skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CommonVoice is kind of the sound quality that you expect if random people talk into their headset microphone. So that's kind of the quality you need to work with to build a phone system for the general public.

LibriSpeech, on the other hand, is audiobooks read in a silent setting with a good microphone. And some speakers are even professional narrators. So that's the dataset to compare for for an office worker using it for dictation with high-quality equipment.

Also, Google is kinda famous for having the worst speech recognition of the enterprise offerings. (Microsoft's Azure STT has roughly half the error rate) Plus they tested Google's old model.

But the main point I'm trying to make is that even if it is "as good as Google", that a 20% word error rate is still pretty much unusable in practice.
The context was different. He responded to internal politics-discussion-board, and that was leaked many months later. The email in the OP is (from what we can see) creating the discussion.

Also, in the end Damore's continued employment became political thing, so it was probably inevitable he had to go. But the form - especially the crazy doublespeak - of his firing was the problem.
There is no intrinsic value in not being inflatable?
Maybe with the right positioning and marketing, e.g. playing the privacy or sustainability (repairability) angle, I could see more people being interested. Anecdotally, I've seen the things like the Fairphone have reasonable interest and adoption from non-tech friends and acquaintances.
Related: The founder of Orkut has been trying to replay the same "social network" idea multiple times over trying to replicate the success of Orkut, and looks like this time, it's trying to ride on the Orkut brand familiarity (esp. in Brazil and India, where it was HUGE) to build out the initial audience.

Most recently (2016-2020), he was founder of another social network named Hello [1] which shut shop[2] after not being able to get any sort of prominence.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/05/orkut-founder-launches-he...

[2] https://hello.com/
That is because large parts of what is now Poland used to be Germany and not the other way around. Germany did not accept losing the 'German east' until reunification. It took Helmut Kohl threatening to resign for the CDU accepting Poland in its current borders.
This article is specifically not just about "during pregnancy" though. Quote:

"It suggested that trauma might have affected the mothers' eggs decades before her children were conceived, while she was herself a child."

"They gave a male mouse a mild electric shock as it smelled a cherry blossom scent, stimulating a fear response to the odor. The response was accompanied by epigenetic changes in its brain and sperm. Intriguingly, the male offspring of the shocked mice demonstrated a similar fear of cherry blossoms—as well as epigenetic changes in their brain and sperm—without being exposed to the shock. These effects were passed down for two generations. In other words, the lesson the grandfather mouse learned, that the cherry blossom scent means danger, was transmitted to its son and grandson."
I think they will have a very hard time recruiting in Germany. There is certainly no patience for this permanent crunch, anti-union attitude that seems characteristic of Tesla in the US.
Because then I have to remember to check and I might miss a reply for hours or days. I check my email much more frequently than I check my HN comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644851 from a couple weeks ago has 51 comments.
The most secure messenger...that just so happens to be developed by a Russian company headquartered in the same building as VK, a known Kremlin-controlled social media network!

https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-...
The idea to put a bit more info about the person was brilliant, even a single sentence makes you relate more. There is a similar project in Russia called The Last Address [1], I see these a lot (but probably not enough) in the Saint-Petersburg historical center, and although being a similar age and area of expertise to lots of victims helps, even a brief summary of their "wrongdoings" would go a long way enriching the perspective on our history, especially given current political climate here. "A 30 years old engineer lived here" doesn't ring as close as "a 30 years old engineer who lived here was murdered by the state for a crime of opposing the oppressive regime".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Address
I'd be cautious to draw large conclusions based on this piece. At the core, it's a trade unionist (w/ friends) complaining on low or uneven salaries. This is pretty much the purpose of unions.

Ask a hair dresser if you need a haricut <-> ask a unionist if the wages are too low
Yeah, L6 is the new L5, and L7 L6. That's bad for those who joined Amazon as L7 and thought that they didn't have to work for title any more.
Loosely related, but what's the state of the art in natural text to speech ML/AI models?
As far as I can tell, it doesn’t mention nationalities at all. For example, it doesn’t mention Germans, either.

If so, why would it have to mention Poles?
No, you are not correct. Poles have been in Germany for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_Germany
I really think you should try to make that argument without implicating morality.

Science can teach us a lot about how things are, but trying to use it to figure out how things ought to be is not going to work. (See: David Hume's "is-ought problem")
I think the issue is a bit more subtle than you're suggesting because Rust (as you know) only promises to eliminate the problem in safe code. Go doesn't have the same type infrastructure for stopping you from accidentally sharing data between multiple threads, so it doesn't have the same sharp distinction between 'safe' and 'unsafe' concurrency options. But it's also not as if Go's concurrency story is just 'share data and hope for the best'. Idiomatic Go code should be using channels.

