skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A random person's normal speaking voice is nobody's intellectual property. The burden would have been on SJ to prove that the voice actor they hired was "impersonating" SJ. She was not: the Washington Post got her to record a voice sample to illustrate that she wasn't doing an impersonation.

Unless & until some 3rd other shoe drops, what we know now strongly --- overwhelmingly, really --- suggests that there was simply no story here. But we are all biased towards there being an interesting story behind everything, especially when it ratifies our casting of good guys and bad guys.
Depends on the mathematical framework you're working with.... there's a genre in theoretical compsci that deals with parallel algorithms, and as a toy example, I remember an O(1) sorting algo (given O(n^2) processors). This example is more fun than anything, but ofc in general you're free what constraints you subject your statements to.
Those words haven't (so far as I know) been sung either: they're from one of his spoken preambles, not from any of the songs.

(The preambles are generally at least as funny as the songs, at least in my estimation.)
And, hired a voice actress that sounds exactly like Rashida Jones [1] rather than SJ, 6 months before.

These don't have to be related. Maybe they are, but the confidence that they are is silly, since having a big celebrity name as the voice is a desirable thing, great marketing, especially one that did the voice acting for a movie about AI. My mind was completely changed when I actually listened to the voice comparison for myself [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435695
We are on different scales of time. This does not work. Ask MS how well this technique went with phones. Their moat is as wide as the Mississippi. It will be a while, but there's a large quantity of water required to fill that ditch. They obviously know what they're doing, but time has a way of eating things.
Could you give an example of a large system that has ample opportunity for easy abuse, but does not have widespread abuse?

If not, why do you think this will be the first one?
Money is not only diffrentiator. For example, sometimes you couldn't just buy something, because they won't sell. Or stop selling to you.
From the timeline on page 253:

1944 - Army Medical Corps authorize Rochester to study polonium exposure
on humans (Moss, et al, 196)

April 10, 1945 - The first human plutonium injection occurs in Oak Ridge; three others were “approved” for Chicago, Berkeley/San Francisco, and Los Alamos by Dr. Friedell at Oak Ridge (under Langham‟s instruction), Hamilton, and Warren. (Moss, et al, 195)

April 26, 1945 - Second human plutonium injection takes place in a 68-year old man at Billings Hospital in Chicago (Moss, et al, 197).

May 14, 1945 - Third person injected with plutonium at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco (Moss, et al, 197).

October 1945-July 1946 - Eleven patients were injected with plutonium at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY; this included seven men and four women
ranging in age from 18 years through 68 years old. The 18-year old died approximately 1.5 years later (Moss, et al, 205).
An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023
Background from one of the authors: https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1709371816479952993.
I wonder if it would go well with some Volkswagen sausage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst
>Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers

are you saying the ones doing the deferring should be managers, or the ones being deferred to?
I'm a game developer who writes games that run with rollback netcode even on android web browsers, so yeah, performance critical code. There's only one data structure in any of our games that shows memory operations in the profiler at all, the one that holds the game states on the clients. This is quite a bit of data and is operated on frequently. We use a robin hood flat map for that. For all the other stuff we basically use std::vector and it never shows up in the profiler.

I think it's wild how people insinuate I'm a fool if I literally say it never is a problem for us. I think it creates a "boy who cried wolf" problem if you always harp on stuff that doesn't actually manifest.

In general, I'm with you on memory allocation. I recently rewrote our animation system to not allocate memory at runtime, but to say "never use std::vector because it's performance is bad" is a statement I can't get behind.
Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Ok, so what you seem to have said in this thread is that the system today is a huge contributor to the replication crisis but any suggestion that things could be done differently is met with an endless barrage of questions and resistance that no, it had to be done this way. So your complaint is that there’s a system at all instead of anarchy? Really not sure what point you’re trying to make.
Same, this was the 1st game I had on the first PC we had at home. And I didn’t even know English so I played through all of it using an English-Spanish dictionary and lots of patience.
Lots of people are disputing it.
I'm sure there are many contexts in which this is a good idea.

For many others, though, I like to be able to press, move whatever pointing device I'm using from the hot zone, and release to cancel the action. It's like holding the chess piece.
The React example given at the end misses out on one issue where even linters can't help: fetching data and accessing its contents. Setting aside error handling (fetch call fails), the response data could have a different schema than what the code expects.

This is what parsers are for (in TS: zod, valibot, joi, yup et al). Preferably those that can express type definitions for their output that matches the runtime validation.

You can't have type-safety without untrusted input parsing.
This is brilliant. And it also illuminates how it can turn into something deeply maladaptive and self-destructive when we cling too hard to something that's passed or will eventually pass, when we define ourselves too much by that which we love or are loved.

