skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truthfully, you can no longer trust yourself (whichever side you're on in this debate). We're all now primed and we'll pick up any distinguishing characteristics. You'd have to listen to them in a blind test and do this with several clips that do not reveal which ones are OpenAI and which are from a movie or something else that spoils it.

And I wouldn't put the metric at 50/50, needs to be indistinguishable. It would be a reasonable amount where it sounds __like__, which could be identifying the chatbot 100% of the time! (e.g. what if I just had a roboticized version of a person's voice) Truth is that I can send you clips of the same person[0], tell you they're different people, and a good portion of people will be certain that these are different people (maybe __you're different__™, but that doesn't matter).

So use that as the litmus test in either way. Not if you think they are different, but rather "would a reasonable person think this is supposed to sound like ScarJo?" Not you, other people. Then, ask yourself if there was sufficient evidence that OpenAI either purposefully intended to clone her voice OR got so set in their ways (maybe after she declined, but had hyped themselves up) that they would have tricked themselves into only accepting a voice actor that ended up sounding similar. That last part is important because it shows how such a thing can happen without ever explicitly (and maybe even not recognizing themselves) stating such a requirement. Remember that us humans do a lot of subconscious processing (I have a whole other rant on people building AGI -- a field I'm in fwiw -- not spending enough time understanding their minds or the minds of animals).

Edit:

[0]I should add that there's a robustness issue here and is going to be a distinguishing factor for people determining if the voices are different. Without a doubt, those voices are "different" but the question is in what way. The same way someone's voice might change day to day? The difference similar to how someone sounds on the phone vs in person? Certainly the audio quality is different and if you're expecting a 1-to-1 match where we can plot waveforms perfectly, then no, you wouldn't ever be able to do this. But that's not a fair test
It's a great idea, but the pricing seems high - $30/month minimum? I'm running 3 apps on Fly.io and I'm still so low in the pricing that they're invoicing me $0. I will pay for the convenience of a PaaS - but not that much.
This Xiaomi tablet uses the same chip as us

It’s pretty decent performance, and what makes it special is how good battery life is

Check the notebook check review

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-Redmi-Pad-review-Afford...
There are hashtags on Bluesky as well.

There's an implicit language filter around your default language. It was implemented because the Japanese is comparatively as large as the English audience and a lot of English language users were complaining about searches and feeds being filled by Japanese posts. I chat a lot with Japanese Bluesky because I'm fluent in Japanese; probably 50% of my Bluesky activity is with Japanese Bluesky. I've made friends with a Japanese tech reporter and they share their articles with me occasionally, so it's fun to see a non-English speaking perspective.

Unfortunately I think a lot of the people who use Mastodon and are trying to dunk on Bluesky are doing so in bad faith or not quite bad faith but a non-willingness to explore Bluesky with the same openness and curiosity as Mastodon (this may purely be from a time perspective, I mean we're all human and only have so much time to devote to internet shitposting.) I used and stopped using Mastodon before the whole Xitter thing, because I had 2 instances shutdown on me for various reasons and didn't want to bother trying again. I'm mostly on Bluesky and it seems to have the same features as Mastodon sans the easy to build instances because ATProto is a more complicated protocol. I find the network of Bluesky (or at least my feed) to be a lot less tech focused and for me this is a win. I already engage with tech people on HN, parts of Reddit, and Discord. I don't need yet another tech site full of the common tech tropes like ranting emotionally into the void or getting hung up on niche things that only tech people care about. Just my $0.02.

The feedback about not cross-pollinating non-English-speakers is good though and I've been working on a feed that uses some ML to generate cross-cultural feeds around certain topics. It's been slow going because work has been tough and I'm locked in wedding "hell" in my personal life.
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> On other side, you have a country of 200 million

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

Which country are you talking about?
While true, it looks like bauxite is mostly mined from Australia, with a long tail of other countries, many of which are within the US sphere of influence or far from China.

The biggest exception seems to be Vietnam, with a very large reserve of bauxite (and obviously quite geographically close to China).
Sure. Suddenly the US puts a value on air crews (other than, of course, clapping for the survivors when they board a civilian plane).
i think we are going to find way more comes from dna than we thought. Physiognomy is the science of determining your personality (and other traits) from the way your face looks. this was cast aside as pseudoscience like palm reading, until recently ai facial recognition found its real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy
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Sounds like you agree with me that we're giving up meat. We gave up horse travel and there are still horses and occasional horse travel to satisfy high end markets.
If you read the WaPo article that's the topic of this thread, you'll see that the actual voice artist is quoted in the article.
Congrats Dima and team, it's been cool watching you build this over the last couple of years.
It might be helpful to note the culture.
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It is a Godzilla pebble watch

I hope you will be pleased
Even worse, you can get caught with no return flight. In late 2001, I was flying back home to Dallas from Prague, connecting in Brussels. And the airline I was on, Sabena, declared bankruptcy the very day of the flights.