In short, both languages let you write memory unsafe code if you want to, but both discourage it and make it easy not to do so in most cases. Rust discourages it in a more bondage and discipline kind of a way. But it still falls to the programmer to verify the unsafe kernel of their application to their satisfaction. That is, Rust provides a 'here be dragons' warning by forcing the use of an 'unsafe' block, but the language itself doesn't offer any assurances about the correctness of an application's kernel of unsafe code. Modern async Rust doesn't uniformly discourage the use of idioms that make use of unsafe code. See for example the discussion of stack pinning here: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/04_pinning/01_chapter... ("A mistake that is easy to make is forgetting to shadow the original variable since you could drop the Pin and move the data ... (which violates the Pin contract).")

I'd advise against inferring that people "don't care" about these problems, etc. etc. This kind of personal stuff just makes it harder to focus on the technical details.
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No it doesn't.

When you actually pass out, there's a very real sense of discontinuity. You find yourself on the floor, unsure how long you've been there (even if it was just seconds), and how exactly you got to that position (the previous recorded memory being you standing there and feeling woozy).

It's very different from just sleeping, where you still retain a feeling of continuity with both place and time.
received my M1 last week , my dev workflow is Alacritty->tmux->neovim+lsp+debuggers.Do mostly golang work,installed delve and it went fine followed all steps and compiled from source.Followed same for neovim and compiled from source as i use the lua instead of vimscript. All lsp setups works fine ,unfortunately native delve debugger is not able to communicate with neovim using native back end.As if now for debugging am relying on only terminal based debug not using neovim specifically.In a rabbit hole now as this is neither neovim nor delve so thinking might be new apple arch M1.Not sure if any one else stumbled on the same.
with regards to docker as the workplace have licenses i use them with no issue.Entire team is using only mac no other operating system allowed in so safe till now.
Tortoise-TTS (stylised as "TorToiSe") is pretty amazing: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
> (me) Plants are enough (again, don't forget your B12 vegan supplements).

> (you) But malnutrition is scarier.

I said that plants & B12 vegan supplements are enough. What I meant is (and was not maybe clear enough), that we as humans do not need to rely on animals, even if we'd be supplementing our diet with some pills (IMHO B12 supplement from vegan sources is enough). You seem to be equating veganism with malnutrition.

American Dietetic Association: "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864

NHS: "A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/healthy-eating-vegetar...

British Dietetic Association: "As a result of the memorandum the BDA and The Vegan Society will: - Work together to show that it is possible to follow a well-planned, plant-based, vegan friendly diet that supports healthy living in people of all ages, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding." https://www.bda.uk.com/about/workwithus/bda_and_vegan_societ...
"As good as" is not the same as "truly" though.
I just don't see how a limited thought experiment that invokes completely unsubstantiated conclusions (it's like starting from Krebs cycle or something and by the sheer scale of process needed to work up to "sentient mind" you declare the concept absurd) proves or disproves anything about the nature of consciousness.
The underlying article with more details: https://whatcookie.github.io/posts/why-is-avx-512-useful-for...
What’s missed in this paper is Btc , held in a memory wallet is hard to censor or repossess by the govt. to use a metaphor from the paper, sometimes the quality of your mule keeps the cucumbers safe
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https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/president-putin-spief-2...

From Putin’s most recent speech -
“Many Russian AI and Big Data solutions are the best in the world.”

Putin is bragging about his AI and Big Data solutions. This is not a bunch of isolated engineers working alongside the west. Putin will be leveraging these engineers to drive massive disinformation campaigns worldwide.

We should not be celebrating this work.
What exactly is "over the internet" and "overseas"? Aren't those real world countries, with real world legislation, where real world offerers of services can be jailed for using crypto? Or your entire argument is based that there will always be some exotic country (like El Salvador tried and apparently failed) will have a better view on crypto and also offer all services you might need?
The other day, I was training a de-noising diffusion model on a small enough to over-fit dataset, and watching the diffusion process that generates the image, it really seemed some sense of depth perception has emerged from training.

(See the image https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1475858893561606148 for an idea of what a de-noising diffusion is) In essence a de-noising diffusion is reversing the process of adding noise to an image. You learn to tell apart noise from image. And to generate an image you take some random noise and remove a little noise multiple times until you have the image.)