It reminds me of all the times when I was young where I thought I was deeply in love, but really I was just in love with the feeling of being loved and accepted. And my grief when that was gone was love that I could've directed towards myself where it should've gone. It took until my 30s when I realized I could provide the love that I'd been missing all my life, and only then could I be in love in a way that wasn't suffocating and borne of fear.
Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems
That's sombering, words can't express the gravity of that war
Most computers can count to 2^32-1, and many can count even higher! They can also string words together grammatically, which means they are one step away from an artificial general superintelligence explosion.

But when non-human animals use AAC systems, or vocalise words directly, to express wants or needs, they aren't really talking, because they don't use tree-like grammars.
It does. But not beyond iOS 15. Most recent update: 15.8.2 a couple of months ago. Personally I'm really impressed that Apple is still supporting an 8-year-old phone and it's probably the main thing that has been tempting me to jump ship from Android for a while. (Though it seems like Android might be better on this in future.)
I didn't think they varied their use pattern by time of day.

They might rely on cheaper power to lower the average cost make financial sense, but that is a different than soley utilizing excess power.

If they cant rationalize the opex running 8 hours a day, there is still a problem. My understanding is that many of these plants cant even shut down and be restarted.
> My impression is this is gradually going by the wayside for all brands

That's my impression as well, and is precisely why my current smartphone will be my last smartphone.
These tools empower me to express myself. I also continue to pay professional artists for their work.
This is not a thing. They hired a voice actor, who spoke in her normal speaking voice. That voice is not SJ's intellectual property, no matter what it sounds like. Further, I don't know how you can say any intention here is "clear", especially given the track record on this particular story, which has been abysmal even after this story was published.

They could have taken auditions from 50 voice actors, come across this one, thought to themselves "Hey, this sounds just like the actress in 'Her', great, let's use them" and that would be fine. Laurence Fishburne does not own his "welcome to the desert of the real" intonation; other people have it too, and they can be hired to read in it.

Again: the Post has this voice actor reading in the normal voice. This wasn't an impersonator.
It has nothing to do with hours of exposure. You don't need time to learn someone's voice, in the same way you don't need time to recognize their face.

And obviously we're talking about "normal" voices as opposed to impressions or accents. But we still recognize voices even if the voice is doing a wide range of emotions. The same way we don't stop recognizing someone's face when they change from a smile to a frown.
Really? Are there any leaks of the original version? I would love to see the difference.
The question isn't "is it useful", it's "should it be part of the core of the application".

If this meets the bar for "worth inclusion in the core of the application", I would rather stick to terminal emulators that are spending their time on making the terminal emulator more responsive rather than adding gimmicks that have to be maintained.
It decarbonized its electricity production by building a lot of nuclear (eg. left fossil fuels in the dust). Of course only partly, as the nuclear fleet still depends on fossil fuels, but still a great achievement.
Although, as the article notes, he did glancingly dip his toe back in a couple of times but my impression was that he was just ready close that chapter. Even requests from close friends fell on deaf ears.
Minions are great. Make toddlers laugh and parents will be happy.
I have very similar feelings. My dad worked at a steel mill and was friends with a 'computer guy' at the mill who gave him a copy of SQ2 for me to play at home. I played that game relentlessly but was pretty young so I was confused by a lot of it.

Anytime I was really stuck, I would ask dad to ask the 'computer guy' how to get past a certain point and I seem to remember he would kindly provide hints, but not outright solutions.

It's probably been 35 years since, but I even remember with some detail a dream I had related to that game. It really had a big impact on me.
> I suspect in any solar system, the mass of the non-stars are a rounding error compared to the whole system's mass.

A brown dwarf orbiting a red dwarf would beg to differ.
not to be confused with Amber, the crystal lang web framework
But do you agree that not everyone is meant to work on Jira tickets? I think a lot of people's ADHD flies under the radar until they face the unescapable tedium of corporate work and bureaucracy. Perhaps under different circumstances people with ADHD would shine without needing any medication.
Pay transparency laws by state: https://www.rippling.com/blog/pay-transparency-laws-state-by...
That's exactly how it works, as you can see from the demo video in the post. Because you can tell it to output like that.

And sure, Google could add that, but it doesn't have that today.
I did this once with a noisy jay.

the jay would screech, and I would copy it. I did this for enough time for the jay to realize this, and then it went from screech to a pleasant coo type sound.
It’s a joke.

