skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I really do this. Have done since I started working.

At one of my first jobs as a student employee they offered me a salary X. In the contract there was some lower number Y. When I pointed this out, they said "X includes the bonus. It's not in the contract but we've never not paid it". OK, if this is really guaranteed, you can make that the salary and put it in writing. They did, my salary was X and that year was the first time they didn't pay the optional bonus. Didn't affect me, because I had my salary X.

IANAL and I don't know how binding this is. I'd think it's crucial for it to be in both copies of the contract, otherwise you could have just crossed it out after the fact, which would of course not be legally binding at all and probably fraud (?)

In practice, it doesn't really come up, because the legal department will produce a modified contract or start negotiating the point. The key is that the ball is now in their court. You've done your part, are ready and rearin' to go, and they are the ones holding things up and being difficult, for something that according to them isn't important.

UPDATE:

I think it's important to note that I am also perfectly fine with a verbal agreement.

A working relationship depends on mutual trust, so a contract is there for putting in a drawer and never looking at it again...and conversely if you are looking at it again after signing, both the trust and the working relationship are most likely over.

But it has to be consistent: if you insist on a binding written agreement, then I will make sure what is written is acceptable to me. You don't get to pick and choose.
> That seems like a positive, not a negative. If you don't like the choices of the people running Twitter or BlueSky, you can't leave but still maintain your social graph.

I (actually not my personal but a project account) had to move servers because the original server had been blocked by other admins because of a fairly interminable dispute about whether one user had been racist (it was far from clear cut from what I could tell from the brief time I spent digging into it).

How is this positive? It seemed to spell out a future where Mastodon split into islands based on long-forgotten generational disputes.

I want one network with a clean way to choose who I see and who interacts with me. I don't want other people making this decisions on my behalf.
> They are equally necessary and that's all there is to it.

Equally necessary doesn’t mean equally valuable. So there is that.

The more tasks that are automated, the more easily a low level worker is replaced. And the less they will get paid.

Think warehouses, checkout attendants, gig workers, …

The masses of jobs don’t require unique humans. And the more is automated, the less individual worker skills matter. For most jobs.

This gives businesses huge economic leverage over their workers. They will pay them the minimum it takes, and since this is an economy wide problem, every drop in wages somewhere makes it easier for wages to be dropped elsewhere while still retaining workers.

Finally, any area where many workers manage to hold onto higher wages will have a target painted on it as a prime place for new business value to be made finding a way to commoditize their work with automation.

Businesses are rapidly growing the capabilities of their physical and informational automation. Human workers are not getting stronger, faster, or smarter. So they are forced to compete for jobs by getting cheaper.
Try "Meditation" by Eknath Easwaran.

I read it some years ago, so don't remember for sure about the dogma bit, but it likely does not have much of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_Meditation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eknath_Easwaran
https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart/
What dedicated controllers would you recommend? Is there a FPV that works for both drones in real life and in games? Any ones in particular you like?
They're aware of the problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1cynfft/duckduc...
So is DuckduckGo, Germany
> What amazes me about spiders is their complex unlearned behavior. No trapdoor spider learns how to build a trap. No orb weaver learns how to spin a web. Trap/web building behavior is entirely programmed in their DNA.

Do we really have evidence for this rather than observation and communication from parents to offspring. I'm deeply skeptical.
so... your position is now in favor of SJ? I don't see consistency in your comments other than that the aim is to downplay uniqueness of voice to justify OAI's actions after the fact.
> What makes a likeness a likeness?

I'm not sure. Precedented personality rights would be a good place to start [1].

I'd argue for a higher standard of evidence for human-produced voices, Middler v. Ford Motor Co. seems good as any [2]. But a lower burden for synthesised voices, given the difficulty in proving intent and mass producibility of them.

> A claim that the voice originates from a certain person? Then you don't need any licensing in this case

Altman basically claimed as much by tweeting about Her in its context. At that point, he is using her fame to market his products without her permission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
That seems more like a typo than anything, in Formula jargon the engine is called a "power unit" not plant, not to mention that that a plant is generally a place of industry and not a object (e.g., nuclear plant ...).

In either case, calling a "silnik" a "powerplant" is a very large stretch, where as a "powerunit" would be a more accurate translation since it has the same meaning as a engine/motor.
If that is true then it is huge news. When you say "NOTHING to do with Cloudflare services" do you really mean that you have never used them as a registrar or DNS host for that domain? Have you perhaps used another provider that is reselling/whitelabeling cloudflare services?
High BMI linked to reduced brain volume and increased white matter lesions
Most hotels don't have kitchens.

Most hotels are incredibly expensive if you need to stay for several weeks.