Watching the diffusion, the intermediate noisy images it generated seemed to stick out of the frame kinda like how a random-dot auto-stereo-gram would. It is hard to tell for sure because the depth effect could also be coming from the light-effects where bright areas tend to stick out, but the depth it produced made sense and seemed coherent with the scene objects.

The thing is, at first order, this effect is not supposed to happen. What the model is learning is trying to remove noise from image, it is not trying to somehow infer some depth about the image, encode it, and passing it to its next iteration so that it can have an easier task. It is not supposed to have some memory like a recurring neural network would.

But somehow it seemed to have learned to perceive and encode 3d features and store them inside its weights, so that when it's applied iteratively it converge toward the fixed point that is the real object.
That's what I would called emergence as a compression artifact.
For this effect to happen the network must have some sort of internal 3d representation of objects, which can happen if it takes less space to compress the object as a 3d object than storing multiple views of the objects.

Or maybe I'm just projecting my own sense of perception, and this is just a phantom effect.

Maybe consciousness is a phenomenon just like this one.
Interesting that you say that it's faster and more stable. My 2013 Air is on Monterey and it's "good enough" for my needs still, but slipping towards not quite good enough. Very tempted to give OCLP a try if it extends the life of the machine a bit more.
e2ee in whatsapp is a joke. e2ee with close source clients, closed protocol, backup functions, sorry... that's not real e2ee, that's a marketing ploy.

signal does marginally better.

real e2ee is possible with XMPP and Omemo iirc. but as others have pointed out that's not UXy enough to compete with Telegram for the mainsteam.
The headline is somewhat disappointing, based on it I expected some finding for children who were not already a fetus at the time of traumatic event.
Scott Aaronson (if memory serves right) had an interesting take on this. He framed his thought in terms of the Turing test, but the argument would apply equally well to the mapped iron bar:

In theory, we could pass any Turing test of finite duration (eg an hour or less) and run in a chat room with finite bandwidth with a giant lookup table. Just look up the entire past of the conversation to see what answer should be given. The lookup can be implemented trivially on any Turing machine (and doesn't even need the machine's full power).

Now there's multiple directions you could take this. Here's Scott with one of them:

> Briefly, Searle proposed a thought experiment—the details don’t concern us here—purporting to show that a computer program could pass the Turing Test, even though the program manifestly lacked anything that a reasonable person would call “intelligence” or “understanding.” (Indeed, Searle argues that no physical system can understand anything “purely by virtue of” the computations that it implements.) In response, many critics said that Searle’s argument was deeply
misleading, because it implicitly encouraged us to imagine a computer program that was simplistic in its internal operations—something like the giant lookup table described in Section 4.1. And while it was true, the critics went on, that a giant lookup table wouldn’t “truly understand” its responses, that point is also irrelevant. For the giant lookup table is a philosophical fiction anyway:
something that can’t even fit in the observable universe! If we instead imagine a compact, efficient computer program passing the Turing Test, then the situation changes drastically. For now, in order to explain how the program can be so compact and efficient, we’ll need to posit that the program includes representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning, and
all sorts of other internal furniture that we would expect to find in a mind.

> Personally, I find this response to Searle extremely interesting—since if correct, it suggests that the distinction between polynomial and exponential complexity has metaphysical significance. According to this response, an exponential-sized lookup table that passed the Turing Test would
not be sentient (or conscious, intelligent, self-aware, etc.), but a polynomially-bounded program with exactly the same input/output behavior would be sentient. Furthermore, the latter program would be sentient because it was polynomially-bounded.

See 'The Lookup-Table Argument' in https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf for the rest. It's all very fascinating.
You're paraphrasing the last paragraph of the parent.
"It's one thing to concentrate deeply and think, but it's another thing when you are simply hesitating, when you are unable to make up your mind, that's a sign of other problems"[1] - Vishy Anand

[1] https://youtu.be/BmmRQjzutEI?t=23
They didn't say who they were working for, so why not?
It's not easy but certainly possible. For a reasonably tall male (higher calorie burn), being active (>15k steps a day) while eating around 1500 calories a day will lead to a deficit of up to 15,000 calories a week. Eating 1,500 calories per day is restricting but not starving, and burning 3,500 calories per day is a very active lifestyle but not some extreme sports or so.

But as others have noted, it often doesn't seem to be sustainable as your body will react to that kind of calorie deficit.
The obvious question to ask is whether Anthony Scaramucci would have any special insight into the future price trajectory of bitcoin or is he just a regular “fund of funds” manager talking his own book and trying to get people to buy in so he collects his management fee.
text to WAV:

You predict mel spectrums with a transformer architecture (so word embedding + attention decoder) and then convert them into audio signals with Parallel WaveGAN or Hifi-GAN.

