skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI didn't want their voice to sound like Scarlett Johansson, they wanted it to sound like Samantha from Her. Does Warner Brothers have a right to AI voices that sound like Scarlett Johansson? Shouldn't it be them suing?

What if she wasn't doing her own voice? Many actors have voiced characters not in their own voice over the years. Does Elmo's original voice actor own Elmo's voice or is it whoever owns Sesame Street?

I'm not necessarily making any assertions, I'm genuinely asking cause I don't know what kind of precedent is here. Though personally I'm not convinced of the case against OpenAI, other than bad optics from Altman.
Did you build the display yourself.
Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this project.

Thanks for your comment! I grew up using a Palm III that was already super old when I had it in high school. But years later, my fond memories of the sense of focus I had using it became a major inspiration for deciding to join Anjan’s team for this project :)
Mojeek has its very own index.
Of course there is. The subsidy would be on watts output, not on number if panels. Therefore any way to make the panels cheaper to produce and/or more efficient brings more revenue and more profit margin.
I always preferred amber to green when using monochrome PC monitors way back.
It doesn’t get updates, but I’m not overly concerned. It’s running WP10 and security would be a bigger concern if any apps supported it to begin with.

I don’t bank on my phone beyond checking my balance with SMS. If I need to actually move money around I’d rather do it on my computer.

The phone is used for calling, texting, mp3s, the weather, the calendar/reminders, and very occasional maps. I do have my gmail setup via imap with is probably the biggest risk I actually take.

I’ve written half a dozen of my own programs for specific things I need, but otherwise there’s nothing installed.

I know there’s some risk but I’m well aware of it and accept it.
I was hoping the mailing list link would be to an FTP site I'd upload my email to.
i kind of understand your perspective. i could never hold a job where i didn't enjoy working either. however over the years i have mellowed quite a bit, and learned to compromise because i realized there is more to life than only doing work i enjoy. also, there are more dimensions to enjoying work. in particular, there are always some aspects of work that are not fun and you have to find a balance.

from your proposal the main problem was living in an isolated area. i have lived in many places around the globe, but the key feature of every place was that it was not isolated. i just moved my whole family to get away from a place that ended up being to isolated. and for a startup i would move to a place where it is easy to find and hire new talent to grow the company. and the funding would have to be enough to pay for my whole family too.

i was part of a startup before, but i simply could not afford to stay because of the lack of funding. i totally would have continued if i could have funded myself.

in fact that's what i am doing now. using my savings to build a new business. it's a struggle though. the usual problem of a tech person failing to find customers. but i'll continue until i run out of money.
Bought a Fairphone very recently, it's a bit thick, but other than that, it's supported for a long time and repairable. And it seems to work just fine :-)
My biggest need is for an ebook reader. What abilities does it have in that area? Having trouble finding info on that on the web site.
They didn't use an impersonator.
They figured this out ages ago. this is why you see billboards and ads that simply feature a large logo. The next time you are in the store the primed neurons activate and humans are drawn towards the logos that they have been exposed to
Obligatory fuck China but this just sounds so unrealistic and impractical. Also, the fancy chat UI graphics makes the article look more like a fiction piece than actual news reporting, especially considering the limited proof provided.
DDG has relatively large pool of European employees.
Glue is probably much healthier that the cheese (its not real cheese) made of sunflower oil that they put on high street pizzas.

proper bad stuff!

how can they be allowed to call a mixture of sunflower oil, cheese?

here is a paper from 2002 highlighting the dangers of that non cheese.

The effect of vegetable oil-based cheese on serum total and lipoprotein lipids

https://www.nature.com/articles/1601452

so they have known about this for donkeys years

I prefer glue, at least you know what you are eating
How about instead of RAII built into the compiler, you define destructor functions for each datatypes that you care to and have a sidecar or compiler plugin or hell even a linter check that those destructors have been called when a variable of that type goes out of scope?

If you miss a destructor event, without configuring the addon "yes I really meant that", the addon halts the compilatoin at best, or returns nonzero for ci at worst.
Soviet Union as well. RBMK wasn't a good design but it was a standard design and they built many of them rather affordably.
I worked at a game company in the 90s that shipped a strategy game with a bug where the AI would literally never attack the player. I think the cause was some last minute copy/paste while rushing to deliver the game to the publisher. It was discovered before the game hit the shelves, but the decision was made to ship it anyhow and release a patch, which had just become a somewhat reasonable practice with all those 33.6k modems out there.
Indeed! A Waveshare portable e-ink monitor is $499.99 for the 10.3" size, almost identical to the Daylight's 10.5" display. The external display would also outlast this tablet device for sure.