Most hotels are located in tourist areas, which may increase your commute if you're in an area for a specific reason.
In 2015 (almost 10 years ago now) the tech probably wasn't as convincing as it is today. But I agree you could probably get like 90% there
If you hire someone who has been on disability for more than 2 years, they still get their Medicaid for a year or two. I hope that explains most of this.
That's not what you suggested, though. You said that young talented directors will make movies with an AI-generated Tom Cruise anyway and insinuated that this is what we should allow. That's the opposite of "...being clear that it's not me." By the way, the law already allows all this when it's clear that no particular person is imitated. We're talking about the cases when it's not clear.

Or do you suggest to have different laws for celebrities and poor actors?
In his book "Collapse," Jared Diamond speculates about the cutting down of the last tree on Easter Island and how this event might have contributed to the civilization's downfall.

Might someone in the future ponder who initiated the last airline for dogs?
> The actress did impersonate Her though.

Did she? The article claims that:

1. Multiple people agree that the casting call mentioned nothing about SJ/her

2. The voice actress claims she was not given instructions to imitate SJ/her

3. The actress's natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice

I don't personally think it's anywhere near "identical" to SJ's voice. It seems most likely to me that they noticed the similarity in concept afterwards and wanted to try to capitalize on it (hence later contacting SJ), opposed to the other way around.
Also name mangling (which in this case would simply be appending the namespace name to the identifier) would be trivially implementable in C.

In fact on some targets the assembler name of identifiers doesn't always match the C name already.

Although as someone almost always explicitly qualifies names,
typing foo_bar is not very different from foo::bar; the only minor advantages are that you do not have to use foo:: inside the implementation of foo itself and the ability to use aliases.
This is awesome. What kind of hardware are you using? If you don't mind.
> replaced by a brighter and cleaner version that was drawn on a computer

Can you source this statement?
Microsoft has ultimate leverage tho; if they pull the plug from Azure, OpenAI will go to bankrupt in days. And Microsoft has still rights for all the intellectual material.
This is a useful table that I'll have to look at more closely, but it wouldn't have predicted or prevented a problem I've had.

I recently had my home-grown[0] backup system fail silently because although the EXT4 formatted drive had bags of space remaining[1], it ran out of i-nodes.

That was ... unexpected.

Is there a suitable file system that doesn't have that problem?

[0] I have specific and complex requirements not met by any system I found, so despite the obvious potential pitfalls, rolling my own that did exactly and only what I wanted was a reasonable holding strategy.

[1] The system monitors all sorts of things and emails me warnings.
A bit a digression but the community around #emacs on freenode and emacswiki.org was really wonderful when I was active on it in the early 2000s. Lots of people who were as helpful as they were knowledgeable. ALmost none of the internet trolling and bile that plagues many modern fora and real friendships formed from meeting people online. It's a great throwback to see a page from that site on HN.
Scarlet Johansson is threatening legal action against OpenAI for this.

Are you not aware of this?
So you are saying that if people thought they were contributing to keep Wikipedia running because that is what the ads claimed, its their fault for not going through the financial reports to see where the money is going.

If you raise money saying it is for wikipedia, it should be spent only on wikipedia or IMO it is misleading.
It's a personal preference thing. I've never liked tiling WMs. I have no use for tiny little stacked terminals / windows. But, I know folks who will never do anything other than a tiling WM. (I'm writing this from Niri, by the way. It is excellent.)
I was not aware of that, thank you.

I guess I'm surprised that such a crucial feature isn't standard in everything if you can't even properly display a common language like Arabic without it.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is a reasonable take and it's even in the guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
No it's not. It's pronounced in the same way as the US, unless you're David Attenborough.

Edit: It seems as though others do say slow-th, but it's not something I've really heard from the younger generation
How do you explain the many people saying that the voices do not sound especially similar?

"The pitch is kiiiiiind of close, but that's about it. Different cadence, different levels of vocal fry, slightly different accent if you pay close attention. Johansson drops Ts for Ds pretty frequently, Sky pronounces Ts pretty sharply. A linguist could probably break it down better than me and identify the different regions involved."

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cx24sy/vocal_...

There is also a faction claiming that Sky's voice is more similar to Rashida Jones's than Scarlett Johansson's:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cx9t8b/vocal_comp...
At that point you're slowly going to rebuild X11 except without XFree86 baggage and with some extensions (like extensive security that some servers provided) included whereas XFree86 (and tbqh, wayland) come from the land of "first step, disable selinux"
Very often the cost of recovery would be much higher than 4 times the ransom.

