skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The voice was called Sky

That the voice is called Sky is actually part of what's suspicious about this to me. They had all the world of female names to choose from for the voice that would recreate "Her" (and there's plenty of evidence that suggests that the movie was used as inspiration), and they chose one that started with the same rare consonant cluster as this actress. The only other names that Wikipedia lists with that consonant cluster are Skyler and Scarlett [0]. If they truly were trying to separate themselves from her rather than subtly cue the likeness, why Sky?

> She isn't that well known, I didn't even know she was in Her.

She's the second-highest-grossing actor (and the highest-grossing actress) of all time [1]. You might not know her (and neither do I), but that says more about you and me than it does about her.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Englis...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_act...
I disagree. I think that removing the financial incentive will lead to fewer incidents.
Danny Calegari's essay "Disappointment" in the Notices (https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202309/noti2782/noti278...) is a nice reflection on how to think - and try to feel - about failures.
That they've been making those deals with other search engines for a long time (e.g. Kagi, Startpage, Mullvad Leta).
Hard science?
> I'm continually amazed by how much outrage normal and perfectly reasonable business strategies generate in the general public.

The general public doesn't give a rat's ass about business strategies and nor should they.

If you really enjoyed patronizing a particular business and then they go out of business or change in such a way as to remove what you enjoyed, you're going to be a bit upset about that regardless of how sound the business decision was.
"Reasonable" is doing a ton of work here.
please refer to above comment. They are real voices (sometimes with filter) with real people behind them :)
How did they advertise this as being SJ? It is worth pointing out that Sky kind of sounded like the voice from Her, not SJ. The voice in Her is a voice SJ did for that movie. It isn’t her normal speaking voice. Does she get to own the likeness of every kind of voice she’s made, or could make?
If its not negotiated on exit why are they requesting additional documents to be signed when leaving? Clearly nothing like this was agreed at the start of employment.
> You have to fit the DMS criteria of having childhood symptoms, and they will want to speak to relatives and friends who can confirm this.

I've often wondered why no teacher ever said anything to my parents about me possibly having ADHD. I think because in the classes I was interested in I was a star student and my teachers loved me, and in the others I was an absolutely hopeless case and my teachers didn't care to bother.
I have an original Looking Glass display and despite the low resolution, it never fails to impress when turned on.

The main issue is the difficulty in adding new images, requires a PC and special software. I think they address all of this in the new Go model though.
Handbook 100: 6-Volume Set Descriptions:

The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications has arrived at a milestone. Handbook 100 is written for everyone with a desire to advance the pursuit of wireless technology. Here is your guide to radio experimentation, discovery, and innovation.
Radix sort is probably the closest usable one, but a more direct translation would probably be sleep sort.
It's tough in this case, because if you incentivise just to save cost, it could always route you to the cheapest LLM but the quality would suffer...
The line of sight requirement prohibits FPV altogether, unless you have someone else maintaining the line of sight requirement for you

You're not looking at the drone when you're looking at your goggles, or at least that's how Dutch laws were explained when I last looked into them, and nowadays they're aligned in the EU or maybe EEA (edit: looked it up, it's still like this but I think what changed is that your spotter can be the line of sight fulfiller and they needn't be able to pilot the device, they just need to be able to tell you of danger nearby)
I don't remember Currents or Spaces.
thank you!

prompt engineering is a thing, and it's not a thing that you get on social media posts with emojis or multiple images.

is it a public-facing product?
As a hetero man, I didn't get the overtly homeyness out of that voice, maybe somewhat flirtatious at most. Are you maybe projecting?
Ask HN: How do you manage your drone videos?
The proliferation of drones makes me wonder: how do people manage their video library of footage?

How do you find where the footage was taken? Dates? Times? GPS track?

A quick search turned up nothing...but there must be something people are using now. What do you use?
> they gave it another go, probably ready to offer more money, she still refused, but in the end, it didn't change a thing.

That's not what she said happened. She said they released it anyway before she and Sam could connect, after Sam had reached out, for the second time, two days prior to the release.
I agree that it is less likely.