I got lucky, if your flight left before 8am you were rebooked on a different airline. After 8? You were out of luck and on your own. My flight had been scheduled for 7:50.
You also need to subtract some bits from symmetries right?

Like you can mirror the tape. You can relabel states B and C. And you can relabel symbols 1, 2, 3. Though the analysis is complicated a little bit by the fact that some (combinations) of those operations may yield the exact same machine.
They don't charge extra for assigned seats. Instead, you pick your seat by sitting in it. Which means you need to board earlier. Boarding order is assigned by the order in which you check in. To do that, you get the Southwest app and check in the moment the notification pops up on your phone. If you do that, you board ahead of everyone else. Free of charge.

If you believe paying paying extra fees for every little thing constitutes order over chaos, well then maybe you should fly another airline and pay their fees. Personally I prefer Southwest's up-front pricing model. I just tap the check-in button when it pops up on my phone and board ahead of everyone else, thus avoiding the so-called zoo of people at the back who haven't figured it out yet.

The first time I flew Southwest I immediately saw that boarding first gets you a better seat. So I asked them, how do you board first? And they told me. I boarded first from then on.
The war could end in mere months if the West would provide adequate supplies to Ukraine.
You want to say that the dispute here is over ignoring objective facts, but it isn't. I haven't seen anybody here ignoring the facts laid out by this article.

The dispute is instead about statements just like your We don't know why Altman referenced "Her", which, on the one hand, you're right, the mind of another personally is technically unknowable, but on the other hand, no, that's total nonsense, we do indeed know exactly why he referenced the movie, because we're a social animal and we absolutely are frequently capable of reasoning out other people's motivations and intentions.

This is not a court of law, we don't have a responsibility to suspend disbelief unless and until we see a piece of paper that says "I did this thing for this reason", we are free to look at a pattern of behavior and draw obvious conclusions.

Indeed, if it were a court of law, that's still exactly what we'd be asked to do. Intent matters, and people usually don't spell it out in a memo, so people are asked to look at a pattern of behavior in context and use their judgement to determine what they think it demonstrates.
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Yeah, thankfully we're still in the range where halting machines are at least estimable in terms of inductive notations like the up-arrow. But as the machines gain more breathing room for working with variable-length data, we can start getting monsters like the TREE sequence.
https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next
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You can probably get a really nice wireless CarPlay compatible head unit installed by a local shop for less than $1.5k to $2k.

https://www.crutchfield.com/g_300/All-Car-Stereos.html
I keep getting a "Email rate limit exceeded" when attempting to create an account so I can upvote and comment.
The hardware you're talking about you can buy today. It's used by retro computing geeks working in SW preservation. Pretty sure it also existed back in the day. The point wasn't to make copying impossible, it was to make it impossible for home users.
> There are lots of details missing

It's a submarine article from Nutanix .NEXT who seemed to have done a media buy with The Register.

I've always detested that kind of underhanded vendor tactic, and am honestly happy that giants like ZScaler and Palo Alto Networks are moving away from the conferences+trade rag GTM and moving towards either direct sales or more targeted usergroups+conferences (eg. BSides).

> Broadcom is not joking about wanting to cull the herd here

Yep! Niklesh did the same thing to turn around PANW, and imo VMWare kinda needs it. The products are good, but it seemed like a lot of shenanigans were happening at the AE level.

I've heard down the grapevine that there's a significant shift towards cloud security now, which I think is something VMWare really needed to do - they had the right products, but became addicted to on-prem cash cows.

Either become a PANW or become a Rackspace.
Ok 146 million...I was off a little bit...
And AWS now has a product to spin up Lambdas for GitHub Actions CI runners

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/actio...
There's actually a few projects, mostly in Japanese, that use ATProto as a blogging platform. Kinda like how there's other applications using AP.
It does look great.

Any plans of supplying the ePaper display to OEM's like Amazon, Remarkable, etc.?
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases
I would like to search, either by keyword, paper title, venue, DOI, or author. (I was trying to see if any of my papers are on here.)
SQ III had a hilarious Sierra HQ part.
Sure, you could probably use that kind of delay. I have personally seen GC systems that take more than a week to mark which files need to be deleted but this is admittedly unlikely (the system in question was massive).

> Are there benefits to CAS for this situation other than resolving faster?

I think this kind of thing comes up a lot, where you’d find it convenient to have a CAS update for your file. Like, maybe you should be using a database, but you’re already using S3 and having one or two CAS operation would mean that you can stick with S3.

Sometimes, the alternative is a little ugly. Like, “I’m going to create a DynamoDB table, and it’s only going to contain one row.”