Just look at the British Library as discussed in the article, not paying the 500K ransom cost them more than 6M so far. And was much more damaging to the public (I know because I tried to register after the ransomware and they simply don't have online registration anymore). They are STILL basically offline more than 6 months after:

> We're continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack. Our buildings are open as usual, however, the outage is still affecting our website, online systems and services, as well as some onsite services. This is a temporary website, with limited content outlining the services that are currently available, as well as what's on at the Library.

You could change that percentage to any amount and it wouldn't change a thing, it will still be cheaper to pay in most cases, and ransomware attackers will just lower the price if it's not. Change the British Library to any privately owned company, and no matter the price it will ALWAYS be better to pay than to be literally out of business for more than half a year (dead at that point).
Sorry, but: first, the usual criticism is that the one who claims has to show some proof, unless it's commonly accepted. The parent comment didn't. It just says "it's A or B", excluding the viability of every other option. Your criticism is better directed at that comment.

Second, look at Western/Northern Europe, or if you really insist on making this a US-only discussion: look at the period following WW2. It is possible to pay a living wage and to build a social safety net for the unemployed. It just requires the political guts to regulate the market.

Third, you can't just go around making absurd, polarizing comments and demand to be corrected in detail.
Actually, I think it was me asking "Show me an example of a major systems outage at Microsoft."

/Bets on "If it's not DNS, they'll be rolling back a poorly-tested patch they just installed."?
There are many many many movies with conversational AIs. Why that one?
That would be a rather weird and boneheaded thing to do, when you've already twice approached said AI's voice actor and been rejected.

There are any number of human-sounding movie AI's, but apparently only one whose actor has specifically and repeatedly rejected this association.

Does he keep getting into ethical hot water because he's a reckless fool, or because he doesn't really care about ethics at all, despite all the theatre?
The best case business pitch is total replacement of all white collar jobs. It's even more a "take over the world" pitch than regular tech companies. Now, quite a lot of that is unrealistic and will never be delivered, but which bit?

AI raises all sorts of extremely non-tech questions about power, which causes all the drama.

Edit: also, they've selected for people who won't ask ethical questions. Thus running into the classic villain problem of building an organization out of opportunistic traitors.
Not as much as a GUI, but yes.

When I ssh home, I would prefer a bloated TUI in ssh console and not do X forwarding or VNC. In fact, I prefer a TUI even when I'm at home.
The order of the events is different, but it still comes down to whether OA had a specific voice in mind when building the chatbot.

By your logic, I could go find a Tim Cook looking and sounding guy, make a promotion video with him praising my new startup, ping Tim Cook to check if by any chance he wouldn't miraculously be willing to do me a favor to avoid me all the trouble in the first place, but still go on and release my video ads without any permission.

"I did all the preparation way before asking the celebrity" wouldn't be a valid defense.
Obviously there have been lots of female voices for AIs in movies. But not all of them sound the same. OpenAI could have created a new voice personality for their AI by hiring almost any female voice actress available. But they didn't. They chose to copy Her.
We would not see these headlines, if they never asked her and never mentioned her. Then it would be just voice of some voice actress which might or might not sound like Scarlett.
Who has ever said that evolution is perfect?
> The main issue is that humans suck at defining module boundaries and managing dependencies.

Thus microservices, nothing like putting process boundaries into what humans fail to learn to do properly, even better with a network in the middle.
Bing API is down, bringing Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT web search
The underscore prefix is more about communication. It's not a bad convention as it makes you feel a bit dirty when you are using them outside a class, but, do what you want, we are consenting adults.

Whenever I say "I'm no longer attached to all that private stuff", people always reply, "wait until you work on a large code base". I work on a million line+ code base. Whatever.

This argument aside, I'm not a total philistine. RAII is awesome but C++ is full to the boot with crusty stuff to keep the compatibility. I always feel there is a language better than anything trying to come out.
While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.
> If spiders can have complex behaviors hard-coded, humans certainly do too.

That does not follow. It's a logical fallacy. ('Spiders can have eight legs, so humans certainly do too.')
Q: What does it mean to lint code?

A: Linting code refers to the process of analyzing source code to identify potential errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and suspicious constructs. A "linter" is a tool that performs this analysis, offering suggestions or automatically correcting issues to improve the quality and readability of the code.

Source: ChatGPT v4o
What long run? She is 39 in Hollywood.
It's always easy to say good on the employee who acted and stopped the problem

The question is what happens with an employee who acted when there wasn't a problem?
If praise is the intent, it would be phrased as "... cannot recommend X highly enough"
Interesting. Usually the reluctance comes from people confusing Java the language with JVM the platform.
Why ban? Force insurance companies to work -- actually insure -- and they'll have to start doing proactive work to keep in business.