OTOH, if history is any guide, contracts may not be worth their paper if survival is at stake. It is an open question if the US or the French will risk losing half of their population and most of their cities over UK.
There's maybe a two-to-three-order-of-magnitude difference between the difficulty of monads and the difficulty of this stuff.
It's crazy how prevalent this is among my peers. Do any other careers have so much pivoting?
The US sues Ticketmaster for driving up live event fees
Still, in some countries it’s not available.
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"She isn't that well known"

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/scarlett-johansson-tops-l...
As a CLI fan, I'm interested in where this could go
Yeah, I feel cynical saying this, but who wants to create art that looks and feels just like everything else?
Yes, if I were European I'd be prioritizing the hell out of protecting the remaining Old Growth forest in Europe in the south east, even if it means having the EU fund nature preserves / paying those host governments big bucks to have a ton of rangers there to stop logging.
I'm just waiting till the first customer of some shady contract binding them to a greedy software company would use that to declare a payment as illegal and therefore that they cannot make it. Would be funny news like "XYZ says it cant pay oracle, declares it a ransom payment" :D
While that may be correct for actual ADHD, thyroid conditions can mimic a lot of the same problems faced by those with ADHD (or at least ADHD-PI), as in attention dysregulation, brain fog, memory issues, tiredness, and so on. Hypothyroidism, for instance, advances slowly and one might not be diagnosed until well into adulthood. It would not be surprising if many people diagnosed with ADHD actually have a thyroid problem, especially if their medication gradually becomes less effective.
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Synology NAS, and Tailscale tail drop.
Left a career as a developer/entrepreneur/executive for teaching at a private high school.

No real advice: it wasn't intentional; something that I just drifted to. It's really fulfilling but not lucrative.
>why are sloths so slow?

Well they started early and had already arrived before all of us got here.

No reason to get in a hurry after that.
How long is a coastline?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcDuVyzb8Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

Problems are fractal-like. Each section of a problem needs attention and management. Engineers are largely self-managing - we pay attention to the problem in front of us. There is still a need for coordination.
Life is like a septic tank. It's the really big chunks that rise to the top.
I went the other way and pivoted to being a dev when I turned 30. Before that I was in IT which basically meant fixing computers, which meant replacing power supplies and reinstalling Windows.
> Leadership communicating to workers never seems to work out well as companies grow.

Do leaders at the tip top of larger orgs "care" if their communication works out?

Every larger company I've worked for the top leaders stated their case and just ... left the room. It wasn't a conversation, or any kind of communication I would expect where someone validates that everyone is on the same page.

What follows is inevitably middle managers repeating what was said, again no real validation that anyone got the point and everyone rolls on.

Communication from "leadership" at big orgs is always more just communication AT everyone and that's it ...

In such situations it's hard to imagine the top leadership really care beyond getting their noise out in the room / email / etc.
>they thought the reason you were ignoring their system might be because you were crazy or high and they might have to kick you out

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of dining experience I want when I go out. /s
It will happen to everyone due to use of createScriptProcessor.

This should be replaced with AudioWorklet. Use WASM + SharedArraybuffer for calculation.

Here is a similar idea (karplus) implemented with Rust + WASM, which is much better in terms of audio quality:

https://jackschaedler.github.io/karplus-stress-tester/
How Often Can You Make New Good Friends You Trust?
Well you can move into anything but it depends if you want to get paid or not for it? I've mostly followed the money.
> this wasn't supposed to be our job

I'm not sure if that is bad or not - while it is annoying to attend all those meetings, often you know the problem well enough that you can just build the right thing. You start to feel empowered to add this feature customers want because you know the customer
I'm a fan of WinDirStat. Yes it can be slow, but it runs on darn near every Win OS, hasn't changed in years, is a small executable, and the site always seems available. I used it many times to solve disk space issues on the job.
The question uses the literal words "global warming", which the parent commenter is saying is defined as "the modern differential in the warming of the globe". That is, they are not saying that is the colloquial definition, but rather is the definition of the term. And you seem to agree that the cause, by that definition, is not water vapor.

So I think the only disagreement here is a definitional one. It's famously impossible to say what the single right definition of a term is. In this case, I'm not even totally sure which of your or parent's definition seems to me to be predominant...

But I guess I do think it seems most reasonable to read an implicit "modern" or "contemporary" modifier of "global warming" into the question. If it weren't asking about the contemporary phenomenon, it would specify that.
The demoscene - trying to create (audio)visual experiences with very limited program sizes:

https://www.dwitter.net/top/all

https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php
The point of a proof is very much not just that it enables you to know that the thing is true, but also to give insight into why it's true. (And hence, e.g., what other related things are likely to be true and how one might prove them.) A 100% incomprehensible proof gives no such insight; a merely-somewhat-incomprehensible proof gives less insight than a more comprehensible proof could.
I wouldn't describe the large scale use of FPV drones in conflicts over the past couple years as a "novelty". They perform reconnaissance on a scale that wasn't previously possible; harass, pin down, provide target coordinates for, and even directly attack infantry squads; and destroy immobilized or poorly armored vehicles. That's not even mentioning the single-use specially made drones with larger warheads, which are capable-enough of taking out armored vehicles that tank designs have been forced to evolve.
Fair use[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
You're presuming he performed managerial tasks, which presumes further that those tasks are unavoidable. It's difficult to imagine if you've only ever worked in places where this is evidently true, but that is only one way in which a company can work.