That’s how they pronounce it.
Lots of animals are carrion eaters, but aren't given the same ominous treatment. Some examples would be beetles, eels, alligators, etc.
Creating clean energy with fusion, desalinating salt water for near limitless clean water, reducing plastic use, curing cancer and on and on and on
Been using /e/OS almost since the beginning and it is amazing how smooth the experience and combo of cloud and OS has become, and then in addition there is the privacy advantages and that it is open source. Love it!
For a quite long time, a very popular format was mbox (the most popular?), which is a single file. With the arrival of qmail, it was slowly replaced by Maildir.
Nitpicking, the "half an A press" terminology refers to getting effects from having A held, not from the release (I could nitpick this example more but I'll stop there); something like Street Fighter might be a better example for an effect specifically from releasing.
I don't think I have ever seen auch a system. Seems incredibly weird, as you can't reliably distinguish between the two. A user moving his mouse during a click is it a drag? Or is an activation? That is very hard to distinguish.

In my experience games with auch an inventory system have e.g. a double click for use.

(Also, this is irrelevant to his point I think.)
The parent's pointer is to "MH-E", the emacs package, which is a great interface to MH for folks who use emacs to read their email.

For folks who don't, I wanted to clarify that MH also works great outside of emacs. Its command-line tools are composable, so you can do things like reply to the first message about chess sent this week:

repl `pick -subject chess -after "19 May 24 0000 PST"`

Using them in scripts is especially powerful.

The modern implementation is "nmh", "New Message Handler", https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/. MH was the mail system within MIT's Athena computing environment back in the day, so many MIT folks developed a fondness for it and it retains a following. There's even a very comprehensive O'Reilly book, free online: https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/
This is obviously anecdotal: I keep wanting to support iFixit and I still come back to them despite their increased cost + shipping compared to Amazon because I believe in good QC from a reputable company and I believe in their mission.

Unfortunately I have been burned twice. First iPod batteries: They seems like they are sitting around forever and are of the same quality as what you'd find on Amazon (they look the same as well).

Secondly I was super excited for their magnetic mat with marker. All the youtubers were promoting it and I snatched it up despite it seeming quite pricy for what you get. The marker failed after 1-2 uses. In both the iPod battery + marker case, they were willing to ship replacements but it takes time and is a hassle and by then the enthusiasm is gone. I walked away thinking what did I pay extra for?

Also after using their toolkits for a while, I don't consider their tools top tier quality anymore, just middle of the road and does not seem worth the price (maybe during their black friday deals it is more palatable).
Upgrading an M1 MacBook Air to 2TB [video]
It's going to play poorly when C++ exceptions are thrown/caught.
Seriously. It's awful to see people accusing him of jumping on the hype train and making it out as if him adding an AI feature is going to make him any more well known or wealthy. Like how about at least considering that he finds ChatGPT useful for coming up with commands and decided it made sense to integrate it into the sidebar toolbelt where he already has tools like paste history, a notepad, and directory history.
It's phonetic for a local pronunciation.
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That is not 100% what I read in this paper.
There are several takes:

1. LoRA makes transformers linear versus pre-training that keeps non-linearity (in 3.1 and 3.2). What is kinda to be expected.[One more insight is that the combination of seemingly linear blocks can lead to non-linear output]. Thus you can replace part of the layers in fine-tuned models by nn.Linear for inference ...

2. There is a way to make LoRA keep non-linearity by changing loss function and improve performance of the model (in 4, Cosine Similarity regularization term).

3. Small models are surprisingly unaffected. But IMO that may be because of small number of layers and weights overall and the adapter layer being much larger in comparison to the model size.
Sometimes the "end result" isn't my end result

I want to create a game, but I have no interest in creating art and models, much less programming physics, netcode, abilities, etc

I'd prefer to create the games rules, mechanics and interactions (aka, the actual game experience). But I am forced to do the above because the gaming industry is lagging behind in DX it barely changed in the last 10 years

Every "art" has many sub-processes that are themselves art. Making paint, brushes, canvas, etc. But does anyone complain about artists not taking joy in creating their own paint after foraging for some rare purple spitting slime?

If you view one art form as a tool for your art, so be it
No, that's not the legal standard here.
Based on their other post in this thread they’re the founder of daylight computer.
Other than the editors built in to the paid for lisps, nothing comes even close to emacs+sly/slime.

Lsps are am amazing improvement to the average IDE, but is barely of fraction of what common lisps introspection can do.
It's fairly easy to make a turing machine that goes exponential and blows up forever.

But the really tricky part to understand is why it eventually stops. After an unimaginably high number of steps.
He’s talking about GUIs, not games.

It’s standard for the “click” event to get sent on mouse button release. I think it’s been this way ever since the 1980s.
I'm speaking from personal experience, I don't have quantitative data. If I'm on a review / confirmation screen I would prefer the action to be triggered on release - that's how other forms work and I gotten used to it working that way. Getting another popup to confirm the action would be annoying.

For other actions like adding stuff to a basket, increasing number of items etc, yes use on press.
I sometimes wonder if leaked source code has any value, especially code like that that doesn't contain secrets that could be taken advantage of by hackers (ex: keys, backdoors, ...).

