having any contribution in the final image.
What you might perceive as late-onset ADHD could be the cause of not being able to keep your coping mechanisms up due to stress? In my case, social anxiety (which I'm officially diagnosed with, but not ADHD) skyrocketed after a series of family events, which resulted in not being able to focus on anything mildly difficult or anxiety inducing, as my mind quickly started wandering out of nowhere, and becoming aware, shutting it off and getting back on track is really difficult. My anxiety medication is really helping, alongside therapy, and I feel way more in control, but not like before
Don't be so cynical, they do have such thinking (at least sometimes - like all other humans they have blind spots). They also have advisors who have such thinking. There are 532 people in congress, each who has several advisors, plus all the other officials in the FBI, CIA, NSA, military who have easy access to congress, dozens of lobbyists - it only takes one to have an idea and tell congress (though don't always agree and of course congress will not always do what they want). That is the US, every other country has different setups, but they will have something similar.
Nothing has intrinsic value. If society only values things that a computer can't do, we're all going to be plumbers and carpenters before too long.
Exactly anyone that listens to both side by side should be able to clearly distinguish them.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult by an overzealous psychiatrist and was prescribed stimulant medication. It certainly helped me overcome certain issues and become more productive, but it absolutely didn't help with my actual mental health, actually worsening it in several ways (insomnia, irritability, impatience). I later came to realize my focus and productivity issues could be addressed more effectively and healthily without medication.

This is of course my own personal experience and is in no way meant to erase actual, clinical ADHD, the "genetic" kind that others have mentioned. Simply providing my own anecdotal experience as requested.
well at least 50%. I guess everybody forgot there are mid term elections which affect what the administration can do with help of congress.
Of course it's very different, but it's the same in how buying the same functionality from a competitor is not a reason to get you fired unless there are other specific conditions.
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For better or for worse, it absolutely works. Pumping water from other sources or copying another type of well has been Microsoft's MO for almost 50 years and they're one of the most valuable companies on the planet.
I think they are backpedaling rapidly to avoid major discontent among their workers. By the definition of their stock as laid out in their articles of incorporation, they have the right to reduce any former employee's stock to 0, or to prevent them from ever selling it, which is basically the same thing. This makes their stock offers to employees much less valuable than the appear at face value, so their current and future employees may very well start demanding actual dollars instead.
That's an especially hard pickle to be in when your bank sells transaction information to Equifax and won't let you opt out.
> The original comment in this chain was drawing parallel to a lawsuit in which someone intentionally took steps to impersonate an actor.

> This situation is a voice actor using their "natural voice" as a source of work.

Work which was then marketed with heavy implications referring to another actor. Which is what makes this situation so similar to the earlier one.
When I turned 40, I had a few very enlightening discussions with a therapist that explained a LOT. For me, it wasn't that my brain had changed, it was more about understanding how my brain works.

I started taking Adderall. It really helps. I don't take it on the weekend unless I have a project or two I want to focus on.

I'd start with finding a therapist. Depending on who you talk to, they can describe the way your mind works in a technical (or not technical) way that I could relate to and understand.
Not disputing your experience, but fwiw I've been using kagi since it was in beta (now a paying customer) and I can't remember this ever happening to me.
Yes there is the question of network vs data :).
And as you mention while some data end-up being distributed with Activity Pub the protocol is not made to allow restoration.

One point I find interesting too is that distributed network often allows more agency to external actors. For example if you believe that the resiliency of the mastodon.social instance is not enough for you then you can decide to host you own server with your preferred criteria.
search has always been hard and say if you do get market share on google, a portion of the massive SEO industry will eventually turn their sights on you and make your life hell.
It’s often not diagnosed or diagnosed as another problem and is difficult to diagnose later.

I have a friend who discovered that ADHD was the root of a bunch of issues. They had developed some coping strategies organically that were contributing to other issues. Diagnosis and therapy made a dramatic improvement in their life.
The greatest value an engineering manager can provide is to run interference with the other managers; to protect their team from outside interruptions, changes and demands.

The best engineering managers can push back against changes with specific estimates of how much the changes will increase the budget and delay the deadline.

Of course, some changes are inevitable. But core business doesn't change that fast. It is the vanity of other managers that often introduces demands with no underlying benefit to the business.
If you use a search product then someone is going to have your search history and it'll more-than-likely be provided to law enforcement in your country who are the #1 threat to you [0]. It'll also be sent to some sort of data centre for tracking and whatever commercial uses that tracking is good for. I've never understood how that would be a threat, but if you don't like it it comes almost baked in to the business model. You can't stop them sharing data, so they will probably do it for money.