You can also run a company of _hundreds_ of engineers who are all self-governing. If it can happen at least once (company I worked for), then it's repeatable and therefore a viable alternative.
What kind of work did you do to become a teacher? Extra school?
> Some sort of authority attempting to police it’s correct usage has always just seemed like gate keeping to me.

This is the norm for many languages. For example, French is prescribed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise , and they like to coin new terms and discourage popularly used terms.

But not English! It is the true global language with distributed decision-making.
It reminds me of how Noam Chomsky speaks about language / language learning being something inate in humans.
in fact, the movie was originally recorded with Samantha Morton doing the voice of the AI, but she was replaced with Johansson last minute!
>was filled with atrocities even genghis khan couldn't have imagined

Excellent comment. My only quibble was this. Genghis Khan could have easily imagined the mega genocides of the 20th century, since he did the same. Under his own rule and systematic conquests he had roughly 30 to 40 million people slaughtered according to many estimates. That goes beyond even the ballpark of Hitler and Stalin.

Earlier still, fairly credible estimates of the death toll behind Ceasear's conquest of Gaul claim roughly a couple million killed by the future dictator's military forces. Nothing like Khan, but well into the range of some of the larger genocides from the 20th century

Of course, the Nazi holocaust was rather unique in all human history for how systematically and industrially part of it was done but deliberate mass death is ultimately the ame thing regardless of how it's executed.

Modern weapons are emphatically not necessary for genocide. One could ask the tutsis and hutus of today what they think of that idea too.
Right, there's no customer service at all. Nobody to call or contact, not that I could call. I switched to an iPhone at another carrier that week. I've de-googled my life as much as possible.
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Yeah that's a great point, something we'll keep in mind as we work out the final business model. Thanks!
> The company says up to 100 different people can experience the content at the same time

I'm surprised by the limit of 100. I can imagine either unlimited (if it's like a hologram), or a couple (if it tracks eyes and adapts directions of some columns of pixels to the few pairs of eyes). Or do they simply mean it's limited by the amount of space available to stand in front of the monitor... But if it's an actual technological implementaiton, I really wonder what's behind it, if it's fine grained enough for 100 pairs of eyes I'd think it also still looks good to more pairs of eyes

> The displays can show a wide range of media, including holographic images, high-quality videos, and real-time applications

It would be weird if they couldn't, displays are supposed to display whatever you input to them...
> It's crazy how prevalent this is among my peers.

Are your peers about the age as the OP?

Kids and age (each) can change how we feel about job demands.
Folklore is that Knuth hasn't used email since the 90s. You need to send dead trees to his secretary and hope she forwards it to him.
Totally worth it. Very happy to see a small startup start eating into this space and happy to support them.
We are getting into the details of what is copying. If you can find someone with the identical voice who is a different person, is that all it takes? It seems to me the intention was to hire someone who sounded like the character from Her.
This has echoes of Crispin Glover and Back to the Future 2. They didn't rehire him and got someone else to play his character.
In my experience the number of C++ developers with nice things to say about the Committee is... very small.

In a way, the whole C++ endeavor was doomed from the start. C was old and pragmatic and vague, a "portable assembly", and it was a shaky foundation to build C++ on top of. When the Standard tried to tighten things up, it just got more lopsided, full of hacks to fix hacks. But the alternate universe where C++ had a more pragmatic, laissez-faire design going forward probably isn't any better; maybe the "standard" would have become "do whatever GCC does"--or in the Darkest Timeline, "do whatever MSVC does".

I disagree that C++ "respecting its C roots" is viable. The C++11 and later Standards were trying to make the best of a bad situation, and that required leaving C behind because the C way of doing things doesn't fit with a higher-level language like contemporary C++. Especially when the language has multiple implementations that need to compile the same code the same way. The "C with classes" days are long over for most of us who have to use libraries expecting std::vector, smart pointers, and exception handling. We live in mortal fear of compiler writers smiting us for innocent things like punning through a union.

> You definitely don't want C turning into C++-lite

I agree. Trying to quickly hack classes or templates or whatever back on top of C would just start the whole C++ nightmare over again.
How did you break through? I've been trying to land a dev job for years but I keep getting passed on due to my heavy IT infra experience and they seem to think I'm overqualified, but in the wrong area. "Hm, why would you want an entry level dev job? It says here you have years of director level experience." I don't want to be in management but they seem to think I'm a flight risk or something.
Electric recycling of Portland cement at scale
> It went away for a while for reasons I'm unclear on.

The creator, Anthony Grimes (https://github.com/Raynes), sadly passed away seven years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/5gyyxw/clojure_ope...
A useful keyboard shortcut is ctrl-end. You might have to hit it a couple of times, but it will get you to the bottom.

