skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the free market...

Many manufacturers sell to retailers under a unilateral minimum price policy. You can buy from the manufacturer and stock your showroom, but you are not allowed to mark it below a certain price. You'll also see payments from the manufacturer to the retailer in the form of "advertising support" to drive certain models. So you'll end up with a retailer:

* Paying $500 per unit (A) which they cannot mark below $399, but buying a certain amount at a loss to receive a payment from the manufacturer for paper/web/TV advertisements contingent on including A in the advertisement and possibly even presenting it in a certain way on the sales floor (endcap, front display, etc.)

* Paying $450 per unit for unit (B) which they cannot mark below $599

The goal for the retailer is then obviously to buy as few of the first unit as possible to get the manufacturer payment and then push as many customers as possible to buy the second. The manufacturer is happy because unit A was last year's model rebadged and they could clear inventory and move towards retiring it.

The real top end items are sold under unilateral fixed pricing: you pay $X and must retail it for $Y. Manufacturers have people employed to mystery shop and look for violations. If a retailer marks up or marks down, they are blacklisted. Possibly for all lines, not just the marquee brand - depends on your sales.
有没有深圳的同学一起来搞前端基础设施建设的？
This is a really tricky thing to get right. If you put too many controls in place, people route around and you lose control. If you place too few in place, you lose control. If you try to make the rules flexible, people don't understand the rules, and you lose control.
Lots of woodworking youtubers have had no background in it. Its evident that they are learning it as they go, but it also shows that it's possible without schooling or a teacher.
So, I never tried to make text diagrams and the thought of doing it (by hand, I assume) haunts me:

How is it considered easy to build a simple table (or diagram) by having to hit keyboard keys and navigate the cursors to seemingly random places to place characters, while keeping the spacing, proportions, etc correct?

I don't like word processors but at least they recognize that if I drawing of building a table I need a different interaction model.

Maybe someone in this thread could highlight use cases where making text-diagrams (that may be later converted using these tools) is better than picking a richer text editor.
MMF: A framework for multimodal AI models
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-g_environment
Is 4G/LTE connectivity also an issue? You've seen internet access brought to people through smart phones but I'm curious if the geography poses even more problems with that approach.
Ignoring how rude this comment is, I don't think embracing a technological solution could count as "holding on the the past".
> By the end of all the carnage, five people die and dozens more are wounded. All because of a marketing promotion went wrong.

Not to rag on the article because the author talks about other factors at the top, but this is a fascinating story that can't really be summed up by a technical goof-em-up, though that's obviously an important part.

On the one hand, especially from my western perspective, you have the utter frivolousness of soft drinks and the seeming triviality of the technical error. On the other hand, the subsistence wages of the people rioting and the meaning of a $40,000 promise really stabs at the soul. This was a grotesque fuckup. I truly cannot imagine how it would feel to finally face the prospect of escaping the unfair, crushing cycle of poverty and all its attendant ailments, fears, and anxieties only to have some fucking soda company say "whoopsie here's $18". I'd have burned a truck, too. Or worse, frankly, who knows! I've never lived their life. But it's more than just a goof-up, the offer itself seems depraved to me. Pepsi appeared to have leveraged their own poverty to get them to spend money. Yes, yes, I know, many companies do giveaways here in the states, it's a difference of degree and context. Pepsi's opening move was to exploit a profound and powerful human desire to care for your family in the midst of uncertainty. That in the end it went wrong, due to a technical error or a communication error, seems like a natural consequence, like blowing your hand off while playing with fireworks. You shouldn't have played with them to begin with.

Re the riots themselves, I think we in the states have lost a concept of collective human behavior unless it's wrapped in technocratic psychobabble. An organization made a promise that could have changed people's lives, they fucked it up, tried to hide behind a technical error, people were justifiably angry, and people do all kinds of things with justifiable anger.
A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
My motivation for it is to eliminate all the calcium buildup on faucets, showerheads, etc. My water is very hard, and the constant cleaning I have to do is annoying. My cheapo TDS meter shows > 300ppm. I can't air dry my dishes without them coming out spotted and hazy.

As far as maintenance goes, my understanding is that the salt is dirt cheap. The new hassle I'm adding to avoid cleaning is lugging 40-lb. bags down to the basement, right?

I've never dealt with one before, so appreciate any insight there.
The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago
Yeah, I just don't get it - even if you use GraphQL, you're going to have to do server-side code to make the calls to the different backends.