And if I'm reading the MediaTek Helio G99 specs correctly, it seems to have similar raw performance to a Raspberry Pi 5. One could easily put together a little "productivity PC" using a Pi (or a Windows mini PC), a power bank, and have the added benefit of full-fledged desktop apps rather than Android versions of them.

I wanted to want to impulse buy this thing. But the above analysis, as well as the lack of any real hands-on 3rd party video-based reviews will be a no from me.
Also, if one of the individual engineers on the team has a desire to try management, took the training courses, has the support of the team, and believes he'll get a shot next time a manager is needed... and then you announce "Well, we couldn't find anyone internal for the job, so meet your new manager: the stranger we hired externally!" I guarantee that engineer will become instantly demoralized, checked out, and will likely quit soon. Source: My experience in my last three jobs.
Mistral AI co-founder and CTO: Frontier AI in your hands [video]
> I think nowadays, the idea that doing a commercial damages your artistic integrity is considered sort of an anachronism.

Scarlett Johansson might beg to differ.

I think some people just happen to create art.

I think others make it part of their personal definition, and to those integrity is part of it (if they choose to have it)
An aside, but wouldn't 9:04pm-9:06pm +/- 1 min just be easier expressed as 9:03 - 9:07pm?
> what is the best printer that i can buy?

> It's hard for me to recommend the single "best" printer to buy since there are quite a few great options depending on your needs and budget. Some of the most acclaimed printers include:
> Golden Gate Bridge: This iconic bridge connects the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. It's a beautiful sight to see.
> I'd recommend considering factors like:

> Type of bridge (e.g. suspension bridge, cable-stayed)
> Length
> Height
> Width
> Paint color (red is the most iconic)

> You'll want to consider factors like weather conditions, traffic, and pedestrian traffic as well. No matter what, the Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic sight that really stamps San Francisco as a destination city. I hope you'll enjoy visiting it!
Totally fair. I should have reworded. How many frameworks only send clicks over and don't have both down/up events included? Key presses usually have a repeat event?

We don't usually go so far as MIDI does with speed of press and such, but that is a fairly old concept.
Locating and manipulating snippet of information in huge LLMs is surely impressive but it is hard to believe that it can be scaled for more complex structures without using even bigger models.
Very likely no - so long as electrical power is free-ish. Because if they aren't actually producing X units of steel along with Y units of cement in each batch, then they'll have to pay for the whole thing out of just the cement sale revenues.
This could be used to create the Portal 2 Space personality core.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFgeustBpFk
Without going into pricing details, what's the longevity of an e-ink device at 60fps?

As far as I understand it, e-ink has essentially a "finite" albeit a very large number of refreshes available, when moving the "nodules" to display different images.

Has the issue been solved? E.g. will users be able to get at least 5-7 years of heavy usage out of this device? Or will this become e-waste after 2-3 years?
Advertisers: Great for product placement.
In highly competitive industries, some may resort to ruthless tactics to outmaneuver their competitors... But I want to bleieve that not all billionaires are like that
Buy a vending machine that dispenses crow snacks when money is put in.

Place the vending machine outside

Teach them that putting money in the vending machine dispenses crow snacks.

Practice placing dollar bills and other bits of paper around your property til they get the hang of it and figure out what works for the vending machine.

... profit?
Could you please help me to find a strongman interpretation of idealism?

The question i am primarily interested in, is: "whether there exists a Turing machine, output of which is indistinguishable from behavior of a human".

This is a purely abstract, mathematical question and should be in the purview of science. As far as i understand the answer to this question given by Idealism is that 1. it is not possible, and 2. when it is done it will still be impossible because despite behaving 100% the same as a human it will be something entirely different (a philosophical zombie), because 1 is true by definition.

Perhaps the confusion arises because we are just talking about different things? And you are not interested in either behavior of this kind of Turing machine, or in detailed description of physics of matter in the brain?

> Quantum nonlocality was demonstrated experimentally and people won the Nobel prize for it

There are still many interpretations possible, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_%3D_EPR or the interpretation proposed by Wolfram Physics project (which i rather like), which keeps local realism, but locality is not on R3 but on a graph.
For those in the field, is this surprising? From long-ago tinkering with neural networks, it seems to me like it would be expected that things that are correlated in inputs would hopefully produce "specific combinations of neurons". But how does it seem to those working actively on it?

Also, is calling them "concepts" a bit generous? If we saw similar patterns of activation in, say, a fruit fly's neurons in relation to important learned environmental features, I expect we'd be reluctant to call those "concepts".
How does that affect the end result?
Sort of interesting to compare the US experience in WWI, where a program to deliver 20k planes by the summer of July 1918 managed to get a whopping 196 planes into service before the war ended that November.

http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/relairprod.htm
This cracks me up. There's really cool implications with this research, but I think the fun value might actually outweigh it.
I remind you that bloodletting also was the first line treatment back in the day. And it's fair to say that our understanding of the human brain and how most drugs work are very rudimentary.