Are we trying to get a free working market or what??
Given the breadth and range of female voices available, this is way too close to be just a coincidence.
> I wondered why they had chosen the voice of a middle aged woman

AIs and automated systems, real and fictional, traditionally use women more than men to voice them. Apparently there was some research among all-male bomber crews that this "stood out", the B-58 was issued with some recordings of Joan Elms (https://archive.org/details/b58alertaudio ) and this was widely copied.

(obvious media exception: HAL)
Everyone mentions the "her" tweet, but I'm surprised to see nobody mention this tweet from ex-OpenAI employee Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106

If it sounds nothing like her, and there was no intent to make it sound like her, why would he tweet "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson"?

Many people made the comparison right after it was released https://x.com/search?q=scarjo%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed... and https://x.com/search?q=johansson%20until%3A2024-05-14&src=ty...
Thank you for making me laugh. Seriously, I think working for openai already selected for people who are ok with playing in the grey area. They know they ignore copyright and a few other rules. It's not surprising to me that they would also not be very nice to each other internally.
The drone controllers usually have more resolution than your typical PlayStation controllers. They can get recognised as USB joystick anyway.

If you prefer game pad style controllers, you can use radiomaster pocket/Zorro depending on your budget.. ELRS version.
While it's deeply frustrating that S3 standby is increasingly unsupported on laptops with new firmwares, I find that hibernate works perfectly instead. It's been my preferred option whenever I stop using my PC for a short while and blazing fast modern SSDs have made it more useful than ever.

It's bewildering that Microsoft have made hibernate hidden by default. Yet at the same time, "fast startup" is enabled by default! Something as simple as power states has deliberately been completely broken.
I had the displeasure of having to erode myself to survive after realising all this, it was horrendous, because I was now aware of what I needed to do for my own health but couldn't.
Perhaps I phrased it a bit badly but the developers say that they sandbox Google Play as they would for any other app installed on the device.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

I unfortunately can’t speak to what they mean by sandboxed Google Play being ‘close to fully functional’ as I haven’t used it yet.

I’ve also been trying to replace notification push servers for msg notifications as those are usually routed through Google services. This article has a short explanation of what I’m referring to: https://medium.com/@KaushalVasava/push-notification-in-andro...

Like others have mentioned, I was also referring to the connectivity checks as well. GrapheneOS maintains some servers to provide the same service which the Google equivalents do, just without actually talking to Google.
Could you be more specifics? What improvements do you mean?

It’s not clear if you’re talking about defer or RAII
> The actress did impersonate Her though

This is unclear. What is clear is OpenAI referenced Her in marketing it. That looks like it was a case of poor impulse control. But it's basis for a claim.
A bit more information about the default Windows 10 wallpapers: https://www.raykovich.com/project/windows-imagery
Buying TSMC silicon just like Apple and AMD.
The for profit parts are meant to chase money, and higher revenues justify higher management salaries ("I am running a bigger organisation so I deserve to be paid more"). This is widely accepted as being a motive for misaligned incentives in for profit businesses (with regard to takeovers) too.
No-one had to explicitly say any of that for it to still be an impersonation. Her was a very popular film, and Johansson's voice character was very compelling. They literally could have said nothing and just chosen the voice audition closest to Her unconsciously, because of the reach of the film, and that would still be an impersonation.
> I kind of emphatize with the author raging at "just copy C++ bro" proposals because at $TWO_JOBS_AGO I had to deal with an "Architecture Team" full of Very Senior(tm) people who would show up uninvited and give advice like "did you know you can pee and poo at the same time?"

My sides. This is the most hilarious and accurate summary of every org where I’ve worked.

Thank you.
> So, there are may not be rational memories to be linked to the problem 20-30 years later in life.

Yeah that was the hidden question I had, your neurology can stack up years of life until you end up in a dead end and everything breaks.
FYI: This isn't a case of the sunk cost fallacy. The sunk cost fallacy involves continuing an investment due to the amount already invested, regardless of future potential. What you're describing is more related to regret aversion and hindsight bias.
Those which take side in a totally unconfirmed story. If the side you are siding with isn't right, you are part of the problem.
That's not just an UI issue, the backend system responsible of executing the order should have caught the out of limits order.
> Scarlet Johansson is threatening legal action against OpenAI for this

Scarlet Johansson cannot prosecute anyone. She can sue them, in civil court, for civil damages. Prosecution is done in connection with crimes. Nobody is alleging any crimes here.
But you don't say "jet motor". I think it's probably like pork vs pig. They are technically the same but the language has come to use one vs the other in a different context (food vs animal).