The leak obviously doesn't come with any license, so you can't reuse that code for your own products, at least not if you don't want to get sued. So it means that in order to take advantage of the code for your own work, you need to read it, understand the techniques, and apply them to your own work in a way that doesn't smell like copyright infringement. More often than not, it is harder to do than going from scratch, and in cases it is advantageous, how often will you get a real competitive advantage?

Developers often write code from scratch even when they could use open source code that is well documented and with a permissive license. Reading code is often harder than writing it. Even just rebuilding it may be challenging.

It may facilitate piracy, but barely, games often got cracked and distributed within days, and the copy protection may not even be part of the source code.
> It isn't about her, it's about how OpenAI used her voice.

It absolutely is about her.

If her customers get sued because a more rich and powerful person has a kinda similar voice as hers, then the effect is basically the same as making it not legal for her to work.

Her customers shouldn't be sued because a rich person has a similar voice to hers.

> It's not illegal for her customers to hire her.

Oh great! So you agree that she should be allowed to do this work, and nobody should be sued for it, as long as she isn't going around saying lines from a movie, or dressed up as someone else.

She should be fullyed allowed to sell her services to whatever customer she wants, and those customers shouldn't be targeted, as long as she isn't doing impersonation, which she isn't, as she is simply using her natural voice that happens to sound similar to a rich and powerful person.
"The team looked at a binary star system at the edge of the Milky Way known as VFTS 243, comprising of a main sequence O star and a black hole orbiting each other every 10.4 days" - sounds intense!
Ah yes, fighting for seats by paying extra and having to board early, i.e. spending more time than strictly required in an airplane seat.

As somebody preferring to make use of that extra time in the airport, that sounds horrible.
It would be cool if we could cast our phone screens to it. That way we wouldn't have to deal with file and app synchronization, cellular tethering, or any of the other friction points of using multiple devices.
Median AI Engineer Compensation: $300K
As of Q1 2024, AI engineers are making $100k more than software engineers.
I don’t know if he was he was making that point, but rather he was expressing the desire to avoid anthropmorphosizing by describing the same thing in different words.

(Kind of like what I did now, hehe)
When I last visited China in 2002, the military was both a jobs program and involved in public works projects similar to the US Corps of Engineers but with higher priority.
I dunno, after the steaming pile that the Dasun Color Monitor turned out to be (some notes of mine here [1]), I’m kind of weary of this e-ink thing. The problem isn’t just ghosting and slowness, I could deal with that. It’s also reflective, very poor contrast, bad dithering, awful color reproduction.

One would have to hold it in ones hand first.

…very cool looking project though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40364254
If "Her" weren't Sam's favorite movie, and if Sam hadn't tweeted "her" the day it launched, and if they hadn't asked SJ to do the voice, and if they hadn't tried to reach her again two days before the launch, and if half the people who first heard the voice said "Hey, isn't that SJ?" -

Then I'd say you have a point. But given all the other info, I'd have to say you're in denial.
> By the time the phone is 5~ years old, I’m going to want the new one anyway.

Fair enough. But there are also a fair number of people who, like myself, would be pretty irritated to have to replace their phone after only 5 years.
its a good idea, know any good firmware / encoding engineers who could help us build really good casting?
I dont understand your point. Are you saying there isnt enough recyclable concrete to meet the demand for new construction?

If we create half as much concrete waste as demand, that 7.5% could drop by half.
"common" is a pretty big exaggeration.
Well done with the launch. This is a tricky space, but if successful you will be very successful.

A health platform I helped build was open sourced[0] (the apps built on it are closed source and deployed in NHS trusts). Feel free to dig around for any inspiration :-)

[0] https://github.com/polaris-foundation
The result is amazing! It reads the direction of the book on the cover.
>Even so, if they got a voice actor to impersonate or sound similar to Johansson, is that something that's not allowed?

Correct, that is not allowed in the US.
It's a bit more complicated than just production capacity of shitty quadcopters. The limiting factor with them isn't the airframe, you can make that out of literal tree branches and duct tape. The part that's important is the chips and US leadership seems very intent on fixing that, the question is if they're capable of doing so.

We also don't know what form drones will take as the technology matures. Quadcopters are common right now because they require exactly zero aerodynamic knowledge to build or fly. Any tween with an AliExpress+YouTube account could design, build, and fly all of the systems we've seen to date. As the systems become more automated in the face of EWAR, lasers, shotguns, whatever, expect a reversion to high speed fixed wing systems that trade a little bit of CDF knowledge for order-of-magnitude performance improvement in basically all realms (payload, range, endurance, speed, survivability etc).
Nothing forces them to charge extra for seat assignments!

There are still a couple that include free seat assignments (within your booking class, and without introducing a fake "basic economy" class without assigned seats), and that's by far my preferred seating model.