FastSpeech2 (Microsoft) is extremely good.

WAV to text:

You detect wave shapes with convolutions to generate an embedding, then attention layers to turn it into an encoding, then convert that to logits. Logits go into language model and that predicts the final sentence with a beam search decoder.

wav2vec 2.0 (Facebook) is amazing.
So a tree falling in a forest with noone around to hear doesn't make a sound?
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Today my most important server has been offline for 2 hours, unable to receive any emails or access via ssh.

I checked nmap once all ports are open and now nothing works, not even gopher.
Commonvoice is actually not very good test set. Their texts are very specific (mostly wikipedia and such) and also the texts overlap between train and test which leads to overtraining of most transformer models. If you test on variety of domains, you'll see totally different picture.
No need for conspiracy - their mouse buttons are run out of spec which guarantees the infamous double-click. This is an issue on pretty much all their (esp. wireless) mice.
sorry for being obtuse, does orange juice help vision?
Sure it could. Or not. Who the hell knows? It's a shot in the dark with Bitcoin because there are growing headwinds. The digital dollar could win the long term.

The innovator’s dilemma and U.S. adoption of a digital dollar

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-innovators-dilemma-...
Nice to see this here - Silero is also the engine that powers the "dataset builder" for Voice-Cloning-App (https://github.com/BenAAndrew/Voice-Cloning-App), a GUI TTS system that modifies Tacotron2 slightly.

Just sharing the links in case others are new to the space and keen to tinker on some solid open-source offerings.
General purpose programming languages are complex tools.

In this specific case representing non-integer numbers effectively on a binary device is complex. If you use a different representation than IEEE floats you just give a different set of corner cases and unexpected outcomes.

Don't let a novice build software you need to be correct without supervision, and if you are a novice expect to make mistakes, just like if I were to build a website I wouldn't expect my style choices to render appropriately on a wide range of devices... that's complex too!
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> The glass can easily chip/crack/splinter

Maybe some knockoffs do, but basically the only way to crack the glass is to make something heavy like a pot fall from a serious height on it.

> You have to use specific pots and pans, regular ones will destroy your glass.

That's untrue, they just need to be metallic for the induction to work

> They are too expensive, and from what I understand pretty hard to cook with (I've not used them myself aside from testing and whatnot).

No? They aren't harder to cook than any other cooktop.

> They simply aren't worth the added hassle, fragility, and added expenses. If it did something super awesome to offset those issues it wouldn't be so bad.

They're the best electric option - fastest to warm and cool, and most efficient. Gas belongs in the past for most people ( air quality, pollution, risks ( like leaks, fires) and in general we should be moving away from all fossil fuels).
> There is no evidence for this.

It's a little unreasonable to expect a speculative statement about what might happen in the future to have evidence at the present time.

> We will never 'build' consciousness. It is not possible. Consciousness comes from a source outside of our realm of experience as a gift. It does not come from the micro or small things (though it is entwined with them and everything), but from the macro, that which is above all.

And yet there is even less evidence of any of this.
And some Jamon Iberico or Proscuitto!
The actual reason for many is probably that with a high enough deficit, you can feel so tired that it's hard to burn the same amount of calories. Walking 20k steps per day is no problem for most healthy adults, at such a deficit it becomes really hard.
He's spent his entire adulthood recycling the same idea over and over. Sometimes literally, like when he was sued for stealing code for orkut from a startup he was involved in. Google settled the case out of court, and we all know what that means.

You'd think the guy would have figured out by now that he's not the social media maven he thinks he is...or that "social network" is pretty much #1 on the list of "business ideas programmers have, that never pan out"
Next step: minimize the number of iterations by using another language model to write commit messages.
Assuming there's anything to sell.
I care more that my intimate chats and pictures aren't stored plaintext in corporate and government servers for them to do god knows what than I care about some (cue soyjak face) heckin' stickerinos. But to each his own.
Do you have any good reference/links for wanting to learn more about implementing or doing something with utility scoring and heuristics? Or any of the tech behind those games?

I'd played SimAirport but would love to learn more about the tech because I am a hobbyist gamedev
> Solend realised this, and took a vote on seizing this amount (effectively removing the tokens from the owner's ownership and preventing them from exiting their position) requiring only 1% of token holders to approve. The vote passed.

Wouldn't it be in Solana's interest to continue being used as collateral? Why would anybody continue accepting Solana-based collaterals if funds can be seized at will?