Maybe it's just that the backend devs in my last project werenyevery good, but the backend GraphQL code was ridiculously complex and impossible to reason about.
Yes, as this is the main reason that Facebook created GraphQL, it is expensive for mobile phones to query that much data. Something else interesting is that while you begin to write the tailored server side call, and you optimize it, you will end up with something that looks like GraphQL anyway.
I think this is backwards... This is a corpus to train speech to text, not text to speech, right?
30 minutes or less: Build Universal Sensor Hub & Monitor with Raspberry Pi
I don't have to imagine it: https://scihub.wikicn.top/
I inferred the headline to mean what it actually did, and was surprised to find comments here like yours. I would even argue that is the true literal meaning.

The fact that it caused riots was especially a giveaway. If Pepsi had actually paid out after making their mistake, why would there be riots? Yes I can imagine situations (e.g. they only paid out after there were deadly riots) but it still leads you to the right interpretation.

BTW I agree that your example is a $20 typo, but that seems unrelated. I would still call it a $20 typo if you then didn't cash in that cheque.
More like “planning”
Ehhh, I think I might agree with what you're trying to say, but I don't think I'd say it this way. What other people think of you is a great source of information which shouldn't be discounted. In fact, I think there's a lot of value in soliciting feedback from the people around you.

We have a name for people who don't care what other people think: narcissists.

What I think you're getting at is that you can't please everyone, and there are many cases where risking someone's opinion of you is the right thing to do.
What else can be used other than statistics? Is there some other common frame of reference out there?

Qualitative research eg talking to people. Use empathy and compassion. Don't try to distill everything down to numbers.
It's 1000 hours because multiple speakers record the same articles.

I believe some speakers only recorded 1-2 hours, which seems doable.
LOL. Thank you for downvoting that for me. The Internet wouldn't be the Internet if it weren't for asshats!
I wonder if Glimpse will be updated to this version
The chip on the Filter-bypass simply pops out. You can mark where the filter chip aligns on the refrigerator wall and stick it there with a tape, no need to get to the circuit board.
HSBC is China’s perfect victim
The Dumb Reason Your AI Project Will Fail
> The bad part is that most of C/C++-compatible HLS tools are proprietary, and open source ones are either Scala-based (Chisel, SpinalHDL) or seem to be academic toy projects.

Why is Scala a problem?
> The group, called Zbellion, encourages cyber attacks against organizations that support "the establishment," funnelling stolen cash into bitcoin to make "small, below the threshold donations" to "worthy recipients" and Zbellion members.

That happens. Most of the non-drug and non-porn sections on dark net marketplaces are about tools for doing this specific thing, and creating completely parallel identities for bank accounts and investing.

Illicit funds in, get crypto, leave crypto into fake/real/not-you person bank account.

They even have entire marketplaces for compromised windows computers, so that you can find a computer near the address of someone's compromised visa card, so that it is more likely your transactions will not get blocked because it looks to be in the same area.
Server-to-server GraphQL seems much more reasonable as both sides are controlled. It's the client-to-server I have less of a justification for compared to targeted calls w/ individual, limited contracts that are quantifiable and optimizable. I have witnessed the costs of allowing highly flexible data fetching from the client once it grows large.
Depends. I'd be horrified to listen to my own voice when I am not speaking. Keep in mind, what we sound very different to ourselves.
I have had good results with this. https://www.resemble.ai/
It is based on this open source work. If you want to run it yourself. https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

The voice cloning can be done in a matter of minutes. (< an hour) Its also very easy to use the website.

Best of luck!
Agreed. Or at least every board member that supported the action should be expected to step down.

I really want the service provided by IA to continue. Even though I have never used it, I recognize how valuable it is to humanity as a whole. But if the people running organization providing that service are going to jeopardize it like that, then they must take responsibility.
'N habits of people with emotional intelligence' sorts of posts are very common in what i see, and so formulaic
Hey, speech ML researcher here. Make sure you have different recordings of different contexts. fifteen.ai's best TTS voices use ~90 min of utterances, some separated by emotion. If you're having her read a text, make sure it's engaging--we do a lot of unconscious voicing when reading aloud. Tbh, if she has a non-Anglophone accent, you're going to need more because the training data is biased towards UK/US speakers.

If you want to read up on the basics, check out the SV2TTS paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04558.pdf
Basically you use a speaker encoding to condition the TTS output. This paper/idea is used all over, even for speech-to-speech translation, with small changes.

There's a few open-source version implementations but mostly outdated--the better ones are either private for business or privacy reasons.