The sell is more that the data MS/DDG has is hopefully going to be siloed away from Google and so it is getting more expensive for an given entity to cross-reference information about you. And if we're lucky competitive pressure will peel DDG away from MS sooner or later if they get larger.

[0] This logic does lead to an argument for a fair chunk of HNs readership to use Yandex, because they are hosted in a country that is effectively at war with the English-speaking world but not presently targeting English speakers.
So, uh, Copilot+PC, how much of their AI computer thing would be completely useless right now?
I bet their engineers are currently discussing how to make any such answers possible without Bing working, assuming the upstream data for them is not in fact also Bing.
(EU perspective) it is binding.
you just add both parties' initials/signature on the margin of each line that was changed.
but how could you falsify all those records so quickly and convincingly, oh nm
> So what you're saying is that the criminals could quadruple their demands, and everyone would still pay?

Maybe, maybe not. Everyone has a different threshold of what they will pay. Everyone has different costs to recover. Nobody really knows the exact cost to recover until they are done, by the time you realize you underestimated the cost of recovery it is too late.
"but as Nuland and her fellow neocons see their Ukraine project failing" - that's a disgusting way of viewing a hostile invasion of a sovereign nation.
Yeah, I think homeschooling is a classic bimodal thing. It is probably better than a classroom of thirty kids with a harried teacher and not much play time, for the right families doing it for the right reasons. But many people choose to do it for ideological reasons and without the right resources, with worse outcomes.
That assumes that this is something people asked for, and not a case of MS shoehorning AI into everything to look "AI-native" to pump their stock.

Microsoft has long had a 'vote for features' thing on their support forums [0]. I can guarantee that not one person has ever said that MS Paint needed an AI makeover.

[0] https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback
Generally, custom seqs (rare) are implemented by leveraging something like `lazy-seq`, so library authors are also not using it.

Yes, it would be good if there were javadoc on more of the impl, but this is just not an issue for the vast majority of devs.
I use Ecosia (which Bing powered) and wondered why it was down earlier. Makes you realise just how few players there actually are in the search rankings space.
Copilot is branding, not a product or feature. Problem is that the features/products that run under that branding don't have proper names themselves and I guess that's what trips up a lot of people.
And America only uses the term “Too Big Toto Fail” when it comes to banks.
It's not like they never get eaten by predators, as the article says. It's only that they need ot shift the balance far enough in their favor to not die out, like by improving camouflage.
I found out with 38 years old, but I always felt different since childhood, why the memorization in school was bad, to be bad at writing texts, and my second kid got diagnosed, so it made me search more about it.

I am doing 30 mg of Paroxetine, but doesn't seem great. Lots of low dopamine and procrastination.
How in the world is DDG dependent upon Bing to function? So glad I switched to Brave Search :)
I was diagnosed at 34, primarily inattentive type.

Prior to that, I could excel in academics and my career IFF it was interesting or challenging. When it wasn’t, I couldn’t bring myself to focus. After diagnosis and medication, suddenly I could just do stuff. The best part is that my ability to hyper-focus on interesting work didn’t diminish, something I think most people fear when starting medication for ADHD.

I started on Adderall XR, which worked fine for a while. A better way to say that would be that I got used to feeling normal, and so was more aware of when I wasn’t. I noticed that it was wearing off right when I needed it the most, mid-late afternoon. In theory it’s a 12 hour release, but my psych said most people don’t experience that.

So, I shifted to Mydayis, which is the exact same drug, but with a triple release so it lasts longer. They claim 16 hours; IME it’s more like 10, but YMMV.

The other thing to be aware of is that depression is often correlated with ADHD. I was diagnosed with mild depression, but didn’t really think it was a big deal (I felt happy enough), so I didn’t treat it. Then this last winter came. I’ve been aware that I have seasonal affective disorder for years, and have always treated it with Vitamin D supplements. That didn’t work this year. I then bought a light therapy box, which also didn’t work. I already exercise regularly, so that wasn’t it either. I went back to my psych, who recommended Wellbutrin XL, at the smallest dose. As an aside, this also has an off-label use for treating ADHD if you’d rather not use stimulants. After precisely 13 days of being on it, I realized I did not feel mopey, despite it being a gloomy day. It was incredible.

I tried coming off Wellbutrin this spring, and it did not go well. My thought, and my wife’s, is that I had forgotten my previous baseline mood, and so it was a shock to realize the difference. AFAIK, and according to my psych, there are no known long-term effects from Wellbutrin, and I’ve exhibited zero of the known side effects, so I’m just on it for the foreseeable future.

Hope that helps, and I hope you seek professional help. Anecdotes are great for getting a variety of opinions, but they’re no substitute for a trained medical professional.