I have heard advice resembling some of points above from a qualified medical professional, specifically the "temporary" part. And I didn't appreciate it at the time - mentally I already was on "medication for life" bandwagon.

Few years later, however, the medication gradually became the problem rather than the solution. All the negative effects amplified with the benefits becoming sporadic and unreliable. The dosage adjustment didn't help.

Luke the hooray guy I also feel best on low-carb (or at least low-sugar) diet and when I am lifting consistently. Occasional outdoors is also kind of necessary to break the routine. If I don't do it at all I slip into some kind of degraded hamster-wheel mode eventually.

Just to be clear, I am not discouraging anyone from starting or continuing the meds. But similarly, don't be too afraid to stop them for a while if you feel this might be the right step for you personally.
My last Samsung monitor was great, and it still is. The new one's screen died about a week after I got it. I had better luck returning it to the local store than dealing with Samsung support. The replacement, however, had the same issue about two weeks later. I feel like Smansung has a monitor quality control issue. I didn't even bother dealing with Samsung support. Instead, I gave up and returned it to the local store for a refund.
It's common among Rust projects (the standard library also uses it).

Apache 2 has a patent grant
so it's preferred by companies, but is not compatible with GPLv2, and MIT is compatible with GPLv2.

Source: https://prev.rust-lang.org/id-ID/faq.html#why-a-dual-mit-asl...
Not to mention this is the way that physical buttons work in the real world. People would be immensely annoyed if suddenly doorbells, elevators, light switches, etc. didn't operate until release.
"So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by Tom Lehrer is one of my favorites.
Did you miss the stat directly underneath that?

> Heating and other energy-intensive water uses in homes and businesses make up almost 90% of water-related energy use, while treatment, pumping, and conveyance of water and wastewater account for the rest.

That's 2% for everything which isn't heating water. Pumping is some smaller fraction of that.
Fair nitpick, I think. Many games have "charge" moves that do something on release. Mega Man in later versions come to mind. Any game that lets you hold on to walls and such. Mario would be what comes to mind for those, as you would hold on to walls until you let go of the button.

Again, fair nitpick.
Sure, but the idea that animal cognition is radically different or lesser than ours is itself an assumptive default that science is comfortable making. We should question that as the default assumption.

As a pet owner, I find it absolutely ridiculous and insulting that animals intelligence is assumed to be so low. My firsthand experience is that there is a lot more intelligence there than people generally give them credit for, even if science hasn't delineated every single aspect of it yet. As scientists keep confirming these "discoveries", I think the default assumption (and language) should shift to assuming more similarity than differences unless proven otherwise.
This is great. Granted, it would only work for very specific art styles and even environments. Not sure that any hard-surface would look good with it. But organic surfaces end up looking pretty nice.

Have you considered destructability of surfaces? Or, even better, subsurfaces? Dirt, which can be swep, showing with a level of rock below. Breakable wood.
Could you please answer my question? Here, without typing it again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459804
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft now owns all of the old Sierra IP (if I'm not mistaken, the chain of custody was: Sierra -> CUC -> Cendant -> Havas -> Vivendi Universal -> Activision Blizzard -> Microsoft) and I wouldn't expect Microsoft to sue over old source code to a 40-year old game engine with a graphics resolution of 160x200. In fact, given that they've been gradually opening source code for DOS from the same era, they might even be convinced to make an official release of it.
> "Hey, this sounds just like the actress in 'Her', great, let's use them"

You agree that OpenAI is choosing the voice because it sounds like SJ. How exactly is that different from impersonation?
I read the first couple of sentences, opened the link on my phone and found the experience a bit disappointing. Then I realised they're talking about a _desktop_ PWA, complete with a mimetype file_handler.

I know it's not that big a deal and the performance improvements in that PR are the real headline, but I personally really appreciate a well-executed PWA & seeing it headlined as such. Those features have been there for donkeys years, and it blows my mind how rarely they're taken advantage of properly - especially on the desktop.
I love the change history comments. They show a high level of attention to detail and craftsmanship, at a time long before source control tools made this kind of thing obvious (and honestly, even after CVS/SVN/Git it still wasn't obvious to a lot of people).

This post also makes me think of the famous 'No Silver Bullet' essay[1], which in 1986 predicted that software would more or less continue to be written they way it was then, by programmers, painstakingly, one instruction after the other. The similarity of the game engine code (along with the comments) in the OP, to something I might have written today, bears this out, I think, almost 40 years (!) later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
And then what if you combined the compiler+linter together.
>The Universe (which others call the Golden Gate Bridge) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite series of spans...
I have the same feeling about the first games I played "seriously". You know, some games you know of and have played as a kid, but some game was the first game that you consciously invested time in to finish it. For me it was some super weird Shrek-themed clone of MarioKart on the Nintendo GameBoy Advance. As a kid I really didn't see it as a MarioKart clone, just a fun game I wanted to finish entirely.