There's a lot of work on non-parallel transfer learning (aka subjects are saying different things) so TTS has progressed rapidly and most public implementations lag a bit behind the research. If you're willing to grok speech processing, I'd start with NeMo for overall simplicity--don't get distracted by Kaldi.

Edit: Important note! Utterances are usually clipped of silence before/after so take that into account when analyzing corpus lengths. The quality of each utterance is much much more important than the length--fifteen.ai's TTS is so good primarily because they got fans of each character to collect the data.
Make it a non-number?
>What if this was done at the recent protests

Seems more likely than not that it was done at recent protests, no?
I had fun reading and thought the headline was fine, thanks!
All the recruiters are on LinkedIn and pretty much use it exclusively.

There’s a similar network effect problem with Facebook, but it’s a lot easier to leave Facebook because you presumably can still message your real life friends in other ways.

With LinkedIn you can’t leave without also seriously hurting your ability to get in touch with recruiters.

That said, you basically don’t have to spend any time on it after you set it up. Maybe update once a year? So doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.
The Mental Floss writeup from 2018 has actual details:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558202/pepsi-number-feve...

> To determine winning numbers, Pepsi recruited D.G. Consultores, a marketing firm based in Mexico. The numbers were generated via computer, then secured in a safe deposit box in Manila. From there, the list would be used to “seed” bottle caps in the bottling plants. Each night, the company would announce the day’s winning number on television.

> Quickly, Pepsi executives in the Philippines and stateside convened for an emergency meeting at 3 a.m. on how to proceed. Economically, honoring the perceived value of all of the caps was virtually impossible to justify—it would’ve cost the company tens of billions of dollars. Instead, they opted to declare it a computer error and offered $18 to $20 to cap holders as a “goodwill gesture.” What was originally earmarked to be a promotion with $2 million in total prizes ballooned to $10 million.
Ethics =/= law. You can experiment all you want on humans without consent for your A/B tests, for instance.
This can't be stopped. Better to stop resisting tech advancements and instead learn to adapt. Airports are starting to do this scanning as well, and they won't go away; travellers don't know they exist and have few rights when in secure environments.
> 2. No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights.

I've published a few papers (and have worked closely with Elsevier in a business context). When we published in a paywalled journal, we had the option of paying an APC [0] to make the particular article open access. So in that sense, we were not 'required' to relinquish copyright. It was just costly to retain it.

I suspect this is how some publishers argue that their contracts do not violate these maxims, because an APC option is fairly common, even at Elsevier, I think. Many journals also permit authors to post pre-edited versions of their papers on their personal websites.

I also think that, in line with what a commenter below, a large organization like MIT is not a coherent actor. There are political battles and compromises we don't see. So publishing this list could be someone's tactic for winning the internal struggle against negotiating with Elsevier.

Chris Bourg, who is a prominent advocate for open access at MIT, is my best bet for the driving force behind this:

https://twitter.com/mchris4duke/status/1271094535297339399

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_processing_charge
Why though? It is not like you don’t have access to high quality cheap talent in the form of RAs/TAs etc why cannot that part be done by students ? It will also actually help them learn their subjects
get a great microphone and have her read her favorite books. Go for books with lots of dialog and emotional content.

Later, you can extract all the phonemes you want from it and you will retain the emotional expressiveness of her voice.

She should probably sing some songs -- lullabies, rock, etc. Go for emotional diversity.
This guy https://www.facebook.com/warnermachinery/ reconditions and sells used industrial wood- and metal-working machines. Fascinating to see some of the tools he's restored.
http://archive.is/wip/TaFYy
It's actually illegal to have opt-out GDPR banners, but enforcement so far has been non-existent (two years later!).
Migrating from Postgres to CockroachDB
> This enables a $37 part (XCA712T) to be able to fit over 3 Linux-worthy RISC-V processors running at 180 MHz, with 720 kB of block RAM available for caches, FIFOs, or anything else.

The $100 Alchitry Au has an XC7A35T and 256 MB of DDR3. Currently waiting for them to come back in stock, they're super neat and are open hardware. They're basically the successor to the Mojo V3.
Unless OP changed the title, there is nothing that infer that Pepsi lost $32Bn in the process. Just that the size of the mistake was $32Bn.
From AGI to money machine...
Police Reforms Pushed by Democrats Would Not Fundamentally Change Policing
A "one-on-one" is a weird way to phrase it but I've done regular "relationship check-ins" and it worked pretty well. It wasn't weekly though, that's too much for me, I'd probably go for monthly.