I’m on Windows, but I’m guessing macOS and many Linux DEs have something similar.
Except for a dancing bear is useless. I get a ton of real world use out of GPT-4 that no other kind of product in this world can do.
The original title has important context:

> Emory University Suspends Students Over AI Study Tool The School Gave Them $10k To Build And Promoted

A modified title that fits within the character limit:

`University Suspends Students Over AI Study Tool The School Paid Them To Build`

The link to the lawsuit filed by Ben Craver, one of the suspended students:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24676044-16
Yeah I think organic maps and maps.me (the original organic maps was forked from) had the main purpose of being offline maps.

Great for travelling.

Also cool to check where you are on planes, on non intercontinental flights that don't have screens.
I'm assuming this is platform specific. It's totally smooth for me on a M1 MacBook Pro. Thats with a bunch of tabs open while on a zoom call (gotta do something to pass the time during standup). I find it annoying for other reasons, but I'm not seeing any perf issues on the page.

edit... reading through the other comments I see LOTS of people are having this issue. Not sure why I'm the lucky one, but I went back and clicked through all the pages, still no perceivable lag at all.
I left video game development for statistical mass appraisal of real estate for property tax purposes when I turned 40. No regrets.

Completely the opposite of game development in every way.
How do they seize it? Say I’ve got a 256-bit number memorized and I live on a farm in El Salvador.

Is the US sending seal team 6 to interrogate every person trading bitcoin on earth? Or, is that maybe a bit unrealistic?
The voices are not identical tho.
Our rural county requires a Masters for FT. Subs need to be bathed and not be banned 1000' from a school.
It also has to do with the "heat engine," and particularly the Stirling engine, and the related carnot cycle. An engine transforms heat to extract work.

A rocket motor has the expansion part of a heat engine in an obvious way. An electric motor produces motion, but isn't an engine.
Interesting! Can you elaborate on what the longer term vision is? Monetizing? Access? Allowing for integration in other tools?
> I knew they were the future

I think you made a good bet, but it's important to recognize it was a bet. Believing something is true, and then turning out to be correct, isn't the same as knowing something. The future is not knowable - it's only varying degrees of predictable.
Forget the proof for a moment. Can anyone at least explain what the conjecture is?
1967 Gyro-X [video]
>"the PPR uses a fission-based nuclear power system"

I'm not an expert but what if there is a sad accident in the upper atmosphere ? Radiations/radioactive materials all over the Earth ?
> Brave Search or Mojeek provide more privacy

Do they? Or have they just not had that "history" yet? I don't see anything fundamentally different in Brave that protects your and my privacy better than on DDG. I don't know Mojeek enough.
As someone who has obligations to provide for a family in the USA, I can't imagine leaving dev work without an absolute clear passion and burning drive to do something specific. Giving up a six figure income I use to feed and house my family that demands I use my brain while sitting in a comfortable indoor environment, doing nothing more physically taxing than use a keyboard? Sure, I have fantasies from time to time about doing something with more dynamism in meatspace, but let's get real: it's a fantasy. I can't imagine recommending anyone with a stable career in data work upset that apple cart unless they already have a clear aim in mind, which they think about day and night - not with the unsureness of this post.
Which part of that is illegal? Because I don't see anything.
I wonder if it’s just self-selection. If you play your cards right, IT can (could?) pay so well that you can afford to take a subsequent pay cut when transitioning to a new career. In a career that doesn’t pay as well this is impossible so people don’t even consider career changes as they can’t afford to take the hit.
however, as janekm says, we can't charge just based on cost savings. We would need the router points to be sufficiently compelling wrt quality, speed and cost (including our own margins) that users still sometimes opt for these router points. Suffice it to say, if any router configs do start to take margins, then this will be clearly reflected in the overall router cost plotted on the scatter graph. UX will not be affected.
I know - the space industry is moving fast but not that fast!
I'd say you can add the time Altman threatened to pull OpenAI out of the EU if its regulation wasn't to his liking https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-may-leave-eu-if-re...
3 levels is excessive for 40 engineers. You need the CIO, and below that 2-4 managers (there is some debate over how many people a manager can handle - 30 is too much, 5 is too little). You need that 3rd layer when the team is so large the CIO cannot manage all the managers reporting to him.
There's legal precedent against the first one. Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay after they used a Tom Waits soundalike in a commercial.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...
can you tell me anything substantial?
It's nice of you to clearly state what reasonable persons should believe violates the law. Alas, your contention about what reasonable people believe about the law isn't actually the law.
Hiring a different voice artist might show that they didn't use deepfake technology to imitate Johansson’s voice, but it absolutely doesn't prove that the voice isn't an imitation and one for which they would have been liable under existing law.