I absolutely forgot about it and only recently saw some YouTube video about what a weird game that was. Seeing that game again with its soundtracks and weird sound effects and clunky mechanics really triggered that exact feeling of a "connection" that you speak of.
The lack of any 3rd party hands-on video reviews was the biggest red flag that halted any consideration I had to purchase this product.
This was also my question, and I found what seems to be the answer. It's not quite definitive enough for me, but it's the best I've found so far.

> Note: it’s 60fps epaper, not off the shelf Eink. We spent years developing what we think is the best epaper display in the world and it’s exclusively manufactured by our display factory in Japan.
Same with charging an apple mouse - like they can't stand the idea of having a cable sticking out of it while being used.
If I am, for example, running a test on an android device connected to my linux machine as the host to send adb commands and what not, can I use this profiler to profile android app memory consumption?
> PHP just embraced it hard from the very beginning

Which is also the reason why a lot of the PHP standard library functions are so inconsistent. They're straight wrappers around the C libraries.

Upside is, unless you have to do shit with pointer magic or play around the edges of signed/unsigned numbers, it's fairly easy to port C example code for any of the myriad things PHP has bindings to to PHP.
The sooner the distrust of AI reaches a tipping point, the sooner we get back to traditional search which is their territory.
It must. IIRC Anthropic has a 'red team' of sorts. I wonder what they can do with this technique? What are the limits of "evil" of these current models?
Similar to LG, is that correct?

I have no clue that's why I'm asking.
Trying to understand better the solution. Why isn't it possible to restrict the application via process isolation (nsjail, cgroups, docker...) and wasm is needed instead?
Fair, I think. Most toolkits usually have a down and release event, with click being a shortcut on those. Has an odd parallel/collision with keypresses, as those also have repeat events, often? I don't know any system that has click repeats as a configured thing.
That's perfectly fine. SJ does not have an intellectual property claim on someone else's natural speaking voice. This is addressed directly in Midler v. Ford.

You don't know that's what happened, but it wouldn't matter either way. Regardless: it is misleading to call that person an "impersonator". I'm confident they don't wake up the morning and think to themselves "I'm performing SJ" when they order their latte.
I would like to know the cost of enabling this type of selective specialization of the models.

If it’s particularly not intensive, I wouldn’t be surprised if model architecture moves towards self-specialization or topic-selection with some effective function calling e.g. model used for a while -> automatically call model specializer after a few queries on the topic -> now use the newly returned specialized LLM

I wonder at what magnitude this could improve model efficacy
Sure, as long as you don't put it in the type system.
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring a staff software engineer for Checkr Pay
This is very common and will happen almost everywhere you work.

As an industry we should spend our time pursuing other areas that are more objective.

I have nothing against the article, or the author, but especially with linked in expert opinions there is a lot of noise.
A good writeup: https://www.livescience.com/chemistry/scientists-grow-diamon...
You can see the videos here: https://daylightco.gorgias.help/en-US#article-509983
Only in the US it seems. Non-US models usually have no issue with bootloader unlocking and the custom ROM scene is usually pretty active.

It may trip an e-fuse though, causing some features to be disabled forever. But unfortunately that's the direction Android has taken over the years. Getting stuff like banking to work on a non-stock phone is getting more and more annoying, even for the most hacker-friendly phones. I have stopped with custom ROMs, too much hassle for a daily driver, smartphones are not fun anymore, they are more like appliances than general purpose computers.
The companies buying billions of dollars of Nvidia GPUs definitely do want to commodify the GPU
On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests
There are people who archive old software using modern tools like flux imaging to allow making perfect disk copies. It might be someone noticing data in free space while imaging one of these disks.
There's a classic solution to detecting most missing entries: make your value a pair of a signature and the actual value. m signature bits result in a 2^-m false match rate for keys not in the input map.

Again, the MWHC construction does not need to map the hashed keys to ranks, they can map to the values directly.
When the celebrity is involved is nearly always like that
I have a recent OnePlus and it's been excellent. I like it even more than the older ones I had, which is directionally quite different than my experience with Apple and Samsung.
- run the kindle app (android app)
- run epub readers like lithium reader
- use our PDF reader or others like adobe
- go into the browser and download books
- use google play books and its beautiful page flip animation lol
I've tried it and it's extraordinary. Is it worth it, at this price, to you? That's something only you can answer. But it's unlike anything you've ever seen. I agree that it needs to be seen to be understood and hopefully they can get in retail outlets at some point.