What I’d really love, even more, is to have some kind of distributed lock service on AWS. Something like Zookeeper or Etcd as a SaaS product, where it’s cheap just to get a couple distributed locks. Feels like a gap in cloud offerings to me, but I can understand why it’s missing.
Yeah I think the person you’re responding to gave a bad example. I like to give examples involving commercials because they center the issue of celebrity endorsement of and association with a brand, which is the thing at issue in this OpenAI case (public corporate keynotes are essentially just multi-hour commercials).
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Well, from the start, Altman wanted SJ to do the voice. Perhaps he'd never seen or heard of the movie "her", and the association is just coincidental?

After "she" said no, then Altman auditions a bunch of voice talent and picks someone who sounds just like SJ. I guess that's just the kind of voice he likes.

So, Altman has forgotten about SJ, has 5 voice talents in the bag, and is good to go, right? But then, 2 days(!) before the release he calls SJ again, asking her to reconsider (getting nervous about what he's about to release, perhaps?).

But still, maybe we should give Altman the benefit of the doubt, and assume he wanted SJ so badly because he had a crush on her or something?

Then on release day, Altman tweets "her", and reveals a demo not of a sober AI assistant with a voice interface, but of a cringe-inducing AI girlfriend trying to be flirty and emotional. He could have picked any of the five voices for the demo, but you know ...

But as you say, he's not admitting anything. When he tweeted "her" maybe it was because he saw the movie for the first time the night before?
As late as the 1960s, the career death rate for US fighter pilots was about one in five, without any help from an enemy. There's a book, "The Making of an Ex-Astronaut", from someone who made it through astronaut training but then realized they didn't want to take the risk of pilot training in a T-38.

The T-38 jet trainer, first flight in 1959, still in use: 1,189 built, 210 crashes and ejections.
A hot war would massively disrupt trade, among that food. The US provide a significant proportion of food to China. I am not sure if China could survive on a smaller food supply but it would mean austerity if that was the case. Worst case scenario, they cannot use their manpower advantage because they need that for their farm.
We migrated from Heroku to Porter at work (at my behest). Still one of the better bets I’ve taken.

There is definitely still some more devops overhead compared to Heroku, and I wish the product was a bit more mature. But even at ~$18k/mo on Heroku spend we’re now spending less than half with Porter. Other than myself and the other engineer who were responsible for the migration, the rest of the team really got to keep their work flows and there was little impact except for swapping some tools.

We had a messy, poorly documented web of micro services and shit too, the Porter team made the migration surprisingly easy all things considered. I’ll work with them again if I ever scale past a $10k/mo Heroku bill (post enterprise contract) with another team.
I don't think Arts & Crafts philosophy was explicitly against bright colors, but they did emphasize tradition, or at least their romanticized idea of it. The latter 19th century saw introduction of many bright pigments and dyes (lots of them toxic), so they were available, but I think use of them was associated with modern industry.

William Morris in particular just favored the dark and muted. His stained glass windows are the darkest I know of, and his Kelmscott Press books have been criticized for their very dark pages.
The amount of Brave and Kagi spam in this thread is nutso. I can't be convinced it's not coordinated marketing by either or both of them.

I'm not saying that there aren't some satisfied customers, but at some point a normal human being says: "Hey, 30 other people posted this. Maybe I shouldn't."
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Im actually curious in what do you guys think about industry at this point.

Which tools do you use to create and rotate backups of your databases? Is there anything you miss in these tools or some of them are overloaded with extra features you don't find useful?
Here's a source for the above claim that I found after looking this up:

>During pregnancy, the nipple has become more pigmented 68 and is easy for the newborn infant to discover (Fig. 1C). We have observed that soon after birth, the areola expands and takes a bulb-like shape (Fig. 1G). The Montgomery glands also become more pronounced (Fig. 1G). The scent of areolar secretions has been linked to behavioural responses, such as head turning 69 and directional crawling in newborn infants 70. This release of the breast odour by the Montgomery glands is known to help the newborn infant find the nipple 17, 27, 69. The newborn infant recognises the scent of the mother's breast from the amniotic fluid 71, touches the breast and transmits the taste of the breast to the mouth (hand-to-breast-mouth movements) 17. This stimulates rooting and crawling movements in the newborn infant to reach the nipple. The connection between the taste of amniotic fluid and the scent of the breast from the Montgomery glands highlights a biological survival mechanism – a pathway of flavour with lifelong consequences. (Fig. 3) (17, 71-80) When knowing of this sensitive odour-dependent mechanism, it might be wise not to interfere with unfamiliar hands.[0]

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.14754
I was an infrastructure architect at a F50, and I'm sure they'd have been quite sensitive to the changes. Like, once we got a confirmation of new pricing, the day after we're kicking off a Discovery process to find and cost out some alternatives.