Recurrent meetings is another thing people rarely do in personal relationships that I found works pretty well.

I got the idea from the fox in the Little Prince:

The next day the little prince came back.

"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."

"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.

"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all."

So I tried it. For a while I had a recurrent Wednesday lunch with a couple of friends, and I had a weekly scheduled date with my girlfriend at the time. It really does work like the fox says, after a while I started being happier the day before, expecting the event - in a way I don't for one-off scheduled things. Of course, I didn't call them "recurrent meetings", that's business-speak.
Roger Ebert has some articles about his troubles he encountered that may be worth a read.
Absolutely agree. I've taken and helped run many, many courses on civilian self-defense, concealed weapon licensing, etc. And questions about carrying asp batons, or using bean bag rounds in a shotgun often come up. The prevailing wisdom is that civilians have no business using these things. Pepper spray seems to be an exception.

But the thinking is that if you use things against someone using deadly force on you, that's a bad strategy and you might die. If you use these things against someone not using deadly force on you, you're escalating, risking their life, and you're risking assault charges yourself. You need to be completely peaceful, de-escalate (and in some states, retreat), and then when it's time to use force, you make it deadly.

Now police officers are in a different situation but I think the continuum of force here needs to be at least a little more similar than it is. The way they're reacting to these protests is like they're trying to illustrate the protester's point for them. And one may say they're reacting to the riots and the looting, but for the most part they're not immediately present for all that anyway. There is no reason (except to simply submit a general population into not resisting them overall - and honestly that's exactly what they're doing) for you to be using "less-lethal" projectiles out of a firearm against crowds of unarmed people.
I disagree. This is about the conflict on keeping a LIn profile he feels like is valueless just because it is the social norm to have one, and everyone is doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbiVbd_CEIA

At the last Blizzcon they had it around. The setup wasn't ideal, so Serral (won world finals in 2018, reached semifinals in 2019) wasn't really happy with how he played, but it won

This was also a version where they'd worked on preventing its ability to micro at quadruple digit apm
In what way is this a theory of everything? It looks like a theory of the brain, perhaps a theory of consciousness (in the sense of the hard problem) if we're being really generous, but it does not look like a theory that reconciles quantum mechanics with general relativity.
Presumably the guy is better at guessing what his wife wants than you are, and his wife is an adult who can tell him if he guesses wrong.
By all means, let’s have hacker news expand this technical question into an evaluation of this guys marriage.
or better, rent a recording room for the time it takes.
I miss the opposite: the old openAI gym and other testbeds. I still don’t know why they shut those down.

What alternatives do people like?
The author of Pyinfra is just a dev like you and me working on a side project.

There is no relationship between pyinfra, pipenv and pip.

There is not even a relationship between pip and pipenv, they are completly different teams.

In fact, none of those projects are maintained by the Python core team or part of the Python project. Not even pip, which is separated from Python and provided using get-pip.py at install.
The BDFL is a position that you have for life. It is embedded in the definition. So it is impossible to shed the title.
I've interviewed a bunch of people who used to professionally design buildings and now professionally write software. They have a lot more in common than you think.
I have to question why someone with that level of seniority would need to be in a software development class. Generally my experience with people who are demonstrably successful is that they are not insecure like you described. Is it possible they were bluffing?
Every place is west of somewhere else.

Western culture comes from the Western Roman Empire.
Leading Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy
Do you contribute to Wikipedia? I have, and to Wikibooks, and it can be a thankless task when you run into an admin who is more interested in formatting than content and more interested in the enforcement of petty rules than in helping the author get it right.
The MDN Web Docs Front-end developer learning pathway
If all that's true, then it does seem like it's worth it economically. Economics in business goes well beyond the simple transaction-level view.
I like the Woodshop Junkies channel for this:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHueSosfT92NUVmhrz7Hjw

It's a guy in South Africa with a small workshop. The main point of his videos is designing space-saving tool mounts and storage for his shop. He uses cheap tools—and lots of plywood—to make some clever stuff.

It's not a channel for seeing furniture made, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I didn't. I sometime "sample" books online before I decide to buy them.
Based on the top comments in this thread, I can see my previous attempts to dispel mistaken beliefs around graphql have failed, but I'll still try!

1. The biggest mistake GraphQL made was putting 'QL' in the name so people think it's a query language comparable to SQL. It's not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23120997

2. Some benefits of GraphQL over REST: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124862