They were, and I'm guessing still are, also very resistant to SaaS / IaaS plays, for a lot of (arguably) good reasons, and I'm not sure what they'd go with as an alternative. OpenShift? Raw dog some DIY docker clusters?
He literally posted “her” on Twitter the day before the press release. The willful ignorance here is astounding
>Would this voice actor then be barred from doing voice acting?

That's where this has always gotten odd to me. There's obvious impersonation, sure, but what if this same actress wanted to e.g. be the Major in a new Ghost in the Shell dub? Is she responsible for making sure everyone who hires her very definitely isn't hiring her as a soundalike if she wants her work to get released?

I'm sure it would be fine in reality, but if saying "her" (when advertising an app you can have a conversation with) is enough to make this impersonation, then the same logic says she's barred from certain roles (or categories of role) because someone more famous got there first.
> Nobody would confuse Tina Fey for Sarah Palin

Surprisingly many people think "I can see Russia from my house" is a thing the real Palin said.
They charge for managing the kubernetes instance that’s running on your infrastructure. What’s cool is that you can stop using Porter once everything on AWS/Azure/GCP is set-up and you’re not locked in. You just have to manage the cluster yourself.
You're right that it could be the case. But I disagree that it is likely to be, in this specific case, and the other specific case you cited.

I think many people distrust and dislike Altman and Musk in particular because of their own specific behavior.

Some people are hated because people are just jealous, but other people use that as an umbrella excuse to deflect blowback from their behavior that they entirely deserve. I believe this is one of those latter cases.
You do realise that comment supports strongly the dark forest theory right? The best thing do do before you have a tank is to shut up and hide. Of course you don't pick fights when you could get squashed

Implied was that the actions to take if we had full info are obvious. If their capabilities are known you would not have to resort to "shoot first, ask later"...
To be fair the OnePlus 6T was an actual flagship of its time while the pixel 8 isn't. It's more of a midrange phone.
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Great observation. I have this idea (apparently semi-obvious based on this discussion) that if there is a future war with China (sure hope we can avoid it), in terms of production and technology, the US is in Germany's position and China is in the place of the US in WW2 parlance.

There are the obvious parallels where the US has great advanced technology, China can sure make things in mass quantities; also they have plenty of brilliant engineers and scientists and can figure out anything. Some obvous differences are the US has been where people from the world flee to, to get freedom and liberty; now we are in a serious period of retrenchment though, with certain (ahem) groups wanting to restrict the books in the library if they are idealogically unacceptable and also anti-science and anti-education etc going along with that. China is not the place you want to go to if you are going to introduce heterodoxical ideas.

There are also all the echos of the '20s and '30s in our current times in the US and the world, groups of countries pushing different ideas and coming together in blocks. We have instant communication, nukes make everything even more serious than that time. The new ascendant anti-democratic countries want their shot at power and riches too.
It was mentioned by Sam himself on Twitter. So this is a bold face lie I can’t believe anyone is buying.
But there is a connection to it. It's about an AI assistant which is what openAI is releasing. Disregarding Scarlett Johansson completely and it makes total sense Sam Altman made that tweet.
Meh. As another commenter pointed out, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot) . Also I find the idea of "academic seriousness" very weird. I would never ever want to wake up with the thought of doing "serious science" all day. I want science (in my personal case, math) to be interesting, and thus fun.

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." - Heraclitus
Why would Altman, two days before they went live, feel the need to try to get her to agree a second time if they'd done what you had said and used another voice actor?

Of course they didn't mention "sound like SJ" in the casting call - it might as well say "Please violate Midler tort." Actors wouldn't do it, casting agencies wouldn't do it. She / her agency would have found out almost immediately, and C&D'd them into the ground within hours.

I'm not sure why you're believing OpenAI when they say that the voice actor is who they actually used, and not that after bringing in the voice actor, they didn't just toss the recordings aside, have an intern collect clips of SJ in interviews, and throw that in to the machine?

Altman has a long history of demonstrating incredibly poor morals. Stop taking anything he says at face value.
That's true for a vast majority of devs, but not for everyone. There are people like Jon Blow and projects like https://vlang.io
My S24 was returned in a week. Damn thing couldn't even handle showing the mission selection map in Warcraft Rumble. It lagged noticeably behind my finger when dragged around. The Galaxy Watch 6 I got alongside it was even worse for performance. And the clash between Samsung's ecosystem and Google's ecosystem felt terrible. I still want to try coming back to Android from Apple's ecosystem, but next time it won't be through Samsung.
That makes sense to me. My psych and therapist both told me that there is a lot of crossover in symptoms between ADHD and Autism. Anecdotally, my sister has long maintained that I’m on the spectrum.
My fist thought on seeing that picture is that it looks like an illustration from a 1930s pulp science fiction magazine.